tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21168300797302191162024-02-19T14:48:10.243+02:00Adam the Israel Radio Guy: Israel's Anglo BroadcasterISRAEL RADIO GUY - Israeli by choice, British by birth. Broadcaster, informal Jewish educator and communal professional writes from JerusalemAdam The Israel Radio Guy: Israel's Anglo Broadcasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525182139850439166noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116830079730219116.post-4002481707926775552015-09-20T12:27:00.000+03:002015-09-20T12:36:24.313+03:00Why Isn't Anyone Looking At the Palestinians? So Unfair! <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOkj3K9Cd5hSWlzNsyNPkaI9i3N8KCZZ7Uf5kFmEiw7jvs4I9Xw5WXHWuhgIKWZbdBhFh98o0wJZZtF8zzvRuVE0j112_aTDc60dg6-FLGrHziL31cSmHq7mSQpe-jfjc1DngaWZOrnfc/s1600/UNHRC+dead+baby+syria+refugee+silence+truth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOkj3K9Cd5hSWlzNsyNPkaI9i3N8KCZZ7Uf5kFmEiw7jvs4I9Xw5WXHWuhgIKWZbdBhFh98o0wJZZtF8zzvRuVE0j112_aTDc60dg6-FLGrHziL31cSmHq7mSQpe-jfjc1DngaWZOrnfc/s200/UNHRC+dead+baby+syria+refugee+silence+truth.jpg" width="199" /></a>The poor Palestinians - nobody is noticing their plight because of the damned Syrians and their humanitarian disaster. Do they not understand how hard it is to maintain the fiction of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians, in the face of the real thing? Do their Arab brothers in Syria / ISIS not realize that with literally millions fleeing the region for Europe, getting anyone to listen to whining about so-called Palestinian refugees or ethnic cleansing is virtually impossible? It's taken 70 years of hard work, not allowing Palestinian refugees to integrate anywhere in Arab world, and of enacting horrific racist laws to keep them poor &bitter, not to mention creating an entire <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNRWA" target="_blank">UN department</a> designed to maintain these refugees in limbo for ever, in order to decent world sympathy, and Assad / ISIS go and ruin all that hard work by slaughtering millions of Arabs and making even more homeless Syrians and Iraqi's than there are Palestinian refugees!<br />
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Only last week the Palestinians won a glorious victory at the United Nations - a triumph in improving<br />
human rights - they flew the flag of their totally undemocratic and deeply divided Palestinian Authority! But nobody noticed! Does the world not understand how much energy went into that fight for a flag? And yet all the media wanted to talk about was dead Arab children drifting on to Europe's beaches and slaughter in Syria. Well the glorious and triumphant Palestinian leaders weren't going to be distracted by such a small thing as a genuine human disaster occurring a few miles north of Palestinian territory where the damned Zionist live on almost 3% of their land (primarily unused hilltops..but Palestinian unused hilltops!!!), offering investment and employment where BDS don't stop them! Such suffering ignored!!!!<br />
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Fortunately they had a genius idea - they would follow their long and successful policy of inventing a crisis and divert the world's attention back to the only Arab people's who's suffering should matter! The Israeli's had recently shown their true evil, by preventing Palestinian women going to their legitimiate employment at Al Aqsa - harrassing Jewish visitors there, (and Christian tourists when they couldn't tell the difference)!<br />
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Palestinian leaders decided to plan some 'spontaneous' outrage and riots (it's worked before!). By desecrating their own holy site, pulling rocks out of walls and floors, and chucking them at Jews, they made sure the Israeli authorities would have to respond, and then, like children who having just murdered their parents, asked for public sympathy for being orphans, they asked the world to express outrage at evil Israelis - far worse than ISIS or Assad!!! Look away from Syria damn you!!!<br />
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But a part of the Palestinian people still felt ignored...Hamas! There they were in Gaza, working hard<br />
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preparing to start another war with Israel at some point, [which they can then blame on the Israelis] and pointedly not rebuilding civilian infrastructure so that the world would see how Israel makes Gaza suffer, not only being ignored by the media, who seem stubbornly interested in a genuine human disaster, but also their hated brothers The Palestinian Authority, were winning great victories by flying some flag or other at the UN and by staging spontaneous, pre-planned riots on Al Aqsa . But Hamas had a plan too - they'd fire some rockets at Israeli homes (worked great in 2014!), which they did last night! Surely the world would see Israel start a new round of violence by defending itself?<br />
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Alas, despite all their best efforts, the cursed refugees again ruined everything, with thousands of them choosing to risk their lives to cross the Mediterranean to get away from the slaughterhouse that had been their homelands. Even John Kerry, clearly not the brightest bulb in the chandelier judging by his Iran-deal failure, seems to have finally noticed the Syrian humanitarian disaster.<br />
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If only those damn Israelis would behave more like good enemies should - Behead a few thousand Palestinians; round up Palestinian women for sex slavery and rape the way ISIS do; destroy mosques, abuse Christians, turn kids into soldiers; use weapons of mass destruction... instead all they do is riot control, a few arrests, run some checkpoints to stop bombings... these Zionists are so evil! Their extremists build houses - not even an occasional suicide attack in a crowded market...damn them!<br />
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Oh well... only one thing left to do - accuse them of doing all these evils anyway, things which are actually going on in the rest of the Arab world - nobody will care about the Syrians anymore!Adam The Israel Radio Guy: Israel's Anglo Broadcasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525182139850439166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116830079730219116.post-20314006774799269252015-09-03T13:10:00.000+03:002015-09-03T13:36:14.854+03:00Lets Cut The Israel Cr@p - There are Dead Children on Our Beaches ! <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3XSnlLc3EQjl5SFh4icIBrG_8C6cGHbBZFxo_qAYNoRZJJWLLCvSOH4Rs7czcBRMMeIQzQjzQZQ_Ut1l1LJixAptxX0lY0AjZmgTv9FlzZEL4OH_0e4fSub4qqxmRmrojeWknpwWexjU/s1600/1000012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3XSnlLc3EQjl5SFh4icIBrG_8C6cGHbBZFxo_qAYNoRZJJWLLCvSOH4Rs7czcBRMMeIQzQjzQZQ_Ut1l1LJixAptxX0lY0AjZmgTv9FlzZEL4OH_0e4fSub4qqxmRmrojeWknpwWexjU/s320/1000012.jpg" width="320" /></a>If you take a look at the language Israel's many detractors are using even on this very day, you'll come across phrases such as "IsraHell", "Genocide", comparisons with ISIS, Nazi Germany etc. This prejudice has never been funny nor has it been about helping Palestinians, but in light of the true slaughter of the MidEast and its devastating results on the world, this language of blind hatred against Israel has become obscene.<br />
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There is an international boycott movement, which is blatantly singling out Israelis and even non Israeli Jews, trying to make us the pariahs of the world, blaming us for all the ills of humanity - Companies such as Sodastream are attacked, even though they are an inclusive company which employs Palestinians at all levels and pays them well;<br />
Israeli politicians are threatened with arrest when they travel overseas; Jewish students have to deal with horrible campaigns against Israel on their campuses and media finds ways to twist the most innocent or positive thing Israel does, into something they malign as racist or evil:<br />
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Israel has an inclusive approach to sexuality? "<a href="http://www.pinkwatchingisrael.com/" target="_blank">Pink Washing</a>"; Israeli Arabs serve at every level of Israeli society? Tokenism. Israel companies employ Palestinians? Imperialism.<br />
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Its time this bigoted disgrace to our intelligence came to an end! For G-d's sake... there are bodies of children washing up on Mediterranean beaches!! There at least two million refugees on the edge of Europe, fleeing from Israel's neighbors where a genuine hell exists, where true genocide - a real carnal house - is taking place right now, and all the lies said about Israel are actually happening, only far worse than even Israel is accused of - But there no boycott campaigns, no student activities - nobody is pouring blood on themselves in protest on the streets of Hollywood - the israel haters are carrying on - they don't seem to care.<br />
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Many times more people are dead from the Syria / Iraq / ISIS horror than in the entire history of the Israel / Arab situation, and in just the past few weeks 10 times more Arabs have been displaced than occurred during Israel's war of independence.<br />
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I have nothing but contempt for anyone that calls Israel a terror state, israhell, etc but anyone doing it<br />
today? Such a person is guided by hatred and bigotry, because logic dictates that anyone with an iota of humanity would not be able to look at the only democracy in the region, the only country where the 20% minority citizens have democratic rights and a place people flee toward not away from, and use such descriptions when we see what the real thing looks like.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4A0BPpTsurb6KeCLLcKqjDw-KFlhltZa-Psu0A5pR1znJdzYoy27O8leU1LjJrMJ5yTHdzZdaVOh_KC6ON_dutACzTN_5j1ix3QSgpf2RHhSVARu-hzFxmPaeM86itGa_YO1WG_2TgbM/s1600/isis+bds+cartoon+funny.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4A0BPpTsurb6KeCLLcKqjDw-KFlhltZa-Psu0A5pR1znJdzYoy27O8leU1LjJrMJ5yTHdzZdaVOh_KC6ON_dutACzTN_5j1ix3QSgpf2RHhSVARu-hzFxmPaeM86itGa_YO1WG_2TgbM/s400/isis+bds+cartoon+funny.jpg" width="400" /></a>Israel is not perfect and the Palestinian's have legitimate issues that answers need to be found for, and genuine discussion needs to be taking place, but those that focus violent hate on Israel at this time are like a doctor treating a person's in-going toenail, while the patient bleeds out from a gun shot wound - it makes no sense and therefore it isn't guided by sense, but hatred.<br />
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Lets solve the region's real & horrific problems and maybe the answer for the Palestinians will resolve itself as part of that regional change - one thing I guarantee, anyone spouting of about Israel right now, doesn't give a damn about solutions, Palestinians or hope - they just hate Israel and we all know why.<br />
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<br />Adam The Israel Radio Guy: Israel's Anglo Broadcasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525182139850439166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116830079730219116.post-39110679511812624882015-01-18T16:36:00.002+02:002015-01-18T16:36:39.176+02:00From Exodus to Paris: The Great Mistake of The Jew hater <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first person in history who looked at the Children of Israel
& saw them as a nation was not Moses, or any other Jew – it was not even
G-d Himself – it was Israel’s deadly enemy, the Pharaoh of the Exodus story. </span></div>
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said, in Exodus 1:9 - <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> “<span dir="RTL" lang="HE">וַיֹּאמֶר, אֶל-עַמּוֹ: הִנֵּה, עַם בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל--רַב וְעָצוּם, מִמֶּנּוּ</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“And he said unto his people: 'Behold<b>, the people</b>,
the children of Israel are too many and too mighty for us”.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3,500 years later and it is still the enemies of the Children
of Israel who, even more than the Jews themselves, see the entire Jewish people as part of the
state of Israel, regardless of where they live, or what views they hold, or
even whether they are living or not (judging by the number of Jewish cemeteries
that get vandalized). This has proven in
the past and will prove now to be a terrible error by our enemies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soon after the formation of the State of Israel in 1948, the
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ancient Arab Jewish communities –
people who could in some cases trace their residence in those place back over
2000 years, but who shared the same faith as Zionists. The vast majority of
these Jews almost certainly had no intention of emigrating to Israel, but of
course with nowhere to go, they came to Israel and their descendants have
helped build this country. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” as a hoax that purports
to document the “Zionist” takeover of the world – “Zionists” being any successful
Jew of course. It is a worldwide Jewish plot with Israel at its heart. Absurd yes, but still
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_imprints_of_The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion">Protocols
is a best seller in the Muslim world</a>, with Arabic copies even to be found on sale in London <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Israel itself has become stronger over the decades, comprehensively
defeating the combined Arab armies in several wars, as well as economically, technologically
and educationally outperforming the entire Middle East. The Arab and wider
Islamic world has realized that they cannot defeat Israel militarily, or
economically and that the little Jewish State is not going anywhere. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With that
realization, coupled with increasing catastrophes of virtually all Islamic
states, their hatred has increased.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“But the more they afflicted them, the more they
multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.” Exodus
1:12<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course opposing Israeli government policies is not per se
antisemitic, but Antizionism – the delegitimization of Israel & the effort
