Jerusalem Viewpoints, JCPA

By Steven Plaut, FPM On March 27, 2014

Israel is currently under a worldwide assault, one whose foundations are anti-Semitism. The campaign of demonization and delegitimizing has many forms, including the economic warfare of the “Boycott, Divest, Sanctions” movement or BDS. The goal of the campaign is the annihilation of Israel and its population, and victory for the movement of Arab terrorism and Islamofascism.

It is impossible to understand fully this assault against Israel and the Jews without an appreciation of the role of Israeli leftwing traitors, collaborating with anti-Israel Arab nationalists.
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DER SPIEGLE

Naftali Bennett, the head of the the settlements party Jewish Home rejects negotiations with the Palestinians and says he will allow the Israeli government to collapse if necessary. A decision on whether talks will proceed is expected this week.

The man who wants to test his power against Prime Minister Benajmin Netanyahu, Israel’s popular “King Bibi,” works in a surprisingly understated, tube-shaped office with three telephones ringing off the hook. The only thing that stands out is a picture on the wall. Covered in glass, it shows an embroidered figure of a woman wearing an apron dress.
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Most Turks would prefer that Ankara step back from its current Syria policies and distance itself from any support for jihadist groups.

By Semih Idiz, AL MONITOR

Western governments have been worrying for some time now that jihadists in Syria, who traveled there from Europe to fight regime forces in the name of Islam rather than democracy, will be primed for terrorist attacks on targets in their countries of origin after they return home.

It appears, however, that rather than Western Europe, it is NATO member Turkey that militants from one of the most prominent of the al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadist groups fighting in Syria — namely, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) — have chosen as their first European target.
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By Isi Leibler, ISRAEL HAYOM

The polarization within the Jewish religious arena is sharply reflected both by the dramatic weakening of Modern Orthodox streams and in the growing radicalization of the haredi world and empowerment of its most extreme elements.

I recollect nostalgically the Orthodox rabbis with whom I was acquainted in the Diaspora. With the exception of the Hungarian ultra-Orthodox who deliberately isolated themselves from the broader community and the fanatically anti-Zionist Satmar Hassidim, they were all committed to the communal welfare.

Ultra-Orthodox laymen included doctors, lawyers and businesspeople who ensured that besides a yeshiva education, their children also learned trades or studied in university. In a word, most of them participated in the broader community.
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By Regavim, INN

The Regavim organization disproves spurious Bedouin claims to land ownership, historic villages, extent of claims – one by one.

By YAAKOV LAPPIN, JPOST

Ground forces make upgrades to prepare for war with Hezbollah; 40% of artillery rounds to be high-accuracy shells.

Survey conducted ahead of Zionist Youth Congress shows majority of Israeli teens aged 15-18 support right-wing parties like Likud, Bayit Yehudi; 85% are opposed to making any concessions on Jerusalem.

Kobi Nachshoni, YNET NEWS

Ultra-Orthodox youth say they have no intention of joining theIDF or national service but are proud of being Israeli citizens and have a national-patriotic worldview, according to a survey conducted ahead of the Zionist Youth Congress, which opened Monday in Gush Etzion.

The survey, commissioned by the Zionist Council in Israel, further revealed that further revealed that high school students are against Israeli concessions in Jerusalem and that if they could vote in the Knesset elections – there would be a tie between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Economy Minister Naftali Bennett.
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The Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey said that Turkey will sign an agreement with Israel normalizing relations between the two countries, which will involve Israel compensating family members of Turkish citizens who died on the Mavi Marmara flotilla in 2010.

Jonathan Benedek, Jerusalem Online

Netanyahu (left) and Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan (right) Photo Credit: Channel 2

The Turkish newspaper “Hurriyet” reported today that Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc announced that the reconciliation agreement between Israel and Turkey will be signed next month after the scheduled municipal elections in the country. The agreement will include financial compensation from Israel to the family members of Turkish citizens who died on the Mavi Marmara flotilla in 2010. Read more…

So, who is the Arab League?

Eli E. Hertz, Myths and Facts

It is illuminating to examine the record of the League of Arab States since the founding of the League in 1945, which is hardly a model for peaceful settlement of disputes in the spirit of the United Nations.

Prior to the establishment of the Jewish state, the League took the following steps:
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In Haaretz’s sub title they said “The move would require consent of the Palestinians,” and the article repeated this elsewhere. But the article said “According to the document, a copy of which was obtained by Haaretz, such an arrangement, even if carried out without the explicit consent of the population involved, “is not wrongful under international law”. Is the writer just stupid or malevolent? Ted Belman

By Barak Ravid, HAARETZ

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman Photo by Emil Salman

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By Dan Pine, JWEEKLY

She was only 14.

A sensitive Jewish girl with a flair for writing, trapped in the maelstrom of the Holocaust. The only repository for her deepest feelings: a diary, found abandoned soon after the war.

Her name was not Anne.

Her name was Rywka.
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By Mark, Lewis, MIDDLE EAST PIECE

The question of why the Palestinian refugees are still here could be considered sufficiently answered by my page looking at how the UNRWA handles Palestinian refugees. The U.N.’s bloated estimates of how many initial Palestinian Arab refugees were created in the 1948 Palestine War followed by redefining who was to be identified as a refugee gave us the initial exaggerated figures the UN works with. Then owing to the unprecedented inclusion of refugee offspring being considered brand new refugees, the Palestinian Arab refugee population has exploded rather than what traditionally occurs with a refugee population over the years (assuming no new hostilities ¹), which is a decrease in size. Finally, the U.N. sees fit to remove the responsibility for finding a solution to these refugees from the UNRWA, the only organization handling them in the territories.
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The problem began in 1959 when the Arab League sent a memo to the UN. Arab League in Memorandum to U.N. Rejects Integration of Refugees
The memorandum, given to Mr. Hammarskjold by Abdel Khalek Hassouna, Secretary General of the Arab League, made these points:

1. The League rejects the Hammarskjold plan for integration of the refugees into the economies of the Middle East. Such a plan, the League contends, is “incompatible with existing United Nations resolutions on Palestine and will be strongly resisted by the Arab states.” The memorandum “reasserts the stand of the Arab states, and the Arab people of Palestine, on the rights of the refugees to return to their homes and rejects any project even indirectly aimed at resettling them outside their homeland.”

2. The memorandum called the UN’s attention to “the danger of Jewish immigration to Palestine which constitutes a major obstacle to the implementation of the United Nations resolution on the repatriation of the refugees.”

According to the League, “every material or political assistance facilitating such immigration is considered by the Arab states as an unfriendly act.”

By Adam Levick, CIF Watch

The Times of Israel reported today that, during his meeting with Barack Obama last Monday, Mahmoud Abbas not only refused to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, but reiterated his refusal to abandon the so-called “right of return” for Palestinian “refugees”.

To understand why Abbas continues playing the “refugee” card, a brief look at how the world’s refugees are treated is necessary.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is the UN agency responsible for aiding all the world’s refugees – “all” the world’s refugees, that is, except for the Palestinians. The tens of millions of actual refugees this agency aids receive initial assistance – which often entails helping to resettle them in a new state – and then they are no longer refugees. Read more…