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From The Economist, not one these dingy sources we're now used to from some members, here's a good article about US-Israel current crisis : [www.economist.com]

Comments are worth reading too !!

C'est pas moi qui le dis, c'est le rabbin :

[www.haaretz.com]

Top U.S. Reform rabbi to Israel: Freeze East Jerusalem building


The leading Reform rabbi in the United States on Thursday urged Israel to cease construction in East Jerusalem, saying the diplomatic row between Israel and the United States has made this a difficult time for American Jewry.

Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, issued the call for a construction freeze during remarks to rabbis and members of URJ's board of trustees.

"This has been a difficult and complicated time for us as American Jews," said Yoffie. "We have a number of mandates at the moment: We proclaim our love for Israel in unmistakable terms, and we work to prevent the current situation from spiraling out of control and causing a deep rift between Israel and the United States.
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"Current tensions are not about a two-state solution, which is accepted by Israel," said Yoffie. "Nor are they simply about diplomatic courtesy. There is also a substantive question of great importance that needs to be addressed: Should Israel continue to build now in East Jerusalem? I believe that it should not."

Yoffie went on to say that compromise is needed to reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians, and that Israel will likely hold on to some settlement blocs in a final-status agreement.

He also said that the Union for Reform Judaism, like most American Jewish organizations, supports a united Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty.
"This means that we believe housing units constructed in Jerusalem by Israel are not settlements and they are not illegal," Yoffie said. "But a great many things that are legal are not prudent or wise - and building in Arab sections of Jerusalem in the current political climate is one of those things."

Yoffie asserted that Israel should not renounce the claim to all of Jerusalem as Israel's eternal capital, or Israel's right to build anywhere within Jerusalem's borders.

But he said a temporary moratorium on construction in East Jerusalem would strengthen Israel's relations with the U.S. and be greeted with enthusiasm by other allies angered by Israel's plan, such as Canada.

A freeze "would demonstrate a firm commitment on Israel's part to the American-sponsored peace negotiations; and it would, potentially, breathe life into those negotiations and turn the attention back to where it is most needed ? moving forward to a lasting, meaningful peace," said Yoffie. "Nothing should divert us from this goal."

Israel said it would be willing to carry out trust-building moves in the West Bank in order to facilitate peace talks with the Palestinian Authority, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly told U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday.

In a phone call between Netanyahu and Clinton, the premier reportedly conveyed a detailed list of gestures Jerusalem was willing to perform in order to restart negotiations with the Palestinians.

The Prime Minister's Office stated following the conversation between Netanyahu and Clinton that there was "a real effort by Israel to aid the U.S. administration in renewing negotiations though trust-building measures with the Palestinian Authority."

However, the Washington Post reported that Netanyahu is expected to tell the Obama administration that he cannot revoke the Ramat Shlomo expansion plan both for legal reasons and as a result of wide public support in continued building in Jerusalem.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Barack Hussein Obama vs Israel

The manifold organs of the ObamaMedia are abuzz with outrage over what they are calling Israel's "insult" to the United States. But what was the nature of this awful and outrageous insult? Did Israeli officials pull off V.P. Biden's rug to show off his bald head underneath. Did they ask him why the suit of his pants is so shiny. Did they make him sit at the kiddie table?


More to the point did Israeli TV air calls for a Jihad against America, as Palestinian Arab TV did? Did Israel name a square after the murderer of an American photographer, as the Palestinian Authority did? Did an Israeli Anchorman do a skit in blackface during Obama's visit, as a Turkish anchorman did during Obama's visit to Turkey? Are Israeli religious institutions issuing Fatwahs against America, as Al Azhar University, which Obama visited and spoke at, has done? Are Israeli leaders funding terrorism against America, as the Saudi King, before whom Obama bowed, does?

No, none of those incidents were described as insults. Nothing that Muslim countries did to mock, humiliate and murder Americans were even noticed at all. None of them produced furious condemnations from the White House or two hours of Hillary Clinton screeching on the phone at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. So what did Israel do that was so awful, so horrible and terrible? It built houses. Yes, civilian houses. Not army bases or nuclear missiles or walls. Houses.

Israel approved a construction project to build housing for its own people, in its own capitol city, Jerusalem. Some of the housing will be built in the Shimon HaTzadik neighborhood, situated around the grave of Shimon the Righteous, a Jewish religious figure famed for rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. A neighborhood where Jews have lived for over a century. As well as Ramat Shlomo, a thriving neighborhood with thousands of Jewish families living in it.

The Obama Administration's objections to Jews living in Jerusalem are purely racial and religious. If Israel were approving a construction project to build housing for Arab Muslim citizens of Israel, Biden, Hillary and their media troupe wouldn't be screeching about it to the high heavens. It is only because Jews are to live there, that they have a problem with it. Their objections therefore are purely based on race and religion-- and completely racist.

But this is hardly the first time that Muslims and their Western appeasers have tried to drive the Jews out of Jerusalem, or the Shimon HaTzaddik neighborhood in particular.

In 1876 the land was purchased by the Jewish community in order to build homes for poor Jews. In 1936, after the death of Sheikh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam (one of the inspirations for Hamas) and the Mufti of Jerusalem (who would go on to collaborate on the Holocaust with Adolf Hitler), Arab rioters drove the Jews out of the neighborhood with cries of Ibtach Al Yahood (kill the Jews). Over 500 Jews were murdered during this time. Many more fled their homes ahead of the enraged Islamic mobs.

