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1/6/2012 | Israel
The problem with Paul's foreign policy
OneNewsNow
A U.S.-born Israeli author and expert on the Middle East believes presidential hopeful Ron Paul's foreign policy is worse than Barack Obama's. As previously reported on OneNewsNow, Texas Congressman Paul has come under a great deal of criticism for saying he does not have a problem with the rogue regime in Tehran obtaining nuclear weapons. He has also been described as anti-Israel for a number of statements he has made about the Jewish state. The latest report comes from a former staffer who says the Texas lawmaker told him in a private conversation that he believed Israel is more trouble than it is worth, specifically to the American taxpayer. Paul also reportedly sides with the Palestinians and supports their calls for abolishing the Jewish state and returning its land to the Arabs.
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US commander visits Israel to finalize missile drill
Jerusalem Post
Israel is moving forward with plans to hold the largest-ever missile defense exercise in its history this spring amid Iranian efforts to obtain nuclear weapons.
Last week, Lt.-Gen. Frank Gorenc, commander of the US’s Third Air Force based in Germany, visited Israel to finalize plans for the upcoming drill, expected to see the deployment of several thousand American soldiers in Israel.
The drill, which is unprecedented in its size, will include the establishment of US command posts in Israel and IDF command posts at EUCOM headquarters in Germany – with the ultimate goal of establishing joint task forces in the event of a large-scale conflict in the Middle East.
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Critics See ‘Blame Israel’ Mindset in U.S. Envoy’s Remarks on Anti-Semitism
CNS News
The White House is distancing itself from remarks by an American ambassador and 2008 Obama campaign fundraiser suggesting that hatred of Jews was linked to Israeli actions, but some critics said the comments align with a “blame Israel” mentality in the administration.
Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney said Sunday President Obama should fire U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman, and several U.S. Jewish organizations also are calling for him to be rebuked or recalled.
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Palestinians Try to Resurrect a U.N. Resolution They Violently Rejected 64 Years Ago
CNS News
As the U.N. Tuesday marked its annual day of “solidarity” with the Palestinian cause, the Palestine Liberation Organization took the opportunity once again to promote a 1947 U.N. resolution that divided the territory between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River into a Jewish state and an Arab one.
Palestinian leaders periodically try to resurrect U.N. General Assembly resolution 181 – also known as the Partition Plan -- in support of their demands for territory and control over Jerusalem.
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Many freed Palestinian prisoners may be deported
Associated Press
A Hamas official said Thursday that close to 200 of the 450 Palestinians to be freed in the first phase of a swap for a captured Israeli soldier will not be allowed to return to their homes in the West Bank, Gaza or east Jerusalem, suggesting a substantial number may face deportation.
The official, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to release the figures, told reporters that 272 of the 450 prisoners to be released in the initial stage of the swap for Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit can go home. That means the remaining 178 are likely to be deported to third countries or — if they are from the West Bank or east Jerusalem — to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. The Hamas official did not name any countries that might be a destination for those expelled.
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Following Israel's 'economic miracle'
OneNewsNow
the White House and Congress are serious about creating jobs and reviving the economy, one senior fellow suggests that the U.S. look to Israel for examples.
Dan Senor is an adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and co-author of Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle. He tells OneNewsNow a number of examples show why Israel is the model for success, namely its civilian research and development -- an area touted time and again by President Barack Obama.
"Israel has engaged in an aggressive campaign of privatization, of decentralization on the tech part of its economy," Senor notes. "It has brought down corporate tax rates; it has now one of the lowest unemployment rates as a result [and] one of the strongest currencies."
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Senior Palestinian official: UN bid is only alternative to violence
Haaretz.com
Senior Palestinian negotiator Nabil Shaath said Wednesday that the Palestinians' statehood bid at the United Nations is the only alternative to violence, stressing that the UN move will give the Palestinians the change to promote their rights.
