These peace talks are a joke

These "peace talks" are a joke.
-every US President for 50 years has tried. Kerry and Obama will do it? Israel should trust Obama after what he's done? Two of his  top aids are Def Sec Hagel and UN Ambass., Samantha Powers who both publicly and often bash Israel.
Palestinians still
-teach how to kill Jews in their summer camps
-teach hatred of Jews in kindergarten
-don't have Israel on their maps
-honor terrorists murderers publicly
-Abbas has never said he'd agree to JEWISH state existing
- there are three words for “peace” in Arabic; that only one of them actually means peace; and that the Arabs consistently refuse to use that word when indicating their interest in “peace” with Israel.

The three Arabic words translated as “peace” in English are salaam, hudna, and suhl.

Salaam is the peace of submission. It’s the drawn out pronunciation of “slm” in “Islam,” (written Arabic has no vowels) the Arabic word for submission and obedience, and in “Moslem” or “Muslim,” the Arabic word for “one who submits. Hudna, the second Arabic word translated in English as “peace,” means cease-fire, a temporary truce.

When the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, for example, proposes a hudna with Israel, it’s hailed in the Western media as a peace proposal. It is instead a tactical, temporary break in hostilities, giving Moslems time to re-organize, re-arm, then renew the Jihad against the kafirs when they can be most caught off-guard.

Suhl, the third Arabic term for “peace,” is the most interesting, the one we must insist on Arabs using, the one they always avoid and refuse to use. Suhlmeans reconciliation.

The Encyclopedia of Islam describes sulh as a concept of Islamic sharia law:

The purpose of sulh is to end conflict and hostility among believers so that they may conduct their relationships in peace and amity….In Islamic law,sulh is a form of contract (aqd), legally binding on both the individual and community levels.[3]

Note that it applies only between believers. Once again, it’s deuces wild with unbelievers.

Nonetheless, insistence on using the word sulh in any Arab-Israeli agreement, putting it in writing in the Arabic version of the documents that this agreement is not a hudna and not a salaam, but a sulh, makes it a legally binding aqd, even though one of the signatories is not Moslem.

-ABBAS is Holocaust denier

the doctoral dissertation of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas “stars” throughout the Palestinian Authority educational curriculum, and “is the basis for Holocaust studies in the PA.”

The Center’s Director, David Bedein, has asked Education Minister Gideon Saar and the government of Israel to demand that the PA remove the work from its schools and from its curricula.

Bedein wrote that the Center is engaged in preparing a movie on the PA educationalsystem, in the course of which it tracks that which is taught in PA classrooms. “Throughout the educational system of the PA,” he wrote to Saar, “we have found that the doctorate of Mahmoud Abbas stars, and forms the basis of PA Holocaust studies.”

Downgrades Number of Victims, Accuses Zionists of Collaboration
The doctorate was published as a book in 1984, entitled,"The Other Side: the Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism.” It was completed in 1982 at a university in Communist Russia, and was defended at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

It downgrades the number of Holocaust victims to “[possibly] below one million,” and accuses Zionist leaders of encouraging the persecution of Jews.

It also denies that the gas chambers were used to murder Jews, quoting a "scientific study" to that effect by French Holocaust-denier Robert Faurisson

-Abbas has no power with Hamas and they are public in stating aim is to destroy Israel and they control gaza and much of Judea and Samaria
-Arabs already have 21 states. why do they need another? Jordan is 2/3 of original Palestine mandate.
-Suicide for Israel to allow another terrorist nation between it and the Jordan. Israel would be 9 miles wide at many points.
-basic Koranic principle of taqqiya where believers are permitted to lie brazenly to unbelievers to advance the cause

May Helen Thomas not rest in peace

Helen Thomas died. She should NOT get a good send off. She was an anti-Semite. Interesting she died the same day it was announced a Kind Dav d Palace was discovered in Israel, since she thought Israelis were Polish interlopers from the 20th century.

