Japanese company Genepax presents its eco-friendly car that runs on nothing but water. The car has an energy generator that extracts hydrogen from water that is poured into the car’s tank. The generator then releases electrons that produce electric power to run the car. The electric powered car can run on any type of water (you can even use tea and soda…etc). The car can run for an hour at about 50 miles per hour on just a liter of water; about 2 cans of soda worth. Genepax, the company that invented the technology, aims to collaborate with Japanese manufacturers to mass produce it. Unlike other electric cars, the Genepax car does not require that batteries be recharged and has no emission. The water electrical generator is located in the back of the car and when water is poured it is then broken down in order to create electricity to power the car. Imagine what such a generator could do to the oil industry, the nuclear plants and the electrical grid.
http://presscore.ca/2011/?p=1910
March 29, 2011
The Other Tsunami By Dennis Prager
The Other Tsunami
By Dennis Prager
March 15, 2011
It is very difficult to hate babies.
It takes a special person.
As morally wrong as it is to murder innocent adults, mankind seems to
have a built-in revulsion against killing babies. If a baby does not
evoke any tenderness, if a baby is regarded as worthy of being
deliberately hurt or murdered, we know that we have encountered a
degree of evil that few humans -- even among murderers -- can relate
to.
That is why what Palestinian terrorists did to a Jewish family on the
West Bank this past weekend deserves far more attention than it
received.
Normally, Palestinian atrocities get little attention -- certainly far
less attention than Israeli apartment-building on the West Bank
receives. But this particular atrocity got even less attention than
usual because the world was focused on the terrible tsunami that hit
Japan.
On Friday night, Palestinian terrorists slipped into a Jewish
settlement, entered a home and stabbed the father, the mother and
three of their children to death: an 11-year-old, a 4-year-old, and a
three-month-old baby.
In order to understand what those actions mean, a seemingly separate
incident needs to be recalled: the prolonged sexual attack by up to
200 Egyptian men on Lara Logan, chief foreign affairs correspondent
for CBS News, in Tahrir Square, Cairo a few weeks ago. It was reported
that after stripping her naked and then molesting and beating her, the
men kept shouting, "Jew, Jew!"
The two incidents tell the same tale. In much of the Arab Muslim and
some of the non-Arab Muslim world today (such as Iran), "Jew" is not a
person. "Jew" is not even merely the enemy. In fact, there is no
parallel on Earth to what "Jew" means to a hundred million, perhaps
hundreds of millions of Muslims.
Think of any conflict in the world -- Pakistan-India, China-Tibet,
North Korea-South Korea, Tamil-Sinhalese. There are some deep hatreds
there, and atrocities have been committed on one or both sides of
those conflicts. But in none of those conflicts nor anywhere else is
there something equivalent to what "Jew" means to millions of Muslims.
There really is only one historical parallel, and it, too, involved
the word "Jew." The Nazis also succeeded in fully dehumanizing the
word "Jew." Thus, for Nazism, it was as important (if not more so) to
murder Jewish babies and children -- often through as cruel a means as
possible (being burned alive, buried alive or thrown up in the air and
impaled on bayonets) -- as it was to murder Jewish adults.
The human being does not have to learn to hate. It seems to come
pretty naturally. Nor does the human being have to learn to murder,
steal or rape. These, too, seem to be in the natural human repertoire
of evils.
But the human being does have to learn to hate children and babies,
and to regard the torture and murder of them as morally desirable
acts. It takes years of work to undo normal protective human attitudes
toward children.
That is precisely what the Nazis did and what significant parts of the
Muslim world have done to the word "Jew." To them, the Jew is not just
sub-human; the Jew -- and his or her children -- is sub-animal.
Palestinian and other Muslim spokesmen and their supporters on the
left argue that this unique hatred is the fruit of Israeli policies,
not decades of Nazi-like Jew-hatred saturating Islamic education,
television, radio and the mosque. But for this to be true, unique
hatred would have to be matched by unique evil on the Israelis' part.
Yet, among the injustices of the world, what the Israelis have done to
the Palestinians would not even register on a moral Richter scale. The
creation of Israel engendered about 750,000 Palestinian refugees (and
an equal number of Jewish refugees from Arab countries) and the death
of perhaps 10 thousand Palestinian Arabs. And all of that came about
solely because Arab armies invaded Israel in order to destroy it at
birth. Yet, when Pakistan was yanked from India and established as a
Muslim state at the very same time Israel was established, that act
engendered 12.5 million Muslim refugees and about a million dead
Muslims (and similar numbers of Hindu refugees and deaths). Why then
doesn't "Hindu" equal "Jew" in the Muslim lexicon of hate?
Here are some answers in brief:
First, many groups have been hated, but none have been hated as deeply
as the Jews.
Second, Jew-hatred is often exterminationist, which is why Jew-hatred
has little in common with ethnic bigotry, religious intolerance or
even racism. Rarely, if ever, do any of them seek the extermination of
the disliked or hated group.
Third, exterminationist Jew-haters are particularly dangerous people.
Non-Jews who do not recognize Jew-hatred as the moral cancer it is are
fools. Nazism was born in Jew-hatred and led to the death of more than
40 million non-Jews. Islamic terror started against Israeli Jews but
has spread around the world. More fellow Muslims have now been
murdered by Islamic terror than Jews have.
That is why the tsunami the world ignored this weekend -- the
Palestinian-Arab-Muslim flood of Jew-hatred -- is the one that will
prove far more dangerous to it than the Japanese one it understandably
focused on.
Dennis Prager is a radio show host, contributing columnist for
Townhall.com, and author of 4 books including Happiness Is a Serious
Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual.
==============================
Women For Israel's Tomorrow (Women in Green)
POB 7352, Jerusalem 91072, Israel
Tel: 972-2-624-9887 Fax: 972-2-624-5380
mailto:wfit2@womeningreen.org
http://www.womeningreen.org
By Dennis Prager
March 15, 2011
It is very difficult to hate babies.
It takes a special person.
As morally wrong as it is to murder innocent adults, mankind seems to
have a built-in revulsion against killing babies. If a baby does not
evoke any tenderness, if a baby is regarded as worthy of being
deliberately hurt or murdered, we know that we have encountered a
degree of evil that few humans -- even among murderers -- can relate
to.
That is why what Palestinian terrorists did to a Jewish family on the
West Bank this past weekend deserves far more attention than it
received.
