Israel Constantly Being Blamed!
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Worth re-posting if you believe in Socialism and can read the small print.!
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Most of today's people don't have any idea who these men were. Those of my generation certainly do.
They were all heroes in their own right and they made America great in its own right! (See 1 below.)
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Will the wish beget the thought? Stay tuned because something is coming down the pike. (See 2 below.)
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Sowell on Socialism for dummies! All they have to do is move to Venezuela and they can experience it full blast (See 3 below..)
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Are the Democrats abut to sell Israel and Netanyahu down the river and totally disconnect from their former relationship? Is Obama angling? Time will tell. (See 4 below.)
Blame the victim is the popular thing to do when Israel is involved. It is so patently dependable that it has lost most of its effectiveness.
Next year's SIRC President Day Dinner Speaker, Elliot Abrams, avers that Sec. Kerry does not know what he is talking about. (See 4a below.)
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Alan Hale Jr. - US Coast Guard.
Aldo Ray - US Navy. UDT frogman - Okinawa.
Art Carney - US Army. Wounded on Normandy beach- D-Day. Limped for the rest of his life.
Brian Keith - US Marines. Radioman/Gunner in Dauntless dive-bombers.
Buddy Hackett - US Army anti-aircraft gunner.
Burgess Meredith - US Army Air Corps.
Clark Gable - US Army Air Corps. B-17 gunner over Europe.
Cesar Romero - US Coast Guard. Coast Guard. Participated in the invasions of Tinian and Saipan on the assault transport USS Cavalier.
Charles Bronson - US Army Air Corps. B-29 gunner- wounded in action.
Charles Durning - US Army. Landed at Normandy on D-Day. Shot multiple times awarded the silver & Bronze & 3 Purple Hearts.
Charlton Heston - US Army Air Corps. Radio operator and aerial gunner on a B-25- Aleutians
Chuck Connors - US Army. Tank-warfare instructor.
Claude Akins - US Army. Signal Corps. - Burma and the Philippines.
Clifton James - US Army- South Pacific. Was awarded the Silver Star -Bronze Star and Purple Heart.
Dale Robertson - US Army. Tank Commander in North Africa under Patton. Wounded twice. Battlefield Commission.
Danny Aiello - US Army. Lied about his age to enlist at 16. Served three years.
DeForest Kelley - US Army Air Corps.
Dennis Weaver - US Navy. Pilot.
Denver Pyle - US Navy. Wounded in the Battle of Guadalcanal . Medically discharged.
Don Adams - US Marines. Wounded on Guadalcanal - then served as a Drill Instructor.
Don Knotts - US Army- Pacific Theater.
Don Rickles - US Navy aboard USS Cyrene.
Earl Holliman - US Navy. Lied about his age to enlist. Discharged after a year when the Navy found out.
Ed McMahon - US Marines. Fighter Pilot. (Flew OE-1 Bird Dogs over Korea as well.)
Eddie Albert - US Coast Guard. Bronze Star with Combat V for saving several Marines under heavy fire as pilot of a landing craft during the invasion of Tarawa.
Efram Zimbalist Jr. - US Army. Purple Heart for a severe wound received at Huertgen Forest .
Ernest Borgnine - US Navy. Gunners Mate 1c- destroyer USS Lamberton. 10 years active duty. Discharged 1941- re-enlisted after Pearl Harbor.
Fess Parker - US Navy and US Marines. Booted from pilot training for being too tall- joined Marines as a radio operator.
Forrest Tucker - US Army. Enlisted as a private- rose to Lieutenant.
Frank Sutton - US Army. Took part in 14 assault landings- including Leyte- Luzon- Bataan and Corregidor.
Fred Gwynne - US Navy. Radioman.
Gene Autry - US Army Air Corps. Crewman on transports that ferried supplies over "The Hump" in the China- Burma-India Theater.
George Gobel - Army Air Corps, taught fighter pilots in KANSAS. Johnny Carson made a big deal about it once on the Tonight Show, to which George said "the Japs didn't get past us.
George Kennedy - US Army. Enlisted after Pearl Harbor - stayed in sixteen years.
