Sunday, August 31, 2014

Amazing Israel benefits to humanity

Amazing Israel benefits to humanity
Israeli Technology Advances Key Agricultural Techniques
Because Israel is 60 percent desert, its farmers and agricultural scientists have long focused on expanding both the yield and quality of crops, as well as making agriculture more efficient overall.

Drip irrigation has become popular with fruit and vegetable growers in dry weather areas, from Southern California to the Middle East. The world’s first surface drip irrigation system was developed in the 1960s at Kibbutz Hatzerim near Beersheba. Similarly, Israeli scientists have developed genetically modified, disease-resistant bananas, peppers and other crops that are expanding the world’s food supply and helping to keep prices down at grocery stores around the globe.

Israeli Doctors Have Developed Life-Saving Treatments and Drugs
Throughout Israel’s history, Israeli doctors, scientists and researchers have produced countless medical advances. Whether achieved through independent research or joint projects with the United States, the medical discoveries made by the Jewish state are improving the lives of millions of Americans and others around the globe.

Israeli High-Tech Developments Are Used Around the World
Israel’s high-tech civil innovations have left an important mark on homes, offices and businesses around the world.

Many offices now have computerized phones that plug into the Internet, taking advantage of Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP. VocalTec Communications of Herzliya, Israel, developed the first practical Internet phone software. Similarly, those who enjoy chatting with friends over the Internet might be interested to know that this online phenomenon originated in Israel. Although the technology now belongs to AOL, Israel’s Mirabilis developed the first popular Internet chat program, ICQ.

Every day, millions of Americans watch online streaming video for entertainment or educational purposes. Metacafe, the world’s third-most-popular video sharing website, was founded in Israel. Likewise, tech-savvy Americans over age 30 remember the original IBM Personal Computer of the early 1980s. What they may not know is that its brain, the Intel 8088 processor, was developed by Intel’s Israel division. More recently, the Pentium M series of processors for laptop computers using the Intel Centrino platform, as well as some of Intel’s latest processors (Yonah, Merom, Woodcrest), were also designed by Intel Israel. In addition, Amazon.com’s Kindle e-reader owes much of its success to technology developed in Israel.

Israel Contributes to a Cleaner World
In an era of booming populations, shrinking resources and environmental degradation, Israel leads the world in such critical fields as solar power generation and seawater desalination. As nations struggle to make the best use of their resources, Israel’s cutting edge technologies promise to improve the health and living standards of hundreds of millions across the globe, while making industry more efficient and minimizing the environmental impact of human activities.

Israel’s plan to break from gasoline dependence is providing structure and predictability to the marketplace, combining long-term public sector commitment with regulatory stability to send a clear message that innovation will have a home in Israel. Through investments in basic science and industrial R&D, and the launching of pilot programs and full scale-ups for promising technology, Israel is taking the lead in confronting one of the most pressing security issues of our time. A country of under 8 million people, Israel alone cannot end gasoline’s global monopoly nor end the West’s dependence on hostile petro-regimes. But together with international partners, Israel can serve as a generator of intellectual property and a test-bed for innovative solutions, challenging the economic and security vulnerability that the United States and Israel both face through gasoline dependence.

Israel has also set a national goal consistent with the Copenhagen Accord to increase its share of renewable energy in electricity generation to 10 percent by 2020. In the same period of time, Israel plans to reduce its electricity consumption by 20 percent.

45 examples as to why israel is world's greatest country per capita

Israel’s top 45 greatest inventions of all time

A new exhibit pays homage to Israeli ingenuity behind gadgets like the Disk-on-Key, PillCam, solar windows and a space camera. Photo courtesy of Bloomfield Science Museum “Inventors for a Day” tap into their creative side at the Inventions, Inc. exhibition …

By Abigail Klein Leichman September 26, 2011, 35 Comments

A new exhibit pays homage to Israeli ingenuity behind gadgets like the Disk-on-Key, PillCam, solar windows and a space camera.

Photo courtesy of Bloomfield Science Museum

“Inventors for a Day” tap into their creative side at the Inventions, Inc. exhibition at Jerusalem’s Bloomfield Science Museum.

One of Israel’s sources of pride is the enormous number of inventions and innovations that have taken root on its soil over 63 years — despite challenges of geography, size and diplomacy. The ever-churning Israeli mind has brought us drip irrigation, the cherry tomato, the electric car grid, the Disk-on-Key and much more.
Through December at the Bloomfield Science Museum in Jerusalem, 45 indispensable Israeli inventions are being displayed and demonstrated. Curator Varda Gur Ben-Sheetrit tells ISRAEL21c that hundreds of ingenious inventions were considered for Inventions, Inc., which offers visitors a chance to learn more and try their own hand at coming up with something new.

She emphasizes that many other Israeli inventions are deserving of being included. “We were, of course, constrained by space limitations, and also not every company we invited to exhibit responded,” she says.

Another feature of the exhibition is the Transparent Studio, where graduates of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design conduct a course on innovation in the area of light and lighting design. Visitors can observe their work-in-progress and share their ideas and suggestions with the designers.
Here, ISRAEL21c gives Israel’s top 45 inventions highlighted at the exhibition, in no particular order.
1. Given Imaging, a world leader in developing and marketing patient-friendly solutions for visualizing and detecting disorders of the GI tract, is best known for its PillCam (aka capsule endoscopy), now the gold standard for intestinal visualization.

Photo courtesy of Bloomfield Science Museum

Visitors watch how the PillCam shows doctors what’s going on in the gut.

2. Netafim is a worldwide pioneer in smart drip and micro-irrigation, starting from the idea of Israeli engineer Simcha Blass for releasing water in controlled, slow drips to provide precise crop irrigation. The kibbutz-owned company operates in 112 countries with 13 factories throughout the world.
3. Ormat Technologies designs, develops, builds, owns, manufactures and operates geothermal power plants worldwide, supplying clean geothermal power in more than 20 countries.
4. Pythagoras Solar makes the world’s first solar window, which combines energy efficiency, power generation and transparency. This transparent photovoltaic glass unit can be easily integrated into conventional building design and construction processes.

The world’s first solar window.

5. Hazera Genetics, a project of two professors at the Hebrew University Faculty of Agriculture, yielded the cherry tomato — a tasty salad fixing that ripens slowly and doesn’t rot in shipment.
6. BabySense is a non-touch, no-radiation device designed to prevent crib death. Made by HiSense, the device monitors a baby’s breathing and movements through the mattress during sleep. An auditory and visual alarm is activated if breathing ceases for more than 20 seconds or if breath rate slows to less than 10 breaths per minute.
7. EpiLady, the first electric hair remover (epilator), secured its leading position in the international beauty care market and since 1986 has sold almost 30 million units.
8. 3G Solar pioneered a low-cost alternative to silicon that generates significantly more electricity than leading silicon-based PV solar modules at a lower cost per kilowatt hour.
9. MobileEye combines a tiny digital camera with sophisticated algorithms to help drivers navigate more safely. The steering system-linked device sounds an alert when a driver is about to change lanes inadvertently, warns of an impending forward collision and detects pedestrians. MobileEye has deals with GM, BMW and Volvo, among others.