Normally, Palestinian atrocities get little attention -- certainly far
less attention than Israeli apartment-building on the West Bank
receives. But this particular atrocity got even less attention than
usual because the world was focused on the terrible tsunami that hit
Japan.
On Friday night, Palestinian terrorists slipped into a Jewish
settlement, entered a home and stabbed the father, the mother and
three of their children to death: an 11-year-old, a 4-year-old, and a
three-month-old baby.
In order to understand what those actions mean, a seemingly separate
incident needs to be recalled: the prolonged sexual attack by up to
200 Egyptian men on Lara Logan, chief foreign affairs correspondent
for CBS News, in Tahrir Square, Cairo a few weeks ago. It was reported
that after stripping her naked and then molesting and beating her, the
men kept shouting, "Jew, Jew!"
The two incidents tell the same tale. In much of the Arab Muslim and
some of the non-Arab Muslim world today (such as Iran), "Jew" is not a
person. "Jew" is not even merely the enemy. In fact, there is no
parallel on Earth to what "Jew" means to a hundred million, perhaps
hundreds of millions of Muslims.
Think of any conflict in the world -- Pakistan-India, China-Tibet,
North Korea-South Korea, Tamil-Sinhalese. There are some deep hatreds
there, and atrocities have been committed on one or both sides of
those conflicts. But in none of those conflicts nor anywhere else is
there something equivalent to what "Jew" means to millions of Muslims.
There really is only one historical parallel, and it, too, involved
the word "Jew." The Nazis also succeeded in fully dehumanizing the
word "Jew." Thus, for Nazism, it was as important (if not more so) to
murder Jewish babies and children -- often through as cruel a means as
possible (being burned alive, buried alive or thrown up in the air and
impaled on bayonets) -- as it was to murder Jewish adults.
The human being does not have to learn to hate. It seems to come
pretty naturally. Nor does the human being have to learn to murder,
steal or rape. These, too, seem to be in the natural human repertoire
of evils.
But the human being does have to learn to hate children and babies,
and to regard the torture and murder of them as morally desirable
acts. It takes years of work to undo normal protective human attitudes
toward children.
That is precisely what the Nazis did and what significant parts of the
Muslim world have done to the word "Jew." To them, the Jew is not just
sub-human; the Jew -- and his or her children -- is sub-animal.
Palestinian and other Muslim spokesmen and their supporters on the
left argue that this unique hatred is the fruit of Israeli policies,
not decades of Nazi-like Jew-hatred saturating Islamic education,
television, radio and the mosque. But for this to be true, unique
hatred would have to be matched by unique evil on the Israelis' part.
Yet, among the injustices of the world, what the Israelis have done to
the Palestinians would not even register on a moral Richter scale. The
creation of Israel engendered about 750,000 Palestinian refugees (and
an equal number of Jewish refugees from Arab countries) and the death
of perhaps 10 thousand Palestinian Arabs. And all of that came about
solely because Arab armies invaded Israel in order to destroy it at
birth. Yet, when Pakistan was yanked from India and established as a
Muslim state at the very same time Israel was established, that act
engendered 12.5 million Muslim refugees and about a million dead
Muslims (and similar numbers of Hindu refugees and deaths). Why then
doesn't "Hindu" equal "Jew" in the Muslim lexicon of hate?
Here are some answers in brief:
First, many groups have been hated, but none have been hated as deeply
as the Jews.
Second, Jew-hatred is often exterminationist, which is why Jew-hatred
has little in common with ethnic bigotry, religious intolerance or
even racism. Rarely, if ever, do any of them seek the extermination of
the disliked or hated group.
Third, exterminationist Jew-haters are particularly dangerous people.
Non-Jews who do not recognize Jew-hatred as the moral cancer it is are
fools. Nazism was born in Jew-hatred and led to the death of more than
40 million non-Jews. Islamic terror started against Israeli Jews but
has spread around the world. More fellow Muslims have now been
murdered by Islamic terror than Jews have.
That is why the tsunami the world ignored this weekend -- the
Palestinian-Arab-Muslim flood of Jew-hatred -- is the one that will
prove far more dangerous to it than the Japanese one it understandably
focused on.
Dennis Prager is a radio show host, contributing columnist for
Townhall.com, and author of 4 books including Happiness Is a Serious
Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual.
==============================
Women For Israel's Tomorrow (Women in Green)
POB 7352, Jerusalem 91072, Israel
Tel: 972-2-624-9887 Fax: 972-2-624-5380
mailto:wfit2@womeningreen.org
http://www.womeningreen.org
March 26, 2011
Ben-Ari Forces Police to Promise Return of Stolen Sheep
Adar Bet 18, 5771, 24 March 11 09:38by by Gavriel Queenann
(Israelnationalnews.com) Realizing an ultimatum made by MK Michael Ben-Ari (National Union) to unilaterally act against Arab sheep thieves if police continue to look the other way, a group of several dozen Jews Thursday tried to recover a herd of sheep that was stolen from Jewish shepherds in Tel-Zion.
(Israelnationalnews.com) Realizing an ultimatum made by MK Michael Ben-Ari (National Union) to unilaterally act against Arab sheep thieves if police continue to look the other way, a group of several dozen Jews Thursday tried to recover a herd of sheep that was stolen from Jewish shepherds in Tel-Zion.
At about 2:00 A.M., a group of Arab rustlers entered the Jewish community of Tel-Zion and stole a flock of sheep worth 50 thousand dollars, smuggling them back to their own village of Qalandiya.
In an conversation with Israel National News, the flock's owner said, "Last night the Arabs stole 30 sheep. Just two years ago I suffered a similar theft and it took me a long time to recover. I built that herd myself and everything went down the drain."
"I went to the army and the police and they arrived at the scene and just told me 'don't worry,'" he continued. "I simply feel helpless. Nobody lifts a finger, I told the commander of the sector: if you are silent about the theft today it will cost human life tomorrow."
MK Michael Ben Ari then turned to Israel's Ministry of Public Security, and said: "If within three hours the security forces do not enter the village, I'll go to Qalandiya myself to pull out the herd. Today it's sheep, tomorrow it's slaughtered children. I will not allow an Itamar II."
At about 7:00 P.M. a group of several dozen Jews flocked to the entrance of Kochav Yaakov near Tel-Zion and, led by MK Ben-Ari, and his parlimentary aides Baruch Marzel and Itamar Ben-Gvir, headed for Qalandiya to liberate the sheep. MK Ben-Ari said, "Where the police will not act, we are forced to act to bring back our lost sheep."
