Don’t make me laugh – Israel Opinion, Ynetnews

if Obama is going to threaten Israel with financing, he’d better look at his own… lol…. this is very sad. Obama still thinks he has leverage. news flash! the United States is a debtor to Israel

“As of September 2009, Israel’s foreign debt totals $28 billion. Meanwhile, the State of Israel’s foreign currency reserves total $60 billion. Most of them are invested in US government bonds. That is, the Israeli government’s foreign debt stands at -$32 billion. Or in other words, at this time we, Israelis, are financing America’s debts – and not the other way around.”

A lot of Israeli economists got a good laugh when US Special Middle East envoy George Mitchell threatened in a PBS interview last week to withhold Israel’s loan guarantees. Sever Plocker explains why.

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At this time too, the Israeli government is embarrassed to tell the US administration what needs to be said: Please, take back your loan guarantees. In the coming decade we probably will not need them, while you may very well need them. The Administration economists I met know this well.

People who still speak about “US economic pressure on Israel via loan guarantees” are completely disconnected from reality. Israel is now helping the US pay its deficits, and not the other way around. This is why we were laughing, the American economists and myself, when the issue of loan guarantees came up in our conversation. I was laughing happily; they were laughing somewhat sadly.

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George Mitchell

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Analysis of George Mitchell in his dialog with Charlie Rose.

Mitchell thinks this is impressive? Fayyad called for a Jew free territory

In just the past week, official PA television has hailed the first female Palestinian suicide bomber; PA president Mahmoud Abbas personally honored
Dalal Mughrabi, a legend of Palestinian terrorism who participated in the coastal-road massacre, the deadliest act of terrorism in Israel’s history (37 innocents were murdered); and both Abbas and the supposedly moderate PA Prime Minister, Salaam Fayyad, celebrated the killers of Rabbi Meir Avshalom Hai, who was gunned down by members of Fatah while driving last week.

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Over the past couple of weeks, the PA leadership has repeatedly lauded Fatah terrorists and their acts of murder. Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad have personally engaged in the celebrations.

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What was Mitchell’s reaction? Could he muster the kind of moral outrage that the Obama administration routinely reserves, say, for Jewish housing construction in Jerusalem? Well, no. He went on the Charlie Rose show and lauded Fayyad as an “impressive leader” and declared that the Fayyad-Abbas team represents “strong and effective leadership for the Palestinian people.”

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Rose is leading his viewers into empathy and lies regarding Jerusalem and who isn’t talking to who. it is only Abbas who is not coming to the table because he expects the EU and US to force Israel’s hand. Abbas and Fayyad has no reason to negotiate. Israel has every reason to talk. if Abbas talks then he loses power from Hamas. why negotiate when the status quo gets you what you want?

with George Mitchell via charlierose.com

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10796

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10796 <—entire interview

Mitchell seems confused as to the nature of the last legally binding contract, “The British Mandate of Palestine” and the exclusive contract that the United States is bound with the UK to respect the territory, as well as the UN’s respect of the mandate through the League of Nations. Further Mitchell seems to not realize that the legal solution of Jerusalem is for the people of the territory to vote on it’s government. a vote that was to happen when the city was two thirds Jewish (before the occupation and ethnic cleansing of Jews by the nation of Jordan on the territory of Judea and Samaria)

The complaint against Abbas had to do with his sponsorship in late December of a ceremony celebrating the 50th birthday of Dalal Mughrabi, the terrorist who directed the 1978 Coastal Road Massacre, the worst terrorist attack in the country’s history, where gunmen hijacked a bus and murdered 37 people, including 10 children. Mughrabi was killed during the attack.

On her recent birthday, the governor of Ramallah named a town square after her. A huge banner at the ceremony read, “Under the auspices of President Mahmoud Abbas, The Political and National Education Authority Ceremony on the anniversary of the birth of the bride of the cosmos, the shahida [martyr] Dalal Mughrabi.”

Israel’s complaint against Fayyad stemmed from his visit to the families of the three slain terrorists suspected of killing Chai near Shavei Shomron three weeks ago. The three men were killed by IDF soldiers on a raid meant to apprehend them.

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Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad told a crowd that a future Arab state in Judea and Samaria must be free of all Jews. Fayyad, who was never elected to his office democratically, was an economist for the International Monetary Fund until being handpicked by former United States President George W. Bush to lead the PA.

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Maybe President Obumbler’s attorney general can explain why that kind of statement and the ethnic cleansing that underlies it, which would not be tolerated in the United States, are okay for our region. I’m sure Eric Holder would tell you that it’s fine but there is no logical way to explain why.

