By Ted Belman

Apparently the PA is not backing out of indirect talks. But they claimed that they want a “peace based on a two-state solution: the state of Israel that lives in peace and security alongside the state of Palestine based on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.”

This is a provocation that “threatens negotiations” and “threatens peace”.. Jerusalem has been the capital of Israel for over 40 years. The Arabs have no right to it and will not get it. Their provocative demands to get it are sure to prevent the attainment of peace.

The time has come for the Arabs to forget about Jerusalem and the return of refugees and the uprooting of settlements and the gift of 100% of Judea and Samaria. It;s not going to happen.

They must be willing to negotiate peace for peace.

According to debkafile’s sources,

The sweetness and light conveyed by public statements was hardly present in the US vice president’s private talks with Israeli leaders. Netanyahu may well have approved the Jerusalem announcement as an indirect comeback for the way the American visitor laid down the law on a number of issues of Israeli concern, chiefly the matter of Iran’s rapid progress toward a nuclear weapon.

The peremptory note was first noted when Biden called on president Shimon Peres, his first meeting with an Israel leader. He then explicitly warned Israel against venturing to attack Iran without prior American permission.

Even the oft-repeated American commitment to Israel’s security was delivered with a notable reservation: I can promise the people of Israel that we will confront every security challenge that we will face, said Biden. This statement ruled out unilateral Israel operations in its defense. Forget unilateral, he was saying: From now “we” make the decisions about the levels of “security challenge” facing Israel and how to “confront it.” And there was no false modestly about who the senior decision-maker was to be in this “alliance.”
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Following the gang hatchet job on Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders by two separate FOX News crews a few nights ago, FOX pulled down all the video footage from the internet – like it never happened. Well, it did happen.  Jim Angle, Glenn Beck, Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer and A.B Stoddard all did the dirty work during two different shows.  But, thanks to But, thanks to Gates of Vienna and Diana West, we can at least watch Beck going at Wilders one more time.

First, let’s look at Beck’s six minute interview with Wilders from February of 2009.  Beck warmly welcomed Wilders and gave him plenty of air-time.  Wilders presented his case for the noble cause of resistance to the growing Islamic repression of free speech in The Netherlands.  Beck treated Wilders like the hero he is.

A year later it is impossible to reconcile Beck’s posture and position in 2009 with his attack on Wilders this week – unless one allows for the possibility that Beck is now being influenced by powers above him at FOX News. (Read more…)

By Naomi Ragen

The headlines in Israel during Mr. Biden’s visit are making me angry. First, his statement that Israel’s announced plan to build 1,600 housing unit in East Jerusalem “undermines peace.”

What peace is that? The Arab “piece” plan, where Israel turns over more and more “pieces” of land to Palestinians who can then turn them into “terror-tory,” as they did with Gush Katif? Mr. Biden, you come here declaring that the Israeli and Palestinian sides are ‘not that far apart’ and only Israel’s policies are holding peace from breaking out, “endangering American soldiers,” as one headline put it.
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by Ted Belman - November 16, 2003

(This article may just as well have been written yesterday)

It is very clear to students of the Middle East, that the Quartet has decided that the Saudi Peace Plan is the object of all processes put forward. This plan provides for pre ‘67 borders (armistice lines) with negotiated trades of some land and a shared Jerusalem. The Plan itself doesn’t require the Right of Return but the endorsement of it by the Arab League does. The West wasn’t ready to kill the Right of Return, so Bush resisted Israel’s demand (request) that it be removed.

Rather than to focus everyone’s attention on this end result, we are given (forced to accept) a Roadmap, which focuses on process, i.e. the steps toward “peace”. These include namely that the Palestinians dismantle their terror infrastructure and Israel cease settlement activity. When the US says they are committed to the Roadmap, they mean the Saudi Peace Plan.
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By EFRAIM INBAR, JPOST

They seem to have a great territorial appetite, and lack political pragmatism.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu wants peace and is interested in negotiations with the Palestinians. His government enjoys large popular support because a large majority of Israelis agrees with this view. Israelis deeply desire peace and this issue influences their voting behavior. Indeed, every Israeli government must demonstrate to the electorate its seriousness in pursuing peace to be reelected.

True, what is required to convince Israelis about their government’s determination to pursue peace is not always enough to impress the outside world. This gap is the source of much of the criticism leveled against Israel. But the critical and/or hostile circles, which are heavily influenced by misguided notions propagated by the discredited Israeli Left and Palestinian propaganda, are not in sync with regional realities and entertain unrealistic expectations.
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By Ted Belman

Thank you Interior Minister Eli Yishai for blowing the peace process wide open with your announcement of the building of another 1600 units in eastern Jerusalem. Your timing was perfect. Though these 1600 units were announced a few weeks ago, nothing like driving the point home when VP Biden is here. And don’t think I am being facetious.

