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The UN acts in violation of International Law while claiming to uphold it (13330)
Can the UN impose a solution on Israel? (31094)
Long standing US Policy on Jerusalem is anti-Israel and pro-Arab. (16840)
The "peace process" is not dead (4238)
The Church planted the seeds of the Holocaust (50934)
The conspiracy to shrink Israel (44017)
"The UN Charter is a war document, not a peace document." (28609)
Trump calls Muslim migration “the all-time biggest Trojan Horse”. (60213)
Since when did the Palestinians become entitled to a state? (52965)
The 100 year betrayal of Israel by the West (43023)
Tiny Qatar casts a giant shadow. (9259)
The Historical Jesus  (50286)
International law and the State of Israel (27616)
The truth about UNRWA (25740)
Saudi Arabia and the Peace Process (19309)
Israel Should Declare Three Nos (25033)
The West should make amends to the Jewish people for this historical injustice. (22555)
Two-State Solution or Jordan Option? Your choice. (17502)
Israel is the legal owner of all lands west of the Jordan R. (38403)
In praise of Israpundit and Ted Belman (8773)
The US and the UK cannot be trusted. (11840)
In the International Arena there is no Rule of Law, only the Rule of Power (8732)
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December 4, 2012

U.S. is co-operating in the suppression of free speech  

America Again Submits to the Istanbul Process

By Nina Shea, NRO

Round three of the “Istanbul Process” opens today, December 3, and runs through Wednesday, at Canada House, in London, hosted by the U.K. and Canada. The Istanbul Process is Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s major transnational law initiative, undertaken in partnership with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). It was established last year to “implement” measures against speech and expression that negatively “stereotype[s]” Islam and Muslims, with a particular emphasis on enacting them in the West.

This initiative was started as an inexplicable, gratuitous gift to the Muslim world following the March 2011 adoption of a non-binding U.N. Human Rights Council resolution (16/18) on the same theme. While the Obama administration claims that it doesn’t intend for the process to adopt regulations beyond the American free-speech standard, our partner, the OIC, is only too eager to do just that. Read more…

December 4, 2012 | 5:20 am | 4 Comments »

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December 3, 2012

Israel’s response to the November 29, 2012 UN Vote  

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought”
“Israel Hayom”, December 3, 2012, bit.ly/R1MACF 

The November 29, 2012 UN vote to upgrade the Palestinian Authority (PA) to a “non-member observer state” – in violation of the 1993 Oslo Accords – was an expected derivative of Israel’s policy towards the PA since 1993 – critical concessions, retreats, indecisiveness, submission to pressure and appeasement.

What has Israel done since 1993?

Unprecedented Israeli concessions – such as the legitimization, importation and the arming of 60,000 Palestinian terrorists from Sudan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Tunisia and the evacuation of Gaza and 40% of Judea and Samaria –  resulted in unprecedented Palestinian hate-education and incitement, terrorism and non-compliance. Read more…

December 3, 2012 | 9:01 pm | 12 Comments »

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Tobin: “Israel’s Building No Obstacle to Peace”  

This is the best map I have seen.

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The BBC sums up the protest in UK and France summon Israeli envoys in settlements row. When these countries voted in vafour of the UN resolution recognizing a Palestine state to the ’67 lines, they were in fact approving of a fundamental breach of the Oslo Accords by the PA. They also have been appointed as monitors of the Roadmap which requires them to uphold its terms. For them, Palestinian actions don’t threaten peace, only Israel’s actions do.

Jonathan Tobin in Commentary puts the lie to what all our detractors are angrily saying by asserting Israel’s Building No Obstacle to Peace:

    It sounds logical but it’s absolute nonsense. If the Palestinians did want a two-state solution, the new project as well as the other ones announced yesterday for more houses to be built in 40-year-old Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem wouldn’t stop it. That’s true even of those that say that the final borders of Israel and a putative state of Palestine must be based on the 1949 armistice lines with agreed-upon land swaps. Those swaps wouldn’t amount to more than a few percentage points of the total land area of the West Bank and probably preclude Israel keeping many far-flung settlements in the territory. But everyone knows that the swaps would have to account for the Jewish suburbs of Jerusalem, including Maale Adumim and the other towns in the vicinity that are already inside the security fence that does not protect most settlements. But the operative phrase here is “if” the Palestinians wanted such a solution. They have refused every offer of a state they’ve gotten and refused even to negotiate for four years, not to mention employing the UN gambit specifically in order to avoid talks. The notion that Israeli building in areas that everyone knows they would keep if there was a deal in place is stopping peace from breaking out is ludicrous.
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December 3, 2012 | 3:05 pm | 25 Comments »

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Muslim Brotherhood Tyrants Show Their True Faces  

By Daniel Greenfield, FrontPage Mag

On February 10, 2011, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper appeared before the House Select Committee on Intelligence to testify on threats to the United States. Mubarak was one day away from resigning, under pressure from Washington, paving the way for a Muslim Brotherhood takeover, and the situation in Egypt was on everyone’s mind.

Clapper, who would later be accused of altering the CIA talking points on Benghazi to remove any reference to Al Qaeda, assured the members of the Committee that they had nothing to worry about from the Muslim Brotherhood.
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December 3, 2012 | 9:06 am | 2 Comments »

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Israel’s Settlements and the Europeans  

By Jonathan Robin, COMMENTARY

    if the Europeans believe that the 1967 lines with land swaps is the formula for peace, it’s hard to understand why they are upset with Israel building in places that everyone knows they would keep under such a plan.

Those looking for an explanation for why almost all of Europe backed the Palestinians in the recent vote to upgrade their status at the United Nations are blaming it on Israel’s decision to continue building homes in Jerusalem and its suburbs. As reporter Laura Rozen put it in a tweet, “Does Israel really not get how fed up Europe is w/ its settlement policies?” The upshot of this sort of thinking is that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fanatical devotion to “Greater Israel” is isolating Israel and forcing even its friends to abandon its cause in international forums. Read more…

December 3, 2012 | 8:57 am | 10 Comments »

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Kushner reviews last week’s events  

By Arlene Kuhner

“So-Far, So-Good”

Other obligations prevent me from reviewing background on our historical and legal rights to the land today.  But I do not want to let the day go by without an update on the “Abbas-UN” situation:

And as I write, it is, so-far, so-good, because I’m seeing no backtracking on Israeli government announcements.  The contrary, actually.

In several quarters the Israeli response to Abbas’s move at the UN elicited surprise because just days ago a decision had been made — which I wrote about — to keep a low profile and wait and see how matters progressed. 

It seems clear to me that what turned the situation about was not the fact that Abbas went to the General Assembly, but the outrageous way in which he spoke about Israel from that podium.  It likely pushed a lot of buttons. (If you see Netanyahu’s statement to the Cabinet, link below, he alludes to this.)
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December 3, 2012 | 5:59 am | 2 Comments »

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Abandon the Two-State Solution  

By Ted Belman

INN reports, McCain: Israel Must Respond to PA’s Unilateral Move

    “I think, though, that the United States should react by saying, ‘We’re not only not going to be part of anything like this, but we’re also not going to spend American taxpayers’ dollars.’ That usually gets their attention.”

    The U.S. and Israel do not want the Palestinian Authority to fail, said McCain, “but at the same time we cannot have action like this go unresponded to. It’s going to take some thinking and consultation with Congress” on how to respond, he added.

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December 3, 2012 | 5:04 am | 14 Comments »

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December 2, 2012

Punting on Palestine  

Editorial of The New York

We love that headline ‘Obama punts to Congress over repercussions for UN Palestine vote.’ It was linked on the Drudge Report within minutes of it going up on the Web site of the Hill newspaper, no doubt because it highlights the ironical impact of the vote in the United Nations conferring observer status on the state declared by the Palestinian Arabs. “The White House won’t seek to punish the Palestinian Authority for this week’s statehood vote at the United Nations,” reported the Hill’s Julian Pecquet, “but did not vow to veto pending legislative proposals to cut off U.S. aid in retaliation.”
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December 2, 2012 | 11:09 pm | 2 Comments »

