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Ever since the defeat of the combined strength of numerous Arab countries in their vain but strident attempt to dissolve the Jewish state and her people, the world has conspired through the United Nations to replace Israel with the figment of a deranged reality known as the palestinian nation. Seek any fragment, mere mention, slightest hint, or even a wisp of smoke that pretended the existence of a palestinian nation made up of palestinian Arabs previous to June of 1967. The only entity you will find was the PLO, which, according to its own charter, was formed not to free...

No doubt PM Netanyahu would have rather spent the last 18 months in hell than to have spent it participating in the peace process under brutal pressure by the Obama administration. Come to think of it, it must have been hell. Keep in mind that Netanyahu was voted into office on a platform which denied the two-state solution. The Obama administration succeeded in forcing a dramatic change in that policy. Or did it? On June 14/09 Netanyahu delivered a speech at Bar Ilan University in which he appeared to accept a two state solution with these words, “In my vision...

Israel must say “no” to extending the freeze formally or de facto. Israel must also say “no” to the peace process sooner or later. Even if Israel continued to build and the PA was prepared to return to the peace process, Israel should refuse to negotiate unless of course she is prepared to swallow the deal the international community has in store for her. According to FM Avigdor Leiberman, “During my recent visit to the US I learned that Washington is planning to force a permanent agreement on Israel – two states for two peoples along the 1967 borders, plus-minus...

Last week Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad angrily left a UN Ad-Hoc Liaison Committee meeting and canceled a scheduled subsequent press conference with Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon in New York. He did so after Ayalon refused to approve a summary of the meeting which said “two states” but did not include the words “two states for two peoples.”. Ayalon said afterwards “What I say is that if the Palestinians are not willing to talk about two states for two peoples, let alone a Jewish state for Israel, then there’s nothing to talk about, … if the Palestinians mean, at...

Why would anyone want to enter into negotiations for a settlement of anything, where he had to beg the other party to participate? Even more so, where he had to give real concessions to the other party just to sit at the same table. What can possible come from such negotiations? Parties enter negotiations when they want to settle a conflict in whole or in part. Sometimes a party does not seek a settlement of anything but wishes to extract further concessions. The more one desires a settlement the more they will be taken advantage of. It is for this...

As Barack Obama reaches the midpoint of his ongoing four-year quest to make Jimmy Carter look good by comparison, he grasps at the most tempting straw of all for a struggling presidency: to score points in foreign policy to make up for a plethora of failures at home. So he held a mini-summit of sorts. Binyamin (Bibi) Netanyahu of Israel, Hosni Mubarek of Egypt, King Abdullah of Jordan, and Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah all gathered in Washington to revive peace talks after two years of dormancy. A veteran of many years in the USA as Israel’s ambassador, Prime Minister Netanyahu...

For Israelis, the "risks for peace" were taken in large part because of the promise that Israel would be rewarded with the approval of the international community, especially its liberals. Through the peace process, Israel was promised acceptance; through disengagement, Israel was promised the moral high ground and assured that acts of self-defense would finally, at long last, be accompanied by the full and unapologetic support of Western liberals. So what happened? Where were the liberal Zionists in all this?....Operation Defensive Shield in 2003, the Hezbollah war, and the Hamas war should have been moments in which liberal Zionists stepped...

A paradigm shift has now taken place in US/Israel relations. They are now enemies. The US is undermining Israel at every turn.This new reality has come to my attention through an email from a highly placed source which follows. we heard it from a consultant to the United States who meets once a month with the President in the White house. This is what actually has happened with the relationship with Israel and the USA and it is not pretty: 1. Israel during the Bush and Clinton Administrations – had landing rights in Turkey , and in the USA bases...

Glick points out the overwhelming evidence of the Republican embrace of Israel and the Democrat turning away from Israel. She points out that the vast majority of the members of AIPAC are Democrats and thus are trying to paper over the difference. But the key issue is that this partisan divide on Israel has made Israel a key issue Republicans, Democrats and IsraelBy Caroline B. Glick Bipartisan support for Israel has been one of the greatest casualties of US President Barack Obama’s assault on the Jewish state. Today, as Republican support for Israel reaches new heights, support for Israel has...

By Ted Belman What this means is that Obama has accepted that there is no diplomatic solution. As I have written many times before, he intends to impose a plan, in fact the Saudi Plan. He has already started the imposition by demanding a settlement freeze and the other things set out in this article. Negotiations are a sham. Israel will be given an erzats peace but will not get an end of conflict agreement or recognition by any Arab government that Israel is a Jewish state. We will get "normalized" relations, whatever that means. On the other hand, Barry...

