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Netanyahu endorses Palestinian Independence
Jun 14, 6:26 PM (ET)
By JOSEF FEDERMAN
JERUSALEM (AP) - "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu endorsed...Palestinian state beside Israel...reversing himself under U.S. pressure ...attaching conditions such as having no army that the Palestinians swiftly rejected.
... [he said]...Palestinian state would also have to recognize Israel as the Jewish state - essentially saying Palestinian refugees must give up the goal of returning to Israel.
With those conditions...he could accept "a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside the Jewish state."
...Palestinian government dismissed the proposal..."
More articles:
The Jerusalem Post:
Palestinians: Netanyahu has buried peace process
(Carter says) 'PM placed obstacles on road to peace'
(Mubarek says) 'Netanyahu is ruining peace chances'
The DEBKAfile:
Enraged Palestinians weigh return to terror for Netanyahu speech
The Haaretz:
Analysis/Netanyahu aimed solely for Obama's ears
Bibbie is not burying the peace process. He just doesn't believe that you get piece by giving away your land.
Jimmy Carter should stay down on the farm.
Enraged Palestinians? Who might they be Hezbolla?
Al, I agree completely.
It is unfortunate the United States cannot (or willingly refuses to) grasp what Netanyahu (and others) have stated all along.
Here's an excerpt from his speech on Sunday:
"...In order to bring an end to the conflict, we must give an honest and forthright answer to the question: What is the root of the conflict?
...the simple truth is that the root of the conflict was, and remains, the refusal to recognize the right of the Jewish people to a state of their own, in their historic homeland..."
(Full Text of Netanyahu's Speech)
Just how hard is this to understand? The Arabs are the one who stand in the way - and always have - of any form of "peace".
I caught a bit of George Mitchell's comments made while on his current 'peace mission' to the Middle East. He's another one that makes my nostrils flare. I wish he too, would just 'go away'...like Jimmy Carter.
Speaking of Jimmy Carter...(must we?!?)
Al, have you no respect for your Elders?
He is, after all, one of them. More precisely, one of the twelve. (You may bow now in their general direction!)
If you'd like your head to spin just a little bit faster, read Carter's Trip Reports, this one from back in April 2008 when he went on his 'mission' to the Middle East!
How fitting. Today's reading included Psalm 83
A Prayer for the Destruction of Israel's Enemies
Listen to Psalm 83 in Hebrew
It amazes me how prophetic events are unfolding. Faster than ever in my lifetime, or so it seems. Maybe I'm just too old. Regardless, Maranatha!
Israel will soon 'stand alone', save for God. Her allies, such as the U.S. can't seem to distance themselves fast enough.
"For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city go forth into captivity and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when He fought in the day of battle. And His feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives..." Zechariah 14:2-4(a).
I believe that in light of verses of Scripture like the one above that all the allies of Israel will turn away from her. God help us on the day America turns it's back on the Nation of Israel.
L I know you're joshing cuz you know that those pinkos can't possibly be my elders.
Hot off the wire...
TO: Komrade Amoling
RE: "those pinkos can't possibly be my elders."
It has come to our attention you are needing re-education.
Report to nearest railroad station. You will find one-way ticket to newest 'camp' located in Obamastan, D.C.
Bring warm clothes and shovel.
There is much work to be done.
For The Greater Good™,
Kommissar L
methinks you've got way toooooo much time on your hands. But thanks for the laughs
Washington Times
EDITORIAL: Hamas and Mr. Carter
19 June 2009
"Former President Jimmy Carter said this week that he plans to ask the Obama administration to take Hamas off the U.S. list of terrorist organizations...
...Carter called the blockade Israel and Egypt have imposed on Gaza since Hamas took over an "atrocity"...blamed Jerusalem, Cairo, Washington and the rest of the world for "this terrible human rights crime."...
The Obama administration has not commented on [his] private diplomatic efforts, but most reports indicate they are trying studiously to ignore him. Maybe they hope he'll go away."
If Obama wants Jimmy to go away that would be the first and probably last time I'd agree with anything the "o" wanted.
Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Museum had to be evacuated Sunday as a raging forest fire spread through the hills of southwestern Jerusalem, inundating the facility with heavy smoke. Several residential neighborhoods were also evacuated in the city. The Pi Glilot fuel depot is also threatened.
Emergency services spokesman Boaz Rakia said the fire was out of control and threatening residential areas. "The fire is raging in the Jerusalem forest and it is heading east and endangering some Jerusalem neighbourhoods," he told AFP. "At the moment it is not under control."
http://news.yahoo.com/holocaust-museum-evacuated-fire-nears-jerusalem-15...
The Palestinian Authority will ask the Security Council in September to recognize a Palestinian state as a full member of the UN, Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Sunday. Hamas, meanwhile, announced its opposition to the PA plan and said it had not been consulted about it.
“This is a legal, political and moral right,” Erekat said. “If the US uses the veto against our request, we will return to the UN with a request to upgrade the status of the Palestinian state to nonmember. Afterward, we will go back to the Security Council once and twice and three times to ask for full membership.”
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=229781
In a Palestinian public opinion survey released last week by The Israel Project, 65 percent of Palestinians said they believe that they should conduct negotiations with Israel. But before we get excited, we need to read the fine print.
According to a survey released last week by The Israel Project, 65% of Palestians believe in negotiations with Israel butbelieve that talks should not lead to the establishment of the State of Palestine next to Israel and at peace with the Jewish state. They believe the establishment of "Palestine" next to Israel should serve as a means for continuing their war against Israel. The goal of that war is to destroy what's left of Israel after the "peace" treaty and gobble it into "Palestine."
That is, 66% of Palestinians believe "peace" talks with Israel should be conducted in bad faith.
Moreover, three-quarters deny Jewish ties to Jerusalem, and 80% support Islamic jihad against Jews as called for in the Hamas charter; 73% support the annihilation of the Jewish people as called for in the Hamas charter on the basis of Islamic scripture.
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From: Friends of Israel
Palestinian rocket strikes Israel Saturday/Sunday
Posted by The Friends of Israel at 11:54 AM Monday, June 15, 2009
"Palestinian terrorists in Gaza fired a Kassam rocket into Israel on Saturday (13th). In response, Israeli planes bombed two weapons-smuggling tunnels in southern Gaza on Sunday (14th).
Another Kassam hit Ashkelon Beach on Sunday (14th).
Some 670 Kassam rockets, mortars and Grad missiles have been fired at Israel since the beginning of 2009."(Ha’Aretz, 6/15)