by Yifat Erlich
The majority of the
Israeli public voted against a Palestinian state. So what? A few whines in the
media, a bit of admonition from US President Barack Obama - and Netanyahu gives
in.
The pressure always works
through two channels, an internal one and an external one. The more moderate
left, which is still ashamed to openly disregard
democratic decisions, tries to promote its agenda through internal pressure in
the media. The more radical left, unfortunately, has never honoured
the Israeli voter's decision.
The combined pressure
from the inside and outside could lead
Now that the election
chaos is behind us, it's time for the media, legal and political opposition to
show more national responsibility
So what am I asking for?
Some space, some respect for the Israeli voter's decision, a bit less
patronization... The right still has a lot to fix and improve, but it mostly
needs to finally learn how to govern. (and be true to the Jewish national aspiration - creation of
the Jewish homeland, Eretz-Israel, on our ancestral
land!)
Obama's Double Standard (by Aaron Goldstein)
Why is the Obama Administration less upset with
Avoid
Coalition with Labor at any Cost
Dozens of Likud branch chairmen and members of
Likud's Central Committee published a petition this week demanding that party
chairman, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, add the Jewish Home to his
coalition and avoid a “unity” government with Labor at any cost. (So-called Zionist Union party isn’t better - just another
anti-Zionist political chameleon!)
Leading defense expert, Professor Efraim
Inbar who heads the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, said framework
deal over Iran's nuclear program leaves Israel with little choice, should have
struck “two years ago.” Israel should "seriously consider" a military
strike on Iran's nuclear facilities in the aftermath of the "framework
deal" announced between Tehran and western powers.
The Islamic Republic's nuclear program
has been granted "legitimacy" by the agreement, which still allowed
it to continue enriching uranium and to maintain a reactor capable of producing
enriched plutonium, he said. "And that's what worries Israel, that they
(Iran) will be able within a short time frame to reach a nuclear bomb."
"As long as there was no deal it
was easier for Israel to strike. They should have carried out a strike two
years ago," he said. "This is not an easy decision but it's what
needed to be done."
Despite that fact, many countries -
most notably Israel's immediate neighbors - would be supportive of such a
strike, and were waiting for Israel to neutralize the threat posed to them by a
nuclear-capable Iranian regime. "In practice no one
wants to see a nuclear Iran; all of them are playing the game so that Israel
can pulls the chestnuts out of the fire.”
The deal will allow the Islamic regime
to continue enriching uranium. Israel has noted that there are 17 states which
have peaceful nuclear programs, and none of them enrich uranium as Iran will be
allowed to continue doing.
No Deal Already - Why to Wait?
Food for Thought by Steven Shamrak
I have communicated with many Catholics, Baptists, Anglicans, Noahites,
Russian and Greek Orthodox people on my mail list. Some of them wrote that only
"fake Christians” there too many of them, are anti-Semites and do not support
the Jewish state. Although, it is hard to find good Christians who are
supporting Israel without a hidden agenda - conversion of Jews is one of them!
There is definitely no decent Christian leadership in the Vatican, London
etc... There is no love or even respect for the sovereign Jewish state among the Western, ‘Christian’,
governments and by member states of the UN - ‘Ugly Nazi’! (I meant no offence
to good Christians, but I do not care what bad ones think!)
PLO does not Care about fake Refugees in Syria
The PLO issued a statement that it
would not be drawn into military action in in Syria, contradicting comments
made earlier by the PA envoy to Damascus, Ahmad Majdalani, that Palestinian
groups are ready to join forces with the Syrian government to expel ISIL
fighters from the Yarmouk camp in the Syrian capital.
US has the Way - Why not the Will?
The Pentagon has been upgrading the biggest
bunker-buster bomb in its arsenal as talks with Iran continued over Tehran's
nuclear program, readying a weapon that could destroy Iran's facilities. The
Pentagon has been upgrading the biggest bunker-buster bomb in its arsenal as
talks with Iran continued over Tehran's nuclear program. Work to improve the
design, guidance systems and anti-jamming capabilities on the so-called Massive
Ordnance Penetrator began before the latest round of negotiations with Iran
started. (Just give some of them to Israel for
‘testing’!)
The IDF and Home Front Command are expected to
invest about $25 million into "Code Red" and civilian warning systems
against incoming rockets in 2015 in the event of another war with Hezbollah.
US expediting weapon supplies to Saudis
The United States is speeding up arms supplies to
the Saudi-led coalition against Houthi fighters. Warplanes from Sunni-ruled
Gulf states have been striking the Shi'ite Muslim rebels, in an attempt by the
regional heavyweight to check Iranian influence in its backyard. (When Israel did it in Gaza against Hamas, Obama threatened to cut off arms supply to Israel.)
Jewish Contributions to the World
The Tel Aviv-based
company StoreDot says it has technology that can charge a mobile phone battery in seconds.
The battery can also be used to power electric cars and laptops in minutes rather than hours.
"These are new materials; they have never been developed before,"
said Doron Myersdorf, the
founder and chief executive. The first battery will be available in 2016. The
company is partly funded by Jewish Russian billionaire and Chelsea soccer
club owner Roman Abramovich.
The Arab World does not Care about Yarmouk
MK Ahmed Tibi
(Joint Arab List) harshly condemned the Arab world and the international community for allowing
the Islamic State takeover of the Yarmouk so-called
refugee camp in
No Outrage over Mass
Graves near Tikrit
Iraqi forensic teams have begun
excavating 12 suspected mass grave sites thought to hold the corpses of as many
as 1,700 Shia soldiers from
Obama’s detente with
‘Ugly Nothing’ Finances Russian Aggression
In the 14 months since Russian
President Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea and sent proxy fighters to invade
eastern Ukraine, Russian companies have won more than $212 million in United
Nations contracts to ferry troops, supplies and equipment -- on peacekeeping
missions.
Quotes of the Week:
“The establishment of a
buffer zone on the border is of absolute necessity to preserve Egyptian
national security, particularly with the growing plans to export the
Palestinian cause to Egyptian territory, away from its natural context. Thus,
we cannot be emotional while thinking of the (population) displacement issue.” -
Justification given by
Don't Blame Israel - PA does not Want Peace
by Charles Krauthammer
Of all the idiocies uttered in reaction to Benjamin
Netanyahu’s stunning election victory, none is more ubiquitous than the idea
that peace prospects are now dead because Netanyahu has declared that there
will be no Palestinian state while he is
I have news for the lowing herds: There would be no
peace and no Palestinian state if Isaac Herzog were Prime Minister of Israel,
or Ehud Barak or Ehud Olmert for that matter.
This is not ancient history. This is 2000, 2001 and
2008 - three astonishingly concessionary peace offers within the last 15 years.
Every one rejected (by the PA leadership, and
followed by violence and terror attacks unleashed on
The fundamental reality remains: This generation of
Palestinian leadership - from Yasser Arafat to Mahmoud Abbas - has never and
will never sign its name to a final peace settlement dividing the land with a
Jewish state. And without that, no Israeli government of any kind will agree to
a Palestinian state.
There is a second reason a peace agreement is
impossible: the supreme instability of the entire