[An agreement will not ber reached. There is only an imposed solution or Israeli unilateral action.]

Editor’s Notes: Look who’s (almost) talking
By DAVID HOROVITZ, JPOST

The dispute over the modalities of peace negotiations was only the first, and the least, of the problems

With Mahmoud Abbas now seeking Arab League approval for the launch of indirect “proximity” talks with Israel, we are belatedly back to where things stood on the eve of Vice President Joe Biden’s unhappy visit to Israel seven weeks ago.

Biden’s was a long-planned trip intended to reassure Israel about the Obama administration’s oft-stated “unbreakable, unshakable” commitment to Israel. But it was also timed to coincide with the scheduled launch of the indirect talks.
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Jack Golbert (law professor living in Israel) wrote an open letter to PM Netanyahu last year.

Dear Prime Minister

My purpose in writing to you and that of my colleague is to thank you for standing strong against the two state “solution” and to give you encouragement to stay the course.

President Obama has set forth, in the most brutal way that, in preference to the people of Israel continuing to live on its ancestral homeland, the United States will accept a nuclear Iran, with all the destabilization that would inevitably result. In effect, President Obama has said that the US might (might) save Israel from lynching but on condition that we drink strychnine. In fact, however, by the end of the two to three year period that his timetable sets for the drinking of strychnine, the lynching will have been completed, God forbid! But we are required to drink it anyway. (Read more…)

Compliments of Anglo Raanana Real Estate

BREAKING NEWS!!!

The Central Bureau of Statistics, still our favorite source of GN reported today [Friday] that the period Jan/Feb produced some great figures where they really count and here are just a few:

ü The Industrial production index rose in January and February by 9.1%. We’re producing more and selling more, we’re exporting more too so …

ü The Export of goods index went up by 26.1%, following a sharp increase of 38.3% in the previous quarter.

ü Hotel overnight stays climbed by an encouraging 9% on an increase of 17% in the three months before.

Long may it continue!
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By Ted Belman
What this means is that Obama has accepted that there is no diplomatic solution. As I have written many times before, he intends to impose a plan, in fact the Saudi Plan. He has already started the imposition by demanding a settlement freeze and the other things set out in this article. Negotiations are a sham. Israel will be given an erzats peace but will not get an end of conflict agreement or recognition by any Arab government that Israel is a Jewish state. We will get “normalized” relations, whatever that means.

On the other hand, Barry Rubin , The U.S.-Israel Crisis May Be Over and We Can “Celebrate” the Achievement of Nothing, believes that all that has happenned is that Obama can claim he got negotiations started, ignoring that he caused them to stop.

HaEtzni goes beyond the negotiations and concludes that it is all about imposing a plan. I agree with HaEtzni.

The Second War of Independence

By Elyakim HaEtzni

Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu avoided attending the international nuclear conference in Washington in order to side step the mine that President Barack Obama had planted there for him and us.

What was the nature of that mine?

It’s not just Jerusalem or any particular clause in the document that Obama set before Netanyahu for his signature at their last meeting. At stake is the independence of the State of Israel. We are poised at the edge of a Second War of Independence, in which the Quartet, under America’s leadership, is playing the role of the British High Commissioner. Alex Fishman, in an article in “Yediot Achronot” from April 9th, details what Obama presented to Netanyahu for his
signature:
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Amiti Sen NEW DELHI, Times of India

INDIA will seek access to Israel’s expertise in areas such as bio-technology and water management as it begins discussions on a free trade agreement in Delhi next month, but the pact is likely to have strategic undertones as well. India already has many trade agreements with other countries, but this is the first Israel will be getting into, indicating the importance it gives to economic relations with India.

“India’s relationship with Israel is of a strategic nature as it is seeking, in various capacities, closer ties in the military area. The FTA would help in making the relationship more robust,” C Uday Bhaskar, strategic analyst and director of National Maritime Foundation said.
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[Israeli officials: Obama to call world summit if Mideast peace talks fail ]
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By DAVID HOROVITZ AND KHALED ABU TOAMEH

As proximity talks near, Israeli officials wary of Abbas’s intentions.
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While Israel and the Palestinian Authority are finally expected to begin US-mediated indirect “proximity” talks in the very near future, concern is growing among some in the Israeli government that the PA is planning to marginalize the diplomatic process and instead unilaterally seek UN recognition for a Palestinian state along the pre-1967 lines.

