[THIS IS WHY THE RIGHT IS NOT HAPPY WITH THE APPOINTMENT OF SHAI NITZAN AS THE NEW STATE PROSECUTOR .]

by Nadav Shragai, ISRAEL HAYOM
November 24, 2013

Six pages of Shai Nitzan’s biography were laid on the cabinet’s table
this morning. The extent that his personal convictions influenced his
decision-making during his tenure as deputy attorney-general continues
to stir controversy. “I was responsible for coordinating the efforts
of the law-enforcement system before and during the disengagement.”
Indeed, it is this particular period and Nitzan’s actions during this
time that are being called into question.
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Following is an excerpt from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting today (Sunday, 24 November 2013):

“What was achieved last night in Geneva is not an historic agreement; it is an historic mistake. Today the world has become a much more dangerous place because the most dangerous regime in the world has taken a significant step toward attaining the most dangerous weapon in the world. For the first time, the world’s leading powers have agreed to uranium enrichment in Iran while ignoring the UN Security Council decisions that they themselves led. Sanctions that required many years to put in place contain the best chance for a peaceful solution. These sanctions have been given up in exchange for cosmetic Iranian concessions that can be cancelled in weeks. This agreement and what it means endanger many countries including, of course, Israel. Israel is not bound by this agreement. The Iranian regime is committed to the destruction of Israel and Israel has the right and the obligation to defend itself, by itself, against any threat. As Prime Minister of Israel, I would like to make it clear: Israel will not allow Iran to develop a military nuclear capability.”

This is my response to “What is Treason?  by Francisco Gil-White posted earlier today.

Ted Belman

My friend Francisco Gil-White resorts to the Merriam Webster Dictionary for a definition of ‘treason”.  But such definition is too simplistic when one attempts to indict one of treason in a court or in an article.

The Legal Dictionary defines treason as:

“The betrayal of one’s own country by waging war against it or by consciously or purposely acting to aid its enemies.”

While this may give Francisco some comfort, this subsequent paragraph will not.
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By MUDAR ZAHRAN, JPOST

Unlike what many of Jordan’s king supporters in the West might believe, he is not an anti-Islamist, and the Jordanian public is not pro-MB.

Jordan’s King Abdullah Photo: REUTERS

With the Arab Spring boiling, it is would be rather naive for anyone to assume any Arab regime is immune to a revolution. Nonetheless, many in Israel and elsewhere seem to believe the kingdom of Jordan is stable. Those people should just listen to the king himself.

In a congressional hearing, US Senator Lindsey Graham said Jordan’s king had told him he “did not think he would be in power within a year from now” because of the crisis in Syria. To which US Chief of Staff General Martin Dempsey responded: “Yes, that is basically his fear.” Read more…

This applies to Israel too. Do not trust Obama to tell the truth. In Islam Lying is OK if it it is in the cause of Islam.  Its called “taquyya”.  Obama learned his lessons well while in school in Indonesia. Ted Belman

By Daniel Greenfield,

YNET

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government denounced the deal Sunday as a “bad deal” that Israel did not regard itself as bound by. “This is a bad deal,” an official in Netanyahu’s office said.

“Israel does not see itself as bound by this bad, this very bad agreement that has been signed,” Economic Minister Naftali Bennett, a member of Netanyahu’s security Cabinet, told Israel’s Army Radio.

In Washington, President Barack Obama said the deal was an important first step towards a comprehensive solution to Iran’s nuclear program and its provisions were key to preventing Iran from proliferating. “Simply put, they cut off Iran’s most likely paths to a bomb,” Obama told reporters.
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Statement by Noah Pollak, Executive Director of the Emergency Committee for Israel, on the agreement with Iran just concluded in Geneva:

“The Geneva Agreement is a defeat for the United States and the West. It fails to uphold even the minimum demand of repeated U.N. Security Council resolutions that Iran must stop enriching uranium. For the next six months, the centrifuges will not be dismantled and will continue to spin, uranium will be enriched, the 20 percent enriched uranium will stay in Iran, and a reactor designed to produce bomb-ready plutonium will remain just months away from completion. Iran will continue its march to nuclear weapons, with perhaps a brief pause in some parts of the program — but it will be a pause that refreshes, since Iran will be rewarded right away with significant sanctions relief, with the additional likelihood that the rest of the sanctions regime will begin to crumble.

“Congress should make clear that it does not support this deal. Congress should make clear that just because the Obama administration seems to have taken all our options off the table, our allies need not follow us down this futile path of accommodating the Iranian regime’s nuclear ambitions. In particular, Congress should make clear the United States will support Israel if Israel decides she must act to prevent a regime dedicated to her destruction from acquiring the means to do so.”

For any questions or media inquiries, please contact ECI’s executive director, Noah Pollak: noah@committeeforisrael.com, 202-600-6220.