Photo courtesy of MobileEye

How does MobileEye keep drivers safe?

10. Leviathan Energy innovated the Wind Tulip, a cost-effective, silent, vibration-free wind turbine designed as an aesthetic environmental sculpture, producing clean energy at high efficiency from any direction.
11. Rav Bariach introduced the steel security door that has become Israel’s standard. Its geometric lock, whose cylinders extend from different points into the doorframe, is incorporated into doors selling on five continents.

Photo courtesy of Bloomfield Science Museum

Turn the key at the Rav Bariach display and you’ll see how secure cylinders come out of the door at various intervals.

12. BriefCam video-synopsis technology lets viewers rapidly review and index original full-length video footage by concurrently showing multiple objects and activities that actually occurred at different times. This technology drastically cuts the time and manpower involved in event tracking, forensics and evidence discovery.
13. GridON makes the Keeper, a three-phase fault current limiter developed at Bar-Ilan University. The device, which blocks current surges and limits the current for as long as required to clear the fault, won an Innovation Award from General Electric’s Ecomagination Challenge and is of interest to major utilities companies around the world.
14. Better Place electric car network, Israeli Shai Agassi’s brainchild, is implementing the Israeli pilot that will provide a model for a worldwide electric car grid.

Photo courtesy of Better Place

Artist’s rendering of a Better Place charging station.

15. Intel Israel changed the face of the computing world with the 8088 processor (the “brain” of the first PC), MMX and Centrino mobile technology. Israeli engineers at Intel in the 1990s had to convince skeptical bosses to take a chance on MMX technology, an innovation designed to improve computer processing. It’s now considered a milestone in the company’s history.
16. Disk-on-Key, the ubiquitous little portable storage device made by SanDisk, was invented by Dov Moran as an upgraded version of disk and diskette technology through the use of flash memory and USB interface for connection to personal computers.

Photo courtesy of Bloomfield Science Museum

The SanDisk display shows how one tiny device can hold as much data as a stack of floppy disks.

17. TACount real-time microbiology enables the detection and counting of harmful microorganisms in a matter of minutes, rather than the conventional method of cell culture that takes several hours to a few days. The technology applies to the fields of drinking and wastewater, pharmaceuticals and food and beverage production.
18. Solaris Synergy innovated an environmentally friendly and economically beneficial way to float solar panels on water instead of taking up valuable land, generating energy while protecting and limiting evaporation from reservoir surfaces.
19. HydroSpin is developing a unique internal pipe generator that supplies electricity for water monitoring and control systems in remote areas and sites without accessibility to electricity.
20. The Volcani Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development aims to improve existing agricultural production systems and to introduce new products, processes and equipment. Basic and applied research is conducted at six institutes and in two regional research centers by more than 200 scientists and 300 engineers and technicians.
21. Rosetta Green, a 2010 spinoff of the agro-biotechnology division of Rosetta Genomics, develops improved plant traits for the agriculture and biofuel industries, using unique genes called microRNAs.

Photo courtesy of Bloomfield Science Museum

A guide explains Rosetta Green tech to young museum visitors.

22. Mazor Robotics’ Spine Assist and other surgical robots are transforming spine surgery from freehand procedures to highly accurate, state-of-the-art operations with less need for radiation.
23. The optical heartbeat monitor developed by Bar-Ilan University’s Prof. Ze’ev Zalevsky is a revolutionary medical technology using a fast camera and small laser light source.
24. Elya Recycling developed and patented an innovative method for recycling plastic based on a specialized formulation of natural ingredients. Making the new raw material for handbags, reusable totes and lumber products requires 50 percent less energy than current recycling methods and 83% less energy than virgin manufacturing.
25. Like-A-Fish unique air supply systems extract air from water, freeing leisure and professional scuba divers, as well as submarines and underwater habitats, from air tanks.
26. Itamar Medical’s WatchPAT is an FDA-approved portable diagnostic device for the follow-up treatment of sleep apnea in the patient’s own bedroom, rather than at a sleep disorders clinic.

Photo courtesy of Bloomfield Science Museum

WatchPAT lets patients spend the night at home.

27. Zenith Solar developed a modular, easily scalable high-concentration photovoltaic system (HCPV). The core technology is based on a unique, proprietary optical design to extract the maximum energy with minimal real estate.
28. AFC (Active Flow Control) was developed at Tel Aviv University as an intelligent gas-air mixing system to replace all existing mixing technologies.
29. The Space Imagery Intelligence (IMINT) unit of Elbit Systems makes a “space camera,” a compact, lightweight electro-optic observation system for government, commercial and scientific applications.
30. Turbulence, the world’s first hyper-narrative, interactive movie, is also the name of the company developed by Prof. Nitzan Ben-Shaul of Tel Aviv University. The technology allows the viewer to choose the direction of the film’s plot by pressing buttons on the PC, Mac or iPad at various moments in the action.

Photo courtesy of Bloomfield Science Museum

Checking out interactive tech for movies.

31. Decell Technologies is a global leader in providing real-time road traffic information based on monitoring the location and movement of phones and GPS devices. Swift-i Traffic, Decell’s premium product, is incorporated in leading navigation systems, fleet management services, mapping operations and media channels in several countries.
32. NDS VideoGuard technology is the pay-TV industry’s advanced suite of conditional access (CA) solutions. It protects branded service from piracy and ensures that consumers will have the choice and flexibility they demand in broadcast and on-demand content.

Photo courtesy of Bloomfield Science Museum

NDS VideoGuard enhances the viewing experience.

33. PrimeSense revolutionizes interaction with digital devices by allowing them to “see” in three dimensions and transfer control from remote controls and joysticks to hands and body. It is the leading business provider of low-cost, high-performance 3D machine vision technologies for the consumer market.
34. Takadu provides monitoring software to leading water utilities worldwide. The product offers real-time detection and control over network events such as leaks, bursts, zone breaches and inefficiencies.

Photo courtesy of Bloomfield Science Museum

Takadu offers real time detection and control over water leaks.

35. Hewlett Packard (HP)’s Indigo digital printing presses for general commercial printing, direct mail, photos and photobooks, publications, labels, business cards, flexible packaging and folding cartons print without films and plates, allowing for personalized short runs and changing text and images without stopping the press.
36. Cubital’s solid rapid prototyping machines craft 3D models of engineering parts directly from designs on a computer screen. They’re used in the automotive, aerospace, consumer products and medical industries, as well as engineering firms and academic and research institutions.

Photo courtesy of Bloomfield Science Museum

Cubital paved the way for rapid 3D models from computer designs.

37. The Zomet Institute in Jerusalem is a non-profit, public research institute where rabbis, researchers and engineers devise practical solutions for modern life without violating Sabbath restrictions on the use of electricity. Zomet technology is behind metal detectors, security jeeps, elevators, electric wheelchairs and coffee machines that can be used on Shabbat, as well as solutions requested by the Israeli ministries of health and defense, Ben-Gurion Airport, Elite Foods, Tnuva Dairies, Israeli Channel 10 Television and others.
38. The EarlySense continuous monitoring solution allows hospital nurses to watch and record patients’ heart rate, respiration and movement remotely through a contact-free sensor under the mattress. The system’s built-in tools include a wide range of reports on the status of patients, including alerts for falls and bedsore prevention.