Harry Carey Jr - US Navy.
Harry Dean Stanton - US Navy. Served aboard an LST in the Battle of Okinawa.
Harvey Korman - US Navy.
Henry Fonda - US Navy. Destroyer USS Satterlee.
Hugh O'Brian - US Marines.
Jack Klugman - US Army.
Jack Palance - US Army Air Corps. Severely injured bailing out of a burning B-24 bomber.
Jack Warden - US Navy- 1938-1942- then US Army- 1942-1945. 101st Airborne Division.
Jackie Coogan - US Army Air Corps. Volunteered for gliders and flew troops and materials into Burma behind enemy lines.
James Arness - US Army. As an infantryman- he was severely wounded at Anzio - Italy.
James Gregory - US Navy and US Marines.
James Stewart - US Army Air Corps. Bomber pilot who rose to the rank of General.
Jason Robards - US Navy. was aboard heavy cruiser USS Northampton when it was sunk off Guadalcanal .
Also served on the USS Nashville during the invasion of the Philippines - surviving a kamikaze hit that caused 223 casualties.
John Carroll - US Army Air Corps. Pilot in North Africa. Broke his back in a crash.
John Wayne - Declared "4F medically unfit" due to pre-existing injuries- he nonetheless attempted to volunteer three times (Army-Navy and Film Corps.) so he gets honorable mention.
Jonathan Winters - USMC. Battleship USS Wisconsin and Carrier USS Bon
Homme Richard. Anti-aircraft gunner- Battle of Okinawa.
Karl Malden - US Army Air Corps. 8th Air Force- NCO.
Kirk Douglas - US Navy. Sub-chaser in the Pacific. Wounded in action and medically discharged.
Larry Storch - US Navy. Sub tender USS Proteus with Tony Curtis.
Lee Marvin - US Marines. Sniper. Wounded in action on Saipan. Buried in Arlington. National Cemetery - Sec. 7A next to Greg Boyington and Joe Louis.
Lee Van Cleef - US Navy. Served aboard a sub chaser then a mine sweeper.
Mel Brooks - US Army. Combat Engineer. Saw action in the Battle of the Bulge.
Mickey Rooney - US Army under Patton. Bronze Star.
Mickey Spillane - US Army Air Corps- Fighter Pilot and later Instructor Pilot.
Neville Brand - US Army- Europe . Was awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart.
Norman Fell - US Army Air Corps.- Tail Gunner- Pacific Theater.
Pat Hingle - US Navy. Destroyer USS Marshall.
Paul Newman - US Navy Rear seat gunner/ radioman- torpedo bombers of USS Bunker Hill.
Peter Graves - US Army Air Corps.
Randolph Scott - Tried to enlist in the Marines but was rejected due to injuries sustained in US Army, World War I.
Robert Altman - US Army Air Corps. B-24 Co-Pilot.
Robert Mitchum - US Army.
Robert Montgomery - US Navy.
Robert Preston - US Army Air Corps. Intelligence Officer.
Robert Ryan - US Marines.
Robert Stack - US Navy. Gunnery Officer.
Robert Taylor - US Navy. Instructor Pilot.
Rock Hudson - US Navy. Aircraft mechanic- the Philippines.
Rod Serling - US Army. 11th Airborne Division in the Pacific. He jumped at Tagaytay in the Philippines and was later wounded in Manila.
Rod Steiger - US Navy. Was aboard one of the ships that launched the Doolittle Raid.
Ronald Reagan - US Army. Was a 2nd Lt. in the Cavalry Reserves before the war. His poor eyesight kept him from being sent overseas with his unit when war came so he transferred to the Army Air Corps Public Relations Unit where he served for the duration.
Russell Johnson - US Army Air Corps. B-24 crewman who was awarded Purple Heart when his aircraft was shot down by the Japanese in the Philippines.
Soupy Sales - US Navy. Served on USS Randall in the South Pacific.
Sterling Hayden - US Marines and OSS. Smuggled guns into Yugoslavia and parachuted into Croatia. Silver Star.
Steve Forrest - US Army. Wounded- Battle of the Bulge.
