By NAFTALI BENNETT – New York Time Op Ed FEB. 13, 2014

JERUSALEM — As soldiers in Israel’s army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher. I’m reminded of those hikes today as the government works to ease the burden of the “national stretcher” on Israeli society, in which fewer and fewer citizens are carrying an ever-heavier load.

With extremely low labor participation, ultra-Orthodox Jews and Israeli-Arab women have unfortunately slipped into a situation of welfare and poverty. For ultra-Orthodox men, it stems from a refusal to serve in the military and instead to sign up for religious study in yeshivas. For Arab women, it has been the lack of education and a culture in which they are expected to stay
at home.
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As part of new campaign to create buffer zone around Gaza, Egypt military forces launch Sinai operation, destroying tunnels, homes, and raiding villages serving terrorists, Palestinian news agency reports

Roi Kais, INN

Egyptian border forces destroyed tunnels leading into Gaza from Sinai as part of new campaign to create a buffer zone along the border with the Gaza Strip, Palestinian news agency Ma’an reported.

Egyptian outpost near Rafah crossing with Gaza (Photo: AFP)

According to the report, 10 tunnels and seven homes were destroyed on Saturday as part of the new plan to create the buffer zone, which would extend 500 meters in some places, the report claimed.
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By Ted Belman

A few days ago , I launched a petition urging PM Netanyahu to say no to a Palestinian state.  Its going gangbusters.

Go here and sign the petition.

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When comedy was king.

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Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”

Straight from the Jerusalem Boardroom #190, February 14, 2014

http://bit.ly/1bR3SHp

1.  A record of 5.3 million tourists in Israel in 2013.

2.  A record of $83.2BN foreign exchange reserves reflects the strength of Israel’s Shekel, while the currencies of the emerging markets plummet.

3.  A record of $2.3BN invested in 662 Israeli startups in 2013 (21% above 2012), according to KPMG and IVC (Globes, January 23, 2014).

4.  Over 250 multinational research & development centers operate in Israel (Globes, February 13). Read more…

Recent remarks by FM Liberman reflect the political Right’s tacit deference to views of the political Left and implied acknowledgment of its moral superiority.

When there is a dispute between the unity of the nation or the unity of the land, the nation’s unity is more important… I’m willing to give up territory in the name of national unity.– Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, Tel Aviv, February 7

Several days after last Friday’s address by Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman marking the 75th anniversary of the Industrial and Commercial Association, the political system is still abuzz, analyzing the significance of, and the motivations, for the sentiments and positions expressed in it.
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By Caroline Glick

Last Thursday, two Turkish businessmen stopped for lunch in a fish restaurant during a business trip to Edirne in the Babaeski region.

At some point during their meal, the restaurant owner figured out that they were Jews.

Rather than show them the hospitality Turkey is renowned for, he said he won’t serve Jews, and began cursing them and the Torah. He then took a long knife off the counter and threatened to kill them.
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By Ari Yashar, INN

PA police officer

By Richard Baehr, ISRAEL HAYOM

It took a few years, but it is hard not to conclude that the noxious doctrine first advanced back in 2006 by two American professors of an all-powerful Israel lobby, controlling and misguiding American foreign policy, has now been accepted by much of the foreign policy establishment and more importantly, by the White House itself.
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Netanyahu goes from bad to worse.  This is abominable. He should never have apologized.  He should be refusing to pay damages.  Instead he should have demanded an apology. Ted Belman

PM fears right-wing backlash over costly compensation for Mavi Marmara casualties, while Erdogan has made new demands

By Stuart Winer and Lazar Berman, TOI

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly delayed approving the outline of a reconciliation agreement with Turkey for over a week because he is concerned that acceding to a $20 million compensation package will provoke the ire of right-wing political rivals.

According to reports in Hebrew media Thursday, 10 days ago a Turkish-Israeli negotiation team presented Netanyahu with a draft agreement aimed at resolving the diplomatic tensions between the countries. The agreement came with the positive recommendation of National Security Adviser Yossi Cohen, but the prime minister balked because of the sum that Turkey demanded in compensation for the deaths of nine of its citizens during the May 2010 ill-fated raid on the Mavi Marmara ferry.