According to Baruch Marzel, who spoke with Israel National News by telephone, the activists managed to evade police and army officers until they were within a few hundred meters of Qalandiya. Marzel said, "The officers promised us they would go in and return the sheep tonight. This is what we wanted... to force their hand. Before we did this they would not even speak with us."
"I went to the army and the police and they arrived at the scene and just told me 'don't worry,'" he continued. "I simply feel helpless. Nobody lifts a finger, I told the commander of the sector: if you are silent about the theft today it will cost human life tomorrow."
MK Michael Ben Ari then turned to Israel's Ministry of Public Security, and said: "If within three hours the security forces do not enter the village, I'll go to Qalandiya myself to pull out the herd. Today it's sheep, tomorrow it's slaughtered children. I will not allow an Itamar II."
At about 7:00 P.M. a group of several dozen Jews flocked to the entrance of Kochav Yaakov near Tel-Zion and, led by MK Ben-Ari, and his parlimentary aides Baruch Marzel and Itamar Ben-Gvir, headed for Qalandiya to liberate the sheep. MK Ben-Ari said, "Where the police will not act, we are forced to act to bring back our lost sheep."
According to Baruch Marzel, who spoke with Israel National News by telephone, the activists managed to evade police and army officers until they were within a few hundred meters of Qalandiya. Marzel said, "The officers promised us they would go in and return the sheep tonight. This is what we wanted... to force their hand. Before we did this they would not even speak with us."
Israel National Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld refused to discuss the incident itself, telling Israel National News, "I'm not going to deal with this right now because right now we're dealing with much more important things like heightened security and the marathon. This isn't important. Just to put things in perspective for you."
The problem of theft - and sometimes outright robbery - targeting Jewish farms by Arabs in southern Israel has been pervasive for many years, with losses to rapine rising to tens of millions of shekels per annum. Such incidents sometimes have tragic endings.
In January 2007, Jewish farmer Shai Dromi was aquitted of manslaughter after he was put on trial for killing one of four Bedouin men who poisoned his dog and came in the night to steal his flocks. Dromi, who feared for his life, shot at the men's legs in self-defense, but one of them died of bloodloss after the incident (Dromi did attempt to administer first aid at the time).
In January 2007, Jewish farmer Shai Dromi was aquitted of manslaughter after he was put on trial for killing one of four Bedouin men who poisoned his dog and came in the night to steal his flocks. Dromi, who feared for his life, shot at the men's legs in self-defense, but one of them died of bloodloss after the incident (Dromi did attempt to administer first aid at the time).
March 25, 2011
Right-wing MKs tour near Temple Mount
Four National Union MKs overcame police attempts to block them from touring the Old City near the Temple Mount on Wednesday.
Lawmakers Uri Ariel, Ya’acov Katz, Michael Ben-Ari and Arye Eldad said it was their right to walk around in any section of Jerusalem they pleased, and expressed outrage when their attempt to tour in the vicinity of the Temple Mount was blocked by several special patrol officers armed with machine guns who had been deployed to the site by Jerusalem police chief Cmdr. Aharon Franco.
“Every month we walk around this area. We were prevented from doing this earlier this month, because of the visit by [US Vice President] Joe Biden,” Katz said. “But the prime minister said Jerusalem, just like Tel Aviv, is not a settlement, and is open to all. We merely want to implement what Netanyahu said.”
Asked if the tour was a dangerous provocation during a sensitive time, Katz said, “For 150 years, Jews have been accused of igniting tensions in Jerusalem. We’re not walking around with weapons.” Pointing at his walking stick, he added, “All we have is a cane and our cellphones.”
Eldad said, “The whole of the Land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel. Not to the Arabs, not to the US, and not to Saudi Arabia.”
Eldad added that “there has never been a good time” for Jews to exercise sovereignty over Jerusalem.
“We have been in Jerusalem for 3,000 years. The Middle East has always been explosive.
“Did anyone tell King David not to attack because the Middle East was very explosive at the time? Things were tense when the Romans and Babylonians were here too,” he added.
Ben-Ari said that “the US has existed for 200 years, Islam has existed for 1,300 years, but we have been in Jerusalem for 3,000 years. Not Obama and not [Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas] Abu Mazen will stop us from fulfilling our rights.”
Members of the legislators’ entourage were prevented by police from proceeding, prompting outrage from Itamar Ben-Gvir, a Jewish National Front activist and Knesset aide to Ben-Ari.
“Why don’t you let us pass? By what right are you blocking us? Has the Old City been declared a closed military zone?” he asked a stony faced special patrol officer.
“They work for Obama,” Ben-Ari chimed in.
A smiling Katz attempted to diffuse the situation, praising “our brave brothers in the police,” and calling Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin with a request for assistance. “We just want to walk around the gate. A Knesset committee has given us permission... Can you help?” he asked. After several minutes, police allowed the group to pass.
“You see, everything can be resolved gently and with love,” Katz said, before disappearing into the Old City surrounded by police.
Earlier on Wednesday, Jerusalem police said they would continue to maintain an increased presence in the Old City and around east Jerusalem in general, to “prevent disturbances and maintain security in the city.”
In a statement, police referred to “calls by extremists from both sides that are aimed at creating tension in the eastern [part] of the city and on the Temple Mount. We will act with determination over the Pessah holiday to secure the visitors and pilgrims in Jerusalem.”
Lawmakers Uri Ariel, Ya’acov Katz, Michael Ben-Ari and Arye Eldad said it was their right to walk around in any section of Jerusalem they pleased, and expressed outrage when their attempt to tour in the vicinity of the Temple Mount was blocked by several special patrol officers armed with machine guns who had been deployed to the site by Jerusalem police chief Cmdr. Aharon Franco.
“Every month we walk around this area. We were prevented from doing this earlier this month, because of the visit by [US Vice President] Joe Biden,” Katz said. “But the prime minister said Jerusalem, just like Tel Aviv, is not a settlement, and is open to all. We merely want to implement what Netanyahu said.”
Asked if the tour was a dangerous provocation during a sensitive time, Katz said, “For 150 years, Jews have been accused of igniting tensions in Jerusalem. We’re not walking around with weapons.” Pointing at his walking stick, he added, “All we have is a cane and our cellphones.”
Eldad said, “The whole of the Land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel. Not to the Arabs, not to the US, and not to Saudi Arabia.”
Eldad added that “there has never been a good time” for Jews to exercise sovereignty over Jerusalem.
“We have been in Jerusalem for 3,000 years. The Middle East has always been explosive.
