"The Prophet, Allah bless him, "The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews)"

 

Islamic Jihad Nursery School Training In Hatred of Jews

Only by reading the Hamas founding Covenant is it possible to understand the intensity of Hamas' hatred of Israel, why after Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2007 Hamas did not end the conflict with Israel, but instead increased its attacks, sending thousands of missiles against Israel's border communities. 

It is essential to understand islam in the light of the waves of misinformation put out about the 'religion of peace' by western apologists for that religion. Hamas kindly helps in coming to that understanding by way of its founding covenant.

Israel withdrew from Gaza after great soul searching and at great cost to the inhabitants of jewish towns. There was a great national rift, and the pain among the uprooted communities is still intense. Many lives fell apart after Israel pulled out, a great sacrifice of flourishing communities in the vain hope this would buy peace for Israel.

For Hamas Israel is a usurper which must be extirpated from 'holy islamic Waqf lands', all of them. Palestine does not mean the West Bank or Gaza, but Tel-Aviv, Haifa, Sderot, Jerusalem, Tiberias and Tsefat. As has always been the case with the palestinian arabs and Hamas, Israel must cease to exist for the so-called 'occupation' to come to an end. Even if Israel were heaven forbid to shrink to one kibbutz and one small town, these both would need to be destroyed for the 'occupation' in arab minds to come to an end.

Under the koran jews and christians can only live in islamic lands with the status of a dhimmi, whilst paying the jizya poll tax. Under islam jews and christians are tolerated only when they permit themselves to live in a situation of humiliation, recognizing the superiority of islam and paying obeisance.

Israel being the Jewish State in lands once occupied and controlled by muslims of the Ottoman Empire means that it must be destroyed.

The Hamas Covenant goes into all this, and from the quotes below, you will see that any possibilities mentioned by journalists about 'new' offers to make peace with Israel are hollow. Hamas has never, ever offered to make peace with Israel, just to have truces, for longer or shorter periods. Hamas never loses sight of its own goals, even if well meaning journalists and even otherwise seasoned israeli diplomats and generals do.

This is in line with Koranic precept that when a foe is superior to muslims militarily, then periods of truce, however long they may be, are allowed. Muslims take the long view, and remember history, when the Crusaders were after over a hundred years of occupation of the Holy Land extirpated from the area. There is no need for peace when you have such a long time scale in mind. You just have to bide your time.

With this in mind arabs themselves must be given not one inch more of Israel's ancient homelands. Every time Israel gives away land this is seen as a sign of weakness and Israel receives not peace, but further demands and attacks.

Giving away territory does not bring peace nearer, but further away. A weakened Israel invites not peaceful neighbours, but neighbours who will more often be tempted to try one more time to make war and defeat Israel finally and utterly.

Read the excerpts below from the Hamas charter (from the Yale Law School ) and understand why there can be no peace with Hamas (or indeed for that matter with their arab bretheren as long as they tie themselves to the mast of the islamic 'umma'),  just longer or shorter interludes in the conflict. 

The stronger Israel is militarily, the longer will be the periods of peace. 

Ariel Sharon should have closely read the Hamas Covenant before he gave away the strategically placed Gush Katif jewish settlements protecting Israel.

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Hamas Founding Covenant (Excerpts):

“They (Oops- i.e. Jews) are smitten with vileness wheresoever they are found; unless they obtain security by entering into a treaty with Allah, and a treaty with men; and they draw on themselves indignation from Allah, and they are afflicted with poverty. This they suffer, because they disbelieved the signs of Allah, and slew the prophets unjustly; this, because they were rebellious, and transgressed." (Al-Imran - verses 109-111).

Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it" (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory).” (Oops-Al Banna was a convinced nazi collaborator and founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Whilst the British army and many jewish soldiers from Mandatory Palestine prepared to fight the nazis, Al Banna and his gang was spying and preparing their welcome for the soon to be victorious Afrika Korps )

Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious.

Article Two:

The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the wings of Moslem Brotherhood in Palestine.

Article Six:

It strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine

Article Seven:

The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said:

"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews." (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).

Article Eight:

Allah is its target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran its constitution: Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes.

Article Eleven:

The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up.

Any procedure in contradiction to Islamic Sharia, where Palestine is concerned, is null and void

Article Thirteen:

Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement. Abusing any part of Palestine is abuse directed against part of religion. Nationalism of the Islamic Resistance Movement is part of its religion. Its members have been fed on that. For the sake of hoisting the banner of Allah over their homeland they fight. "Allah will be prominent, but most people do not know."

Now and then the call goes out for the convening of an international conference to look for ways of solving the (Palestinian) question. Some accept, others reject the idea, for this or other reason, with one stipulation or more for consent to convening the conference and participating in it. Knowing the parties constituting the conference, their past and present attitudes towards Moslem problems, the Islamic Resistance Movement does not consider these conferences capable of realising the demands, restoring the rights or doing justice to the oppressed. These conferences are only ways of setting the infidels in the land of the Moslems as arbitraters. When did the infidels do justice to the believers?

"But the Jews will not be pleased with thee, neither the Christians, until thou follow their religion; say, The direction of Allah is the true direction. And verily if thou follow their desires, after the knowledge which hath been given thee, thou shalt find no patron or protector against Allah." (The Cow - verse 120).

There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors. The Palestinian people know better than to consent to having their future, rights and fate toyed with. As in said in the honourable Hadith:

"The people of Syria are Allah's lash in His land. He wreaks His vengeance through them against whomsoever He wishes among His slaves It is unthinkable that those who are double-faced among them should prosper over the faithful. They will certainly die out of grief and desperation."

Article Fourteen:

The question of the liberation of Palestine is bound to three circles: the Palestinian circle, the Arab circle and the Islamic circle. Each of these circles has its role in the struggle against Zionism. Each has its duties, and it is a horrible mistake and a sign of deep ignorance to overlook any of these circles. Palestine is an Islamic land which has the first of the two kiblahs (direction to which Moslems turn in praying), the third of the holy (Islamic) sanctuaries, and the point of departure for Mohamed's midnight journey to the seven heavens (i.e. Jerusalem).

Article Fifteen:

The day that enemies usurp part of Moslem land, Jihad becomes the individual duty of every Moslem. In face of the Jews' usurpation of Palestine, it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised. To do this requires the diffusion of Islamic consciousness among the masses, both on the regional, Arab and Islamic levels. It is necessary to instill the spirit of Jihad in the heart of the nation so that they would confront the enemies and join the ranks of the fighters.

It is necessary to instill in the minds of the Moslem generations that the Palestinian problem is a religious problem, and should be dealt with on this basis. Palestine contains Islamic holy sites.

