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Lessons from Camp David | Ben White by Ben White (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 7/1/2010 1:30:33 AM
Ten years after Bill Clinton guided failed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, the idea of a negotiation on equal terms is now defunct Ten years ago this month, Israelis and Palestinians gathered at Camp David, under the guidance of President Bill Clinton, for negotiations aimed at reaching a final agreement. The talks ended in failure, and by the end of September, the second intifada had begun. The Camp David talks have largely been remembered in the context of apportioning blame. This was particularly true in the first months and years of the Palestinian uprising, as Israel spun the narrative of a rejectionist Palestinian leadership that had turned down an incredibly “generous offer” and instead opted for a campaign of violence. A host of western commentators and diplomats embraced this propaganda, despite the wealth of contradictory evidence: the misleading percentages, the Israeli/US intention of annexing illegal settlement blocs, the trickery over Abu Dis, and indeed, according to Robert Malley and Hussein Agha, the fact that “strictly speaking, there was never was an Israeli offer” beyond “orally conveyed” proposals. With American officials acting, in the words of US state department veteran Aaron David Miller, “as Israel’s attorney”, it shouldn’t be too surprising that Arafat refused the Camp David offer that even former Israeli foreign minister Shlomo Ben
Ami said he himself would have rejected. But simply analysing and debating who was responsible for the lack of a deal at Camp David is not enough; nor is it the most important lesson that the anniversary can offer. In the light of Oslo’s ruined remains, a collapsed peace process and an entrenched occupation, a more profound insight is sorely needed. The Camp David summit was the fruit of the Oslo years, where the international community believed that mutual “confidence-building measures” would lead to final status talks and a permanent deal. In reality, the winners were successive Israeli governments who oversaw settlement expansion and West Bank colonisation, and a Palestinian political-economic elite. Some thus concluded that the solution is to try and hash it all out together – including “final status” issues – rather than leave the “sensitive” questions to the end. Others have tried to repackage the approach of incrementalism under occupation as grassroots “statebuilding”. A sense of déjà vu about Israel “ handing over” cities to wellbehaved Palestinian Authority forces is understandable. But the real lesson of the anniversary is not a reworking of the Oslo/Camp David framework, but rather the futility of negotiations between unequals. The common thread running from Clinton through to Obama via Bush is one of US partisanship – the world’s most powerful country aiding and covering for an occupying regional superpower against a stateless people.
A decade on from Camp David, it is clear that there can be no resolution of the conflict through the methods of occupation-lite, temporary borders, and “easing of restrictions”. The concepts of honest broker and envoys are bankrupt; what meaning can there be in a peace process that staggers on while Israel – with total impunity – practises collective punishment and facilitates the accelerated colonisation of East Jerusalem? Furthermore, the majority of the Palestinian people – specifically the refugees and those inside Israel – remain unrepresented in the “peace process”. In the seven years I’ve been going to Palestine/Israel, I’ve watched illegal settlements expand street by street, and the Israeli mechanisms of control of the Palestinians grow ever more sophisticated and entrenched. The facts on the ground multiply each day, as more acres of Palestinian land are transformed into colonies that “everyone” knows will stay under Israeli control. Israeli and Palestinian leaders will ultimately need to sit down and talk, but it is time for our understanding of how and when to be radically reshaped by Nelson Mandela’s famous words: “Only free men can negotiate.” Israeli leaders have no intention of relinquishing control of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, nor of recognising fundamental Palestinian rights already spelled out in countless UN resolutions and global treaties. The response of the international community, if it is serious about a sustainable peace, must be enforcement and accountability, not more doomed summits and road
maps. • Comments on this article will remain open for 24 hours from the time of publication but may be closed overnight • Israel • Palestinian territories • Middle East • Bill Clinton • US foreign policy • Gaza Ben White guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Off the hook: Israel’s own Widgery inquiry into Bloody Monday | Chris Doyle Israel cannot be trusted to investigate its military over the Gaza flotilla raid. Only an international, independent inquiry will doThe man who ordered the attack on the aid flotilla to Gaza, set up t... • Gaza lawyer challenges West Bank study ban Israeli authorities denied Fatima Sharif permission to leave Gaza to take up her masters course at Birzeit University in RamallahA 29year-old lawyer from Gaza yesterday launched a legal challenge aga... • Israel to ease Gaza blockade, but major restrictions remain in small print Lifting of restrictions on some civilian goods not enough to constitute breakthrough many had hoped for after Freedom Flotilla raidExpectations that Israel would lift its blockade of Gaza were raised ... Original post source
