Doc's Talk: Steve Shamrak's Suggestions

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Steve Shamrak's Suggestions

Friend or Puppet-master.

by David Samuels

...The billions of dollars in American military credits that Israel enjoys ( and about which it is continuously reminded by both 'friends' and enemies) - a vast corporate welfare program that benefits Pentagon defence contractors as much as it benefits Israel's military. (In addition it provides constant flow of cash from oil-rich customers and other players in the Middle East to the bank accounts of American military industry. After all, 'the balance of power' is so important for the United States!) .Israel's rise to becoming a regional superpower was accomplished without any significant help from the United States. Israel's surreptitious program to build nuclear weapons was (allegedly) accomplished with the aid of the British and the French, who joined with Israel (actually solicited Israel) to seize the Suez Canal from Egypt's rabble-rousing President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and who were then forced to give it back by Dwight D. Eisenhower (including the Sinai) . The Israeli air force pilots who destroyed the Egyptian, Syrian, and Jordanian air forces on the ground flew French-made Mystère jets - not American-made F-4 Phantoms. The U.S. Congress did not appropriate a single penny to help Israel accommodate an overwhelming influx of Holocaust survivors and poor Jewish refugees from Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, and other Arab countries until 1973 - 25 years after the founding of the state. (over 850,000 Jews fled Muslim countries!)

...(later) Israel traded its freedom to engage in high-risk, high-payoff exploits like the Suez Canal adventure or the Six Day War for the comfort of a military and diplomatic guarantee from the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the world. As a regional American client, Israel would draw on the military and diplomatic power of its distant patron in exchange for allowing America to use its control over Israel as leverage with neighboring Arab states. With each American-brokered peace treaty - from Camp David to the Madrid Conference to Oslo and Annapolis - the United States has been able to hold up its leverage over Israel as both a carrot and a stick to the Arab world. "Do what we want, and we will force the Israelis to behave"... (Therefore, by controlling Israel the United States gained enormous political and economical advantage in dealing with oil producing Arabs!)

Legal System is being used to Paralyse pro-Israel Lobby. The Justice Department is considering dropping its case against two former pro-Israel lobbyists accused of illegally disclosing national defense secrets. Trial has been postponed at least nine times. The charges against Rosen and Weissman fall under the 1917 Espionage Act, a rarely used WorldWar1 era law that never before has been applied to lobbyists. ( After putting the pro-Israel lobby, AIPAC, on the defensive, the Bush administration was able to push through the Annapolis Accord - and the idiocy of a two-state solution!)

Food for Thought. by Steven Shamrak

They the demand creation of a new state for so-called Palestinians only, and the removal of 250,000 Jews from Judea and Samaria without recognition of Israel as the Jewish state. The next step is obvious: Israel must end the fake peace process, which is being imposed on Jews by anti-Semitic international hypocrisy, and remove the enemy population from Jewish land. Any other country would have done it a long time ago.

Another Ambush for Israel. President Barack Obama has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to meet him at the White House. (After a show of unwillingness to see Israel's Prime Minister during his planned visit to the United States, which he had to cancel, President Obama is setting up a trap for Netanyahu in order to pressure Israel to accept the stupidity of a two-state solution. I wonder when are they going to look at the Sinai Option: Road to Permanent Peace?)

Thriving 'Palestinian' Culture. Juliano Mer-Khemis, founder and director of a Jenin theater, was accused of immorality and corruption in one flyer distributed in an area mosque. PA Muslim extremists have escalated their threats against other cultural activities: the al-Kamanjati music center and Jenin's teen orchestra were targeted with violence as well.

Is Netanyahu Another False Hope? Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu denies that he ever demanded that the Palestinian Authority accept Israel as a Jewish State before he agrees to launch negotiations with it. Following Netanyahu's meeting with U.S. Envoy George Mitchell a senior official in Netanyahu's office quoted the Prime Minister as telling Mitchell, "Israel expects the Palestinians to first recognize Israel as a Jewish state before talking about two states for two peoples." (Some analysts have described Netanyahu as a gutless politician who crumbles under pressure. After all it is he gave up Hebron and allowed perpetuation of the Oslo war. I hope they are wrong this time!)