“Did anyone tell King David not to attack because the Middle East was very explosive at the time? Things were tense when the Romans and Babylonians were here too,” he added.
Ben-Ari said that “the US has existed for 200 years, Islam has existed for 1,300 years, but we have been in Jerusalem for 3,000 years. Not Obama and not [Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas] Abu Mazen will stop us from fulfilling our rights.”
Members of the legislators’ entourage were prevented by police from proceeding, prompting outrage from Itamar Ben-Gvir, a Jewish National Front activist and Knesset aide to Ben-Ari.
“Why don’t you let us pass? By what right are you blocking us? Has the Old City been declared a closed military zone?” he asked a stony faced special patrol officer.
“They work for Obama,” Ben-Ari chimed in.
A smiling Katz attempted to diffuse the situation, praising “our brave brothers in the police,” and calling Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin with a request for assistance. “We just want to walk around the gate. A Knesset committee has given us permission... Can you help?” he asked. After several minutes, police allowed the group to pass.
“You see, everything can be resolved gently and with love,” Katz said, before disappearing into the Old City surrounded by police.
Earlier on Wednesday, Jerusalem police said they would continue to maintain an increased presence in the Old City and around east Jerusalem in general, to “prevent disturbances and maintain security in the city.”
In a statement, police referred to “calls by extremists from both sides that are aimed at creating tension in the eastern [part] of the city and on the Temple Mount. We will act with determination over the Pessah holiday to secure the visitors and pilgrims in Jerusalem.”
Israel, The Seat of Power...
| Written by Larry Gordon | |
| Thursday, 03 March 2011 12:40 | |
| Michael Ben Ari, one of the four Knesset members representing the rightist National Union (Ichud Leumi) party in Israel, believes that the uprising in some of the surrounding Arab countries is the best thing for Israel and the Jewish people. We are spending most of what has become a beautiful sunny day looking out large Knesset office and dining-room windows, talking with several members who sit in the seat of power in the Jewish State. The governing body features 120 representatives, eleven of whom belong to Arab parties bent on doing harm to the growth and development of Israel. There are about another 20 or so who are assorted leftists, leaving about 90 representatives out of a population of more than seven million people to chart a course for the future of a country that is minuscule in size but looms large on the international landscape. Reflecting on the experience, I wonder why these men and women spend so much time with representatives of media outlets that serve Diaspora Jews, people who are not part of their constituency and who cannot vote for their political parties. One MK gives me his personal cell number and says that anytime I am doing a story about Israel and its political or diplomatic situation and want a quote from him to just call him directly. I believe that it’s not just about the attention that political personalities may need to advance through the system. Mostly it speaks to the fact that regardless of where we reside in the world, we all have a stake in the future of Israel and how it is impacted by the ongoing situation in the world. Things are beautiful and calm in Israel, particularly in contrast to the growing tumult and air of revolution that is currently plaguing the Arab world. I’m sure you’ve seen the recent reference in the Torah about the stiff-necked nature of the Jewish people. Well, Moshe Rabbeinu’s assignation of that poignant characteristic did not come with an expiration date, and its validity is very much in evidence in the Knesset building. As a consequence, the philosophical mixture of the men and women remains steadfast and even firmer than their political positions may have been in the past. MK Ben Ari says all he wants is for the leftists in the Knesset to admit that they made a colossal miscalculation by dabbling in a peace process with the Palestinians, who remain bent on dismantling the Jewish State. “There is no peace partner, and people like Haim Ramon and Binyamin Ben-Eliezer parade around like everything is normal and going well,” Ben Ari says. He adds that even Shimon Peres, Israel’s president, said recently that because there is such turmoil in the Middle East, now is the time for Israel to accelerate efforts to enter into a peace agreement with the Palestinians. “It’s delusional and wrongheaded, and they won’t admit it,” Mr. Ben Ari says. Michael Ben Ari, though he is a member of the parliament of the most secure and indeed admirable democracy in all of the Middle East and perhaps the world, cannot, after almost two years in office, manage to secure a visa to visit the United States. He says the reason is his articulated association and admiration for Rabbi Meir Kahane, of blessed memory, whom he identifies as his mentor and inspiration. Ben Ari says that George Mitchell, special envoy to the Middle East for President Obama, made a point of specifically directing the State Department not to allow Ben Ari into the U.S. He is appealing that decision and hopes in the near term to secure permission to enter the country. MK Yaakov Katz says that when we write about him, unless we refer to him as “Ketzaleh,” no one knows whom we are referring to. We had a relaxed lunch at midday in the Knesset dining room. To my left, dining with some guests, was veteran MK Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, a longtime member of the left-leaning Labor Party, a former minister in the Rabin and Barak governments, and a frequent visitor to Egypt as well as a close confidant of the now deposed president, Hosni Mubarak. So here I am sitting with the arch-religious-rightist in Ketzaleh, and a couple of tables away is Mr. Ben-Eliezer. Ketzaleh gets busy on the phone, and his assistant, Harel, sees me looking over at Ben-Eliezer and says to me that, by the way, Ben-Eliezer was Ketzaleh’s commander in the IDF during the Yom Kippur War. I suppose that the fact that I do not care for Mr. Ben-Eliezer’s vision of Israel’s political future was displayed on my face. Harel said of Ben-Eliezer that he was known as an extraordinarily courageous commander and fearless even when encountering enemy fire in war. Ben-Eliezer is 75 years old now. His politics, I was thinking, falls in line with what Michael Ben Ari was saying earlier that day, that those on the left simply cannot come to grips with their flawed approach to the Palestinians and peace. Ketzaleh is an interesting man and is the one individual I know who personifies the consummate Israel experience cloaked in the mantle of Torah and faith in Hashem. And on top of all that, he knows his way around the nooks and crannies of the complicated Israeli political process. Though he is in his first term as a member of the Knesset, he conducts himself like a seasoned veteran. Today he does not hide the rather low regard he harbors for Prime Minister Netanyahu. “Netanyahu is an actor; what you see is not the real Bibi, and no one knows for sure where he will stand on any given day on the important issues,” says Katz. As you know, Bibi leads the right-leaning Likud Party, which has traditionally been identified with the settler movement and continued building in Judea and Samaria. On that count, Ketzaleh tells us, “In the area of building in the territories, Bibi is the worst of all possible prime ministers.” He adds that all in the Knesset are aware that, except in name, Ehud Barak is the real prime minister. Katz believes in the power of the Right in the Knesset and what can be accomplished for the benefit of Israel if the parties can somehow unite. A natural ally of Ketzaleh’s National Union is Habayit HaYehudi, but the two groups have differences that to this point have prevented them from working together. I asked Ketzaleh what the differences