Steve Reeves - US Army - Philippines.
Ted Knight - US Army- Combat Engineers.
Telly Savalas - US Army.
Tom Bosley - US Navy.
Tony Curtis - US Navy. Sub tender USS Proteus. In Tokyo Bay for the surrender of Japan.
Tyrone Power - US Marines. Transport pilot in the Pacific Theater.
Victor Mature - US Coast Guard.
Walter Matthau - US Army Air Corps.- B-24 Radioman/Gunner and cryptographer.
Wayne Morris - US Navy fighter pilot- USS Essex. Downed seven Japanese fighters.
William Holden - US Army Air Corps.
William Conrad - US Army Air Corps. Fighter Pilot.
And of course we have Audie Murphy, America's most-decorated soldier, who became a Hollywood star as a result of his US Army service that included his being awarded the Medal of Honor. Would someone please remind me again how many of today's Hollywood elite, sports celebs and politicians put their careers on hold to enlist for service in Iraq or Afghanistan?
The only one who even comes close was Pat Tillman, who turned down a contract offer of $3.6 million over three years from the Arizona Cardinals to enlist in the US Army after Sept, 11, 2001 and serve as a Ranger in Afghanistan, where he died in 2004. But rather than being lauded for his choice and his decision to put his country before his career, he was mocked and derided by many of his peers.
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Hillary Clinton to be Indicted on Federal Racketeering Charges
By Frank Huguenard
Activity considered to be racketeering may include bribery, counterfeiting, money laundering, embezzlement, illegal gambling, kidnapping, murder, drug trafficking, slavery, and a host of other nefarious business practices.
James Comey and The FBI will present a recommendation to Loretta Lynch, Attorney General of the Department of Justice, that includes a cogent argument that the Clinton Foundation is an ongoing criminal enterprise engaged in money laundering and soliciting bribes in exchange for political, policy and legislative favors to individuals, corporations and even governments both foreign and domestic.
“The New York Times examined Bill Clinton’s relationship with a Canadian mining financier, Frank Giustra, who has donated millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation and sits on its board. Clinton, the story suggests, helped Giustra’s company secure a lucrative uranium-mining deal in Kazakhstan and in return received “a flow of cash” to the Clinton Foundation, including previously undisclosed donations from the company’s chairman totaling $2.35 million.”
Bloomberg Politics
Initially, Comey had indicated that the investigation into Hillary’s home brewed email server was to be concluded by October of 2015. However, as more and more evidence in the case has come to light, this initial date kept being pushed back as the criminal investigation has expanded well beyond violating State Department regulations to include questions about espionage, perjury and influence peddling.
Here’s what we do know. Tens of millions of dollars donated to the Clinton Foundation was funneled to the organization through a Canadian shell company which has made tracing the donors nearly impossible. Less than 10% of donations to the Foundation has actually been released to charitable organizations and $2M that has been traced back to long time Bill Clinton friend Julie McMahon (aka The Energizer). When the official investigation into Hillary’s email server began, she instructed her IT professional to delete over 30,000 emails and cloud backups of her emails older than 30 days at both Platte River Networks and Datto, Inc. The FBI has subsequently recovered the majority, if not all, of Hillary’s deleted emails and are putting together a strong case against her for attempting to cover up her illegal and illicit activities.
A conviction under RICO comes when the Department of Justice proves that the defendant has engaged in two or more examples of racketeering and that the defendant maintained an interest in, participated in or invested in a criminal enterprise affecting interstate or foreign commerce. There is ample evidence already in the public record that the Clinton Foundation qualifies as a criminal enterprise and there’s no doubt that the FBI is privy to significantly more evidence than has already been made public.
Under RICO, the sections most relevant in this case will be section 1503 (obstruction of justice), section 1510 (obstruction of criminal investigations) and section 1511 (obstruction of State or local law enforcement). As in the case with Richard Nixon after the Watergate Break-in, it’s the cover-up of a crime that will be the Clintons’ downfall. Furthermore, under provisions of title 18, United States Code: Section 201, the Clinton Foundation can be held accountable for improprieties relating to bribery. The FBI will be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that through the Clinton Foundation, international entities were able to commit bribery in exchange for help in securing business deals, such as the uranium-mining deal in Kazakhstan.