IAF Targets Weapons Facility in Gaza, 1 July 2010 by IDF Spokesperson's Unit (Hija del Zion para Israel Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 6/30/2010 9:50:54 PM
July 1st, 2010 In Response to Rocket Fire, IAF Targets Weapons Manufacturing Facility, Terror Tunnel & Terror Activity Site in Gaza Strip The Israel Air Force struck a weapons manufacturing facility in the northern Gaza Strip in addition to a terror tunnel and terror activity site in
the southern Gaza Strip overnight. The terror tunnel was dug approximately one kilometer away from the security fence and is intended for infiltrating into Israel and executing terror attacks against IDF soldiers and Israeli civilians. The attack is in response to the rocket that was fired at Israel and damaged a factory in the Sdot Negev Regional Council on Wednesday morning, June 30th 2010. Over 90 rockets and mortar shells have been fired at Israeli territory since the beginning of
2010, and over 330 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel since the end of operation Cast Lead. The IDF remains committed to protecting the citizens of Israel and will continue to act against terror. The IDF holds Hamas solely responsible for terror emanating from the Gaza Strip. Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • NY Times admits: Ramat Shlomo is not a ’settlement’ NY Times admits: Ramat Shlomo is not a
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CENTCOM’s Blue Sky, Red Team Talks Sense About Hezbollah, Hamas by Richard Silverstein (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 6/30/2010 11:15:20 PM
Mark Perry has a mini-blockbuster of a story in Foreign Policy revealing that a team of CENTCOM intelligence analysts offered a report about what U.S. military policy should be toward Hezbollah and Hamas. The results are exceedingly pragmatic, sensible, and for that reason, controversial: …Senior CENTCOM intelligence officers question the current U.S. policy of isolating and marginalizing the two movements. Instead, the Red Team recommends a mix of strategies that would integrate the two organizations into their respective political mainstreams. …The…report calls for the integration of Hizballah into the Lebanese Armed Forces, and Hamas into the Palestinian security forces…The Red Team’s conclusion…is perhaps its most controversial finding: “The U.S. role of assistance to an integrated Lebanese defense force that includes Hizballah; and the continued training of Palestinian security forces in a Palestinian entity that includes Hamas in its government, would be more effective than providing assistance to entities — the government of Lebanon and Fatah — that represent only a part of the Lebanese and Palestinian populace respectively” (emphasis in the original). The report goes on to note that while Hizballah and Hamas “embrace staunch antiIsrael rejectionist policies,” the two groups are “pragmatic and opportunistic.” Can U.S. policy ever come to terms with Hamas? (Wikipedia) This is going to have the Israel lobby mavens screaming bloody murder and the Republicans crying: “You see, we told you Obama couldn’t be trusted on Israel.” Probably in a day or two Admiral Mullen and Gen. Petraeus will be trying to get the horses back in the barn. I think what will anger these folks is that the Red Team is only speaking common sense to anyone who knows anything about the politics of Lebanon and Palestine. Of course, Hezbollah and Hamas, though many of their views and policies may be anathema to some living in western democracies, represent legitimate political opinion within their respective societies. And we’ve got to stop viewing such phenomena through our own particular U.S. lens and try to understand things more in the context of the Middle East. Here is more reason bound to give Israel apoplexy: …The CENTCOM team directly repudiates Israel’s publicly stated
view — that the two movements are incapable of change and must be confronted with force. The report says that “failing to recognize their separate grievances and objectives will result in continued failure in moderating their behavior.” I can just see Mort Klein, Malcolm Hoenlein and Bibi foaming at the mouth and dripping with sarcasm: “Instead of fighting murderous Middle Eastern terrorists you hopeless western liberals try to “understand” them and negotiate with them.” We should be realistic in noting that no radical shift in U.S. policy is in the offing. But the fact that senior intelligence officers at the military HQ responsible for the Middle East region is contemplating the formerly unthinkable and has leaked such a report is significant: “There is a lot of thinking going on in the military and particularly among intelligence officers in Tampa [the site of CENTCOM headquarters] about these groups,” acknowledged a senior CENTCOM officer familiar with the report. However, he denied that senior military leaders are actively lobbying Barack Obama’s administration to forge an opening to the two organizations. “That’s probably not in the cards just yet,” he said. It’s that “just yet” that will have Bibi and Ehud and Gaby crapping in their shorts. The report directly contradicted the claims of the Israeli military and intelligence regarding the nature of Hezbollah: The Red Team downplays the argument that the Lebanese Shiite group [Hezbollah] acts as a proxy for Iran. The report includes a quote from