PM Netanyahu, in his second Bar Iran speech, talked about the Nazi connection with the PLO and the PA. Francisco Gil-White wrote that the Jewish leaders who started Oslo and maintained it, were guilty of treason because they helped supporters of the “final solution” come to Israel. I begged to differ. In this article posted at Historical Investigative Research, Gil-White makes his case. I will respond to it tomorrow. Ted Belman

by Francisco Gil-White

Did you know…?

Did you know that the man who launched the Palestinian movement, the creator and father of PLO/Fatah (now better known as the ‘Palestinian Authority’) also ran the German Nazi system of death camps that murdered the European Jews?

Netanyahu does.

Hajj Amin al Husseini, ‘Grand Mufti’ of Jerusalem in the first half of the 20th c., was an internationally famous anti-Semite who organized mass killings of Jews in British Mandate Palestine.

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JPOST

The 2,000 bed underground hospital has been designed to protect patients and hospital staff in warlike conditions. This one-of-a-kind medical facility is located seventeen meters below the surface of where Rambam Medical Center is expanding its medical campus to include the Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital, the Fishman Oncology Center, a Cardiovascular Hospital and a Biomedical Discovery research tower.

The northern region of Israel is no stranger to missile attacks and the realities of war. During the 2006 war with Lebanon, Rambam Hospital was under attack and in direct line of fire for an entire month. The staff had no choice but to evacuate half of the hospital, placing patients in unrealistic conditions such as basements and corridors. It became clear to the hospital’s committee that protective measures needed to be taken for future situations, and a new provision would have to be made in order to continue to function during wartime.
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EMMANUEL NAVON, MOSAIC

Many commentators have been puzzled by the fact that a French-Israel rapprochement is taking place under a Socialist President. Le Figaro, for instance, wrote that there was something awkward about the hugs and mutual praise between a French Socialist and the leader of Israel’s right. This seeming awkwardness, however, only confirms that French Socialists are friendlier to Israel than their Gaullist counterparts.

When the Vichy regime replaced the Third Republic in July 1940, many in the French right rejoiced at what they dubbed “a divine surprise.” Vichy was a revenge for the “Republic of the Jews and Free-masons” and a return to “authentic French values.” Léon Blum, the French socialist leader who became France’s first Jewish Premier in 1936, was the very incarnation of what the French right hated about the Third Republic. Blum was also a Zionist who used his power and influence to obtain France’s 1947 vote in favor of the UN partition plan.
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Yoram Ettinger
Based on Jewish Sages,

1.  For the first time – and never again – the first day of Chanukah will be celebrated on Thanksgiving, the fourth Thursday in November, November 28, 2013.   Since the Jewish calendar is based on a 19 year cycle (when a “leap month” is added – seven times – to the shorter Jewish year) and Thanksgiving is part of a 7 year cycle, they coincide every 133 years. However, Thanksgiving was formally adopted by President Lincoln in 1863, and therefore it could not coincide with Chanukah 133 years ago, in 1861. Moreover, due to the moving gap between the Jewish lunar calendar (with 29-30 day months) and the general Gregorian solar calendar, they will not coincide before the year 79,811….

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In Feb 2013 I posted Chloe Valdary is a student on a mission

She has gone on to bigger and better things as this video so eloquently attests. Do a google search of her and learn more about what this principled , courageous American is doing in support of Israel and the Jewish people.

The Jewish Policy Center sponsored two Policy Forum programs in November. Best-selling author and nationally syndicated radio host – and JPC Fellow – Michael Medved moderated the discussion entitled, American Decline, the New Anti-Semitism and the Fate of Israel. In Detroit, John Podhoretz, editor of Commentary Magazine; Shoshana Bryen, Senior Director of the JPC; and Daniel Pipes, founder and director of Middle East Forum spoke before an enthusiastic audience at Congregation Shaarey Zedek. In Philadelphia, Cliff May, President of Foundation for Defense of Democracies joined the panel at Temple Beth Hillel.

Please click to hear their thoughts on the implications of declining American influence in the Middle East, the corresponding – if temporary – rise of Russia, the Syrian civil war, the expansion of Iran’s nuclear program and how a military option might be used against it.

Philadelphia Panel November 13th:

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Koenig’s Eye View

New book: J’Accuse: The Vatican Against Israel

By Giulio Meotti

“For over 100 years, and half a century after the Holocaust, the Vatican has been hostile to the creation of a Jewish homeland in the Middle East with its capital as Jerusalem. For sixty years after the Jewish State gained independence in 1948, the Catholic Church adopted a policy fitting to Israel’s Arab-Islamic enemies: total non-recognition of Jewish statehood and peoplehood.

Despite acceptance by every Western nation, Israel was not accorded formal diplomatic recognition by the Vatican before 1993.

