All The News Anti-Israel Posters Will Not Read Or Discuss 2

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Whataboutism.

 

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Whataboutism.

Another example of you not knowing the meaning of words or expressions.

 

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Some reactions to the Jerusalem Declaration from terror groups:
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine called it "an open invitation to ignite regional wars in the region...[it brings] destruction and scourge, under the pretext of Israel's defense of itself.

"It aspires to fully control our region's energy wealth, and drag it into alliances and regional and continental wars. It serves only the imperialist interests of the United States.

"It will drown our region in seas of blood, with many problems such as impoverishment, starvation, waste of wealth and mass destruction."

They forgot to mention the locusts.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said "it is a continuation of the aggression against the Palestinian people and their national rights and the release of the Zionist entity's hand in expanding and deepening its colonial project in Palestine, and extending outwards."

The Palestinian Authority said that "the threats launched by US President Joe Biden in occupied Jerusalem will fall via the resistance and steadfastness of our people and the peoples of the region and the forces of resistance. The Palestinian people are the ones who determine their fate, not the colonialist Biden and his Zionist partners."

The moderate PA then "called for escalating all forms of resistance....against aggressive colonial and Zionist policies" which is a lightly veiled call for terror attacks.

Hamas said that "Biden's visit confirmed that Washington is a direct partner in the Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people....Attempts to legitimize the occupation and integrate it in the region will be destroyed on the rock of the steadfastness of the Palestinian people."

Islamic Jihad said, "We have to sharpen our resolve, intensify our resistance, and impose new facts on the ground. Only then can we achieve the minimum of what we aspire to."

All of this sounds like a ringing endorsement to me!

Terrorists unhappy with Jerusalem Declaration. Awww.

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The human rights industry is worth billions of dollars. This is serious wonga! According to recent statistics reported by the Business Research Company, the global human rights organizations market size was expected to grow from $16.60 billion in 2021 to $17.47 billion in 2022 at a compound annual growth rate. That is a lot of lucre.

One could see why people are drawn to working for human rights organisations – after all who wouldn’t want to work for what they perceive is a noble and just cause? The two most notable organisations are Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. There are notable parallels between these organisations. Both of these once venerated NGO’s were founded by Jews. Both enjoy extremely high profiles and trust. Both are seen as the litmus test for evaluating human rights transgressions. Both have a clear obsession with the State of Israel. Both have seen their original founders publicly distance themselves from the organisations for fear they were headed down a dangerous, agenda driven road.

When an organization, no matter how noble their mandate is, starts to veer off course and head down a very dubious path it often raises question “who is funding them?”

For the purposes of this article, we will take a look at Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

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THE BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY OF HATE

Human Rights organisations are no longer just focuses on social justice issues but very heavily funded, many times to push particular agendas. By Rolene Marks The human rights industry is worth bil…

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On July 11, the UN Secretary-General released his annual report on Children in Armed Conflict (CAAC), dealing with the violation of children’s rights in conflict zones in 2021. This year, the UN again presents misleading statistics and adopts invented standards in order to advance a narrative that the IDF violates the rights of Palestinian minors. This is the result of a yearslong campaign spearheaded by terror-linked and BDS-supporting NGOs, in concert with UNICEF.

Notably, the report includes an explicit threat to include the IDF for the first time on a “blacklist” of child rights abusers – alongside terrorist organizations such as ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and the Taliban – absent “meaningful improvement.”

Background: What Is the Blacklist?​

The UN Secretary-General has published a yearly report on “Children and Armed Conflict,” which includes a blacklist or annex listing “parties to armed conflict” that engage in “grave violations” that fundamentally breach children rights. The declared purpose of the annex is to focus the “Security Council on specific parties, whether states or non-state actors” and take “targeted measures against violators, including the possibility of sanctions” (emphasis added). To date, the annex almost entirely consists of failed states, state-sponsored militias, and terrorist organizations such as ISIS, Boko Haram, the Taliban, and Al-Qaeda.

The five “grave violations” that trigger inclusion in this annex are:

• Killing or maiming of children
• Recruitment or use of children by armed forces or armed groups
• Attacks on schools or hospitals
• Rape or other sexual violence against children
• Abduction of children

Reliance on Terror-linked and Pro-BDS NGOs​

The Secretary-General’s report claims that the UN verified all claims therein. In the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, UNICEF is supposed to provide “factual information on patterns of violations and efforts made to end and prevent them, which may inform the SRSG’s [Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict] listing recommendations and subsequent decisions by the SG [Secretary-General].”

