With unity on horizon, drive to strip PA of US funding gains ground

 

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  1. Is it the emperor’s new clothes syndrome or an Alice in Wonderland scenario that is being played out. How can the
    GOI (read BB) go along with such duplicity on the part of
    their so-called ally (the US). How can the US justify
    continued aid to the Palis who are sworn to eliminate Israel.
    How can BB continue to flout the will of the Israeli people
    who have shown their support for a unified country including
    Y & S. The ONLY solution is a change in leadership, Jewish
    Leadership must take over and fill the vacuum.

  2. One by one the RATS are being exposed!!!!
    @ bernard ross:

    Shimon Peres’ legacy

    Peres’s most significant legacy will be the nuclear arsenal he leaves behind.

    No, not Israel’s purported nuclear arsenal that Peres’s flaks eagerly claim he is solely responsible for developing.

    Peres’s legacy will be Iran’s nuclear arsenal.

    The ongoing police investigation into allegedly illegal conduct by then-IDF Chief of Staff Lt.- Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi has revealed the source of Israel’s paralysis.

    Apparently led by Peres, the triumvirate of security chiefs serving between 2008 and 2011 – Ashkenazi, then-Mossad director Meir Dagan and then-Shin Bet director Avi Dichter – colluded to undermine Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s and then-defense minister Ehud Barak’s legal authority to order Israel’s security forces to take action against Iran.

    According to a Haaretz report on Wednesday, between 2008 and 2011, the four men leaked plans and discussions of possible Israeli strikes on Iran to the media in order to prevent them from being carried out. The four men opposed an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear installations and stridently rejected any Israeli operation not coordinated with the US.
    Friday, May 30th, 2014

  3. @ bernard ross:


    Danon: Government has frozen settlement expansion plans

    Deputy defense minister protests ‘silent freeze,’ urges annexation of 60% of West Bank, says price tag attackers need psychological help
    By Raphael Ahren May 19, 2014, (See the date of publication!!!!)

    I have always said ignore what BB says publicly and only try to discern where he is taking us only by his actions. He is a pathological liar and not one word he utters is to be believed.

    The coalition will breakup sooner than later and BB is counting on the summer recess in the Knesset where he can act out of the political oversight and united opposition to his moves.

    The Knesset will convene I think in Sept or Oct.

    How many times do I need comment that BB is an American stooge a plated Trojan Horse and answerable to foreign interests over Israeli ones. He is a Traitor!!!!!

    If BB is open about his duplicity and double speak then he must be confident he can get away with it or he is misreading his strength and his built in opposition, or NOT??????


    ‘Ya’alon is Obsessed with Destroying Judea and Samaria’

    Activist: Yaalon Behind Harassment in Outposts
    Moshe Yaalon has turned out to be a major disappointment for residents of Judea and Samaria, said the head of Kommemiyut.
    Minister, Residents’ Council attack Defense Minister over home demolitions, say Israel has joined the PA in destroying the region.

  4. DEBKAfile: Israel won’t object to US accepting Palestinian unity govt
    DEBKAfile May 30, 2014, 1:03 PM (IDT)
    Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu won’t take exception for now to Obama administration carrying on its dialogue with the Palestinians with the new Fatah-Hamas unity regime, DEBKAfile’s sources report. Ignoring the Hamas partner in the new government, the US has invited the just-designated unity prime minister Rami Hamdallah for a visit to Washington. Jerusalem will go along with the administration’s steps up to a point, leaving open how far Israel continues to stand by for closer ties between the West Bank and Gaza members of the new Palestinian government, and allow Hamas officials to share the same privileged status as awarded to Fatah high-ups. The Netanyahu government calculates that the new Palestinian government, made up of non-partisan technocrats, will not survive the first disputes between its component factions Fatah and Hamas over unresolved issues: For instance, the shape of the Gaza regime; who controls Hamas’ armed forces; and elections to the presidency and parliament. Already, Hamas has vetoed Mahmoud Abbas’ decision to retain Riyadh al-Maliki as foreign minister.
    http://www.debka.com/newsupdatepopup/8359/

    @ yamit82:
    bernard ross Said:

    In fact I would not be surprised if BB has agreed to this while givng a performance of rhetoric threats and conflict.

  5. yamit82 Said:

    Netanyahu Admits to Freezing Construction

    US President Barack Obama’s administration demanded “not one brick, not one house” in Judea and Samaria according to Netanyahu, a demand the prime minister said he was able to hold off.

    How did he hold it off? He appears to have slavishly followed his masters instructions. all his announcements appear designed to maintain the loyalty of the right while obstructing settlement everywhere but in the major settlement blocks.

    BB admits that his is a US stooge who jumps to his masters commands. His employer is the US gov and not the Israeli people. He paints himself as one up against the harsh US gov trying to keep Israel alive but I believe he is in full cooperation and looks on the Israeli street just like the Saudis look at their street, and the US looks at their street: idiots to be fooled who dont know what’s good for themselves.
    Why do you think BB will be out of a job? He just keeps blaming it on the US and they keep buying it. BB’s supporters include those who believe that bringing down BB will result in a leftist gov just like the last time he was brought down: that’s their greatest fear so they accept anything he does.