between the two parties are, and all he could say was that they are not about issues but rather about personalities. He then said he believed he would have an announcement to make on the matter in a few weeks. He believes the parties are very close to overcoming their differences and hopes to announce that in the next election they will be able to run as a bloc that currently controls seven seats in the Knesset. “We must unite,” Katz says, “because voters are more inclined to vote for a party that has a more significant presence in the Knesset.” He says that in the last election, over 20 percent of the dati (observant) electorate cast their votes for Likud. He adds that he believes that in the next election, his faction as a united party can garner as many as 12 seats in the Knesset. That would make them a party to reckon with along the lines of Avigdor Leiberman’s Yisrael Beitenu. Later that afternoon, we visited with Shas MK Nissim Zeev, who last year was in New York and spoke at an event in the Five Towns. Rabbi Zeev is a founder of the Shas party and a close confidant of Rav Ovadia Yosef, the former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel and the guiding force of Shas. Our meeting, which was arranged by MK Zeev’s aide Shoshana Bekerman, was convened to discuss the matter of having the Jewish people declared by the United Nations to be the indigenous population of parts of Israel that include Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. This would make it illegal under international law for the so declared people to be evacuated from their homeland. The feeling in MK Zeev’s office is that this will be the determining factor in finally putting to rest the long-held notion that Jews are occupiers in the Land of Israel (see story on page 21). And finally we stopped in at the end of the day to say hello to Deputy Knesset Speaker Danny Danon. He was in another office at the other end of the Knesset building, where the immigration committee that he sits on was conducting meetings. He said that he is very focused on continued Jewish immigration into Israel and that earlier in the day the committee had decided to allow entry into Israel of the last group of Ethiopian Jews. “There are still 7,000 that want to live in Israel and we will be absorbing 200 per month until they are all here,” he said. He is also working actively on bringing many additional Jewish families to Israel from the former Soviet Union. He said that as a member of the Likud, he was very concerned about the lack of building permits being issued in the territories and that after our meeting he was going to a Likud ministers’ meeting where he would express his concern directly to the prime minister. He added that the lack of building in larger West Bank communities like Ariel has made it impossible for young couples to make Ariel home, and that as a result it was progressively becoming an area dominated by older residents. Danon commented that he hoped this was not by design but only a consequence of the pressure from the U.S. not to build. The local papers in Israel reported the next day that Netanyahu had for now rejected their demand. As you can see, each of the few MKs we met has his own special projects and concerns, though all at some point intersect with what is the greater good for the country. The Knesset is far from a simple governing body; on the contrary, it is rather complex and frequently difficult to comprehend. Add to that the fact that the major powers, including the U.S., Russia, the European Union, and the UN, are all observing with heightened concern every comment and move that emanates from members here. One cannot help walking away wondering what the future will bring. For now, this is just a tiny glimpse into the big picture of a very small but powerful and influential country. Comments for Larry Gordon are welcome at editor@5tjt.com. |
March 23, 2011
Blast at Jerusalem Bus Station: 31 Wounded, 1 Critically
An explosion across from Jerusalem's Central Bus Station Wednesday afternoon in Jerusalem wounded 31 people. One person is in critical condition.Initial reports indicated that this was not a suicide blast. A bomber's body was not found.
Disproportionate Restraint - David Isaac
“Disproportionate force” is the accusation invariably hurled at Israel
when she does anything beyond lie down in response to Arab attack. In
Dec. 2008, for example, Israel launched Operation Cast Lead in an
effort to reduce Hamas rocket fire coming in from the Gaza Strip
1,750 rockets and 1,528 mortar bombs were hurled at Israel that year
alone. Less than a year passed before the UN Human Rights Council
Commission on Gaza led by former South African Judge Richard Goldstone
accused Israel of “a deliberate policy of disproportionate force aimed
at the civilian population.”
But if Israel is guilty of anything it’s of disproportionate restraint.
We see this most recently in the government’s feeble reaction to the
Fogel family murders, in which a mother, a father and their three
children were stabbed to death. The youngest, a 3-month-old baby girl,
had her throat slit to the point of decapitation. It appears that the
terrorists, who are still at large, fled to a nearby Arab village.
“They murder. We build,” was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s
remark to 12-year-old Tamar Fogel, the eldest daughter, who discovered
the slaughter after returning home from an evening out with her youth
group.
The prime minister was referring to the government’s decision, in
light of the attack, to approve the building of some 400 new
apartments in places like Ma’ale Adumim, Ariel, Kiryat Sefer and Gush
Etzion.
Notably absent from the list was Itamar, the town where the murders
actually took place. Itamar has been the site of many Arab terror
attacks 15 Jews were murdered at the height of the post-Oslo
“peace”. It especially behooves Israel’s government to build in Itamar
as it bears some guilt for the attack, having failed to provide
adequate defense for the community.
According to Arutz Sheva, “the IDF refused to fund essential security
equipment around the Itamar fence because the government’s legal
department claimed that the fence was illegal…. The army also refused
to help fund technological upgrading and installation of advanced
capabilities for the surveillance camera … The upgrading would have
made it possible, through the use of thermal sensitive devices, to
differentiate between an animal touching the fence and someone going
over it.”
Those who have followed news of the murders may recall that a guard on
the night of the grisly crime was alerted by a fence alarm at the
point where the terrorists infiltrated. Inspecting the area, he saw
that the fence hadn’t been cut (the terrorists had jumped over), so he
assumed an animal had triggered the alarm and did not pursue the
incident further.
The ‘they murder, we build’ approach has not gone over well with the
residents of Judea and Samaria. “It was an insult, Yesha Council
officials said this week,” according to a Ynetnews.com op-ed. “Linking
construction to this murder is simply insulting. It felt like the PM
was offering us a deal: Here, you deserve 500 housing units for this
murder. And even that figure quickly turned into 400 homes. And then
we discovered that some 200 of those are apartments already approved a
month ago and earmarked for young haredi couples in Beitar Ilit.”
The Netanyahu government says that it will also pursue the murderers.
It may very well catch them. But unless the perpetrators are killed
while being taken, they will end up doing time in an Israeli prison,
perhaps eventually to be released in return for the bodies of some
Israeli soldiers, as happened in the case of Sami Kuntar, who in 1979
shot dead 28-year-old Danny Haran and then killed his 4-year-old
daughter, Einat, by smashing her skull with a rifle butt. No one would
have believed that such a monster would have been released but he was
set free in 2008 to be feted by Lebanon, Syria and Iran. In an
interview, he remarked, “God willing, I will get the chance to kill
more Israelis.”
