UN Watch:

“We do not take this lightly: the UN has in the past suspended NGOs for criticizing the wrong regimes”

Contact: media1@unwatch.org

GENEVA, June 6, 2013 – In a scathing and unprecedented attack on an accredited NGO, top UN Human Rights Council official Richard Falk is publicly calling on the 47-nation body to investigate and potentially shut down a watchdog organization after it mobilized world leaders—including his own boss, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon—to condemn his comments blaming the Boston Marathon bombings on “the American global domination project” and “Tel Aviv.”
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Danon: ‘The international community can say whatever they want, and we can do whatever we want'”

By Raphael Ahren, TIMES OF iSRAEL

With the Likud-Beytenu and Jewish Home parties opposed to a two-state solution, efforts at negotiations are futile, Danny Danon says

Israel’s ruling party and the governing coalition are staunchly opposed to a two-state solution and would block the creation of a Palestinian state if such a proposal ever came to a vote, Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon said, contradicting statements by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior cabinet members who say Jerusalem is committed to the principle of two states for two peoples.

Danon’s statements, made Wednesday to The Times of Israel in his first major interview with an Israeli news outlet since he became deputy minister, underline the low likelihood of the current government being able to sign a peace agreement with the Palestinians. Read more…

Three weeks? Yes just Three weeks

During the last three weeks, I published three blogs (here, here and here) that rubbished the Israel BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) idiots who insist on shooting themselves in the foot by refusing any of Israel’s medical innovations.  I have just looked back at what Israelis have been working on in all areas over the last three weeks and I can hardly believe that so much has been achieved.  So let me bring you up to date on just the medical and clean technology advances.

Here’s a great letter to the Post Editor-in-Chief Steve Linde, who refused Pamela the opportunity to reply to the libelous article by Rabbi Jaffee and shunted the reply to Sara Miller, Managing Editor ofJPost.comeditor of JPOST, who refused to publish it. Everyone should write a letter to him and her.

Dear Steve,

I’m writing to you in order to protest the Jerusalem Post’s really shoddy treatment of Pamela Geller.

Not allowing Ms. Geller to answer such libellous and slanderous allegations indicates, to me at least, that you agree with Rabbi Yofie and with J Street. They are doing everything within their capabilities to delegitimise Israel and boost the enemy. They’re the modern day kapos. And you’re not only giving them a voice, but helping them!
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The gradual betrayal of a once-robust conservative consensus.

by DAVID SOLWAY, PJ MEDIA

In a June 9, 2005 speech in New York, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, praising what would turn out to be Israel’s disastrous unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, announced that “we are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous, we are tired of winning, we are tired of defeating our enemies. … We want them to be our friends, our partners, our good neighbors.” This misguided gesture of reconciliation came back to haunt Israel in the form of thousands of rockets launched from Gaza upon Israeli population centers and a humiliating conflict with Hezbollah in the 2006 “Summer War.” Olmert is further on record as assuring us that “peace is achieved through concessions. We all know that.” Well no, we don’t. What we do know, or should know, is that the concessionary mentality without credible force to ensure reciprocity empowers tyrants and warlords. In such cases, peace now means war later. Or even sooner.
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The question of who supports a two state solution is irrelevant. What matters is who supports a TSS based on Arab terms i.e., based on ’67 lines and the answer is very few (8%). Now if you ask them if they support the Israeli terms i.e., we keep an undivided Jerusalem and all the settlement blocs and our security concerns are met, the answer is still not a majority (40%). Another 19% support annexing Area C. Ted Belman

JPOST

By Barry Rubin, PJ MEDIA

Up to now the Obama Administration has faced three big scandals—the IRS, the bugging of AP and Fox, and Benghazi. And now here is scandal Number 4:

For the last four years the Obama Administration has conducted a major “outreach” program to Islamic groups in the United States and in the Middle East. Patrick Poole has been investigating this project and in a comprehensive article now presents the full scoop and scope of what’s been going on. His article, “Blind to Terror: The U.S. Government’s Disastrous Muslim Outreach Efforts and the Impact on U.S. Policy” in the new, Summer, issue of MERIA Journal is a gamechanger. 

