Thursday, May 19, 2016

Support, Among Liberals, For America and Israel Is Declining. Hillarious, Billious and Glass Steagall!


Those Pesky Islamist Terrorists Who Shoot Down
Planes and Obama Cannot Bring  Himself To Name
Them Because To Do So Would Be Politically
Unseemly.
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Let bygones be bygones. (See 1, 1a and 1b below)

I purposely repeated 1b for those who may not understand where Netanyahu stands vis a vis a deal with the Palestinians and why he is a shrewd and successful politician.  Israel remains a land mine of political intrigue.

Support for Israel among liberals is declining but then support for America among liberals is also declining. 

Liberals want America to embrace socialism, get rid of its armed forces and transfer all wealth, in the form of handouts, to the poor.  They also seem to oppose free speech and would eliminate citizen's right to own weapons. Their religion is PC'ism. (See 1c below.) 
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Hillary is going to appoint her husband "Billious" to get our economy back on track. Then she walked her comment back a bit.

Few remember, "Billious" helped bring about the worst recession in our entire history when he signed legislation repealing The Glass Steagall Act, which prevented banks from engaging in investment banking.  (The Glass–Steagall legislation was enacted by the United States Congress in 1933 as part of the 1933 Banking Act, amended as part of the 1935 Banking Act, and most of it was repealed in 1999 by the GrammLeachBliley Act (GLBA).)

In other words, Billious de-regulated Wall Street which led to wild and speculative activity on the part of banks something Glass Steagall was passed to prevent following "The Great Depression."

Was Hillary signalling, by her comment about "Billious," she was paying Wall Street for sponsoring her speaking engagements which support their life style.

I have written in many previous memos,  I know of no one act more responsible for our most recent economic debacle than the repeal of GS.

The mere idea of allowing her husband to prowl the halls of The White House in control of our economy is ludicrous and for young women working there has to be frightening.

Better Hillarious put Billious in charge of the D.C. Zoo!
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Have a lot of packing and odds and ends to do before leaving for Litchfield Beach so this is last memo for about 2 weeks. I know, I have said that before but this time it is a credible comment.

Have a great time while I am away.
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Dick
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1)




Abbas: We Are Guilty of Incitement, But 'Let's Leave Everything in the Past'

By Deborah Dana

vPalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept the French initiative for reviving the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, saying his failure to do so “will bring the Islamic State to Israel.”
“If we don’t revive the peace process, the violence and radicalism from Syria will come here,” Abbas said. “The Islamic State and the Al-Nusra Front will reach Israel and the West Bank.”
Speaking in Ramallah to a delegation from the left-wing Meretz party, Abbas also admitted that there was incitement to violence against Israelis in official Palestinian media and government-issued textbooks: “Yes, there is incitement in our textbooks and on television.”
However, he said that the problem could easily be resolved: “Let’s solve the problem and revive the incitement commission that was agreed upon [between Israel and the Palestinian Authority] 16 years ago.” “The commission [which is chaired by the United States] will determine what needs to be corrected,” Abbas said.
“Let’s leave everything in the past and let’s meet,” Abbas continued. “When two sides are invited to a meeting, one cannot present preconditions. It’s the international community that should determine what is right and what isn’t.”
This week, Netanyahu told French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault that he was opposed to the idea of a peace conference in Paris, claiming that the only way forward is direct negotiations between the two sides.
Abbas refused to comment on why he continues to reject Israel’s demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state. He also slammed the continued expansion of Israeli settlements. “The Israeli government is building settlements on Palestinian land,” Abbas said. “We will not agree to a situation whereby a new settlement and a new checkpoint are cropping up all the time.” “The entire world is against settlements. This is the position taken by the Americans and the Europeans. There have been 12 Security Council resolutions against settlements. Stop them,” he added.
Asked whether he has lost faith in Netanyahu and his ability in negotiating peace, Abbas answered cryptically:
“Ever since we started negotiating with the Israelis, we’ve been talking to every prime minister. I can’t say whether I believe him or not, or whether I’ve lost faith in him.”
However, at one stage he addressed Netanyahu directly:
When the whip is over my head, you can’t tell me to stop. You have to stop. You say that there is no partner for negotiations and that your hand is outstretched for talks. You want to pick someone else [with whom to negotiate]? The Israelis picked you and the Palestinians picked me. I’m a “diplomatic terrorist,” as [former foreign minister Avigdor] Liberman put it. Besides that, there’s nothing you can say about me.
“Put it all to the side and let’s negotiate,” Abbas said. “We aren’t far apart [physically] and we cooperate on a daily basis. Don’t push us to the wall. We will all lose.”
Abbas praised the French initiative to the Meretz officials. Meretz is the only non-Arab party that has publicly backed the French plan.
“The French plan is a good one since we want the international community to take responsibility for this endless conflict,” Abbas said. “We want the whole word by our side. We are one of the last remaining nations that suffer under military occupation. How much longer will this go on? How much longer will the world permit one people to control another?”
1a) Netanyahu Welcomes Egypt's Peace Overture, Rejects French Initiative
By James Abbott

