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Netanyahu Warns Obama on Talks as He Challenges Livni
Jonathan Ferziger and Hans Nichols
Bloomberg
Monday, Feb 9, 2009
Even before Benjamin Netanyahu finds out whether he will be Israel’s next prime minister, he is sending a message to President Barack Obama that he won’t be pushed around.
Netanyahu, the Likud party candidate who narrowly leads Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni ahead of elections tomorrow, last week took reporters to Arab parts of Jerusalem, where he helped establish Jewish footholds when he was previously prime minister. No pressure, he said, would make him cede those neighborhoods “to our enemies.”
Just as he confounded former President Bill Clinton in the 1990s, Netanyahu probably will resist if Obama pushes too hard to extract Israeli concessions for peace in the Middle East.
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“He’s extremely effective politically, unbelievably smart and relentlessly suspicious when it comes to the Arabs and the Americans,” says former U.S. negotiator Aaron David Miller, author of “The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace.”
Livni, leading the ruling Kadima party, has campaigned on the need to continue peace talks and compromise with the Palestinians. She would likely have a more harmonious relationship with Obama — if she were able to cobble together enough support to form a governing coalition consistent with her views. That isn’t certain, given the decline in polls of the Labor Party, Kadima’s coalition partner, which advocates Palestinian statehood.
“A Livni coalition would be so fragile that it wouldn’t be able to take any decisive steps with the Palestinians and stay in power,” says Roni Bart, a researcher at Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies.
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February 9th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Perhaps this behavior will present reality to America and America will start looking at IsRaEl as a competing rather than a cooperative country.
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February 9th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
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Silent Exodus of Jewish Refugees
More than a million Jews were expelled from Arab and Muslim countries between 1948 and 1974, without asking for compensation or the right to return. Pierre Rehov’s “Silent Exodus”, is a tribute to their tragedy.
Ken Reply:
February 10th, 2009 at 10:04 am
9/11 = Israel
How many of you know that ONLY (5) Israelis died on 9/11?
1 Israeli = on 1st plane to hit North tower
1 Israeli = on 2nd plane to hit South tower
2 Israelis = Inside WTC
1 Israeli = WTC Janitor with keys
EXAMPLE that 9/11 was an inside job:
Stand up straight. Hold (2) 20lb sacks of bulls---, 1 over your head and 1 outstretched over thin air. Now drop both sacks of bulls--- until you can get the one over your head to fall through your body at the same speed as the one through thin air. Good luck. It is bulls---.
1. Zionists own the Federal Reserve and Bank of London
2. Zionists own the Media
3. Zionists have done multiple False Flag Ops against America in the past 50 years
4. Zionists are the Official Propagandists that are spreading lies
5. Zionists did 9/11 and were all over the place on 9/11. Hundreds arrested.
6. Zionists overthrow/control Monarchs like in England or Russia
7. Zionists generate hate from one race to another but never against their own
8. Zionists are in charge of Educational Propaganda
9. Zionists continue to use the Holocaust HOAX just like they use the 9/11 FALSE FLAG
10. Zionism is BOTH a RELIGIOUS CULT and a RACE CULT. The most evil forms of Bigotry known to man.
Ken Reply:
February 10th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
I finally woke up when I read this!
jcpa dot org/phas/phas-sharansky-f04 dot htm
3D Test of Anti-Semitism: Demonization, Double Standards, Delegitimization
Foreword of JPSR Issue Natan Sharansky
When I was a dissident in the former Soviet Union, one of my regular activities was monitoring anti-Semitism, and smuggling out evidence and records of such activity to the West. I believed then that the free world, particularly after the Holocaust, would always be a staunch ally in the struggle against anti-Semitism.
Unfortunately, I was wrong. Today, as a minister in the Israeli government in charge of monitoring anti-Semitism, I find myself regularly summoning the ambassadors of West European states to protest anti-Semitic attacks on Jews in their countries and the often meek response of their governments.
Over the past four years, we have witnessed a resurgence of anti- Semitic activity in the democratic world. In Europe, synagogues have been burned, rabbis have been abused in the streets, Jewish children have been physically attacked on the way to school and inside schools, and Jewish cemeteries have been desecrated.
Recognizing the “New Anti-Semitism”
Moreover, the so-called “new anti-Semitism” poses a unique challenge. Whereas classical anti-Semitism is aimed at the Jewish people or the Jewish religion, “new anti-Semitism” is aimed at the Jewish state. Since this anti-Semitism can hide behind the veneer of legitimate criticism of Israel, it is more difficult to expose. Making the task even harder is that this hatred is advanced in the name of values most of us would consider unimpeachable, such as human rights.
Nevertheless, we must be clear and outspoken in exposing the new anti-Semitism. I believe that we can apply a simple test – I call it the “3D” test – to help us distinguish legitimate criticism of Israel from anti-Semitism.
The first “D” is the test of demonization. When the Jewish state is being demonized; when Israel’s actions are blown out of all sensible proportion; when comparisons are made between Israelis and Nazis and between Palestinian refugee camps and Auschwitz – this is anti- Semitism, not legitimate criticism of Israel.
The second “D” is the test of double standards. When criticism of Israel is applied selectively; when Israel is singled out by the United Nations for human rights abuses while the behavior of known and major abusers, such as China, Iran, Cuba, and Syria, is ignored; when Israel’s Magen David Adom, alone among the world’s ambulance services, is denied admission to the International Red Cross – this is anti-Semitism.
The third “D” is the test of delegitimization: when Israel’s fundamental right to exist is denied – alone among all peoples in the world – this too is anti-Semitism.
