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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn</title>
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		<title>Why Do 80% of Palestinians Support Murder?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2014 05:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The one issue that unifies Palestinians more than any other. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/F121214IR01-1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247962" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/F121214IR01-1-450x299.jpg" alt="F121214IR01-1" width="342" height="227" /></a>In most parts of the world, it&#8217;s not easy to find a major issue on which 80% of the population agrees. An election victory in the United States is considered a &#8220;landslide&#8221; if the winner receives more than about 60% of the vote. (Such as Richard Nixon winning 65% of the vote against George McGovern in the 1972 presidential race.)</p>
<p>But among Palestinian Arabs in Judea-Samaria (the West Bank) and Gaza, it turns out there is one issue on which there is more support than any other: randomly murdering Israeli Jews.</p>
<p>The Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research last week asked a sample of 1,270 Palestinian Arab adults in the territories what they thought of the recent wave of attacks in which Palestinians stabbed Israelis or ran them over with their cars. Fully 80% responded that they support such attacks.</p>
<p>Note that the respondents weren&#8217;t talking about theoretical future attacks. They were commenting on recent attacks which they know all about. Here is what they are endorsing:</p>
<p>&#8211; Ramming a car into a crowd at a train station in Jerusalem. The fatalities included a three-month old infant.</p>
<p>&#8211; Stabbing an unarmed young woman standing at a bus stop in Gush Etzion.</p>
<p>&#8211; Axing and machine-gunning four rabbis at prayer in a Jerusalem synagogue.</p>
<p>Could the 80% endorsement be a fluke? A one-time aberration? A momentary lapse in good judgment, spurred by recent tensions?</p>
<p>Hardly. There is a remarkable consistency in Palestinian public opinion. The same polling institution surveyed 1,200 Palestinians in the territories in late September and found that 80% support resuming the firing of rockets from Gaza into Israel.</p>
<p>Why is it that 80% of Palestinians embrace the brutal murder and terrorization of Israeli civilians?</p>
<p>Three reasons stand out.</p>
<p>First, there is the general brutality of Palestinian Arab society. Violence by relatives against women suspected of immorality, violence by Muslim extremists against Christian Arabs, violence by the Palestinian Authority regime against dissidents&#8211;it&#8217;s all commonplace in the territories. That makes it easier for the average citizen to see violence as acceptable.</p>
<p>Second, there is a sense that violence works. Kidnapping Israelis led to the release of thousands of Palestinian terrorists from prison. Decades of bombings and hijackings led to widespread international support for Palestinian statehood. The recent attacks in Jerusalem have led to calls to redivide the city (including, most recently, by U.S. Mideast envoy Martin Indyk).</p>
<p>Third, and perhaps most important, is the influence of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish incitement by the Palestinian leadership. Secretary of State John Kerry has correctly pointed out that the Jerusalem synagogue slaughter was, as he put it, &#8220;a pure result of incitement.&#8221; The constant declarations by Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas and other leaders praising terrorists as heroes and accusing Israel of desecrating Muslim religious places, have created an atmosphere in which support for murdering Jews has become the norm.</p>
<p>The normally alleged justification for Palestinian violence – a reaction to “the occupation” – does not stand up. Since 1995, over 95% of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) Palestinians have lived under the administration of the Palestinian Authority, which controls all aspects of Palestinian life except for visas and external security. And since 2005, Palestinians in Gaza have controlled even these.</p>
<p>The Oslo Accords were supposed to have put an end to all that. Palestinian leaders were supposed to educate the public to embrace peace. They promised to change the hearts and minds of average Palestinians, to raise a generation ready to live in peace with Israel. Instead, they decided to do exactly the opposite. And, as the new poll demonstrates, they succeeded.</p>
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		<title>Palestinians Being Evicted in Gaza</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2014 05:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guess why the press isn't talking about it. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/eviction-notice.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244700" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/eviction-notice-428x350.jpg" alt="eviction-notice" width="344" height="281" /></a>Once more, Gaza&#8217;s border is in flames.</p>
<p>Civilians  are being evicted from their homes, a curfew has been imposed, and a crossing that enables Gazans to leave has been closed. Yet the world is silent. Isn&#8217;t that strange?</p>
<p>Hundreds of residents along one of Gaza&#8217;s borders have suddenly been ordered to evacuate, on just two days&#8217; notice. Their homes are to be demolished. There is no talk of compensation. Why isn&#8217;t the United Nations Security Council denouncing this outrage?</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Because it is Egypt, and not Israel, that is doing the evicting. (See the New York Times, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/29/world/middleeast/egypt-orders-evacuation-along-gaza-border-to-thwart-militants.html">October 28 edition</a>.)</p>
<p>The Egyptians have decided they need a buffer zone along their border with Gaza. They don&#8217;t trust the Hamas regime, which they say has been assisting terrorists who have been attacking Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai. Apparently Cairo does not accept the Obama Administration scripted fiction that the new Hamas-PA government is run by &#8220;technocrats.&#8221; Egypt understands that a Hamas-appointed &#8220;technocrat&#8221; is, first and foremost, a functionary of Hamas.</p>
