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ISRAEL ----- NOAM CHOMSKY: OBAMA'S STANCE ON GAZA CRISIS "APPROXIMATELY THE BUSH POSITION" Democracy Now - January 23, 2009 - In a visit to the State Department Thursday, President Obama made his first substantive comments on the Middle East conflict since Israel’s attack on Gaza. Obama first mentioned his commitment to Israel’s security, without affirming his commitment to Palestinian security. He condemned Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israeli towns, but didn’t criticize the US-backed Israeli bombings of densely populated Gaza. But in a departure from the Bush administration, Obama acknowledged Palestinian suffering and said Gaza’s borders should be opened to aid. We speak with MIT professor, Noam Chomsky. Noam Chomsky, a professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for over a half-century and written over a hundred books. Continued: http://www.democracynow.org/2009/1/23/noam_chomsky_obamas_stance_on_gaza ----- "CARPET BOMBING" AND "DIVINE INTERVENTION"...? January 13, 2009 - Email: "A religious edict released in 2006 by the Yesha Rabbinical Council of Israel, a group with very strong political influence in the Knesset, states that (quoted from Yediot Ahronot): “…according to Jewish law, during a time of battle and war, there is no such term as ‘innocents’ of the enemy. All of the discussions on Christian morality are weakening the spirit of the army and the nation ” …Thus Christ, the King of God's Israel, continues to be openly rejected by those who claim to carry the name "Prince with God" - Isra-El - and so thousands of innocents are mercilessly injured and killed by depleted uranium and white phosphorous, poisoning the ground for their children. These childrens' blood is not shed by the true people of God, and not sanctioned by his Holy Spirit. Any who suggest otherwise are woefully deceived. Such who doubt this need only to re-read the clear teachings of Jesus, the Son of God, on the proper way to treat enemies and neighbours, regardless of their actions. Render no man evil for evil. Love your enemies. Pray for those who persecute you. He who harms one of these little ones.... etc. Remember the destruction of Jerusalem in AD70... and the fall of Massada. Remember the national delusions of first century Zealots were proven to be not supported by God, despite their fervour and devotion to Israel and the Temple - sadly believing in imminent divine intervention for their 'holy nation' down to the last man! "former Sephardi chief rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu has written in a letter to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Eliyahu ruled that there was absolutely no moral prohibition against the indiscriminate killing of civilians during a potential massive military offensive on Gaza... he advocated carpet bombing the general area... regardless of the price in Palestinian life.... If they still don't stop we must kill 100,000, even a million. " Jerusalem Post May 30 2007. ----- THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION HAS FAILED by JINSA Reports - The Jerusalem Connection - At its theoretical best, it was never two states for two people. It could have been four states - Jordan, the West Bank, Israel, and Gaza - for two-and-a-half-and-a-half people: Israelis in Israel; Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza, and Jordan; and the two halves being Arabs in Israel and Bedouins in Jordan. At its worst, it is two states - Jordan and Israel - with enclaves of irredentist Palestinians supported by Iran, Syria, Venezuela and Cuba eating at their sides. And always, there are hundreds of thousands of original refugees and their descendants festering in third countries - Lebanon, Syria and Egypt - unable to go where they want, and unwilling to go where they can. At their theoretical best, the Palestinians could have taken up President Bush's conditions for American political support of their independence: Peace requires a new and different Palestinian leadership, so that a Palestinian state can be born. I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders, leaders not compromised by terror. I call upon them to build a practicing democracy based on tolerance and liberty. If the Palestinian people actively pursue these goals, America and the world will actively support their efforts. That was very theoretical - lyrical, but theoretical. The old, terrorist-dominated Palestinian leadership wasn't interested in ceding authority to young technocrats, or interested in tolerance of either Jews or independent-minded Palestinians. It wasn't interested in liberty or practicing anything. Each gift or concession Fatah and Hamas received from Israel or the international community was turned to the furtherance of violence and the veneration of death and destruction. Continued: http://support.tjci.