Photo courtesy of Bloomfield Science Museum

All you have to do is lie down to be monitored by EarlySense for temp, movement and breathing.

39. TourEngine significantly reduces fuel consumption and harmful emissions by common engines through a sophisticated thermal management strategy. It can also be easily integrated with future hybrid engines, further improving their efficiency and environment-friendly attributes.
40. The superconducting fault current limiter (FCL), designed for limiting short currents, comes out of a $2 million project developed over two years by RICOR Cryogenics and Vacuum Systems with the Institute of Superconductivity at Bar-Ilan University.
41. Heliofocus led an industry trend to provide solar-energy boosting for existing coal or gas power plants, reducing carbon emissions and overall costs.
42. Transbiodiesel makes enzyme-based catalysts (biocatalysts) used in the production of biodiesel.
43. SolarEdge makes a module that optimizes every link in the solar PV chain, maximizing energy production while monitoring constantly to detect faults and prevent theft.
44. The 3D tethered particle motion system developed by three professors at Bar-Ilan allows for three-dimensional tracking of critical protein-DNA and protein-RNA cell interactions in the body.
45. Panoramic Power provides a current monitor solution that enables enterprises and organizations to reduce their operational and energy expenses using a breakthrough power flow visibility platform.

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

The lie of "Israeli blockade " in Gaza

The lie of "Israeli blockade " in Gaza
The Keys to Gaza - Shmuel Even
The terrorism emanating from Gaza is the root cause of Gaza's abject economic state, and until it is eradicated, the prospects for economic growth and development are slim. Even after the disengagement in 2005, Israel tried to allow normal economic relations between Gaza and its neighbors. This was manifested in the Agreement on Movement and Access of November 2005.
However, the upsurge of terrorism in Gaza, including attacks on the border crossings, required heightened security measures. Moreover, Hamas forged military and political alliances with Israel's enemies, including Iran and Hizbullah, both of which, like Hamas, publicly declare their intention to destroy Israel. These circumstances necessarily preclude normal trade relations between Israel and Gaza.
The security blockade Israel imposes on Gaza is not an economic siege. Despite the terrorism from Gaza, Israel still allows the movement of a range of goods and materials, while preventing or limiting the transit of dual-use goods, such as construction materials (which were, in fact, used to build the attack tunnels). The latest deterioration in Gaza's dire economic straits is mainly the result of Egyptian measures. Egypt closed the Rafah crossing and blocked most of the tunnels underneath its border.
Recourse to the PA as a mediator between Israel and Hamas, particularly at the border crossings, will not solve Israel's security and political problems, and may even heighten them. Col. (ret.) Dr. Shmuel Even, a senior research fellow at INSS, served in the IDF's Intelligence Branch. (Institute for National Security Studies-Tel Aviv University)

Attacks on Jews worldwide

1, http://www.timesofisrael.com/philadelphia-synagogues-historian-beaten-to-death/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
2, http://www.bill613.com/anti-semitism/religious-jew-sucker-punched-arab-queen-mary/
3. http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/temple-univ-jewish-student-punched-face-and-called-kike-anti-semitic-attack#.U_U3ZtIndCQ.twitter
4./ http://pamelageller.com/2014/08/miami-rabbi-shot-killed-way-synagogue-morning.html/
5. http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/students-justice-palestine-hijack-black-narrative-and-confirm-they-hate-america want to kill Jews
6.http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/08/19/young-jewish-swedish-leader-all-my-friends-are-getting-death-threats/
7. 8/22 A Jewish school in Copenhagen had its windows smashed and anti-Semitic graffiti referring to the conflict in Gaza spray-painted on its walls.

A rise in the number of reported anti-Semitic crimes in Denmark last week prompted local politicians to organize a "kippah march" in central Copenhagen in support of Jewish people's right to display their religion openly.
8. http://www.caribbeannewsnow.com/headline-Venezuela-threatens-its-Jews-over-Gaza-conflict-22280.htm
9.http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/08/22/well-known-jewish-couple-found-stabbed-to-death-in-istanbul-apartment/
10. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/22/chicago-gets-chilling-islamic-state-tweet/
11. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2731871/ISIS-rapidly-developing-method-blowing-major-US-city-senator-warns-Hagel-says-military-ready-action.html
12. http://www.westernjournalism.com/muslims-rally-support-hezbollah-terrorists-in-orlando/
13. http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/08/21/the-israeli-flag-with-a-swastika-on-it-was-recently-seen-at-a-basketball-game-in-bosnia-just-despicable/
14. http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/08/24/hungarian-mayor-holds-mock-public-execution-of-israeli-leaders/
15. http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/08/25/shame-on-you-america-israeli-ship-unable-to-dock-in-oakland-after-dock-workers-refuse-to-unload/
16. http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/08/24/canadas-hydro-one-employee-afreeda-zaman-all-the-jews-deserved-to-die-during-the-holocaust/
17. http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/08/25/france-a-day-in-the-life-heres-a-picture-of-a-jew-getting-beaten-senseless-by-members-of-the-religion-of-peace/
18. http://www.timesofisrael.com/anti-semitic-fliers-delivered-to-sydney-jewish-neighborhoods/
19. http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/anti-semitic-thugs-attacks-jewish-couple-in-new-york-city/2014/08/26/

New anti-Semitism is bad enough, but it’s no Holocaust, says scholar

‘It is beneath us and counterproductive’ for Israeli and Jewish leaders to use scare tactic to validate their own agendas, argues Prof. Deborah Lipstadt

By Amanda Borschel-Dan August 25, 2014, 6:04 pm 29

Stop the Holocaust in Gaza: A pro-Palestinian protester at a Berlin rally Friday, July 18, 2014. (Micki Weinberg/The Times of Israel)

Although historian Deborah Lipstadt has spent much of her career in high-profile cases combating Holocaust deniers, of late the Emory University professor is working to convince the world that Jews are not on the brink of a second Shoah.

To clarify: surging anti-Semitism in Europe is indeed serious, with violent physical attacks as well as hate speech, anti-Jewish bias and graffiti, Lipstadt believes. But it’s not a new Holocaust.

“Each event made me think something strange is happening here and we should take notice,” she said in a phone interview from Atlanta. “But it’s a whole different world.”

“We have condemnation by leaders of countries, prosecution by police, we have history, we know what happened — we have the State of Israel,” she said.

Debroah Lipstadt (photo credit: Courtesy of Emory University)

Prof. Deborah Lipstadt (photo credit: Courtesy of Emory University)

Calling warnings of a new Holocaust “Chicken Little talk,” as a historian of the deliberate genocide it is important to Lipstadt that the term not be devalued.

“It is beneath us and counterproductive” for Israeli and Jewish leaders and politicians to use it as a scare tactic to validate their own agendas, she said.

Among others, Vladimir Sloutzker, head of the Israeli-Jewish Congress, said at a July Knesset meeting, “Never before since the Holocaust have we seen such a situation as today. We are potentially looking at the beginning of another Holocaust now.”

Lipstadt asked rhetorically what a “new Holocaust” means. “Are Jews being taken off to a camp, deported?”

