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		<title>Right on the Rise in Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 05:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[P. David Hornik]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why has it happened, and what will it mean?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2969579901.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246723" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2969579901-430x350.jpg" alt="2969579901" width="366" height="298" /></a>Israel’s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/israeli_legislative_election,_2013#Date"><span style="color: #0433ff;">19</span><span style="color: #0433ff;"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="color: #0433ff;"> governing coalition</span></a> collapsed this week after less than two years in office. It included two right-of-center parties totaling 43 seats (the Knesset has 120) and two ostensibly “centrist” (actually leftist) parties totaling 25.</p>
<p>In recent weeks the respective leaders of the two leftist parties, Yair Lapid and Tzipi Livni, had been staging a palace revolt. They lashed out at the government and its leader, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, in ways only befitting a vituperative opposition. Lapid, the finance minister, refused to implement government policy and insisted on his own misguided, destructive plans.</p>
<p>It left the exasperated Netanyahu with no choice but to fire these two and, in effect, dissolve the government. New elections have been set for March 17.</p>
<p>Meanwhile three polls (summarized at the end of <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-and-a-newly-right-wing-israel/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">this analysis</span></a> by <i>Times of Israel</i> editor David Horovitz) have indicated that, since the previous elections in January 2013, a lot has changed in Israel.</p>
<p>It was those elections’ right-leaning but equivocal results that gave rise to the dubious, rickety coalition that fell this week. But now all three polls tell the same story: the right will do much better in the new elections and be able to form a coalition without the “center” (or left), possibly with the ballast of ultra-Orthodox parties that are also right-leaning politically.</p>
<p>What changed?</p>
<p>Back in January 2013 things looked relatively quiet to Israelis. Successful terror attacks were down to very low levels. The November 2012 Gaza war had lasted only eight days with very few Israeli casualties. Iran was still under tough sanctions, creating hopes—illusions—that the West was serious about stopping its march to the bomb.</p>
<p>What a difference—at least, in perceptions—two years make.</p>
<p>While Israel won the 2014 Gaza war decisively, it had most of the country scurrying to bomb shelters for seven weeks and cost Israel 64 soldiers’ and seven civilians’ lives. In its aftermath, a wave of Palestinian terror attacks that started in September has killed 12.</p>
<p>And while the overall regional situation hardly looked calming in January 2013, it looks quite alarming now with the rise of ISIS and raging terror and war, while the West pursues an obviously, no longer deniably feckless policy toward Iran where talks keep getting extended for their own sake even as Iran <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/iaea-head-iran-dodging-questions-on-nuclear-weapons-components/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">treats an international inspections agency with obvious contempt</span></a>.</p>
<p>But those aren’t the only sorts of aggressions and threats Israel has been subject to.</p>
<p>Israelis are well aware that the Obama administration has stooped low enough to <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/10/the-crisis-in-us-israel-relations-is-officially-here/382031/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">call the Israeli prime minister scurrilous names</span></a> that are reserved solely for the leader of the Jewish state—amid subtle threats, and rumors, that the U.S. will refrain from vetoing a Palestinian-instigated UN Security Council resolution demanding Israeli withdrawal to indefensible borders.</p>
<p>And then there’s Europe, increasingly a cheerleading troupe for Palestinian terror as the French, Spanish, British, Irish, and Swedish parliaments have in recent months voted to “recognize” a nonexistent Palestinian state even as Israelis are subjected to Palestinian car-ramming, stabbing, and shooting attacks including an <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/davidhornik/new-york-times-morally-confused-by-synagogue-massacre/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">outright massacre in a synagogue</span></a>.</p>
<p>Israelis, in other words, see a more dangerous environment and so—if the polls are right—will opt for a more hawkish leadership. Seemingly nothing could be more simple and humanly understandable. Except that in Israel’s case understanding can be hard to come by.</p>
<p>In the above-linked article, the <i>Times of Israel</i>’s David Horovitz says that a more hawkish Israel in 2015 would find itself in a frontal clash with much of the world:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>BDS [boycott, divestment, and sanctions] campaigning against Israel would intensify. Unilateral recognition of a Palestine not at peace with Israel would gather yet more momentum. International empathy for Israel if, or more likely when, it next comes under attack by Hamas from Gaza or Hezbollah from southern Lebanon would be in still shorter supply.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Horovitz could be right, although, with a very sympathetic Congress taking office in January, it may not be as bad as all that. And Israelis may see such consequences as a price to be lived with for defending themselves. <i><br />
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		<title>Anti-Israel Left: Netanyahu Threatened to Kill Obama by Saying &#8220;Lawn&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2014 02:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Netanyahu traveled through time to kill JFK]]></description>
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<p>The latest loony idea spreading through the ranks of the anti-Israel left is that Netanyahu threatened to kill Obama by talking about lawns.</p>
<p>The origin of this latest BDS mental breakdown seems to be Anti-War Paultard Justin Raimondo who claimed that Netanyahu said&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;When there are pressures on Israel to concede its security, the easiest thing to do is to concede. You get a round of applause, ceremonies on grassy knolls, and then come the missiles and the tunnels.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Raimondo then took a double handful of meds and wrote that,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Bibi, who spent many years in the United States, is surely cognizant of what his &#8220;grassy knoll&#8221; reference connotes&#8230; And so the question must be asked: was Bibi threatening the President of the United States?</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8230;As we’ve seen recently, the White House isn’t exactly an impregnable fortress. In the meantime, it’s time to start reevaluating the &#8220;special relationship&#8221; in light of an Israeli leader who talks about the &#8220;grassy knoll&#8221; while denouncing an American president.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Netanyahu wasn&#8217;t talking about a grassy knoll. He was talking about the Rose Garden ceremony where Rabin shook hands with Arafat.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not a subtle point since Netanyahu mentions a ceremony and applause. I don&#8217;t think the JFK assassination came with applause.</p>
<p>Furthermore Netanyahu was speaking in Hebrew. He didn&#8217;t say grassy knoll. He said something like manicured lawn. But it&#8217;s hard to stop crazy once the ball begins rolling.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/left-wing-mondoweiss-editor-claims-israel-behind-passover-kansas-city-shootings/">Anti-Semitic hate site Mondoweiss </a>swiftly picked up Raimondo&#8217;s claim where demented bigot<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/left-wing-mondoweiss-editor-claims-israel-behind-passover-kansas-city-shootings/"> Annie Robbins</a> quickly began spinning another conspiracy theory.</p>
<p>Last time we checked in with Annie Robbins, a Mondoweiss editor,<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/left-wing-mondoweiss-editor-claims-israel-behind-passover-kansas-city-shootings/"> she was suggesting that the Kansas City shooter</a> who tried to Jews was really a Mossad agent.</p>
<div id="attachment_223592" style="width: 210px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2df2c576e9800f5ef0bc7295ac6f3a45.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-223592" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2df2c576e9800f5ef0bc7295ac6f3a45.jpeg" alt="Faces of Anti-Semitic Meth" width="200" height="200" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Faces of Anti-Semitic Meth</p></div>