The Role of the Moslem Woman:

Article Seventeen:

The Moslem woman has a role no less important than that of the moslem man in the battle of liberation. She is the maker of men. Her role in guiding and educating the new generations is great. The enemies have realised the importance of her role. They consider that if they are able to direct and bring her up they way they wish, far from Islam, they would have won the battle. That is why you find them giving these attempts constant attention through information campaigns, films, and the school curriculum, using for that purpose their lackeys who are infiltrated through Zionist organizations under various names and shapes, such as Freemasons, Rotary Clubs, espionage groups and others, which are all nothing more than cells of subversion and saboteurs. These organizations have ample resources that enable them to play their role in societies for the purpose of achieving the Zionist targets and to deepen the concepts that would serve the enemy. These organizations operate in the absence of Islam and its estrangement among its people. The Islamic peoples should perform their role in confronting the conspiracies of these saboteurs. The day Islam is in control of guiding the affairs of life, these organizations, hostile to humanity and Islam, will be obliterated.

Article Twenty-Seven:

The Islamic nature of Palestine is part of our religion and whoever takes his religion lightly is a loser.

Article Twenty-Eight:

The Zionist invasion is a vicious invasion. It does not refrain from resorting to all methods, using all evil and contemptible ways to achieve its end. It relies greatly in its infiltration and espionage operations on the secret organizations it gave rise to, such as the Freemasons, The Rotary and Lions clubs, and other sabotage groups. All these organizations, whether secret or open, work in the interest of Zionism and according to its instructions. They aim at undermining societies, destroying values, corrupting consciences, deteriorating character and annihilating Islam. It is behind the drug trade and alcoholism in all its kinds so as to facilitate its control and expansion.

We should not forget to remind every Moslem that when the Jews conquered the Holy City in 1967, they stood on the threshold of the Aqsa Mosque and proclaimed that "Mohammed is dead, and his descendants are all women."

Israel, Judaism and Jews challenge Islam and the Moslem people. "May the cowards never sleep."

Article Thirty-One:

Under the wing of Islam, (Oops-Euphemism for Jews and Christians being able to live amongs muslims with Dhimmi status and accepting the payment of the Jizzya) it is possible for the followers of the three religions - Islam, Christianity and Judaism - to coexist in peace and quiet with each other. Peace and quiet would not be possible except under the wing of Islam. Past and present history are the best witness to that.

It is the duty of the followers of other religions to stop disputing the sovereignty of Islam in this region, because the day these followers should take over there will be nothing but carnage, displacement and terror. Everyone of them is at variance with his fellow-religionists, not to speak about followers of other religionists. Past and present history are full of examples to prove this fact.

The Zionist Nazi activities against our people will not last for long. "For the state of injustice lasts but one day, while the state of justice lasts till Doomsday."

Article Thirty-Two:

World Zionism, together with imperialistic powers, try through a studied plan and an intelligent strategy to remove one Arab state after another from the circle of struggle against Zionism, in order to have it finally face the Palestinian people only. Egypt was, to a great extent, removed from the circle of the struggle, through the treacherous Camp David Agreement. They are trying to draw other Arab countries into similar agreements and to bring them outside the circle of struggle.

The Islamic Resistance Movement calls on Arab and Islamic nations to take up the line of serious and persevering action to prevent the success of this horrendous plan, to warn the people of the danger eminating from leaving the circle of struggle against Zionism. Today it is Palestine, tomorrow it will be one country or another. The Zionist plan is limitless. After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates. (Ooops- The logic here totally falls away. After saying that the 'zionists' try to make peace with arab states so as to have the palestinian arabs isolated, suddenly Israel is interested in making war with the whole region.)When they will have digested the region they overtook, they will aspire to further expansion, and so on. Their plan is embodied in the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"(Oops- A notorious Tsarist forgery that supposedly showed that jews rule the world. The Nazis believed in the Protocols and they are now to be found everywhere in the arab and islamic world. The protocols may even be bought in London), and their present conduct is the best proof of what we are saying.

Leaving the circle of struggle with Zionism is high treason, and cursed be he who does that. "for whoso shall turn his back unto them on that day, unless he turneth aside to fight, or retreateth to another party of the faithful, shall draw on himself the indignation of Allah, and his abode shall be hell; an ill journey shall it be thither." (The Spoils - verse 16). There is no way out except by concentrating all powers and energies to face this Nazi, vicious Tatar invasion. The alternative is loss of one's country, the dispersion of citizens, the spread of vice on earth and the destruction of religious values. Let every person know that he is responsible before Allah, for "the doer of the slightest good deed is rewarded in like, and the does of the slightest evil deed is also rewarded in like."

The Islamic Resistance Movement consider itself to be the spearhead of the circle of struggle with world Zionism and a step on the road. The Movement adds its efforts to the efforts of all those who are active in the Palestinian arena. Arab and Islamic Peoples should augment by further steps on their part; Islamic groupings all over the Arab world should also do the same, since all of these are the best-equipped for the future role in the fight with the warmongering Jews.

Article Thirty-Five:

The Islamic Resistance Movement views seriously the defeat of the Crusaders at the hands of Salah ed-Din al-Ayyubi and the rescuing of Palestine from their hands, as well as the defeat of the Tatars at Ein Galot, breaking their power at the hands of Qataz and Al-Dhaher Bivers and saving the Arab world from the Tatar onslaught which aimed at the destruction of every meaning of human civilization. The Movement draws lessons and examples from all this. The present Zionist onslaught has also been preceded by Crusading raids from the West and other Tatar raids from the East. Just as the Moslems faced those raids and planned fighting and defeating them, they should be able to confront the Zionist invasion and defeat it. This is indeed no problem for the Almighty Allah, provided that the intentions are pure, the determination is true and that Moslems have benefited from past experiences, rid themselves of the effects of ideological invasion and followed the customs of their ancestors.

Professor Stephen Hawking & the boycott

 I must admit this morning to having been upset to hear that the good professor Hawking had decided to cancel his visit to Israel, and issue an anti-Israel statement via the bad offices of an organisation BRICUP, dedicated to the destruction of Israel.

Why was I upset about the professor, and not about the other assorted idiots and anti-semites who boycott Israel?

Well maybe not just at the unfairness of it, but maybe as one person who has fought against terrible odds to achieve great things, Stephen Hawking Professor might have had some sympathy with a whole people who have done the same, a people who after having been ethnically cleansed from their lands originally, had a Holocaust on them, and ethnic cleansing repeated again last century in europe and in arab lands.

I thought that great thinker he is, he might sympathized with jews like himself succeeding against terrible odds despite being among other British people who after years of indoctrination are amongst the worst culprits in the hate fest against Israel.

I don't blame the average Briton, they are after all assailed on all sides by the arab lobby, by the historically antagonistic BBC and other mass media which pump out on a daily basis, biased news about the Arab-Israel conflict. In Britain (as also in the USA) saudi money corrupts british diplomats, foreign office and civil service denizens, who know that lucrative posititions await them on the boards of companies and arab financed 'think tanks' once they retire as long as they toe the arab line. George Galloway is only the most public of such people in Britain with his nose deeply sunk in the arab and iranian trough.

The USA is one of the countries that is still a true friend of the Jewish People (Obama & co excepted, however much they protest the opposite, 'by your deeds shall ye be known'). And the American people are more in sympathy with Israel than at any time, seemingly largely immune to that 'eternal hatred', which Theodor Herzl the founder of zionism likened to a 'virus'. That hatred infests europe as we see in France, Sweden, Hungary and Greece to mention the main areas of concern at the moment.

