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• Israel faces pressure to ease entry of winter supplies into Gaza -
• ‘The Collapse of the U.S. Is Accelerating’: Iran’s Regime Cheers the Result of the US Midterm Election -
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• Netanyahu urges Eisenkot to negotiate unity government ‘without preconditions’ -
• Iran Just Hacked Into Western Countries & This Should TERRIFY You.. -
• Dismantle the United Nations -
• INTO THE FRAY: The Arab parties as coalition partners -Past precedents and present perils -
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• Amy Mek Sounds the Alarm on Organized Muslim Voting in Powerful Newsmax Interview (Watch) -
• Mid Term Elections-Blame The Jews! Discussed By Meir Weinstein & Meir Jolovitz -
• America’s Top Syndicated Radio Host, Dana Loesch, and American Policy Towards Israel in a Post-October 7th World -
• Egypt Lists 35 European Groups, Some Tied to the Muslim Brotherhood -
• Gaza Will BURN If This Gets Released! -

Focus on Hagel and Kerry  

From Arlene Kushner

“Over the Top”

This is one of those times when it all seems a bit much.  Bad enought that Obama has now nominated Hagel for the position of Secretary of Defense.  But then we have a Democratic lobbying group, the National Jewish Democratic Council, which has released a statement saying that it is confident that Hagel:

“will follow the president’s lead of providing unrivaled support for Israel. 

“President Barack Obama’s unprecedented pro-Israel credentials are unquestionable, and setting policy starts and stops with the president.”

HUH?? Read more…

January 9, 2013 | 6:36 am | 38 Comments »

The Israel, Turkey, Cyprus Triangle  

By: Tulin Daloglu for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse.

Summary :
Tulin Daloglu writes that Israel’s strategic partnership with the Republic of Cyprus, including over Mediterranean gas fields, is yet another complication in Israeli-Turkish relations.

In November 2007, Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas jointly addressed the Turkish parliament, an event that buttressed Turkey’s role in the region as an honest broker for peace. The Peres address was the first ever by an Israeli president before a Muslim parliament.
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January 8, 2013 | 7:42 pm | 4 Comments »

Brennan and Hagel – Bolstering or Weakening US National Security?  

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”

“Israel Hayom”, January 8, 2013, http://bit.ly/XIdxgX

The US Senate vote on the nomination of John Brennan and Chuck Hagelto the positions of CIA Director and Defense Secretary, respectively, will shape US power projection and posture of deterrence, global sanity, war on Islamic terrorism and the US determination to avert the wrath of a nuclear Iran.

John Brennan presented his position on Iran in the July, 2008 issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: ”A critical step toward improved US-Iranian relations would be for US officials to cease public Iran-bashing, a tactic that may have served short-term domestic political interests, but that has heretofore been wholly counterproductive to U.S. strategic interests.”
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January 8, 2013 | 6:43 pm | 29 Comments »

Bennett on the draft  

JPOST

Speaking with haredi station Radio Kol Hai, Bennett added that his party would “fight against legislation which would coercively draft” yeshiva students.

“We will be a partner which will fight for Torah study in Israel, and we will fight against laws that coerce service,” Bennett said.

“Whoever is learning Torah should continue to learn Torah, full stop,”

“This is my stance from the beginning. Although it’s not always easy to explain this to our secular brothers, my way is to explain that the Jewish people have existed for thousands of years in exile because of Torah, and in the State of Israel we need to strengthen this.”
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January 8, 2013 | 2:32 pm | 27 Comments »

Shas wants guarantee that Israel remain a Jewish state  

By Ted Belman

Shas fears that Netanyahu will form a centre-left coalition which will threatedn the Jewish nature of the state. Last time Likud did this Shas was left out of the coalition

It just asked PM Netanyahu to sign a treaty which includes four main principles as the basis to “maintaining the existence of the State of Israel as the Jewish nation’s state.”

The treaty calls

1. to protect the secular-religious status quo,

2. to prevent legislation that contradicts Halacha laws and would allow quick conversion to Judaism,

3. to prevent regulation of civil marriage that would “enable intermarriage of Jews with non-Jews,” and

4. to prevent the operation of public transportation on Shabbat.

January 8, 2013 | 2:18 pm | 9 Comments »

Egypt Seeks $500 billion reparations from Israel for Sinai Damage  

WHAT CAN I SAY?

NUQUDY

In December of 2011 Egypt sent the United Nations a report detailing the
reasons for which Israel owes the government of Egypt $500 billion for
damage sustained by the Sinai Peninsula when it was controlled by Israel
between 1967 and 1982.

