Yoram Ettinger, YNET

On November 15, 2009, former President Clinton stated in Jerusalem: “Two things remain unchanged since 1993 – geography and demographics. Palestinians have more children than Israelis can have or import.”

Clinton’s intentions are positive. However, he is mistaken and misleading, while trying to convince Israelis to support a policy (withdrawal to the 1967 lines), which could determine the fate of the Jewish State: Oblivion or survival.

Hawks and doves would concur that public debate is dysfunctional when employing invalid numbers in order to frighten Israel into adopting a potentially-dangerous policy. Hawks and doves are aware that demographic-fatalism erodes confidence in Israel’s cause and in Israel’s steadfastness. It minimizes options and produces hasty decisions concerning critical national security issues. Decisions based on erroneous assumptions yield erroneous policy. Public debate should distance itself from baseless assumptions and position itself upon well-documented data.
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By Ted Belman

More and more people are rallying around unilateral action by Israel. Ofer Falk, a research fellow at the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya, took issue with the plan put forward by Mofaz and recommended the Israel option. He recommends annexing Ariel, Modi’in Illit and Ma’aleh Adumim first, just as I do.

[..] MOFAZ IS an Israeli war hero, but his proposed plan for peace does not serve his country well. The plan’s main problem is that it is more of same in terms of giving the Palestinians something in return for nothing. That formula has failed repeatedly.

The time has come to change this premise for peace and the sequence of give-and-take.

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By Ted Belman

Last August, PM Salam Fayyad released a Plan to “establish Palestine as an independent, democratic, progressive, and modern Arab state, with full sovereignty over its territory in the West Bank and Gaza, on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.” within two years. Israel took little notice of it.

In early November Haaretz reported it included a secret provision which stipulated a “unilateral declaration of independence”. Then Israel took notice and said ‘If PA Declares State, Israel Will Annex Settlements’.

“If the Palestinians take such a unilateral line, Israel should also consider … passing a law to annex some of the settlements,” Environment Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) said. [..]

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I know Anne Bayesfsky and have followed her invaluable work in covering the UN on matters relating to Israel. As it happens she is a Canadian lawyer. We must do all we can to publicize this story and work for her reinstatement. Ted Belman

U.N. Watchdog in ‘Kafkaesque’ Limbo After Criticizing World Body

“The United Nations detained an outspoken critic and booted her from its New York headquarters in what the woman, a human rights watchdog, is calling an effort to silence her opposition to the world body.”

This article appears today on FoxNews.com.

Anne Bayefsky claims that as retaliation for giving a two-minute impromptu speech defending Israel (VIDEO), her 25-year career of monitoring the U.N. is now in jeopardy - likely to be placed in the hands of a committee chaired by the genocidal regime in Sudan.

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By Matt Hausman

The shootings at Fort Hood - by a Jihadist in American military garb shouting “Allahu Akbar” - should have sounded a sobering alarm regarding the insidious threat of Islamist terrorism, but the President’s response to the tragedy failed to acknowledge any connection. In his comments, the President spoke of Nidal Hasan in a contextual vacuum, ignoring his known Jihadist sympathies and urging Americans not to rush to judgment. Mr. Obama has since requested that Congress delay its investigation into the civilian and military intelligence lapses that enabled Hasan’s actions. The President’s refusal to validate the obvious is only the latest act or omission in a pattern of coddling the Arab-Muslim world and of refusing to confront the very real threat of terrorism – a pattern that has been marked by alternating fits of apathy, apologia and denial.
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Women in Green writes

[..] We wouldn’t have come to this ludicrous situation, had all Israeli governments, since 1967, firmly declared that: We Jews have returned home, to our G-d given Biblical Homeland. We Jews do not differentiate either between Gilo, Yitzhar, Bet el, Kiryat Arba Hevron, Herzliya, Raanana, Haifa, Ofra, Shdema, Gush Etzion and Tel Aviv. They are all parts of the Land of Israel and belong solely to the Jewish people.