Hizballah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, stating that if Lebanon and Iran’s interests ever conflicted, his organization would favor Lebanese interests. “Hizballah’s activities increasingly reflect the movement’s needs and aspirations in Lebanon, as opposed to the interests of its Iranian backers,” the report concludes. It also criticizes Israel’s August 2006 war against Hizballah as counterproductive. “Instead of exploiting Hizballah’s independent streak … Israeli actions in Lebanon may have had the reverse effect of tightening its bonds with Iran,” the authors note. Regarding Hamas, the Red Team notes the clearest possible reasons why Israel might want to maintain the Islamist group as its national bogeyman: …The senior intelligence experts…ignal their unease with Israel’s anti-Hamas policies, particularly the continuing Israeli siege of Gaza…[They] note that Israel’s strategy of keeping Gaza under siege also keeps “the area on the verge of a perpetual humanitarian collapse” — a policy that the intelligence report says “may be radicalizing more people, especially the young, increasing the number of potential recruits” for the organization. The report argues that an Israeli decision to lift the siege might pave the way for reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas, which would be “the best hope for mainstreaming Hamas.” The Red Team also claims that reconciliation with Fatah, when coupled with Hamas’s explicit renunciation of violence, would gain “widespread international support and deprive the Israelis of any legitimate justification
to continue settlement building and delay statehood negotiations.” This passage lays out in bright lines why Israel desperately does NOT want Palestinian reconciliation and does not want to end the siege or see Hamas moderate its positions. It could mean the death of the settlement movement, the death of Greater Israel, and the death of the Occupation–all of which are phenomena many Israelis refuse to live without. Not just that they believe they cannot live without them, but that if they must renounce them it would endanger the State’s existence. There are those among Israel’s rightwing supporters who claim that Hamas is irredentist and irredeemable. That simply isn’t true. As a NY Times column today by two U.S. Mideast counter-terrorism experts points out: …When we talked to Khaled Meshal, the leader of Hamas…he said that his movement could imagine a two-state “peace” ( he used the term “salaam,” not just the usual “hudna”… After reading the following passage I think I’ve discovered a few new heroes. And who’d-a-thunk I could ever view a military intelligence officer as a hero? But there you have it: …The CENTCOM Red Team report has been read by outgoing CENTCOM chief Gen. David Petraeus…There’s little question the report reflects the thinking among a significant number of senior officers at CENTCOM headquarters — and among senior CENTCOM intelligence officers and analysts serving in the Middle East….A CENTCOM senior officer told me that — so far as he knows — there is, in fact, no parallel “Blue Team” report contradicting the Red Team’s conclusion. “Well, that’s not exactly right,” this senior officer added. “ The Blue Team is the Obama administration.” When it comes to the IDF I would advise a wise Israeli political leader (perhaps an extinct species) to run as far as he or she could from what the army or military intelligence advises as far as policy is concerned. When it comes to the U.S. military I’m shocked to say I believe just the opposite. It is the political leaders who are lost in the dark and those in CENTCOM who have the freshest and most innovative approach for resolving the conflict. The Red Team report is also especially important in light of the groundbreaking testimony of Gen. Petraeus before Congress that the lack of resolution of the Israeli-Arab conflict drives the Muslim world away from us, foments hatred, fuels CENTCOM’S page 6
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Abbas once called for Arab nations to naturalize Palestinians! by Elder of Ziyon (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 7/1/2010 12:06:00 AM
I was astonished to find this quote from Mahmoud Abbas in 2005: In an unexpected move, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called upon Arab countries hosting Palestinian refugees to give them citizenship, asserting that such action would not compromise the Right of Return. “I call upon every Arab government wishing to give citizenship [to Palestinian refugees] to do so. The Palestinian Authority president insisted that obtaining citizenship in a host country would not compromise the refugees’ right to return to their homeland. Palestinians have sought to assert this right since being forced from their homeland 50 years ago. Abbas explained: “This does not mean resettlement [of refugees]. A Palestinian would return to his homeland whenever he is allowed, whether he carried an Arab or nonArab citizenship.” In the interview, Abbas criticized claims that the Arab League had banned naturalization of refugees, calling these claims “mere excuses.” “There is no decision, as the Arab League only recommended [not to grant citizenship], but this was not a decision,” he said, referring to the recommendation made in the early 1950s when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians became refugees following the creation of the State of Israel in 1948.