Jimmy Carter with his boots weighed down by arab gold can think of no other country than Israel to affix the 'apartheid' epithet to ( strangely enough 'human rights' advocate Carter has never uttered one tiny hint of criticism against his saudi paymasters, not for gender apartheid, not for arrests, tortures and murders of christians, of gay people, nothing at all).

The man who began the nazi inspired boycott of Israel is actually an arab Israeli who studies for his Phd at Tel Aviv University. The hypocrisy of urging others to boycott Israel whilst yourself benefiting from advanced studies at an Israeli university is lost on Mr Omar Barghouti.

Arabs like Omar Barghouti and Raed Saleh take everything they can from democratic Israel, all the trappings of a modern welfare state, whilst returning nothing, whilst trying to destroy, as an arab might say, 'the well they are drinking from.' Of course there are many hundreds, maybe thousands of arabs in Israel to whom this doesn't apply. But the fact is that arabs pay very few taxes and do not in the main do national service or serve in the army. They do however insist on and receive fully equal treatment with Israelis who pay their taxes and defend the country. There are moves afoot in Israel to address this with a form of national service at long last.

Anyone who saw Netanyahu's welcome in Congress last year can not fail to be impressed by the love that americans have for Israel. The USA is truly a blessed nation, with a blessed people, even that people sometimes picks the strangest of leaders.

But then i'm back to the professor. Why is he boycotting Israel?

Because he isn't. The boycotters were lying. As throughout our history, our enemies stop at nothing to besmirch us and to claim false victories. Now isn't that a surprise?

Professor  Stephen Hawking is not well, so refuah shelema professor, get better soon.

UPDATE 9TH May: After the situation finally cleared it seems Professor  Stephen Hawking prefers to join the ranks of Israel's enemies. As one door closes, another opens with Netanyahu's business trip to China. Unlike the UK with its once world class universities (4 of Israel's computer teaching centers are ranked in the world top 30, as opposed to one in Britain), China is eager to do business with Israel.

For those interested in the ramifications of boycotting Israel, as opposed to any of the truly apartheid arab countries (take your pick, they're all cut from the same cloth, all abuse or have in recent memory, ethnically cleansed and killed christians) read this:

Tim Harcourt From:The Australian May 07, 2013

 TARGETING Israel by boycotting products and people with Israeli connections is not only misguided but counterproductive to trade, international relations and peace between Israel, the Palestinians and Arab nations.

Much of this activity takes place on university campuses, particularly the University of Sydney and the University of NSW, where we saw a small but tense protest against the opening of a Max Brenner chocolate shop.

Putting aside that Jewish shops were targeted in 1933 by the Nazis in Germany, and we wouldn't expect one to be targeted in Australia in 2013 (not to mention the virulent anti-Semitic comments made on social media), what about the economics of the boycott?

If we boycotted all goods, services or individuals with Israeli connections, what would that mean at UNSW?

Many medicines are manufactured by Israel's Teva Pharmaceuticals, the largest generic drugs company in the world. AZT and hypericin-based drugs that help HIV and AIDS sufferers were developed or improved following research at the Weizmann Institute of Science or the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Sufferers of diabetes would not be able to use insulin measuring and injecting devices created by Israeli scientists. Patients with multiple sclerosis would be denied Copaxone, one of the most efficient medicines and the only non-interferon agent, developed by Teva. Ditto for sufferers of Parkinson's disease, strokes, Alzheimer's, epilepsy, glaucoma or brain tumour, or those in need of a kidney transplant. But hey, it's all for a good cause.

UNSW would also have to remove all Intel Pentium and Celeron computer processor chips from personal computers, as these were developed or manufactured in Israel. Anti-virus software and personal firewalls would also need to be removed. Computers running Windows XP operating systems were developed in Israel. All Microsoft operating systems would have to be boycotted, as Microsoft is heavily reliant on its Israeli research and development centre.

Likewise for mobile phones, as this technology was developed in Israel, where the first mobile phones were manufactured.

In agriculture, we'd have to give up products that use irrigation and agricultural technology provided by Israel, including many in Africa and in China, India, Indonesia, Nepal and much of the emerging world. We'd have to boycott many fruit and vegetables enhanced using Israeli technology and the Vietnamese dairy industry (helped by Israeli technology), Georgian crops (saved by Israeli plants and seed technology) and anything Peruvian (assisted by Israeli hydro-electricity). It would also affect Israeli-developed water-saving and sewage treatment technology used across more than half of the planet, which helps make Australia an "effluent society" (as Gough Whitlam once put it).

Disaster relief has employed Israeli resources and technical assistance in the Congo, Angola, Romania, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Haiti, the Chilean mine disaster, the Christchurch earthquake and humanitarian disasters in Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Chad, Sudan and Malawi.

That's OK. We can just ask Bono and Bob Geldof to stage a few more rock concerts.

Finally, if the boycott affected economists with links to Israel through teaching, visiting, honorary degrees or joint research, we would have to stop teaching the textbooks of many Nobel prize-winning economists. Think Samuelson, Fischer, Solow, Friedman, Arrow, Klein, Liebenstein, Kahn, Sraffa, Kaldor, Lerner, Krugman, Feldstein, Kindleberger and many more. It would wipe out most of our human capital in economics and the social sciences in general.

The net result? The boycott would hurt the poor and the sick and undermine food security and the campaign to end world hunger, which would undermine efforts to find a peaceful resolution to the Middle East. At best the boycott is ridiculous; at worst, it is sinister and anti-Semitic (judging by comments made on social media). I am very proud that my employer, UNSW, has said that although it encourages free expression and open debate on campus (that is lawful, respectful and responsible), it deplores all forms of racism and anti-Semitism. We must ensure university campuses remain tolerant, safe, diverse and respectful in the true Australian democratic tradition.

Tim Harcourt is the JW Nevile fellow in economics at the University of NSW's Australian School of Business. 

Netanyahu's back to freezing jewish building, in the interests of peace?

Israel's enemies are fixated on preventing building in the ancient jewish homelands of Judea and Samaria, as if that were to stop, all problems in the middle east would be solved.

Even Israel's President Peres seems to subscribe to the view that if Israel could make peace with its genocidal neighbours, the so-called 'palestinians' then all problems would be solved.

  "Peace can bring balance and stability back to the Middle East."

If Peres's has been hoodwinked by arab and eruopean sweet talk, then it is hard to blame the average jew in London or New York from not understanding the issues.

Israel's enemies such as Obama and sidekick Kerry along with best buddies Abbas, Fayad and Erdogan have one strategic aim in mind, to shrink Israel's borders back to the indefensible 1948 armistice lines. If they can achieve that, the scene will be set for Israel's demise. The rest of the region's problems can go hang, but if Israel can be defeated it will all be worthwhile. This crazed mentality that possessed the nazis, that of dealing with the jews at all costs is mirrored by the arabs. This for all his bluster and shows of arming Israel (nothing to the sheer quantities of arms being delivered by the USA to Israel's foes, $60 worth signed to Saudia Arabia in the last year alone) where Obama's sympathies lie.