There is a rising conviction among some in the Netanyahu government, The Jerusalem Post has learned, that the PA is aiming to secure a new UN Security Council Resolution, updating 1967’s Resolution 242, providing for the establishment of Palestine and fudging the refugee issue.
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by Bill Levinson

The President of the United States can be impeached and removed from office for a “high crime or misdemeanor” committed prior to or during his tenure. Internet gambling, specifically the “Dinner with Barack” promotions in which donors of $5 or more had a chance to win an expenses-paid trip to have dinner with Barack Obama, seems to qualify as a violation of U.S. Code Title 31 Subchapter IV, “Prohibition on funding of unlawful Internet gambling.”

The term “unlawful Internet gambling” means to place, receive, or otherwise knowingly transmit a bet or wager by any means which involves the use, at least in part, of the Internet where such bet or wager is unlawful under any applicable Federal or State law in the State or Tribal lands in which the bet or wager is initiated, received, or otherwise made.

Furthermore, a bet or wager is defined in part as, “includes the purchase of a chance or opportunity to win a lottery or other prize (which opportunity to win is predominantly subject to chance),” which encompasses the “Dinner with Barack” and “Backstage with Barack” solicitations. As for illegality under any applicable state law, Minnesota law enforcement is on record as saying that these solicitations were illegal in Minnesota. Most states, in fact, require purveyors of lotteries and other games of chance to obtain a license which, as far as we know, the Obama campaign never bothered to do. Barack Obama’s personal involvement in these lotteries mean that he may be guilty personally of one or more “high crimes or misdemeanors,” a finding of guilt on any count by the U.S. Senate would require his removal from office. Even worse, Barack Obama signed his name to a letter that showed that one lottery was fraudulent because it selected a winner before the entry deadline; in other words, later entrants were cheated of an equal chance to win. (Read more…)

Yisroel Mendelson for Manhigut Yehudit

A Short Analysis of the Likud Central Committee Voting

The official results of the voting today indicate that 77% of the Likud Central Committee voters went with Bibi, preferring to defer Likud elections – probably indefinitely. There were many obvious problems and irregularities with today’s voting, but it will not help us to turn to the courts or to be “sore losers.” And this dark cloud definitely has a silver lining.

[I don't see the bright side at all.]

After a long and hectic week, we can summarize that Moshe Feiglin and Manhigut Yehudit took a giant leap forward toward leadership of Israel. Moshe Feiglin was in the media constantly. Even those journalists who have traditionally been openly hostile to Moshe related to him with seriousness and respect. There is no doubt that Moshe has positioned himself as an alternative leader for Israel.

There was only one major force this week that opposed Bibi and his planned disengagement from Jerusalem: Moshe Feiglin. He was articulate, determined and unequivocal as he warned of Bibi’s plans – very much the next leader in the making.
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DPA

U.S. soldiers who liberated a Nazi concentration camp in April 1945 were amazed to discover, among the countless famished and dead, seven Jewish mothers and their babies, who had somehow avoided execution or starvation.

This week, six of those former babies are to gather for an emotional reunion at Dachau on the outskirts of Munich.

German television is to air a television documentary which explores the miracle of how these three infant boys and four infant girls slipped through the cracks of the Nazi killing machine.
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What does Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin and Daniel Pipes have in common?

The believed or do believe in the foreign policy of “I win, you lose”.

Daniel Pipes explains his view in Canada’s National Post.

Unnerving Our Friends, Encouraging Our Enemies
by Peter Huessy, Hudson New York
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The United States seems to be under the impression that being the ‘strong horse’ in international affairs harms our standing in the world. We are retreating from the international stage, seemingly happy in the idea of turning both national and international security policy over to a combination of global UN agencies and regional authorities we hope will cooperate with us, and motivated more by good will than hard interests.

As members of Congress review the administration’s proposals on counterterrorism, nuclear deterrence, missile defense, and proliferation, this retreat seem to be the ‘elephant in the room’ about which few appear willing to talk. For now.
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I dind this difficult to believe, not because I think that Netanyahu wouldn’t agree but because I think that this report implies that Netanyahu got nothing in return. So what is the quid pro quo.

That’s not all. Report: Obama Promised Abbas a Palestinian State Within 2 Years

But Bibi expected to lose the Likud vote tonight.

Decision on Jerusalem made under intense pressure from U.S., ‘satisfies’ Palestinians

By Aaron Klein, © 2010 WorldNetDaily

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to quietly halt all Jewish construction in eastern Jerusalem as a “confidence-building gesture” toward the Palestinian Authority as demanded by the Obama administration, a top PA official told WND.

The PA official said Netanyahu will not make a public declaration on the subject for fear of upsetting his nationalist coalition, which would be forced to respond to any public Jewish construction freeze in Jerusalem. The official said while the Jerusalem freeze would not be announced, no new Jewish construction in the eastern sections of the city will be approved by the local municipality.
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by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu, INN

U.S. President Barack Obama’s Democratic majority is turning against him after barely a year in office and is racing ahead of the President to ensure Israel’s security and force harsh sanctions against Iran.

