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Swedish Recognition of 'Palestine' - A Sign of Things to Come?
European policy expert says Swedish recognition of 'Palestinian statehood' offers a glimpse into the PA's 'political war' against Israel.
By Ari Soffer
First Publish: 10/7/2014, 7:28 PM
PA President Mahmoud Abbas
Reuters
Sweden's decision to recognize a "Palestinian state" - and similar noises being made elsewhere in Europe - does not pose a direct diplomatic or legal threat to Israel, but could be a sign of a shift towards a "more unconditional" position in support of the Palestinian position in Europe in general, according to an expert on European Middle East policy.
Dr. Jonathan Rynhold, a senior researcher at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, emphasized that although the move was purely symbolic it gave a glimpse into what the Palestinian Authority hoped to achieve with its current unilateral diplomatic strategy - which its leader Mahmoud Abbas has termed a "political war".
"In of itself it's not a game changer," he said of the Swedish decision, "but it is part of a Palestinian strategy to obtain statehood along the '67 lines without having to make concessions to Israel on security, refugees and other issues that would be required in negotiations.
"The key group of states that will count in terms of making recognition credible is the European states - who don't normally recognize 'Palestine' as a state, but do call for the creation of a Palestinian state through negotiations."
The PA knows the US will almost certainly veto any direct attempt at unilateral statehood via the UN Security Council, so is attempting to cultivate an international political environment which would enable them to gain statehood through the back door - without having to make any concessions of their own. That would mean altering the still-prevalent discourse within Europe of "land for peace and security" as the only legitimate way to achieving peace.
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Blood Moon….Moon turns to blood early Wednesday morning
If you missed April's total eclipse of the moon, now's your chance. But you'll need to get up early.
If the skies are clear on Wednesday morning, North Americans will have prime viewing of a full lunar eclipse, especially in the West.
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Russia's deployed nuclear capacity overtakes US for first time since 2000
Russia has 1,643 nuclear missiles ready to launch – one more than the US – according to an official State Department report. Both countries have been upgrading their active nuclear arsenals since the outbreak of the Ukrainian conflict.
The US report is based on official figures exchanged between the two countries as part of the New START disarmament treaty, and includes missiles deployed before September 1. The numbers show a significant increase from March, when data showed that Washington had a capacity of 1,585 payloads, and Moscow 1,512.
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Erekat's Latest Whopper: 96% of Gaza Dead Were Civilians
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Turkish Warship in Cyprus Zone Sends Tensions Soaring
Turkey is sending a seismographic vessel to explore areas in the Cypriot Exclusive Economic Zone.
By Mark Langfan
First Publish: 10/7/2014, 4:51 PM
Turkish battleship
Reuters
On Friday, October 3, a day after US Vice President Joe Biden pontificated about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's "desire" to have "no Turkish soldiers" remain in Cyprus, Turkey sent Turkish-Greece-Cyprus tensions soaring by issuing a Navigational Telex, or NAVTEX, according to which Turkey was sending a seismographic vessel to explore areas in the Cypriot Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in Cyprus's southern waters.
In response, Nikos Christodoulides, the Cypriot government spokesman, said that Turkish "harassment in any way of the company which operates within the EEZ of the Republic, is in no way compatible with the orderly conduct of the talks," adding that "this is a clear message, which we expect to reach its target and to have results."
According to the Cyprus Mail and other Cypriot news sources, the NAVTEX notifies mariners and countries that Turkey, as a sovereign, is reserving areas south of Cyprus for seismic surveys from October 20 to December 20 of this year. Turkey has basically issued a stark warning Cyprus, America and Israel that Turkish exploratory vessels were under Turkish sovereign protection, and were not to be disturbed even though they were exploring in areas south of Cyprus, an action that Turkey had never taken before.
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Dear Jeremy Ben-Ami and J Street,
After your latest outburst, slamming Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's defense of the Givat Hamatos building project in Jerusalem, I feel compelled to respond, from the personal perspective of one who lives in Israel.
I am a proud resident of the reestablished ancient city of Shiloh in Samaria, the region that you mistakenly call "the Israeli-occupied West Bank". My mother lives in our liberated capital of Jerusalem, which the Obama administration that you firmly support refers to as "Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem". And yes, I know that you have referred to the building of neighborhoods in our capital city as "illegal settlements".
