Feed a Bully- Grow His Appetite!

Muslims control governments with a land mass 1000 times the size of Israel and, yet, they want Israel too. Israel became a huge thorn in their side in 1947. Since that time Muslims have concocted a story about how important Jerusalem is to them when, in fact, Mecca and Medina are the two cities they pray to and when doing so actually turn their backs on Jerusalem. The Muslims will not stop with Jerusalem. The radicals amongst them want to rule the world. We could wake up to this realization but then we would have to take our heads out of the sand and that is too discomforting for so many.

Just as I thought and stated. Feed bullies and it increases their appetite.(See 1 below.)

Livni meets and finds out Egypt and Jordan will not speak for The Arab League but make gestures to widen the noose. (See 2 below.)

Is Olmert prepared to do just about anything for survival? (See 3 below.)

Sarkozy or not, 600 French decide they are safer in Israel than France, because of anti-Semitism. More expected to immigrate. (See 4 below.)

In the most recent debate Sen. Clinton sought to paint Sen. Obama as naive. She must be careful to what degree she attacks the young Senator because her election is beholden to the black vote and she must not be seen at attacking him too aggressively. However, Clinton is enough of a jackal to rip him apart if she smells blood. Furthermore, if she does then how can she turn around and ask Sen. "Damaged Goods" to serve on her ticket which is what I believe Obama has been seeking all along.


Dick

1) 200 defiant Fatah-al Aqsa Brigades terrorists threaten fresh wave of anti-Israel violence unless they are included in amnesty deal with Israel
They are up in arms against the deal struck by prime minister Ehud Olmert and Mahmoud Abbas a week ago to waive Israeli military pursuit of 179 wanted al Aqsa Brigades gunmen for three months, against a pledge to renounce terrorism and surrender their side arms. The 200 mutineers have informed Palestinian Authority chairman Abbas and their commanders that as long as they are subjected to IDF pursuit and detentions, they have no reason to hold back on terrorist activity against Israeli forces and civilians on the West Bank.

A group has broken away and formed the Yasser Arafat Brigades.

Israeli military sources warn that these embittered Palestinian operatives are dangerous enough to be taken seriously, especially when their comrades who took the pledge pocketed grants averaging $22,000 plus a regular wage.

The Olmert government reasoned that the temporarily pardoned terrorists would join up with the Fatah campaign to suppress Hamas on the West Bank. This hope appears to have gone by the wayside. Furthermore, the pardoned terrorists are now walking about with the same guns they surrendered at the Palestinian security service last week, only to have them returned through the back door.

Therefore, Israeli military sources conclude that rather than achieving any useful purpose, the exercise was a harmful precedent. The al Aqsa Brigades members left out of the deal with Israel are convinced that an amnesty and other privileges are there to be extorted by threats of violence. In the meantime, Hamas, Jihad Islami and other rejectionist and radical terrorists are keeping their heads down and building up their weapons caches, ready to spring at the right opportunity, as they did in Gaza.

2) Egypt, Jordan FMs meet with Livni to push Arab peace plan
By Barak Ravid

The foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan met with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni in Jerusalem on Wednesday, as part of what the Foreign Ministry called a "historic" visit to discuss an Arab peace proposal, saying they hoped for a positive response from Israel.

Egyptian foreign minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit and his Jordanian counterpart, Abdulelah Al-Khatib, were due to discuss the Arab peace initiative, which calls for Israel to receive full recognition from all Arab states in exchange for a withdrawal to the pre-1967 boundaries and an agreed solution to the refugee problem.

"We hope that upon our return, we would also convey to the Arab League the responses of Israel and I hope that the responses will be positive," Aboul Gheit said at a news conference.

MK Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the opposition and Likud party chairman, explained at a meeting with the foreign ministers Wednesday morning his rejection of the Arab peace plan.

Netanyahu said the 2005 unilateral pullout from Gaza had failed, and added that: "Wherever Israel hands over territory, the place immediately turns into a terror base for radical Islam."

"We need to restart the political process by means of economic projects which will advance peace and not the opposite," the Likud MK said.

Aboul Gheit and Al-Khatib also meet with President Shimon Peres Wednesday morning.

They then had lunch with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. In the afternoon, they were scheduled to pay a rare visit to the Knesset and to address its Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, but not the plenum.

"It is the first time the Arab League has authorized a delegation to come to Israel," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mark Regev said, calling the visit "historic."