Another group of terrorists who will probably enjoy relatively cushy
confinement courtesy of the Israeli taxpayer are the Hamas terrorists
who carried out an attack in September, killing four residents of Beit
Haggai, a Jewish town near Hebron. The Arabs ambushed the four when
they stopped their car at an intersection, shot them and then pulled
their bodies from the vehicle and shot them again at point-blank
range. One of the murdered was a woman nine months pregnant.
Just as with the murders in Itamar, the Israeli authorities share some
of the guilt. As Arutz Sheva reported back in September, “The Victims
of Arab Terror organization said it had begun initial steps into suing
the Government of Israel for ‘having taking away the gun of Yitzchak
Imas [one of the four killed at Beit Haggai], which might have been
able to save his life and that of the other victims.”
Successive Israeli governments have pursued an upside down policy,
failing to defend its citizens, even depriving them of the means to
defend themselves, while at the same time releasing terrorists who’ve
committed the most heinous crimes. This suicidal approach is
reminiscent of the policy pursued by the Jewish Agency during the
years of the 1936 Arab Revolt in the Mandate period.
As Shmuel Katz wrote in "Days of Fire" (W.H. Allen, 1968):
After a very brief period of hesitation the Agency decided on a policy
called havlaga (self-restraint). This did not mean passivity. The
Haganah was active, maintaining a twenty-four-hour protective guard on
institutions in the towns, and a constant lookout in the agricultural
settlements, and ready at any moment to repel attackers. But havlaga
forbade carrying the war back to the attackers. They drove the enemy
off (if he attacked in mass) but they did not pursue him; they did not
liquidate his bases, nor counterattack. …
Dr. Chaim Weizmann in his memoirs, published twelve years later,
wrote: “Violence paid political dividends to the Arabs while Jewish
havlaga was expected to be its own reward. It did not even win
official recognition.”
Even as late as 1947, with a full-scale Arab invasion imminent, the
Haganah found it difficult to shed pre-conceived notions. As Katz
wrote:
Accidents and bad luck, even inefficiency in execution, are
understandable, even inevitable. What was disturbing throughout those
weeks was the strangely unreal political aspects of all Haganah
activity. They persisted in describing these reprisals as “punitive
operations” an empty phrase which emphasized their failure to
recognize the fact that they were waging a war of life and death. But
the Jewish Agency’s official policy was still “moderation and
non-provocation.” …
The Agency’s subservience to the British remained unchanged, although
the latter were openly exerting themselves to arm the Arabs and to
disarm the Jews. A number of police armories in Arab centers were
“taken over” by the Arabs. Again and again British police patrols met
Haganah units and demanded the surrender of their arms. Haganah
soldiers, acting on standing orders, meekly complied.
Why did the Jewish Agency leadership adopt such a policy? Katz offers that:
They saw their pioneering efforts as the foundation on which Jewish
political existence could be built. But with their gaze turned inward,
they were not capable of making a realistic assessment of the forces
ranged against Zionism. Confronted by a clear-sighted, purposeful
antagonist determined to set bounds to Jewish regeneration, they did
not even identify the antagonist, let alone pause to recognize his
motives.
Moreover these settlers were under the spell of the illusion of
British sympathy with Zionism, and persuaded themselves that this
interest in Zionism was a moral one. They believed that their social
revolution had endeared itself to the British people, and that the
virtues they personified (if only they could be sufficiently
publicized) would cement British friendship.
It’s unlikely Netanyahu is motivated by similar illusions regarding
Obama’s friendship. What Netanyahu shares with the “elite” of the
Jewish Agency is the folly of his approach. With murder to the left of
him and murder to the right of him, he intends to propose a new peace
initiative. This plan will include more concessions to the PA. His
motive may be that he wishes to head off, in the words of Defense
Minister Ehud Barak, a “diplomatic tsunami” whereby the international
community will recognize a Palestinian State, but as others in the
cabinet say, such an approach is “delusional”.
Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon points out that even so-called
moderates like PA head Mahmud Abbas want Israel wiped off the map. It
has been documented ad infinitum how the PA incites violence,
indoctrinates children and celebrates the murder of Jews. The PA says
one thing in English and another in Arabic. In the case of the Beit
Haggai attack, the PA captured the terrorists responsible only to
release them a few months later. When Sami Kuntar was released, the PA
made him an honorary citizen.
What is remarkable about the PA’s reaction to the Fogel family murders
is that it condemned them at all. In the end, the PA’s official media
made up for this uncharacteristic condemnation when in the next breath
it held Israel ultimately responsible and suggested, according to
MEMRI, “that the attack could have been perpetrated by an Israeli
settler.”
The Jewish Agency chose subservience to resistance. Netanyahu does the
same. But it was resistance (led by the Irgun and Lehi) that finally
drove the British from Palestine. It is resistance not pre-emptive
surrender that offers Israel its only chance to extricate itself
from the hangman’s noose.
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David_Isaac@shmuelkatz.com
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when she does anything beyond lie down in response to Arab attack. In
Dec. 2008, for example, Israel launched Operation Cast Lead in an
effort to reduce Hamas rocket fire coming in from the Gaza Strip
1,750 rockets and 1,528 mortar bombs were hurled at Israel that year
alone. Less than a year passed before the UN Human Rights Council
Commission on Gaza led by former South African Judge Richard Goldstone
accused Israel of “a deliberate policy of disproportionate force aimed
at the civilian population.”
But if Israel is guilty of anything it’s of disproportionate restraint.
We see this most recently in the government’s feeble reaction to the
Fogel family murders, in which a mother, a father and their three
children were stabbed to death. The youngest, a 3-month-old baby girl,
had her throat slit to the point of decapitation. It appears that the
terrorists, who are still at large, fled to a nearby Arab village.
“They murder. We build,” was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s
remark to 12-year-old Tamar Fogel, the eldest daughter, who discovered
the slaughter after returning home from an evening out with her youth
group.
The prime minister was referring to the government’s decision, in
light of the attack, to approve the building of some 400 new
apartments in places like Ma’ale Adumim, Ariel, Kiryat Sefer and Gush
Etzion.
Notably absent from the list was Itamar, the town where the murders
actually took place. Itamar has been the site of many Arab terror
attacks 15 Jews were murdered at the height of the post-Oslo
“peace”. It especially behooves Israel’s government to build in Itamar
as it bears some guilt for the attack, having failed to provide
adequate defense for the community.