  6. yamit82 Said:

    Then your theory gets blown to pieces…

    I think you mean that their plans get blown to pieces. The failure of their plans would not mean my theory is wrong. similarly I had the same theory on syria and obama backed off but he appears to be returning. If BB is in agreement with them and his plan his thwarted it does not mean they did not have that plan. I base this assessment on all that has also gone before including the last gaza war and “strange” cease fire which involved qatar. I expect high rhetoric from both sides but that talks will resume. The pals will be allowed to appear as if they won something as usual. Let’s distinguish between drama and reality.
    yamit82 Said:

    Saudi Arabia’s desire to hold talks with Iran

    I have always siad that the understandings, or offers, can change if the GCC returns to Iran, that Israel must be cautious. However, I also beleive that US and GCC are not completely happy with Israel for not helping with assad. but I believe the arrangements are still in place and will now ratchet up again. All is based on self interests, not love.

  7. @ bernard ross:

    As I said by December BB could well be out of a job:
    Netanyahu Admits to Freezing Construction

    Netanyahu acknowledged that American demands led to the cancellation of high planning council meetings of the IDF’s civil administration that manages the Judea and Samaria region.

    The prime minister reportedly requested that the Housing Ministry freeze new construction projects in Judea and Samaria earlier in the month, despite the collapse of peace talks, and despite the fact that he chose to release jailed terrorists instead of freezing building as a condition of the talks.

    In the meeting the prime minister did not deny having giving the order to freeze construction, but claimed to the representatives of Judea and Samaria residents that he wasn’t aware of the results of his actions on the region.

    “Defender of the settlements”

    Nevertheless, Netanyahu reportedly termed himself “the defender of the settlements” in the meeting, claiming to have blocked strong international pressure against a Jewish presence in the region.

    US President Barack Obama’s administration demanded “not one brick, not one house” in Judea and Samaria according to Netanyahu, a demand the prime minister said he was able to hold off.

    In reported meeting with Judea Samaria leaders, PM says US ‘not one brick’ demand led him to cancel planning, but didn’t know consequences.

  8. bernard ross Said:

    yamit82 Said:
    Report claims Palestinian unity gov’t formed, acknowledged by Washington
    This does not surprise me. In fact I would not be surprised if BB has agreed to this while givng a performance of rhetoric threats and conflict. Hamas also gives aperformance of rhetoric thereats and conflict but does nothing. Qatar instructed Meshaal who instructed hamas that the GCC demands the unity gov and suddenly the unity gov falls into place. this may be its oppostie in that hamas becomes constrained and has an excuse not to commit violence(exactly what obtains at the moment)while at the same time “talking trash” to maintain its image. I think Israel, the US and the GCC are all in agreement here behind the scenes. a unity gov will occur, talks will resume, hamas will continue to be leashed. the drama plays out for those on the Israeli and arab street. I would not be surprised if the long term deal is that Israel keeps the major settlement blocks, over 10 years the other settlements will be squeezed out, given incentives to leave,. BB will talk trash like hamas, talk for Jerusalem and the settlers but will only ok settlement in the major settlement blocks that will remain under Israeli sovereignty. Through the years as time progresses he will give more to the pals in C.

    By December BB may be out of a job. Then your theory gets blown to pieces… Then there is this:

    Saudi Arabia’s desire to hold talks with Iran

    An Indian hand in Saudi Arabia-Iran reconciliation? (Comment)

  9. yamit82 Said:

    Report claims Palestinian unity gov’t formed, acknowledged by Washington

    This does not surprise me. In fact I would not be surprised if BB has agreed to this while givng a performance of rhetoric threats and conflict. Hamas also gives aperformance of rhetoric thereats and conflict but does nothing. Qatar instructed Meshaal who instructed hamas that the GCC demands the unity gov and suddenly the unity gov falls into place. this may be its oppostie in that hamas becomes constrained and has an excuse not to commit violence(exactly what obtains at the moment)while at the same time “talking trash” to maintain its image. I think Israel, the US and the GCC are all in agreement here behind the scenes. a unity gov will occur, talks will resume, hamas will continue to be leashed. the drama plays out for those on the Israeli and arab street. I would not be surprised if the long term deal is that Israel keeps the major settlement blocks, over 10 years the other settlements will be squeezed out, given incentives to leave,. BB will talk trash like hamas, talk for Jerusalem and the settlers but will only ok settlement in the major settlement blocks that will remain under Israeli sovereignty. Through the years as time progresses he will give more to the pals in C.

  10. Saudi Peace Initiative takes back seat to Iran
    Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/05/saudi-peace-initiative-iran-palestine-israel.html?utm_source=Al-Monitor+Newsletter+%5BEnglish%5D&utm_campaign=3444abd6f1-May_30_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_28264b27a0-3444abd6f1-100371289#ixzz33DUtR3jx
    Kuwait offers plan to buy foreign citizenship for Bedoon
    Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/05/kuwait-bedoon-comoros-stateless-citizenship.html?utm_source=Al-Monitor+Newsletter+%5BEnglish%5D&utm_campaign=3444abd6f1-May_30_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_28264b27a0-3444abd6f1-100371289#ixzz33DWTw3V8

  11. Report claims Palestinian unity gov’t formed, acknowledged by Washington

    Palestinian officials state invitation shows change in US stance on Fatah-Hamas unity government, according to Israeli media report.

    A senior Palestinian Authority official reportedly announced that the US has invited the new Palestinian unity government’s prime minister, Rami Hamdallah, to an official visit in Washington.

    According to a report by Maariv on Friday, a Palestinian official stated that the invitation is a declaration of American recognition for the unity government. The report cited the official as saying, “The visit will take place in June, during which Hamdallah will meet with American president and visit the US Congress.”