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5517 ----- THE JERUSALEM CONNECTION PEACE PLAN James M. Hutchens, Ph.D. - Chaplain (Brigadier General) US Army (Ret.) - President, The Jerusalem Connection Intl. - WDC - January 30, 2009 - President Obama’s newly appointed Middle East Envoy dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, former Senator George Mitchell said, “… there is no such thing as a conflict that can’t be ended.” Indeed, the Middle East conflict can be ended, but when that takes place everyone will know the Messiah has come and the Messianic age has arrived. In the meantime, if the same “Land for Peace” plan that has characterized all previous plans is to be dusted off and reasserted, the conflict will certainly go from bad to worse. Clearly, a new Middle East peace plan is needed. However, for any reasonable hope of success it must be a peace plan based on the containment of Jihadist terrorist factions not their pacification or appeasement. Since Israel became a sovereign state in 1948 there have been several peace plans offered by governments and groups, all of which have called for Israel to give up land for peace. All of these plans have failed to produce peace, including the last one proposed by the Bush administration, The Road Map to Peace which is the embodiment of the policy of appeasement. Appeasement is the chief cause of the failure of past peace plans. General Douglas MacArthur said it well, “Appeasement is like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only alternative.” Winston Churchill said it even better, “An appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile hoping he will eat him last.” Not only has appeasement failed to produce peace, it has done just the opposite. It has promoted, strengthened, entrenched and even rewarded Jihadist violence. At this point all indications are the Obama administration intends to advance the historical failure of the Two State Solution, founded on appeasement. Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity comes to mind insanity is "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Those hell-bent on continuing “Land for Peace” plans must explain how that definition does not apply in the Middle East conflict. Furthermore, not only have these previous peace plans been failures, they have shown a glaring lack of awareness of the true history of the region. There is a selective amnesia regarding the wars launched against Israel since 1948. Eyes are closed to the scandalous treatment of Palestinian refugees by UNWRA whose sole mission and purpose is to perpetuate the refugee status rather than rehabilitate and absorb those entrusted to their care. Further, the revisionist history conceived and promoted by the Yasser Arafat propaganda machine since 1967 has been elevated to the place of dogma. It has become the bible, the guiding light for all the previous so-called peace plans. For a quick read-up on the true historical facts of the region, we suggest the following three books. 1), Battleground by Samuel Katz (order from our online store) 2), From Time Immemorial by Joan Peters, 3), and Power, Faith and Fantasy by Michael Oren. As a result of Israel’s recent encounter with Hamas, it is timely and appropriate to consider a new, common sense approach, keeping in mind the true history of the region, the existing facts on the ground and thus formulating realistic expectations for the future. To that end, The Jerusalem Connection offers the following basic principles of a peace plan, all of which will need to be fleshed out in detail. Much of what is suggested here has been offered before from various venues. (For example, please consider The Israeli Initiative by a former Member of Israel’s Knesset, Rabbi Benny Elon, http://www.israelinitiative.com/ ) The Jerusalem Connection Peace Plan is based on a Christian Zionist perspective. The Jerusalem Connection is a Christian organization engaged in bridge-building endeavors toward Israel, the Jewish people and their neighbors. (Please visit our web site http://www.tjci.org/ ). If there is to be any hope for a peace plan that works, we are convinced there are three aspects, until now absent from past peace plans, which must be reflected in any successful peace plan of the future. Continued: http://support.tjci.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Jerusalem_connection_peace_plan ----- Video: QESTIONS ABOUT AMERICA'S ROLE IN A PALESTINIAN STATE This is the latest video from Michael Fenenbock, whose group “The 18” is adamantly opposed to the creation of a Palestinian terror state on Israel’s border. Watch Video         ----- WHO IS DOING WHAT IN GAZA? The IDF broadcasting on You Tube, presented by Capt. Avichai Adraee, an Israel officer speaking Arabic, showing and explaining in full clarity what is really going on in Gaza and how Hamas terrorists operate from the midst of civilian neighborhood, schools and mosques and how they used a United Nations school as shelter while firing mortar bombs at Israeli soldiers, thus endangering Palestinian civilians ? However, You Tube wants to remove this video by using the excuse that not too many people are logging in.