Court rules that Austrian hair stylist’s anti-Semitic Facebook posts are a legitimate way to criticize Israel.

Berlin. Facebook postings from a Turkish man showing Adolf Hitler, with a statement praising the death of Jews, are a legitimate expression of criticizing the Jewish state, the spokesman for the prosecutor office in the city of Linz, Philip Christl, said on Tuesday.

“I could have annihilated all the Jews in the world, but I left some of them alive so you will know why I was killing them…,” Ibrahim B. wrote on his Facebook page in December.
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Intelligence obtained by the French secret services in the Middle East sheds new light on Britain’s role in the Arab-Israeli War of Independence.

By Meir Zamir | HAARETZ

British Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin.

September 11, 1947. On the eve of the Arab League’s political committee meeting to decide on the Arab response to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) report [supporting the end of the British mandate and partitioning the land between Jews and Arabs], the Lebanese newspaper L’Orient published an article. “Bloc Oriental et extension de la Ligue” argued that, like the Greater Syria plan [that aimed to unite Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine], the Oriental Bloc – a French term for Britain’s planned regional defense pact – hung over the independence of Arab countries and the Arab League like the Sword of Damocles, and that its authors were one and the same: [Iraqi Prime Minister] Nuri al-Sa’id and [Jordanian] King Abdullah.
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By Judi McLeod, CFP

With no laws on their books to prevent it from happening, top Barack Hussein Obama campaign aides are masterminding anti Israel President Benjamin Netanyahu and anti Canada Prime Minister Stephen Harper 2015 election campaigns.

It’s a huge news story virtually ignored by mainstream media and one that thus far keeps the people whom it will most impact, the citizens of two sovereign nations, in the dark:
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T. Belman. In addition to the misconceptions about the API listed here, there are more. If you read it very carefully, Israel must do a number of things including agreeing to a 100% withdrawal, before the Arabs will consider normalizing. Secondly, according to a subsequent clarification that they issued, they rejected any solution that involves “resettling of the Palestinians outside of their homes.” meaning in Israel.

By Uri Heitner, ISRAEL HAYOM

In a new campaign, around 170 former high-ranking Israeli security officials are calling on Israelis to vote in the upcoming Knesset elections for parties that would commit to adopting the Arab Peace Initiative. I have great respect for these ex-officials, who dedicated large parts of their lives to defending Israel’s security, but history has shown that having such a background is not a guarantee of political wisdom. The security establishment has failed the country many times, particularly regarding our understanding of our enemies and our adherence to false concepts.
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By Steven Plaut

The big headline in pre-election Israel this week has been the uncharacteristic decision by the Netanyahu government to exercise its powers to govern. Specifically, much too little and much too late, Netanyahu has decided to challenge the leftist hegemony over the awards of the “Israel Prize.” The leftist media in Israel are aghast. Labor and Meretz politicians are filing official complaints with the State Comptroller.
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The president’s refusal to acknowledge the anti-Semitic nature of this crime is of a piece with his administration’s refusal to acknowledge the radical Islamic nature of our enemies.

WH Spends 7 Minutes Defending Obama Downplaying Terrorism, Calling Kosher Deli Attack ‘Random’

Obama’s Party Line: Radical Islam Denial

According to President Obama and his spokesmen, last month’s slaughter at a kosher supermarket in Paris – in which a radical Islamist terrorist murdered four people, all of them Jews – was not necessarily an act of anti-Semitic terrorism.
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A GREAT SPEECH

By Rafael Medoff

JNS.org – The supposedly unprecedented step taken by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his plan to speak directly before Congress about the Iranian nuclear threat on March 3, rather than working exclusively with the White House on the issue, actually has an interesting precedent—established in 1975 by none other than Yitzhak Rabin and America’s Democratic Party.

