| Israel giving up its maritime rights under pressure from Bidennoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 04 Oct 04:58 AM Haaretz reports: On August 31, Yair La | | Haaretz reports: On August 31, Yair Lapid and Joe Biden held a phone call. Afterward, the offices of both men issued a press release, as is customary, but used different language. Hiding in the White House version was a story that was missing from the announcement of the Prime Minister's Office: "The President also emphasized the importance of concluding the maritime boundary negotiations between Israel and Lebanon in the coming weeks." In other words, Biden simply told Lapid he was fed up with the delays, and was sending his envoy Amos Hochstein to the region to complete the deal and enable the development of Israel's Karish and Lebanon's Qana natural-gas fields.The specifics of the deal are still under wraps, but this comparison of two maps in Lebanese media show how Israel has been making concession after concession and the Lebanese keep gaining.
This map from June shows a curved border that would allow Lebanon to keep the entire Qana field but would give Israel other portions closer to its position of claiming Line 1. Abu Ali Express...Read More |
From Ian: Doubling Australian aid to UNRWA, a vital perspective The Australian government has announced that it will double to its aid to UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which the UN created as a "temporary" entity in the wake of the Israel War of Independence, to help half a million Arabs displaced as a result of these hostilities. Seventy-three years later, in texts taught in the UNRWA schools, Israel does not exist and is replaced by an entity known as "Palestine." In its defense, UNRWA claims that it has a robust system in place to ensure that the education it delivers in its classroom, including through the use of textbooks, is in line with UN values and principles. As a journalist who has commissioned experts to examine 1000 books used in UNRWA schools in the West Bank and Gaza since their first appearance in 2000, I beg to differ. UNRWA "education" is instead based on:
-De-legitimization of both the existence of the State of Israel and the Jews' very presence in the country. Israel does not appear on the map and is replaced by Palestine as the sovereign state in the region.
-The Jews are presented as colonialist settlers and their cities — including Tel Aviv — do not appear on the map as well.
-The Jews' holy places in the country are not recognized as such but rather presented as Muslim holy places usurped by the Jews (the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron...Read More |
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It's October, and Arab media are talking about their "victory" in the Yom Kippur War 49 years ago.
There is no doubt that the beginning of the war was disastrous for Israel, and the repercussions of that failure were felt for years.
But somehow the Arab media never mentions the position of the Israeli forces at the time of the final ceasefire:
1. The IDF surrounded Egypt's Third Army and Suez City inside Egyptian territory and could have crushed them.2. There was nothing between the IDF and Cairo. 3. Israel ended up on the outskirts of Damascus.4. Israel lost 114 planes during the war, but only 20 in battle. Israeli pilots shot down at least 450 Arab aircraft in dogfights.5. About 2700 IDF soldiers were killed - a horrific amount. But Syria and Egypt lost over 11,000 soldiers.
By any objective measure, the Arab side lost badly. Calling it a "victory" is ridiculous. But when people have a zero-sum mentality, and they can see that Israel was hurt - which it was - they cannot distinguish between "Israel hurt" and "Arab victory."
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Palestinians must spend a lot of time looking for things to get offended by. The latest is a video of a woman - it is unclear if she is a religious Jew - doing a little dance on the Temple Mount which someone edited the song "I'm Sexy and I Know it" on top. Tunisian journalist Imene Ben Slim tweeted the video, saying ,"Israeli woman dances provocatively in the courtyards of Al Aqsa ....How long will this flagrant violation of Al-Aqsa continue?"
Arab media picked up the story.
Indeed, how long will such desecrations continue? Here are some others from recent months, that somehow are not condemned.
A famous Turkish chef published a video of his playing soccer with kids on the supposedly holy site. Al Jazeera published this and it received over 14,000 views...Read More |
From Ian: 'Gas deal with Lebanon is a total capitulation to Hezbollah' The emerging maritime boundary deal between Israel and Lebanon, brokered by the Biden administration, constitutes a "total capitulation" to the terrorist organization Hezbollah, a senior jurist argued Sunday, adding that the Lapid government is violating Israeli constitutional rules by pursuing an agreement. Eugene Kontorovich, Director of International Law at the Jerusalem-based Kohelet Policy Forum and director of the Center for the Middle East & International Law at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, blasted Prime Minister Yair Lapid's cabinet address Sunday, in which he confirmed that Israel has made concessions in US-brokered maritime border talks with Lebanon. "Over the weekend, Israel and Lebanon received the American mediator's proposal for an agreement on a maritime line between the two countries. We are discussing the final details, so it is not yet possible to praise a done deal; however, as we have demanded from the start, the proposal safeguards Israel's full security-diplomatic interests, as well as our economic interests," Lapid said. Lapid argued that ceding natural gas reserves to Lebanon would help the country become independent of Tehran, and ultimately curb the strength of groups like Hezbollah. Kontorovich pushed back on Lapid's claims, calling the concessions "capitulation" to Hezbollah, and arguing that...Read More |
Under the Obama administration, virtually all mentions of "Jerusalem, Israel" were scrubbed from the State Department websites, and the city became merely "Jerusalem" - without a country attached. This was fixed during the Trump administration when the US Embassy was moved to Jerusalem, but last year I found some indications that the policy was regressing back towards the Obama-era policy of not recognizing that Jerusalem was in Israel.
Here is some more evidence that things are going backwards.
The form to get visa services allows you to choose a country and then it lists what cities there are consulates and embassies. Here's what it says for Israel: Tel Aviv is the only city in Israel. If you want services from the US Embassy for Israel in Jerusalem, you must choose the non-existent country of Jerusalem: It looks like the State Department never updated the address of the Embassy to say what country it was in. From what I can tell, according to the State Department, the US Embassy to Israel is in Jerusalem, but the "US Embassy Jerusalem" is not in Israel.
This should be clarified.
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Islamic Jihad (PIJ) mouthpiece Palestine Today has several recent articles about how the May fighting was a great victory for them.
They quote a Lebanese "expert" who describes how they achieved their goals in the fighting. A delegation from Islamic Jihad went to Syria and described their "victory,' saying the war never ended.
One reason for these articles is that PIJ is celebrating its 35th anniversary.
But another reason may be because the Palestinian public does not consider Islamic Jihad to have won anything in May.
The PCPSR poll...Read More
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