<p>This time around, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/left-wing-mondoweiss-editor-claims-israel-behind-passover-kansas-city-shootings/">Annie Robbins</a> insisted that the press was covering up Netanyahu&#8217;s death threat of lawn. (Because they&#8217;re run by the Jews. Obviously.)</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Do you think anyone at the White House noticed Netanyahu’s phraseology? Me too. So why the silence from the press? Grassy knoll, it only means one thing here in America&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Also mental illness only means one thing in America.</p>
<p>But wait, maybe Netanyahu traveled through time to kill JFK? Why the silence from the press?</p>
<p>Mondoweiss commenters, who make their editors look sane, chimed in to explain that Israel had killed JFK. From there it drifted on to even messed up places like Stormfront, where the Neo-Nazis hang out, closing the same classic circle that had actually helped lead to the Kansas City shootings when a Neo-Nazi began mainlining left-wing anti-Israel propaganda from bigots like Max Blumenthal.</p>
<p>And now it&#8217;s all over Twitter. Because that&#8217;s how the anti-Israel left works.</p>
<p>Veterans Today vomited up this, &#8220;Let’s imagine Bibi decides to really, truly fly a 9/11 plane into the Grassy Knoll – by arranging another JFK-style assassination of the President of the United States.&#8221;</p>
<p>If Netanyahu flies a plane into Obama, that means the Secret Service really sucks. </p>
<p>Rhone Fraser, Ph.D, a self-proclaimed gay marxist Christian, with a degree in African-American studies, claimed that Haaretz was engaging in a coverup of what Netanyahu had said.</p>
<p>And the whole thing climaxed, as it always does, with a new era of sensitivity.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>At the JFK memorial. Putting it on a grassy knoll was a bit insensitive, to my mind. <a href="http://t.co/nYgZxncPTe">pic.twitter.com/nYgZxncPTe</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Political Animal (@politic_animal) <a href="https://twitter.com/politic_animal/status/528523608529055745">November 1, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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		<title>Washington Post: Obama Needs to &#8220;Reset&#8221; Relations w/Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2014 14:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what a "smart" foreign policy looks like.]]></description>
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<p>This is what a &#8220;smart&#8221; foreign policy looks like. Forget about resetting relations with Russia. That Soyuz rocket has flown. Even Obama&#8217;s allies at the Washington Post <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/president-obama-should-try-to-reset-relations-with-benjamin-netanyahu/2014/10/31/49f2a2e8-606a-11e4-9f3a-7e28799e0549_story.html">are suggesting that he reset relations with Israel.</a> What&#8217;s next? Resetting relations with Canada?</p>
<blockquote><p>The latest furor in the toxic relationship between the Obama administration and Israel erupted over a barnyard epithet directed at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by a “senior administration official.” Ugly jibes between the two governments are not new: Secretary of State John F. Kerry has been on the receiving end of several from senior Israeli officials. But the crudeness of this one — Mr. Netanyahu was called “a chickens&#8212;” by someone speaking to the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, a frequent recipient of high-level White House communications — raised the question of why the Israeli leader provokes such passionate animus from an administration that coolly shrugs off insults from the likes of Vladimir Putin.</p></blockquote>
<p>After going through the various cliches, the Washington Post ends by suggesting that &#8220;Mr. Obama would be wise to initiate a reset with Mr. Netanyahu.&#8221;</p>
<p>Except of course there was already an attempt at a reset early in Obama&#8217;s first term. It didn&#8217;t take because Obama and his people don&#8217;t like Israel. They don&#8217;t like Netanyahu. And they think the key to winning over the Muslim world is to be seen as anti-Israel.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s standard lefty dogma and it&#8217;s what led to this mess.</p>
<p>What the Washington Post fails to acknowledge is that Netanyahu put himself out into the wind politically quite a bit to support Obama and Kerry&#8217;s peace push. In exchange he got blamed for the collapse of talks despite Abbas&#8217; constant obstructionism from demanding pre-talk concessions to forming a unity government with Hamas.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not just that Obama Inc. fails to ever hold the PLO accountable, but that it just as reliably blames Israel.</p>
<p>Netanyahu risked his political future for Obama&#8217;s deal. Not only was there no deal, but he got the blame, and White House staffers are calling him a coward for doing what Obama wanted him to do.</p>
<p>You can&#8217;t reset this level of hostility.</p>
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		<title>Obama and Jeffrey Goldberg Took Aim at Netanyahu, Shot Themselves in the Foot</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2014 00:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>The calculated media leak has been a regular tool in the Obama Inc. PR box. It&#8217;s never been a very effective tool, but that never stopped them from using certain publications, the New York Times, and certain hacks, Jeffrey Goldberg, to distribute their talking points.</p>
<p>But the problem with using someone like Goldberg to distribute another Netanyahu smear is that he&#8217;s an attention whore who cares more about clickbait than politics. And he&#8217;s quite good at spinning an otherwise mediocre story or interview into major news by finding the right provocative word or phrase.</p>
<p>The so-called Chickegate is a bonanza for Jeffrey Goldberg, but has ended up undermining Obama and the larger anti-Israel agenda.</p>
<p>Goldberg&#8217;s story was another brick in the wall for a narrative characterizing Netanyahu as &#8220;the problem&#8221; in the US-Israel relationship. It was supposed to lift the blame for Obama and sell him and the Democrats to Jewish voters.</p>
<p>It might have done that if not for the story being condensed down to a member of the administration calling the Prime Minister of Israel a &#8220;coward&#8221; and &#8220;chickens__t&#8221;.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s hard to take that money quote and blame Israel.</p>
<p>Jeffrey Goldberg scored his media moment, again, while unintentionally vaporizing his own narrative. Instead of Netanyahu being the problem, suddenly the pettiness and personal antipathy of the administration looks like the problem.</p>
<p>Instead of making Netanyahu look bad, Goldberg made him look good and put Obama Inc. on the defensive. It doesn&#8217;t really matter that he doesn&#8217;t want to give up his source. His attention whoring burned his source already. The article has done more damage to the narrative than anything put out by the right. It will take a while to put everything back together again.</p>
<p>Jeffrey Goldberg took an insider topic and made it international news. The insider topic was personal antipathy to Netanyahu. That&#8217;s a hot topic among Israeli lefties, who obsessively hate the man, and various foreign policy wonks who hate anyone on the right.</p>
<p>The consequences of that publicity will be to undermine any Obama Inc. critique of Netanyahu and Israel as personal animosity. By insulting Netanyahu, they took the conflict out of the realm of policy and into the realm of spite.</p>
<p>And that means they lost the policy argument with anyone who doesn&#8217;t share their personal hatred of Netanyahu.</p>
<p>All that&#8217;s left is the hate.</p>
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		<title>Netanyahu Responds to White House &#8220;Coward&#8221; Attack: &#8220;I Have Risked My Life Many Times on the Battlefield&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Some of Obama&#8217;s minions chose to smear Netanyahu as a &#8220;chickens__t&#8221; and a &#8220;coward&#8221;.<a href="http://unitedwithisrael.org/netanyahu-slams-personal-attacks-vows-to-defend-israels-security/"> Now Netanyahu has responded</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>“When Israel is pressured to make concessions on its security, it is very easy to give in. There are ovations and ceremonies on lawns – and afterwards come the missiles and the tunnels,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated Wednesday at a memorial event at the Knesset for IDF Maj.-Gen. Rehavam Ze’evy.</p>
<p>A former tourism minister who had also served as Advisor to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on Anti-Terror Matters and Intelligence and as chairman of the board of the Land of Israel Museum in Tel Aviv, among other prestigious posts, Ze’evi was murdered by Arab terrorists in 1999 who shot him in the head at the Jerusalem Hyatt Hotel.</p>
