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U.S. believes Israel has conducted an airstrike into Syria

 CNN:  The United States believes Israel has conducted an airstrike into Syria, two U.S. officials first told CNN.

U.S. and Western intelligence agencies are reviewing classified data showing Israel most likely conducted a strike in the Thursday-Friday time frame, according to both officials. This is the same time frame that the U.S. collected additional data showing Israel was flying a high number of warplanes over Lebanon.

One official said the United States had limited information so far and could not yet confirm those are the specific warplanes that conducted a strike. Based on initial indications, the U.S. does not believe Israeli warplanes entered Syrian airspace to conduct the strikes.

Both officials said there is no reason to believe Israel struck at a chemical weapons storage facilities. The Israelis have long said they would strike at any targets that prove to be the transfer of any kinds of weapons to Hezbollah or other terrorist groups, as well as at any effort to smuggle Syrian weapons into Lebanon that could threaten Israel.

The Lebanese army website listed 16 flights by Israeli warplanes penetrating Lebanon's airspace from Thursday evening through Friday afternoon local time.

The Israeli military had no comment. But a source in the Israeli defense establishment told CNN's Sara Sidner, "We will do whatever is necessary to stop the transfer of weapons from Syria to terrorist organizations. We have done it in the past and we will do it if necessary the future."

( see video at CNN )

 

Two-time Oscar winner two-times

By Tabitha Korol

David Miliband, former Secretary of the United Kingdom, current president and CEO of The International Rescue Committee, said, “Israel is a strategic partner and close friend of the UK,” yet we have people in the limelight who use their positions of influence to destroy that alliance. Case in point, “two-time Oscar-winning actress and director Emma Thompson” is two-timing the alliance, the State of Israel and the Jewish people.  She sides with Islamic Palestinians who have been occupying the Biblical Judea and Samaria since they lost their war of aggression in 1967, but repeats the Islamic mantra that Israel is the occupier.   Thompson’s acceptance of propaganda over historical documentation is an indication of woeful or willful ignorance.

Thompson eschews Palestinian terrorism, the murder and mayhem against Israeli children on school buses or asleep in their beds, and prefers a fabricated Palestinian victimhood that captivates UN and world attention through generations and provides them with enormous financial support -  “one of the highest levels of aid in the world”  To maintain their free medical care from Israel and financial aid from the US, UK, UN, Europe and Israel, Palestinians utterly destroyed, with “no hope of repair,” the extensive greenhouses and infrastructure in the Gaza Strip so generously left them by the departing Israelis in 2005. 

 

Why is Thompson oblivious to Jewish Jerusalem for more than 3,400 years, more than 2000 years before the followers of Muhammed began their deadly advance across the Middle East, in 624, raping, enslaving and killing?Why ignore the seven neighboring Islamic armies that joined together to completely annihilate the new State of Israel in 1948, and the Six-Day War they began in 1967, which they also lost? Why ignore that the fleeing Arabs assumed a new identity, “Palestinians,” for the sole purpose of creating a bond to land that was never theirs?  Why does she disregard the Jewish Palestinian Brigade that fought with the English against the Nazis and side with the Arabs who fought with the Nazis against England’s forces? Is this not two-timing?

 

The End of a Friendship

 By Kevin O’Neil

  

Well, I suppose that all friendships must come to an end sooner or later, Othello and Desdemona, Caesar and Brutus, but of this one I had nurtured higher hopes, mainly because both parties had so much in common and had mutually benefited from a very long association.

 

I’m speaking of the Irish and the Jews.

 

A few thoughts about the remarkable similarities between these two people by way, I suppose, of eulogy, or, more accurately, obituary.

 

Both have been remarkable for their love of freedom of thought, their intellectual boldness and their ability to ‘think outside the box’ as we say nowadays. They are entrepreneurs, visionaries, dreamers, no ordinary people these. Unconventional, unpredictable, exciting people to be with, prone to dream of a better world and even to try and build it when they’re given sufficient latitude.  What a people!  No wonder that a heavenly musical instrument is the chosen national symbol of the one and a heavenly celestial body that of the other. Long live the Harp and the Star and the ethos, the chutzpah, that lies behind them!

