Sakharov’s Wife Said it Plain and Simple.
The widow of
Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, Yelena Bonner, delivered a
particularly strong pro-Israel speech last week at the Oslo Freedom Forum. She
blasted the Quartet's peace-making efforts, particularly those of Russia and
spoke against the 2-state solution and so-called 'right of return. “With all
the money that has been invested in the problem of Palestinians, it would have
been possible long ago to resettle them and provide them with good lives in
Arab countries”. She continued “According to the UN’s official definition,
refugees are considered those who fled from violence and wars, but not their
descendants who are born in another land... Returning to my question of why
human rights activists are silent, I can find no answer except that Shalit is
an Israeli soldier, Shalit is a Jew. So again, it is conscious or unconscious
anti-Semitism. Again, it is fascism.”
Anti-Settlements Move is Another Fake Policy. 1) Obama held talks with
Abbas 10 days after hosting the Israeli Prime Minister. Seeking to revive
stalled peace efforts, Obama made it clear that he would continue pushing
Netanyahu to impose a total freeze on Jewish settlement construction in the
occupied West Bank and embrace the goal of Palestinian statehood. 2) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came out swinging
at Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and specifically rejected his policy of
allowing building for “natural growth" in Judea and Samaria. (There is no
pressure on Abbas or Arab and Muslim states to recognise Israel as the Jewish
state and to stop all anti-Jewish rhetoric and terrorist activities! It is time for international hypocrites to shut up!)
Law Must Applied Equally. Vice Prime Minister and
Interior Minister Eli Yishai, the head of the orthodox Sephardic Shaas Party,
said, ''the illegal outposts should not be taken down. There is a great deal of
illegal construction by Palestinians and Israeli Arabs,'' he said, ''and if the
law is to be applied, it should be applied equally.''
Obama met Abbas, but “Pressure” on Israel
only!
Have you heard of
any statement made by the President Obama that would have put pressure the
government of Sri Lanka during the last 4 months of military assault on the
Tamil Tigers? He could have saved lives, prevent humanitarian disaster and
re-new negotiations. Did he? But Israel is ‘another matter’!
Food for Thought. by Steven
Shamrak
It is not a secret that the police force
in Israel is heavily stacked by Labor party supporters and often plays
political games in discrediting, if not blackmailing, Israeli politicians.
After years of ‘investigations’ of multiple corruption charges former PM Olmert
has not yet seen a court room, although the threat of prosecution has kept him
in line with Labor’s political agenda.
Israel Rules
out Return to '67 Borders. Foreign Minister Avigdor
Lieberman on Sunday ruled out a return to Israel's 1967 borders, as cabinet
rebuffed calls to remove Jewish settlements : “A return to the borders of '67
today, as we are being pressured to do, would not end the conflict, would not
guarantee peace or security, it would simply move the conflict to within the
'67 borders." (This is the first step in
the right direction. The next is to set the Jewish National Goal and implement the Sinai Option!)
Appeasement and
Inaction do not Work. North Korea threatened war
after South Korea joined an anti-nuclear proliferation treaty last week. The
country also reportedly restarted processing nuclear fuel for weapons
production, and fired three short range missiles a day after it had tested a
nuclear weapon and fired three additional missiles.
A ‘Spanner’ in the Government. Defense
minister and Labor Party head Ehud Barak strongly opposes the draft law that
would outlaw the commemoration of the Naqba by Israeli Arabs. (Commemoration
of the Naqba, catastrophe – defeat of Arab armies during Israel’s independence
war, is forbidden in Jordan. Why does he not object to it?)
There is no Reason to Wait. Strike is Needed
Now!
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said last week that his country would not
negotiate with international powers over its nuclear program. Nuclear talks
between Iran and Britain, China, France, Russia, the U.S. and Germany have been
frozen since September.
Police Play Political Game Again. The
Israel Police interrogated Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman last Wednesday
for the fifth time since he took office. The session lasted five and half hours
and leaks that immediately followed it suggest that the police are
tightening the noose around the Foreign Minister, and will recommend
within a month’s time that the Prosecution press charges against him. (Either charge him or put a sock in it!)