"The UN is the only alternative to violence," Shaath said during a press conference on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly."It will be very costly to us and the Israelis. Our new heroes are Gandhi, Mandela and Martin Luther King."
Shaath also said that the Palestinians plan to give the UN Security Council time to mull its statehood bid, which they are due to submit on Friday, before turning to the UN General Assembly.
"President [Mahmoud] Abbas doesn't want [people] to suspect we are not serious by pleading to two committees," Shaath said. "We will give some time to the Security Council to consider first our full membership request before heading to the General Assembly."
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French FM: Status quo between Israel and Palestinians risks 'explosion of violence'
Reuters
French FM said on Monday that the status quo between Israel and the Palestinian is neither acceptable nor tenable, and "posed a risk of an explosion of violence." Alain Juppe added he is scheduled to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas later on Monday.
Juppe asked what would happen after the Palestinians go to to the Security Council. "If there is an American veto, nothing will happen on the ground except maybe the resumption of violence," he said. He mentioned the Quartet's frantic efforts to find a way out of the deadlock, saying that there are still "three, four days to negotiate in the Quartet and to find a solution, a balanced solution, acceptable both by Palestinians and Israelis, to resume negotiation."
Juppe added that "things are changing all around Israel. Egypt has changed. Syria is in the situation we said before. Turkey has not in very good relations with Israel today. There are tensions… when everything is changing around you, you can stay rigid and say wait and see. I think it's better to take in account the change and to try to move".
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Israel facing 'diplomatic tsunami' with Arab neighbors
McClatchy Newspapers
The attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo has brought into sharp relief Israel's increasing isolation in a still region grappling with the changes of the Arab Spring.
Israel was forced to evacuate its ambassador and most of its diplomatic staff from Cairo this weekend after hundreds of Egyptian protesters tore down a security wall protecting the Nile-side embassy, ransacked its files and burned an Israeli flag. It came less than a week after Turkey, Israel's other major ally in the Muslim world, announced it was expelling the Israeli ambassador and downgrading its relationship to the lowest possible level after a deadly skirmish involving a Turkish aid vessel that was attempting to deliver supplies in defiance of Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip.
With another potential predicament brewing later this month when the Palestinians are expected to request membership and statehood at the United Nations, Israeli-Arab relations appear to be plunging to their lowest point in years.
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Palestinians Officially Launch Statehood Campaign
Associated Press
The Palestinians on Thursday officially launched their campaign to join the United Nations as a full member state, saying they would stage a series of peaceful events in the run-up to the annual gathering of the U.N. General Assembly later this month.
Some 100 Palestinian officials and activists gathered at the U.N. offices in Ramallah for a short ceremony, where they announced their plans in a letter addressed to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
The letter urges Ban to add his "moral voice in support of the Palestinian people."
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Palestinians Prepare Symbolic Chair in Advance of U.N. Bid Monday, Augu
Associated Press
The Palestinians are hoping to secure a seat at the United Nations next month. They already have the chair for it.
Palestinian activists said Monday they would take the chair on an international tour to dramatize the Palestinian Authority's quest for U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state.
The wooden chair is covered with embroidered blue upholstery featuring a Palestinian flag and the word "Palestine."
It will be shown to diplomats in countries with influence at the U.N., including Britain, Russia and Lebanon, this month's rotating Security Council president.
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Across the Political Spectrum, Egyptian Parties Want Israel Punished
CNS News
As Israel grapples with its most serious diplomatic rift with Egypt in years, one of the clearest signs of the fragility of the relationship at the heart of Israeli-Arab peace efforts is the wide range of Egyptian political parties and leaders demanding that their government take a harsh line against Israel.
Joining the call are radical Salafists, Muslim Brotherhood offshoots, secular centrists, and four presidential candidates, including two who are faring well in opinion polls – former Arab League head Amr Moussa and Ayman Nour, a liberal politician on whose behalf President Bush spoke out when President Hosni Mubarak’s regime imprisoned him as a dissident in 2007.