The following was a sample of some of the Arab Muslim brutality toward the Jews at the time.

Alex Morrison, a British truck driver sympathetic to the Arab cause wrote, "They left behind them one of the worst sights I ever saw in my life... The naked bodies of the women exposed the evidence that the knives had been used in the most ghastly fashion." The bodies of children, apparently set alight with gasoline in a nursery, were still smoldering."

The Arab Muslim atrocities were successful not at intimidating the Jews, who slowly began to return, but at intimidating the British who enacted the White Paper, and closed the doors to Jewish immigration resulting in countless numbers of Jews dead during the Holocaust. A Holocaust which involved the participation of the same Mufti of Jerusalem who organized the riots. Which in turn had been partially funded by Nazi Germany.

In 1947 the Arab Muslim forces again came for the Jews. The Jewish residents of the Shimon HaTzadik neighborhood, accompanied by militia, fought them back with the few weapons they had. And then came the British colonial authorities and disarmed the Jews. And when the Arab forces came again, they had no weapons to fight with. And they fled.


The fall of the area cut off Hadassah Hospital from the rest of Jerusalem. A convoy of 79 doctors, nurses and patients to the hospital were massacred by Arab forces. They included a world renowned ophthalmologist, Chaim Yassky and his wife Fanny. Esther Fassman, the American director of social services at the hospital's Cancer Institute, carrying candy and magazines for her patients. And a man who had been riding along to reach his wife who had just given a birth. He never reached her.

The Jordanian Legion seized all of East Jerusalem, and drove out the remaining Jews living there. Synagogues were destroyed, others were turned into latrines. The tombstones from Jewish cemeteries were used as paving stones for the Arab Muslim occupation forces. The Shimon HaTzadik neighborhood though held the tragic distinction of being the first part of Jerusalem to have its Jewish population driven out.

The houses that the Jews had been driven out of were occupied by Arab Settlers in an East Jerusalem rendered empty of Jews. The great dream of the Mufti of Jerusalem, and every Islamic cleric and terrorist, who had urged the murder of Jews in order to build a pure Islamic Arab Palestine was fulfilled. The Shimon HaTzaddik neighborhood was seemingly no more. Only the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood remained. Half of the historic Jewish capital was Judenrein.

In 1967, Jerusalem was liberated and reunited once again. But the victorious Jewish army did not drive out the Arab squatters. Instead in 1972 it restored the land in the Shimon HaTzaddik neighborhood to the communal organizations which had owned it allowed them to remain on the condition that they paid rent. Those who refused, were evicted. Slowly Jews began to return to their old neighborhood again. A school opened and a normal semblance of life with it. However the US State Department and European government have continued fighting the Jewish presence in Jerusalem, demanding that it be restored to its former Judenrein status.

Over and over again, the diplomats have taken the side of the Arab squatters who stole the homes of the Jewish families living there, until Arab mobs and armies drove them out. Even when Jewish residents bought the land from those squatters, insuring the absolute legality of their ownership from any and every angle, their rights to live there have been denied. And those demanding an Apartheid Jerusalem, reserved for Arabs alone, have continued spewing lies and distorting the truth by claiming that Jews never lived in the Shimon HaTzaddik neighborhood.

That the only reason Jews live there now is out of spite (this in a city where spiraling real estate prices and crowded conditions have made apartments incredibly difficult to find.) And finally that the only reason that a housing project that has been in the works for over a decade was approved-- was in order to insult Joseph Robinette Biden... and through him America.

And then there was the Ramat Shlomo construction project. Supposedly the straw that broke the "camel's" back. Ramat Shlomo is and has been a Jewish neighborhood for some time now. There are thousands of families living in it. The 1600 additional units are not being built on inhabited land. Nor was the land ever supposed to be turned over to the Palestinian Authority in any conceivable settlement. In fact during the previous round of negotiations, even the PA had conceded Ramat Shlomo.

Let me be very clear then. The building of houses for Jewish families in a neighborhood where Jews have lived for 134 years is not an insult. A housing project that has been in the works for over a decade was not a secret conspiracy to humiliate the idiot Vice President on his visit there. It is of course an insult, but not to America. Only to Islam.

American diplomats have not usually described Israeli policies they dislike as an "insult"-- that is a term much more commonly used by Muslims, who are obsessed with perceived slights to their honor. Complaints over an "insult" is a common feature of Honor-Shame societies. America is not an honor-shame society.

However the White House is currently occupied by a man bred in an honor-shame society. It is Obama that feels "insulted" by Israel, both out of the sensitivity of his Muslim heritage and his own egotism, which regularly motivates him to humiliate Republicans, while triumphantly celebrating his own greatness.

It is natural enough for Barack Hussein Obama to rely on such cheap honor-shame gambits. They are what he grew up with. And it is natural enough for him to keenly feel the loss of face of Muslims. After all his father's family was Muslim. And Muslims are keenly "insulted" when they conquer territory and then cannot hold it. Whether that territory is in Jerusalem, Israel or Spain or India. They cannot stand to suffer the loss of face. And neither can Obama.

Had there been a Jewish or part-Jewish President in the White House, the media would be raising the question of whether he is showing favoritism toward Israel. A question that has been repeatedly raised regarding Joseph Lieberman.

