[Update. There will be no communique.]

By Ted Belman

Netanyahu and entourage are headed to Poland for a high level meeting. In advance his office put out a joint communique which said, inter alia, “Unilateral steps by either party are counterproductive to achieving a sustainable lasting peace,”

Netanyahu took issue with this statement because, according to JPOST:

The implication in that statement is that Netanyahu was taking a stand against construction in West Bank settlements, a position which would complicate his political standing at home.

The truth of the matter is that the objection to the statement arises from a misunderstanding of what the Oslo accords provide. In fact the Accords only proscribe unilateral steps which change the status of the land. Building on it would do no such thing.
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State pushing ahead with previously approved plan to build additional units in West Bank settlement which will see its territory significantly expanded
By Itamar Fleishman, YNET

As US Secretary of State John Kerry continues his efforts to restart peace talks, Israel continues to push West Bank construction plans. There are plans to build 675 new housing units in the settlement of Itamar, Ynet has learned.

The construction plan was approved by former Defense Minister Ehud Barak prior to the latest elections. Of the 675 housing units, 137 are existing apartments that have now been retroactively approved.
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Res ipsa locutor. The thing speaks for itself. Of course when three Jewish establishments are attacked in three days, antisemitism is at play until proven otherwise. How can the federation say the attacks “are in any way motivated by anti-Semitism”? How can they know this? Ted Belman

JPOST

TORONTO — Montreal’s Jewish federation says there is no evidence that firebomb attacks on two kosher restaurants and a private home in a heavily Jewish suburb over three days are anti-Semitic in nature.

“There is absolutely no evidence” that the firebombing of Cafe Shalom on Friday, a private home on Saturday and the Chops Resto Bar early Sunday morning, “while disturbing, to be sure, are in any way motivated by anti-Semitism,” Federation CJA said in a statement.
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By: Asmaa al-Ghoul for Al-Monitor Palestine Pulse Posted on June 11.

On June 4, 2013, Yehya Moussa, a Hamas deputy in the Legislative Council, wrote on his Facebook page that Hamas should hand over the management of the Gaza Strip to a national body to devote itself to resistance and national liberation. Even though Moussa made clear that his call was just his personal opinion, what he said caused a controversy.

Hamas members do not usually make statements expressing their personal opinions. They are known for partisan loyalty and a unified discourse even in the most difficult circumstances. But recently, it has become more common for them to give their personal opinions whenever they talk about the movement’s future and the conflict with Israel. They have made contradictory statements such as: a binational state … Palestine from the river to the sea … a state on the 1967 borders … resistance. Those positions were made by Hamas leaders during separate meetings with Al-Monitor on how to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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[Why has there been such a big change since last year? These opinions are greatly at odds with other polls that have been taken here, here and here. Keep in mind that this poll excluded from their sample the Jews living east of the greenline.]

ISRAEL HAYOM

Israelis who live west of the Green Line are increasingly less supportive of the Jewish settlement enterprise in Judea and Samaria than they were in previous years, according to a new Ariel University poll. According to the poll, the number of Israelis who characterize themselves as right wing dropped from 57% in 2012 to 48% in this year’s poll.

The poll was commissioned by Dr. Miriam Billig and Dr. Udi Lebel ahead of the 23rd annual Judea and Samaria Research Conference, scheduled for Thursday.

The polling was done by Maagar Mochot. The respondents comprise a representative sample of 587 Israeli Jewish adults from inside the Green Line (Israel’s pre-1967 border with Jordan). The margin of error is 4.5%.
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By David P. Goldman, ME FORUM

Russia has thrown a monkey wrench into Western plans for Syria by promising to deliver its top-of-the-line S300 surface-to-air missile system to the Bashar al-Assad government. Exactly when the missiles might arrive remains unclear; the last word from Moscow is that the missiles are not yet in place, which means the matter is up for bargaining.

It is humiliating for the West to trip over a game-changing Russian technology nearly a quarter of a century after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The larger scandal is that the West lacks countermeasures against the Russian system, the result of misguided defense priorities over the past dozen years. If the United States had spent a fraction of the resources it wasted in nation-building in Iraq and Afghanistan on anti-missile technology, Russia would lack the bargaining chip in the first place. That’s spilt milk, however, and the pressing question is: what should the West do now? Read more…

The Land of Israel Caucus (fighting to keep J&S) has about 40 government MK’s out of 69. Ted Belman

By GIL HOFFMAN, JPOST

Palestinian demand to release detainees from prison “unacceptable” to majority of Israeli Jews, Smith Research poll states; 68% of Israelis believe withdrawing from West Bank will harm Israeli security.

