The Knesset will vote on a bill calling for full Israeli annexation of the West Bank.
Deputy Speaker Danny Danon announced Tuesday that the Knesset will take up the bill, which he authored, at the end of October.
The
bill also nullifies any financial obligations between Israel and the
Palestinian Authority that had been established by previous agreements,
according to a statement from Danon's office. .......................
http://www.virtualjerusalem.com/news.php?Itemid=4888
One State for one People. Thou shalt not be a victim, or perpetrator, but above all, thou shalt not be a bystander. Yasher Koach!
September 30, 2011
September 26, 2011
September 23, 2011
Cart before the Camel?
The displaced Jordanians have asked the UN to recognize them as a member?
I thought only countries could join the UAN ( United Arab Nations)
Seems like they are putting the cart before the Camel...
I thought only countries could join the UAN ( United Arab Nations)
Seems like they are putting the cart before the Camel...
September 21, 2011
Israel’s Three No’s
Israel’s Three No’s
Bill Mehlman
There are no “occupied” territories.
There are no “disputed” territories.
There are no “unallocated” territories.
There is purely and simply Eretz Yisrael -- from the Hermon to the Red Sea, from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River.
While it constitutes a mere fraction of the historic Land of Israel, the “national home for the Jewish People” vouchsafed us under the Balfour Declaration, it is indisputably, unconditionally ours, by any interpretation of international law.
Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations of Jun, 1919 legalized the transfer of sovereignty over Palestine to the Jewish people by the Supreme Council of the Principal Allied Powers -- Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan.
The San Remo Peace Conference of April 1920 marked the official adoption of the Balfour Declaration by the Principal Allied Powers, confirming what constitutional lawyer and scholar Howard Grief has described as “the legal title of the Jewish People to the mandated territory of Palestine in all of its historical parts and dimensions … under international law.*”
The Franco-British Boundary Convention of December 1920 made it clear that those “historical parts and dimensions” included the Golan and Transjordan.
There is no mention of the words “Arab” or “Arab state” anywhere in the Mandate for Palestine entrusted to Great Britain by the San Remo Peace Conference. Indeed, that document is devoid of reference to the political or national rights of any community in Palestine other than those of the Jewish community.
The current attempt, 90 years after the fact, to impose a bogus ”Palestinian State” on the Jewish People within the borders of their national home is the most unmitigated contempt of international legal precedent in modern history.
To the supporters of this presumptive usurpation of our land an our rights in obeisance to the blood- lust of a jihadist Arab world , there can be only one national Jewish response: IT WILL NOT PASS!
*The Legal Foundation and Borders of Israel Under International Law (Mazo Publishers, Jerusalem).
Bill Mehlman represents AFSI in Israel and is co-editor of the Jerusalem-based internet magazine ZionNet (www.zionnet.net)
Bill Mehlman
There are no “occupied” territories.
There are no “disputed” territories.
There are no “unallocated” territories.
There is purely and simply Eretz Yisrael -- from the Hermon to the Red Sea, from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River.
While it constitutes a mere fraction of the historic Land of Israel, the “national home for the Jewish People” vouchsafed us under the Balfour Declaration, it is indisputably, unconditionally ours, by any interpretation of international law.
Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations of Jun, 1919 legalized the transfer of sovereignty over Palestine to the Jewish people by the Supreme Council of the Principal Allied Powers -- Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan.
The San Remo Peace Conference of April 1920 marked the official adoption of the Balfour Declaration by the Principal Allied Powers, confirming what constitutional lawyer and scholar Howard Grief has described as “the legal title of the Jewish People to the mandated territory of Palestine in all of its historical parts and dimensions … under international law.*”
The Franco-British Boundary Convention of December 1920 made it clear that those “historical parts and dimensions” included the Golan and Transjordan.
There is no mention of the words “Arab” or “Arab state” anywhere in the Mandate for Palestine entrusted to Great Britain by the San Remo Peace Conference. Indeed, that document is devoid of reference to the political or national rights of any community in Palestine other than those of the Jewish community.
The current attempt, 90 years after the fact, to impose a bogus ”Palestinian State” on the Jewish People within the borders of their national home is the most unmitigated contempt of international legal precedent in modern history.
To the supporters of this presumptive usurpation of our land an our rights in obeisance to the blood- lust of a jihadist Arab world , there can be only one national Jewish response: IT WILL NOT PASS!
*The Legal Foundation and Borders of Israel Under International Law (Mazo Publishers, Jerusalem).
Bill Mehlman represents AFSI in Israel and is co-editor of the Jerusalem-based internet magazine ZionNet (www.zionnet.net)
FLASHBACK AND AFTERSHOCKS by Rachel Saperstein, Neve Dekalim/Nitzan
It will be six years this August since the expulsion of the 10,000 Jews
from 21 beautiful communities in Gush Katif/Gaza and the Shomron. The
majority are still living in caravan (trailer) towns like Nitzan, close
enough to Gaza to be impacted constantly by the kassam rockets being
fired daily into the Negev. Since their homes are so flimsy, obviously
without "safe rooms" , the government sent old sewer pipes to the town
to be used as shelters when the red alert sounds, warning of an incoming
rocket. Moshe Saperstein, a veteran of the Yom Kippur war, where he
lost his right arm, and a terror attack that cost him some fingers on
his left hand, named the sewers the "sewervillas." This is his attempt
at turning an absurdity into something tolerable. Just as the caravans
have been named "caravillas", so the sewer pipes are "sewervillas."
Moshe has sworn not to crawl into the sewer pipes when hearing the red
alert. He believes they are for rats, not for humans.
Find below Rachel Saperstein's latest letter describing life on the
battleground, almost six years since the expulsion from Gush Katif was
supposed to bring "peace."
FLASHBACK AND AFTERSHOCKS by Rachel Saperstein, Neve Dekalim/Nitzan
In the middle of the night, when you can't sleep and begin wandering
around the house, come the flashbacks. Wrapped in a warm blanket I turn
on the television set and watch the NHK news in English from Japan.
It is riveting. I watch the faces of the survivors of the tsunami. Most
are elderly. They lie on blankets on the floor of the evacuation
shelter, dazed and uncomprehending. They are the survivors. Their home,
villages, places of worship, shops and family members have disappeared.