vPresident Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said Tuesday that Egypt’s relations with Israel, rooted in a landmark 1979 peace treaty, can only be “warmer” if his country’s former enemy reached a settlement with the Palestinians, and he pledged that Cairo would “make every effort” toward a solution.
The Egyptian leader also declared his support for a French proposal to hold a Mideast peace conference, an idea already rejected by Israel, citing it along with U.S. efforts, a 2002 Arab peace plan and the international Mideast peace quartet as possible avenues to such a settlement.
“I welcome Egyptian President El-Sisi’s remarks and his willingness to make every effort to advance a future of peace and security between us and the Palestinians and the peoples of the region,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “Israel is ready to participate with Egypt and other Arab states in advancing both the diplomatic process and stability in the region. I appreciate President El-Sisi’s work and also draw encouragement from his leadership on this important issue.”
Netanyahu has rejected the French initiative, saying direct negotiations were the only way to resolve the conflict with the Palestinians. He is on record as saying the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative has some positive aspects, but could not be the basis for negotiations. The Arab peace plan offers Israel full recognition by Arab states in exchange for Israel’s withdrawal from territory it captured in the 1967 Six Day War.
In one of his most detailed public comments on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since taking office nearly two years ago, el-Sissi called on Israel and the Palestinians to seize what he described as a “realistic” and “great” opportunity to reach a peaceful settlement to their decades-old conflict, saying they need look no farther than the Egypt-Israel accord to see the positive outcome of peacemaking.
He said the “trust” that exists between Egypt and Israel nearly 40 years after their peace accord is demonstrated in Israel’s consent to the deployment of Egyptian troops backed by warplanes and armor in a section of the Sinai Peninsula that borders Israel and should be demilitarized under the provisions of their peace accord. The deployment is part of Cairo’s fight against Islamic terrorists.
Egypt and Israel fought four full-fledged wars between 1948 and 1973 before the two neighbors signed the 1979 treaty, the first between Israel and an Arab state.
Acknowledging the widely held assessment that his country’s peace with Israel has been “cool,” the Egyptian leader said: “There will be no warmer peace without a solution for our Palestinian brothers. If we do that (reach an Israeli-Palestinian settlement), we will have changed a very difficult era … I have genuine hope.”
France planned to host a ministerial meeting of 20 countries, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, as a first step ahead of an international conference tentatively scheduled for next month and aimed at reviving the dormant Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Addressing Israelis and their government, el-Sissi said there was a “real opportunity” for peacemaking although some in Israel did not think peace is possible now, given the turmoil in the region. An Israeli-Palestinian deal, he added, would “give safety and stability to both sides. If this is achieved, we will enter a new phase that perhaps no one can imagine now.”
“I want to say to all those listening, Palestinians and Israelis: Please, there is now a great opportunity for a better future and life and greater hope and stability,” el-Sissi said. “Should not we seize the chance and move in that framework?”

1b)

What Israel’s New Coalition Means



1c)
The Partisan Divide on Israel Deepens
Richard Baehr writes:

A new Pew Research poll provides more evidence that there is a growing partisan divide among 
Americans related to support for Israel. The poll reflects the rapid demographic changes underway in 
America, most of which do not augur well for the traditionally strong base of American support for the Jewish state.

The overall numbers mask the growing split between Republicans and conservatives versus Democrats 
and liberals on Israel.

In fact, the poll shows that while Republicans’ support for Israel remains very strong, 

The partisan gap remains wide. Three-quarters of Republicans (75%) say they sympathize more with 
Israel (just 7% say they sympathize more with the Palestinians). And though a larger share of 
Democrats sympathize more with Israel than with the Palestinians, that margin is much narrower 
(43% vs. 29%).

…Liberal Democrats, on the other hand, are statistically divided in their views: 33% sympathize more 
with Israel and 40% sympathize more with the Palestinians.

…Notably, there are no differences in views by candidate support among GOP voters. By contrast, 
while Clinton supporters, on balance, are more likely to sympathize with Israel (47% vs. 27%), Sanders supporters are divided (33% sympathize more with Israel, 39% sympathize more with Palestinians).

…Over the past decade, the share of Americans saying they sympathize more with Israel has grown 
among most ideological groups – with the exception of liberal Democrats.

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