By Ted Belman

If I had been the President of the US for the last four years:

1. I would have forced the PA to negotiate a deal with Israel, i.e., to make the necessary concessions. I would clearly support the settlements and take the position that Israel should include most settlements so that less that 5% of the settlers would have to be moved. This could be done by reducing the PA’s economic and diplomatic support. I would have moved the US Embassy to Jerusalem to indicate my belief that at least the west part of Jerusalem would remain in Israel in any settlement.

2. I would have insisted on UNRWA being unwound. This could be done by economic pressure. I would have insisted that all Palestinians be given citizenship in their host countries or would have arranged for their re-settlement elsewhere but not in Judea and Samaria.
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What follows is the speech delivered by Mahmud Abbas to the UN. I have posted it for you to see how he presents the Palestinian cause to the world. It consists of one horrendous lie after another. It is libelous and slanderous to Israel and to Jews. Unfortunately he has the support of well over 50% of the members of the UN.

Goebbels was right.

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The Question Palestine is intricately linked with the United Nations via the resolutions adopted by its various organs and agencies and via the essential and lauded role of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East – UNRWA – which embodies the international responsibility towards the plight of Palestine refugees, who are the victims of Al-Nakba (Catastrophe) that occurred in 1948. We aspire for and seek a greater and more effective role for the United Nations in working to achieve a just and comprehensive peace in our region that ensures the inalienable, legitimate national rights of the Palestinian people as defined by the resolutions of international legitimacy of the United Nations.
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Islamist-turned-Zionist says Europe obsessed with Israel, ignores global atrocities

Kasim Hafeez, YNET

The recent decision by the Canadian government to close the Iranian embassy and expel all Iranian diplomats, citing “Iran as the most significant threat to global peace and security in the world today,” is as courageous as it is logical. It has been apparent from its very ascent to power that the regime in Tehran has been a sponsor of terror all over the globe – particularly targeting Israel and Jews.

Equally apparent is that the so called “Arab Spring” has rapidly descended into an Islamist winter, Assad’s regime will continue murdering its own people until it silences all opposition, the Saudi-funded Islamist ideology despises all other ideologies and, saddest of all, no one cares because the pathological obsession with Israel seems to mute the real human rights tragedies around the world.
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http://www.pmo.gov.il/English/MediaCenter/Speeches/Pages/speechUN270912.aspx

Three thousand years ago, King David reigned over the Jewish state in our eternal capital, Jerusalem. I say that to all those who proclaim that the Jewish state has no roots in our region and that it will soon disappear.

Throughout our history, the Jewish people have overcome all the tyrants who have sought our destruction. It’s their ideologies that have been discarded by history.

The people of Israel live on. We say in Hebrew Am Yisrael Chai, and the Jewish state will live forever.
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Greek riots, Spanish anti-austerity marches shatter Europe’s relative financial calm

WaPo

ATHENS, Greece — Europe’s fragile financial calm was shattered Wednesday as investors worried that violent anti-austerity protests in Greece and Spain’s debt troubles showed that the continent still cannot contain its financial crisis.

Police fired tear gas Wednesday at rioters hurling gasoline bombs and chunks of marble during Greece’s largest anti-austerity demonstration in six months. The protests were part of a 24-hour general strike, the latest test for Greece’s nearly four-month-old coalition government and the new spending cuts it plans to push through.
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Whatever view we take of a nuclear-armed Iran and Israel’s right to self-defence, the alarmist argument constantly invoked – fear of a wider conflagration – simply isn’t credible

By Peter C. Glover and Michael J. Economides, The Commentator (UK)

Tensions are running high after the IAEA reported that Iran’s hard-line regime, far from buckling under the pressure of sanctions, has actually stepped up its weapons-grade nuclear enrichment program.

With talks between the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Tehran producing “no concrete results” since January, and Tehran closing in on a nuclear weapons capability, reports from Israel suggest Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government has finally lost patience with the failed diplomatic process and is “determined” to strike Iran’s nuclear sites before November’s U.S. election.
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By Ted Belman

The Obama administration seems to be willing to limit free speech in order to protect Muslims who might be offended by it and even to criminalize criticism of Islam or Mohammed though it says otherwise.

Obama failed to defend the movie Innocence of Muslims as an expression of free speech and failed to stand behind such a freedom as a bedrock American value.

So it was all the more surprising that he had this to say about it in his speech to the UN:

I know there are some who ask why we don’t just ban such a video. The answer is enshrined in our laws: our Constitution protects the right to practice free speech. Here in the United States, countless publications provoke offense. Like me, the majority of Americans are Christian, and yet we do not ban blasphemy against our most sacred beliefs. Moreover, as President of our country, and Commander-in-Chief of our military, I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so. Americans have fought and died around the globe to protect the right of all people to express their views – even views that we disagree with.
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by Michael Freund, The Jerusalem Post

With the Palestinian Authority teetering on the brink of financial ruin, an unlikely deliverer has stepped in seeking to save the day. The would-be rescuer is neither a wealthy Gulf Arab sheikh nor a playboy Saudi prince with money to burn, nor even a misguided European government looking to curry favor with the Muslim world. Believe it or not, it is Israel that is now scrambling to salvage the PA from folding.

Yes, you read that correctly. At the very same time that Mahmoud Abbas is defying Jerusalem by threatening to ask the United Nations General Assembly to upgrade the status of “Palestine,” Israel is trying to save his regime from oblivion.
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America needs Day of Atonement

By Joseph Farah, WMD, September 25, 2012

They call it a Jewish holiday – Yom Kippur.

It’s the Day of Atonement, all right, but it’s not just for Jews. As Leviticus 23 makes clear, today is not a Jewish holiday, it’s one of the Feasts of the Lord, or, more precisely, one of the Feasts of Yahweh.