to boycott all things Israeli - is consistently a crude cover for antisemitism, because as we have
seen, the enemies of Israel make little differentiation between Israelis &
non Israeli Jews – they attack Israel by attacking Jews in any country where
they are citizens. As the Guardian newspaper reported in August 2014:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the space of just one week last month… eight
synagogues were attacked. One, in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, was firebombed
by a 400-strong mob. A kosher supermarket and pharmacy were smashed and looted;
the crowd's chants and banners included "Death to Jews" and
"Slit Jews' throats". That same weekend, in the Barbes neighborhood
of the capital, stone-throwing protesters burned Israeli flags:
"Israhell", read one banner.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chants widely reported to have been heard at more than one “Anti-Israel”
event in Germany, France, UK and other places this past summer included: <i>"Jew,
coward pig, come out and fight alone,"</i> and <i>"Hamas, Hamas, Jews
to the gas.”</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a few weeks, the annual hate fest known as “Israel Apartheid
Week” will once again hit American campuses, when outside agitators will invade
what should be places of learning and turn them into places of division and for
Jews at least, intimidation and hatred. For the enemies of Israel, all Jews are
part of Zionist Israel, so you can imagine how it must feel for a Jewish teen,
merely trying to walk across campus to get to class, to be confronted with their
hatred, and vilification.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">…back to where I started this piece – with Pharaoh: his recognition of “Am Yisrael” – the people
of Israel – and his antisemitism, lead to the Children of Israel themselves identifying
as a people. So it was also 100 years ago when the Zionist movement grew as a reaction
to European Jew hate, that the Jews saw their only hope of a future not as
German, French or Russian Jews, but as one ancient yet new nation, Israelis – the antisemitic vision became a
self-fulfilling prophecy. Again today, the Jews of Europe are attacked for
being part of the same faith as Israelis – they are waking up to the fact that
again, they may have no future anywhere except as citizens of the Jewish state
of Israel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is one final part to this analogy with The Exodus
story – it was only when the Children of Israel became the People of Israel, that
according to The Torah, they merited leaving Egypt to head to a life of independent
Jewish living in the land of Israel, leaving their enemies crushed or weakened
behind them. Perhaps the greatest mistake Pharaoh made was forcing the Jews to become a nation – it’s the same mistake
the British would make thousands of years later in the American colonies and a calamitous
mistake today for the Islamic world toward the Jews. The antisemitism that we
have seen across Europe spewing out of Muslim communities, has brought Jews
together in Zionism in a way we would never have done had we been left alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Adam The Israel Radio Guy: Israel's Anglo Broadcasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525182139850439166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116830079730219116.post-11656627731883615152015-01-14T11:03:00.000+02:002015-01-14T11:03:04.043+02:00In 2015 Zionism Comes Full Circle<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the past 70 years Zionism
has evolved asking itself important questions about its purpose in a world where there is a strong Jewish state with 60% of Jews already living there. What is Zionism's fundamental purpose in the 21st century?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However after the Islamic terror attacks in Paris
last week, coming after several years of growing antisemitism from French Muslims, Zionism has found itself returning to its historic core purpose: the in-gathering of the Jewish people in our ancient homeland.</span></div>
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ago, Zionism’s founders and leaders saw the clouds of hatred gathering, and anticipated
a need to create a new future for the Jews of Europe – a future where they
would not be dependent on the good will of fickle governments or on a notion of
“tolerance” – after all who wants to be tolerated? They saw the desperate need for an independent, strong Jewish state – a place where Jews could truly take their future into their own
hands, contributing and building their lives on their own terms – they dreamed
of what we have today: Israel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the past weekend the leaders
of today’s Zionism, in the form of the chairman of the Jewish Agency Natan
Sharansky and the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, made emotional statements
that would not have seemed that out of place if said in the 1930s by David Ben
Gurion – predecessor of both Sharansky and Netanayahu:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Netanyahu said
yesterday “To the Jews of France I say - Israel is more than just a place you
direct your prayers – Israel is your home.”, and he went on to state “Any Jew
who wishes to emigrate to Israel will be received wholeheartedly and with open
arms.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Sharansky - who personally suffered the USSR's repression of Jews before escaping to become a leader in Israel - said that he anticipates more than 10,000 French Jews will make
aliyah (emigrate to Israel) this year. “We’re not building our aliyah strategy
on tragic events. We’re building it on the fact that there is this place in the
world called Europe, where Jews are feeling increasingly uncomfortable,” he
said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are strong parallels between
the situation facing the Jews of Europe in 2015 and in 1915:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jews went from being virtually
excluded from the march of history to being propelled to the very front line of
European life. Secularization and liberalism allowed Jews to operate as equals.
It was this revolution that propelled the Jews from their marginal status to
the central of world affairs and by the end of the 19th century, Jews were leading the way in
political thinking, philosophical debate, finance, medicine, the arts and law.
Jews felt they could finally build reasonable futures for their children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The earliest Zionist thinkers –
people such as Leo Pinsker, Max Nordau and even Theodore Herzl himself – did
not start out believing that Jews needed to have a state of their own. These founders
of modem Zionism were all products of the new secular liberal, yet nationalist
European thinking, instilled with the current ideas that were sweeping across
the continent, and they saw a future of Judaism in Eastern and Western Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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between how they perceived themselves as Europeans and Jews, and how others
perceived them. Despite their
involvement and indeed assimilation into the societies they lived in, they were rejected – pogroms in Russia; Dreyfus and
other injustices in France; and a dark, festering antisemitism in Germany. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Things had seemingly never been better for
Europe or Europe’s Jews and yet at the same time, the leaders of Zionism came
to see that their existence was a fragile safety based on the mood of whatever
government was in power. They saw no future in Europe and history would tragically prove
them right. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jump forward to January 2015, to a
Western Europe that has not seen war in 70 years. The nations are far more multicultural and are joined in
economic union. They place the highest value on individual rights and freedom of
expression. Once again things have never been better for Europe and yet
Europe’s Jews are again questioning whether any future for them exists in those
countries: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leave aside this past week’s
horrors, the situation was already disturbing: In the UK, for Jewish children to
attend faith schools involves a level of security that would not be out of place at
the home of Israel’s President in Jerusalem; across Europe synagogues have to
have security when services are taking place. Rabbi’s in Denmark, Finland,
Germany and France have all, in recent years, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1344682/Leading-rabbi-warns-German-Jews-wear-clothes-identify-religion-spate-neo-Nazi-attacks.html">warned
Jews not to walk in the streets wearing kippot</a> (skull caps); Graveyards
desecrated, swastikas daubed on homes & synagogues, and several incidents
of terrorism such as occurred in Toulouse and other cities aimed specifically at Jews. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On a personal note, on several occasions
prior to my own move to Israel in 2008, I experienced antisemitic abuse shouted
from passing cars as I walked along streets in London.</span></div>
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that what we have seen in Paris could easily happen in any major city in Europe
and while the target of Islamists is western freedoms, which Israel shares, their particular hatred for Jews is
rabid. The writing is on the wall, and
the Jews of France, and no doubt all of Europe, face similar fears to the Jews
of those places 100 years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The difference between then and now is simple –
Israel was a dream at the start of the 20<sup>th</sup> century – today it is a
reality. The Jews of France have a place to go and it is ready and waiting to
welcome them home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Adam The Israel Radio Guy: Israel's Anglo Broadcasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525182139850439166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116830079730219116.post-22855190675068640512014-08-28T18:29:00.000+03:002014-08-28T18:29:16.158+03:00Defining Wins & Losses in Mid East Conflicts - Assessing The Israel Gaza Summer Conflict<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So weeks of conflict between Hamas's Gaza & Israel seem to be drawing to a close, at least for the short term, with a month long ceasefire in place and seemingly holding. So as we look back, people in Israel and worldwide are asking who won and who lost this war? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lets be totally clear - truthfully it is an obscene question because</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> nobody won. It is not a cliche to say that with modern urban warfare, especially in the Middle East, there are no winners. No longer do the good guys charge up the beach led by John Wayne, toward an inevitable victory, while the locals hide in their homes, emerging with big smiles on their faces to celebrate the American heroes arrival. These days innocent civilians are more often than not caught up in the fighting, and indeed in most Arab conflicts they are the target, not the regrettable</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "collateral" damage. So lets stop with the moronic talk about winners and losers. Instead lets see who gained the most, who met military goals, and who in the long run has been most hurt by this</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> conflict:</span></div>
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Hamas held victory celebrations in Gaza after the ceasefire announcement a couple of nights ago, but is this just "Pallywood" spin? It seems that even within Hamas, they recognize they have suffered a humiliation - as their negotiator returned from Egypt today, his fellow Hamas officials greeted him by breaking his legs, so clearly they don't think Hamas won anything! Also today, when <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.1200008392334px;">Ismail Haniyeh, Khaled Mashaal's top deputy</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 16.1200008392334px;"> in Gaza emerged from his bunker, he suffered an unfortunate medical emergency which we can specukate was an attack or assassination attempt by either disgruntled Hamas members or Gaza residents looking for revenge for the callous way Hamas treated</span> the civilians they should be protecting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">So do Hamas have anything to celebrate? Well they still exist, and are still running Gaza, at least for now - That in and of itself is a success for them after they failed miserably to achieve any significant </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">militarily</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> goals</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">: Their aim to cause huge damage to Israeli cities was derailed by the Iron Dome defense system; Their plan for an autumn terror campaign using their 'secret' tunnels from Gaza into Israeli</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> kibbutzim and towns to slaughter and kidnap Israeli</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> citizens was also completely foiled by the IDF; their weapons stock was massively degraded and they lost both fighters and at the end key senior personnel. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hamas can legitimately say that at the end of all the weeks of Israel attempting to take out their ability to fire missiles, they did have some capability left, although how much is debatable. However, the ceasefire agreement that they made in Egypt was essentially the same one they had turned down weeks before - the sense that commentators have is that Hamas were not able to maintain their war much longer and that some people in Gaza were turning on Hamas, which is why Israel's intel seemed to improve so much over the past week. Hamas badly needed the ceasefire and that's why they agreed to terms that had been unthinkable for them not long before. In fact what Hamas agreed to was to stop and basically go back to how things were before the summer - so they achieved no military gains at a great cost to their own military and civil structure. Hamas maintain, as if it's a concession from Israel, that the Gaza border to Israel will now be open to aid, but then those borders were </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">already</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">open to allow aid in to Gaza even during the conflict. Nothing seems to have changed, except that the PA rather than Hamas</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> will be in charge of the Gaza side of the border.