Gone. Only the rubble remains.
Forgive me if I make comparisons between what befell these people and
the tragedy that took place in Gush Katif. In Japan we saw destruction
by the forces of nature. We faced man-made destruction of our homes and
communities.
I see myself in each of the Japanese people, and I cry for them. Three
weeks after the tsunami social workers and psychologists encouraged them
to speak about what they had experienced. They talked about the moment
that changed their lives forever.
I recall the social workers who came to the hotel where Gush Katif
refugees lived in tiny rooms. "Don't cry" they said to us, smiling,
totally without understanding or empathy for the tragedy that had
befallen us.
My flashbacks have become today's reality in another country.
Reality mixed with flashbacks raises its head once again. This time, a
war is imminent. A school bus was targeted by an anti-tank missile,
reminding me of the Kfar Darom school has that was targeted in Gush
Katif. I call a friend in Kibbutz Saad. The bus was blown up just meters
from her home. She's okay, she says. She's calm, she says. Rockets have
been falling near and around her home. Her 'safe-room' is nearing
completion.
Another war is coming. I sleep in thick sweats and woolen socks.
Friday afternoon. Five loud explosions bring us out of our homes. No one
would react to one, or even two. But five? It's an hour before Shabbat.
Blank-faced we scan the sky for smoke, then hear the sound of planes.
There is a collective sigh of relief We are hitting them, and not the
other way around.
It's going to be a rough Shabbat.
Friday night I don't sleep well. At 4am the siren wails. I put on my thick red robe, and wake my husband.
"Are you going into the sewervilla?" I ask.
"I'd rather die comfortably in bed than in a sewer pipe filled with screaming people" he says, and goes back to sleep.
The neighbors across the way open their door. I wave and walk over to them.
"Are you going into the sewer pipe?" I ask. "I don't think so. It's too cold."
The siren continues to wail. The rocket is still on the way.
None of the other neighbors appear. I return to the caravilla.
September 20, 2011
Replace Bibi ...with ME!
After I am elected PM.....
Prime Minister Rudofsky promises to first move to Jerusalem.
And then to:
1) legislate the desires of the people.
2) Begin removing Arabs from Israel section by section.
3) Remove the PA
4) Put the head Rabbi of Jerusalem in charge of the Temple Mount.
5) Make Prof Paul Eidelberg Minister of Constitution.
6) Remove all benefits for any Arabs and take the allocations and give them to Shoah survivors.
7) Make Mass Transit safer and more plentiful and severely restrict vehicle use in the cities.
8) Create aggressive Aliyah programs to bring all Jews home.
9) Institute Jewish educations in Israel schools for all children.
10) Call a finance meeting and begin arrangements to sever the US guarantee program and morph it into
a mutually beneficial package (arms for technology etc.)
11) Begin construction projects for more housing.
11A) Put Fence up near Egypt.
12) Retake Gaza and begin to expel the Arabs home to Jordan and Lebanon.
13) Take care of the people from Gush Katif by giving them back their land and a $1,000,000 Shekels.
14) Change the legal system to allow the people to vote for judges and give them limited power.
15) Create a portfolio for the members of the Sanhedrin and some Jurisdiction.
16) Execute all terrorists in prison 50 at a time until Gilad Shalit is returned.
17) Make Rabbi Tovia Singer the official Temple Mount tour Guide and pay him handsomely!
18) Make Moshe Feiglin MK of Culture and education
19) Mandate all food in Israel to be Kosher.
20) Build Temple 3....and have University course created by The Temple Institute to maintain Beit HaMikdash.
21) Then we move on to Month Number 2!
22) Warn Iran that we are coming...and tell them how and when...and then don't
23) Warn Iran again....................and don't
24) Create a written policy of how to respond to Terror and Terrorist's.
25) Sell the Mediterranean oil rights and spend the money on a national energy program for non fossil fuels.
26) More TBA........
Thanks for your support!!!
Prime Minister Rudofsky promises to first move to Jerusalem.
And then to:
1) legislate the desires of the people.
2) Begin removing Arabs from Israel section by section.
3) Remove the PA
4) Put the head Rabbi of Jerusalem in charge of the Temple Mount.
5) Make Prof Paul Eidelberg Minister of Constitution.
6) Remove all benefits for any Arabs and take the allocations and give them to Shoah survivors.
7) Make Mass Transit safer and more plentiful and severely restrict vehicle use in the cities.
8) Create aggressive Aliyah programs to bring all Jews home.
9) Institute Jewish educations in Israel schools for all children.
10) Call a finance meeting and begin arrangements to sever the US guarantee program and morph it into
a mutually beneficial package (arms for technology etc.)
11) Begin construction projects for more housing.
11A) Put Fence up near Egypt.
12) Retake Gaza and begin to expel the Arabs home to Jordan and Lebanon.
13) Take care of the people from Gush Katif by giving them back their land and a $1,000,000 Shekels.
14) Change the legal system to allow the people to vote for judges and give them limited power.
15) Create a portfolio for the members of the Sanhedrin and some Jurisdiction.
16) Execute all terrorists in prison 50 at a time until Gilad Shalit is returned.
17) Make Rabbi Tovia Singer the official Temple Mount tour Guide and pay him handsomely!
18) Make Moshe Feiglin MK of Culture and education
19) Mandate all food in Israel to be Kosher.
20) Build Temple 3....and have University course created by The Temple Institute to maintain Beit HaMikdash.
21) Then we move on to Month Number 2!
22) Warn Iran that we are coming...and tell them how and when...and then don't
23) Warn Iran again....................and don't
24) Create a written policy of how to respond to Terror and Terrorist's.
25) Sell the Mediterranean oil rights and spend the money on a national energy program for non fossil fuels.
26) More TBA........
Thanks for your support!!!
Obama trying to unseat Israeli leader? Country’s ‘social protests’ may be engineered for regime change.
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 9:25 PM EST - By Aaron Klein
JERUSALEM – Is President Obama attempting to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and replace him with a leftist Israeli leader who largely tows the president’s Mideast line?
There are indications the so-called social protests rocking Israel were engineered for that very purpose.
According to an investigative report in Israel’s Maariv’s newspaper, the country’s protests were engineered by a group of media strategists directed by prominent Democratic strategist Stanley Greenberg, a former adviser to Bill Clinton, John Kerry and others.
