Negotiating with non-Representative 'Partner'
by Joel
Gilbert
Once upon a time at the White House, Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thought he saw a two-state solution that would
achieve peace in the Middle East. “President Abbas, you are my partner in
peace.”
While Netanyahu was the duly elected leader of his
country, three strange characters who did not represent their people were
standing next to him at the White House - Jordan’s King Abdullah, Egypt’s
President Mubarak, and the former Palestinian Authority President, PLO chief
Mahmoud Abbas.Beginning in 1983, support amongst Palestinians for the secular
Palestinian Liberation Organization steadily declined as an Islamist
Palestinian leadership emerged. By the end of the nineties, the PLO was
irrelevant to most Muslims. In January 2005, Palestinians made their choice
official when the Islamist group HAMAS won a decisive victory over the PLO,
capturing over two-thirds of the vote in free elections. Abbas’ term as
President of the Palestinian Authority quietly expired in January 2009.
In
his statement at the White House, Abbas declared his hopes for successful
negotiations “in the name of the PLO.” He did not even pretend to represent the
Palestinian Authority...
Food for Thought. by Steven Shamrak
For many centuries Jews pledged loyalty, in accordance with
Jewish law, to host rules or countries. Now, in our own state, some disgusting
self-haters and traitors are opposing loyalty oath to Jewish states.
Look Who is Talking?
Commenting
on the change to people's oath of loyalty to Israel, opposition leader Tzipi
Livni said: "We have seen today politics at its worst. The sensitive issue
of Israel's existence as a Jewish and democratic state has become subject to
political horse-trading.” (Most countries are trying
to preserve their own national identity, demand loyalty and respect for the
law. Why shouldn’t Israel?)
Europe Must Fix Own Problem First
Israel's
foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman hosted counterparts Bernard Kouchner of
France and Miguel Moratinos of Spain in Jerusalem a week ago. He admonished
them, saying that Israel is not Czechoslovakia surrendering to Germany and
pointedly told his guests that, "Before you teach us how to resolve
conflicts here, I expect, at the very least, that you solve all the problems in
Europe." Lieberman reportedly accused the international community of
trying to "make up for its failure to resolve conflicts in Somalia,
Afghanistan, North Korea, Zimbabwe, Sudan and other places by trying to bring
about an Israeli-Palestinian agreement within a year." (At least one minister of the Israeli’s government is able
to keep bigots at bay. Reminder: France and Spain are still occupying the
Basque region!)
Undemocratic First Democracy
A poll conducted by McLaughlin and Associates found that the majority of
American adults support Israel, and oppose U.S. President Barack Obama's Middle
East Policy - 50.9% said Jerusalem should remain Israel's undivided capital,
compared to just 20.4% who disagreed. 77.9% said that Palestinian Authority
leaders should recognize Israel as the Jewish state, compared to just 6% who
said they should not. (Americans are
consistently pro-Israel, but where Jews are concerned democracy is ignored!)
Ugliness
of the US Administration anti-Israel Attitude.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcewxqvEoIY
Support of the Jewish state or just Love for the
Game?
“The region needs to accept Israel as the homeland of the Jewish
people,” State Department spokesperson Philip Crowley said. “The desire that
Prime Minister Netanyahu expressed” when he spoke in the Knesset about the
offer he had made – continuing the freeze in exchange for PA recognition of
Israel as a Jewish state - “is a core demand of Israel, one we support. Israel
must be recognized as part of the region, and the region must accept Israel as
the homeland of the Jewish people,” Crowley said.
Quote
of the Week:
"This is a fight for the homeland. It is either us or the
Israelis. There is no middle road. The Jews of Palestine will have to leave. We
will facilitate their departure to their former homes. Any of the old Palestine
Jewish population who survive may stay, but it is my impression that none of
them will survive... We shall destroy Israel and its inhabitants and as for the
survivors - if there are any - the boats are ready to deport them." – from a speech of PLO leader Shukairy, on June 1,
1967 – The objectives of this our enemy are clear.
By rejecting all peace initiatives and concessions made by Israel, Arabs prove
that there their intentions remain the same!
Barbaric State in 21st Century
A Saudi
couple tortured their Sri Lankan maid, Ariyawathi, 49, (after she
complained of a heavy workload) by hammering 24 nails into her hands, legs and
forehead. Nearly 2 million Sri Lankans sought employment overseas last year and
around 1.4 million, mostly maids, were employed in the Middle East. Many have
complained of physical abuse or harassment. (This is the true face of ‘moderate’ Islamic bastardry, which is
flourishing amongst the despicable silence of the free press and ‘sensitive’
politics conducted by democratic countries!)
