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READER
That old chestnut surely is not still hanging around. iSRAEL’S attitude has hardened beyond titanium since then, and even then it was only delaying action talk. Talking is one thing…doing is another. The PM has sworn that there will never be a “palestinian” state.
And the pople would never assent to being cut in half, either above or below ground.
Why are you so often needlessly pessimistic..All of Israel’s spare energy is geared to Arab emigration as you WELL know. You’ll worry yourself into depression if you don’t stop.
Trump and Israelis KNEW there was no danger with the ‘Deal of the Century”. The machers knew that the mamzerim would not look at it ans as you know well, they rejected it before, and during the “offer”.And after 4 years, Israel took de jure possession of YESHA as it already had de facto..
Trump is no fool and has Israel’s interests deeply embedded in his heart.
Being the best US President for Israel in history was no accident.
So stop making silly analogies with mousetraps and a totally outdated never really considered talking-point.
Recall Tzipi Livni was appointed the lead in Israeli-Arab “discussions” which had no ending -as it was planned that way.
Just time wasting talking-points as I’ve said.
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Al Arabiya reports Israel took out Salim Ayash (Hezbollah), the assassin who killed Lebanese PM Rafik al-Hariri back in 2005. Ayash had a $10 million US bounty on him.
@Edgar G.
A 23rd Arab state in both Gaza and Judea and Samaria with a connection between them that cuts Israel in half at the waist is a mouse trap for the YESHA Arabs…
NO, Israel is not the cheese, the cheese is the fake offer of partial sovereignty in J&S for Israel followed by the two-state FINAL (for Israel and Jews, to make it clear) solution.
The last time it was offered, the settlers figured it out, I hope they will do the same this time.
brooklynbubba
We ALL know the 3NOS.
in case you missed them they are plastered at the very top of each israpundit issue.
You should wipe your glasses, better get new ones, and a little saechal.
READER-
If it IS a mousetrap, the cheese certainly is NOT Israel. If it is a trap it’s set for the YESHA Arabs, with Israel waiting right within striking distance.
Trump: Pompeo and Haley won’t be in second Trump administration. This shouldn’t surprise anyone.
EXACTLY – no room to squirm – TRUMP LISTEN!!!!
Israel should declare three nos;
no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state
DON’T ALLOW IRAN TO WIN AN INCH!!!!!
The Deadly Deal of the Century AKA The Mouse Trap (this time, click on the link):
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/revealed-trumps-deal-century-map-future-palestine-israel?fbclid=IwAR0FFI_hRI3w-5mtAYLoMhnYqobHJvyogxLIQskUch2LNGJqd1GWAg6y9D8
@peloni
It is not your opinion, it is ESP.
If Trump wants a decisive victory for Israel, why does he keep insulting Jews?
About his anger – I was being sarcastic, I imagined the Jewish self-blame reaction, how we haven’t done enough to have him elected thus causing his righteous anger.
Reader
To Trump it necessitates a decisive Israeli victory. What I or the Dearborne Arabs believe are quite irrelevant, but what Trump’s own spokeswoman states, Trump wants a decisive victory for Israel, which is what I stated, and it is not my opinion.
I thought you weren’t complaining?
Is he STILL angry with us?!
What are we TO DO!?!?!?
@peloni
It is YOUR OPINION.
TO YOU it necessitates a decisive ISRAELI victory, TO THEM it necessitates a decisive ARAB victory which means turning all of Israel into “Palestine” and getting rid of all the Jews.
Whatever Trump said could be understood either way depending on the way one wanted to understand it.
Anyway, when Trump takes power, he will have to disappoint either the Jews or the Arabs and occasionally both.
100th anniversary of Ephraim Kishon’s birth
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/kishon/
@Reader
Trump did not promise everything and anything to the Arabs of Dearborne. In fact, he was asked to support the TSS and to agree that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza. While ignoring these statements, Trump renewed his support for peace in the region. He also did not walk back his earlier statements of destroying Hamas and Hezbollah and denying Iran the ability to become a nuclear power. While it was not pleasing to see him seek out support of these vile terror-supporting Dearborners, there was common ground to be exploited, and Trump needed an overwhelming victory to clinch the too big to rig strategy which won him the election.
What is more, the very peace which Trump is promising the Dearborne Hamas supporters, necessitates a decisive Israeli victory over Hamas and Hezbollah. Maintaining Israel as the regional strong horse is the clinching factor which brough about the Abraham Accords, and it will also be the clinching factor which will make the IMEC possible. For this to take place, it will require a remaking of the Middle East, and the elimination of both Hezbollah and Hamas, both of which are notorious and outright enemies of the US. Yet, time will tell how complete the victory over Hezbollah will be, and how long it will take Israel to achieve this outcome now that they have removed the squeaky wheel Gallant and replaced him with what appears to be a far more formidable DM in Katz.