Stanley Greenberg - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Greenberg (read final line)
Greenberg reportedly is working with Israeli strategists who were behind left-wing leader Ehud Barak’s successful race for prime minister in 1999. Greenberg himself helped to run Barak’s campaign.
Barak is currently the Defense Minister in a coalition government with Netanyahu.
Last week, KleinOnline reported Greenberg previously ran the campaign of Bolivia’s former president, who was ushered into office amid escalating social protests in that country.
After Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada took power in Bolivia, he quickly implemented an economic “shock therapy” crafted by Jeffrey Sachs, a Columbia University professor who sits on the board of an organization literally seeking to reorganize the entire global economic system.That group is the Institute for New Economic Thinking, or INET.
Philanthropist George Soros is INET’s founding sponsor, with the billionaire having provided a reported $25 million over five years to support INET activities. (http://ineteconomics.org/)
Now, a closer look at Greenberg’s previous work in Israel may betray his ultimate intentions with regard to the social protests here.In 1999, after Netanyahu rebuffed President Clinton’s demands for the relinquishment of strategic territory, Clinton deployed Greenberg along with veteran Democratic image maker Robert Shrum and James Carville to run Barak’s campaign.
This followed the fall of Netanyahu’s governing coalition, an event precipitated behind the scenes by Clinton, according to numerous Netanyahu insiders speaking to KleinOnline.
Those insiders recounted how the Clinton White House convinced Netanyahu coalition partners to abandon Netanyahu’s government, thus promting new elections.
Barak, leader of the leftist Labor party, was the main challenger against Netanyahu.
Greenberg, Shrum and Carville went to work crafting an image of Netanyahu as spurning Israel’s relationships with the international community, particularly the U.S., while Barak was upheld as the clear candidate of choice for Clinton.
According to media reports, Greenberg flew into Israel routinely to craft Barak’s strategy and reportedly did most of the heavy lifting for Shrum and Carville.
After Barak successfully unseated Netanyahu, the new Israeli leader largely towed Clinton’s major Mideast policies.
Indeed, with Clinton, Barak offered PLO Leader Yasser Arafat a state in the eastern sections of Jerusalem, reportedly including the Temple Mount, as well as the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
After Arafat turned down Barak’s offer at Camp David in the summer of 2000, Barak made even further concessions while the Palestinian leader was busy starting his intifada, or terror war, against Israel.
Now, as protests reportedly engineered by Greenberg run amuck in Israel, Barak has been openly challenging Netanyahu’s policies at every turn.
Netanyahu has openly rejected Obama’s demands for a retreat from most of the West Bank, Jordan valley and eastern Jerusalem. The Israeli leader has been scornful of Obama’s unprecedented demand for a halt to Jewish construction in eastern Jerusalem.
Barak, meanwhile, has repeatedly attacked Netanyahu’s policies while aligning his own policies with those of Obama.
Just this week, Barak called for the immediate return to negotiations with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who has rejected talks and is instead seeking to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state at the United Nations next week.
This past weekend, Barak called for a special Knesset summit to debate what he called Israel’s “diplomatic isolation,” hinting Netanyahu is largely responsible for that isolation and not the recent Mideast revolutions that quickly ushered anti-Israel personalities to power.
In a report earlier this month, Haaretz columnist Akiva Eldar, a supporter of Obama’s Mideast agenda, wrote that since Netanyahu has refused many of Obama’s demands, the Obama administration has decided to take a page out of the Clinton guidebook and overthrow Netanyahu’s government.
Wrote Eldar, “When Clinton recently invited Kadima leader Tzipi Livni to a private meeting, this signified an unofficial announcement that Netanyahu’s account in Washington has been closed.”
“Twelve years ago, when Hillary Clinton’s husband realized that… [Netanyahu] had no intention of honoring his signature (on the Wye River Accord with Yasser Arafat), that was Netanyahu’s last stop before being sent back to his villa in Caesarea,” continued Eldar.
‘Our brand is crisis’
Two weeks ago saw the largest protests in Israel’s history. Four hundred thousand people hit the streets in cities across the country purportedly to protest against the rising cost of living while demanding sweeping economic reforms.
That massive protest was the culmination of weeks of similar social demonstrations and protest tent cities that organized in various Israeli municipalities, principally in Tel Aviv.
KleinOnline has reported how similar tent cities are being planned by a slew of U.S. radicals calling for a “Day of Rage” targeting Wall Street and U.S. capitalism.
Greenberg, the reported architect of the protests in Israel, founded the Democratic strategy firm Democracy Corps with Clinton advisers James Carville and Bob Shrum. Earlier, the trio ran a strategizing outfit called Greenberg Carville Shrum.
That firm in 2002 was behind a sophisticated campaign in Bolivia that helped de Lozada win his country’s elections amid ongoing social protests. It was the second time de Lozada served as Bolivia’s president.
In 1985, after de Lozada came to office the first time, he quickly implemented Sachs’ “shock therapy.” De Lozada attempted to engineer the restructuring of the Bolivian economy and the dismantling of the country’s state-capitalist model that had prevailed there since the 1952 Bolivian Revolution.
Sachs is a renowned international economist best known for his work as an economic adviser to governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union
His “shock therapy” calls for drastically cutting inflation by scrapping all subsidies, price controls, restrictions on exports, imports and private business activity. The scheme also calls for linking each restructured country’s economy with a more global currency.
Sachs’ remedy for Bolivia, however, had dire consequences.
The Sachs plan did beat the country’s inflation, but the price was continuing high unemployment, economic stagnation, labor revolt, a state of siege and a deepening involvement in the international drug market, reports noted.
To beat the hyperinflation under Sachs’ plan, Bolivia ensured a large number of workers were laid off while others’ salaries were slashed, leading to widespread worker strikes.
The Bolivian government imposed a state of siege in response to a wave of strikes.
Similar protests engulfed Bolivia when Greenberg’s firm helped to orchestrate de Lozada’s 2002 win. De Lozada had announced that he planned to once again implement Sachs’ “shock therapy” for Bolivia.
A 2005 documentary, entitled, “Our Brand is Crisis: Exporting neoliberal spin,” followed Greenberg’s and Carville’s electioneering in Bolivia on behalf of de Lozada.