<p>So the bulldozers are rumbling in Rafah. As a result of the Israel-Egypt peace treaty of 1979, the city of Rafah was split in half. Part of it is on the Gaza side of the border. Residents in the &#8220;Egyptian&#8221; part of town are now being evicted willy-nilly, in order to make room for a buffer zone that will be nine miles long, and with water-filled trenches that will be more than 500 yards wide &#8212; that&#8217;s half a kilometer, or five football fields.</p>
<p>Yet nary a word of protest from the White House, nor any suggestion of delaying any U.S. arms deliveries to Egypt.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not all. In response to the recent attacks in Sinai, the Egyptians have imposed a dawn-to-dusk curfew all along the Egypt-Gaza border. In other words, no resident of Rafah can leave his or her home after dark, for any reason.</p>
<p>Yet Thomas Friedman has not written any columns in the New York Times with heart-rending stories about Rafah  women being forced to give birth in unsanitary conditions because they can&#8217;t travel to the local hospital after sundown.</p>
<p>Egypt has also shut down the only crossing along the Egyptian side of the Gaza border. With the passageway closed, no Gazan can get out.</p>
<p>So where are the snarky political cartoonists depicting Gaza as a Holocaust-era ghetto? Nor is Secretary of State John Kerry warning of Egypt becoming ostracized and isolated in the world. Western academics are not threatening to boycott their Egyptian counterparts. J Street is not lobbying for U.S. intervention against this new assault on Arab civilians.</p>
<p>Could the hypocrisy of the international community be any more blatant?</p>
<p>Evidently, if they genuinely cared about the well-being of the residents of Rafah, the White House would be holding up arms to Egypt &#8212; exactly as it held up Hellfire missiles to Israel. If he were sincerely concerned about Arab lives, Thomas Friedman would be blasting the Egyptians on the op-ed page of the New York Times. If they truly wanted to help the evacuees, J Street&#8217;s lobbyists would be working overtime to get the Obama Administration to intervene against Cairo.</p>
<p>But the truth is that they don&#8217;t really care about the welfare of Arab civilians at all, unless there is an opportunity to bash Israel. When Arabs are mistreated by their fellow-Arabs, the State Department and the pundits and the &#8220;peace camp&#8221; fall silent.</p>
<p>So let&#8217;s all learn an important lesson from this experience. Israel and its supporters should stop worrying about the latest Thomas Friedman diatribe or the latest J Street conference or the latest unfriendly remarks by the Obama White House and the State Department. They will go on blaming Israel &#8212; and excusing Egypt and other Arab countries &#8212; no matter what. Nothing Israel does will ever satisfy them &#8212; so there&#8217;s no point in trying.</p>
<p><em>This article has been updated. </em></p>
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		<title>An American Joins the &#8216;PC Terrorists&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2014 05:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some terrorists are more sympathetic than others -- especially if their victims are Jewish Israelis. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/1753084290.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-244425" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/1753084290.jpg" alt="1753084290" width="300" height="173" /></a>Another young American man has given his life while fighting in the ranks of Islamist terrorists abroad. But this time, instead of being met with universal condemnations and scorn, the young terrorist is being greeted with sympathetic news accounts and &#8220;even-handed&#8221; statements from the State Department &#8212; all because he joined the politically correct terrorists, that is, the Palestinians.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Just think. When Eric Harroun of Arizona joined an Al Qaeda group fighting in Syria last year, he was arrested as soon as he tried to re-enter the United States.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">When Douglas McCain of Minnesota was killed in August while taking part in an ISIS attack in Syria, a senior Obama administration official told NBC that &#8220;the threat we are most concerned about to the homeland is that of fighters like this returning to the U.S. and committing acts of terrorism.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">When three young Muslim women from Colorado were caught on their way to try to join ISIS, the Obama administration strongly condemned them.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">But when U.S. citizen Orwa Abdel Hammad, a former resident of New Orleans, took part in an Islamist terrorist attack in the Middle East in October, the response from the Obama administration was oh so different.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Hammad was a Palestinian Arab with American citizenship. On Friday, October 24, decided to take part in the wave of Islamist violence against Jews that has been engulfing Israel in recent weeks.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Hammad positioned himself alongside Highway 60, north of Jerusalem, and prepared a Molotov cocktail. Spotting an approaching Israeli motorist, Hammad rose to hurl the flaming bottle of gasoline. The goal was to set the Israeli car on fire, so that its drivers and passengers would be burned alive.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Because they were Jews.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Fortunately, Israeli soldiers on a stakeout shot Hammad dead.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It turns out that Hammad was the cousin of a Palestinian terrorist who murdered ten Israelis in an attack in 2002. He was the nephew of a terrorist who died in a terrorist attack in 1989. And one of Hammad&#8217;s own cousins admitted to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that he and Hammad were among a group of Palestinian Arabs who were taking part in attacks on Israeli motorists.