After the Israeli cabinet launched measures Tuesday, Oct. 6, for “strengthening anti-terror defense” – such as cameras in the sky – and officials labored to spread word that the surge of Palestinian violence of the past week was beginning to ebb, Israel was hit that night from offside by a vicious pro-Palestinian upheaval in the Tel Aviv suburb of Jaffa. Hundreds of Israeli Arabs swarmed onto the streets to hurl rocks and burning containers at police, passing buses and Jews on the street. Six police officers were injured. Fired up by the radical Israeli Northern Muslim Movement, the rioters brandished Palestinian flags and yelled “Allah is Great!” and “With our blood we shall redeem Al Aqsa!”
The Army Radio Station studio was besieged for five hours.
At length, the police announced the disturbance had been brought to an end by negotiations with Arab community leaders in Jaffa.
That strategy was part and parcel of the efforts made by IDF officers to bring an end to the surge of Palestinian violence besetting Jerusalem and the West Bank through revived negotiations with Palestinian security chiefs and soothing rhetoric poured out for the public by government and military officials. But the gap between that rhetoric and the unruly situation on the ground was impossible to bridge. The rocks and firebombs kept on flying – even after three killer-terrorists’ homes were demolished in Jerusalem Monday night.
Here too, the measure failed to impress as a deterrent because the punishment was meted out for terrorist crimes committed in 2014 and were therefore a year old – evidence of Israeli’s extremely slow response to murderous terror.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu finds himself cornered by two conflicting crises. While facing popular demands to quell Palestinian violence that caused four Israeli deaths and 30 people injured during the High Festivals, he is confronted with a mutiny within the government coalition and his own Likud party. At least half a dozen ministers angrily reject the line taken by the prime minister and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon for the past year – that the terror crisis must be handled “calmly and responsibly” – as nothing but softness on Palestinian terror.
Netanyahu has shot back by threatening to break up the government, which is less than a year old – either by inviting the opposition parties to join a new national unity government or calling a snap election.
This threat is fairly hollow. Replacing the mutinous ministers with members of the Labor opposition is a non-starter since its leader Yitzhak Herzog scarcely controls his own party. A coalition with Yair Lapid’s Future party and Avigdor Lieberman’s Habayit Hayehudi would be harder to control than the present lineup.
Netanyahu finds himself in this corner because he is handling the two crises by political means as part of the same problem.
This tactic is taken by Palestinian extremist leaders as a sign of Israeli weakness and encourages them to pour more fuel on the fire of anti-Israel violence. Ineffective measures, such as the cameras in the sky, which never worked on the 443 highway to Jerusalem, for instance, make things worse. The trickle of rockets from Gaza contradicts Ya’alon’s pledge to stop it. A proactive, creative hand against the escalating Palestinian violence would gain the support of all the ministers and ease the popular sense of pervasive insecurity.
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2:
Shmuel, I’m praying for you and your family safety. I have to go to shul for Maariv. I’ll ask the Rabbi to say a prayer for your your entire area. I think his family and parents might live near you.
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2:
Shmuel, I’m praying for you and your family safety. I have to go to shul for Maariv. I’ll ask the Rabbi to say a prayer for your your town.
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2: Have they attacked Karmiel?
It is time for Netanyahu to speak for Jews and Jewish settlers or stop pretending to represent them like when he panicked Jewish voters from bennett.
I expect soon a formal announcement of the defacto freeze on Jewish settlement in order to restart negotiations for the UN and quartet and other related blood libelers of the Jewish people. Of course we should notice how all recent events will lead to a further erosion of Jewish settlement rights in YS and Jewish rights at the Mount and holy sites. This will not be a coincidence.
@ woolymammoth:
Think about that despicable anti semitic blood libel uttered by the FM of a foreign gov….
that libel is a direct result of BB omissions and actions:
It results from his never speaking for, supporting or uttering the words that jewish settlement in YS is legal and legitimate.
It results from him never having the israeli FM contact the relevant govs and condemning them for their libels and demanding retraction, as any arab or muslim or pal gov would do
It results from his, yaalon and rivlin’s fabrication of a jewish arson in Duma
It results from his creation of a defamation lynch mob against jewish settlers as a result of his arson fabrication.