The film noted Greenberg’s team saw no need to recraft de Lozada’s economic policy approach based on Sachs “shock therapy” plan.
De Lozada was victorious in the 2002 elections, but was run out of office one year later amid massive opposition to his economic policies. Protesters demanded a return to the capitalist system.
Bretton Woods and ‘shocking’ world economy
Sachs, meanwhile, sits on the board of the Soros-funded Institute for New Economic Thinking.
This past April, Sachs keynoted INET’s annual meeting, which took place in the mountains of Bretton Woods, N.H.
The gathering took place at Mount Washington Hotel, famous for hosting the original Bretton Woods economic agreements drafted in 1944. That conference’s goal was to rebuild a post-World War II international monetary system. The April gathering had a similar stated goal – a global economic restructuring.
A Business Insider report on last year’s event related, “George Soros has brought together a crack team of the world’s top economists and financial thinkers.”
“Its aim,” continued the business newspaper, “to remake the world’s economy as they see fit.”
More than two-thirds of the speakers at this year’s conference had direct ties to Soros.
Besides his role at INET, Sachs, a special adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, is founder and co-president of the Soros-funded Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization that says it is dedicated to ending extreme poverty and hunger.
Global taxes
With $50 million in capital from Soros, Millennium promotes a global economy while urging cooperation and investment from international banks and the United Nations Development Program.
The group helped to found the United Nations Millennium Development Goal, a move that was advanced by Sachs. He served as director from 2002 to 2006.
The U.N. Millennium Development Goal has demanded the imposition of international taxes as part of a stated effort of “eradicating extreme poverty, reducing child mortality rates, fighting disease epidemics such as AIDS, and developing a global partnership for development.”
Investor’s Business Daily reported the Millennium goal called for a “currency transfer tax,” a “tax on the rental value of land and natural resources,” a “royalty on worldwide fossil energy projection – oil, natural gas, coal,” “fees for the commercial use of the oceans, fees for airplane use of the skies, fees for use of the electromagnetic spectrum, fees on foreign exchange transactions, and a tax on the carbon content of fuels.”
Indeed, last September, a group of 60 nations, including France, Britain and Japan, propose at the U.N. summit on the Millennium Development Goals that a tax be introduced on international currency transactions to raise funds for development aid.
The proposed 0.005 percent tax on currency transactions would raise as much as $35 billion a year in development aid, claimed the proponents.
More Soros ties
Greenberg, meanwhile, also runs his own polling and strategy firm, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner.
A partner in the firm is Jeremy D. Rosner, who was special assistant to Clinton during his first term in office, serving as counselor and senior director for legislative affairs on the staff of the National Security Council.
Rosner’s current client list, according to Greenberg’s website, includes Soros’ Open Society Institute.
JERUSALEM – Is President Obama attempting to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and replace him with a leftist Israeli leader who largely tows the president’s Mideast line?
There are indications the so-called social protests rocking Israel were engineered for that very purpose.
According to an investigative report in Israel’s Maariv’s newspaper, the country’s protests were engineered by a group of media strategists directed by prominent Democratic strategist Stanley Greenberg, a former adviser to Bill Clinton, John Kerry and others.
Stanley Greenberg - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Greenberg (read final line)
Greenberg reportedly is working with Israeli strategists who were behind left-wing leader Ehud Barak’s successful race for prime minister in 1999. Greenberg himself helped to run Barak’s campaign.
Barak is currently the Defense Minister in a coalition government with Netanyahu.
Last week, KleinOnline reported Greenberg previously ran the campaign of Bolivia’s former president, who was ushered into office amid escalating social protests in that country.
After Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada took power in Bolivia, he quickly implemented an economic “shock therapy” crafted by Jeffrey Sachs, a Columbia University professor who sits on the board of an organization literally seeking to reorganize the entire global economic system.That group is the Institute for New Economic Thinking, or INET.
Philanthropist George Soros is INET’s founding sponsor, with the billionaire having provided a reported $25 million over five years to support INET activities. (http://ineteconomics.org/)
Now, a closer look at Greenberg’s previous work in Israel may betray his ultimate intentions with regard to the social protests here.In 1999, after Netanyahu rebuffed President Clinton’s demands for the relinquishment of strategic territory, Clinton deployed Greenberg along with veteran Democratic image maker Robert Shrum and James Carville to run Barak’s campaign.
This followed the fall of Netanyahu’s governing coalition, an event precipitated behind the scenes by Clinton, according to numerous Netanyahu insiders speaking to KleinOnline.
Those insiders recounted how the Clinton White House convinced Netanyahu coalition partners to abandon Netanyahu’s government, thus promting new elections.
Barak, leader of the leftist Labor party, was the main challenger against Netanyahu.
Greenberg, Shrum and Carville went to work crafting an image of Netanyahu as spurning Israel’s relationships with the international community, particularly the U.S., while Barak was upheld as the clear candidate of choice for Clinton.
According to media reports, Greenberg flew into Israel routinely to craft Barak’s strategy and reportedly did most of the heavy lifting for Shrum and Carville.
After Barak successfully unseated Netanyahu, the new Israeli leader largely towed Clinton’s major Mideast policies.
Indeed, with Clinton, Barak offered PLO Leader Yasser Arafat a state in the eastern sections of Jerusalem, reportedly including the Temple Mount, as well as the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
After Arafat turned down Barak’s offer at Camp David in the summer of 2000, Barak made even further concessions while the Palestinian leader was busy starting his intifada, or terror war, against Israel.
Now, as protests reportedly engineered by Greenberg run amuck in Israel, Barak has been openly challenging Netanyahu’s policies at every turn.
Netanyahu has openly rejected Obama’s demands for a retreat from most of the West Bank, Jordan valley and eastern Jerusalem. The Israeli leader has been scornful of Obama’s unprecedented demand for a halt to Jewish construction in eastern Jerusalem.
Barak, meanwhile, has repeatedly attacked Netanyahu’s policies while aligning his own policies with those of Obama.
Just this week, Barak called for the immediate return to negotiations with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who has rejected talks and is instead seeking to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state at the United Nations next week.