<p>“As Prime Minister, I am responsible for Israel’s security,” Netanyahu said. “I care about the lives of every citizen and soldier. I have been on the battlefield many times. I have risked my life for the country and I am not prepared to make concessions that will endanger our state. It must be understood that our supreme interests, with security and the unity of Jerusalem first and foremost, are not among the top concerns of those anonymous elements that are attacking us and me personally, because the attack on me comes only because I am defending the State of Israel. If I did not defend the State of Israel, if I did not vigorously uphold our national and security interests, they would not attack me. And despite all the attacks against me, I will continue to defend our state. I will continue to defend the citizens of Israel.”</p></blockquote>
<p>In his speech, <a href="http://www.pmo.gov.il/English/MediaCenter/Speeches/Pages/speechZeevi291014.aspx">Netanyahu also said that</a>,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Israel has long faced attacks on its right to exist.  Some people deny the strong affinity of the people of Israel for its land, an affinity that was formed 4,000 years ago in the Land of Israel and 3,000 years ago with Jerusalem, the capital of Israel. Some people are not willing to recognize the right of our people to a nation-state of their own, who are not willing to recognize the right of the people of Israel to a nation-state for the Jewish people. This was and remains the root of the conflict.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Israeli Minister: Obama is Throwing Israel Under the Bus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2014 15:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.”]]></description>
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<p>The Israeli government had a variety of responses to<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/anonymous-obama-official-calls-netanyahu-a-coward/"> Jeffrey Goldberg&#8217;s slimy Atlantic article </a>which quoted anonymous Obama officials calling Netanyahu a &#8220;coward&#8221; and &#8220;chickens__t&#8221;.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/pms-office-responds-to-obama-administrations-vulgar-remarks/2014/10/29/">simplest statement came from</a> Netanyahu&#8217;s office.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Netanyahu will continue to uphold the security interests of the citizens of Israel and the historical rights of the Jewish people in Jerusalem. No pressure will change that.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Naftali Bennett, the Minister of the Economy, and the leader of the conservative party in the coalition, <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/186733#.VFEBy_lbV8E">had a more vocal response</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>“The United States administration is planning to throw Israel under the bus,” Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday night, responding to harsh words against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu which were attributed to senior officials in the Obama administration.</p>
<p>“Israel is stronger than all those who curse it,” said Bennett, after Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic quoted officials in Washington as having described Netanyahu as “chickens**t”, among other things.</p>
<p>“Neither the leader of Syria, who has slaughtered 150,000 of his citizens, nor the leader of Saudi Arabia, who stones women and gays, have been called ‘chickens**t. If what is written is true, then the current administration intends to throw Israel under the wheels of the bus,” he said.</p>
<p>“Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, and it has struggled for its existence over the past 66 years. Israel is the vanguard of the free world against the Islamic terrorism of ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas and Iran,” noted Bennett.</p>
<p>“Instead of attacking Israel and forcing suicide conditions upon it, it should be strengthened.  I call upon the U.S. administration to renounce these abusive remarks and reject them outright,” he concluded.</p></blockquote>
<p>The odds of that happening would seem to be low. But the whole thing does remind me o<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/jeffrey-goldberg-claims-calling-him-a-sewer-pipe-is-anti-semitic/">f what I wrote about Goldberg in the past</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>I think most people like sewer pipes. The problem is broken sewer pipes. A working sewer pipe carries waste away. A broken sewer pipe carries it to.</p>
<p>A civilization depends on working sewer pipes. But when the media goes into “sewer pipe revolutionist” mode and begins   carrying its own waste into civilization, instead of away from it, then civilization is endangered and needs to replace the broken sewer pipelines with sewer pipes that carry away waste, instead of manufacturing it and spreading it.</p></blockquote>
<p>Goldberg is a broken sewer pipe. So is his boss, Barry.</p>
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		<title>Anonymous Obama Official Anonymously Calls Netanyahu a &#8220;Coward&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2014 20:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing says courage like anonymously slandering someone]]></description>
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<p>Obama&#8217;s people certainly are good at inverting the basic meaning of words. Letting your country get nuked is courageous. Fighting to stop it is cowardly.</p>
<p>Of course this description comes from Atlantic/Bloomberg troll Jeffrey Goldberg who has been known to twist the content high profile interviews as flexibly as possible. We already saw that after Castro had to come out and correct his spin on the interview.</p>
<p>But Obama Inc. is filled with leftists who have little foreign policy experience and hate Israel. And Jeffrey Goldberg is happy to be their useful idiot. Obama Inc. loses its mind when criticized by some Israeli politician, but in true cowardly fashion, doles out attacks on Israeli politicians to malicious trolls like Jeffrey Goldberg.</p>
<p>So he&#8217;s happy enough to turn out an article full of anonymous quotes calling Netanyahu &#8220;Recalcitrant, myopic, reactionary, obtuse, blustering, pompous, and “Aspergery” and &#8220;chickenshit&#8221;.</p>
<p>Oh and a coward.</p>
<p>Because nothing says courage like anonymously slandering someone to a coward who trolls using articles full of supposed quotes from anonymous sources.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s like a cursed circle of cowardice.</p>
<p>When he isn&#8217;t quoting supposed anonymous officials, Goldberg puts forward his own miserably cowardly point of view by arguing, &#8220;It is true that Jews have a moral right to live anywhere they want in Jerusalem, their holiest city. It is also true that a mature government understands that not all rights have to be exercised simultaneously.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sure. Swap in blacks for Jews and Jerusalem for Alabama and see how that works. No?</p>
<p>But this entire cowardly diatribe wouldn&#8217;t do without one coward who is always willing to put his name on the record for whatever view he thinks is popular at the moment.</p>
<blockquote><p>“The Israelis do not show sufficient appreciation for America’s role in backing Israel, economically, militarily and politically,” Abraham Foxman, the head of the Anti-Defamation League, told me.</p></blockquote>
<p>Who are the Americans and who are the Israelis?</p>
<p>America polls better in Israel than anywhere else. And vice versa. Is Obama, America? Is Netanyahu, Israel? About as much as Abe Foxman and his useless parasitic organization represents Jews.</p>
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		<title>White House: American Values Demand We Keep Jews Out of Jerusalem</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 00:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The idea that we’d have this ethnic purification as a condition for peace."]]></description>
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<p>The White House was upset over Jews living in Jerusalem. The White House doesn&#8217;t get upset over Muslims living in Jerusalem. That&#8217;s fine. But Jews living in a part of the city that they were ethnically cleansed from when Jordan invaded and expelled the Jews from there, blowing up their synagogues along the way, is unacceptable to Obama Inc.</p>
<p>Netanyahu rightly pointed out that objecting to one race/religion living in a city is against American values. Obama ought to know this one as his government spends a lot of time suing over discrimination in housing.</p>
<p>But instead <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/6/white-house-fires-back-at-netanyahu-over-new-israe/">the White House just got pissy</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The White House fired back at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday over his country’s settlement construction, saying Mr. Netanyahu’s criticism of the administration over the weekend “seemed to ignore our concerns.”</p>