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Politically, as the last remaining vestige of the Muslim Brotherhood with any power, Hamas have found themselves isolated from the vast majority of the Arab world - their only support coming from Qatar, and Iran & Turkey (not strictly Arab), while Egypt, Saudi Arabia and others clearly blamed them for the crisis. It is hard to tell if they are still in a power sharing PA government with Fatah, as news of an <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-orders-investigation-into-hamas-coup-plot-revealed-by-israel/" target="_blank">attempted coup </a>was revealed by Israel a few days ago.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Where Hamas most certainly succeeded was in the PR war - they managed to force the international media embedded in Gaza to <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/alanjohnson/100283063/hamas-manipulated-and-intimidated-the-media-in-gaza-why-was-that-kept-from-us/" target="_blank">act as Hamas agents</a> in their message of "Israel the child Killer", and the editors overseas ignored the obvious and broadcast verbatim these reports. Sadly there was a ready audience ready to side with Jihadists over the Jewish democratic state, on even the flimsiest of propaganda evidence and this was followed by an outbreak of antisemitism across Europe which was for Hamas a success. They managed to get the Muslim communities around the world to agree with their position even as t<a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/how-arab-leaders-loathing-of-hamas-has-kept-them-quiet-on-gaza-war/article19871136/" target="_blank">he Arab world rejected them</a>. They also found their position enhanced by an incredibly weak US president and a totally undermined UN who rather than supporting Israel in a war against Jihadists who were firing rockets at civilians, they pressured Israel to stop. While not handing them a victory, this enabled Hamas to put Israel under enough pressure to agree to a ceasefire that leaves them in charge of Gaza. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">So can Israel and its Prime Minister Bibi </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Netanyahu</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">argue that they 'won' this war? Netanyahu can point to the fact that Hamas fired several thousand dangerous rockets to every part of Israel, and thanks to a superb defense strategy, almost no damage and few deaths or injuries occurred in Israel. He could also say that the terror tunnels will now never be used against Israeli citizens, probably saving hundreds of lives. Hamas's military capability has been pushed back years by the IDF, and despite the loud anti Israel noise on Paris & London streets, Hamas has been exposed as being prepared - happy even - to use Gazans as human shields, and to sacrifice their lives. Its use of schools and UN property to hide weapons has been demonstrated, and its manipulation of the media is now better understood. As the ISIS atrocities make the headlines worldwide, Israel has been succeeding in pointing out that fundamentally Hamas & ISIS are very much alike. This conflict has also exposed how deeply <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/marco-rubio-other-us-senators-demand-investigation-unrwa-activity-gaza-1657614" target="_blank">Hamas has infiltrated UNRWA</a> and how it appears a UN agency was complicit in the Hamas policy of hiding weapons in schools and firing rockets from near these UNRWA shelters. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">All that is true, but still the Israeli public feel a disappointment with Netanyahu - they feel he had an opportunity to deal a fatal blow to Gaza and bring a level of peace that Southern Israel has not known since 2007. They point to the length of time this campaign took, the cost in lives, money and disrupted lives, and they feel he should have ignored the pressure and fought for a demilitarized Gaza. On the final day of fighting, Bibi said that he would not negotiate under fire, and then a couple of hours later announced a ceasefire while rockets fell on the South. It is clear to all that Netanyahu and his government were surprised by Hamas's willingness to keep fighting, breaking 11 ceasefires, despite being unable to score any military successes of significance. Even after 70 years, Israel still underestimates the willingness of Arab states & organizations to allow their own people to die "for the cause" - Hamas was using civilian deaths as a weapons, and through them scored its only successes, so it carried on. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The failure to remove Hamas, and to demilitarize Gaza, will mean that the Gazan Palestinians suffer more years of tyranny and hopelessness, and eventually the rockets will again fall on Southern Israel. In 1 or 2 years we'll be doing this again. That is indeed partly Mr. Netanyahu's failure to find a way to see this operation to it's conclusion, but it is also a crime against humanity that the UN have encouraged and a reflection of the incompetence of the current US president and his team. This will happen again, there is now no doubt and there is plenty of blame to hand around. </span></span></div>
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Adam The Israel Radio Guy: Israel's Anglo Broadcasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525182139850439166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116830079730219116.post-16613006120397107762014-08-08T10:42:00.000+03:002014-08-08T10:42:10.585+03:00What Should Israel Do? <div style="text-align: justify;">
There's a huge moral difference between Hamas's four week rocket attacks on Israel + its planned terror tunnel attacks, and Israel's response, and this difference should be blatantly obvious to anyone:</div>
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Hamas fired over 3000 rockets directly at civilian populations. Their aim was to slaughter families in their beds, children in their schools, and the sick in their hospitals. The fact that they did not succeed was entirely due to Israel's foresight in developing an effective anti missile defense - Iron Dome. There are several IDF bases near the Gaza strip, but they were not the targets of the rockets, nor the newly discovered tunnels, which all opened in purely civilian areas. Hamas wanted dead Israeli civilians - the more the better.</div>
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In contrast, Israel's response was aimed at Hamas - designed to take out fighters, leaders, weapons and infrastructure. Israel neither wanted nor was it helped by a single civilian death, in fact quite the reverse, the civilian deaths have been Hamas's only success in a campaign where they have utterly failed militarily. Hamas therefore places its weapons storage in schools, its HQ in a hospital, its rocket launchers next to UNRWA facilities and on top of apartment buildings - it wants Israel to fire back. Think about it ... it is OBVIOUS - its rockets are a failure, with 30% landing inside Gaza, the rest being taken out by Israeli technology, so why break yet another ceasefire and restart a futile war? Why waste ammunition and risk fighters? Again the answer is simple - they need Israel to fire back, they need death and destruction to manipulate world media, and through it international public opinion, into condemning Israel for the deaths of "innocent civilians".</div>
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So perhaps Israel should not fire back? This is not an option for Israel nor any sovereign nation. Thousands of rockets fired at your cities; 5,000,000 citizens in bomb shelters; 1,000,000 deeply traumatized kids, and of course eventually a rocket will land on a target full of people. If this were to happen, the government of Israel would not survive, so of course it has to fire back. It is the primary responsibility of a government, above all other things, to defend its citizens. That responsibility even outweighs the burden of trying to avoid civilian deaths in the enemy state. These are awful and sad , but the burden of protecting them lies with Hamas - a duty it has not only failed to fulfill, but has done the reverse by using them as human shields and leaving Israel no other choice but to fire back.</div>
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To those who say Israel's response is disproportionate - what does that mean? What should Israel do...nobody seems to say that? It honors ceasefires, pulls out its forces and comes under attack again - so please, we've heard the mantra of restraint for years - WHAT SHOULD ISRAEL DO ? </div>
Adam The Israel Radio Guy: Israel's Anglo Broadcasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525182139850439166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116830079730219116.post-74015637139813791802014-08-08T00:31:00.000+03:002014-08-08T00:31:12.920+03:00President Obama Adds Appeasing Terrorists to His List of Failures<div style="text-align: justify;">
A lot of American and British lives - not too mention Iraqis - were lost in the elimination of Saddam Hussein's regime & the establishment of a flimsy democratic system in that troubled, tribal country. Then the American's pulled out before Iraq had the means to protect itself, and this created a power vacuum which means that today Iraq basically no longer exists, as the ISIS Jihadists swarm out of the chaos of Syria into that vacuum. All those US & British lives given for the freedom of Iraq will count for nothing. Never mind calling Bush & Blair criminals for the WMD's that were never found - President Obama's crime in walking away from Iraq is far, far worse. His betrayal, his failure, has let in ISIS who are committing horrors and abominations, only some of which we are hearing about - forced female genital mutilation of 100,000s of girls and the genocide of Iraq's ancient Christian community - one of the world's oldest.</div>
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So where is Sec. State Kerry? He was so very vocal over Gaza - a man who busied himself flying in to Egypt to save the day, only to irritate the Egyptians, fail with Gaza, and infuriate the Israelis, after which he left, expressing his personal hurt, never to be seen again. Kerry has not made any statements over the very real genocide in Iraq. Where is President Obama? Is he busy looking into ways the US military can assist the truly innocent civilians being obliterated by ISIS? Well they say he is considering either airstrikes or food drops..or perhaps nothing - after all, red lines have been crossed by ISIS and we know how strongly President Obama feels about those! It was 12 months ago that he moved the US Navy into range of Syria, determined on a course to bring down Assad and end the slaughter there, but he was out maneuvered by Putin, backing down and becoming the greatest laughing stock of US weakness since Jimmy Carter's ill thought out helicopter raid to rescue the American hostages in Iran failed when the choppers crashed en route.</div>
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However when it comes to Gaza, despite the further damage already done to US standing by Kerry's incompetence, President Obama has an idea and it amounts to:</div>
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This is the situation: currently there is a ceasefire, so desperately needed by Gazans, honored by Israel, brokered by Egypt & tacitly agreed to by Hamas. That ceasefire runs out tomorrow at 8am and Israel is quite content to continue the ceasefire while indirect talks take place in Egypt. Hamas on the other hand, are not willing to continue talking - they want to start firing again, and Obama is already beginning to prepare to blame Israel when they do. You see Hamas want the blockade of their borders & sea port to be lifted, something both Egypt and Israel are strongly against, because both sides know that this will only make the re-arming process easier and faster, which is all Hamas care about. Hamas don't give a damn about ordinary Gazans - in fact a dead Gazan is merely a weapon to attack Israel with. So Hamas won't continue the ceasefire unless Israel - and Egypt - capitulate on the blockade and President Obama is openly supporting Hamas on this demand. When they launch a rocket barrage tomorrow, it will be Israel's fault, he will say, heaping more pressure on Israel to appease the Jihadists. </div>
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So we have a President of the United States who turned away from action of one genocidal war, ignores a new horrific genocide in Iraq, and is openly appeasing Jihadist terrorists in Gaza, against the clear & present danger they represent to the USA's only allies & ideological brethren in the MidEast, and over the objections of a rapidly stabilizing Egypt. If he gets his way it is patently obvious what will happen - The good intentions of the world community to help Gaza, will be perverted by Hamas. Instead of a building program and investment in the economy of the Strip, they'll re-arm, with some new planning twist in their blood lust for Jews. Thanks to Obama's help, they won't have to rely on smuggling tunnels from Egypt to achieve this, they'll be able to do it faster than last time using the open borders, and in 18 months, maybe sooner, this violence will happen again, and again Israel will be blamed. </div>
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Israel imposed those border sanctions because it said Hamas was importing weapons - we've seen 3000+ rockets fired on Israel, so they has patently been vindicated. A few years ago Israel was told </div>
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Israel gave in to this pressure from the US, UN and EU and allowed cement to pass from Israel into Hamas's hands. We know now what they did with it - they built dozens of sophisticated tunnels into Israel, the plan was to slaughter Israelis on the Jewish New Year next month. Again, Israel has been shown that its concerns were 100% correct but Obama doesn't care:</div>
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What he is doing is ensuring that there will be another round of this violence in the near future. Yet another abysmal decision by a President whose foreign policy failures have made the world more dangerous than at any time since the Cuba Missile Crisis ! Fortunately for the world, Obama's term ends on January 8th 2017 - unfortunately that's 900 days away and a lot of people alive today will not live to see the 45th President sworn in, entirely due to the 44th's failure to act in the Middle East where needed, to support his allies when required and to see sense when it is obvious. </div>
