Lapid stated that Jerusalem is the “founding ethos” of the State of Israel and cannot be divided under any circumstances.
“If the Palestinians want a state, then they must know that this has a price and they will not get everything they want,” Lapid said.
Lapid’s comments came in response to a Tuesday morning Israel Radio report that Jerusalem was one of the topics under discussion in ongoing peace talks with the Palestinians.
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The World I’ve Known Has Come To An End
By Herb London
There was a time not so long ago when I could select my own doctor. There was a time when I could choose my health insurance company. There was a time when everyone believed Marxism was a failure, an idea relegated to the ash heap of history. There was a time when class warfare occurred in other places far away, but Americans believed in opportunity, not sponging from others.
Was that really not so long ago? It is true President Obama said he would transform America. He has lived up to his promise. Our Constitution has been twisted into an unrecognizable document. Washington has become a lawless town where criminals are heroes and heroes are ignored. Peace through strength – the bipartisan belief that military preparedness preserves order – has been converted into peace through prayer. If you hope for the best, it just might occur.
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All of Obama’s second term foreign policy goals are harmful to Israel. Everything that is good for Obama is necessarily bad for Israel.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu apparently believes the greatest threat the country now faces is an escalated European trade war. He’s wrong. The greatest threat we are now facing is a national leadership that cannot get its arms around changing strategic realities.
Over the weekend, Yediot Aharonot reported that during Secretary of State John Kerry’s seven-hour meeting in Rome last week with Netanyahu, Kerry warned that the price for walking away from the talks with the PLO will be European economic strangulation of Israel.
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Brandeis Center Announces Formation of First Law Student Chapters
Brandeis Center Announces Formation of First Law Student Chapters October 30, 2013
“The Brandeis Center is launching a nationwide network of chapters for students at select law schools,” said President Kenneth L. Marcus. “This is a critical step towards ensuring that the next generation of legal advocates can recognize anti-Semitism in all of its forms and fight back through legal means.” Read more…
Shlomo Cesana, Daniel Siryoti and News Agencies, ISRAEL HAYOM
Pessimistic. Abbas and Bibi not seeing eye to eye
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas expressed pessimism Monday, ahead of their Wednesday meetings with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, saying the peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians seem to be treading water.
“I see no real changes in the Palestinian position since 1993,” Netanyahu said in Monday’s Likud-Beytenu faction meeting, referring to the year in which the Oslo Accords were signed. Read more…
By YONAH JEREMY BOB, JPOST 11/30/12
Legal scholars have latched on to the ICC prosecutor’s decision to deny the Palestinians access to the ICC.
As this article goes to print, history is being made with a UN General Assembly vote to endorse the state of Palestine.
Israeli media coverage has at times – and in worst estimates – portrayed this event as a legal-diplomatic tsunami that could engulf Israeli leaders, soldiers and settlers at the International Criminal Court.
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DEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 4, 2013,
Moscow’s request for a naval base in Egypt submitted last week by a visiting Russian general prompted US Secretary of State John Kerry’s decision to hurry up and visit Cairo and Riyadh for an attempt to smooth their prickly relations over Washington’s policies for Syria and Iran. However, Sunday, Nov. 3, the day he stopped over in Cairo en route for Riyadh, saw a mighty buildup of Russian naval stgrength in the Mediterranean.
Russia’s Pacific Fleet flagship, the Varyag,and the powerful nuclear-fueled battleship Pyotr Veliky arrived to carry out “a number of tasks” with other Russian Navy ships in the region, according to the official statement form Moscow.
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By Gil Ronen, ARUTZ SHEVA
The Israeli representatives to talks with the Palestinian Authority (PA) are in disagreement, with head negotiator, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, offering the Arabs more than Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s delegate to the talks wishes to offer them. Sometimes, it appears, the two disagree openly in the negotiating room.
Voice of Israel public radio reported Tuesday that Netanyahu’s delegate, Attorney Yitzhak Molcho, disagrees with Livni on the question of where the borders between Israel and the PA will be drawn and on the area of Jerusalem that is to be defined as an “open city,” where Israelis and Palestinians are both to enjoy freedom of movement.