<p>White House press secretary Josh Earnest said “it did seem odd” for Mr. Netanyahu to criticize the administration’s rebuke of Israel as “against American values.”</p>
<p>“When it comes to American values, it’s American values that led to this country’s unwavering support of Israel,” Mr. Earnest said. “It’s American values that have led us to fund an Iron Dome system” to protect Israelis from rocket attacks by Islamist militants.</p>
<p>“It’s clear how American values dictate or at least guide our thinking” on support of Israel,” Mr. Earnest said.</p></blockquote>
<p>And Earnest and his boss don&#8217;t seem to be big fans of those American values. Or of Israel, by extension. Netanyahu isn&#8217;t criticizing American values. He&#8217;s criticizing the administration&#8217;s lack of those values.</p>
<p>Which is why you wouldn&#8217;t exactly call their support &#8220;unwavering&#8221;.</p>
<p>The Muslim Brotherhood burned down churches in Egypt and the White House shrugged. Qatar ships weapons to terrorists and the White House says nothing. But Jews move into Jerusalem&#8230; and the White House throws another hissy fit.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Obama administration warned Israel that the project would distance Israel from “even its closest allies” and raise doubts about its efforts to seek peace with Palestinians.</p>
<p>Mr. Netanyahu, in an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” called the administration’s condemnation “baffling.”</p>
<p>“It’s against the American values. And it doesn’t bode well for peace,” he said. “The idea that we’d have this ethnic purification as a condition for peace, I think it’s anti-peace.”</p></blockquote>
<p>But Obama seems bent on the ethnic cleansing thing. I&#8217;m sorry, were those American values, Nazi values or Islamic values?</p>
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		<title>The Most Important Line in Netanyahu&#8217;s Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2014 22:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["They just disagree about who among them will be the master."]]></description>
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<p>Discussing the equivalence of Hamas/Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS/Al Qaeda,<a href="http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Full-text-of-Prime-Minister-Netanyahus-UN-speech-376626"> Netanyahu said that the</a> Islamic terrorist groups&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith. They just disagree about who among them will be the master… of the master faith. That’s what they truly disagree about.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>This is not a difference between moderates and extremists. It&#8217;s a choice of tactics.</p>
<p>Just like the left, some Islamists choose to work within the system to accomplish their goals while others cut directly to the beheading.</p>
<p>Some will fake negotiations while others will reject them out of hand.</p>
<p>These are differences of style, not substances. They are all fighting for a Caliphate, an Islamic superstate in which non-Muslims and women will be inferior, and Islamic law will determine who lives and who dies.</p>
<p>There was a time when appeasers tried to pretend that there were moderate Nazis and extreme Nazis (no really). It took a lot of bloodshed to realize that there were just Nazis.</p>
<p>Some of the Nazis had different agendas and ways of going about their goal. And the goal was horrifically evil.</p>
<p>The distinction between the moderate Salafist and the extremist Salafist makes as much sense as distinguishing between one member of the Nazi government and another. Their ideology leads to a horrific outcome. The only question is whether they kill more people now.</p>
<p>Or later.</p>
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		<title>Post-War Israeli Polls Show Increased Support for Left and Right</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2014 15:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This leaves Netanyahu in the uncontested top spot.]]></description>
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<p>The Israeli left has been unpopular for a while so it has developed a habit of using fake centrist third parties as stalking horses. Unfortunately the voters have been fooled a few times too many.</p>
<p>But the interesting thing about the war is that it appears to have polarized Israel. The fake lefty center is vanishing <a href="http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2014/08/obama-may-yet-long-for-current.html">leaving only the real right and the rea</a>l left.</p>
<p>The poll gives Likud 28 seats (up from 19) and the Jewish Home 19 (up from 12). If that holds, then the new big third party will be a party that is farther to the right than the sorta conservative Likud.</p>
<p>Yisrael Beytenu 9 (down from 12) and Shas 7 (down from 11). Frankly good riddance. Especially to Shas. If the party entirely collapses, it would be one of the best things to happen to Israel. Unfortunately Deri would just find a new gimmick.</p>
<p>Also in the poll, Yesh Atid is clipped down to 11 seats from the current 19, Hatnua is at 4 seats, down from the current six, Meretz has 10 (up from 6) and Labor remains at 15. Kadima is wiped off the political map.</p>
<p>Yesh Atid was a successful fake lefty centrist party. Meanwhile Meretz, the radical left, is hitting big numbers and Labor, at its strongest and leftiest in a while, it remaining stable.</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t &#8220;good news&#8221;, but the right is still stronger and the weakening of fake centrist lefty parties is a plus. Unfortunately the left just generates new ones.</p>
<blockquote><p>Israelis continue to favor Binyamin Netanyahu for prime minister. Thirty percent see him as the politician best suited for the role. Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett is in second place with 16%. Labor head Yitzchak Herzog has 11%, whereas ministers Avigdor Liberman and Tzipi Livni each enjoy 6% support. Yair Lapid is at a meager 3%, along with Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon.</p></blockquote>
<p>Strangely enough we&#8217;re in the age of Netanyahu. That&#8217;s not a positive reflection on Israeli politics, but Bennett&#8217;s rise is a good thing.</p>
<p>All in all, this leaves Netanyahu in the uncontested top spot.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2014 13:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who is putting out these reports and what is the agenda?]]></description>
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<p>There have been a lot of reports of behind-the-scenes conversations between Obama and Netanyahu. <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-tells-us-envoy-to-israel-never-second-guess-me-again-on-hamas/">I&#8217;m not sure why this one should</a> be considered any more credible just because it comes via the AP, but the overall content, if not the tone, seems reasonably plausible.</p>
<blockquote><p>In a phone call with US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro about the breakdown of the short-lived UN- and US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vented his anger, according to people familiar with the call</p>
<p>Netanyahu told Shapiro the Obama administration was “not to ever second-guess me again” and that Washington should trust his judgment on how to deal with Hamas, according to people familiar with the conversation. Netanyahu added that he now “expected” the US and other countries to fully support Israel’s offensive in Gaza, according to those familiar with the call. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter by name.</p></blockquote>
<p>Netanyahu <a href="http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/netanyahu-debunks-ap-report-rapping-us-ambassador/2014/08/03/">has already denied the report</a>, not that this means much.</p>
<blockquote><p>“That’s the tone of our relationship, which gets to the question of these reports that are not only of my conversation with Ambassador Shapiro but also with the President that are full of incorrections, (sic) full of distortions and are wrong both in tone and in substance.</p></blockquote>
<p>Which means, well, conceivably anything. But what is interesting is the frequency of these reports and their consistency. Some are clearly bogus. Others are channeled through mainstream media outlets. Some may be true, others, like the call transcript that a lot people fell for, are clearly false.</p>
<p>So the question to be asked is who is putting out these reports and what is the agenda? There&#8217;s obviously a conflict behind the scenes. And sometimes not so behind the scenes. But with a midterm election coming up and a war in Israel, neither Obama nor Netanyahu are looking to make the conflict public.</p>
<p>Someone however is. Or there may be no &#8216;someone&#8217;. There may just be the media which has emerged as Hamas&#8217; PR agency.</p>
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		<title>&#8216;Why This Wall in Israel?&#8217;</title>
