By Steven Plaut

Holocaust Remembrance Day begins in Israel in a few hours.

It is hard to believe that for the past two decades the national policy of Israel has been to seek to achieve peace by rewarding Palestinian fascists whose highest desire in this world is to see a second Holocaust perpetrated upon the Jews.  Israeli policy has been to pretend to wean these barbarians from their plans for a Final Solution by granting them recognition, funds, arms, and the right to set up their own state.  The results are apparent for all to see.

If that is hard enough to believe, then even harder is the wave of treason that has enveloped the Radical Left in Israel and in the Jewish world in general.  The radical Left long ago ceased to operate as a movement of juvenile naiveté.  It was once a movement in which shallow posturing and utopian dementia displaced rational thought.  Today the Radical Left more and more openly identifies with Israel’s genocidal enemies.  It more and more openly opposes Israeli sovereignty, democracy and freedom of speech in the country.  The Radical Israeli Left, led by the tenured Left, openly endorses aggression and terrorism against the citizens of its own country, particularly in the form of endorsements for BDS warfare against Israel.  Growing numbers of radical Leftists endorse terrorist atrocities against Israeli Jews, and not “only” in “settlements.”   The article by Martin Sherman, Into the fray: Mainstreaming treason?, expounds on this theme and is worth reading.
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I posted this Reuters article because for a change because its purpose is not to blame Israel Instead it shows no matter how much the “resistance of Hamas is affecting the Gazans negatively, they hate Israel more than they love themselves.  Thus Hamas indoctrinates Gazans to hate Israel rather than Hamas. Ted Belman

REUTERS, YNET NEWS

Grumbling at their leaders’ perceived incompetence is common among residents, but many said Gazans would remain behind Hamas because of its militancy.

“The whole world is against them. They’re not angels of course. They’ve made a lot of mistakes. But if they went ahead and recognized Israel, the people here would spit on them – their popularity would evaporate overnight,”

Some Gazan blame Hamas for much of their suffering: ‘If jobs open up, their people get them. They never suffer.’

Living on UN handouts of rice, flour, canned meat and sunflower oil, with limited access to proper health care or clean water, families like the Mustafas – seemingly permanent refugees – have no money, no jobs and no hope.
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***URGENT REQUEST to PRO-ISRAEL ACTIVISTS*** 

Dear Fellow Pro-Israel Activists From Mort Klein

On Wednesday April 30^th (next week!), the 50 member organizations of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (the “Conference”) will vote whether the extremist, virulent anti-Israel group J-Street will become a member of the Conference.

The 18 bullet points below demonstrate why the anti-Israel J-Street lobby must not be permitted to join the Conference of Presidents.   Also here is a link to the J-Street Exposed website: http://www.jstreetexposed.com/  The website spells out J-Street’s shocking anti-Israel activities, positions, funding and associations, and includes the “follow the money” video clip from a new movie about J-Street (produced by Charles Jacob’s organization), a video of Professor Alan Dershowitz condemning J-Street, and other helpful resources and information.  In addition, here is the link to the Zionist Organization of America’s report on how J-Street repeatedly sides with Israel’s enemies:   http://zoa.org/2013/04/10196411-zoa-report-j-street-siding-with-israels-enemies/

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By MELANIE PHILLIPS, JPOST

Blair has understood that, with the world facing a lethal threat, there is an even more dangerous reluctance in the West to engage with it.

Tony Blair, Britain’s former prime minister, took a scalpel to a neuralgic issue last week. In a major speech on Wednesday, he declared that the West needed to swallow its differences with Russia and China and make common cause with them to counter the threat of radical Islam, the biggest threat to global security today.

Blair has understood that, with the world facing this lethal threat, there is an even more dangerous reluctance in the West to engage with it – even to the point of understanding exactly what it is.
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With the departure of the American babysitter, both the Israelis and Palestinians will have to deal with the bleak reality on their own.

By Barak Ravid, HAARETZ | Apr. 26, 2014 |

On Friday, U.S. President Barack Obama started bringing down the curtain on the American peace initiative spearheaded by his secretary of state, John Kerry, since last March. Obama did not formally wave the white flag, but his statements to the press make it clear that he thinks that currently, both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas are not partners for peace.