However, NGO Monitor research shows that allegations concerning Israel primarily originate from a group of radical NGOs, with limited credibility, part of a “working group” that advances a campaign to demonize Israel in the Secretary-General’s annual report and seek to have Israel added to the annex. Based on the fundamental problems with the data on Israel (see below), as well as UNICEF’s involvement in this politicized anti-Israel campaign, UN verification is not a approbative factor.

This “working group” includes Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCI-P), designated as a terrorist entity by Israel in October 2021 over its ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization.1 It also includes other PFLP-linked groups –Al-Mezan and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) – and NGOs such as B’Tselem that label Israel an “apartheid” state and lobby governments and international institutions to sanction Israel.2

It is also important to note that all information regarding Gazan casualties is provided by the Hamas-run local Ministry of Health. In other words, in addition to terror-linked NGOs, the CAAC report relies heavily on Hamas-generated data.

Inconsistencies with CAAC Reporting and Classification Standards​

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UN Adopts Invented NGO Claims on Palestinian Minors to Threaten Israel with Blacklist » ngomonitor

On July 11, the UN Secretary-General released his annual report on Children in Armed Conflict (CAAC), dealing with the violation of children's rights in conflict zones in 2021. This year, the UN again presents misleading statistics and adopts invented standards in order to advance a narrative...

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The reason for the Commission’s probe is relevant to Amnesty’s new merchandising scheme.

According to the Commission’s rules, registered charities are required to use their funds for charitable purposes and the “public benefit.” The January apartheid report — like the “End Israel Apartheid” shirts about to go on sale — represent Amnesty’s political axe to grind and serve no public interest.

Slandering Israel through the veneer of human rights is reason enough to remove Amnesty’s charity status in the UK.

All the more so now that Amnesty intends to improperly profit from those smears.

Demand that Amnesty UK end its anti-Israel merchandising.​

Contact Amnesty International UK through its website.

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ACT NOW! Demand Amnesty Stop Profiting from Israel-Hatred | United with Israel

Don't let Amnesty International profit off of its bigotry against Israel.

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Not a new idea​

Israel normalized ties with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan with the signing of the Abraham Accords in 2020, but the idea of such a pact began five years earlier.


It was under Brig.-Gen. Zvika Haimovich’s watch as head of the IDF’s Air Defense Array that Israel first started talking about a regional air defense to protect it from threats like Iranian drones and missiles.

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The countries named in the bill included the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Egypt and “other such regional allies or partners.”


The campaign to thwart Iran’s regional plans is taking place across the Middle East, with a “regional alliance” of the US, Israel, the Gulf States (Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait), Egypt and Jordan, as well as Qatar, Oman, Sudan and Morocco, Maj.-Gen. Eyal Zamir said in a recent paper.


Other than Jordan, not many Arab states have commented on MEAD.

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The Middle East Air Defense alliance takes flight

MILITARY AFFAIRS: How the regional coalition to protect the skies against Iranian drones and missiles got off the ground.

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Israel is a leader in lab-grown cultured meat. But according to at least one academic, this is symbolic of Israeli colonialism.

Yes, really.

Efrat Gilad is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Bern. She wrote "A Colonial Legacy of Cultured Meat" describing how Israel's meat industry, including its recent leadership in lab-grown cultured meat, is really all just a history of Jewish colonialism.

Without the politics, the article would be a pretty good overview of the history of the meat industry in Palestine since Ottoman times. But instead, it is a screed about how evil Jews have upset the wonderful balance of nature in Palestine by introducing a meat-based diet into the region.

You see, native Palestinians didn't consume much meat. But the evil Ashkenazi Jews who selfishly returned to Palestine to save their lives from pogroms brought with them a love of meat, and that transformed the country into something it was never meant to be.

