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Jul 18,2008
Israeli historian Benny Morris games out an Israeli attack on Iran and its aftermath, which might include nuclear exchanges between Israel and Iran, in an Op-Ed piece in Friday’s New York Times: “Should Israel’s conventional assault fail to significantly harm or stall the Iranian program, a ratcheting up of the Iranian-Israeli conflict to a nuclear level will most likely follow.”
The University of Chicago’s Raja Kamel offers her argument against a U.S. attack on Iran in a column in the Chicago Tribune. She says an attack would prompt sharply increased Iranian hostility toward the U.S., a ratcheting up of Iranian-sponsored extremist activity in Iraq, restriction of oil flow in the Strait of Hormuz and another war between Israel and Iran’s proxy militia in Lebanon, Hezbollah.
Israeli Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz, the Israeli government point person for talks with the U.S. on Iran, sits down with the Jerusalem Post and again warns that Israel ultimately may have to resort to a military strike against Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons facilities.
The Post report also bizarrely says Mofaz “stands a good chance of becoming prime minister shortly after September’s Kadima primary.” What polls are they reading? He barely has a shot. Ha’aretz’s Yossi Verter puts his money on Benjamin Netanyahu, the Likud opposition leader and former PM.
Jul 18,2008
Actually, that doesn’t sound so bad, all things considered. Compared with Morris, Kamel seems downright upbeat.
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Uriel,
JPost is saying that Mofaz has a chance to become PM after the Kadima primary, which is in Sept.
The JPost is talking about the party primary and not the General Election.
If and when the general election is held down the road, Kadima would most likely lose to Likud. Then Netanyahu would be PM.
Having grown up with Moslems I know the only thing they understand is a bomb on their head-they percieve anything else as weakness,,,,,,,,,and the sooner the better
NO PALESTINIAN STATE – No land concessions R4.
Imagine that the various people who settled in the United States for the past 300 years decided one day that they one to parcel the United States into an independent State just for them, would the American public go for it. The Answer is absolutely NO.
The situation in Israel today is no different. The Arabs there are not Palestinians, there is no such Arab nation as Palestine or Palestinian people.
Europeans countries today are consisting of numerous people from other countries. Would the Europeans people cede part of their country to set up another State in their midst. The answer is absolutely NO.
All the Arabs in Israel and surrounding areas are from the various Arab nations, such as Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon and other Arab nations.
Prominent PLO Arab says there are no ‘Palestinians’ and no “Palestine”
PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein admitted in a March 31, 1977 interview with a Dutch newspaper Trouw.
“The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism. ”
The Qur’an 17:104 - states the land belongs to the Jewish people
If the historic documents, comments written by eyewitnesses and declarations by the most authoritative Arab scholars are still not enough, let us quote the most important source for Muslim Arabs:
“And thereafter we [Allah] said to the Children of Israel: ‘Dwell securely in the Promised Land. And when the last warning will come to pass, we will gather you together in a mingled crowd’.”.
017.104
YUSUFALI: And We said thereafter to the Children of Israel, “Dwell securely in the land (of promise)”: but when the second of the warnings came to pass, We gathered you together in a mingled crowd.
PICKTHAL: And We said unto the Children of Israel after him: Dwell in the land; but when the promise of the Hereafter cometh to pass We shall bring you as a crowd gathered out of various nations.
SHAKIR: And We said to the Israelites after him: Dwell in the land: and when the promise of the next life shall come to pass, we will bring you both together in judgment.
- Qur’an 17:104 -
Any sincere Muslim must recognize the Land they call “Palestine” as the Jewish Homeland, according to the book considered by Muslims to be the most sacred word and Allah’s ultimate revelation.
Sequence of historical events, agreements and a non-broken series of treaties and resolutions, as laid out by the San Remo Resolution, the League of Nations and the United Nations, gives the Jewish People title to the city of Jerusalem and the rest of Israel totaling approximately 45,000 square miles, as mandated by the League of Nations in July of 1922. The process began at San Remo, Italy, when the four Principal Allied Powers of World War I - Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan - agreed to create a Jewish national home in what is now the Land of Israel. (You might as well break apart Syria which was mandated at the same time).
Jay Draiman.
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20 Years of Research Reveals Jerusalem Belongs to Jews
by Hillel Fendel
(IsraelNN.com) Jacques Gauthier, a non-Jewish Canadian lawyer who spent 20 years researching the legal status of Jerusalem, has concluded: “Jerusalem belongs to the Jews, by international law.”.
Gauthier has written a doctoral dissertation on the topic of Jerusalem and its legal history, based on international treaties and resolutions of the past 90 years. The dissertation runs some 1,300 pages, with 3,000 footnotes. Gauthier had to present his thesis to a world-famous Jewish historian and two leading international lawyers - the Jewish one of whom has represented the Palestinian Authority on numerous occasions.
Gauthier’s main point, as summarized by Israpundit editor Ted Belman, is that a non-broken series of treaties and resolutions, as laid out by the San Remo Resolution, the League of Nations and the United Nations, gives the Jewish People title to the city of Jerusalem. The process began at San Remo, Italy, when the four Principal Allied Powers of World War I - Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan - agreed to create a Jewish national home in what is now the Land of Israel.
We must unleash the wrath of G-D against the enemies of Israel and those collaborating with the enemy.
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