tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-314612042024-03-04T11:56:40.937-05:00Bruce's MidEast SoundbitesCapturing the MidEast in short soundbites: poignant
reflections by people who understand the complexities of the Middle East. My philosophy is: "less is more."
You won't agree with everything that's here, but I'm confident you will find it interesting!
Excepting the titles, my own comments are minimal. Instead I rely on news sources to string together what I hope is an interesting, politically challenging, non-partisan, non-ideological narrative.Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.comBlogger3407125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31461204.post-58219569911846544742024-03-04T11:20:00.007-05:002024-03-04T11:56:06.466-05:00The State of World Jewry<p style="text-align: center;"> <strong data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 1rem; text-size-adjust: auto; word-spacing: 1px;">The State of World Jewry</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KfjLm0-fQEg" title="What It Means to Choose Freedom by Bari Weiss" width="600"></iframe></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jerry Seinfeld was heckled on his way out of this lecture at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan. Bari Weiss delivered this stunning speech laying out the threats and opportunities for the world’s besieged Jews. Though this is not a “soundbite,” it’s totally worth your time. </span></p>Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31461204.post-85171289010489868592024-02-08T10:26:00.003-05:002024-02-08T10:30:35.584-05:00Garbage “Solution:” The Two State Obsession <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgep7wHsTx134E5yNWKD0jHBjuZZroxC5aRPq5AlwubXtKOPkqg2AMWdD0DggIyuHlFls5Opu_cr9kpg5BnF8Hnm5PJth0nlJ7Wdb7OMUyPIn-XgiD0tWnAG3BVOA8urHzpv5JzyqiZLv0HUUD9J1sPpttXHTzrIGbxpltFdKzLXXficZi_oyck/s1320/IMG_3019.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="880" data-original-width="1320" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgep7wHsTx134E5yNWKD0jHBjuZZroxC5aRPq5AlwubXtKOPkqg2AMWdD0DggIyuHlFls5Opu_cr9kpg5BnF8Hnm5PJth0nlJ7Wdb7OMUyPIn-XgiD0tWnAG3BVOA8urHzpv5JzyqiZLv0HUUD9J1sPpttXHTzrIGbxpltFdKzLXXficZi_oyck/s320/IMG_3019.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-weight: bold; word-spacing: 1.106667px;"><a data-originalcomputedfontsize="10.666667" data-removefontsize="true" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-785714&source=gmail&ust=1707485589301000&usg=AOvVaw1QpoGIsScIznL2ohylD85q" href="https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-785714" style="border-color: rgb(66, 133, 244); color: #4285f4;" target="_blank">The Two-State Solution: Nothing More than Wishful Thinking</a></span><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; word-spacing: 1.106667px;"> - Amb. Alan Baker (</span><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="10.666667" data-removefontsize="true" face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-style: italic; word-spacing: 1.106667px;">Jerusalem Post</span><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; word-spacing: 1.106667px;">)</span><br /><ul style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left; word-spacing: 1.106667px;"><li data-originalcomputedfontsize="10.666667" data-originalfontsize="8pt" style="border-color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">The hopeless, corrupt, failed, and incompetent Palestinian Authority is no more capable of administering Gaza than it has been capable of administering the West Bank areas.</li><li data-originalcomputedfontsize="10.666667" data-originalfontsize="8pt" style="border-color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">One wonders how and why serious international leaders continue to spout the absurd "two states" cliche as if it were a sort of magical panacea that, if repeated often enough, will somehow magically move out of the sphere of wishful thinking. It is inconceivable to imagine that a viable, peace-loving Palestinian political entity could materialize out of the present Middle East realities.</li></ul><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-size: 0.666667rem; font-style: italic; word-spacing: 1.106667px;">The writer</span><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-size: 0.666667rem; font-style: italic; word-spacing: 1.106667px;">, Director of the Institute for Diplomatic Affairs at the Jerusalem Center, served as Legal Adviser and Deputy Director-General of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and participated in the negotiation and drafting of the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians.</span>Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31461204.post-70051676263900509562023-10-17T12:02:00.001-04:002023-10-17T12:07:05.532-04:00Palestinian Authority to Pay Hamas for Massacre<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiLTi_I_qTongW0qvWxccweOBoSJFlSE89h9KnqYNheJTgElK0pTHDgruSbiE6N7AB8cNaZPWdhZ19pnIdw59s0CqC6zDPRpXQ_vzJCw3l0SwSG9AcbRAueH-B0DPT4OLr0xTgQ-ur5zjOM1ARI-0HjWhPk-QhUNUQhP4muZytMnxotEVhTBYm/s747/IMG_2654.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="747" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiLTi_I_qTongW0qvWxccweOBoSJFlSE89h9KnqYNheJTgElK0pTHDgruSbiE6N7AB8cNaZPWdhZ19pnIdw59s0CqC6zDPRpXQ_vzJCw3l0SwSG9AcbRAueH-B0DPT4OLr0xTgQ-ur5zjOM1ARI-0HjWhPk-QhUNUQhP4muZytMnxotEVhTBYm/s320/IMG_2654.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: navy; font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://palwatch.org/page/34650">PA to Give Hamas Terrorists' Families $3 Million</a></b><span style="background-color: white; color: navy; font-family: verdana;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">- Itamar Marcus </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: white; color: navy;">The Palestinian Authority will pay at least 11,100,000 shekels ($2,789,430) this month to the families of the 1,500 dead Hamas terrorists who invaded Israel as a reward for participating in the Oct. 7 murders and atrocities against Israeli civilians.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: navy;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: navy;"> <br />In addition, the 50 captured Hamas terrorist murderers will receive monthly salaries in prison. <br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: navy;">(</span><i style="background-color: white; color: navy;">Palestinian Media Watch</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: navy;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">)</span><br />*</span></span></p>Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31461204.post-59426695921362804372023-10-11T12:33:00.002-04:002023-10-11T12:33:15.294-04:00Message of Unity from Jerusalem's Yemenite Village<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/873120028?h=7c18a02d27" width="640" height="1138" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/873120028">Unity from Yerushalayim</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user38365536">Ateret Cohanim</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31461204.post-4675457621673576262023-09-29T10:03:00.003-04:002024-01-16T18:06:04.394-05:00Palestinians Are Not Indigenous to Palestine!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitvDI5jSEJLZmQDF3r3OTtWenciZegA0ehe9IMy-y_YI9-Jo5Tr7_05c4b2edZItdhVZXsal8N1H-agCWSL7QoUcz_npkPFy6KS5QH_OPDYjLySyjrp7yGJxumRl-NKE1B40exGf9dLnGOij_Es1eDbKLgSUfRmdQC7vF8HuocReYpyy_jHLaQ/s500/IMG_2625.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="291" data-original-width="500" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitvDI5jSEJLZmQDF3r3OTtWenciZegA0ehe9IMy-y_YI9-Jo5Tr7_05c4b2edZItdhVZXsal8N1H-agCWSL7QoUcz_npkPFy6KS5QH_OPDYjLySyjrp7yGJxumRl-NKE1B40exGf9dLnGOij_Es1eDbKLgSUfRmdQC7vF8HuocReYpyy_jHLaQ/s320/IMG_2625.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-weight: bold; text-size-adjust: auto; word-spacing: 1.15467px;"><a data-originalcomputedfontsize="10.666667" data-removefontsize="true" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.newsweek.com/progressive-myopia-inflames-antisemitism-opinion-1828869&source=gmail&ust=1695990428721000&usg=AOvVaw0oMQbglCYM014Jo20fT3dX" href="https://www.newsweek.com/progressive-myopia-inflames-antisemitism-opinion-1828869" style="border-color: rgb(66, 133, 244); color: #4285f4;" target="_blank">Jews Are Not "Stealing" Judea</a></span><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; text-size-adjust: auto; word-spacing: 1.15467px;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; text-size-adjust: auto; word-spacing: 1.15467px;">- Rabbi Yaakov Menken</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-size-adjust: auto; word-spacing: 1.15467px;" /><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; text-size-adjust: auto; word-spacing: 1.15467px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; text-size-adjust: auto; word-spacing: 1.15467px;">Less than a century after the Holocaust, antisemitism is sweeping across America to a degree unimaginable a few decades ago. Though just 2% of the U.S. population, Jews are the most targeted religious group in America. An identifiably Jewish person is several times more likely than a member of any other minority to be a victim of a hate crime. Diversity advocates, engaging in willful blindness, have pronounced Jews, whom the Nazis massacred for being non-white, to be beneficiaries of "white privilege."</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-size-adjust: auto; word-spacing: 1.15467px;" /><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; text-size-adjust: auto; word-spacing: 1.15467px;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; text-size-adjust: auto; word-spacing: 1.15467px;">Today, society's supreme concern is respect for human rights. But this noble cause has been derailed by antipathy towards Jews. As the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks observed, "most antisemites do not think of themselves as antisemites." In other words, antisemites will define antisemitism in ways that exonerate their own bigotry.