It results in his law to incarcerate jewish settler supporters and doing it in order to drive home the libel to the world
I am sorry wooly bully….. but BB, yaalon and rivlin are guilty of spreading blood libels globally that result in global anti semitism and the revenge burnings, stabbings, beatings and stoning of Jews
do you disagree with that assessment of their part in the horrible events?
Just now reported but we have seen it for hours.
Majd el Kurum is a Muslim village about 800 meters from our city. They are now also rioting, burning tires, throwing stones against passing traffic and waiving ISIS and plo flags.
Most of our neighbors expect an attack against our city.
Nazereth, Lod, Ramle, the gaza border area, Jerusalem and lost track of many other locations are just as much having fun.
I understand that Martians conspired with Alpha Centauri visitors and are responsible for Israel being a mess.
woolymammoth Said:
yes, his under the table understandings with the Gulf and sunni nations, and possibly including obama and the eu.
woolymammoth Said:
this would be my fondest dream, followed by deportations of anti semites….. However, when it comes to the wager I would not give this a one in ten chance of ever happening based on the facts to date. I hate to rain on your parade but knowing the facts is the best basis for fighting a war and rearranging your paradigms to success. As long as the Jews believe that the arab muslims in their land are not an enemy, they will continue to make poor decisions based on this faulty premise.
woolymammoth Said:
this is what we would both hope for and the peg upon which most right wing BB supporters hang their hats, in hope that he is being cunning and holding the status quo until he gets a chance to be a right wing leader. I think this hopeful belief is unsupported by facts in that he not only stalls obama but enthusiastically engages in other actions which demonstrate where his pro-activity lies; e.g. the jumping on the lynch mob bandwagon of settlers, their incarceration and defamation without evidence….. the subsequent wave of anti semitism resulting from his lynch mob propagated by his DM yaalon. Normally a PM of Israel would have advised calm and wiatng for evidence… the last thing he would want is that jews did the crime…. therefore he would seek to get the evidence first. Add to this that his solution to the arab jew stabbing wave is to seek to ban jews from the mount and further limit settlers in YS(his own party made him extend the MK ban to arabs which he first proposed only for Jewish Mk’s). I have already enumerated all the things he has not done. I think your hope is hopey dreamy, being an ostrich… hoping the soap given at the gate is indeed for a waiting shower. This approach of being an ostrich has never helped the Jews. BB’s motives may be ok, but his judgement may be poor and in such a scenario, dangerous. it is odd how every thing he does, and omits to do, has actually facilitated and encouraged global anti semitism. The only logical reason for such an MO that could still be said to have a good, if misguided intention, is that Israel will move to give up YS for his arab peace deal. That is my best speculative view of BB.
By the way, if I am correct then one must speculate as to whether the whole BB obama spat is real or just a drama to help BB to look like he is a champion of the right wing while he does nothing to advance aright wing agenda. It is interesting that every time BB is under criticism for not being right wing he has a fight with obama which takes of f the criticism. For now I hold this as one of a few speculations on the scenario like I did on BB at election time.
I know you will consider that a conspiracy theory.. but my last conspiracy theory years ago was the arming of AQ from bnghazi by the US, BB relation with gulf arabs before he announced it, and many others which have subsequently proved to be fact or speculations of equal value to the gov propaganda.
woolymammoth Said:
Up until the election was over, I only speculated that BB was intentionally sabotaging the right wing agenda and gave him the benefit of the doubt by making my final decision subject to what ministries he appoints folks to and what decisions he g=begins to take after the elections on YS, abused Jews, the supreme court, the pal negotiations. After the election I could no longer escape the fact that he was lying and obstructing the right wing agenda. Once I accepted that conclusion it put all his decisions in a different light. Even before the election I speculated that he was making decisions based on understandings with the gulf monarchies and sunni govs. That was also authenticated as I posted many times. My current speculation is that his shafting of the right wing agenda relates to his understandings with the GCC regarding the prognosis of the pal issues. If I am right, which I beleive I am, which also explains the deceit,it is possible he does it from “good intentions” of reaching a light at the end of the tunnel which he perceives to be better than other offers on the table and enforceable by the gulf arabs(like they did with egypt and hamas). However, i beleive that approach is dangerous and that the gulf arabs are unreliable and can switch on a dime if Israel is not of benefit to them in their war with Iran. Using these premises I conclude that much of what goes on with abbas is a fabrication and that both leaders are manipulating their constituencies to some extent with rhetoric but cooperation under the table. iran and hamas may be instigating the problems on the west bank for all we know. I think that BB has decided that the arabs are here to stay and that ultimately Israel will have to give up most of the west bank and that by moving the israeli psyche to the the center(left) he will get Israel to give it up. It appears to me that his position is the position of the majority of Israelis. therefore, he neuters those to his right while acting as if a right wing leader, moving the discussion leftwards. He has already been very successful in that not a soul mentions the prospect of new settlements in YS.