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sznMP3dnCg&feature=PlayList&p=24B346594DCE3F37&index=5 ----- HAMAS IN THEIR OWN VOICES The media monitoring group MEMRI released an exclusive video, titled "Hamas: In Their Own Voices," which compiles a series of statements by Hamas leaders calling for the annihilation of Israel and of all Jews, for death to America, and for the Islamic conquest of the world. Viewers will also see footage of military training for adults and kindergarten children, anti-american speeches at rallies including burning of the American flag and calls of support for "The Afghan Mujahidin", Hamas Al-Aqsa TV children's shows, and more. The video clips all aired prior to the Gaza crisis. This video is a video of the week and will most likely be gone soon: link: http://support.tjci.org/site/PageServer?pagename=copy_of_video_of_the_week ----- OBAMA'S LONG SHOT FOR PEACE By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF - January 31, 2009 - DAVOS, Switzerland In any discussion of the Middle East at the World Economic Forum here in Davos, the central figure is a man who isn’t even here: President Obama. Mr. Obama’s first moves are being greeted with vast relief by a broad range of players in the region. There’s also a whisper of hope that a serious American peace effort by Mr. Obama just might transform the Middle East, with the most promising route passing through Syria. President Bush’s problem was that he loved Israel too much. He embraced Israeli leaders even when they responded to provocations by killing more than 1,300 people in Gaza, according to Gaza health officials — in retaliation for shelling that had killed fewer than 30 Israelis since it began in 2001. This tilted policy was catastrophic for Israelis as well as Palestinians, for it undermined any chance of a peace agreement that is Israel’s best hope for long-term security. Now we’re starting over. Those pyrotechnics overshadowed a much more positive undercurrent here — enthusiasm for more American engagement in the region, in a more evenhanded way. Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary general, told me he was “very encouraged” by Mr. Obama’s first moves, like appointing George Mitchell as special envoy. “It’s high time for the Americans to take a bold initiative,” he said. Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, praised Mr. Obama’s “good start” on the Middle East. Hoshyar Zebari, the Iraqi foreign minister, joined the praise and added: “There is an opportunity. I hope this opportunity will be exploited to the limit.” Amr Moussa, the head of the Arab League, declared, “There are prospects of the U.S. returning to the role of honest broker, which we missed.” That view seems widespread here, and is shared by many in Israel as well. First, it must push to reduce the misery in Palestinian territories. A peace deal with the Palestinians is not possible today, partly because the Palestinians themselves are bitterly divided between Fatah and Hamas. But nothing can be done anywhere as long as scenes of Gaza suffering are unfolding on television screens. That means that Israel must lift the siege of Gaza, completely opening the crossings. If Hamas resumes its unconscionable rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, then bomb the tunnels or strike Hamas targets in a proportional way, but don’t escalate. Mr. Obama should also insist on a complete halt of settlement activity on the West Bank, and on an easing of the West Bank checkpoints that make life wretched for Palestinians. All that would also bolster moderates in the Palestinian Authority, making an eventual deal more likely. Second, the United States should focus on a peace deal between Syria and Israel. With a Palestinian deal impossible for the time being, the path forward is to try to peel Syria away from Iran. If that strategy succeeded, Iran’s subversive influence would be reduced, Hamas might be moderated, and there would be momentum for further gains. Turkey has been mediating talks between Syria and Israel, and Prime Minister Erdogan said those talks had been making great progress. “We were very close until the Gaza events,” added the Turkish foreign minister, Ali Babacan. That peace effort must be revived with strong American participation. Most of the elements of the Israel-Syria deal were agreed upon years ago, and one of Syria’s main aims is better relations with the United States. That is something that the Obama administration can provide. Mr. Ban has been conducting his own relentless shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East, and he said he was hopeful after recent conversations with Syria’s president and Israel’s prime minister. All this is a long shot, of course. But Mr. Obama