Speaking Shlomo Aronson, Jamil Hamad, Yitzhak Noy and Jay Bushinsky
July 12, 2010
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's talks at the White House with President Obama is the opening topic on "Middle East Perspective" and is followed by the findings of a military committee that investigated the Israeli Navy's seizure. May 31, of a flotilla en route to Gaza and the peace plans proposed by Foreign Minister Lieberman and former Defense Minister Moshe Arens respectively. The panelists are Shlomo Aronson of the Hebrew University, Jamil Hamad of Time and Yitzhak Noy of Israel Radio. Jay Bushinsky of CBS Radio is the moderator.
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July 12, 2010
President Medvedev says Islamic Republic nearing possession of potential to build atom bomb
News agencies
Iran is close to having the potential to build a nuclear weapon, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday, in one of Moscow's toughest statements on the Iranian atomic drive.
"Iran is nearing the possession of the potential which in principle could be used for the creation of a nuclear weapon," Medvedev said at a meeting with Russian diplomats quoted by Russian news agencies.
The statement, which comes after a row with Tehran over Moscow's support of sanctions against the Islamic Republic, is one of the first times the Kremlin has recognized in public that Iran may be moving towards a nuclear weapon.
Russia, traditionally a diplomatic and economic ally of the Islamic Republic, has in the past taken a milder line against Tehran than Western powers but has noticeably hardened its position in recent months.
The United States and major European Union powers suspect that Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons. Iran says its nuclear program is peaceful.
Op-Ed: Israel treated Turkish flotilla as military objective, rather than political drama.
Although Israel's Navy succeeded in stopping a flotilla attempting to break the Gaza blockade it lost yet another important public relations battle.
Organized in Turkey with government approval and sponsored by Insani Yardim Vakfi (IHH), a "humanitarian aid organization" linked to terrorist groups, the flotilla highlighted the IHH, garnered sympathy for Gazans, and encouraged Hamas; Israel was condemned by many in the international community. So who won?
Soldiers and passengers were injured; nine militants were killed when the soldiers were attacked and opened fire in self-defense. Could the incident have been handled better, or even avoided?
BBC News, World affairs correspondent Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani's fate remains unclear.
Iran appears to have backed down over the stoning of a woman for adultery amid an international outcry, putting the whole issue of stoning as a punishment under the spotlight once again.
Iran has said Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, 43, will be spared being stoned to death for adultery while leaving it unclear what fate does await her.
Eric Hofferwas one of the most influential American philosophers and free thinkers of the 20t Century. His books are still widely read and quoted today. Acclaimed for his thoughts on mass movements and fanaticism, Hoffer was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1983. Hopewell Publications awards the best in independent publishing across a wide range of categories, singling out the most thought provoking titles in books and short prose, on a yearly basis in honor of Eric Hoffer. Here is one of his columns from 1968 -- 42 years ago! Some things never change!
By Eric Hoffer
Los Angeles Times
May 26, 1968
The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it Poland and Czechoslovakia did it.Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchman. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese and no one says a word about refugees.
By Caroline B. Glick
The Jerusalem Post
July 9th, 2010
Two important statements this week shed a light on the nature of the Palestinian conflict with Israel. Both were barely noted by the media.
On Saturday, the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper reported that Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas gave US mediator George Mitchell a letter detailing a number of concessions that he would make towards Israel in a final peace treaty. These included a willingness to accept permanent Israeli sovereignty over the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem’s Old City and over the Western Wall. The Al- Hayat report received enthusiastic and expansive coverage in the Israeli media and in media outlets throughout the world.
West Says: We've Helped Poor Gazans! Hamas Says: You've Given Us Gaza, Now on to More Wars, Seizing the West Bank, and Wiping Out Israel
By Barry Rubin
Gloria Center
July 7th, 2010
Here is what President Barack H. Obama said after his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
“We believe that there is a way to make sure that the people of Gaza are able to prosper economically, while Israel is able to maintain its legitimate security needs in not allowing missiles and weapons to get to Hamas.”
Speaking Avi Beker, Jamil Hamad, Yitzhak Noy and Jay Bushinsky
July 6, 2010
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting with President Obama in the White House is discussed and
analyzed by three experts on "Middle East Perspective." They are Avi Beker of Tel Aviv University, Jamil Hamad of Time and Yitzhak Noy of Israel Radio. Among the issues considered are the ban on Israeli housing projects in West Bank settlements which expires in September, the plight of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' reported readiness to let Israel retain control of Jerusalem's Western Wall and Jewish Quarter in the Old City. Jay Bushinsky of CBS Radio is the moderator.
Under Yasir Arafat, the Palestine Liberation Organization notoriously said one thing to Arab/Muslim audiences and the opposite to Israeli/Western ones, speaking venomously to the former and in dulcet tones to the latter. What about Arafat's mild-mannered successor, Mahmoud Abbas? Did he break from this pattern of duplicity or continue it?