Opinion
of Qualified Nobel Laureate 'They' Ignore
Prof. Yisrael
Auman, Nobel Laureate and noted American-Israeli mathematician and game
theorist commented about the ‘Peace process’: “The calls for peace, which we
have been hearing (mainly from our side) for the past 90 years, do not bring us
closer to peace but actually take us further from it.” “We think that posters
with pigeons will bring about peace, but that isn’t true and will only bring
about war,” added Aumann.
Conducting
Undeclared Wars.
Tempers
are running high in Islamabad since US officials intimated that additional
remote-controlled aircraft and helicopters from other Afghan sectors were
brought in to strengthen the major new front opening up against Taliban
strongholds in Pakistan's North Waziristan. Pakistan blocked NATO
Afghanistan-bound convoys which are regularly torched and attacked. (Turkey wages war on Iraq by attacking Kurds in the North.
The US is conducting war in Pakistan, attack Taliban targets. International
laws are not respected. The international ‘free’ media is silent! During the
war in Vietnam there was at least some pretense to hide the US attacks on
Laos!)
Awakening of Israeli Left?
Israel’s leading Hebrew news website Walla, founded by the Haaretz group
and identified with the left, has surprised its readers with its latest
editorial questioning the peace process: "Stop the Peace Process" it
wrote: "You can argue with Ya'alon and Lieberman, but you should listen to
them. Netanyahu does not want it, Abu Mazen cannot achieve it and the left
knows there will not be peace here in the coming years. It is time to remove
the mask.” (Our enemies are not interested in
peace. Only by pursuing its own interests and rights, can Israel achieve
peace!)
The
Art of Jewish National Suicide
Writings of a rabbi.
For decades, large numbers of (not just) American Jews and the vast majority of their leadership
have been practicing the art of national suicide. Faced with the loss of an elementary
understanding that …vital issues should be judged on the basis of national
self-interest - Jews have consistently vowed fealty to ‘objectivity’, regularly
placed liberal or “humanitarian” concepts over Jewish ones and worked
tirelessly to destroy themselves.
Normal people realize that groups base
decisions upon self-interest. Normal
people realize that democracy is a conglomerate of pressures and self-interest
groups with farmers, consumers, unions, Catholics, Blacks (African American) and all kinds of lobbyists constantly
striving to ensure that their interests be served. Apparently, the Exile has so warped
and terrified certain Jews that they strive to escape their Jewishness… thus
gaining love and safety from anti-Semitism.
It is insecurity, fear and drive to
assimilate that lead certain Jews to back causes that are blatantly
anti-Jewish. Thus, some
Jews become Marxists in face of the fact that Marxism means the elimination of
Jews both as a religion and nation. Certain
Jews become “humanists” despite – or because of – the subsequent blurring of
all division between Jew and non-Jew. Others retain their Jewishness, but
insist upon being liberals before Jews and think a liberal world guarantees
safety for the Jew. All
these groups have been proven wrong a thousand times over and the fact remains
that the Jew can never purchase his safety, security and peace at the expense
of his own identity, or specifically separate existence. The one way to ensure their identity
and the survival of the Jew as a separate entity is through Jewish
self-interest.
… Liberal
support for downtrodden people in no way necessarily ensures Jewish
survival. Being a liberal
is not always synonymous with Jewish interests (and the same holds true for
being a conservative).
It is vital for the Jew – if he wishes to
survive – to understand a number of basic axioms:
1. Unless the Jew aids himself there is
no one else who will come to his rescue in time of great and critical
need. The fact is so
historically true that it is inexplicable that it is not self-obvious.
2. Jews, in order to survive, must
continually gird their resources and strength for Jewish causes and aims since
no one else will.
…inward national pulls are far more
powerful than international and supranational movements. It is little wonder that after 50
years of Soviet rule, Ukrainians and other groups retain and strengthen their
own identity and the Great Russians retain their strangle hold on the Soviet
Establishment. It is not
surprising that 27 years of Tito can do nothing about the rise of Serbian-Croat
rivalry, and the Communist Albania and Yugoslavia have an Albanian ethnic
problem.
… The
solution to survival and respect in this world is not to attempt to lose
oneself… One who does not know from whence he came will never know where he is
going. Some day we may
build a better world but it will never come until each of us regains his own
separate identity and self-respect. Only with that self-respect can we respect
others and only when others respect us will they truly accept our hand in
friendship.