@Edgar
If my post, as you say, had a pejorative aspect against Trump, it was EXACTLY that it was politics and he was looking for votes.
To me, it is immoral to promise anything and everything to everyone knowing that you will get out of it later just so you can get more votes.
It is surely great marketing and entertainment but…
READER-
No, you didn’t mentionn Harris, but to me, it was implied. Your post had a pejorative aspect against trump, for which I had to respond that it was POLITICS and he was looking for votes.
If I am/was in error I deeply apologise and please regard it as not said.
@Edgar
I didn’t say anything about Harris, and I certainly wasn’t complaining.
I said that Trump went to Dearborn to court the Arab voters.
Apparently, it worked and he got their votes.
Clever, clever!
READER_
You were complaining that Trump was Appeasing muslims in his Dearborn rally. And tat it would only help Harris because of the large Muslim Pop.
Well he carried Michegan handily. That tells us Something-don’t know what….yet.
TRUMP so far has 297 Electoral College votes. A looming landslie as was predicted.
It also shows up all the fake sites and video news casts who were totally misleading.
@Peloni, correct me if I am wrong you reside not in Israel nor have you lived in Israel for a long time? The following is not meant to offend you so please take no offense.
Dermer is a bright man and is loyal to Israel and Bibi. He is very useful to Bibi as he trusts his intelligence and complete loyalty. That all said Israelis would never elect him to a post such as Prime Minister. He has no constituency even among the moderate amount of American Olim ( immigrants) in Israel.
Like him or not Bennett has a significant amount of people that would vote for him
they range from the center to the moderate right on the political spectrum. Whether he gets to be Prime Minister ever I do not know as that has too many variables in it to calculate and I am not a fortune teller.
Bennett has been elected to office more than once. He has made mistakes but many people have forgotten or forgiven them. When Bibi is out of the picture or even if he runs at the head of a new party next election, while Bibi is still around expect him to be in the Knesset perhaps with a decent sized party according to many previous scenario polls. Who know he could even be in a coalition with the Likud, eventually moving into the Likud in some manner.
@Edgar
Or longer. The problem in the long term lies in who might become Bibi’s ultimate successor, and herein lies a potentially serious problem. Hopefully, the well disgraced Bennett and Saar will not be in the running, even as they are each taking a different road to try to obscure their costly efforts to depose Bibi, which were honestly not very long ago.
I am curious who you would prefer as Bibi’s heir. Personally, I like Dermer. He is brilliant, capable, experienced, and completely aligned with Bibi on stressing Israeli interests over American demands. I know others prefer Barkat and now Katz will no doubt increase his already well established position among Likud supporters, but I think Dermer would be a far better choice than the other potential leaders who might follow Bibi. Hopefully, this is a topic which will not need deciding anytime soon, and of course, doing so during the ongoing war would be far from ideal, but it is a topic which needs addressing, and hopefully Bibi will take some role in doing so in the not too distant future. Though we are all aware of how reluctant he has been to do so in the past, his support in such an undertaking would be an important, if not deciding, factor on where the politicians and public might place their trust.
Yes Peloni right on cue, Bennett snakes his way back to the public eye. Not for long I hope.
The Israeli public KNOW that Trump and the P.M are very close so a right wing govt seems a certainly for the next 4=5=6 years.
Fox News projects Republicans with outright majority in Senate
@Edgar
And right on queue, Bennett steps up to fill the void of America’s man in Jerusalem, the anti-Bibi as it were.
GALLANT FIRED-
Katz expected to succeed.
READER-
Only to be expected in what we call POLITICS. He’s looking for votes of course, He’s in an election where every vote counts.
So what’s wrong with that??
Trump courting the Arab voters in a surprise visit to Dearborn, Michigan 2 days ago – watch the whole thing but especially in the beginning, around mins. 6-8 and at about min. 15 and on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daZk8vBqPmw
OSINTdefender
I highly recommend this book written by a psychiatrist Kenneth Levin:
What if one day the “intransigent“ terrorists AGREE to the project?
Have you looked at the actual MAP?
Are you going to TRUST the terrorists who vowed to destroy Israel together with its Jews and to TRUST Israel’s feudal lord to actually hand over what is written on paper in 4 years?
DO NOT MAKE ME (and THEM) LAUGH!
Israel perpetuates the fake conflict by playing the game of “Palestine“, “Palestinians“, “two-state solution“, etc., etc.
As long as Israel plays this game, it supports the enemy’s narrative and the enemy’s tactics (the plan of phases).
There has never been a Palestine, the so-called Palestine is Judea renamed by the Romans.
IT MUST BE MADE ILLEGAL – in Israel, at least, to use this term.
Israel must QUIT acting as a Warsaw Ghetto!
https://x.com/VividProwess/status/1852664338382778572
Yes Reader, Peloni is correct. The Arab Terrorists Totally refused to even peruse the agreement, and rejected it out of hand.