While Abbas boldly stated during his visit to Lebanon that he “speaks for all Palestinians,” a number of Palestinian officials and refugees in Lebanon disagree with his push for citizenship. Some expressed great surprise over his statement. Suhail Natour, a member of the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said: “It comes as a great surprise, as this move is very dangerous.” Natour explained: “ Once a Palestinian becomes a citizen of another country, he can’t claim his right of return to Israel, as Israel can easily turn around and say, ‘you now have a country and can’t claim refugee status.’” “ Slowly, as more Palestinian refugees get naturalized, the Right of Return will turn from a national case to a mere personal case against Israel,” he said. According to Natour, naturalizing Palestinian refugees would add to what are “already” serious legal, political and social problems involved with the Right of Return. Notice that they interview a leader of a terrorist organization as a representative of Palestinian Arabs in Lebanon to say they oppose the right to be naturalized citizens – but they didn’t interview any real citizens. As usual, self-appointed “leaders” do everything they can to quash their people they are supposedly leading. On the cached Lebanese forum page from which I found the rest of the Daily Star article, one of the members posted in reaction to this: Do you think the 350,000
Palestinians in the refugee camps want to be here? Me and my buddies are a group of five guys. One of them is Palestinian who lives in Kfarchima. Four of us are not in Lebanon, scattered between the US, Canada and Australia. The only one left behind is the Palestinian guy, who is stuck in Lebanon with no future to look forward to, and not being able to leave Lebanon because he’s not able to get either a travel document from the Lebanese authorities, or a visa to get out… Abbas must have been pilloried for making his pro-naturalization statement, because he changed his tune pretty quickly after this rare show of true leadership. In 2008, he completely contradicted his 2005 statement: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was quoted Wednesday as rejecting the naturalization of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. “We would never accept any settlement that leads to naturalizing Palestinians in Lebanon,” Abbas told pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat. And in 2009, he went even beyond that: Palestinian refugees in Lebanon will not be offered Palestinian Authority passports, President Mahmoud Abbas said on Monday following his meeting with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman at the Republican Palace. Abbas’ remark quashed recent rumors concerning the issuing of PA passports to Palestinian refugees in Lebanon… Abbas could have acted as the
conscience of the Arab world and pushed for his people to have the right to live in dignity – and he instead (apparently) caved to pressure and now advocates keeping his people in misery, as permanent second-class citizens in their host countries, without even the basic ability to leave their hellholes of “refugee” camps. What a great leader the Palestinian Arabs have! Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • St. Petersburg: Grenade attack on halal-food shop St. Petersburg: Grenade attack on halal-food shopSt. Petersburg police say two people were wounded in an attack on a Muslim halal-food store near the city's central mosque today, RFE/ RL's Russian Serv... • Albert Einstein: E=mc2 – The Universe, Art and Physics – painting exhibition by Romeo Niram www.romeoniram.comyr.com Romeo Niram - Innauguration of the Painting Exhibition "Brancusi E=mc2" at The Movement for Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal. Romeo Niram is ... • Tekufat HaChama, pt ii In a recent post, I addressed the first of two articles by Rav Yehoshua Buch of Mechon Shiloh, which argued for a fairly radical reinterpretation of the gemara in Bavli Berachot about Birchat HaChamah... Original post source
Gaza lawyer challenges West Bank study ban by Harriet Sherwood (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 6/30/2010 11:58:35 PM
Israeli authorities denied Fatima Sharif permission to leave Gaza to take up her masters course at Birzeit University in Ramallah A 29-year-old lawyer from Gaza yesterday launched a legal challenge against Israel’s refusal to allow her to travel to the West Bank to pursue her studies in human rights and democracy. Fatima Sharif must register for her masters degree programme at Birzeit University near Ramallah in two weeks time or she will lose her place. The Israeli authorities have denied her permission to leave Gaza on the grounds that she does not meet Israel’s criteria of “humanitarian and exceptional” need. Sharif, who has been working in the field of human rights law for the past
five years, wants to deepen her knowledge and understanding of her chosen field, she said. There is no relevant course in Gaza. She plans to return to Gaza at the end of her studies. “I want to raise awareness about human rights within the society of Gaza,” she said. “I firmly believe that every person has rights that they must be made aware of.” A petition against the decision was lodged at Israel’s high court of justice on Sharif’s behalf by Gisha, an Israeli human rights organisation, which said Israel had no security concerns about the lawyer. Israel should take into account “the welcome use she intends to make of the tools that she will acquire during her studies when she returns to the Gaza Strip after graduation”, said Nomi Heger of Gisha. Israel banned Gazans from studying at West Bank universities in 2000 when violent resistance against the