This past weekend, Barak called for a special Knesset summit to debate what he called Israel’s “diplomatic isolation,” hinting Netanyahu is largely responsible for that isolation and not the recent Mideast revolutions that quickly ushered anti-Israel personalities to power.
In a report earlier this month, Haaretz columnist Akiva Eldar, a supporter of Obama’s Mideast agenda, wrote that since Netanyahu has refused many of Obama’s demands, the Obama administration has decided to take a page out of the Clinton guidebook and overthrow Netanyahu’s government.
Wrote Eldar, “When Clinton recently invited Kadima leader Tzipi Livni to a private meeting, this signified an unofficial announcement that Netanyahu’s account in Washington has been closed.”
“Twelve years ago, when Hillary Clinton’s husband realized that… [Netanyahu] had no intention of honoring his signature (on the Wye River Accord with Yasser Arafat), that was Netanyahu’s last stop before being sent back to his villa in Caesarea,” continued Eldar.
‘Our brand is crisis’
Two weeks ago saw the largest protests in Israel’s history. Four hundred thousand people hit the streets in cities across the country purportedly to protest against the rising cost of living while demanding sweeping economic reforms.
That massive protest was the culmination of weeks of similar social demonstrations and protest tent cities that organized in various Israeli municipalities, principally in Tel Aviv.
KleinOnline has reported how similar tent cities are being planned by a slew of U.S. radicals calling for a “Day of Rage” targeting Wall Street and U.S. capitalism.
Greenberg, the reported architect of the protests in Israel, founded the Democratic strategy firm Democracy Corps with Clinton advisers James Carville and Bob Shrum. Earlier, the trio ran a strategizing outfit called Greenberg Carville Shrum.
That firm in 2002 was behind a sophisticated campaign in Bolivia that helped de Lozada win his country’s elections amid ongoing social protests. It was the second time de Lozada served as Bolivia’s president.
In 1985, after de Lozada came to office the first time, he quickly implemented Sachs’ “shock therapy.” De Lozada attempted to engineer the restructuring of the Bolivian economy and the dismantling of the country’s state-capitalist model that had prevailed there since the 1952 Bolivian Revolution.
Sachs is a renowned international economist best known for his work as an economic adviser to governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union
His “shock therapy” calls for drastically cutting inflation by scrapping all subsidies, price controls, restrictions on exports, imports and private business activity. The scheme also calls for linking each restructured country’s economy with a more global currency.
Sachs’ remedy for Bolivia, however, had dire consequences.
The Sachs plan did beat the country’s inflation, but the price was continuing high unemployment, economic stagnation, labor revolt, a state of siege and a deepening involvement in the international drug market, reports noted.
To beat the hyperinflation under Sachs’ plan, Bolivia ensured a large number of workers were laid off while others’ salaries were slashed, leading to widespread worker strikes.
The Bolivian government imposed a state of siege in response to a wave of strikes.
Similar protests engulfed Bolivia when Greenberg’s firm helped to orchestrate de Lozada’s 2002 win. De Lozada had announced that he planned to once again implement Sachs’ “shock therapy” for Bolivia.
A 2005 documentary, entitled, “Our Brand is Crisis: Exporting neoliberal spin,” followed Greenberg’s and Carville’s electioneering in Bolivia on behalf of de Lozada.
The film noted Greenberg’s team saw no need to recraft de Lozada’s economic policy approach based on Sachs “shock therapy” plan.
De Lozada was victorious in the 2002 elections, but was run out of office one year later amid massive opposition to his economic policies. Protesters demanded a return to the capitalist system.
Bretton Woods and ‘shocking’ world economy
Sachs, meanwhile, sits on the board of the Soros-funded Institute for New Economic Thinking.
This past April, Sachs keynoted INET’s annual meeting, which took place in the mountains of Bretton Woods, N.H.
The gathering took place at Mount Washington Hotel, famous for hosting the original Bretton Woods economic agreements drafted in 1944. That conference’s goal was to rebuild a post-World War II international monetary system. The April gathering had a similar stated goal – a global economic restructuring.
A Business Insider report on last year’s event related, “George Soros has brought together a crack team of the world’s top economists and financial thinkers.”
“Its aim,” continued the business newspaper, “to remake the world’s economy as they see fit.”
More than two-thirds of the speakers at this year’s conference had direct ties to Soros.
Besides his role at INET, Sachs, a special adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, is founder and co-president of the Soros-funded Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization that says it is dedicated to ending extreme poverty and hunger.
Global taxes
With $50 million in capital from Soros, Millennium promotes a global economy while urging cooperation and investment from international banks and the United Nations Development Program.
The group helped to found the United Nations Millennium Development Goal, a move that was advanced by Sachs. He served as director from 2002 to 2006.
The U.N. Millennium Development Goal has demanded the imposition of international taxes as part of a stated effort of “eradicating extreme poverty, reducing child mortality rates, fighting disease epidemics such as AIDS, and developing a global partnership for development.”
Investor’s Business Daily reported the Millennium goal called for a “currency transfer tax,” a “tax on the rental value of land and natural resources,” a “royalty on worldwide fossil energy projection – oil, natural gas, coal,” “fees for the commercial use of the oceans, fees for airplane use of the skies, fees for use of the electromagnetic spectrum, fees on foreign exchange transactions, and a tax on the carbon content of fuels.”
Indeed, last September, a group of 60 nations, including France, Britain and Japan, propose at the U.N. summit on the Millennium Development Goals that a tax be introduced on international currency transactions to raise funds for development aid.
The proposed 0.005 percent tax on currency transactions would raise as much as $35 billion a year in development aid, claimed the proponents.
More Soros ties
Greenberg, meanwhile, also runs his own polling and strategy firm, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner.
A partner in the firm is Jeremy D. Rosner, who was special assistant to Clinton during his first term in office, serving as counselor and senior director for legislative affairs on the staff of the National Security Council.
Rosner’s current client list, according to Greenberg’s website, includes Soros’ Open Society Institute.