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Mark Langfan,INN

The State of Israel Water Authority (IWA) released a PowerPoint report entitled “The Water Issue Between Israel and the Palestinians.” (the “IWA Report”) in 2012.. 

The IWA Report debunks the BDS (boycott-divest-sanction) myth that “Israel is stealing West Bank water from the Palestinians,”

In fact, the IWA Report provides documentary and graphic evidence that the Palestinians have ““stolen”” water from Israel in direct, and constant “breach” of the Oslo Accords.
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Deputy defense minister sues PM; asks judge to convene Likud convention of diplomatic process with Palestinians.

The Likud faced an internal battle at the Tel Aviv District Court Wednesday when the head of the Likud central committee, Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon, sued the head of his party, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

Bayit Yehudi MKs walk out on European Parliament president in Knesset for citing spurious Palestinian water inequity claims.

Europeans jump to criticize Israel without checking facts, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Wednesday, after European Parliament President Martin Schulz cited inaccurate reports about Palestinian water usage in his address to the Knesset.

Earlier, Bayit Yehudi MKs walked out of Schulz’s speech, in which the European leader mentioned reports that Palestinians use a quarter of the water Israel uses per capita.

MKs Orit Struck andMordechai Yogev yelled, “Palestinians are liars!” and “Shame!” Soon afterward, party leader and Economy Minister Naftali Bennett called for Schulz to apologize for lying.
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By Guy Bechor, YNET

Op-ed: The European Union’s future is migrating away from it, while it is being flooded by unskilled Muslim immigrants. The local population is aging rapidly, and there is no young generation left to support it.

The fat giant called the “European Union” – a giant led by government workers in a mixture of languages, burdened with bureaucracy, regulations, forms and mediocrity – is destroying the European continent right before our eyes. This is a historic process, which the EU members must diagnose as soon as possible.
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by Daniel Pipes
The Washington Times
February 12, 2014

http://www.danielpipes.org/14063/obama-hollow-promises-abroad

As U.S. credibility and stature diminish in world affairs, the American president and his secretaries of state and defense engage in eloquent denial. Unfortunately for them, realities trump words, even persuasive ones.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, “where the water-cooler chatter was about America’s waning influence in the Middle East,” John Kerry proclaimed himself “perplexed by claims… that somehow America is disengaging from the world.” Nothing could be further from the truth, he asserted: “We are entering an era of American diplomatic engagement that is as broad and as deep as any at any time in our history.” Likewise, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has called for “a renewed and enhanced era of partnership with our friends and allies.”
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By Howard Rotberg, FRONT PAGE MAG

Has “political correctness” now taken us to the point where every area of human endeavor must reflect gender, race and religious diversity?

Two interesting stories caught my eye yesterday about two very different sources blowing back at the enforced diversity that the left-liberal do-gooders are seeking to impose.

One was the great Jewish comedian Jerry Seinfeld.   Melissa Clyne, writing in Newsmax, notes that in an interview with CBS This Morning, Seinfeld responded to a question about whether his new web series, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, is stacked with white men like himself.   Seinfeld thought the question was silly. He asked whether “people think it’s the census or something?”  “We represent the actual pie chart of America? Who cares? I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that.” Read more…

Mosques are OK—on other people’s streets.

By David Solway, PJ MEDIA

On February 15, 2013, I posted an article at Front Page Magazine titled “Saving the Neighborhood” that dealt with an invitation the democratic advocacy organization Act! for Canada had extended to British lawyer Gavin Boby, a specialist in town planning law and director of the Law and Freedom Foundation. I referred in that article to Boby’s lecture at the Ottawa Public Library on the consequences of allowing mosques to be built in municipal neighborhoods without adequate public consultation and supervision, an event whose reverberations have not yet died away and are unlikely to do so in the foreseeable future as mosque construction continues unabated. (Of the approximately 1200 mosques operating the U.S., for example, nearly 80 percent were built after 9/11; there are no official data for Canada, but it is estimated that there are at least 1000 mosques in the country, a lowball figure.)
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