Right of Return--Not

 

By Janet Tassel

On Sunday evening, April 14, Boston University hosted a forum titled "What 'Right' of Return?" Triggering this impromptu gathering was a conference held at B.U. the previous week, trumpeting "The Right of Return," headlined by the infamous Professor Joseph Massad of Columbia University. Not surprisingly, that conference "failed to create an open forum for peaceful dialogue, and excluded key historical facts, speakers, and information," according to the organizers of Sunday's rebuttal--"faculty, staff and friends of Boston University."

 

Those who showed up Sunday, besides the usual handful of Israel huggers and bloggers, probably came because of the rare opportunity to hear and see Professor Benny Morris of Ben-Gurion University, the highly controversial historian who is currently (and conveniently), a visiting professor across the river at Harvard.

 

Morris was joined by Israeli journalist, lawyer, and government advisor on immigration Ben-Dror Yemini; and by Asaf Romirowsky, adjunct scholar at the Middle East Forum. Each had important things to say about the omissions, propaganda, and lies being fed to vulnerable students at colleges across the world; lies, as Yemini said, that are couched in the seductive language of human rights and social justice, terms every student wants to believe.  These are stratagems, of course,  poisonous fabrications with one goal: the ultimate destruction of the Jewish state. Of these revisionist falsehoods, the so-called right of return is among the most sinister--destruction by demography.

White House Scraps Jewish Heritage Month Reception

 

Many other events are proceeding as planned, but according to the Jewish news service JTA, the annual White House celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month is canceled.  (White House Dossier) 

As you probably know, most other parties and festivities are still planned.  No surprise the Jewish Heritage Month Reception is kicked to the curb with the trash, just like Benjamin Netanyahu.

 

Times unSquare*

 

By Tabitha Korol

 

            The New York Times encourages its writers’ lies about Israel, changing data to conform to Islamic propaganda.  This continuing politicized coverage of the Middle East, inconsistent with American values and journalism ethics and an assault on Israel by disreputable writers, is designed to undermine public policy and change our value system, damage our ethics and destroy our morality.  Our republic can only thrive in an educated electorate. 

            Jodi Rudoren used an old, hostile opinion piece to serve as a political message, to rile the uninformed reader and breathe new life into an old conflict.  Already cited as a lazy journalist with a poor performance record, she confessed to her anti-Israel bias, to using “imprecise language,” and admitted to not using a map for accuracy.  Why, then, was this new Jerusalem Bureau Chief chosen for Middle East coverage?  

            Placing the blame of friction on 44 apartment units, Rudoren calls Israelis “colonizers,” while that term, along with “squatters,” more aptly suit the Palestinians.  Why didn’t this slothful reporter contact Jerusalem’s city planner about the legitimacy of the housing or cite the 2500 apartments recently built in one city area and 19,000 in another, all for Arabs?  Obviously, the apartments are a ploy, not a threat.  Israel’s many offers to negotiate a peace were rejected long before there was housing. 

            As often as Israel has offered to negotiate a peace agreement, the Palestinians refused.  The opposition to peace comes from the Arabs who, from the onset, declined the major Mandate offered while the Jews reluctantly accepted the smaller land proposal.  Resistance to peace comes from Islamic hate, taught and encouraged from infancy, and from the continued support by complicit journalism.     

            Why not remind the Times readership that the end of the Ottoman Empire brought the British-endorsed Balfour Declaration (1917) that mandated Palestine’s new boundaries to re-establish the Jewish homeland, that was then twice followed by Britain’s violations of the Mandate, once granting 77% of the land to what became Jordan and granting the Golan Heights to what became Syria?  Twenty-two Muslim countries with 400 million warring Arabs surrounding one tiny Jewish state containing about 6 million Jews and Rudorun and her ilk demand more land for yet another Muslim state!  Overlooking the Jews’ historical 3,000-year claim to the land; their formal, legal statehood in 1948; their majority in Jerusalem since the 1860s; their industry and democracy granted to Jew and Arab alike (exceeding anything the Arabs experience in their original homelands); their medical and scientific contributions to the world, Rudoren champions those who never had a state in Palestine or a capital in Jerusalem, who only named themselves Palestinians as a war tack in 1967, and who never proved themselves capable of self-governance and peace.  Rather than inform, her purpose is to propagandize.  This is neither sloth nor incompetence, but malice with intent to incite, to fabricate and give strength to tyranny in the Middle East and in the US.    