Obama’s statements were neither planned nor orchestrated in advance. He was asked a question, and he answered honestly and directly that despite a year of supreme efforts by the American administration, both Netanyahu and Abbas were unwilling to show leadership. In Obama’s opinion, both figures, motivated by political survival, don’t want to make decisions which will begin to untie the Gordian knot called the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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By Alex Markovsky

Winston Churchill called Jews, “..the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has ever appeared in the world.” We are remarkable all right. When you have a smart Jew he predominates with his intellectual prowess over the rest of the human race, but when you have a dumb Jew, he is an insult to human intelligence.

As a Jew, I was perplexed which of those remarkable Jewish-Americans voted for Obama in 2008; to me, it was completely obvious that the alternative choices for president in 2008 were clear and unambiguous. On the Republican side was a war hero, a strong supporter of  Israel, an experienced politician with a strong track record and a commitment to public service. On the other side, for the Democrats, was a young man of Muslim background, an inexperienced politician with no track record of accomplishment whose personal files were mysteriously sealed. Moreover, this man had dubious connections with anti-Semites and America-haters.
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Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaacov Amidror, JPOST

With such a flimsy agreement, I wonder what will be left of Western commitment to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. And Israel will have to draw its own conclusions.

I am currently reading this book having been sent a copy by Andy Bostom. It is required reading for anyone wanting to fully understand the current negotiations and intentions and wanting to place them in the context of Shia Islam’s treatment of Jews since its creation. Particularly the decision-makers in the Israeli government should take note. Ted Belman

by Andrew E. Harrod , BREITBART

“Love of the prophet requires hatred of the Jews,” the Moroccan Muslim cleric al-Maghili (d. 1505) declared, as quoted by Dr. Andrew G. Bostom’s latest book Iran’s Final Solution for Israel: The Legacy of Jihad and Shi’ite Islamic Jew-Hatred in Iran. Bostom’s masterful compendium shows that al-Maghili’s sentiments are hardly rare in Islam, making a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic of Iran a nightmarish threat for Israel and beyond.

The “civilizational war waged by Shiite and Sunni jihadists” today is “consistent with Islam’s classical jihad theory,” Bostom demonstrates with copious quotation of Islamic theological sources and historical primary sources. Of 40 Koranic references to jahada or “struggle,” the Arabic root of jihad, for example, 36 address violence, according to one study. “Muhammad himself,” normative canonical Islamic accounts indicate, “was the ultimate prototype sanctioning jihad terror.” Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna therefore had a “seamless connection” to “traditional Islam itself,” as his translated writings show.
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Why would Turkey approve this name yet prevent the use of Kudistan in the other two application. It must make sense to someone.  Ted Belman

The PDK-T was founded in Diyarbakir in Turkey’s southeastern region by 40 senior members.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark – A party with the word “Kurdistan” in its name has officially been approved in Turkey for the first time.

“We are very pleased with the decision,” said Mehmet Emin Kardas, leader of the new Kurdistan Democratic Party-Turkey (PDK-T). “Many people had told us that our application would not be accepted because of the word Kurdistan. But we have seen that our application has been approved,” he told Rudaw.

The PDK-T was founded in Diyarbakir in Turkey’s southeastern region by 40 senior members.  The leading party members visited the Turkish interior ministry for official approval, which they received last week after a three-month waiting period, Kardas explained.
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For AP this is not bad but you see they reflect the views of the Left and disparage the views of the Right. Ted Belman

Associated Press

Nine months of US-driven diplomacy have left Israelis and Palestinians less hopeful than ever about a comprehensive peace agreement to end their century of conflict. Although a formula may yet be found to somehow prolong the talks past an end-of-April deadline, they are on the brink of collapse and the search is already on for new ideas.

US Secretary of State John Kerry’s efforts have exposed vast differences: On sharing Jerusalem, resolving the situation of millions of descendants of Palestinian refugees, and even borders, the sides seem nowhere close to agreement. And Thursday, Israel said it halted the talks in response to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ decision a day earlier to form a unity government with the Islamic militant Hamas movement, which Israel and the West consider a terrorist group.
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By CAROLINE B. GLICK, JPOST

BY MARTIN SHERMAN, JPOST
How long will we, as a society, tolerate the proactive propagation of harebrained, hazardous hallucinations-irrespective of how demonstratively detrimental they are to the security of the state & safety of its citizens?