It is a Federal Crime to negligently handle classified information under United States Code (USC) 18 section 1924. It is a Federal Class A Felony under USC 18 section 798. Hillary certified under oath to a federal judge that she had handed over to the state department all of her emails, which she clearly did not. In spite of her repeated statements to the effect that everything that she did with her home brewed email server as Secretary of State was above-board and approved by the State Department, the Inspector General Report vehemently refutes this claim. Hillary refused to be interview by the Inspector General’s office in their investigation, claiming that her upcoming FBI interview took precedent but it seems more likely that Hillary is more concerned about committing perjury or admitting to anything that can be used against her in a court of law.
“Secretary Clinton should have preserved any Federal records she created and received on her personal account by printing and filing those records with the related files in the Office of the Secretary. At a minimum, Secretary Clinton should have surrendered all emails dealing with Department business before leaving government service and, because she did not do so, she did not comply with the Department’s policies that were implemented in accordance with the Federal Records Act.”
Inspector General Report
Hillary Clinton is guilty of exposing classified documents to foreign governments by placing them illegally on her server, of sending and receiving classified documents and conspiring with her staff to circumvent the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by avoiding the use of the State Department run servers. Some of the documents were so highly classified the the investigators on the case weren’t even able to examine the material themselves until they got their own clearances raised to the highest levels.
While there is an excellent cast to be made the Hillary committed treasonous actions, the strongest case the FBI has is charging both Bill and Hillary Clinton as well as the Clinton Foundation of Racketeering. There’s no wonder why it’s taken this long for the FBI to bring forward a recommendation. The rabbit hole is so deep on this one that it has taking dozens of investigators to determine the full extent of the crimes that have been committed. Perhaps the most interesting question here is whether or not the FBI’s investigation will be able to directly link The Clinton Foundation with The Hillary Victory Fund. If this happens, the DNC itself may be in jeopardy of accusations of either being an accomplice or of being complicit in racketeering.
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By Thomas Sowell
Facts are seldom allowed to contaminate the beautiful vision of the left.
What matters to the true believers are the ringing slogans, endlessly
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By Post Editorial Board
Mark this as the year the Democratic Party turned decisively anti-Israel.
The party’s ever-more-dominant liberal base has turned increasingly against the Jewish state — while Bernie Sanders is using his movement to push for Israel-bashing language in the platform.
And Israel’s remaining Democratic friends are afraid to speak up.
A new Pew Research Poll discloses that, for the first time ever, more self-proclaimed liberal Democrats sympathize with the Palestinians than with Israel.
As recently as 2001, this group favored Israel by 48 percent to 10 percent. Today, 40 percent say they’re pro-Palestinian to just 33 percent favoring Israel. In just the past two years, support for the Palestinians has nearly doubled.
But the trend’s been building for years. The initial 2012 Democratic platform, recall, dropped long-standing language declaring Jerusalem Israel’s capital.
When embarrassed party officials tried to reinstate that clause on the convention floor, they were met with raucous boos from the delegates. They gaveled the measure through as passed — even though it clearly hadn’t.
Now Sanders — who has regularly denounced Israeli policies — has used three of his five picks for the 2016 platform committee to name outspokenly harsh critics of Israel.
Their proposed Middle East platform plank will surely be hostile to Israel. Will Hillary Clinton push back?
Maybe not: She wants to avoid any public convention fights. Indeed, her own committee pick, Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.), says he sees room in the platform for more avowedly pro-Palestinian language on “their hope for justice.”
But even if Hillary does choose to stand up for her own professed commitment to Israel, will the convention delegates follow?
New York’s Sen. Chuck Schumer is an avowed friend of Israel — yet he’s clearly unwilling to buck his party’s tide. Otherwise, he’d have actually fought to stop President Obama’s lunatic Iran deal, rather than declaring his opposition . . . and then going mute.
