tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64744992713102936302024-03-05T19:07:46.492-08:00TZ17-9AV FOUNDATIONDedicated to the peace of Jerusalem. May Mashiach come soon. May there be peace between Israel and Arabia. May there be peace between Israel and the World. May there be peace throughout the World. May the Light of Shabbath fill the darkness of the Universe.ABIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956703782064165353noreply@blogger.comBlogger160125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6474499271310293630.post-27918435828441265222022-02-25T08:51:00.004-08:002022-05-30T21:57:41.820-07:00INVADING UKRAINE: PUTIN DONS RHETORIC OF ANTI-ISRAEL JIHAD, IMPLICITLY THREATENS ABRAHAM ACCORDS<p>PUTIN RHETORIC RINGS ALL TOO FAMILIAR: "UKRAINE IS NOT A COUNTRY... IS ENGAGED IN GENOCIDE... IS RULED BY NAZIS... MUST BE LIBERATED FROM OCCUPATION... IS A PUPPET OF THE DECADENT WEST.."</p><p>THE ONLY EXPLICIT WORDS NOT SPOKEN... "UKRAINE'S 'ILLEGITIMATE' LEADER IS A JEWISH MONKEY-PIG-DOG."</p><p>Putin rhetoric behind the Russian invasion of Ukraine must be seen for the anti-semitic play that it is, seeking not only to undermine the democratic inspiration of Ukraine, but, also to lynch Israel's success and Jewish success in the global world; and, Ukraine is the linchpin of Putin's design to see, born again, the wheels of Russian world power.</p><p>Although at the local level the present conflict in Ukraine may be perceived as a civil war between divergent branches of the Kievan Rus tree of life; and, although sorting out legitimate claims of Ukrainian and Russian perspectives may be a challenge; the significance of the present conflict to the larger world must not be ignored; most especially it cannot be ignored by Israel.</p><p>The unmistakeabley anti-semitic, anti-Israel rhetoric of Putin tolls so loudly that many may not recognize it; the resounding noise may register only subliminally, a drone-like background noise so relentlessly present that it is overlooked and ignored or blocked out by natural auditory defenses. </p><p>Putin's rhetoric has just put Israel on notice that all bets are off with respect to any future positive relationship with Russia; and, Putin's rhetoric has at least made a play for Arab sympathy. It is not impossible that both the Arabs and Iranians already are waiting in the wings to protect Putin's back. </p><p>Anti-semitic Europe is already paranoid of Arabs from within and of Russians from without, needing Arabs and Russians for economic reasons, reluctant to be torn apart by war, and of questionable security value to European Jewish citizens or to Israel. Anti-semitism in the US is on the rise, and the Biden Administration has withdrawn US favor for the development of an Israel-Europe natural gas pipeline. </p><p>The present threat posed (by Putin's vision for a Greater Russia) to future positive Israeli relations with Europe as well as to the Abraham Accords is too palpable to ignore. Western sanctions of Russia may easily crumble in the face of Russia's present large financial reserves and the capacity of finance in the Muslim world to bypass western markets to engage the possible benefits of business with Russia. Given the risks, Israel, the US, and NATO must find a way to protect Ukraine from Putin, and to do so while avoiding nuclear war or even extensive conventional war. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEGVDuzK0DM8MpvdyWIhj_A2Uu1ig-M-z86Et1is0fRpyPfkmi0ehbdaoyfN3s3cylOSJ9ztKJ7Afhg0nXPcg5L9MvvNtjz51RBYT92NVTqcVRmAz6R5TTqkH88B-KJDHUXCmM6HWTIBQVDWITkmGcmZR_haMNqugwq-VU51gqqIh8N42lp9b8bEjk=s1043" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="1043" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEGVDuzK0DM8MpvdyWIhj_A2Uu1ig-M-z86Et1is0fRpyPfkmi0ehbdaoyfN3s3cylOSJ9ztKJ7Afhg0nXPcg5L9MvvNtjz51RBYT92NVTqcVRmAz6R5TTqkH88B-KJDHUXCmM6HWTIBQVDWITkmGcmZR_haMNqugwq-VU51gqqIh8N42lp9b8bEjk=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>ABIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956703782064165353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6474499271310293630.post-49138428610189815112021-07-29T21:57:00.010-07:002021-07-30T09:33:12.081-07:00AN ALTERNATE FUTURE: BEN & JERRY "ABRAHAM ACCORDS ICE CREAM"<div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><div class="ecm0bbzt hv4rvrfc ihqw7lf3 dati1w0a" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_b5" style="font-family: inherit; padding: 4px 16px 16px;"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px;"><div class="qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d9wwppkn fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" color="var(--primary-text)" dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Pistachio... Vanilla... Mocha... Honey... Chopped Pistachios... Halva....</b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Presumably, an ice cream manufacturer is in the business of producing and marketing ice cream, not political divisiveness. But, this is exactly what Ben & Jerry and Unilever are doing, when they enable the evil politics of Jihadism.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Nowhere is this Jihadism more pernicious than in the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) campaign being waged throughout the world by Jew-Hating, Israel-Hating Bigots. This campaign includes the ICC (the so-called International Court of Justice) that presumes to rule the world via the UN (United Nations), as if it's seat in Belgium -- a country that so easily rolled over for the Nazis, like a happy-go-lucky whore -- could presume to dispense justice to such nations as the USA and Israel, countries that stand up for freedom.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Now what do Ben & Jerry, the ICC, and Jihadism have in common? And how can the ice cream of Ben & Jerry, which is under the Kosher Supervision of CHOF-K (a most prestigious authority of Kashruth), be anti-Jewish and anti-Israel? </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">This latter question is easy to answer, but the doing would mean that CHOF-K would have to value Kashruth more than Greenbacks. It should not even be a question that CHOF-K should immediately revoke it's Kashruth Certification of Ben & Jerry products. There should be no cognitive dissonance about this, whatsoever... none, nada, zilch. In fact a new Non-Kosher Certification should be created for Ben & Jerry and similar Jihad accommodating firms: "CIRCLE ZILCH".</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">When "freedom of speech" is allowed to flourish as the skirt under which BDS is permitted free legal license by the ICC and by Ben & Jerry, there is the beginning of commonality between the triad of Jihadism, ICC, and Ben & Jerry. Thankfully, at least in the USA, there is great and growing legal strength in opposition to such a license for BDS. Ironically, Israel is the greater question mark... after all, Israel permits "Al-Naqba" celebrations!</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">What is unique is that Ben & Jerry, by insisting that it's ice cream may not be sold in "Occupied Palestinian Territory", though it may be sold in "Israel", presumes that there are well-defined borders (by none less than the ICC) that would create a State of Palestine and simultaneously shrink Israel, ignoring that the land in question is legitimately disputed and ignoring that from the "Palestinian" point of view, "Occupied Palestine" includes all of Israel. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">So in acceding to the ICC perspective, Ben & Jerry grants legitimacy to the ICC, grants legitimacy to Jihadism and BDS, and undermines the legitimacy of Israel and the USA.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">At the business level, Ben & Jerry and the ICC not only grant legitimacy to Jihadism and BDS; they also drive wedge after wedge between Kashruth and the businesses that support Kashruth. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The Kashruth industry should take a lesson from Benjamin Franklin, who famously said, "We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">No Kashruth organization should enable the ICC or Jihadism or BDS against Israel; all Kashruth organizations should deny Kashruth Certification to Ben & Jerry's and to similar businesses accommodating the ICC, Jihadism, and BDS.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Unilever should set the example for all parent companies of subsidiary firms that would give aid and succor to enemies of both peace and civil rights by requiring such firms to toe the line in favor of democracy and against anti-semitism (the BDS campaign is anti-semitism, disguised as free speech against Israel).</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Unilever should and must assert itself over Ben & Jerry (1) by speaking in public against Ben & Jerry; (2) by requiring that Ben & Jerry reverse course, walk back it's one-sided bigotry against Israel, and reverse it's illegal policy; and (3) by requiring Ben & Jerry to create a new flavor of ice cream extolling peaceful coexistence of Jews and Arabs in Israel and in the ME (Middle East).</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Ben & Jerry "Abraham Accords Ice Cream", anyone?</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I imagine "Abraham Accords Ice Cream" as a Pistachio ice cream swirled with Vanilla ice cream, mocha ice cream, and embedded with Halva, chopped Pistachios, and drops of honey...!!!!</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Wowowowowow...!!! 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text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">AND WHAT MAY AN ISRAELI "CHANGING OF THE GUARD" MEAN FOR THE FUTURE OF ISRAEL, FOR A "STATE OF PALESTINE", FOR THE RAND CORPORATION'S "ARC PLAN", AND FOR IRAN'S NUCLEAR ASPIRATIONS?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhErjbqNhDU98WOUMznVLm1jwgpc0k-_P15gIukFQHiG64qs8pifi11yvqxQ3KwuJ99sI53BqElKXir_NJR1aKFg9j2F3Iz_V4g_Wfgjq1lw3M843v4ZC5TCB0lVdRFYwNaFuVNvXEkGmY/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhErjbqNhDU98WOUMznVLm1jwgpc0k-_P15gIukFQHiG64qs8pifi11yvqxQ3KwuJ99sI53BqElKXir_NJR1aKFg9j2F3Iz_V4g_Wfgjq1lw3M843v4ZC5TCB0lVdRFYwNaFuVNvXEkGmY/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">RAND CORPORATION "ARC PLAN"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">FOR A "STATE OF PALESTINE"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXe4XbUQG7N_3S_RSAVi1IIqSOrQZ9HKccRkjuh3EykDCrBrjC8uWm_ZIEgc9NK8UEHclVLtTH0wDySBiVlDeVVa8kBBo2gLmPAlka14DHRnhINNjHEobntoU7R0hIx7obg4kfIlM-YMM/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="863" data-original-width="1409" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXe4XbUQG7N_3S_RSAVi1IIqSOrQZ9HKccRkjuh3EykDCrBrjC8uWm_ZIEgc9NK8UEHclVLtTH0wDySBiVlDeVVa8kBBo2gLmPAlka14DHRnhINNjHEobntoU7R0hIx7obg4kfIlM-YMM/" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9119.html></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlb3x1VfI-WNmafA6zx9oassFga03gc3Us1F6tBLTKGZwlh-7CW_l47pt7owtsmezJ_eSsVaNjEU8feRvGeFbuelCqYyCsjuv2eHRz_iBxLgBkmCMoVNouMUXJs3ibDrqf05lFSsXcEZg/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="914" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlb3x1VfI-WNmafA6zx9oassFga03gc3Us1F6tBLTKGZwlh-7CW_l47pt7owtsmezJ_eSsVaNjEU8feRvGeFbuelCqYyCsjuv2eHRz_iBxLgBkmCMoVNouMUXJs3ibDrqf05lFSsXcEZg/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></i></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">THE REAL STORY IS THAT -- UNLESS THE LAPID-LED COALITION GOVERNMENT FAILS TO OCCUR, AND IF NETANYAHU REMAINS IN POWER -- EITHER WAY, MANSOUR ABBAS WILL HAVE A TOP LEADERSHIP ROLE IN THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT, ESTABLISHING ARAB PRESENCE INTO THE MINISTERIAL AND SECURIY ROLES OF ISRAELI GOVERNMENT AT A CLEARANCE LEVEL NEVER BEFORE SEEN IN ISRAEL'S GOVERNMENT.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">So what does this mean?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Is this a "kumbayah" moment in Israeli history between the Jews and the Arabs within the boundaries of Israel? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Or is this a pivotal moment towards the creation of something that never before existed in history, a State of Palestine?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The clue to answering this question is to remember the Rand Corporation "Arc" Plan for a "State of Palestine", to remember the likely Biden role in this Plan, and to remember the Roman Road to Masada (the breaching of Masada is the relentless model of European/American Policy towards Israel). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Above are a few images and a link to detailed information about the Rand Plan, which uses "Jacob's Ladder" as a geographic template by which to bifurcate Israel while linking Gaza, the "West Bank", and Haifa. This linkage creates a transportaion contiguity between Gaza and the "West Bank" (Judea-Samaria), disrupting Israel and making for a contiguous "State of Palestine", also integrating this new "State" into Israel's north at the Israeli port city of Haifa.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">How such a Plan makes for Israeli security is beyond imagination, as it posits an imaginary reality of a desire and will to peace from "Palestininan" entities that are committed to Israel's annihilation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Where may Mansour Abbas fit in? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">There are three possibilities: (1) immediately obvious roles for Mansour Abbas in the highest levels of Israel's Government; (2) resurrection of Left-Wing Zionism's vestigal teleology to see a joint Jewish-Arab "One-State Solution" [called either "Palestine" or "Israel"] uniting the "West Bank" and "Gaza" with "Israel"; or, (3) a working relationship between Israel's Jewish leadership and Masour Abbas that may ultimately lead to Israeli divestment of East Jerusalem to enable a "State of Palestine" capitolled in East Jerusalem with Mansour Abbas as leader of the new "State of Palestine" (he may be the only anti-Zionist political figure with sufficient stature to broker a "State of Palestine" into existence in which Hamas and Fatah and Israeli Arabs (who may prefer to live as citizens of a "State of Palestine") may co-exist and share government. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Demographics and facts on the ground determine the politics even as the politics may determine the facts on the ground or even the demographics. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Facts in the air also determine the politics: missiles and tunnels from Gaza, missiles and tunnels from Lebanon, missiles (possibly nuclear) and the "land bridge" from Iran through Iraq, Jordan, and Syria into Israel....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Most important may not be whether or not it is Lapid or Bennett or Netanyahu in the PM role, so much as the deeper meaning of the presence of Mansour Abbas in the Government, and the ability of a unity government to act with versatility and flexibility in the best interests of the State of Israel (this latter is the great question, as indications from Benny Gantz and Lapid and Bennet are that once (and if) Netanyahu is no longer in office, the reins of power will shift to a coaltion of conflicting interests that will hopefully tear each other apart before Iran goes nuclear).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div>ABIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956703782064165353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6474499271310293630.post-21617797197370708302021-06-06T00:49:00.002-07:002021-06-06T00:49:59.970-07:00NEVER FORGIVE... 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NEVER AGAIN....<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>LINKED FOREVER </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>IN SPACE-TIME AND HISTORY</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifK0-Yt4s8NMMzRJTaBOsoVwqFTwdS0a1hZE2XglAw6btNGc9RwigGbuAPmBMxrly1NA4GVtaLEfiOx6qjRaAjWWc3EaaPakfXJrhMGILyCuO4acESvGD4flAA0xdX9zYYAGfYtg4x_4Q/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="991" data-original-width="1225" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifK0-Yt4s8NMMzRJTaBOsoVwqFTwdS0a1hZE2XglAw6btNGc9RwigGbuAPmBMxrly1NA4GVtaLEfiOx6qjRaAjWWc3EaaPakfXJrhMGILyCuO4acESvGD4flAA0xdX9zYYAGfYtg4x_4Q/" width="297" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>ABIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956703782064165353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6474499271310293630.post-84269137422660030382021-05-26T17:36:00.007-07:002021-05-26T19:33:52.797-07:00IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE...? BEYOND ANTI-SEMITISM: WHAT COMES FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD TO MAKE WAR ON THE U.S.A.<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>IF YOU THINK THE STEADY INCREASE OF ANTI-JEWISH VIOLENCE IS 'MERELY' ABOUT ANTI-SEMITISM</b></span>, <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>THEN THINK AGAIN... THE JIHAD (HOLY WAR OF ISLAM) HAS ALREADY COME FOR YOU... AND THE JIHAD WANTS YOU TO THINK THAT EVERYTHING WILL BE WONDERFUL, IF YOU JUST HELP THEM TO EXTERMINATE JEWS.</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>And if this already sounds familiar, it should indeed sound familiar, as both right-wing and left-wing hatred of Jews is just the beginning of totalitarian manifestations such as Chinese totalitarianism (it is illegal to practice Judaism in China or to practice many other religions in communist China), Soviet totalitarianism (it was illegal to practice Judaism and other religions in the USSR), NAZI totalitarianism (Jews were murdered almost to extinction in NAZI Europe, as were many others), and many other similar totalitarian cultural/political/military manifestations of totalitarianism. <br /></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>If the photos in this post call to mind any historical knowledge you already possess, such as knowledge of Kristallnacht in the time of NAZI Germany, please keep in mind that the meaning behind "Free Palestine" (the current Jihadist euphemism for "annihilate Israel") is that in seeking to eliminate Israel, the Muslim Jihad seeks to eliminate not only Israel, which it labels the "Little Satan"; but, the Muslim Jihad seeks to eliminate the USA, which it labels the "Big Satan". The Muslim Jihad already thinks of Europe as 'Eurabia'. Please keep in mind that the Muslim Jihad allied itself with the NAZI movement during WW2 and dined with Adolf Hitler.<br /></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Just in case you haven't understood the gravity of what we are seeing on the streets in the USA and around the world today, we are seeing organized terrorism against every value of freedom and democracy, and the greatest tool in the exercise of Jihadist terrorism is democracy itself, beginning with the abuse of free speech in order to silence those, who would 'blaspheme' Islam; and that abuse begins with the abuse of Jews, who are an outspoken people against oppression and oppressors. Neither the living nor the dead are sacred to the Muslim Jihad, and the Muslim Jihad has taken it to the streets of the world including right here in the USA.<br /></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Today organized Muslim Jihadists attack Jews... but, they also attack Christians, other Muslims, and anyone unwilling to bow down to their totalitarian demands. When you see the flag of Israel burning or a Jew being beaten or Jewish cemeteries desecrated, you are also seeing the past, present, and future of the Jihadist program for everyone, Jewish or not Jewish. The Muslim Jihad respects neither the living nor the dead.<br /></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>NYC, LA, Baltimore, DC, Chicago, Philadelphia, London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Jerusalem... all are targets of deliberate, organized Muslim Jihadism. Today the Israeli Flag burns... tomorrow, the American Flag burns... and all of this is delivered to us most recently on the anniversary of Al-Naqba ("The Catastrophe" of the creation of modern Israel) by the Muslim Jihad, which this year occurred essentially simultaneously to the Muslim holiday of Eid on the conclusions of Ramada, the Christian holiday of Pentacle Sunday (a Christian recognition of the Feast of Weeks), and Shavuos (referred to in English as the Feast of Weeks, when Jews celebrate the giving of the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, as well as the enjoyment of First Fruits of the first harvest in the Holy Land).<br /></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Alexander Pope famously wrote, "No man is an island unto himself.... never ask for whom the bell tolls... it tolls for thee." In the Torah is written the commandment that Jews must eliminate the "remembrance of Amalek". Today the mission falls upon Jews and Israel to warn the world of Amalek, which we suffer today as Muslim Jihad.</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>President Lincoln famously wrote in his 1862 Annual Message to Congress -- Concluding Remarks, "We cannot escape history...". </b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>One year later at Gettysburg, President Lincoln famously said</b><span style="color: #000099;">, "</span><b>It
is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us --
that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for
which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve
that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall
have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people,
for the people, shall not perish from the earth."</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>In 1814 Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner:</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span><b>O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,<br />
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,<br />
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,<br />
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?<br />
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,<br />
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;<br />
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave<br />
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkoWFuUO1U-p5C9SyT_8b-eGNydxKYnqxFAxdY9uLsPz_699HnukkYYbi19cwmWhrVI8ZuZk00t6_KwdhG07z12km1Sboskhc3S8xToLQ70QXdEkgcXHMViIXvI96tleVncGSHs0g-P6w/s1876/GAS+THE+JEWS.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1010" data-original-width="1876" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkoWFuUO1U-p5C9SyT_8b-eGNydxKYnqxFAxdY9uLsPz_699HnukkYYbi19cwmWhrVI8ZuZk00t6_KwdhG07z12km1Sboskhc3S8xToLQ70QXdEkgcXHMViIXvI96tleVncGSHs0g-P6w/w400-h215/GAS+THE+JEWS.png" width="400" /></a></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghTkfOZsAzAML2VErMJidT21p8ULnhtqX6h4LxRRnKB0LmSYBHq2Q5St_OMj-WrAJYhxGvhiNkP6CLg_qlOckDYqcDpVL1aet6H6Emzs2gGR9PF0ZDoFmnIncsg51SUkjWxYoiqCyQQM4/s1066/BURN+ISRAELI+FLAG.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1052" data-original-width="1066" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghTkfOZsAzAML2VErMJidT21p8ULnhtqX6h4LxRRnKB0LmSYBHq2Q5St_OMj-WrAJYhxGvhiNkP6CLg_qlOckDYqcDpVL1aet6H6Emzs2gGR9PF0ZDoFmnIncsg51SUkjWxYoiqCyQQM4/s320/BURN+ISRAELI+FLAG.png" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPnjRXhK1joG_Y2hirQkNvLEzIoAjMLMEY0St9wrf6F_vFOkKhZDdxdk07e1DgTIIaGu9WMLLMYsYl65XlohgI0QVbwZzvImqYyG5qdT5kwL5QohvJHRqf5VNi7GIbNSTP9Vpi-uGQdnQ/s800/webRNS-CEMETERY-MUSLIMSa-022217.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPnjRXhK1joG_Y2hirQkNvLEzIoAjMLMEY0St9wrf6F_vFOkKhZDdxdk07e1DgTIIaGu9WMLLMYsYl65XlohgI0QVbwZzvImqYyG5qdT5kwL5QohvJHRqf5VNi7GIbNSTP9Vpi-uGQdnQ/s320/webRNS-CEMETERY-MUSLIMSa-022217.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /> </b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYuk9B8TWo-Kw4mk2xVDKD-O5h0hEOnO8EHRT4wLwCW3vvgvD9I17QOgsvNSCJwYxMQEdFZhEw501qZvo7bIjepoSTaFKf-cBe9Qdi2lBrBM2-PtH9mVRCTc1UeoHXpwe9pRBGFvXXuSk/s1115/OK+ANTI+-+SEMITIC.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1097" data-original-width="1115" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYuk9B8TWo-Kw4mk2xVDKD-O5h0hEOnO8EHRT4wLwCW3vvgvD9I17QOgsvNSCJwYxMQEdFZhEw501qZvo7bIjepoSTaFKf-cBe9Qdi2lBrBM2-PtH9mVRCTc1UeoHXpwe9pRBGFvXXuSk/s320/OK+ANTI+-+SEMITIC.png" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /> </b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><br /></span><p></p>ABIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956703782064165353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6474499271310293630.post-82866819143130373402021-05-23T13:51:00.001-07:002021-05-23T13:51:29.202-07:00WHO WON THE WAR <p style="text-align: left;"><b>Backgammon versus Monopoly and "Wooden Ships"</b><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">For two-days now it seems that the ceasefire that Egypt brokered between Israel and Hamas/Islamic Jihad has held. The result has neither achieved mutually assured destruction nor victory for anyone, although at least one commentator has suggested that the result has been a "win-win" for both sides. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ORTOX-P0T8></i></b></p><p style="text-align: left;">For the Arabs the game of life is Backgammon; for the Israelis the game of life is Monopoly. If there is any winner, it can only be the creators of games... perhaps there is a new game that may make sense for today's world of the global internet? Can actual war be transcended in favor of virtual war? Can real destruction be avoided and prevented? Real life is not holographic -- yet -- and losses and gains have consequences on the ground, below the ground, in the air, in the sea, and now even in space beyond Earth's atmosphere. Our planet and it's resources shrink, and oligarchies rule everywhere, by whatever names they choose to market their oligarchies. Today we live in a world of "Divine Right of Oligarchy", though we may religiously, philosophically, dogmatically insist on Right according to God, Democracy, Republicanism, Communism, Capitalism, Tribalism... and all the while we keep chasing and eating our tails.... Such is our nourishment today!!!<b> </b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">So... </span></b><i> </i><b>who<i> </i>won the<i> </i>recent war between Gaza and Israel... anyone...?</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O69L2mO9y-4></i></p><p><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw-Z5C4SSDGWBHXoiYGHQk0321jzV3PtB0JTmCK3c0qkxQGcDpaoNVgIJRyhhNPJiXkS1cUYIAc7n0BdZmGHedBbtgOQcz5Aob1SBIIQBSpqInjgqAwWvafddB_nGSGPRfYUM3zmhyjZU/s905/WOODEN+SHIPS+IMG.