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The New York Times&#8217; account of the attack did not mention anything about Hammad&#8217;s quite relevant family lineage or his cousin&#8217;s testimony. The Times&#8217; headline on the story began &#8220;Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian Teenager…&#8221; &#8211;not &#8220;Palestinian Teenager Tries to Burn Israelis Alive…&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And while the dead terrorist Douglas McCain was denounced by the Obama administration as a grave threat to America, the dead terrorist Orwa Hammad was warmly embraced by the Obama administration.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki announced that the administration had sent its &#8220;deepest condolences&#8221; to the Hammad family. Psaki demanded that the Israeli government undertake &#8220;a speedy and transparent investigation&#8221; of the killing of Hammad. She called on &#8220;all parties to help restore calm and avoid escalating tensions in the wake of the tragic recent incidents in Jerusalem and the West Bank.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Psaki in no way called on the Palestinian Authority &#8212; in whose territory Hammad resided &#8212; to investigate its young people who are trying to burn Israelis alive.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Nor did Psaki make any distinction between Palestinian terrorists and Israelis acting in self-defense. Instead, it was the fearsomely familiar Obama moral equivalency: &#8220;all parties&#8221; should be &#8220;calm&#8221;; &#8220;all parties&#8221; should &#8220;avoid escalating tensions.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Psaki called the killing of Orwa Hammad &#8220;tragic.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">She got her tragedies wrong.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It&#8217;s a tragedy that the Palestinian Authority actively incites its young people to try to murder Israelis.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It&#8217;s a tragedy when American citizens take part in Islamist terrorism, whether in Syria or Israel.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And it&#8217;s a tragedy &#8212; actually, an outrage &#8212; when the United States government cannot distinguish between victim and aggressor, between right and wrong, or between good and evil.</p>
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		<title>Ottawa Attack: Contrasting the Mothers of Terrorists</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2014 04:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stunning difference between Palestinian mothers and Susan Bibeau. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/canada-ottawa-shooting.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243674" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/canada-ottawa-shooting-450x344.jpg" alt="canada-ottawa-shooting" width="378" height="289" /></a>The mother of the Muslim terrorists who attacked Canada&#8217;s parliament building on October 22 says she is weeping for her son&#8217;s victims, not for her son. What a contrast with the mothers of Palestinian terrorists who murder Israelis.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">Mrs. Susan Bibeau, the mother of Canadian terrorist Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, told the Associated Press on October 23: &#8220;If I&#8217;m crying it&#8217;s for the people, not for my son…I am mad at my son.&#8221;</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">If only Palestinian mothers felt the same way! Instead, they have the jihad mentality, too.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">Last year (on Jan. 27, 2013), the Facebook page of Fatah, the movement headed by Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas, posted a feature about the mother of 23-year-old Wafa Idris, the first female Palestinian suicide bomber. She murdered one Israeli, and wounded over 100, by blowing herself up in a Jerusalem supermarket in 2002. The posting quoted Wafa&#8217;s mother as saying &#8220;She is a hero…My daughter is a Martyr (Shahida).&#8221; </span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">The Fatah page added: &#8220;Wafa&#8217;s mother said that she is proud of her daughter, and hopes that more girls will follow in her footsteps.&#8221;</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">More recently, in an interview with Israel Television on </span><span class="aBn" style="color: #222222;" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_1099525506"><span class="aQJ">June 29</span></span><span style="color: #222222;">, the mother of one of the Hamas terrorists involved in the kidnap-murders of three Israeli teenagers said: &#8220;If they [the Israelis] accuse him of this [the kidnapping], and if it is a true accusation, I will be proud of him until Judgment Day. If the accusation that he did it is true&#8230;My boys are all righteous, pious and pure. The goal of my children is the triumph of Islam.&#8221;  </span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">Of course, that is not to say that no Palestinian mothers have any regrets about their children carrying out suicide bombing. But those regrets are not always the kind one would hope for. For example, on June 6, 2004,  PA Television broadcast these remarks by the mother of a 15-year-old who died during a suicide attack: &#8220;It was sad and joyous what happened to him, meaning, he always liked the Shahada (Martyrdom). All children at his age do. He always cared for me. I would have preferred that one of his other brothers would have attained Shahada instead of him, because he was the joy of my life.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #222222;">(All translations courtesy of Palestinian Media Watch.)</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">How can one explain the stark contrast between the Canadian mother and the Palestinian mother? It&#8217;s not really so complicated. Different cultures have different values. Canadian culture promotes Judeo-Christian values &#8212; democracy, equal rights, respect for minorities, non-violence.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">By contrast, Palestinian society is dominated by a &#8220;culture of Jihad,&#8221; Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya&#8217;alon said this week.  On his Facebook Page, Ya&#8217;alon wrote that the latest Palestinian terrorist attacks are “clearly the outcome of those in the Palestinian Authority who educate the younger generation to hate Jews and expel them from their homeland.” He added: “The Palestinian Authority does not, and never did, have a culture of peace, but rather a culture of incitement and jihad against Jews. It starts with Abbas’s lying statements against Israel from the UN podium, continues with persistent Palestinian attempts to delegitimize us in the international arena and ends with incitement in the Palestinian education system. These are the harsh consequences.&#8221;</span></p>