“They’re wrong historically. They prey on people’s fears and the worse thing you should do is make people frightened. It is ethically wrong, Jewishly wrong and strategically wrong” — because if or when there really would be a Holocaust, no one would pay attention, she said.

Full to capacity room at the Knesset’s emergency meeting on rising anti-Semitism in Europe, July 28, 2014. (Israel Bardugo / The Israeli-Jewish Congress)

In an op-ed last week for The New York Times called “Why Jews Are Worried,” Lipstadt discussed the serious rise of anti-Semitism in Europe. Citing examples of anti-Semitic attacks — including murders — from the past few years, Lipstadt rebuts the notion that the anti-Semitism is “just rhetoric” and that the current Hamas-Israel conflict is the impetus.

“Nor am I comforted by the explanation that these actions are being taken by ‘disgruntled Muslim youth.’ (By one estimate, 95 percent of anti-Semitic actions in France are committed by youths of Arab or African descent.) Many of these Muslims were born in Europe, and many of those who weren’t are the parents of a new generation of Europeans,” she wrote in the much-shared op-ed.

Lipstadt said she chose The New York Times — as opposed to a Jewish media outlet — to reach the most diverse readership possible.

“The point I really wanted to address is that all the members of the European elite seemed to not be disturbed by this [rise in anti-Semitism] and seemed to be saying, ‘Israel has done terrible things, so this is ok,’” said Lipstadt.

Robert Wistrich (photo credit: courtesy)

Scholar of anti-Semitism Prof. Robert Wistrich of the Hebrew University has also spoken of the importance of “elite opinion,” including academia and the media.

Particularly in Britain, “elite opinion is the most disconnected from reality,” said Wistrich in a July interview with The Times of Israel.

In the UK there is an elite opinion that is “truly poisonous and has a great deal of responsibility for this very deliberately one-sided and massively partisan pro-Palestinian and hypocritical response [to Operation Protective Edge],” he said.

“British media are in fact for several decades now, especially the last 14 years, injecting the population with arsenic in small doses… I don’t think they give a damn for the Palestinians,” said Wistrich.

Addressing the paucity of pro-Israel advocacy among Europe’s elite, Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi wrote an oped for eJewishPhilanthropy.com Monday called “An ‘Iron Dome’ Needed to Protect Jews in Europe.”

Mizrahi is a founder of The Israel Project (TIP), which was formed to change US and European perceptions of Israel. In her op-ed, a call to action, she writes, “Serious philanthropists and the government of Israel should get together to support focus groups of opinion elite men, opinion elite women, moderate Muslims and Jews in Europe.

“Scientific strategic communications plans need to be put in place and implemented – along with strong partnerships with European security organizations,” wrote Mizrahi. (TIP’s European advocacy efforts halted in 2012 when Mizrahi left the presidency.)

Protesters burn an Israeli flag on a rooftop where is hung a placard reading zionism = nazism in Paris on July 19, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Francois Guillot)

In the meantime, saying the Holocaust should not be compared “to any other event in human history,” Finance Minister Yair Lapid addressed Europe last week in a speech at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial in defense of Operation Protective Edge and in condemnation of surging anti-Semitism.

“Some of the criticism stems from anti-Semitism. It has raised its ugly head once more. To those people we say: we will fight you everywhere. The days when Jews ran away from you are over. We will not be silent in the face of anti-Semitism and we expect every government, in every country, to stand shoulder to shoulder with us and fight this evil with us.”

Hamas training manual

By Luke Baker

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli army has released what it says is a page from a seized Hamas training manual that would appear to support its case that Palestinian militants deliberately use the cover of residential areas for combat operations.

The Israeli army said the training manual was found in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun at the end of July, when troops were operating inside the enclave. The full manual is 102 pages long, the army said, but it released just one page of it.
That page appears to set out guidelines on how to hide weapons and ammunition in civilian areas, how to transport them into buildings and how to conceal or camouflage explosives.

It is marked at the bottom with "Izz-el-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Training and Guidance Branch, Engineering Corps". The al-Qassam Brigades are the military wing of Hamas, the Islamist group that has controlled Gaza since 2007. Unlike other Hamas documents, the page bears no Hamas logo.

"The process of hiding ammunition inside buildings is intended for ambushes in residential areas and to move the campaign from open areas into built up and closed areas," reads the document, written in Arabic.

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Islamic Palestine and Arafat’s rejectionism

August 23, 2014, 10:14 am 16

In the aftermath of the Camp David debacle, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat offered his famous three reasons why he had failed to sign on to an extremely generous deal. First, the chairman suggested that he would never accept an “end of conflict” clause to any permanent agreement. Can you imagine the implications of such a stipulation? Arafat had the temerity to demand an Israeli withdrawal from the most strategic military territory in the entire world, without a written assurance that all future claims be totally expunged from any international doubt. In other words, the exact validity of their agreement would not preclude the PLO from pocketing its significant material gains, while making preparations for future rounds of conflict. Did this sound like the position of a man who represents the interests of the weaker party?

Second, Arafat continued to demand the complete return of all Arab refugees and their multitude of descendants from the original Palestinian-Israeli war of 1948. If such an event were to happen, Israel would become a bi-national state with a Jewish minority. The Jewish people have long experience with minority status in both the Muslim and the Christian worlds. Neither of these historical eras ever engendered the remotest sense of security or justice within the long memory of the Jews. Yet Arafat had the audacity to base his so-called “peace of the brave” on such a spurious concept as this “right of return”. Did this sound like the position of a man interested in anything other than the complete defeat of Jewish sovereignty in any part of the Holy Land?