But the hand of God seems to be at work because Israel came within an ace of giving the Golan to Syria and Jerusalem along with the rest of Judea and Samaria to the arabs in the last decade alone. Only arab intransigence forestalled that. How utterly stupid of them. It really is hard to understand why they rejected such offers on the flimsiest pretexts. Whether it is God, the intensity of the hatred which can not bring arabs to make peace with Israel, or whether arab leaders are simply afraid for the consequences from their own people, arabs always seem to pull Israel's chestnuts out of the fire, by their sheer hatred and extremism.

My advice to arab leaders is to accept any Israeli peace plan. Take what you can when you can, because you know that the next leader who deposes you will tear up any peace treaty. The jihad can then be waged that much closer to Israel's heartlands. That is the logic, and arabs follow that logic in their negotiations with Israel and western nations, but in the end, they can not bring themselves even to that.

You might mention the peace with Egypt and Jordan. What a peace, where the Muslim Brotherhood president Morsy keeps threatening to end the peace, where he has allowed jihadists to fire missiles at Israel from the safety of the Sinai desert? The reason the peace is holding now is because on one hand Israel has put the fear of God into Hamas, and on the other, Egypt which is in economic crisis is at loggerheads with Hamas for causing trouble within Egypt. Even the so-called 'moderate' Jordanians are not at peace with Israel, but are in terror of the prospect of going to war with it. Jordan wages a constant diplomatic war against Israel throughout world forums.

As with europe until the german people had their aggression smashed out of them through British and American carpet bombing, through Russian and allied slaughter of german soldiers, the arabs will accept a real peace not through signing pieces of paper, but only after they undergo a similar process.A lasting peace in the middle east will only come when as with Sadat after 1973, the terror of war is 'in their bones.' The Islamic Civil War now underway if it gets intense enough will bring about peace where no amount of signed peace treaties with arabs will.


But for the present we should imagine the jihadists now being able to look down on Haifa, Tsefat and Tiberias from the Golan heights. That is what Barak would have achieved for Israel. 

 We need to say the ‘Hagomel’ blessing (Ooops:- Jews recite this when they have narrowly escaped death) every day for not being talked into the agreement with Syria with Erdogan’s mediation,” Dayan added. Hagomel is the blessing recited after an escape from danger.

Israel should prepare itself in multiple ways, he said: by strengthening its defenses on the northern border, improving IDF preparedness for a counter-terror operation, strengthening Israeli settlement in the Golan and improving relations with Druze residents of the Golan.

And Olmert's legacy would have been the Western Wall once again in arab hands. Israel would have been nicely prepared by its leaders to again fight for its life from borders in places only 12km wide. Why are Israel's leaders so gullible?

In this game of freezing and unfreezing jewish building in Judea and Samaria there needs to be countervailing democratic force applied. Netanyahu needs to have his back stiffened so that he is forced to turn round to our enemies and say, sorry, "it's just not possible, the government will fall apart." And fall apart it should if the one place in the world jews are not allowed to build houses are in Judea and Samaria, in Shilo and Shechem, in Hebron and Susiya. Of course neither Obama or his friends mention the wildcat building of arabs in Israel's Negev or elsewhere in Israel. Arabs and their friends have always tried to stop jewish building in Israel. They failed then, as they will fail now.

Of course, once the great slaughter now underway in Syria and Iraq and which will possibly expand throughout the arab world is forgotten, arabs will very possibly once again return to their old ways, to threaten the destruction of Israel. But as Israel gains strength from year to year, and increases in population, its enemies will not be able to take comfort in this.

Nice bonfire in Damascus, now park up the F16's, brew the tea and leave the arabs to sort out their problems as before, in their own inimitable style

Ban Ki Moon, head of the organization of arab and islamic tyrants (and other assorted despots) otherwise known as the UN has condemned Israel. What a surprise.

How dare Israel go into the hyena's den and smash his teeth.  Israel should always wait for the UN to solve things peaceably as it did in Rwanda, Srebrenica, Darfur and now in South Kordofan.

Israel maintains its dignity, and its silence. Let the wolves howl, let the Syrian rebels unite with the Assad regime in talking of the jewish foe, of attacks by “external occupying forces” . Let them curse in frustration, and know that Israel will not wait for its enemies to come knocking, but will search them out and frustrate their plans in Israel's own time, on their own territory.

Israel seeks no war, no bloodshed, but by creating such a maelstrom in Damascus (the amount of munitions stored in the syrian army dumps is mind boggling. There is no way that 8 warplanes can deliver the amount of ordinance needed for a tiny fraction of that fireworks party) Israel has struck a very strong deterrent posture. Arabs will be impressed. And when arabs are impressed, they will normally look, as with the school bully, for an easier target.

Netanyahu has shown that Israel can keep its nerve in the face of the threats now being levelled at it. After delivering a pasting that Assad will not soon forget, Netanyahu took off for China. That sends one strong message to Israel's enemies, saying in effect, "I think so little of you that i'm off to trot." Netanyahu could not have acted better. But then, Netanyahu now has Moshe Ya'alon at the controls of the IDF, not the effete Ehud Barak, a man who went out of his way to understand, even justify the terrible atrocities committed by palestinian arab bombers against innocent israeli civilians.

Assad will hopefully now wish to cease attempting to reinforce Hezbollah with his most modern munitions and thus avoid further Israeli interventions. But that is a somewhat forlorn possibility as Assad is joined hip and thigh with Hezbollah and Iran. Assad is no longer an independent actor, if he ever was so until Assad finally goes (hopefully not too soon) Israel must expect further provocations, attempts to test the 'red line.'

Israel is now on high alert, has been for the last few days when a surprise exercise of ground troops was called in the north (now we know the reason, the troops are there so that Assad and Hezbollah don't get any ideas about how as arabs they have been 'humiliated' and in need of a little revenge).

As long as Israel's enemies don't talk themselves into doing anything foolhardy (difficult at the best of times for arab leaders who let their tongues wag their bodies), Israel must once again try and sink into the background, its red lines from now on being well understood by its enemies.

This is in contrast to Obama's chemical weapons red line fiasco. When Assad broke it by using chemical weapons, Obama shrank from acting. US credibility having been low for a while is now bumping along the bottom not just in the middle east, but in the world as a whole. From the Green revolution in Iran to Benghazi Obama has shown the USA as a broken reed (And of course China is watching, learning, and aggressing against its neighbours, sure in itself and in this US administration's reaction to its provocations).

Of course the USA is a mighty nation, one that has proved itself time and again, so just as soon as the american people shake themselves out of their stupor and elect a real leader, the world will sit up and take note. Okay, that will take a little while, but Israel can hold on, and some.

The shia and the sunni must be allowed to get on with their beloved business of showing each other just how right their lethal interpretation of islam is. My feeling is that they are both right. Islam is indeed a cruel, intolerant, crusading and imperial religion, the fruit of a poisonous and anything but 'holy' text.

Muslims will in a week or two's time have necessarily forgotten Israel, and it will remain forgotten until the next time islamist arabs try to test Israel's red lines.