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		<title>Indyk&#8217;s Yom Kippur War on Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2014 04:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The former U.S. envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations shows what side he's really on. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/martin-indyk.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243073" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/martin-indyk-450x314.jpg" alt="Martin Indyk" width="325" height="227" /></a>As Yom Kippur sermons go, Martin Indyk&#8217;s was a doozy. Speaking at the Adas Israel synagogue in Washington, D.C. on the holiest day of the Jewish year, the former U.S. envoy to the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations accused Israel of showing &#8220;total disrespect&#8221; for the Obama administration.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Indyk said many things in his Yom Kippur address with which one might take issue, but one analogy in particular stands out as especially disturbing.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">He said that he “discovered” in the most recent round of failed negotiations &#8220;that we would crack the whip, but no one was responding to our whip cracks. That&#8217;s a change.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">How disappointing for Indyk. Those who recall his days as U.S. ambassador to Israel no doubt feel a sense of deja vu when they hear Indyk talking about whips. Here is how he described his role in Israel to the Washington Post back on February 24, 1997:  &#8220;The image that comes to mind is a circus master. All these players in the ring. We crack the whip and get them to move around in an orderly fashion.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Ironic, isn&#8217;t it? The ex-diplomat who accuses Israel of being &#8220;disrespectful&#8221; has repeatedly compared the Israelis to circus animals who need to have some sense whipped into them. And when the dumb brutes don&#8217;t respond, Indyk the circus master is outraged and lashes out at his victims.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The irony goes further. Indyk served a president who has made almost a hobby of being disrespectful to Israel&#8217;s prime minister. Nobody can forget the time that President Obama deliberately left Prime Minister Netanyahu waiting for an hour and a half, while he went off to have dinner with Michelle and the kids. Or the infamous photo that the White House released of President Obama with his feet on his desk as he spoke by phone with Netanyahu.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Not to mention just last week, when Mr. Obama repeatedly referred to Netanyahu as &#8220;Bibi,&#8221; while Netanyahu, by contrast, appropriately referred to Obama as &#8220;Mr. President.&#8221; In an earlier era, perhaps someone could complain that it was difficult for an American president to pronounce a name such as &#8220;Menachem.&#8221; But how hard would it have been for President Obama to pronounce the name &#8220;Benjamin&#8221; ?</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">If the U.S.-Israel relationship is indeed &#8220;in trouble,&#8221; as Ambassador Indyk claimed in his Adas Israel speech, the reason is not that Israelis are being &#8220;disrespectful,&#8221; which Indyk claims to be &#8220;really, really disturbed by.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The reason is that the Obama Administration&#8217;s policymakers, starting with the president and going all the way down the line to envoys such as Indyk, automatically blame Israel for everything and the Palestinians for nothing.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">They denounce Israel for construction within existing Jewish towns in Judea-Samaria, but never criticize the Palestinian Authority for building entire new Arab cities there. They denounce Israel for building homes in Jerusalem, yet they never say anything about the widespread illegal Arab construction in Jerusalem.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Nor do they ever say a word about the truly &#8220;disrespectful&#8221; actions by the PA toward the United States, such as paying salaries to imprisoned terrorists who have murdered Americans, or naming streets, parks and soccer tournaments after killers of Americans &#8212; including the killer of the niece of the late U.S. Senator Abraham Ribicoff.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Just two weeks ago, both PA cabinet minister Yusuf Ida&#8217;is and the official PA news agency &#8220;WAFA&#8221; praised the killers of the three Israeli teenagers &#8211;one of whom was an American&#8211; as &#8220;Shahids,&#8221; or &#8220;martyrs.&#8221; And just a few weeks before that, the official PA daily newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida published no less than five articles in a six-day period acusing the United States of creating ISIS in order to destabilize the Middle East.  (For details, see <a href="http://www.palwatch.org/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">www.palwatch.org</span></a>)</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It is precisely this Obama-Indyk attitude, which ignores the disrespectful actions of the PA, and accuses Israel of being &#8220;disrespectful&#8221; if it fails to respond to &#8220;whip cracks,&#8221; which threatens U.S.-Israel relations.</p>