Finally, Arafat acknowledged that the Palestinian struggle with the Jewish state had less to do with nationalism, and was essentially rooted in a Muslim religious context. In a speech before the Arab League in October of 2000, the PLO leader explained that the conflict was primarily a religious struggle: “A new, religious dimension was added to the Arab-Israeli struggle. Everyone is well aware of the critical nature of this dimension, and knows how difficult it is to contain it and control its repercussions,” he said.
From a historical perspective, Arafat’s statement has large elements of both truth and falsehood simultaneously. Yes, it is fundamentally true that in the minds of most Muslims, Jewish power in Palestine (an Islamic land from their theological point of view) is perceived as anathema. But there is nothing new about this. From the very inception of the Arab-Israeli conflict, from 1920 onward, the religious dimension was primary. The first Palestinian leader, Hajj Amin el-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, was a disciple of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. Arafat knew this. He also felt that in a world of 1.2 billion Muslims, the Palestinians would certainly outlast Israel in a religious war of attrition. In order for that to happen, the religious dimension became essential. Arab nationalism never served the interests of Palestinian nationalism. On the contrary, in the various large-army nation-state wars against Israel, it was Egyptian, Jordanian or Syrian interests which always superseded the interests of Palestine.
Arab nationalism had a secular veneer, but it failed to take root in what is essentially a supernaturally oriented social structure. It was always couched with Islamic religious symbols. Arafat’s charisma was based on his personal ability to exploit many of these same symbols. But religion couldn’t save Arab nationalism. Its lifespan was brief, nothing more than fifteen years in its heyday. Arafat understood all along that religious authority in the Muslim world is far deeper in terms of culture and meta-historical psychology than any form of nationalism. Islam would fight the long war against the Jews, Arafat understood this. Hamas was the true future of the Palestinian movement, and Arafat understood this as well.
The Chairman of the PLO simply couldn’t sign on to a final-status agreement at Camp David. He refused to go down in history as a Sadat or a King Hussein. Arafat was playing for time, a whole lot of time. He understood that it was Israel which was the weakest and smallest party to the conflict. After all, Islam had once conquered nearly two-thirds of the known world. And Arafat was an Islamic believer, a nephew of the Grand Mufti himself. When his private plane went down in the vast desert of the Libyan Sahara, the PLO chairman termed his rescue no less than miraculous, the very work of Allah. When he started the second intifada, he had completely abandoned Oslo and was in full cooperation with Hamas. In fact, Arafat was always with Hamas, if not in body then in spirit. In the final analysis, he believed in the complete rejection of the right of the Jewish people to a state in any part of the ancient Holy land. At Camp David, when confronted by US President Bill Clinton as to the historical validity of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem, he denied it ever existed. To a modern Jew or Christian, this response is not only contrary to history, it also reveals a deep structural rejection of anything but Islamic hegemony. It is extreme Islam at its core.
So what were the Oslo accords all about? The short answer is that Oslo represented the true genius of Yasser Arafat, or what I call the “myth of moderation.” Oslo was a mask, a disguise for a gullible left-wing European and American audience who knew next to nothing about the vagaries of language in the Muslim Near East. The PLO leader was the master of these two very distinct tongues — one in English, of moderation, and another in Arabic, as to true intentions. Even the Labor Party in Israel succumbed to Arafat’s siren song of peace, but not the Likud. They warned the West. They warned repeatedly, but to no avail. The nations of the European Enlightenment have a predilection for rational answers to most problems, including issues of war and peace. It mattered little to these Westerners that the battle for the Holy Land had a theological dimension, which can only be rooted out by a novel and revelational (Torah and Koran) approach to the Islamic-Judaic dialogue.
Normal, non-aggressive politics has long become the absent phenomenon within the context of Islamic political succession. As for interfaith struggles, the Crusades were a historical laboratory for long wars of Muslim attrition. The key lesson to be learned from these Crusades and the centuries of conflict is that the West Bank of the Jordan River is the vital strategic territory in the battle for Israel-Palestine. Arafat understood this. That was the reason for his mask. But when push came to shove at Camp David, the mask came off. When offered ninety percent of the West Bank for a demilitarized state, he refused. Arafat was a Muslim through and through. NO, he was NOT able to sign an agreement with an “end of conflict” clause. NO, he would NOT allow Israel to remain on the Jordan River Valley. His strict interpretation of his religion wouldn’t allow for such compromises.
Arafat was not a true moderate, because moderation is not a component of modern Palestinian history. For most of the conflict, religious sentiment has been the primary focus of Palestinian politics. Only for a very brief period were the Palestinians masquerading as secular socialists or democrats. Essentially, this was a tactical ploy in order to maintain a strong connection with the Soviets, while also engendering sympathy from their anti-religious left-wing friends in Western Europe. Islamic Palestine has always been the norm. Arafat’s rejectionism was merely a variant or subspecies of this ongoing religious paradigm. The Hamas “holy war” is as old as the conflict itself. In order for peace to reign, the Jews must always remain vigilant when confronted with demands for West Bank withdrawal. Simultaneously, they must develop a devastating theological argument (rooted in the current struggle itself) to overcome a vast world of Muslim religious rejection. If little Israel is successful, the region will have a future. If it isn’t successful, G-d will only help those who remain true to the idea of a genuine peace.

The Moral Psychosis of Jewish Voices for Peace

The Moral Psychosis of Jewish Voices for Peace
"That pro-Palestinian student activists, those who purport to be motivated by a desire to bring “justice” to the Middle East, could publicly call for the renewed slaughter of Jews in the name of Palestinian self-determination demonstrates quite clearly how ideologically debased the human rights movement has become. Activists on and off U.S. campuses, who never have to face a physical threat more serious than getting jostled while waiting in line for a latte at Starbucks, are quick to denounce Israel’s very real existential threats and the necessity of the Jewish state to take counter measures to thwart terrorism."
A key example:

Jewish Voices for Peace: Self-hating Anti Semites seeking the weakening and destruction of Israel
From the Times of israel
1.    They organize pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli marches attended by tens of thousands
2.    In the past two months of military operations in Gaza, the organization’s e-list has grown 37 percent and Facebook likes have more than tripled to upwards of 188,000 — “more than any other Jewish group working on this issue.” Twitter followers have also tripled to more than 34,000, and new chapters are forming in 18 cities, “representing 45% growth from our existing total of 40,” says Ari Wohlfeiler,
3.    the New York-based Jewish Voice of Jewish Voice for Peace was founded by Julia Caplan, Julie Iny, and Rachel Eisner in 1996 in Berkeley, California, as a far-left activist group with an emphasis on the “Jewish tradition” of peace, social justice, and human
rights. It is currently led by Rebecca Vilkomerson, who joined the organization in 2002.
4.    A staunch supporter of the global boycott, divest and sanction movement, JVP claims it pinpoint-targets its activities at companies who either support the Israeli military (Hewlett-Packard) or are active in the occupied territories of the West Bank (SodaStream). Jewish Voice for Peace protest against Friends of the Israel Defense Forces in New York, July 22, 2014. (courtesy Jewish Voice for Peace)
5.    Self hating on its board include Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky, and Tony Kushner,
6.    Other campaigns include lobbying efforts to push the Presbyterian church toward divestment from Israel.
7.    The Anti-Defamation League in 2010 and 2013 listed JVP as one of the ten most influential and active anti-Israel organizations in the United States. “While JVP’s activists try to portray themselves as Jewish critics of Israel, their ideology is nothing but a complete rejection of Israel,” says ADL’s website in an entry on JVP.“While the group’s innocuous name and some of its outward policies seem mainstream, JVP consistently co-sponsors rallies to oppose Israeli military policy that are marked by signs and slogans comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, demonizing Jews and voicing support for groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. JVP has never condemned or sought to distance itself from these messages,” wrote the ADL in a 2013 report.
8.    Palestinian politician Hanan Ashrawi says she has a lot of respect for JVP and admires its members’ conviction in “challenging the complacency” of those in power.She describes the group as activists that work in a collective to “be the voice of the dis-empowered” through forming coalitions in solidarity with the Palestinian people. She says JVP sends a message to the world that “not all Israelis and Jews are warmongers — and that is good for the health of the Jewish community.”
9.    Cohen estimates JVP supporters account for 2% of all American Jews. They are, however, three times more likely to intermarry and disproportionately profile as unattached to Israel (9% of all “not very” or “not at all attached”) and think Israel is not essential for Judaism (4% of total).
10.    Brandeis University Prof. Ilan Troen is no fan of JVP, whom he calls “self-appointed saints with no mass following.”“If you’ve ever dealt with the JVP, they themselves are a semi-terrorist group, promoting the disruption of free speech and the inability of others to conduct public discourse.”
Here is what they are supporting:
Morally despicable Hamas/Palestinian society examples. It is no different than Hamas. "Hamas is like ISIS. ISIS is like Hamas. They're branches of the same tree." (Netanyahu)
1.    Hamas is a despicable terrorist group advocating genocide
A.    Hamas, an official part of Palestinian govt. has a charter which calls for death of Jews and destruction of Israel WARCRIME
B.    Hamas Palestinians use human shields to encourage civilian casualties and shoot missiles from hospitals and mosques WAR CRIME
C.    Hamas Palestinians sends thousands of missiles at indiscriminant targets aimed to kill as many Jews as possible WAR CRIMES. Every civilian death is Hamas’ fault for sending the missiles in first place. Richard Kemp, former commander of British Troops in Afghanistan and a senior military adviser to the British government, said the following: “I don’t think there has ever been a time in the history of warfare where any army has made more efforts to reduce civilian casualties and deaths of civilians than the IDF (Israeli Defence Forces) is doing today in Gaza.”
D.    Hamas Nuclear terrorism-sent missiles to Dimona to try and strike nuclear facility WAR CRIMES
E.    Hamas WARCRIME wears Israeli uniforms to try and terrorize and kill
F.    Hamas uses animals to suicide detonate bombs ANIMAL ABUSE
G.    Tortures and kills domestic political opponents. 18 supposed collaborators killed August 21, 2014 as exampleHas no political or religious freedom and has no freedom of ‎speech, press, or assembly, and no independent judiciary.‎
H.    Rated a 6 by Freedom House in its 2013 report on freedom ‎in the world. Seven is the worst possible rating. Hamas ranks ‎‎6 in freedom, 6 in civil liberties and 6 political rights.‎
I.    Destroy buildings and kill civilians to frame Israel. WAR CRIME
J.    Hamas terrorizes journalists into not reporting their abuses and killing or exiling any who do
K.    Hamas killed 160 of their own children building the tunnels
L.    Hamas executed the tunnel builders so they would not reveal any info
M.    Rocket Scores Direct Hit on Ashdod Synagogue
Three wounded and synagogue damaged by rocket fired from Gaza. Follows third rocket attack on kindergarten earlier Friday.
N.    Admits kidnapping and killing 3 Israeli teens