knows something about long odds coming home, and few people have made money betting against him. James McCutchan http://peace-in-jerusalem.cephasministry.com/ ----- ISRAEL: UN RWA HALTING AID PROVES OUR POSITION ON HAMAS IS CORRECT JPost.com Feb 6, 2009 By YAAKOV KATZ http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304705842&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull ----- ISRAEL: PRE ELECTION DEBATE As we approach the most critical elections in the history of Israel, we are joined by Moshe Feiglin of the Likud, Ya'akov Ketzale Katz of the Nation Union, and Prof. Daniel Hershkowitz of the Jewish Home who duke it out on this exclusive pre-election episode of Tuesday Night Live in Jerusalem. This show is in memory of Rabbi Noach Weinberg zt"l who was taken from us this past week. A true visionary, leader, and selfless hero who dedicated every moment of his life to Israel and the Jewish People. As the founder of Aish HaTorah, he has brought countless Jews back to their roots and identity and served as a shining example of what it is to be "A Light unto the Nations". NU leader Ketzaleh, NRP Leader Rabbi Prof. Hershkowitz and Likud Jewish Leadership Faction head Moshe Feiglin (Part 1 of 2); Special Musical Guest - “Remedy” http://www.thelandofisrael.com/tuesday-night-live-in-jerusalem-27-election-special-part-1/ ----- PEACE NOW VERSUS HEBRON Ari and Jeremy take to the streets of Tel Aviv to meet the Peace Now activists as they protest against the Jews of Hebron, from Tel Aviv they continue to Hebron to hear the.. http://www.thelandofisrael.com/tuesday-night-live-in-jerusalem-25-peace-now-vs-hebron/ ----- AFTER MONTHS OF SILENCE, OLMERT ENDORSES LIVNI FOR PM By GIL HOFFMAN - Feb 8, 2009 - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert entered the political fray at the eleventh hour ahead of Tuesday's election when he announced at a Maccabiah conference on Sunday night that he hopes Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni will succeed him. [Photo: AP] Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. The endorsement came after weeks of speculation, spurred by Livni's associates that Olmert was secretly working behind the scenes on behalf of Likud chairman Binyamin Netanyahu. "I know all the parties and all the candidates, maybe more than anyone," Olmert said. "I think that the rest of the candidates had a chance and didn't pass the test. Livni is a candidate who can lead Israel to a serious and responsible peace process with security. She showed determination during the war and wisdom in the diplomatic process." Livni's associates tried to distance themselves from Olmert's announcement and said privately that they were concerned that the support of the unpopular prime minister would do more harm than good. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304720434&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull ----- MISSILE HIT ISRAEL AS GOV'T MULLS CEASEFIRE DEAL WITH HAMAS February 9, 2009 - Gaza-based Palestinian terrorists fired a Grad-type missile at the southern Israel coastal city of Ashkelon on Sunday afternoon, as government ministers continued to mull the price of a 18-month ceasefire with the territory's Hamas rulers. Earlier in the morning, before the ministers gathered in Jerusalem, another Palestinian rocket hit a small town in Israel's Negev region, destroying a number of cars and damaging several buildings. There were no injuries in either of the attacks. At the weekly cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert criticized his top ministers - who are gearing up for Tuesday's general election - for leaking overly optimistic reports regarding progress on a comprehensive truce deal with Hamas, including the release of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. "I awoke this morning to a stream of media reports regarding Gilad Shalit. These reports did not come from me or from my office," said Olmert in remarks carried by Ha'aretz. "These publications are exaggerated and damaging and are absolutely unnecessary." On Friday evening, Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Channel One News that significant progress on an Egyptian-brokered agreement with Hamas had been made. On Sunday, one of Barak's top colleagues in the Labor Party, Infrastructures Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, added in remarks to Israel Radio that Shalit's return home was "closer than ever." http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=79 ----- ARABS STAB AMERICAN TOURIST IN JERUSALEM Arab assailants stabbed and seriously wounded an American Jewish youth who had lost his way in Jerusalem late Saturday night. Ynet reports that the youth lost his way while trying to get back to the dorms at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, which lies on the mostly-Arab eastern side of the capital. When he stopped to ask directions, he was suddenly attacked by three Arabs, at