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		<title>Rejecting U.S. Support for Palestinian &#8216;Ethnic Purification&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 04:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu's bold rebuke of Obama's push for segregation in Jerusalem. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/benjamin-netanyahu-on-his-relati.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242521" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/benjamin-netanyahu-on-his-relati-450x330.jpg" alt="benjamin-netanyahu-on-his-relati" width="310" height="227" /></a>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told “Face the Nation” on Sunday, October 5 that preventing Jews from living and building in mostly-Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem would mean a policy of &#8220;ethnic purification” that is unacceptable in democratic societies. In so doing, Netanyahu once again showed his mastery of nuance in American politics &#8212; a nuance, as it turns out, that even American presidential candidates do not always recognize.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">Appearing on the CBS-TV interview program opposite anchor Bob Schieffer, Netanyahu strongly defended the recent purchase by Jewish families of apartments from Arabs in Jerusalem&#8217;s Shiloach neighborhood, as well as the Israeli government&#8217;s plans to build homes for Jews and Arabs in the city&#8217;s Givat Hamatos section.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">Netanyahu told Schieffer that he was baffled by President Obama&#8217;s criticism of the latest Jerusalem developments, since the idea of barring members of a particular ethnic group from living in specific areas is clearly against American values. He said that neither the United States nor Israel should ever have a policy of enforcing &#8220;ethnic purification.&#8221;</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">That phrase brings to mind a generation-old controversy in American political history.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">The year was 1976. Jimmy Carter, the former governor of Georgia, was locked in a tight race for the Democratic presidential nomination. The hot issues of the day included the busing of African-American children to mostly-white schools and the building of low-income housing in higher-income neighborhoods. A significant number of Democratic primary voters in some states were strongly opposed to both.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">When a reporter asked Carter about the housing issue, Carter evidently tried to appeal to conservative white voters by declaring: &#8220;I see nothing wrong with ethnic purity being maintained. I would not force racial integration on a neighborhood by government action.&#8221;</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">That comment ignited a firestorm of questions from reporters. At first, Carter stood his ground. At a news conference in Indianapolis two days later, he reiterated: &#8220;I see nothing wrong with ethnic purity being maintained in Indianapolis. I have nothing against a community trying to maintain the ethnic purity of their neighborhoods.&#8221;</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">By the next day, the condemnations were coming thick and fast. Seventeen black members of Congress and the National Urban League denounced Carter&#8217;s statements.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">Carter buckled. He publicly apologized, announced his endorsement of employment legislation that the Congressional Black Caucus had been promoting, and declared: &#8220;I don&#8217;t stand behind any sort of connotation of ethnic purity. I don&#8217;t want any community to maintain its ethnic purity. If someone from a different ethnic group wants to go into a neighborhood, I would fight for that person&#8217;s right to do that.&#8221;</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">Nowadays, Carter is much more likely to be seen hugging a leader of Hamas, than standing on the same political side as an Israeli prime minister. After all, Carter has authored an entire book accusing Israel of &#8220;apartheid,&#8221; and has even publicly claimed that &#8220;obviously the Palestinians have a worse time than the Rwandans.&#8221; (Not so obvious to those who know that one million people were slaughtered in the 1994 Rwanda genocide.)</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">But Carter&#8217;s amended declaration speaks for itself: &#8220;If someone from a different ethnic group wants to go into a neighborhood, I would fight for that person&#8217;s right to do that.&#8221;</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">The new Jewish residents of Jerusalem&#8217;s Shiloach and Givat HaMatos neighborhoods no doubt appreciate that principle, regardless of who is the person articulating it.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">And Prime Minister Netanyahu was spot-on to use the argument to a nationwide American audience in rejecting the Obama administration&#8217;s latest criticism.</span></p>
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		<title>An Illegal Arab Settlement in the West Bank?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2014 04:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where is the international outrage? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/zhRvN.AuSt_.91.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240326" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/zhRvN.AuSt_.91-416x350.jpg" alt="zhRvN.AuSt.91" width="347" height="292" /></a>Another illegal settlement has arisen in the Judea-Samaria (West Bank) territories, the New York Times reports. Surely there will soon be an expression of &#8220;deep concern&#8221; from the Obama administration, a furious resolution from the United Nations Security Council, and a letter from twelve angry congressmen mobilized by J Street.</p>
<p>Oh, wait. It&#8217;s not a Jewish settlement &#8212; it&#8217;s an Arab settlement. Cancel the outrage!</p>
<p>A feature article in the New York Times on August 31 reports that the Palestinian Authority is building a new settlement called Rawabi. The first 600 apartments are already complete, out of a projected 6,000 units that will house an estimated 40,000 people.</p>