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="776" data-original-width="905" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw-Z5C4SSDGWBHXoiYGHQk0321jzV3PtB0JTmCK3c0qkxQGcDpaoNVgIJRyhhNPJiXkS1cUYIAc7n0BdZmGHedBbtgOQcz5Aob1SBIIQBSpqInjgqAwWvafddB_nGSGPRfYUM3zmhyjZU/s320/WOODEN+SHIPS+IMG.png" width="320" /></a></i></div><i><br /></i><p></p><div class="TzHB6b cLjAic" data-hveid="CAwQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjR-Ln7zODwAhWOiuAKHbWsBgIQ1IgCKAB6BAgMEAA" style="text-align: center;"><div class="sATSHe"><div><div class="LuVEUc B03h3d P6OZi V14nKc ptcLIOszQJu__wholepage-card wp-ms" data-hveid="CAwQAQ"><div class="UDZeY OTFaAf"><div class="wDYxhc NFQFxe" data-md="35" data-ved="2ahUKEwjR-Ln7zODwAhWOiuAKHbWsBgIQkCkwAHoECAIQAA" lang="en-US"><div class="PhiYYd RdksUd QBl4oe" data-hveid="CAIQAQ" data-ved="2ahUKEwjR-Ln7zODwAhWOiuAKHbWsBgIQuykoADAAegQIAhAB"><div class="ujudUb"><span>If you smile at me, I will understand</span><br /><span>'Cause that is something </span><br /><span>Everybody everywhere does in the same language</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="TzHB6b cLjAic LMRCfc" data-hveid="CAsQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjR-Ln7zODwAhWOiuAKHbWsBgIQy9oBKAB6BAgLEAA" style="text-align: center;"><div class="sATSHe"><div><div class="LuVEUc B03h3d P6OZi V14nKc ptcLIOszQJu__wholepage-card wp-ms" data-hveid="CAsQAQ"><div class="UDZeY OTFaAf"><div class="wDYxhc NFQFxe" data-attrid="kc:/music/recording_cluster:lyrics" data-md="113" lang="en-US" style="clear: none;"><div data-hveid="CAYQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjR-Ln7zODwAhWOiuAKHbWsBgIQsEwwAnoECAYQAA"><div><div class="Oh5wg"><div class="PZPZlf" data-lyricid="Lyricfind002-1334537"><span><div class="ujudUb"><span>I can see by your coat, my friend</span><br /><span>You're from the other side</span><br /><span>There's just one thing I got to know</span><br /><span>Can you tell me please, who won?</span></div><div class="ujudUb"><span>Say, can I have some of your purple berries?</span><br /><span>Yes, I've been eating them for six or seven weeks now</span><br /><span>Haven't got sick once</span><br /><span>Probably keep us both alive</span></div><div class="ujudUb"><span>Wooden ships on the water, very free and easy</span><br /><span>Easy, you know the way it's supposed to be</span><br /><span>Silver people on the shoreline, let us be</span><br /><span>Talkin' 'bout very free and easy</span></div><div class="ujudUb"><span>Horror grips us as we watch you die</span><br /><span>All we can do is echo your anguished cries</span><br /><span>Stare as all human feelings die</span><br /><span>We are leaving, you don't need us</span></div><div class="ujudUb"><span>Go, take your sister then, by the hand</span><br /><span>Lead her away from this foreign land</span><br /><span>Far away, where we might laugh again</span><br /><span>We are leaving, you don't need us</span></div><div class="ujudUb WRZytc"><span>And it's a fair wind blowin' warm</span><br /><span>Out of the south over my shoulder</span><br /><span>Guess I'll set a course and go....</span></div><div class="ujudUb WRZytc"><span> </span></div></span></div><div class="j04ED">Source: <a data-ved="2ahUKEwjR-Ln7zODwAhWOiuAKHbWsBgIQ5s4FMAJ6BAgGEAY" href="https://www.lyricfind.com/">LyricFind</a></div><span><div class="auw0zb">Songwriters: David Crosby / Stephen Stills / Paul Kantner</div><div class="auw0zb">Wooden Ships lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, </div><div class="auw0zb">Wixen Music Publishing, BMG Rights Management</div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>ABIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956703782064165353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6474499271310293630.post-5039750146693297002020-12-11T00:55:00.003-08:002020-12-20T15:45:53.938-08:00Q: WHAT DO "BREXIT" AND THE "ABRAHAM ACCORDS" HAVE IN COMMON?<p><b>A: BORDER ISSUES, SOVEREIGNTY ISSUES, TRADE ISSUES, CULTURAL ISSUES, EXISTENTIAL
ISSUES... ALL OF THESE ISSUES IN THE CONTEXT OF AN AMERICAN POLITICAL TRANSITION TO A
BIDEN/HARRIS ADMINISTRATION AND THEREFORE TO ALL THAT SUCH A TRANSITION MAY MEAN IN TERMS OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE, ALIGNMENTS OF SOVEREIGNTY, CULTURE, POWER, AND EXISTENCE.</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijYIgb4vYrNDFjYQiyTISBN6mMT139Et4IlB8LQmQH63g9pEhePwPjbb7Q_wskmwUzQxUiTQNifq-xaSlC0X5dmebh_oXiD47u7hszJ0fG3tyHj1U3RaZwICUQcgKCJ4p5Vv4fzZvdxeQ/s1266/BREXIT+-+ABRAHAM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="893" data-original-width="1266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijYIgb4vYrNDFjYQiyTISBN6mMT139Et4IlB8LQmQH63g9pEhePwPjbb7Q_wskmwUzQxUiTQNifq-xaSlC0X5dmebh_oXiD47u7hszJ0fG3tyHj1U3RaZwICUQcgKCJ4p5Vv4fzZvdxeQ/s320/BREXIT+-+ABRAHAM.png" width="320" /></a></b></div><b><br /> </b> <p></p><p> </p><p>Modern American History (that is, the history of the North American and South American Continents commencing with the European Invasions of the Americas) is perhaps defined by the recent period of seven-centuries since the "discovery" of the New World by Non-Native Americans. </p><p>This reality stands in marked contrast to the familiarity of the European, African, Indian, and Asian Continents with each other, having engaged each other for thousands of years in every kind of human relationship possible (e.g. culture, politics, trade, war, etc.).</p><p>While Israel (in and out of power and sovereignty) has been at the center of the Middle East for greater than three-thousand years, the North Atlantic Island Nations of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland (most recently by those names, and with significant variations of culture and nations) have been central to the North Atlantic and therefore to Europe and Scandinavia, also for thousands of years. <br /></p><p>The North Atlantic Island Nations and Israel have in common their central roles in culture and trade as well as war and politics. The historic Silk Road connecting China and Southeast Asia to Central Asia, India, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe consisted of many river, land, and sea routes; the New Silk Road seeks to modernize the historic Silk Road, representing a return of power from Europe to China.</p><p>It should surprise no one that the North Atlantic Island Nations and Israel are both at the stress centers<b> </b>of shifting power alliances. Peoples with far more in common than naught are caught up in webs of power politics extending far into the past, and those webs of power politics are being fought in the New World today, even as those battles rage in the Old World.</p><p>At risk in the present are two distinct possibilities: that the peace existing between Ireland and England may be undone, and that the budding peace between Israel and multiple Arab nations may be undone.</p><p>Far more than the COVID-19 Pandemic, it is economic inequality, food inequality, healthcare inequality, racial inequity, and environmental disasters and destruction that will define the Biden/Harris Administration, such that the reputation of the New Administration may depend as precursor upon the foundations and consequences of foreign policy (which is not to say that the domestic issues are trivial; but, that the New Administration's focus, attention, and budgetary concerns dare not be so radicalized or reversed as to rip focus, attention, and budgetary concerns away from the present historical foreign policy achievements and advances of the Trump Administration.</p><p>When Joe Biden says, "America's back," chills should race up and down our spines, much like the chills that once again run up and down the spines of the two Irelands and Israel. The imminent "hard and soft borders" (or, 'spine') dividing Ireland from Northern Ireland and therefore Britain is analogous to the 1967 "hard and soft borders" ('spine') dividing the various Arabias from Israel. </p><p>Perhaps the Abraham Accords have something to teach Britain and Europe about a way forward beyond the stuck politics that the present EU-England negotiations suffer; perhaps Israel can assist the two Irelands and England to create a solution that will work for Ireland, Scotland, England and the EU; and perhaps in doing so, then the Abraham Accords may additionally be strengthened by lessons learned from the two Irelands and Britain.<br /></p><p>Given that Joe Biden is himself Irish, there is an opportunity for
Israel and the two Irelands to work together through Joe Biden, perhaps
according to the working model of the Abraham Accords, to encourage the
further growth of peace simultaneously in the North Atlantic and in the Middle East. Success at these two central geopolitical faults may do much to ripple outwardly and generate equilibrium internationally all the way to the South China Sea.<br /></p><p><b><br /></b></p>ABIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956703782064165353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6474499271310293630.post-41130139108212802502020-12-05T19:11:00.011-08:002020-12-05T19:47:41.464-08:00PRESIDENT-ELECT BIDEN SHOULD SEEK TO SERVE THE U.S.A. IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON.<p><b> </b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>It is urgent and necessary that President-elect Biden speak clearly and forcefully that he will neither weaken, nor roll back, and will in fact strengthen and advance the Middle East peace initiatives set in motion by the Trump Administration.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></p><p><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfq8Jw96TtcBoNDuq9FLp5HbsBbXsJbcfDbqvIxvCQ9Sd35dEUTf5Ozuq6qoBulcKt3QrYagzR5eXzJmYNnT6oAsLXLcbcDGVhg1Y6ybhsFFCedFYb-J53MBLmMCiV2p001W2M1SHRsWI/s1883/GW+-+YARN+-+BidenCat.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="718" data-original-width="1883" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfq8Jw96TtcBoNDuq9FLp5HbsBbXsJbcfDbqvIxvCQ9Sd35dEUTf5Ozuq6qoBulcKt3QrYagzR5eXzJmYNnT6oAsLXLcbcDGVhg1Y6ybhsFFCedFYb-J53MBLmMCiV2p001W2M1SHRsWI/s320/GW+-+YARN+-+BidenCat.png" width="320" /></a></span></b></div><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /> </span></b><p></p><p><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: medium;">Given present equivocations by Sudan, Bahrain, Jordan, and given instability in hardline Iran, the momentum to Middle East peace initiated by the Trump Administration is under threat to collapse, for Arabia may anticipate that a President Biden may intend to kow-tow to the European Union, Iran, and China.</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="p2"><span style="font-size: medium;">A transfer of power is already reality in Iran from father Mullah Khameini to son. Transition politics in Iran may or may not destabilize Iran, for better or for worse.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> M</span>eanwhile, Bahrain is feeling pressure from the world of fundamentalist Islamism, as indeed are any and all Muslim and EU nations on the verge of peaceful relations with the USA and Israel, due to the new<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>potential US weakness regarding Iran that may unravel the growing tapestry of peace being woven across the world of Sunni Islam (and even Alawi Islam) with a thread binding the US and Israel (and inevitably the EU).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> Shall P</span>resident Biden be like a cat granted privilege to play with a ball of yarn? Or, shall President Biden follow the model leadership of a George Washington?</span></p><p class="p2"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: medium;">There are only four reasons for a Biden Administration to deliberately fail to uphold and to strengthen the Middle East foreign policy initiatives of the Trump Administration: </span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: medium;">(a) if Biden's Administration is deliberately incompetent; </span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: medium;">(b) if Biden's foreign policy approach proves to be based on appeasement and conciliation; </span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: medium;">(c) if Biden's foreign policy approach proves to be based on financial dealings and obligations to his supporters and donors; or, </span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="p1"><span style="font-size: medium;">(d) any and all of the above.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="p1"><span style="font-size: medium;">In less kind words: it may well be that President-elect Biden is in bed with the enemy and is perhaps also in the pocket of the enemy.</span></p><p class="p1"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="p2"><span style="font-size: medium;">There are two very good reasons for a Biden Administration to speak out now to reassure the world that he will neither unravel nor fail to continue to weave the Middle East peace tapestry sewn by the Trump Administration: </span></p><p class="p2"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="p2"><span style="font-size: medium;">(1) it is necessary for the stability and progress of the Middle East and therefore of the entire World, as the Middle East is the fulcrum of four major continents (Europe, Africa, India, and Asia); and, </span></p><p class="p2"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="p2"><span style="font-size: medium;">(b) it is necessary for the stability and progress of the USA, as the USA is the fulcrum of the North and South American continents.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="p2"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: medium;">J</span><span style="font-size: medium;">ust as the USA faces the domestic crises of pandemic, economic inequality, racial hatred, and climate change, so, too, does the entire World. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="p2"><span style="font-size: medium;">Knowing what we now know of history prior to World War Two, could we and would we in the US try Woodrow Wilson for treason, based on the destructive and portentious reality of the Versailles Treaty? And could and would Britain try Lord Chamberlain for treason, due to his appeasement of the Nazis?</span></p><p class="p2"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="p2"><span style="font-size: medium;">What will future history say of the yet tentative Biden Administration?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> W</span>ill President Biden prove to be a Woodrow Wilson/Lord Chamberlain?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> O</span>r, will President Biden prove to be a George Washington?</span></p><p class="p2"><br /></p><p class="p2"></p><p class="p2"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinXOpb-ZTaAvk3wyvFqIzSEawCLQvVAtr7x_kSJXXVqigMXbT3gc337GdFxbUGBasn8WvE8dPUAcbbIuP7Aqc8PkOTLKPbw3nnZ0jvogUWc5wAfewCgZxMy2Tn2QyscuiNiI-HK-W1VFo/s1883/GW+-+YARN+-+BidenCat.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="718" data-original-width="1883" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinXOpb-ZTaAvk3wyvFqIzSEawCLQvVAtr7x_kSJXXVqigMXbT3gc337GdFxbUGBasn8WvE8dPUAcbbIuP7Aqc8PkOTLKPbw3nnZ0jvogUWc5wAfewCgZxMy2Tn2QyscuiNiI-HK-W1VFo/s320/GW+-+YARN+-+BidenCat.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /><span class="s1"></span></p><p></p>ABIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956703782064165353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6474499271310293630.post-29883964509700071722020-08-26T08:01:00.016-07:002020-08-26T09:04:41.524-07:00CONSIDER THE ISRAEL-U.A.E. "ABRAHAM ACCORD" IN CONTEXT TO IMPERATIVES OF NATIONAL MANIFEST DESTINY.<p><b> </b></p><p><b>Every nation believes itself to have a manifest destiny -- even a God-given manifest destiny. <br /></b></p><p>Nowhere in the world as in the Middle East do we see the conflicts and competitions between national manifest destinies as we see in and around Israel, which sits at the fulcrum between the three continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa. (Although India is itself a unique continent, being contiguous to Asia, India may to some extent be regarded as an extension of Asia and therefore of the third continent.) In religious terms those conflicts include Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Atheism.</p><p><b>Fundamental to the most extreme visions of each of these manifest destinies is the axiomatic devotion and commitment to imperial class status; therefore any sustainable solution to these conflicts requires the acceptance of a principle that appears anathema to each unique vision of manifest destiny; and, that principle is: respect and recognition of international political equality among nations. </b></p><p> Until the creation of the Modern Jewish State of Israel in 1948, Jews have been subjugated internationally, most notably by dominions of Christianity and Islam. To those given to apocalyptic thinking, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism regard the existence of today's Israel as imminent to the End of Days, according to which is anticipated the Second Coming of Christ, the Appearance of the Mahdi, or the Arrival of Moshiach-Moshichay, respectively. Correlatively and imminently, the apocalyptic mind makes ready for the onset of Armageddon, that cataclysmic war in which the deserving dead will arise and live once again, flesh growing upon flesh upon bone, jumping out of graves, Armies of Heaven prophecied to defeat Worldly Evil once and for all Eternity.</p><p>Never mind that in answer to the question, "When will you return...?", Jesus replied "Only the Father [God Himself] knows..." (Sermon on the Mount). Never mind, too, that both Judaism and Islam caution that anyone claiming to be the Moshiach-Moshichay or the Mahdi, respectively, must fulfill certain conditions that have yet to be fulfilled, rendering as false any claims to such Heavenly Messianic Status. </p><p>It may be said that in the USA approximately half of the population perceives President Donald John Trump in messianic terms and that former President Barack Hussein Obama was perceived in messianic terms by the alternate half of the US population. "Hussein" is a name that indicates the possibility that former President Obama may be a direct descendant of Muhammad. "John" is a name that stands out in Christianity, not least in the lyric of the gospel song "I Wanna Be Ready" ["... to walk in Jerusalem, just like John"]. On the one hand one must be careful not to read to much into names or to interpret the facts on the ground according to metaphor; on the other hand one ignores such things at one's peril, as they may have cultural, political, and religious significance in the minds of millions of persons.</p><p>Only a fool would deny the messianic importance of Vladimir Putin to Russia... only a fool would deny the messianic importance of Tayyip Erdogan to Turkey... only a fool would deny the messianic importance of Kim Jong Un to North Korea... only a fool would deny the messianic importance of Xi Jinping to China... only a fool would deny the messianic importance of Rodrigo Duterte to the Philippines... etc. (But, we do live in a world of fools, don't?)</p><p><b>Any lasting peace agreement(s) in the Middle East must be based on the fundamental requirement that the religious manifest destiny visions of the conflicting nations be factored into account. This is necessary in order to transform the present conflicts into healthy competitions. All too often the word "competition" is misused, where "conflict" ought to be the correct word, as the word "competition" means "to strive together" and "conflict" means "to contend, fight, struggle". This means that the (ideally) competing nations must respect each other's sense of manifest destiny, and this respect must be defined both within nations and across borders.</b></p><p>No respect of Israel's sense of manifest destiny may include promulgation of "Dhimmitude" status and the repression, oppression, and persecution of Jews that is inimical to Islam or for that matter to Christian equivalents. Nor can any similar status be promulgated by Jews against Arabs, etc. It is possible within borders to establish a special status for foreigners so that foreigners may live and thrive within the borders of a dominant culture and not be repressed, oppressed, or persecuted. And it should be possible for the Arabs and for the entire world of Muslims and Christians and Jews to understand that no human being speaks absolutely for God. That being so, borders must be recognized and accepted, so that each nation may express it's own sense of manifest destiny and not yet impose any unique vision upon the other similarly unique visions. For example, Arabs ['Palestinians'] accepting and preferring to live in Israel [inclusive of Golan, Judea-Samaria, and Jerusalem] ought to be able to do so, having a preferred status that is however exclusive of Israeli Citizenship.<br /></p><p>As to definitions of borders, reality must be recognized. The <i>de facto</i> borders of Israel are those areas already under Israel's political and military hegemony, which for the good of everyone should be accepted as <i>de jure</i>, irregardless of propaganda, political posturing, biased and invalid decision-making by the ICJ, and one-sided resolutions against Israel at the UN.</p><p><b>There is absolutely every reason -- religious, philosophical, and political -- for the Muslim world to adopt a religious posture that is protective of the State of Israel as a manifestation of the People of the Book, protection of which People is required by Islam. As Christians are also regarded by Islam as People of the Book, there must be an end to Muslim persecution of Christians. And, by extension, there must be a universal end to persecution of any faith group by any other faith group; secular influences not withstanding, it is not incorrect to regard Western Culture as Christian Culture, Eastern Culture as Muslim Culture, and Israeli Culture as Jewish Culture. </b></p><p><b>The "Abraham Accord" gives promise to a possible future of Middle East Peace. Yet, it will succeed, if and only if religious commonality between Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, being Abrahamic Faiths, provides a basis for the respect and recognition of international political equality among nations. </b><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>ABIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956703782064165353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6474499271310293630.post-32743361233689459502020-07-24T10:34:00.000-07:002020-07-26T02:26:59.733-07:00TO BE FAIR...<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: , , , ".sfnstext-regular" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">To be fair to the various theocracies of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and their secular counterparts... Each has significant humble populations that do not presume to an imminent expectation of the Ultimate Salvation. Judaism anticipates that before the remnant of Israel is redeemed to Zion as the Ultimate Redemption, Jewish exile may extend to the farthest reaches of the universe; yet, this does not necessarily preclude the day to day expansions and contractions of sovereignty over mundane life. Christianity teaches that "Only The Father Knows, when Jesus will return (Sermon on the Mount)." Islam teaches that when the Mahdi will appear, the coming of Jesus will then also be known, as well as the Day of Judgment; and, until then, nobody knows. This common humbleness regarding Ultimate Redemption is the root hope for all humanity, springing as it does from the same tree of life, speaking of God, yet presuming (at least some of the time) not to be God's mouthpiece and not to dictate God's terms, valuing the right to life of all people and all Peoples.</span>ABIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956703782064165353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6474499271310293630.post-58081002887521333762020-07-24T04:32:00.000-07:002020-07-24T04:32:14.730-07:00THE CYNIC IN ME SAYS...EVERYBODY LOVES A FOOD FIGHT... AND SO THE ONLY MOVEMENT WE SHALL SEE SHALL BE SUCH MOVEMENT AS MAKES FOR A GOOD FOOD FIGHT... MEANWHILE, THE VAST MAJORITY WILL CONTINUE TO BE STUNNED AND STUPIFIED... ULTIMATELY THE SURVIVORS WILL PICK UP THE PIECES... SOME WILL BE HAPPY FOR THE WORK... SOME WILL SAY, "WOW... WASN'T THAT A FOOD FIGHT TO BEAT ALL FOOD FIGHTS,"... SOME WILL BE UNHAPPY AND CONDEMN THE FOOD FIGHTERS... AND SOME WILL GET INTO THE NEXT FOOD FIGHT, WHICH REALLY IS THE CONTINUATION OF THE ONE ETERNAL FOOD FIGHT... SO I ASK THE ULTIMATE QUESTION... "PIZZA, ANYONE???"ABIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956703782064165353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6474499271310293630.post-65023134219566295382020-07-24T03:15:00.000-07:002020-07-26T02:25:27.215-07:00BEINART'S EQUIVOCAL REVELATION<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="96gmo" data-offset-key="f7dlu-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span data-offset-key="blr06-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The guts of the Jewish Left Wing are so twisted and so contorted that the Left Wing does not know one end from the other, only that a purging and purification is required and inevitable. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">There is nothing new in Beinart's ideal of a democratic Israel-Palestine, as it harkens back to the competitive days contemporary to the early formation of the modern State of Israel and of the differing concepts of Zionism, when the Left Wing sought to create a combined Arab-Jewish Palestinian State along Marxist ideals. Events such as numerous wars and terrorism, bent on the annihilation of Jews and Israel, have made a reductio-as-absurdum of such an ideal. In Beinart's article one perceives the writhing and perhaps even the last throes of a Left Wing recognition and acceptance of the death of their ideal. The death of any ideal and an awakening to reality is always preceded by denial and by great intellectual and emotional angst. The glimmer of light in Beinart's 'revelation' is in the acceptance, however terrifyingly equivocal, of the inevitability of One State. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Beinart gives a Left Wing interpretation of what that State might look like, based on early Left Wing ideals... '"back to the future", if you will. But, that ship sailed, foundered, and sank. In today's world, as Daniel Gordis and Alan Dershowitz articulated so eloquently, so strongly, so intelligently, and so passionately, Beinart's idealistic plan would bring suicide to the Jewish State of Israel and would re-subjugate Jews to foreign domination... [that is, those Jews remaining alive after such a cataclysm, as would be the inevitable consequence of any realization of Beinart's Plan]. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One remembers that the brilliant antisemitic British philosopher Bertrand Russell equated the ideal of a Marxist State as being a secular realization of the Catholic Church. It would be so easy to engage here in a discussion of the historical Western conflict between the Anglican Church, as well as other Protestant forms of Christianity, and the Catholic Church. However, keeping on topic, the majority of Christian religious fundamentals have their common denominator in antisemitism... after all, according to Christianity, the only "Real Jew" was Jesus. As for the rest of us, according to Christianity, we are all impostors, to be validated only by our sacrifice (hence the Christian word "Holocaust", not SHOAH). Our sacrifice is necessary to Christianity for it is Israel's sacrifice, come the "End of Days", that makes the "Second Coming of Jesus" possible and which is why from the Christian perspective a "stump of a stump" of Jews have been kept alive in ghettoes with and without walls, including the ghetto in the Middle East that we know today as the modern State of Israel. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Israel's existence today is a conundrum for both the vociferous Left and the vociferous Right, just as it is a conundrum for the Haredim (may one think of the Naturei Karta as being the Haredi Left and the Lubavitch as the Haredi Right?). Both the Secular Left and the Religious Left respond to the problem of Western [Christian Religious and Christian Secular] domination by tortuous contortions of 'justifications' and 'obligations' found within and without the Torah. The Naturei-Karta would have us do exactly as Beinart would do (would he realy?). Both Beinart and the Naturei Karta offer us what may only be understood in both Christian Religious and Christian Secular terms as The Christian Solution. That consequence would be an Holocaust. Given that the Pope travels the world kissing the feet of Muslims, one must perceive that the Beinart and Naturei Karta Solution does not pass the smell test for a real Jewish person. For the good of both the Christian world and the Muslim world, it is imperative that Israel not succumb to the temptation to enable another Second Holocaust in our time. Just imagine the pain and suffering of the Muslim and Christian worlds, when after such a 'Second Holocaust' there will have appeared no "Mahdi" (the Muslim Messiah) nor the "Second Coming of Jesus". At least the Lubavitch give us another 220-years before the "Arrival of the Moshiach-Moshichay" in the form of Rebbe Menachem Schneerson [Of Blessed Memory]. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So one must give credit to Peter Beinart for his expressed awareness, which is that a "Two-State Solution" is not possible and that a "One State" is inevitable. For one who is Orthodox and utters the Shema on a daily basis, the concepts of ERETZ ECHAD and YERUSHALAYIM ECHAD should not be so hard to grasp. Only HaShem knows, whether or not such words, conceived and spoken as is the Shema, would be spoken as last words. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The challenge facing Israel in our time is to continue the establishing of a Jewish State that is democratic in the context of Torah as the foundation of Law and Life, disallowing cultural 'imprisonment' by Theocratic Politics, while also not vying to fulfill a conception that would make Israel into a 51st State of the USA. Israel is unique. It would be madness to continue efforts towards either a Two-State Solution or an "Israel-Palestine" solution. It would be madness to enable Israeli Citizenship for the Arabs presently living in Judea-Samaria and Gaza. It may be madness to continue Israeli Citizenship for those Arabs and Jews already having citizenship, who are hostile to Israel; and, Arab devotion to "Al-Nakba" is anathema to the existence of the State of Israel. Sanity demands that hostiles be expelled (may they be granted golden parachutes). Sanity demands that such Arabs of Judea-Samaria and Gaza, who are happy to reside in the hegemony of Israel, be granted "Blue Cards" allowing special status and special privilege, but, not citizenship. Sanity demands One Israel and One Jerusalem flying the Israeli Flag from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.</span></div>
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I hope and pray that the Trump Administration will yet walk back the promise to relocate the American Embassy in Jerusalem, and that Congress will ultimately revoke the legislation of twenty-years ago to relocate our Embassy to Jerusalem. I say this, even as I applaud President Trump for recognizing Jerusalem as the capitol city of Jerusalem, and even as I believer that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for doing so. As for the withholding of American funds to the "Palestinians", the US makes a symbolic statement, but, the majority of "Palestinian" funding comes from Muslim nations, most especially Iran and Saudi Arabia and even Egypt and Jordan, and from Europe and [indirectly] from Russia and China. Facts on the ground and a longer term view should preclude relocation of any and all Embassies from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem; but, all nations should recognize Israel's existential right, actual existence, and Jerusalem's undivided status as Israel's capitol city.</div>
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The "Palestinians" would be motivated to come back to the negotiating table, if two major ideas are put forth and acted upon publicly: (1) an offer to revoke American Embassy relocation to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, and (2) an offer to negotiate [a] expansion of Gaza, and [b] paid relocation from the "West Bank" to the new "Gaza State" of any and all "Palestinians" unwilling to live as "permanent residents" within Israeli hegemony (include among the "unwilling" those Arabs deserving of expulsion, be they militant Arab-Israelis or militant "West Bank" Arabs).</div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #783f04; font-size: large;">The above headline from today's BBC appears innocent enough, although the phrase "settler homes" brings with it the implication that for Jews to live in East Jerusalem in protected communities is somehow wrong. This bias is just the icing on the cake of the larger bias represented in the sub-headline, "Israeli authorities have approved a major expansion of a Jewish settlement in occupied East Jerusalem."</span></div>
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ABIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956703782064165353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6474499271310293630.post-67623659147048486222017-02-15T20:11:00.000-08:002017-02-15T20:29:16.024-08:00THE MIDDLE EAST IS KNOWN MORE FOR CAMELS, HORSES, AND DONKEYS THAN IT IS KNOWN FOR ELEPHANTS. <div style="color: #656c7a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">This language of a "demographic problem" stinks to high heaven. It is a divisive and pernicious, racist rhetoric that only serves to play up the animosities between Arabs and Jews, most especially between the Muslim Arabs and Jews.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is not a uniting and socially constructive rhetoric. If anything it calls to mind the "Jewish Problem" that the Nazi's created throughout Europe and sought to solve by annihilating the Jews in what is known in history as "The Holocaust" and which cost the lives of at least six-million Jews and their potential generations of Jewish life, which could not come into existence from their ashes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Anti-Jewish, anti-Israel propaganda seeks to perversely flip that image and create the appearance that "Jews are Nazis", that "Jews practice apartheid" and similar such bizarre interpretations of Israel's treatment of the Arabs of the "West Bank". The darker, greater reality is that the Arabs of the "West Bank" are in large part the tip of the spear of the single-minded Arab war machine, which has sought to annihilate Israel since it's inception circa WW-1 and creation post WW-2. The darker, greater reality is that Arab nations have used the variety of Jihadi terror organizations (Hamas, El Fatah, Hezbollah, Al Quaeda, ISIS, etc.) as training opportunities for Jihadi Wars; who does one think are under those KKK-like hoods that they wear?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Most of the native "Palestinians" left their homes in 1948 to avoid being butchered by invading Arab armies from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and other Arab nations, which invaded to snuff out the post-Holocaust State of Israel and to occupy "Palestine". Praise Heaven, these invading armies lost their war against Israel in 1948 and lost all the subsequent wars of annihilation they fought against Israel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Native "Palestinians" have done well or poorly, depending on where their exile took them. Those, who made it to Europe and America have done relatively well and even very well. Those, who were protected by Israel, became Israeli Citizens and comprise 20% of Israel today.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Those, who settled in refugee camps in Arab countries, often suffered and still do, because the Arab nations that caused them to flee did not and do not want to take responsibility for them, except to use them as pawns in their wars. With the notable exceptions of Egypt and Jordan, most Arab and Muslim States do not recognize Israel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">"At present, a total of 31 United Nations member states do not recognise the State of Israel: 18 of the 21 UN members in the Arab League: Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen; a further 10 members of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brunei, Chad, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Mali, Niger, and Pakistan. Other countries which do not recognise Israel include Bhutan, Cuba, and North Korea.[12] In 2002, the Arab League proposed recognition of Israel by Arab countries as part of the resolution of the Palestine-Israel conflict in the Arab Peace Initiative. 16 of these countries do not accept Israeli passports[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] and eight of these also do not accept passports of other countries whose holder has an Israeli visa endorsed in it.[16][20]" </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">If any apartheid exists, it is a Muslim Apartheid against Jews that exists with it's center in Saudi Arabia and which extends in every direction into Africa, throughout Arabia, into Turkey and Europe and Russia, into Iran and parts of India, into much of Central Asia, into much of China, and into much of Southeast Asia.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">And yet, as the above Wikipedia quote demonstrates, the Arab League has the unmitigated absolute gall to insist that it will only make peace with Israel, contingent on the existence of resolution of the "Palestine-Israel Conflict".</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Respectfully, there is no "Palestine-Israel Conflict". Jews and Arabs of the geography of Israel are by definition altogether Palestinians in that the British and French resurrected the Ancient Roman Conqueror's designation of "Palestine" (actually, Syria-Palestina) for the geography of Israel. In all history there was never a "State of Palestine" and there still is no such State today. So why then are the non-Jews of the "West Bank" (known by history until recently as Judea-Samaria) called "Palestinians" and the Jews and non-Jewish citizens of Israel "Israelis"? This is a story in itself, and I invite everyone to ask themselves this question and think about it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">More importantly, I ask everyone to put away their racism, be it anti-Israeli or anti-Arab, be it anti-Jewish or anti-Muslim or anti-Christian or anti-Druse or anti-Bahai or anti-Hindu or anti-Atheist or anti-Agnostic... whatever your bigotry, put it aside! Take a look at Israel, at Gaza, and at the "Palestinian Authority" (which governs the Arabs in the "West Bank").... In Gaza there is Hamas -- Hamas apartheid and terror against everyone except Hamas. In the "West Bank" there is El Fatah, apartheid against everyone except El Fatah, and terror. In Israel there is freedom for everyone in a Jewish majority democracy... and unfortunately, there is also terror, either because of Arab terror against Israelis due to Jihadi incitement, or due to Israeli terror against Arabs in response to the terror against Israelis.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is every reason that those Arabs, who are not Israeli Citizens and who live in the "West Bank" (Judea-Samaria), should be granted a status of "Resident Alien" -- as long as they are willing to live peacefully in Israel, once Judea-Samaria is properly annexed to Israel. Those, who are unwilling to live peacefully in Israel, have every right to receive compensation and assistance in relocating to any country that would have them; or, they have the right to be deported, as Israel cannot and should tolerate those, who would be terrorists.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Similarly, those Arabs, who are already privileged to live in Israel and have Israeli citizenship, who are unwilling to live peacefully in Israel, should be compensated to relocate or be deported. Israeli citizen or not, those, who celebrate the evil holiday "Al-Nakba" ("The Catastrophe", meaning that the very existence of the Jewish State of Israel is a worldly catastrophe) should be regarded as traitors and/or as enemies of the State of Israel and be summarily deported, no questions asked. Everyone else -- Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Druse, Bahai, Hindu, Atheist, Agnostic, etc. -- may then live in Israel in peace.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is no Israel-Palestine Conflict. There is only an Arab-Israel Conflict, because the Arab League and other Muslim Nations maintain a unified state of war against Israel and use the idea of a "State of Palestine" as pretext for continuation of war against Israel. It is long overdue for the world to set straight the Arab League and all those Nations not recognizing Israel. And it is long overdue for the world to perceive that the "West Bank" is a name jinned-up to create an Arab-style bank of funds for waging war against Israel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">It would be a good thing, should the Arab-Israel Conflict be subject for discussion between Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump, if new light were brought to the political table, which for decades has seen repetition to force the same failed idea of a "Two-State Solution". The very language of the discussion is critical, as there is no "demographic problem", only a need for the Jewish Democratic State of Israel to protect everyone willing to live in peace within it's borders (including Judea-Samaria, and One Jerusalem); and there is a need for the non-Jewish Muslim population of Judea-Samaria to have a special "Resident Alien" status. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">This is not an abnormal reality in the world of democracies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">The American Embassy may stay in Tel Aviv; moving the Embassy is not important and may even become a detrimental sideshow. What is important is One Israel, One Jerusalem, and for everyone to live in peace within Israel's borders, who is willing to live in peace.</span></span></div>