woolymammoth Said:
You would have to know my goal to draw that conclusion. My goal is to keep pointing out how BB deceives his electors and not only does not implement the programs they seek, as do most global politicians, but instead seeks to destroy the programs and those who actually seek to implement them. The difference is crucial to reading the situation. Most right wing supporters still think that BB is trying to advance their agenda but is hampered by foreign elements. But if that were true he would be more transparent about that fact, he would utter the words that Jewish settlement is legal and legitimate in YS(even if he were prevented from implementing it), he would not obstruct those who seek to implement the agenda of protecting jews from muslim, reform the left wing court… nor would he falsely seek to incarcerate Jews.
In this scenario my goal is to keep pointing out what he does in harsh terms to shame him into a different paradigm even agianst his will. If the public comes to beleive as I beleive they will pressure him to change or it will allow a real supporter of Jews and settlers to arise. Bennet failed by accepting the eunuch ministry. The only strong leader now is liberman, but we know his issues…. BB destroyed the right in his own party and outside by keeping his enemies close and then cutting them off at the knees with masterful political strokes. Every one knows that the best way to kill your rivals is by appointing them to eunuch ministries or ministries where they must fail.
Felix Quigley Said:
I did visit them, just more of the same BS you chat here
Felix Quigley Said:
poor felix, knickers in a twist again, waxing hysterical…. I suggest exchanging your thongs for boxers to avoid the irritations that drive you insane.
The scammer I see is the felix who said that Israel should defend Assad, hezbullah and Iran agianst the jihadis rather than observe them kill each other.
Felix Quigley Said:
LOL, felix you have gone mad, even for an anachronistic trotskyite who advises jews to defend assad, hezbullah and persia against jihadis.
BB should be telling them that Jewish settlement in YS is legal and legitimate as this is the greatest libel upon which global anti semitism is based. Notice that BB has not uttered those words in his two term and this one. BB faciltates anti semtism by fueling that prime libel, by obstructing jewish settlement in YS, by allowing muslims to attack jews and not permanently banning them, by stalking false jewish terrorists and incarceratinng jews without evidence to appease the blood libelers,….DUH….. got any facts to support your BS?
The world is full of these national movements not capable of defending against the common enemy…the Irish republican deadly splits and split in South Sudan is symptomatic of this malaise!
Shmuel in his horrific comment equated Abbas and Netanyahu
This is a big issue.
In the election Shmuel did rightly at the end call for victory to.netanyahu against OBAMA in reality it WAS Obama in the election Netanyahu was fighting
But Ross never even did that.
Ross thus pursued a line to have Herzog in power.
Ross is thus an evil person in the Jewish movement and visit my comments on Sherman article!
When Netanyahu is attacked by Antisemites such as Obama Cameron and Merkel Ross and Yamit and Shmuel will never once defend him. That makes them traitors to the Jewish people, a sad fact.
Ross above the POLLUTER wants Livni and Herzog IN POWER
A SCAMMER of JEWS would be even more apt!
I say defend Netanyahu against ANTISEMITES critically. With the polluter there is NO defense!
Regarding the disengagement, in extremely typical Bibi fashion he made a big stink about resigning from Sharon’s government……. only AFTER said actions might have had an effect. He is, was, and always will be a smooth talking weasel.
His sidelining of Feiglin, as has been mentioned here, was brazenly disgusting and showed his true colors…….which many of us had been well aware for years.
We’re in deep doodoo, and with Bibi and Bogie at the helm, I don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel.
@ woolymammoth:
Right after “disengagement” the “military” set up a planning panel including six ranked officers, (that number is what we know about but may not be accurate).
