| Could the next Arab country to make peace with Israel be - Libya?noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 15 Nov 05:45 AM Israel Hayom reports: The political | | Israel Hayom reports: The political camps in the North African country, which has suffered two brutal civil wars over the past decade, are preparing for a highly charged election campaign that will determine Libya's future. According to senior Libyan officials with close ties to the leading presidential candidate, Gen. Khalifa Haftar, it appears the large Arab country is moving toward normalization with Israel. Haftar has recently voiced his desire on several occasions to normalize ties with Israel, and declared he would work to that end if he is elected president on December 24. Israel Hayom reported in late October that an Israeli consulting firm was advising both Haftar and his main rival, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the former tyrant Muammar Gaddafi, who was deposed and killed in a violent uprising 10 years ago. Haaretz reports that Haftar actually secretly visited Israel at the beginning of the month. Libya was one of Israel's most implacable foes under the elder Gaddafi. Its media has not been reporting these rumors, although they did report about both major candidates using the same Israeli...Read More |
JINSA, the Jewish Institute for National Security in America, created a Gaza Task Force to go to Israel and report on what they found out about the Gaza conflict last May.
The members of the task force are: LTG Robert Ashley, USA (ret.), Former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency
LTG John M. Bednarek, USA (ret.), Former Senior Defense Official in Iraq; former Chief of Office of Security Cooperation in Baghdad
LTC Geoffrey S. Corn, USA (ret.) Former Chief International Law for U.S. Army Europe
Lt Gen Jon Davis, USMC (ret.) Former Deputy Commandant for Aviation
LTG Karen Gibson, USA (ret.) Former Deputy Director for National Intelligence for National Security Partnerships
LTG Stephen Lanza, USA (ret.) Former Commanding General of I Corps and Joint Base Lewis McChord
RADM Brian Losey, USN (ret.) Former Commander of Naval Special Warfare Command
Lt Gen Richard Natonski, USMC (ret.) Former Commander of U.S. Marine Corps Forces Command
LTG Raymond Palumbo, USA (ret.) Former Deputy Commander of U.S. Army Special Operations Command
GEN David Rodriguez, USA (ret.) Former Commander of United States Africa Command (AFRICOM)
Lt Gen Thomas Trask, USAF (ret.) Former Vice Commander of United States Special Operations Command
Gen Charles Wald, USAF (ret.) Former Deputy Commander of United States European Command (EUCOM)
I'd say that this group has orders of magnitude more expertise in the laws of armed conflict than the entire staffs of Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, the...Read More |
From Ian: Peace-Processing Like Its 1993 The Palestinian Authority incites against Jews and Israelis, pays "salaries" to terrorists in violation of US law, and in an ultimatum in September, PA strongman Mahmoud Abbas told Israel: "Our patience and the patience of our people have limits. This is our land, our Jerusalem, our Palestinian identity, and we shall defend it until the occupier leaves." Hamas fired more than 4,000 rockets into Israeli towns and villages. And yet, according to Ross, the onus is on Israel. It is incumbent on the government in Jerusalem to "show it is doing its part to reduce friction, make life better, enhance movement, and preserve an outcome other than a single, binational state." And Israel had better get on with it — for its own sake, of course — lest it face the rise of left-wing anti-Israelism in Congress and pressure from the administration. A more worthwhile approach would recognize that the world has changed since the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993. Since then, the Palestinians have proven themselves corrupt, incompetent, and dictatorial in the governance of their own people in the Gaza Strip and in Judea and Samaria. They have taught their children that Israel will disappear and that the land will be liberated by brave Palestinian children, many of whom will die in the effort — but that's OK with their parents. Hamas fires its weapons into civilian centers...Read More |
Business site Globes (Hebrew) reports that while the Saudis are not interested at this point in joining the Abraham Accords or to make relations with Israel official, they want to reap some of the benefits without risking angering the Arab street.
According to the report, the Saudis are ready to promote commercial, economic and civil relations with Israel.
Examples include additional transportation agreements and promotion of joint ventures in countries that already have relations with Israel. A political source in Saudi Arabia told Globes that the business, government and private sectors have been given the green light to trade with Israeli companies, at this moment age through Bahrain and the Emirates. While there have already been some transactions of that kind in recent months, this green light is expected to expand the initiative and reduce any hesitation that Saudi businesses might have had. It is yet another Abraham Accords breakthrough that Israel-haters hate to admit. (h/t Yoel) * * * * * *
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Palestine Online tweeted:
Villages?
No one claims that there was more than one village there, Umm al-Rashrash so we immediately see the lie.
According to Zochrot, which claims to catalogue all of the "depopulated Palestinian" towns, it had a population of 50. It has several photos of the area, all taken by the Israeli Palmach on March 10, 1949, the day it was conquered: three mud huts that comprised the British police station in the area and photos of the IDF raising a hand-drawn Israeli flag on top of the same British police station. The British police station was empty when Israeli forces took it. Transjordan claimed a skirmish between Israeli troops and its forces near Aqaba, but apparently they hugely exaggerated a couple of pot shots taken by the Jordanians when a patrol hastily withdrew from the area which was never within Transjordan's borders.
Where was the village and the villagers?
I cannot find any photos of them. I can't even find evidence that such a village existed at the time.
Accounts of Israel's Operation Uvda, the last ditch effort to control the Negev before permanent borders were drawn, do not mention any village or Arabs leaving the area.
Wikipedia mentions evidence of people living there in the...Read More |
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