Israel Takes New Measures to Improve Freedom of Movement in West Bank
New Crossing and Economic Development to Enhance Palestinian Mobility, Economy
Israeli officials took new steps Tuesday (Nov. 10) to improve mobility for Palestinians by opening a northern West Bank crossing near Jenin to vehicles travelling from Israel. International officials, including official Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East Tony Blair, Israeli Regional Cooperation Minister Silvan Shalom and Jenin Gov. Moussa Qaddourra, were on hand to celebrate the event.
“For peace we need the will of the two peoples to take steps to normalise life. So this [the opening of the border crossing] is a symbol of a better future of harmony and working together. It shows that what we share in common is more than the differences we have had in the past,” Blair said in a speech at the ceremony for the Jalameh crossing, which previously was an Israeli checkpoint. Continue reading →
While checking other interesting blogs I have found the following article written by Steven Plaut on Aug. 14, 2009. You better take some time and go through it and let me know what you think about it.
from: http://zioncon.blogspot.com/2009/08/14-lies-blocking-peace-i n-middle-east.html
and: http://www.eussner.net/schaf_2008-12-28_17-51-03.html
The 14 Lies Blocking Peace in the Middle East
Israel’s enemies around the world have poisoned the debate with their smoke and mirrors. If a Martian were suddenly to land on earth and started listening to and reading the mainstream media, he would form the impression that the entire Middle East conflict were due to Israel building some settlements in land that much of the world thinks should become a Palestinian state. A near-consensus exists among the governments of the world and among media writers that peace has yet to break out in the Middle East because of three principle reasons. The first is that the Jews and the Arabs have been unable to agree about whether there should be a Palestinian state. The second is because Israel has obstinately refused to withdraw its troops from (so-called) “occupied Arab” lands. The third is because Israel behaves cruelly towards the Palestinians. The Martian could easily carry these beliefs back to its home planet, as long as it did not bother to learn the background and the history of the Middle East conflict. Those three reasons cannot survive an antibiotic of familiarity with Middle East history. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seem to think the idea of Palestinian statehood is the most wonderful idea to come along since the Thirteenth Amendment. And almost all world politicians, along with the Israeli Left, insist that all Israeli settlements must be removed from the West Bank because they serve as the main obstacle to peace. The reality is that Continue reading →
A dirty little secret
Every time someone writes, speaks of ‘Palestinians’ a myth is reinforced
Moshe Dann
Published 30.09.09/Israel Opinion: on www.ynetnews.com
The establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the Nakba (catastrophe) for Arabs, and the aggression by five well-armed Arab countries, assisting local Arab gangs and militias that had been attacking Jews for years, placed Jews in Israel and the state in mortal danger.
Fighting back, Israel eventually negotiated an armistice in 1949 that allowed a respite from open war, albeit not terrorism, and without peace. The Egyptians occupied the Gaza Strip; the Jordanians occupied Judea, Samaria and the eastern part of Jerusalem, including the Old City and Temple Mount, Syria continued to occupy the Golan Heights, from which it constantly shelled Israeli settlements; all trained and supplied terrorists who raided Israel. The UN did nothing.
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The leaders of an ultra-Islamist Al-Qaida affiliated terrorist cell operating in the Gaza Strip, going by the name of Junut Ansar Allah (Soldiers of Allah’s Supporters) called on Friday for the establishment of an Islamic emirate in the Gaza Strip (see e.g. Haaretz: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1107735.html or Spiegel Online: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,642988,00.html).
The outcome: The terrorist Hamas organization crushed the Al-Qaida terrorist movement in and around the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah killing brutally over 20, including unarmed civilians and children, injuring more than 100. Continue reading →
Die palästinensische Führung macht sich immer lächerlicher, nicht nur wegen interner Streitigkeiten und Spaltungen, sondern auch wegen ihren vollkommen übertriebenen “Forderungen” an Israel. Mittlerweile fordert die Palästinensische Autonomiebehörde (PA) nämlich, geleitet von Abu Mazen (=Mahmoud Abbas), nicht nur Teile Jerusalems [zurück], sondern bedroht Israel mit fortwährendem Terror, falls nicht GANZ-JERUSALEM unter palästinensische Oberhoheit kommen sollte.
Bitte liest dazu die zwei folgenden Kommentare/Berichte von: 1) Ulrich W. Sahm (auf Deutsch); 2) The Israel Project (auf Englisch).