“But if the watchman see the sword come and blow not the trumpet (Ezekiel 33)
Meir Kahane - 1988
“But if the watchman see the sword come and blow not the trumpet and the people be not warned; if the sword cometh and take from them a soul…his blood will I require from the watchman”. (Ezekiel 33)
“But if the watchman see the sword come and blow not the trumpet and the people be not warned; if the sword cometh and take from them a soul…his blood will I require from the watchman”. (Ezekiel 33)
I sit on the mountain and, behold, the enemy, the terrible dangers, are in full view. There they are, there they approach, those who travel, as armed men. Jew, can you not see them:
- A land of Israel that sees Arabs rioting without fear of an army hobbled by tragic orders of small men, fearful of the nations and what they will say; little men who never though for a moment of fear: What will G-d say? A land in which soldiers and civilians – are stoned by howling Arabs whose self-confidence and certainty grow in proportion to the hesitation, uncertainty and loss of confidence on the part of Jews. A land in which Arab citizens of Israel puncture the absurd myth of “loyalty” to the Jewish State by carrying the riots and hatred and the cries of “We will free Palestine,” into the Jewish cities of Jaffa and Lydda and Acre. A land of Israel which sees its Jewish citizens, frustrated and bitter at the impotence of the government, who are gripped by the terrible thought: Perhaps, G-d forbid, the State will not survive…
- A Land of Israel in which the “stranger”, so beloved by the guilt-ridden eyrev rav, mixed multitude, of our times, the “stranger”, the Arab, “rises above us higher and higher and we sink lower and lower.”
- A Land of Israel in which fear stalks the highway, and the inner psyche of the Jewish citizen, as soldiers and civilians are murdered regularly and the proud new Jew, the product of the Zionism of Herzl, and Borochov and Jabotinksy, the one who left Minsk and Pinsk and Fez and Sa’ana, who fled the fear and psyche of Minsk and Pinsk and Fez and Sa’ana and the psychological ghetto of the exile. A land in which fear grips the Jew and Zionism dies a pathetic spiritual death.
- A land of Israel in which there are funerals each week, funerals of Jews who did not fall in battle but who were murdered in the streets and in the fields of Eretz Yisrael, and an impotent Jewish government “gropes at noonday as the blind gropeth in darkness,” and has no answer, even as it frees 1100 terrorists and jails Jewish heroes. A land in which the glory of Samson is shorn from our heads by the Peresitic Delilahs and strength ebbs from the body Israel even as the Palestinian-Philistines pledge: “See wherein his great strength lieth and by what means we may prevail against him…. And we will give you every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.”
- A Land of Israel in which the army is slowly destroyed as a fighting force and the morale of its soldiers shattered by timid and frightened orders, conceived in gentilized concepts and born in fear of that gentile, not to strike with an all powerful hand at the enemy – lest women and children, who are an integral part of that enemy, be hurt. A land that ties the hands of its soldiers and thus passes a death sentence on them, a land that sees more and more Jews fearful of army service and fearful of taking the action that will save their own lives.
- A Land of Israel that sees our enemy grow bolder, encouraged by the madness and gentilization of the Hellenists, the mixed multitude who destroy the Jewish state in stages even as they pretend to govern it. A land that see Arab boldness and confidence increase in proportion to Jewish insecurity, guilt, weakness, confusion, stumbling and fear. A land that sees a guarantee of worse, much worse, Arab action and slaughter of Jews, as the barrier of fear is swept away, a land that will make Northern Ireland appear idyllic, as the wild man who is Ishmael, emerges in all his barbarism and savagery.
- A Land of Israel that sees the Jewish character of the land disappear under the hobnailed boots of the storm troopers of the self-hating and fascist Left. The ones who spiritually destroyed Sephardic Jews and who kidnapped young Yemenite Jewish infants even as they stripped Jewishness from the souls of their parents. The ones who, driven by self-hate and with a Judaism that they see as hideous hump they cannot escape, attempt to destroy our children, our people, by ordering enforced gathering together of Arab and Jewish youngsters in Arab villages and Jewish towns, in weekends and dances and songs, sounds of music that are a funeral dirge for Jewish survival. A land that opens the doors to the impurity and pollution of intermarriage and assimilation and calls them “good.” A land that in the moves to increase the defilement of the Jewish seed and Jewish purity, that is seen already all too clearly in the Jewish women living in Arab villages, in the Jewish prostitutes and their Arab pimps, in the Jewish girls sitting and laughing with Arabs on the beaches and in the coffee houses.
- A Land of Israel in which the economy dies even as the men of fraud pretend that it improves; a land in which unemployment and disaster will unravel the social fabric leading to chaos and anarchy in the streets. A land in which young Jews, released from the army, find themselves unemployed, as greedy Jewish employers prefer two Arabs for the price of a single Jewish worker. A land in which cities see entire areas becoming Arab, as Ishmaelite arrives, cash dollars in hand, dollars that come across the Jordan bridges from the PLO coffers, and buys apartments, in neighborhoods and towns.
- A Land of Israel that sees a Knesset populated, not only by Arab enemies of the state, but by Jewish ones. Jews who are enveloped with blind, obsessive hate against religion, against Judaism. Jews who cannot sleep without dreaming of ways to liquidate Judaism. Who yearn to go to war against Judaism and erase it from the earth and who are so spiritually sick that they prepare to go to war and murder the Jews they so hate.
- A Land that sees the Arab, free of obligation to serve the country, free of paying his full share of taxes, multiplying at a rate that sees the Galilee and Wadi Ara and the Triangle, filled with a majority of Arabs, Arabs whose quantity is matched by a quality stemming from Jewish madness as the Hellenists in their guilt and self hate took an ignorant, illiterate peasant’s child and turned him into an educated intellectual who is the greatest danger to the survival of Israel, who is the future leader of the PLO. A land that sees Jewish madmen subsidizing the Arab birthrate by paying checks each month for every child.
- A land that, through a perverted “democracy” and “coexistence” calmly salutes national suicide as it allows the Arabs to grow swiftly and move towards a majority, a majority that will vote Israel out of existence on the way to slaughter that will be a thousand fold that which they commit against each other daily in Lebanon.
- A Land that sees immigration into the country dry up even as Israeli Jews seek to flee the country, their main obstacle being American and Western immigration quotas. A land that is unhappy, that has lost confidence in itself, in the justice of its own cause and in the iron guarantee that “Israel can never go under.” A land in the hands of the gentilized Hebrews, the hideous Hellenists, the mixed multitude.