A question that was raised regarding Goldwater, who was a practicing Christian. But the media refuses to allow the question to be raised of whether Obama is favoring Muslims because of his own Muslim background and family ties. Instead the media brands any such questions as racist, and instead spearheads the administration's campaign against Israel.

So directed out of the White House, a media firestorm howls enraged at Israel for presuming to allow Jews to live in a neighborhood where they had lived for a 134 years. The outrage. The offense. Heads must roll for this.

Panicked, Netanyahu has already rushed to appease Der Fuhrer, suspending all home development anywhere in Jerusalem. Netanyahu has already apologized for building homes for his own citizens in his own country, but that of course is not enough. It's never enough.

David Axelrod huffed, "This was an affront, it was an insult." Hillary Clinton, Suha Arafat's former kissyface partner, called Netanyahu to berate him. And then did it again in the round of interviews, proclaiming, "It was insulting. And-- it was insulting not just to the vice president, who-- certainly didn't deserve that--

But it was an insult to the United States." Biden added his own voice. So did a bevy of underlines. Israel's ambassador was summoned to be yelled at by the Deputy Secretary of State.

In his visit Biden had repeatedly insulted his Israeli hosts. First he brought along Chris Matthews who accused Israelis of disliking Obama because they're racists. He arrived an hour and a half late to a ceremonial dinner. In other words he acted like every bit of the predictable buffoon that he is.

Which is also not surprising given his history of hostility to Israel going back decades.

But none of that really matters. The bottom line is that the Obama Administration has been wanting to pick a fight with Israel for some time now... while pretending to be the victims. Much like the way Germany faked a Polish attack as a pretext for invading Poland, Barack Hussein Obama needed a pretext for waging his own political Jihad against Israel. All the while whining about how badly the Israelis have insulted him.


If it hadn't been Shimon HaTzaddik or Ramat Shlomo, some other pretext would have been found. Sooner or later, some visiting dignitary would have been offended by Israelis going on with their lives. Resulting in just this kind of cynical tantrum designed to win over Muslims and further degrade Israel's abilities to defend itself. The entire incident staged in keeping with the Honor-Shame background of the man in the White House.

Meanwhile in Jerusalem, Jews were celebrating the rebuilding of the Hurva Synagogue. Built in the 1700's, the synagogue had been demolished twice by Arab Muslims. The second time in 1948 by the Jordanian Legion, in order to insure that Jews would never return to East Jerusalem. They were wrong then, as Obama is wrong now. The plans of Muslims to banish Jews from their historic capitol are both immoral and racist.

Meanwhile the PA's Jerusalem minister, Khatem Abd el-Kader, condemned the renovation of the Hurva Synagogue, warning Israel that it was "playing with fire" and urged Muslim Arabs to "protect" the Al Aqsa Mosque. Naturally of course the riots are of course already on the way. An echo of the riots that drove Jews out of Jerusalem in the 1930's. Then the rioters had shouted, "Itbach-al Yahud" and "Addowlah ma'anah". Kill the Jews, and The Government is With Us. Except the government they mean now is not the British colonial authorities, but the administration of Barack Hussein Obama.



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dear Exilée,

so, this is history as I know it, as it is reported by western media and as it is, how can there be such a campaign of hatred against Israel and I add... the Jews, Is the world blind ? the bigger the lie is, they beleive it.

Dear Lison,



The world is blind , and some "jews" anti-sionists are helping them in that way .

We have a perfect example with the " juifs de cour" serving hussein obama.

ISRAEL becomes "LE JUIF DES NATIONS" !!!

GOD SAVE ISRAEL !

Will you people grow some brain and stop victimizing yourselves bringing on old stories to justify your attitude ? That's lame ...

Absolutely...The funniest joke ever...

AND IT'S ON US! Let it sink in.

Quietly.... We go like sheep to slaughter.



Does anybody out there have any memory

Of the reason given for the establishment Of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

During the Carter Administration?

Anybody?

Anything?

No?

Didn't think so!

Bottom line ...

We've spent several hundred billion dollars In support of an agency ...the reason

For which not one person who reads!

This can remember. Ready?

It was very simple .. And at the time everybody thought It very appropriate...

The 'Department of Energy Was instituted on 8-04-1977 :

TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCY ON FOREIGN OIL.

Hey, pretty efficient, huh?


AND NOW IT'S 2010, 32.5 YEARS LATER ...AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS

NECESSARY DEPARTMENT IS AT $24.2 BILLION A YEAR

IT HAS 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000

CONTRACT EMPLOYEES AND LOOK AT THE JOB IT HAS DONE!

THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY 'WHAT WAS I THINKING?'

Ah, yes, good old bureaucracy...

And NOW _ we are going to turn The Banking System, Health Care &The Auto Industry over to government

ALL IN THE NAME OF CHANGE?

May God Help Us !

Keep this one going....

Pour ceux qui ont la memoire courte et qui sont convaincus que les elucubrations des politiciens incompetants et irresponsables actuels sont une innovation .Lisez les declarations suivantes.Elles prouvent que les efforts de negociation israelien seront toujours voues à l'echec tant que les Arabes resteront convaincus par l'attitude ambigue des nations occidentales que la seule presence d'un Etat juif sur la moindre parcelle de la Palestine historique est un motif de guerre de liberation .