Palestinians will never agree to peace

anti Israel student named to U Cal governing Board

Billy Hallowell 3 hours ago University of CaliforniaIsrael

SAN FRANCISCO (TheBlaze/AP) -- The University of California's governing board confirmed its first Muslim student member Wednesday, despite some Jewish groups' claims that she marginalized Jewish students and promoted an anti-Israel agenda.
Regents voted unanimously to ratify UC Berkeley student Sadia Saifuddin's nomination, with one regent, Richard Blum, abstaining from the vote.

Sadia Saifuddin

Sadia Saifuddin walks to take her chair after being confirmed during a University of California Board of Regents meeting Wednesday, July 17, 2013 in San Francisco. The University of California's governing board confirmed the first practicing Muslim student member to the board on Wednesday, despite opposition from some Jewish groups. UC regents voted in favor of UC Berkeley student Sadia Saifuddin's nomination. One regent, Richard Blum, abstained from the vote. Credit: AP

For weeks, Saifuddin's critics urged the regents to reject the nomination, pointing to a student government proposal Saifuddin co-sponsored calling for the university to divest from companies with economic ties to the Israeli military or Israeli settlements on the West Bank. The critics said it was evidence she is unqualified to represent all of the UC system's more than 222,000

How can we not live in Israel?

Crying in rebuilt Jerusalem

Op-ed: So many Jews deny reality, claim there is no difference between living in Israel and living in the Diaspora

Yishai Fleisher

Published:  07.16.13, 10:22 / Israel Opinion

Wailing, fasting and the wearing of ashes, alongside socializing, communing and catching up with old friends in a fun outdoor atmosphere. That is the dichotomy of Tisha B'Av in modern day Jerusalem. On the one hand a somber mood, but on the other hand, a paradoxical sense of joviality fills the warm summer night.


It makes sense that some level of happiness is in the air, because after all, we are bewailing the destruction of Jerusalem in a big, beautiful and built Jerusalem. This contrast is highlighted in the Jewish liturgy on Tisha B'Av when we say the “Nachem” prayer referring to mournful, destroyed and desolate Jerusalem. However, we must take note that we say that prayer in one of the hundreds of beautiful Synagogues in the city, or at the courtyard of Jerusalem’s city hall, or at the Western Wall with thousands of our fellow Jewish Israeli citizens who have traveled from other thriving Israeli cities on the paved roads of the Jewish state to pray for the future of Jerusalem.

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Indeed, a major change has taken place in Jewish life, and while we keep the same rites as we have kept for 2000 years, our reality is vastly different. To understand the change, here is a parable: Two women are in a room and both are single. One’s husband has just died, while the other is engaged to be married – both are indeed single, but they are in totally different states of mind.


So, too, is the Jewish nation: We have mourned for the last two millennia because we were forcibly dispossessed of our land, our capital was sacked, our Temple destroyed and it was as though our husband was murdered. But now with half the Jewish people in the land of Israel and Jerusalem standing in earthly beauty, we are engaged to be married and await the next stage of fulfillment. Like a bride waiting for the wedding canopy, we impatiently await the completion of this great process.


Yet, so many Jews deny the obvious reality. Almost like a mantra, they tell you that nothing has changed, that we are still in exile, that there is no difference between living in Israel and living in the Diaspora. Our own people somehow don’t see the transformation that has opened the doors for our nation to return to lost tradition, speak our national language, fight in a Jewish army, and create a culturally Jewish state on our ancestral land. One gets the impression that some prefer not to see it, lest it break their romance with other dreams, namely, the American Dream.


Last year, I read an article entitled: “They Just Want Kosher Dodger Dogs.” The article went on to tell the story of six Jewish, “accomplished professionals” who are also “season ticket holders,” working feverishly to remedy the lack of kosher hot dogs at Dodger Stadium in LA. “We are really just a group of people who feel very strongly that the second-largest Jewish community in the country should have the ability to eat a Jewish hot dog at a ballgame...” said a member of the committee, an attorney.

So close, yet so far

Seriously? Is this what grown men spend their time on? The Jewish people are engaged in the most exciting project in two thousand years - building a Jewish State. We face enormous challenges to build up, educate, and protect our people, and all this is happening while wealthy season-ticket kosher-eating Jews are fighting for kosher hot dogs in Dodger stadium? Are we so comfortable with the status quo that Jewish leaders can spend their time on nonsense?