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-size-adjust: auto; word-spacing: 1.15467px;" /><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; text-size-adjust: auto; word-spacing: 1.15467px;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; text-size-adjust: auto; word-spacing: 1.15467px;">The story of the Promised Land is part of common parlance. Everyone knows what it is, where it is, and to whom it was promised - and how central it is to the faith of Moses and the Jewish people. Yet millions of Americans, including many who claim to value both religious tolerance and human rights, have adopted a fictional narrative built upon a European colonialist term for that Jewish homeland: Palestine.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-size-adjust: auto; word-spacing: 1.15467px;" /><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; text-size-adjust: auto; word-spacing: 1.15467px;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; text-size-adjust: auto; word-spacing: 1.15467px;"><b>In this alternate reality, descendants of Arab marauders are "indigenous Palestinians," whose homeland, by miraculous coincidence, happens to trace the borders of modern Israel. The Jews, in other ways words, are "stealing" Judea. By the way, the word "Palestinians" referred to Jews for over 2,000 years. In the 1930s, the "Palestinian" soccer uniform featured the Star of David. Today, "Palestinian" is used to exclude those same Jews and to call them "colonialists" for returning home.</b></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-size-adjust: auto; word-spacing: 1.15467px;" /><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; text-size-adjust: auto; word-spacing: 1.15467px;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="10.666667" data-removefontsize="true" face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-style: italic; text-size-adjust: auto; word-spacing: 1.15467px;">The writer is managing director of the Coalition for Jewish Values.</span><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; text-size-adjust: auto; word-spacing: 1.15467px;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; text-size-adjust: auto; word-spacing: 1.15467px;">(</span><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="10.666667" data-removefontsize="true" face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-style: italic; text-size-adjust: auto; word-spacing: 1.15467px;">Newsweek</span><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; text-size-adjust: auto; word-spacing: 1.15467px;">)</span></div>Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31461204.post-45145501314592856622023-08-19T21:33:00.001-04:002023-08-19T21:33:24.276-04:00Double Standard Exposed<div><span style="color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_hnze2kGHusHcsnrFJhIqxWc50ILNz60HA6zJR58yeDIo73o9nfFPowxHRW-N1xaJQHlmwXNiA9UzCv1CyK8ZFScBCMgzO5SnWwcKGc5u2JbSvFTaWwEgi8FWSmTFhcgktD2EN95CJ3jdLxMnyQs3ONkYzlmFRtww5O_JmUtIv887Yz7JV1Iz/s225/IMG_2574.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_hnze2kGHusHcsnrFJhIqxWc50ILNz60HA6zJR58yeDIo73o9nfFPowxHRW-N1xaJQHlmwXNiA9UzCv1CyK8ZFScBCMgzO5SnWwcKGc5u2JbSvFTaWwEgi8FWSmTFhcgktD2EN95CJ3jdLxMnyQs3ONkYzlmFRtww5O_JmUtIv887Yz7JV1Iz/s1600/IMG_2574.jpeg" width="225" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); word-spacing: 1.165333px;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.666667rem; font-weight: bold; word-spacing: 1.165333px;"><a data-originalcomputedfontsize="10.666667" data-removefontsize="true" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.wsj.com/articles/irans-nukes-are-a-thorn-for-saudi-israeli-peace-middle-east-diplomacy-enrichment-program-deal-ffc2a68f&source=gmail&ust=1692388416821000&usg=AOvVaw0oNXdrLPTBvJwFapUc2yRS" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/irans-nukes-are-a-thorn-for-saudi-israeli-peace-middle-east-diplomacy-enrichment-program-deal-ffc2a68f" style="border-color: rgb(66, 133, 244); color: #4285f4; font-size: 0.666667rem;" target="_blank">Iran's Nukes Are a Thorn for Saudi-Israeli Peace</a></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.165333px;"> </span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.165333px;">- Richard Goldberg</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.165333px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.165333px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.165333px;">Saudi Crown</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.165333px;">Prince Mohammed bin Salman has reportedly made a joint U.S.-Saudi nuclear-enrichment program a top condition for a peace deal with Israel. This is untenable. The U.S. can't discount the potential for a future Saudi leader to use an industrial-scale enrichment infrastructure to produce fissile material as part of a nuclear weapons program. Once Saudi Arabia builds an enrichment program, Turkey and Egypt will want one too. A race to enrich throughout one of the world's most dangerous and unstable regions is a national-security recipe for disaster.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.165333px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.165333px;"> </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.165333px;"><b>But when America tells a Saudi official that the U.S. can't support enrichment on Saudi soil, an obvious question comes back quickly: You're saying you can support an enrichment program in Iran, which is trying to kill Americans every day, but you can't support an enrichment program in Saudi Arabia, a close strategic partner?</b> After all, the 2015 nuclear deal and subsequent negotiations have all but normalized illicit Iranian nuclear activity.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.165333px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.165333px;"> </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.165333px;">The results of a policy that legitimizes enrichment on Iranian soil are on full display. Iran has raced over the past two years to produce enough near-weapons-grade enriched uranium to produce several nuclear bombs in a matter of weeks.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.165333px;" /><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="10.666667" data-removefontsize="true" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.666667rem; font-style: italic; word-spacing: 1.165333px;">The writer, a former National Security Council official, is a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.165333px;"> </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.165333px;">(</span><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="10.666667" data-removefontsize="true" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.666667rem; font-style: italic; word-spacing: 1.165333px;">Wall Street Journal</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.165333px;">)</span></div>Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31461204.post-75556260646556049722023-07-27T13:20:00.003-04:002023-07-27T13:57:52.715-04:00The Palestinian Monster <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi84aypr4Dc2GdkyjZGl6F39h_tHAWAk5Zb4QoECQ4BAVafqFCV2iJXRNNR6r8o_UUBd8w6gXGN0wHJyvO1S4wxrjYKKJ2M7riF_tq6twZaye-YiUxMg5yvMgsKmWgTRyOq7IQGQdrfS7PIRat7nuT49MWHjLgN6fCgzsvwEnE1VO-k99V985K5/s530/IMG_2493.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="374" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi84aypr4Dc2GdkyjZGl6F39h_tHAWAk5Zb4QoECQ4BAVafqFCV2iJXRNNR6r8o_UUBd8w6gXGN0wHJyvO1S4wxrjYKKJ2M7riF_tq6twZaye-YiUxMg5yvMgsKmWgTRyOq7IQGQdrfS7PIRat7nuT49MWHjLgN6fCgzsvwEnE1VO-k99V985K5/s320/IMG_2493.jpeg" width="226" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-size: 0.666667rem; font-weight: bold; word-spacing: 1.106667px;"><a data-originalcomputedfontsize="10.666667" data-removefontsize="true" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.wsj.com/articles/palestinian-refugees-arab-states-israel-6044055f&source=gmail&ust=1690557918775000&usg=AOvVaw3TKOQ1e4kM9cSRm4JZppOJ" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/palestinian-refugees-arab-states-israel-6044055f" style="border-color: rgb(66, 133, 244); color: #4285f4; font-size: 0.666667rem;" target="_blank">Palestinian Refugees Were Used as a Political Prop</a></span><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.106667px;"> </span><div><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.106667px;">- Prof. Fred Baumann</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.106667px;" /><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.106667px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.106667px;">In "</span><a data-originalcomputedfontsize="10.666667" data-removefontsize="true" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.wsj.com/articles/palestinians-deserve-a-passport-refugees-israel-arab-countries-citizenship-75723bf6?mod%3Darticle_inline&source=gmail&ust=1690557918775000&usg=AOvVaw3T988CwdfFREUZsZIOk6Go" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/palestinians-deserve-a-passport-refugees-israel-arab-countries-citizenship-75723bf6?mod=article_inline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-color: rgb(66, 133, 244); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: #4285f4; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.106667px;" target="_blank">Palestinians Deserve a Passport</a><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.106667px;">" (op-ed, July 20), Abdullah Ektileh justly focuses on the abominable treatment Palestinians have been given by Arab governments. Where, in the great population exchanges of the 1940s, Muslims were absorbed into Pakistan, Hindus into India, Silesian</span><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.106667px;">Germans into West Germany and Jews from Arab lands into Israel, the Palestinians were an exception.