The Palestinian Authority’s demand that Israel release terrorists from prison as a precondition for peace talks is unacceptable to 85 percent of Israeli Jews, according to a Smith Research poll sponsored by the Knesset’s Land of Israel caucus.
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YNET

Netanyahu says wants to resume peace talks, but insists construction will continue; State must be ‘smart’ on issue of settlements, he notes

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Monday that he wanted to resume peace talks, but that construction in the settlements in the West Bank would continue, “and continues today.”

He added, though, that “we need to realize what is going on around us. We have to be smart about it, not just correct.”

“Settlement in the blocs wouldn’t substantively change the ability to reach an agreement,” he said, adding that “the real question is whether or not there is a will to recognize the Jewish State.”
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Paul Weston, chairman of Britain’s counter-Jihad party ‘Liberty GB’ speaks about the Woolwich murder, Islam and the state of Britain today.

THIS IS REALLY BRILLIANT

We changed our lives
by Julia Caesar,

Julia Caesar is an acclaimed columnist at Snaphanen. This is a samizdat account of what it is like to be a Counterjihad writer in Sweden, but the story could equally apply to all Western nations that groan under yoke of the Multicultural hegemony.

Somebody or something woke us up. We changed our lives without really understanding how this happened. It could have been a book or some newspaper articles. It could have been blogs on the Internet. It could have been many years’ observations and slowly growing insights — pieces of a puzzle that suddenly fell into place.

We weren’t the ones who changed our lives. In secrecy our politicians changed our lives. Without ever being asked about our opinion, we were forced into a society of multiculture and extreme mass immigration which has never functioned anywhere or anytime. Like guinea pigs we were thrown into a gigantic social and demographic laboratory experiment without any possibility of getting away. We were told that we were supposed to feel enriched.

Otherwise we were racists.
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Suicidal plan for Israel

By Victor Sharpe, CFP

John Forbes Kerry was sworn in as the 68th Secretary of State of the United States on February 1, 2013. Kerry now is set, since assuming office, to embark on his fifth visit to Israel and to the so-called Palestinian Authority to push for a Two-State-Solution.

But this is yet another appalling euphemism which in reality will spell out the eventual destruction of the reconstituted Jewish state and the extermination of its people by a Muslim world that will never accept a non-Muslim nation and will wage eternal war against it – the Dar al-Harb – until it is utterly destroyed. This is what Islam requires of its adherents. Remember that other evil euphemism – the Final Solution? There is no difference in what it portends for the Jews. The Nazi’s “Final Solution” served to usher in the Holocaust. The “Two-State-Solution” ushers in the eventual destruction of the Jewish state.
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by Alex Traiman/JNS.org

While the international community often focuses on the legal status of Jewish construction in Jerusalem and in Judea and Samaria, two Israeli government initiatives—a proposed transfer of Israeli land near Jericho to Palestinians and a law that would retroactively legalize tens of thousands of Bedouin structures in the south—are highlighting the issue of illegal Arab building across Israel.

The proposed Prawer Law, which would retroactively legalize tens of thousands of Bedouin structures, has angered anti-settlements NGOs because it stipulates that several thousand Bedouin must relocate from positions in close proximity to Ramat Hovav, a site that has been deemed unsuitable for residential zoning due to the pollutants emitted from the factories.
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Yori Yalon, ISRAEL HAYOM

DEBKA SPECIAL REPORT

Syrian rebel forces attacked two Iraqi military positions at the southern tip of their common border Sunday, June 9. They failed to beat the Iraqi troops back although a number of Iraqi officers and soldiers were killed. Shooting incidents flared during the day near the Al-Waleed Syrian-Iraqi crossing, but the Iraqi forces held fast.

This was their first engagement with Syrian rebels in the 28-month Syrian civil war – but unlikely to be the last.

The Syrian Sunni rebels were anxious to break through the Iraqi lines which were blocking their access to supplies of weapons and fighters sent over by Sunni militias in the Western Iraqi Anbar region. The failure of the rebels’ first assault set back their bid to loosen the grip of loyalist Syrian troops on this strategic border crossing.
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