He said the sides would discuss how the Arab League peace initiative, first proposed at a summit in Beirut in 2002 but re-launched at the latest summit in Riyadh in March, can "be of tangible benefits to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process" and serve as a "vehicle" to promote progress.

The Arab League, he added, also had a "very important role to play" in supporting Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in his struggle with the Islamist Hamas movement.

"We believe it's very important those pragmatic Arab states support moderate and pragmatic Palestinians," he said. "It would be counterproductive if the moderate Palestinian leadership would be supported only by the West."

In a special interview with Haaretz on Thursday, Al-Khatib urged Israel to focus on peacemaking with the Palestinians before making peace with Syria.

"Peace with Syria is no alternative to peace with the Palestinians; the heart of the problem in the region is the Palestinian problem, and without a solution to it there will be no peace in the region," Al-Khatib said.

3)[For regime survival] PM Olmert offers final status talks with Abbas - PA compliance indefinitely postponed. It sounds like PM Olmert wants to pull another
"Beilin-Mazen".

For years the so-called "Belin-Mazen" agreement was cited by withdrawal
proponents as proof that a deal could be reached. This despite the fact
that "Beilin-Mazen" "solved" thorny issues such as Jerusalem and refugees by
providing for committees to solve the issues.

"Beilin-Mazen" was used as a deceptive propaganda tool but Olmert's proposal
is considerably more dangerous because within the context of the Road Map a
sovereign Palestinian state can be created before the difficult final status
issues are resolved.

PM Olmert wants to launch talks as part of his strategy to keep in power
(have "citrus" status with both the media and Israeli law enforcement
officials) so he drops the precondition of PA compliance.

Israel could ultimately find itself with a soverign Palestinian state - and
all the security ramifications - without even having a piece of paper signed
by the Palestinians that, ostensibly, they have no more claims to justify
battle against the Jewish state.]

4)'In France I was worried, in Israel I feel safe'

Two planes carrying 600 new immigrants from France land at Ben-Gurion Airport, marking biggest aliyah event since beginning of year. More than 3,000 olim expected to arrive from France by end of 2007

"When I got on the plane on the way to Israel, I immediately felt calm and secure. In France I was always worried when my children went on the underground on their own, or even just wandered the streets. I always dreamt of immigrating to Israel; I feel safe here," Jacklyn Benishu said Wednesday morning after landing in Israel as a new immigrant.



Benishu arrived with 600 other new immigrants from France on two planes which landed at Ben-Gurion Airport in the morning.


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The two planes, one from Paris and one from Marseilles, marked the biggest aliyah event since the beginning of the year.



Officials at the Jewish Agency for Israel, which organized the event with AMI (Aliyah et Meilleure Integration), said that this year has seen a 10 percent rise in the number of new immigrants from France compared to the previous year, making 2007 a record year for French aliyah.



More than 3,000 olim are expected to come to Israel, as opposed to 2,900 in 2006. This is a 35-year record.



Most of the new immigrants who arrived Wednesday morning will be absorbed in Jerusalem, Netanya, Ashdod and Ashkelon, as part of a project of the Ministry for Immigrant Absorption and the Jewish Agency, which encourages the aliyah of organized groups from the country of origin.



Talking to Ynet on her way to Israel, Jacklyn Benishu said that her two older sons were already in the Jewish state. The oldest one made aliyah a year ago because he had always dreamt of joining the IDF, and now serves in the Air Force. The second son is going to be drafted in the coming months.



Benishu arrived in Israel with her second husband Gerard and their two younger sons.



In Paris Benishu owned a beauty parlor, and she plans to open one in Israel as well.



Her husband Gerard lost two children from his first marriage. His son was killed in a road accident when he was 17 years old, and his daughter died of an illness when she was seven. Their father views his immigration to Israel not only as a realization of the Zionist dream, but also as an opportunity to start a new life.



Gerard's three other children from his first marriage stayed in Paris with his ex-wife, but he hopes that they will eventually also make aliyah.


Gerard Benishu worked at the French Socialist Party in the 1970s, starting as the private driver of former President Francois Mitterrand. He took part in the election campaign of party candidate Segolene Royal, who recently lost the presidency to Nicolas Sarkozy.



Talking to Ynet, he said, "I am not sure I will be able to enter politics in Israel as well, but after I reach a reasonable level of Hebrew I will start learning and try, although I am not sure I will stay with the left-wing parties."



The new immigrants were greeted at Ben-Gurion Airport by President Shimon Peres, Jewish Agency Chairman Ze'ev Bielski and Immigration Absorption Minister Jacob Edery.