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The PA does not even try to hide their anti-Semitic attitudes as the following report shows. Apparently this and other anti-Semitic messages from our Palestinian ”partner for peace” have not yet reached the ears of US President Barack Hussein Obama and several other western leaders.
Palestinian Media Watch, Bulletin August 10, by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook
While Israel demands that the PA recognize Israel as a Jewish state, the official Palestinian Authority news agency has responded with a vicious anti-Semitic article stating that a Jewish state (literally “Jewishness of a state”) is by definition inherently racist and endangers all humanity.
The PA is accusing Israel of ethnic cleansing of Arabs and Palestinians, and says this policy of the “Jewish state” endangers global security.
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Am 31 Juli fragte ich euch in meinem post “Who are the Palestinians?”
(http://aro1.com/wordpress/arye/frieden-im-nahen-osten/who-are-the-palestinians/) nach der Herkunft der Palästinenser. Um dieser Frage weiter auf den Grund zu gehen, bat ich meinen Freund, den Journalisten und Nahost-Experten Ulrich W. Sahm, mir seinen Bericht vom 3. Juni 2007 weiterzuleiten, um ihn auf meine Seite stellen zu können.
Ulrich W. Sahm – Der Sechs Tage Krieg im Juni 1967 war auch die Geburtsstunde der Palästinenser als Nation. Die bekannte palästinensische Politikerin Chanan Aschrawi sagte einst: Continue reading →
Yesterday I wrote about the Palestinian Authority, i.e. the Fatah movement, which gathered in the West Bank city of Bethlehem to discuss their past/present/future relations and policies, not only with Israel, but also with their Palestinian competitor movement, the terrorist Hamas organizaton. Hamas has taken over the Gaza Strip more than two years ago and since then maltreats any Palestinian they identify with the Fatah movement. Both organizations, the Fatah and the Hamas, hate one another; both organizations claim to represent the Palestinian people.
The world is pressuring Israel to accept and proceed with the 2-State-solution. Which two states is the world actually referring to by saying: two states? I assume Israel and Palestine. But obviously the Palestinian side does not have a sole representative. Continue reading →
The 2-State formula resounds throughout the land. No other solution has yet been seriously scrutinized to knock the seemingly everlasting conflict between the Jews and the Arabs, i.e. Palestinians in the Middle East on the head. Yesterday a very good friend of mine even passed a petition around on facebook to support American Jews to stand behind US President Barack Hussein Obama and encourage him that the 2-State solution has to be implemented, since this is the only logical answer to the conflict.
Personally, I am totally in favor of a 2-State solution BUT Continue reading →
Besides the 2-State solution, some people still believe in the 1-State solution, others speak about a 4- or 6-State solution, and there is even a plan for a 50+State solution.
The conflict between the Jews and the Arabs in the Middle East has actually turned into one of the most significant international “concerns” as soon as the General Assembly adopted the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine after 33 countries (13 against, 10 abstentions) voted in favor of a Jewish and an Arab state living side by side on November 29, 1947. Ever since the Middle East has been in turmoil. It seems like the conflict between the Jews and the Arabs, i.e. the Palestinians is everlasting. Since the UN Partition Plan in 1947 the world tries to figure out what is righteous for the peoples living in this region and only recently the main world powers have agreed on the final formula: Two States for Two Peoples. One side Jewish-Israeli, the other Arab-Palestinian. There is absolutely no doubt about who the Jews are but I have noticed that there are many versions about who the so-called Palestinians actually are? Continue reading →
The Palestinian Authority is just smarter on the international stage, compared to their rivals, the terrorists from the Hamas movevemt; THEIR GOAL IS IDENTICAL.
out of Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) Bulletin July 12, 2009:
The PA will resume violence and terror against Israel when Fatah is “capable” and “according to what seems right”, Fatah activist Kifah Radaydeh says in a PA TV interview. She states openly that peace is not a goal for Fatah.
“It has been said that we are negotiating for peace, but our goal has never been peace. Peace is a means, the goal is Palestine.” Continue reading →
Ausser meiner eigenen Meinung und ab und zu Artikel-Buch-Zeitung-Internet-Referenzen, die ich euch nicht vorenthalten moechte, plane ich eine neue Rubrik in meinen Blog einzubauen, und zwar Leserbriefe und Kommentare von Freunden, die voll und ganz meiner Meinung sind. Continue reading →