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Very Good News Israel  

The Jewish State in its true light.
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In the 2nd Dec 2012 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
·        The lives of eight Israelis were saved last week with organs from donors over 70 years of age.
·        Hear the truth about Israel from a Muslim-Arab mother with a son in the IDF.
·        Israel is funding a teaching hospital in Ghana.
·        An Israeli application will help autism sufferers.
·        The first session of the new UK-Israel hi-tech exchange program commenced in London.
·        Israel will play England in the Under 21 European Soccer Championships in Israel.
·        An Israeli mother saved her family from a terrorist attacker
·        Last week’s JPost Israel Good News descriptive summary
December 2, 2012 | 10:58 pm | 1 Comment »

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The Obama doctrine on terrorism – An analysis  

Countering Violent Extremism

by Dr. Richard Swier

As Raess Alam Qazi and Sheheryar Alam Qazi, two Muslim men from Pakistan, are indicted in Florida for plotting to carry out a terrorist attack using a weapon of mass destruction it is time to analyse the Obama Doctrine on terrorism.

On August 3, 2011 President Obama released the National Strategy on Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism. The strategy, now known as the Obama Doctrine, was based upon the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) study group findings and recommendation developed in 2010 by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The CVE has become the blueprint for both domestic and foreign policy when dealing with terrorism. The Obama Doctrine redefined “terrorism” as “violent extremism”.
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December 2, 2012 | 10:20 pm | 4 Comments »

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Hillary Clinton: Israel has ‘lack of generosity … lack of empathy’ for Palestinians  

The Daily Caller

Speaking at a forum at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy in Washington on Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Israel is suspicious of Palestinians and doesn’t care enough about their plight.

    “I’m not making excuses for the missed opportunities of the Israelis, or the lack of generosity, the lack of empathy that I think goes hand-in-hand with the suspicion,” Clinton said, after praising the country’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, for working with her in 2009 to offer a moratorium on building new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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December 2, 2012 | 9:58 pm | 35 Comments »

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Support the anti-boycott campaign  

Dear Friends of Israel,


Please read the important information below, sign the petition and share with your lists.
Thank you!

Join StandWithUs, ILC and ActforIsrael
and numerous other organizations

and stand up for Israel.

Please sign the petition against the
anti-Israel Boycott Movement!

Recently hundreds of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel organizations have joined forces and applied immense pressure on singer Stevie Wonder to cancel his scheduled performance at the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) Gala on Thursday, December 6.

These organizations distributed a petition with anti-Israel propaganda and demanded that Stevie Wonder cancel the show. Thousands signed the boycott petition which is full of misinformation and hatred towards Israel, and as a result Stevie Wonder was coerced into canceling the performance.

Join us as we unite to stand up for the State of Israel, the Jewish people and the free world.  Join us as we will no longer sit idly by as anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activists attempt to bully others into boycotting Israel.

Please sign this petition to stand against the anti-Israel boycott movement by clicking here.

Thank you in advance for standing with Israel,

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December 2, 2012 | 7:16 pm | 9 Comments »

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Actions have consequences  

By Ted Belman

PM Netanyahu told the Cabinet tonight quoting Rabin:

    “The response to the attack on Zionism and the State of Israel must reinforce and underscore the implementation of the settlement plan in all areas in which the government decides regarding settlement,”
    “These are not my words…. Today we are building and we will continue to build in Jerusalem and in all areas that are on the map of the strategic interests of the State of Israel.”

    “The unilateral move by the Palestinian Authority at the UN General Assembly constitutes a flagrant violation of agreements signed with the Israeli government,..The Israeli government rejects the decision of the General Assembly.”

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December 2, 2012 | 6:46 pm | 19 Comments »

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Israel will reportedly target its missiles before they get off the ground  

By ELIE LESHEM, TIMES OF ISRAEL

In the event that Iran attempts to fire missiles at Israel, Jerusalem will deploy giant drones stationed in neighboring Azerbaijan to destroy the missiles before they leave the ground, the London-based Sunday Times reported.