Following one year of inaction by the UN, the report has now been sent to
the US administration in the hopes that it will press its ally, Israel, into
paying the debt.
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January 8, 2013 | 1:46 pm | 37 Comments »

Poll: 37 seats still undecided  

By Ted Belman

The Times of Israel has published a very detailed poll by a very experienced pollster. It shows a totally different race than what we are believing in.

31% of the voters are undecided and according to him leaning to labour. Most polls distribute the undecideds on a pro rata basis to get the race as we understand it. But if you distribute them based on leanings the result is entirely different.

January 7, 2013 | 6:23 pm | 6 Comments »

50 ways to stop a PA state  

January 7, 2013 | 5:37 pm | 15 Comments »

Rubin: It really isn’t about Israel losing support.  

By Barry Rubin. JPost

There’s been a strange phenomenon building in the past few weeks that’s been puzzling me. But I’ve just figured it out. Various people – there are many examples so you can insert your own – have been writing that Israel is making some big mistake. It is losing support, especially liberal and American Jewish support, they explain, because of the way it’s been behaving.

What’s puzzling about this is that nothing has actually happened to imply that any great opportunity is being missed that might justify this attitude. There has been no recent turn toward peace by the Palestinian Authority; no great new idea promising a breakthrough; no change in personalities that offers some shocking new opportunity.
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January 7, 2013 | 2:48 pm | 21 Comments »

Summary of Editorials from the Hebrew Press  

(Israel Government Press Office)

Ma’ariv notes the difficulties in moving or evacuating even a fairly small settlement outpost and asks: “Could someone stand up today and evacuate Imanuel, Kiryat Arba, Karnei Shomron, Beit-El, Ofra, Shilo or Alon Moreh?” The author avers: “No Israeli prime minister could deal with such an evacuation,” not even one from the center-left, and concludes: “The situation is irreversible and how.”

Yediot Aharonot condemns last week’s incident in which a young woman was attacked by a group of ultra-orthodox yeshiva students over her presumed sexual identity. The author says that “The conduct of her assailants shows that they did not act according to the laws of the Torah,” and adds: “They acted as they did in spite of their education, not because of it.” Read more…

January 7, 2013 | 2:35 pm | 5 Comments »

Leibler doubles down on his attack on Bayit Hayehudi  

Ted Belman

Is Bayit Hayehudi extremist at its core? I don’t believe that their intention to annex Area C is at all extremist though Leibler thinks so:

Yet if Bayit Yehudi pursues its stated annexation objectives, it may undermine a moderate nationalist government and lose an historic opportunity to restore religious Zionism as the dominant religious force in Israeli society.
[..]

After the elections, the new government will confront unprecedented pressures, from the United States, Europe and the broader global community.
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January 7, 2013 | 8:09 am | 10 Comments »

Bennett: Israel can defeat Gaza terror  

[Netanyahu’s actions have left him exposed to attacks from the right. Bennett is taking dead aim and landing blow after blow. Ted Belman]

 

Habayit Hayehudi chairman says government needs to make a switch in its counter-terrorism policy and seek decisive blows rather than containment

Shiri Hadar, ynet

Habayit Hayehudi Chairman Naftali Bennett said Sunday that all political parties, including the Likud-Beiteinu, should sign a paper “pledging never to evict Jews from their homes.”

Speaking to students in Kiryat Ono, Bennett was asked whether he was willing to sign a paper saying he will evacuate Jewish settlements if given such orders and replied, “I never operate under pressure or under threats.”

Bennett criticized the Netanyahu government’s security policy. “We need to make the switch from resigning with terror – a policy that saw the south under a rocket barrage. It is a weak and dangerous policy because it encourages terror.

“The IDF cannot lose one campaign after the other. The IDF needs to make decisive blows and it can. We have the capacity to defeat terror.” Read more…

January 7, 2013 | 7:23 am | 4 Comments »

What Netanyahu and Liberman really mean when they speak of a two-state solution  

As opposed to many senior Likud MKs, the former foreign minister doesn’t want one state — he wants ‘maximal separation’

When Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman said Sunday that the two-state solution would remain the government’s blueprint to solve the conflict with the Palestinians, it seemed that he positioned himself to the left of many senior Likud lawmakers, who last week declared their steadfast opposition to a Palestinian state.

But Liberman’s vision of a “two-state solution” is a far cry from the more common understanding of the term. Read more…

January 7, 2013 | 6:18 am | 14 Comments »

Frenchmen demonstrate against Islamization  

January 6, 2013 | 5:07 pm | 8 Comments »

Israel’s Good News Newsletter to 6th Jan 2013  

In the 6^th Jan 2013 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

·        Israeli discovery that a medication for Parkinson’s turns sufferers into artists and poets.