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keep in mind that Fayyad is the one who is supposed to give Palestine a new way to think… through helping with economic issues…. apparently killing Jews has been thrown into his monetary system

Blair: 2-state solution or hell of a fight – Israel News, Ynetnews

Blair: 2-state solution or ‘hell of a fight’

Quartet’s Mideat envoy says next month will be ‘completely critical’ in efforts to resume negotiations between Israel, Palestinians

Yitzhak Benhorin

Published:

11.29.09, 21:15 / Israel News

WASHINGTON – Quartet envoy to the Middle East Tony Blair portrayed Sunday a harsh picture of the region without a Palestinian state. “The alternative to a two-state solution is a one-state solution and that will, I assure you, be a hell of fight,” he said in an interview to the CNN network.

According to Blair, the next month “will be completely critical and fundamental” in the efforts to resume direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.

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The former British prime minister noted that it was essential for the sides to sit down and talk “as quickly as possible”.

“I’ve just spent some time with the Israeli prime minister, Mr. Netanyahu,” Blair said, “and I think he is genuine and serious in wanting the negotiation to start.”

He said he believed that “the majority of people, both Israelis and Palestinians, want to see a two-state solution.” According to Blair, the Israelis want to know that their security is going to be protected, while the Palestinians want to know that the negotiations will really end the occupation and lead to a Palestinian state.

He added that he thinks “the Palestinians have made significant progress on security and the Israelis are prepared to change significantly their posture on the West Bank.”

‘We have to find a way through’

Blair, who served as British premier during the peace talks with Northern Ireland, which were led by US Senator George Mitchell, defended American President Barack Obama and his special Mideast envoy Mitchell, following a New York Times article accusing them of having no strategy.

“I have worked with Senator George Mitchell together very closely. He is, in my view, one of the most skilled and strategic negotiators I’ve ever come across… I think President Obama and Secretary (of State Hillary) Clinton are completely committed to doing this… I went through situations in times in the Northern Ireland process where people were convinced that the thing was going to fail, where even at times I found it difficult to see a way through. But the thing is there is a way through here, because in fact both parties want to achieve a two-state solution.”

Blair said he believes the biggest difference between the Bush administration and the Obama administration stems from the fact that Obama has made the Israeli-Palestinian peace process “a central strategic objective” at the very beginning of his administration.

“I have absolutely no doubt that he holds to that, and whatever the difficulties and the obstacles, we have to find a way through. And personally, I’m an optimist by nature and I believe we will,” he concluded.

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that sounds like a threat. which side are you on Blair? Palestine is Jordan. And if Jerusalem were occupied, then why does LIFE Magazine have photos of ethnic cleansing of Jews and evictions of Jewish homes in Jerusalem in 1947?

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Israel Matzav: J Street attacks Sarah Palin

J Street attacks Sarah Palin

If anyone still needs to ask whose side they’re on, you haven’t been watching the news. J Street, the pro-Israel pro-’peace’ organization, issued the following response to Sarah Palin’s comments about Israel in her interview with Barbara Walters.

J Street rejects Sarah Palin’s comments attacking President Obama’s sensible policy on Israeli settlements in the West Bank yesterday during an ABC News interview with Barbara Walters.

Palin’s pandering to her right-wing base comes at the expense of the security of the State of Israel, the lives of those actually living the conflict, and the fundamental American interest in achieving a two-state solution in the near term. Her words reveal a glaring ignorance of damaging facts and a callous disregard of past and present U.S. policy.

For decades, American presidents have held that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are an impediment to peace. They are joined by the majority of Israelis and pro-Israel Americans who view the growing settlement enterprise as a threat to Israel’s very future as a Jewish democracy.

President Obama’s administration continued along that path yesterday, rightly and sensibly expressing concern with unilateral actions on both sides that would preempt the negotiation of final status issues that are necessary to achieve a two-state solution to the conflict.

J Street supports President Obama and Middle East Peace Envoy George Mitchell as they press the parties to begin the hard work of achieving a two-state solution, the only way to secure Israel’s future as a Jewish, democratic homeland.

Whose side are they on? Not Israel’s side. The vast majority of Jewish Israelis do not believe that ‘settlements’ are an ‘impediment to peace.’ The ‘impediment to peace’ is the ‘Palestinian’ refusal to accept a State of Israel of any size in this region. The vast majority of Israelis do not believe that the ‘settlement enterprise’ is a threat to Israel’s future as a Jewish democracy.

But J Street continues to blindly support President Obumbler. When he is thrown out of office in 2012, will J Street fall into the dustbin of history? I sure hope so.

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