| Palestinians freak out over the presence of Yehuda Glicknoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 03 Mar 05:45 AM On Wednesday, Yehuda Glick - who advocates fo | | On Wednesday, Yehuda Glick - who advocates for equal access to the Temple Mount for Muslims and Jews - appeared at an event for German tourists in a Christian Bethlehem building called "Beit Al Liqa." He took a selfie there with the Reverend Johnny Shahwan, director of Beit Al Liqa, and stood with the tourists for another photo. After Glick posted his photo on social media, all hell broke loose.
The PLO Churches Committee issued a statement of condemnation, deploring Al Aiqa for doing something so amazingly awful as allowing a Jewish person who lives in a settlement to...Read More |
Weekly column by Vic Rosenthal While our attention here in Israel is on Ukraine, the US and Iran are preparing to come to some kind of nuclear agreement. Or not. I've been wrong about a number of things lately – I never thought Putin would do more than lop off the Donbas region from Ukraine – and I might be wrong about this too, but the Biden Administration's desire to have something to brag about seems strong enough to swallow anything the Iranians throw at them at the last minute. Any deal will have minimal effect on Iran's ability to make and deploy nuclear weapons. What the signing will do is provide an immediate financial boost to Iran, which can be used both for its nuclear project and the support of its terrorist partners in Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq; and it will place Israel in the position of the "rogue" that violates international order if she attacks Iran. And if there is no deal? I presume that some sanctions would remain for some time. But they will not have any material effect on Iran's project. Incidentally, the effect that serious sanctions and actions to isolate a bad actor can have are evident in Russia, whose economy has already been severely wounded by even a few days of economic warfare by the West. It's a pity that similarly harsh measures were never taken against Iran. I think there will be a deal, because both sides...Read More |
From Ian: Menachem Begin continues to shape Israel's Zionist vision Although Menachem Begin died 30 years ago, he continues to shape Israel – and inspire many of us. Before 1977, when the Labor Party dominated Israeli politics and the American Zionist imagination, I was born into one of New York's few Beginite households. My father, Bernard Dov Troy, had been involved in the Betar Zionist youth movement since his youth on the Lower East Side. We worshiped Israel's longtime opposition leader, and David Ben-Gurion's nemesis, Menachem Begin. I even invited him to my bar mitzvah. We were among the few who rejoiced on the night of the "mahapach," the Reversal, in May 1977, when Begin ended his three-decade futility streak and became prime minister. Most American Jews mourned, lamenting what Israel was becoming, devastated that Israel disappointed them, worried about the growing gap between Israel and American Jewry. Sound familiar? Begin proved them wrong. Two months ago, working with Jerusalem's Menachem Begin Center, Adam Bellos and the Israel Innovation Fund convened a panel discussion: "Hadar: Begin's Lesson of Jewish Pride." I couldn't resist such a speaking invitation, because "hadar" may be my father's favorite word. Begin and my father followed Ze'ev Jabotinsky, whose resurrection of Jewish dignity began with hadar. Though not easily translated, the word connotes glory or splendor, meaning "outward beauty, respect...Read More |
Babi Yar, Ukraine, The site of a mass murder of Jews, September 1941 (Yad Vashem Archives) Ukrainians are either staying and fighting, or fleeing. And one of the places they want to go, if they are fleeing and of Jewish descent, is Israel. Israel is preparing to absorb thousandsof Ukrainians eligiblefor aliyah. The Jewish Agency opened six immigration processing stations at six Ukrainian border crossings to assist the refugees in making aliyah. "We [preparing] to provide humanitarian assistance on the ground, and of course to facilitate the immigration of Jews, from all relevant places," said Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, on Tuesday. It is at times like these, that Jewish "blood" is a ticket out. As this piece was being written, however, the Ukrainian ambassador to Israel made claims that Ukrainians who could not pay a 20,000 NIS bond, were being deported from Israel. But then again, Yevgen Korniychuk\* also told us how good the Ukrainians were to the Jews during the Holocaust: "We believe that you remember the times of the Second World War when Ukrainians were saving the...Read More |
This thread, from Iran expert and former State Department official Gabriel Noronha, is extraordinarily frightening. ______________________________________________________________________1. NEW: My former career @StateDept, NSC, and EU colleagues are so concerned with the concessions being made by @robmalley in Vienna that they've allowed me to publish some details of the coming deal in the hopes that Congress will act to stop the capitulation.
