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[06.14.2009]
Netanyahu Reaffirms a United Jerusalem and much much more
There is a reason why the Palestinian Authority reacted so negatively to Prime Minister Netanyahu's comprehensive speech on the Palestinian-Israel conflict.

SAEB EREKAT, SENIOR PALESTINIAN NEGOTIATOR:

"President Obama, the ball is in your court tonight. You have the choice tonight. You can deal with Netanyahu as a prime minister above the law, close the file of peace tonight and engulf the whole area in the direction of violence, chaos, extremism and bloodletting. The other choice is to make Netanyahu abide by the "road map" plan for peace.

"The peace process has been moving at the speed of a tortoise. Tonight, Netanyahu has flipped it over on its back."


 NABIL ABU RDAINAH, PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS' SPOKESMAN:

"Netanyahu's remarks have sabotaged all initiatives, paralyzed all efforts being made and challenges the Palestinian, Arab and American positions."

The Palestinians understand that Netanyahu is trying to reshape the nature of the debate between Israel and the Palestinians. Gone are the days of unilateral withdrawals, gone are the days of talking without setting Israel's needs clearly on the table, gone are the days when the Arab world sits on the sidelines and washes its hands of the refugee problem

Netanyahu has taken seriously President Obama's call for speaking the truth. Netanyahu's truth is Israel's reality.

While headlines about the speech declare that Netanyahu endorsed a demilitarized Palestinian state his speech went far beyond this point. Netanyahu declared that Jerusalem will remain united under the State of Israel which will continue to guarantee that it will be free and open to all people.

Netanyahu also made it clear that Israel is not a gift to the Jewish people because of the Holocaust. He told the world that Israel has been the homeland of the Jewish people for 3500 years and that is why the State of Israel exists today. Rarely do we hear such Zionist statements from Israeli officials.

In his speech Netanyahu reminded the world that Israel has made concessions to its enemies time and again. And it has received terrorism in return. Israel will no longer go down that path.

 Israel is willing and anxious to come to an agreement with its neighbors but it will not make the mistakes of the past that led to the deaths of innocents on both sides. Netanyahu offered the Palestinians a chance to earn a demilitarized state. He offered to invest in joint economic projects. He offered to live in peace.

But for this to happen, Netanyahu said there must be a change of heart on the other side. For one, he took the right of return issue off the table. He said what everybody knows this was always a deal breaker and it permitted Arab states and the United Nations to ignore their responsibility for the refugee problem. For 61 years, the Arab States and the United Nations have keep the refugee problem alive by not doing anything about it. Netanyahu said they can not hide behind the refugees anymore. They are responsible for solving a problem they have allowed to foster.

Netanyahu addressed another issue that has been swept under the carpet until now. For any settlement to be reached the Palestinians must recognize Israel as a Jewish State. Israel is being pressured to recognize a Palestinian State but the Palestinian have refused to recognize a Jewish State. Less than a month ago, the Palestinian leader Abbas refused to say he accepts Israel as a Jewish State. With Netanyahu at the helm this will not fly.

President Obama has called the speech a good first step. We hope he understands that Netanyahu has many non-negotiable demands in this speech. It's up to Obama to convince the Muslim street he addressed in Cairo to address these legitimate demands. He can start by getting the Palestinians and Saudis to recognize the Jewish State of Israel after 61 years of its existence.

Along with criticism from the Palestinians, Netanyahu's speech has been the subject of criticism from our friend Daniel Pipes. Daniel makes some important observations that we do not ascribe to but they are worthy of consideration.

Meanwhile, Professor Gerald Steinberg is more complimentary to the Prime Minister.


 

 

 




