Arab Zionist who has received death threats gives forceful support speech at Likud rally,’. Netanyahu promises ‘you will be a Likud MK

By Ari Yashar, INN

Mohammed Zoabi, the fearless Zionist Arab youth from Nazareth who received death threats and had to go underground after criticizing his radical pro-Hamas aunt MK Hanin Zoabi, gave an impassioned speech of support for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at a Likud rally this week.

In a video clip posted to Netanyahu’s Facebook page earlier this week, the young Zoabi is seen at the podium declaring forcefully “I’m a proud Israeli Arab Zionist.”The video of Zoabi’s speech, in Hebrew, can be seen below.

“I came to support a leader of every single citizen of Israel. I came to support a leader who always, always was there at the side of the Jewish people, …who will never give up or concede; the time of the Jewish people giving up and conceding on Israel is over,” stated Zoabi.

The youth continued, “we are living here in the state of Israel, a Jewish democratic state, the state of the Jewish people and a state of all its citizens, and Mr. Netanyahu defends every citizen of Israel, Arab and Jewish alike.”
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Netanyahu in media blitz says Labor could defeat him, but could the polls be fabricated?

By Gil Ronen, INN

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu launched a media blitz Thursday, granting interviews to Israeli television channels as well as other news sources, in a last-minute attempt to shore up support ahead of Tuesday’s national elections.

Netanyahu cited polls that show Likud’s main rival, Labor under Yitzhak Herzog, leads over Likud by several MKs. While most of the public wants a right wing government, he said – if Labor defeats Likud, the president could task it with creating the next government with the support of the Arab MKs.

However, News1 editor Yoav Yitzhak warned readers that the polls are not necessarily accurate.

“Guys, don’t believe the polls,” he wrote. “Some of them are purposely slanted. Yedioth Aharonoth refrained from publishing a poll last weekend whose results indicated that Likud is gaining strength.”
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T. Belman. In a previous preface I said that Obama’s proposed deal is Iran is only a hudna. Nonie Darwish, a friend of mine, amplifies this. I might add that no peace agreement with any Muslim country or the PA can last longer than 10 years. Muslims have the duty to wage war with non Muslim countries until they accept the dominance of Sharia and Islam.

By Nonie Darwish, AMERICAN THINKER

It is interesting to see President Obama trying to make a nuclear deal with Iran because Iran, an Islamic theocracy, must make a deal that is Sharia compliant. The Obama administration has to know and must feel a need to work with Iran’s Sharia requirements but is not making the predicament clear to the American people who are unaware of it. This is why:

Islamic law places jihad as not only a duty of every Muslim, but more importantly as the duty of every Muslim head of state. Permanent peace agreements with non-Muslim countries are forbidden since peace with the enemies of Islam is not a value, but in fact discouraged and would be treason if pursued for the purpose of peace. The relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims, as dictated by Sharia, must remain a hostile one unless non-Muslims abide by and live under Sharia. True peace with non-Muslims is forbidden and the only thing allowed is truces that must never exceed 10 years.
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BREITBART

NAPLES, Florida — In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, likely 2016 GOP presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) staked out a bold position on a foreign policy matter—pushing to arm Kurdish fighters against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) even more than the U.S. has already done, but also calling for the creation of a new nation of Kurdistan.

“Part of the problem is the Kurds aren’t getting enough arms,” Paul said. “The Kurds are the best fighters. The arms are going through Baghdad to get to the Kurds and they’re being siphoned off and they’re not getting what they need. I think any arms coming from us or coming from any European countries ought to go directly to the Kurds. They seem to be the most effective and most determined fighters.”

In addition, Paul called for giving the Kurds their own country for them to defend against radical Islamists.

“But I would go one step further: I would draw new lines for Kurdistan and I would promise them a country,” Paul said.
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Former security officials denounce PM’s diplomatic moves, decry attack on Meir Dagan

TOI

A number of former officials in Israel’s security establishment are slamming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s diplomatic and security policies, including on Iran, and saying that another Netanyahu term would harm the State of Israel.

The former officials also decry the harsh criticism doled out by the ruling Likud party to ex-Mossad chief Meir Dagan following his speech at an anti-Netanyahu rally in Tel Aviv this past weekend.

Their comments come a day after the PM said officials in the United States and across the world have become more receptive to Israel’s fears over Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program following his speech to Congress last week.
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Time for a reality check: Isaac Herzog will not be Israel’s next prime minister.