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.106667px;" /><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.106667px;"> </span></div><div><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.106667px;">Rejected by their fellow Arabs, who largely kept them cooped up in camps and fed a diet of hatred and revenge from birth, Palestinians were meant to be a tool for a war of total destruction against the Jewish state. Eventually, the plan backfired and, after the (barely) failed attempt of radicalized Palestinians to overthrow the Jordanian monarchy, they became too dangerous to absorb. To this day, they suffer from their exclusion by their fellow Arabs, while directing their passionate hatred toward Israel.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.106667px;" /><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.106667px;"> </span></div><div><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.106667px;">The Oslo agreement intended for them to become citizens of a Palestinian state, one offered by Israel in 2000, 2001 and 2008. During what was supposed to be a transition period, Oslo granted them autonomy under the Palestinian Authority. But the PA has flatly refused all those offers of statehood and promoted terrorism, even making payments to Palestinians who kill Jews. By their policies, the Arab states created a monster that terrifies them and also has made the two-state solution, one perfectly sensible in theory, a practical impossibility.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.106667px;" /><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.106667px;"> </span></div><div><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.106667px;">The Palestinian leadership's last card has been posing as victims. While that has succeeded in whipping up a worldwide wave of Jew-hate, it has done nothing to help the Palestinians themselves.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.106667px;" /><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="10.666667" data-removefontsize="true" face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-size: 0.666667rem; font-style: italic; word-spacing: 1.106667px;">The writer is Professor of Political Science at Kenyon College.</span><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.106667px;"> </span></div><div><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.106667px;">(</span><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="10.666667" data-removefontsize="true" face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-size: 0.666667rem; font-style: italic; word-spacing: 1.106667px;">Wall Street Journal</span><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-size: 0.666667rem; word-spacing: 1.106667px;">)</span></div>Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31461204.post-28777535922605837062023-02-27T21:36:00.000-05:002023-02-27T21:36:07.981-05:00The Fruit of The Abraham Accords: “Abrahamic Family House”<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimg-mRcowdgY5Ki7cweUz6D41CM841oWDR23j66jc7odqsKVz8Yk-wP330MrXYE7nz8afazMk9EeMZjHqsKeoewdXj_ecEI35q68m4fi0s6MbOrYcMydPk-1SccryY_EAzAFsRApHAcee2reR7dz5VNDeiwbm21j0yUtygB0PVnbsRLrm7vA/s544/6D76B404-6734-4755-8D0C-60DCD3DF7C6F.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="523" data-original-width="544" height="616" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimg-mRcowdgY5Ki7cweUz6D41CM841oWDR23j66jc7odqsKVz8Yk-wP330MrXYE7nz8afazMk9EeMZjHqsKeoewdXj_ecEI35q68m4fi0s6MbOrYcMydPk-1SccryY_EAzAFsRApHAcee2reR7dz5VNDeiwbm21j0yUtygB0PVnbsRLrm7vA/w640-h616/6D76B404-6734-4755-8D0C-60DCD3DF7C6F.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/r3ZclGUDkZY" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><h1 class="x-large-title" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Tiempos Headline", serif; font-size: 2.75em; line-height: 1.2em; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://circuit.news/2023/02/20/a-mosque-a-church-and-a-synagogue-link-up-in-the-uae/?utm_source=sendfox&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=special-abrahamic-family-house-edition" target="_blank">A mosque, a church and a synagogue open side-by-side</a></h1><div>- Jonathan H. Ferziger</div><div><br /></div><div><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Tiempos Headline", serif; font-size: 1.125em; line-height: 1.7em; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 30px;">The white-stoned mosque, church and synagogue anchoring the Abrahamic Family House, a monumental interfaith compound that was unveiled last week in the United Arab Emirates, will serve as a busy forum for promoting religious cooperation in the Middle East, its founders said.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Tiempos Headline", serif; font-size: 1.125em; line-height: 1.7em; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 30px;">The individual structures that make up the new complex, which was designed by the acclaimed Ghanian-British architect, Sir David Adjaye, are linked by a central exhibition space, public garden and conference center that will open to visitors on March 1. The project was inaugurated last Thursday in a twilight ceremony in the capital city of Abu Dhabi led by members of the UAE’s royal court and leaders of the three faiths.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Tiempos Headline", serif; font-size: 1.125em; line-height: 1.7em; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 1.125em;">[The Circuit] </span></p></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></div>Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31461204.post-90046333655051436532023-02-27T21:07:00.005-05:002023-02-27T21:10:25.056-05:00Get Back To Where You Once Belonged: Reclaiming The Temple Mount<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9r6j9Xnznc3MXO5YnwdaS8VxrNl8gPNA_aGDBKi1tjAEdGentXwcF_dtpOYrrvawmXA7qLb8aJrPGNk6ZyCvVgqPJB2_ISiNNv7-BjOAuQPtvT8dIRGPhdphjZAXqxDq9H3edNr1Wsy7FWJRLm5-aMQSnwvxpzT-oSLIGip4KbZtLR4JgEA/s640/68204D5C-2FAE-486B-BC11-405353ABB67D.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9r6j9Xnznc3MXO5YnwdaS8VxrNl8gPNA_aGDBKi1tjAEdGentXwcF_dtpOYrrvawmXA7qLb8aJrPGNk6ZyCvVgqPJB2_ISiNNv7-BjOAuQPtvT8dIRGPhdphjZAXqxDq9H3edNr1Wsy7FWJRLm5-aMQSnwvxpzT-oSLIGip4KbZtLR4JgEA/w640-h400/68204D5C-2FAE-486B-BC11-405353ABB67D.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><a href="https://www.meforum.org/israel-victory-project/63910/israel-must-govern-the-temple-mount" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, serif; font-size: 24px;" target="_blank">To Win, Israel Must Govern the Temple Mount</a> </p><div>- <b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Alex Selsky</b></div><div><span style="font-family: Lora, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Lora, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">It is because of the symbolism of the Temple Mount that Palestinian rejectionists believe Israel is weak and temporary.</span></div><div><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Lora, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">The Palestinians are convinced that the Temple Mount is as important to us as it is to them, and meanwhile we continue to fight about it amongst ourselves.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Lora, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">We do not understand the enormous damage caused by this debate, nor the central importance of going up to the Mount in order to strengthen our national identity and our connection to the Land of Israel and Jerusalem. Until we do, we will not have achieved victory in our War of Independence, which is unfortunately not yet over.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Lora, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">We must stop fighting religiously and politically over the Temple Mount. The halachic prohibition on going up to the site must take into consideration its national importance beyond its religious importance.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Lora, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">Our enemies must know that the Mount is important to us. The whole world must know that it is important to us—to all of us. Right and left, ultra-Orthodox, religious, traditional and secular. It should be as important to us as the Western Wall and Masada.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Lora, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white;">After visiting the Temple Mount and seeing how vast it is, it is clear that there is no problem of space. It is mostly empty and unused. There should no logistical problem with allowing worship for Jews and others on the Temple Mount, without disturbing Muslims and without harming their status and their holy places.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Lora, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white;">[W]e have yet to properly assert our sovereignty on Zion itself, the symbolic center of Zionism. This means that our full independence has yet to be won…</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Lora, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Until we have reversed this, we will not have fully won our War of Independence.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Lora, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white;">[Jewish News Syndicate] </span></p></div>Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31461204.post-37727677667582004422022-11-07T13:17:00.002-05:002022-11-07T13:17:49.072-05:00Iran Beginning To “Crack”<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicHCfONZnaz1DVOcxttLBO1JV1VBmE9tZZaOKNho0cukKOLy_fRCSsmXaE3_J4YLQfjHoZbJXc0xM2P4UOBO0EoiaHjMbqgoKjU4DRhILGQUYs4r8nJiXpCq161J__rKsqpzgxyIkljqSF4q3hitEyr56YbZXvC2TIZU1WmB1glGwmp8my5A/s600/60D5BC09-6860-471E-AA5B-694479C7A302.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="600" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicHCfONZnaz1DVOcxttLBO1JV1VBmE9tZZaOKNho0cukKOLy_fRCSsmXaE3_J4YLQfjHoZbJXc0xM2P4UOBO0EoiaHjMbqgoKjU4DRhILGQUYs4r8nJiXpCq161J__rKsqpzgxyIkljqSF4q3hitEyr56YbZXvC2TIZU1WmB1glGwmp8my5A/w400-h225/60D5BC09-6860-471E-AA5B-694479C7A302.