They mostly met at the Kiriah which is the equivalent to the Pentagon. There was then an euphoric report about that in the media here which was celebrating “disengagement” and more to come. The kibbutznikim and other renegades were gloating and even openly promoting the shooting of Jews as well. Four former G SS heads published a main article on the plan by them to do so.
The military officers task was to create MANUALS to train special forces to carry out the MEGA disengagement they plan. All actions by Netanyahu point to an eventual use of those manuals.
TEMPLE MOUNT: Indeed and as you point out, Dayan and his controllers committed high treason and gave the keys to the Wakft. Netanyhau is just completing, in salami slices fashion, the total abandonment of our top Heritage site.
Terrible as it is, that is what we allowed in there.
ALTERNATIVES to Netanyahu? There are dozens of good and highly able people that will easily replace the liar.
Those people will never join the political filth holes that are the sold out parties…
That is why we promote FREE ELECTIONS outside the present system.
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2:
HiSHmuel, With respect to your allegations that Netanyahu was fully behind the Gaza disengagement, I can tell you I remember clearly the blow by blow details and can confirm that your comments are in place and accurate to infinite precision. Then after he made sure the withdrawal would go through, for sure, he and his bud Ya’alon made a fake protest and resigned as premeditated political theatre of the absurd.
Given these irrefutable facts, what can be garnered about the man’s character? That is a rhetorical question. But if one delves into former and current Presidents of The US you are going to find the same and perhaps much worse, I think you will agree, making Netanyahu somewhat of a pitiful amateur especially contrasted by LBJ, for one and Obama for another. Your point is you know the man behind the media image, the tv face and he is a pathological liar. Okay, I take your word for it. You mention he abandoned Temple Mount, once again okay, I accept your word as fact, yet did he degrade Jewish rights on the mount any worse than Moshe Dayan? Eventually the damage can be reversed, unless you are referring to the damage done by the waqf, to which I reply yes, I agree. Will Netanyahu partition Jerusalem. Tell me more about that and the assaults upon Jews in Judea and Samaria that might surprise me. Still, i think for better or worse, we are stuck with him until Obama makes his exit. Please correct me if I am wrong.
@ woolymammoth:
Having been for many years a LIKUD Central Committee Member until I resigned from both during Sharon’s betrayal I know Netanyahu well. As well as Livni,Shalom, etc.
Regrettably your conclusions regarding the speechster and echelon have no basis on fact, sorry to say.
Netanyahu voiced and voted his support of Sharon’s plans for the so called “disengagement” and never walked back from that. His idiotic “vote against” after the plans to destroy many villages were done is typical of the Netanyahu’s way of life. Ya’alon PLANNED the operational details of the Pogrom.
After that Netanyahu and Ya’alon never changed and destroyed a multitude of other villages and parts of villages. While lying about construction.
He did not need to lie about construction. He just lives in lies so he did and does.
He abandoned Temple Mount. End of story.
He will partition Jerusalem and assault all Jews in Judea & Samaria AND Jerusalem.
I’m sorry Mr. Ross, really…it is my sardonic sense of humor. It just seemed as though your posts were not as concise as they could have been and I felt that as much as I may agree with you, as I earnestly do more often than not, the endless dribble of one post after another dilutes your message down and may be counter productive. If I am wrong I stand corrected. I know i have been guilty of the same thing in the past, which makes me more sensitive of it. As far as Netanyahu is concerned, I do not refute even a single point you have made, nevertheless, given the alternatives, I am afraid that anyone else as PM during the rest of the present term of Obama will provide the ammunition he needs to move forward with his sinister plans. It could be that he will precipitate a crisis by design. It cannot be ruled out. I believe Netanyahu is looking at the big picture and is the best person to navigate through these rough waters for the next 15 months. Ultimately it is up to The Israeli voters, but look at the politicians to choose from and ones chosen in the past. We clearly saw what reaction there was in Washington DC when Netanyahu made his remarks during the election campaign regarding his perceptions of creating a “palestinian” State. Clearly he feels as though he must tread very cautiously to run out the clock. In the event of the anticipated move in the UN with a withheld veto, I would expect annexation. Netanyahu wishes to avoid those polemics by stirring a middle course, which I would agree leaning way too far the wrong way, but, I am sure Netanyahu has reason for his unpopular moves. I feel strongly Israelis should protest the luke warm responses to fighting the violence. This would, in my view empower Netanyahu to implement harsher measures, which he could justify by pointing to the protests.I do not expect him to ever allow for a “palestinian State”. That is what we are getting with Netanyahu, the bare minimum, which would not be the case with a Labor led coalition, which would do as Obama demands and make the concessions, just like the democrats in congress.
