Caroline Glick: Israel’s moment of decision
Over the past week we were given new evidence of what many assumed for years. Former president Barack Obama and his administration weren’t interested in bringing peace to the Middle East. They were interested in harming Israel.Ruthie Blum: The ‘Optics’ of Dead Jews
Last Friday, Makor Rishon published an interview with former Foreign Ministry director general Dore Gold. Gold told the paper that Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice once said, “Even if Israel and the Palestinians reach an accord, it’s possible that the US will oppose it.”
Rice said the US would oppose any deal that it felt didn’t do justice to the Palestinians.
Rice’s statement is significant not merely because it shows the depth of Obama’s hostility. It is important because it tells us the truth about the so-called “two-state solution.”
Rice’s statement showed that Western pressure for Israeli concessions to the PLO isn’t geared toward making peace between the parties at all. It is about retribution.
Columnist Peter Beinart warned this week that “unless they change course, [US President] Donald Trump and [Israeli Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu are going to get Jews killed.”Edgar Davidson: Muslim and Jewish refugees: spot the difference
Writing in The Forward about Palestinian threats of violence in response to Israel’s authorization of 2,500 new housing units in existing settlements, and discussions in Washington over a possible move of the American Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Beinart hastily added that, “of course,” neither leader wants Jewish blood to flow.
Nor, he said, was he “trying to detract from the primary moral responsibility of those Palestinians who detonate bombs or shoot guns or stab with knives. Palestinian terrorism is inexcusable. It always has been. It always will be.”
And then he got to the crux of the piece: If Netanyahu ignores the assessments of Israeli security experts — as well as the saber-rattling of a member of the Jordanian government and chief Palestinian “peace” negotiator Saeb Erekat — he will be just as guilty of the terrorism that is sure to ensue as those who perpetrated it.
Given the media's renewed obsession for claiming that the current 'refugee crisis' is just like the Jewish refugees of the 1930's I thought it was important to update this previous post/graphic.
The current migrant crisis is terrible and tragic, but has been caused exclusively by Muslim wars and violence*****. Moreover, for reasons I pointed out in this article, attempts to draw analogies to Jewish refugees during the holocaust are wrong and insulting, as are exhortations that Jews must be especially welcoming of the refugees. Perhaps this table (click to enlarge) will make things clearer for those who do not understand the reality.