According to Arutz Sheva, “the IDF refused to fund essential security
equipment around the Itamar fence because the government’s legal
department claimed that the fence was illegal…. The army also refused
to help fund technological upgrading and installation of advanced
capabilities for the surveillance camera … The upgrading would have
made it possible, through the use of thermal sensitive devices, to
differentiate between an animal touching the fence and someone going
over it.”
Those who have followed news of the murders may recall that a guard on
the night of the grisly crime was alerted by a fence alarm at the
point where the terrorists infiltrated. Inspecting the area, he saw
that the fence hadn’t been cut (the terrorists had jumped over), so he
assumed an animal had triggered the alarm and did not pursue the
incident further.
The ‘they murder, we build’ approach has not gone over well with the
residents of Judea and Samaria. “It was an insult, Yesha Council
officials said this week,” according to a Ynetnews.com op-ed. “Linking
construction to this murder is simply insulting. It felt like the PM
was offering us a deal: Here, you deserve 500 housing units for this
murder. And even that figure quickly turned into 400 homes. And then
we discovered that some 200 of those are apartments already approved a
month ago and earmarked for young haredi couples in Beitar Ilit.”
The Netanyahu government says that it will also pursue the murderers.
It may very well catch them. But unless the perpetrators are killed
while being taken, they will end up doing time in an Israeli prison,
perhaps eventually to be released in return for the bodies of some
Israeli soldiers, as happened in the case of Sami Kuntar, who in 1979
shot dead 28-year-old Danny Haran and then killed his 4-year-old
daughter, Einat, by smashing her skull with a rifle butt. No one would
have believed that such a monster would have been released but he was
set free in 2008 to be feted by Lebanon, Syria and Iran. In an
interview, he remarked, “God willing, I will get the chance to kill
more Israelis.”
Another group of terrorists who will probably enjoy relatively cushy
confinement courtesy of the Israeli taxpayer are the Hamas terrorists
who carried out an attack in September, killing four residents of Beit
Haggai, a Jewish town near Hebron. The Arabs ambushed the four when
they stopped their car at an intersection, shot them and then pulled
their bodies from the vehicle and shot them again at point-blank
range. One of the murdered was a woman nine months pregnant.
Just as with the murders in Itamar, the Israeli authorities share some
of the guilt. As Arutz Sheva reported back in September, “The Victims
of Arab Terror organization said it had begun initial steps into suing
the Government of Israel for ‘having taking away the gun of Yitzchak
Imas [one of the four killed at Beit Haggai], which might have been
able to save his life and that of the other victims.”
Successive Israeli governments have pursued an upside down policy,
failing to defend its citizens, even depriving them of the means to
defend themselves, while at the same time releasing terrorists who’ve
committed the most heinous crimes. This suicidal approach is
reminiscent of the policy pursued by the Jewish Agency during the
years of the 1936 Arab Revolt in the Mandate period.
As Shmuel Katz wrote in "Days of Fire" (W.H. Allen, 1968):
After a very brief period of hesitation the Agency decided on a policy
called havlaga (self-restraint). This did not mean passivity. The
Haganah was active, maintaining a twenty-four-hour protective guard on
institutions in the towns, and a constant lookout in the agricultural
settlements, and ready at any moment to repel attackers. But havlaga
forbade carrying the war back to the attackers. They drove the enemy
off (if he attacked in mass) but they did not pursue him; they did not
liquidate his bases, nor counterattack. …
Dr. Chaim Weizmann in his memoirs, published twelve years later,
wrote: “Violence paid political dividends to the Arabs while Jewish
havlaga was expected to be its own reward. It did not even win
official recognition.”
Even as late as 1947, with a full-scale Arab invasion imminent, the
Haganah found it difficult to shed pre-conceived notions. As Katz
wrote:
Accidents and bad luck, even inefficiency in execution, are
understandable, even inevitable. What was disturbing throughout those
weeks was the strangely unreal political aspects of all Haganah
activity. They persisted in describing these reprisals as “punitive
operations” an empty phrase which emphasized their failure to
recognize the fact that they were waging a war of life and death. But
the Jewish Agency’s official policy was still “moderation and
non-provocation.” …
The Agency’s subservience to the British remained unchanged, although
the latter were openly exerting themselves to arm the Arabs and to
disarm the Jews. A number of police armories in Arab centers were
“taken over” by the Arabs. Again and again British police patrols met
Haganah units and demanded the surrender of their arms. Haganah
soldiers, acting on standing orders, meekly complied.
Why did the Jewish Agency leadership adopt such a policy? Katz offers that:
They saw their pioneering efforts as the foundation on which Jewish
political existence could be built. But with their gaze turned inward,
they were not capable of making a realistic assessment of the forces
ranged against Zionism. Confronted by a clear-sighted, purposeful
antagonist determined to set bounds to Jewish regeneration, they did
not even identify the antagonist, let alone pause to recognize his
motives.
Moreover these settlers were under the spell of the illusion of
British sympathy with Zionism, and persuaded themselves that this
interest in Zionism was a moral one. They believed that their social
revolution had endeared itself to the British people, and that the
virtues they personified (if only they could be sufficiently
publicized) would cement British friendship.
It’s unlikely Netanyahu is motivated by similar illusions regarding
Obama’s friendship. What Netanyahu shares with the “elite” of the
Jewish Agency is the folly of his approach. With murder to the left of
him and murder to the right of him, he intends to propose a new peace
initiative. This plan will include more concessions to the PA. His
motive may be that he wishes to head off, in the words of Defense
Minister Ehud Barak, a “diplomatic tsunami” whereby the international
community will recognize a Palestinian State, but as others in the
cabinet say, such an approach is “delusional”.
Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon points out that even so-called
moderates like PA head Mahmud Abbas want Israel wiped off the map. It
has been documented ad infinitum how the PA incites violence,
indoctrinates children and celebrates the murder of Jews. The PA says
one thing in English and another in Arabic. In the case of the Beit
Haggai attack, the PA captured the terrorists responsible only to
release them a few months later. When Sami Kuntar was released, the PA
made him an honorary citizen.
What is remarkable about the PA’s reaction to the Fogel family murders
is that it condemned them at all. In the end, the PA’s official media
made up for this uncharacteristic condemnation when in the next breath
it held Israel ultimately responsible and suggested, according to
MEMRI, “that the attack could have been perpetrated by an Israeli
settler.”