My belief is that nothing has changed. The struggle will be brutal, and slow and very bloody, even with the West supporting the rebels, and maybe because of it. Absent this support the sunnis might have lost under the total commitment that Iran and Hezbollah are giving to this cause.

Neither side can afford to lose, not the alawites who stand to be slaughtered should they fail to create their redoubt, not Hezbollah who might find their whole community in Lebanon slaughtered by the sunni victors in Syria and their allies in Lebanon, should they fail to keep the lines of communication open to Teheran. The shia in Lebanon are beginning to feel very lonely and unloved.

So ironically the intensified efforts at shipping missiles to Hezbollah are all about Assad's building a defensive line of fortifications rather than any real intention to use those ground to ground missiles against Israel.
But Israel is not interested in allowing Hezbollah to build that impregnable shia-alawite redoubt, buttressed by game changing weaponry, directed at Israel or not (in the first instance). Hezbollah is the black mamba of snakes, unpredictable, agile and very deadly. You can't keep that sort of pet out in the open, confined or at all. The problem is that as well as the shia black mamba, we have the sunni fer-de-lance.

Israel's interest is in having the alawaites and Hezbollah isolated from each other as much as possible so as to break the direct line of supply through Iraq to Iran. Netanyahu is acting with great strategic skill and foresight here, only intervening when absolutely necessary in a war that Israel otherwise has no interest in taking part in.

For Israel the best outcome is one whereby these two snakes live together in the same pit and unable to unite with others of their species. The snakes will just as happily bite us as each other so it is not in our interest to feed them unless one is failing so badly that the other might become strong enough to devour the other.

So arabs will slaughter each other and weaken themselves so much that they will at some time in the not too distant future learn a holy terror, not the terror they have enjoyed making and inflicting on others until now, but the terrible fear of war close by in their own neighbourhood, affecting themselves and their families for months or even years on end. No matter how much they 'love death as we love life', the gnawing and unending fear can not but eventually have results.

Like the nazis arabs still hold to their koranic racist and imperial beliefs, ideas which extoll the virtues of armed conflict, murder and looting of one's enemy.

But should this conflict go on for long enough, even arabs will learn that war is not glorious, that nobody wins from war, that death and destruction is terrible, and is sought out only by fools, and evil people inspired by equally evil books, promoted by charlatans who wish for others to pay a bloody price.

This war will go on , supported on the one side by Iran and Iraq and their allies, and the sunni states on the other. It will go on and on until the lesson is learned, until there has been so much death, destruction and misery that as with the nazis, the glory of war is all gone, leaving only the terrible memories of the survivors.

Israel must not listen to those like general Ashkenazi who would have Israel take sides with one enemy against another. The enemy of my enemy in the middle east is not my friend. He will not thank you beyond today's battle. Tomorrow or even late this evening, he will be at your throat.

Israel must now pull back into its shell, doing no more than looking sullenly over the ramparts at its enemies. They'll understand.

Obama, Kerry and their arab friends can salivate over a truncated Israel ripe for destruction, but the future looks different

Netanyahu has a hard time juggling all the different balls in play, of keeping his eye on Israel's enemies, on Lebanon, on Iran, on Egypt, and on Gaza and Judea and Samaria, just to name the most immediate threats to Israel's security.

Netanyahu has also had a number of jousting sessions with that other enemy of Israel, its avowed 'friend' Obama and his various side-kicks. Kerry's new 'peace' initiative is of course anything but that, just another attempt by Obama to revive his failed attempt of a couple of years ago, to push Israel back into indefensible 'borders', i.e. the armistice lines of 1948.

It's interesting to see that Hamas has totally rejected this plan. Hamas finds it hard to even play the double speak that Abbas and his Fatah boys find so rewarding:

 GAZA, (PIC)-- Political analyst Dr. Naji Batta said that Hamas movement had unequivocally rejected the Arab initiative, and said that "it does not meet the minimum rights of the Palestinian people."

Batta told PIC on Saturday that the Arab initiative and the idea of land swaps crossed red lines and pointed to more concessions.

"The Arab initiative is originally rejected, because Palestine is not for sale or rent," the political analyst said, stressing that no one has the right to give up any part of the land of Palestine.

The "minimum rights of the Palestinian people" just so happen to mean the destruction of Israel.

One thing we can be pretty sure of, is that no matter what plans the enemies of the Jewish People cook up, they will sooner or later be frustrated.

And just to avoid any doubt about Hamas' intentions:

"Our borders are the historic land of Palestine. The land belongs to us, and we refuse the Arab initiative," Haniyeh said.

He stressed that the new Arab position that supports the exchange of land represents an unacceptable waiver and encourages the occupation to continue the settlement activity.

Gaza Premier called on the Palestinian people to adhere to the option of resistance as it represents the strategic choice.

"What was taken by force can only be restored by force. Negotiations can never be the way towards the liberalization," he said.

Of course a " historic land of Palestine" never existed, unless Hamas is talking not of Israel, but of Mandatory Palestine from 1917-1948. This included Transjordan as it was known after Britain created it in 1921. Arabs however they describe themselves  are welcome to Jordan, unless they attack Israel again from there, so maybe there will be some room for compromise over that land, at a future date.

With Israel's growing population safe borders might mean not just keeping all its ancestral lands, but,should arabs again make war on Israel, mean taking more defensible high ground that belonged to the jewish people in bible times on the east bank of the Jordan and north of Rosh Haniqra. This is the message that Netanyahu needs to give Obama and its other enemies. Just as with Russia of 2008, if you attack us, we will not shrink our borders, but expand them. Germany, Hungary and Roumania understood this after 1945, just as Armenia mercilessly drove its enemies from its borders in 1991.

As with the Gaza retreat which brought only arab attacks, so with Egypt. There was no need to give the Sinai to Egypt. The Sinai never belonged to Egypt before the British came along and annexed it to British occupied Egypt at the turn of the 20th century. Britain confiscated it from Turkey so as to defend its own occupation of the Suez Canal, the lifeline defending the route to India, the so-called 'Jewel in the Crown'.

In 1973 Israel had two egyptian armies at its mercy. Thanks to US pressure it fed them rather than destroy them. People say that the Peace Treaty with Egypt has kept the peace for 30 years, but this is untrue. Israel's might, and Sadat and Mubarak's fear of a new war kept the peace. The Muslim Brotherhood is a new gang in town, and is not frustrated in its wishes to wage war on Israel by the peace treaty which Morsy has on a number of occasions indicated, means nothing to  him. Egypt can not make war because of the turmoil in the arab world mixed with the dire state of Egypt's finances. Israel should however of course still keep a close eye on Egypt.

Arabs should know that time is on Israel's side, that if they don't want peace, but just wish to wage war not only amongst themselves, but against Israel whenever they feel strong enough, they must take into account the possibility that they will find themselves territorially even further away from  achieving their objectives.

If Israel has in the past talked about 'Land for Peace', rejected every time by arabs, in 2001 under Barak and lastly in 2008 under Olmert, Israel's enemies should be told in no uncertain terms that 'Land in exchange for Aggression and War' is also an option in future.