If it were just a matter of semantics, I could perhaps consider you to be merely ignorant of history. I could explain to you that Samuel the Prophet grew up in Shiloh, during the 369 years that Shiloh was Israel's capital, far longer than the age of your country, the USA. I could also explain to you that the great Kings of Israel, David and Solomon, reigned in the Old (eastern) City of Jerusalem, and that Israel was sovereign there for many hundreds of years, also much longer than the age of the United States. Did you know that the Jewish people in exile, your people, for nearly 2,000 years have prayed in the direction of the Temple Mount in eastern Jerusalem, where the holy Temple twice stood, before being destroyed by Israel's enemies?
Furthermore, are you aware that the Arab nations, after failing to drive the Jews into the sea from 1948 to 1964, adopted a new political strategy whereby they would create a new underdog, calling the mostly Muslim residents of the Land of Israel by the fictional term "Palestinians", thus adopting that old Roman misnomer as their own?
The fact is that there never was a country called Palestine here. If you doubt that, I challenge you to answer this very simple question:
What was the monetary currency of that ancient nation that you claim we are occupying?
While there are some peoples, such as the Kurds, that perhaps deserve their own country, there is absolutely no historical nor social justification for the creation of such a nation of Palestine, which, if allowed to be born under its current Fatah-Hamas leadership, would undoubtedly become another legitimized Islamic terrorist stronghold.
If it was only a question of clearing up your ignorance of history, we could sit and review the facts, but your recent remarks go way beyond historical ignorance and enter the realm of political deception.
For instance:
"Palestinians are not allowed … to drive on Israeli-only roads connecting these settlements through 'security zones' surrounding the settlements."
This is an absolute falsehood. Everyone who lives in Jerusalem knows that the Arabs roam freely through the streets of Jerusalem, while Jews are often violently attacked if they dare to enter the Arab neighborhoods. As for Samaria and Judea (your so-called West Bank), a Jew doesn't dare to drive with his car window open for fear of rock or firebomb attack, whereas Arabs almost always drive with windows open. I cannot enter the Arab city of Ramallah for fear of death, but Arabs drive freely on Route 60, which connects the Jewish communities of Samaria.
Perhaps a visit to Israel, including its liberated capital and heartland, would be an eye-opening experience for you. There is a lot of real learning that can be done outside of your comfort zone of Washington, DC and the Obama administration's untruths about Israel and the Middle East. Are you prepared to crawl out of that box? Are you ready to meet the challenge?
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Mandates Omelette Will Leave More Egg on Obama's Face
Obama cannot unscramble the Mandates omelette.
Published: Monday, October 06, 2014 11:23 AM
President Obama's mission to degrade and destroy Islamic State (ISIL) in Syria and Iraq has been seriously undermined by these poor political judgement calls:
Claiming that ISIL is not "Islamic" Arguing that ISIL is not a State because no other Government recognises it Intruding upon Syrian sovereign territory in breach of international law before first procuring the passage of a Chapter VII Security Council Resolution authorising military action Threatening to use his intervention in Syria as an excuse to also remove Syria's President Assad Grossly underestimating the ISIL threat
His latest gaffe involves a dispute with Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu - who told the United Nations this week:
… everywhere we look, militant Islam is on the march. It's not militants. It's not Islam. It's militant Islam.
Typically, its first victims are other Muslims, but it spares no one. Christians, Jews, Yazidis, Kurds – no creed, no faith, no ethnic group is beyond its sights. And it's rapidly spreading in every part of the world."
Netanyahu further warned:
"To protect the peace and security of the world, we must remove this cancer before it's too late. Last week, many of the countries represented here rightly applauded President Obama for leading the effort to confront ISIS. And yet weeks before, some of these same countries, the same countries that now support confronting ISIS, opposed Israel for confronting Hamas. They evidently don't understand that ISIS and Hamas are branches of the same poisonous tree. ISIS and Hamas share a fanatical creed, which they both seek to impose well beyond the territory under their control."
State Department spokesperson - Jen Psaki - chose to take issue with Netanyahu – claiming:
"Obviously, we've designated both as terrorist organizations, but ISIL poses a different threat to Western interests and to the United States,"
However ISIL and Hamas – and the PLO – all pose identical threats to western interests and the United States – as they attempt to unscramble the three Mandates for Syria / Lebanon, Iraq and Palestine legally sanctioned by the League of Nations more than 90 years ago after the territories comprised in these Mandates were liberated from 400 years of Ottoman Empire rule following Turkey's defeat in World War I.
