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Posted in: Those 1967 lines
Ron, you have nicely illustrated the problems that Obama's "67 lines" formula brings for Israel. Now Obama and company are pressuring Israel to accept that hostile, unjust formula. I believe that Judea-Samaria belong to the Jewish people as our ancient heritage. But supposing that those areas were "occupied." Even in that case we can point international acceptance of the expanded post-1945 borders of Poland and the Soviet Union, which took vast territories from Germany. And nobody complained.
Posted in: Obama's 'encrypted' Passover message
Yes, Penny, there are people enslaved and persecuted just about all over. But they don't interest Obama. When does he call for an end to Arab-caused genocide in Sudan? The protests and now uprising in Syria has been going on for more than a month. But Obama has not yet demanded that Assad get out, although he was demanding that Mubarak leave after only three days of protest. Obama's flunkeys also told the Egyptian powers that be that "non-secular forces" in Egypt should be allowed to take part in the govt there. He meant the rabidly fanatic, Judeophobic Muslim Brotherhood. He is not a friend of peace or justice. His administration's stand on Jews living throughout Jerusalem and in Judea-Samaria shows a certain racist position against Jews. Or should we call it an anti-Jewish apartheid position? In view of the above, I think that Ms Covington was interpreting Obama perfectly.
Posted in: Unpacking J Street-Ros Lehtinen-Moskowitz
JStreet displays once again their hypocritical hutspah. Dr Moskowitz donates to Ms Ros-Lehtinen's campaign. That they don't like. But JStreet takes money from Geo Soros and the Hong Kong millionairess. Soros is a very distasteful person. His biography and career are outrageous in several ways. Are we allowed to call Soros immoral? Or is he only amoral? Anyhow JStreet seems to like taking his ill gotten lucre. Next, Moskowitz bought the "Shepherd Hotel," originally built by the British-appointed Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini, who collaborated in the Holocaust. I consider it a mitsvah, a great moral statement to tear down a Husseini-built building and build Jewish housing on that site. Furthermore, I live in Jerusalem and have passed by that location many times. It is only about 100 yards from several Israeli govt ministries. It is not in the middle of an Arab neighborhood. It is near the former Hyatt Hotel, Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus and the Mt Scopus campus of Hebrew University. It is on the way to Mount Scopus. Arab irregular forces attacked Jews traveling on the road to the hospital and the university starting on November 30, 1947, after the UN General Assembly Partition recommendation of 11-29-1947. Jews living in the nearby Shimon haTsadiq Quarter were driven out of their homes in late December 1947 and early January 1948. Opposition to demolishing a Husseini building and replacing it with Jewish housing is racist anti-Jewish.
Posted in: Brian Baird: Wait -- you want us to agree with you, in addition to taking your cash?
Israel is at least as democratic as the United States. Do you, David, think that you really control or influence American policy in any field, besides helping the State Dept by bad-mouthing Israel?? And if you object to Israel because of religious influences on policy and govt there, why don't you see influences of Protestant and Catholic churches in the USA, not to mention the way both the Bush 2 and Obama administrations have fawned over Muslim clerics in the USA who preach and act in openly anti-American ways? And then there are the Euro states where the democratic state is much involved with the dominant local religion, not to mention the Muslim states, that dominate UN bodies through the Organization of the Islamic Conference. The Obama administration fawns over them and their bigoted view of the world, especially Jews. What was Obama's Cairo speech, following his Ankara speech, but a fawning over Muslims for inflated achievements??
Posted in: Krugman, demagoguing
It seems that neither Krugman nor Kampeas know about Muslim bigotry against Jews going back to Muhammad's time, nor do they know about the traditional Arab/Muslim persecution, oppression, humiliation and pecuniary exploitation of Jews going back to early Islam -- in fact back to Muhammad, according to Muslim sources. I modestly suggest my two articles linked to below, which may be helpful in this regard: http://hnn.us/articles/56698.html The following article was published in Midstream: http://www.think-israel.org/green.islamoppressedjews.html On the Ground Zero Mosque issue, Krugman ought to know that there are still people who deny the Jewish right to build homes, even in places where Jews lived before, and to restore Jewish holy places and synagogues, even in places where synagogues and Jewish holy places long existed. One of those denying people is Mr Barack Obama. If I am not mistaken, Paul Krugman supported Mr Obama's candidacy to be the POTUS. Now that he is the POTUS, Mr Obama denies the Jewish right, for instance, to go back and live in the Shimon haTsadiq Quarter of Jerusalem, whence Jews were driven out by Arab armed forces in December 1947. He also denies the Jewish right to go back and live in the Silwan neighborhood whence Jews were driven out in the mid-1930s, with British acquiescence, to be sure. Judea-Samaria was the heart of the ancient Jewish homeland. Its Jewish connection was recognized by the League of Nations in 1922. Hence, it was legally recognized as part of the Jewish National Home in international law. This status was not changed by the 11-29-1947 partition recommendation of the UN general assembly. Yet the POTUS refuses the Jewish right to live in Judea-Samaria. Even on real estate that has belonged to Jews for generations. How does that square with Professor Krugman's supposed opposition to bigotry??