Senate Majority Leader Harold Reid of Nevada, who did not join more than 80 colleagues who recently sent a pro-Israel letter to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, fired off his own missive several days ago.
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by Victor Davis Hanson, Tribune Media Services

Current American relations with our once-staunch ally Israel are at their lowest ebb in the last 50 years.

The Obama administration seems as angry at the building of Jewish apartments in Jerusalem as it is intent on reaching out to Iran and Syria, Israel’s mortal enemies. President Obama himself, according to reports, has serially snubbed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A new narrative abounds in Washington that Israel’s intransigence with its Arab neighbors now even endangers U.S. troops stationed in the Middle East. Obama is pushing Netanyahu’s Likud government to make concessions on several fronts, from supplying power and food to Gaza, to hastened departure from the West Bank.
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By Kathleen Parker, WaPo

Once you’ve gone viral, there’s no turning back.

That’s the hard lesson for a Seattle cartoonist who sketched some doodles and unwittingly launched a movement.

Molly Norris, a reluctant phenomenon, wants to return to her quiet artist’s life, the one she lived largely unnoticed until she drew the Prophet Muhammad — as a spool of thread, a box of pasta, a cup of coffee, a domino, a cherry and a doggie purse.

Take your pick. Since depictions of Muhammad aren’t allowed under some (but not all) interpretations of Islam, no one knows what he looks like. And, bummer alert, anyone who tries to capture his likeness is subject to punishment by death.
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[I should mention that Saul Alinsky drfew heavily from the thoughts of Antonio Gramsci mentioned below.]

By Chuck Morse, WND

In the 1930s, Italian communist Antonio Gramsci advocated the “long march through the institutions” as the most effective means for communism to prevail in the Western democracies. He sought to overthrow capitalism and enthrone an authoritarian ideology he sincerely believed would usher in an age of equality and social justice. History has conclusively proven him to have been wrong. Gramsci disagreed with the methods of his contemporary compatriots, the Bolsheviks, who were implementing communism in Russia through violence, or what they called revolution. Gramsci’s tactics involved quietly infiltrating and then dominating cultural institutions, the media, academe, foundations, the arts, and to use those resources to impose an informal cultural dictatorship. Gramsci understood that by controlling the culture, what Marx called the “means of communication,” communism could be imposed under another name and in such a way that the democracies would find themselves asleep at the switch.
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A boon to all three, a threat to Islamist terrorism

By Hadara Graubart

Writing in The American Interest, Walter Russell Mead calls attention to a much overlooked alliance that is dramatically affecting the political landscape. “Americans often talk about Israel as if we were the Jewish state’s only real friend,” writes Mead. In actuality, a 2009 survey demonstrated that in India—which has the “third-largest number of Muslims in the world”—58 percent of the population supports Israel, compared to 56 percent of Americans. “The deepening relations between the United States, India, and Israel are changing the geopolitical geometry of the modern world in ways that will make the lives of fanatical terrorists even more dismal and depressing (not to mention shorter) than they already are.”
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Israel develops capabilities, India pays

Ajai Shukla / New Delhi February 9, 2010,

For many Indian commentators, especially those on the right, Israel provides an inspiring example of how to deal with external threat. One could equally argue that notwithstanding its comfortable position as the regional hegemon, Israel and its citizens remain insecure, xenophobic and afflicted by a disturbing sense of victimhood. It’s a debate that continues, especially in that country.

What Israel unquestionably does illustrate for India — with this country paying hundreds of millions of dollars annually for the lesson — is a well-considered plan for building its defence industry. In becoming India’s biggest defence supplier, Israel has bared a hard-nosed strategy that our policy-makers must grasp and emulate.
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WND has a major article on efforts by states to require presidential candidates to prove they are “natural born citizens”.

Thus in the 2012 elections all states who have passed such legislation will refuse to put any candidate on the ballot without the requisite proof.

By Ben Shapiro

“American Jews, I have one request of you: please pull your heads out of your posteriors.”

Dear American Jews,

I write to you as a charter member of the tribe. I’m not only Jewish, I’m religious. I’m married to an Israeli girl (she’ll receive her citizenship next year and she is a proud soon-to-be American). I go to synagogue regularly, keep kosher, keep the Sabbath.

American Jews, I have one request of you: please pull your heads out of your posteriors.

I mean that in all sincerity. Your continued support for Democrats and an administration that is openly anti-Semitic is a disgrace. Your embrace of a party that seeks to hamstring Israel in the name of a wholly fictitious Middle East peace process is contemptible. Your loyalty to a president who consistently sides with Palestinian and Iranian mass murder-supporters is disgusting.
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