occupation broke out in the Palestinian territories. A high court ruling in 2007 said Israel should consider allowing exceptions in “cases that would have positive human consequences”. Since then, Gisha says it has no knowledge of any student from Gaza being granted a permit to travel through Israel to study in the West Bank. • Gaza • Palestinian territories • Israel • Middle East Harriet Sherwood guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Lessons from Camp David | Ben White Ten years after Bill Clinton guided failed Israeli-Palestinian peace
talks, the idea of a negotiation on equal terms is now defunctTen years ago this month, Israelis and Palestinians gathered at Camp ... • Israel to ease Gaza blockade, but major restrictions remain in small print Lifting of restrictions on some civilian goods not enough to constitute breakthrough many had hoped for after Freedom Flotilla raidExpectations that Israel would lift its blockade of Gaza were raised ... • Gaza flotilla raid increased risk of war, says Syria President Bashar alAssad says Israeli commando attack on Mavi Marmara has destroyed chance for peace in the near futureSyria's president, Bashar alAssad, says Israel's raid on a Gazabound aid floti... Original post source
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Are Hyperlinks Hyper-Jinxed? by Honest Reporting (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 7/1/2010 2:01:00 AM
HonestReporting’s social media editor, Alex Margolin, contributes occasional posts on social media issues. He oversees HonestReporting on Facebook. Who would have thought the humble hyperlink– that dynamic marvel that turns the Internet into a world wide web – would be blamed for our diminishing attention spans? Well, media theorist Nicholas Carr, whose new book, The Shallows, claims the Internet is turning our brains to mush, wrote recently on his blog that the good ol’ link may be one of the main culprits: Links are wonderful conveniences, as we all know (from clicking on them compulsively day in and day out). But they’re also distractions. Sometimes, they’re big distractions – we click on a link, then another, then another, and pretty soon we’ve forgotten what we’d started out to do or to read. Even if we don’t click on the link, he continues, it has an affect on how much we understand about that we read: Your eyes notice it, and your frontal cortex has to fire up a bunch of neurons to decide whether to click or not. You may not notice the little extra cognitive load placed on your brain, but it’s there and it matters.
People who read hypertext comprehend and learn less, studies show, than those who read the same material in printed form. The more links in a piece of writing, the bigger the hit on comprehension. Carr’s solution for writers: put links at the end of a piece rather than sprinkling them throughout. Sounds like a reasonable solution, one that reinforces the idea that links work best when they function as dynamic footnotes. At the same time, the New York Times had its own concerns about links. But its worries had less to do with the “bunch of neurons” than about the potential loss of traffic if bloggers and others stop linking to the paper. The NYT plans to begin charging for articles in 2011. Readers will be allowed a certain number of free articles and will be charged for any beyond the limit. But according to Peter Kafka’s Media Memo, the Grey Lady has already begun assuring bloggers that readers will not be barred from reading links posted by third-parties (such as bloggers, Twitter, Facebook), even if they are over the limit. So there are two sides to every hyperlink – the linker and the linkedto – and both are coming under fire by parallel developments. As readers spend more time on the Internet, pundits grow increasingly concerned about the effect the Internet has on our brains. But more time online
means more demand for quality content. And that means potentially link-blocking paywalls. At least it seems the NY Times has found a way to have a paywall and keep social media’s incoming links working. Someone alert the Wall Street Journal. Previously in Alex’s series: Is There Life After Depth? Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Neither rock nor roll: Sharia police cancel music festival in northern Nigeria Neither rock nor roll: Sharia police cancel music festival in n o r t h e r n N i g e r i a . . . • Richard Dawkins: Now He Defends What He Set Out to Destroy Richard Dawkins: Now He Defends What He Set Out to Destroyby sheikyermami on April 21, 2010Alas, the genie is out of the bottle:Buddhists, Dawkins and Gays worried by Islam in EuropeThe rapidly accele... • U.S. is world’s top user of targeted killings, U.N. says(CNN) — The United States was identified Wednesday as the world’s No. 1 user of targeted killings, largely as a result of its dependence on unmanned drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan. A re... Original post source
France to publish list of Nazi collaborators… in 2015 by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 6/30/2010 10:29:00 PM
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IDF and Shin Bet: Gang That Can’t Shoot Straight–or Read by Richard Silverstein (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 7/1/2010 1:37:43 AM
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry over Amira Hass’ latest report in Haaretz that the Shin Bet ordered the IDF to produce a Palestinian Arab named Za’arir from the West Bank village of Beit Omar for questioning. Instead, they went to the house of the Za’akik family in the same village and demanded its 7 year-old son appear for questioning: On June 10, the Za’akik family from the West Bank village of Beit Omar awoke to loud knocks at the door. The father of the family opened, and three Israeli soldiers entered the house; one of them, whom the father thought to be the commander, asked for the boy, M. His father told the officer that M. was seven years old, and showed him his identification, stating the boy’s date of birth as September 17, 2002.