Non-recognition is Provocation! Nabil abu-Rudeinah, spokesman for PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas called Netanyahu's words a provocation and rejected the demand made earlier by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that the PA recognize a Jewish State of Israel as a precondition for continuing negotiations with Israel. ( For 16 years, since the Oslo agreement, every subsequent agreement has called for the recognition of Israel. Why must Israel negotiate with an enemy who just wants destroy the only Jewish state?)

Perpetuation of Terror is Profitable for US. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak is hoping to buy a U.S. missile defense system to protect communities in southern Israel against short-range rockets and mortar fire from Gaza. During Israel's recent military offensive into the Gaza Strip, Palestinians there fired rockets more than 28 miles into Israel. They continue to lob mortar shells across the border. (Removal of the terror-infested cancer from Jewish lands - Judea, Samaria and Gaza - would make life in Israel safer and cheaper!)

New Approach Needed. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told United State Middle East envoy George Mitchell that a new approach is needed between Israel and the Arabs, considering that wide-ranging concessions offered to the Arabs in the past resulted in wars.

Quote of the Week:

"In the case of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we believe that the two-state solution, two states living side by side in peace, is the best and the only way to resolve this conflict." - The US envoy George Mitchell - By now, the US is notorious for its false 'belief' policies: War in Iraq was justified by falsified claims of nuclear and chemical weapon programs and a delusional belief in the possibility of building a democracy in an Arab state; the Taliban is still strong in Afghanistan and Pakistan; North Korea has renewed its nuclear program; Iran has never stopped its and Pakistan has the A-bomb for a while! Must Israel sacrifice Jewish lives to deliberate delusions, if not anti-Semitic, beliefs ?

Under the Smoke of War. During Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip, Hamas security forces or masked gunmen believed to be with Hamas extra-judicially executed 18 Palestinians, mainly those accused of collaborating with Israel, and beat and maimed dozens of political rivals, especially members and supporters of Fatah. Palestinian human rights groups have reported 14 more killings between January 18 and March 31. ( Crimes were committed by Hamas during Israel's recent offensive against terrorists in Gaza. There are no calls to bring Haneya to the International Criminal Court for Justice!)

Anti-Semitism: Catalyst of the International Hypocrisy.

Only nine countries (Israel, the United States, Germany, Australia, Canada, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, and Poland) boycotted the UN Conference on Racism in Geneva. Twenty-three nations of the European Union made a farcical show and walked out during the conference to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's attack on Israel. Only the Czech Republic has left the conference for good. Over 100 countries approved an anti-racism declaration at the Durban II UN racism conference in Geneva last Tuesday. The text reaffirmed, although did not refer to Israel by name, the 2001 Durban I declaration, which singled out Israel as racist.

Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Malichi spoked at the Durban II U.N. anti-Semitic conference in Geneva, a day after Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and said that "the Israeli occupation is the ugly face of racism" ( He did not say that the PA is a genocidal entity created and aimed on the destruction of Israel. No one remembers that after the Oslo agreement, Israel allowed the PA to self-govern in Judea and Samaria, and left Gaza a few years ago, after the forcible deportation of 8,500 Jews. What are the achievements of the PA so far: evolution from stone-throwing to Katyusha rockets? Fatahstan and Hamastan have become murderous and economically/politically dysfunctional wastelands!)

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The IDF’s Minorities in Numbers and Pictures

In honor of IDF Diversity Week, we present diversity through numbers and pictures. Each year, more and more Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouin and immigrants from around the world take on the responsibility of defending Israel.

MUSLIMS:

Muslim Arab Israelis are not required to draft in the IDF, but there are many who volunteer. In 2013, there were over 200 Muslims serving in the IDF and over 300 in the reserves.

Bedouins:

Bedouins are nomadic Muslims who were in Israel when modern borders were set in place and are now considered Israeli citizens. They are not required to draft but a growing number choose to enlist. In 2012, there were over 1,400 Bedouin Muslim soldiers doing regular IDF service and almost 1,500 in the reserves.