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Adam The Israel Radio Guy: Israel's Anglo Broadcasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525182139850439166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116830079730219116.post-73112512442206567482014-08-04T09:44:00.004+03:002014-08-04T09:47:21.520+03:00Gaza: The Media's Overwhelming Failure is Costing Lives.<div style="text-align: justify;">
The reporting of the conflict between Israel and Hamas has been so poor and so manipulated by the jihadists that it has prolonged the conflict, causing many further deaths and may directly lead to a new round of violence in a few years. let me explain:<br />
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When I was in grammar school, I was lucky to have a superb history teacher - Mr.King - and one of his principles of teaching history, which stayed with me to this day, was that although we studied wars, we never studied battles. Why? because he told us that what matters most is causes & resolutions of wars: The details of all those famous WW1 battles: The Somme, The Bulge, etc matter only to survivors and military historians, but for geopolitical history what is important is how the world got dragged into a 4 year world war over an assassination and how it ended based on President Woodrow Wilson's plan, which was ignored at Versailles, sowing the seeds of bitterness and anger in Germany that would lead to Hitler's rise to power. Critical analysis - that's how lessons are learned in history and it is exactly the same for good journalism.</div>
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Yes - an exploding house in Gaza makes great footage, people's emotions are tugged by the site of a dead </div>
child, but what is the context? If the journalist doesn't explain and his editor doesn't push him to talk beyond the immediate moment, then nothing is learned. So we never learn the house was booby trapped, or that children were deliberately placed next to weapons as human shields. Worse, it allows forces in conflict to horribly manipulate world opinion and what we are seeing right now out of Gaza is the very worst example of poor "in the moment" journalism that I have witnessed, with the focus of context so narrow, and so controlled by Hamas, that world opinion has been manipulated to sympathize with a jihadi terror movement that makes mass use of human shields, has so infiltrated UNRWA that it is able to hide rockets in schools without fear of reprisal, which stole billions of dollars of aid money from Gazan citizens to build a huge weapon stockpile, killed hundreds of Gazan kids to dig its terror tunnels, and started not one, but three wars with Israel, firing exclusively on civilian populations, from civilian areas. How has Hamas managed to convince the world that it is - as House leader Sen. Pelosi described - it "a humanitarian organization"? By the <u style="text-align: justify;">epic </u><span style="text-align: justify;">failure of much of the media to do its job, ask the right questions, and join the dots! </span><br />
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Let me give an example - Israel it seems, has managed to hit refugee centers on an alarming once a day</div>
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schedule, with a clear civilian death toll. This is strange because it is highly unlikely that Israel is deliberately targeting these places, and it is generally aware where they are situated. There is nothing positive in these actions for Israel - the only success Hamas has had in all this violence is world opinion - so why are these places being hit? Well one answer is that some of these strikes have been Hamas rockets misfiring - although initial reporting and condemnation focused on Israel, a few days later the truth came out. In other cases there is little doubt that Israel hit the refugee centers - but whats missing is a context the journalists on the ground are totally aware of, but unable to report: Hamas fire on Israeli or Israeli forces from positions in or near these centers - this is deliberate use of human shields designed to cause civilian deaths, as weapons against Israel. Hamas has clearly failed militarily to cause significant damage to Israel or to slow the IDF in any way, but they have succeeded, as I say above, in hurting Israel through the media. Hamas is clearly, crudely and obviously drawing fire to places where civilians are located. It is Hamas's long standing, well documented, policy of using human shields and it is not being reported.<br />
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Here is where the media is culpable: it has allowed Hamas this success without which they would have very little reason to continue fighting. It is no secret that journalists within Gaza are<a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/1385777/journalists-threatened-given-talking-points-about-how-to-talk-about-hamas-gaza/" target="_blank"> unable to freely report </a>what they are witnessing, due to threats from Hamas. This is why we see plenty of photos of dead or injured children and mourning mothers as well as general destruction, but absolutely no images of Hamas fighters, rocket fire, and no suggestion of where the fire is coming from. I don't blame the 'in-situ' journalists for this failure - they are scared, with good reason - but I do blame the editors & news directors back home, knowing the threat to their people, for not telling their readers and audiences that journalists are unable to</div>
report what they are seeing, and for not reporting the truth from their studios outside Gaza. If this is because they fear for their team's safety, then why the hell are they there in the first place? What this stream of propaganda - which essentially is what a manipulated media source becomes - causes is prolonged fighting, and suffering in Gaza. It puts pressure on Israel to stop while Hamas still hold onto power - that will inevitably lead to Hamas again oppressing the people of Gaza re-arming, stealing resources from civilians for their next campaign, and in 1-2 years, we will witness the destruction of Gaza once more.<br />
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Adam The Israel Radio Guy: Israel's Anglo Broadcasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525182139850439166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116830079730219116.post-44893640246472474902014-07-21T10:25:00.005+03:002014-07-21T10:25:46.880+03:00UN & World Leaders Willing to Prolong Misery of Gazan Palestinians & Southern Israel #Ceasefire<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last night the UN Security Council issued a tepid call for a ceasefire Gaza. It was a media statement, the weakest expression the UNSC makes, but never the less as Israel's victories in Gaza further threaten Hamas, their propaganda machine will churn out "genocidal" body counts in an effort to increase international pressure on Israel for a ceasefire which eventually it will accede to.</div>
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Hamas will salvage just enough from this to claim a great victory, then within a few days the first mortars and Kassam rockets will slam into Israel's southern cities to make the point that Israel failed to rid the region from Hamas. It will then spend the next couple of years diverting aid money into rearming, rebuilding the terror tunnels, importing loner range missiles from Iran and generally preparing for the next round - all at the expense of ordinary Gazan Palestinians. When the rearming is complete, and Hamas feels ready, it will start to increase fire rate into Israel, sparking targeted airstrikes. Eventually, as happened a few days ago, the quantity of attacks from Gaza will reach intolerable levels for Israel, and once again the IDF will enter Gaza, sparking more deaths, claims and counter claims, until the UN again calls a halt. This has happened 3 times already since 2005 and it appears the international community has failed to learn anything from the pattern. </div>
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Worse however is the crime against humanity that the international community, in pushing these ceasefires, becomes a party to: Hamas is a jihadi terror organization, part of exactly the same family (and acting partnership with) Islamic Jihad and the ISIS currently rampaging through Syria and Iraq. Life under their iron rule is a living hell - Hamas cares nothing for the ordinary Palestinians of Gaza- they are just tools and slaves to its genocidal ambitions against the Zionists & western values. Hamas's supreme leader has amassed a fortune - billions of dollars in overseas accounts - all stolen from Gazans; any dissent is crushed ruthlessly; and children are seen as terrorists in training. Hamas has never wavered from its hatred of Israel - it has not one iota of interest in negotiations for a long term peace, nor in the future of the Palestinian people as long as a single Jew remains on "Palestinian soil". It will again place its rockets & weapon stores in civilian areas: next to homes, in schools and mosques, as they have done so many times in the past and once more Israel will have no choice but to engage Hamas in the killing field of Hamas's choosing.</div>
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Hamas see the people of Gaza as human shields - if Israel doesn't fire on a terror target, due to presence of civilians - as so often happens - then that's a win for Hamas. If Israel does fire, and there are civilian casualties, this is a propaganda win for Hamas. If you are a more liberal minded western reader of this blog understand this: They really do think like that - they are TERRORISTS!</div>
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None of this opportunity for long term improvement in Gaza can happen if Israel is yet again stopped from degrading Hamas to the point it cannot maintain its hold over Gaza. Yes there will be causalities in the coming days - although the vast majority of these 'civilians' will turn out on investigation to be Hamas fighters - but without those casualties now, there will be many more in the next round of violence and the one after that, and between those violent outbreaks, 1.8 MILLION Palestinians in Gaza have no hope, no future and no way out & millions of Israeli families will live in fear of rocket attacks.</div>
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It is time for the UN council & world leaders to focus on a solution in Gaza that actually helps the people there - forcing a ceasefire that leaves them under Hamas's domination is a crime against humanity, both in Gaza & Israel. Let this be the last round of warfare in Gaza - let it be the end of Hamas and the start of hope. Anything less is a true crime against humanity! </div>
Adam The Israel Radio Guy: Israel's Anglo Broadcasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525182139850439166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116830079730219116.post-71420830562089385562014-07-04T16:20:00.003+03:002014-07-07T11:59:24.788+03:00The Real Palestinians Have Stood Up - Take a Good Look!You should not judge a country, people, or community based on the actions of tiny minorities or individuals from that community, no matter how heinous, but rather on the reactions of that community to those actions or people.<br />
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Earlier this week, Israeli streets were almost empty as people stopped to watch the funeral of the 3 murdered Israeli teenagers - Gilad, Eyal and Naftali. 60,000 people attended the funerals, including the president, prime minister and chief rabbis of Israel, all of whom spoke. Nobody called for revenge, or blood - indeed the mothers of the boys called for calm and peace and remembrance of three young lives. There were incidents of protest by young Israelis in Jerusalem, quickly quashed by police, but on the whole, the event was about grief, sorrow and healing.<br />
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There is little doubt that the Palestinian terror group which governs Gaza - Hamas - is up to its necks in this horrific crime against three school boys as PM Netanyahu has said. There is plenty of evidence linking the three prime suspects to the crime, all of whom are associated with Hamas and Hamas has been making regular calls for kidnappings of Israelis since the Gilad Shalit release deal. So whether Hamas actually planned the attack or merely created the environment for it to occur, they are complicit. We must remember that the Palestinian Authority, led by Fatah's Mahmood Abbas, is now "in bed" with Hamas following the unity government deal, implemented just weeks ago, effectively killing any possibility of the peace process finding new life and hope in the near future.<br />
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In the wake of the kidnappings, the IDF conducted mass searches for the boys, which uncovered terror networks and infrastructure in the West Bank and involved the re-arrest of Hamas operatives released in the Shalit deal. Israel knew it was walking a tight line between inflaming the Palestinian street and finding the boys, but also knew if the kidnappers had succeeded there'd be three new Shalits. Israel also had to make the point to the Palestinians - being encouraged to commit this crime by Hamas - that such acts cannot be tolerated and would make their lives more difficult and to Hamas, that it would seriously impact their infrastructure and ability to operate in the West Bank.<br />
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Now this week we saw another crime - An Arab boy kidnapped and murdered. Unlike the Israeli boys, at the time of writing this blog, we do not yet has a clear picture of what happened. It may well be a 'revenge killing' by some very evil Israelis, and the boy's family were quick to blame Israel, but there maybe other circumstances other than revenge as there have apparently been several attempted kidnappings by other Arab clans against this family in recent weeks. In any case, if it turns out that it this poor boy was murdered as a revenge killing, Israel will demonstrate anguish & horror that one of our own could do such evil.<br />