"With a single remark last week, George Bush may have derailed the 10-month-old Middle East peace initiative ... and driven a substantial wedge between American Jewry and the Republican Party. Just as Shamir seemed on the verge of being pushed into a meeting with Palestinians—or having to accept the blame for failing to do so—Bush suddenly fueled Israeli fears that Jerusalem would be tossed on the negotiating table along with the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Foolishly, he warned Israel not to settle Soviet Jews in East Jerusalem." (Excerpted from editorial in Washington Jewish Week, March 15, 1990)

"I am mystified and disappointed by President Bush's decision, at a time when the need for partnership and trust is most crucial, to provoke deep concern about American intentions. There is no reason for the United States to undermine [the peace process] through thoughtless insensitivity or conscious provocation." (Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell (D-ME), March 17, 1990). (le "mediateur" actuellement nomme par Hussein)

"Loose lips at the highest level of the Bush administration sank the government of Israel ... President Bush insists he meant to say East Jerusalem. But by doing so, he undermined Secretary Baker's peace plan and caused a crisis in Israel." (Senator Ted Kennedy, National Public Radio, March 23, 1990)

"I was taken aback generally at the time chosen by the US government, or the secretary of state, in putting before us an inflammatory idea like this." (Yitzhak Shamir, March 3, 1990)

''Bush's statement comes on the heels of Secretary of State James Baker's testimony before Congress declaring that the administration will oppose housing assistance for Soviet Jewish refugees unless Israel produces 'assurances on creation of additional settlements or expansion of existing settlements'... Within little more than a week, Baker has called for an end to Israeli settlements, declared that Yasser Arafat has abandoned terrorism; endorsed 'shaving' aid to Israel. wished Israel's foreign minister were as 'forthcoming' in the search for peace as his Egyptian counterpart; suggested Israel is the one dragging its feet in the peace process: and expressed sympathy with Arab opposition to Soviet Jews going to the occupied territories. 'If I closed my eyes, I could swear Jimmy Carter was back in the White House making Middle East policy,' declared one Jewish Democrat. 'It was policies and attitudes like that that were the major reason why Jews so profoundly mistrusted and disliked Carter."' (Excerpted from article by Douglas Bloomfield in March 8 1990 Washington Jewish Week)

"George Bush and James Baker are frozen in the diplomatic Ice Age. They focus on Israel's West Bank; they exploit division within Israel's policy and refuse humanitarian aid to refugees unless the Israeli government accepts their view of what's best for our ally's security. That's why we see Mr. Bush deliberately calling into question the integrity of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, ordering the Israelis not to let new refugees live there. That's why Mr. Baker—more underhanded than evenhanded—wants an Arab representative from Jerusalem, not from the West Bank, in the negotiations ... The Bush-Baker notion is to revisit the issue of an undivided Jerusalem, settled a generation ago, and put it on the negotiating table." (Excerpted from column by William Safire in The New York Times, March 9, 1990)

"If I closed my eyes, I could swear Jimmy Carter was back in the White House making Middle East policy."

The facts about Baker's tactics:

"We regard [settlements] as an obstacle to peace. As such, we draw a very clear distinction between absorption of Soviet Jews into Israel and their settlement in the territories. Because of our support for the absorption of Soviet Jews into Israel, the secretary felt that we could support ... the $400 million in housing loan guarantees that are not in our budget ... But only if we could get some assurances respecting settlement activity." (State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler, in March 2 news briefing)

"The arrival of Baker, with a reputation for tough, pragmatic handling of problems... created unease among Israeli leaders. They were alarmed when he told Washington's pro-Israel lobby shortly after taking office that the Zionist state should abandon dreams of a Greater Israel that would include the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israeli officials know the current point of friction, the issue of Jewish settlements among the 1.75 million Palestinians of the occupied territories, reflects the personal concern of President George Bush. But they have focused on the blunt-speaking handler of foreign affairs as a key source of the current deterioration in the US-Israeli relationship." (Excerpted from article by Jack Redden, Reuters News Service, March 4,1990)

"The architect of linkage is not the secretary of state but the White House chief of staff, John Sununu. When he first put forth the idea of linking settlements to refugee housing assistance, it seemed like a trial balloon that wasn't going anywhere. But soon Bush and Baker embraced it and declared it government policy ... Sununu, an Arab-American, has demonstrated his clout on a wide variety of issues... A man of demonstrated hostility towards Israel... he appears fully engaged, and, as the official closest to the president. he is in a position to wield great influence." (Excerpted from article by Douglas Bloomfield in March 8, Washington Jewish Week)

The facts about the Middle East peace process:

"Peacemaking at a snail's pace is a euphemism for standstill. And the coy waiting for the 'ripening' is nothing but a subterfuge to evade facing the issue ... After more than four decades of emnity, five major wars and 28 months of uprising, the situation is overripe. It calls not for small but for bold steps—executed on the firm grasp of existing realities, acquired experience, past practice and the utilization of the available building blocks ...

''The acquired experience indicates that the settlement of the conflict, or any part of it, requires third-party participation within an international framework. Past practice, from the armistice talks on the island of Rhodes to the peace negotiations at Camp David, confirms this premise. And the peace-building blocks are in ample supply.

"They consist of procedural UN Resolution 338 stipulating direct negotiations under appropriate international auspices and the operative Resolution 242 calling for the conclusion of permanent peace on the basis of territorial compromise, the establishment of secure and recognized boundaries and the renunciation of the threat or use of force." (Excerpted from article in April 5 Washington Jewish Week by Gideon Rafael, former director-general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry and former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations.)

