Lital Shemesh I participated in the Dialogue for Peace Project for young Israelis and Palestinians who are politically involved in various frameworks. The project’s objective was to identify tomorrow’s leaders and bring them closer today, with the aim of bringing peace at some future time. The project involved meetings every few weeks and a concluding seminar in Turkey. On the third day of the seminar after we had become acquainted, had removed barriers, and split helpings of rachat Lukum [a halva-like almond Arab delicacy] as though there was never a partition wall between us, we began to touch upon many subjects which were painful for both sides. The Palestinians spoke of roadblocks and the IDF soldiers in the territories, while the Israeli side spoke of constant fear, murderous terrorist attacks, and rockets from Gaza. (Read more…) <http://www.israpundit.com/archives/54734#more-54734> Pat Condell again – brave and brilliant <http://www.israpundit.com/archives/54731> The ‘rabid’ rage of Israel’s enemies <http://www.israpundit.com/archives/54729> By Robert Fulford, National Post (Canada) <http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/05/11/fulford-2/> A word jumped off the page when I was reading Haroon Siddiqui’s column in the Toronto Star the other day: “rabid.” Describing Qatar’s attempt to steal the International Civil Aviation Organization headquarters from Montreal, Siddiqui wrote: “There’s speculation that the bid is also politically motivated, in retaliation for Stephen Harper’s rabid pro-Israeli stance.” Siddiqui is an important Star personage, routinely billed as the paper’s “editorial page editor emeritus,” a title claimed by no other Canadian journalist. He ran the editorial page in the 1990s, and the Star apparently wants to recall those glory years every time he appears in print. What in the world makes him call the prime minister rabid? Oxford defines that word as “Furious, raging; wildly aggressive.” Doesn’t sound like Stephen Harper. He’s cool and careful. He speaks quietly of Israel, noting that Canada doesn’t endorse all of Israel’s policies. He finds it unfair that so much criticism is directed by others against “the one country of the global community whose very existence is threatened.” He also draws a lesson from history: Those who choose the Jewish people “as a target of racial and religious bigotry will inevitably be a threat to all of us.” He believes those who target Israel also threaten “all free and democratic societies.” (Read more…) <http://www.israpundit.com/archives/54729#more-54729> The West Wing on proportional response <http://www.israpundit.com/archives/54725> The Benghazi Scandal Grows <http://www.israpundit.com/archives/54723> BY STEPHEN F. HAYES, Weekly Standard <http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/benghazi-scandal-grows_722032.html#> CIA director David Petraeus was surprised when he read the freshly rewritten talking points an aide had emailed him in the early afternoon of Saturday, September 15. One day earlier, analysts with the CIA’s Office of Terrorism Analysis had drafted a set of unclassified talking points policymakers could use to discuss the attacks in Benghazi, Libya. But this new version —produced with input from senior Obama administration policymakers — was a shadow of the original. The original CIA talking points had been blunt: The assault on U.S. facilities in Benghazi was a terrorist attack conducted by a large group of Islamic extremists, including some with ties to al Qaeda. (Read more…) <http://www.israpundit.com/archives/54723#more-54723>
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Sunday, May 12, 2013
Peace? From the Palestinian Standpoint, There is a Past, No Future
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