The mother noticed that the officer laughed upon seeing the document, but he delivered the summons nonetheless. The mother understood from him that the 7-year-old must attend a meeting with “Captain Tamir” of the Shin Bet security services at the offices of the Coordinator of Government Activity in the Territories (COGAT ), in the settlement bloc of Gush Etzion the next morning. The family decided not to send the child to the Shin Bet office, but because they feared the soldiers might return and arrest the boy, they consulted the organization Defense for Children International. The family told Hass that there was no one in the village named Za’arir. The IDF naturally claims there was and that it was simply an unfortunate error. One has to wonder at the ineptitude that would cause someone in the Shin Bet to misidentify a 7 year old boy named Za’arir with their actual target named Za’akik. Can they not read? Not to mention the
utter cluelessness of the IDF officer who handed the summons to the family. Did this oaf not realize that summoning a 7 year old for Shin Bet questioning was ludicrous? One has to wonder whether this is yet another example of the vaunted intelligence capabilities of the IDF and Shin Bet. Related posts: • Bibi on Barring Chomsky: ‘I Read it in the News Today, Oh Boy’ Well, one thing we know…Bibi reads the papers (Bibiton-Yisrael HaYom… • Shin Bet: Sleeping Your Way to the Top and Other Scandals It appears there are two ways to rise to the… • Shin Bet Travel Ban Issued for Another Israeli Palestinian Leader The Shin Bet, in its continuing reign of oppression on… Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Why Does the Shin Bet Hate and Fear Ameer Makhoul? To my great
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Fauxtography at Haaretz: Picture of 14-year old suicide bomber used to portray 7-year old boy by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 7/1/2010 1:08:00 AM
Fauxtography at Haaretz: Picture of 14-year old suicide bomber used to portray 7-year old boy Haaretz runs a story by Amira Hass (a Jewish correspondent who lives in Ramallah and has lived in Gaza) in which she claims that a 7-year old boy was mistakenly summoned for questioning by the IDF (Hat Tip: Eliana). Her goal seems to be to solicit an apology from the IDF directly to the family. But in the process, Haaretz uses a picture of a 14-year old suicide bomber and tries to pass him off as the 7-year old boy. The entire summons was intended for another person in another family. The summons customarily bears a four-part name (first name, name of the father, name of the grandfather, and family name ). Only the first name in this case was in fact the same as that of the child, but the IDF still failed to notice the triple mistake of delivering the summons to a 7-yearold, bearing the wrong name and at the wrong address. The Shin Bet spokesperson’s office told Haaretz the security service does not summon children to be
interrogated and this case was obviously a mistake. The summons was meant for someone else in the village with a similar name, the Shin Bet spokesman said, “and the force made a mistake in the address. We apologize for the distress caused to the child as a result.” Defense for Children said in response that they welcomed the apology, but questioned whether it was issued to the family directly or only through the media. The IDF spokesman said that there had been confusion between two families with similar names who live nearby to each other, and that the mix up was an innocent mistake. Haaretz decided it needed a picture to run with the story. Having no picture of the boy in question (for obvious reasons), it ran the picture below. Yes, the picture came from that video. Note the boy walking around in the oversized army jacket in the video after the suicide belt was taken off. So to summarize (from Eliana again), Ha’aretz is trying to show a pitiful photo of a “Palestinian boy” being “apprehended” by the IDF when it’s actually a suicide bomber who was caught before he could blow up his
bomb. This kid is also mildly retarded. He said others told him that blowing himself us was the only way he would ever have a girl. He didn’t want to die, though. Whose side is Haaretz on anyway? posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:08 AM Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Encyclopaedia Judaica: The Most Comprehensive Authoritative Source on the Jewish World Encyclopaedia Judaica: The Most Comprehensive Authoritative Source on the Jewish World Rating: (out of 3 reviews) List Price: $ 702.00 Price: $ 500.00 Judaica Referenc... • Sukkot in Israel! go to: www.maozisrael.org Sukkot -- It is one of the feasts of the Torah and one of the most important of the Jewish Holidays. Also known as the Feast of Tabernacles or... • EU: Court thwarts Dutch immigration policy EU: Court thwarts Dutch immigration policyThe European Court of Justice has upended the minimum income requirement for foreign marriage partners. More aspects of Dutch immigration policy could be at o...