That spring, Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger undertook a round of shuttle diplomacy aimed at reaching a peace agreement between Israel and Egypt. The negotiations quickly ran into trouble, when Egypt refused to offer anything more than a brief a period of “non-belligerency” in exchange for an Israeli retreat from strategic mountain passes and oil fields in the Sinai desert.
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DEBKA

Intelligence gathered by Egypt and Israel attest to the former Ansar Bait al-Maqdis – now reborn as the Islamic State’s operational arm in Sinai – being well into advanced preparations for a large-scale terrorist offensive targeting Israel forces manning the Egyptian frontier, along with a string of Egyptian targets across Sinai up to and including the Suez Canal and Cairo.

According to DEBKAfile’s counter-terrorism sources, the Islamist group was so elated by the outcome of its multiple attacks on Jan. 29, which left at least 40 Egyptian soldiers dead and more than 100 injured in Sinai and Suez towns, that it is determined to keep going.
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Yesh Atid’s Platform

By NIV ELIS, SHARON UDASIN, JPOST

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid on Tuesday called for nationalizing Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund, saying the body was corrupt and an impediment to lowering the cost of housing.

“The symbol of KKL-JNF used to be the little blue box,” he said. “Today, the symbol of KKL-JNF is corruption and the money that is transferred in the shadows from place to place without reporting to anyone, and the strange appointments, like the co-chairman and dozens of members of the board of directors and emissaries across the world.”
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T. Belman. You would think that since NGO’s backing BDS in Israel receive $45 million dollars, most of it from the EU, per year, that the government of Israel would fund Zionist NGO’s or a hasbara campaign to defend Israel in like amount. Unfortunately it gives nothing.

Foreign governments are heavily involved in funding organizations directly or indirectly involved in BDS campaigns, NGO Monitor report finds • EU the largest donor, followed by Norway • Report urges legal measures to bolster transparency.

By Shlomo Cesana, ISRAEL HAYOM

The EU is the biggest donor to NGOs involved in Israeli-Palestinian conflict [Illustrative]

Foreign governments donated some 105 million shekels ($27 million) to 24 nongovernmental organizations involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict between 2012 and 2014, according to a new report by Jerusalem-based research institute NGO Monitor.

According to the report, which was released Monday, the donations were made by foreign governments both directly and indirectly, and “comprise roughly 60 percent of the NIS 176 million [$45 million] reported by 75 Israeli non-profit associations and corporations for the public benefit during that time.”
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By Chaim Shine, ISRAEL HAYOM

The Bolsheviks in Stalinist Russia had an old anti-Semitic saying: “Strike at the Jews and save Russia.” The bolsheviks of the Israeli media embraced a similar slogan: Strike at Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu and the Right and save Israel.

Since the beginning of the election campaign, Yedioth Ahronoth and Haaretz newspapers have been operating as if they were campaigners whose main objective is to topple the government and close Israel Hayom. The reason is that in just a few years, Israel Hayom has succeeded in breaking these newspapers’ monopoly over knowledge and information in Israel, causing them significant losses.
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Jewish Home party chief says economic arm-twisting ‘immoral,’ calls for European support against ‘river of terror’

By Stuart Winer, TOI

Economy Minister Naftali Bennett took European Union ambassadors and envoys to task on Monday, accusing their countries of using economic pressure to try to make Israel “commit suicide” instead of supporting the country in its struggle against a “river of terror.”

Bennett addressed the diplomats, representing 26 out of the 28 European Union countries, at a closed-door meeting in Jerusalem’s King David Hotel. An audio recording of some of his comments was leaked to Army Radio and published Tuesday.

“To single out Israel, to twist our arms economically, in the hopes that we’ll commit suicide because financially we’ll get hit if we don’t — it’s immoral from my perspective,” Bennett was heard saying in the recording. “Instead of understanding… we’re the big dam in this big river of terror.”
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By Steve Kramer, TOI

Barack Obama burst upon the American political scene in 2004, when he gave the keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention, just four months after unexpectedly being elected the junior senator from Illinois. Less than five years later, in his first inaugural speech, President Obama intoned, “We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense. And for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken — you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.” But did he mean it? His subsequent actions belie his words.

Obama continued, “To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. …To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history, but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.”
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By Ted Belman

The fracas surrounding Netanyahu’s upcoming speech before Congress is all about whose views on Iran, Obama’s or Netanyahu’s, will win the day. Thus the stakes are very high both for Obama’s foreign policy initiatives and for Israel’s existence.