After Obama is gone, is that not a beautiful thought, I expect Netanyahu to put through huge building projects galore and make up for all of the lost time. I expect he will do this. He may annex too. Perhaps sooner than later if The UN votes to create a terrorist hotbed within Israel’s “pericardial sac”.
we are getting closer and closer to the unity gov… there is little difference between the lefts way of dealing with the terror and BB. The left is for calming the arabs, getting their cooperation, pumping up abbas and relying on him, (rather than arrest, shooting rioters, banning muslims)…….clearly banning construction in YS to appease the arabs and abbas, banning jews from the mount, non restriction of pals in israel.
I think soon we will have the unity gov. Perhaps before that we will see BB announce the freeze officially as part of an agreement to resume negotiations…. all painted as concessions to avoid sanctions and uhappy obamas and euros.
the BB Yaalon admin detention for jews law is part of the whole agenda of disconnection from YS over the long term. As long as those in Tel aviv and maale adumim(major blocks) get theirs they will be uninterested in the rest of YS. Slowly but surely YS, settlers, will become verboten…. this is how the giveaway will be made palatable…. folks will get used to not wanting it and not developing it. they are creating new habits of thought in both the arab and Jewish populations.
Everything becomes clear when observing facts without the accompanying explanations and narratives.
How about this, Tzipi – there will be no further building when the Muzzies stop their worldwide jihad against the Chosen. That will be never, which also happens to be the due date for you to say something coherent.
Livni is the Hillary of Israeli politics, a demagogic pissant devoid of any redeeming characteristics.
see, the solution with both BB and the left is NO CONSTRUCTION IN YS! The only difference is that one hides his agenda.
woolymammoth Said:
this appears to be your only claim for BB. do you think the right wing voters who elected him expected to only get this. Do you see any reason why he allows euros to build illegally in Israel, or muslims to abuse jews, or diplomats to call jews illegal with no rebuttal? Is no pal state enough, they already defacto have one in gaza, and in the UNGA. does he have any plan for when the UN gives them a state, or when sanctions come…. or is he just going to wing it?
woolymammoth Said:
BB saw to that when he banished feiglin, neutered Benett and obstructed shaked. BB destroyed the right wing from within to make himself the sole fake voice of the right wing. Had BB not panicked Benetts voters the coalition would still have been formed with BB having less votes and bennett more, this would have enable the right wing more influence… he could not have sent Benett and the right wing to siberia in that circumstance.
Here is my question to you:
1- do you want annexation of any of YS outside the major settlement blocks
2- do you agree with the ongoing muslim anti semtism and harassment of jews in israel and the holy sites.
3- do you beleive that the pm of israel should state that Jewish settlement in YS legal and legitimate even if he feels he is forced to give it up?
4- do you beleive an Israeli Pm should on the diplomatic level with each offending nation express his displeasure of the libel of illegality and illegitimacy of jews in YS?
5- Do you beleive that a pm should incarcerate jews without evidence of a crime?
6- Do you beleive that Israel should treat the hostile pals equally with jews?
7-do you beleive that Jews should have at least equal access to holy sites in Israel?
8- do you beleive jews should be allowed to settle in YS?