 
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United States President Barack Obama's speech was off the mark in many manners. For one, toward the middle of it, he castigates the Israelis for being "occupiers" [his words, "that come from occupation"] who prevent the Palestinians from living with "dignity, opportunity" and that "the situation for the Palestinian people is intolerable." What about Sderot? Is this to justify the uncivil and indecent murder of countless scores and even hundreds of Israeli Jews living in Sderot, who have never even done anything so horrid as shake even one stick at any Palestinian or even moreso, any member of the Fascist, totalitarian and anit-Semitic terrorist group named Hamas that now runs all of Jewish Gaza, land that was taken away from Jews who had been living there in thriving communities for many, many years, And what of all of Hamas' firing of Grads, mortars and Quassams, scores, if not hundreds on a daily basis, not only into Sderot, but throughout all of southern Israel, including thriving cities such as Ashdod and Ashkelon where much of Israel's industry is based? We would be fools to give even one inch of the lands of Judea and Samaria to such a group of thugs as these who would only then fire their rockets and missiles into Tel-Aviv, all of its densely-populated surrounding areas and likely so to also bomb Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel-Aviv as planes come both in and out; and soon enough a tragedy would occur. The Hamas Charter (1988) explicitly states--as is found in its eternity--such notions as: "This is the charter of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas). It reveals its face, its identity, explains its positioin, makes its desires known, speaks of its hopes and calls [upon those who hear] for aid, to support it and join its ranks. That is because our battle against the Jews is great and fateful, and all honest means are necessary for it." So, who is creating war with atrocities such as homicide bombings of innocent Israeli cdivilians and who has saidi that they will never--never, mind you--come to peace with Israel. And give them another firing range in Judea and Samaria? Sheer, utter madness. No, Mr. Obama, you're speech was most one-sided and failed to call Palestinian terrorist groups, which is multitudinous, the names that they are: murders, baby-killers, and out-and-out terrorists. Whoever could make peace with such a group of thugs, and once a call were made to give up Judea and Samaria to the Palestinians, Hamas would once again move in, take over--as it had so easily done in Gaza--and would pounce upon Israel in its merely ten-mile wide range of land, which is all that would be left to it, making Israel extremely vulnerable to any form of attack from any and all terrorist groups, Al-Qaida, and then Iran, too, from right outside the core of Israel. The Hamas Charter once again shows its true face in stating that: "The Islamic Resistance Movement is [also] one link in the chain of holy war in its confrontatioin with the Zionist invasion" and is to be fought by those who have "feared Allah in all these matters and flown the banner of jihad in the faces of tyrants to expel them from the land [ ], and to clean [the tyrants'] pollution from the faithful, [and to remove] their malice and evil, [as it is written in the Qur'an] 'No and again no, we show the truth to senselessness and [the truth] will smash its head and it will quickly fade away...'" Mr. President, you want to praise these Islamic nations. I don't think so. "The tyrants" whose pollution they want to cleanse by "smashing their heads" is you, Sir, the United States of America, Sir! Now, will you still go into their nest and give them more and more so that they can then come and go anywhere they like and kill and kill more innocent lives? No, Mr. President, this I do not want for my United States of America. G-d Bless.

The so called peace talks have been stalled since there inception. With each passing generation men with evil desires have come in made grandiose promises. Collected many billions of dollars all the while inciting violence and mass murder. I pity these so called freedom fighters for they have been fed a line they do not question they blindly follow. One day perhaps a mother a grandmother a sister my hope is all including the men will step up and say enough. Then not simply ask but shout why must we do this; the world sends us billions. Why must we fight when we have so much. Where is the money should be the cry. Why must our children and their children die? peace will come when no one goes to war. When men on both sides say I will fight no more forever or simply follow their doctrine of love your fellow man as you do your self. peace requires men overlook insults or misspoken words; peace requires men of honor and men of true faith.

The Muslim Nations will always be at war with the Jewish Nation! It goes back to Abraham giving his inheritence to Issac instead of Ishmel. Israel belongs to the Jewish people!!! Plain and simple, it's their land! No one else has any right to be there but them! This land was given to them by God Himself! And before long, God will show His Mighty Power to all who come against Israel to destroy it!! Then once and for all everyone on earth will know that He alone is God!! The earth will shake at his Mighty Power and Rage, they, the very ones that thought they were coming to destroy Israel and her people will themselves be destroyed! No one else can do this, only God alone can, and will! It will be seen all over the globe, then everyone will know that He is God!!! Praise the Lord God Almighty, for He is Wonderous and Just! His Love is Everlasting! He is King of kings and Lord of lords. No other is above Him. Lord, Your children cry out to You to rescue them from their enemies! They say vile evil things against Your Children Lord! And make threats against their lives! Come Lord I pray, come and defend your people! For You alone are Holy, You alone are Lord, You alone are God, The Most High! Blessed is Your Name!
Amen!
All who read this message should heed these words, for these things will happen, and by the all the signs, they will happen soon!