By Steven Klein, HAARETZ

Various media in Israel and abroad continue to speculate that Isaac Herzog could cobble together a coalition against all odds, and replace the incumbent prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. They delude themselves that it’s 1999 all over again, the last time Netanyahu fell, that Herzog’s chances “appear” to be higher than earlier in the election campaign, or that a unity government with a rotating prime minister is a viable scenario.

Folks, it’s time for an intervention.

There is no scenario in which Isaac Herzog will be Israel’s next prime minister, no matter what he declares or what the press reports. Period.
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When it comes to actual building within West Bank settlements, Netanyahu’s track record as prime minister in the past six years has been worse than that of the previous six years.

JPOST

Housing starts in settlements in 2014 dropped 52 percent compared to the previous year, according to Central Bureau of Statistics figures released Tuesday as the Likud and Bayit Yehudi parties vied for right-wing votes by showcasing their strong support for Judea and Samaria.

To help shore up that support ahead of the March 17 election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew by helicopter Tuesday morning to the IDF headquarters in Judea and Samaria, located between the Palestinian city of Ramallah and the Beit El settlement.
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JPOST

The Likud is in even worse shape than polls taken for media outlets show, according to internal polls taken this week for the Zionist Union.

A series of such polls taken by former prime minister Ariel Sharon’s pollster, Kalman Geyer, found the Zionist Union leading the Likud by five to seven Knesset seats – the Zionist Union with as many as 28 and as few as 24 seats, and the Likud with as many as 21 and as few as 18.

“The war is not over, but I believe we are winning the war,” Geyer said.

Likud strategists’ polls taken on Sunday showed a tie between the two parties, but since then, the Zionist Union has taken a lead of at least a seat, 23 to 22.

“I wouldn’t use the word ‘desperate,’ but it is likely that the other side will get the first chance to form a government, and if they get that chance they probably can,” a Likud strategist said. “The only thing that can stop that from happening is a large Likud.”

Shas chairman says he’s against splitting Jerusalem but would agree to evict “isolated settlements”.

By Ben Ariel, INN

Shas leader Aryeh Deri on Tuesday said that there are “large gaps” between his party and the left.

The comments, made in an interview on Channel 20, came after Rabbanit Adina Bar-Shalom, daughter of the late Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual founder of Shas, indicated at a conference that Shas is left-leaning when she said the party fears a “radical right government” and would push for a two-state solution.

“The gap between us and the left is very large. I do not agree to divide Jerusalem, and I do not agree to evict large communities for no reason,” Deri said.

He did admit, however, that he would agree to evict “isolated communities” as part of a peace deal.
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Kulanu party chairman declares he will not consider which party has more seats when choosing who to recommend as PM.

Arutz Sheva

Moshe Kahlon, head of the Kulanu party, clarified on Tuesday that he will not take into consideration which party has more seats after next week’s election when he chooses who to recommend for Prime Minister.

“We have not made an agreement with anybody,” he told Channel 2 News, adding, “We will not consider the question of who has more seats, we will recommend the candidate who will deal with the cost of living and housing prices.”

In recent days there have been reports that Kulanu was planning to join a post-election negotiation bloc with Yesh Atid, Yisrael Beytenu, or any other party.

Kahlon told supporters Sunday that his party is interested in only one “deal, a deal with the Israeli public. Don’t believe the lies that some are pushing, as they are designed to influence your vote.”
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DEBKA

Acting on direct orders from Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian special forces raided the nine PA-ruled towns of the West Bank in the past 48 hours and detained 500 Hamas suspects, DEBKAfile’s military sources report. Abbas ordered the operation after discovering that Hamas had been hatching a plot for some weeks to stage an armed insurrection against the Palestinian Authority, starting in one of the Palestinian towns – possibly even the PA capital of Ramallah. They would assassinate him in the process of the coup.

Of late, Abbas has kept his distance from Ramallah and his seat of government and spends most of his time traveling in foreign countries, especially Arab capitals, where he feels safer under the protection of foreign security services than he does at home.
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THE TOWER

The terrorist organization Hamas misused international law during Operation Protective Edge last summer “to undermine Israel’s perceived moral standing and international support,” according to a report commissioned by the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) and released this week. The report (.pdf), which was written by a task force headed by five retired American generals, observed:

Contrary to accusations of widespread unlawful military conduct, we observed that Israel systemically applied established rules of conduct that adhered to or exceeded the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) in a virtually unprecedented effort to avoid inflicting civilian casualties, even when doing so would have been lawfully permitted, and to satisfy the concerns of critics. However, it is the conclusion of this Task Force that Israel’s military restraint unintentionally empowered Hamas to distort both the law and facts for their own purposes to the ultimate detriment of civilians’ safety, for which Hamas bears sole responsibility.