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-weight: bold;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.wsj.com/articles/iran-hardliners-khomeini-supreme-leader-protests-larijani-rouhani-morality-police-newspaper-chief-justice-criticism-regime-change-1979-11667410559?mod%3Dopinion_lead_pos6&source=gmail&ust=1667930965344000&usg=AOvVaw27Y4uRFZUA8GZGBXrZFQXQ" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/iran-hardliners-khomeini-supreme-leader-protests-larijani-rouhani-morality-police-newspaper-chief-justice-criticism-regime-change-1979-11667410559?mod=opinion_lead_pos6" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Iran's Hard-Liners Are Starting to Crack</a></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">- Reuel Marc Gerecht & Ray Takeyh</span></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">This time is different. The Iranian people have been protesting in the streets for more than a month. Now even Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's allies are distancing themselves from the government, putting unprecedented stress on the regime. For four decades, regime loyalists have united in times of crisis. It's telling that today many influential conservatives display little compunction about criticizing Mr. Khamenei and his henchmen.</span><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">The security services have been hesitant to use lethal force. That conservatives are now critiquing Mr. Khamenei shows that the regime is losing its core strength. They seem to realize that Tehran can't kill its way to success. These men either don't have the stomach to murder thousands of women, or they believe - rightly - that doing so would only lead to mass confrontation with hundreds of thousands of angry men.</span><br /></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana;">The demonstrators aren't interested in compromise. Conservatives now face a choice between joining the protest or being left behind. The Islamic Republic's rulers, like the shahs before them, know that their regime ultimately rests on the awe of unchallengeable power. That neither teenage girls throughout Iran nor foundational figures of the theocracy see this majesty any longer suggests that Mr. Khamenei's time is running out.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana; font-style: italic;">Mr. Gerecht, a former Iranian-targets officer in the CIA, is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Mr. Takeyh is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana;">(</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana; font-style: italic;">Wall Street Journal)</span></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana; font-style: italic;">*</span></p>Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31461204.post-83269690099107238792022-10-08T21:04:00.001-04:002022-10-08T21:04:45.232-04:00“Hocus-Pocus Political History”<p><br /></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: navy; font-weight: bold; word-spacing: 1px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://whiterosemagazine.com/contributor/thane-rosenbaum/&source=gmail&ust=1665361947178000&usg=AOvVaw3TaGz_qvqNp56rpHCE3upu" href="https://whiterosemagazine.com/contributor/thane-rosenbaum/" style="color: #4285f4;" target="_blank"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://whiterosemagazine.com/contributor/thane-rosenbaum/&source=gmail&ust=1665361947178000&usg=AOvVaw3TaGz_qvqNp56rpHCE3upu" href="https://whiterosemagazine.com/contributor/thane-rosenbaum/" style="color: #4285f4;" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3b1_yHP18wPotsAcbpbStJa7NZJJm6RF5aeS3y-AwZYjEgoT8eWf2DZKef1BEJ1Dmi0kjfLvr2xZRPCuDPu8fbjyUmHZDZ5OEDJq8w3MrspeJacc_bZEEc_wrzLFC4AQd5wwFs4jDiCzHBma7605lvGj9o7QBtWzBXfcaGp3mbzF_LcfdaA/s612/1A92D4EC-FE0E-4D90-B385-1DF8DA6A0C56.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="612" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3b1_yHP18wPotsAcbpbStJa7NZJJm6RF5aeS3y-AwZYjEgoT8eWf2DZKef1BEJ1Dmi0kjfLvr2xZRPCuDPu8fbjyUmHZDZ5OEDJq8w3MrspeJacc_bZEEc_wrzLFC4AQd5wwFs4jDiCzHBma7605lvGj9o7QBtWzBXfcaGp3mbzF_LcfdaA/s320/1A92D4EC-FE0E-4D90-B385-1DF8DA6A0C56.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Phantom Fantasia in the Middle East</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: navy; word-spacing: 1px;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">-Thane Rosenbaum</span></span></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: navy; word-spacing: 1px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: navy; word-spacing: 1px;">Decades of impeccable PR and global gullibility have enabled many to bizarrely believe there once was an Arab nation called Palestine, with the people in it known as Palestinians. Yet there never has been an Arab nation-state called Palestine. At the time of Israel's founding, in 1948, the word Palestinian did not describe a distinct Arab people. In fact, the word, created by the ancient Romans, referred to Jews. Jews have been living continuously in what is today Israel since the time of the Jewish patriarchs of the Old Testament.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: navy; word-spacing: 1px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: navy; word-spacing: 1px;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: navy; word-spacing: 1px;">Palestine is more an idea than an actual place, the magical thinking of a country that never existed. <b>Hocus-pocus political history</b>. Palestinian inclusion within the vortex of intersectional grievances is laughable given how Sharia-observant Palestinians, especially in Gaza, feel about women, gays, the transgender, cultural and academic freedom, religious diversity, free speech, and the rule of law. Palestinian rejection of five separate offers of statehood since 1947 is never mentioned.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: navy; word-spacing: 1px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: navy; word-spacing: 1px;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: navy; word-spacing: 1px;">Nothing was stolen from the Palestinians. They are stateless because they never had a state - not because they were denied one, or had one taken away. Indeed, it's not at all clear whether they actually want one. For a people with no national currency, political history, sustained leadership, defined borders, or even a gross national product aside from terrorism, Palestinians have nonetheless created the illusion of a homeland lost to Jewish land-grabbers. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: navy; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: navy; word-spacing: 1px;">But hate does not a nation make.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: navy; word-spacing: 1px;" /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: navy; font-style: italic; word-spacing: 1px;">The writer is a law professor and Distinguished University Professor at Touro College.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: navy; word-spacing: 1px;"> </span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: navy; word-spacing: 1px;">(</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: navy; font-style: italic; word-spacing: 1px;">White Rose</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: navy; word-spacing: 1px;">)</span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: navy; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">*</span></span></div>Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31461204.post-845746651648926022022-07-24T15:52:00.000-04:002022-07-24T15:52:00.986-04:00Misunderstanding The MidEast<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg03KBc4O_rfqaW4Cv-o0qUHnob7CILTyySOinTJyfC9mlAm8ewF83tjRbL_K-ysNqPMuTAilSBvfyVsmG8tgQr8mIealJi-0JwlB02qMl3ZIIpGkWfeSsNXX23drqZbgM5MSunr3gBqaPovEqm2MsoFWzIIbMR5xLzchb5rjBI4-A6QJnVqQ/s449/11EBFDAD-FEAA-4A8F-BDE2-1F8317A7C352.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="362" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg03KBc4O_rfqaW4Cv-o0qUHnob7CILTyySOinTJyfC9mlAm8ewF83tjRbL_K-ysNqPMuTAilSBvfyVsmG8tgQr8mIealJi-0JwlB02qMl3ZIIpGkWfeSsNXX23drqZbgM5MSunr3gBqaPovEqm2MsoFWzIIbMR5xLzchb5rjBI4-A6QJnVqQ/s320/11EBFDAD-FEAA-4A8F-BDE2-1F8317A7C352.jpeg" width="258" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daniel Pipes, PhD</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: whitesmoke; caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: #202020;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><a href="https://www.danielpipes.org/21317/how-muslims-can-catch-up" target="_blank"><u>Why is Muslim society lagging</u>?</a></b> - Daniel Pipes, PhD </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: #202020; line-height: 1.1; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://meforum.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Db7aa7eddb0f2bb74bfa4f6cb5%26id%3Db765d7bc4f%26e%3D9c8254eb76&source=gmail&ust=1658774269906000&usg=AOvVaw2EzKvszNK_GkTWBKFyNnN2" href="https://meforum.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b7aa7eddb0f2bb74bfa4f6cb5&id=b765d7bc4f&e=9c8254eb76" style="color: #2baadf;" target="_blank">barrage of statistics</a> makes clear that contemporary Muslims have fallen behind other peoples, whether the topic be health, corruption, longevity, literacy, human rights, personal security, income, or power. But why? </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: #202020; line-height: 1.1; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">[T]he global Left and Islamists blame Western imperialism. For them, today's tribulations follow inevitably on the two centuries after 1760 when nearly all Muslims fell under the control of <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://meforum.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Db7aa7eddb0f2bb74bfa4f6cb5%26id%3D1361afca78%26e%3D9c8254eb76&source=gmail&ust=1658774269906000&usg=AOvVaw3sAknRziPfyu6RP22yoNfR" href="https://meforum.