In BB’s reign I see no advancement of these issues.
woolymammoth Said:
BB is not being blamed for everything.. only that which he did and that which he did not do which he should have done.
criticism of BB’s damaging action, criticism of BB’s damaging inaction, criticism of BB’s dishonesty…… these are not “repugnant”….. what is repugnant are these:
repugnant is BB’s commissioning of the Levy report to get right wing credit and then shelve it.
repugnant is BB’s announcement of E1 to get votes and then shelve it.
repugnant is BB’s panicking of Bennett voters to vote for him with lies.
repugnant is BB lying during the election that a vote for him was the same as voting for Bennet and then trashing every issue for which Bennet stood.
repugnant is after winning on right wing votes and panicking bennetts voters he gave Benett a eunuch ministry having nothing to do with Jewish settlement in YS.
repugnant is that BB is incapable of even uttering the words that Jewish settlement in YS is legal and legitimate.
repugnant is that BB does not summon the ambassadors of nations who libel Jewish settlememt as illegal and illegitimate and demand retractions or at least state that it is insulting.
repugnant is that BB has knowingly allowed the euros free reign to illegally build housing in the Jewish homeland.
repugnant is the manner which BB destroyed the right wing from the inside by banishing feiglin, making benett a eunuch and obstructing shaked.
repugnant is that under BB’s watch Jews are repeatedly abused with anti semitism and harassment at holy sites and elsewhere.
repugnant is that BB never summoned the Jordan ambassador to recall his anti semitic wakf who incites against Jews.
repugnant is that BB has not accused Jordan of breaking the wakf agreement by allowing the harassment of jews at holy sites he oversees.
repugnant is that BB, his DM and president jumped on a lynch mob bandwagon of settlers with no evidence and susequently caused the revenge burnings, beatings and stabbings of Jews.
repugnant is that BB used the false flag duma arsons to create laws to lock up Jewish and settler opposition to his policies.
repugnant is that that BB has successfully accomplished the end of any discussion or suggestion in israel of new settlements in YS
repgunant is BB’s settlement freeze in YS for years now while pretending he is not doing it
repugnant is BB restricting Jewish MK’s on the Mount on the basis of arab attacks… he only included Arab MK’s when his own party rebelled.
repugnant is that BB has no plan other than rhetoric to deal with Iran
repugnant is that BB has no plan to deal with BDS
repugnant is that BB has no plan to deal with continuing arab terror and jew abuse other than than giving them what they want.
those are all facts, there are more, and they are all REPUGNANT!
woolymammoth Said:
HMMMMM? what does he mean?
Gosh, I said, I wonder what I wrote that caused Mr. Wooly Bully to get so upset that he accused me of contaminating, defiling, and corrupting this blog (Israpundit). I went in search of my comments upon which he based this most vile insult of me. To my chagrin, after searching carefully through his post, I could not find one comment, one statement, one assertion, one allegation, one speculation…… of mine….. that woolly bully quoted upon which he was basing his insult. How odd I thought…… after all…. I did make many statements of fact and speculations of opinion……. one of which he must have used to utter this insult to me.
I searched again and found nothing and had to reluctantly come to the conclusion that Mr. WoolyBully was himself polluting this site with unsupported insults hurled with no basis. Perhaps he was upset that I stated and cited so many facts to support my allegations and yet he could not find a single one he could rebut….. OR……perhaps Mr. wooly bully is simply an intellectual flea, a blowhard,an empty suit, incapable of a single quotation of mine which proves me to be a polluter of this site or even inaccurate about his idol BB.
I suspect mr. wooly bully is one of those fools who got suckered into the con and remains perplexed today…. not even wondering why his man not only never achieved any advances for the right wing but did everything to obstruct any potential advances under his watch.
When facts become inconvenient stumbling blocks fools search for every rationalization to explain them away but that is no need to insult folks who keep pointing out the glaring facts; its better to try and rebut those facts…. if you are capable of so doing. I await your well thought out rebuttals to my comments.
@ yamit82:
yes, I remember I was still on the fence at election time, specualting that BB was being disingenuous but gave him the benefit of the doubt. I said that the manner in which he conducts the election, his ministry selections and his subsequent first decisions would make my decision. On all counts he fulfilled my suspicions first by his crooked scam of panickking right wing voters from Benett to him at the last moment demonstrating to me that Benett and not labor were his real target. This was confirmed when after the election after declaring that Benett would be his first ministry he left Benett to last and gave him a ludicrous ministry which had no link to settlement of YS demonstrating that he wanted Bennett to have no influence on settlement in YS. His subsequent immediate slap down of shakeds reform bil for the supreme court clinched it. I have come to the conclusion that every action he takes obstructs the right wing agenda which his electors elected him to implement and he made transparent by the myriad actions he did not take to advance a right wing agenda. Since then and through today it is clear that all his actions obstruct any advancement of settlement in YS and facilitate the status quo of anti semitism and Jews abuse throughout Israel and in the holy places. Now he has taken to incarcerating Jews without evidence who represent the settler movement and Jewish rights.
