Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Egyptian Proposal

Prime Minister Haniyeh attended a protest at the refusal of West Bank leaders to allow the Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council Aziz Dweik who was recently released from a Zionist jail. Haniyeh stated that the Egyptian proposals are a good start and need to be built upon.

“The Egyptian proposal on Palestinian conciliation has the beginnings of a plan that could be built on, but needs more study,” Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Wednesday.

Haniyeh spoke at a sit-in protesting West Bank leaders’ decision to prevent Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council Aziz Dweik from resuming his duties after being released from Israeli prison on 23 June following more than three years in detention.

Dweik, affiliated with Hamas, called for steps toward unity as soon as he was released. He was received in the West Bank by a milt-party delegation, and Fatah’s leader and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas telephoned Dweik to congratulate him on his release.

Addressing the other sit-in participants, Haniyeh elaborated on his position vis-à-vis the Egyptian plan, saying “any presidential and Legislative elections should be preceded by national conciliation and an agreement on the environment and the atmosphere that should be created in the West Bank and Gaza.”

The reaction is similar to that of independent leaders and participants in the Cairo conciliation talks during its committees phase. The independents gathered and released a joint statement on the proposal, saying they hoped the Egyptian plan would be a last resort, and that conciliation could happen before the measures it proposed were implemented.

Further to his reaction to the Egyptian document, Haniyeh insisted that Dweik should be recognized as the PLC speaker “even if the situation lasts for several months” urging Dweik to continue with his work from home and office until overcoming the obstacles.”

Israeli Diplomat Undergoes Lobotomy

In a shocking malfuntion of the Zionist brain, Israel's consul-general in Boston, Nadav Tamir, has suffered a rapid growth to the "reasonable" region of the brain. As such, he has been immediately "summoned" back to Israel. The Diplomat will now ASS-ume the position for a good whacking. After which he will undergo a lobotomy at a re-programing camp to remove the "offending growth".

JERUSALEM — Israel has recalled one of its senior diplomats in the United States after the leaking of a warning he gave about the damage to ties caused by the policies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"Boston consul general Nadav Tamir has been recalled for consultations so he can clarify how one of his memos appeared in the media," foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said.

On Thursday, the privately-owned Channel 10 television reported that Tamir had warned the ministry that the refusal of Netanyahu's right-leaning government to heed US requests to freeze settlement activity in the occupied West Bank was harming Israel's most important diplomatic relationship. source

J-Street Conference in Washington

I have written a few posts about J-Street in the past. So those interested in my views can read about J-Street and my thoughts about them here. I've said it before and I'm saying it again now, I wish that no foreign lobby group held power over American politicians and American government, BUT, American politics being what they are this is a sad fact of political life that shows no signs of changing. That said, it's better that the Government be dealing with people like J-Street who seem to hold more level headed views. They are against a war with Iran, they are in support of a Palestinian state and a whole host of other positive ideals where the I/P conflict is concerned. They are holding a conference in Washington in October and I would suggest Americans get out and support this, because the alternative is this, this, this, this, this, this, and this.

Certain moments galvanize a generation.

People ask "were you there when...?"

A political convention. A march on Washington. The birth of a movement.

We are living through another one of those moments right now when it comes to Israel and the Middle East. And you're the one that's making history.

In just 15 months, and with your help, we've grown our email list to more than 105,000 Americans and taken over 350,000 online actions to support a sensible approach to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and dealing with Iran. We've added a college outreach program. And last week, J Street got a seat at President Obama's table. We're on a roll.

The big question for you today is: Will you be there when we hold the largest gathering ever of pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans in Washington, DC this October 25-28?

With the help of 11 other pro-Israel, pro-peace organizations [1], our major national conference in Washington, DC this October will be one for the record books. Our increased synergy is getting noticed in the media and our influence is being felt.

We'd love to see you there - can you make it? You'll meet pro-Israel, pro-peace activists from all over the country (and J Street staff), help us demonstrate our pro-Israel, pro-peace people power to Washington, talk with activists and experts from the region, and take the passion and energy from the conference back to your community.

Hotel rooms are going fast - and October is one of the busiest months in Washington - so register early and book your hotel today.

Click here to learn more about our conference's speakers, panels, parties, and more.

Here are a few of the speakers we'll have at our conference:

Jonathan Chait, Senior Editor, The New Republic

Rep. Donna Edwards, Congresswoman from Maryland

Rep. Bob Filner, Congressman from California

Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Editor, The Nation

Ambassador Martin Indyk, Acting VP and Director, Foreign Policy, Brookings

Institution; Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel

Senator John Kerry, Massachusetts *
Ezra Klein, The Washington Post

Eli Pariser, Former Director, MoveOn.org *

His Royal Highness Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein, Ambassador of Jordan

Daniel Sokatch, Chief Executive Officer, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

Yuli Tamir, Deputy Speaker of the Knesset (Labor) and Former Minister of Immigrant Absorption

Matt Yglesias, Center for American Progress

Rabbi Eric Yoffie, President, Union for Reform Judaism

We're already knee-deep in planning for the conference, and everyone on staff is really excited about what is sure to be a fantastic event. We're looking forward to meeting you and sharing this experience with you.

Hope to see you there.