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b7aa7eddb0f2bb74bfa4f6cb5&id=1361afca78&e=9c8254eb76" style="color: #2baadf;" target="_blank">16 majority-Christian states</a>. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: #202020; line-height: 1.1; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: white;">But this accusation ignores two key facts. First, Muslims lagged behind much of the rest of the world in those indices long before 1760 – which helps explain why they came under Western control in the first place. Second, Western control ended about seven decades ago, affording plenty of time to blossom and succeed, as so many non-Muslim peoples have; compare Singapore/Malaysia, India/Pakistan, Israel/Palestinians, or North/South </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://meforum.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Db7aa7eddb0f2bb74bfa4f6cb5%26id%3Db7090a1bdf%26e%3D9c8254eb76&source=gmail&ust=1658774269906000&usg=AOvVaw3Ezco0H5YUFuM5kA5zVjbY" href="https://meforum.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b7aa7eddb0f2bb74bfa4f6cb5&id=b7090a1bdf&e=9c8254eb76" style="color: #2baadf;" target="_blank">Cyprus</a><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: #202020; line-height: 1.1; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[The Washington Times]</span> </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: #202020; line-height: 1.1; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">*</span></span></p>Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31461204.post-46339562936020784702022-07-05T17:58:00.002-04:002022-07-05T17:58:44.396-04:00Ben & Jerry’s Gets Creamed!<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidNwVjdl2bMtlp22FIkyPsTM184eUnh8IeicRblo1EIs6-5dJQloAtW248IUl2VW0XxPOChhzNxypVQOl5BMvW2jXlhzTIzyN55rWMAKAm2HFhOkALSIZflDjeG6ZWq6CGlNkK2UJxQmwZWCZ5iPUmmXplqyuZvSnPJTz5ubL6qQDufpR-WQ/s630/D130712C-FBBA-4D59-93F7-72638CE1196A.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="354" data-original-width="630" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidNwVjdl2bMtlp22FIkyPsTM184eUnh8IeicRblo1EIs6-5dJQloAtW248IUl2VW0XxPOChhzNxypVQOl5BMvW2jXlhzTIzyN55rWMAKAm2HFhOkALSIZflDjeG6ZWq6CGlNkK2UJxQmwZWCZ5iPUmmXplqyuZvSnPJTz5ubL6qQDufpR-WQ/s16000/D130712C-FBBA-4D59-93F7-72638CE1196A.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(23, 23, 23); color: #171717; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 600; text-align: start;">Ben & Jerry’s factory in Be’er Tuvia in southern Israel</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-weight: bold;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/06/29/ben-jerrys-forced-end-israel-boycott/&source=gmail&ust=1657143875298000&usg=AOvVaw1QWul-ouxdBX3H5AGSVGOn" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/06/29/ben-jerrys-forced-end-israel-boycott/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Ben and Jerry's Forced to End Israel Boycott</a></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"> - <span style="font-size: x-small;">Hannah Boland</span></span></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Consumer giant Unilever has blocked Ben & Jerry's from boycotting Israel by selling the ice cream brand's operations in the country to its local manufacturer, Avi Zinger, who has been making and selling the ice cream under license for the past 34 years. Unilever slapped down efforts by Ben & Jerry's to take a political stance, saying it "rejects completely and repudiates unequivocally any form of discrimination or intolerance."</span></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Last summer, Ben & Jerry's said that it would not be renewing its license agreement with its franchise partner. However, owner Unilever said it had overruled its subsidiary and sold the ice cream maker's local operations, following consultation with the Israeli government. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">(</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-style: italic;">Telegraph-UK</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">)</span></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">*</span></span></p>Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31461204.post-63593811580263527382022-04-26T15:34:00.002-04:002022-04-26T15:38:03.562-04:00TikTok Features Arab Burning Mezuzah Scroll<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIcAdhx7xcovBVj_buGxE8Df5w3FowKsZmWIgamo-7J-AXVyDvUqONK7MO8552Z7aeB00WuoOZSdLsjSinkA0ozPJQcr1LnQTEV0gmL7dBF3pnYnm1X-gdjEqk0OAakXQQ9P7ElDw1M7QQbon-bovUH0VNo6j8tNp-XCrUa6yQn0MA4A2aMg/s589/F2DDA49F-D57A-4C90-A395-3A1527943185.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="589" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIcAdhx7xcovBVj_buGxE8Df5w3FowKsZmWIgamo-7J-AXVyDvUqONK7MO8552Z7aeB00WuoOZSdLsjSinkA0ozPJQcr1LnQTEV0gmL7dBF3pnYnm1X-gdjEqk0OAakXQQ9P7ElDw1M7QQbon-bovUH0VNo6j8tNp-XCrUa6yQn0MA4A2aMg/w400-h255/F2DDA49F-D57A-4C90-A395-3A1527943185.webp" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arab setting fire to mezuzah scroll</td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"><a href="https://twitter.com/yairlapid/status/1518261735882469376">Double Standards: Video of Palestinian Who Destroyed a Mezuzah Went Viral</a></b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"> - Foreign Minister Yair Lapid</span></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A video that went viral on TikTok shows a young Palestinian who destroyed a mezuzah - which contains Hebrew verses from the Torah and is affixed to the doorpost of Jewish homes. When you watch this video, think about what would happen if there was a similar video of a young Israeli who did exactly the same thing to a Koran or to a picture of the Prophet Muhammad. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">(</span><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">Twitter</i><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">)</span></span></p><p><br /></p><p><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.israelhayom.com/2022/03/21/footage-of-palestinian-burning-mezuzah-sparks-social-media-firestorm/">Footage of Palestinian Burning Mezuzah Sparks Social Media Firestorm</a></b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana;"> - Hanan Greenwood</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A Palestinian sparked a social media firestorm on March 21 when he posted footage of himself setting a mezuzah parchment on fire on TikTok. The man is shown tearing the mezuzah off the doorframe, removing the parchment inside and setting it on fire - all with a big smile on his face. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">(</span><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">Israel Hayom</i><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">)</span></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">*</span></span></p>Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31461204.post-55385576000197710182022-04-03T15:16:00.004-04:002022-04-03T15:16:42.163-04:00Biden Tries to Crush Abraham Accords<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUfCrW5LjlkJB41nS5LC3r9SqDR3P26BQWG0CAk-rpXthvUew_0hpM4wM4y9iQ2_c9RlqmUTCKMXXhNQXOWelhqQxT0Qs9P5PsiQn8PtSAhUwN59whBFunS5d3XMBFyH1MpQcspPYHHX7XTsZiTwl-DnGH1uNl5rj_i_y99eZAaiC6sWLnkQ/s2470/2F433ACB-2273-486B-A950-DF1F8396FB27.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1619" data-original-width="2470" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUfCrW5LjlkJB41nS5LC3r9SqDR3P26BQWG0CAk-rpXthvUew_0hpM4wM4y9iQ2_c9RlqmUTCKMXXhNQXOWelhqQxT0Qs9P5PsiQn8PtSAhUwN59whBFunS5d3XMBFyH1MpQcspPYHHX7XTsZiTwl-DnGH1uNl5rj_i_y99eZAaiC6sWLnkQ/w640-h420/2F433ACB-2273-486B-A950-DF1F8396FB27.webp" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blinkin [center] is doing his best to neutralize The Abraham Accords in order for Biden [left] to realign the US toward Iran</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><h1 class="headline" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(29, 29, 27); clear: both; color: #1d1d1b; font-family: "Utopia W03 Display", serif; font-size: 44px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 46px; margin: 0px; padding: 8px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.jns.org/opinion/the-negev-two-state-summit/" target="_blank">The Negev two-state summit</a></h1><p><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(87, 87, 86); color: #575756; font-family: "Utopia W01", serif; font-size: 20px;">The so-called two-state solution has a hundred-year history of uninterrupted failure. In 1920, the League of Nations gave Britain the mandate for Palestine, which they were legally required to administer as the future homeland of the Jewish people. In 1922, the British carved out the majority of the land set aside for the Jews and established the Arab state of Transjordan—now known as the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(87, 87, 86); color: #575756; font-family: "Utopia W01", serif; font-size: 20px;">Britain’s initial two-state solution was supposed to end the Arab conflict with Israel. But of course, it didn’t. The Arabs pocketed Transjordan and expanded their war, as they have with every subsequent attempt to implement the two-state solution.</span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(87, 87, 86); color: #575756; font-family: "Utopia W01", serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Many Israelis and friends of Israel assumed the so-called two-state solution had finally been exhausted in 2000, when PLO chief and Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat rejected the Palestinian state that Israel offered him at the Camp David Summit and launched a terror war against the Jewish state. Israel won Arafat’s terror war by the skin of its teeth in 2004. </p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(87, 87, 86); color: #575756; font-family: "Utopia W01", serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Like the establishment of Transjordan and the failed Oslo peace process before it, Israel’s surrender of Gaza and establishment of what became Hamastan in Gaza did not placate the Arabs of the land of Israel—or even in Gaza. They pocketed the concession and used the territory they had received to escalate their war against Israel. Since the failed Gaza withdrawal, we have seen dozens more plans, peace conferences and envoys all committed to advancing the two-state solution.