Israel
can and must act in her own best interests
by Yoram Ettinger
Fact: In 1950,
the US Administration pressured Israel to refrain from Jewish construction in Jerusalem
and from declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel - Prime Minister Ben Gurion
built, relocated government agencies and thousands of immigrants to Jerusalem
and declared Jerusalem the capital of the Jewish State. In 1967, the US
Administration pressured against annexation of East Jerusalem - Prime Minister
Eshkol annexed, reunited Jerusalem, and built the formidable Ramat Eshkol
neighbourhood. In 1970, the US Administration pressured Israel to relinquish
control over parts of Jerusalem - Prime Minister Golda Meir constructed the
neighbourhoods of Gilo, Ramot and Neveh Yaakov (current population over
100,000). The US Administration pressured, Israel constructed, Jerusalem
expanded and the Jewish State earned strategic respect.
Fact: In 1948,
the US Department of State, Pentagon and CIA pressured Ben Gurion to avoid a
declaration of independence. In 1961, President Kennedy pressured to stop the
construction of Israel’s nuclear reactor. In 1967, President Johnson pressured
against pre-empting the Egypt-Syria-Jordan military offensive. In 1977,
President Carter pressured Prime Minister Begin to abstain from direct
negotiation with President Sadat and participate - instead - in an
international conference, focusing on the Palestinian issue and Jerusalem. In
1981, President Reagan pressured Prime Minister Begin against bombing Iraq’s
nuclear reactor. (There are many more examples of
subservient ‘friendship’ between the US and Israel.)
New Fact: In
pursue of useless ‘historic’ photo opportunity, President Obama dropped his demand for an Israeli settlement freeze. The demand for
the PA to recognize Israel as the Jewish state was never vigorously pursued by
the US administration!
NOTE: Defiance of pursuit entails
short-term cost but enhances long-term national security. Submission to
pressure exacerbates pressure. Fending off pressure is required, in order to
attain Israel’s strategic
goal!
Quote of the
Week: “They [Israelis] have to fly
over our airspace in Iraq. Are we just going to sit there and watch?” -
former national security advisor to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter,
Zbigniew Brzezinski, who enthusiastically campaigned for U.S. President Barack
Obama – It is hard to purge traditional Polish anti-Semitism even
from the American security advisor. Even harder to except that it was said by a
‘respectable’ American!
UNRWA Impedes Peace Process.
More than 1,500 Arab refugees from Iraq, descendants of Arabs who fled pre-state
Israel in the 1940s, have recently been welcomed into the United States and
Chile. Refugees who relocated to Chile have settled in to their new home, and
have received a warm welcome from Chile's leaders. The successful absorption of
thousands of “Palestinian refugees” from Iraq proves that the United Nations
Relief and Works Agency impedes Arab refugees from building a better future. (Nobody
protested against how new ‘democratic’ Iraq treats its ‘poor Palestinians’! And
none of the Muslim states, such great ‘lovers’ of Palestinians, have offered
them home!)
Pakistan
is Another Unremorseful Islamic State. A Pakistani court ordered the government to lift any
remaining restrictions on a scientist, Abdul
Qadeer Khan, who has spread nuclear
technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya. After Khan admitted
that he is responsible for operating a network that spread nuclear weapons
technology, he was pardoned by then President Pervez Musharraf and placed under
de facto house arrest. (This is a clear example of
how Muslim countries respect international laws! The warm and enthusiastic
welcome of the Lockerbie bomber in Libya is another display of ‘respect’!)
Madness of
Political Correctness and Appeasement. Yale University Press, owned by
the university, removed 12 caricatures from an upcoming book about how they
caused outrage across the Muslim world. (Great academic way of studying Islamic violence! Where are the freedoms
of speech and the freedoms of academic pursuit?)