Interview with Mosab Hassan Yousef and Gonen Ben Itzhak by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 7/1/2010 12:11:00 AM
Interview with Mosab Hassan Yousef and Gonen Ben Itzhak Here’s an interview on Fox News with Mosab Hassan Yousef, which was broadcast on Tuesday night. Yousef was granted asylum in the United States on Wednesday. Let’s go to the videotape (Hat Tip: The Weekly Standard). Best of luck to Mosab in the United States. posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:11 AM Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Men of the Word Passover Seder April 2009 John Nieder of Songtime radio describes how the Men of the Word men's bible study got together to celebrate the Passover seder (Haggadah). www.johnonline.org... • Tanach Project... • The Jewish Left’s big lie The Jewish Left's big lie Jonathan Mark has one of the best critiques of Joel Beinart I've seen yet. Here's some of it. I'm fine with any critiqu... Original post source
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Rosh Hashanah ? Walking Your True Path by paraisrael (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 6/30/2010 11:25:27 PM
by elana’s pantry Rosh Hashanah ? Walking Your True Path As Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year nears, you may want to reflect on your life and your year. How do you spend your days? Do you live the life you desire? Are you happy, fulfilled, and content? Do you experience inner peace? Are your days filled with greatness? Are you in touch with your true purpose? Do you know what you want? Do you spend your time doing the things you love? Are you being true to yourself? Are you being the person you want to be? Kabbalist Rav Berg says that consciousness is key. Kabbalists say every action matters. I believe in what our spiritual teachers tell us that our thoughts reflect and create our reality. Where is your mind from moment to moment? Are you dwelling on what is not right? Are you judging others
and yourself? Are you crying over spilt milk? Are you focusing on what is not? This creates darkness when what we really want is light. If you had to stop for a moment and reflect on the happiest times of your life – What would those be? If you chose say three different instances, or times where you felt truly happy, perhaps the happiest times of your life, what were they? Please STOP reading for a minute and think about these happiest times or days of your life and write them down. Write down at least three different examples. Please do this exercise now before continuing. For the rest of the article - http:// www.ask-your-coach.com/ RoshHashanah.html“>Rosh Hashanah – Walking your true path Life Coaching website at ask-yourcoach.com Samantha(Sam)Amit – Intuitive Life and Executive Coach, Mentor, Speaker. I have spent the last 25 years developing myself, learning and investing in skills and knowledge, and continue to do so. I would like
to share this with you through the information and exercises on my website, and by recommending material, mentors and more links for you to deepen your discovery of your true self. During my coaching or lecturing, I create a nurturing space of awareness and clarity for you to connect with your inner voice and your intuition. When we do so we experience life fully moment by moment, with satisfaction, enjoyment and fulfillment. Please follow the link to read more about Samantha Amit and Life Coaching website at ask-yourcoach.com
seasoning salmon for rosh hashanah Image by Robert Couse-Baker Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Rosh Hashanah- the Prayer for Spiritual Rebirth by Whistling in the Dark Rosh Hashanah- the Prayer for Spiritual Rebirth You must be waiting for the judgment day. It's time for the review of the last year deeds. But, we know God i... • Rosh Hashanah: An Event Replete in Symbolic Significance by joshbousel Rosh Hashanah: An Event Replete in Symbolic Significance Rosh Hashanah is characterized by several customs, traditions and rituals that bear religious, spiritual, Bibli... • Rosh Hashanah – Solemnity Or Festivity? by joshbousel Rosh Hashanah - Solemnity Or Festivity? Rosh Hashanah is more commonly known as the Jewish New Year. Literally, it means the "head of the year" or the "first of the yea...
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European Jews running scared? by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 6/30/2010 11:07:00 PM
European Jews running scared? Here’s a very disturbing report of statements made by European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor on Tuesday. Kantor has recognized that European Jewry is in its most precarious position since World War II. “Jews are afraid to walk the streets in Europe with Jewish signs. Synagogues, Jewish schools and kindergartens require barbed-wire fences and security and Jewish men, women and children are beaten up in broad daylight,” he said in a message to Members of European Parliament from the three Benelux countries who attended a lunch meeting in Brussels organized on the eve of Belgium’s presidency of the European Union. Representatives of the Jewish communities of Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg were also present. Kantor added “most worryingly, Jews are being forced out of many European cities, like Malmo, because of the atmosphere of hostility and violence.” “I would like European politicians to state loud and clear that there is no justification or understanding whatsoever for the attacks on Jews or Jewish institutions in Europe,” he said. He’s right, but it won’t happen (with the exception of Geert Wilders in Holland). They’re too busy worrying about ‘Islamophobia.’ But here’s where I think Kantor really hit the
nail on the head: He rejected the “false claim” that these attacks are a natural reaction to events in the Middle East. “This line of reasoning is illegitimate as well as dishonest. There are tens of conflicts raging in the world, where hundreds of thousands of people are losing their lives. Has anyone heard of a single other act of violence in Europe that is justified because of a foreign conflict?,” he said. Recall Natan Sharansky’s 3-D test for anti-Semitism. The behavior on Europe’s streets certainly seems to fit the bill. Has Europe become antiSemitic again? Did it ever stop being anti-Semitic? Is this the old time antiSemitism or a new one pushed by Europe’s influx of Muslims over the last 20-30 years? And is there any hope of stopping it? I believe that European Jews should make aliya to Israel while they still can.
