Ted Belman. Haaretz continues in its efforts to defame Netanyahu suggesting that Netanyahu got his ideas from a right wing, Adelson supported, think tank. In so doing they ignore the great influence of the Mufti on Palestinian nationalism and ignore its murderous intent that is as strong today as it was then.

New Hampshire philosophy professor wrote in March that in his 1941 meeting with the Nazi leader, the Mufti insisted on the Final Solution.

By Chemi Shalev, HAARETZ

An article written earlier this year by a New Hampshire professor of philosophy for a Jerusalem think tank funded in the past by Sheldon Adelson supplies an ostensibly academic underpinning for the prime minister’s contentious claim that the Palestinian Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini persuaded Adolf Hitler to annihilate European Jews.

In an account that is almost identical to the version supplied by Netanyahu in his controversial speech to the World Zionist Congress last week, Professor Joseph Spoerl of St. Anselm University in New Hampshire wrote: “Up until 1941, Hitler had seemed content to drive all the Jews out of Germany and German-occupied lands, often taking hefty ransom payments in the process. But Hajj Amin al-Husseini insisted that Hitler and the Nazis end this method of “solving the Jewish question.” Thus, mass murder became “the final solution.”
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21st Century Wire says…

Russia is in the process of technologically preventing NATO from implementing their agenda in Syria.

Thierry Meyssan, a French journalist who has been based in Damascus for some years now, is reporting that Russia has deployed its most advanced, top secret air defence system in Syria, which has essentially “left NATO blind.”

While the West has been completely embarrassed by Russia’s swift and effective operation in Syria, it has now been utterly outclassed; so greatly that, as we shall hear below, even NATO Commanders are ‘worried’.
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T. Belman. Ross like Abrams totally supports the TSS. The US will not permit any other “solution” to the conflict. Nevermind that the Arabs support the annihilation of Jews and Israel just as Hitler did. Nevermind that by giving them the high ground in a state they will be better positioned to accomplish their avowed goals.

The US insists on the ’67 lines plus swaps and a divided Jerusalem.

Is it in Israel’s best interests to fight this solution or to accept it.

The veteran diplomat, who has spent more hours with American and Israeli leaders than any other person, talks to Ynet about his new book, which offers an intimate look at US-Israel ties in the past few decades.

By Yitzhak Benhorin, YNET

WASHINGTON – Dennis Ross has spent more hours with American presidents and Israeli prime ministers than any other person. He doesn’t think the relationship between Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu is the worst that has ever been between a US president and an Israeli prime minister. The veteran diplomat refuses to say that they loath each other.

They don’t trust each other, Ross asserts in an interview to Ynet, but the worst relationship in his opinion belonged to President George H. W. Bush, who thought that Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir had deceived him, and that was a definite rift. Israel-US relations didn’t reach a low over the Iranian nuclear deal, he says, but over the siege on Beirut and the Sabra and Shatila massacre.

Ross served in Republican and Democratic administrations since the days of President Ronald Reagan, when he served as his Middle East advisor. In the Bush Sr. administration, he was director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, which worked on the US policy towards the former Soviet Union, the reunification of Germany, the arms control talks and forming the coalition for the 1991 Gulf War. Bill Clinton put him in charge of the peace team, and Obama used his services as a special advisor on the Middle East and mainly on Iran.
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Ted Belman. This is remarkable. 91% of Iraqi Kurds are Muslim, yet they have made their school text books religiously neutral and welcome people of all faiths, Jews included. They number 5 million yet are hosts to 2 million refugees mostly minorities. America has yet to embrace them and support their independence.

By SHERZAD OMER MAMSANI, JPOST

As the region witnesses the appalling persecution and attempted eradication of minorities, the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq (KRG) is setting out to rehabilitate a part of the diverse cultural and religious mosaic of our mountainous homeland, by establishing a Directorate of Jewish Affairs.