The independent Arab and Jewish States that subsequently emerged from these Mandates are now being directly threatened with elimination.
ISIL has already declared an Islamic State in large parts of Syria and Iraq exceeding the area of Great Britain - - expelling or butchering Christian and other religious communities who have lived there for centuries. ISIL has been repelled in Lebanon and also threatens Jordan.
Hamas – pursuant to Article 11 of its 1988 Charter – militarily seeks to reverse the Jewish National Home objectives of the Mandate for Palestine:
"The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. Neither a single Arab country nor all Arab countries, neither any king or president, nor all the kings and presidents, neither any organization nor all of them, be they Palestinian or Arab, possess the right to do that. Palestine is an Islamic Waqf land consecrated for Moslem generations until Judgement Day."
The PLO – pursuant to Article 20 of its 1968 Covenant - has never accepted the legal validity of the Mandate for Palestine – nor Great Britain's 1923 decision that ultimately created today's independent Arab state of Jordan in 78% of Mandatory Palestine:
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Obama 'Can't Buy Control of Israel With Military Aid'
MK Danon fires back at US criticism of Jerusalem building, after White House cites Iron Dome in spat with Netanyahu.
By Ari Yashar
First Publish: 10/7/2014, 8:08 AM
Barack Obama, Binyamin Netanyahu
Flash 90
Likud Central Committee Chairman Danny Danon on Monday weighed in on the spat between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama's administration, warning that Israel cannot be bought.
The falling out focuses on a construction project to build 2,610 new homes in the Jewish Jerusalem neighborhood of Givat Hamatos, which while slated for construction since 2012 was only given final approval last week, opening the path for bids sometime in the future.
"President Obama is mistaken if he thinks American military aid, which is given for reasons of American strategic interests, buys him the right to dictate to Israel not to build in Jerusalem," stated Danon.
The statement comes in response to the US State Department's veiled threat in saying American defense systems, primarily the Iron Dome anti-missile system, was an "American value" in response to Netanyahu's words on Sunday.
According to Netanyahu, the criticism is "against the American values. And it doesn't bode well for peace. The idea that we'd have this ethnic purification as a condition for peace, I think it's anti-peace."
White House press secretary Josh Earnest went on the attack again on Monday, responding by saying "when it comes to American values, it's American values that led to this country's unwavering support of Israel. It's American values that have led us to fund an Iron Dome system."
The choice to refer to American military support as a justification for criticism on a building project in a Jewish neighborhood in Israel's capital city may strike many as odd.
That oddness is particularly heightened given the fact that Obama cancelled a routine Hellfire missile shipment to Israel during the last Gaza operation, additionally ordering heightened scrutiny on future weapons transfers.
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White House: Our 'Values' Built Iron Dome
The tit for tat between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the White House on building in Givat Hamatos continued Monday.
By Yaakov Levi
First Publish: 10/6/2014, 9:30 PM
In response to criticism of the US in an interview program Sunday, the White House on Monday slammed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, saying that his criticism of American values was out of place. The criticism of America for its concern over Israel's construction in Jerusalem was "odd," said White House press secretary Josh Earnest.
"When it comes to American values, it's American values that led to this country's unwavering support of Israel," Earnest said. "It's American values that have led us to fund an Iron Dome system" which protected Israeli cities from attacks by Hamas terrorists during Operation Protective Edge.
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How should the West view Hamas, IS and Israel?
By Tuvia Brodie
10/7/2014, 6:10 PM
On September 29, 2014, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to the United Nations General Assembly. In his speech, he declared that Hamas wants to destroy Israel. But, he said, referring to the similarity between Hamas and The Islamic State (IS), "Hamas has a broader objective. They [sic] also want a caliphate. Hamas shares the global ambitions of its fellow militant Islamists," the IS ("Transcript of Benjamin Netanyahu's address to the 2014 UN General Assembly", Haaretz, September 29, 2014).
Netanyahu had made this association because he felt that "Israel's fight against Hamas and the US military campaign against the Islamic State are part of the same cause --the defeat of Islamic extremism" (ibid).