Gil,

Quelles que soient les concessions territoriales qu'ISRAEL fera , elles ne seront jamais suffisantes,

car l'objectif non avoué (pour le moment) de ces "nations" qui , sur ce seul point, sont unanimes ,

c'est qu' à terme , à D.ieu ne plaise, la disparition dISRAEL .

Depuis l'arrivée de hussein obama à la maison blanche , cet occident suicidaire se plaît à rêver !!!!

COMBIEN D'EMPIRES ONT ESSAYE ..... ET ILS ONT ETE ANEANTIS.

Nous devons faire confiance en HACHEM , c'est une épreuve supplémentaire à endurer pendant 3

longues années.

ACORN Closing in Wake of Scandal
Monday, March 22, 2010



CHICAGO — The once mighty community activist group ACORN announced Monday it is folding amid falling revenues — six months after video footage emerged showing some of its workers giving tax tips to conservative activists posing as a pimp and prostitute.

"It's really declining revenue in the face of a series of attacks from partisan operatives and right-wing activist that have taken away our ability to raise the resources we need," ACORN spokesman Kevin Whelan said.

Several of its largest affiliates, including ACORN New York and ACORN California, broke away this year and changed their names in a bid to ditch the tarnished image of their parent organization and restore revenue that ran dry in the wake of the video scandal.

ACORN's financial situation and reputation went into free fall within days of the videos' release in September. Congress reacted by yanking ACORN's federal funding, private donors held back cash and scores of ACORN offices closed.

Earlier this month, a U.S. judge reiterated an earlier ruling that the federal law blacklisting ACORN and groups allied with it was unconstitutional because it singled them out. But that didn't mean any money would be automatically be restored.


Bertha Lewis, the CEO of ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, alluded to financial hardships in a weekend statement as the group's board prepared to deliberate by phone.

"ACORN has faced a series of well-orchestrated, relentless, well-funded right wing attacks that are unprecedented since the McCarthy era," she said. "The videos were a manufactured, sensational story that led to rush to judgment and an unconstitutional act by Congress."

ACORN's board decided to close remaining state affiliates and field offices by April 1 because of falling revenues, with some national operations will continue operating for at least several weeks before shutting for good, Whelan said Monday.

For years, ACORN could draw on 400,000 members to lobby for liberal causes, such as raising the minimum wage or adopting universal health care. ACORN was arguably most successful at registering hundreds of thousands of low-income voters, though that mission was dogged by fraud allegations, including that some workers submitted forms signed by 'Mickey Mouse' or other cartoon characters.


See Next Story in U.S.

Si les Occidentaux avaient le courage de faire la même declaration ,nous serions certainement plus respectes
et les droits de l'homme plus universels !!!

Australian Prime Minister does it again!!
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> This man should be appointed King of the World.. Truer words have never been spoken.
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> It took a lot of courage for this man to speak what he had to say for the world to hear. The retribution could be phenomenal, but at least he was willing to take a stand on his and Australia's beliefs.
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> Whole world Needs A Leader Like This!
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> Prime Minister Kevin Rudd - Australia
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> Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia , as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks..
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> Separately, Rudd angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying he supported spy agencies monitoring the nation's mosques. Quote:
> 'IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT.. Take It Or Leave It.
> I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali , we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians. '
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> 'This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom'
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> 'We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society . Learn the language!'
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> 'Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.'
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> 'We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.'
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> 'This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this. But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom, 'THE RIGHT TO LEAVE'.'
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> 'If you aren't happy here then LEAVE. We didn't force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.'
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Lol. Mais arrête ton char. Ceci est un hoax (canular) qui a déjà été fait pour John Howard. On a repris le même texte et on a mis Kevin Rudd à la place. Mort de rire. En plus, je ne sais c'est la combientième fois qu'on nous poste le même texte ici. Y a surement Lison et Marylou qui l'ont déjà plus quelques autres novices. Arrête les sites d'extrême-droite et lis un peu la presse sérieuse. Read this and grow a brain ! lol

[www.hoax-slayer.com]
[www.reconciliationtalk.com]

Les islamistes sont incorrigibles,tout ce qui contredit leur ideologie est un canular et la seule lecture qui instruit est celle
des opinions supremacistes et racistes envers les Kouffirs !! L'autodafe des livres impurs est un devoir sacré,appliqué par par toutes les tyrannies.
La question est de savoir ce qui les pousse à nous lire en permanence,alors que nous ne connaissons pas la Verité
revelee.Le fait de se rejouir de l'absence de ceux qui expliquaient l'origine de la haine meprisante de l'Islam envers les Juifs et dans une moindre mesure des chretiens moins lucides,montre peut etre a raison profonde de leur intervention provocatrice.
Leur rire jaune et grinçant est une marque de leur intolerance.S'ils pouvaient en mourir !!!

Regardez les à espérer la mort de ceux qui les mettent au pied du mur !! Et non, on est les intolérants dans l'histoire !! Au Maroc, on appelle ça la dureté du visage (qsohyat lwjeh)

Men foumouk smaana

"On a repris le même texte et on a mis Kevin Rudd à la place. Mort de rire"

Boy is he funny ... NOOOT !

Ses commentaires me rappellent ceux de Jeha,qui suivant le corbillard menant son ami au cimetière,lui
reproche de rouler en carosse pendant qu'il le suit à pied!!!!
N'importe quoi,pourvu qu'il fasse du bruit !!!