In Europe, Jews had been associated with the cattle trade since the Middle Ages. But in Palestine, consuming meat depended on Palestinian peasants and regional Arab breeders. Jewish actors (importers, butchers, religious authorities, urban officials) tried to gain more ground in the country’s meat trade. In the 1930s, Jewish cattle dealers began to import cattle from Europe, relying on their old continental networks. By shipping in animals from overseas, Jewish dealers expanded Palestine’s regional trade into a transcontinental trade. This ...allowed Jewish dealers to penetrate the country’s meat trade by importing to Palestine European bovines three times the size of local species.

...Tel Aviv, for example, was the settlement’s most important city financially, demographically, and also in terms of meat consumption. Its emerging meat infrastructures – especially its slaughterhouse built in 1931 – facilitated the expansion of the city, and by proxy, the entire Jewish settlement.

Rather than a land of milk and honey, settlers hankered for meat as the material manifestation of arriving at a utopia of prosperity and plenty. Increasing Jews’ access to meat in Palestine under British rule may have been against economic ideals, but still served the Zionist goal: the expansion of the settlement and the colonization of Palestine.

I suppose that their draining the malaria-infested swamps was also a colonialist interference to destroy the natural beauty of Palestine.

Gilad goes on to describe the austerity period after the War of Independence when there was very little meat, and Israeli attempts to create vegetable-based substitutes, as a precursor to today's cultured meat industry. She includes this marvelous cartoon from Maariv in 1949:

“We have been informed of the invention of “artificial meat” in our country, and it was produced from mushrooms and eggplant..” - “What kind of animal is this?” - "It's an artificial cow!"

But she absurdly interprets a brief history of the Israeli meat market by the Tnuva conglomerate as evidence of how Israelis hate Palestinians:

On its website, the company recalls how it entered the meat business: Until 1948 meat supplies depended on “Arab agriculture and nomadic Bedouins. But with the creation of the state, this main source of meat disappeared”. Echoing the hegemonic Israeli stance, Tnuva’s website reduces Palestinians to a “source of meat” and their forced exodus to a “disappearance”.

If you write a history of meat that doesn't center Palestinian suffering, you must be a racist colonialist pig.

In short, when Zionists import beef, it is colonialist. When they try to create ersatz substitutes, it is colonialist. When they lead the world in cultured meat, it is colonialist.

Anti-Zionist glasses are a requirement for academia

Her very thesis that meat is an alien part of the Middle East diet brought in by colonialist European Jews is another manifestation of viewing the world through anti-Zionist glasses. The consumption of meat in Arab countries today roughly corresponds with wealth, not historic diet habits. The per capita consumption of meat in Gulf states - almost all of it imported - is not much different than that of Israel.

And guess who consumes the most meat in the Arab world? Palestinians, by far!

No doubt, Gilad would blame Israel for irrevocably ruining the diet of the natives.

As countries become richer, they buy more meat. It has nothing to do with colonialism. It has everything to do with the crazy idea that people like meat.

Ascribing Jewish colonialist and racist motives for what is a consumer preference and economic issue is just a more sophisticated - and academically approved - version of antisemitism.

Even Israeli lab-grown meat is colonialist, according to this academic

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However, readers also find the following highlighted statement:

“When he [Biden] visited Jerusalem as Barack Obama’s vice-president, he was humiliated by the former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he called for a freeze on Israel’s settlement projects for Jews in the occupied territories, which are illegal under international law.”

As we have documented on countless occasions, the BBC usually qualifies its claims concerning ‘international law’, with the preferred formula going along the lines of:

“The settlements are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.”

As has been noted here in the past, that more or less standard insert does not include a definitive cited source underpinning the claim of illegality and no explanation is given regarding the legal basis for alternative opinions to the one promoted. The claim is erroneously presented as being contested solely by the government of Israel, thereby erasing from audience view the existence of additional legal opinions which contradict the BBC’s chosen narrative and hence breaching its own editorial guidelines on impartiality.

The last – and probably first – time that the BBC provided a more nuanced explanation of the topic was in December 2016 in a backgrounder which has since been edited several times. Back then BBC audiences were told that:

“Most of the international community, including the UN and the International Court of Justice, say the settlements are illegal.

The basis for this is the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention which forbids the transfer by an occupying power of its people into occupied territory.

However, Israel says the Fourth Geneva Convention does not apply de jure to the West Bank because, it says, the territory is not technically occupied.