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Never the less the Palestinian's have already reacted with violence and vandalism - unlike the Israeli and Jewish world, they haven't held prayer vigils, called for calm or done acts of kindness in the name of this boy. They have rioted. They have burned the Jerusalem light rail near Arab areas - built along that route to bring opportunity to Arab Jerusalem as well as Jewish - they have started fires in woodland and along roadsides, and they have thrown rocks at civilian vehicles and buses - as I write this, the funeral of the murdered boy is taking place and unlike the funerals of Eyal, GIlad and Naftali, there are no calls for peace and calm, but rather for blood, and revenge. The crowd is chanting "Martyr" and while this takes place Arabs are throwing rocks and vandalizing in their neighborhoods of this great city, even on "Temple Mount", home of the Dome of the Rock, their own 3rd holiest place, they are causing desecration.<br />
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Don't judge the Palestinians because the three Israelis were murdered, and don't judge Israel because this poor Arab boy was murdered - judge them on their reactions! When this Arab boy turned up dead, the vast majority of Israelis were horrified and saddened that it may have been one of theirs that did it. When the three Israelis were taken and murdered, Palestinian parents and teachers took 100s of photos of their small children holding up three fingers in delight at the act. The people who danced on 9/11 gloried in kidnap and murder. Judge them on that.<br />
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<br />Adam The Israel Radio Guy: Israel's Anglo Broadcasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525182139850439166noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116830079730219116.post-26294095691869426942014-06-16T13:22:00.001+03:002014-06-16T13:22:17.744+03:00Who's To Blame For the New Iraq Crsis?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yesterday former British Prime Minister Tony Blair sought to distance himself from Iraq's current decent into chaos by placing the blame not on himself & Pres. Bush's decision to invade Iraq & remove Saddam, but instead he placed the blame firmly at President Obama's feet, over his inaction in Syria and his removing US forces from Iraq before the Iraqi army was ready to shoulder the responsibility ( as they showed when at the first sign of trouble, they dropped their weapons and ran). Blair has subsequently received a lot of flack & derision for his comments, but does he have a point?<br />
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Where he is correct is that Syria's civil war is superficially where this violence has spread from and Obama & UN)'s failure to act in Syria has led to what is occurring in Iraq, and could spread further (Lebanon even Jordan). Obama is seen by Arabs and indeed most of the world, with a great deal of justification, as incompetent in foreign policy & indecisive when it comes to using the massive military force the US can wield. His "Red Line" in Syria was a blatant example of this, preferring to be railroaded by Putin & Assad rather than take the action he had loudly threatened months before. As any parent knows - you don't issue threats if you don't or can't follow through. Obama's incompetence has created a power vacuum around the world that Putin has certainly exploited in Crimea and so have extremist elements in Syria & that has most certainly spilled over into Iraq.<br />
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Tangentially Obama's response to Iraq's plea for help is to basically tell them deal with it themselves, when it is clear they are overwhelmed and cannot. One way that we will all pay for Obama's failure will be by rising oil and gas prices worldwide which will impact on economies only now emerging form recession, including in the US. <br />
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Tony Blair is also fundamentally wrong, because he ignores the role of Iran in all of this as does Obama (although Blair is far more astute than Obama) - Iran & Iraq were implacable enemies prior to Saddam's fall. 100,000s had died from the two states during their protracted civil war and they faced each other across their border warily, with a great deal of Iran's military resources focused on that front. Bush & Blair's actions in 2003 removed that threat to Iran - it was like taking the nose ring out of a raging bull. Since then, unfettered from fears of a powerful enemy, they have sough to take control of the Arab world - drastically increasing funding and support to groups such as Hamas & Hezbollah, and deliberately destabilizing <br />
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Lebanon, Syria & now Iraq in the process. The scapegoating of Israel is Iran's rallying call to the Arab street (traditionally wary of the non Arab Persians). Iran are behind the ongoing civil war in Syria as much as Assad & they are quite blatantly manipulating the strife in Iraq. Bush & Blair's advisers should have foreseen this consequence.<br />
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However, Bush & Blair have not been world leaders for several years - only a few months ago Obama again displayed his weakness by letting Iran off the hook over its nuclear ambitions. When you consider that Iran is funding many of the Islamist terror groups slaughtering people around the world, then not taking decisive action over their desire for nuclear weapons borders on imbecilic - certainly blatant incompetence. The world placed Iran under heavy sanctions that eventually brought them to the negotiating table - the US & UN held all the cards. Iran was brought to their knees and basically crawled to those negotiations - so how is that a few weeks later that same Iran walked away ... no skipped joyously away, with at best flimsy restrictions which do little to protect Israel or the West? Yes - the West & US are threatened too - Iran has ICBM long range missiles, which it does not need to reach Israel or any other Mid East target - who are these weapons intended for? <br />
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At any point, Obama could utilize the power that comes with his office & slow or stop the destabilization & accompanying misery Iran is causing to millions of people. He could remove the threat this rogue nation of war represents. Iran is the fuel feeding the Mid East fires - remove that fuel & the fires will die down. However Obama's US continues to fail to bring its strength to bear on Iran, Putin or in Syria. His failures will cause many more deaths, over many more years, than Bush's or Blair's ever did.Adam The Israel Radio Guy: Israel's Anglo Broadcasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525182139850439166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116830079730219116.post-9389861019603632132014-06-14T23:12:00.001+03:002014-06-14T23:12:54.011+03:00Palestinian Society has reached its lowest pointHow pathetic has the Palestinian world become? How low has it sunk over the past couple of decades? Their master plan for "resistance" is kidnapping Israeli teenagers! This is how they hope to bring Israel down...to build a future for the Palestinian people... by extorting the release of terrorists on the back of unarmed school kids? They've tried blowing up buses and cafes, they've tried attacking targets around the worked from Entebe to the Olympics and now they are snatching schoolkids!<br />
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It may not be the major Palestinian players like Hamas or the PLO behind this particular cowardly and pathetic crime, but Hamas leaders were falling over themselves today to encourage more of these types of crimes. This is the same Hamas who run the government of the independent Palestinian area of Gaza and the same Hamas who last week rejoined the Palestinian Authority, and the same Hamas that the US government agreed to work with. So to be clear the Palestinian Authority, newly unified, includes a 'party' (in reality an unreformed and unrepentant terror organization backed by Iran) who's officials advocate kidnapping Israelis as bargaining tools. Israel's PM Netanyahu today blamed this new unity government directly for the kidnapping - that is probably a stretch, but if Hamas is publicly cheering this crime then the PA is indeed culpable and the UN, US & EU should take clear note of who it is they are now doing business with, and question exactly to whose pockets their citizens tax money is being given as aid.<br />
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The terror crimes of the Palestinian groups has made life much more difficult for Palestinians - in reaction to Arafat's intifada, in reality a wave of suicide bombings of civilian targets, Israel built the hated security fence / wall (which stopped the bombings saving 100s if not 1000s of lives); when Hamas took over Gaza, turning it into a terror base and launching waves of missile attacks on Israel, both Israel & Egypt closed their borders and now if kidnapping Israeli kids & other civilians is the new tactic, one can only imagine the new difficulties the Palestinians will face as Israel defends itself against this threat. Liberals around the world and so called 'pro Palestinians' will within days be bleating on about "collective punishment" and "over reaction", but the job of the Israeli government is first and foremost to protect Israeli citizens not make Palestinian's lives comfortable. <b>Lets be clear - Israel is reacting to a threat - remove the threat & you remove the reaction.</b><br />
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Israel will not and can not allow a new wave of kidnappings to break out, which means more checkpoints, tighter grips on border crossings in and out of Jordan, Egypt and most especially Gaza - it may mean Israeli forces returning to Palestinian cities to enforce order & break up terror cells. If the Palestinian leaders don't want these consequences, then they must root out the criminals, punish severely the perpetrators and send the message clearly that these terror crimes are a piteous embarrassment to the Palestinian people and not in anyway a victory. 98% of Palestinians live under PA control - the word authority is in the PA's name and they need to exercise some! If they do not and these boys are not found or returned, and worse, if more attempts occur, then Israel must take tough unilateral action: There can be no working with a Palestinian Authority that includes Hamas, no collecting and handing over taxes to such an authority, no security arrangements, no providing power to Gaza, nothing! Indeed the world must say to the Palestinians, that if this is the path they are going to take, then there will be no aid or support - this appeasing of Palestinian leaders incapable of making peace, whilst endorsing violence and terror has to end - not just for Israel, but for the Palestinians, because world support that is propping up these pathetic people in leadership positions, and it is denying the Palestinians a future that real leaders who are prepared to negotiate and compromise could forge for them and it is of course placing Israeli lives at further risk. <br />
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There will be weak fools out out there in the world reading this who will say that I am blaming all Palestinians for the actions of a few - but this is not so because within Palestinian society there is a cancer that hails child killers as heroes, names schools after suicide bombers, calls 9/11 a great victory and produces a curriculum in schools that teach children that Jews are pigs and monkeys. Inside Palestinian Gaza thousands of children are forced to attend Hamas terror schools, training them to be fighters of the future and in all parts of Palestinian society, children are encouraged to be on the front line, throwing rocks, and acting as human shields. The terrorists are in villages and towns, but are not being exposed or rejected, but instead are heroic 'resistance fighters' which in reality damns all of Palestinian society for collectively condoning these scum. Any steps Israel takes will not be 'collective punishment' but defense against a society so corrupt, so low, it believes kidnapping children is heroic. <br />
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There is no bright optimistic future for any people that have sunk so low - the future for the Palestinians is not in their grasp and cannot be until ordinary Palestinians turn round and so to their leaders that they don't want to be the people that kidnap kids or blow up buses. Only when the riots and demonstrations are about that will they find leaders who are prepared to enter into hard but genuine negotiations with Israel. Only when they stop seeing their children as rock throwing human shields and Israeli children as legitimate targets, can they sit down with Israel to build a future for their children.<br />
<br />Adam The Israel Radio Guy: Israel's Anglo Broadcasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525182139850439166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116830079730219116.post-83714343127282938672014-03-03T11:44:00.002+02:002014-03-03T11:50:11.495+02:00The Questions Nobody Asks of Arab World or Human Rights Activists...<div style="text-align: justify;">
Here's a question nobody asks of those spewing BDS hate accusations of rhetoric of apartheid, genocide & occupation:</div>
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When you hear words like apartheid & genocide thrown at Israel, look how the Arab world treats Palestinians & look how Israel treats its Arab citizens. Ask yourself honestly where the racism and apartheid really is manifest in the Middle East. Then ask yourself how, when this is so damnably obvious, the international media doesn't report this ongoing crime against humanity! How are highly educated college professors ignorant and silent on the Arab world's treatment of Palestinians (while they feel able to accuse Israel of apartheid & genocide against all facts or logic)? How are those "human rights" activists who are prepared to sail to Gaza out of love for Palestinians, totally silent in the face of dozens of states abuse of the same people?</div>