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You still have one week remaining in the office of the American Presidency during which you may yet set things right with Israel by initiating a single phone call to Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu, stating to PM Netanyahu, that the White House shall forthrightly and publicly announce support for Israel, if Israel shall annex Judea-Samaria and grant a non-voting "Resident Alien" status to the Arabs of Judea-Samaria (the West Bank), accomplishing a One-State Solution, which would enable Israel to remain a democratic Jewish State without suffering the demographic hit to the democratic process that full citizenship for hundreds-of-thousands of alien Arabs would mean.<br />
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The White House shall recognize Jerusalem as the united and undivided capitol city of Israel (only of Israel, but, the US Embassy may remain in Tel Aviv); shall support a program of relocation to existing Arab States (of such Palestinian Arabs as may be unwilling to reside in and respect the Jewish State of Israel); and shall support such necessary legal processes (e.g. deportation of terrorists, when and where necessary), as shall realize a peaceful State of Israel.<br />
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Secretary of State John Kerry's "Hail Mary Pass" to the Russians resulted in a successful chemical weapons deal with Assad of Syria; a President Barak Obama initiative to Israel could "Slam Dunk" a One-State Solution by following the simple formula stated above in this Entreaty.<br />
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Mr. President: shall you be the one to choose and underwrite such an initiative, as would honor the entire world with a model and legacy of peace in Israel, that may be replicated throughout the Middle East and perhaps elsewhere, too, in this war-torn, war-weary world? </div>
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ABIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956703782064165353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6474499271310293630.post-47252540776856554812017-01-12T14:06:00.000-08:002017-01-13T03:56:31.268-08:00A COMMENT TO JOHN KERRY REGARDING THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ISRAEL POLICY AND LEGACY<div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">DESPITE the apparent reasonableness of the point of view expressed by SOS Kerry about American Policy regarding Israel, the fact is that he, Samantha Power, Ben Rhodes, and President Obama have either failed to understand the meaning of Israeli independence and Jewish Settlements in Judea-Samaria in the face of monolithic Arab terrorism, or, they have chosen to undermine the State of Israel. At best, the decision by the Obama Administration -- to abstain from the UNSC vote, thereby enabling passage at the UNSC of the anti-Israel Resolution regarding "settlements" -- is a warning shot to Israel, that Israel cannot rely on the USA as a protector.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">SOS Kerry's apparent reasonableness or "plausibility" ought not be taken as expressions of fact nor of correct interpretations of fact; his words should be perceived as a tactic of rhetoric, used in a campaign of propaganda to undermine an opponent, and for the Obama Administration the "opponent" is Israel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">ISRAELI POLICY has for decades quite publicly made clear, that for every act of terror committed against Israel, the consequence will be expansion of Jewish life. There is a continual fiction, that there is an entity of People, who may be known as the "Palestinian People", who have a distinct right to a State (even though there has never been such a People nor such a State in history); this fiction seeks to separate out the "Palestinian People" and to compartmentalize this fictional entity from the existing 400-million population of Arab States surrounding Israel -- States which remain in an official state of war with Israel, States which still deny any peace with Israel since 1948, States which still do not recognize any existential right of the State of Israel. There may have been a moment in time, proximal to the cold peace made between Israel and both Egypt and Jordan subsequent to the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when a window of opportunity may have been imagined to exist for the "Palestinians" to agree to make peace with Israel and thus realize a "State of Palestine" on the "West Bank" (Judea-Samaria). This idea has proved to be a Western illusion, an illusion still maintained everywhere but in Israel, where the daily struggle for life and death does not allow for such an illusion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">IT IS LONG PAST DUE for the West to properly frame the Arab-Israeli Conflict as a conflict inclusive of the "Palestinians" (Palestinian Arabs). It is long past due for the West to properly understand the "Palestinians" -- in rhetoric and on the ground -- as the tip of the spear of Arab aggression against Jews and Israel, an aggression maintained for more than a hundred-years with one goal in mind: the annihilation of Israel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">AND A QUESTION MUST BE ASKED: Should Egypt be held accountable for it's authorship of the recent anti-Israel UNSC Resolution? Or, should the Obama Administration be held responsible for failing to veto that UNSC Resolution? On the face of it, all those States voting unanimously in favor of the anti-Israel UNSC Resolution should be held accountable; yet, in the world of realpolitik, every one of those nations -- including Egypt -- faces the extortion and terrorism of Jihadism on their own soil every day far in excess of anything the USA faces; so,it is not unreasonable to think that every one of those nations -- especially Egypt -- never in wildest dreams expected that the USA would fail to veto.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">NOW, there is all kind of conspiracy theorizing going on about who may have orchestrated the UNSC vote. In fact IAN BREMMER suggested such a probability on the Charlie Rose Show only a month or two ago, when he said that the Obama Administration could vote against Israel in the UNSC (and, the abstention that actually occurred is tantamount to a vote against Israel). Sadly, Ian Bremmer was spot on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If the USA moves it's Embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem, which would likely provoke attacks by Arab terrorists in Jerusalem upon the relocated American Embassy (such terror could include an Embassy takeover and occupation, such as occurred in Tehran by Muslim Shiite terrorists during the Carter Administration), then the USA would be obligated to respond directly in Israel on the ground in American self-defense due to Israeli security failure. A move of the American Embassy to Jerusalem, and the likely consequence of terror waged on the US Embassy, is a cocktail that makes for an erruption of violence in Israel that Israel has not seen since the Yom Kippur War (and would likely be far worse, as the wars in Iraq, Syria, and throughout Arabia exemplify).</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">As much as I loathe the Obama decision to abstain from voting at the UNSC, thus allowing passage of the recent UNSC anti-Israel Resolution, I am far more concerned about the "unintended consequences" that may likely result due to an idealistic American Embassy relocation to Jerusalem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I entreat President-Elect Trump to officially recognize, that Jerusalem is Israel's capitol city, that Jerusalem is a singular, united city, and that an undivided City of Jerusalem may only be capitol city to Israel and to no other nation or political entity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">And, I entreat President-Elect Trump that, when he is President, he should maintain the American Embassy in Tel-Aviv; he should not relocate the American Embassy to Jerusalem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">It has often been said that, "The road to hell is paved by good intentions." President-Elect Trump! We should avoid that road to hell....!!!! If even now as President-Elect you were to say and tweet that you have reconsidered the implications of Embassy relocation to Jerusalem and have decided against such a move, then you shall have offered a fig-leaf and an olive-branch, and you shall have removed an obvious provocation to violence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Keep in mind that three Messianic Traditions meet in Israel -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Extremists of these three Traditions presume to know and speak for God and His Messiah, and are ready to bring about Armageddon in our time. These extremists of the three great Western Traditions have given up on This World in favor of the Next World. They would make a giant crater of the Holy Middle East and, then they would fight over ownership of that Holy Crater.</span></div>
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Announcement was made within the past twenty-four hours that President elect Donald Trump will appoint David M. Friedman to the post of Ambassador to Israel. David M. Friedman is a strong advocate of the annexation of Judea-Samaria, Jerusalem as the capitol city of Israel and only of Israel, and of American Embassy relocation to Jerusalem.<br />
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This Blog strongly supports the first two of these goals. Israel is long overdue to annex Judea-Samaria. The World is long overdue to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capitol city and solely as Israel's capitol city. The one objection of this Blog is to the relocation of Embassies to Jerusalem.<br />
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The Jewish People are instructed to be in the world and yet to remain aloof from the world. This is no small obligation before <b>HaShem</b>. The secular, religious, and anti-religious elements of modern day Israel comprise today's State of Israel, which is a democracy and not a theocracy. All of the citizens of Israel bring their present and historic memories to Israel and form the State in dynamic daily life in the context of a sea of Arab States, which still do not recognize Israel's existential right, (with the notable, yet changeable, exceptions of Jordan and Egypt).<br />
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Israel is an humble nation, despite the apparent historical chip on it's shoulder and despite it's cultural bluster, which is often mistaken by the world to be arrogance. The world at large has great trouble accepting a psychologically independent and largely self-sufficient State of Israel. Yet after thousands of years of exile, humiliation, abuse in ghettoes, Inquisition, and Shoah, Israel stands today as a State, recognized in 1949 by the UN.<br />
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In the world of politics and the deal making and power struggles associated with politics, one must always "hope for the best... expect the worst" (Mel Brooks, from "The Twelve Chairs"). One only need remember Israel's ceding of the entire Sinai Peninsula back to Egypt to recall the price of a "peace" deal. The complete return of the Sinai to Egypt resulted in the assassination of Anwar Sadat and a cold peace with Egypt and later Jordan; ceding the Sinai set the precedent that the Arabs expect to have their cous-cous and eat it too, namely, that they may terrorize and seek to annihilate Israel at no ultimate cost to their territorial hegemony. <br />