The enemy comes nearer, the dangers are closer, and I sit on a mountain and blow
the trumpet. Arise, O slumbering Jews and save yourself, save your body, save your soul!
I sit and blow the trumpet and the Jew sleeps on, or reacts in vicious anger and shouts: Silence, we sleep! I sit and blow the trumpet and plead with brothers and sisters to arouse themselves, their people – to bring the Messiah now.
Another year enters the volumes of time and the next takes its place in the march
toward Jewish destiny. The sands of the New Year are already running. Running out. The
sands slip through, the clock ticks away and the Almighty waits to see
whether the sleeping Jew will awaken from his slumber to reclaim his
greatness and destiny before there are no more years left.
September 19, 2011
I sit on a Mountain...
“But
if the watchman see the sword come and blow not the trumpet and the
people be not warned; if the sword cometh and take from them a soul…his
blood will I require from the watchman”. (Ezekiel 33)
I sit on the mountain with a trumpet in my hand. We all sit on a mountain, each of us a watchman with a trumpet in hand. Our mission is to sit and see the enemy. Our mission is to see the danger, to search our own souls and to blow the trumpet and warn the rest – the rest of the Jewish people.
I
sit on a mountain as the sands slip through, the clock ticks away and
the Almighty watches from above to see whether the sleeping Jew will
awake on top of the mountain to see the enemy and blow the trumpet and
save himself and all the rest and reclaim his greatness and his destiny
before there are no more years left.
We are all watchmen, we Jews. We are commanded to know the danger, to see it approach, to blow the trumpet and save, both ourselves and our fellow Jews.
Durban III, Protocols of the Evil...
Durban III is just another example of how the bulk of the world is Ant-Israel and Anti-Semitic. It is time to unite in Torah and HaShem. Trust in no Man!
Durban III Says ‘Yes’ to Qaddafi, ‘No’ to Israel.The UN’s Durban III “anti-racism” conference has accredited a Libyan NGO close to Qaddafi but barred the pro-Israel “UN Watch” group.
September 16, 2011
Israel Palestinian Conflict: The Truth About the Peace Process
Israel Palestinian Conflict: The Truth About the Peace Process
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAuBc_cbXo0
September 15, 2011
Who's Afraid Of Israel?
"And all the nations of the world will see that the
Name of G-d is called upon you and they will fear you."
(From this week's Torah portion, Ki Tavo, Deuteronomy
23:10)
The pace at which we are losing the fear of the nations - Israel's strategic power of deterrence, is faster than anything we could have imagined. While we are still accommodating ourselves to one humiliation, another, more severe affront comes knocking on our national door. The Turk helps to breach our maritime border and attack our soldiers and instead of apologizing he demands our apology; the Gazan attacks our cities with missiles and in exchange demands - and receives - a state; the Egyptian burns our embassy and in exchange, our Prime Minister thanks the American who was kind enough to call the Egyptian who wouldn't answer our phone calls; he also thanks the Egyptian who was kind enough to answer the American's phone call and to save the Jews in the embassy from a fate reminiscent of 1929 - when hate-crazed Arab mobs brutally massacred Jews in cities throughout the Land of Israel.
The Turk embarks on a speed-campaign to trample every possible Israeli interest and the PM promises to rectify our relations with Turkey. He also promises to quickly re-open Israel's embassy in Egypt and to learn the lessons of this past weekend: In other words, to build a higher wall. Even the dictator from Jordan, in danger of losing his throne like Mubarak, Gaddafi and Assad, dares to get in on the act and question our right to exist.
This week's Torah portion, Ki Tavo, is actually the key to forging Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel. It is a thorough and detailed description of how to build a Jewish kingdom in the Land of Israel such that all the nations of the world will immediately understand that the King of this nation is the Master of the Universe Himself - and their hearts will automatically fill with awe and admiration.
"And it will be when you come to the Land that Hashem your G-d is giving you for an inheritance and you shall inherit it and settle in it. And you shall take from the first fruits of the earth that you shall bring from your Land that Hashem your G-d gives you and you shall place them in the basket and you shall go to the place that Hashem will choose for His Name to dwell there." (Deuteronomy 26:1-2)
The King of Kings, the Master of the Universe, dwells in your midst - in the royal palace; the Holy Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. And you, before you harvest the fruits of your economic success and close yourself off in your own world, are commanded to first ascend in joy to the royal courtyard; its gates are open for you. There, in the courtyard of G-d's house, you will thank your King, remember and appreciate Him and internalize the loving kindness that He has bestowed upon you. You will coronate Him again as King over you, your family, your community, your nation and the entire world.
Afterwards, your daily routine will be informed by the guidance that you received at the Temple, in accordance with the holistic Torah that emanates from the place chosen by G-d. The Temple is really the only place from which the Torah can emanate in its pure, complete, unified and relevant form.
If you do not live in the Land in this holistic way, you really have not entered the Land. Deep in your heart, you understand that you are merely a guest. The Turk can protect his interests beyond his borders, but you dare not do so. Not because you are physically weak, but because you do not feel that this is your home. You have not come to the place chosen by G-d. True, you are the legal inheritor, the son of the queen, but you hurried to pass the responsibility on to the son of the handmaiden. You do not ascend to the courtyards of G-d, but to the courtyards of Uncle Sam.
It took a long time. But in the end they understood. Now they do not even need to make war. You are doing all the work for them. And Migron is only the beginning.
There is only one way to change direction. The face of the nation is its leadership. Israel urgently needs G-d fearing leadership.
And all the nations of the world will see that G-d's Name is called upon you and they will fear you.
The pace at which we are losing the fear of the nations - Israel's strategic power of deterrence, is faster than anything we could have imagined. While we are still accommodating ourselves to one humiliation, another, more severe affront comes knocking on our national door. The Turk helps to breach our maritime border and attack our soldiers and instead of apologizing he demands our apology; the Gazan attacks our cities with missiles and in exchange demands - and receives - a state; the Egyptian burns our embassy and in exchange, our Prime Minister thanks the American who was kind enough to call the Egyptian who wouldn't answer our phone calls; he also thanks the Egyptian who was kind enough to answer the American's phone call and to save the Jews in the embassy from a fate reminiscent of 1929 - when hate-crazed Arab mobs brutally massacred Jews in cities throughout the Land of Israel.
