| Why has US President Barak Obama decided to foment a crisis in US relations with Israel? |
| Obama ordered Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to present Netanyahu with a four-part ultimatum. |
| Israel must cancel the approval of the housing units in Ramat Shlomo |
| Second, Israel must prohibit all construction for Jews in Jerusalem neighborhoods built since 1967. |
| Third, Israel must make a gesture to the Palestinians to show them we want peace. The US suggests releasing hundreds of Palestinian terrorists from Israeli prisons. |
| Fourth, Israel must agree to negotiate all substantive issues, including the partition of Jerusalem |
| the immigration of millions of hostile foreign Arabs to Israel under the rubric of the so-called “right of return, |
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Obama blocks delivery of bunker-busters to Israel
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| Officials said the U.S. military was ordered to divert a shipment of
smart bunker-buster bombs from Israel to a military base in Diego Garcia.
They said the shipment of 387 smart munitions had been slated to join
pre-positioned U.S. military equipment in Israel Air Force bases.
“This was a political decision,” an official said.
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“All signs indicate that this will continue in 2010,” a congressional
source familiar with the Israeli military requests said. “This is really an
embargo, but nobody talks about it publicly.”
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The decision to divert the BLU munitions was taken amid the crisis
between Israel and the United States over planned construction of Jewish
homes in Jerusalem. The administration, including Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton, has warned that Washington could reduce military aid to Israel
because of its construction policy.
Read more at www.worldtribune.com |
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90 Seconds to Gov’t Run Healthcare
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What you say, can and will, be held against you… US Lawmakers Stand Up Against Obama for Israel |
(IsraelNN.com) U.S. Congressional lawmakers have flooded the White House and the media with letters and news releases complaining about the Obama administration’s unprecedented scolding of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. This, following an Israeli announcement last week that a routine housing project was proceeding apace in eastern Jerusalem. |
| “Where, I ask, was the Administration’s outrage over the arrest and month-long incarceration by Hamas of a British journalist who was investigating arms-smuggling into Gaza? Where was the outrage when the Palestinian Authority this week named a town square after a woman who helped carry out a massive terror attack against Israel? It has been the PA who has refused to participate in talks for over a year, not the government of Israel. Yet once again, no concern was lodged by the Administration. And, all the while, Hamas restocks its terror arsenal and fires rockets into Israel.”Read more at www.israelnationalnews.com |
Obama’s Policy Challenges Congressional Law on Jerusalem |
(IsraelNN.com) U.S. President Barack Obama’s policy against a Jewish presence in parts of Jerusalem�flies in the face of the contents of a 1995 Congressional law to relocate the American embassy in a united capital. |
Congress passed the law in October 1995 after the House of Representatives approved it in a 374-37 vote and the Senate voted for it by a 93-5 margin. |
Then it goes on�to specifics in�Article 5,6,7: ” From 1948-1967, Jerusalem was a divided city and Israeli citizens of all faiths as well as Jewish citizens of all states were denied access to holy sites in the area controlled by Jordan. Since 1967, Jerusalem has been a united city administered by Israel, and persons of all religious faiths have been guaranteed full access to holy sites within the city.” Read more at www.israelnationalnews.com |
Mideast animal trade under fire |
BEIRUT - A 2-year-old lion, emaciated and barely breathing, is found in a tiny cage off a Beirut highway. Monkeys are hauled through the dark tunnels of Gaza, bound for private zoos. Rare prize falcons are kept in desert encampments by wealthy Arab sheiks. |
The trade in endangered animals is flourishing in the Middle East, fueled by corruption, ineffective legislation and lax law enforcement. |
“Much of the illegal trade that takes place here is of a specialized nature,” Sellar said, citing the example of prize falcons, kept by many Arab sheiks in desert encampments, particularly in the United Arab Emirates. |
“We’ve also seen some smuggling of very exotic species … like very rare parrots, young chimpanzees, gorillas and leopards that seem to be for the private collections of some of the rich individuals in the Gulf area,” he said. Read more at www.msnbc.msn.com |
| The Settlements Aren’t the Problem
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| The Israeli-Palestinian conflict isn’t territorial. It’s existential. Israelis are now broadly prepared to live with a Palestinian state along their borders. Palestinians are not yet willing to live with a Jewish state along theirs. |
That should help explain why it is that in the past decade, two Israeli prime ministers—Ehud Barak in 2000 and Ehud Olmert in 2008—have put forward comprehensive peace offers to the Palestinians, and have twice been rebuffed. In both cases, the offers included the division of Jerusalem; in the latter case, it also included international jurisdiction over Jerusalem’s holy places and concessions on the subject of Palestinian refugees. Current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also offered direct peace talks. The Palestinians have countered by withdrawing to “proximity talks” mediated by the U.S. Read more at online.wsj.com |
U.S. envoy cancels Mideast trip |
JERUSALEM - A U.S. envoy’s postponement of his Mideast trip appeared Tuesday to deepen one of the worst U.S.-Israeli feuds in memory — even as Israel’s foreign minister signaled his government had no intention of curtailing the contentious construction at the heart of the row. |
Hundreds of Palestinians hurled rocks at police and set tires and garbage bins ablaze across the holy city’s volatile eastern sector, where the construction is planned. Plumes of black smoke billowed and the air reeked of tear gas in the heaviest clashes in the city in months. Read more at www.msnbc.msn.com |
| USA VP Biden condemns Israel. Condemns Jewish stake on Jerusalem. |
Did the Obama administration representatives condemn the Palestinian Authority for inciting its children to violence against Israel? Did they condemn Abbas for refusing to take out of the Palestinian Covenant the destruction of the State of Israel? Did they condemn Hamas for brutalizing its own people? |
| No. Instead, they condemned the government of the State of Israel for issuing permits so Jews can build apartments and live in their capital of Jerusalem. |
| In Obama and Biden’s eyes, Jerusalem is out of bounds for Jews. Jews must not legally purchase property — property that was taken from them by Muslims and which they purchased back. |
It does not matter to Obama or Biden that Jews were forcibly driven from Jerusalem. |
| It does not matter that the Jewish State has opened Jerusalem to everyone after it was closed to them and most Christians during the Muslim occupation from 1948 to 1967.Read more at www.onejerusalem.org |
Obama Justice Department Shut Down Federal ACORN Investigation According to Documents Obtained by Judicial Watch |
The FBI and Department of Justice opened an investigation. However, the Obama Justice Department, while noting that ACORN had engaged in “questionable hiring and training practices,” closed down the investigation in March 2009, claiming ACORN broke no laws. |
“These documents reflect systematic voter registration fraud by ACORN,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “It is a scandal that there has been no comprehensive criminal investigation and prosecution by the Justice Department into this evident criminal conduct. Given President Obama’s close connections to ACORN, including his campaign’s hiring of the ACORN’s Project Vote organization, it seems rather obvious why Attorney General Holder has failed to seriously investigate these and other alleged ACORN criminal activities.” Read more at www.judicialwatch.org |
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