least one of whom was wielding a knife. He managed to reach a nearby gas station following the attack, where paramedics found him with a sweater tightly wrapped around his neck to stop the bleeding. Without police escort and fearing another attack, the paramedics loaded the boy onto the ambulance and quickly drove away before removing the sweater and checking the victim. When they finally did, the medical crew found his throat deeply slashed and two deep stab wounds to his face. One paramedic told Ynet it was a miracle that no vital blood vessels had been hit. In other violence, a knife-wielding Arab attacked a young Israeli soldier in the seaside town of Jaffa early Sunday morning, but was thwarted in his attempt. Shortly after stepping off a bus, the soldier spotted his attacker running toward him screaming something in Arabic. The soldier very alertly turned and punched the terrorist before he could stab his intended victim. The Arab attacker managed to flee the scene. http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=79 ----- STUDY: NO ISRAELI WAR CRIMES IN GAZA A survey by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC has determined that Israel committed no war crimes in its recent offensive against Hamas in Gaza, and that all accusations of Israeli violations of international law are little more than propaganda. The report noted that Israel "deliberately used decisive force to enhance regional deterrence and demonstrate that it had restored its military edge," which are legitimate military objectives in line with international law considering the attacks on Israel emanating from Gaza. CSIS released the study in response to a flood of war crimes accusations against Israel and efforts by human rights organizations to bring charges against the Jewish state at the International Criminal Court. In the study those accusations against Israel were dismissed as "political efforts to manipulate the rules of war and humanitarian considerations" for propaganda purposes in order to "gain political leverage in this type of conflict." The chief way of doing that is "exaggerating charges and numbers that cannot be validated by reliable data or methodology." The Palestinians' job in effectively wielding such propaganda as a weapon against Israel is often made easier by the international media's willingness to accept Palestinian claims at face value. Non-governmental human rights organizations also play a key role in this effort. A survey released this week by the Jerusalem-based watchdog group NGO Monitor analyzed 500 statements made by 50 human rights groups during the 3-week Gaza war, and found them to be "characterized by overwhelming condemnation of Israel." At the same time, those statements gave "minimal attention to Israeli human rights and casualties." http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=79 ----- HAMAS NEGOTIATORS STOPPED IN EGYPT WITH SUITCASES OF CASH Sarah El Deeb - February 6, 2009 - Hamas negotiators left Egypt without a long-term cease-fire with Israel on Thursday - but not before members of the group's delegation were stopped at the Gaza border carrying millions in cash. Egyptian authorities at the Rafah border crossing found $7 million and 2 million euros ($2.5 million) in cash in their suitcases. (AP) http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hZh5Xm9KtxY7-jZWXwRFBWZmJmkAD965KH8O0 ----- AFTER U.S. REQUEST, ISRAEL AGREES TO LET $43 MILLION INTO GAZA FOR ABBAS Reuters - Jerusalem - February 5, 2009 - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agreed on Thursday to allow the transfer of $43 million to Gaza to enable Mahmoud Abbas' government to pay salaries there. Sources in Israel said U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton telephoned Olmert to press him to release the money, describing this as the first instance of U.S. pressure on Israel since President Obama took office. Israeli media reported that Clinton had telephoned Olmert to thank him for agreeing to release the funds. (Reuters) http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5145FP20090205     ----- UN CONFIRMS: UNRWA SCHOOL NOT HIT BY ISRAEL RTT News February 6, 2009 - The United Nations Thursday backed down from a claim that one of its schools in Gaza was hit by an Israel Defense Force mortar attack last month, correcting its earlier media statements that a massacre occurred within the UN education facility. The UN's latest field report reads, "The humanitarian coordinator would like to clarify that the shelling, and all of the fatalities, took place outside rather than inside the school." The revelation reinforces the Israeli assertions that Hamas had been attacking the Israeli forces from civilian locations, thus the high civilian casualties from Israeli retaliation. (RTTNews) http://www.rttnews.com/ArticleView.aspx?Id=846813&SMap=1 ----- RUSSIA TO START IRAN NUCLEAR PLANT IN 2009 Herald Tribune - February 5, 2009 - Denis