Does not matter, Yamit. There was no viable alternative to Netanyahu, given the nature of Israel’s open arms policy toward what you refer to as the “UN-Jew”. You cannot convince me Livni/Herzog would be any improvement, on the contrary. There is no one else. Yes, Bennet would have been preferable, but, with Obama in there, any pretext to punish Israel would be most welcome in The White House. As I have asked quite seriously, Is there a Palestinian State? Netanyahu is committed to surviving Obama. A most wicked adversary, in the spirit of Haman, yet much more powerful. Netanyahu is correct when he rejects demands to willy nilly approve new housing as a response to terror. One has nothing to do with the other. When the time is right, Obama out, building will commence. That is not to suggest that the Israeliis do not have the right to protest inadequate measures to protect them from violence. They should, where the dickens are they, what could be more important, surely not some dumb soccer game, blame them for a change. That would strengthen Netanyahu’s ability to crack down decisively. He could argue before the U.S. State Department Nazis, that he has no choice. Where are the mass protests. Stop blaming Bibi for everything, it is repugnant, prefer Peretz, Olmert, how’s about your one and only Beillin or Sheetrite. Ross you are polluting the blog like the famed character of Peanuts fame, Pigpen.” Yamit, no soup for you.”
bernard ross Said:
Jesus I am not one who likes to flaunt I told you so’s so many times in the past including the past election in March. But I will, I told ya all so and many times. Haaaaaa
what an odd call to make?????? perhaps the euro intellignece services and CIA sparked the riots and murders to destabilize Israel. I have seen that operation before…. arab spring is one such example.
all the US and EU citizens shoud be banned from YS as a closed military zone….. eu and cia saboteurs should be arrested.
BB and Yaalon still chasing Jews and letting pals back into Jerusalem. They are seeking destroy the settlers.
Jordan lost war but with Jewish logic decides matters in Israel, to muslim advantage.
BB logic?
when muslims riot and abuse and attack Jews on Jewish holidays BB and Yaalon reward them by banning Jews.
So called pa authority president Abbas is responsible for this, he should be arrested and full security must be implemented NOW. The only way is for Israelis to demand it by protesting in huge numbers, otherwise you are stuck with half measures and slow lame response times.
I wonder whether Rav Kahana is turning……or smiling in his grave.
Looks like yaalons, and thus BB’s, main concern is the convenience and safety of the pals.
BB and yaalon seek to stop settlement and Jews access to the Mount so BB can pursue his rapprochement and cooperation with the GCC, their weakening of Irans proxies and Iran. Their need is a quiet Israel pal situation so they can have recruits and support that is not co-opted by Irans Israel card in the muslim world. For Abbas to guarantee PA quiet he needs concessions from BB. In all of this there is hamas, and Iran, who stands to gain by roiling the pot for the GCC and Israel. Hence egypt the GCC proxy helps Israel against hamas.
this explains BB’s odd decisions the last few years. All seek to share in the Med gas and energy business.
Does this BS artist ever shut up and do something?
No rocket science here, arm jewish militias and give shoot to kill orders for any rioter or stone thrower.
BB is looking over his shoulder trying to please outsiders, foreigners and arabs… he and yaalon forget they are Jews.
the settlers do Yaalons job while he is busy searching for phantom jews and whining about attacks on arabs. the settlers should be armed and allowed to form militias and given free license to protect Jews while Yaalon dithers and tries to figure out if he is a Jew.
this appointment of BB has no shame… after inciting a lynch mob agianst settlers without evidence in order to get laws pushed through to incarcerate BB oppostion to the right… he now once again embarks on his shameful role as the fig leaf who pushes through BB’s war agianst the settlers and the Jews
each day, the real Yaalon creeps out, lets remember that he is the one that formulated the details of the plans to drag Jews kicking and screaming from gaza so I dont expect anything better in his new incarnation against the pioneers of zionism. Of course yaalons main concern is attacks on pals not attacks on Jews.