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Turkey, Israel: old allies face off by paraisrael (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 6/30/2010 11:15:12 PM
by Werner Kunz (werkunz1) Turkey, Israel: old allies face off Prime Minister Recep Erdogan insists that a decision to block Israeli military flights through Turkish airspace is a response to the attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that killed nine people – eight of them Turks. Read more on Sydney Morning Herald Chavez: Israel and US ‘empire’ are enemies Caracas (Venezuela), Jun 28 (AP) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has denounced Israel as a “genocidal” government as he hosted Syrian President Bashar Assad on his first visit to Latin America. Read more on Press Trust of India Study: Orthopedic problems cost Israel NIS 26 billion a year
Orthopedic problems and joint diseases are costing the Israeli economy about NIS 26 billion a year, according to an international study conducted by the Work Foundation of Britain in 25 countries, including Israel. Read more on Haaretz Daily Egypt tightens security around pipeline for Israel-bound gas Egyptian police beefed up security around a Sinai peninsula pipeline that supplies Israel with natural gas after a group of wanted Bedouin threatened to sabotage it, security officials said on Monday. Read more on AFP via Yahoo! News
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militancy, and ends up costing the lives of U.S. troops. That’s the truth, a truth that few policymakers at the highest levels are willing to digest (yet). Or if they are digesting it, they’re still not willing to act on the realization. When Pres. Obama gets tough on Israel, demands an end to the Gaza siege, demands Israel accept a return to 1967 borders, that’s when the lesson will have sunk in–and not before. Related posts: • Wanted: Israeli Amazons to Overpower Hezbollah Women The Shin Bet is resorting to Yediot want ads seeking… • Breaking the Makhoul Gag: Identity of Alleged Hezbollah Agent Revealed Rechavia Berman has done it again. He was the first… • Hassan Jaja, Shin Bet’s AllPurpose ‘Hezbollah Spy’ A member of the Free Ameer Makhoul Facebook group, Disk… Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Would Somebody Please Tell CBS News That Gaza is NOT Israel Should anyone ever need an example of the hopeless ignorance and bias (albeit unintentional perhaps) of the American media on the subject of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, your search is hereby end... • New ‘Moral Politics’ Video on Iran War Game Scenario Watch Israeli War Game Predicts Disaster for Iran Strike in News Recently, I wrote a post about a Nahum Barnea story which described a war game scenario produced by Begin-Sadat Center researcher, Mosh... • IDF and Shin Bet: Gang That Can’t Shoot Straight–or Read I don’t know whether to laugh or cry over Amira Hass’ latest report in Haaretz that the Shin Bet ordered the IDF to produce a Palestinian Arab named Za’arir from the West Bank villag... Original post source
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Who benefits from the Shalit march? by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel)
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Submitted at 6/30/2010 9:56:00 PM
Who benefits from the Shalit march? Lest you have any doubt who the biggest fans of the Shalit family march are…. The Detainees’ Support Committee in Gaza called on the Shalit family on Wednesday to continue to pressure their government to secure the release of their son. The Shalit family is on a 12-day march to Jerusalem, where they plan to camp outside Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s residence until their son is returned home. Gilad, an Israeli soldier, was captured in along the Gaza border four years ago. Negotiations to swap Gilad for Palestinian prisoners have been unsuccessful so far. In a statement, the prisoners’ committee questioned why the world is “crying for Shalit” yet ignores the plight of the more than 7,000 Palestinian prisoners, some of whom have spent more than 30 years behind bars, adding, “he is not better than our prisoners; he should not see the light until our prisoners do.” Reiterating Hamas’ recent statement that the Israeli government is obstructing Shalit’s release, the committee commended Shalit’s family for realizing that “the solution is in the hands of their government.” The committee insisted that prisoners who have been in Israeli jails since before the 1994 Oslo Agreement must be released in a swap deal. This list includes more than 310
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prisoners, 116 of whom have spent over 20 years in Israeli prisons, and three of whom have been imprisoned for over 30 years. Israel’s four most recent defense ministers are reportedly ready for a deal, according to Israeli press reports on Tuesday. There are huge differences between Gilad Shalit and all of the ‘Palestinian’ terrorists. Shalit was kidnapped and is being held without charges and without any kind of legal process. The ‘Palestinian’ terrorists have all been tried and convicted in Israeli courts. Many of them have blood on their hands. I could go on but you get the picture. Shalit is much ‘better’ than they are. But they are rooting for his family to pressure the Israeli government to release their terrorists. posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:56
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Part 2: The Book of Zohar – Selections, chapter "Vayetze", item 238, lesson 14 by Bnei-Baruch (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 7/1/2010 12:44:15 AM
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Israel Continues to Ignore the Human Toll of the Siege on Gaza by israel (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 7/1/2010 1:25:00 AM
50 years war Israel and the Arabs epsiode one (part1829) | about levi eshkol by paraisrael (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 6/30/2010 11:20:20 PM
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