There is no solution to the final status issues of Jerusalem, borders and refugees that both sides will agree to. Nevertheless President Obama is committed to forcing an agreement. Recently two top administration officials advised David Ignatius, Washington Post, to the effect that Pres Obama is "seriously considering" proposing an American peace plan which would be based on “agreements nearly reached” in the past. This is outrageous, as I will explain and it has no chance of succeeding. Of course they repeated the mantra that "[e]veryone knows the basic outlines of a peace deal" but they omitted to say, that...

Does anyone with half a functioning brain really believe that if zero and hillary impose an Oslo type peace agreement on Isreal along with the right of return for millions of palestinian refugees and a parellel government of Fatah or Hamas inside the border of the state of Isreal it will lead to anything other than perpetual bloodshed and terror? I think it is time to flush out the cesspool that the State Dept has become and get some fresh thinkers in there, the current crop, up to and including hillary, are just not up to the job. These clowns...

President Obama intends to impose a solution on Israel.During the lead up to his election victory, he surrounded himself with a host of vehemently anti-Israel advisors including Lee Hamilton, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Samantha Power, Susan Rice and Gen Jones, many of whom advocated imposing a solution on Israel.. He also made common cause with Jewish leftists represented by J Street and Israel Policy Forum who were urging him to increase the pressure on Israel and if that didn’t work, to impose a solution on Israel. So it was no surprise that he started his term of office by attacking Israel, America’s...

Arabs have no choice but to engage in negotiations with Israel in order to promote peace, Qatari Prime Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabir al-Thani said Monday in a conference of Muslim states in Doha. "In order to advance the peace process, there is no choice but to sit at the negotiating table with Israel," the Qatari leader said. "We may agree or disagree with Israel, yet sitting at the negotiating table is the only way to achieve a satisfactory result," the Qatari leader said. Participants in the conference, which was examining ties between Muslim states and the United States, include...

Abbas's face-saving solution for his weakness came from George Mitchell and his idea of indirect talks. Israelis and Palestinians are about to take a giant step backward that just might help them move toward peace. After more than 16 years of face-to-face negotiations, they are about to revert to indirect talks through an American mediator. It is a sign of the lack of trust between the two adversaries, as well as their lack of a real commitment to what used to be called the “peace process.” Neither Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu nor Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is willing or...

Abbas disappointed with US stance Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he was unhappy about the change in American policy toward settlement construction, in an interview published Sunday by Der Spiegel. Abbas told the German magazine he will not change his positions and will not agree to resume negotiations unless Israel completely halts construction in West Bank settlements and recognizes the 1967 borders. “These are not preconditions, but the first stages in realizing the Road Map and they should have been taken long ago. Unlike Israel, we stood up to our commitment – we recognized Israel’s right to exist and...

PM is the most moderate PA official, but doesn't represent Palestinian thinking. Imagine this. You’re a prime minister praised in the Western media as a moderate man of peace. You represent a people who the US president says is in an intolerable situation. You’re dependent on contributions from Western democratic countries that want you to make a deal. Your rivals have seized almost half the land you want to rule and work tirelessly to overthrow your regime and very possibly to kill you personally. But here comes a big opportunity. You are invited by your negotiating partner to its most...

Speaking at Herzliya Conference, Netanyahu praises Palestinian efforts to improve economy and build institutions, appeals to them to accept resumption of efforts toward peace accord. Photo by: GPO Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Wednesday he had reason to believe that long-stalled peace talks with the Palestinians could resume in a matter of weeks. Netanyahu did not give details, but an Israeli official indicated Israel would take a step to make it possible for the Palestinians to agree to talks. He did not give details and spoke on condition of anonymity because no offer has been made. Palestinians have been insisting...

UN Charter: “To maintain international peace and security.” Edit LinkBy Ted Belman A movement is afoot to get the UN to predetermine borders between Israel and the future 23rd Arab state and to recognize “East Jerusalem” as its capital. Such predetermination would be in violation of the Roadmap which calls for a negotiated solution where “negotiated” implies freedom to say “no”. And such predetermination would prejudge the outcome which the world never tires of telling Israel, no one can do. I began doing research on the powers of the UN and on whether such UN predetermination would be ultra-vires its...

Last August, PM Salam Fayyad released a Plan to “establish Palestine as an independent, democratic, progressive, and modern Arab state, with full sovereignty over its territory in the West Bank and Gaza, on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.” within two years. Israel took little notice of it. In early November Haaretz reported it included a secret provision which stipulated a “unilateral declaration of independence”. Then Israel took notice and said ‘If PA Declares State, Israel Will Annex Settlements'. "If the Palestinians take such a unilateral line, Israel should also consider ... passing a law to annex...