Israel says it is legally there as a result of a defensive war, and did not take control of the West Bank from a legitimate sovereign power.

It says the legal right of Jewish settlement there as recognised by the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine was preserved under the UN’s charter.”

Jeremy Bowen however clearly has no time for such details. Ignoring the fact that – as he surely knows – the Oslo Accords signed in the 1990s between Israel and the PLO placed no restrictions whatsoever on construction in Israeli communities in Area C, he prefers to simply promote the claim that the towns and villages the BBC calls ‘settlements’ (including some that were the site of Jewish habitation and/or land ownership prior to 1948) are “illegal under international law”, without even the usual token qualification.

The BBC’s funding public might well expect the man whose job it is to enhance their understanding of the Middle East to be capable of providing them with accurate and impartial information that is more helpful to their comprehension of that topic than mere simplistic slogans.


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The BBC ME editor’s portrayal of ‘international law’

It has been a while since Jeremy Bowen was last in Israel but early on July 13th - some twelve hours before the US president’s Middle East visit was due to co

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“Now Israel’s been carrying out military raids in the occupied West Bank this week. They’ve been a near daily occurrence since a wave of deadly attacks against Israelis in the Spring. Dozens of Palestinians have been killed during army incursions this year and the UN’s human rights office has raised concerns about the use of excessive force – accusations that are rejected by Israel. The focus has been on the city of Jenin, where Palestinian militant groups have also been rearming, raising fears of further violence, as our Middle East correspondent Tom Bateman reports.”

In the report itself Bateman told listeners that:

“The [Israeli] military also rejects claims by rights groups of excessive force during its operations, saying its troops’ lives are endangered by gunmen.”

Those “rights groups” were not identified, meaning that listeners have no way of judging their claims – and possible motives – for themselves. Likewise, the BBC did not bother to inform audiences of the UN human rights council’s long history of anti-Israel activity and bias either in relation to the audio report or the synopsis to the filmed version:

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Instead, the BBC repeatedly preferred to frivolously promote that politically motivated talking point concerning Israel’s counter-terrorism operations as part of its framing of the story while downplaying or completely ignoring the considerably more relevant issue of the failure of the Palestinian Authority to effectively govern that area and the resulting “rearming” and proliferation of terrorist groups.

So much for the BBC’s obligation to provide its funding public with “a range and depth of analysis and content not widely available from other United Kingdom news providers”.

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Framing in Jenin report on two BBC radio stations

Previously we discussed a filmed report about Jenin by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Tom Bateman: BBC PROMOTES ‘CHICKEN AND EGG’ NARRATIVE ON JENIN As

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Circassian Israelis keep their traditional heritage alive. Photo courtesy of the Circassian Heritage Center

Madaji said the majority of Circassians still hold onto the hope of returning to their land. On display throughout the town is the green Circassian flag with 12 stars.

“Like the Jews, we also have 12 tribes,” he explained. “And there are three arrows. Why three? Because if we were going to war, we would have a lot of arrows. Three is a symbol that we come in peace. Three is also a number of balance — a three-legged chair doesn’t fall over.”

The Circassians have managed to preserve the Adyghe language, which “doesn’t sound like anything else,” Madaji said. “It used to be written with special figures which are today used only to mark the different tribes.”

Standing at a sign before the alley leading to the mosque, Madaji pointed out some of the symbols. “Each tribe has its own sign, sort of like a logo,” he said.

The only Sunni Muslims who study Hebrew

The Circassian language uses the Cyrillic alphabet, but it’s different than Russian, Madaji said.

Children attend the local school until 10th grade, where they learn Hebrew, English, Arabic and Circassian, and then attend Hebrew-speaking high schools in the area, “making us the only Sunni Muslims in the world who study in Hebrew,” Madaji said.

Parents speak Circassian to their children. Madaji says this practice isn’t forced “but very natural.”

Proof of that statement was found a short while later near the schoolyard in the center of Rihaniya. How many places in the world can you hear boys and girls playing basketball and shouting and cheering — in Circassian?

Information on visiting Rihaniya can be found here.

Information on visiting Kfar Kama can be found here.

In Kfar Kama, the Circassian Heritage Center will hold its annual Circassian Festival on July 22-23 with tours and traditional dance performances.

