Egypt Revising the Camp David Accords
by Jonathan D. Halevi
On
The committee's operative recommendations called for
an official definition of
In its eyes,
Defining
At present, the new Egyptian political leadership
cannot translate these policies into actions. But this situation is likely to
change after the presidential elections on May 23-24 and the establishment of a
new civilian government. (It is a well know secret
that any agreement Arabs sign with
Food for Thought. by
Steven Shamrak
The current
state of Jewish communities and
No Truce if Terrorism is Disallowed
The combined Egyptian-Israeli-Hamas effort to
negotiate an early ceasefire in the current round of Palestinian-Israeli
violence ran into the ground Monday, March 12. The Egyptian mediator tried
unsuccessfully to introduce a clause obliging Palestinian terrorists to
withdraw from Sinai and stop using the peninsula as a launching-pad for attacks
on
Infants Moved to Bomb Shelters
Ashkelon’s Barzali
Hospital is moving children and mothers to bomb shelters and is sending home as
many patients as possible as the Gaza missile bombardment continues and moves
northward. (Almost all houses and flats in Israel
are built with a bomb-shelter room)
‘Righteous’ Turkey
Attacked Kurds
Turkish warplanes
launched a series of air strikes on Northern Iraq late on Tuesday. The region
is home to several bases used by Kurdish separatists from the PKK that Ankara
regards as terrorists - and frequently targets with its military. (Turkey, outspoken critic of the Assad regime, has been
suppressing and waging war against its Kurdish and Armenian minorities for a
long time)
Obama Pastor Endorses March on
Jerusalem
Rev. Jeremiah Wright,
who was US President Barack Obama's pastor for 20 years at the Trinity United
Church of Christ on Chicago's south side, has endorsed the planned "March
to Jerusalem". It follows on the heels of the anti-Israel, anti-Semitic
Doha Conference in Qatar, a two day long effort to demonize Israel and deny
Judaism’s more than three thousand year connection to Jerusalem.
Ceasefire Only
Applies to Israel
On Monday, Cairo claimed
a ceasefire it brokered had gone into effect. On Tuesday, the Palestinians
fired 13 rockets and mortar shells without an Israeli military response. An
Iron Dome anti-missile battery intercepted one of the two incoming Grads before
it landed in Beersheba. (Maybe it is time to realise
that ceasefires with Arabs do not work and to implement a more effective
solution to the conflict - the Sinai Option: Road to Permanent Peace)
Americans, not
Obama, Love the IDF
More than
1.300 business and philanthropic leaders donated $26 million at Friends of the
Israel Defence Forces (FIDF) dinner in New York. IDF Chief of Benny Gantz
thanked the supporters and told them, “This is very important for us to know
that we are not alone.”
Hamas Furious Over Lack of Al-Jazeera
Coverage
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri
wrote on his Facebook page that Al-Jazeera's coverage of events in Gaza showed
a "bias against Palestinians". He also described
Al-Jazeera's coverage as "downplayed and hashed over," saying they
were not taking the story "seriously." (One
may wonder, is the terrorism an attention seeking exercise in order to squeeze
funds from Iran, Saudi Arabia and others interesting in instability in the Middle
East parties?)
Hypocrisy of the Headlines:
“Israel must end impunity of violence by settlers” -
www.independent.co.uk - Really, this is the main
cause of the problem. What about tens of thousand of rockets fired from Gaza,
endless attacks with knives and stones at Jews perpetrated by Arabs, so-called
Palestinians and Israeli ones?
Best
and Brightest Compete for Annual Intel Prize
Fifty-six Israeli
teenage finalists who carried out 52 different projects in the exact, natural,
computer and social sciences and humanities are participating in the 15th
annual competition. The development of a patch to give medications via
electrical signals through the skin instead of swallowing them; a robotic nurse
that hands out drugs to the elderly at the correct time and dosage;
determination of the type of forest trees that consume less water are just some
of the projects. Winners will be announced at the Knesset.
Political Program Adopted at the 12th
Session of the Palestine National Council - after the Oslo Agreement! This is still an active plan,
which PA, Fatah and Hamas are pursuing!
The
Palestine National Council,
On the
basis of the Palestine National Charter and the Political Program drawn up at
the eleventh session, held from 6-12 January 1997; and from its belief that it
is impossible for a permanent and just peace to be established in the
area unless our Palestinian people recover from all their national rights (who cares
about Jewish rights) and, first and foremost, their rights to return and to self-determination
on the whole of the soil of their homeland…:
1. To
reaffirm the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s previous attitude to
Resolution 242 (which Arab rejected), which
obliterates the national right of our people and deals with the cause of our
people as a problem of refugees. The Council therefore refuses to have anything
to do with this resolution at any level, Arab or international, including the
Geneva Conference. (Must Israel obey those international resolutions, which
do not allow Israel to fight her enemies effectively and to end the conflict?)
2. The
Palestine Liberation Organisation will employ all means, and first and foremost
armed struggle, to liberate Palestinian territory and to establish the independent
combatant national authority for the people over every part of Palestinian
territory that is liberated. This will require further changes being effected
in the balance of power in favour of our people and their struggle. (This has
been successfully implemented)
3. The
Liberation Organisation will struggle against any proposal for a Palestinian
entity the price of which is recognition, peace, secure frontiers, renunciation
of national rights, and the deprival of our people of their right to return and
their right to self-determination on the soil of their homeland. (Why does
not Israel do this for the Jewish people?)
4. Any
step taken towards liberation is a step towards the realisation of the
Liberation Organisation’s strategy of establishing the democratic Palestinian
State (we have seen their kind of democracy) specified in the
resolutions of the previous Palestinian National Councils.
5.
Struggle along with the Jordanian national forces to establish a
Jordanian-Palestinian national front whose aim will be to set up in Jordan a
democratic national authority in close contact with the Palestinian entity that
is established through the struggle. (it means all Palestine, including
Jordan)
6. The
Liberation Organisation will struggle to establish unity in struggle between
the two peoples and between all the forces of the Arab liberation movement that
are in agreement on this program. (Hamas and Fatah are in agreement with the
program but far from united, as are most Arabs/Muslims)
7. In the
light of this program, the Liberation Organisation will struggle to strengthen
national unity and to raise it to the level where it will be able to perform
its national duties and tasks (Terror against Israel).
8. Once it
is established, the Palestinian national authority will strive to achieve a
union of the confrontation countries, with the aim of completing the liberation
of all Palestinian territory, and as a step along the road to comprehensive
Arab unity. (Interesting that Fatah, claims to be a secular
organisation, supportive of creating Islamic caliphate!)
9. The
Liberation Organization will strive to strengthen its solidarity with the
socialist countries, and with the forces of liberation and progress throughout
the world, with the aim of frustrating all the schemes of Zionism, reaction and
imperialism. (but, motivated by greed for oil and anti-Semitism, the
Western democracies continue to support this hideous movement)
10. In
light of this program, the leadership of the revolution will determine the
tactics which will serve and make possible the realisation of these objectives.
The
Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation will make every
effort to implement this program, and should a situation arise affecting the
destiny and the future of the Palestinian people, the National Assembly will be
convened in extraordinary session. (When will Jewish leadership start to
talk about the destiny of Jewish people?)