This cross-section of the Egyptian political spectrum is now calling for tough steps against Israel, after its forces inadvertently killed five Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai peninsula while pursuing terrorists responsible for deadly attacks against Israeli civilians.
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Palestinian Gunmen Cross Into Israel From Egypt, Kill 7 Israelis
Associated Press
Squads of gunmen armed with heavy weapons and explosives crossed into southern Israel from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Thursday, killing seven Israelis in an audacious series of attacks, officials said. The violence stoked concerns about Palestinian militants exploiting instability in Egypt.
The attacks began around midday and lasted for about three hours. Israeli security forces tracked down some of the assailants and killed several in a gunbattle, military spokesman Brig.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai said. Defense officials said three bodies were booby-trapped and Israeli TV channels said seven attackers were killed. There was no immediate word on whether any were captured alive or exactly how many in all were involved.
Israel almost immediately said the attackers came from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and made their way through Sinai, which borders both Israel and Gaza. That raised the specter of an Israeli military reprisal against the Palestinian territory. Egypt and Hamas denied the allegations.
"The incident underscores the weak Egyptian hold on Sinai and the broadening of the activities of terrorists," Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in a statement. "The real source of the terror is in Gaza and we will act against them with full force and determination."
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Palestinians Under Fire in Syria, but Arab League Condemns Israel
CNS News
The Arab League on Monday slammed Israel for various activities in Jerusalem purportedly harmful to Palestinian aspirations, and it also announced an “emergency meeting” would take place in Qatar next week to discuss Palestinian plans to seek U.N. recognition in September.
But the top representative body of the world’s 22 Arab states had nothing to say about – and called no meeting to discuss – the Syrian military’s latest assault against anti-government protestors, an attack that reportedly included the shelling of a Palestinian refugee camp in the Mediterranean port city of Latakia.
Chris Gunness, a spokesman for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), said up to 10,000 Palestinian residents of the Ramel camp in Latakia had fled the violence, which included “heavy fire from gunboats.”
“We call on the Syrian authorities to order their security forces to exercise utmost restraint in accordance with international law and ensure that all civilians including Palestinian refugees are unharmed,” he said in a statement.
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Israel Looms As a Key Issue in GOP Race
CNS News
While foreign policy has not featured strongly in the early stages of the Republican 2012 presidential campaign, events in the comings weeks look set to change that, as candidates seek to burnish pro-Israel credentials in the face of a Palestinian push for U.N. recognition.
Many conservatives, evangelical Christians among them, view firm backing for Israel as a requirement for any sustainable GOP candidacy. It is also an issue of potential vulnerability for President Obama, given the perception that he has been less supportive of Israel than predecessors of either party in recent decades.
The Palestinian Authority (P.A.) plans to seek recognition for “Palestine” during the annual General Assembly session opening next month, and concern that the move – while largely symbolic – could spark fresh violence and worsen chances for a negotiated settlement, provides the nine Republicans currently in the race with an opportunity to distinguish themselves from their rivals on a key foreign policy issue.
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White House Scrubs Web Site of Reference to ‘Jerusalem, Israel’
CNS News
The Obama White House, in removing one word from a photo caption on its Web site this week, has drawn fresh attention to two consecutive administrations’ tussles with Congress over whether American citizens born in Jerusalem should have the word “Israel” appear on their U.S. passports.
The move comes as the Supreme Court prepares to hear oral arguments in the fall in a case to determine whether the executive or legislative branch is empowered to decide the matter.
A 2002 law directed the secretary of state to allow the word “Israel” to appear on passports of those Jerusalem-born citizens who request it, but President Bush in a “signing statement” overrode the requirement, arguing that it “impermissibly interferes with the president’s constitutional authority to conduct the nation’s foreign affairs.”
Jerusalem is one of the most intractable issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Obama State Department, like its predecessors, does not recognize Israeli sovereignty over any part of the city and says its future status remains to be determined in a negotiated peace settlement.