Get a life !

Israeli leader gets warmer welcome in Congress

By MATTI FRIEDMAN and MATTHEW LEE
The Associated Press
Tuesday, March 23, 2010; 2:42 PM

WASHINGTON -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received a warmer public reception from Congress than from the Obama administration, with a top Democrat and Republican joining Tuesday to welcome a leader who has refused to back down in a disagreement with the White House over Israeli housing expansion in a disputed part of Jerusalem.

"We in Congress stand by Israel," the leader of the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, assured Netanyahu at an all-smiles appearance before the cameras. "In Congress we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel."

President Barack Obama will meet with Netanyahu later Tuesday, but the meeting has been declared closed to journalists in what could be an indication that the spat marring ties between the allies is not over yet. The Obama administration appears eager to let Netanyahu's awkwardly timed visit pass with as little public remark as possible, and has refused to detail what promises Netanyahu is making to ease the most serious diplomatic breach between the two nations in decades.

Neither side has publicly detailed which steps, if any, Netanyahu has proposed to defuse tensions. Netanyahu has given no indication that he will agree to halt or slow Israeli building in Jerusalem, which the administration has said - in an unusually blunt and public fashion - is harming peace efforts and ties between the U.S. and Israel.

In his meeting with Pelosi, Netanyahu asserted that Israel had been building in east Jerusalem since the 1967 Mideast war, when it captured the West Bank from Jordan, and that the matter had "never been a subject of argument among us or in the U.S.," according to Netanyahu's office. The Jewish neighborhoods built in east Jerusalem will remain part of Israel in any final status deal with the Palestinians, he told Pelosi, so building there doesn't harm the chances for peace.

The international community, including the U.S., has never recognized Israel's annexation of east Jerusalem and sees the Jewish concentrations there as no different from West Bank settlements.

The Palestinian demand for a halt to building in Jerusalem as a precondition for peace talks, Netanyahu said, will serve only to delay peace talks further. Netanyahu said the sides "must not be trapped by an unreasonable and illogical demand."

The abrupt rescheduling Monday of Netanyahu's planned trip to the State Department for what had been billed as a public meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton underscored the uneasy atmosphere. Netanyahu's meeting with Clinton took place at his hotel and was closed to the press.

It was followed by a private dinner at Vice President Joe Biden's home on Monday night that was meant to salve hurt feelings from two weeks ago, when Netanyahu's government announced a provocative housing expansion in east Jerusalem while Biden was visiting the city. Netanyahu said he was unaware of the move, blaming low-level bureaucrats, but an angry and embarrassed Biden was reportedly 90 minutes late for a dinner with the Israeli leader.

Both nations are now trying to move on without backing down.

"We have no stronger ally anywhere in the world than Israel," said House Republican Leader John Boehner. "We all know we're in a difficult moment. I'm glad the prime minister is here so we can have an open dialogue."

Other Republicans have weighed in on Israel's side, criticizing the Obama administration for its handling of the crisis.

"I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem," Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana said on the House floor Tuesday after meeting Netanyahu. "I urge the president to stop all this talk about settlements in Jerusalem and start focusing on isolating a threatening and menacing and rising nuclear Iran," he said.

Pelosi and Boehner both pointed to the threat from Iran as a top concern and an area in which the United States will cooperate with Israel. Netanyahu thanked his congressional hosts for what he called warm, bipartisan support. "We face two great challenges", Netanyahu said, a "quest for peace with our Palestinian neighbors" and stopping Iran from developing atomic weapons.

Obama has remained out of the fray as Clinton and other U.S. officials have rebuked Israel.

P.J. Crowley, the State Department spokesman, told The Associated Press that the U.S. and Israel were currently engaged in "give and take."

"We are not going to talk about the precise steps both sides have to take. We will continue to discuss those steps privately," Crowley said.

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AP Diplomatic Writer Barry Schweid contributed to this report.

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a very powerful address in its entirety!
Elisabeth

PM Netanyahu addresses AIPAC conference in Washington
Jerusalem is not a settlement. It is our capital.

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses AIPAC conference (Photo: GPO)

Members of the Obama Administration,
Senators,
Members of Congress,
Defense Minister Ehud Barak
Minister Uzi Landau
Ambassador Michael Oren,
Howard Kohr, David Victor, Lee Rosenberg Leaders of AIPAC,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

As the world faces monumental challenges, I know that Israel and America will face them together. We stand together because we are fired by the same ideals and inspired by the same dream - the dream of achieving security, prosperity and peace.

This dream seemed impossible to many Jews a century ago.

This month, my father celebrated his one-hundredth birthday. When he was born, the Czars ruled Russia, the British Empire spanned the globe and the Ottomans ruled the Middle East. During his lifetime, all of these empires collapsed, others rose and fell, and the Jewish destiny swung from despair to a new hope - the rebirth of the Jewish state. For the first time in two thousand years, a sovereign Jewish people could defend itself against attack.

Before that, we were subjected to unremitting savagery: the bloodletting of the Middle Ages, the expulsion of the Jews from England, Spain and Portugal, the wholesale slaughter of the Jews of the Ukraine, the pogroms in Russia, culminating in the greatest evil of all - the Holocaust.

The founding of Israel did not stop the attacks on the Jews. It merely gave the Jews the power to defend themselves against those attacks.