You may think that you know about this subject but it goes far beyond what you have heard about. The majority of groups and individuals promoted by the Obama Administration have been radical Islamists, particularly Muslim Brotherhood cadre, and more than occasionally people involved in terrorist activity.
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Some Christians embrace Jews and Israel for the right reasons while others do not.

Matthew M. Hausman, J.D.

Support for Israel among evangelical Christians is a growing phenomenon that has many American Jews scratching their heads and asking questions. Is Christian support sincere or is it merely subterfuge to facilitate the missionary impulse? Do Christian “love offerings” for Israel come with theological strings or are they presented free and clear?

These questions are understandable given the long history of Christian anti-Semitism and missionary excess. However, an alarming number of secular Jews today are so divorced from Jewish tradition and practice that these questions are devoid of historical context. Skepticism regarding evangelical support is often informed by liberal political sensibilities, and suspicion of evangelicals’ motivations is more likely influenced by distrust of their social and political conservatism than by any collective memory of the horrors suffered by the Jews in Europe. Read more…

By Pamela Geller, INN

After the Jerusalem Post ran a vicious defamatory article by the uber-left Rabbi Yoffie,  President of the Union of Reform Judaism (URJ), I submitted a response to his unchallenged and unsubstantiated libel to Post Editor-in-Chief Steve Linde. Linde bounced me to Sara Miller, Managing Editor ofJPost.com, who procrastinated and thought that Yoffie saying that “Pamela Geller has no place in an American synagogue. She is a bigot and purveyor of hate” didn’t warrant any response from me.

Miller should be on the receiving end of ad hominem attacks and defamation, and sit quietly.

Yoffie wrote last week that “diversity of views should be welcome. Debate should be promoted and controversy encouraged.”
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Op-ed: Arabs can live full life in Jewish state, satisfy political desires in territory called ‘Jordan’
Elyakim Haetzni, YNET

The peace camp is mourning. The vision of dividing the land is no longer possible, and the inevitable result is a “bi-national state,” they claim. Yossi Sarid lamented “the end of the Jewish state” on television, and the bi-national phobia has even been joined recently by Benjamin Netanyahu – who is, seemingly, still head of the national camp.

The creators of this artificial panic should deal with the previous attempt to divide the land: The UN General Assembly resolution from November 29, 1947. On a territory allotted there to a state defined as “Jewish,” sat next to 598,000 Jews another 497,000 Arabs – almost equal numbers. In other words, that partition solution contained exactly what concerns those who oppose the wholeness of the Land of Israel today – the danger of a bi-national state. What saved the State of Israel from becoming bi-national was the Arabs’ departure, which happened during the War of Independence and created a democratic Jewish majority and that same “Jewish state” which Sarid and his friends are mourning the loss of.
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I attended this lecture a month ago along with 200 plus people. It takes just over one hour but it is well worth hearing. Ted Belman

Also go here for A must see documentary (in Hebrew) on the end of the “Two State solution” option

The article that comes with it can be translated into English.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

By Sheera Frenkel | McClatchy Foreign Staff

TEL AVIV, Israel –Israel’s military fumed Monday over the discovery that the U.S. government had revealed details of a top-secret Israeli military installation in published bid requests.

The Obama administration had promised to build Israel a state-of-the-art facility to house a new ballistic-missile defense system, the Arrow 3. As with all Defense Department projects, detailed specifications were made public so that contractors could bid on the $25 million project. The specifications included more than 1,000 pages of details on the facility, ranging from the heating and cooling systems to the thickness of the walls.
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By: Daoud Kuttab for Al-Monitor Palestine Pulse

The US efforts to revive Israeli-Palestinian negotiations continue to face obstacles, but this has not stopped a continuous trickle of information and leaks about some of the major details of the proposed talks.

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saed Erekat told the Voice of Palestine Thursday, May 30 that US Secretary of State John Kerry’s plans have three parallel tracks. According to Erekat, the Kerry plan has a political track, a security track and an economic one. While the appointment of Gen. John Allen appears to shine some light on the security track and Kerry’s speech at the WEF conference hints the economic track, little information has come out in regard to the political track. Both Israelis and Palestinians seem stuck on the reference point of the peace talks. Palestinians want the talks to be based on the concept of a two-state solution, while Israel considers such a commitment before the talks to be a precondition it is not willing to accept.
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