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Adam The Israel Radio Guy: Israel's Anglo Broadcasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525182139850439166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116830079730219116.post-24916318853020766612014-02-16T11:26:00.001+02:002014-02-16T11:26:38.824+02:00Palestinians deprive their own people of clean water for propaganda...and the world accepts it ! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week's brouhaha in the Israeli parliament caused by <span style="background-color: white;">European Parliament President </span><khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Martin Schulz" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(30, 185, 220) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Martin Schulz</khlink><span style="background-color: white;"> erroneous claim, during a guest speech in The Knesset, that Palestinians living in the West Bank are allotted one-fourth of the amount of water that Israelis are allotted is a perfect example of all that is wrong in the world discussions and activism around the Palestinian / Israeli conflict. I have always said that this is a complicated nuanced situation, which is not helped by the vast amount of misinformation and incitement pouring from the Palestinian side, accepted as truth by a world eager to believe the "under dog". Water is a perfect example:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">First, lets be clear - Palestinians do not get as much water as Israelis, including those living in Judea / Samaria aka The West bank, but much of this is of their own causing as I will show below: On the positive side Israel has ensured that Palestinian water quality and quantity has improved dramatically since the area came under Israeli control in 1967, and Palestinians have far better water supplies than the vast majority of people who live in most of the regions Arab nations. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Israel is supplying the PA </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with more than 50 m.c.m. or 25% of its total needs – which, under the Oslo Accords, is more than Israel is supposed to provide even a full-fledged Palestinian state under a final-status arrangement! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Part of the problem with Palestinian water comes from the inefficiency and corruption of the Palestinian Authority and in part from the political desire to keep the issue as a weapon to beat at Israel, regardless of the suffering it causes the Palestinian people - for example </span>the PA has built just </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">one sewage plant over the past 15 years, despite a $500 million international donor fund available to them to build more. </span><span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are plans for building purification plants in several major Palestinian towns such as Hebron, Bethlehem and Nablus, paid for by donor countries, but the Palestinians have decided that they don’t want to build in the Oslo defined Areas A and B under their control, but only in Area C (which is under full Israeli military, and administrative control). </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Israel has stringent regulations for these and similar projects in other parts of Israel which the Palestinians have no interest in complying with ( and wouldn't have to in areas A & B) so they have built none of these plants. Where Israel has made an effort to help with West bank sewage treatment, such as </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the Wadi Kana trunk sewage pipe designed collect and recycle waste water from Palestinians and Jewish communities in parts of the disputed territories</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, the PA has refused to cooperate and hasn't connected the 11 Palestinian towns in the area to this new sewage line, preferring to dump raw sewage in the ground causing totally unnecessary environmental issues in their territory.</span></span></div>
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Adam The Israel Radio Guy: Israel's Anglo Broadcasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525182139850439166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116830079730219116.post-35815425406958441182014-02-10T12:22:00.000+02:002014-02-10T12:22:12.966+02:00Obama & Kerry's Meddling in Israeli / Palestinian Situation is The Diplomatic Equivalent of Medical Malpractice and here's why....<div style="text-align: justify;">
Imagine a doctor, confronted with a patient suffering from chronic sciatica, a gun shot wound, and a serious concussion, who decided to put all his effort into treating the sciatica. I'm assuming that he would eventually lose his license to practice medicine, after correct prioritizing is the essential basis of triage! </div>
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In fact given that any Palestinian solution must involve the entire region for it to have any meaning or hope of success, Kerry's efforts are doomed to failure, where as intervention in Syria could save lives and in Egypt could steer the interim government to develop democratic institutes. A firm hand with Iran could have more positive effect on the region & Palestinians than any protracted fruitless peace talks - simply making it harder for Iran to fund and resupply Hamas and Hezbollah would achieve that.</div>
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It appears that Obama and Kerry are simply trying to look like they are doing something important, to hide their impotence to deal with the wider Mid East issues, which lets be honest, Obama's mishandling from the day he arrived in office has been a major contributing factor. Their incompetent meddling - and lets remind ourselves that if they were doctors and the Region their patient, they'd be fired by their hospital by now - is very likely to lead to a resurgence in violence, even a third intifada. Nobody in Israel or Palestinian society benefits from that, yet Kerry is pushing. Abbas knows he can't make peace now, Hamas knows this too, as does the Israeli government, so what is this about? Its about President Obama and John Kerry's reputations, nothing more and that is shameful...no - its malpractice! </div>
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Adam The Israel Radio Guy: Israel's Anglo Broadcasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525182139850439166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116830079730219116.post-40881850002882295592014-02-03T17:12:00.002+02:002014-02-04T17:11:02.880+02:00The Boycott SodaStream . Oxfam Debacle has backfired on the BDS Movement Exposing its Platform of Hypocrisy & Hatred That Hurts Palestinians Most Of All<div style="text-align: justify;">
Lets examine the facts: Sodastream is an alternative to Coke & Pepsi, and other carbonated bottled drinks, but for obvious reasons it is far more environmentally friendly - for one thing you reuse the bottles so far less plastic manufacturing takes place! In fact the Carbon footprint of Sodastream is as much as 80% better than Coke or Pepsi.<br />
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What about social action? We've all heard that Sodastream is an" Israeli settler company", so you could easily assume that its good for Israelis and bad for Palestinians...at least that's the knee jerk stupidity that Israel boycotts peddle - its what they hope the average person worldwide, not prejudiced but not well informed either, will think. What is disturbing is that organizations such as Oxfam don't seem able to see the difference between genuine campaigns for peace and dialogue in the MidEast and the Israel delegitimization BDS movement, based on a one sided hatred of Israel or worse, on antisemitism. Sodastream may be based in a Jewish settlement in Judea aka The West Bank, but it employees hundreds of Palestinians who are paid above Israel's national average. These people work alongside Jewish Israelis in good conditions, have stable employment and have spoken out against the anti Sodastream publicity. BDS would have us believe that the mere presence of Jews in Judea is an obstacle to peace - they are advocating a population removal, an ethnic cleansing of Jews from their ancestral homeland, a place where Jews had lived uninterrupted for at least 2500 years until ethnically cleansed by Jordan just 70 years ago. It is obscene to support the blatant racist policy of the Palestinian Authority "not one Jew" and yet the Boycott movement does exactly that, supported apparently by Oxfam and even the EU! </div>
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If the BDS movement had its way, the already awful unemployment in Palestinian world would be far worse, because any effort to create positive working bonds and financial interdependence between Israel & Palestinians would not be allowed. The result of their policy is poverty and anger, and that anger is inflamed by the constant incitement of the Palestinian Authority directing it at the evil Zionists. On a larger scale the Palestinian refugees have been kept trapped, stateless, without a future by the entire arab world for 70 years. By any normal moral situation these people would be citizens of the states they, and their parents have been born in, as with any other refugee population, but they are trapped in refugee camps, and in poverty, all the time being told the evil Zionists who stole their country are to blame. </div>
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The world is complicit in this crime against humanity - humanitarian groups such as Oxfam supporting BDS are inf act supporting Palestinian poverty and incitement to violence, which is perpetuating their situation. On a regional scale the UN through the UNHRW has perpetuated Palestinian refugees farce for 3 generations. Simply look at its mission as compared to the UNHCR which has handled every single other refugee crisis since WW2 and you can see why the Palestinians are still refugees. This was obvious even in 1958 as the quote shows. The Palestinians are pawns of their Arab Brothers & the anti Israel movement, their future hope traded against Arab League policy & dominance of the UN, and the willingness & prejudice of "pro" Palestinians in the BDS movement to support the cause, even though while BDS irritates Israel, it destroys Palestinian lives.</div>
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Its time this farce - this crime against humanity - ended and influential people and organizations give serious thought as to how to build Palestinian economic situation in West Bank through cooperation, and how to offer them citizenship and a future in the countries the refugees were born in. Perhaps they'll turn it down, out of Palestinian national pride, but I think the vast majority will grab it with both hands.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">September 2000, when </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Sharon" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; text-decoration: none;" title="Ariel Sharon">Ariel Sharon</a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 19.1875px;"> - then opposition leader - made a visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, Arafat used it as an excuse to start the 2nd Intifada, an orgy of terror attacks on civilians on buses, at restaurants and other public places. Israel suffered two years an almost daily version of the July 7th London</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> bombings until the much maligned security barrier and check points ended the suicide bombings. The context of the Second Intifada, which <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Suha-Arafat-admits-husband-premeditated-Intifada" style="line-height: 19.1875px;" target="_blank">Arafat's widow has admitted was pre-planned</a><span style="line-height: 19.1875px;"> after the failure of the Camp David Summit, was used by Arafat to deflect the frustration of the Palestinian street from the reality that once again their own leader's intransigence had stolen a clear opportunity for them to build an independent future for themselves - it directed their anger and frustration at Israel. The truth is that pushing the Palestinian leaders toward a two state final agreement was a disaster waiting to happen - it never took into Arafat's inability to deliver an agreement to a Palestinian people, who had had decades of intense propaganda and incitement by those same leaders telling the Palestinians that they would accept all or nothing - eventually all of Israel would be Palestine - the end of Zionism - the end of Jews on Muslim soil. What Camp David offered was basically the partition plan that the Arab world had rejected in 1947. Worse, Arafat knew that the Palestinian refugees, living across the Arab World, could not be allowed to emigrate to this new Palestinian state, as it would be unable to cope with the massive influx. These 'refugees' have been kept stateless for 70 years by the entire Arab world - with the UN complicit in this crime against humanity - as political pawns. He could never admit publicly that their mutli-generational refugee ordeal, unheard of in modern human history, would be for nothing, so he pushed Israel over a "Law of Return" he himself knew he would never want enacted not would he honor. So Arafat sabotaged the talks, and started a terror war that set peace back until today, causing death and horror on the Israeli side & untold misery and even deeper anger (directed of course to the evil Zionists) on the Palestinian side.</span></span></span><br />
