Dr. Adam Reuter, YNET NEWS

In 1946, during the Yishuv’s battle against the British Mandate, General Evelyn Barker was appointed as the supreme commander of the British Army forces in the Land of Israel. Among the Jewish population, he was known as a blatant anti-Semite and hater of the Yishuv.

Among his many statements, the most famous and notorious one was “strike at the Jews’ pockets,” a declaration based on the anti-Semitic belief that the harshest way of hitting the Jews is economically. The Europeans appear to be mustering this belief right now to pressure Israel politically.
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 Whether intentional or not, says a UNESCO body, the boycott of Israeli academics bears a similarity to the practice of German doctors, who were leaders in the Nazi party, of segregating out their Jewish colleagues

By Lori Lowenthal Markus, JP

The American Unit of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics was formed three years ago Of all the surprising opponents of the boycott of Israeli academic institutions by the American Studies Association, perhaps the most surprising is one that has not yet received any attention. A small but official organization of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) came out with an unabashedly strong criticism of the ASA boycott in one of the very first waves of condemnations.

And, unlike most of the university presidents’ condemnations, this one aimed its spear directly at, and through, the double standard towards the Jewish State, otherwise known as anti-Semitism, that really is the foundation upon which the boycott movement in general, and the ASA’s boycott in particular, rests. Read more…

By Chemi Shalev, HAARETZ

Kerry and Netanyahu at a press conference in Jerusalem, January 2, 2014. Photo by Reuters

The admonishing tweets sent out over the past 24 hours by National Security Adviser Susan Rice in the wake of Israel’s recent verbal offensive against Secretary of State John Kerry are meant to convey a similar sentiment: that his Israeli insulters have crossed the red line of diplomatic etiquette – a word for which here is no Hebrew translation.

The U.S. Administration, to quote the sterner Howard Beale from the movie Network, is “mad as hell and not going to take it anymore”.
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By Daniel Greenfield 

There are two basic human responses to an assault. I will protect myself or I will make the world a better place. The first deals with the risk of an attack. The second with your insecure feelings about the world. The first leaves you better able to cope with an attack. The second makes you feel better about the world that you live in.

The Jewish response to the Holocaust fell into these two categories; Never Again and Teach Tolerance. Never Again became the credo of Israel and Teach Tolerance became the credo of the Western Diaspora.

There were Israelis who believed in teaching tolerance and Western Jews who believed in self-defense, but the responses were structural because the divide between Nationalists and Universalists predated the Holocaust.

The Holocaust was a transformative event, but the responses to it came from old debates. The pogroms had led to the same fork in the road between a collective struggle for a better world and national self-defense, between the Universalists and the Nationalists, between the left and the right. The current debates about Israel by Jews and non-Jews revisit those old arguments.
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By Tava Devorin, INN

The Immigration and Population Authority (IPA) will be releasing a report revealing the true relationship between the EU and infiltrators, according to one official.

Yonatan Yakovich, the IPA’s director of public relations, revealed to Arutz Sheva that the facts in the upcoming report – which use Switzerland as an example -will evidently speak for themselves.

“We checked the data for the recognition of these countries towards asylum seekers and Eritrean and Sudanese. It turns out that in most cases are rejected. Seventy percent of them do not get the recognition as refugees,” Yakovich stated.  Read more…

CAROLINE FOCUSES ON HIS THREAT. BUT THE SAME THING GOES FOR SUPPORTING 67 LINES PLUS SWAPS.

By Caroline Glick
Tuesday, February 4th, 2014

Once again, on Saturday, US Secretary of State John Kerry tried to extort Israeli concessions to the PLO by threatening us with a Western economic boycott.

Kerry is obsessed with Israel’s economic success. Last May he told us that we’re too rich to surrender our land. Now he’s saying we’ll be poor if we don’t do so.
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JPOST

An overwhelming majority of Israelis support Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s insistence that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state, according to a poll released Tuesday by the Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University.

Abbas told The New York Times over the weekend that recognizing Israel as a Jewish state was “out of the question.” Netanyahu told the Likud Beytenu faction Monday that without such recognition there would be no deal with the Palestinians.

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Op-ed: If Europeans, Arabs and their academic and corporate supporters want to single out the Jewish state, let us take the fight to them and hurt them financially through private lawsuits and legislation

By Shoula Romano Horing, YNET NEWS

On Saturday, at the Munich Security Conference, US Secretary of State John Kerry again shamefully and irresponsibly tried to incite fear among Israelis of potential anti-Israel boycotts if the ongoing “peace” talks fail with the Palestinians. This was the second time he warned about “talk of boycotts” against Israel if the status quo with the Palestinians is maintained.
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Yesterday Ron Torossian wrote

[..] Uncle Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) guaranteed himself a spot at President Obama’s Passover Seder this year – by selling out Israel.