·        Order of British Empire (OBE) given to Israeli educator for services to the teaching of English.

·        13% of Israeli exports go to Arab countries.

·        Israelis have developed the basis for computers that can anticipate human needs.

·        Israel is growing frankincense for the first time in over 1500 years.

·        Israel bans cosmetics that involve testing on animals.

·        Accidents and fatalities on Israeli roads are the lowest for 50 years.

·        Good news for man’s best friend – a life-saving vaccine and a TV channel.

·        Last week’s JPost Israel Good News descriptive summary

Click here for “Israel Provides for Special Needs”

ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS

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January 6, 2013 | 4:41 pm | 3 Comments »

Will Netanyahu look to left or right to form government  

By Ted Belman

As the voting day draws closer speculation increases and various parties consider their moves. Yacomovich and Livni talk about a united opposition. Lapid prefers to join the government. Netanyahu said he is open to a coalition that includes center-left parties providing they accept his principles. No surprise there.

But now Lieberman has said that the day after the elections he will separate from Likud. This means before the government is formed.
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January 6, 2013 | 10:39 am | 43 Comments »

Morsi in 2010: Zionists are descendants of apes and pigs  

Egyptian media outlets circulate video showing President Morsi harshly coming out against Israel and calling for armed resistance against ‘criminal Zionist entity’

Roi Kais, YNET

Egyptian media recently aired a video showing PresidentMohammed Morsi making harsh statements against Israel in 2010 when he served as the Muslim Brotherhood‘s official spokesman. In the first clip, Morsi described “Zionists” as “blood suckers” “warmongers” and “descendants of apes and pigs.”

“These futile (Israeli-Palestinian) negotiations are a waste of time and opportunities,” he said. “The Zionists buy time and gain more opportunities as the Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims lose time and opportunities and get nothing out of it. ”
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January 6, 2013 | 9:54 am | 4 Comments »

Netanyahu in bed with Obama and his Islamists.  

By Ted Belman

Ever since Pillar of Defense, I have followed Debka’s lead in writing about a broad deal in the making between Israel, Obama, Turkey, Qatar and Hamas.

Obama’s pledge of US troops to Sinai

The Gaza Operation: Less a War than an Anti-Iran Coup

Have the Islamists joined Israel against Iran
Netanyahu is supporting Hamas and the PA. No kidding

A hard-headed assessment of the ceasefire

WHAT DO YOU THINK 0F THIS DEAL?

I THINK THE DEAL INVOLVES UNDERSTANDINGS ON THE PEACE PROCESS SUCH AS WE GET THE SETTLEMENT BLOCS AND GIVE UP ON THE SMALL SETTLEMENTS. pERHAPS IT ALSO INVOLVES JERUSALEM AND E1.

I have identified corroborating evidence that has come to light in support of the deal that Debka described. But there is a great deal we don’t know about the deal and Netanyahu isn’t talking. Debka speculates that full disclosure would lose him support.
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January 6, 2013 | 8:25 am | 36 Comments »

YNET ridicules annexation  

YNET calls says annexation is foolish but makes a weak case. Four Likud cabinet members supported the idea but were extremely cautious in their remarks. Rest assured that they got Netanyahu’s consent to their participation in the Annexation/Sovereignty Conference and to their very cautious remarks. This leftist article attempts to ridicule annexation to make it appear non viable. Ted Belman

Op-ed: Electoral threat from Bennett causing Likud to come up with ludicrous ideas
Yoaz Hendel, YNET

The idea of annexing the territories has been living among us for 45 years. No rightist government has ever implemented it, and no leftist government has ever rejected it. In December 1981, six months after the withdrawal from Sinai, Menachem Begin tried to define the border. He annexed the Golan Heights and drew harsh criticism from the world. Reagan’s America created a crisis, but it is in the nature of crises to end. The Golan Heights, however, remained annexed with a clear border.
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January 5, 2013 | 7:11 pm | 12 Comments »

Into the Fray: Redefining (failure as) victory  

By MARTIN SHERMAN, JPOST

One can only hope that the stiffening of national resolve the public seems to be displaying in its choice of candidates for the next Knesset, will result in a new political atmosphere that will permit the IDF to once again become the formidable and feared fighting apparatus it once was.

Post-modern notions have blurred the strategic clarity of Israel’s political leadership and its defense and foreign affairs establishment. [T]he outcome of the 2006 [Lebanon] war makes the next round inevitable 
– Efraim Inbar, director of the Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies

Even if Israel can very capably defend itself…it lacks the will to make the protracted efforts to defeat its enemies…. No one at the upper echelons of Israel’s political life articulates the imperative for victory 
– Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum

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January 5, 2013 | 6:03 am | 27 Comments »

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