Under the auspices of the KRG’s minister of religious affairs and KRG President Massoud Barzani, I have been appointed to lead the new directorate, holding responsibility for the rights of Kurdish Jews within our autonomous territory, and for the grievances of Kurdish Jewish refugees with regard to the Arabization and genocide campaigns of the Iraqi central government. This marks the first time a regional political entity recognizes and seeks to correct the historical injustices of the Jewish expulsion.
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Ted Belman. This article answers this question in detail. Today INN reports

Kerry claims Netanyahu agreed to Waqf demands on Temple Mount

John Kerry says Israel will allow Muslim authorities to install cameras on Temple Mount, and will ensure Jews can’t pray.

Netanyahu: We won’t give up Temple Mount or allow Jews to pray

“As we have said many times, Israel has no intention to divide the Temple Mount, and we completely reject any attempt to suggest otherwise.”

Palestinian leaders, Jewish activists reject cameras on Temple Mount

The Israeli Relinquishment of the Temple Mount

Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

The most relevant factual basis for disproving the “Al-Aksa is in danger” libel is, as noted, the de facto Israeli relinquishment of the Temple Mount, for which I could find no precedent in any other country or religion. The birthfather of this relinquishment, which for years has been called “the status quo on the Temple Mount,” was Moshe Dayan, who served as Israeli defense minister during the Six-Day War. The thrilling liberation of the Western Wall and the Temple Mount was documented in detail in dozens of publications that appeared after the war. Even the cry of paratroop commander Mordechai Gur into his field radio – “The Temple Mount is in our hands!” – entered the pantheon of national symbols of the State of Israel. And yet, the reality that Israel devised on the Temple Mount, and the heavy limitations it imposed on itself there, were very far from the euphoria of the liberation itself and the overwhelming encounter with the place where the two Temples of the Jewish people had stood in the past, long the focal point of its spiritual life.
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By Francisco Gil-White, Historical and Investigative Research 

Is this true?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a speech to the World Zionist Congress, stated that Hajj Amin al Husseini, the founding father of the Palestinian movement, had convinced the Nazis to exterminate the European Jews. We examine here the evidence relevant to this claim.

According to my own opinion, the Grand Mufti [Hajj Amin al Husseini], who has been in Berlin since 1941, played a role in the decision of the German Government to exterminate the European Jews, the importance of which must not be disregarded. He had repeatedly suggested to the various authorities with whom he has been in contact, above all before Hitler, Ribbentrop and Himmler, the extermination of European Jewry. He considered this as a comfortable solution of the Palestine problem. In his messages broadcast from Berlin, he surpassed us in anti-Jewish attacks. He was one of Eichmann’s best friends and has constantly incited him to accelerate the extermination measures. I heard say that, accompanied by Eichmann, he has visited incognito the gas chamber at Auschwitz.

—Nuremberg testimony of SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Dieter Wisliceny
(Adolf Eichmann’s right-hand man) [11]
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T. Belman. What is important here is not whether or not the Mufti was responsible for Hitler’s decision to exterminate the Jews but the influence the Mufti has had on the Palestinian movement.

In his defense, Netanyahu added the following:

Unfortunately, Haj Amin al-Husseini is still a revered figure in Palestinian society. He appears in textbooks and it is taught that he is one of the founding fathers of the nation, and this incitement that started then with him, inciting the murder of Jews – continues. Not in the same format, but in a different one, and this is the root of the problem. To stop the murders, it is necessary to stop the incitement. What is important is to recognize the historical facts and not ignore them, not then and not today.”

The Mufti spent his whole life dedicated to the killing the Jewish National Home and to killing Jews everywhere. The Palestinian movement is carrying on his legacy.

Israel would have to be insane to create a Palestinian state which would strengthen their ability to do so.

By Jeffery Herf, TOI

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Though Netanyahu is thus wrong about Husseini’s role in the decisions that led to the Holocaust of the Jews in Europe, he is right to draw attention to Husseini’s disastrous impact on Palestinian politics and society. In response to the storm of criticism that greeted his remarks, Netanyahu replied:

My intention was not to absolve Hitler of his responsibility, but rather to show that the forefathers of the Palestinian nation, without a country and without the so-called ‘occupation’, without land and without settlements, even then aspired to systematic incitement to exterminate the Jews.”