Read more:http://www.idfblog.com/2014/02/27/truth-idf-numbers-pictures/#more-34027

Are you aware that in 2013, Middle class taxes go up-significantly?

In January of next year, the federal income tax rate for middle-class taxpayers is scheduled to rise from 25 percent to 28 percent, and the payroll tax is scheduled to rise from 13.3 percent to 15.3 percent… This drives the marginal tax rate based on the aforementioned three taxes to 48.12 percent. Add in state and local property, corporate, excise, and other state and local taxes, and the percentage of each additional dollar that is taxed hovers around 50 percent… When half of each additional dollar earned is taxed away, taxpayers experience a disincentive to start businesses or expand existing ones. This leads to fewer jobs being created.

Why is HAMAS Inside Tampa Schools?

Clare Lopez

Kelly Miliziano, who teaches history classes at Steinbrenner High School in the Tampa, Florida area apparently thinks it’s perfectly OK to invite a senior official of a HAMAS-affiliated organization into her classroom to discuss Islam with her students. According to local media reports, not only has this been going on for years, but in spite of the civil and criminal proceedings that could result from such reckless negligence, the Hillsborough County school superintendent, Mary Ellen Elia, and the chairman of the school board, Candy Olson, also expressed approval for students under their responsibility to be exposed repeatedly to guest speaker, Hassan Shibly, who is the Executive Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the Tampa area.
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Did You Know... Ignoring the Call to Islam will Bring Jihad

‘Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa.’
-- Yousef al-Qaradawi , Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader The Arabic word ‘Da’wa’ means the “call to Islam.” But do not think that Da’wa is the same thing as an invitation to an optional holiday event. The classical Islamic doctrine of jihad mandates that enemies must be given the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax before it is permissible to attack them.
Clare M. Lopez

Who is being discriminated-facts tell the truth

Religious bias

Hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted for 1,409 offenses reported by law enforcement. A breakdown of the bias motivation of religious-bias offenses showed:

65.4 percent were anti-Jewish.
13.2 percent were anti-Islamic.
9.5 percent were anti-other religion, i.e., those not specified.
4.3 percent were anti-Catholic.
3.8 percent were anti-multiple religions, group.
3.3 percent were anti-Protestant.
0.5 percent were anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2010/narratives/hate-crime-2010-incidents-and-offenses.

On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview

with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a PLO executive, said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism."

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

The Arab Apartheid

Ben-Dror Yemini
In 1948, the Arab countries refused to accept the UN partition proposal and they launched a war of annihilation against the State of Israel which had barely been established. All precedents in this matter showed that the party that starts the war - and with a declaration of annihilation, yet - pays a price for it. Between 550,000 and 710,000 Arabs fled because of the war and a larger number of 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries (the "Jewish nakba").
Population exchanges and expulsions were the norm at that time, occurring in dozens of other conflict points and affecting about 52 million people. In all the population exchange precedents that occurred during or at the end of an armed conflict, there was no return of refugees to the previous region, which had turned into a new national state.
Only the Arab states acted completely differently from the rest of the world. Instead of assimilating the refugees, they crushed them despite the fact that they were their coreligionists and members of the Arab nation - instituting a regime of apartheid. So the "nakba" was not caused by the actual dispossession, which had also been experienced by tens of millions of others. The "nakba" is the story of the apartheid, oppression, abuse and denial of rights suffered by the Arab refugees at the hands of the Arab countries. (Maariv)

International Law and Military Operations in Practice - Col. Richard Kemp

"Islamist fighting groups study the international laws of armed conflict carefully and they understand it well. They know that a British or Israeli commander and his men are bound by international law and the rules of engagement that flow from it. They then do their utmost to exploit what they view as one of their enemy's main weaknesses. Their very modus operandi is built on the correct assumption that Western armies will normally abide by the rules, while these insurgents employ a deliberate policy of operating consistently outside international law. "

Lost Historical Moments

What Rabin’s last Knesset speech really said:repudiation of a Palestinian state

Rabin ruled out a fully sovereign Palestinian state :

“We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.”

