Doc's Talk: Netanyahu's mission at the UN: To expose Rouhani's fraud

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Netanyahu's mission at the UN: To expose Rouhani's fraud

Israeli PM: In the face of Iranian sweet talk, I will tell the truth • MK Avigdor Lieberman: Rouhani's charm offensive is nothing but a deceptive trick • Sunday Times: Netanyahu will give Obama proof that Iran has enough enriched uranium for a bomb.

Shlomo Cesana, Gideon Allon, Yoni Hirsch and Israel Hayom Staff

Prime Minister Netanyahu and his wife depart for the United States

Photo credit: GPO

Following Iranian President Hasan Rouhani's attempt on Tuesday to sell the idea of the "new Iran" to the world at the United Nations General Assembly, this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will have an opportunity to "tell the truth" as Israel sees it.

"I will tell the truth at the U.N.," Netanyahu said in the twilight hours of Sunday morning before leaving for the United States. In Washington and in New York, "I will represent the citizens of Israel, our national interests, our rights as a nation, our determination to defend ourselves and our hope or peace. In the face of the [Iranian] sweet talk and the smiles offensive, we must speak out about the facts and tell the truth. I think that telling the truth today is essential to the security and well-being of the world and of course, it is essential to the security of our country."

Netanyahu is expected to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday and to address the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. The ongoing peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians will likely come up at both events, but the prime minister is expected to focus on the topic of Iran, as he sees Iran's nuclear capability as the greatest existential threat to Israel. Netanyahu's principal mission is to reveal recent Iranian attempts for reconciliation as insincere and fraudulent.

On Sunday, Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman MK Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Beytenu) discussed Netanyahu's upcoming U.N. address on his Facebook page, saying that "it is important to keep in mind that the Iranians have been doing this for years, in a consistent pattern of deception: They use different tactics such as promises, stalling and the kind of false information that they have provided the international community time and time again. All the while they continue to advance toward their stated goal -- obtaining nuclear weapons in order to pose a threat to world peace."

"Once again this year the debate revolves around Iran's nuclear race, only this time the world's attention is focused on Iran's new president and his efforts to appear moderate and conciliatory. [Hasan] Rouhani's charm offensive is nothing but another deceptive trick, the same as North Korea," Lieberman wrote.

Let us recall that at the beginning of the 1980s, with the nuclear reactor in Iraq, Israel was the only one to warn in advance, and in retrospect it turned out that we were right. The same is true for other instances," Lieberman stressed. "Today, too, Israel is not willing to take part in this fraud. That is why I support the prime minister as he heads out on an important mission. I am convinced that even if the atmosphere and discourse aren't conducive to making such harsh declarations, the prime minister will be wise enough to do it and stand strong. He will protect the vital interests, essential not only to the security of the state but to the peace and stability of the entire world."

The prime minister's office has adopted a policy of silence, and prior to his departure, Netanyahu instructed his ministers and senior officials not to speak to the media on recent developments. This primarily refers to Friday's one-on-one phone conversation between Obama and Rouhani and to statements Obama has made regarding Iran's right to a nuclear program for civilian purposes.

However on Friday, before the prime minister instructed ministers not to speak about Iran, Homefront Defense Minister Gilad Erdan told Israel Radio that, "Netanyahu's public relations efforts against Iran in recent years have allowed the world to impose unprecedented sanctions." According to him, "in his remarks to the U.N., the prime minister will reveal intelligence information to the world."

In a Sunday Times report, a senior Israeli official stated that Netanyahu will tell the world that Iran currently has 482 pounds (219 kilograms) of enriched uranium, which is enough to produce a nuclear weapon. During his remarks at the U.N. General Assembly in 2012, Netanyahu famously displayed a cartoon diagram of a bomb, demarcating his "red line" for Iran's nuclear program, which was 90 percent of the amount of enriched uranium needed to produce a nuclear weapon.

The British newspaper went on to report that Netanyahu was expected to present Obama with a dossier containing intelligence that attests to Iran's advancing nuclear program, including the progress made during Rouhani's leadership.

On Monday, Netanyahu is expected to meet Monday in Washington with Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry. The prime minister is also planning to embark on a "media blitz" in the coming week, in efforts to influence local public opinion to oppose the possible removal of sanctions on Iran.

According to information from well-placed sources, Netanyahu is expected to emphasize during his meeting with Obama and his speech at the U.N. that any agreement made with the Iranians will be deceitful and fraudulent. Such agreements, he is expected to claim, are designed to remove sanctions from Iran and will not prevent military nuclear capability from getting into the hands of the extremist regime in Tehran. One of the sources stated that, "Netanyahu's objective is to lift the smoke screen Rouhani created in New York. The Iranians are trying to reverse the sanctions that were imposed on them because of Netanyahu, while seeking to give up only the auxiliary part of their nuclear program and to keep their main capabilities."

"Netanyahu understands that there is a lot of euphoria," said an unnamed senior Israeli official quoted by The New York Times on Saturday. "Netanyahu knows that people in the international community will want to believe. I think you'll see in his remarks a lot of facts, a lot of facts that no one denies." According to the report, the thaw in relations between the United States and Iran was met with suspicion and concern both in Israel and in Saudi Arabia, a bitter enemy of Tehran.

A senior state official added that, "Netanyahu will tell the truth in the clearest way. The Israeli stance on stopping the Iranian nuclear program is correct, and we will repeat it and insist upon it. The instructions of [Iranian] spiritual leader Ali Khamenei to continue with the nuclear military program have not changed."

Netanyahu will be accompanied in New York by Erdan, Deputy Foreign Minister Zeev Elkin and Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon.

"Israel has every reason to be skeptical. It is completely understandable and appropriate that the Israeli government would be skeptical of Iran," said a senior American official this weekend regarding the warming relations between the U.S. and Iran. The unnamed official stressed that Iran's words must be accompanied by action. "The bottom line for us is that we cannot allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons."

In the same vein, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote Saturday that the fact that Rouhani decided not to shake Obama's hand due to his fears that extremists at home would not approve of the action, "tells us how hard it will be to reach the only kind of nuclear deal Obama can sign on to."

Head of Israel's left-leaning Meretz party Zehava Gal-On agrees with Netanyahu's suspicions. "You can't be naive when it comes to Iran's intentions. Like Netanyahu, I also don't believe Rouhani when he says the nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes."

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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

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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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