We cannot be surprised by the world’s position about Gilo when, over the years, especially since the infamous Oslo agreements, Israeli governments have unfortunately shown willingness to give away parts of our homeland. There is not one other nation in the world willing to give away parts of their country. The moment you show a willingness to give away something, you show weakness and you pass on a message that you don’t consider it to be yours.
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I find this article very interesting. Remember, Beilin has very close ties with Rahm Emanuel. If this comes down as he forecasts, it all smoke and mirrors as Gilo construction will continue, natural growth will continue and the announced 3000 units will continue. Ted Belman

Beilin: Temporary settlement freeze may lead to PA’s collapse

YNET

Former Meretz leader says Bibi plans on declaring 10-month West Bank construction freeze, Palestinians will protest US call to resume talks.

Yossi Beilin, former chairman of the leftist Meretz party, warned on Wednesday that a temporary freeze of Jewish construction in the West Bank would lead to the collapse of the Palestinian Authority.
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There are some important revelations about comments made by Obama a few years ago. Don’t miss them.

By David Suissa, Jewish Journal

It’s not that I get tired of listening to Jewish speakers. More often than not, they motivate and inspire me. Whether I agree with them or not, there’s a familiarity, a connection. I learn from my people and I embrace their diversity.

But no matter how diverse, it’s still the same Jewish tent.

That’s why it was so fascinating the other night to listen to someone who describes himself as an Israeli-Arab-Muslim-Palestinian. His look, his dress, his accent and body language all felt different. His mother’s “large clan,” he said, lives in Ramallah, where he visits almost every day from his home in Jerusalem. I could easily imagine him drinking tea and eating hummus with them.
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[Comments in blockquotes are by Ted Belman]

Obama: Gilo plan doesn’t make Israel safer

HERB KEINON, HILARY LEILA KRIEGER, THE JERUSALEM POST

Israel’s latest plan to build some 900 units in the capital’s southeastern Gilo neighborhood complicates efforts to relaunch peace talks and embitters the Palestinians, US President Barack Obama said Wednesday.

Obama told Fox News in an interview that additional settlement building did not make Israel safer. He said such moves made it harder to achieve peace in the region and embittered the Palestinians in a way that he said could be “very dangerous.”

The settlements are not meant to make Israel safer though they do. They are an exercise of our rights to settle the land as set out in the Palestine Mandate of 1922 which cannot be abrogated.

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Barkat Cries ‘Racism’ on U.S. Demand to Stop Building for Jews

by Gil Ronen

(IsraelNN.com) Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat blasted the reported U.S. demand to block Jewish construction in Jerusalem and said he would never allow a move to block construction for either Arabs or Jews anywhere in the city.

“Israeli law does not discriminate between Jews and Arabs and between east and west [Jerusalem],” the mayor emphasized. “The demand to specifically halt construction for Jews is not legal in the U.S. or in any other enlightened country in the world.”
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It’s about the birth certificate and comments made by Rev. Manning about taking Obama down , trying him and hanging him for treason.

pastor manning on obama

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Meet Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority–a position he has threatened to resign from for years.

And yet Mr. Abbas has found himself strangely drawn to power, claiming that after his 4 year term expired this past January–that he can still continue in office, based on a technicality.

Mahmoud Abbas: torn between quitting his job–or staying indefinitely.
Unsure which path to take.

But today, The Twilight Zone will make the decision for him…

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by Bill Levinson

It is a matter of proven record that Barack Obama bowed down to the King of Saudi Arabia (as shown in this video) and stood with his hands folded during the National Anthem, possibly on two occasions, while everybody else present demonstrated proper respect. Now Barack Obama has bowed down to yet another foreign monarch, Emperor Akihito of Japan.

When we first read about this, we did not take it too seriously because bowing in Japan is like shaking hands in the United States. The picture, however, shows that Obama’s performance was one of subservience as opposed to standard courtesy, because the Emperor merely lowered his head slightly in response: the gesture of a superior toward a subordinate. “Generally speaking, an inferior bows longer, more deeply and more frequently than a superior. A superior addressing an inferior will generally only nod the head slightly, while some superiors may not bow at all and an inferior will bend forward slightly from the waist.” (Read more…)

WAR UNCHECKED - Editorial (Washington Post)

* In order to eliminate Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, the U.S. launched at least 15 missile strikes in Pakistan this year and killed, besides Mehsud, somewhere between 200 and 300 people, according to a study by the New America Foundation. At least a quarter of those who died were civilians.