Husseini absolutely wanted to exterminate the Jews, above all, the Jews of pre-state Palestine, and then the Jews of Israel. The evidence of Husseini’s pleas to kill the Jews, of his boundless hatred of Judaism as a religion and the Jews as a people is well documented in Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World. He embedded his Jew-hatred in his understanding of Islam as early as a 1937 speech in Syria that the Germans published in German the following year. In the midst of the terrorist attacks he led and incited from 1936 to 1939 in Palestine, it was Husseini who claimed that the Zionists wanted to seize or destroy the Al Aksa Mosque. This lie became a central element of Palestinian propaganda over the decades until recent weeks.
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By Caroline Glick, JPOST

US Senator Ted Cruz, the conservative Republican firebrand from Texas, is running for president. Up until a few weeks ago, his candidacy was met with indifference as the media and political operatives all dismissed the viability of his candidacy. But that is beginning to change. The voices arguing that Cruz, the favorite of Tea Party fiscal conservatives and Evangelical Christians may have what it takes to win the Republican nomination have multiplied.

Since arriving in Washington four years ago, Cruz has arguably been Israel’s most avid defender in the Senate. During Operation Protective Edge in July 2014, Cruz used his authority as a member of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee to force the Obama administration to end the Federal Aviation Commission’s ban on US flights to Ben-Gurion Airport. Cruz announced at the time that he would put a hold on all State Department appointments until the administration justified the flight ban.
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By Ben Cohen, ALGEMEINER

JNS.org – “If a man was a Jew, it was good enough for him to be killed or stamped out,” wrote a senior British official serving abroad to his superiors in London in 1929.

From where was this gentleman—Major Alan Saunders—writing his dispatch? From Munich or Berlin or any of the other German cities where Hitler’s Nazi Party was gaining supporters and street thugs? In fact, no. Major Saunders was the head of the British Police in Palestine during the mandate period, and his statement concerned the massacre by Arabs, in August 1929, of 69 Jews in Hebron, a city where their community had been a consistent presence for at least two millennia.

I was reminded of Major Saunders’s pithy summary of the motive behind the Hebron pogrom when news broke of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, in which he essentially argued that it was the Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, who crystallized the idea of the mass extermination of the Jews in Adolf Hitler’s mind. But before I talk about the controversy that followed these comments, I want to make a couple of more general observations by way of introduction.

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Those who stand by the Oslo process rehash arguments ad nauseum that have been disproven.

By Israel Harel, HAARETZ

In Israel, there is no culture of intellectual debate when it comes to politics. If there were, we would have been witness to the admission by opinion leaders or a gesture on their part to their opponents, stating: You were right. Thousands of victims of the Oslo Accords are not bringing the erroneous side to admit its responsibility for its mistakes. It is digging in to its positions, even during a period like the one we are currently experiencing, instead placing blame on those who foresaw almost exactly the results of the untenable political process. The “peace camp” is paying a heavy price for this. And the more it insists on sticking with its mistakes, and its deceptions, mainly its hatreds, it will continue to pay the price. And this, until it is marginalized in the debate and in its political power. It is already on the verge.
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Yisrael Medad

After these blogs, here and here, I bring you something Gadi Dot found:

“The mufti made his first approach to the German consul in Jerusalem in 1933 soon after Hitler’s accession to power. His objectives as he explained on numerous occasions to German officials … to accomplish the final solution of the Jewish problem everywhere.”

The “Final Solution”?

Rather than reach out to the increasingly irrelevant Mahmoud Abbas, Israel should cut all ties with him.

By Martin Sherman, JPOST

Dr. Sherman… I hope to see a higher degree of specificity in your policy prescriptions than what you have written in the past. – Mtown Quaker in a talkback to my last column, “What must be done: Part 1 – Back to basics,” October 15, 2015

There is nothing so practical as a good theory – Kurt Lewin (1890-1947), widely considered the ‘father of social psychology.’

The implied rebuke by the impatient talkbacker reflects a common misperception, particularly among those of a right-wing/hawkish predilection, as how to approach the over-all confrontation with the Arabs in general, and the violence of Palestinian Arabs in particular.
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No, the Holocaust was not Husseini’s idea. But he was a partner in perpetrating and promoting it. He also made it inevitable.

By Caroline Glick, JPOST

PM Nertanyahu is crazy like a fox.