All this, even as the Pew poll shows support for Israel growing among every other ideological group — not just conservative Republicans, where pro-Israel sentiment is overwhelming, but also moderate/liberal GOP'ers and conservative/moderate Democrats.
It’s beyond depressing to see liberal Democrats breaking ranks with the rest of America — and pressing to destroy a seven-decade bipartisan pro-Israel consensus.
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Op-Ed: Blaming the victim, Part I
How Israel is blamed, instead of praised, for not capitulating to Arab demands.
“I told him that peace in the Middle East was in his hands, that he had a unique opportunity to either bring it into being or kill it….” (U.S. President Jimmy Carter to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin) [1]
Blaming Israel is a common practice in the media and in the West. In a conversation with Professor Graham Allison, at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry attributed the escalation in violence in Israel in 2016 to the “massive increase in settlements over the course of the last years. Now you have this violence because there’s a frustration that is growing.” He feared that “unless we get going, a two-state solution could conceivably be stolen from everybody.” [2]
Kerry’s public rebuke provides the Palestinian Arabs with the justification to pursue their random stabbings, stoning and car-rammings, which they consider to be an inalienable right. The Palestinian Authority is even seeking international recognition for the "right" to kill Israelis. Itamar Marcus, founder and director of Palestinian Media Watch, reports that the PA asserts “it has the right to kill Israeli civilians, and they quote UN resolution 3236 of 1974 which ‘recognizes the right of the Palestinian people to regain its rights by all means.’ The PA interprets ‘all means’ as including violence and killing of civilians.”
Marcus points out the PA deliberately ignores the rest of the resolution that declares “the use of ‘all means’ should be ‘in accordance with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations...’ The UN Charter forbids targeting civilians, even in war. [3]
For Kerry, Netanyahu and Israel are the problem. Only pressuring the Israelis will bring about a resolution to the conflict. That the Arabs have never accepted a two-state solution for religious and political reasons has not deterred American administrations from pursuing this fantasy. So long as they deny the independent nation-state status of Israel as a Jewish state, they are the root cause of a dispute that they make inherently impossible to be international in nature, thereby unresolvable under international auspices. Only when the Palestinian Arabs are willing to recognize the right of the Jews to their ancestral homeland, can there be any hope of resolving this dispute.”[4]
Though there has been continual expansion in population in Judea and Samaria, the majority of that increase is in areas–such as Ma’ale Adumim–that Israel will retain in any final peace agreement.
At a press briefing in Washington, D.C., State Department spokesman John Kirby reinforced Muslim fears about Israel’s intention to assume control of the Temple Mount, when he claimed “The status quo [on the Temple Mount] has not been observed, which has led to a lot of the violence.” After a number of Israeli and Jordanian officials protested, Kirby clarified his earlier remarks: “I did not intend to suggest that status quo at Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif has been broken. We welcome both Israel’s & Jordan’s commitment to continued maintenance of status quo at Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif.” [5]
When asked about the reports that Israel used excessive force in fighting the terrorism, Kirby responded “we’ve certainly seen some reports of what many would consider excessive use of force. Obviously, we don’t like to see that, and we want to see restrictions that are elevated in this time of violence to be as temporary as possible if they have to be enacted.” He then launched into the standard statement of moral equivalence. “What we want to see, though… is for both sides… to take the leadership responsibilities of calling for calm, maintaining that calm, and being able to restore a sense of normalcy so that people can get on with their lives safely and not have to worry, but also so that we can really begin to have again a meaningful discussion towards a two-state solution – which we continue to believe is the outcome that is – that’s best for the people there in the region.” [6]
Invoking moral equivalence provides an additional excuse for Palestinian Arab attacks, which their government avows is beyond their ability to restrain. “If the Israeli government continues with this escalation of this dangerous method of executions, the region will be in a position that cannot be controlled,” declared Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian
Authority. [7] Writing in The New York Post, Michael Goodwin said this statement reminded him of an interview he had in September 2000 in Ramallah with Nabil Amr, a Palestinian Arab official close to Yasser Arafat: “Amr repeated a version of what was a mantra in the 75-minute interview: There are these groups that we cannot control. The message was clear: Don’t blame the Palestinians if terrorists return to their deadly business. Blame only the Israelis for refusing to surrender themselves and their country.”