The Turk embarks on a speed-campaign to trample every possible Israeli interest and the PM promises to rectify our relations with Turkey. He also promises to quickly re-open Israel's embassy in Egypt and to learn the lessons of this past weekend: In other words, to build a higher wall. Even the dictator from Jordan, in danger of losing his throne like Mubarak, Gaddafi and Assad, dares to get in on the act and question our right to exist.
This week's Torah portion, Ki Tavo, is actually the key to forging Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel. It is a thorough and detailed description of how to build a Jewish kingdom in the Land of Israel such that all the nations of the world will immediately understand that the King of this nation is the Master of the Universe Himself - and their hearts will automatically fill with awe and admiration.
"And it will be when you come to the Land that Hashem your G-d is giving you for an inheritance and you shall inherit it and settle in it. And you shall take from the first fruits of the earth that you shall bring from your Land that Hashem your G-d gives you and you shall place them in the basket and you shall go to the place that Hashem will choose for His Name to dwell there." (Deuteronomy 26:1-2)
The King of Kings, the Master of the Universe, dwells in your midst - in the royal palace; the Holy Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. And you, before you harvest the fruits of your economic success and close yourself off in your own world, are commanded to first ascend in joy to the royal courtyard; its gates are open for you. There, in the courtyard of G-d's house, you will thank your King, remember and appreciate Him and internalize the loving kindness that He has bestowed upon you. You will coronate Him again as King over you, your family, your community, your nation and the entire world.
Afterwards, your daily routine will be informed by the guidance that you received at the Temple, in accordance with the holistic Torah that emanates from the place chosen by G-d. The Temple is really the only place from which the Torah can emanate in its pure, complete, unified and relevant form.
If you do not live in the Land in this holistic way, you really have not entered the Land. Deep in your heart, you understand that you are merely a guest. The Turk can protect his interests beyond his borders, but you dare not do so. Not because you are physically weak, but because you do not feel that this is your home. You have not come to the place chosen by G-d. True, you are the legal inheritor, the son of the queen, but you hurried to pass the responsibility on to the son of the handmaiden. You do not ascend to the courtyards of G-d, but to the courtyards of Uncle Sam.
It took a long time. But in the end they understood. Now they do not even need to make war. You are doing all the work for them. And Migron is only the beginning.
There is only one way to change direction. The face of the nation is its leadership. Israel urgently needs G-d fearing leadership.
And all the nations of the world will see that G-d's Name is called upon you and they will fear you.
Shabbat
Shalom,
Moshe Feiglin
Moshe Feiglin
September 1, 2011
Why Provide for the Ultra-Orthodox?: By Moshe Feiglin
The economic hardships felt by many Israelis must be the fault of
the settlers and the Ultra-Orthodox. After all, who else can
possibly be to blame?
This article will not deal with the ridiculous claims aimed at the settlers (as if a kindergarten in Ofra costs more than a kindergarten in the Galil or Tel Aviv). Instead, we will focus on the Ultra-Orthodox and the claims against them that seem true on the surface. A large community that does not work, while being sustained by the taxpayers' money, does seem to be a strain on the economy.
First of all, I would like to state that a way of life that encourages the public at large - and not just the best and brightest who are studying Torah - not to work, is clearly problematic. That is not what Judaism is about. The reliance of so many thousands of men on the Torah-learning stipend while not significantly providing for their families stems from some historic distortions that have more to do with politics than with ideology. Nevertheless, that is the problem of the Ultra-Orthodox themselves. They are the only people who have to deal with it and it looks like they are doing so more than ever before.
But let us look at the claim that the Ultra-Orthodox are living off the money of the taxpayers. On the surface, in the short term, that is the truth. But in the long term, it is quite likely that just the opposite is true and that it will be the secular who will be living off the tax shekels of the Ultra-Orthodox. Sounds surprising?
The economic crisis plaguing the Western world is fueled by low birthrates. In most of Western Europe, the birth rate is negative; less than two children per family. Parallel to the low birthrate, life expectancy in those countries has risen. The result is that the percentage of elderly in those societies is very large. The shrinking younger generation no longer has the ability to sustain the aging generation, whose longevity requires expensive medical care. And so, West European countries are falling into the throes of economic crisis, one after the other.
It turns out that the most important investment a nation can make is in its children. An Ultra-Orthodox family that brings ten children to the world invests tremendous effort to raise them. The Tel Avivian with one or two children whose tax shekels today help them with their efforts - is actually investing in the people who will provide for him when he gets older!
This article will not deal with the ridiculous claims aimed at the settlers (as if a kindergarten in Ofra costs more than a kindergarten in the Galil or Tel Aviv). Instead, we will focus on the Ultra-Orthodox and the claims against them that seem true on the surface. A large community that does not work, while being sustained by the taxpayers' money, does seem to be a strain on the economy.
First of all, I would like to state that a way of life that encourages the public at large - and not just the best and brightest who are studying Torah - not to work, is clearly problematic. That is not what Judaism is about. The reliance of so many thousands of men on the Torah-learning stipend while not significantly providing for their families stems from some historic distortions that have more to do with politics than with ideology. Nevertheless, that is the problem of the Ultra-Orthodox themselves. They are the only people who have to deal with it and it looks like they are doing so more than ever before.
But let us look at the claim that the Ultra-Orthodox are living off the money of the taxpayers. On the surface, in the short term, that is the truth. But in the long term, it is quite likely that just the opposite is true and that it will be the secular who will be living off the tax shekels of the Ultra-Orthodox. Sounds surprising?
The economic crisis plaguing the Western world is fueled by low birthrates. In most of Western Europe, the birth rate is negative; less than two children per family. Parallel to the low birthrate, life expectancy in those countries has risen. The result is that the percentage of elderly in those societies is very large. The shrinking younger generation no longer has the ability to sustain the aging generation, whose longevity requires expensive medical care. And so, West European countries are falling into the throes of economic crisis, one after the other.
It turns out that the most important investment a nation can make is in its children. An Ultra-Orthodox family that brings ten children to the world invests tremendous effort to raise them. The Tel Avivian with one or two children whose tax shekels today help them with their efforts - is actually investing in the people who will provide for him when he gets older!
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