This should put paid to the BB BS narrative.
bernard ross Said:
Israel is soft on the arabs in gaza, israel and PA becuase BB is hitching, or trying to hitch, a ride on this train
If one seeks to be on this train then one must make different decisions at home so as not to make the enemy Israel on the arab/muslim street…. or so they might be telling him…… so as to focus on Iran and proxies. In exchange they weaken Irans proxies and ultimately Iran…. until the russkie showed up and the game changed. However, the russians were driven out once before by the jihadis in afghan. As it is difficult for Israel to confront with russia they might be of help to those who will. Russia is the one force in the ME which crimps Israels defense/attack flexibility the most and who is overtly in support of Israels most lethal existential enemies.
again, going to others and begging them to solve his problems, but only putting off the day of fate and not even using that time to put together a meaningful defense. just like with hamas, hezbullah, BDS, the euros,…. he is just winging it, putting off the problems and making it worse. He is guaranteeing the left to get in, with or without him.
All of BB’s behaviors are governed by his “understandings” with the GCC. All of his restraint is to maintain that relationship. All of his giveaways are related to that. He condemns settlers for false flag arab crimes and is soft on the arabs…. why is that??? Just like the release of terrorists these understandings and cooperations require these behaviors… while all this goes on he pretends to be a right wing strong man. He struggles against abbas by withholding taxes for a month, he struggles against iran by making fiery speeches, he struggles against obama with talk and no action, he struggles against the euros by allowing the to build in YS, he struggles agianst the supreme court by killing shaked reform bill, he struggles against pal terror by incarcerating jews, allowing pals back into jerusalem, seeking diplomacy with abbas. BB always appears to be fighting for right wing agendas but it is all smoke and mirrors.
I used to give him the benefit of the doubt until i saw what he did at the election to steal right wing votes from bennett and then banish him to eunuch siberia to look for feiglin. He always “appears” to be fighting for right wing agendas by doing nothing but talk. I predicted at the time that how he conducts the election and appoints ministers would show me who he is. Yaalon is his fig leaf like Livni was, allowing him to pretend to be right wing by having others he chose do the opposite. thats how politics works.
In terms of facts on the ground I see no difference between BB actions and the left. He approaches all problems on the basis of diplomacy or rhetoric, a leftist solution. On Iran his total MO was to talk, talk talk and then it failed. On hezbullah threat his MO is to talk talk talk and it fails. Always it is obama whom he blames for his failures. He goes to everyone else to deal with Israels problems, just like the left, and it always fails. He is a failure with obama but he is always saying obama threatens him. aparrently he gets nothing from obama whether he heeds his silent and anonymous threats or whether he doesnt. It appears he always heeds the threats and gets nothing. Perhaps herzong and livni are right, why elect someone who does nothing for YS, nothing to stop abuse of jews and arabs, nothng on Iran, nothng on hezbullah… argues with the world but does what they want. At least the left will get along with everyone while they screw the right. BB has not made one single advancement for the right, obstructs all new settlement, does nothing for muslim abused jews, nothing about terror, nothing about iran but blah blah blah.
He is not right wing, every thing he has done proves the opposite, he is only waiting to see how long he can get away with his ruse before he brings in the left for a unity gov to continue his left wing MO: policies and platforms say right wing but all behavior is left wing. Which is real?
deport rock-throwers to gaza; parents can elect to follow their children, lest families become divided
These riots all over the country (or attacks by Arabs) show again that co-existence with the Arabs for the long haul is tenuous at best.
The riots in Jaffa have revealed for Israeli Jews that “their” Arabs hate Jews and the state no less than the Arabs in the territories.
What are witnessing is the Third Intifada underway.
And the Israeli government doesn’t have a clue on how to quash it.
And in the North Muslim villagers are waiving plo and ISIS flags. Ready for the next stage of their plan.
Well…
It is clear to me that our people simply does not know how to select and elect leaders. The “political” sewers here will never produce a thin worth keeping.
THE PEOPLE must select and elect a completely new system and leaders NOW or darker times are just ahead.
Netanyahu and Ya’alon are the worst possible set of renegades to allow in there controlling the security of Israel.
Up to you folks…
I actually love it when leftist Army Radio was besieged by Arab mobs.
The Israeli Left is getting a taste of its own medicine.
And Netanyahu is facing an increasingly angry country unwilling to put up with the so-called status quo.