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In the Galilee, a tiny Circassian community keeps its heritage alive - ISRAEL21c

Numbering just 5,000 people, Israel’s Circassian community is proud to be both Sunni Muslim and Israeli.

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Presentation of the Moses African Jewish Leadership Awards at the second Jewish Africa Conference, Policy Center for the New South, in Rabat, Morocco, on June 13, 2022. Credit: Courtesy of American Sephardi Federation.


Representatives of Jewish communities from more than 20 countries gathered in Rabat, Morocco, on June 13 to sign a declaration calling for greater awareness of African Jewish heritage.

The “Call of Rabat for the Preservation of the African Jewish Heritage” stressed the need for “individuals, civil society and governments” to recognize the Jewish ties to Africa and undertake educational and cultural initiatives to raise awareness of African Jews’ experiences.

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Leaders gather in Morocco to push for greater awareness of African Jewish heritage

A resolution urges collaboration in the “preservation, rehabilitation and renovation” of Jewish historical sites in Africa and underscores the need to grant Jewish voices there more opportunity.

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The Israeli Air Force and the Hellenic Air Force held a joint air exercise in Israeli skies, the Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson’s Unit announced on Wednesday.

The drill, which took place on Tuesday, saw the two air forces simulate a wide range of aerial scenarios, including advanced air-to-air combat and airborne refueling.

“The exercise constitutes a platform for shared learning and enhancing the relationship between the two air forces, and symbolizes an important milestone in reinforcing strategic and international cooperation between the State of Israel and Greece,” stated the IDF.

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Israeli and Hellenic air forces hold joint training drill

The exercise saw them practice air-to-air combat and mid-air refueling.

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[ Exactly who is giving the US government information, misinformation actually, about UNWRA and the Palestinians, that the government continues to aid Abbas and UNWRA with no conditions? And what are pro Israel groups doing to bring the right information in order to end this circus? ]

 

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As we have documented on countless occasions, the BBC usually qualifies its claims concerning ‘international law’, with the preferred formula going along the lines of:

“The settlements are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.”

As has been noted here in the past, that more or less standard insert does not include a definitive cited source underpinning the claim of illegality and no explanation is given regarding the legal basis for alternative opinions to the one promoted. The claim is erroneously presented as being contested solely by the government of Israel, thereby erasing from audience view the existence of additional legal opinions which contradict the BBC’s chosen narrative and hence breaching its own editorial guidelines on impartiality.

The last – and probably first – time that the BBC provided a more nuanced explanation of the topic was in December 2016 in a backgrounder which has since been edited several times. Back then BBC audiences were told that:

“Most of the international community, including the UN and the International Court of Justice, say the settlements are illegal.

The basis for this is the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention which forbids the transfer by an occupying power of its people into occupied territory.

However, Israel says the Fourth Geneva Convention does not apply de jure to the West Bank because, it says, the territory is not technically occupied.

Israel says it is legally there as a result of a defensive war, and did not take control of the West Bank from a legitimate sovereign power.

It says the legal right of Jewish settlement there as recognised by the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine was preserved under the UN’s charter.”

Jeremy Bowen however clearly has no time for such details. Ignoring the fact that – as he surely knows – the Oslo Accords signed in the 1990s between Israel and the PLO placed no restrictions whatsoever on construction in Israeli communities in Area C, he prefers to simply promote the claim that the towns and villages the BBC calls ‘settlements’ (including some that were the site of Jewish habitation and/or land ownership prior to 1948) are “illegal under international law”, without even the usual token qualification.


(full article online)

The BBC ME editor’s portrayal of ‘international law’

It has been a while since Jeremy Bowen was last in Israel but early on July 13th - some twelve hours before the US president’s Middle East visit was due to co

camera-uk.org

 

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Biden was not about to make the same mistake that Hillary Clinton did. He has appeared to be attempting to re-enter the JCPOA, thereby satisfying all wings of the Democratic Party, but, in fact, has kept the Trump sanctions in place and blames the Iranians for his failure to re-enter the JCPOA. He does so knowing that he has been making demands to which Iran will never agree.

Biden’s approach to the Iran Nuke deal is perfectly consistent with his general view of Israel, which is radically different from Obama’s. Biden, a devout Christian, understands Israel at a level that none of his predecessors has. Moreover, he understands how Israel looks at the world – not just how the world looks at Israel.