My friends,

I want to tell you about the day when I fully understood the depth of this transformation. It was the day I met Shlomit Vilmosh over 40 years ago. I served with her son, Haim, in the same elite unit in the army. During a battle in 1969, Haim was killed by a burst of gunfire.

At his funeral, I discovered that Haim was born shortly after his mother and father had been freed from the death camps of Europe. If Haim had been born two years before, this daring young officer would have been tossed into the ovens like a million other Jewish children. Haim's mother Shlomit told me that though she was in great anguish, she was proud. At least, she said, my son fell wearing the uniform of a Jewish soldier defending the Jewish state.

Time and again the Israeli army was forced to repel attacks of much larger enemies determined to destroy us. When Egypt and Jordan recognized that we could not be defeated in battle, they embraced the path of peace.

Yet there are those who continue the assault against the Jewish state and who openly call for our destruction. They seek to achieve this goal through terrorism, missile attacks and most recently by developing atomic weapons.

The ingathering of the Jewish people to Israel has not deterred these fanatics. In fact, it has only whetted their appetite. Iran's rulers say "Israel is a one bomb country." The head of Hizbullah says: "If all the Jews gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide."

My friends,

These are unpleasant facts, but they are the facts.

The greatest threat to any living organism or nation is not to recognize danger in time. Seventy-five years ago, many leaders around the world put their heads in the sand. Untold millions died in the war that followed. Ultimately, two of history's greatest leaders helped turn the tide. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill helped save the world. But they were too late to save six million of my own people.

The future of the Jewish state can never depend on the goodwill of even the greatest of men. Israel must always reserve the right to defend itself.

Today, an unprecedented threat to humanity looms large. A radical Iranian regime armed with nuclear weapons could bring an end to the era of nuclear peace the world has enjoyed for the last 65 years. Such a regime could provide nuclear weapons to terrorists and might even be tempted to use them. Our world would never be the same. Iran's brazen bid to develop nuclear weapons is first and foremost a threat to Israel, but it is also a grave threat to the region and to the world.

Israel expects the international community to act swiftly and decisively to thwart this danger. But we will always reserve the right to self-defense.

We must also defend ourselves against lies and vilifications. Throughout history, the slanders against the Jewish people always preceded the physical assaults against us and were used to justify these assaults. The Jews were called the well-poisoners of mankind, the fomenters of instability, the source of all evil under the sun.

Unfortunately, these libelous attacks against the Jewish people also did not end with the creation of Israel. For a time, overt anti-Semitism was held in check by the shame and shock of the Holocaust. But only for a time. In recent decades the hatred of the Jews has reemerged with increasing force, but with an insidious twist. It is not merely directed at the Jewish people but increasingly at the Jewish state. In its most pernicious form, it argues that if only Israel did not exist, many of the world's problems would go away.

My friends,

Does this mean that Israel is above criticism? Of course not. Israel, like any democracy, has its imperfections but we strive to correct them through open debate and scrutiny. Israel has independent courts, the rule of law, a free press and a vigorous parliamentary debate - believe me, it's vigorous.

I know that members of Congress refer to one another as my distinguished colleague from Wisconsin or the distinguished Senator from California. In Israel, members of Knesset don't speak of their distinguished colleagues from Kiryat Shmona and Be'er Sheva. We say - well, you don't want to know what we say. In Israel, self-criticism is a way of life, and we accept that criticism is part of the conduct of international affairs.

But Israel should be judged by the same standards applied to all nations, and allegations against Israel must be grounded in fact. One allegation that is not is the attempt to describe the Jews as foreign colonialists in their own homeland, one of the great lies of modern times.

In my office, I have a signet ring that was loaned to me by Israel's Department of Antiquities. The ring was found next to the Western wall, but it dates back some 2,800 years ago, two hundred years after King David turned Jerusalem into our capital city. The ring is a seal of a Jewish official, and inscribed on it in Hebrew is his name: Netanyahu. Netanyahu Ben-Yoash. That's my last name. My first name, Benjamin, dates back 1,000 years earlier to Benjamin, the son of Jacob, One of Benjamin's brothers was named Shimon, which also happens to be the first name of my good friend, Shimon Peres, the President of Israel. Nearly 4,000 years ago, Benjamin, Shimon and their ten brothers roamed the hills of Judea.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The connection between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel cannot be denied. The connection between the Jewish people and Jerusalem cannot be denied. The Jewish people were building Jerusalem 3,000 years ago and the Jewish people are building Jerusalem today.

Jerusalem is not a settlement. It is our capital.

In Jerusalem, my government has maintained the policies of all Israeli governments since 1967, including those led by Golda Meir, Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Rabin. Today, nearly a quarter of a million Jews, almost half the city's Jewish population, live in neighborhoods that are just beyond the 1949 armistice lines. All these neighborhoods are within a five-minute drive from the Knesset. They are an integral and inextricable part of modern Jerusalem. Everyone knows that these neighborhoods will be part of Israel in any peace settlement. Therefore, building in them in no way precludes the possibility of a two-state solution.

Nothing is rarer in the Middle East than tolerance for the beliefs of others. It's only under Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem that religious freedom for all faiths has been guaranteed. While we cherish our homeland, we also recognize that Palestinians live there as well. We don't want to govern them. We don't want to rule them. We want them as neighbors, living in security, dignity and peace. Yet Israel is unjustly accused of not wanting peace with the Palestinians. Nothing could be further from the truth.