<p>While Jewish communities in the same area, with even larger populations, are called &#8220;settlements&#8221; by the Times and the rest of the world news media, Rawabi is for some reason characterized as a &#8220;town&#8221; and a &#8220;city.&#8221;</p>
<p>Why is one man&#8217;s community called a &#8220;settlement&#8221; and another&#8217;s a &#8220;town&#8221; ?</p>
<p>Because a &#8220;settlement&#8221; sounds like a foreign implant &#8212; something that has no business being there. A &#8220;town&#8221; sounds normal and natural. Supporters of the Palestinian cause &#8212; whether in the news media, the State Department, or misnamed &#8220;peace&#8221; groups &#8212; want to award Judea and Samaria to the Palestinian Arabs. They want everyone to recognize those territories to be &#8220;Palestinian.&#8221;</p>
<p>The problem they face is that there are three significant obstacles to calling the territories &#8220;Palestinian&#8221;:  international law, history, and a text of religious history called the Bible.</p>
<p>According to international law, Jews have at least as much right as Arabs to build towns in Judea and Samaria. All of the documents related to the governing of those territories throughout the past century &#8212; the Balfour Declaration, the League of Nations Mandate, and so on&#8211;specifically endorse the right of Jews to build there. The territories have never been part of a &#8220;Palestinian&#8221; state which made them legally off-limits to Jews.</p>
<p>And according to the historical record, Judea and Samaria belong to the Jews. That&#8217;s why they have been called &#8220;Judea and Samaria&#8221; since ancient times. The Jews had a sovereign state there for nearly a thousand years, then maintained a continuous presence for the past 3,000 years. Arab roots in the area are remarkably shallow: the vast majority of the Arab residents are the children or grandchildren of migrants from Arab countries who immigrated when the Jews began developing the land in the 1920s and 1930s. The local Arabs traditionally called themselves &#8220;southern Syrians&#8221; and never claimed any separate &#8220;Palestinian&#8221; identity until they began using it as a propaganda weapon against Israel in the 1960s.</p>
<p>Tens of millions of Bible believing Christians in America, and many more around the world, join millions of Jews in acknowledging that the Bible repeatedly and unambiguously refers to Judea and Samaria as the heart of the Jewish national homeland. As birth certificates go, that&#8217;s pretty strong.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s a lot for proponents of the Palestinian cause to overcome. Some of them have used terrorism to try to intimidate Israel into withdrawing. Some have used threats of boycotts and international isolation to frighten the Israeli public and its Diaspora supporters.</p>
<p>And some use the weapon of language to subtly wage war, wielding labels and slogans and assumptions as rhetorical swords to slash their opponents. Exhibit A: The illegal settlement of Rawabi.</p>
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		<title>Hillary&#8217;s Hand in Hamas&#8217; Terror Tunnels</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2014 04:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One accomplishment from Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hillary1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239435" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hillary1-409x350.jpg" alt="hillary1" width="291" height="249" /></a>Much has been said and written about the terror tunnels that Hamas built in Gaza. But too little has been said about who it was that put the cement into Hamas’ hands, thus making the construction of the tunnels possible in the first place.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Until now.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In a bombshell revelation, Dennis Ross, the senior Mideast policy adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from 2009 to 2011, has admitted that it was he who was assigned the task of pressuring Israel to ease up on its military blockade of Gaza, in the events after Israel&#8217;s withdrawal from that region in 2005.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">&#8220;I argued with Israeli leaders and security officials, telling them they needed to allow more construction materials, including cement, into Gaza so that housing, schools and basic infrastructure could be built,&#8221; Ross revealed in the Washington Post on August 10. &#8220;They countered that Hamas would misuse it, and they were right.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Not that Hillary&#8217;s State Department had been acting independently of the White House on the issue of cement. For example, Vice President Joe Biden told interviewer Charlie Rose, on Bloomberg TV in 2010: &#8220;We have put as much pressure and as much cajoling on Israel as we can to allow them to get building materials&#8221; and other forbidden items into Gaza.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">But now that Mrs. Clinton is attempting to distance herself from the president’s debacles in foreign affairs, Ross’s admission shows that it was she who sent her personal envoy to push for a policy that ultimately enabled Hamas to build the terror tunnels.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Israeli officials have long been justifiably concerned about the danger of dual-use items such as cement. On the one hand, cement could be used for innocent purposes such as home construction, in the hands of a peace-seeking, trustworthy government. But in the hands of untrustworthy elements &#8212; such as the Hamas terrorist regime that rules Gaza &#8212; it could also be used for other purposes. Such as terror tunnels.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">President Obama recently remarked, in his much-discussed interview with Thomas Friedman of the New York Times: &#8220;Because Israel is so capable militarily, I don’t worry about Israel’s survival.&#8221; Secretary Clinton evidently shared that dismissive attitude when she sent Ross on his mission to put cement into Hamas&#8217; hands.