            When will the New York Times offer fair and balanced journalism and stop encouraging the continued Islamic encroachment on Western civilization?  Are the deaths of 270 million people over 1400 years, and the current, growing Islamic chaos on every continent, not enough to awaken your conscience?

            The second of the NY Times’ double whammy was the Sunday Magazine’s feature, Ben Ehrenreich’s “Is this where the third Intifada will start?”   Ehrenreich cited Israel’s construction plans of 3,400 homes for Israelis as the cause of spreading Arab protests, but no word of the 11,500 homes built for Arabs, against which neither the Israelis nor Ehrenreich protested.  Rioting has always been an Arab conquest tactic, and if they could not gain Western interest with housing, they would find another equally innocent issue.  In this case, the author finds the housing ruse appealing.     

            Ehrenreich visited the Tamimi family, when the elder Bassem, responsible for the weekly protests against Israelis since 2009, was due to return home from another stint in prison.  Bassem, an activist who promotes hate and violent protests on Fridays, had been found guilty of incitement, organizing unauthorized processions, and soliciting children to pelt Jewish citizens.  Supported by the Koran and the Palestinian Authority (PA), he indoctrinates the town’s youth to participate in killing Jews by attacking vehicles with deadly missiles, resulting in crashes and passengers killed.  Thus the young rock throwers of today are cultivated to be the violent terrorists of tomorrow, to continue their psychological warfare against civilians in the Jewish State  – 1500 rockets fired in November, 2012 alone; more than 13,000  rockets, mortars, and missiles fired into civilian neighborhoods since 2001.  

            We learn that a brother-in-law died after he was hit by a tear-gas canister, indicating the Israelis’ moral choice of safer methods of trying to keep the ferocious Palestinians at bay.  When Ehrenreich recounts a Palestinian clash with the army, noting more than half of the 432 injured were minors, he should have recognized the Palestinian use of their own children as weapons and human shields.  Hamas Member of Parliament, Fathi Hammad, had boasted of using civilians for warfare - We desire death as you desire life - to increase the body count and elicit the West’s sympathy for their cause of the land grab.  Ehrenreich admits the Israelis try to contain the jihadists, activists and black-booted anarchists, with tear gas, rubber-coated bullets, water-cannon blasts of noxious liquids, and resort to live fire occasionally, only as needed (more cautious than their parents about the childrens’ welfare.)   

            How do Ehrenreich and similar reporters envision peace with non-moderate Arabs who cannot live in peace even among themselves, engaging in violence at every turn?  They nurture their young to use deadly large rocks, Molotov cocktails, improvised grenades and burning tires against civilians and the security forces, and celebrate severe injuries and death.    Neither is there peace within the unstable Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan; or in any European, African, or Asian country where Muslims have immigrated.  These are an inherently aggressive, brutal people, who have lived in a constant state of war since Muhammad first set out to spread Islam in the 600s.

            Ehrenreich noted, “Little was resolved in Oslo,” blatantly blaming the failure on Zionism, an unsympathetic accusation.  Under the Oslo Accord, Yasser Arafat seemed to capitulate to Israeli demands of recognition of Israel, renunciation of terrorism, and a promise to revoke his covenantal call for the destruction of the Jewish State, undoubtedly because of the withdrawn financial support from the collapsed Soviet Union and the growing Islamist presence.  Israel’s Yitzak Rabin agreed to legitimize the PLO based on a statement and a handshake.  Thus were created Palestinian authorities for internal development and trade, supported by pledges of billions for development from 43 countries (Europe, Japan, Scandinavia, the US and Israel).  Nevertheless, the Palestinians broke their promises, escalated the violence against Israel, and Arafat unreasonably promised his people statehood – a mortal danger to Israel’s existence (whereas Israel and Jordan have been at peace since 1967). 

            Bassem seemed to grasp that the heavy wave of suicide bombings was a strategic (and moral) error as is the persistent rocket fire.  The second intifada again brought the death – 5,000 Palestinians and 1,000 Israelis.  The Oslo Accord could well have ushered in harmony, a better life for all, with no refugees on either side, but one outstretched Israeli hand does not an agreement make. 