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		<title>Syrian Refugees: “We Want Netanyahu to Take Bashar Assad and Kill Him.”</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2013 13:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The couple was unfazed about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying it had caused “just” 2,000 deaths, while the Syrian civil war had killed “more than 200,000” people]]></description>
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<p>Alternative headline: Peace Arrives in Middle East as <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/say-hi-to-netanyahu-urges-syrian-family-on-17th-street/">Sunnis and Shiites Discover They Hate Each Other More</a> Than They Hate Jews</p>
<blockquote><p>Mohammed and Fatima Alskka fled the embattled Syrian city of Homs seven months ago and today live in Pasadena, Maryland. They were taking a stroll in the Monday afternoon sun, pushing a stroller along 17th Street, stopping to take the occasional picture with their newborn, Khaled.</p>
<p>When they passed by the mini-demonstration they had no idea what the protesters were yelling about.</p>
<p>They were informed that the Israeli prime minister was visiting the White House, and a surprised smile appeared on their faces. “Tell him we say ‘Hi,’” Mohammed, 30, said.</p>
<p>“We want Netanyahu to take Bashar Assad and kill him,” chimed in his wife, Fatima, as she held her son, “because he killed a lot of my people.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Not Netanyahu&#8217;s job, but apparently with Obama and Cameron out of it, they&#8217;ll take anyone to pinch hit. Even Netanyahu.</p>
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<p itemprop="articleBody">“You know what Bashar and his friends say?” Mohammed asked, in halting English. “You don’t like Bashar, you like Israel.” He and his wife loathe Assad, he took pains to stress, but that does not mean they are spies for Israel.</p>
<p itemprop="articleBody">For all the understandable revulsion at Assad, why the greetings for Israel’s prime minister?</p>
<p itemprop="articleBody">“Israelis don’t kill anyone in Syria,” Fatima said, placing Khaled back in his stroller, as he had started getting antsy. She’d heard reports about the Jewish state treating wounded Syrian civilians in its hospitals, and wasn’t entirely sure of their veracity, she said, “but we know Israel doesn’t kill any Syrians. Bashar killed my family.”</p>
<p itemprop="articleBody">The couple was pretty much unfazed about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying it had caused “just” 2,000 deaths, while the Syrian civil war had killed “more than 200,000” people in less than three years.</p>
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<p>Well yes. Maybe they can explain that to someone at the UN. Incidentally the <a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2013/10/palarab-death-toll-in-syria-1597-plus.html">Palestinian Arab death toll in Syria </a>appears to have hit 1,597.</p>
<blockquote><p>“They always said, ‘Israel not a friend, Israel not a friend.’ But Israel never made any problem with anybody,” Mohammed asserted.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>The same is true for the US, Fatima added.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Growing up in Syria, they were constantly taught that Americans are evil. But now, after she and her husband entered the country on a tourist visa — and have started a process to be recognized as refugees — she had changed her mind.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>She had only one word for American hospitality, she said: “Wow.”</p>
<p itemprop="articleBody">Saudi Arabia only accepted very few Syrian refugees, but the Americans are entirely different, she said gratefully.</p>
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<p itemprop="articleBody">Unfortunately yes. Americans are entirely different.</p>
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		<title>Why is Obama Refusing to Use the Israeli Knesset for his Big Speech?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The entire event signals a lack of confidence in Israel's government and encourages the left to sabotage Netanyahu. ]]></description>
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<p>The real purpose of Obama&#8217;s visit to Israel is to give a &#8220;high profile&#8221; speech to the &#8220;youth&#8221; of Israel calling for a renewed push for peace and framing Israel&#8217;s relationship with the United States in terms of the peace process.</p>
<p>In 2008, Bush visited Israel and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5UQIvzpbvE">addressed the Knesset</a>, Israel&#8217;s parliament. Back <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121083798995894943.html">then he began with</a>, &#8220;It is a rare privilege for an American President to address the Knesset. Although the Prime Minister told me there is something even rarer – to have just one person in this chamber speaking at a time.&#8221;</p>
<p>Clinton addressed the Knesset in 1994. Even Carter did it in 1979. Neither Reagan nor Bush I traveled to Israel and so the issue never came up.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s certainly not mandatory, but it&#8217;s common protocol. Obama addressed the British Parliament on his visit. He also found the time to address the Parliament of Ghana,  the Indian Parliament and the Australian Parliament&#8230; so it&#8217;s clearly something that he does.</p>
<p>But Obama is not going to address the Israeli parliament or Knesset, instead he&#8217;ll be using the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, better known to some as Binyenei HaUma.</p>
<p>So why is <a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2013/03/obamas-itinerary-in-israel.html">Obama dumping the Knesset for a giant auditorium</a>?</p>
<p>1. Obama&#8217;s Cairo speech was given at Cairo University. Carter had addressed the Egyptian Parliament. Obama could have done it too, but giving a speech away from parliament showed disapproval of the Egyptian government and a ploy to suggest to the opposition that he would support their revolution.</p>
<p>2. Even though the last Israeli election rewarded the left quite a bit, with a big win for Yesh Atid, Obama is still choosing to stay away from the Knesset.</p>
<p>Instead Obama is bringing in student &#8220;representatives&#8221; from Israeli universities, a group that skews to the left. Tellingly, Ariel University, one of the country&#8217;s more conservative institutions, has been barred from sending a representative.</p>
<p>3. The entire event signals a lack of confidence in Israel&#8217;s government and encourages the left to sabotage Netanyahu. Obama probably sees this as payback.</p>
<p>4. The Knesset would allow Obama limited control, but the huge Convention Center will allow him a large audience that is certain to applaud in the right places.</p>
<p>5. It maintains Obama&#8217;s policy of keeping Israel at arm&#8217;s length without entirely breaking relations.</p>
<p>This response <a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2013/03/obamas-itinerary-in-israel.html">tips Obama&#8217;s hand</a></p>
<blockquote><p>What we told the Israeli government is that the President was very interested in speaking to the Israeli people, and that, in particular, he wanted to speak to young people. We obviously have a deep respect for the Knesset as the seat of Israeli democracy, and in the past, the President, again, has made clear the very significant attachment that we place on the fact that both Israel and the United States are democracy. But you also know that the President, around the world, has often spoken to young people. He spoke to young people, for instance, when he traveled to Cairo. And in this instance, we felt like bringing together an audience of university students from a broad range of partners that our embassy has in Israel would allow him to speak, again, not just to political leadership, who he’ll be meeting with on the trip, but to the Israeli public and Israeli young people.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>So we&#8217;re very excited about the crowd that is being put together. We know that it will represent a very broad range of views within Israel. We welcome the fact that Israel has a very broad spectrum of views that’s a testament to the democracy and diversity of opinion that exists within Israel. And it will be a very important event on the President&#8217;s trip.</p></blockquote>
<p>No doubt. The range will run from left to left. The audience will get the message that Obama wants them to pressure the government for more concessions to terrorists.</p>
<p>Mission accomplished.</p>
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		<title>Clinton&#8217;s Political Hit Man in Israel to Take Down Netanyahu</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greenberg, along with partners James Carville and Robert Shrum, helped Labor under Ehud Barak defeat Netanyahu in the 1999 elections. Previously, then-President Bill Clinton was reportedly active in creating rifts within Netanyahu's coalition, hastening its downfall.]]></description>
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<p>The Obama vs Netanyahu political bloodbath has a sharp historical edge. When the conservative Israeli Prime Minister won the election during the Clinton Administration, Clinton used his political hit men to force him out of office. One of those hit men was Stanley Greenberg.</p>