Hamas Plans to Raise More Terrorists. 1. Hamas has
sponsored the weddings of 382 so-called Palestinian couples in Syria. The point
is to make babies, and more terrorists. 2. 900 Hamas sponsored marriages were
performed not long ago in the north of the Gaza Strip. Each groom received a
present of $500 from Hamas. (They hate the US, but
love the US dollars!)
Food for Thought. by
Steven Shamrak
After so many
‘objective’ enquiries and reports about Israel it would only be logical to
expect that the United Nations, as a part of its impartiality, will start its
investigations of terrorist organization Hamas for committing war crimes and
human rights abuse in Gaza!
All
non-Muslims are the Target! A poll released by the Pew Global Attitudes Project
found that support for terrorism remains unusually high among Palestinian
Authority Arabs - 68 percent of them expressed support for suicide bombings
against civilians “to defend Islam from enemies.” Among Israeli Muslims, only
seven percent support attacks on civilians as a justification to protect Islam.
(Not only Jews!)
Life with ‘Friendly’ Neighbours Takes its
Toll. Stress and anxiety caused by
living under the ongoing threat of rocket attacks has tremendously impacted the
kids of Sderot. 45 percent of the town’s children under the age of six suffer
from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which is expressed through
developmental regression, sleeping disorders or aggression. Amongst adults, the
data indicated that 41 percent of mothers and 33 percent of fathers suffer from
PTSD, often experience flashbacks, and avoid places that remind them of rocket
attacks. (International Jew-haters are usually ‘poor
Palestinian’ lovers. They do not care about the wellbeing of Jewish children!)
Vatican in Holocaust Blame Game. Britain and the United States possessed detailed knowledge
of Hitler’s plans to exterminate Jews and did nothing to stop it, accused the
Vatican’s official newspaper. Authorities in both countries ignored, downplayed
and even suppressed intelligence reports about Nazi extermination plans and
chose not to bomb concentration camps and the railway stations that supplied
them. The report quoted from the diary of Henry Morgenthau Jr., the wartime
U.S. secretary of the treasury, who described the UK’s alleged indifference as
“a Satanic combination of British chill and diplomatic double talk, cold and
correct and adding up to a sentence of death”. As early as August 1942, the
U.S. government “knew that the Nazis were planning to exterminate all the Jews
of Europe” (The Vatican continuously downplays its
own silence during WW2 and its facilitation of and moral responsibility for the
Holocaust!)
Quote of the
Week: ''IDF officers who committed war crimes should be punished, and
those who did not punish them should also be sanctioned,'' – judge Richard
Goldstone – This ‘impartial’ UN judge said nothing
about punishing Hamas terrorists for committing war crimes, but he has already
judged and sentenced Jews!
Israel Defending US and Europe.
Advances in
Iran's rocket technology, coupled with its nuclear program, are chief concerns
of the United States and Europe, as well as of Israel and other Middle Eastern
countries. Alongside diplomatic efforts to persuade Iran to curb its nuclear
research, missile defence programs have been designed with that country in
mind.
The Obama administration
decided to scrap a Bush-era plan to deploy a longer-range-missile defence
system in the Czech Republic and Poland, and said it would move toward a more
intermediate system that better matches its assessment of Iran's capabilities. (Deployment of a missile defence system nowadays is just
an attempt to avoid dealing with the problems directly - Nuclear Iran and North
Korea!)
As it pushes for
international action against Iran's nuclear program, Israel is steadily
assembling one of the world's most advanced missile defence systems, a
multi-layered collection of weapons meant to guard against a variety of
threats, including the shorter-range Grads used to strike Israeli towns like
this one and intercontinental rockets.
(It is a well-known secret that
Israel has been acting as a front line of defence for the Western world from
Islamic terror for a long time. Instead of destroying the roots of the problem,
fake wars are being conducted in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are useless
activities to create the appearance that something is done for world security.
Only by removing the nuclear treat from Iran and by ending sponsorship of
Islamic terrorism by Muslim countries, starting with Saudi Arabia, will the
world end the perpetuation of the ‘cycle of violence’!)