Netanyahu fought hard to exclude Jerusalem from the freeze. We must proceed in full force and let the world know we meant it and Jerusalem is ours. Israel has no obligation to not build. To do otherwise would make a mockery of the exclusion.
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The socialists in the EU pushed this through. Its all about world government and the annihilation of sovereignty.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF, JPOST

By a slim majority of just over 50 percent, the parliament in Strasbourg became the first institution since the United Nations to take a stand in favor of the report. European countries have been divided over their positions on the document, which Israel regards as biased and flawed.

The Foreign Ministry said it was troubled by the vote, which neither helped the peace process nor was compatible with principles of law and justice.

“At a time when there is an international effort to bring about proximity talks, it is unfortunate that the European Parliament chooses to take a stand on such a controversial issue that has already been discussed in other forums,” the statement read.
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“I condemn the decision by the government of Israel to advance planning for new housing units in East Jerusalem”

Vice President Joseph Robinette Biden, March 09, 2010

Obama, Biden and Abbas

For nearly twenty years the great sham of the Middle East Peace Process has dragged on. And this despicable scam has consisted of only one policy, only one platform and only one plan. Pressuring Israel for more concessions.

Year in and year out, new peace conferences were declared and new plans for peace were hammered out. All of them had one thing in common, they carved up Israel for a non-existent peace. When Arafat and his gang of terrorists made a concession, it was to demand 5 percent less of Israel in the current phase of negotiations. When Israel made a concession, it was to turn over another 10 percent of land to its worst enemies in this phase of negotiations… in exchange for them putting off their demands for that 5 percent into the next phase of the negotiations. And this sick charade in which Israel gave and the terrorists took was the peace process.

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By Ted Belman

During the lead up to his election victory, he surrounded himself with a host of vehemently anti-Israel advisors including Lee Hamilton, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Samantha Power, Susan Rice and Gen Jones, many of whom advocated imposing a solution on Israel..

He also made common cause with Jewish leftists represented by J Street and Israel Policy Forum who were urging him to increase the pressure on Israel and if that didn’t work, to impose a solution on Israel. (Read more…)

By Ted Belman

A few years ago, I believed, as most westerners did, that the Serbs were the bad guys and the Muslims the victims. That was until Felix Quigley and Nathan Pearlstein got hold of me. They suggested the reverse was the truth and proceeded to prove it. It took almost a year until I finally came around.

I am now reading a book, Di Di Daw Daw Di Di, just written by a retired CIA guy, James E Horn. This is what he wrote.

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By Ted Belman

Sarah Palin is a self made woman who marches to her own drummer. Its easy to come down on her for her couple of bad interviews or for her English grammar errors or her former ignorance of international and national politics and …oh, is that all?

But there is no denying her meteoric rise from hockey mom to the Republican VP nominee on her own merit and track record, in little over 15 years all while giving birth to and raising five children and helping her husband on his commercial fishing boat.

And there is no denying that few people would have had the guts to give up the Governorship last summer and go for broke. Who does that? Sarah does.
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Tuesday, 9 March 2010

Trashing Wilders: Is FoxNews the best PR investment ever made by Saudi Prince Alaweed bin Talal?

by Jerry Gordon

Last night, FoxNews Special Report fielded both  a ‘hard news’ segment  and pundit panel commentary  drawing attention to Geert Wilders’ whose poll standing has soared  in The Netherlands  in the wake of the dissolution of the Fourth Balkenende  coalition government and  a snap election for a new parliament  scheduled for.June 9^th.

A call  from Andy Bostom drew my attention confirming the obvious. That despite FoxNews Channel labeling  itself as being “ fair and balanced”, according to Bostom, it was “out-doing the BBC” in castigating Wilders as a populist demagogue. A man, who according to  Charles Krauthammer doesn’t know the difference between Islam and Islamism.  We wonder if Krauthammer knows much about the former to enable him to distinguish it from the latter.  But neither does Glen Beck, after all he said he read the Quran and considers Islam a religion of peace and calls Wilders a “fascist”.

Note what David Swindle at  David Horowitz’s RealNews blog  had to say about  last night’s FoxNews Special Report in When Fox News Might as Well Be MSNBC: Special Report Trashes Geert Wilders:

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DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

The delegations will be headed by Israeli prime minister’s adviser Yitzhak Molcho and senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat. debkafile’s Middle East sources disclose that Special US Middle East Envoy George Mitchell notified Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas Monday, March 8, that his mission on behalf of president Barack Obama was to get direct peace talks started without delay at a venue near Washington.