Dyomkin and Guy Faulconbridge - Russia plans to start up a nuclear reactor at Iran's Bushehr plant by the end of the year, the head of Russia's state nuclear corporation, Sergei Kiriyenko, said on Thursday. Russia says the plant is purely civilian and cannot be used for any weapons program since all spent fuel rods will be returned to Russia. (Reuters/International Herald Tribune) http://www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2009/02/05/africa/OUKWD-UK-IRAN-NUCLEAR-RUSSIA.php ----- SYRIA PROFITS FROM REGIONAL DIPLOMATIC UPHEAVAL AFTER GAZA CONFLICT CAIRO February 2, 2009 - Edward Yeranian Syria appears to be profiting from the recent Gaza conflict and is emerging from several years of diplomatic isolation to become a key player, again, in the Middle East's diplomatic arena. Syria's political and logistical support for Hamas, along with Lebanon's Hizbullah, has won kudos with the Arab public. At an emergency Arab summit in Qatar last month President Assad decried Israel's military operation in Gaza and called for revenge. He said, "Arabs are a people with a long memory and will be sure to remind our children of the 'massacre' in Gaza." Assad said Arabs will teach the Israelis about an "eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," and that what was taken by force can only be returned by force. Professor Fouad Ajami of Johns Hopkins' School for Advanced International Studies notes: "The Syrians, in a way, they are the perfect fence-sitters. They swing both ways. They can swing with Egypt and Saudi Arabia and be a status-quo player or they can swing the other way, and I think increasingly they have joined the opposition. I mean, they have joined the renegades, but they are very careful, because they are shrewd enough that they know that a ride with the renegade is very dangerous, so I think they are both brutal and smart." (VOA News) http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-02-02-voa39.cfm ----- ISRAEL TO ELECT SUPER CROOKS by Barry Chamish - According to all polls, Israelis will elect the Likud to power with number two party and coalition partner about to be Israel Beitenu, led by super crook Avigdor Liebeman. He was intimately tied to international money laundering at the defunct Jericho Casino through his intimate ties to owner Martin Schlaff. Without rehashing the ugly affair, those who remember will recall: Tonight, in Vienna, some of the heroes of this affair, and of the next one, will meet at the huge bat-mitzvah celebration of Martin Schlaff's granddaughter. Dov Weisglass, Schlaff's old friend and lawyer will be there. Haim Ramon, another close friend, will also attend. There will be many others. Some of them from amongst the political, social, and economic elite of Israel. Avigdor Lieberman, for example. No one is embarrassed by it. Some are even proud of it. In another time, another place, one could consider it collusion, coordinating testimonies. After all, Schlaff's name has recently been tied in to that other affair: 'the Cyril Kern affair'. Schlaff, in case you?ve forgotten, is one of the owners of the casino in Jericho. Those who do actually recall, well remember that Yasir Arafat's cut in the gambling joint was handled by his financier, Muhammad Rachid, the same crook who planted $300m of money stolen from the Palestinian Authority by Arafat in a secret Swiss bank account. And with the encouragement of mega-thief Rachid, look what "right-winger" Lieberman promised the enemy of Israel: Lieberman Backed Full Withdrawal by Baruch Gordon In a new book, former US Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk has dropped a potential political bombshell, revealing that Avigdor Lieberman, head of the Yisrael Beitenu party, once held secret talks on territorial concessions to the Palestinian Authority (PA) with one of Yasser Arafat's key advisers. In addition, Indyk asserts that Lieberman told his PA interlocutor, Muhammad Rachid, that he was prepared to accept the wide-ranging concessions which then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak had offered to Arafat at the 2000 Camp David Summit. These included the division of Jerusalem, an Israeli withdrawal from over 95 percent of Judea and Samaria, and a dilution of Israeli sovereignty over the Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site. The disclosures are contained in a memoir penned by Indyk, who served two stints as America's envoy to Jerusalem during the Clinton administration.   