Israel’s opening position in negotiations on the border is that the present security barrier will become the permanent border – as opposed to the 1949 armistice lines that the Palestinian side is demanding. Israel also wants some communities that are outside the “settlement blocs” and east of the separation fence to remain in its hands – including Beit El, where Arutz Sheva has its headquarters, and Psagot.
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Violent and anti-Semitic actions by the British during the Mandate period reverberate today in the relations between Israel and the UK, two British journalists said at an event on Sunday marking the 96th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration.
The conference at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem featured the Hebrew premiere of a documentary about British policy from the period between the publication of the declaration, on November 2, 1917, to independence.
In addition to speeches by British journalists, the former speaker of the Knesset, Shlomo Hillel, and a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem addressed the gathering.
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In his address over a month ago to the UN General Assembly, President Barack Obama said that “Israel’s security as a Jewish and democratic state depends upon the realization of a Palestinian state.” He even inferred it had equivalent priority, while saying that “the United States will never compromise our commitment to Israel’s security.”
Yet, only some weeks earlier, the administration, contrary to public assurances that it supported Israeli-Palestinian peace talks without preconditions, pressured Israel to free jailed Palestinian terrorists to bring the Palestinian Authority to the negotiating table. This pressure is symptomatic of a larger, fundamentally flawed approach that has failed the cause of peace.
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Nazareth, Israel – Israeli investors had reason to celebrate last month with the news that Israel may soon be joining the club of oil-producing states, in addition to its recent finds of large natural gas deposits off the coast. Read more…
By Ben Dror Yemini, Maariv, November 3, 2013
In a certain Israeli university department a seminar included the
presentation of “field research” on the subject of Israeli colonialism
under the occupation. The seminar was conducted by a professor who is
active in the BALAD (Arab fascist — SP) party and his two course
assistants were radical leftist activists. The “field research” for the
course was funded by radical leftist organizations.
In a different school a book was published containing articles about the
Israeli control of the occupied territories. Every single chapter, with no
exceptions, was written by radical leftists. In a different school of
social sciences, 10 out of the 11 members of the faculty are radical
leftists. In the past and following complaints from students, we exposed
the fact (in Maariv) that a “law clinic” is being operated by the
University of Haifa that is an extension and subsidiary of the (radical
Arab nationalist anti-Israel — SP) ADALAH organization. This is the same
department that in the pass cancelled the singing of the national anthem at
graduation ceremonies. All the above is just a very small sample. New
findings indicate that the problem is worsening.
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Meanwhile, Netanyahu, in his Rome meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry last week, refused an American proposal to station American forces in the Jordan Valley or to allow other international troops to maintain the security along the eastern border.
During the seven-hour meeting, Kerry attempted to finish outlining the borders for the future Palestinian state.
The prime minister drew the outline first. In Netanyahu’s map, the Palestinian state is farther away from the Jordan Valley, is surrounded on all sides by areas under Israeli sovereignty, is demilitarized, and preserves for Israel the greater Jerusalem area and the Jewish settlement blocs. The Palestinians, for their part, are thought to be unwilling to give up a state that does not stretch to the Jordan River, nor will they agree to not control the northern Dead Sea area.
I saw this coming in 2009 and wrote about it. I updated the article this year under the title Obama to impose a solution if necessary. No doubt the solution will be a mix of the Clinton parameters and the Arab Peace Initiative. Ted Belman
It would appear that Netanyahu has been warned many times about the US moves if negotiations fail. He knew that our claim to Judea and Samaria would gain no traction with Obama, legal or not, and therefore didn’t embrace the Levy Report. What he did instead was to keep stressing our security needs which Obama was prepared to listen to. Now that the US has gone public with their intentions, negotiations will go no where. No one will agree to anything more than what they expect Obama to decree. Ted Belman
This solution has nothing to do with who is at fault for the failure of the talks. This was a done deal before the talks started. The talks are a sham. Simply a precursor to a solution being imposed.
