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Ki Tisa • Feb. 22, 2019 • 17 Adar 1, 5779 • Expanded Torah section pages 18–20 • Luach page 18 • Vol 18, No 7

Please, Mr. President, don’t repeat Obama’s failed ‘peace process’ stephen M. Flatow

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ast American administrations invested so heavily in fruitless attempts to facilitate Arab-Israel negotiations that American envoys came to be known as “peace processors” — that is, they were so focused on maintaining the appearance of a “process,” that they couldn’t face up to the obvious fact that the Palestinian Arabs just don’t want peace. In other words, for the Obama administration and its predecessors, process was more important than peace. Is the Trump administration repeating Obama’s mistake? US envoys Jason Greenblatt and Jared Kushner have announced that they will soon be heading back to the Mideast for yet another round of diplomacy concerning their not-yet-revealed “peace

rightly pointed out, “PA laws will provide [the killers] financial rewards. Look no further to why there is no peace.” The PA responded by calling the ambassador a “son of a dog” and demanding that he be added to the US “global terror list.” n an address last September, Ambassador Friedman remarked that “Since 1994, the United States has thrown more than $10 billion in humanitarian aid to the Palestinians,” yet “we found that these expenditures were bringing the region no closer to peace or stability, not even by a millimeter.” In December, the ambassador tweeted: “The Pal Authority maintains laws that will compensate these terrorists and their families for their heinous acts. The PA can be a political body OR a sponsor of terror, not both.” It’s pretty obvious which one of those the PA has chosen. White House envoy Jason Greenblatt likewise has shared some blunt See Peace on page 3

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plan.” The administration’s persistent courtship of the Palestinian Authority is puzzling precisely because it seems to be odd with the statements of senior US officials and envoys. After the murder of Israeli rabbi Raziel Shevach a year ago, the US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman,

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Pink donuts were sponsored by Molly Klein and family in honor of Molly’s Aunt Lisa Altman a”h. Proceeds from the donut sale — along with the sale of pink lemonade, Pink Day Challah, special shirts from Make It, and raffle tickets for prizes donated by Clementine, Kiss & MakeUp, Mike’s

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A student from HAFTR at the Auschwitz-Birkenau site in Poland in 2016.

Shoah clash cools Israel-Poland ties By Sam Sokol, JTA JERUSALEM — It was meant to be a diplomatic triumph for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: a much-touted diplomatic summit in Jerusalem on Monday with four Central European states. Instead, harsh words from Israel’s acting foreign minister opened a diplomatic rift threatening to severely damage Israeli-Polish relations, and the summit was cancelled. See CLASH on page 16

HAFTR goes pink to support Sharsheret HAFTR middle and high school students joined Sharsheret last Wednesday for the school’s annual Pink Day to support breast cancer awareness and raise money for this important organization. In the middle school, students had the opportunity to ditch school uniforms for a day, dressing in their Pink Day best in exchange for a $2 donation.

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Burgers, Jus by Julie, and H2O — were donated to Sharsheret. HAFTR HS welcomed Rebecca Cohen (in center of picture), Long Island Outreach Coordinator for Sharsheret. She presented a moving video of breast cancer survivors and described how Sharsheret has helped many people in the community.

Israel’s pick for E’Vision Kobi Marimi, who mixes pop and opera, will represent Israel at Eurovision. Marimi on Tuesday won the Israeli reality show “Kochav Habah” with performances of Bon Jovi and Beatles hits. The show went forward without Shalva Band, which announced last week that it would pull out over a required Eurovision rehearsal on Shabbat.

Correction

Last week’s headline above a commentary on Shalva Band emphasized a political angle that was not central to the story, which is the band’s decision to put the honor of Shabbat ahead of transitory fame — as the commentary itself emphasized. We regret any confusion the headline may have caused.


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