By Ted Belman

The EU recently said in a statement on Tuesday (17 June) it “encourages continued close cooperation between the Israeli and Palestinian security services to ensure the swift release of the abductees.”

It added that “such acts can only undermine international efforts to encourage a resumption of peace negotiations.”

Of course that’s what they are concerned with.  But from my point of view I have no interest in the peace process because it exists to force unfair terms on Israel and will leave Israel the weaker for it. Israel and the EU don’t share the same agenda. If the EU wants Israel to embrace the peace process, it should support the deal we want rahter than the deal the arabs want.

By Uri Perednick, MIDA

How does an African-American pastor come to be a leading advocate for Israel on American college campuses? • And what does it have to do with Martin Luther King and the countries of sub-Saharan Africa? • Dumisani Washington explains it all in a revealing and in-depth interview with ‘Mida’ • A tale of a multifaceted love for Zion.

Please tell us about the IBSI. 

IBSI was formed in July 2013 as a pro-Israel group that focused on cultural issues not always addressed in other organizations.

This includes emphasizing:

Israel’s ethnic diversity: The fact that the Jewish people are ethnically diverse, and that some 90 nations are represented in Israel (Jew and non-Jew) is important to many Black people.  Diversity and inclusion are signs of a healthily pluralistic society.  Seeing people living, working, thriving in Israel that look like people from all over the world helps combat the Israel racism/apartheid lie.

Israel’s historical work in African nations: People aware of Israel’s history (or the history of Zionism) are aware of Theodor Herzl’s vision to help realize the “redemption of the African”.  That vision has been a major part of Israel’s history since her rebirth in 1948.  Long before she was Israel’s first female Prime Minister, Foreign Minister Golda Meir was so active on the Continent that Tanzania’s president, Julius Nyerer called her, “the mother of Africa.”  Read more…

Lubavitch Chassidism is a movement of many paradoxes. Upon the Rebbe’s passing and with no evident successor in sight, many observers expected the movement to wither; twenty years later, it has never been stronger or more influential. Much has been made of its Messianic wing—those Lubavitchers convinced that the Rebbe is the Mashiach and never really died—and yet its thousands of emissaries work energetically to rebuild Jewish life as if everything depends upon them, rather than on a redeeming Messiah. Though Chabad emissaries eschew a denominational label, referring to themselves as simply Jewish, the warm, welcoming hospitality of Chabad families has altered the way hundreds of thousands of non-Orthodox Jews around the globe perceive Orthodoxy. Meanwhile, some of Chabad’s most scathing Orthodox critics refer to the movement as “the religion closest to Judaism,” even as religious texts produced by Lubavitch rabbis are increasingly studied in all kinds of yeshivot and kollelim. Read more…

Abbas: Kidnapped youths ‘must be returned’

Speaking in Saudi Arabia, Palestinian Authority president denounces abduction of ‘human beings just like us’ but questions motives of Israeli operation

OK. So everytime the US or the EU supports Israel by letting it round up the usual suspects or forces Abbas to denounce kidnapping or say that If Hamas is behind it, its the end of the reconciliation agreement, Its going to cost Israel in concessions demanded. Israel is no longer a free agent. It sells its soul to the devil.

by Daniel Pipes, The Washington Times, June 18, 2014

The battle in Iraq consists of “Turkish-backed Sunni jihadis rebelling against an Iranian-backed Shi’ite-oriented central government,” I wrote in a recent article.

Some readers question that the Republic of Turkey has supported the “Islamic State in Iraq and Syria,” the main Sunni group fighting in Iraq. They point to ISIS attacks on Turkish interests, within Turkey, along its border with Syria, and in Mosul and a successful recent meeting of the Turkish and Iranian presidents. Good points, but they can be explained. Read more…

It is very disturbing that Israel needed the approval of both the US and the EU for this operation. Permission granted providing no bloodshed. Even moreso approval will be needed to destroy Hamas in Gaza. Lets hope we get it. One more thing.  Israel should start assassinating leading Hamas figures in Gaza until such time as the boys are returned.  No doubt the US and the EU will have something to say about that.  Ted Belman

By Ron Ben Yishai, YNET NEWS

Analysis: While Islamic organization scores points on Palestinian street for kidnapping three Israeli teens, Israel’s operation weakens Hamas’ presence in the West Bank, thwarting its goal of taking over territories.