In other words, it’s for everyone who believes in the One True God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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Savaged for Daring to Name Savagery: Pamela Geller Attacked by Critics of Free Speech

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus, JEWISH PRESS

Pamela Geller, conservative commentator and blogger provocateur, is the executive director of the American Freeedom Defense Initiative.  AFDI created and paid for an ad campaign to run in several urban transit systems, in response to anti-Israel ads that ran in the same spaces. Read more…

Stephen Plaut has been railing against the Politics Department at Ben Gurion U and for good reason. Here’s his letter

to the Editor of JPOST

Shut down the disgrace

Sir, – The leftist geographer who single-handedly built the politics department at Ben- Gurion University of the Negev into the worst anti-Israel indoctrination and propaganda center in the country is simply unable to find anything wrong with it (“Prof. David Newman defends BGU’s politics department against Council on Higher Education registration ban,” September 24).
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Ankara re-embraces its old allies in Washington, at the expense of Tehran and Damascus.

By SONER CAGAPTAY, WSJ

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has made a bloody comeback in Turkey. According to a recent report by the International Crisis Group, PKK-related violence has killed some 700 people since the summer of 2011. This deadly toll recalls the horrors of the 1990s, when thousands of civilians were killed in PKK terror attacks and a brutal war in eastern Turkey between the government and Kurdish militants.

The resurgence of PKK violence is no accident. It is directly related to Turkey’s defiant posture in support of the Syrian uprising and against the Assad regime and its patrons in Iran. The upside for the West is that Ankara is starting to re-embrace its old friends in Washington.
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The Canadian Press

Canada’s delegation walked out of the United Nations General Assembly Wednesday before Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad began his speech to the world body.

Canadian diplomats also walked out of the Iranian leader’s speech to the General Assembly last year.

Rick Roth, press secretary to Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, said Wednesday that Canadians “will not sit silently in our chairs and listen to Iran’s hateful, anti-Western, anti-Semitic views.
“If anything, today’s address only reinforces our decision earlier this month to suspend diplomatic relations with Iran.”
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The media has a long history of repeating anything the Arabs say about Jews without checking. They don’t care that Jews may be killed or falsely condemned for the “crime”. It actually sells more papers to blame Jews.Ted Belman

By Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Huffington Post

The casualty list from the “Innocence of Muslims” YouTube movie continues to mount by the day. First and foremost for the American people were the murders of our Ambassador and three other patriots serving their country.

Then there is President Obama’s carefully crafted outreach to the Arab and Muslim world shredded by a choreographed dance of hate that continues to inflame anti-American passions on the Muslim street from Cairo to Jakarta. Pope Benedict XIV’s mission of reconciliation to Lebanon was lost amid the unending din of anti-West outbursts that dominated the news.
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By Ted Belman

The polls have all but declared Obama the victor come the elections.

The Conservatives hate almost everything Obama stands for, including
abandonment of Israel, embrace of the MB at home and abroad, embrace of Islam at home and abroad, tax and spend, ever growing deficit and debt, abortion, gay marriage, a weakened military and so on.

Even if the polls are not as scientific as they should be (see JUICED: PRO-OBAMA POLLS RELY ON RECORD DEM TURNOUT, they are telling us something.
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By Jonothan Schanzer, Weekly Standard Blog

“Bir Halek, Ya Fayyad” is not a catchy tune. But the popularity of Palestinian singer Kassem Najar’s song, which translates to “Get A Grip, Fayyad,” is an indication that Salam Fayyad, the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, may be on the way out. Najar, however, is the least of Fayyad’s problems.

In recent weeks, protesters in Ramallah, Bethlehem, Nablus, and beyond have surrounded and threatened him, burned him in effigy, and thrown shoes at his likeness. “Yalla irhal ya Fayyad“ (“let’s go, Fayyad get out”) was a recurring chant. Read more…

By Victor Davis Hanson, REAL CLEAR POLITICS,Sept 20/12

Last week, Muslim mobs took to the streets to murder the American ambassador in Libya and three of his staffers. American embassies were attacked from Egypt to Yemen.

Embarrassed White House press secretary Jay Carney and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice insisted that these assaults were just reactions to an insensitive video that disparaged Islam and was circulating on the Internet. As embassies burned, we were assured that there was no animosity directed at America in general, or at this administration and its foreign policy in particular.
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DEBKAfile Exclusive Report September 25, 2012,

Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood has given King Abdullah II notice that he has until October to bow to their demand to transform the Hashemite Kingdom into a constitutional monarchy or face Arab Spring street pressure for his abdication.

DEBKAfile’s Middle East sources report that Israeli and Saudi intelligence watchers are becoming increasingly concerned about the approaching climax of the conflict in Amman between Islamists and the throne .

For Israel, an upheaval in Jordan bodes the tightening of the Islamist noose around its borders – Egypt and Libya to the south and Syria to the north, with unpredictable consequences with regard to Jordan’s Palestinian population.
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The only tide that is ‘receding’ is U.S. influence.

WSJ

Another day, another installment in what President Obama likes to call the “receding” tide of war. On Wednesday, John Kerry threatened to cut U.S. aid to Baghdad unless the Iraqi government blocks overflights of Iranian planes suspected of ferrying military supplies to Damascus. But Baghdad isn’t budging. Welcome to the post-American Middle East, Senator.

“If so many people have entreated the [Iraqi] government to stop and that doesn’t seem to be having an impact,” said the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at a confirmation hearing for the new U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, then it “seems to send a signal to me maybe we should make some of our assistance or some of our support contingent on some kind of appropriate response.”
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