The Church formally recognized Israel’s existence only two decades after Israel’s foe, Egypt’s Sadat, signed a peace treaty with the Jewish State. Apparently, the Vatican considered only the State of Israel undeserving of its recognition. How do we explain this refusal? Read more…

My daughter served in the IDF for three years. It was her job to sensitize her fellow soldiers to the idea the Arabs were human beings deserving of respect. Ted Belman

In defense of the IDF

BY ELIJAH Z. GRANET, THE DAILY CALIFORNIAN

On Tuesday, Yehuda Shaul, co-founder and head of the organization Breaking the Silence (BtS), spoke on campus. BtS claims it “exposes” the actions of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the occupied territories by accumulating the testimonies of soldiers about various prevention tactics exercised by the IDF. BtS casts itself as a nonpartisan and apolitical group that aims only to make public the confessions of IDF soldiers. This characterization, however, is highly misleading. As the Israeli paper Haaretz noted, BtS “has a clear political agenda, and can no longer be classed as a human rights organization.”
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By Jerold Auerbach ALGEMEINER

Thomas Friedman’s boyhood infatuation with Israel following the Six-Day War quickly faded. During his undergraduate years at Brandeis in the mid-Seventies he belonged to the steering committee of a “Middle East Peace Group” affiliated with the notoriously anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian, organization Breira.

Posted in Beirut by The New York Times during the first Lebanon War, his unrequited love turned to fury after the Sabra and Shatila massacre in 1982. “Boiling with anger” at Prime Minister Begin and Defense Minister Sharon, and determined to “help get rid of them,” Friedman wrote the four-page Times article that won a Pulitzer Prize. A week later, after an interview with the Israeli commanding officer, he proudly “buried” the general on page one and “along with him every illusion I ever held about the Jewish state.” Even Friedman subsequently admitted: “I was not professionally detached.”
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By MARTIN SHERMAN, JPOST

If Tom Friedman were to employ the same derogatory innuendo that appeared in his recent NYT columns towards any other minority – gays, blacks, Hispanics – he would be unceremoniously fired. Thomas Friedman a columnist for ‘The New York Times’

The powerful pro-Israel lobby… can force the administration to defend Israel… even when it knows Israel is pursuing policies not in its own interest or America’s. – Thomas L. Friedman, “Israel: Adrift at Sea Alone,” September 17, 2011.

The main Israel lobby, Aipac [sic], has made itself the feared arbiter of which lawmakers are “pro” and which are “anti-Israel” and, therefore, who should get donations and who should not – and you have a situation in which there are almost no brakes, no red lights, around Israel coming from America anymore. – Thomas L. Friedman, “Why Not in Vegas?,” July 31, 2012.

Never have I seen more lawmakers – Democrats and Republicans – more willing to take Israel’s side against their own president’s [policy]. I’m certain this comes less from any careful consideration of the facts and more from a growing tendency by many American lawmakers to do whatever the Israel lobby asks them to do in order to garner Jewish votes and campaign donations. – Thomas L. Friedman, “Let’s Make a Deal,” November 19, 2013.
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By Caroline Glick, JPOST

A week and a half ago, Syria’s Kurds announced they are setting up an autonomous region in northeastern Syria.

The announcement came after the Kurds wrested control over a chain of towns from al-Qaida in the ever metastasizing Syrian civil war.

The Kurds’ announcement enraged their nominal Sunni allies – including the al-Qaida forces they have been combating – in the opposition to the Assad regime. It also rendered irrelevant US efforts to reach a peace deal between the Syrian regime and the rebel forces at a peace conference in Geneva.
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A Letter to U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, Regarding Jonathan Pollard

Dear Ambassador Shapiro,

Jonathan Pollard began his 29th year in prison this week for his activities on behalf of Israel, a staunch ally of the United States. The usual sentence for this offense is two to four years.

Mr. Ambassador, you were recently asked, at the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America, held this year in Jerusalem, about presidential clemency for Jonathan Pollard. Your response?

“Unusual circumstances are required for President Obama to get involved in the matter … There is no reason to expect that the [Pollard] matter will be handled differently.”

Unusual circumstances?
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A 35-Year Study of Israel’s Dysfunctional Government

THE INQUISITOR

There are few Israelis who are able to speak with more authority about Israel’s dysfunctional government than Dr. Paul Eidelberg

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For more than three decades, Dr. Eidelberg has been “the voice of one crying in the wilderness,” imploring Israel’s leaders to draft the nation’s first Constitution and replace the current system of Proportional Representation with individual elections for each member of the Knesset.Not one to pull his punches or restrain his abundant intellect when speaking about the survival of his beloved Israel, Dr. Eidelberg takes no prisoners as he discusses who is to blame for Israel’s lack of security and diminished status with the nations of the world:

“After studying the pronouncements and policies of Labor and Likud Governments since 1976, I have come to the serious and dismal conclusion that if the Labor Party represents ‘organized treachery,‘ the Likud Party Represents ‘organized hypocrisy.’ I have yet to decide which has been more damaging to the State of Israel.”

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