This question has renewed relevance because reports suggest Abbas is ready to offer Israel various territorial compromises, plus, he took unprecedented steps in granting an interview to Israeli journalists and meeting with American Jewish leaders at the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace.
After finally taking the offensive in the war against Palestinian terrorism, we seem to be moving in the wrong direction.
If corruption can wait, terrorism can also wait. That is the opinion of those who believe that unilateral withdrawal and uprooting the Jewish residents from Gush Katif and northern Samaria - euphemistically referred to as disengagement, or getting out of Gaza, or making sure Israel will be a democratic Jewish State (take your choice) - is the be-all and end-all of a grand strategy and micro-tactics all rolled into one for Israel at the present time.
For weeks, the residents of Gush Katif and the settlements south of Ashkelon, Sderot and the western Negev have been subjected to a daily shower of mortar shells and Qassam rockets. Nothing has been done to put an end to this outrage. People have been killed and injured, property has been damaged, and the government's policy seems to be a repetition of the nonresponse to acts of terror that a few years ago was promoted under the slogan of "restraint is strength."
If he plays his cards wisely, he can say no to Obama and avoid an open confrontation.
Just ahead of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s trip next week to Washington, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas went on a charm offensive towards the Israeli media. On Tuesday, Abbas invited representatives of the Hebrew-language press to his office in Ramallah and assured them of his good intentions towards Israel.
We have been here before. In Netanyahu’s last go-around as prime minister, it seemed like every time he was due to visit Washington, then president Bill Clinton’s advisers would set up a meeting for Abbas’s predecessor Yasser Arafat with the Israeli media. Arafat would talk about how much he wanted peace with Israel, and how he was just waiting for Netanyahu to agree to embrace the cause of peace.
Thanks to U.S. taxpayers, an Islamic enclave is being carved out of the heart of the City of Brotherly Love. And how generous have you been with your tax dollars? You just gave
$1.6 billion for the privilege of turning over all this cash to the Islamic community.
The person doing the carving is Kenny Gamble, the author of such hit songs as “Love Train” and “Me and Mrs. Jones.”
So far Americans have shelled out $1.6 billion in federal grants, loans, and “charitable” gifts to create an alleged “Muslims-only” community.
Israel’s predicament uncannily resembles the plotline in Swiss playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s now-classic 1956 tragicomedy ‘The Visit.'
There was a rapturous turkey trot in old Turkey the other day. Led by President Abdullah Gul, the Turks and their guests jumped for joy and did their springy one-step to celebrate Israel’s obvious ostracism.
“This is a clear manifestation of how Israel isolated itself,” Gul, who chaired the summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia, exulted. Twenty-one of CICA’s member-states (with the single exception of Israel) “deeply deplored” its interception of the Gaza-bound Mavi Marmara.
Speaking Ruth Sinai, Jamil Hamad, Yitzhak Noy and Jay Bushinsky
June 28, 2010
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The campaign under way in Israel to convince the government to pay the price demanded by Hamas to free kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit is weighed by the three panelists on "Middle East Perspective" as are the arguments against doing so. Ruth Sinai, a veteran journalist, Jamil Hamad of Time and Yitzhak Noy of Israel Radio consider the humanitarian and political issues with Jay Bushinsky of CBS Radio as moderator. They also discuss the dispute between religious and secular Jews about school segregation and the proposed destruction of 22 Palestinian homes in Jerusalem's ancient Silwan sector.
The Middle East has its Hitler wannabe in Iranian President Ahmadinejad. His nuclear weaponization program has accelerated over eighteen months while Obama's "engagement" is being rebuffed with contemptuous defiance from Tehran. Like Hitler in Mein Kampf, Ahmadinejad has made clear his belief that the Jews of Israel should be annihilated.
Every Hitler needs his Mussolini. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan -- a man I know well -- is enthusiastically volunteering for that role.
Hamastan has just marked its third birthday. It was a glad gala indeed, punctuated with buoyant morale and maritime hijinks by “freedom flotillas” raucously rushing to spark the celebrations.
Unbelievably the anniversary of Hamas’s hegemony in the Gaza Strip came and went with scant critical appraisal anywhere. The Muslim Brotherhood offshoot, which took over Gaza in a spasm of violence during June 2007, now appears an acceptable regional fixture. Nobody demands even a modicum of good behavior from it. Hamastan gets such pampering press that it seemingly cannot set a foot wrong.
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BBC News, World affairs correspondent Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani's fate remains unclear.
Hamastan has just marked its third birthday. It was a glad gala indeed, punctuated with buoyant morale and maritime hijinks by “freedom flotillas” raucously rushing to spark the celebrations.