Monitoring entrance to Hebron (Photo: Barel Efraim)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon are now doing to Hamas what Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been doing to the Muslim Brotherhood since July 2013.

Just as al-Sisi worked systematically to prevent a “political revival” of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, so has the Israeli government been working – using the IDF and Shin Bet – to thwart the possibility that Hamas, who is affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, takes over the Palestinian street in the West Bank. Read more…

Described as covert aid to insurgents targeting al-Assad

By Aaron Klien, WND

Army trainers

JERUSALEM – Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIS, were trained in 2012 by U.S. instructors working at a secret base in Jordan, according to informed Jordanian officials.

The officials said dozens of ISIS members were trained at the time as part of covert aid to the insurgents targeting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. The officials said the training was not meant to be used for any future campaign in Iraq.
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BY MICHAEL RUBIN, COMMENTARY

The Obama administration is looking for some low-cost magic bullet to resolve the mess in Iraq, never mind that its search for a similar remedy in Syria hasn’t materialized. As Max Boot ably demonstrates, reaching out to Iran shouldn’t be the solution: Iran might go in—and, indeed, already has—but it won’t leave. Just look at Lebanon, where Hezbollah continues to wreak havoc 14 years after Israel’s withdrawal.

That said, while Iran has sponsored terrorism that has killed countless Iraqis and scores of Americans in Iraq, and continues to arm and fund hardcore sectarian militias which undercut reconciliation in Iraq, it is as important to recognize that Saudi Arabia and its promotion of radical Islam has historically been as poisonous as the Islamic Republic of Iran (if not more so). Saudi authorities have cracked down slightly after suffering their own blowback a decade ago, but many Saudi charities continue to fund extremism and hate.
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Very interesting. After Bengazi, the US had to get weapons from somewhere. Why not Iraq? No doubt, the abandonment of the weapons was arranged with Sunni Iraq soldiers under instructions form Saudi Arabia. Probably the money too. Better than the contra affair. Ted Belman

By Bill Gertz, THE BEACON

June 17, 2014 5:00 am

Syrian and Iraqi terrorist forces obtained significant numbers of tanks, trucks, and U.S.-origin Humvees in recent military operations in Iraq and those arms are being shipped to al Qaeda rebels in Syria, according to U.S. officials.

U.S. intelligence agencies reported this week that photos of the equipment transfers were posted online by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as ISIS, the ultra-violent terror group that broke away from al Qaeda but shares its goals and philosophy.

Pentagon spokesman Cmdr. Bill Speaks confirmed the weapons transfers and expressed concerns about the captured arms.

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BY ADAM KREDO, FREE BEACON

June 16, 2014 1:00 pm

State Department counterterrorism officials warned in late April that Iran had “trained, funded, and provided guidance” to ethnic Iraqi terror groups bent on destabilizing the country.

The April warning appears to directly contradict and undermine comments last week by a State Department spokeswoman claiming that the United States and Iran have a “shared interest.”

As Iraqi militants continue to wage attacks and seize territory, the State Department has signaled that it is willing to work with neighboring Iran to stabilize the country. They have even raised the idea of discussing Iraq on the sidelines of the ongoing nuclear discussions taking place in Vienna.

However, the recent outreach to Iran runs counter to the State Department’s own Country Report on Terrorism issued just six weeks ago. Read more…

I am totally against the US cooperating with Iran in Iran. Iran is an enemy, not a partner. The question must be asked what’s in America’s best interests. Does she want an Iranian controlled Iraq or a division of Iraq into three states only one of which will be controlled by Iran if not annexed. Israel has decided on three states. Ted Belman

DEBKA

The US and Iran took the first steps for their military cooperation in Iraq on June 16, at the same time as Israel declared war on Tehran’s Palestinian ally, Hamas, in the wake of a fruitless four-day sweep of the West Bank Hebron region for the three Israeli teenagers kidnapped on June 12, and the detention of hundreds of Hamas activists – which Israel leaders said was just the beginning.