“Nothing has changed” since that interview Goodwin noted. “As The Times story showed, the Palestinians are still threatening violence, even as they wash their hands of responsibility by saying it cannot be ‘controlled.’”
“Don’t blame us for anything,” they assert. “Everything is Israel’s fault. If Arabs kill Jews, the Jews had it coming. More incredibly, the Palestinians have been rewarded for their treachery. Although Bill Clinton later blamed Arafat for the collapse of the 2000 talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, he later softened his criticism. And the murderous intifada that followed earned Israel more international condemnation and Palestinians more sympathy.” [8]
Elliott Abrams, a senior fellow for Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former deputy national security advisor in the George W. Bush administration, responded to the secretary of state by saying “Kerry does not know what he is talking about…He seems to believe that the real culprits, when Palestinians stab Israelis to death, are people who build a new housing unit in a settlement.”
Though there has been continual expansion in population in Judea and Samaria, the majority of that increase is in areas–such as Ma’ale Adumim–that Israel will retain in any final peace agreement. “Kerry’s imprecision is another problem,” Abrams said. “Does he mean there has been a massive increase in the number of settlements? That’s flatly false. Does he mean a massive increase in settlement size, as existing settlements expand physically? That’s also flatly false. The so-called ‘peace map’ or ‘Google Earth map’ of the West Bank has changed very little.”[9]
At another point, Kerry warned “if … peace talks fail, “there’s an increasing delegitimization campaign that’s been building up [against Israel]. People are very sensitive to it. There are talks of boycotts and other kinds of things.” He quoted Gidi Grinstein, the founder of the Reut Institute, an Israeli nonprofit that focuses on issues related to Israel and world Jewry, who asserts that if Israel is not viewed as seriously dedicated to ending her control over the Palestinian Arabs in Judea and Samaria, Israel will have to contend with a “massive eruption of the B.D.S. movement,” and further alienate American Jews. This will lead to “turning Israel from a force of unity for Jews to a force of disunity.” [10]. Proof that this will lead to a rift within the American Jewish community is not provided.
A number of Israeli ministers and American Jewish leaders condemned Kerry for trying to use BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) “as a club to pressure Israel into making more concessions.” [11] Likud Knesset member Tzipi Hotovely complained that “Kerry’s unprecedented threats of a boycott are an attempt to terrorize Israel.” Danny Danon, deputy defense minister, protested that Kerry was placing a gun to Israel’s head. [12]
The secretary of state’s claim that Israelis’ “sense of security” precluded them from any urgency to start negotiations with the Palestinian Arabs is outrageous, baseless and absolves the Arabs from being intransigent. Before meeting with then Israeli President Shimon Peres, Kerry told reporters that “I think there is an opportunity [for peace], but for many reasons it’s not on the tips of everyone’s tongue. People in Israel aren’t waking up every day and wondering if tomorrow there will be peace because there is a sense of security and a sense of accomplishment and of prosperity.”[13]
Kerry wanted to seize the opportunity now since "Over the horizon… one can see the challenges," that make it essential "to resolve this at this moment, when there is a willingness for people to look for a way [to achieve an agreement]." [14].