Page 375 of Indyk's book: "Lieberman had indicated that the broad outlines of Barak's territorial offer [at Camp would be acceptable..." The 500-page book, entitled, "Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy," provides an insider's view of the workings of the peace process, including a look at the failed Camp David talks which were convened in the waning days of Bill Clinton's presidency. On page 375 of the book, Indyk writes that, "After Camp David, with Arafat's approval, Rachid had initiated a dialogue with Avigdor Lieberman, the leader of Yisrael Beitenu, the right-wing Russian immigrant party." He notes that, "According to Rachid's account, Lieberman had indicated that the broad outlines of Barak's territorial offer would be acceptable to the national (right-wing) bloc." Indyk's revelations could prove damaging to Lieberman, whose party is soaring in the polls in advance of Israel's February 10 elections, thanks in large part to his nationalist image among the public. Irene Etinger, Avigdor Lieberman's spokeswoman, commented on Indyk's claim, "The facts quoted in the book are not true." Political observers suggest that Lieberman and his party are now likely to come under increased scrutiny in the wake of Indyk's book, particularly in light of Lieberman's past statements on the issue of Jerusalem. As Israel National News reported previously, in October 2007 Lieberman came under fire for suggesting at a cabinet meeting that Israel should divide Jerusalem and transfer various neighborhoods within the city to PA control. Now look who Lieberman has as an "ally", Avigdor Eskin: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1061172.html Ultra-nationalist activist Avigdor Eskin, meanwhile, remembers meeting Lieberman at Kahane's office on Ussishkin Street in Jerusalem. "I remember this very well, because I arrived there one day after I immigrated to Israel in 1979," he said. Eskin came to public attention for having boasted of holding a pulsa dinura ceremony prior to 1995 assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. The ceremony, believed to be of kabbalistic origin, is aimed at conferring a death curse on the subject. "Kahane saw him as a good guy. I also thought back then that he was not a Kach man ideologically, unless the only measure of this is the question of whether you like Arabs. According to what I remember, he handed out the movements' publications among its small student group in the Hebrew University," Eskin said. So, once again Israelis will give go to the polls and give Lieberman the second most votes, with the ideological backing of this felon: www.washingtonmonthly.com/books/1998/9812.brook.death.html From the Washington Monthly: In October 1995, on the eve of Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, a group of Israelis led by Avigdor Eskin gathered outside the home of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Wrapped in prayer shawls, they intoned the ancient Aramaic chant Pulsa da-Nura ("Lashes of Fire"), a Kabbalistic curse: "I deliver to you, the angels of wrath and ire, Yitzhak, the son of Rosa Rabin, that you may smother him and the specter of him, and cast him into bed, and dry up his wealth, and plague his thoughts, and scatter his mind that he may be steadily diminished until he reaches his death. Put to death the cursed Yitzhak. May be damned, damned, damned!" After Rabin's assassination one month later - as Israel and the world mourned a great statesman - Eskin boasted of his prowess on Israeli television. The curse worked. Look what Yitzhak Rabin's own daughter had to say: NOVEMBER, 1999, HA'OLAM HA'ISHAH ("WOMAN'S WORLD") MAGAZINE INTERVIEW WITH M.K. DALIA RABIN-PELOSOFF, DAUGHTER OF YITZHAK RABIN by Sarit Yishai-Levi And when I hear that a person like Avigdor Eskin, whom I have been closely following ever since the assassination, was run by the G.S.S. (General Security Services), this arouses in me thoughts and wondering, and things arise. Such things arouse the doubt in me again and again. It doesn't have to be Lieberman. Israelis think by supporting any nationalist party, new or old, that they will get a change of government. It doesn't matter how many disappointments they've suffered in the past, they forget the quick corruption that these parties automatically undergo once elected, and they keep voting for hopeless hope. If you vote, you support corruption, crime, more contraction of the land, the division of the capital, and the eventual and deadly end of Israel. But the suckers will line up to vote once again. No responsible Israeli who cares about his nation should vote. It supports a political system run on criminal rot. But watch the suckers as they vote for the party of their delusions, believing they were good citizens. Needless to say, they will get what they deserve. end 'Judea, Samaria and the 'peace' process' Write me for all my DVDs: pt 1 ~ http://blip.tv/file/1689803 pt 2 ~ http://blip.tv/file/1691549 pt 3 ~ http://blip.tv/file/1692673 pt 4 ~ http://blip.tv/file/1694615 Watch me at: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E9A044AE24067CBA&playnext=1 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3557853190547322236 Readers really like the other service I provide; supplying alternative articles sent to me. I'm now sending over 200 e-mail pages a week, which can be read or discarded. 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