JPOST reports:

But reports began surfacing last week that the Obama administration is offering Iran technical concessions on its nuclear infrastructure in exchange for Iran’s use of its leverage to tamper regional turmoil.

But the warning from Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif underscored core motivations driving Western diplomats in the talks: The realignment of Tehran towards cooperation with Washington elsewhere in the region, from Syria and Iraq to Yemen and Lebanon.

That is a departure from their original goal, set explicitly at the beginning of negotiations, to dismember Iran’s nuclear program thoroughly and permanently.

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Lacking a vision of the future, Labor reinvents itself by misreading the past

By Liel Leibovitz|January 30, 2015

As the capital of the European Union goes, so goes Europe. And the details are worse than you can imagine.

By Giulio Meotti, INN

Belgium has the highest per capita number of Islamic terrorists gone to fight in Syria and Iraq than any other European country. Brussels is the capital of the holy war, as well as of the European Union.

The first European citizen to die on the battlefields of jihad was Muriel Degauque, a Belgian Catholic girl. Originally from Charleroi, she converted to Islam, changed her name to Myriam and died near Baghdad as a human bomb.

Two days before September 11, two Tunisians recruited in Belgium managed to kill the Afghan commander Massoud, enemy of al Qaeda and the Taliban.
And the terror cell of Madrid’s 2004 bombings came from the town of Maaseik.
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ZOA Criticizes Reform Judaism’s Jacobs, AIPAC, AJC, ADL, J St., and Other Jewish Groups For Not Supporting Israeli PM Speaking to Congress on Iran

NEW YORK, February 9, 2015 — ZOA President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:  “The ZOA has criticized Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, for pressuring Israeli PM Netanyahu to cancel his critically important speech on Iran to a joint session of Congress.  Jacobs said it was ‘ill advised’ for Netanyahu to speak.  ADL’s Foxman and J St. have also demanded Netanyahu cancel. The ZOA also criticized the American Jewish Committee, and  AIPAC and others  for their deafening silence on the issue. Moreover the Jewish Daily Forward reported that  ‘in private conversations, AIPAC has been trying to distance itself from the debate.’

Ted Belman. There is no mention of the other pillar in Obama’s foreign policy namely his embrace of the Muslim Brother. I think it had its genesis in another study which suggested that the secular dictators should be replaced. Three down, Mubarak, Hussein and Qaddafi. Assad to go. Can anyone remember the study?

by David P Goldman, PJ Media

Over at Mosaic Magazine, former Bush aideMichael Doran claims that the Obama administration has had a secret strategy to engage Iran from the time it took office.

He’s right, but he neglects to mention that George W. Bush and his national security advisor, Condoleezza Rice, adopted the same strategy from the same source in November 2006, after the Republicans got crushed in congressional elections. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld got a pink slip, Vice President Dick Cheney got benched, and “realist” Robert Gates–the co-chairman of the 2004 Council on Foreign Relations task force that advocated a deal with Iran–took over at Defense. Michael Doran reports all of this, all, that is, except Gates’ central role in the plan. That would place a good deal of the blame at Bush’s doorstep.
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While Israeli media portrays Bennett’s statement as racist, a key Arab local leader says he is absolutely right.

By Gil Ronen, INN

Israel’s leftist media attempted to portray statements Sunday by Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett about the high rate of crime in the Arab sector as racist – but Bennett received unexpected support Monday from an Arab leader.

Sakhnin Mayor Mazen Ghanaim, the Head of the High Monitoring Committee of Arabs in Israel, said that he, too, demands that police take action against crime in the Arab sector.

“The current situation is unbearable,” Ghanaim said, according to the NRG news site. “Seventeen people from the Arab sector have been killed since the beginning of the year from illegal weapons. We are seeing thefts, torching of vehicles and widespread crime in the Arab cities. I am not talking about a feeling that the authorities have given up on enforcement in the Arab cities. I regret to say that I am talking about facts.”
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