The US president, he said, was out of patience with the two sides’ objections, gripes and maneuvers.
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by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

(IsraelNN.com) The nationalist camp must start to change its thinking and look at Palestinian Authority Arabs as human beings in order to solve the political stalemate, Knesset Member Tzipi Hotovely told Israel National News.

“It is clear today that the version of ‘two states for two peoples’ does not stand a chance,” she said. “The decision of the nationalist camp ‘not to decide’ brings us to the current standoff. We have to exercise sovereignty over all of the areas of Judea and Samaria, but we have never said that we are talking about our own land. This is our weakness.”

The rookie MK suggests a “more progressive look at our [Arab] neighbors” instead of copying the “leftist solution of building a wall so we don’t have to see them.” She said that the PA includes Arabs who have “rights as human beings, and the problem of political rights has to be solved gradually.”
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JPOST

[..] Four to eight weeks remain to test the option of diplomatic engagement as means of stopping Iran’s nuclear program before sanctions will likely be imposed, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon told an audience of foreign military officers and government officials in Herzliya on Monday.

Speaking to dozens of participants in a terrorism and security program run by the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Ayalon said the “time is not yet lost” to stem Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but added that “it is of the essence.” [..]

Bolton: Israel’s Options – Attack Iran or Accept Nuclear Power

(IsraelNN.com) Former United States ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton warned Sunday that Israel has just two choices: a strike aimed at Iran’s nuclear facilities, or a nuclear Iran. Bolton spoke with reporter Aaron Klein in a radio interview for Klein’s new show on WABC.

“We know about the facilities… We know where they are,” Bolton said of Iran’s nuclear program. “I think they are susceptible to an Israeli attack.”[..]

International Solidarity Movement’s highest priority was to take pictures of her death
by Bill Levinson

WANTED: Young, attractive, idealistic female college student to star in a movie about Zionazi oppression of the downtrodden Palestinian people. Acting skills are not particularly important because “if some of these foreign volunteers get shot or even killed, then the international media will sit up and take notice” (George Rishmawi, International Solidarity Movement leader).

We cannot prove that the International Solidarity Movement actually recruited Rachel Corrie with the intention of making her the star in a snuff film but, when the opportunity to do so arose, the ISM jumped on it the way rats swarm over cheese. “Making of a Martyr” reports that the highest priority of ISM activist Joseph Smith (aka Joseph Carr?) was to take pictures of this young woman being run over by a slowly-moving bulldozer instead of attempting to pull her out of its path as any able-bodied man could probably have done before it was too late. Unfortunately for Rachel Corrie, and her parents Craig and Cindy Corrie, no men–at least in the terms that society once defined men–were present at the scene. (Read more…)

By Alexander Maistrovoy

Welcome to the Holy Land: Al-Haram Al-Ibrahimi in Hebron, Bilal Ibn Ribah mosque in Bethlehem and Al-Burak Wall…

The Israeli government announced that it would include the Cave of the Patriarchs (Me’arat HaMachpelah) in Hebron and Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem as part of a comprehensive plan to preserve Israel’s national heritage and religious sites (”Moreshet”). The reaction of the Arab (and all Islamic) world to the decision has once again showed the real essence of the “Arab-Israeli conflict”, which actually is the «holy war» that Arabs had proclaimed against the Jews.
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1. The American people inaugurate a president with a total of 142 days experience as a US Senator from the most politically corrupt city/state in America whose governors have been ousted from office, and his first official act is to disclose state secrets on how we interrogate terrorists and to make sure terrorists civil rights are not violated. This from a guy whose college transcripts have been made a state secret.

2. The U.S. Congress rushes to confirm an Attorney General, Eric Holder, whose law firm we later find out has volunteered to represent seventeen Gitmo Terrorists.
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Compliments of Anglo-Saxon Ra’anana Real Estate

Quote for the Week

“Israel was the land of milk and honey in Biblical times, but in the modern era, its milk and honey and natural gas. In Israel’s deep waters, in virgin territory, a monster natural gas discovery has been made.”

(Charles Davidson CEO of Noble Energy, prospecting for, and finding, huge deposits of natural gas in Israeli territorial waters – It doesn’t come more dramatic than that! [See item below]

· Noble Energy conducted a 3D seismic survey, which will provide very sophisticated information enabling them to know whether there are more reserves adjacent to the Tamar and Dalit reservoirs [already discovered together with two other fields]. The implications for Israel are enormous including gaining independence from oil and coal suppliers, developing a completely clean, pollution free energy source and acquiring a revenue generator from the sale of the fuel. [See Quote for the Week above]
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