2. The Palestinian authority, supposedly the moderates, are equally as barbaric
a. Palestinian mom wishes all her 10 sons would be suicide bombers
b. Abbas routinely honors and praises terrorist murderers of Jews
c. Fatah, in UNITY government with Hamas, is just as bad. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183854#.U-azEJsg_cd
d. the kidnap and murder of the 3 boys by Hamas was widely celebrated in Palestinian
e. Palestinian curriculum teaches 5 year olds songs about killing Jew CHILD ABUSE
f. Saturates its education and airwaves with a demonic hatred ‎of Jews
g. They say no Jews will be allowed to live in a Palestinian state, places Jews have lived 4000 years
h. They refuse to acknowledge the right of Jews to have a Jewish state
i. Abbas’ PHD was on holocaust denial


3. Both are monsters: Since Fatah agreed to UNITY government with hamas, they own whatever Hamas does. But, as I show above, pn their own, Fatah are terrorists also, mot moderates.
a. The survey asked about suicide bombing as a specific form of militant violence and found the highest support for it in the Middle East at 46 percent in Gaza and the West Bank,
b. Violently oppresses gays.
c. terrorize Christians and drive them out of their territory
d. Israel must exercise control over their borders, as EVERY sovereign nation does, or Palestinians import missiles and terror weapons to kill Jews.

Sunday, August 24, 2014

The significance of the date 9-11

I have not seen this but it makes sense. Why 9-11 2001,? Why was Benghazzi on 9-11? In 1683, on Sept.11, a force of 300,000 Muslims from Istanbul attacked Vienna and hoped to destroy Vienna and then march to Rome. They were opposed by a much much smaller force of Catholics, led by the Polish king and a monk. The Ottomon general said this day will be remembered in history. The Muslims miraculously lost. The monk told the troops they were fighting for their families, for their faith, for their civilization. They will never give up trying to take Europe. They believe it is theirs, as well as Israel, since Muslims ruled it before. This is a NEVER ending battle with islam. They will NEVER give up. Gird our loins. Obama will be gone eventually. Keep up the pressure with our congress so they understand. Hopefully Europe will wake up in time. Fight the agents who have taken the side of evil or are too stupid or pc to understand. . Nowadays Students for Justice in Palestine, J Sreet, New York times, Time magazine etc. arer part of this band of those undermoining the struggle. 97% of Israelis get it. Many in Congress get it. Canadian leadership gets it. Even some muslims understand now is not the time for them (Egyptian government, saudis etc). This is a war for our preservation.

Material to use for social media refutation or support

Students for justice in Palestine is an EVIL, Monstrous group. Fight them everywhere,

The Moral Psychosis of Demonstrating in Support of Hamas

"That pro-Palestinian student activists, those who purport to be motivated by a desire to bring “justice” to the Middle East, could publicly call for the renewed slaughter of Jews in the name of Palestinian self-determination demonstrates quite clearly how ideologically debased the human rights movement has become. Activists on and off U.S. campuses, who never have to face a physical threat more serious than getting jostled while waiting in line for a latte at Starbucks, are quick to denounce Israel’s very real existential threats and the necessity of the Jewish state to take counter measures to thwart terrorism."

All civilian deaths responsibility of Hamas
a. Cannot believe any statistics they quote about civilian deaths. They lie and lie and terrify reporters from telling the truth
b. They faked several supposed “civilian strikes” by bring bodies into buildings.
c. If they had not shot 3700 missiles in one month at civilian targets in Israel, or used International aid and Israeli cement to build terror tunnels, no civilian casualties...
d. If they would have not broken any one of the 7 cease fires they broke, any death after that would not have occurred
e. if they had not hidden behind their women and children, and forced people to be human shields, there would have been very few civilian deaths
f. They are the same type of monster as ISIS, Moslem Brotherhood, Al-Qaida, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah. Israel is fighting for you!

Islam is based on violence, not 100% but largely. Today they are more subtle. The Muslim brotherhood Manual discovered disclosed they also hope to infiltrate at first peacefully, even marrying locals, getting involved in ecumenical and unrelated groups and lying to advance their true agenda. The religion of Islam was ordered to be spread by the sword. Examples of these actions include Muhammad's massacres of the Jewish tribes of Medina. Later on in Islamic history Islam was spread by violence such as the conquering of Israel and Constantinople by force. The Quran contains at least 109 verses that call Muslims to war with nonbelievers for the sake of Islamic rule. Some are quite graphic, with commands to chop off heads and fingers and kill infidels wherever they may be hiding. Muslims who do not join the fight are called 'hypocrites' and warned that Allah will send them to Hell if they do not join the slaughter

STUDENTS FORE JUSTICE IN PALESTINE: Using our good and trusting nature to spread lies and destruction to the one Democracy in the Middle East.

http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/students-justice-palestine-hijack-black-narrative-and-confirm-they-hate-america

Israel is fighting EVIL PALESTINIANS on behalf of all of Western civilization.