<p>Stanley Greenberg helped push Israel&#8217;s earlier version of Occupy Wall Street. Now with elections coming up, <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/161195#.UIW4suTAeIA">Greenberg is back in Israel</a> to try and topple Netanyahu one more time.</p>
<p>While Netanyahu&#8217;s reelection prospects are looking far better than Obama&#8217;s, a major factor in Obama&#8217;s Middle East policy is getting rid of Netanyahu.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Labor party has hired Stanley Greenberg, a leading Democratic political strategist, to direct its campaign in the upcoming elections for Knesset.</p>
<p>Greenberg, along with partners James Carville and Robert Shrum, helped Labor under Ehud Barak defeat Netanyahu in the 1999 elections. Previously, then-President Bill Clinton was reportedly active in creating rifts within Netanyahu&#8217;s coalition, hastening its downfall.</p>
<p>The pattern of action may be repeating itself, as Greenberg appears to have played a key role in destabilizing Netanyahu&#8217;s present government as well. According to an investigative report by Maariv&#8217;s Kalman Libeskind, it was Greenberg who gave directions to an Israeli strategy forum in 2011, on how to engineer the &#8220;social protests&#8221; that brought hundreds of thousands of Israelis to the streets that summer.</p></blockquote>
<p>The protests failed to push out Netanyahu, but Greenberg&#8217;s strategy was to put pressure on Netanyahu and tear apart his coalition.</p>
<p>Netanyahu obscured the protests by cutting the Shalit deal that free thousands of terrorists. And economic and political issues have moved Israel toward new elections.</p>
<blockquote><p>The protests – which received free wall-to-wall promotion and coverage from liberal media, and drew crowds by offering free music from top artists – forced the Netanyahu government to abandon its economic principles in favor of &#8220;social&#8221; legislation, like subsidized preschool education. These economic measures, in turn, slowed down the Israeli economy and forced the government into crafting an austerity budget for 2013. The fact that no party wants to approve such a budget in an election year is what recently convinced Netanyahu he had no choice but to call early elections.</p></blockquote>
<p>Netanyahu won&#8217;t be replaced by the idiotic Yachimovich, but the goal is to keep pushing and undermining him. Rather than going after Ahmadinejad, the Democratic Party establishment is doing everything possible to break Netanyahu.</p>
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		<title>Post-Zionism Is So 1990s</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 04:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel's rebellious adolescence is over. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;"><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/israelindependenceday.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-130406" title="israelindependenceday" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/israelindependenceday.gif" alt="" width="375" height="259" /></a>Originally </em><a href="http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=267726"><em>published</em></a><em> in The Jerusalem Post. </em></p>
<p>You can learn a lot about a nation&#8217;s health by watching how it celebrates its national holidays. In Israel&#8217;s case, compare how we celebrated our 50th Independence Day in 1998 to what celebrations involve today.</p>
<p>During the 1990s, Israel&#8217;s elite took a vacation from reality and history and they brought much of the public with them.</p>
<p>Then-foreign minister Shimon Peres said that history was overrated. The so-called &#8220;New Historians,&#8221; who rummaged through David Ben-Gurion&#8217;s closet looking for skeletons, were the toast of the academic world. Radicals like Yossi Beilin, Shulamit Aloni and Avrum Burg were dictating government policy.</p>
<p>The media, the entertainment establishment, and the Education Ministry embraced and massively promoted plays, movies, television shows, songs, dances, art and books that &#8220;slayed sacred cows.&#8221; Everywhere you turned, post-Zionism was in. Post-Judaism was in. And Zionism and Judaism were both decidedly out.</p>
<p>As he is today, in 1998 Binyamin Netanyahu was prime minister, and then as now there were prominent voices seeking to blame him for the absence of peace and every other terrible blight on the planet.</p>
<p>In 1998, the government invested a fortune in marking Israel&#8217;s 50th Independence Day. The main official celebration was a massive affair called Jubilee Bells that took place at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem. More than 2,000 performers participated. But rather than serve as an event that unified Israeli society in celebration of 50 years of sovereign freedom, the event exposed just how far Israel&#8217;s political and cultural elite were willing to go in attacking basic societal values.</p>
<p>The Bat Sheva Dance Troupe was scheduled to participate in the program and present a dance set to the traditional Passover song &#8220;Ehad mi yodea,&#8221; (Who knows one). The song contains 13 stanzas that praise God, praise Jewish law, and outline the Jewish life cycle. In the number Bat Sheva was scheduled to perform, the dancers come on stage dressed as ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and by the end of the song, all they are wearing is underwear.</p>
<p>The choreography enraged members of Netanyahu&#8217;s cabinet including education minister Yitzhak Levy. They insisted that the program shouldn&#8217;t contain material that insulted sectors of Israeli society. The organizers tried to forge a compromise. But the dancers chose to boycott the festival.</p>
<p>Israel&#8217;s cultural and media establishment expressed shock and horror at what they viewed as the government&#8217;s attempt to infringe on artistic freedom. The Association of Israeli Artists demanded that a public commission be formed to ensure that the government would be unable to interfere in artistic freedom in the future. Major cultural icons declared cultural war against religious Jews.</p>
<p>The question of whether the dance was appropriate for an official, state- financed celebration of Independence Day was never asked. So, too, no one asked whether a dance portraying ultra-Orthodox Jews moving sensuously to a traditional Jewish song while taking off their clothes reflected the values of society.</p>
<p>To understand the distance Israel has traveled since then, consider Tuesday night&#8217;s Memorial Day ceremony at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv. None of the performers attacked their fellow Israelis. And the best-received artist and song was Mosh Ben-Ari and his rendition of Psalm 121 &#8211; A Song of Ascent.</p>
<p>The psalm, which praises God as the eternal guardian of Israel, became the unofficial anthem of Operation Cast Lead in Gaza in 2008-2009. And Ben-Ari&#8217;s rendition of the song propelled the dreadlock bedecked, hoop earring wearing world music artist into super-stardom in Israel.</p>
<p>IT WAS impossible to imagine Pslam 121 or any other traditional Jewish poem or prayer being performed as anything other than an object of scorn in 1998. Back then, it would have been impossible to contemplate a crowd of tens of thousands of non-religious Israelis reverently singing along as Ben-Ari crooned, &#8220;My help is from God/ Maker of Heaven and Earth/ He will not allow your foot to falter/ Your Guardian will not slumber/ Behold he neither slumbers nor sleeps &#8211; the Guardian of Israel.&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not that the crowd would have necessarily booed him off the stage. He simply never would have been allowed on the stage to begin with. The 1990s was the decade that launched Aviv Gefen, the most prominent secular draft-dodger, to stardom.</p>
<p>Israel is no longer in the throes of an adolescent rebellion. It has regained its senses.</p>
<p>True, its celebrities look like Ben-Ari and not like Naomi Shemer. But the message is the same. Israel is a great country and a great nation. Zionism is in. Judaism is in. Post- Zionism is out. Post-Judaism is out.</p>
<p>When last year a group of performers announced they would boycott the Ariel Center for Performing Arts, the public reacted with anger and disgust, not understanding. Fearing a loss of state funding, their theater bosses quickly sought to distance themselves from the performers.</p>
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		<title>Why Thomas Friedman Hates Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Bybelezer]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Thomas Friedman created a firestorm with his most recent <em>NY Times</em> article, “Newt, Mitt, Bibi, and Vladimir,” in which he intensifies his “friendly” assault on Israel.</p>
<p>Given the heightened concentration of poison in his already-toxic anti-Israel venom, it is necessary to contextualize Friedman’s latest attack on the Jewish state, to understand who Friedman is, the ideology he promotes, and how this shapes his views on, and actions towards, Israel.</p>