Mr. Obama, of late you sing the praises of the Arabic nations and condemn Israel as being an occupier who makes life for the Palestinian peoples "intolerable." This is a great offense to the Jewish Peoples as the Land of Israel has been given to us by G-d as an eternal covenant, and is the land to which we returned after 2,000 years in exile. Only of late, and after the Jewish people created such success in farming the land around the very early 1900's, have the Palestinians shown any interest in living amongst us. They claim it is their land, but when Israel achieved its Independence in 1948 and five Arabic Nations came crashing down upon us, placing our backs against a wall, and leaving us no room for escape did the Palestinians high-tail it out of the Jewish lands and took up refuge amongst the surrounding Arabic forces, Saudi Arabia included. And when Israel fought back brilliantly and managed to win a seemingly hopeless battle, we solidified our place in the world and had--as miraculously as it was--returned to our nascent homeland following a 2,000 year-long exile. These Arabic Nations have always had it within them to give a homeland to the Palestinian peoples but instead chose to ignore them and used this as an opportunity to comdemn Israel and to state that anything and everything that was ever wrong within the Middle East was a function of anything and everything that Israel ever did. Contrarily, as is cited in "The Hamas Charter (1988)," it states that "There is no solution to the Palestinian problem except jihad. Regarding the international initiatives, suggestions and conferences, they are an empty waste of time and complete nonsense" ("The Hamas Charter," 1988, p. 20). Additionally, The Hamas states that "The Islamic Resistance Movement is very familiar with both sides of the conferences and their [negative] positions regarding Muslim interests in the past and present. Thererfore, the Movement does not consider such frameworks capable of meeting the demands [of the Palestinians] or of restoring their rights or of bringing justice to the oppressed. Thus such conferences are but one of the means used by the infidels to prevail over Muslim land, and when have the infidels treated the faithful justly?" ("The Hamas Charter," 1988, p.19). Thus, Mr. Obama, how can you ever so claim as to have a partner for peace amongst those Palestinians who are the supporters of Hamas, which is the majority of them, in both what was once Jewish Gaza and in what is now called the West Bank? And, if a state were ever to be given to the P.A., as has proven so true and rapidly so in Gaza, The Hamas would once again take over and threaten the heartland of Israel with all forms of terrorist attacks. You have no peace partner with anyone who supports Hamas as is shown by their statements directly above. As for the P.A.-Fatah, they, too, are not whatsoever at all a viable partner for peace. Through a study by "The Palestinian Media Watch" entitled, "Strengthening America's Enemies: The ideological allies of a future Palestinian state," by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Cook, the research done shows that the P.A. is alligned with such Nations as "North Korea, Syria, Cuba, Iran, Chavez's Venezuela, and Hezbollah" ("Palestinian Media Watch," "Strengthening America's Enemies: The ideological allies of a future Palestinian state," p.1) who all share a "hatred of the United States and disdain for the US role of world leadership" ("Palestinian Media Watch," "Strengthening gAmerica's Enemies: The ideological allies of a future Palestinian state," p.1). Thus, Mr. President, neither do you have an ally amongst those rulers and members who belong to the P.A.-Fatah; they, too, are the blatant, out-and-out enemies of the Peoples and Nation of the United States of America. You do, however, have a long-standing ally in the form of the Peoples and the Nation of Eretz Yisrael. Mr. Netanyahu has, thank G-d, made it clear that Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) can, must and will remain the Undivided Capital of Israel as it is our most sovereign foundation point from within which all of our most Holy of Hioly sites within Israel belong. It is truly a most Sacred City for us and has always been at the center of our devotions and and is at the core of all of our most Sacred Prayers. We would never even think of giving up any of what is the heart and soul of the Jewish peoples. Mr. Obama, we are a most religious peoples, and sacred territory is to be treated with the utmost of respect and dignity and as HaShem, The Almighty, has prevailed upon us: "And to Jerusalem, Your city, may you return in compassion, and may You rest within it, as You have spoken. May You rebuild it soon in our days as an eternal structure, and may You speedily establish the throne of Your servant David within it. Blessed are You, HaShem, Who causes the pride of salvation to flourish" ("The Siddur," "Shemoneh Esrei--Amidah," pp. 113-115). Now is the time to turn to Israel and to see her and treat her as the Democratic ally that she is. She is all that we have in the Middle East. She is a light shining forth. May we all merit G-d's compassion and mercies and bring forth a new era in which our two Nations are so strongly bonded and wedded in our Democratic ideals that no other Nation can ever even be capable of weakening us in any way. God Bless AMERICA! G-d Bless ERETZ YISRAEL!

This is for anyone who'd like to contact Obama at the whitehouse by email. I've already done it several times over, and I told him just exactly what I think of him and what he is and the evil he's doing! I got no response from them, but I keep doing it!

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

He needs to hear that not everyone in America, or Israel is with him! The man is totaly evil and has a huge ego to go with it! I even told him he needs to either resign or be impeached!!! He's wicked through and through! No one has any right to Israel BUT the Jewish people! It's their land and only their land! Obama stay out of their affairs! The Bible say," If you turn your back on Israel, God will turn His back on you!!" Please, every American who reads this, please email him, don't be afraid to do so. Lift up all Jewish peoples and pray for their safety and God's protection!! And email Obama, president of SOME Americans, not ALL Americans!!! He's a true muslim!!! My heart goes out to all you Jewish people having to live as you are having to do! I am on your side, always have been, always will be! You are embedded deep in my heart! I will always stand with you and in defense of you. I wasn't alive when the Holocaust happened, but I am now!!! I will always be a watcher on the wall for you and pray for you always!

Your life friend,
Sherry J.

The piece process is moving slowly because The Prime Minister has stated no more pieces will we give away. That at least is my take on it. Why must The Jewish state give what is theirs? In giving Gaza for peace they got pieces a missile here gave pieces there and so on. Now They demand more. Why do the Arab people not call their leaders too account for the billions of dollars. Why so much poverty in the face of so much wealth. Simple those demanding pieces want to keep the conflict going for one reason money. Until Arab mothers stand and say enough it will never end there will always be evil men demanding pieces for peace. Which always leads to war.

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