Posted in: Stephen Walt's creepy warning
the fact is that walt himself and his partner mearsheimer did a great deal to create an anti-Jewish pogrom atmosphere in America. They used lies about Israel to do. They falsely blamed the "Israel Lobby" [= that is, the Jews and their friends] for the Bush administration's decision to go to war in Iraq. They knew that that was a lie since they have long been close to Washington decision-makers and have consulted for the State Dept. In fact, mearsheimer told NPR that after the decision to invade Iraq had been made, Israeli officials heard about it and tried to change it, urging the American govt to go after Iran instead of Iraq since Israel considered Iran the greater danger. But Bush and company kept their decision and the rest is history. So much for Israeli control of Washington policy. Kampeas is right to perceive insinuations of a pogrom threat in walt's words.
Posted in: Philip Weiss, endangering journalism -- and journalists
Ron, you and Dina Kraft are both wrong if you believe that "settlements" in Judea-Samaria are illegal. In fact, not only are those areas parts of the ancient Jewish homeland but they are parts of the Jewish National Home juridically erected by the international community in 1920 [San Remo] and 1922 [by the League of Nations] and never legally revoked. The mandatory power, the UK, was supposed to foster "close settlement" of Jews on the land according the League's mandate assignment. Moreover, some wrongly claim that Judea-Samaria are "occupied" and that settlement is forbidden in "occupied territories" by Geneva IV, article 49. However, not only is the areas not "occupied," but Geneva IV, art. 49, does not forbid people from moving into occupied territory of their own free will. What it does forbid is transfer of population, which means compulsory migration. Neither you, Ron, nor Dina Kraft, is an expert on international law and you should both stop accepting the conventional lies that I have detailed above. Providence's argument is asinine. Suppose my cousin were an agent for the CIA, or KGB or MI6. Would that make me an agent?? Or if my son were against the US war in Iraq and I, as a journalist, favored that war, would that mean that I agree with my pacifist son?? David above is even more asinine by claiming that "critics of Israel don’t get fair play in the media." It usually seems that on BBC and the US MSM, only critics of Israel get fair play.
Posted in: Yo Zbig! What a surprise seeing you here-UPDATE
Ron, how come you and everybody else who wants to minimize Bzzzzski's connection to Obama forget that Zbig went to Damascus in February 2008 --in the midst of the presidential election campaign-- on behalf of Candidate Obama??
Posted in: Hillary Clinton's AIPAC speech: The video, the transcript
Hilary is either lying or badly informed. She blamed the renaming of the main square of Ramallah [the city's name unmentioned by her] on the supposedly Hamas controlled Ramallah municipality. All the reports that I have seen say that the renaming ceremony was arranged by Abu Mazen's own Fatah party, not Hamas. Further, she did not mention that an American citizen was killed by that terrorist. She was Gail Rubin, a nature photographer. Nor did Clinton mention that Miss Rubin was the niece of US Senator Abraham Ribicoff.
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- A poll showed that nearly half of likely voters believed the United States should use military force to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
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- The application for a proposed Hebrew-language charter school was accepted by the District of Columbia Public Charter School board.
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- U.S. Rep. Howard Berman introduced legislation that would allow eligible Israeli nationals to receive non-immigrant investor visas in the United States.
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- Reform leader Rabbi Gunther Plaut dies
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Posted in: Bibi, the Obama parameters and the perspicacious Mr. Makovsky
09/25/11 08:40 AM
How perspicacious of Makovsky!! But the problem is that he apparently accepts the imposition on Israel of conditions that represent racism against Jews, an apartheid system against Jews, denying Jews the right to build homes in parts of the ancient Jewish homeland recognized as parts of the Jewish National Home by repeated international acts, starting with San Remo in 1920, League of Nations, 1922, UN charter 1945, and not revoked by the partition plan recommendation of 11-29-1947. This apartheid policy --also promoted by the POTUS-- separates Jews from Jewish holy places over the 1949 Green Line armistice line, leaving them to Arab-Muslim abuse.