Shoshana Bryen, Senior Director of The Jewish Policy Center, interpreted Kerry’s remarks as meaning Israel “should feel a pressing imperative to dump King Abdullah and cut a deal with a Palestinian polity that is bifurcated between a kleptocratic, autocratic, openly anti-Semitic West Bank ruled by a man whose sole elected term ended in 2009, and a corrupt, Islamist, Gaza ruled by terrorist-worshipping, Iranian-sponsored Hamas.” [15]
Bryen suggested that “under those circumstances, the U.S. would do better to tell the Palestinians that there is no deal to be had unless they – both factions – demonstrably accommodate the reality that Israel is a legitimate, permanent part of the region. Otherwise, it is for Israel to determine how best to defend itself from those "challenges over the horizon." [16]
A Response to Arab Incitement
Abrams suggests there are a number of responses to Arab incitement that, while “not panaceas… are better than what we usually do—which is very little or nothing.” The Palestine Liberation Organization office in Washington should be closed until the incitement ceases. Second, if all funding to the Palestinian Authority cannot be ended, at least illegal personal funding should stop. The U.S. can require that before using appropriated funds, there be a way to determine how they will be spent. Third, we should determine which individuals are involved in the incitement, and ban them from obtaining visas for a period of time. [17]
Another essential weapon against Palestinian Arab provocation is Shurat HaDin, Israel Law Center, an Israeli non-profit NGO, whose director Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, an Israeli attorney, uses the courts in litigation against groups and individuals it accuses of advocating terrorism or being "Israel's enemies. To combat what Israeli security forces call "The Facebook Intifada," Shurat HaDin, is enlisting the Israeli public to participate in a class action suit against the global Facebook website, called “Suing Facebook – Cutting off Terrorism,” for “incitement and encouragement of violence against Israelis.” Twenty thousand Israeli citizens have been recruited.
Shurat HaDin has discovered “The terrorists do not come on their own. They write posts and encourage their friends to kill Jews. Facebook has been transformed into an anti-Semitic incubator for murder.” The organization expects to “obtain an injunction against Facebook to remove these inciting pages, a court order directing Facebook to monitor these methods of incitement and block them and to place the responsibility on Facebook for allowing these terrorists on their network.” [18]
Footnotes
[1] Jimmy Carter, Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President (New York: Bantam Books, 1982), 313.
[2] “Conversation With Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Professor Graham Allison,” U.S. Department of State (October 13, 2015);” Kerry planning Mideast visit as US faces pressure to calm violence in Israel,” Fox News(October 14, 2015);Chaim Levinson, “Is Netanyahu responsible for rise in settler numbers?” Haaretz (October 14, 2015); Barak Ravid, “Netanyahu: Settlement Construction Has Dropped Under My Watch,” Haaretz(October 20, 2015); for this obsession with the settlements see, Jeffrey Goldberg, “The Crisis in U.S.-Israel Relations is officially Here,” The Atlantic (October 28, 2014); Jeffrey Goldberg, “Obama to Israel -- Time Is Running Out,” Bloomberg View (March 2, 2014).
[3] Itamar Marcus, “PA seeks international recognition for "right" to kill Israelis,” Palestinian Media Watch (April 21, 2016).
[4] Jonathan S. Tobin, “Why Kerry Keeps Blaming Israel,” Commentary (October 14, 2015); Aaron David Miller, “Four Things That Aren’t Helping the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” The Wall Street Journal (August 14, 2015); Daniel Pipes, “The One-Minute Guide to Obama's Foreign Policy,” National Review(October 13, 2015); Dennis Ross,Doomed To Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015); 393-395; “The U.S. quarrel with Israel,” The Washington Post (March 16, 2010); Alex Grobman, “What The Arabs Are Saying About Israel,” Gatestone (August 14, 2009); Mordechai Nisan, “The Two-State Delusion,” Volume 21 Number 1 Middle East Quarterly (Winter 2014); “Netanyahu's response to Arab MK who said Arabs were here first,” Israel Hayom (August 1, 2013); Jonathan Schanzer, State of Failure: Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Unmaking of the Palestinian State (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2013); Arieh Stav, Ed, Israel and a Palestinian State: Zero Sum Game? (Shaarei Tikva, Israel: Zmora-Bitan Publishers, 2001); Yitzhak Reiter, “All of Palestine is Holy Waqf Land,” A Myth and Its Roots,” Law, Custom and Statute in the Muslim World, Ron Shaham, Ed. (Boston, Massachusetts: Brill, 2007), 173; Bernard Lewis, “On The Jewish Question,” The Wall Street Journal(November 26, 2007): A21; Barak Ravid, “How Tony Blair and Egypt's Sissi Tried to Push Zionist Union Into Netanyahu's Coalition,” Haaretz (May 18, 2016).