Report: US will lay down its own outline for an accord, is determined to reach solution by mid-2014.
By Gil Ronen, ARUTZ SHEVA
The United States intends to try and force a peace agreement on Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), IDF Radio reported Monday.
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by Jonathan Spyer, The Jerusalem Post
A suicide bombing this week at Egyptian Military Intelligence headquarters in the city of Ismailiya has been claimed by Ansar Beit al Maqdis. This organization is a Salafi Jihadi group with links to organizations of a similar kind in the Gaza Strip. Eleven people, including six soldiers were wounded in the bombing.
The Ismailiya attack is the latest episode in a growing Islamist insurgency against the de facto rule of General Abd al Fatah al-Sisi and the military in Egypt. It was of particular significance because the city lies just west of the Suez Canal, outside of the Sinai Peninsula. In the poorly policed area of northern Sinai, jihadi groups have been active since the military coup of July 3, and even before it.
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By Larry O’Daniel, The Western Center for Journalism
The headlines read “Iran only a month away from the bomb.” The sub-headlines read: Obama Administration cautions Congress and Israel – we can wait and see if sanctions work or if our negotiations work. We have plenty of time. When you combine this with the multiple media stories of the Obama Administration wanting to station international troops in Judea and Samaria for the “protection” of Israel, there is no longer any doubt where the loyalties of the Obama Administration lie. It is definitely not with our best ally in the Mideast, Israel. We are not sure how long it might be because we have not calculated the help North Korea has contributed to this process.
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DEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 3, 2013,
Tehran did its utmost to conceal the mystery blast which last week struck the heavy water reactor under construction at Arak in western Iran. It is revealed here for the first time by debkafile’s intelligence and Iranian sources. The explosion, whether accidental or not, will delay for a second time the reactor’s first test with real fuel. Tehran informed the International Atomic Energy Agency in August of a previous holdup.
The cause of the blast and the extent of the damage it caused have not yet been established. According to the partial information initially reaching our sources, it occurred inside the reactor building when preparations were underway for a test scheduled for this month with artificial fuel and light water. The site of the explosion may have been the large coolant containers and the pressure gauges attached to the reactor’s core.
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By Ted Belman
American Thinker is the best conservative opinion site in America. It is also supportive of the right wing position on Israel. They have published dozens of my articles over the years.
That is why it is so out of keeping with their beliefs that they should publish anything written by Alon Ben-Meir; like the article Israel’s National Security: Delegitimizing the Legitimate. According to Wikepedia, he is “a staunch advocate of the Arab Peace Initiative.”
The comments posted to this article utterly destroys his facts and opinions and take American Thinker to task for printing his rubbish.
It is a real pleasure to read these comments coming from primarily, an American audience.
http://www.knesset.gov.il/vip/jabotinsky/eng/Revisionist_frame_eng.html
“The essence of revisionism… is that basically, instead of surrendering to fate, we force our lives to head in a certain direction.”
In 1925, Ze’ev Jabotinsky founded the Revisionist Zionist Alliance, a Zionist political movement. Its name was derived from its call for a revision – for a new look at the the policy of the Zionist Executive towards the British Government and its mandate over Eretz Yisrael.
The slogan of the Revisionist Movement was used as a title in the “Rassvet” newspaper, edited by Jabotinsky:
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Maagar Poll of National Religious:38%:40% add more secular to leadership of Bayit Yehudi
Dr. Aaron Lerner – IMRA 1 November 2013
The survey was conducted by Maagar – Interdisciplinary Research and Consulting Institute Ltd., managed by Professor Yitzhak Katz. The survey was
conducted by telephone 28 October 2013 of a sample of 508 respondents,
constituting a representative sample of Israel’s Jewish national religious adult population (aged 17 and over). Results published in Makor Rishon on 1 November 2013. Statistical error +/- 4.5 percentage points.
To what extent are you satisfied with the performance of Naftali Bennett as
representative and promoter of the interests of the national religious community in Israel in the last year?
Very satisfied 52% Moderately satisfied 32% Not satisfied 16%
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