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<p>Friedman is a self-professed “friend” to Israel only because Israel represents the ultimate litmus test of his “progressive” agenda. If only Israel could make peace with the Palestinians—should a glorious symphony be crafted out of Middle East chaos—then, to him, this would vindicate his far-Left ideology. If it can happen in Israel, then peace can be forged anywhere and everywhere. And this is Friedman’s goal, an objective which has come to define his being—the quest for trans-national, fully-integrated world peace, beginning with the “two state solution” in the Middle East, and then radiating outwards.</p>
<p>Given this perspective, it is not surprising that Friedman refers in his article to pseudo-dictator Vladimir Putin. He does so, ostensibly, to imply that Israel, led by Likud Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, is transforming into authoritarian Russia, its democracy being undermined by “right-wing” elements. However, I propose a different, perhaps even subconscious reason to evoke Putin. In reality, for Friedman, the struggle to forge Israeli-Palestinian peace constitutes a type of ideological “Cold War,” with Israel playing the part of the former USSR. If only stubborn Israel would “democratize” (i.e. make peace with the Palestinians), then <em>his</em> Cold War—the battle against global turmoil, inequality, poverty, death and destruction—would be won, leaving in its wake a grand utopian village.</p>
<p>What Friedman fails to recognize, though, is that the real Cold War ended a long time ago—and the world is still an imperfect place. Moreover, Friedman has it backwards: in fact, it is the Palestinians that represent the “USSR” in his twisted analogy. Israel wants peace, has stated so many times, and, more importantly, has taken “bold,” tangible steps to achieve peace (see comprehensive proposals tabled to the Palestinians in 2000 and 2008, as well as the Gaza withdrawal in 2005). More concretely, Israel has already made peace with two Arab nations—when there was a real peace to be made. The Palestinians, on the other hand, fundamentally reject the notion. Whether it is preaching “death to Jews” to children in official PA schools and media, or the recent reunification between alleged “moderate” Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, his Fatah party, and Hamas, Palestinians across the board unequivocally call for Israel’s demise, and overtly work towards that goal—by refusing to recognize the Jewish state’s legitimacy; by “de-Judaizing” Jerusalem by decimating archaeological sites while concurrently fabricating historical falsities to justify their claim to the holy city; by foregoing negotiations, and instead seeking a unilateral declaration of independence at the UN, etc.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, Friedman targets Israel uniquely, presumably since “the Jews should know better.” And this is where his elitism comes into play. According to Friedman, only Israel can make peace; the Palestinians, being “weak” non-entities cannot possibly be held accountable for their actions given Israel’s “supremacy.” Hence his obsession with Israeli policies and complete disregard for Palestinian belligerence.</p>
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		<title>Obama: I’ve Done More for Israel’s Security Than Any President</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Tapson]]></dc:creator>
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<p>When you’re the most anti-Israel president in the history of America’s relationship with that staunch Middle Eastern ally, self-delusion would seem to be a useful defense mechanism. Speaking recently to prominent Jewish supporters at a New York City fundraiser, President <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obama-ive-done-more-for-israels-security-than-any-other-administration/">Obama said</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>I try not to pat myself too much on the back, but this administration has done more for the security of the state of Israel than any previous administration.</p></blockquote>
<p>It’s difficult to decide which claim in this statement is more arrogant and laughable: that Obama’s accomplishments are so laudable and numerous that he must refrain from patting himself on the back <em>too much</em>, or that his administration has been the <em>most</em> supportive of Israel’s security. As argued in the Horowitz Freedom Center’s new video, “<a href="http://frontpagemag.net/obamaisrael/">Obama: The Anti-Israel President</a>,” the reality is that no administration has done <em>less</em> to secure Israel from Muslim aggression.</p>
<p>“Obviously, no ally is more important than the state of Israel,” Obama added at the fundraiser. Actually, it’s not so obvious. From Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/02/panetta-laments-growing-israeli-isolation-in-region/">who told Israel</a> to “mend fences” with saber-rattling Turkey, try harder with new Islamist state Egypt, and “just get to the damned table” with the Palestinians; to Howard Gutman, our ambassador to Belgium, <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/u-s-ambassador-to-belgium-blames-israel-for-anti-semitism/">who actually blamed Islamic anti-Semitism</a> on Israel’s resistance to Palestinian terrorism, the Obama administration doesn’t even bother to conceal its frustration with Israel’s refusal to roll over and die. If only the intransigent occupier Israel would make even more concessions for peace, the theory goes, then apparently all Middle East conflict and anti-Semitism itself would vanish forever in a burst of rainbows and unicorns.</p>
<p>This attitude flows down from the very top – Obama himself. From his first day in office, Obama distinguished himself by his hostility towards the Jewish state. He told Jews they can&#8217;t build homes in Jerusalem, the spiritual center of Judaism for thousands of years. He forced Israel to negotiate with Hamas, who has sworn to obliterate Israel. He demanded that Israel surrender its right to negotiate defensible borders by reverting to the untenable lines that existed before 1967.</p>
<p>Since their first meeting in May, 2009, Obama has treated Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to a series of humiliating snubs, including presenting him with a list of demands and then leaving him to mull them over while he went to dinner with his family. Last month Obama was <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obama-caught-on-live-mic-blasting-netanyahu-to-french-pm-you%E2%80%99re-fed-up-with-him-but-i-have-to-deal-with-him-every-day/" target="_self">caught disparaging him</a> on a live microphone with French President Nicolas Sarkozy: “You’re fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day.”</p>
<p>Meanwhile Obama literally throws his arms around Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan, whose rhetoric toward Israel is increasingly threatening. After Israel intercepted a terrorist flotilla trying to break the Gaza arms blockade, Erdogan called it “cause for war” and said Israel had to “pay a price for its aggression and crimes.” The Obama administration then pressured <em>Israel</em> to apologize to <em>Turkey</em> over the incident.</p>
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		<title>Obama Administration&#8217;s Threefold Slap in Israel&#8217;s Face</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 04:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[P. David Hornik]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Worried about losing some of the Jewish vote for 2012, President Obama has been sweet-talking American Jews lately and making some staunchly pro-Israel statements. In September he <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/09/21/remarks-president-obama-address-united-nations-general-assembly">told</a> the UN General Assembly:</p>
<blockquote><p>Let us be honest with ourselves: Israel is surrounded by neighbors that have waged repeated wars against it. Israel’s citizens have been killed by rockets fired at their houses and suicide bombs on their buses. Israel’s children come of age knowing that throughout the region, other children are taught to hate them. Israel, a small country of less than eight million people, look[s] out at a world where leaders of much larger nations threaten to wipe it off of the map. The Jewish people carry the burden of centuries of exile and persecution, and fresh memories of knowing that six million people were killed simply because of who they are. Those are facts. They cannot be denied.</p></blockquote>
<p>Strong stuff—the kind of stuff <em>really</em> pro-Israel people really say, and think.</p>
<p>But no one should be fooled. In recent days, statements by two very senior officials and one lesser official have shown that this administration remains relentlessly anti-Israel in some of its basic attitudes.</p>