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Adam The Israel Radio Guy: Israel's Anglo Broadcasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525182139850439166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116830079730219116.post-83331949920490314942013-12-16T15:24:00.000+02:002013-12-16T15:24:33.774+02:00Jesus The Palestinian<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a religious Jew, it is not often that I write about Jesus, so what has sparked this evangelical fervor in a good Jewish boy? As it is approaching Christmas i thought this was the ideal time to right about the revisionist swill being sold to the world as Palestinian history:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first 2 are closely associated with the arab communities today: <b>Nazareth </b>where he grew up is today a major Israeli-Arab city although in Jesus's time it was a small Jewish community in the Galilee where his Jewish mother Mary had grown up (Mary is actually anglicized from the Jewish name Miriam - very popular among Jews then and now as it had been the name of Moses's sister but not a common Muslim or Arab name); </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Bethlehem </b>is just 3 miles south of Jerusalem and is where Jesus was born according to the Christian bible. It is a city which hosted a strong and important Jewish community for many centuries: It was the biblical Ephrata (called Bethlehem Ephrata in the book of Micha) where Jacob buried his beloved wife Rachel, it was the home of Jesse, father of David as well as the prophet Samuel. The Jews were ethnically cleansed from Bethlehem after the Bar Kochba revolution. Incidentally, Bethlehem was for many centuries a majority Christian Arab city until a Muslim Palestinian influx during mandate times, and later the Palestinian Authority has made life there very uncomfortable for Christians who are leaving in large numbers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Jerusalem</b>, the 3rd city associated with Jesus, was the home of <b>The Jewish Temple</b> which stood many centuries before Islam was created </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">until it was destroyed by the Romans after Jesus's death, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on the spot where today stands the Al Aqsa Mosque. The entire city was devoted to serving the Temple, and the ancient parts of this city still show many signs from that period, including the Western Wall, the only remaining structure from the Temple itself, and the Holiest Jewish site in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We don't need to be biblical scholars to see from this that the land Jesus walked through was a Jewish land, even with its Roman overlords at that time, and the looming exile of the Jews that would occur a few decades later. If Jesus was a Palestinian, then the true Palestinians & real the indigenous people of Israel - were and are the Jewish people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Palestinians crudely and blatantly <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=495" target="_blank">invent a Palestinian history</a> that distorts and insults Christian & Jewish belief, as they are basically saying our bible lies - this would cause riots if it was said about the Koran! What this kind of revisionist propaganda actually reveals, is the Palestinians sparsity of connection with this land as opposed to the deep and obvious 3000 year Jewish history in Israel.</span></div>
Adam The Israel Radio Guy: Israel's Anglo Broadcasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525182139850439166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116830079730219116.post-47651250784259287472013-11-13T13:05:00.003+02:002013-11-13T13:05:31.453+02:00Why Does Israel call Obama's Offer to Iran a "Bad Deal"<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The purpose of the world imposing crippling sanctions against Iran since 2006 has been very clear indeed - to end the Ayatollah's regime's efforts to develop nuclear weapons & long range delivery missiles:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These sanctions have finally worked - they have brought Iran very reluctantly to the negotiating table and there has never been any question what Iran would have do to see the sanctions lifted - cease Uranium enrichment, and R &D into long range ICBM's. The Iranians more new and more pragmatic president knows that Iran needs to be able to export its oil freely, and to re-enter the world economy before the pressure on the state causes it to crack. So why has the West, led by President Obama and John Kerry, proposed a deal <b>that would not involve</b> dismantling the 18000 centrifuges in Iran, nor access to the Military bases where ICBMs are stationed, it will not stop their enrichment to weapon grade Uranium .. its a BAD DEAL declares Israel's Prime Minister & Frances president - worse, its allowing the success of sanctions to be turned into a failure - an appeasement of a scale we have not seen since Chamberlain returned from meeting with Hitler declaring "peace in our time" on the eve of World War two.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lets remember a few truths - nobody needs weapons grade uranium except for weapons of mass destruction; Iran has no need for its growing arsenal of ICBMs in order to threaten Israel as it has missiles capable of reaching Tel Aviv - the only reason it would want ICBM's would be to threaten or attack further afield: Europe & The US. Put those two capabilities together & this bad deal will leave the entire world within reach of the ayatollahs & their Jihadist terror supporting regime - Iran's terror network includes Hamas and Hezbollah, it has been implicit in terror events worldwide - this is the state Obama is appeasing - it isn't just the Israeli people he is failing, it is the people of American as well. It's a bad deal - any moron can see that! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Adam The Israel Radio Guy: Israel's Anglo Broadcasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525182139850439166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116830079730219116.post-13739359117311294422013-11-11T10:26:00.000+02:002013-11-11T11:12:15.151+02:00Israel's Prime Minister Makes it Clear why The Palestinians Must Recognize Israel as The Jewish State.<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Love him or hate him, nobody can deny that in English and Hebrew, Bibi Netanyahu is one of the great orators amongst world leaders. Last night I had the privilege of hearing him deliver a major speech - in English - to the General Assembly of Jewish Federations of N.America here in Jerusalem. During the speech, Bibi explained his very clear, logical reasons why recognition of Israel, not just as a state, but as a "Jewish State" must be part of any peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There is no question that Israel will recognize a future Palestine not just as a country in its own right, but as "The Palestinian state" - that is not to say that other faiths / peoples could not reside there, or even be citizens, but the culture and philosophy of the state would be enshrined within internationally agreed borders as Palestinian. The same, said Israel's Prime Minister, must be demanded of the Palestinians toward Israel. Why? Because they may recognize that a state called Israel currently exists east of the Mediterranean, but that recognition does not preclude a "one state solution" - ie Israel becomes majority Muslim Arab. They try very hard to twist and turn but never acknowledge the Jewishness of Israel - Palestinian Authority education curriculum still talks about Palestine extending from the River to the Sea even as they sit with Israel to negotiate the borders of a potential state, and it is clear from the rhetoric on the Palestinian Authority controlled media, that any agreement with Israel, no matter how "final" the talks appear to be, is merely a stepping stone toward the goal of greater Palestine that included Haifa, Jaffa, Eilat, etc. Recognition that Israel is not only a state, but a 'Jewish state', is clear recognition that whatever border are agreed for this new Palestinian state, they will be final. Two states for two people and not - in Bibi's words - "One state for one people (Palestine) and one state for two people (Israel). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There are haters of Israel will read this and say "see Zionism is racism" but lets be clear what the Palestinians want - a Jew free Palestine - it is their stated policy. They will not be offering a home to any Jews who wish to remain in Judea / Samaria as Palestinian citizens as Israel did for those arabs that resisted their leaders call to leave Israel in 1948. Indeed it is Palestinian policy that makes it illegal for an arab to sell his land to a Jew - the punishment? Death. That is racism. They want a Palestinian state for the Palestinians only. Israel is a Jewish state, but 20% of Israelis are arab, Israel has two official languages - Hebrew & Arabic and arabs are active in every aspect of Israeli society, from heading major army units, to sitting on the supreme court; running hospitals to entering parliament. Zionism is not racism - it is focused on building the Jewish state - it is PRO JEWISH, but not anti anyone. The same can not be said for Palestinian nationalism and it is long beyond time that the "Zionism is racism" mob, learn where the racism can be found.</span></span></div>
Adam The Israel Radio Guy: Israel's Anglo Broadcasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525182139850439166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116830079730219116.post-23451139461495909712013-08-05T10:26:00.001+03:002013-08-05T10:26:33.475+03:00Iran - A Self Destructive Extreme Ideology That Destabilizes The Arab World, Threatens Israel<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Iran is in a terrible economic position - </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">According to the Washington Post, it is suffering from plunging hard-currency reserves, steadily dropping oil exports and inflation at 45% and growing. This disaster is entirely self inflicted, and they know it... and yet, they are not likely to change course - the reason? Blind unbending Islamic ideology - The Iranian people, repressed and powerless, are the ones suffering - All this is due to its own ideological stance - after all, lets be honest - Iran is building nuclear weapons to defend itself from the threat of what? Invasion by Israel? Being nuked by Israel? It was never going to happen...until Iran worked hard to make itself Israel's number one enemy - In fact Iran doesn't share a border with Israel, and were it not for its very real threats, underpinned by an immovable Islamist (and deeply antisemitic) ideology </span><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-02/ayatollah-takes-to-twitter-whiny-anti-semitic-paranoia-ensues.html" style="line-height: 20px;" target="_blank">(great example can be seen in the Supreme Ayatollah's new twitter account)</a><span style="line-height: 20px;"> as well as a foreign policy goal of gaining power & influence in the neighboring Arab world through the hearts and minds of the Arab street, Iran would not feature on Israel's radar screen. Iran has clearly set a goal to make itself Israel's problem, and has succeeded to make itself a very real threat to Israel which has resulted in many Israeli lives being lost already: How? It built a proxy terror structure with Hamas in Gaza & Hezbollah threatening Israel's north & south (and destabilizing both Egypt's Sinai region & all of Lebanon as well as involving itself in the Syrian civil war) and then launched itself on a nuclear program, with very clear intentions of developing weapons grade nuclear fuel. This direct interference in the Arab / Israel conflict (which otherwise would be an irrelevancy to the Iranian people) has caused Iran to be a pariah state for the west, its economy in ruins, its people suffering genuine & totally unnecessary hardship.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">The possibility of a Israel & the Palestinians coming to a negotiated settlement has been made far more difficult by Iran's interference, without which it is unlikely Hamas would have had the ability to take over Gaza or wage its terror war with Israel. In any negotiated settlement, whilst the subject of borders might be the most technically difficult, the issue of Israel's security is the most vital for the Israeli side - Iran's on-going interference & desire to prolong the conflict between Israel & the Palestinians,<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lY6rgDmuUI&feature=share&list=UUz9Y0s5rp3RMQ4zBI0QD89w" target="_blank"> playing on Jewish hatred endemic in the arab world</a> in order to use Israel as its scapegoat for its propaganda war for the arab mind, make it difficult for the PLO to offer Israel any security guarantees. Indeed if the two sides do appear close to an agreement, it is a distinct possibility that Iran will order Hezbollah and Hamas (which is keen to make amends with Iran after distancing themselves during the Morsi era) to attack Israel - expect rockets, border fire & attempted kidnappings. If Israel once again has to subdue Gaza or enter Lebanon, it will be very hard for Abbas's Fatah to be able to sit at the table with Israel. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">All this is so unnecessary - all it would take would be for Iran to place its economy over its fanatical Islamist ideology - and it would rapidly see its economy go from bust to boom, from extreme contraction to growth - after all a western world, barely emerging from a near depression economic downturn, will delighted to have oil supplies increase & the price per barrel plunge. The Iranian people would enjoy the benefit of a growing economy, with all that brings, however, for Iran this would mean doing business with Satan himself and ignoring the <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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tiny corner of Middle East real estate where Jews and not Muslims are the majority. It wont do that - its ideology of hating all that the west stands for and loathing everything Jews touch with a medieval passion overrides any practical concern. Let the people suffer - this is jihad & they will be rewarded! Shia Islam believes that every Muslim's obligation is to distance themselves from the enemies of Allah and the infallible Ayatollahs of Iran have declared those enemies to be the US & it's allies, especially the "Zionists" - and lets be clear, by "Zionist" they mean Jews & everything Jews touch - for example, the mere fact that the future king of England's mother-in-law had a Jewish sounding maiden name is enough for <a href="http://eaworldview.com/2013/06/iran-news-shocker-british-royal-family-are-jewish/" target="_blank">Iranian state media to declare Jewish take over of the House of Windsor </a>- although we aren't told why, if true (and it isn't!), this would be bad!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Meanwhile Iran has found a receptive western ear for its hatred of The Great Satan (USA) and The Little Satan (Zionism / Israel / The Jews) in the liberal world. yes - the two disagree on everything - womens issues, democracy, gay rights, religious freedom, etc etc... but "US bad / Israel evil" is enough of a mutual hatred to bring these fools to support the Muslim fanatics (who still hate everything these liberals stand for!). If Iran says Israel is a white supremacist apartheid state on its Press TV propaganda channel (which would have made Goebbels proud!), these fools - based on their own illogical & hypocritical inclination to believe the very worst of the fairly liberal Jewish State - swallow it without thought and will re-tweet without a moment's critical analysis. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">All to often, the enemies of Israel both Arab & Western, accuse Israel of the very crimes that abound in the Arab & wider Muslim world - they see "Zionist" hands in the Syrian civil war, in Egyptian woes, in Lebanese instability...well perhaps they should get their heads out of their bigoted backsides and see who it is who truly is interfering in these places because people are suffering in their millions. </span></span></div>