On the surface, he made perfect sense. Both the US and Israel, each in its own way and each for its own reasons, face a threat from Islamic extremism. But his linking Hamas with the IS didn't sit well with everyone. Apparently, some either can't give credence to anything a Jewish leader of Israel says, or they are reluctant to grant Israel any right to discuss Islamic extremism--or, they are so focused on the general threat we face from Islamic extremists they completely dismiss the threat Jewish Israel faces from Hamas.
For example, Nathan Brown, writing in The Jewish Daily Forward ("Netanyahu's Convenient Lies About ISIS and Hamas", September 30, 2014), dismisses Netanyahu's attempt to compare Hamas to IS. He further argues that IS brutality is not the problem. The real problem, he suggests, is that IS political adeptness is admired by so many Arabs. He argues that Arabs aren't so much challenged by the Stone Age brutality of IS as they are by 'political realities' the IS raises. He concludes that Israel would be wiser to face the 'political realities' it has with Hamas than to demonize Hamas with non-productive comparisons.
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Britain to Vote on Recognition of 'Palestine'
British lawmakers to hold a symbolic parliamentary vote on whether the government should recognize "Palestine" as a state.
By Ben Ariel
First Publish: 10/7/2014, 4:12 AM
British parliament
Reuters
British lawmakers will hold a symbolic parliamentary vote next week on whether the government should recognize "Palestine" as a state, Reuters reported on Monday.
The motion due for debate in Britain's lower house of parliament on October 13 will ask lawmakers whether they believe the government should recognize the state of Palestine.
It is unlikely to win approval through the British parliament because it is at odds with official policy, but even if it did pass, it is non-binding and would not force the government to changes its diplomatic stance, noted Reuters.
"It's against the government position, but it's not an attack on them as such, we just feel that now's the time shout out loud that this should be done," said lawmaker Grahame Morris from the opposition Labour party who is sponsoring the debate.
"Not only is statehood the inalienable right of the Palestinian people, but recognizing Palestine will breathe new life into a peace process that is at an impasse," he added.
Britain's move comes just days after Sweden stirred some controversy by declaring it would recognize the "state of Palestine."
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South African Retail Chain Targeted by BDS
Woolworths of South Africa concerned about the safety of its customers and employees following claims of abuse by BDS activists.
By Ben Ariel
First Publish: 10/7/2014, 5:14 AM
BDS boycott Israel
Reuters
Woolworths of South Africa on Monday expressed concern about the safety of its customers and employees following claims of abuse by Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) activists.
"Our employees of all faiths and cultures tell us that they are feeling increasingly threatened by the protests in and around some of our stores," it said in a statement quoted by the South African news website Times Live.
"What's more, the families of our employees have reported being abused and sworn at by BDS activists," the statement said.
Security had been increased at stores and the retailer would consider taking legal action against the individuals involved should the abuse continue, according to the report.
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Financial Giant SWIFT Rejects Israel Sanctions Call
Belgium-based financial transfer services giant 'regrets' international pressure put on it to boycott Israel, refuses to do so.
By Ari Yashar
First Publish: 10/7/2014, 11:45 AM
Anti-Israel boycott movement (file)
Reuters
SWIFT, the Belgium-based financial transfer services giant, announced on Monday that it has received calls to disconnect Israel from its network - calls by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement which it will ignore.
The massive system, whose name stands for the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, and which connects over 10,500 banks, financial institutions and corporations in over 200 countries, addressed the issue in a statement on its website Monday.
"SWIFT and its stakeholders have received calls to disconnect institutions and entire countries from its network - most recently Israel and Russia," read the message.
The financial giant stated it "is a neutral global cooperative company set up under Belgian law," and therefore "will not make unilateral decisions to disconnect institutions from its network as a result of political pressure."
The statement added "SWIFT regrets the pressure, as well as the surrounding media speculation, both of which risk undermining the systemic character of the services that SWIFT provides... As a utility with a systemic global character, it has no authority to make sanctions decisions."
"SWIFT will not respond to individual calls and pressure to disconnect financial institutions from its network," emphasized the group.
BDS, as a global movement against Israel, has called far and wide for the cutting of all ties with the Jewish state, particularly in Judea and Samaria. That is despite the fact that Israel's presence in the area is legal under international law, and that even the Palestinian Authority (PA) has admitted Arab workers enjoy better pay and conditions under local Jewish businesses.