This gave Israel 30% of YESHA immediately and the other 70% within the next 4 years, and ALL legally signed and sealed.
In fact the 4 year “delay” was a good idea because it gave Israel enough time to perfect a plan to move in everywhere immediately “allowed” by the document, and not piece by piece………..A blanketed move of everywhere at one time.
@Reader
Again, the Trump plan was never going to be fully implemented due to Pal intransigence, but in fact it wasn’t implemented due to Israeli intransigence, regretfully. For having agreed to entertain the Trump plan, the TSS would have been ended and Israel would have had sovereignty extended over 30% of J&S, and perhaps more. Notably, the Pals could never agree to the plan, so the Trump plan would have ultimately devolved into the JO, because the JO is the only plan which allows for a reasonable outcome after acknowledging that the TSS is dead.
A REMINDER:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/revealed-trumps-deal-century-map-future-palestine-israel?fbclid=IwAR0FFI_hRI3w-5mtAYLoMhnYqobHJvyogxLIQskUch2LNGJqd1GWAg6y9D8
IF- and it looks more than likely, 6 more IDF are killed the total wiil pass the number of IDF heroes killed in The Six Day War.
This is bad:
Mass casualty terror attack north of Tel Aviv. Terrorist neutralized. Up to 40 injured, 10 critically
https://x.com/CherylWroteIt/status/1850456377161863519
Robert Kagan, yes, Victoria Nuland’s husband, resigned as Washington Post editor following their decision not to endorse a presidential candidate
Major election blow in Georgia
The Georgia State Election Board’s (SEB) rules are dead for this election cycle. The Georgia State Supreme Court won’t consider the matter until AFTER this cycle is over, rejecting the RNC’s bid for expedited review
Blinken scraps Jordan stop on Gaza truce tour, heading to Saudi Arabia instead
Body of Hashem Safieddine, the Head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council and its Newly-Appointed Secretary-General, has finally been recovered from the ruins of the October 3 strike which re-decapitated Hezbollah’s leader, not to mention many of his immediate subordinates.
Bombing again in Beirut in the Dahiya, ie Hezbollah, district.
The Political Source THE HILL says, for the first time that Trump is leading 52% to 41% in all important states except Penn. But still says it’s close.
OSINTdefender
Soda Stream’s CEO offers 100k $ to every gazan that will bring or free a living Israeli hostage
New strikes in Beirut.
Drone attack on PM Netanyahu’s home while he and wife were not home. When you come for the king, you only get one shot…
https://twitter.com/WarRoomME/status/1847617381188657423
Michael
It’s actually Kohelet 5.10, and “the seeing of them with HIS eyes.”
I don’t think I used the KJV but the Torah.
According to the Preface of The Revised Standard Version there are over 4,000 mistakes in the KJV.
Significant leaks of highly classified U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), National Security Agency (NSA) and numerous related agency materials have occurred over the past 72 hours
Sinwar believed to be possibly dead!
@Michael
Well, this is inevitably true, either initially or with time and the encroachment of foreigners. Then Ancient Greeks described any non Greek as barbarados, ie barbarian, and this was no mere misunderstanding in language, as you were either civilized, ie a Greek, or you were a savage, at least thru the lens of the Greeks. But we should not forget that the Pal Cleft is one which was not only forced upon Israel by the so called international community, but it was weaponized against Israel, and this weaponization was in fact initiated, supported and funded by the international community. This situation is actually unique among all the nations of all world history in fact. Notably, the issue which plagues Israel is not the presence of the expanding Pal Cleft but its permanent Cleft status as the Cleft is cultivated to grow in size and support with every generation, something which has been turned like a screw into the heart of Israel with the full support of both Israel’s enemies and allies alike. So, while all nations have demographic considerations with which to deal, none but Israel face the might of the world community supporting explicit barbarian Cleft against the civilized population, with no lens needed to determine which is the barbarian and which the civilized population, as was needed with the Greeks of old.
This truly does serve to reminds me of the fact that there is too much politics involved in medicine. Nicotine, like cannabinoids, have many medical uses, but this does not indicate that smoking either tobacco or marijuana should be considered to be a healthy practice, or so I would strongly argue. Despite this fact of course, my father of beloved memory began smoking at the age of 13, and except for a period of about 6 months when he once tried to quit (suffice to note that this didn’t go very well for anyone who knew him), he continued to do so til his death, which was quite unrelated to his smoking, at an age well into his 80’s. Even after nearly twenty years, every time I smell that familiar aroma of side stream smoke by a near passerby, it calls to memory of him as he nearly constantly had a lit cigarette in hand while he was not sleeping, and yet I likely experienced a greater consequence than he did as a result of his habitual smoking. He was of course what I would describe as a lucky exception. But as you said,