The Rise of Arab and Islamic Anti-Semitism
I am particularly concerned about the constant and growing stream of anti-Semitic propaganda from the Arab and Muslim world – including propaganda that is genocidal in nature against both Jews and the State of Israel. This should be of grave concern, not only to Israel and Jews but to men and women of good conscience everywhere. Such venom defiles the Middle East and the international climate of discourse, and makes it possible for unabashed Jew-hatred to be expressed with impunity.
Earlier this year, my office published a 150-page report on “Anti- Semitism in the Contemporary Middle East.” The study surveys anti- Semitic reporting, editorials, and editorial caricatures in the government- controlled press of Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf states. In the more than one hundred editorial cartoons included in this report, Jews and Israelis are invariably represented as poisonous snakes, murderous Nazis, and bloodthirsty Crusaders.
We found that vicious anti-Semitism which expressly calls for massive terrorism and genocide against Jews, Zionists, and the State of Israel is becoming more and more commonplace across the Arab Middle East. Moreover, the borders between anti-Semitism, anti- Americanism, and anti-Westernism have become almost completely blurred. The overwhelming majority of this propaganda is issued from the government-controlled media and from supposedly respectable publishing houses closely tied to the Arab regimes.
There is a direct link between the laxity with which countries have responded – or not responded – to growing Arab/Islamic anti- Semitism and the sharp increase in physical and verbal attacks on Jews and Israelis globally.
I recognize that there have been positive developments in the fight against anti-Semitism over the past year or so. The Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has held several meetings on fighting anti-Semitism, and for the first time ever the UN Commission on Human Rights condemned anti-Semitism in three separate resolutions, which were adopted by consensus.
But these important initiatives are not sufficient to combat state-sponsored anti-Semitism, especially of the Arab/Islamic variety described above. For real progress to be made, the free world must be willing to not only publicly and forcefully condemn this anti-Semitism, but also to pursue a policy of linkage against states that support anti- Semitism.
The Need for a Linkage Policy
The effectiveness of a policy based on linkage was powerfully demonstrated a generation ago after a group of dissidents inside the Soviet Union, including myself, decided to form the Helsinki Group in the wake of the Helsinki accords – the very agreement that led to the establishment of the OSCE.
With the help of courageous leaders in the West who were willing to link their relations with the Soviets to their treatment of their own people, the Helsinki Group helped ensure that the Soviets could not take one step in the international arena without their human rights policies becoming an issue. As a result, real progress was made.
I believe that combating anti-Semitism ought to become a much more prominent issue in the bilateral relations between America and the Arab and Muslim worlds. Linkage can be used to marginalize the extremists and to encourage and support those who reject this virulent hatred.
Anti-Semitism is not a threat only to Jews. History has shown us that left unchecked, the forces behind anti-Semitism will imperil all the values and freedoms that civilization holds dear. Never again can the free world afford to sit on the sidelines when anti-Semitism dangerously emerges.
We must not let this happen. We must do everything in our power to fight anti-Semitism. Armed with moral clarity, determination, and a common purpose, this is a fight that we can and will win.
TruthSeeker Reply:
February 10th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
what a great flick
72 virgins in heaven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxZXQerkrJE
Do terrorists really believe that they will receive 72 virgins in heaven if they blow themselves among innocent women and children ? Watch those interviews from Pierre Rehov’s ” Suicide Killer…
February 9th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
SPIN
February 9th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Netanyahu warning Obama is like a pig warning a monkey not to eat Bananas! Israel warning the president, that insulting even if the president is Obama…
February 9th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
Earth to Netanyahue, if you haven’t read any newspapers lately you might not realize the USA is in a bit of a financial jam right now and since Israer gets the lion’s share of USA’s foreign aide you might want to watch your mouth.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:07 am
Netanyahu is trying to make it look like Obama MIGHT NOT DO everything he wants.
Another piece of theatre. Rothschild puppets all of them!
February 10th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Come y’all our Great allie (ask the crew of the USS Liberty) that gets billions from
the US Taxpayer as they freak out and panic and lose their homes. The Schumer
Chatti Class or is that Tribe any way why should do anything but take orders from
our dear dear friends and allies. Here is another 10 or 20 Billion OK?
February 10th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
maybe if Dov sends them ssome planes real cheap of Courses and the Federal Reserve
gives them a Trillion or so. maybe they won’t be sooooo Bosssssy. Always soooo Bossssy
Like Big Boss Man or should we say Massa.
February 10th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Yes Obama you better do what The Massa says or he might get you with his Agents here
His tribal bud seam to be everywhere in DC. Obama might need like 1 Million Secret Service.
February 10th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
I think the Isreal Flag is going up over Congress real soon. The actors are not as good as they use to be. Schumer is real pissed at the Chattering Class of Americans says they
are a Pain in the Ass. Agreee or no Bailee Outeee.
February 10th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Sure could of used some of the free 500 Billion sent down there over the years. How about
you?
February 10th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Israel and that Netanyahu nut-job never cease to amaze me. This little pipsqueak banana republic is trying to tell America what to do? They have zero grounds to demand anything from the US. Nothing, period! They rely on America’s foreign military/financial aid to survive, and they’re “demanding” this and that from America. Most of their damn military is made of “freebies” from American taxpayers. They wouldn’t have a damn thing if it wasn’t for the US.
The Israelis have lost any sense of rational thought (wait a minute I don’t think they ever had any). Insanity is their only mode of thinking. They’re a rogue state if there was ever was one.