Adam The Israel Radio Guy: Israel's Anglo Broadcasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525182139850439166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116830079730219116.post-34341413708205467092013-08-04T13:01:00.004+03:002013-08-04T13:01:30.045+03:00Bleak Future for the Palestinian 'Refugees' - Pawns & Victims of Arab World<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For over two years I have repeatedly blogged, tweeted and published articles about the plight of the so called 'Palestinian refugees' - I have said over and over that they have been used since 1948 as pawns by the Arab world - as a weapon against Israel. It should be obvious to all that despite the PLO's often repeated mantra of "law of return" for these refugees, no Palestinian state would have the resources to allow these 5,000,000 stateless pawns to live in Palestine. This has been a reason that the Palestinians for many years have been avoiding negotiations. However Obama & Kerry have dragged the PLO to the table, supported by Israel's impossible to ignore gesture of releasing Palestinian terrorist prisoners. So now it is time to admit what the PLO has always known - if these talks are successful the Palestinian refugees will not have a share in the new state:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Palestinian ambassador to Lebanon Abdullah Abdullah admitted as much in a media interview in 2011 about Palestine’s bid for U.N. statehood at that time. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This high ranking Palestinian official unequivocally stated that Palestinian refugees would not become citizens of any Palestinian state, an issue that has been much discussed. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Abdullah said that the new Palestinian state would <i>“absolutely not”</i> be issuing Palestinian passports to refugees.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A brief overview of the history of these refugees, shows how they have been treated treated like no other refugees in modern history creating the human tragedy that exists today - In brief if you were made a refugee from Pakistan, Rwanda, or an Icelandic act of nature, you would be helped by UNHRC, who's website states their mission:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While it must always be better in a conflict if parties are talking, I am doubtful that anything useful can come from the current negotiations - especially in the current climate in the Arab & wider Islamic world. However, I will say for certain that if the Arab states are not part of a solution for the refugees, regardless of the outcome of the talks between Israel & the PLO, their suffering will continue. if it does, no amount of agreements on the ground in Israel will have the dramatic impact on the Middle East that President Obama is hoping for - his Sec. of State John Kerry urgently needs to bring the non Iranian aligned states in the region to the table as well.</span></div>
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Adam The Israel Radio Guy: Israel's Anglo Broadcasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525182139850439166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116830079730219116.post-82421186235515879602013-07-28T14:08:00.000+03:002013-08-04T17:24:46.549+03:00The EU Sanctions Against Israel - How to Lose influence & Credibility<div style="text-align: justify;">
On the week that Israel has agreed to release hundreds of Palestinian terrorists from its prisons - people with much Jewish blood on their hands - as a one sided gesture, merely to bribe the Palestinians to come to the table for talks that benefit Palestinians more than Israelis (and which are almost certain to be doomed to failure), the EU seems to think that now is the time when Israel needs pressuring and that this is the time for economic sanctions. Did the great and wise heads of the EU ever wonder why, if the Palestinians want a state so badly, if they long for freedom and for Israel to withdraw to the 1949 armistice line (which is what is meant by pre-67 borders), if they waste a great deal of time and energy going to the UN to get some kind of meaningless demi / semi statehood in order to pressure Israel...if they are that keen for this to work, why do the need to be bribed to come to the table, and <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Abbas-fails-to-win-PLO-Fatah-backing-for-resuming-peace-talks-320301" target="_blank">even then very reluctantly</a>?</div>
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In any case, the EU has issued its sanctions and the immediate result is...the Palestinians are being hurt - not the healthy growing Israeli economy, which makes the collapsing European Union look like economic morons - but the Palestinian people, where the EU is engaged in a multitude of projects, that without Israel's support, cannot continue. Well guess what - a thoroughly and justifiably pissed off Israel is disinclined to continue that support <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/26/us-palestinians-israel-eu-idUSBRE96P0P320130726" target="_blank">making the EU's humanitarian efforts almost impossible</a>. It is normative practice before any state issues sanctions, to consider the imopact, not only on the target of the punishment, but other effects such as minority impacts and economic damage to the enacter of the sanctions. it is clear the EU did not consider these issues at all.</div>
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Further more, a European Union, desperate for sources of energy, has just placed sanctions on the only democracy in the Middle East - a state that has recently become a major oil & gas producer - potentially the 1/3 largest in the Middle East according to some estimates - with the ability to find customers anywhere it wants, but an inclination to sell to Cyprus, Greece, Italy & Spain...all EU members with collapsed economies. More than likely, their contract negotiations for that non Arab supply of Mid East oil & gas is not with Israel, the willing exporter, but a sullen and angry Israel.</div>
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Moreover, morally, for the EU to look at the complex, volatile situation in this region and believe that the place it should direct punishment - for that is what sanctions amount to - exclusively against Israel, is absurd and impossible to fathom. Every Mid East state enacts racist anti Palestinian laws; 100,000s dead in Syria, Lebanon a fractured racist society virtually run by terrorists; Egypt shooting protesters in large numbers as democracy fails there after just a few months; Saudi Arabia which has laws suppressing women's rights that England was ahead of 150 years ago.... I could go on...but from this violent, racist, oppressive region, with 330,000,000 people living without rights, it has chosen Israel - the only free country in this region - for sanctions - please someone explain how there is an iota of justification for this move or any possibility for this to forward the cause of the Palestinians.</div>
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Adam The Israel Radio Guy: Israel's Anglo Broadcasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525182139850439166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116830079730219116.post-73742012462520409022013-07-22T16:07:00.002+03:002013-07-22T16:07:29.197+03:00Pushing The Palestinians to Violence<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the risk of repeating the point I made in my last blog (which now seems almost prophetic!) President Obama & his sidekick John Kerry are pushing very hard to bring Israel & the Palestinians to the table. The only outcome I can see from this is bloodshed - particularly Israeli civilian bloodshed - the fact that Obama does not recognize this danger is simply a continuation of his astounding failure over past 5 years to understand the Arab & Islamic world - this failing has caused chaos in the Middle East.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Palestinian Authority have excellent reasons for not wanting to negotiate at this time - indeed they really cannot go forward in good faith, knowing full well they do not carry the Palestinian people with them and that they are unable to make any guarantees that Israel needs. The Palestinian people are split between the PLO / Fatah Palestinian Authority and Iranian backed Islamists such as Hamas who will never accept any agreement that leaves Jews in Israel; The Arab world is in turmoil, and therefore no regional agreement can be produced, which is vital for any agreement to hold and for a Palestinian state to succeed (its failure would be a disaster for Israel as well as the Palestinians); there are powerful elements in the Arab & wider Islamic world that have no interest in seeing an end to the Israeli / Palestinian conflict, most obviously Iran. Lets not ignore the all pervasive antisemitism that affects Arab thinking - it is an almost medieval hatred <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lY6rgDmuUI" target="_blank">as Prof Robert Wistrich explained to me in this interview</a> a couple of years ago, that reaches incredible levels within the palestinian world, thanks to the <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/pa-tv-airs-young-girls-calling-jews-barbaric-monkeys-wretched-pigs/" target="_blank">institutional incitement </a>every Palestinian is taught from birth. I've mentioned the Palestinian refugees in several posts - millions of people maintained as stateless generational refugees in countries they, their parents and grandparents were born in - the minute a Palestinian state is declared, we can expect the majority of these refugees to ethnically cleansed - oh, it'll be called "right of return" but it will be the sending of millions of people to a tiny poor newly founded state in a land they have no familiarity with. It will crush Palestine, and both Fatah & Hamas know this...they just can't say it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So at a time when the Mid East is in turmoil, when the Palestinians are deeply divided and their leaders are suffering unprecedented unpopularity and when external influences have a vested interest in the Israeli conflict continuing, how can President Obama consider it appropriate to place the Palestinians under this pressure to negotiate with Israel ? It is doomed from the start and that means people - mostly Israelis & primarily women and children - will die - There are times to push and times to back off - Mr Obama...Mr. Kerry BACK OFF BEFORE MORE MIDDLE EAST RESIDENTS ARE HURT! </span></div>
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As I've written previously , the Palestinians are unable and unwilling to enter into final status talks - unable because they are split between Hamas in Gaza and Fatah controlled Palestinian Authority. Worse, the Abbas led PA is deeply unpopular and seen as a "Zionist tool" by much of the Palestinian street, therefore rendering any agreement unpalatable to the Palestinian people & an anathema to Hamas. Worse, the many years of incitement in Palestinian society, which starts when their children are very small, has led to a people who truly believe that a Palestinian state will include Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Ramallah. Then there is the issue of the so called Palestinian refugees - 65 years of being kept in slum camps, with no rights by their Arab brothers, they will almost certainly be "repatriated" to the new & very poor state of Palestine, crushing it before it even gets established. Abbas knows this, and knows he can't accept these refugees, nor can he (or any Palestinian leader) ever say this to the Palestinians, who have been brought up on the mantra of "right of return" for 65 years.</div>
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We've seen in the past that when the Palestinian Authority has seen no way to walk from talks, it turns to violence, making the situation worse. If Kerry pushes them this time, we can expect to see images of blown up buses and bombed cafe's again - the Palestinians will resort to violence to stop this impossible agreement ever being negotiated - certainly Hamas & other Islamist will resort to violence forcing Israel to defend itself, creating the pretext for Abbas to walk away. Nothing achieved but dead and maimed Israelis, and ordinary Palestinians suffering from increased security measures by the IDF.</div>
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Add to that the question as to whether anyone seriously looking at the Middle East, with rampant Islamist clashing with autocratic regimes, and chaos surrounding all of Israel's borders, believe that Israel can trust the Palestinians & other Arab states to be able to honor an agreement? After all any Palestinian state will occupy the high ground above Israel's center, a military nightmare for the IDF, and yet the Palestinian Authority cannot even guarantee it won't become a Hamas organization within a year! The what? Certainly a situation far far worse for both sides than that which exists today. The states that neighbor Israel are in position to offer anyone security guarantees - even Jordan, the most stable state in the area, could easily succumb to 'arab spring' violence at any moment. </div>
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I'm not saying there shouldn't be talks or that the potential for agreement does not exist - but this is not the time: Iran & their Islamists have caused chaos across the Mid East, hijacking the Arab Spring with the potential to drag Lebanon & Jordan into the hell of Syria's civil war; diminished power of Arab oil (along with Israel's newly discovered oil & gas) has started a process of changing attitude to Israel from the Gulf States - a process that could eventually produce regional allies to support a peace agreement..but not yet; a deeply; and a violently divided Palestinian state in no way ready for statehood - the only the Kerry can achieve here is instability and violence. A regional solution is needed, with regional guarantees & regional involvement in any negotiations, to deal with the issue of the refugees, security, etc...only a fool could believe that in the midst of the current chaos, such an agreement can be reached at this time.</div>
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