By Gil Solomon, INN

The Obama-brokered “peace talks” have fallen in a heap due to three main issues.

1. The unrelenting demands by an enemy that did not enter the talks in good faith and which to this day continues with the indoctrination of its population to hate the Jews and Israel.

2. The unrelenting concessions demanded by a US administration which on many occasions could have been taken for the mouthpiece of the Palestinian Authority (PA).

3. The realization – finally having sunk in to diehard Israeli leftists – that indulging the PA’s never ending claims and fantasies any further would mean national suicide.
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By David M Weinberg, ISRAEL HAYOM

I salute Ari and Naomi Zivotofsky for tenaciously pursuing the American government to have their son registered as having been born in Jerusalem, Israel — a case which they are now taking for a second time to the U.S. Supreme Court.

But the real struggle over Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is underway every day in Jerusalem itself. At present, Israel is evincing a weak hand and losing the battle.

Last Friday, Tova Richler of New York arrived in Israel to attend her father’s funeral in the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives in eastern Jerusalem. En route to the burial site, near the Gethsemane Church junction, her car was pelted with rocks and bricks by 10 Arab youths, smashing the windows. She escaped, but missed the internment.
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By Ted Belman

Abbas announced a reconciliation with Hamas within five weeks with elections soon thereafter. Israel decided to blame him for choosing Hamas over peace.

But it took a 6 hour cabinet meeting to decide what to do. Livni and Lapid on the one side and Bennett on the other with Netanyahu wavering in the middle. In the end, the Cabinet settled for a suspension of talks and for sanctions. The suspension is meaningless as there were no talks and no agreement to extend the non-existing talks beyond April 29. If the parties decide to do something, the same agreement that gets the suspension lifted will get the talks extended.

As for possible sanctions giving the mood of the Cabinet, they will not be meaningful.
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by GIL HOFFMAN, JPOST

The deal Abbas reached with Hamas was the best present he could have given Netanyahu. Instead of having to risk his coalition by making concessions to keep Abbas at the table, he can declare that the PA is uninterested in peace.

By Ted Belman

Israel reacted with horror and suspended talks, mind you, not ended them. She also will now impose sanctions, but not enough to threaten the viability of the PA and she has castigated the US for its feeble response (Report: Israel Furious At US For ‘Feebleness’ on Hamas Deal). Israel is no better.

It must be kept in mind that while everyone is silent about Gaza during current discussions, everyone understands that if a deal is struck that the next focus is to bring Hamas into the deal. Obviously an impossible dream on both accounts. In previous negotiations, Annapolis etc., there was considerable talk about the need to make Gaza contiguous with “Palestine” were it to be created. Furthermore a road is planned for this purpose and work is proceeding on it even though no one is talking about it. You will also remember that both the EU and the US have approached Hamas over the years to bring it in from the cold, notwithstanding that they have declared it a terrorist organization. Obama gave Hamas money and has supported the lifting of the blockade. Obama embraced the Muslim Brotherhood which is tantamount to embracing Hamas. This would account for the feeble US response.
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I take it back. I first accepted this policy providing it was applied equally to Arabs. The Nationalists are right. Its a price-tag operation. Ted Belman

Grassroots nationalists condemn new policy that will collectively punish Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria for acts of extremist fringe.

By Orly Harari, INN

Demolished home in Yitzhar

The joint headquarters of the grassroots nationalist groups harshly condemned Wednesday the reported new policy of the IDF’s Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria, to rapidly demolish homes in Jewish communities where residents behaved violently.

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger,
“Second Thought: US-Israel Initiative”, Straight from the Jerusalem Boardroom #193, April 25, 2014

1.  “With more start-up businesses per capita than anywhere in the world,Israel is brimming with tantalizing investment prospects. Many Israeli stocks trade in the US, making it simple for Americans to invest in the country…. Steve Schoenfeld, chief investment officer of BlueStar Indexes: ‘It’s a small country with a very large global footprint, and it bats well above its average in all of the metrics that define a successful economy.’  Even when much of the developed world was retrenching in 2009, Israel was able to eke out modest growth.  Since then, the nation’s economy has been growing at nearly twice the pace of the US economy.  Its jobless rate is among the lowest in the developed world…. It is a second home to virtually every big high-tech company in the world, including Apple, Google, Intel and Microsoft (Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, May 2014).
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