- Isaac

Isaac Luria
Campaigns Director
J Street
July 24, 2009

[1] Participating Organizations include: Alliance for Middle East Peace, Ameinu, Americans for Peace Now, Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, Foundation for Middle East Peace, Israel Policy Forum, Meretz USA, New Israel Fund, OneVoice Movement, Rabbis for Human Rights of North America, The Shalom Center.

Israel's Biggest Problem Not HAMAS

Zionism, Peace, and Israel’s Self Created Problems
By Ban Sidhe at Irish4Palestine

Zionist Israel has a self created problem, but like all movements based on a racist ideology, they tend to begin to self destruct over time, in the light of a world that is beginning to understand that no country, no matter how great, can exist alone. And, for all intents and purposes, Israel IS alone.

Whilst Israel may have some Governmental Political support from within the ranks of major world countries like the US, England, France, Germany and Spain. They gain this support by using arm twisting, coercion, money, and a virtual world wide Borg Collective of lobby groups to both “get and maintain” this support. They do not get this support because they earn it nor deserve it, and thus must continually work 24/7 using everything they have to both monitor and protect this ill gotten support. Whilst at the same time Israel exists not as a free and respected country, but rather as a huge prison, behind walls, fences, barbed wire, check points and borders that must at all costs be continually patrolled in order to protect the criminals inside. This also poses a second problem for Israel. They need to forcibly bring young people into the army to continue this perpetual war and 365 day a year, 24/7 patrolling. So, when the Zionist indoctrination from birth fails in some cases, and a young Israeli sees the truth and refuses to become a prison guard or paid killer, then the state ostracizes them because Zionism is a separatist movement. You are either with us or against us, a Bush/Zionist classic.

The world governments may be blind, but the world’s people are not. Israel’s most serious problem is not what Israel has, but rather what it has lost forever on the heels of the Gaza Genocide. For despite Israel’s ability to effectively control powerful countries like the US, and through those means, then control the UN committees to turn a blind eye. What Israel cannot have, does not have, and cannot buy with all it’s groups and money, is the support of the people on the ground in those very same countries whose Governments turn a blind eye to Israel’s crimes.

I said at the beginning that Israel has a huge self created problem with regards to both having peace and moreover the continued existence of Zionist Israel as it stands today.

I believe that some within the Israeli government have the ability to recognize the future is a grim one, should Israel remain on its present Zionist self created course. However, if you spend years of building up this Racist Zionist Ideology so as to reap the financial and geographical benefits of Aliyah; and at the same time encourage the building of illegal settlements. And allowing the creation of groups and organisations who are encouraged and allowed to work outside the law and even murder with impunity. This, coupled with the fact that no matter what Israel claims, it does actually realise it must change with the times and can no longer get away with what it has in the past, especially after Gaza, so how does Israel put the Jeannie back in the bottle now without some Zionist Revolt against the State and Government? That’s my point.

The Racist Separatist Zionist Ideology encouraged to flourish for years, is now the self inflicted death wound to Israeli Peace and Israel’s existence as we know it today. And it can be no more evident as in the sentiments within excerpts of a letter to the editor of a Jewish paper in America from an American Zionist:

Letters
Published: 17 July 2009

The June 26 special report regarding “radical settlers” included articles each more negative than the next. In fact, it seemed that the entire settler movement was guilty by association. Is it wrong for a few aggrieved Jews to take matters into their own hands when faced with Arab violence and Israeli ambivalence?

Is it wrong for some Jews to threaten the soldiers and leaders who plot their violent and undemocratic expulsion from Judea and Samaria?

However, the real cause for what is perceived as “radical settlers” is the marginalization that they have been subjected to by the Israeli body politic. After being actively solicited to settle all of the liberated parts of the land of Israel and having been raised with the history of the Zionist movement, they have now had that support abruptly removed.

They have been inculcated with the belief that Jews living in Judea and Samaria is religiously and historically correct; now due to political expediency they are being sacrificed to satisfy the American administration and the world.

What is even more bizarre is that while Israelis view 260,000 Jews as “settlers” the United States now views over 600,000 Jews as settlers — as this now includes all Jews living in the Jerusalem neighbourhoods annexed by Israel after 1967.

As such, I side with the settlers —

Jews have the right to live in the land of Israel and it is the responsibility and imperative of the entire Jewish people to support this. It was the same during the Persian and Roman times as it is now. Nothing has changed — certainly not this essential truth.

What I can say from experience of the peace process in Ireland; is when you have a movement, you must take that movement’s support with you in order to have any success. This takes time, effort and great leadership in talking to your people about the real politics of the situation. So, if Israel truly does want peace, then they have a huge road ahead of them concerning their own inhabitants. They will have to destroy the monster they created in Zionism. People like to talk about HAMAS and FATAH needing to unite. But even if that took place tomorrow, Israel is FAR behind the eight ball. Because for years Palestinians have had time to adjust to the reality that in today’s world they will only get back the land up to the 1967 borders. They don’t like it, but they know it, and yes I don’t agree with that deal, but it’s the Political reality today. Even HAMAS has acknowledged this in many statements recently and accepts it for peace. Israel, on the other hand, has not spent any time adjusting its people to this very same reality.

So, for Israel, as it turns out today, the years spent successfully encouraging every Jew in the world to come settle in occupied land, operate in lawlessness, commit murder and believe it is their right to occupy all the land will ultimately cause Israel to die at its own Zionist hands.


Zionists will be the destruction of Israel, how prophetic!