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Chicagoan Jewish Donors Subsidize Israel Basher
Donors should check on what is being done with their contributions.
Published: Monday, October 06, 2014 10:35 AM
Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn, RZA
A major American university is currently hosting a visiting novelist who says that Israel is a deeply racist country and that its creation was a "catastrophe."
And the Chicago Jewish Federation is helping to foot the bill.
The Israel Studies Project at the University of Illinois, which was created by, and is funded in part by, the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan of Chicago, invites Israeli writers and academics to spend time at American universities. This year's choice, Sayed Kashua, certainly has some interesting things to say.
Kashua is an Israeli Arab novelist, newspaper columnist, and television sitcom writer. He has strong opinions about Israel and is not shy about expressing them.
Writing in the British newspaper The Guardian on July 19, 2014, Kashua declared: "I despair to know that an absolute majority in the country does not recognise the rights of an Arab to live."
In the same article, Kashua also accused "the politicians and the media" (a pretty broad swipe) in Israel of "differentiating between blood and blood, between peoples."
And he claimed that "on panels that I participated in, it was said that Jews are a superior people, more entitled to life." What panels? Who said it? Whom did the speakers represent? No details from Kashua; he preferred to paint a portrait of the entire State of Israel as profoundly racist, and the lack of evidence to back that up was not going to get in his way.
But Kashua's feelings about Israel are not simply a response to what he sees as the racism of Israelis today. Rather, he sees the very creation of Israel, back in 1948, as--in his words--catastrophic. In an interview with The Daily Beast on May 15, 2012, for example, Kashua referred to "Israeli independence—what we Arabs call al-Naqba, 'The Catastrophe'." In various other interviews and articles, he has likewise referred to Israel's creation as "the Naqbah."
Kashua has been very much a part of Israeli society. He is an Israeli citizen. He is a popular Hebrew-language novelist. For many years, he authored a weekly column for the leftist Israeli newspaper Haaretz, and wrote a sitcom on Israeli television about Israeli Arabs. Yet despite all that, he still regards the very creation of the State of Israel has "the Naqbah," something that was horrible, that never should have happened.
Never mind that Israeli Arabs have all the same rights as Israeli Jews, that there is an Israeli Arab on the Supreme Court, that Israeli Arabs have served as Israeli consular officials abroad. No, in Sayed Kashua's view, most Israelis are awful racists and it was a Nakbah, a catastrophe, that Israel was ever created.
Here's what the Israel Studies Project at the University of Illinois states on its website about visiting Israeli scholars: "All our visitors are highly visible on campus. They give major public lectures, visit classes, and lead workshops. They are also active in the community, speaking on WILL-AM, the local NPR station and visiting Hillel, Sinai Temple, and the Rotary Club."
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Can Israel Ever Trust Europe? Part One
Professor Dan Segre passed away on Saturday in Italy, at the age of 92. His thoughts on Israel and Europe are brought here.
Published: Monday, October 06, 2014 6:11 AM
Dan Segre was born in 1922 into an assimilated Jewish family in the Italian village of Rivoli, where he grew up on his mother's family farm. His father was the country's youngest mayor in the village of Govone.
After Mussolini enacted anti-Jewish legislation in 1938, Segre fled to Palestine, without any Zionist awareness. He has described this period in the bestselling first part of his autobiography, The Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew, which has been translated into nine languages. Segre has started work on a sequel, which will cover the post-World War Two period.
He served in the British army during World War Two, and later became a paratroop officer in Israel's War of Independence. Soon thereafter, he became cultural and press attaché at the new Israeli embassy in Paris.
In 1952, he graduated in law from Turin University. Next, he studied political science at Sciences Politiques, and oriental languages at the Sorbonne, both in Paris. He served in various functions at the Israeli Foreign Ministry until 1967, when he accepted a senior research fellowship in Middle Eastern studies at St. Antony's College at Oxford. From 1967-1969, he also was Ford Visiting Professor of Comparative History at MIT.
In 1972, he became a full professor of international relations at Haifa University. Later, he assumed the post of Reuben Hecht Professor of Zionism. After his retirement in 1986, he was Visiting Professor at Stanford University for several years. He has written a number of books in a variety of fields, most recently a biography of the Italian general, Amedeo Guillet.