[5] John Kirby Spokesperson Daily Press Briefing Washington, DC (October 14, 2015) http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2015/10/248215.htm; Barak Ravid, “U.S. State Department Retracts Claim That Temple Mount Status Quo Was Violated,” Haaretz (October 15, 2015); “Libel: Israel to destroy Al-Aqsa Mosque,” Palestinian Media Watch (April 2016); Lela Gilbert, “The Temple Mount – Outrageous Lies and Escalating Dangers,” The Hudson Institute (September 21, 2015).
[6] Kirby Spokesperson Daily Press Briefing, op.cit; Michael Wilner, “US walks back criticism of Israel security response to terror wave,” The Jerusalem Post(October 15, 2015); Khaled Abu Toameh, “Abbas Accuses Israel of ‘Aggressive Offensive’ Despite Day of Palestinian Terror Attacks,” The Jerusalem Post(October 14, 2015); Rory Jones, “Israelis Urged to Show Restraint in Face of Escalating Violence,” The Wall Street Journal (October 20, 2015).
[7] Isabel Kershner and Jodi Rudoren, “Attacks by Palestinians Kill 3 Israelis and Wound More Than 20,” The New York Times (October 13, 2015).
[8] Michael Goodwin, “Why the US ‘blames the victim’ for Arab violence in Israel,” The New York Post (October 14, 2015); “Team Obama winks at incitement against Israelis,” The New York Post (October 14, 2015); Jodi Rudoren, “The Dueling Narratives of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” The New York Times (October 27, 2015).
[9] Elliott Abrams, “Kerry Links Palestinian Terror to Settlement Expansion,” Council for Foreign Relations, (October 14, 2015); Joseph Klein, “Blaming the Victims of the Palestinian Death Cult,” Frontpagemag (October 15, 2015); Jay Michaelson “Who Can We Blame for the Bloodshed and Despair in Israel?”Forward (October 16, 2015).
[10] Thomas L. Friedman, “Israel’s Big Question,” The New York Times (February 11, 2014), Caroline Glick, “Answering John Kerry,” The Jerusalem Post(December 7, 2015); Gidi Grinstein, Flexigidity: The Secret of Jewish Adaptability and the Challenge and Opportunity Facing Israel (Tel-Aviv: Gidi Grinstein Publisher, 2013), 174- 178, 215-217.
[11] Friedman, “Israel Big Question,” op.cit.
[12] William Booth, “Israeli leaders cry foul over Kerry’s boycott warning,” The Washington Post (February 2, 2014).
[13] Aaron Kalman, “Kerry: Israeli ‘prosperity’ prevents sense of urgency about peace,” The Times of Israel (May 23, 2013); Shoshana Bryen, “U.S.: Israel’s Prosperity a Problem,” Gatestone Institute (May 24, 2013).
[14] Kalman, op.cit.
[15] Bryen, op.cit; for an insightful article on the corruption of the PA, please see: Arnold Roth, “25-May-16: Wall-to-wall agreement at last: The Pal Arab kleptocrats and the devastation they wreak,” This Ongoing War A Blog (May 25, 2016) and Karin Laub and Mohammed Daraghmeh, “In tough times, most Palestinians view government as corrupt,” Associated Press (May 24, 2016).
[16] Bryen, op.cit.
[17] Elliot Abrams, “Words Have Consequences: Palestinian Authority Incitement to Violence,” The Council on Foreign Relations (October 22, 2015); Barak Ravid, “Israeli national security adviser: PA could collapse if Israel withholds tax funds,” Haaretz (December 8, 2014); Doron Peskin, “Abbas and the Mysterious Multi-Billion Dollar Fund,Ynet (October 19, 2015); Gabe Kahn, “PA Official: PLO Corruption Dates Back to 1964,” Israel National News (January 2, 2012); Julian Pecquet, “US sends 'message' to Abbas with $80 million aid cut,” Al-Monitor (October 22, 2015).
[18] “Suing Facebook – Disconnecting Terror,” Shurat HaDin (October 15, 2015); http://israellawcenter.org/about/overview/; Michael E. Miller, “Does Facebook share responsibility for an American peace activist’s brutal murder in Israel?” The Washington Post (October 30, 2015).
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