Even if Dodger Dog fighters were not involved in the building of Israel, closer to their home, in the great state of California, there are serious problems with anti-Semitism at many colleges, high intermarriage rates, and scores of Jews who are losing all connection with Judaism. Some young Jews don’t stand a chance of getting Jewish schooling, while others are afraid to show their kippah on campus. Yet a group of wealthy kosher-eating Jews is not ashamed to go public with their efforts to bring fresh kosher dogs to their box seats?


It is painful to see good people be so misguided, so flippant with their time and money. I bet they even see their hot dog fight as some kind religious victory, an effort to win equal treatment in public venues. But really the hot dog war is a loud proclamation that even the kosher-eaters are missing the point of this amazing era. Indeed, we are not in the era of securing kosher dogs at Dodger Stadium, we are in the era of re-establishing a Jewish commonwealth, and it's time we started playing ball in our own stadium instead of being entertained by someone else's game.


Eight years ago Rabbi Shlomo Riskin wrote:


“The formative and formidable challenge of Tisha B’Av is the word Eicha, the first word of the Scroll of Lamentations, which means Wherefore (wherefore is the Sacred City alone and desolate ), our challenging question to G-d after the destruction.”


“But the Hebrew letters Eicha also spell Ayeka, ‘where are you’, i.e. G-d’s challenge to us: where are you in these fateful times fraught with possibility for redemption?”


Yes, we live in fateful times, fraught with possibility for redemption, and we are being asked by Jewish history to engage. But while there is much to do in our time, and lots of power and resources to do it, it is also an era of decadence.

Now, more than ever, we need a reminder that there is a lot of work yet to be done to build a Jewish State and the Tisha B'Av is a perfect opportunity to get us back on track for the mission of our generation. Israel needs our nation's collective input and energy, our money and our sweat. We have to put resources into education, security, infrastructure, health and finance. We have to take our country to the next stage and the Tisha B'Av is there to get us back on track.


And that is why we still cry on Tisha B'Av in today’s beautiful and mostly rebuilt Jerusalem. We weep because with all our success, there is still so much pain and loss, so much ignorance and confusion. We mourn because we are so close and yet so far.

European anti Semitism

Europe shows its true colors

 

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Israeli Leader Condemns EU Move On Settlements
   

by The Associated Press
 
July 16, 2013 1:03 PM

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister on Tuesday harshly criticized a European Union decision to ban funding for Israeli institutions that operate in the Palestinian territories.
The new guidelines will block EU cooperation grants for Israeli entities that operate in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war and claimed by the Palestinians for their future state.
The EU decision amounts to a diplomatic condemnation of Israeli settlement construction in these territories and, in effect, endorses the Palestinian position that a future border should be based along the 1967 lines.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spent the day meeting with senior Cabinet ministers to discuss the European funding cut.
"We will not accept any external edicts about our borders," Netanyahu said. He said that any decision about his nation's land could only be resolved through direct negotiations with the Palestinians.
Participants in the meeting included Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, the chief Israeli peace negotiator, and Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, a backer of the Jewish settlement movement.
Netanyahu said that the Europeans should deal with what he called "slightly more urgent" matters in the region, including the civil war in Syria and the Iranian nuclear program, before worrying about Jewish settlements.
The EU makes millions of euros in grants to Israeli entities, including universities, researchers and private companies.
In order to obtain EU funding from 2014 on, Israeli projects will be required to sign a clause stipulating they operate within the country's pre-1967 borders and not in east Jerusalem, the West Bank or Golan Heights. That reflects that the EU believes these areas, including the Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem and Golan Heights, are not part of Israel.
Israel's deputy foreign minister, Zeev Elkin, called the EU decision a "very significant and worrying move."
He said it would undermine U.S. efforts to restart talks with the Palestinians just as Secretary of State John Kerry is in the region.

"It certainly doesn't add to the atmosphere of peace talks. On the contrary, it fuels the Palestinian refusal to return to the negotiation table," Elkin said

we have our ayatollahs too