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The past 60-years since the assassination of Sadat have seen the murderous bombings of the French and American Barracks in Lebanon, the Lebanese Civil War resulting in the assassinations of Bashir Gemayel and Rafik Hariri, Hezbollah domination of Lebanon, the Oslo Accords (may those Accords turn over <i>ad infinitum</i> in their "grave"), the assassination of Yitzchak Rabin, several Intifadas, including the present Intifada and deliberate forest fires, several wars in Lebanon and Gaza, relentless missile attacks into southern Israel from Gaza, unending terrorist attacks from the geographies of Lebanon, Syria, Arab-occupied Judea-Samaria and Gaza, and then also the propaganda campaigns that have pitted the United Nations, the International Court of Justice, and much of world opinion against Israel, most recently in the form of the Boycott, Divestitures, and Sanctions movement. One must not exclude as well the foolhardy unilateral Israeli "disengagement" from Gaza, which gave only one blessing -- the proof <i>reductio ad absurdum</i> that "disengagement" is an oxymoron with real world consequences, such as the destruction of homes and communities, the displacement of thousands, and the handing over of territorial hegemony to an enemy, whose only motivation is, was, and always will be the annihilation of Israel.<br />
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As the precedents for such an history was set by (1) the failure of Israel to annex Judea-Samaria in 1967 after the success of the Six-Day War, (2) the acceptance in principle of the idea of a Two-State Solution and the Oslo Accords, (3) the return in it's entirety of the Sinai to Egypt, (4) the "disengagement" from Gaza, (5) the freeing of thousands of terrorists from their Israeli prison cells, and (6) failure at the UN to prevent the propaganda of Arab Terrorists from becoming resolution after resolution against Israel; there is now hope (keeping in mind yet to expect the worst) that the tide is turning in Israel's favor and that some happy resolutions of the Arab Israeli Conflict exist now in the air, on the ground, and on "the table".<br />
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The consequences of the Iran-Nuclear Agreement are yet to be proven and are thus in the air. On the ground American and international acceptance of Jerusalem as Israel's capitol city (and solely as Israel's capitol city) is long overdue and may now be on "the table". Also on the ground, international recognition of the Israeli Golan and Sheva Farms, and Israeli annexation of Judea-Samaria also appear to be on "the table". (Such recognitions and annexation is long overdue; commensurately, there should be a paid opportunity for the voluntary relocation to Arab States of as many Arabs, presently residing within Israeli hegemony, who may not stomach the idea of life as a loyal Israeli, be their status as a Citizen or Refugee; as well, there should be an imposed relocation of Arabs terrorists to any nation that may accept them. <i>Those Arabs, who celebrate Al-Naqba, should have no place in the State of Israel.</i><br />
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The short-term symbolic impact of embassy relocation to Jerusalem appears to be supportive of Israel; but, one must remember, that even though there is no physical <b>Bais HaMikdash</b> on Earth today, there was an historical time, when the Babylonians invaded Jerusalem and destroyed Jerusalem and the <b>Bais HaMikdash</b>; at a later time in history, the Greeks, and then the Romans, occupied Jerusalem, the Royal Court, and the existing <b>Bais HaMikdash, </b>which the Romans ultimately destroyed. As we ready ourselves to celebrate <b>Channukah</b>, let us remember, that even the short separation of distance between Tel Aviv and <b>Yerushalayim</b> is a separation that may best serve Israel and the World in their relationships over the long-run. As one Rebbe has stated to this writer in times past with respect to involvement in the world and the in understanding of proper <b>eruvim</b>, "It is good to have an open mind, so long as one's brains do not fall out." It is one thing, to pray for <b>Mashiach</b> in our time, may he not tarry, may he come speedily and in our time. It is quite another to presume his arrival, which we will only know, when the <b>Bais HaMikdash Shlosha</b> descends <b>MinHaShemayim</b> in <b>Yerushalayim</b>. In the meantime as Jews we had best remember that <b>HaShem</b> holds <b>Har Sinai</b> over our heads, that we should be <b>Bitul</b> before <b>HaShem</b> and before each other.<br />
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VIEWPOINTS BY GARY KASPAROV AND STEPHEN COHEN NEED NOT BE PERCEIVED TO BE CONTRADICTORY; AND, THEIR COMBINED VIEWS MAY COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER AND ALLOW FOR A GREATER SENSE OF THE DEPTH OF THE REALITY.</div>
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Stress, be it personal stress or mass stress, may lead to xenophobia. Both Mr. Kasparov and Prof. Cohen have evidenced the existence of xenophobia in the context of the present issues under discussion, even though the word "xenophobia" was not itself under discussion.</div>
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Xenophobia may have both religious and political manifestations and consequences, especially when national, ethnic, racial, and economic factors are germane to stress and conflict. Such rampant xenophobia has obviously raised it's head above ground in Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. And, while the world has it's eye's "over there", it is also true that xenophobia has it's constituencies in the USA, Europe, and Russia. The figureheads of these xenophobic constituencies are Putin, Trump, and (arguably) Clinton, and in Europe there are equivalent figureheads and equivalent constituencies.</div>
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There is no shortage of Superpower aggression, be it American, European, Russian, Chinese, and so on. Nor is there any shortage of aggression by proxy nations. So at issue, given the brinksmanship that may lead to war between the US and Russia, is whether or not these tensions may be released and relieved in ways that may trend to peace and not war. </div>
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Assad may or may not remain in power; but, the geography over which any Syrian regime rules may necessarily shrink in order to accommodate the rightful needs of Assad's enemies. Still, the future may see four Middle East oil and natural gas pipeline routes capable of supplying Europe: (1) Iran --> Iraq --> Syria -- Europe (2) Iraq --> Turkey --> Europe (3) Iraq --> Syria --> Europe (4) Qatar --> Saudi Arabia --> Jordan -- > Syria --> Turkey --> Europe (reference the maps below). Syria is a pathway for three of these routes and a distribution center for two of those routes. Oil politics reflects the balance of power in the Middle East. Rational minds should perceive that multiple players and multiple routes would be a win-win all around. The sooner that hostilities cease and peace is negotiated, then the sooner it will be that the devastated areas of the Middle East may be rebuilt, and that the majority of refugees may either return to their former homes or resettle to new homes. </div>
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<b>Pros and Cons of working with Russian and Turkey to Fight ISIS (a tentative viewpoint):</b><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The one comment made during the second presidential debate that struck me as significant was the comment by Hillary Clinton, that she would establish "no-fly zones", but, would not send significant ground troops into Syria, and that she would supply weapons and trainers to the Kurds and Arab Sunni Rebels to fight ISIS. This is what we have been doing, and it appears that her intention as President would be to ramp up that particular strategy. So, what is the wisdom of such a ground game, pro and con? Firstly with respect to our NATO "ally" Turkey: supplying the Kurds with weapons and trainers has been done on a limited scale, owing to the Turkish antipathy to the Kurds, and we have relied on Kurdish courage, bravery, and skill; ramping up equipment and training for the Kurds may place us at odds with Turkey. Secondly, also with respect to Turkey, supplying Arab Sunni Rebels may be a double-edged sword, because some of these rebels are also at odds with Turkey. Thirdly, neither the Kurds nor the Arab Sunnis have much love for each other or for the Shia Iraqis, with whom for the moment there is a fragile unity against ISIS. Fourthly, as ISIS is also composed primarily of Arab Sunnis (Al-Quaeda + BATH Party = ISIS), Arab Sunni Rebels are a more natural ally to ISIS -- and so not only is there such a risk to us and to the Kurds and to the Shia, there is the obvious reason that -- according to Syria, Russia, and Iran -- no distinction is to be made between ISIS and Arab Sunni Rebels (be those rebels Al-Quaeda, Al-Nusra, or any other (Al-"). Fifthly, with respect to "no fly zones", one must ask, would these be negotiated and established via the UN or by the US and Russia in binary negotiations or by NATO in conjunction with Syria and Russia? The risk of air conflicts between NATO forces and both Russia and Syria is already too real. Sixthly, what is our intended end game of all of this Syria-Iraq-ISIS Conflict? There is no coherent end game, therefore there is no coherent strategy, IMHO. There is the appearance of an end game -- that Bashar Al-Asad must go, and that there must be an end to the slaughter of [mostly Sunni] innocents; yet, our intended "weekend" jaunt into Syria has devolved into five-years of conflict with no end in sight, several hundred thousand casualties, millions of refugees, and Asad still thriving in power. Both the humanitarian crisis, political crisis, and balance of power crisis remain to be resolved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">IMHO, it is both the BALANCE OF POWER CRISIS and the POLITICAL CRISIS that must be resolved in order that the HUMANITARIAN CRISIS be resolved. As long as there is benefit to various power players in the conflict to prevent cessation of the humanitarian crisis, then the humanitarian crisis will continue. Thus far it is the Syria of Asad, Iran, Russia, and our "ally" Turkey, who have benefited from the humanitarian crisis by the strengthening of Asad's Syria, by the destabilization of Iraq, and by the destabilization of Europe. There are those, who blame the post-Nine-Eleven War on Iraq as the primary cause of all this. Respectfully, such destabilization was likely inevitable; it is stupid and foolish to get caught up in the divisiveness of the blame game, and wiser to look at the opportunities to make peace, and with whom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Turkey and Saudi Arabia benefit by the existence of ISIS. The expansion of Islamist Turkey and Islamist ISIS cannot be seen as independent of each other. The deliberate refusal of Saudi Arabia to put troops on the ground against ISIS is a "tell" that any poker player should be able to see. Whatever the convoluted pathways of money, power, and weapons may be in Islamic World, both Sunni and Shia, the humanitarian crisis there is a crisis in the balance of power of the Islamic World, though that crisis does certainly exist in context to the balance of power dissonances of the Great Powers (USA, Russia, China).</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">It must be pointed out that in Turkey the primarily Arab Sunni refugees owe their lives to Erdogan, who although being a hated Turk in Arab eyes, is also Sunni and is their benefactor. We have seen Erdogan brutally consolidate his Islamist Regime in Turkey. Turkish-Saudi cooperation is therefore likely; neither the Turks nor the Saudis are on the ground fighting ISIS, although the Turks give lip service to fighting ISIS directly, when the reality is that they fight the Kurds and they fight some of the Arab Sunni Rebels in an effort to get them to tow the line (IMHO). IMHO we are seeing a regional shift in the balance of power that is being defined by an alliance of the Saudis and the Turks, which represents an alliance of these historical enemies based on Sunni Religion, technological modernization, economic advantage, geographic and military cooperation, and a future anticipating desalinization of water and stabilization of fossil fuel patterns even as alternative energies experience growth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">It is therefore incumbent upon the Great Powers to perceive these trends in order to negotiate a balance of power and political stability. A pause in the humanitarian crisis becomes possible, as soon as the Great Powers and the Regional Powers get on the same page and define the balance of power and political stability of the region. The Iran Nuclear Deal and the Syria Chemical Weapons Deal do create a positive wind towards doing so and against devolution into chemical and nuclear war in the imminent future, but, regional peace must be established, if such a present reality is to maintain into the long term future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">In order for this to happen Russia needs much more than a bone as well as a diminution of insult from the West. The starting point has already included some meat in the form of the Syria Chemical Weapons Deal and the Iran Nuclear Deal. It is time that an official split of the Ukraine be negotiated by the West with Russia. The ethnic, religious, geographic, and strategic reasons for doing so should be quite clear (unless of course it is the intent of the West to utterly cut off Russia from the Middle East, Arabia, and South Central Asia).