The Jewish Agency chose subservience to resistance. Netanyahu does the
same. But it was resistance (led by the Irgun and Lehi) that finally
drove the British from Palestine. It is resistance not pre-emptive
surrender that offers Israel its only chance to extricate itself
from the hangman’s noose.
http://shmuelkatz.com/
David_Isaac@shmuelkatz.com
==============================
Women For Israel's Tomorrow (Women in Green)
POB 7352, Jerusalem 91072, Israel
Tel: 972-2-624-9887 Fax: 972-2-624-5380
mailto:wfit2@womeningreen.org
http://www.womeningreen.org
March 22, 2011
UN intervention into Libya an ominous precedent for Israel
Center for Security Policy | Mar 21, 2011 By Frank Gaffney, Jr.
There are many reasons to be worried about the bridge-leap the Obama Administration has just undertaken in its war with Muammar Gaddafi. How it will all end is just one of them.
Particularly concerning is the prospect that what we might call the Gaddafi Precedent will be used in the not-to-distant future to justify and threaten the use of U.S. military forces against an American ally: Israel.
Here's how such a seemingly impossible scenario might eventuate:
It begins with the Palestinian Authority seeking a UN Security Council resolution that would recognize its unilateral declaration of statehood. Three top female officials in the Obama administration reprise roles they played in the Council's recent action on Libya: U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice, a vehement critic of Israel, urges that the United States support (or at least not veto) the Palestinians' gambit. She is supported by the senior director for multilateral affairs at the National Security Council, Samantha Power, who in the past argued for landing a "mammoth force" of American troops to protect the Palestinians from Israel. Ditto Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose unalloyed sympathy for the Palestinian cause dates back at least to her days as First Lady.
This resolution enjoys the support of the other four veto-wielding Security Council members - Russia, China, Britain and France - as well as the all of the other non-permanent members except India, which joins the United States in abstaining. As a result, it is adopted with overwhelming support from what is known as the "international community."
With a stroke of the UN's collective pen, substantial numbers of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israeli citizens find themselves on the wrong side of internationally recognized borders. The Palestinian Authority (PA) insists on its longstanding position: The sovereign territory of Palestine must be rid of all Jews.
The Israeli government refuses to evacuate the oft-condemned "settlements" now on Palestinian land, or to remove the IDF personnel, checkpoints and facilities rightly seen as vital to protecting their inhabitants and, for that matter, the Jewish State itself.
Hamas and Fatah bury the hatchet (temporarily), forging a united front and promising democratic elections in the new Palestine. There, as in Gaza (and probably elsewhere in the wake of the so-called "Arab awakening"), the winner will likely be the Muslim Brotherhood, whose Palestinian franchise is Hamas).
The unified Palestinian proto-government then seeks international help to "liberate" their land. As with the Gaddafi Precedent, the first to act is the Arab League. Its members unanimously endorse the use of force to protect the "Palestinian people" and end the occupation of the West Bank by the Israelis. Turkey (which is still a NATO ally, despite its ever-more-aggressive embrace of Islamism) is joined by Britain and France - two European nations increasingly hostile to Israel - in applauding this initiative in the interest of promoting "peace." They call on the UN Security Council to authorize such steps as might be necessary to enforce the Arab League's bidding.
Once again, Team Obama's leading ladies - Mesdames Clinton, Power and Rice - align to support the "will of the international community." They exemplify, and are prepared to enforce, the President's willingness to subordinate U.S. sovereignty to the dictates of transnationalism and his personal hostility towards Israel. The concerns of Mr. Obama's political advisors about alienating Jewish voters on the eve of the 2012 election are trumped by presidential sympathy for the Palestinian right to a homeland.
Accordingly, hard as it may be to believe given the United States' longstanding role as Israel's principal ally and protector, Mr. Obama acts, in accordance with the Gaddafi Precedent. He warns Israel that it must immediately take steps to dismantle its unwanted presence inside the internationally recognized State of Palestine, lest it face the sort of U.S.-enabled "coalition" military measures now underway in Libya. In this case, they would be aimed at neutralizing IDF forces on the West Bank - and beyond, if necessary - in order to fulfill the "will of the international community."
Of course, such steps would not result in the ostensibly desired end-game, namely "two states living side by side in peace and security." If the current attack on Libya entails the distinct possibility of unintended (or at least unforeseen) consequences, application of the Gaddafi Precedent to Israel seems certain to produce a very different outcome than the two-state "solution": Under present and foreseeable circumstances, it will unleash a new regional war, with possible worldwide repercussions.
At the moment, it seems unlikely that the first application in Libya of the Gaddafi Precedent will have results consistent with U.S. interests. Even if a positive outcome is somehow forthcoming there, should Barack Obama and his anti-Israel troika of female advisors be allowed, based on that precedent, to realize the foregoing hypothetical scenario, they would surely precipitate a new international conflagration, one fraught with truly horrific repercussions - for Israel, for the United States and for freedom-loving people elsewhere.
A Congress that was effectively sidelined by Team Obama in the current crisis had better engage fully, decisively and quickly if it is to head off such a disastrous reprise.
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. is President of the Center for Security Policy, a columnist for the Washington Times and host of the nationally syndicated program, Secure Freedom Radio, heard in Washington weeknights at 9:00 p.m. on WRC 1260 AM.
Lawsuit Against Jimmy Carter - Unterberg-v-Carter-and-Simon-and-Schuster
The plaintiffs, who hope to have the case certified as a class action, are members of the reading public who purchased Carter’s book expecting that they were buying an accurate and factual record of historic events concerning Israel and the Palestinian Arabs. The lawsuit contends that Carter, who holds himself out as a Middle-East expert, and his publisher, intentionally presented untrue and inaccurate information and sought to capitalize on the author’s status as a former President to mislead unsuspecting members of the public. The complaint alleges that the defendants’ misrepresentations, all highly critical of Israel, violate New York consumer protection laws, specifically New York General Business Law § 349, which makes it unlawful to engage in deceptive acts in the course of conducting business. While acknowledging Carter’s right to publish his personal views, the plaintiffs assert that the defendants violated the law and, thus, harmed those who purchased the book.
The suit is the first time a former President and a publishing house have been sued for violating consumer protection laws by knowingly publishing inaccurate information while promoting a book as factual.
http://www.scribd.com/Unterberg-v-Carter-and-Simon-and-Schuster-Inc-NYSD-11-cv-0720-01-COMPLAINT/d/48251407
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