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(87, 87, 86); color: #575756; font-family: "Utopia W01", serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There was a sense that the long nightmare with the failed policy paradigm had finally and permanently died during Donald Trump’s presidency and Benjamin Netanyahu’s premiership. But now that Trump has been replaced with Biden and Netanyahu with the Bennett-Lapid-Gantz-Abbas government, last week it came roaring back.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(87, 87, 86); color: #575756; font-family: "Utopia W01", serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Blinken’s visit to Israel last week was a challenging moment for him. Like his Biden administration colleagues, Blinken is committed to implementing the Obama administration’s plan to realign the United States away from Israel and the Sunni Arab states and towards Iran. </span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(87, 87, 86); font-family: "Utopia W01", serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;">To block criticism of the nuclear deal the United States is now [colluding] with the Iranians, Blinken’s challenge last week was to neutralize the Israeli-Arab anti-Iran strategic alliance. And he used the two-state solution to achieve this goal.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(87, 87, 86); color: #575756; font-family: "Utopia W01", serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Before Blinken arrived at the Negev Summit on Monday night, he held another summit in Ramallah with PLO chief and P.A. chairman Mahmoud Abbas. When he arrived in Sde Boker, Blinken used his meeting in Ramallah to make the Palestinians the main subject of conversation. </p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(87, 87, 86); color: #575756; font-family: "Utopia W01", serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Blinken’s two-state solution offensive enabled him to ignore whatever protests Lapid and the Arab foreign ministers expressed at the Negev Summit. It also allowed him to change the subject. In their final statements at the end of the summit on Tuesday, the Arab foreign ministers ignored Iran and joined Blinken in voicing their support for the two-state solution.</span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(87, 87, 86); color: #575756; font-family: "Utopia W01", serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">[The Jerusalem Post]</span></p>Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31461204.post-59004172134394928762022-03-29T10:26:00.004-04:002022-03-29T10:26:58.085-04:00The Negev Summit: Groundbreaking & Underreported <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbdF4-r56S-jNQWaVz0EJy_Fl5DmfbaZguOtx8QkxmXJ7OaQ_bWB74Rg2BSyFlY5GFvPInI9Vi-QtOP7eoBflo6BbsqPV3wx9OYFUJRow2Gm84C8Mcuu5kjHhgCX2iS0wUlUcdlq1u7avEuBEdR1Br-SYQTXnBeDRaaAyElz0QtNN2rpCVIw/s864/4C7A9936-C897-4CAF-B337-17622551DC7B.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(30, 30, 30); color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 44px; font-weight: 700;"><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/foreign-ministers-of-bahrain-uae-morocco-and-egypt-arrive-for-negev-summit" target="_blank">Foreign ministers of Bahrain, UAE, Morocco and Egypt arrive for Negev Summit</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">The foreign ministers of Bahrain, the UAE, Morocco, and Egypt landed on Sunday evening in Israel ahead of a landmark regional summit</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> in the southern </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Negev Desert</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">, where they were joined by their Israeli counterpart, Yair Lapid.</span></div><div><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 26px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The UAE’s Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Bahrain’s Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, Morocco’s Nasser Bourita, and Egypt’s Sameh Shoukry all landed at the Nevatim Air Base in southern Israel.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shoukry, whose country was the first country to sign a peace agreement with Israel in 1979, joins the three Arab countries that signed the US-brokered normalization agreements known as the Abraham Accords in 2020.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">From the airbase, the senior diplomats headed to the Isrotel Kedma Hotel in Sde Boker, where Lapid — who is hosting the two-day event — greeted them.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An official close to Lapid told journalists that the Israeli top diplomat and the Arab dignitaries were discussing “advancing a regional security architecture.”</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The official added that the meetings so far have been “very warm, including embraces and friendly conversation.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The focus of the summit, according to officials, will be on regional threats, challenges, and opportunities. Among the issues expected to be at the center of the meetings are the Iran nuclear talks in Vienna, and the Russia-Ukraine war.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: red;">The summit is also seen as a display of diplomatic unity intended for Tehran.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[The Times of Israel]</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p></div><div><br /></div>Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31461204.post-62649747188204657382022-03-01T11:42:00.008-05:002022-03-01T11:43:36.831-05:00Israel & Ukraine: Lessons in History<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiBTxLAYhOE2LNQ_SngY3P3t6KUEefS3oRB2Gf1jjF3KE0YCTdjthDbpd6RKlY_ZMfA7-E6GLFRQ-4WgWJXWHG_fHFqBlvpjJWtl9oG97u6J5SOHSd-go4OGUUFiKjKr1kuE2DCfYGhf9lf3HSnnxS0P4brBM8WHS45Wj5BFyU-5VYBFCKmwA=s1000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="1000" height="349" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiBTxLAYhOE2LNQ_SngY3P3t6KUEefS3oRB2Gf1jjF3KE0YCTdjthDbpd6RKlY_ZMfA7-E6GLFRQ-4WgWJXWHG_fHFqBlvpjJWtl9oG97u6J5SOHSd-go4OGUUFiKjKr1kuE2DCfYGhf9lf3HSnnxS0P4brBM8WHS45Wj5BFyU-5VYBFCKmwA=w640-h349" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: navy; font-weight: bold;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/is-ukraine-headed-for-a-rude-awakening/&source=gmail&ust=1646237154227000&usg=AOvVaw236omjpMRYftAAfQS-ofYI" href="https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/is-ukraine-headed-for-a-rude-awakening/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">The Ukrainians Are Learning a Lesson that Israel Has Already Learned</a></span><span face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: navy;"> <br /><span style="font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">- Dr. Dan Schueftan (</span><span style="font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Israel Hayom</span><span style="font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">)</span></span></p><ul style="background-color: white; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="color: red;">The Ukrainians are learning today what the Czechs learned in 1938, and what the Jews vowed never to forget: Western democracies cannot be relied upon in the face of a threat from an authoritarian regime willing to turn to military measures to enforce its will. A country that cannot defend itself will be left to its own devices at a time it needs support the most</span><span style="color: navy;">.</span></li><li style="color: navy; margin-left: 15px;">Israel's War of Independence victory was achieved only thanks to the mobilization of full human potential and the massive arms smuggling that took place despite the U.S. embargo. Amid the pan-Arab threat, shaped under Egyptian President Nasser's leadership, Israel was left to its fate for almost 20 years.</li><li style="color: navy; margin-left: 15px;">In the 1950s, Israel faced a critical threat when the USSR supplied Egypt (and later other Arab countries) with massive quantities of frontline weapons, while Washington refused to supply Jerusalem with defensive weapons. France, which had helped Israel deal with these dangers, betrayed Jerusalem after the Six-Day War and supported its enemies.<br /></li><li style="color: navy; margin-left: 15px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhe2NTFWyyjgD6ZgH52JN2ol9w5v-JNRrjGZNOpzZkLyAqjsL_U5XIysqhOrKAnrwLef9dojoVLOxrSYA9D-JoszzK6jU2GubkCkf3QSuiOtVgwIeuUsVi92EPiePRan1zcDcd1KzaR7HGjyWUT6-MA-Evs4-pKCYMmZTK8CwgjukYGeAuT2A=s930" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="930" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhe2NTFWyyjgD6ZgH52JN2ol9w5v-JNRrjGZNOpzZkLyAqjsL_U5XIysqhOrKAnrwLef9dojoVLOxrSYA9D-JoszzK6jU2GubkCkf3QSuiOtVgwIeuUsVi92EPiePRan1zcDcd1KzaR7HGjyWUT6-MA-Evs4-pKCYMmZTK8CwgjukYGeAuT2A=w200-h112" width="200" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">President Zelenskyy at Israel's Western Wall</span></td></tr></tbody></table>When Arab countries declared war on Israel again in 1973, the rest of Europe turned its back on Jerusalem by refusing to allow American planes that carried supplies for the IDF to refuel in its territories. Europe continues to support efforts to delegitimize the Jewish state in international organizations, and generously funds groups that undermine it.</li><li style="color: navy; margin-left: 15px;">Israel became a success story not only because of its freedom and innovation, but also because it chose to base its national security on self-defense. Its survival, progress, and prosperity were made possible by its strong military and determination to defend itself on its own.