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Israeli navy seizes Gaza-bound yacht
Reuters
The Israeli navy on Tuesday seized a French yacht carrying pro-Palestinian activists intending to sail to the blockaded Gaza Strip and forced it to go to Israel's Ashdod port, a military spokeswoman said.
There were no reports of violence as the marines boarded the "Dignite-AlKarama" yacht in the eastern Mediterranean, she said.
"I can confirm that the yacht has been boarded and that everything went smoothly, there were no casualties," the spokeswoman said.
Chief military spokesman Brigadier-General Yoav Mordechai said the passengers were transferred from the small yacht to one of the warships and were sailing to Ashdod.
The 17-passenger yacht had declared an Egyptian port as its destination when it left Greek waters on Sunday but then said it was changing course toward the Palestinian enclave and hoped to arrive by Tuesday afternoon.
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Another attempt to ostracize Israel
OneNewsNow
Protesters are taking measures to get a California store to boycott Israeli products, but one Israel supporter does not think their proposal will pass.
A rally was recently held at the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op, where picketers distributed flyers and claimed the board of directors is neglecting democratic values. They say the store is supporting Israel because it carries Israeli merchandise like matzo and bath salts, so they are requesting a ban on those products. The activists believe the co-op is violating bylaws, and they are pushing for their request will make it to co-op ballots. And with the help of attorneys, protesters are asking a Sacramento court to force the company to do so.
But Olivier Melnick, Orange County branch director for Chosen People Ministries, does not expect the initiative to be passed.
"It usually doesn't really end up happening as a law or as people taking it very seriously. But the real problem behind it is the false impression, the false picture that is painted of Israel as being the problem in the Middle East," he suggests.
Advocates for the Human Rights Initiative contend the co-op is supporting a nation that inflicts human rights violations on Palestinians.
"They're not banning products from China," Melnick points out. "If you were to ban stuff from China, what would be left? There are some issues about human rights that we know about China that we’re ignoring because we can't live without them. But when it comes to Israel, there always seems to be a double standard."
And he concludes the proposal is another attempt to target and ostracize Jews and Israel.
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Administration Urges a Reluctant Congress to Continue Funding the Palestinian Government
CNS News
Facing strong bipartisan support in Congress for defunding a Palestinian government that includes the terrorist group Hamas, the Obama administration on Tuesday stressed the importance of continuing the funding, arguing that the Fatah-Hamas power-sharing deal has changed nothing on the ground.
Testifying before the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Jacob Walles said Palestinian Authority and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas and P.A. Prime Minister Salam Fayyad remained committed to a peaceful settlement with Israel and “deserve our continued support.”
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Analyst: Obama's actions against Israel intentional
OneNewsNow
A political analyst and former U.S. congressman says Barack Obama continues to be confused about who America's real enemies are.
Recently Politico reported that the United States has decided to formally resume contact with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, a group that does not formally recognize Israel. The report says that decision could further alienate some Jewish voters already skeptical about the president.
Bob Beauprez is a former Colorado congressman who publishes an online column called "A Line of Sight."
"They seem to have a real state of confusion over who's our friends and who's our enemies," says Beauprez. "Muslim Brotherhood isn't just a radical terrorist organization, they're the original radical Islamic terrorist organization -- and like most all of the rest, [it] denies the right for Israel to exist."
Bob BeauprezBeauprez says Obama has launched what he calls a "one-two punch" on the Jewish state.
"Just a few weeks ago Barack Obama punched them in the gut when he endorsed the idea of returning to the 1967 borders, which Netanyahu correctly said are indefensible. Now weeks later, he smacks them right between the eyes with this news that the Obama administration is going to open dialogue with the Muslim Brotherhood," explains the analyst.
Beauprez says he believes it has to be intentional that Obama wants to perpetually make friends with the enemies of freedom, but continually turns his back on Israel.
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