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Dear Friends and Supporters of Im Tirtzu,

Last week we embarked on a campaign whose goal is to strengthen the discourse in Israel on the importance of Israel’s existence as a Jewish state. In addition, we are simultaneously undertaking widespread, intensive activities with the purpose of raising the voter turnout percentages in Israel’s periphery.

They say that each election cycle in the Jewish state is crucial. Yet, as Ecclesiastes teaches, “there is no new thing under the sun”.

Having said that, these elections are entirely different from any we have known until today.
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Nidal al-Mughrabi, Reuters Tuesday, 10 March 2015

A Qatari official visiting a Gaza neighborhood heavily bombed in last summer’s war with Israel said on Tuesday the Gulf Arab state had begun a project to rebuild 1,000 homes as part of a $1 billion aid pledge.

Mohammad al-Amadi, head of the Qatari Committee to Rebuild Gaza, said that earlier in the day Israel had allowed four truckloads of cement into the Gaza Strip so that the planned construction of the dwellings could begin.
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Daniel Gordis, BLOOMBERG

For all the vitriol in the U.S. surrounding Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech last week to Congress, it was nothing compared with what the Israeli prime minister faced upon his homecoming. Israeli politics are generally more vicious than their American parallel, and Netanyahu returned to face what is almost a perfect storm raging around his re-election campaign.

It began with comments by Meir Dagan, a former director of Mossad, who said that the prime minister’s conduct of the conflict with the Palestinians would lead Israel to being either a binational or an apartheid state. Dagan has long been critical of Netanyahu, but former Mossad chiefs have virtual demigod status in Israel, so his accusation (which he repeated in front of an estimated 80,000 peopleat an anti-Netanyahu rally Saturday in Tel Aviv, where he also said that Netanyahu has brought Israel to its worst crisis since its creation) clearly stung.
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Rabbanit Adina Bar-Shalom, Israel Prize winner and daughter of the late Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual founder of the haredi Shas party, took part on Monday in a meeting in Tel Aviv held by the Geneva Initiative in which 30 political activists from different parties were featured.

In the meeting, Bar-Shalom spoke about peace deals, saying “I’m afraid of the ramifications that will be from a radical right government. We don’t want a binational state. If we continue in the current situation – we’ll reach that.”

“A lot of blood was spilled here and every couple of years there’s another war. The only alternative is two states to two peoples. As more time passes we’ll only reach a worse (peace) deal,” opined the rabbanit.
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ITS A START

JPOST

An organization called Muslims Against Terrorism has launched an ad-campaign in Toronto aimed at pushing back against Islamic radicalism and a growing tide of anti-Muslim sentiment, the Toronto Sun reported Monday.

Led by local Imam Steve Rockwell, whose appearances on TV and radio broadcasts have made him a recognizable figure in recent debates over the place of Islam in Canadian society, the campaign has focused on expressing the dedication of Canadian Muslims to the security of their country and compatriots.

One advertisement, appearing on a Canadian subway platform reads: “Any Muslim who hurts Canada or a Canadian is an enemy of Islam. ”
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Labor 24, Likud 21 as Yesh Atid surges to 14. Majority of Yesh Atid and Kulanu voters want Herzog as prime minister.

Arutz Sheva

A poll on the Knesset Channel a week ahead of March 17 elections gives the Labor and Hatnua “Zionist Camp” of Yitzhak Herzog and Tzipi Livni an edge over Likud, with Labor coming in at 24 mandates and Likud at 21.

Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid continues its comeback to 14 seats, still a far cry from its current 19, and the joint Arab list comes in next at 13 mandates. Jewish Home at 12 seats continues to come in at fifth, a trend in recent weeks with intermittent results at fourth place.

Moshe Kahlon’s Kulanu comes in next at nine, followed by Shas at seven, United Torah Judaism at six, and Yisrael Beytenu and Meretz getting five seats each. Eli Yishai’s Yachad – Ha’am Itanu joint list with Otzma Yehudit continues to pass the threshold with four seats.
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