Rabin ruled out a total withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and thus a return to the pre-June 1967 borders :

“The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”

Rabin ruled out withdrawing form the Jordan Valley:

“The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”

Rabin ruled out uprooting settlement blocs, like the Gush Katif bloc in Gaza (which was subsequently uprooted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon):

“The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.

AND

Rabin ruled out removing any settlement before coming to a full peace agreement with the Palestinians:

“I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”

Rabin insisted on Israel retaining full security control of the borders with Egypt and Jordan, contrary to Israel’s relinquishment of the Philadelphia Corridor on the border with Egypt:

“The responsibility for external security along the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as control over the airspace above all of the territories and Gaza Strip maritime zone, remains in our hands.”

Correcting Oslo Myths-Part 2

3) Kuttab laments that the post-1993 Oslo process resulted in a Palestinian Authority "whose ministers and legislators are not guaranteed passage between Gaza and the West Bank ...."

Before free passage or other perquisites, PA leaders were obligated, among other things, to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, end anti-Israeli, antisemitic incitement in schools, mosques, and communications media, and resolve all outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations. They met none of these commitments, sometimes bolstering terrorism and greatly increasing incitement.

4) Kuttab complains that under Oslo the PA got "lightly armed police ---- but no real sovereignty over the land or contiguity between our communities in Gaza and the West Bank."

Oslo agreements repeatedly were revised, regardless of Palestinian non-compliance, until the authorized number of police grew from 8,000 to 40,000. Though they were to be the only armed forces in the territories, Israeli estimates early in the second intifada put the number of gunmen - police, "security services," terrorists, and armed gangs - at 85,000. Their armament reportedly included not only heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but also anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Sovereignty was to be negotiated in the envisioned 1998 "final status" talks - after a five-year period of confidence-building. Palestinian leadership chronically undermined the process. Palestinian terrorism made the 1993 - 1998 Oslo period more deadly for Israelis than the 15 years preceding it.

The United States doesn't have contiguity between the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii; territorial contiguity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip - that is, through the 20 miles of Israeli territory between them - was never promised and would destroy Israeli contiguity.

5) "Palestinians have been made to endure hundreds of checkpoints in the West Bank, an eight-foot wall deep in our territories, and tight Israeli control over borders."

The security barrier is not "deep in Palestinian territories," but rather encompasses less than 8 percent of Judea and Samaria, and is mostly a fence, rarely a wall; the land in question is not "our [Palestinian] territories" but disputed territory to which, according to the authors of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, Jews as well as Arabs have claims; and there are no international borders, only the 1949 armistice lines with Jordan. Under 242, borders remain to be negotiated. As for checkpoints - like the security barrier and "tight Israeli control" - Palestinian Arabs precipitated these measures themselves. No terrorism and there would be no fence or tight Israeli control and few checkpoints - like before the first intifada.

Correcting Some Oslo Myths

1) In Oslo "Israeli, Palestinian and other world leaders promised that ... Palestinian sovereignty would be solidified."

No, they didn't. The 1993 Declaration of Principles and subsequent Oslo agreements outlined a process by which final status negotiations about the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be reached. The process required an end to anti-Israel terrorism and incitement and a commitment to peaceful negotiations. The PA, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other terrorist groups, sabotaged the process from the start.

2) "The reality is that, in defiance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which states that it is inadmissible to occupy land by force, Palestinian territories are still under foreign military occupation."
Wrong again. Resolution 242 (1967) does note "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." It also affirms the right of every state in the area "to live in peace with secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." There were no "Palestinian territories." Jordan occupied the West Bank, Egypt controlled Gaza. Israel did not have "secure and recognized boundaries," so retention of some of those territories was possible under 242. Israel is not a "foreign" military occupier in the West Bank but, pending final negotiations, the lawful military administrator as a result of a successful war of self-defense.

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