By Tabitha Korol

Sweden is the seventh richest country in the world in terms of GDP per capita  and its high standard of living.  It is famous for supporting the Norwegian resistance during World War II; for helping to rescue Danish Jews from deportation to concentration camps; and for its native son, Raoul Wallenberg, who rescued up to 100,000 Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust.

We recognize Sweden as the country that gave us  the incomparable Ingrid Bergman andGreta Garbo, writers Ingmar Bergman and August Strindberg,  IKEA furniture, high-quality steel production, the Volvo, the pop group ABBA, and Pippi Longstocking. 
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Norwegian Refugee Council’s $20mil project initiates 677 cases

NGo Monitor

Jerusalem – Coinciding with UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s visit to Israel this week, NGO Monitor is releasing its new report on how the UK, with the EU and other governments, is funding a major anti-Israel lawfare project of an NGO (non-governmental organization) known as the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), whose activities seek to sabotage the integrity of legal processes in Israel.

“While some UK funding for NGOs supports efforts to achieve a two-state solution, a number of NGO grants are highly damaging and unjustifiable. From 2011-2015, the UK provided £6 million to NRC, one of the largest single grants to any NGO in the region, used to pursue legal cases aimed at influencing Israeli policies, lobby for international sanctions against Israel, and support international campaigns of demonization” stated Prof. Gerald Steinberg, President of NGO Monitor. “With this UK funding, the NRC also launched an international campaign targeting the Canadian judiciary.”
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MEMRI:

“The Right of Return is a personal right…all be making a choice…can also decide to return to the State of Israel…and hold Israeli citizenship…”

MEMRI:Mahmoud Abbas: Referendum On Any Agreement Among Palestinians Worldwide, No To Jewish State

Speaking to young Fatah activists on March 6, 2014, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said that any agreement must be “confirmed by popular referendum of all the Palestinians worldwide.” “We shall never agree to recognize the Jewish state,” he said.

Following are excerpts, which aired on Palestinian Authority TV:
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By Ronn Torossian, CEO of 5WPR, INN

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin Knows that Obama is full of hot air, and takes advantage of that fact to do as he wishes.
The U.S. has claimed for years that if Israel makes sacrifices, America will support the security of Israel.

Right now, there is a nation that is strategically crucial to America – the Ukraine – engaged in a battle with Russia, another world super power. America has not protected the Ukraine and Israel would do well to observe the situation very closely.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin Knows that Obama is full of hot air, and takes advantage of that fact to do as he wishes.
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Bought 10 years ago from Ukraine
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned Monday, March 10, that because the world chooses to slide over Iran’s concealed nuclear program, the next Klos C ship may not carry missiles but “nuclear suitcases.” They would not only reach an Israeli port, he said, but any port in the world.

He spoke at Israel’s naval base in Eilat at the presentation of the 60 missiles, 181 mortar shells and hundreds of bullets unloaded from the Klos C that was apprehended by Israeli commandos on the Red Sea opposite Sudan last week. Present too were defense minister Moshe Ya’alan, chief of staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz and top generals.
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Everyone seems to have a compelling reason for Israel to withdraw from its biblical heartland.

By Moshe Arens, HAARETZ

How many reasons can be found for abandoning Judea and Samaria, the biblical heartland of the Land of Israel? You’d be surprised. There are many — one to fit almost every prejudice and preference.

For those who do not like Arabs there’s the argument that we do not want Israel to become a binational state. This is said with a wink to the audience, whose members know what that really means. Yes, everyone knows that Israel is at present a binational state of Jews and Arabs, but we don’t want any more Arabs in the State of Israel, do we? And if we could realize the plans of our foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, and transfer Arab-populated areas in Israel to the future Palestinian state, so much the better. But that might be going too far. So quit while you’re ahead, and get out of Judea and Samaria.
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Retired Adm. James A. Lyons was commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and senior U.S. military representative to the United Nations and just wrote in Washington Times, “The message that President Obama should then send to Russia’s President Putin is that if you don’t withdraw your troops from the Ukraine within a specified time frame, we will take down President Bashar Assad and his forces in Syria.” Does that amount to trading Ukraine for Syria. Would Russia go for it? Would the US go for it? Certainly Israel would go for it.

Gelb says that the obvious solution is that “Russia proclaims and Ukraine accepts greater autonomy for Crimea within a still united Ukraine.” Seems to me that Russia is calling the shots and not Gelb. Ted Belman

By Leslie Gelb, THE DAILY BEAST

All countries must stop their lies and self-destructive posturing or pay costs they’re loath to admit.