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It seems Obama and Clinton forgot that Israel is the only country in the world that is threatened with annihilation by a nearby regime rushing to build nuclear weapons. Israel is the only country in the world that, in the space of just 65 years, has been forced to fight four major defensive wars and five smaller ones, in order to survive. Israel is the only country in the world whose next-door neighbors have built dozens of tunnels into Israel to perpetrate massacres of civilians.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Today, at least thirty-two terror tunnels later, we know that Clinton, Obama and Ross have been wrong, while Israel is right.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Hamas spent between $1-million and $10-million to build each of those tunnels, using as many as 350 truckloads of cement and other supplies per tunnel, according a report in to the Wall Street Journal, quoting Israeli military officials.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And it is &#8220;likely that there are additional tunnels&#8221; that the Israelis have yet to uncover, according to the Journal’s report.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Instead of lethal purposes, the materials used for each tunnel could have built 86 homes, or 19 medical clinics, or seven mosques, or six schools. But Hamas had other priorities.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And Secretary Clinton consciously turned a blind eye. Just as she turned a blind eye to other aggressive and anti-peace behavior by the Palestinians, such as the Palestinian Authority&#8217;s sheltering of known terrorists, its payments to imprisoned terrorists, the anti-Israel and anti-America propaganda that fills the PA-controlled media, and the anti-Semitic hatred in the textbooks used in the PA&#8217;s schools.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">What are the real-life consequences of ignoring such Palestinian actions? An entire generation of young Palestinians have grown up incited to hatred of Jews and Israel, and glorifying terrorists as heroes and martyrs.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">What are the real-life consequences of Mrs. Clinton putting cement into Hamas&#8217;s hands? The tunnels into Israel were used to carry out the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit and numerous other attacks in which Israelis were murdered. They were being prepared to carry out a mass coordinated attack on Israeli towns and kibbutzim, this year on Rosh Hashanah.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Imagine a scenario in which a surgeon decided that she wanted to employ a controversial and risky technique. She was warned repeatedly that it was too dangerous, but proceeded anyway and in the process nearly killed the patient. Surely that would be deemed malpractice. The surgeon probably would be barred from ever again practicing medicine.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Secretary of Stated Hillary Clinton committed diplomatic malpractice. Her own top aide has revealed that it was she who put the cement into Hamas&#8217; hands, even after Israel warned repeatedly that doing so was too dangerous. And Israel continues to suffer the consequences.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Another lesson of the Gaza war: Even as we condemn Hamas’ diversion of cement from the construction of housing to the construction of terror tunnels, let us not forget that it was Hillary Clinton who pushed through the policy that made those tunnels possible.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><em>[Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn are members of the board of the Religious Zionists of America. This article is part of a series. To view previous installments, please visit <a href="http://www.phillyreligiouszionists.org/lessons-from-the-gaza-war/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">http://www.phillyreligiouszionists.org/lessons-from-the-gaza-war/</span></a>.]</em></p>
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		<title>Lessons for Obama from Canada</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2014 04:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The message of Prime Minister Stephen Harper vs. President of the United States. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Canada-Israel-Flag.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-236590" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Canada-Israel-Flag.jpg" alt="Canada-Israel-Flag" width="265" height="198" /></a>This is part of a series on Israel&#8217;s Operation Protective Edge in Gaza. To view previous installments, please visit </span><a style="color: #1155cc;" href="http://www.phillyreligiouszionists.org/lessons-from-the-gaza-war/" target="_blank">www.phillyreligiouszionists.<wbr />org/lessons-from-the-gaza-war/</a><wbr style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">.</span></em></p>
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<p>Israel long ago learned that you can tell who your real friends are when the chips are down. The Gaza war is proving that again.</p>
<p>During the 2012 election campaign, when polls showed that President Barack Obama might lose a significant portion of the Jewish vote in key electoral states, he declared that he &#8220;will always have Israel&#8217;s back.&#8221;</p>
<p>But this past week, as hundreds of Hamas rockets rained down upon the Jewish state, and Israel really needed an ally to have its back, President Obama called Prime Minister Netanyahu to demand that Israel show &#8220;restraint.&#8221;</p>
<p>That was followed the next day by a phone call from Secretary of State John Kerry to Netanyahu, warning against &#8220;escalating tensions&#8221; and pressing Israel to let him &#8220;mediate a truce.&#8221;</p>
<p>The last thing Israel needs is a &#8220;truce&#8221; with Hamas. The Israelis have had two of those already. A &#8220;truce&#8221; means Hamas gets several more years to build up its supply of rockets, in preparation for the next round.</p>
<p>And with every new round, Hamas has new rockets, that can reach even further and cause even more devastation.</p>
<p>By pressing for &#8220;restraint&#8221; and a &#8220;truce,&#8221; Obama and Kerry are, in effect, trying to save Hamas from being crippled or destroyed by Israel. Is that their idea of &#8220;having Israel&#8217;s back&#8221; ?</p>
