By Ted Belman

I intend to create an organization called Sovereignty Now which would work in cooperation with various NGO’s who are striving to ensure that Judea and Samaria remains Jewish and is annexed by Israel. Sovereignty Now would be a fund raising arm for such NGO’s and would promote this alternative to the two state solution.

Sovereignty Now would be following the model of Peace Now which has chapters throughout the world. Hospitals and universities do likewise.

Chapters of Friends of Sovereignty Now would be established in various cites throughout the world. Each chapter would help us promote annexation as preferable to the two state solution. We would supply them with reference materials and speakers.

Please tell me what you think of the idea and whether you can help create a chapter in your city. My email is tedbel-at-rogers.com or comment below. You have to register first.

By David Goldman, PJ MEDIA

Middle East politics amounts to managing the decline of a failed culture. Nothing expresses Arab failure more vividly than Egypt, a banana republic without the bananas, now living on a $14 billion or so annual subsidy from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States. With 70% of its population living in agricultural areas, it imports half its food, and would starve if not for the Saudi check. ‘

Egypt is beyond the point of no return economically, and American foreign policy is beyond the point of no return intellectually. Americans of both parties–Obama and Kerry on one side, and Sens. McCain and Graham along with the Weekly Standard on the other–believed that by waving the magic wand of democracy over this cataclysmically failed state, all would be well. I characterized this consensus as “Dumb and Dumber” earlier this year.
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Hillel Neuer, TOI

Truth comes out when the microphones are supposed to be off.

Thursday a United Nations interpreter, unaware that her microphone was on, uttered words of truth in reaction to the General Assembly’s adoption of nine politically-motivated resolutions condemning Israel, and zero resolutions on the rest of the world.

Under the mistaken impression that she was speaking only to a colleague, the interpreter uttered the following words into the headphones of every UN delegate, and before a live webcast audience worldwide:

“Isn’t it a little weird? There are nine or ten resolutions against Israel. And I know there’s a problem with the Palestinians. But there’s other bad shit going on and they’re spending so much time on this.”

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Yes we are right to deligitimate the E.U. While the positive things are undeniable, they in no way justify the enormous interference in our internal affairs by the EU; all in the name of protecting our security. It is for Israel to decide what is in its best security interests. The E.U outrageously supports Israeli NGO’s who are subversive, supports Palestinian encroachment on Area C contrary to the Oslo Accords and Law, ignores Palestinian incitement etc. The list is very long. Ted Belman

By LARS FAABORG-ANDERSEN, EU AMB DESIGNATE,
JPOST

Since I arrived in Israel a couple of months ago I have been deeply impressed by the vitality of your democracy, the dynamism of your people, your incredible achievements made in such a relatively short history.

But I have also been struck by some rather somber perceptions of EU-Israel relations both in the media and in the political arena. I have heard allegations that Europe does not care about Israel’s security; that it is obsessed with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and criticizing settlement expansion and that fundamentally Europe is becoming increasingly less relevant for Israel.
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David M. Weinberg 11-15-13

Professor Steven R. David, one of America’s most respected international relations scholars, this week published a comprehensive study titled “Armed and Dangerous: Why a Rational, Nuclear Iran Is an Unacceptable Risk to Israel.” This study brings to public attention a war simulation which reached an identical conclusion. It should be noted that while the US military participants were very concerned; this possibility was rejected out of hand by the State Department personnel, including Pres. Obama’s now one number 1 negotiator for the Iranian nuclear issue. The simulation narrative is attached after this article.

The main problem with the emerging Geneva accord between the P5+1 countries and Iran is that the agreement will effectively legitimize Iran’s nuclear threshold status.
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She doesn’t know with whom she is dealing. She should judge them.

By ARIEL BEN SOLOMON, JPOST

Interruptions, yelling and expulsions took place in the Knesset Wednesday morning as former minister Bennie Begin listened to speakers from both ends of the political spectrum criticize his proposed law to regulate Beduin settlement in the Negev within five years.

MK Miri Regev (Likud), chairwoman of the Interior Committee, firmly controlled the discussion, constantly calling for quiet from those interrupting the proceedings. She also expelled or threatened to kick out several MKs from the session.

Related:

• Pro-Beduin groups lobby against Prawer-Begin plan
• Knesset panel debates Beduin resettlement bill

Several Israeli Arab MKs and supporters from various human rights NGOs railed against the bill, claiming it would result in up to 40,000 Beduin losing their land. Read more…

I was still living in Canada when the “shared values” policy was started. I had nothing against stressing our shared values but it came at the expense of criticism Islam or the Palestinians. Such criticism was verbotten. It was PC writ large. I hated it. Whether that part has changed now, I don’t know. Ted Belman

By JOEL REITMAN, JPOST

With few exceptions, the level of anti-Zionism that routinely rears its head in European Leftist politics has failed to come to Canada.

