US pressure on Israel mounts

By Ted Belman

Kerry is back in town and he is carrying a big stick.

According to DEBKA he is threatening Israel with a European economic boycott.

    “Sources in the Israeli prime minister’s office said the pressure the US was bringing to bear on Israel for concessions was unfair, especially the threat of a European boycott, and disproportionately greater that US demands of the Palestinians.”

Meanwhile PLO Secretary-General Yasser Abed Rabbo said “No Palestinian state will be created without Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley.” Thus the PA is at odds with the Israel right that will not cede Jerusalem nor the Jordan valley.

Unfortunately Netanyahu is trying to have it both ways. He hasn’t rejected Kerry’s framework outright but has indicated that there are parts of it he can accept.

But Netanyahu is holding on to power in Israel with great difficulty. He is caught between the rock of American pressure and the hard place of the Likud party.

I am told by a very reliable party, that Likud is ready to oust Netanyahu and replace him with Moshe Yaalon as prime minister. It is just waiting for Yaalon’s word.

For the last few weeks Yaalon has been charting a different course for Israel. At the Saban Conference last month he said “We will not negotiate an inch, a millimeter of land if we don’t realize that we have a partner that discusses recognition, the end of conflict and conceding the right of return.”. In October he promised that he would set up a committee to develop a legal framework to prevent illegal building in Judea and Samaria that would apply to all residents. This is long overdue.

During a keynote speech last week at an economic conference, Ya’alon openly referred to proposals by Kerry to replace Israeli’s security presence on the ground in the West Bank with an array of advanced remote surveillance capabilities.

Ya’alon revealed why he had rejected the proposals, and in doing so, signaled a major impasse in the diplomatic process with the Palestinian Authority and US efforts to lead to a breakthrough.

“When I’m told about the security answer in Judea and Samaria, and when they talk about satellites, drones and technologies, I say, ‘guys, you’re wrong.’ The principal problem is education. If in Nablus and Jenin they continue to educate the young generation as it is being educated today, to idolize terrorism and jihad, and that the Jewish people have no right to this land, if this is how they’re educated, than technology stops nothing,” he said. “If the education does not change, we’ll have the same pressure from the inside. And then there will be a Hamastan in Judea and Samaria, like in Gaza. It’ll hurt us, it’ll hurt Jordan and it’ll hurt other interests in the area.”

Perhaps that’s why Netanyahu has lately been making a point of the PA incitement.

Finally a few days ago he said that if compromises in peace negotiations would lead to “rockets from Nablus, Ramallah and Jenin onto Ben-Gurion Airport, then I would rather have a European boycott” on Israel.

I say bring on the boycott.

January 3, 2014 | 58 Comments »

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  1. The settlement of New Mexico was odd. When Spain emptied out its Jews, many went to the New World, after news of its discovery.

    The Spanish finally sent the Inquisition west to Mexico. The Jews in Mexico fled up to Santa Fe.

    So New Mexico, and Arizona have higher concentrations of crypto-Jews.

    Their Spanish was frozen at the time of Columbus. They did not congregate in the major cities where accents change all the time.

    When Anthony Bourdain, in Parts Unknown, went to New Mexico, he met an old line Spanish family – quite white – who said that Euro-Spanish are were shocked that the New Mexicans spoke a 16th century Spanish.

    Would be like us walking into a world were thee and thous were still used.

    I have been to New Mexico twice. Love it.

    You can see the video here : http://movzap.com/ogorzj92es6j.html Go to: 14:58

    They tell him, “You can knock it off with the Don Quixote phraseology

    The speak Conquistador Spanish in New Mexico.

    They would be the White Spanish in New Mexico, not the Indians nor the more recent Mexican immigrants.

    Listen to that song and you hear Cervantes.

    Is the family Crypto-Jewish, maybe so. If they are, it is a very small blood quantum; and they may not know it.

    Mexicans and Central Americans speak a trash Spanish which is why I have a hard time trying to translate it.

  2. @ honeybee:
    I had a dear friend who was cypto-Jewish and had no idea what she was, she woud complain how the Mexicans would laugh at her Spanish. I told the Mexicans were uneducated and she spoke the Spanish of the Conquistadores.

    Absolutely!

  3. @ mar55:
    I had a dear friend who was cypto-Jewish and had no idea what she was, she woud complain how the Mexicans would laugh at her Spanish. I told the Mexicans were uneducated and she spoke the Spanish of the Conquistadores.

  4. CuriousAmerican Said:

    You are an unmitigated clown with your soul snatching nonsense?

    “Come after me and I will make you fishers of men.” – beegeezuz, Matthew 4:19

    “All right, then; I did not make myself a burden to you, but, trickster that I am, I caught you by trickery.” – Paul, 2 Corinthians 12:16