* Was that toll “disproportionate” to the threat posed by a single terrorist and therefore a war crime? How about the recent NATO bombing of hijacked fuel tankers in northern Afghanistan, in which a mix of 80 to 120 Taliban militants and civilians died? Justified strike, accident or war crime?
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A Paradox of Peacemaking: How Fayyad’s Unilateral Statehood Plan Undermines the Legal Foundations of Israeli-Palestinian Diplomacy

Alan Baker, JCPA

SUMMARY

* Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad published a plan in August 2009 to unilaterally declare statehood after a two-year state-building process. The Fayyad plan involves numerous governance components that already exist within the various frameworks composing the Oslo Accords, which already enable the Palestinians to develop their state-building capabilities within the peace process, and not necessarily as a unilateral initiative outside the process.
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Eidelberg wants to make Israel more Jewish and that this, he believes, will cause the Arab Israelis to emigrate. He does not believe that Palestine will be created but doesn’t make a proposal regarding Judea and Samaria.

Prof. Paul Eidelberg

1. By endorsing the establishment of an Arab-Islamic state in Judea and Samaria, Israel’s heartland, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has revealed his intellectual and moral bankruptcy. Netanyahu simply refuses to take Islam seriously—its implacable hatred of Israel and its undeviating religious-political commitment to Israel’s annihilation.

That he is anxious to resume negotiations with Holocaust denier Mahmoud Abbas is further evidence that Netanyahu—who is rich in oratory but poor in deeds—is a politician, not a statesman. Abbas, extolled by fools as “moderate,” recently selected as his successor Muhammad Ghaneim. Ghaneim, a founder of Fatah, rejected the 1993 Oslo Accords as “too moderate.”
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Melanie Phillips comments on what a Muslim moderate is,

[..] There are several reasons for this near pathological state of denial: multicultural ideology, extreme ignorance, funk. But another is the anxiety not to tar all Muslims with the same extremist brush.

This is a very proper instinct. Many Muslims in Britain and America have fully signed up to democracy and human rights; indeed, they are themselves potential victims of the Islamists and the sharia law they aim to impose upon the ‘infidel’ world.

So it is very important to separate moderate Muslims from Islamists. But how can you tell a genuine moderate from the dissimulators?
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Would Israel accept a state-and-a-half solution?
By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz

Kadima MK Shaul Mofaz’s peace plan is a refreshing change, particularly in light of his past, although no peace agreement will emerge from it. For 21 years and a day, since the Palestine Liberation Organization declared independence in Algiers, its leaders have not lowered their price: recognition of Israel and an end to hostilities in exchange for a Palestinian state within the June 4, 1967 borders with East Jerusalem the capital. The only “discount” that Israel has received since then was Yasser Arafat’s concession of 2 percent of the West Bank in exchange for other territory and safe passage between the West Bank and Gaza Strip. That was the only deal that won Arab consensus.
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Leo Rennert, The American Thinker

In its Nov. 15 edition, the New York Times features a lengthy article by Jerusalem correspondent Isabel Kershner about publication of a book by Israeli and Palestinian scholars of Jewish and Muslim claims to Temple Mount. Kershner notes that this is the site that “Jews revere as the location of their two ancient temples, and that now houses the Al Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam.”

What interests me about the article is not so much the contents of the book, which I have yet to read, as Kershner’s own derisive and dismissive view of Jewish claims to Temple Mount, coupled with a more deferential attitude to the Muslim side.
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Alleged scientific misconduct and academic dishonesty at Barack Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency
by Bill Levinson

Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has already put it on record in her letter to the Wall Street Journal that the real purpose of so-called greenhouse gas regulations, such as government-mandated cap and trade regulations, is to enrich Barack Obama’s campaign contribution bundlers at J.P. Morgan Chase (six figures in bundled contributions) and Goldman Sachs (almost a million dollars in bundled contributions).

Bundled contributions are entirely legal but the thing nonetheless speaks for itself; Barack Obama is dancing the cap-and-trade with the fat cat climate profiteers who brought (or bought) him at the expense of the American people. This could easily be why his Environmental Protection Agency is allegedly engaging in academic dishonesty and scientific misconduct to support the cap and trade agenda. We refer specifically to the alleged suppression of research that does not support Barack Obama’s “climate change” agenda, and therefore does not support the bottom lines of Goldmine Sachs (Michael Savage’s terminology), J.P. Morgan Chase, and their fellow climate profiteers at General Electric (almost $500,000 in bundled contributions to elect Obama). (Read more…)