The message should be, 'continue to make war on Israel and you will lose more land'. Thankfully such a scenario of another 1973 style attack on Israel is a thing of the mid to distant future. Arabs are too much involved in massacring themselves at the moment to think too much about the jews, that is except Hamas, and even they understand the new rules of the game. Hamas is talking tough, but reigning in the kassam missile firings.

General Ashkenzi was an excellent if unoriginal general, but strategic thinker he isn't

 Gabi Ashkenazi is the latest man from the military to wish Israel to jump into the syrian morass with both flat feet. This is surprising because although he's not the most intelligent warrrior Israel has ever had, he does understand the limits of Israel's power. Indeed, Ashkenazi was set against reoccupying Gaza and  in attacking Iran. Thanks to his opposition, Iran is becoming a harder nut to crack by the day, possibly having moved beyond Israel's capacity to deal with it with conventional weapons (yes, with Iran Israel must think the unthinkable, at least as far as an EMP weapon is concerned, and sooner rather than later when Iran has hardened the targets against such an attack).

Generals who are humanitarians are a suspect species, either because they are hypocrites, or because what they inculcated to those they commanded was dangerous to their survivability on the battlefield. Israeli troops have lawyers attached to each company nowadays thanks to the efforts of people like Ashkenazi, something that shackles Israel's soldiers hands and feet, just as British and American soldiers have found in Afghanistan. When you fight a war, you need to allow your troops flexibility without having to look over their shoulders every second. The USA and Britain have lost the war in Afghanistan and whilst teharat haneshek is indeed important, it must sometimes be recognised as being impossible to achieve. In 1967 israeli tank commanders were ordered not to fire at houses, from which fire was being directed at them. The tanks treated their orders with the contempt deserved, demolished the buildings from where fire came, and managed to survive, against all odds.
 
Ashkenazi should forget playing the humanitarian when considering that both sides in Syria have declared Israel to be next on the list once they have won. He should instead read this imagined conversation between the wily Cardinal Richelieu and David Goldman aka 'spengler':

“We are a bit confused about Syria,” I began. “Its leader, Bashar al-Assad, is slaughtering his own people to suppress an uprising. And he is allied to Iran, which wants to acquire nuclear weapons and dominate the region. If we overthrow Assad, Sunni radicals will replace him, and take revenge on the Syrian minorities. And a radical Sunni government in Syria would ally itself with the Sunni minority next door in Iraq and make civil war more likely.”
“I don’t understand the question,” Richelieu replied.
“Everyone is killing each other in Syria and some other places in the region, and the conflict might spread. What should we do about it?”
“How much does this cost you?”
“Nothing at all,” I answered.
“Then let them kill each other as long as possible, which is to say for 30 years or so. Do you know,” the ghastly Cardinal continued, “why really interesting wars last for 30 years? That has been true from the Peloponnesian War to my own century. First you kill the fathers, then you kill their sons. There aren’t usually enough men left for a third iteration.”

 It is sad to see human life wasted, but as with the germans after World War I, who needed great destruction, of 4 million dead, of a whole generation without fathers, to have imperialism and murder driven out of them. Germans are now the world's greatest pacifists. 

Arabs have never learned the lesson of war. They glorify it, especially when it comes to the destruction of Israel and its people. 

The best Israel can do is to keep its snout out of Syria, to let the cards fall where they will as neither side will thank it for intervention. Let's hope Netanyahu doesn't get side-tracked by well meaning old generals like Ashkenazi.

Former IDF chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi said the world must not remain passive over the Syrian regime’s use of chemical weapons, and that President Bashar Assad himself must be held responsible.

“Doing nothing is not an option,” Ashkenazi said in an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that was broadcast on Tuesday.

Ashkenazi added that before any action is taken, the prime culprit must be identified as the Syrian leader.

“We have to be clear that it was his decision,” he said.

The former IDF general suggested a range of action, from upping support for rebel groups to imposing a no-fly zone on parts of Syria. Ashkenazi made it clear that the time has come to arm the rebels, a course of action the US is considering and several European countries already support.

“That means providing them with lethal and not just nonlethal assistance — that means weapons — to help them to topple Assad,” he said.

Ashkenazi lamented that more action was not taken in the past as it would, perhaps, have saved lives in the long run of a civil war that has so far cost over 70,000 lives and generated over a million refugees.

“We should have helped them a year ago when there were [only] 10,000 deaths and before the more extremists groups arrived,” he said.

Ashkenazi, who was the IDF’s top officer from 2007 to 2011, said the inevitable downfall of Assad would be a mixed blessing for Israel.

“I think generally speaking from a strategic point of view it is good news,” he said. “It will break the radical axis that runs through Iran and Damascus to Hezbollah and Hamas. It will be a major blow to Iran and Hezbollah.”

“Syria was and still is the logistics hub of Hezbollah,” he added and noted that while funding for the terror group may come from Iran, “the weapons come out of Syrian depots.”

As for growing concerns that the rebel cause in Syria has become a rallying point for a wide range of extremists groups, including those affiliated with al-Qaeda, that are drawing ever closer to the border with Israel, Ashkenazi expressed confidence in Israel’s security capabilities to deal with cross-border threats.

“From an Israeli perspective I think we can deal with it,” he said.

Ashkenazi also gave a guarded response to questions about media reports that in 2010 he refused a request by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to raise the IDF’s war readiness in preparation for an attack on Iran. The incident was seen as an indication that the security establishment does not back Netanyahu’s bold threats that Israel is prepared to go it alone in a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

“That is factually wrong,” Asheknazi said but would not expand on exactly what transpired at the time, saying only that it was a matter of timing and that, in his opinion, the military option is the last option.

“Unless the sword is against your throat you don’t use it,” he said.

Ashkenazi commented on recent efforts to improve ties with Turkey that became frigid, if not hostile, after IDF commandos stormed the Gaza-bound Mava Marmara ferry and shot dead nine Turkish citizens when they came under violent attack from those on board. Turkey made normalization with Israel dependent on an apology and compensation for the deaths, but the families of those who died have also begun legal proceedings against the soldiers involved. As the then commander of the IDF, Ashkenazi is also on trial in absentia.

“It is important to fix the relationship with Turkey,” he said, adding in reference to the indictments that “it comes with the job of being a general in the IDF.”

Yet, despite the regional threats, Ashkenazi said that Israel’s most pressing problem is that of its own internal divisions.

“I would like the internal dialogue to be back the way it was 30 years ago,” he said.

Al Qur'an chap 9:29: What was that about the 'Religion of Peace'?

 

Surat At-Tawbah (The Repentance) - سورة التوبة

Sahih International

Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture - [fight] until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled.

A lesson in 'Palestinian' nationalism and the 'umma'

The Saudi Sheikh is laughing at this black man who disgraced himself, and sold out black people who still suffer from arab racism in Libya, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and from genocide in Darfur

Every time a new 'peace plan' comes along intended to divest Israel of essential high ground, territory the tiny nation needs to defend itself, we need to read the below post from the 'learned elder'.




We are used to seeing just how deeply nationalistic the so-called palestinians are with the successive failures of Fatah and Hamas to even present a common front, let alone unity. And then there is Syria, tearing itself apart into its constituent parts. 