Segre's other books include Israel, Society in Transition (1970), The High Road and the Low, Technical Cooperation and African Development (1974) and Israel and Zionism, A Crisis of Identity (1980).
Along with his teaching activities, Segre has always been involved in journalism. For many years he was the Israeli correspondent of both Le Figaro and Corriere della Sera. In 1974, he became a co-founder of the Italian daily, Il Giornale.
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Hezbollah Claims Bomb Attack on Israel-Lebanon Border
Shia terrorist group claims responsibility for explosion which injured two soldiers; no injuries reported in second explosion.
By Arutz Sheva Staff
First Publish: 10/7/2014, 5:07 PM / Last Update: 10/7/2014, 5:40 PM
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah
AFP photo
Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for a bomb attack along the Lebanese-Israeli border which injured two IDF soldiers Tuesday afternoon.
Hezbollah terrorists "detonated an explosive device on the Shebaa hills against a motorized Israeli patrol causing a number of injuries among the occupation's soldiers," the group said in a statement
The group said the attack was carried out by the "martyr Hassan Ali Haidar unit," which is named for a Hezbollah member killed on September 5 when an Israeli listening device in Lebanon was detonated remotely as he tried to dismantle it.
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Netanyahu on Hezbollah attack: We've proved that we will retaliate for any strike against us
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Israel Struggling to Sell Iron Dome
Israel's key missile defense system is unique in the arena of global defense - but politics and cost are preventing investors from buying.
By Tova Dvorin
First Publish: 10/7/2014, 9:24 AM
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US State Dept.: Iraq Debacle was Biden's Portfolio
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Evidence obtained by JPost shows alleged ongoing violation of Iran sanctions
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In Washington, foreign policy has sometimes been constructed upon madness, but more commonly, upon mediocre visions, hackneyed phrases, childish metaphors, and flagrantly empty witticisms. Recently, U.S. President Barack Obama, speaking at the UN General Assembly, and addressing refractory issues of Middle East peace between Israel and the Palestinians, repeated his ritual call for a "Two-State Solution." This tired presidential plea is plainly bound to fail.
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Rejecting U.S. Support for Palestinian 'Ethnic Purification'
Benjamin Netanyahu's bold rebuke of Obama's push for segregation in Jerusalem.
October 7, 2014
by Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn 3 Comments
The authors are members of the board of the Religious Zionists of America.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told "Face the Nation" on Sunday, October 5 that preventing Jews from living and building in mostly-Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem would mean a policy of "ethnic purification" that is unacceptable in democratic societies. In so doing, Netanyahu once again showed his mastery of nuance in American politics — a nuance, as it turns out, that even American presidential candidates do not always recognize.
Appearing on the CBS-TV interview program opposite anchor Bob Schieffer, Netanyahu strongly defended the recent purchase by Jewish families of apartments from Arabs in Jerusalem's Shiloach neighborhood, as well as the Israeli government's plans to build homes for Jews and Arabs in the city's Givat Hamatos section.
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Church of England vicar denies backing 'anti-Semitic hate-fest' in Iran
Gaza campaign vicar defends attendance at Iranian conference where delegates discussed claims of Zionist 9/11 conspiracy
Dr Sizer, who is a prominent campaigner against Israeli policy in Palestine, insisted that even though he strongly disagreed with many of the things others said, he was there as an "ambassador for reconciliation" Photo: stephensizer.com
8:27PM BST 06 Oct 2014
Jewish leaders have accused an Anglican Vicar from Surrey of supporting an "anti-Semitic hate-fest" by speaking at a conference in Iran at which claims of "Zionist" involvement in 9/11 were aired.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews is demanding an investigation by the Church of England into why Rev Dr Stephen Sizer, of Virginia Water, Surrey, attended the event in Tehran at which a video of the anti-Jewish French comedian Dieudonne M'bala M'bala was also shown.
But Dr Sizer, who is a prominent campaigner against Israeli policy in Palestine, insisted that even though he strongly disagreed with many of the things others said, he was there as an "ambassador for reconciliation".
He repudiated claims that the Second "New Horizon" festival in Tehran in September was anti-Semitic, although strong anti-Zionist views were expressed, and said he was there to present a Christian point of view.
The conference programme includes details of discussion on themes such as "Zionist Fingerprints on the 9/11 Cover-up" and other conspiracy theories about Israel.
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