According to the report Sunday, an American-made X-band radar system deployed at the Nevatim airbase in the Negev “can detect an Iranian missile on its launchpad 1,000 miles to the northeast,” giving Israel up to 13 minutes of warning.

The report quoted an Israeli military source as saying “We’ll try to ‘kill’ them at the booster stage — the moment their engines are ignited.”
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December 2, 2012 | 12:38 pm | 5 Comments »

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Efraim Inbar: Israel Should Let the PA Collapse  

By Elad Benari, INN

Israel should let the Palestinian Authority collapse, particularly in the wake of its unilateral statehood bid at the United Nations, says Professor Efraim Inbar.

Inbar, director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA) at Bar-Ilan University, was interviewed by the Besheva Hebrew-language weekly this week. The interview was published several hours before the United Nations voted to upgrade the Palestinian Authority to a non-member observer state.

Besheva: Mahmoud Abbas is going to the UN to request the status of a non-member state. How do you view this move?
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December 2, 2012 | 8:02 am | 2 Comments »

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Have the Islamists joined Israel against Iran  

By Ted Belman

Have the Islamists joined Israel against Iran?  According to DEBKA the answer is yes.  But who believes DEBKA?

On Nov 23rd DEBKA reported Obama’s pledge of US troops to Sinai next week won Israel’s nod for ceasefire. If this pans out, it will be a great victory for PM Netanyahu and Israel.

But if DEBKA is right, why hasn’t Netanyahu  mentioned it in concrete terms and why has no one corroborated the report.

DEBKA explains:https://www.israpundit.org/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif

    “When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Jerusalem from Bangkok Tuesday, she tried assuring Netanyahu that President Obama had decided to accelerate the construction of an elaborate US system of electronic security fences along the Suez Canal and northern Sinai. It would also cork up the Philadelphi route through which arms are smuggled into the Gaza Strip. (The US Sinai fence project was first disclosed exclusively by DEBKA-Net-Weekly 564 on Nov. 9).”

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December 2, 2012 | 4:44 am | 4 Comments »

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December 1, 2012

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Morsi’s Dictatorship and the Gaza Ceasefire  

by Prof. Hillel Frisch, BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 187, November 27, 2012?

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has proven himself to be
a dictator in the footsteps of his predecessor Hosni Mubarak. He has
consolidated his power by sacking the military leadership and by granting
himself extensive powers over the judicial system. It is not coincidental
that his most recent dictatorial decree (overriding the judiciary) was
issued following his successful brokering of a ceasefire between Israel and
Hamas. Morsi seeks to further strengthen his control over Egypt while
continuing to benefit from Western aid.
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December 1, 2012 | 11:22 am | 2 Comments »

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Into the Fray: Israel’s infuriating impotence  

By MARTIN SHERMAN

Last week’s Gaza cease-fire proved the government incapable of delivering the goods militarily; this week’s UN vote proves it cannot deliver the goods diplomatically.

Our basic aim is to liberate the land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River. We are not concerned with what took place in June 1967 or in eliminating the consequences of the June war. The Palestinian revolution’s basic concern is the uprooting of the Zionist entity from our land and liberating it. –Yasser Arafat.

    We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. – Albert Einstein

Although the prior attempt was made in the Security Council for full UN membership, while this time it is being mounted in the General Assembly for non-member status, the citation has lost none of its relevance.
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December 1, 2012 | 9:57 am | 2 Comments »

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Israel okays building of 3,000 units in J’lem, W. Bank  

By JPOST.COM STAFF

Israel approved the construction of 3,000 new housing units in Jerusalem and in the West Bank on Friday in response to the UN approving the Palestinian UN bid for non-member observer state status, government officials stated.

The inner cabinet also decided to give the go ahead for the planning of thousands of housing units in area E1 that connects Jerusalem and Ma’aleh Adumim.

“Israel is considering several other actions in response to the unilateral Palestinian UN move,” Channel 10 quoted a government official as saying.

Last week, Washington urged Israel not to allow construction in the area known as E-1 between Jerusalem and Ma’aleh Adumim as a possible response to the Palestinian UN bid.
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December 1, 2012 | 9:48 am | 3 Comments »

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