Russians, Americans, Europeans, and Ukrainians plunge on toward the all-time foreign policy record for venality, lying, hypocrisy and self-destructive maneuvers. They show no shame and scant regard for consequences. At this moment, Russia is the most to blame for having transformed a very bad situation into a crisis. Top U.S. officials contribute with their daily evocation of saintly principles that the United States itself has often defied. Experts and politicians goad the White House on with demands for tough actions against Russia that they surely know will fail. Europeans continue their feckless ways. And most Ukrainian leaders of all stripes and ethnicities remain monumentally corrupt and rhetorically dishonest.
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Arab League backs Abbas’ refusal to recognize Israel as Jewish state

US State Department: Recognition of ‘Jewish state’ not a precondition to peace talks

In Eilat, PM accuses world powers of fixating on the illusion of a changed Tehran, even in the face of ‘murderous’ ship cargo

By Salmon Shoval, ISRAEL HAYOM

On the eve of World War II, the American army numbered fewer than 175,000 and was ranked somewhere between the armies of Mexico and Bulgaria. Even at the beginning of 1941, the U.S. army was still relatively small, and its air force was a joke compared to those of Germany, Britain, Russia, and Japan. The situation changed fundamentally only after Pearl Harbor and the declaration of war on Germany at the end of 1941.

This historical data takes on a current-day significance in light of the decision by U.S. President Barack Obama and his defense minister, Chuck Hagel, to shrink the American military to its World War II size, as well as reducing the offensive capability of the air force. And if we are talking about World War II, the question arises: Does this mean a return to prewar personnel, when the military numbered fewer than 200,000 people, or its size at the end of the war? Hagel’s answer was in the middle — the American military will be cut back to 450,000 soldiers, which will certainly not be enough for a large-scale operation on multiple fronts, should one be necessary.
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By Daniel Greenfield, FPM, On March 10, 2014 

On the shield of the Strategic Air Command a steel mailed fist grips a lightning bolt and an olive branch. The motto of the organization that was the nightmarish obsession of every Cold War leftist was “Peace is our Profession.”

To the moviegoers who sat through Dr. Strangelove, to the earnest leftists who saw the world going up in a puff of atomic smoke because the military industrial complex was obsessed with killing people, to the pseudo-idealists who passed on atomic secrets to Moscow to avoid an American monopoly on the bomb, the SAC’s motto was a demented joke. They knew that the only way to stop war was to disarm.
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By SETH LIPSKY, NY Sun

President Obama will meet a week hence with the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas. Israel’s premier, Benjamin Netanyahu, says he is prepared to make a “historic peace.” The White House reckons his choice is limited. “What is his long-term answer for Israel,” asks the New York Times in an editorial, “if not a two-state solution?”

WOMAN WITH A PLAN: Caroline Glick, famed columnist of the Jerusalem Post, whose new book, “The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East,” deserves to be widely read on Capitol Hill.

How about the Glick Plan?
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A pre- Purim satire that hits home, weighs in on the controversy surrounding anti-Zionist events at Hillel Houses on US campuses.

Dr. Berel Dov Lerner, INN (The writer is associate professor of philosophy at the Western Galilee College in Akko and a member of Kibbutz Sheluhot.)

Jewish students at Persia’s elite Shushan University voted yesterday in favor of proposed policy changes that would allow supporters of Haman’s controversial DME (Destroy, Massacre, and Exterminate) movement to speak at official Hillel House programs.

Haman the Aggagite facilitated full participation in the vote by personally supplying Hillel with a complete list of of the university’s Jewish students.

Brad Malshin, the acting president of Shushan’s Jewish-Aggagite Alliance praised the decision, calling it “a victory for democracy and a victory for Jewish inclusiveness.” He also thanked Haman the Aggagite for having facilitated full participation in the vote by personally supplying Hillel with a complete list of of the university’s Jewish students.
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Majority of Hebron Arabs work and make a living in surrounding Jewish communities; These are the “transparent Palestinians”.

Elyakim Haetzni, YNET NEWS

A television report: Twenty years since the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre. Riots in Hebron, injured, arrests. I learned how to “believe” such images during the first intifada.

One of my clients as a lawyer, the owner of a glass blowing factory in the Glass Junction at the entrance to Hebron, complained to me that a young hooligan had showed up and demanded that he shut down his business. Why? A strike, an intifada. He didn’t close it, and the next day his electric control panel was burned. He went to the governor, asked for protection, and was told: “We can’t station a policeman next to every store.” I got the message, my client noted, and in the next strike he shut down the factory “like a good boy.”
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Opposition rejects compromise on contentious bills

I see nothing wrong in lumping these bills. Son’t they do that all the time in Congress, where bills are lumped together so that less popular bills get approved on the coat tails of the key legislation. Such bills are called omnibus bills. Ted Belman

By Moran Azulay, YNET NEWS

A last-ditch effort by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried, with the help of Knesset Chairman Yuli Edelstein and Coalition Chariman Yariv Levin, to prevent a boycott of parliamentary discussions around three controversial bills.

The threat of boycott was imposed by the opposition after Ynet revealed a document Sunday by which coalition party leaders have been ordered to vote in favor of the three sensitive pieces of legislation that have been lumped together to be presented in the Knesset this week.
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Aliyah Levels Up: 19,200 New Immigrants in 2013
Israel is enjoying one of the lowest emigration rates in the world.

Birth rate in the Muslim Arab sector has reached an all-time low.

Zvi Harel, israel hayom

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with his former bureau chief Shula Zaken during one of their court appearances [archive]