But the very notion of palestinian identity is a trick for arabs to destroy Israel, the free world's outpost in the region. 'Palestinian identity' is an invention, only emerging in order to attack the zionist pre-state project and Israel. 

We must keep the real intentions of the arabs in mind as Kerry, Obama attempt over and over again to drag Israel to make more concessions.

I have some faith in Netanyahu that he has the full measure of this enemy Obama administration that would dearly like to see Israel dismembered. Obama and his friend Jimmy Carter might sell themselves and the USA for Saudi gold, but Israel will be there when they are long gone.


The disappearance and reappearance of Palestinian Arab nationalism, 1949-1968
 Palestinian Arab nationalism effectively sprung out of thin air in 1920. Up until then, with very little exception, it was subsumed under the desire to be a part of "Greater Syria" which would include all of Palestine - and leave no room for a Jewish state.

 As soon as the ink dried on the San Remo resolution, Palestinian Arab leaders changed their tune, and embraced the idea of an Arab Palestine that would, again, ensure that no Jewish state would ever exist.

 After 1948, the desire for a Palestinian Arab state disappeared again. Palestinian Arabs in the west bank of the Jordan became citizens of that country; those in Gaza saw their land occupied by Egypt. Neither of them showed the slightest interest in their own state - the desire just disappeared.

 What replaced it was a return to 1919's Syrian-style pan-Arabism, and the person they believed could help them was Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser.

 Here is an interesting AP story from 1957:

 Yes, Palestinians in Gaza in 1957 wanted to be under the administration of Egypt - not to have their own country!

 In fact, Jordan's King Hussein's major problem during that time was the threat from Nasser, who incited Jordanian Palestinians to revolt against him and even to assassinate him, so the entire Arab world could be Nasserist.

 What happened to their vaunted nationalism? Where was their desire for an independent state that their leaders spoke about so eloquently during the 1940s?

 It is apparent that the desire for a state was far less than the desire to destroy Israel, which was Nasser's selling point to them. "Liberating Palestine" meant liberating it - from Jews.

 The 1964 PLO Covenant is a very interesting document. Its Arabic name is "Al-Mithaq Al-Kawmee Al-Philisteeni," which roughly means The Palestinian Pan-Arabist Covenant. It is mostly wedded to the Nasserist vision, insisting on how the Palestinian cause is a pan-Arab cause, and it is replete with references to Arab unity and the Arab nation. (It also specifically excludes Gaza and the West Bank from areas wanted for "Palestine" - since those areas were considered "liberated!" Significantly, it also refers to Israel's pre-1967 existence as "occupation.")

The 1968 version of the document, in contrast, is called "Al-Mithaq Al-Watanee Al-Philisteeni" which more explicitly means "The Palestinian National Covenant." Which means that only after 1967, when hopes for an Arab military victory over Israel faded, did Palestinian Arab nationalism become reincarnated.

 We see that the Palestinian Arab leadership went from Greater Syrian nationalism to Palestinian Arab nationalism to pan-Arab Nasserite nationalism and then back to Palestinian Arab nationalism, all in the course of fifty years.

 All of those political movements boasted wonderfully written documents and passionate speeches explaining why their cause was the only logical, moral and legal means to justly deal with Palestinian Arabs. There were no apparent cases of whiplash as people moved from one to the next, contradictory political position. The reason is clear: all those disparate movements had one thing in common, the eradication of Jewish nationalism. Everything else was window dressing to put a polite face on what is really a philosophy of hate.

 And it continues today, as Palestinian Arabs are seemingly torn between what appears to be completely different paths - the PLO's stated methods of declarations and popular resistance, or Hamas' newly stated method of embracing a strategy of stages that mimics Arafat's 1974 Phased Plan to destroy Israel, to Islamic Jihad's dedication to nothing but armed resistance, to Hezbollah's single-minded goal of utterly destroying Israel by any means possible. But in the end, they are all paper-thin veneers on top of the same underlying goal - to destroy Israel by whatever means makes the most sense at the moment.

 Westerners cannot wrap their heads around the idea that an entire national movement is really not interested in liberty and freedom for their people, but rather is meant solely to destroy another people. It is literally unbelievable that Arab leaders would hold millions of people hostage simply to use them as human weapons against Israel. But like it or not, it is the truth, and it is what needs to be understood before any real progress can be made.

Arab League 'Peace' Plan, splutter, cough, taqiya

I have not written about the much vaunted and supposedly Arab League endorsed peace plan before now because I thought that it was just too obvious that it reflects less any intentions of arabs to make peace with Israel than with Kerry's need to get himself known, and as another opportunity for arabs to put Israel in the dock.

But having personally argued the point with two friends in the past day, I realise that you really can fool some people all of the time, especially when it comes to arab intentions, and their misleading taqiya. Even the Jewish Chronicle's Anshel Pfeffer neglects to notice that this is NOT an Arab League endorsed peace plan, but just one proposed by some of its members. Barry Rubin's report is essential to understand this new deception. He notes that Tunisia has incorporated into its constitution that it can never make peace with Israel, that the so-called 'right of return' (rot) of arabs who left in 1948 is not mentioned. Of course the 'rot' is always there to ruin any accord which begins to take wing (arabs wanting destruction of Israel, not peace with it). And then there is the little fact that palestinians won't even meet with Israel! You can't make peace with someone you can't even discuss with.

And what about the little problem of legitimacy? Even, were there the slightest chance that palestinian arabs making peace with Israel, any government following could say the agreement was not legitimate, as Mohammad Morsy has often intimated. After all, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority are some years overdue for an election.

Were arch enemy Abbas (repeated Holocaust denier who praises 'martyr' murderers of israeli children on every possible occasion) ever to actually signe a peace treaty, would the arabs keep to its provisions when presented with such tempting targets from the high hill recently delivered to them by Israel. They could point the shoulder launched missiles and make Israel's skies impossible for the IAF to take off. They could fire down over open artillery sights at Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, Netanya and even Haifa.  All this for a piece of paper.

No other nation would be mad enough to even contemplate such a 'plan', unless like France in 1870 or 1940 it had been roundly defeated by its enemies. Give up Alsace Lorrain, for a scrap of paper from the germans? What frenchman would even have dared to even contemplate that?

You have to be obtuse, or an Obama administration official to believe there is any sense in even trying to make peace with arabs, especially at this time. The arab world is inherently unstable, the leaders of today are not there tomorrow, and in any case, none have them do anything but spread hatred of Israel in their media. Arab populations are educated about evil jews, about war with Israel, not peace.

Arabs use nazi imagery in demonizing jews

The only peace the Arab League has on offer for Israel is of the Chaberlain, 'Peace in our time' sort of 1938.
Israel will not be forced to commit suicide. It has learned from history. Sadly Czechoslovakia was sacrificed, by its friends no less, above all Britain.

Beware of 'friends' bringing 'peace' plans.

The US Obama administration would spend its time better than trying to convince Israel to commit suicide, in trying to understand the dynamics of islamic fundamentalism and extremism in the the region, and how Obama's policies have undermined its friends in the last 5 years.

