(Arab
prospective on bogus peace process)
Visiting fresh from the streets
of Gaza, Ramallah and Jerusalem is Khaled Abu Toameh, an Israeli Arab Muslim
journalist, who declares: "I'd rather be a second-class citizen in Israel
than a first-class citizen in any Arab country."
…Toameh denounces the
intimidation of Palestinian journalists who work in the West Bank and Gaza in
an atmosphere that moves beyond fear to outright danger. "About 2000
Palestinians have been killed in the power struggle that has been raging
between Hamas and Fatah since 2007," he says, claiming it got very little
coverage.
"People in the West don't
get an accurate picture of what is going on. Both Hamas and Fatah have no
respect for freedom of the media and both are cracking down on Palestinian
journalists."
But Toameh says this is only
part of the problem. He says some international journalists are ignorant.
"They don't speak Arabic or Hebrew, they don't know the history and they
are often very biased (anti-Semitic). They don't want to report the corruption
and violence within Palestinian society because it doesn't fit their narrative
of good Palestinians and bad Israelis."
"After Operation Cast Lead,
Hamas has stopped firing rockets from Gaza into Israel. We have a de facto
ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that is holding and in the West Bank things
are improving," Toameh says. "Now comes the peace talks which
threaten this calm and prosperity. Why? Because core issues like Jerusalem,
refugees, borders and settlements are being placed on the table once again,
triggering tensions…” (Ordinary Arabs prefer a “de
facto ceasefire” to the stupidity of the peace process, which leads nowhere and
only inspires escalation of Islamic terror against Israel and retaliations!)
Food for Thought by Steven Shamrak
With the
annexation of the
Wishy-Washy
Likud will Lose Election
A recent poll finds that in a new general election, Likud could lose up
to nine Knesset seats, bringing it down from 31 to 22, while any political
parties formed by former Likud minister Moshe Kahlon
and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman would both win
a substantial 10 seats. Yisrael Beiteinu
ran in the last elections on a joint ticket with Likud, but party leader
Lieberman has made comments suggesting that it may run independently in the
next elections. (Israeli voters want
decisive national government, which would reunite the Jewish people and defeat the
enemy. Likud has lost any credibility as a Zionist party!)
Must Useless Nuclear Talks Continue?
“All
should know that negotiations will not stop or slow down any of
Will Kerry Apologize to Israel?
Israel
said that it was “deeply disappointed” by Secretary of State John Kerry’s
remarks, clearly stung by Mr. Kerry’s portrayal and his focus on the settlement
issue, Israel countered that it was the PA who had “violated their fundamental
commitments” by applying last week to join 15 international conventions and
treaties. Netanyahu’s office said, “(Kerry) knows that it was the Palestinians
who said no to continued direct talks with Israel in November; who said no to
his proposed framework for final status talks; who said no to even discussing
recognition of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people; who said no to
a meeting with Kerry himself; and who said no to an extension of the talks.”
It’s
About Time!
An
Israeli official says the government has decided to stop transferring tax money
to the PA, which owes Israeli companies hundreds of millions of dollars for
electricity, power and other services.
Mahmoud
Abbas's office wasted no time in denying reports that he condemned the
terrorist attack the occurred near Hevron. Leftist
MKs who met with Abbas told Israeli media that Abbas had condemned the murder,
as well as "all other terror attacks." The supposed condemnation was
seen by many as a ploy to bolster the PA's image (by self-hating Jews). (Denial of the condemnation means support!)
Israeli
Hackers Strike Back at Anonymous
An
Israeli hacker team published images and personal details of members of the
Anonymous hacker collective who participated in attack against Israeli. Israeli
Elite Force team published the information which includes the names of the
attackers, their countries of origin, and usernames and passwords to various
websites they use. Most participants were based in
'Ugly Nothing' Welcomes Non-existent State
The
United Nations has accepted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' request to
join several UN agencies. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon accepted the
applications to join 14 international conventions, and informed all 193 member
states they were made in "in due and proper form." (Anti-Israel international bigotry will only stop, or at
least will weaken, after
Rare Win over
Israeli Legal anti-Jewish Injustice
Seven-year dispute ends following Supreme Court ruling Jewish settlers
were the lawful owners of the building. Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon
approved the return of Jewish settlers to a contested house known as "The
House of Peace" in the
The United States is
threatening Russia with more sanctions, not only over the situation in Ukraine
but also over a possible oil deal between Moscow and Tehran. A deal would run
counter to an agreement between Iran and six world powers, including the United
States and Russia, in which Tehran promised to curb its nuclear program in
return for a modest easing in Western sanctions. (Iran
has no intention to curb its nuclear program or respect any agreements with the
West and uses the talks as a way to get their nuclear program advanced.)
Israel
Demolished Illegal Arab Settlement
Quote of the Week:
“We are being dragged
into impossible dilemmas because of the Oslo Accords, in which Israel
essentially recognized the ‘Palestinians’ as the just side of the equation,
with Israel being some sort of foreign occupying force. This has slowly but
surely brought about the erosion of our sovereignty to the point where we are
willing to release hundreds of murderers and their accomplices back onto our
streets, among Oslo’s many other ills.”
- Moshe Feiglin,
leader of Manhigut Yehudit:
The Jewish Leadership Movement - It is long
overdue to formally declare the Oslo Accords void and start to pursue the
Jewish national agenda: reunification and end of Arab occupation of all Jewish land.
Wishful Thinking, Ignorance or anti-Semitism
Yoram Ettinger, the former
Israeli Ambassador for US Congressional Affairs, had harsh words for US
Secretary of State John Kerry, who he said has ignored the lessons of history
in favor of “wishful thinking.” He also pointed to the common misunderstanding
of the role of the United Nations.
“The ‘Palestine Firsters’
are those who believe that this is the center of everything,” Ettinger told The Algemeiner.
“It’s part of an overall worldview - these are the same people who also believe
that the UN is the quarterback of international relations. The UN assumes that
the Palestinian issue is the center, so if the quarterback is telling you that
the entire game plan has to be based on the Palestinian issue, you go with the
quarterback.”
“They genuinely believe an Israeli concession - the
establishment of a Palestinian state in
“In the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, during the pogroms of
those years (committed by Arabs in
That begs the question: If history shows that war
predated the “occupation,” how could the “occupation” be the cause of the war? “And
the same thing with the ‘settlements,’” Ettinger
said.
“The lesson is very clear. The Palestinian war on
Rather than looking toward history or understanding
how religion (and Arab internal political issues)
impacts decision making in the
Ettinger said the