As Jewish activists from around the world depart from Jerusalem with the closing of the annual General Assembly, a degree of pessimism is only natural in light of alarming trends throughout Diaspora. Read more…

by Jonathan S. Tobin, COMMENTARY

Secretary of State John Kerry and Vice President Joe Biden went to Capitol Hill to privately brief the Senate Banking, Housing and urban Affairs Committee about the nuclear negotiations with Iran and plead with them not to toughen sanctions on the rogue nation. But according to multiple sources that spoke to the press, their appeal went over like a lead balloon. As the New York Times reports:

They faced extreme skepticism from lawmakers in both parties who worry the administration is prepared to give the Iranian government too much for too little.

The reaction from Democrats was scathing with, as the Times reports, even loyal administration soldiers in the Senate like Majority Leader Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer distancing themselves from Kerry’s position and later expressing doubt to reporters about his negotiating strategy. The reaction from Republicans was no less hostile, with Kerry being denounced in scathing terms by Senator Mark Kirk
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Eden Atias, z”l. Murdered by an Arab terrorist.

By Fresno Zionism

Yet another Israeli Jew was murdered today by a Palestinian terrorist. Eden Atias was stabbed to death while he slept on a bus near the Afula bus station.

Security guards stopped the assailant, Hussein Jawadra, a 16-year-old Palestinian from Jenin who is residing in Israel illegally, and turned him over to security forces. Jawadra’s two cousins are both held in Israel. One of them was sentenced to three life sentences for the murder of two Israelis and for several counts of attempted murder. The other was jailed for 12 years for attempted murder. Read more…

What is going on here. He kills planning tenders one day and the next day he says building will continue. He could have just said the tenders were for planning only and not construction. Ted Belman

By HERB KEINON, LAHAV HARKOV, JPOST

A day after forcing the Construction and Housing Ministry to “reconsider” preliminary work toward building 24,000 housing units beyond the Green Line, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that building in settlements would continue, but had to be done wisely.

“In recent months, we built thousands of homes in Judea and Samaria, and in the coming months we plan to build thousands more,” Netanyahu said in a Knesset debate on housing prices. “It was never easy, but we did it responsibly despite international pressure.” Read more…

My latest JPost blog weaves together some of last week’s astounding news stories about Israeli initiatives and innovations that have the potential to save billions of lives.

Orthodox Population Grows Faster Than First Figures in Pew #Jewish America Study –

By Josh Nathan-Kazis, FORWARD

The Orthodox population is growing even faster than earlier reports from the Pew Research Center’s recent survey of American Jews suggested.

A new analysis of data from Pew finds that 27% of Jews younger than 18 live in Orthodox households. That’s a dramatic jump from Jews aged 18 to 29, only 11% of whom are Orthodox.

“Orthodox birthrates in just the last few years have been soaring,” said Jewish sociologist Steven M. Cohen, who requested the new data from Pew. “The sky is falling for the rest of the population.”
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This article canvasses the treatment given to the settlement construction announcement and retraction. My reaction is one of dismay. Netanyahu let’s the international community to dictate to him on the matter of settlements and has done so since he has been in office while at the same time publicly showing our independence when it comes to settlements. He can take on the world when it comes to Iran, why not when it comes to settlements. He must reassert our independence after the Iranian issue is settled. He must reaffirm our right to build without interference, our right to sovereignty over J&S, that settlements are neither illegal or illegitimate and show he means it. If the world wants to impose sanctions, let it try. The US will never go along with them neither will India and China. We are energy independent and food independent and we have many friends. Netanyahu has empowered the US and the EU to make outrageous demands apon us. We must disempower them by issuing a categorical “NO’. Ted Belman

Netanyahu scrambles to put out another diplomatic fire; meanwhile, Avigdor Liberman gets back to work

Staff writer, Al Arabiya

By DANIEL TAUBER, JPOST

Britain was once a partner in the Zionist enterprise. During the First World War, her leaders harbored visions of Jews restored to their homeland. At the war’s end, she accepted responsibility for putting those visions into effect under the Mandate for Palestine.

But the calculating British Empire that prepared to fight World War II was not the romantic British Empire of World War I.

In 1936, responding to Arab violence and opposition to Zionism, Britain drastically lowered Palestine’s Jewish immigration quota.

In 1939, when no other country would give European Jewry refuge, Britain issued a new White Paper restricting Jewish immigration to Palestine – the internationally designated Jewish refuge – to a total of 75,000 over the next five years.
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