The BDS Divestment groups on campus are defending EVIL! SJP Students For Justice in Palestine is a group defending those who advocate genocide and killing every Jew, sending 10000 missiles at civilians, deny their women and gays rights, kill political opponents, teach children in school to hate and kill. It is a totally immoral reprehensible organization organizing divestment movement’s vs companies doing business with Israel's efforts to defend itself vs the barbarians. Anyone you know in SJP is a monster or being duped by monsters. Let them know the TRUTH! If they sincerely want peace

Morally despicable Hamas/Palestinian society examples. It is no different than Hamas. "Hamas is like ISIS. ISIS is like Hamas. They're branches of the same tree." (Netanyahu)

1. Hamas is a despicable terrorist group advocating genocide

A. Hamas, an official part of Palestinian govt. has a charter which calls for death of Jews and destruction of Israel WARCRIME

B. Hamas Palestinians use human shields to encourage civilian casualties and shoot missiles from hospitals and mosques WAR CRIME

C. Hamas Palestinians sends thousands of missiles at indiscriminant targets aimed to kill as many Jews as possible WAR CRIMES. Every civilian death is Hamas’ fault for sending the missiles in first place. Richard Kemp, former commander of British Troops in Afghanistan and a senior military adviser to the British government, said the following: “I don’t think there has ever been a time in the history of warfare where any army has made more efforts to reduce civilian casualties and deaths of civilians than the IDF (Israeli Defence Forces) is doing today in Gaza.”

D. Hamas Nuclear terrorism-sent missiles to Dimona to try and strike nuclear facility WAR CRIMES

E. Hamas WARCRIME wears Israeli uniforms to try and terrorize and kill

F. Hamas uses animals to suicide detonate bombs ANIMAL ABUSE

G. Tortures and kills domestic political opponents. 18 supposed collaborators killed August 21, 2014 as exampleHas no political or religious freedom and has no freedom of ‎speech, press, or assembly, and no independent judiciary.‎

H. Rated a 6 by Freedom House in its 2013 report on freedom ‎in the world. Seven is the worst possible rating. Hamas ranks ‎‎6 in freedom, 6 in civil liberties and 6 political rights.‎

I. Destroy buildings and kill civilians to frame Israel. WAR CRIME

J. Hamas terrorizes journalists into not reporting their abuses and killing or exiling any who do

K. Hamas killed 160 of their own children building the tunnels

L. Hamas executed the tunnel builders so they would not reveal any info

M. Rocket Scores Direct Hit on Ashdod Synagogue

Three wounded and synagogue damaged by rocket fired from Gaza. Follows third rocket attack on kindergarten earlier Friday.

N. Admits kidnapping and killing 3 Israeli teens

So How Is Hamas Different from Islamic State, Israel Wonders? - Daniel Gordis Israelis have taken great interest in Obama calling Islamic State a "cancer" after the gruesome beheading of American photojournalist James Foley. When Islamic State executes an innocent American - befuddled Israelis noticed - Obama has the capacity for outrage and moral clarity. But in Israel's conflict, even though Hamas is sworn on Israel's destruction and has been killing innocent Israelis for years, the best that Obama has been able to utter is the standard "Israel has a right to defend itself." Israelis still remember when then-senator and presidential candidate Obama sounded different. In 2008, Obama said in Sderot, Israel: "The first job of any nation state is to protect its citizens. And so I can assure you that if...somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that. And I would expect Israelis to do the same thing." That is exactly what Israelis have been doing, for weeks now. But U.S. diplomats and politicians have tried, for the most part, to calm the waters by treating Israel and Hamas as two morally equivalent opponents. Why is Islamic State a "cancer" while Hamas is a legitimate partner in a Palestinian unity government? The writer is senior vice president at Shalem College in Jerusalem. (Bloomberg) ISIS Is to America as Hamas Is to Israel –

Hamas=ISIS

Alan M. Dershowitz While President Obama has called for an all-out war against the "cancer" of ISIS, he has regarded Hamas as having an easily curable disease, urging Israel to accept that terrorist group, whose charter calls for Israel's destruction, as part of a Palestinian unity government. Like ISIS, the Hamas Charter calls for a worldwide "caliphate," brought about by violent Jihad. Everything we rightly fear and despise from ISIS we should fear and despise from Hamas. Just as we would never grant legitimacy to ISIS, we should not grant legitimacy to Hamas. Another similarity between ISIS and Hamas: if these terrorist groups were to lay down their arms, there might be peace, whereas if their enemies were to lay down their arms, there would be genocide. Just as ISIS must be defeated militarily and destroyed as a terrorist army, so too must Hamas be responded to militarily and its rockets and tunnels destroyed. ISIS and Hamas must first be defeated militarily and only then might they consider accepting reasonable diplomatic and political compromises. (Gatestone Institute)"

After executing more than 25 people men/ women and children in the streets of Gaza this week, HAMAS called an end to street executions and have decided to move them indoors out of the public eye, because of comparisons to ISIS- I guess the Nihilistic Cult of Death HAMAS can't have any bad PR.

2. The Palestinian authority, supposedly the moderates, are equally as barbaric

a. Palestinian mom wishes all her 10 sons would be suicide bombers
b. Abbas routinely honors and praises terrorist murderers of Jews

c. Fatah, in UNITY government with Hamas, is just as bad. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183854#.U-azEJsg_cd

d. the kidnap and murder of the 3 boys by Hamas was widely celebrated in Palestinian

e. Palestinian curriculum teaches 5 year olds songs about killing Jew CHILD ABUSE

f. Saturates its education and airwaves with a demonic hatred ‎of Jews

g. They say no Jews will be allowed to live in a Palestinian state, places Jews have lived 4000 years

h. They refuse to acknowledge the right of Jews to have a Jewish state

i. Abbas’ PHD was on holocaust denial

3. Both are monsters: Since Fatah agreed to UNITY government with hamas, they own whatever Hamas does. But, as I show above, pn their own, Fatah are terrorists also, mot moderates.

a. The survey asked about suicide bombing as a specific form of militant violence and found the highest support for it in the Middle East at 46 percent in Gaza and the West Bank,

b. Violently oppresses gays.

c. terrorize Christians and drive them out of their territory

d. Israel must exercise control over their borders, as EVERY sovereign nation does, or Palestinians import missiles and terror weapons to kill Jews.

Israel peace efforts

From 1948 to the 1990's, the PLO and Hamas both refused to recognize and negotiate with Israel. Even when Israel offered the West Bank and Gaza back to the Arabs in exchange for peace and recognition in 1967, all they got was the Khartoum Declaration and the "three no's" - "no recognition of Israel, no peace with Israel and no negotiating with Israel."

Then we had:

* Israel–PLO letters of recognition (1993). Mutual recognition of Israel and the PLO.

* The Oslo I Accord (1993). The "Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements."

* The Gaza–Jericho Agreement or Cairo Agreement (1994).

* The Oslo II Accord (1995).

* Agreement on Preparatory Transfer of Powers and Responsibilities Between Israel and the PLO (August 1994)

*This agreement was signed on 29 August 1994 at the Erez Crossing. It is also known as Early Empowerment Agreement.

* Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron (January 1997)

*Wye River Memorandum (October 1998)

*Sharm el-Sheikh Memorandum (September 1999)

*Agreement on Movement and Access (November 2005)

This does not even include the offer made to Yasser Arafat for essentially the entire West Bank and Gaza. At a certain point, the propaganda gets boring. The problem remains that the Palestinians are not willing to make the hard offer: an end to the claim of refugees going to Israel. Unless and until that is done, there simply is not going to be a peace agreement.

IsIsrael’s Conduct in Gaza Is a Model for Other Nations

Peter Wehner08.07.2014 - 12:45 PM

During his press conference yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was once again asked whether Israel had acted with enough care in responding to the attacks by Hamas (h/t to Scott Johnson of Powerlineblog.com).

According to this analysis found at History.com:

On the evening of February 13, 1945, a series of Allied firebombing raids begins against the German city of Dresden, reducing the “Florence of the Elbe” to rubble and flames, and killing as many as 135,000 people. It was the single most destructive bombing of the war—including Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and all the more horrendous because little, if anything, was accomplished strategically, since the Germans were already on the verge of surrender… More than 3,400 tons of explosives were dropped on the city by 800 American and British aircraft. The firestorm created by the two days of bombing set the city burning for many more days, littering the streets with charred corpses, including many children.

My point in raising this isn’t to condemn Great Britain (or the United States) for what it did in Dresden, though the morality of firebombing Dresden is certainly fair to debate. My point, rather, is that in war, terrible things happen. In war, innocent people die. In war, victorious nations–even the most humane nations–make mistakes. Civilian casualties happen in every conflict; and in the history of war, atrocities by the victorious side are the norm. Of course they shouldn’t be excused; but neither should we judge wartime acts without any understanding of the circumstances of the time, at a safe distance, writing from a keyboard when the main hassle of the day is rush hour traffic. The morality of war is a terribly complicated matter to sort through.

What is so unusual when it comes to Israel is that by historical standards it has conducted itself in its conflict with Hamas (to say nothing of past conflicts) with remarkable care and decency. I’m not sure there are many parallels to it. (America’s conduct in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has been similar, I think, to the care taken by Israel in Gaza.) Israel could have decimated Gaza and Hamas within hours, causing far more civilian deaths. It chose a far more humane, and historically rare, option. For much of the world and much of the Western media, then, to judge Israel harshly for how it’s acted in not only wrong; it is historically ignorant and morally obtuse.

The way Israel has handled itself in this conflict is a model for other nations to follow; and the fact that Israel is on the receiving end of venomous attacks is evidence of dark and ugly impulses that need to be named.

G Goals of the Muslim Brotherhood's "The Project"
1 December 1982 document found during a raid in Switzerland by Swiss authorities on 7 November 2001. The target of the raid was Youssef Nada, director of the Al-Taqwa Bank of Lugano, who has had active association with the Muslim Brotherhood for more than 50 years and who admitted to being one of the organization’s international leaders. The 14-page document outlines a 12-point strategy to "Establish an Islamic government on earth." (more)

Networking and coordinating actions between like-minded Islamist organizations;
Avoiding open alliances with known terrorist organizations and individuals to maintain the appearance of “moderation”;
Infiltrating and taking over existing Muslim organizations to realign them towards the Muslim Brotherhood’s collective goals;
Using deception to mask the intended goals of Islamist actions, as long as it doesn’t conflict with shari’a law;
Avoiding social conflicts with Westerners locally, nationally or globally, that might damage the long-term ability to expand the Islamist powerbase in the West or provoke a lash back against Muslims;
Establishing financial networks to fund the work of conversion of the West, including the support of full-time administrators and workers;
Conducting surveillance, obtaining data, and establishing collection and data storage capabilities;
Putting into place a watchdog system for monitoring Western media to warn Muslims of “international plots fomented against them”;
Cultivating an Islamist intellectual community, including the establishment of think-tanks and advocacy groups, and publishing “academic” studies, to legitimize Islamist positions and to chronicle the history of Islamist movements;
Developing a comprehensive 100-year plan to advance Islamist ideology throughout the world;
Balancing international objectives with local flexibility;
Building extensive social networks of schools, hospitals and charitable organizations dedicated to Islamist ideals so that contact with the movement for Muslims in the West is constant;
Involving ideologically committed Muslims in democratically-elected institutions on all levels in the West, including government, NGOs, private organizations and labor unions;
Instrumentally using existing Western institutions until they can be converted and put into service of Islam;
Drafting Islamic constitutions, laws and policies for eventual implementation;
Avoiding conflict within the Islamist movements on all levels, including the development of processes for conflict resolution;
Instituting alliances with Western “progressive” organizations that share similar goals;
Creating autonomous “security forces” to protect Muslims in the West;
Inflaming violence and keeping Muslims living in the West “in a jihad frame of mind”;
Supporting jihad movements across the Muslim world through preaching, propaganda, personnel, funding, and technical and operational support;
Making the Palestinian cause a global wedge issue for Muslims;
Adopting the total liberation of Palestine from Israel and the creation of an Islamic state as a keystone in the plan for global Islamic domination;
Instigating a constant campaign to incite hatred by Muslims against Jews and rejecting any discussions of conciliation or coexistence with them;
Actively creating jihad terror cells within Palestine;
Linking the terrorist activities in Palestine with the global terror movement;
Collecting sufficient funds to indefinitely perpetuate and support jihad around the world

NOTES.

· .http://conservativepapers.com/news/2012/01/23/muslim-children-training-to-be-suicide-bombers-mothers-proud/#.U72mQ_wg_cc Show me Jewish mothers who advocate mass suicide bombing by their sons.

· 2. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3811/abbas-honors-terroristmhttp://www.israelvideonetwork.com/this-is-the-president-of-the-palestinian-authority-praising-jew-murderers

· 3. http://www.timesofisrael.com/moderate-fatah-joins-hamas-and-islamic-jihad-in-missile-launches/ Has Israel made a unity government with a party advocating murder of all Muslims?

· 4. territories http://pamelageller.com/2014/07/hamas-killers-heard-cheering-singing-full-recording-teens-emergency-call.html/

· 5. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/11/27/death-to-israel-hamas-broadcasts-violent-music-videos-about-killing-jews-to-draw-close-to-allah/

· 6. shttp://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=713

· http://www.palwatch.org/

· 8. http://honestreporting.com/new-york-times-drops-the-ball-on-hamas-human-shields/

· http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/07/10/hamas-human-shield-war-gaza-israel-missiles/ They want their own civilians to die http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182741#.U7_q0PldWXy

· http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/08/03/an-absolutely-horrifying-story-from-inside-gaza/

· VS Prior to striking a building in the Gaza Strip, the IDF warns its inhabitants using a procedure called "Knock on the roof," in which forces fire a small mortar at the target to indicate the imminent attack and signal those inside to flee before hitting it with full force.

· Show me Israelis using human shields

· 9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel niot true th other way around

· Show me IDF sending indiscriminate missiles at Gaza. Use schools, hospitals and mosques to hide missiles and shoot them. WAR CRIMES http://www.timesofisrael.com/20-missiles-found-in-un-run-school-in-gaza/#.U8hDly-byPk.gmail

· 14. http://honestreporting.com/amnesty-researcher-admits-that-palestinian-eyewitnesses-often-lie/