2. "What's happening in Vienna is a total disaster" one warned. The entire negotiations have been filtered and "essentially run" by Russian diplomat Mikhail Ulyanov. The concessions and other misguided policies have led three members of the U.S. negotiating team to leave.
3. This is a long and technical thread, but here's what you should know: the deal being negotiated in Vienna is dangerous to our national security, it is illegal, it is illegitimate, and it in no way serves U.S. interests in either the short or long term. 4. Here's why: Led by Rob Malley, the U.S. has promised to lift sanctions on some of the regime's worst terrorists and torturers, leading officials in the regime's WMD infrastructure, and is currently trying to lift sanctions on the IRGC itself. Let's dive in. 5. First, Biden's team is preparing to rescind the Supreme Leaders' Office Executive Order (E.O. 13876) as soon as this coming Monday, and lift sanctions on nearly every one...Read More |
From Ian: Russia's Next Target for Intimidation Could Be Israel Now, Russia needs Iran and its markets more than ever before. For Moscow it might be the right time to expand the partnership, as the Iranians have been demanding. Yet if Iran signs the nuclear deal, brokered in large part by Russia, the roles of Russia and Iran may be reversed, with Iran—if sanctions are lifted—having a stronger and even determining hand in that relationship. There is a loud anti-Russian camp in Iran that remembers well how Moscow ignored Iranian demands for a long time. Yet there is also no doubt that Tehran will be happy to receive the latest Russian weapons. It now seems likely that Iran will get the weapons systems it demanded a long time ago even if for some reason the nuclear deal is not finalized. Russia has nothing more to lose and it will have to seize every opportunity to continue to sell its weapons to anyone who demands them. What's on the Iranian shopping list? According to the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Iran is interested in SU-30 fighters, Yak-130 trainers, T-90 tanks and—the cherry on top—S-400 surface-to-air missile defense systems that Russia previously refrained from selling. Even if Russia fulfills only part of the Iranian shopping list, it will be very bad news for Israel. Until recently, advanced Russian missile systems inside Syria were under full Russian...Read More |
Today and tomorrow, the UN Human Rights Committee is reviewing Israel's compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR.) The Committee is flooded with submissions by anti-Israel NGOs that purport to describe how Israel violates the ICCPR. NGO Monitor gave its own submission that refute the false charges of the NGOs, meticulously going through the ICCPR and the false charges that Israel violates it. Anne Herzberg of NGO Monitor tweeted, "My invitation to attend the Tuesday informal NGO meeting with the [UN Human Rights] Committee was rescinded because on Monday I asked them to adopt IHRA [Working Definition of Antisemitism] and refused to smear Israel with the apartheid calumny. PFLP-linked NGOs were welcomed at both events." Her statement was going to include this:
But the discrepancy in NGO attention here is not just about open vs. closed societies, it is also indicative of the obsessive demonization of Israel because it is a Jewish country. Many of the submissions, rather than make constructive policy recommendations to improve the lives of both Israelis and Palestinians, have chosen instead to delegitimize Israel's existence and advocate for the elimination of Jewish self-determination, using highly offensive terminology like "apartheid regime", portraying it as uniquely evil, and relying on discriminatory tropes to do so.
The NGO Monitor submission and Herzberg...Read More |
Yesterday, Lebanon's Asas Media reported that Israel destroyed a Hezbollah drone warehouse.
Sources told Asas reporter Qassem Qassir that "the Zionist enemy succeeded in reaching and destroying one of Hezbollah's drone hideouts through a special commando operation, and Hezbollah did not discover this operation until after it ended and the commandos returned from where they came."
The same sources claimed that Hezbollah was preparing for another operation to ambush and kill (or kidnap) IDF soldiers as they did in the 1997 Ansariya ambush which killed 12 soldiers.
This was not reported anywhere else, but Naharnet reports that Qassir is known to have close contacts within Hezbollah and is an expert on the group.
Hezbollah denied that any drone depot was hit.
"Hizbullah strongly denies the reports about a Zionist force entering into one of the resistance's drone depots and destroying it," the terror group said in a statement, saying the reports are totally baseless. * * * * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at...Read More |
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