</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What then should political resolution of Syria-Iraq-Kurdish regions look like? Perhaps Joseph Biden had it right in suggesting that at root Iraq should be split into three largely independent geographies: Kurdistan, Sunnistan, and Shiastan [Sunnistan and Shiastan are my own original terms for the Sunni and Shia geographies]. Such a regional set of compromises would mean that the Kurds would not get all that they want, otherwise there would be no chance of getting Turkey onboard; the Sunni may never see Baghdad again and may lose much of the existing oil infrastructure including beachfront property on the Persian Gulf; the Iraqi Shia would have Baghdad and the port areas and therefore would gain the commercial and political value of such hegemony, which would include the possibility of becoming a strong commercial brokerage center with respect to the other Persian Gulf States (e.g. Iran Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc.). It may be that the key to peace would be that these three entities be confederated; and, though they may govern themselves largely independently, a central government would govern common interests and the power and benefits of that government would necessarily be evenly split three ways. Implementation of such a reality would require either and American or a NATO presence analogous to the Marshall Plan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">It must be said as well that the entire Middle East Region including Saudi Arabia and Iran must cease bashing Israel and must engage in lasting peace with Israel. The required elements are easy enough to understand and to implement: (1) All twenty Arab Nations still formally in a status of war with Israel since 1948 must unconditionally terminate that status and must unconditionally normalize relations with Israel; (2) Terror organizations such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and Fatah must no longer be supported; (3) Egypt, which has already made peace with Israel, should be encouraged to sell at least ten-percent of the Sinai to Israel, so that once and for all the Arabs in and around Israel may understand that lands lost to them due to their own aggressions may not be taken for granted to be lands that would be returned to them; (4) Arab countries should accept settlement by Palestinian Arabs presently protected under Israeli hegemony, be those Palestinian Arabs "refugees" or Israeli citizens, given that approximately half of the Palestinian Arab population desires to be independent of Israel; (5) Judea-Samaria, the Golan, and the Sheva Farms geographies must be fully integrated into and accepted worldwide as belonging to the State of Israel; and (6) Jerusalem must be understood and accepted to be the undivided Capitol of the State of Israel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">It is not impossible to imagine a continuation of the Asad Regime, though it is difficult to imagine such a continuation, if Asad does not stand down his present strategy of laying waste to his very real enemies. If Asad were to offer three fig leaves: (a) to abruptly cease his devastation of his enemies; (b) to secure his de facto constituency; and (c) to allow a well-supervised flow of humanitarian aid (supervised by the Russians, perhaps, to guarantee a flow of only food and medicine and not weapons); then, Asad may regain some moral high ground and put the onus on his enemies to do the same or face the World's retribution.</span></div>
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ABIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956703782064165353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6474499271310293630.post-63131583745197594662015-04-28T06:31:00.002-07:002015-04-28T06:32:35.170-07:00NEPAL EARTHQUAKE AND DRONE SHIPPING<b><i>PROOF OF CONCEPT OPPORTUNITY</i></b><br />
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<b>Why is it that our military is so drone adept for surveillance and killing, yet, it is not (or at least appears not) capable for disaster deployment?</b><br />
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<b>One hopes that such excellent and innovative corporate leaders, such as Jeff Bezos, who are already at work to innovate shipping via drone deployment, may at this very moment be on the telephone with SOD Ashton Carter and with CJCF Martin Dempsey, proposing to join "forces" beyond the odd camera drone in order to deliver actual relief throughout the earthquake region in Nepal, most especially beyond the city of Katmandu, where road access remains blocked.</b><br />
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<b>One hopes as well that any such plan may incorporate the use of military and/or commercial cargo jets for airdrops of supplies to those in Nepal, who are suffering. Presumably the capability already exists for the launch and recovery of drones from cargo planes.</b><br />
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<b>There must already exist maps of Nepal according to which the locations and populations of need may already be inferred and thus airdrops may be planned and executed immediately. Better to airdrop now based on estimated need, than to wait and see, as people to die.</b><br />
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<b>Is there any reason that the military cannot make use of paratroopers and parachute them into the more isolated earthquake areas of Nepal with tools including communications devices and medical equipment and supplies?</b><br />
<br />ABIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956703782064165353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6474499271310293630.post-60909134756950614892015-04-14T17:34:00.000-07:002015-04-16T22:07:07.205-07:00CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW OF THE IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL<b>PRESIDENT OBAMA COMPROMISES ON SENATE INITIATIVE</b><br />
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Is it just me?<br />
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Or, are there others, who like me do feel their stomachs fluttering and perhaps even quaking a bit, having heard simultaneous announcements that Russia and Iran have made an S-300 Missile System deal and that the White House has signed onto the Senate initiative regarding the Iran Nuclear Talks? (It is a good thing that the Senate came together across Party Lines and that President Obama cooperated.)<br />
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"Serendipity doo-da... serendiptiy-ehhh.... I've got a feeling it's a wonderful day [in the Chinese sense of 'wonderful' -- analogous to the Chinese sense of 'interesting']...." Come on... you know you want to sing that tune with me!<br />
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<i>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/us/senators-reach-deal-on-iran-nuclear-talks.html?_r=0</i>ABIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956703782064165353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6474499271310293630.post-83170983135226016762015-04-14T15:57:00.002-07:002015-04-14T19:50:03.821-07:00WHEN IRANISH AND RUSSISH EYES ARE SMILING:<b>QUESTIONS REGARDING THE ANNOUNCED SALE OF THE S-300 RUSSIAN MISSILE SYSTEM TO IRAN...</b><br />
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<b>1) Will the S-300 Missile System provide Iran with an effective "iron dome" of protection against an attack of it's nuclear facilities, military facilities, and government facilities?</b><br />
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<b>2) Will deployment of the S-300 Missile System be observable to American and Israeli and Other human and technological Intelligence systems?</b><br />
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<b>3) If the S-300 Missile System is observable to non-Iranian I</b><b>ntelligence, then may the existence of this System reveal high priority Iranian targets (especially nuclear infrastructure targets)?</b><br />
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<b>4) Will there be enough scope to the Iranian S-300 deployment, such that Iran may move S-300 missiles, where they may "protect" neighborhoods of internal opposition to Iran's theocracy (which then America </b><b>or Israel or Others </b><b>might then mistakenly target and destroy, harming the Iranian internal opposition and aiding the Iranian theocracy)?</b><br />
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<b>5) </b><b>Will there be sufficient scope to the Iranian S-300 deployment plan, that Iran may move S-300 missiles, where they may "protect" dummy targets, deceiving </b><b>America </b><b>or Israel or Others into believing in false locations of presumed priority targets?</b><br />
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<b>6) Is the timing and the announcement of this Russian-Iranian missile deal a "stick-it-to-ya" moment that Putin and Rouhani are celebrating at the expense of Obama? Or is Obama a less obvious party to this deal? </b><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">7) Did Putin and Rouhani both just save 15% on their car insurance by switching to GEICO?</span><br />
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<b>8) Are Putin and Rouhani arrogantly confident that neither Obama nor Netanyahu nor Another will order an attack against Iranian priority targets? Are Putin and Rouhani arrogantly attempting to provoke attack? Are Putin and Rouhani offering a gambit that only an arrogant or ill-advised fool would accept? Are Putin and Rouhani bluffing? Is Obama indeed the naked emperor, and the whole world laughing at him? Or is America the naked empire, and the entire world poised to flay the U.S.?</b><br />
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<b>Iran and Hezbollah have been removed from the U.S. Annual Security Threat Assessment. If you would like to read about this, please cut and paste the following link into your browser...</b><br />
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<b><i>http://www.newsweek.com/iran-and-hezbollah-omitted-us-terror-threat-list-amid-nuclear-talks-314073.</i></b><br />
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<b>Cuba is about to be removed from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, which gives rise to the question, "Is Obama about to make "good" on his promise to close down Guantanamo?" The logical next step for Obama may then be to completely abandon the American Naval Base at Guantanamo, even as Russia and China expand military and infrastructure activities in the Caribbean and in South America...</b><br />
<b><br /><i>http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/14/obama-remove-cuba-list-state-sponsors-terrorism.</i></b><br />
<b><br /></b><b>If you would like to read an excellent article about the Russia-Iran missile deal announcement (including a great grinning photo of Rouhani and Putin) please cut and paste the following link into your browser...</b><br />
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<b><i>http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/13/us-iran-nuclear-russia-idUSKBN0N40YX20150413</i>.</b><br />
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<b>If you would like to read an excellent and well-illustrated article about the S-300 Missile System, please cut and paste the following link into your browser...</b><br />
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<b><i>http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-22652131.</i></b><br />
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ABIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956703782064165353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6474499271310293630.post-79492809302040390792015-03-24T16:49:00.000-07:002015-03-24T21:07:44.002-07:00ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU WON HIS RE-ELECTION BEAUTIFULLY.PM NETANYAHU STATED THE CASE FOR ISRAEL CLEARLY.<br />
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First, he made the case before the entire world that Israel's national security and national integrity are paramount. He defined national security and national integrity in terms of present exterior and interior threats, e.g. Iran, ISIS, Hamas, Fatah, Hezbollah, etc.<br />
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Second, by declaring, "There will be no State of Palestine on my watch," he defined Israeli national security and national integrity as being (a) independent of the pressure of the worldwide lynch-mob mentality towards Israel and (b) independent of American political pressure from the Presidency, should that Presidency unwisely seek to impose it's own castration of Israel.<br />
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Third, he alerted Israel and the world to the fact of an active Fifth Column in Israel in which "left-wing Israeli's were transporting 'Arabs' to the polls in droves." This allegedly racist comment has drawn much unjustifiable condemnation, even to the point of public apology! Can you imagine! Should a man, who saves his village by plugging his finger into the breach hole of a dam to prevent the dam from bursting, be made to apologize for doing so? Such is the perversity of popular public opinion!ABIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956703782064165353noreply@blogger.com0