The talks between Washington and Tehran on working together in Iraq (A prospect first envisaged by DEBKA Weekly 639 on June 14) were revealed Monday by Secretary of State John Kerry who told a Yahoo interviewer that the US is “open to discussing any constructive process here… Let’s see what Iran might or might not be willing to do before we start making any pronouncements. I would not rule out anything that would be constructive to providing real stability.”
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By Ben Cohen, ALGEMIENER

JNS.org – During the war in Iraq, when I was still living in London and coordinating news coverage of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein for various international media organizations, I was in regular contact with a brave Iraqi Kurdish journalist named Ayub Nuri. When Ayub and I finally met in person, several years later in New York, we spent a couple of hours talking about the region generally, and specifically about whether Israel had a natural ally in the Kurds.

So it was with some pleasure, in the midst of a horrible news week for the Middle East, that I came across an interview with Ayub in which he said the following: “Kurds are deeply sympathetic to Israel and an independent Kurdistan will be beneficial to Israel. It will create a balance of power. Right now, Israel is one country against many. But with an independent Kurdish state, first of all Israel will have a genuine friend in the region for the first time, and second, Kurdistan will be like a buffer zone in the face of the Turkey, Iran and Iraq.”
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by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Jonathan Schanzer, The National Interest

President Obama’s May 28 commencement address at West Point outlined his administration’s framework for addressing twenty-first century national-security challenges. “We should not go it alone,” the president said. Instead, when faced with the need to act—whether it be military strikes, sanctions, or moral weight—Obama said that “we must mobilize allies and partners to take collective action.” In light of the dramatic advances recently made in Iraq by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, an al-Qaeda offshoot, Obama may even bepreparing to enlist the Islamic Republic of Iran as one of those partners.

The possible willingness to partner with a state sponsor of terrorism that has targeted American interests over more than three decades highlights growing challenges to the U.S.’s approach to critical national-security issues—and, indeed, a problem within our existing alliances.
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By MUDAR ZAHRAN, JPOST

Our Palestinian brothers should become Jordanian citizens residing in Israel, not citizens of a Jewish Israel.

REUTERS

DEBKA

Signs of an approaching IDF military operation against Hamas abounded this week as a possible outcome of the massive military-cum-intelligence effort to rescue the three Israeli boys Hamas is accused of abducting near Hebron on June 10. Military strength constantly poured in to reinforce the siege around the Hebron, a West Bank city of 170,000 and is environs. Sunday night, June 15, Israeli forces surrounded and then stormed two houses for suspects, after detaining up to 100 Hamas operatives.
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There are a number of things in this article that I disagree with, but I do believe that Saudi Arabia is bankrolling them.

I got a call today from a Kurdish leader, who I have known and worked with for many years. He has been talking with Sunni leadership to amalgamate to drive out Iran and Hezbollah. They wanted to start a dialogue with Israel to get her backing. He informed me of considerable intrigue that is going on there. Strangely Iran may be helping the advance of ISIS in order to justify Iranian intervention. Also that ISIS is being presented as worse than al Qaeda in order to ensure that western backing does not go to them. He also said that there is a strong connection between Shia Iran and Sunni Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood. He noted that Obama is involved in supporting both.

The US has asked Iran to help. The telegraph UK advises ” Saudi Arabia today warned against “foreign interference” in the Iraq crisis, amid rumours of a deal for joint US-Iran measures.” Stay tuned. Ted Belman

Bush and Blair said Iraq was a war on Islamic fascism. They lost
Independant UK

Taliban and Osama bin Laden and 15 of the 19 suicide killers of 9/11, meet Saudi Arabia’s latest monstrous contribution to world history: the Islamist Sunni caliphate of Iraq and the Levant, conquerors of Mosul and Tikrit – and Raqqa in Syria – and possibly Baghdad, and the ultimate humiliators of Bush and Obama.

From Aleppo in northern Syria almost to the Iraqi-Iranian border, the jihadists of Isis and sundry other groupuscules paid by the Saudi Wahhabis – and by Kuwaiti oligarchs – now rule thousands of square miles.

Apart from Saudi Arabia’s role in this catastrophe, what other stories are to be hidden from us in the coming days and weeks?
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