</li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="color: navy;">Israel receives assistance due to its determination to survive without it. It prevents war through deterrence, for it has learned that </span><span style="color: red;">what triggers the aggression of authoritarian regimes is democracies' hesitance to use their power even if the avenues of diplomacy and economic means have been exhausted</span><span style="color: navy;">.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: navy; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The writer is head of the International Graduate Program in National Security at the University of Haifa.</span></span></li></ul>Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31461204.post-325245288268262262022-02-11T09:20:00.000-05:002022-02-11T09:20:34.961-05:00Palestinian Apartheid<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEha5Gg1b5kEA6_z74vtFPXgS-eoxqav25H7hEtMYKo3AFNBkttS6s-AnbOjDCsNu5qjK-ptYtMw8Ejo6BjQHwVCHmDBtdj7TI3hTofiIC9CEdS9hcM_ZjEzuUXGStFy8T_Z4nHpXRCwSq-GPAnqSEPMykIO1l8ZPvub6olQvtBuQ9mCeSebBA=s900" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="471" data-original-width="900" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEha5Gg1b5kEA6_z74vtFPXgS-eoxqav25H7hEtMYKo3AFNBkttS6s-AnbOjDCsNu5qjK-ptYtMw8Ejo6BjQHwVCHmDBtdj7TI3hTofiIC9CEdS9hcM_ZjEzuUXGStFy8T_Z4nHpXRCwSq-GPAnqSEPMykIO1l8ZPvub6olQvtBuQ9mCeSebBA=w640-h335" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-weight: bold;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.wsj.com/articles/theres-apartheid-in-the-holy-land-but-not-in-israel-amnesty-international-palestine-racial-discrimination-disfavored-group-11644338888?mod%3Dopinion_lead_pos6&source=gmail&ust=1644673959299000&usg=AOvVaw10UzifwoucXf9Kt9VGUR1H" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/theres-apartheid-in-the-holy-land-but-not-in-israel-amnesty-international-palestine-racial-discrimination-disfavored-group-11644338888?mod=opinion_lead_pos6" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">There's Apartheid in the Holy Land, but Not in Israel</a></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"> </span></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">- Prof. Eugene Kontorovich</span></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">There are reasons to be concerned about the emergence of apartheid in the Holy Land but not the ones Amnesty cites. The defining characteristic of apartheid - what distinguishes it from generic racial discrimination - is the rigid separation of groups in public spaces and positions of power. Thus, a sign of apartheid could be a government policy that bans real-estate sales or transactions to the disfavored group.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">Apartheid is suggested by policies that carve out massive zones where the disfavored group cannot live or work, create ethnically homogenous zones, and restrict the disfavored group to ghettos. One might consider it apartheid if a government enforced a policy of extrajudicial execution of members of a disfavored group.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">All these policies are practiced in the West Bank and Gaza by the Palestinian Authority government against Jews. <b>The "Israel apartheid" meme is not just a lie, it is an inversion of the truth</b>. In all areas controlled by Israel, Jews and Arabs mix openly. Yet all the areas under PA jurisdiction are Jew-free. Palestinian law makes selling land to Jews a crime punishable by death, often without trial. The South African government used death squads against blacks. The Palestinian government pays terrorists for killing Jews.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In all the territories controlled by the Palestinian government, Jews are prevented from worshipping at their holy sites, despite explicit provisions in the Oslo Accords requiring the Palestinian Authority to protect such worship.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">The writer is a professor at George Mason University Law School and a scholar at the Kohelet Policy Forum in Jerusalem.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">(</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-style: italic;">Wall Street Journal</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">)</span></span></div></div>Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31461204.post-57618161455743739702022-01-17T21:14:00.003-05:002022-01-17T21:14:25.013-05:00Israel Cannot Be An “Occupier” Of Her Own Land<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wu1rkvwzshE" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;">Succinct, clear, compelling and short video from PragerU debunking the notion that Israel is an “occupier” in the West Bank</span></i></b></div>Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31461204.post-13187353351367538712021-11-15T13:47:00.000-05:002021-11-15T13:47:24.761-05:00Ben & Jerry’s: The Financial Consequences of Harming Israel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTLP4Tdl_hF4AQG2H6J_pp6zpJZ5Bmc3T1a197xfM0-nuPGR6PSS5dXp9XYQIhkA1zKXa-gmkPJtEiLDa7ZmoL0WCD3pqVQHSvB-NFBE42DHunAhw-0CMxv-lHXrPKWBB3jq0R/s1200/FE857212-1360-4417-B312-F6AF0EE1FD16.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTLP4Tdl_hF4AQG2H6J_pp6zpJZ5Bmc3T1a197xfM0-nuPGR6PSS5dXp9XYQIhkA1zKXa-gmkPJtEiLDa7ZmoL0WCD3pqVQHSvB-NFBE42DHunAhw-0CMxv-lHXrPKWBB3jq0R/s320/FE857212-1360-4417-B312-F6AF0EE1FD16.jpeg" width="213" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><a href="https://nypost.com/2021/11/11/investor-ben-jerrys-israel-boycott-is-harming-unilever-shares/">Ben and Jerry's Israel Boycott Is Harming Unilever Shares</a></b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"> - Lydia Moynihan</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Since Ben & Jerry's announced on July 19 it would stop selling ice cream in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem, Unilever's stock traded on the New York Stock Exchange has fallen 13% and lost about $20 billion in market value as various funds have said they will pull money out of Unilever. </span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">(</span><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">New York Post</i><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">)</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">*</span></p>Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31461204.post-81244563211054339052021-10-18T14:05:00.001-04:002021-10-18T14:05:52.124-04:00Spreading the Boycott of Ben & Jerry’s: Wiesenthal Center Ad<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfJjAU2zgDxXbp7KxOB60BIiIhvEovaNRPhGD6tD9WnWAuahaQw__leAmSwnqGwWrU6_y7IEcQkkLw8L-K139KEOx4KSi_ermYYjxQFj-2zMJlzvySoBwzTk-K-r2RIGVCvwJ8/s1000/85D0996C-92EE-44EE-B828-D5C251CF4D0F.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="952" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfJjAU2zgDxXbp7KxOB60BIiIhvEovaNRPhGD6tD9WnWAuahaQw__leAmSwnqGwWrU6_y7IEcQkkLw8L-K139KEOx4KSi_ermYYjxQFj-2zMJlzvySoBwzTk-K-r2RIGVCvwJ8/w381-h400/85D0996C-92EE-44EE-B828-D5C251CF4D0F.jpeg" width="381" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31461204.post-44757576677778776992021-10-11T14:22:00.000-04:002021-10-11T14:22:14.889-04:00Muslim Tourism Will Bring Peace to Israel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEPFQQQCh5Cnetobec_itXjhR5Q9gLDhaniBDJ2OnTo9kEiHK8DpxG3F3Rw2euH4SR9hSKZ32Hx9D7BH5vO2WU-HcDzoXhNol4ar2zFMNFq9AW3o8O7_n6Wk7zL9vsxyLqXtzS/s640/D4A1226F-C95A-4573-A860-67FF38B27BD4.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="640" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEPFQQQCh5Cnetobec_itXjhR5Q9gLDhaniBDJ2OnTo9kEiHK8DpxG3F3Rw2euH4SR9hSKZ32Hx9D7BH5vO2WU-HcDzoXhNol4ar2zFMNFq9AW3o8O7_n6Wk7zL9vsxyLqXtzS/w400-h250/D4A1226F-C95A-4573-A860-67FF38B27BD4.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-weight: bold;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://themedialine.org/top-stories/amb-david-friedman-sees-muslim-tourism-to-jerusalem-as-way-to-end-conflict/&source=gmail&ust=1634058608948000&usg=AFQjCNFAe58r98A9t5PJ5v5rnvTKj_Ojvg" href="https://themedialine.org/top-stories/amb-david-friedman-sees-muslim-tourism-to-jerusalem-as-way-to-end-conflict/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">David Friedman: Muslim Tourism to Jerusalem Can End Conflict</a></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">- Felice Friedson</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">Former U.S. envoy to Israel David Friedman is opening the Friedman Center for Peace through Strength at the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem. Friedman said in an interview the big goal is to end the conflict. "I think it's endable. I think it's resolvable. I think what we've started is going to continue, the pace of which depends upon a lot of factors including support from the U.S. administration, but we are on a glide path, I believe, to end the Israeli-Arab conflict."</span></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana;">"My perspective on this is really to focus on Jerusalem. I think that making Jerusalem accessible to the Muslim world to see the care and respect that Israel gives to the Muslim holy sites, or the Christian holy sites, and of course, Jewish - I think seeing that firsthand will go a long way in removing the residual levels of mistrust that exist between the nations or the peoples."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">"I think that the most important thing is to begin to show the Muslim world that the third holiest site is well taken care of by the Israeli government, and that Israel is the solution, if you will, to many of the problems in the Middle East; not the problem....We are going to use the opportunity of being in Jerusalem to meet with as many groups from the region as we can, whether from Egypt or Jordan, or from the Gulf, and to really emphasize the openness and respect that Israel has for the Muslim faith."