            Does The New York Times grasp that its deeply inflammatory and offensive articles thwart the efforts of peace, encouraging that third intifada?  I have seen nothing to suggest the contrary.  How long will it be before your readers can count on unbiased, fair, balanced reporting?

               And the next Intifada?  Have you considered the possibility of Madison Avenue, Manhattan?

 

 

*Referencing the following definitions of Square: Balance; just, equitable: a square deal; honest; direct.

 

 Addendum:  The Algemeiner reported:  One of the Tamimis is the person who engineered the massacre of women and children in August 2001 at Jerusalem's Sbarro restaurant.

 

 

Yesterday the Middle East changed forever, and you didn’t know it

Via Legal Insurrection:

Israel now is pumping natural gas from one of the enormous offshore fields which will transform Israel into an energy-independent nation and a global energy powerhouse:

Natural gas from the offshore Tamar field was pumped to Israeli shores for the first time Saturday, four years after its discovery, in preparation for its first use in the Israeli energy market — a move that could transform the Israeli economy.

The Tamar deposit, discovered in 2009 some 90 kilometers west of Haifa, holds an estimated 8.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

On Saturday, hailed an “important day for the Israeli economy” by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, natural gas from the field was being pumped to a newly erected facility on the coast of Ashdod, connected to the gas field via pipelines laid out on the ocean floor, 150 kilometers long and 16 inches wide.

Commenting on the historic development, Netanyahu drew a link between the event and the holiday of Passover.

“On the festival of freedom, we are taking an important step toward energy independence. We have advanced the natural gas sector in Israel over the last decade, which will be good for the Israeli economy and for all Israelis,” Netanyahu said.

(continue at Legal Insurrection)

 

Administration moves $500M in Palestinian aid, as agencies scramble to delay furloughs

As federal agencies scramble to avert or delay sequester-tied furloughs, the Obama administration continues to spend millions of dollars on foreign aid to the Palestinians – and seek millions more, despite past efforts by Congress to freeze the money.

The State Department confirmed this month the administration has moved forward with $500 million in aid, and is trying to secure another $200 million from Congress. Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland says the aid is important, because an “economically viable Palestinian Authority” would help regional peace and security.

The administration confirmed the transfers as President Obama, along with Secretary of State John Kerry, toured the Middle East last week. Obama met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, as well as top Israeli officials.

But lawmakers have heavily scrutinized a number of foreign aid transactions, given the fiscal crunch facing Washington. The capital was awash last week with memos and updates from federal agencies scrambling to manage sequester cuts and cushion their staff from the impact of furloughs.  (continue at Fox News)

 

Obama and Israel

 

 The used car that Obama wants to sell Israel is the beat-up 20-year-old “concessions to terrorists” coupe. It’s got a new paint job, but it doesn’t run because there’s nothing under the hood except paper and empty promises. But every time you turn the key, it blows up and a lot of people die.

So yes, Israel looks great behind the wheel of the peace process. It looks 20 years younger. And 20 years dumber. But strip away the empty compliments and it’s the same dirty old clunker underneath.

          -- Daniel Greenfield , Friday Round-Up

 

Chemical Weapons used in Syria, but who unleashed them?

Obama's 'red line' seems to be nothing more than more vapid lied from this administration. Somebody used chemical weapons in Syria.  What, if anything other than expressing 'concern', will Barack Obama do?

The Free Syrian Army rebel command has accused President Bashar al-Assad's forces of launching a chemical weapon attack on the northern town of Khan al-Assal near Aleppo on Tuesday using a long-range missile. This, as Syrian State Media accuse the rebels of doing the same.

No surprise:  Barack Obama's Middle East Map Erases Israeli Territory'

More stuff that you just can't make up: Obama is going to Israel with $500 million cash in hand for the Muslims in the terror statelet of Gaza ... while the map of the Middle East displayed in an Obama administration video released days before his majesty's visit to Israel shows the Jewish state dispossessed of substantial parts of its current territory - including its capital.

This is bad enough, but Obama goes even further to make clear his disdain for Israel via the itinerary on the White House website also implying that Jerusalem is neither Israel's capital nor even part of Israel.

Obama is no friend of Israel, but he may have to take sides in Syria.

Drudge:

CLAIM: Chemical weapons fly in Syria...
'People suffocating in streets, air smelt strongly of chlorine'...
'Red Line'?