<p>On Friday at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy in Washington, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta again <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=2058">warned</a> Israel not to attack Iran. He repeated the reasons he gave in an almost identical <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/18/us-usa-iran-economy-idUSTRE7AH02O20111118">warning</a> two weeks earlier: harmful economic consequences, retaliations against U.S. forces, and ineffectiveness, since, he claimed, an attack would only set Iran’s nuclear program back a year or two.</p>
<p>Aware that Israel’s prime minister and defense minister regard that nuclear program as an <em>imminent</em>—possibly within less than a year—existential threat, Panetta added that Iran is “a very grave threat to all of us,” that sanctions against Iran must be “strong, [imposed] quickly, and purposeful,” and that “it is my department’s responsibility to plan for all contingencies and to provide the president with a wide range of military options should they become necessary.”</p>
<p>One can ask why that should be worth the effort when, according to Panetta, the military option is close to useless anyway. But if sanctions are the thing, one can ask why the administration keeps <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/u-s-senate-approve-sanctions-against-iran-central-bank-despite-obama-objection-1.399128">obstructing</a> Congress’s push to sanction Iran’s central bank. Might it have to do with “existential” fears about rising oil prices on the part of an administration that, facing an election, has already ravaged its country’s economy so badly?</p>
<p>This time around, though, Panetta didn’t content himself with merely admonishing Israel not to deal with its cardinal security problem, and instead to “count on us”; he also told Israel it was <em>responsible</em> for its—and America’s—problems in the Middle East. Israel—and not the Islamist tide now engulfing the region, which Washington’s own perverse policy of coddling and encouraging Islamists in Egypt, Turkey, Tunisia, and Libya has done so much to enable.</p>
<p>Israel, Panetta said, needs to “reach out and mend fences with those who share an interest in regional stability—countries like Turkey and Egypt, as well as Jordan.”</p>
<p>He said that just as the election results from Egypt were showing an overwhelming win for the Muslim Brotherhood, a movement for which jihad to the death against Israel is a <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=5911">fundamental tenet</a>.</p>
<p>He said it even though Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan  has waged an unremitting campaign against Israel with the same jihadist underpinnings. As even the <em>New York Times</em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/world/middleeast/irans-president-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-rails-against-the-west-in-united-nations-speech.htm">put it</a> in September:</p>
<blockquote><p>Evidently heedless of American attempts to engineer a thaw in Turkish-Israeli relations, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey used his appearance before the annual General Assembly on Thursday to enumerate a long list of grievances with Israel, a former regional ally….</p></blockquote>
<p>And naturally, in this context, Panetta pulled out that old shibboleth—the Palestinians. “<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/02/panetta-laments-growing-israeli-isolation-in-region/">Just get to the damned table</a>,” he snarled; “rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel’s interests to strengthen it by&#8230;continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Connecting the Nuclear Dots on Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 04:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kenneth R. Timmerman]]></dc:creator>
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<p>With the IAEA discussing a dramatic new report from its nuclear inspectors in Iran, are some – such as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu &#8211; exaggerating the imminence of a nuclear-armed Iran? Or is the U.S. government hopelessly misleading us that the threat is manageable through sanctions and tough talk?</p>
<p>A series of extraordinary leaks in the Israeli press last week revealed an internal debate within Israel’s inner security cabinet over the need to launch a pre-emptive strike on Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons sites.</p>
<p>According to these reports, Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak favored the strikes; Vice prime minister and strategic affairs minister Moshe “Bogey” Ya’alon reportedly was opposed. The leaks came on the heels of the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/nov/2/israeli-missile-test-air-drill-heat-up-talk-of-att/">third test-launch of a Jericho 3</a> nuclear-capable strategic missile, and what Israel claimed were long-planned air force exercises over Sardinia to simulate an attack on Iran.</p>
<p>According to former CIA case officer turned novelist Chet Nagle, the Jericho 3 test may have been designed by Israel to send quite a different message than the one being played up in the press.</p>
<p>Any Israeli attack on Iran is sure to make of Israel an international pariah, Nagle argues. Plus, the likelihood of success – that is, in destroying or disabling all of Iran’s nuclear weapons capabilities so they have nothing to launch on the morning after the attack – is low.</p>
<p>“If you’re going to go to all that trouble and be a pariah, why not take one of those Jericho missiles, and detonate it 300 miles above the surface and deliver an EMP strike on Iran?” Nagel says. “That would stop their clock – if it’s electric – as well as all those centrifuges and everything else. Then the Greens can take over the country and we can go back in and rebuild the grid.”</p>
<p>Nagel was speaking with me and other analysts last week <a href="http://empactamerica.org/attendevents_11012011.php">at a briefing organized by EMPact Americ</a>a for Congressional staff. His comments, while purely suggestive in nature, hint at a much larger strategic truth: if Israel is going to attack Iran, they have to make sure they totally disable Iran’s ability to launch a nuclear weapon.</p>
<p>How better to achieve that goal than a nuclear electro-magnetic pulse strike that would take down Iran’s power grid – and with it, even secret nuclear weapons plants Israel might fail to hit otherwise?</p>
<p>EMP or not, Israel was certainly making a show of force in an effort to convince Iran to back off its nuclear plans. On that score, from what we see in public at least, Israel had little success.</p>
<p>According to Iranian press reports cited on Sunday by the Debkafile, top Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commanders in Iran were shaking their fists.</p>
<p>In one unsigned editorial from the IRGC’s Fars news agency, the Guards threatened to utterly destroy Israel with just four missiles if Israel dared to launch any kind of attack on Iran.</p>
<p>Which brings us to the question, what if Iran already had the bomb?</p>
<p>Former IRGC officer and undercover CIA spy, Reza Kahlili, believes Iran <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/05/31/iran-nuclear-warheads/">acquired nuclear warheads from a former Soviet republic</a> at the end of the Cold War, and has designed its own nuclear warhead with the help of Ukrainian scientists.</p>
<p>As I reported in my 2005 book, <a href="http://www.kentimmerman.com/countdown.htm">Countdown to Crisis: the Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran,</a> IRGC commander Gen. Mohsen Rezai traveled to North Korea in January 1993, seeking assistance in arming those warheads. My informant, a top advisor to Gen. Rezai who later defected (and who spoke with me), said the North Koreans agreed to provide that help.</p>
<p>From that day forward, Iran believed it had a nuclear deterrent – not a strike force, but at least a deterrent – and its behavior changed. The IRGC believed they could carry out aggressive acts against the United States, including a terror alliance with Osama Bin Laden and al Qaeda, and the U.S. would never strike back with any consequence, and certainly would not strike the Iranian homeland.</p>
<p>This week’s IAEA report is only the latest in a series of revelations from the UN nuclear watchdog in Vienna that has documented Iran’s long march toward nuclear weapons.</p>
<p>Despite these reports, <a href="http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trend-lines/10575/iaea-iran-nuclear-report-a-skeptics-primer">nuclear skeptics</a> continue to claim that Iran is hopelessly disorganized, incompetent, incapable, and lacking the will to defy the international community and deploy nuclear weapons.</p>
<p>Just three weeks ago, the same nuclear analyst <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/iaea-says-foreign-expertise-has-brought-iran-to-threshold-of-nuclear-capability/2011/11/05/gIQAc6hjtM_story.html">quoted this week by the Washington Post</a> to sound the alarm about the latest IAEA report on Iran’s nuclear weapons progress, David Albright, was telling folks how the Stuxnet virus had <a href="../2011/10/20/peace-in-our-time-with-iran/">crippled Iran’s ability to enrich uranium.</a></p>
<p>As they say, what a difference a week makes.</p>
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