</span></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana;">"It's all about changing the way Jewish people and Arabs, and Arab-Israelis and the entire region begins to look at each other in a way where they can coexist. And more than coexist." </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana;">(</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana; font-style: italic;">Medialine</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana;">)</span></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy; font-family: verdana;">*</span></p>Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31461204.post-34032051832117548742021-07-29T15:41:00.004-04:002021-07-29T15:41:47.633-04:00Ben & Jerry’s Unites Jews & Their Allies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6IOw0zHC3NuSzOGUpX1IWea7iDWJ8eqFfVsabetLSprsOCQVAFPsLgXMT776eudTr3xUq1VEJ57x4uE7MLGcTKlqcEzUMniLCZS54-9QsYfPow_gD82dh1jrMr_qev__MKpNY/s960/35D56993-07AE-4D68-B865-852CA20F8BC3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="847" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6IOw0zHC3NuSzOGUpX1IWea7iDWJ8eqFfVsabetLSprsOCQVAFPsLgXMT776eudTr3xUq1VEJ57x4uE7MLGcTKlqcEzUMniLCZS54-9QsYfPow_gD82dh1jrMr_qev__MKpNY/s320/35D56993-07AE-4D68-B865-852CA20F8BC3.jpeg" width="282" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPy51EMPFz75K5frt6VN1H6Q9AYcgCvDf76v5906jKb1lIXH6DYpoc1gNKjJVrljO6shky9HsaMrZkxx5pZWoFpK2et98WW-MtaAOFYFBOIodeExpH35wwurAnnPAlE7i_iy-l/s960/DD74AC38-A832-482E-A7CE-6B756A836454.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="862" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPy51EMPFz75K5frt6VN1H6Q9AYcgCvDf76v5906jKb1lIXH6DYpoc1gNKjJVrljO6shky9HsaMrZkxx5pZWoFpK2et98WW-MtaAOFYFBOIodeExpH35wwurAnnPAlE7i_iy-l/w179-h200/DD74AC38-A832-482E-A7CE-6B756A836454.jpeg" width="179" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"><a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/bds-jerrys/">BDS and Jerry's</a></b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">- <span style="font-size: x-small;">Editorial</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">We're not clear how exactly removing Ben & Jerry's ice cream from grocery stores in the West Bank will benefit the Palestinians. The move appears to be primarily an act of guerrilla theater and a demonstration of base prejudice. The most common expression of anti-Semitism is the application of double standards to Jews and the Jewish state.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">There is no comparison between Israeli policy in the West Bank and the practices of the world's greatest human rights abusers. Unilever happily does business in Northern Cyprus, occupied Tibet, and Xinjiang, home to Uyghur concentration camps. We won't hold our breath for the ice cream boycott of China. But hey, there are no Jews in Xinjiang. We urge friends of Israel and the Jewish people to vote with their spoons. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">(</span><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">Washington Free Beacon</i><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"><a href="https://www.husseinaboubakr.com/blog/the-pitfalls-of-palestinian-exceptionalism">The Pitfalls of Palestinian Exceptionalism</a></b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">- Hussein Aboubakr</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">The Western righteousness industry seems to be deeply interested in democracy, freedom of speech, and human rights violations in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, but is disinterested in the same issues within Palestinian society. Their magical exceptionalism turns appalling acts of violence by Palestinians from terrorism into resistance.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Palestinian cause is waning among Arab nations, while ironically getting brighter in the West...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">The writer, a Muslim Arab imprisoned by the Egyptian military for his activities to combat anti-Semitism, is a full time educator and speaker for StandWithUs.</i><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">(</span><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">Hussein Aboubakr</i><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>FOOTNOTE</u></b>: </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-actually-it-s-the-palestinians-who-are-appropriating-jewish-culture-1.10031151">Actually, It's the Palestinians Who Are Appropriating Jewish Culture</a></b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">- Mor Altshuler</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">A recent article in</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"> </span><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">Ha'aretz</i><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">accused Zionists of "cultural and culinary appropriation" by presenting Palestinian foods as Israeli cuisine. Yet, as was proven by Prof. Menachem Felix and many others, there is almost no vegetable, fruit, spice or cooking method now ascribed to the Syrian-Palestinian kitchen that is not mentioned in the Bible or the Mishnah, and that didn't migrate with the Jews when they were exiled from their land.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">For example, in southeastern Turkey, kubbeh, the glory of the Palestinian kitchen, is called "Jewish kofta" - that is, Jewish meatballs. Jews invented kubbeh because it was their custom to eat meat on Shabbat, but it is religiously prohibited for them to slaughter animals or cook on that day. Before the refrigerator was invented, the solution was to wrap ground meat in dough and fry or bake it on Friday, so it wouldn't spoil.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">Similarly, eggplant and hummus, also ostensibly from the Palestinian kitchen, are mentioned in the records of the Spanish Inquisition as characteristic Jewish foods that could be used to identify people who formally converted to Christianity but secretly remained Jews. Moreover, olive oil, which has become a symbol of the Palestinian people, is one of the seven species the Bible cites as acceptable offerings in the Temple. It was used to anoint kings and priests and to light the menorah in the Temple.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It was the ancient Jewish cuisine of the Land of Israel that turned into one of the cuisines appropriated by Muslim nomads after they conquered the region in the seventh century. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">(</span><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">Ha'aretz</i><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;">)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); color: navy;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">*</span></span></div>Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31461204.post-45954873026137288162021-07-26T10:03:00.002-04:002021-07-26T10:03:18.375-04:00Ross: "Give Israel Mountain Buster Bombs"<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdEZ0iRQtd1ggGwHv_Gh-ypas4Ty03pXQjpCFbyAl5b9q-ywj6opkymugje9YCntX_o_cxBOVYFVgpSkgvu1QeypVAHycy4ekzjGLRX9TS_JRBmX4WMLYD_2UNUZkyOh3rv_Bm/s2048/Dennis_Ross.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1526" data-original-width="2048" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdEZ0iRQtd1ggGwHv_Gh-ypas4Ty03pXQjpCFbyAl5b9q-ywj6opkymugje9YCntX_o_cxBOVYFVgpSkgvu1QeypVAHycy4ekzjGLRX9TS_JRBmX4WMLYD_2UNUZkyOh3rv_Bm/w400-h297/Dennis_Ross.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Dennis Ross</span></i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b style="background-color: white; color: navy;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-07-23/u-s-should-give-israel-mountain-buster-bomb-to-deter-iran-s-nuclear-program">How the U.S. Could Empower Its Ally, Israel, to Deter Iran</a></b><span style="background-color: white; color: navy;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">- Dennis Ross </span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white; color: navy;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The U.S. must make the costs of pursuing a threshold capability far clearer. To do so, the Biden administration should consider providing Israel the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, a 30,000-pound mountain-buster, as well as leasing the B-2 bomber to deliver it. Such a weapon could be used to destroy Fordow, the underground Iranian enrichment facility, as well as other hardened nuclear sites.</span></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: navy;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: navy;">This would send a powerful message. The Iranians may doubt whether the U.S. would follow through on its threats; they won't have any trouble believing the Israelis will.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: navy;">(</span><i style="background-color: white; color: navy;">Bloomberg</i><span style="background-color: white; color: navy;">)</span></span></div><div><i style="background-color: white; color: navy;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">The writer, who served in senior national security positions for four presidents, is counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.</span></i></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: navy;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">*</span></span></div>Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31461204.post-87909415722384388762021-05-24T20:11:00.001-04:002021-05-24T20:11:58.823-04:00VideoBite: Liberation of Ethiopian Jews circa 1991 <div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" src="//players.brightcove.net/590066524001/17afba39-9902-4343-a46b-498c3530b08e_default/index.html?videoId=6255731293001"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i>Rare, stunning, newly released footage of Israel's rescue of Ethiopian Jews in 1991</i></b></span></div>Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.com0