<p>Now contrast the Obama-Kerry line that with the words of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper this week:</p>
<p>&#8211; “The indiscriminate rocket attacks from Gaza on Israel are terrorist acts, for which there is no justification.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; “It is evident that Hamas is deliberately using human shields to further terror in the region.”</p>
<p>&#8211; “Failure by the international community to condemn these reprehensible actions would encourage these terrorists to continue their appalling actions.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; “Canada calls on its allies and partners to recognize that these terrorist acts are unacceptable and that solidarity with Israel is the best way of stopping the conflict.”</p>
<p>There was really nothing controversial in Harper&#8217;s words. They were simple statements of fact. But in today&#8217;s upside-down world, it is remarkable when a world leader simply tells the truth about Israel and the Palestinians.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s almost as if we are surprised when a world leader turns out not to be a hypocrite, a political coward, or an appeaser. We&#8217;re so used to the international community&#8217;s outrageous double standards, that it becomes remarkable when a national leader acts like a mensch.</p>
<p>Israel has a true friend in Ottawa. The White House could learn a thing or two from Stephen Harper about what it really means to have someone&#8217;s back.</p>
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		<title>First Lesson of Gaza War: The Blockade Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2014 04:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amnesty International and the Left owe Israel an apology. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20100617_uniraq_560x375.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236259" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20100617_uniraq_560x375-446x350.jpg" alt="20100617_uniraq_560x375" width="283" height="222" /></a>During the first 24 hours of the Gaza war, Palestinian terrorists fired more than two hundred rockets into Israel. Yet only one Israeli was wounded, and none were killed. How is that possible?</p>
<p>When Israel fires missiles at enemy targets, they strike with pinpoint accuracy. Sometimes they hit a lone terrorist on a motorcycle, or a single, targeted apartment in the middle of a dense cluster of apartment buildings.</p>
<p>Yet when Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other Palestinian terror groups fire rockets into Israel, the vast majority land in empty fields or parking lots or other uninhabited sites.</p>
<p>The difference is not that the Israelis have better aim. The difference is that the Israelis have the right equipment, and the Palestinians don&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Israel has the sophisticated computer systems necessary to ensure that their missiles lock on the desired target. The Palestinians don&#8217;t have that technology.</p>
<p>The reason they don&#8217;t is because of the Israeli blockade of Gaza.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s right, the much-maligned Israeli blockade&#8211;the focus of so much griping by the Arabs, by Palestinian support groups around the world, by the United Nations and even by the Obama administration. That blockade. It&#8217;s working.</p>
<p>Israel took a lot of heat for intercepting the Mavi Marmara, the ship of pro-Hamas extremists from Turkey and elsewhere that tried to bust the blockade of Gaza in 2010. In the aftermath of that episode, various groups adopted the blockade issue as their cause du jour.</p>
<p>In 2011, for example, a panel of five &#8220;independent human rights experts&#8221; for the United Nations declared that the blockade is &#8220;a flagrant contravention of international human rights law.&#8221; In 2012, the UN&#8217;s annual report on the Gaza situation called the blockade &#8220;collective punishment.&#8221; In 2013, the UN&#8217;s &#8220;humanitarian coordinator&#8221; for Gaza, James Rawley, claimed that &#8220;Gaza is becoming uninhabitable&#8221; because of the blockade. And just this part March, the commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency declared that the blockade &#8220;is illegal and must be lifted.&#8221;</p>
<p>The other usual suspects have chimed in as one might expect. Amnesty International has charged that the blockade is &#8220;suffocating Gaza.&#8221; Human Rights Watch has complained that the blockade is having &#8220;an awful effect.&#8221; The International Red Cross has declared the blockade to be a violation of the Geneva Conventions.</p>
<p>Even the Obama administration, which one would have hoped would not fall in line with the knee-jerk Israel bashers of the world, has tried to get Israel to ease up on the blockade. &#8220;Gaza Blockade Untenable, U.S. Believes,&#8221; read the headline of an NBC News report back in 2010. &#8220;The Obama administration believes Israel&#8217;s blockade of Gaza is untenable and wants to see a new approach that would allow more supplies&#8221; into the territory, NBC reported.</p>
<p>That same week, Vice President Joe Biden told interviewer Charlie Rose, on Bloomberg TV: &#8220;We have put as much pressure and as much cajoling on Israel as we can to allow them to get building materials&#8221; and other forbidden items into Gaza. Biden seemed oblivious to the fact that many construction materials are what is known as dual-use items: in addition to their primary purpose, they can also be used for terrorist purposes. Concrete for the foundation of a building can also be used to make an arms-smuggling tunnel.</p>
<p>Fortunately, Israel resisted all this international pressure. It maintained the blockade. And as a result, Palestinian rocketeers without target-locating computers continue to fire their missiles into open fields instead of supermarkets and kindergartens.</p>
<p>Amnesty International and the rest owe Israel an apology. But we won&#8217;t hold our breath waiting for that. Instead, we&#8217;ll just carefully note whose advice has proved sound, and what lessons can be learned from this experience.</p>
<p>The first lesson from the Gaza war: <i>Blockading the enemy works.</i></p>
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