Logan’s Warning

Well, after years of calling out ACT!’s Brigitte Gabriel on her message of “Islamism” being the problem, she has finally admitted that Islam itself is the problem! This much needed dose of honesty came through on last night’s Sean Hannity show.

The man who lead the way was Faith Freedom International’s one and only, ex-Muslim and colleague Ali Sina!

During the interview Mr. Sina didn’t pull any punches, as he flat out laid the blame of Boko Haram’s taking of sex slaves on Islam.

He also didn’t have any kind words for the King of Perverts, Mohammad. While mentioning that Dr. Zuhdi Jasser was not being honest with the public about Islam.

Friends, this is much needed breakthrough in the information war with Islam. Enjoy the podcast!

Hannity’s Radio Show

The former ambassador to Washington, Yoram Ettinger, plays down the reports about
American pressure to make political concessions: When prime ministers
said ‘no’ they were respected.

Translated from the Hebrew Arutz 7 article by Shimon Cohen

In last week’s conference for the application of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria organized by Women in Green and Am Chazak,that was held in Hashmonaim, former Ambassador to Washington Yoram Ettinger presented the proper way for the Israeli government to stand up to any American pressure by being aware of the real political power struggle in the American government.

Ettinger stated that the claims of unbearable American pressure are totally unrealistic. “I say that anyone who says that Israel cannot withstand the an American president’s pressure, especially when Israel is faced with existential threats such as a nuclear Iran and Islamic terror, is either very dramatically wrong or is scandalously misleading” says Ettinger, who believes that the claims result from not understanding the American political structure and the regard that
the United States grants to its interlocutors.
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Militant rebel group with advanced U.S. missiles calls Israel occupier

By Adem Kredo, FREE BEACON

By David Shamah, TOI

Concerns over boycotts of Israel by countries in Europe and elsewhere are overblown, Avi Hasson, Israel’s Economy Ministry’s chief scientist, said at a press conference Tuesday. “We are building ties with countries in Asia, Latin America and elsewhere. Our trade with Europe is robust, and trade with Turkey has grown in recent years, despite the crisis in relations between our countries. Israeli tech is an international phenomenon, and will not be stopped by politics,” Hasson said.

The Chief Scientist’s Office’s job is to promote Israeli companies abroad and assist start-ups in Israel to develop their technology and grow. Hasson, who has a $450 million annual budget for technology development, presented foreign journalists with a rundown of his office’s activities during a discussion at the MIXiii 2014 high-tech conference Tuesday. Hundreds of start-ups and veteran companies presented their technology at MIXiii, which was meant to showcase Israeli advances in networking technology, biotechnology, environmental tech and more.

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IDF: Video showing soldiers killing unarmed Palestinians ‘edited in a tendentious manner’

US and UN call for Nakba Day shooting probe 

Liberman Rejects ‘American Demands’ for Nakba Day shooting probe

Liberman Says US Spying Charges ‘Malicious’ – Arutz Sheva

Liberman: US ‘dead wrong’ to blame Israeli settlements for …

Compare this to the projected cost of inducing the Arabs east of the greenline to emigrate in the sum of $100 Billion or $200 Billion if you include Gazans. Then factor in all the land we get to keep. Ted Belman

By Uzi Baruch, INN

Former secretary of state’s speech to AJC meant to signal to pro-Israel community that tensions ruffled by president will be smoothed over

BY RON KAMPEAS, May 21, 2014,

How can his plan set out possibly work. He proposes annexing C and giving autonomy to Arabs in A and B and full citizenship to Arabs in C. He also wanted to build their economy in A and B and this I was also against. I supported that plan with certain changes. One of the changes was that I was against giving citizenship in the first instance. Now he is saying as part of the Plan that he would remove the security barrier. Thus there won’t be a border between them and us. How could this possibly work? Also he assumes they will govern well. But what happens if they don’t. How can we be immune to their poor environment or health policies. How can we stop them from moving into Israel and so on. I don’t like it. Ted Belman

A New Plan for Peace in Palestine

Dismantle the security barrier in the West Bank. Let most Palestinians who live there govern themselves.

By NAFTALI BENNETT, WSJ

May 20, 2014 6:38 p.m. ET

On May 14 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in London to discuss the “unity government” that Mr. Abbas announced unexpectedly last month. Mr. Abbas’s decision to establish a national government in coalition with Hamas is the latest example in a long line of Palestinian intransigence.

Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to Israel’s destruction. The group has killed hundreds of Israelis in suicide bombings and missile attacks. That is the organization’s very mission: The Hamas charter calls for perpetual jihad against the Jewish State while forever rejecting peace negotiations or compromise. Israel will not negotiate with a Palestinian government that includes Hamas. [BUT ISRAEL IS NEGOTIATING WITH FATAH WHICH HAS THE SAME THING IN ITS CHARTER.]
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SWEDEN JIHAD

TheTower.org Staff

An Israeli news station has reported this morning on a poll conducted by Professor Sammy Smooha of Haifa University showing that the acceptance of Israel by Israeli Arabs increased markedly between 2012 and 2013.

Channel 10/Nana reported (Hebrew) that the poll’s surprising results bucked conventional wisdom:

The research shows that between 2012 and 2013 there was an increase in the percentage of Israeli Arabs recognizing Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish and democratic state, and Israel’s right to maintain a Jewish majority. Similarly, the percentage of Arabs who define themselves as “Israeli Arabs” without a Palestinian identity has increased.
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EU Envoy Says ‘No Reason’ to Stop Talks Over Fatah-Hamas Unity. Why? Because they are the same.