Netanyahu’s assertion on Tuesday before the World Zionist Congress that the founder of the Palestinian people, Haj Amin al-Husseini, convinced Adolf Hitler to eradicate rather than expel the Jews of Europe was an overstatement of Husseini’s role.

No, the Holocaust was not Husseini’s idea.

But he was a partner in perpetrating and promoting it. He also made it inevitable.
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The situation of equating terrorist and victim is totally insane.

By Giulio Meotti, INN

The Palestinian jihad has a very evocative expression with regard to the act of slaughtering an Israeli Jew by a knife: “When we will slit your throat, we will slit it for Netanya”. That seaside city is the most fragile border of the Jewish State, with only 5 kilometers separating Netanya from the Palestinian Arab town of Tulkarem. Israel’s retreat to those 5 km would be the world’s dream come true.

Open any European newspaper these days and you will not understand who is stabbing whom in Jerusalem. The knives used by the Islamic State to behead “infidels” have been turned into a symbol of evil but the Palestinian Arab knives are always justified and even deleted from the news headlines. As if the blades of Palestinian Arabs are less sharp. As if the blood of Israeli Jews is less red. As if the Jewish State has to offer the world its throat.
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By Elli Fisher, TOI

Scene: Bibi’s office. In attendance are Prime Minister Netanyahu and everyone who would be played by a main character in an Israeli version of West Wing (to be called The Aquarium): media advisers, speechwriters, PR gurus, pollsters, etc.

Bibi: We’re three weeks into this new uprising and the world media narrative is all about how Palestinian violence is terrible but understandable given the Occupation™. We need to show that the occupation is the result of violence, not the other way around. How do we do it?

Speechwriter: We tell the truth. The truth is on our side. Their leaders lie about Jewish connection to holy sites. They lie about Ashkenazic Jews coming here as colonialist occupiers. They lie about and deny the Holocaust. About poisoning the wells. About defiling the Temple Mount with our filthy feet. They say Jesus was a Palestinian. Let them bury themselves with lies. We need to stay on message with the truth. Haters will hate.
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By Yisrael Medad, TOI

Out of Berlin we learn:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told United States Secretary of State John Kerry and European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in Berlin Thursday that Jordan and the Palestinian Authority must issue a statement making it clear that the status quo on the Temple Mount has not been violated.

It was reported that, in addition,

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told United States Secretary of State John Kerry and European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in Berlin Thursday that Jordan and the Palestinian Authority must issue a statement making it clear that the status quo on the Temple Mount has not been violated.

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Justin Trudeau is a younger Barack Obama.

He loves the Muslims.

Watch video and weep.

Abbas claims he doesn’t support violence – yet his Fatah and PA have been openly calling nonstop to murder Jews with knives and rocks.

By Ari Yashar, INN

By Ted Belman

Elliott Abrams is an American diplomat, lawyer and political scientist who served in foreign policy positions for U.S. Presidents, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. He recently wrote a major article Rebuilding American Alliances in the Middle East that is worth reading.

Essentially he recommends that the US mobilize the Sunni countries together with Israel into an alliance headed by the US to oppose Iranian expansionism. He wants the US to have Israel’s back diplomatically and to fight the BDS.

Unfortunately he can’t extricate himself or the US from the TSS. He recommends that the US and Israel come to an agreement “to limit settlement growth and keep the “peace map” intact.”  What this means is to allow Israel to build in the areas that she is expected to keep. Something Netanyahu would love to agree to.  At the same time, build up Palestinian institutions like Bennett recently proposed.
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By BEN HARTMAN, TOVAH LAZAROFF, YAAKOV LAPPIN, JPOST

Six soldiers and a policeman were wounded in five West Bank terrorist attacks on Wednesday, as the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Maj.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai appealed to Palestinian leaders to calm the situation.

“It is not too late to stop the deterioration [of the security situation],” Mordechai said at press conference to the foreign media. Mordechai condemned the incitement that is fueling the spate of terrorist attacks, saying that the “word is more harmful than the sword.”

At night five soldiers in their 20s were wounded when they were run down by a terrorist after their vehicle was stoned on Route 60 near the Palestinian village of Beit Umar, just outside the Etzion Bloc.
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