The US then might copy Israel's policy of arming nobody, of supporting neither blood crazed faction in Syria. Fanatical islamists on either side do not need help from the West, but to be left to themselves, to fight it out between them. They might then one day come to their senses, after the massed bloodletting.

The US and sunni arab states arming the rebels will not help the sunni radicals to win, as this will immediately be countered by Russia, Iran and Hezbollah. Not such a bad thing from Israel's security point of view, as both sides have declared that Israel is on their list after they win the civil war.

Just to exemplify what peace means to arabs, even Jordan, supposedly Israel's friend gives up no oppotunity to malign Israel in international forums, to work against it and incite arabs in Jerusalem. Even when Israel loaned the Dead Sea Scrolls to Canada, Jordan thought it could make mischief:

The Jerusalem Post reported that Canada has refused a Jordanian request to hand over the historic Dead Sea Scrolls, currently on loan to Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum. The newspaper quoted Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor as saying: QThe Dead Sea Scrolls are an intrinsic part of Jewish heritage and religion. The scrolls have no relation to Jordan or the Jordanian people.

Maybe once and AL 'Peace' were arranged, the Arab League would provide observers to oversee attempts to police it, just as AL observers so successfully did in Syria:

BBC half truthful program does not "break the mould"

Baby Shalhevet Techiya Pass, one of many jews murdered for living in the ancient jewish homelands of Judea and Samaria

BBC Watch, evidently dazed by the constant propaganda put out by the BBC has been 'nobbled'

by a part truthful program, which did allow some of Israel's case to be put. The unsigned BBC Watch report was entitled, “BBC documentary ‘Israel: Facing The Future’ tries to break the mould.
The BBC the program although often seemingly being fair, ended by putting one of the big lies accross, that of the so-called dilemma of having a truncated and even tinier jewish state than is already the case, or a state with more arabs inhabitants over and above the 20% who already hold israeli citizenship. This would supposedly force Israel to either lose its jewish character or become an apartheid state. This nonsense is frequently peddled in anti-zionist media, and this program simply mirrored these arguments.

There are a number of additional solutions that Israel's enemies don't mention, such as leaving the mass of Judea and Samaria in arab hands for an arab state whilst Israel annexes only what it now is in possession of.
Israel would in any case not wish to  re-conquer arab cities with hundreds of thousands of inhabitants. Unless arabs make war again on Israel, the 1% of Judea and Samaria that jews live on is enough to provide for Israel's security. There is no demographic danger at all from annexing the 1% of disputed territory, and allowing an arab state to arise on much of the rest (as long as the security of jews living there could be assured).

Even were Israel to find itself in control of all of Judea and Samaria again, with all its arab inhabitants, Israel could give arabs living there citizenship and still remain a viable jewish state.

But the BBC agenda is not about letting these little facts emerge. It allows one David Landau and Avraham Berg, both anti-zionists, to put a case whereby Israel must leave Judea and Samaria, that the only solution is for Israel to sacrifice its security by giving away the strategic heights in Judea and Samaria to arabs bent on Israel's destruction.

Israel left Gaza and reaped thousands of missiles. Judea and  Samaria is much nearer to Israel's population centres, and that withdrawal experiment will not happen again.

My letter to BBC Watch:

Dear Hadar Sela,

In addition to the problems you mention with the program please note that there was absolutely no attempt to deal in a balanced way with the wrong assertions as to the supposed demographic time bomb, made at length by ex-Haaretz editor and anti-zionist David Landau.

I have not dealt with this program on my blog as there are just too many BBC biased programs and reports to get hot under the collar about.

As Israel Meldad has recently published articles trashing any possible dangers to Israel's democracy were it to annexe Judea and Samaria you and interested readers should refer to his blog for some excellent information on that:

The fertility rates are truly important. Their effect is delayed but they are important for the future. Yes, youthfulness of the population must be taken into account. But this, ultimately, works in the Jews' favour. Consider the graphs here and also here. At first glance, the graph relating to the Jewish population displays aging and that of the Arabs shows a youthful character, the bottom of both graphs shows the opposite trend. Note, the ratio is roughly 3:1 Jews in the 0-4 age bracket.

Arab Fertility Rate will start to decline towards convergence with the Jewish in the first two decades of the 21st century. This is now recognized also by Dr. Ahmed Hleihel, the Head of the Demographic department of the ICBS, who is a decent professional researcher and honest scientist and an Israeli Arab

Apart from the latest French court decision that the 'occupation' is not illegal, Israel has very compelling legal and security reasons to annexe Judea and Samaria (Israel's ancient homelands, legally Israel's after the still valid San Remo Mandate of 1921, whatever Israel's enemies would have you believe. Prof. Eugene Kontorovitch among others has written exhaustively about this).

The John Ware program was on the face of it better than the usual in your face hate fest offered by the British Propaganda Corporation (BPC), but it was only slightly better once the program is seen in its gestaltic whole.

It was interesting to see how one palestinian complained about needing the whole of Israel so as to bathe on Tel-Aviv's beach. Israel allowed them to do that recently in honor of a muslim holiday, and did so without any controls until the waves of the suicide bombers came after 2001. John Ware was probably ignorant of this, but he might have in any case asked himself if Britain would allow germans, french or anyone else just to land on British beaches and enjoy themselves, without going through a border control. But Israel must always be subject to different rules, expectations, and suis generis law, new concepts of international law designed and applied only for Israel's 'benefit'.

Don't expect anything better from the BBC Hadar. This is as good as it will ever get. Since the time the BPC ignored the Holocaust, described Israel's freedom fighters of Lehi (denoted Stern 'Gang' rather than 'Group') and Irgun as terrorists against the really illegal British Occupation (after the 1939 White Paper renouncing the Mandate to set up a Jewish Homeland, Britain was declared in material breach of the mandate by the Permanent Mandates Commission of the LoN) the BBC has acted as the mouthpiece of the British FO and Government, as an organisation out to get Israel.

If it were up to me I would restrict BBC reporters' access to Israel after each new example of biased reporting, just as Israel is now closing the crossings (except for humanitarian aid) after each rocket attack. The damage the BBC does to Israel is worse than the overwhelming majority of Hamas rockets. BBC misinformation corrupts minds, makes people believe that Israel really is the worst country in the world, excepting Iran, possibly.

The BBC demonises Israel, so as to prepare the way for its destruction. This was the intention of Britain and its propaganda organs in 1948, a time when british soldiers attacked Israel, directing artillery fire onto jewish Jeruslem, and of the 'BBC' now.

For me the BBC's ignoring of the Fogel atrocity until Israel responded with the mild announcement to build homes, and then designing its report so as to obufuscate, belittle and then blame Israel for what happened shows that the BBC is as odious as it ever was, if not more. Even arabs were ashamed of the slitting of a baby's throat, but the BBC hid this, unlike with the atrocities falsified by Donnison and others last year.

The only BBC program I can remember which dealt with the facts fairly was the Panorama program about the terrorist IHH attack on israeli soldiers legally boarding the Mavi Marmara.

None of this should be taken as a criticism of you or your work Hadar. I think your website is doing an excellent and necessary job.

Best wishes,

David Mizeon