Biden made that clear in the short speech he made when he arrived at Ben Gurion airport in Israel. There, he talked about his approach to a two-state solution, an issue critical to most Democrats, but his concept of a two-state solution is radically different from that of most members of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, something they have not yet figured out.

“Greater peace, greater stability, greater connection, it’s critical, if I might add, for all people in the region,” he said. “Which is why we will discuss my continued support, even though I know it’s not in the near term, of a two-state solution. That remains in my view, the best way to ensure the future of equal measure of freedom, prosperity and democracy for Israelis and Palestinians alike.” Elsewhere he has said that a two-state solution will only come about when the states in the region accept Israel as a Jewish and democratic State.

Biden’s long-term view of a two-state solution – as something that is not going to happen in the “near term” – is Utopian. It is radically different from the Obama vision of a two-state solution NOW!

Biden’s vision of a democratic Palestinian State with equal measures of prosperity, freedom, and democracy for both Israelis and Palestinians is equally Utopian. He knows well that Abbas is in the 17th year of a four-year term in office. He knows well that there is not a single Arab democracy in the world. He knows well that Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas will never accept an Israeli State, much less a Jewish and democratic one. All three are committed, as a matter of religion, to replacing Israel with a Muslim theocracy.

It is very comforting to me as an American born in Chicago who is now a citizen of both the United States and Israel living in Tel Aviv-Yafo to know that there is finally a President of the United States who is both politically savvy and understands Israel. It is very comforting to me to know that there is finally a President of the United States who gets it.

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Joe Biden gets it. Most of the press, including David Horovitz, does not.

The president, who is deeply sympathetic to Israel, hasn't tried and failed to drag Iran back into the Nuclear Deal – if anything, he's done the opposite

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Biden was not about to make the same mistake that Hillary Clinton did. He has appeared to be attempting to re-enter the JCPOA, thereby satisfying all wings of the Democratic Party, but, in fact, has kept the Trump sanctions in place and blames the Iranians for his failure to re-enter the JCPOA. He does so knowing that he has been making demands to which Iran will never agree.

Biden’s approach to the Iran Nuke deal is perfectly consistent with his general view of Israel, which is radically different from Obama’s. Biden, a devout Christian, understands Israel at a level that none of his predecessors has. Moreover, he understands how Israel looks at the world – not just how the world looks at Israel.

Biden made that clear in the short speech he made when he arrived at Ben Gurion airport in Israel. There, he talked about his approach to a two-state solution, an issue critical to most Democrats, but his concept of a two-state solution is radically different from that of most members of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, something they have not yet figured out.

“Greater peace, greater stability, greater connection, it’s critical, if I might add, for all people in the region,” he said. “Which is why we will discuss my continued support, even though I know it’s not in the near term, of a two-state solution. That remains in my view, the best way to ensure the future of equal measure of freedom, prosperity and democracy for Israelis and Palestinians alike.” Elsewhere he has said that a two-state solution will only come about when the states in the region accept Israel as a Jewish and democratic State.

Biden’s long-term view of a two-state solution – as something that is not going to happen in the “near term” – is Utopian. It is radically different from the Obama vision of a two-state solution NOW!

Biden’s vision of a democratic Palestinian State with equal measures of prosperity, freedom, and democracy for both Israelis and Palestinians is equally Utopian. He knows well that Abbas is in the 17th year of a four-year term in office. He knows well that there is not a single Arab democracy in the world. He knows well that Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas will never accept an Israeli State, much less a Jewish and democratic one. All three are committed, as a matter of religion, to replacing Israel with a Muslim theocracy.

It is very comforting to me as an American born in Chicago who is now a citizen of both the United States and Israel living in Tel Aviv-Yafo to know that there is finally a President of the United States who is both politically savvy and understands Israel. It is very comforting to me to know that there is finally a President of the United States who gets it.

(full article online)

Joe Biden gets it. Most of the press, including David Horovitz, does not.

The president, who is deeply sympathetic to Israel, hasn't tried and failed to drag Iran back into the Nuclear Deal – if anything, he's done the opposite

blogs.timesofisrael.com

It is very comforting to me to know that there is finally a President of the United States who gets it.

Biden gets something? WOW!