| The three dead terrorist leaders were planning a trip to Egypt today, and from there to other countriesnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 09 May 04:31 AM | |
Last month, there were indications that Israel was planning to respond to the increase in terror attacks with a return to targeted killings of the leaders of terror groups.
During a Cabinet meeting, Benjamin Netanyahu called on his ministers to avoid public talk about the option of returning to a policy of assassinations, Israel's Channel 12 reported. This came as Israel was concerned that its deterrence policies were eroding, after the Hezbollah roadside bomb attack in northern Israel and an increased number of shooting attacks on Israeli civilians.
Channel 12 reported that the Cabinet deliberated on reactivating the policy of assassinations, even if it led to a new round of fighting with the Gaza Strip.
Because of those reports, Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders went underground.
Palestinian media is now reporting that the three Islamic Jihad leaders...Read More
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From Ian: Will the Munich panel acknowledge the role of Abbas? The German government has created a commission of historians to study the massacre of Israeli athletes by Palestinian Arab terrorists at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. Germany's Interior Minister has promised that the review will be "thorough" and "rigorous." The problem, however, is that a serious and honest study will have to acknowledge that the leaders of the Palestinian Authority, with whom Germany has a friendly relationship, were the ones who organized and financed the attack. Will the commission be willing to name names, even if doing so will be politically inconvenient for the German government? In 1972, Yasser Arafat was head of the Fatah terrorist organization, and Mahmoud Abbas—the current head of both Fatah and the P.A.—was his right-hand man. The terrorists who carried out the Munich attack claimed that they were part of the "Black September" group, which supposedly was independent of Fatah. But the myth of an "independent" Black September was shattered many years ago, with the declassifying of a telegram sent by the U.S. State Department to American embassies around the world on March 13, 1973. The text of the telegram is widely available on the internet. It reveals the truth about the Munich murderers: "Question of link between Black September Organization (BSO) and Fatah has been subject of much public...Read More |
In the middle of an excellent Sapir article by Jeffrey Herf - highly recommended - he notes that "Jamal Husseini, the representative of the Arab Higher Committee to the United Nations, reject[ed] a Jewish state in Palestine, because, he said, it would undermine the 'racial homogeneity' of the Arab world. " I found the full quote here:
One other consideration of fundamental importance to the Arab world was
that of racial homogeneity. The Arabs lived in a vast territory stretching
from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, spoke one language, had the
same history, tradition and aspirations. Their unity was a solid foundation
for peace in one of the most central and sensitive areas of the world. It was
illogical, therefore, that the United Nations should associate itself with the
introduction of an alien body into that established homogeneity, a course
which could only produce new Balkans.While the Arab speakers at the UN made sure that they appealed to the most liberal Western thinkers in their speeches, they often betrayed...Read More |
The Israel Defense and Security Forum released a poll of Israeli attitudes towards Judea and Samaria. It showed that a majority of Israelis feel a historic, emotional or religious connection to the territories.
70% of the Jews surveyed feel a historical connection to Judea and Samaria, 63% an emotional connection, and 48% a religious connection.
In comparison, only 37% of Israeli Arabs feel a historical connection to the West Bank, 33% an emotional connection and 32% a religious connection.
Keep in mind that the Maarat HaMachpela in Hebron is considered to be the Ibrahimi Mosque by Muslims, and even Rachel's Tomb and Joseph's Tomb have been turned into Islamic shrines. And Jews are on the whole far less religious than Muslims are. Even so, Israeli Jews are twice as likely to say they feel a connection to the territories than Arabs are. * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! ...Read More |
From Ian: Setting the Record Straight on Israel-Palestinian Negotiations From 1937 onward, Palestinian leaders have repeatedly rejected offers, brought to them by the British, the U.S., and Israel itself, to share the territory west of the Jordan River. Yet claims routinely surface suggesting that responsibility for the failures to reach a compromise lies elsewhere. Ben-Dror Yemini examines the evidence, and puts paid to such attempts at distortion: For decades, many people, for good and bad, have been spreading the narrative that if only Israel would be a little more generous, and if only the Americans brokered a serious peace agreement, peace was within reach. For the bad, this stems from the desire to blame Israel for all world crimes. For the good, this is due to a sincere and genuine desire for peace, mixed with a lack of knowledge, or reluctance to know, or self-deception of those who struggle to reconcile the gap between beliefs and desires on the one hand and facts on the other. There are . . . official announcements, materials exposed [by Al Jazeera's publication of thousands of leaked documents in 2011], and always denials trying, unsuccessfully, to create the impression that the Palestinians wanted peace. In 2012, I was invited to attend a meeting with [the former Palestinian chief negotiator] Nabil Shaath. A welcome initiative. It...Read More |
Wafa reports: Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh called on the "UNESCO" organization to intervene to prevent the Israeli occupation authorities from establishing a settlement site adjacent to the village of Sebastia, whose establishment would cause severe damage to the historical site in the village. I don't know if this is true, or specifically where such a settlement would be built. ("Sebastia" is a Roman renaming of Shomron - which is Samaria.) However, Shtayyeh's appeal to UNESCO implies that any people moving to the area would cause great damage to the historic value of the area, which includes finds from the Israelite, Greek and Roman periods. Yet if you look at photos of the region, you see Palestinian villages and buildings built haphazardly all over the supposedly sacrosanct historic area. Zooming in on the area of the Roman amphitheater shows it is surrounded by newer buildings only meters away: There must be a gene that Jews have that ensure that Jewish building destroys historic archaeological sites, while Palestinian Arabs don't cause any damage...Read More |
The Shin Bet announced the arrest of a terror cell that attempted to blow up a bus filled with Jews: According to the Shin Bet, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine cell was behind the attempted attack on March 9, when a makeshift bomb was planted on a bus in the Beitar Illit settlement. The explosive malfunctioned at the time and did not cause any injuries. The settlement went into lockdown for several hours as troops searched for the suspects. A day later, the military arrested a Palestinian accused of planting the bomb, along with four others in the West Bank town of Battir. The Shin Bet on Monday said the PFLP cell planned to carry out additional attacks. The investigation of the terror cell also revealed the involvement of the PFLP leadership in the Gaza Strip and in Lebanon, which allegedly directed the cell to carry out the attempted bombing, as well as attacks by other terror cells, the Shin Bet said. Today, in the US, Israel and Europe, we are seeing high levels of partisanship where many people care more about countering their political opponents than about finding common ground. Palestinians have no such problems. The PFLP is an avowedly socialist, secular party. Their Leftist philosophy is the polar opposite of the far-right ideas behind Islamist groups like Hamas or Islamic Jihad. The two sides have nothing in common on...Read More |
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