Knesset Member Motti Yogev gave an interview this week where he said that American Secretary of State John Kerry is not a fair mediator in peace talks because he has “anti-Israel roots,” and Kerry seeks “unequivocal answers that could only mean shrinking Israel’s borders.” Yogev continued on to state that Netanyahu has to maneuver under Kerry’s relentlessness and “unprofessionalism, which may also have anti-Semitic undertones to it.”

The ADL demanded that Yogev apologize to Kerry for his “disparaging comments” and accusations that were “offensive, inflammatory and totally without any basis.”
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By Eric Fettmann, MOSAIC

In an old joke that used to be told during Francisco Franco’s fascist regime in Spain, a man walks into a bar and asks the bartender: “What do you think of Franco?” The barkeep looks around nervously, then motions the man to follow him into the cellar, where he shuts the door and shutters the windows. After checking to make sure they’re alone, the bartender says, “What do I think of Franco? I like him.”

That joke came to mind upon hearing of Mayor de Blasio’s closed-door speech to a midtown meeting of the major pro-Israel lobbying group, the America-Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC. The event wasn’t listed on de Blasio’s schedule, his press office didn’t release his remarks and event security escorted a Capital New York reporter from the event, though the Web site did obtain an audiotape. Read more…

Netanyahu calls on the world to pressure the PA to recognize Israel as a Jewish state

Which is another way of affirming that he is ready to accept the Kerry Framework which is based on ’67 lines plus swaps and the uprooting of 150,000 Jews.

He should be focussed on rejecting the Kerry Framework.

Its crystal clear that he intends accepting it with or without meaningless reservations. And he wouldn’t accept it without the support of Lieberman and Yaalon.

Such a deal would mean abandoning Ariel and Maaleh Adumin. How do I know? Because once you are evacuating over 100,000 Jews, those communities must be included.

Today, PM: Without recognition, there will be no peace deal

A glimmer of hope. Unfortunately we are left to depend on Abbas.

Lapid:”I oppose state funding for settler’s political arm

But he does not oppose EU funding for politicized leftwing NGO’s who constantly subvert the State.

By Daniel Mandel, Canberra Times

Minister for Foreign Affairs, Julie Bishop. Photo: Brendan Smialowski

Julie Bishop had some sensible things to say in Jerusalem, as she broke ranks from a cosy, normally unexamined international consensus: the idea that, by permitting Jewish residence in the West Bank, Israel is violating international law.

Asked if she agrees Jewish communities located beyond the Arab/Israeli 1949 armistice lines are illegal, Bishop replied: “I would like to see which international law has declared them illegal.”

Her reply has drawn attacks from perfervid Palestinian spokesmen – such as Palestinian Authority veteran official Saeb Erekat – who cite Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. But what does Article 49 actually say?
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Ted Belman

This is the name of the campaign I am organizing to raise money for Zionist NGO’s.

The Campaign is not yet launched. In the meantime visit the campaign’s Facebook Page and like it. Read what it is about. Spread the word.

https://www.facebook.com/Judea.Samaria.Israel

Be prepared to donate when the campaign is launched.

By Ted Belman

There are many articles today reciting how Israeli politicians are complaining that Kerry is biased, unfair, only puts pressure on Israel and so on.  Here’s one.  ‘Kerry is putting pressure only on Israel’.

Stop complaining. End the negotiations.  Take the heat.

By Nadav Shragai, ISRAEL HAYOM

JEWISH PRESS

Baruch Dayan Ha’Emet: Professor Barry Rubin, one of the great intellectual defenders of Israel, passed away Monday morning.

Our condolences to the family. Professor Rubin will be greatly missed by all of us at JewishPress.com. His Facebook page carried this message:

To our great sadness, Barry Rubin passed away this morning. He was surrounded by his wife and children. Your love, support, and prayers have been greatly appreciated.

There will be shiva and a funeral, details to follow soon. Read more…

By Yitzhak Benhorin, YNET NEWS

A future Palestinian state will only be protected by its police force and not by a Palestinian army, President Mahmoud Abbas said late Sunday.

NATO troops, led by the Americans, should be responsible for the security of a future Palestinian state, he said in a New York Times interview. He also claimed that their deployment could be for an indefinite amount of time.

“For a long time, and wherever they want, not only on the eastern borders, but also on the western borders, everywhere,” Abbas said. “The third party can stay. They can stay to reassure the Israelis, and to protect us.
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