My government has consistently shown its commitment to peace in both word and deed. From day one, we called on the Palestinian Authority to begin peace negotiations without delay. I make that same call today. President Abbas, come and negotiate peace. Leaders who truly want peace should sit down face-to-face.

Of course, the United States can help the parties solve their problems but it cannot solve the problems for the parties. Peace cannot be imposed from the outside. It can only come through direct negotiations in which we develop mutual trust.

Last year, I spoke of a vision of peace in which a demilitarized Palestinian state recognizes the Jewish state. Just as the Palestinians expect Israel to recognize a Palestinian state, we expect the Palestinians to recognize the Jewish state.

My government has removed hundreds of roadblocks, barriers and checkpoints facilitating Palestinian movement. As a result, we have helped spur a fantastic boom in the Palestinian economy (coffee Shops, restaurants, businesses, even multiplex theaters). And we announced an unprecedented moratorium on new Israeli construction in Judea and Samaria.

This is what my government has done for peace. What has the Palestinian Authority done for peace? Well, they have placed preconditions on peace talks, waged a relentless international campaign to undermine Israel's legitimacy, and promoted the notorious Goldstone report that falsely accuses Israel of war crimes. In fact, they're doing right now in the UN in the grotesquely misnamed UN Human Rights Council.

I want to thank President Obama and the United States Congress for their efforts to thwart this libel, and I ask for your continued support.

Regrettably, the Palestinian Authority has also continued incitement against Israel. A few days ago, a public square near Ramallah was named after a terrorist who murdered 37 Israeli civilians, including 13 children. The Palestinian Authority did nothing to prevent it.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Peace requires reciprocity. It cannot be a one-way street in which only Israel makes concessions. Israel stands ready to make the compromises necessary for peace. But we expect the Palestinians to compromise as well. But one thing I will never compromise on is our security.

It is hard to explain Israel's security predicament to someone living in a country 500 times the size of Israel. But imagine the entire United States compressed to the size of New Jersey. Next, put on New Jersey's northern border an Iranian terror proxy called Hizbullah which fires 6,000 rockets into that small state. Then imagine that this terror proxy has amassed 60,000 more missiles to fire at you. Wait. I'm not finished. Now imagine on New Jersey's southern border another Iranian terror proxy called Hamas. It too fires 6,000 rockets into your territory while smuggling even more lethal weapons into its territory. Do you think you would feel a little bit vulnerable? Do you think you would expect some understanding from the international community when you defend yourselves?

A peace agreement with the Palestinians must include effective security arrangements on the ground. Israel must make sure that what happened in Lebanon and Gaza doesn't happen again in the West Bank.

Israel's main security problem with Lebanon is not its border with Lebanon. It is Lebanon's border with Syria, through which Iran and Syria smuggle tens of thousands of weapons to Hizbullah.

Israel's main security problem with Gaza is not its border with Gaza. It's Gaza's border with Egypt, under which nearly 1,000 tunnels have been dug to smuggle weapons. Experience has shown that only an Israeli presence on the ground can prevent weapons smuggling. This is why a peace agreement with the Palestinians must include an Israeli presence on the eastern border of a future Palestinian state.

If peace with the Palestinians proves its durability over time, we can review security arrangements. We are prepared to take risks for peace, but we will not be reckless with the lives of our people and the life of the one and only Jewish state.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The people of Israel want a future in which our children no longer experience the horrors of war. We want a future in which Israel realizes its full potential as a global center of technology, anchored in its values and living in peace with all its neighbors.

I envision an Israel that can dedicate even more of its creative and scientific talents to help solve some of the great challenges of the day, foremost of which is finding a clean and affordable substitute for gasoline. And when we find that alternative, we will stop transferring hundreds of billions of dollars to radical regimes that support terror.

I am confident that in pursuing these goals, we have the enduring friendship of the United States of America, the greatest nation on earth. The American people have always shown their courage, their generosity and their decency. From one President to the next, from one Congress to the next, America's commitment to Israel's security has been unwavering. In the last year, President Obama and the U.S. Congress have given meaning to that commitment by providing Israel with military assistance, by enabling joint military exercises and by working on joint missile defense.

So too, Israel has been a staunch and steadfast ally of the United States. As Vice President Biden said, America has no better friend in the community of nations than Israel. For decades, Israel served as a bulwark against Soviet expansionism. Today it is helping America stem the tide of militant Islam. Israel shares with America everything we know about fighting a new kind of enemy. We share intelligence. We cooperate in countless other ways that I am not at liberty to divulge. This cooperation is important for Israel and is helping save American lives.

Our soldiers and your soldiers fight against fanatic enemies that loathe our common values. In the eyes of these fanatics, we are you and you are us. To them, the only difference is that you are big and we are small. You are the Great Satan and we are the Little Satan. This fanaticism's hatred of Western civilization predates Israel's establishment by over one thousand years.

Militant Islam does not hate the West because of Israel. It hates Israel because of the West - because it sees Israel as an outpost of freedom and democracy that prevents them from overrunning the Middle East. That is why when Israel stands against its enemies, it stands against America's enemies.

President Harry Truman, the first leader to recognize Israel, said this: "I have faith in Israel and I believe that it has a glorious future - not just as another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization."

My Friends,

We are gathered here today because we believe in those common ideals. And because of those ideals, I am certain that Israel and America will always stand together.