“I don’t see a reason for the peace talks stopping in order to send a message that there’s a difference between Fatah and Hamas,” opined Faaborg-Andersen.

While indeed Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction has made clear that there is little distinction between them and Hamas in terms of their goal of destroying Israel, which would of course call the end result of any peace process into question

I agree. So does Gordon, the author of the article below. Israel shouldn’t have started negotiations with Fatah/PA in the first place. Ted Belman

By Evelyn Gordon, COMMENTARY

Haaretz reported yesterday that if the Palestinian Authority’s planned Fatah-Hamas unity government actually arises, the U.S., like the European Union, will probably recognize it. Since Hamas has repeatedly said it will neither recognize Israel nor renounce violence, Israel is understandably upset at American and European willingness to peddle the fiction that a government in which Hamas is a full partner complies with those requirements. But Israel itself has helped to peddle a no less outrageous fiction for years–that PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party, unlike Hamas, is a “partner for peace.” To understand how ridiculous this claim is, consider two recent developments: last week’s Haaretz op-ed by chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, and a decision by Al-Quds University’s academic union two weeks earlier.
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by Michael Freund, JPOST

After several exasperating decades, one of the thorniest and most painful issues on Israel’s public agenda may at last be heading toward a resolution. In a move underlining the national consensus regarding the Temple Mount, Likud MK Miri Regev and Labor MK Hilik Bar have reached across the aisle to prepare a joint bill that would allow Jews to pray at the nation’s holiest site.

The proposed law, which is slated to be submitted soon to the Knesset for approval, would right one of the most glaring wrongs on Israel’s human rights record. It would end discrimination against Jews who wish to commune with their Creator on the Mount without fear of arrest.

Don’t believe the media’s attempts to paint this bill as “controversial.” The only thing controversial about it is that there is a need for such a bill in the first place. Incredibly, despite Supreme Court rulings upholding the right of Jews to freedom of worship on the Temple Mount, the police have never – not once! – allowed this right to be exercised.

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A challenge to Brandies U

“Nevertheless” – the Illness and the Remedy by Chloe Valdary just published.

Powerful attack on BDS

Chloe Valdary is a student on a mission is the title of the article I wrote in early 2013 introducing her to Israpundit. Since then she has continued to fight the good fight. Her videos and her articles have received much praise.

The man who’s likely to be Egypt’s next president is trying to ensure his country’s role in facilitating Palestinian reconciliation.

bY Zvi Bar’el, HAARETZ

“I call on Hamas to rehabilitate its relations with Egypt before it loses the affection of the Egyptian people once and for all,” suggested Gen. Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi in a recent interview on Egyptian television. His words immediately led to a wave of speculation concerning the intentions of the man who is considered a shoo-in candidate for his country’s presidency.

In contrast to his tough and uncompromising attitude toward the Muslim Brotherhood, which has been described as a terror organization, Sissi is offering Hamas a political escape hatch that is apparently designed to speed up the reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah, which Egypt supports.
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The ICC’s former chief prosecutor says the Palestinians wouldn’t have much of a case against Israel.

By Anshel Pfeffer, HAARETZ

In the dysfunctional state of Israeli-Palestinian relations, the “nuclear option” for the Palestinians would be joining the International Criminal Court as a member state and exercising that membership to launch war crimes investigations against Israel. At least, that’s the view of many in Israel, which, like the United States, is not a member of the ICC.

But to judge by comments made by the ICC’s former chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo — who, even two years after leaving his post in The Hague, remains the controversial court’s most persuasive advocate — Israel has little to worry about.

Last week, on his first visit to Israel, Moreno-Ocampo was full of praise for the local legal system and eager to point out that joining the ICC could backfire for the Palestinians. “Being here in Israel is not liking talking about international justice in Boston or Sweden,” said Moreno-Ocampo, who was here as a guest of the Fried-Gal Transitional Justice Initiative at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s law school. “The issues here are not academic.”
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By Ted Belman

Caroline Glick makes the case that Israel should let go of Abbas because the status quo is the only thing he will accept. He knows that if he were to agree to a deal, any deal, that the returning refugees would kill him. She continues:

Once Abbas is gone, Israel will have to choose between applying its laws to parts of Judea and Samaria and offering the Palestinians outside those areas a limited form of autonomy, or applying its laws to the entire region, conferring permanent residency status on the Palestinians and offering them the right to apply for Israeli citizenship.

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China is the Likely Winner in Ukraine
by David P. Goldman
May 19, 2014

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 248

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Ukraine crisis has created a catalyst for Sino-Russian rapprochement. Events in Ukraine have persuaded Russia that it cannot rely on Western Europe as its primary market for hydrocarbon exports. Consequently, after decades of negotiations between Moscow and Beijing for a long term natural gas mega-contract, it seems that Russia has finally relented to China’s terms, with China becoming the senior partner in a lopsided China-Russia relationship.

There is broader context to the struggle over sovereignty in the Ukraine, and China may emerge as the victor. After a decade of negotiations between Moscow and Beijing for a long-term natural gas supply contract, it appears that Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely to sign a 30-year deal during his state visit to China next week. Events in Ukraine appear to have persuaded Russia that it cannot rely on Western Europe as its primary market for hydrocarbon exports. It has therefore chosen to turn towards China. Evidently, Russia is willing to make price concessions that China has long demanded and Russia has long resisted.

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