Quote of the Week: "We call on
all security personnel to refuse expulsion orders! A soldier or a policeman who
is asked to take part in an uprooting operation is obligated to refuse this
order, which goes against Torah values. The holy Torah prohibits taking part in
any act of uprooting Jews from any part of our sacred land." - Leading Rabbis of Israel,
including rabbi Yaacov Yosef, son of the spiritual leader of the Shas
ultra orthodox political party. – I hope this the
beginning of a new Zionist revolution in Israel.
The ‘Best’ Choice for the UNESCO Chief? Egyptian
Minister Farouk Hosni, a candidate for head of UNESCO - the UN’s education and
cultural organization, has called in the past for the burning of Israeli books.
Now, in order to get the ‘profitable’ position, he is saying: “I am a man of
peace”.
Rebuilding the Jewish Temple – Not a Bad Idea! Sheikh Raad Salah, leader
of the Northern Wing of the Islamic Movement in Israel, believes Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu will try to rebuild the Jewish Temple. Jewish religion
commands the Jews to rebuild the Temple as part of a Divine plan for the
salvation of the Jewish people and the entire world
Another Top for Israel. Israel remains in the top tier of healthiest countries in the
world to live in, according to the 2009 World Health Organization Statistics.
Life expectancy in Israel reached 81 in 2007, The newborn mortality rate
in Israel (3 per 1,000), the under five-years-old mortality rate (5 per 1,000)
and the maternal mortality rate at childbirth (4 per 1,000) were much lower
than the European averages of 10 per 1,000, 15 per 1,000 and 27 per 1,000
respectively.
Jordan: We Are
Not Palestinian State. Jordan
officially objected to MK Aryeh Eldad’s pronouncement that it is the official
Palestinian state and that Arabs in Judea and Samaria should be given Jordanian
citizenship. Almost 60% of the Jordanian population are so-called Palestinians. (It is true, Jordan is not a Palestinian state - it is 77% of the Jewish
land, occupied by Arabs!)
Hypocricy of the
Headlines.
“Israel 'Willing to Risk' Relationship with the US” – Several publications – It is better
to risk a relationship with any country than to gamble with sovereignty and
even the existence of the State of Israel!
US Must Stop
Meddling and Start Respect Sovereignty. A visit by United State Vice President
Joe Biden to Beirut was labelled by as meddling in Lebanese affairs by Hizbullah
MP Hassan Fadlallah: "We call on all Lebanese, regardless of
their political views, to rise up against such meddling which represents a
flagrant violation of Lebanese sovereignty." (Hizbullah,
Fatah/Hamas and their friends in the Islamic world do not complain about the
US’ true meddling in the affairs of a sovereign state when it is the
Jewish state which is being pressured to surrender to Islamic terror by
visiting ‘envoys’ and secretaries and being called to the ‘red carpet’ for
presidential admonishment!)
Russia is
‘Unbiased’ Member of Quartet? Russian foreign affairs minister Serguei Lavrov
said contacts with the Hamas must be maintained. Following a meeting with Hamas
political office chief Khaled Meshaal in Damascus, Syria, he said, ''Russia is the
only member of the Quartet for the Middle East that does not boycott the
Hamas.'' (I bet that the sale of arms to Lebanon and Syria is a major
factor behind Russia’s love for Hamas!)
Don’t Raise
Your Hopes. Arab League secretary general Amr Mussa said that rumours that
the Islamic Conference Organization could propose a separate peace accord to Israel are
totally unfounded. (They are not interested in peace, only destruction of
Israel!)
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon met with
President Shimon Peres not long ago. Peres made it clear that Israel would not
apologize for its actions in Gaza. “We do not accept even one word from the
report. This is an unfair and unilateral report, which ignored the cruelty and
incessant fire by Hamas”. Ban Ki-Moon promised that the U.N. would not conduct
any more inquiries without coordinating them with Israel: “I took action to
balance the latest report in which Israel was attacked for ‘Cast Lead,’” Ban
told Peres. “I admit that the committee made several recommendations that were
beyond the scope of the mandate given it.” (In plain
English, it is as close as Israel can get to an apology from the UN for its
highly anti-Israel biased report.)
Ten United States Attorneys general wrote a letter
last month to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defending Israel's military
action in the Gaza Strip and condemning Hamas’ rocket attacks on Israeli
citizens and blending between civilians and combatants as war crimes. "By
intentionally targeting 6,300 rockets against Israel's civilian population,
Hamas is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of a war crime in that it has
violated … the Geneva Convention of 1949," says the letter. (The UN report has completely ignored this information!)