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What is and what isn’t; what to do and what not to do?

Nurit Greenger

July 19, 2009

The beliefs held by much of the world regarding the on going war between the Arabs-‘Palestinian’ and Israel differ sharply from what we should and can expect. Simplifying matters and putting into perspective may drive the message home faster.
Arabs-‘Palestinian’ Media Bias: The Arabs-‘Palestinian’ media deals with propaganda only. The Arabs-‘Palestinian’ newspapers never print anything but propaganda. The only place an Arab Muslim, like Khaled Abu Toameh, an Israeli citizen-Arab-Muslim and a prominent journalist, can write honestly is in a Jewish newspaper; other Arab journalists envy Toameh’s journalistic freedom none of the Arabs countries or Hamas and Fatah allow them to have.

Peace Process: This so-called "peace process," begun in 1993 with the Oslo Accords; it has been nothing but a tragic failure of events and even today, with all the rhetoric of the Arab-‘Palestinian’ supporters who deliberately ignore the truth and the facts on the ground in favor of the Arabs-‘Palestinian’, it holds little promise of success. The Antonym for peace is war. For the past 16 years, the ‘peace process’ has brought war, homicide bombing, and terror—and plenty of it. It has only disillusioned both Arabs and Jews. Arabs because they haven't acquired the independence and honest self-government they claim they want; Jews because their security and peaceful existence has become more elusive than it was two decades ago. Through Obama, the EU and the UN and others believe the virtue of the peace process is self-evident the truth is that they are lying to themselves and to their audience.

The Arab-‘Palestinian’: are now divided between two bloodthirsty sects engaged in a murderous conflict; Fatah, holding fragile power in the West Bank and Hamas that controls Gaza. Until today, their conflict has cost nearly 2,000 Arab-‘Palestinian’ lives and shows no sign of dwindling. This is not a power struggle between good guys and bad guys; it is a struggle between very bad guys and very bad guys. They are not fighting over what would be best for Arab-‘Palestinians’ but over the money, the world so freely deposits in their bank accounts, and power. Neither Fatah nor Hamas could be called moderate by any sensible person or an Arabic speaker, if there is a sensible one. They both suppress moderate opinion wherever it raises its head, which is apparently not that often.

Fatah, the west and even some in Israel chose as the Arab-‘Palestinian’ “moderate" camp is not at all moderate. Fatah still makes moderate sounds in English but in Arabic it sounds very anti-Semitic-anti-Israel and anti-American as Hamas sounds. All that Fatah is doing is using Taqiyya to deceive the infidels and advance its cause.

Among the Arab population Fatah has been and remains unpopular and the underdog. West Bank Arabs take its leadership’s corruption for granted and now strongly suspect that it is controlled as well as backed by the [unpopular] Americans. So now the U.S. President Barack Obama is part of the problem and by a long shot not the solution’s deliverer.

The West has been spending billions of dollars on Fatah so in return they can have Fata singing in their ears relatively benign rhetoric when sang in English while totally ignoring the venomous anti-Semitic-anti-Israel and anti West that comes out the other side of their mouths when sang in Arabic. Much of the almost unaccounted fortunes the West has been frivolously spending on Fatah has been consistently stolen by Fatah officials. Instead of ending this bottomless corruption pot the donors hardly ever report their grand losses [thefts] to their constituents; all is brushed under the carpet to keep the momentum of the failing for years, ‘peace process’ going. (When will the West tax payers finally stand up and say: no more of our money to support this endless corruption that leads to no where?!)

The skewed world: With the propaganda the Arabs have managed to so masterfully use for many years, most of the world now believes, often with irrational and intense passion, that building Jewish-Israeli villages and towns or using the disparaging terminology ‘settlements’ on land deceptively claimed by Arabs to be theirs, simply limits the chances for peace. This is falsehood. Don’t we all wish these Jewish-Israeli villages and towns were the real problem?! Because if that is the case, the Israelis will be able to solve this problem rather fast. If Jewish-Israeli villages and towns were the real problem, then Gaza would now be at peace with Israel. After all, in 2005 the Israelis pulled out of Gaza, lock, stock and barrel. But, no; the result was no peace on Israel’s southern border, rather it brought much terror, daily barrage of rockets and mortars and war; on going war among the Arab-‘Palestinians’ and on going war with Israel. And, regardless of all the facts on the ground and the 16 years of the Arabs simply pouring Jewish blood anywhere and anyhow they can, the world keeps on driving the message and putting the total blame and pressure on Israel: Israel, must make more concessions so peace in our time will be possible.

What is there for us to do to try turning things around? The media must begin telling the truth. Yeah, will that ever happen when it involves telling the truth about Israel and Jews? Foreign journalists must tell the real story, not the wishful thinking story. If the excuse is that information on Palestinian corruption simply does not fit into the stories their editors want to publish, then they must find another editor who will publish the real story. Isn’t this true journalism telling it as it is?! The more the truth is being told the faster the West can cure this disease, even if it will take a drastic move to end the ‘pity’ sentiments the West developed for the Arab-‘Palestinians’ and perhaps even bring to an end all funding so the Arab-‘Palestinians,’ who got so accustomed to live on the dole will finally have to find a way, anyway, to create work for themselves so they can make a real living. Perhaps creating jobs and going to work will finally employ their brain cells, now totally occupied with lies and deceit, with hate and with plans to kill the Jews, jihad and the conquest of the West, with positive and productive thinking and constructive plan for peace.

The real obstacle: So NO dear world, the real obstacle to peace between the Arabs and the Israelis is not a Jew building a home in Jerusalem, Samaria or Judea but the failure of the Arab-‘Palestinians’ to establish a government to lead them to statehood and liberty. It seems that this has never been their goal, if ever.

Does Israel have a partner for peace talks in the Arab-‘Palestinian’? Absolutely NOT!

What should Israel do? NOTHING! Simply wait (and in the meantime continue thriving in all aspects) until the Arab-‘Palestinians’ stop killing each other [if ever] and finally create a credible political entity that can make the desirous, for both sides, peace deal. Only then will peace become a possibility.

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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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