By Ted Belman
Kerry left Israel this morning for Jordan and Saudi Arabia. His parting words were:
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“I can guarantee all parties that President (Barack) Obama and I are committed to putting forward ideas that are fair and balanced, ..”
It sounds nice what can it mean?
Courts don’t make judgments based on what’s fair and balanced. They look to the facts and to the law.
Accordingly Kerry proposes to ignore the law and perhaps even the facts. Essentially his starting point is the demands being made by each side whether justified or not. He is saying that he will be fair and balanced in deciding where to draw the line between these demands.
Israel should have demanded the moon as the PA did. Instead Netanyahu opted for making minor demands and Israel will suffer because of it.
When it comes to the facts, Israel is on strong ground and the Arabs weak ground so she is greatly disadvantaged by ignoring them.
Legally Israel is on even stronger grounds and the Arabs weaker grounds so again ignoring her legal rights is to her disadvantage. Unfortunately Netanyahu has been ignoring her legal rights to Judea and Samaria. Perhaps he did so because he knew that such rights were going to be ignored in a final settlement. But as I see it, all the more reason to protest.
How can Kerry be fair and balanced when proposing measures for Israel’s security. He obviously isn’t allowing her to decide what her needs are. How does he balance her need for security and her legal right to it with the Arab demands for sovereignty. Especially when they have no right to sovereignty. Res 242 allows Israel to remain in occupation when she has secure and recognized borders. But such borders should be hers to insist on. Yet Kerry denies her that right and seeks to determine the borders for her. What’s fair about that?
What is fair and balance about requiring Israel to accept ’67 lines with swaps. That is decidedly unfair. Given her legal rights to settle Judea and Samaria, and given the fact that she liberated the territory in a defensive war, why is it not fair to allow her to determine how much of it she wants to keep. The Palestinians have no right to this land and no right to sovereignty. Anything Israel gives them is a gift.
Why is it fair and balanced that Kerry and Obama have endorsed the Arab demand for full withdrawal.
Essentially the peace process is a process whereby Israel’s legal rights are being forcibly taken from her and given to the Arabs. What’s fair about that?
yamit82 Said:
Send pics!!!!!!!
@ mar55:
I may be going to Denver for the Stock Show,they have anice art museaum,the Stock Show also has an art show sponswered by the Coors Family.
yamit82 Said:
I don’t mean my “old cowboy” sitting at the kichen table doing his books. I mean the young half-naked one whose picture I sent Fe;ix whem he called you dilapidated. Chaps too.
honeybee Said:
Not since I was 3 or four when I was taken for a ride by Hopalong Cassidy on his mighty horse Topper. Still have pics.
@ mar55:
Thank you for the invitation to the Met,if I ever go to MYC I shall visit you. If you come to San Antonio,I will “carry you” [ a southern expression] to the Alamo. Unfortunately the frost killed the banana trees on the River Walk. Did you know that Santa Fe has a very famous Opera House?
yamit82 Said:
Yada yada yada, I perfere Johsua. Do you have a Stetson like my cowboy??????? !7* here,there go the banana trees!!!!!!!!
honeybee Said:
It did but BG states it clearer and unequivocally.
yamit82 Said:
I thought thats what my quote from Joshua stated!
yamit82 Said:
And I bet your younger too. Send pics, and I’ll send you vodka and pletzels, I make wonderfull pletzels,with chopped liver.
honeybee Said:
It’s not ours to divide or give away.
I never agreed about much re: Ben-Gurion but in this I fullly agree:
David Ben-Gurion, First Prime Minister of Israel, speech to the 21st Zionist Congress, Basel 1937
I did view your picture of me except I am better looking and better built, your cowboy is quite scrawny. 😉
Ted Belman: Apply the following story to the Land of Israel and who is it’s rightful owner.
Truth and Justice can not be found in a fair and balanced approach.
It is a most dishonest approach.
The Brilliant Wisdom of King Solomon
By: Baruch C. Cohen, Esq.
A Professional Law Corporation
The Book of Kings [Melachim 1 3:12] states that Israel’s great King Solomon was twelve years old when God promised him that he would be granted great wisdom. He turned out to be the wisest man ever to live. As an illustration of the fulfillment of this blessing of wisdom, the Book of Kings reports the following account of a case that was brought before King Solomon’s court in Jerusalem.
Two women came to King Solomon and stood before him. One woman (#1) said: “My Lord, this woman and I dwell in the same house, and I gave birth to a child while with her in the house. On the third day after I gave birth, she also gave birth. We live together; there is no outsider with us in the house; only the two of us were there. The son of this woman died during the night because she lay upon him. She arose during the night and took my son from my side while I was asleep, and lay him in her bosom, and her dead son she laid in my bosom. when I got up in the morning to nurse my son, behold, he was dead! But when I observed him (later on) in the morning, I realized that he was not my son to whom I had given birth!”
The other woman (#2) replied: “It is not so! My son is the live one and your son is the dead one!”
The first woman (#1) responded: “It is not so! Your son is the dead one and my son is the living one!”
They argued before King Solomon.
King Solomon said: “this woman (#2) claims ‘My son is the live one and your son is the dead one, ‘and this woman (#1) claims ‘Your son is the dead one and my son is the living one!”‘
King Solomon said, “Bring me a sword!” So they brought a sword before the King. The King said, “Cut the living child in two, and give half to one and half to the other”
The woman (#2) turned to the King, because her compassion was aroused for her son, and said: “Please my Lord, give her the living child and do not kill it!”
But the other woman (#1) said: “Neither mine nor yours shall he be. Cut!”
The King spoke up and said: “Give her (#2) the living child, and do not kill it, for she is his mother!” All of Israel heard the judgment that the King had judged. They had great awe for the King, for they saw that the wisdom of God was within him to do justice. [I Melachim 3:16 – 27]. The woman was rightfully awarded custody of her son.
It should be noted, that King Solomon’s was the first major recorded and published decision in the history of legal jurisprudence, and I believe that with the help of the commentaries, one can begin to appreciate the magnificent depth of his wisdom.
yamit82 Said:
http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Joshua-24-15/
Ted Belman
Crystallizing the debate among Jews
Ari Abramowitz Debates Alan Dershowitz: Should Israel be Divided?
@ dove:
Try these:
Why Israel is the world’s happiest country By Spengler
This Year- The Happiest People on Earth
In case anyone missed this before…..here it is again!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ydwxy9yqhzM
True, but the dog and pony show going on as the “piece process” is anything but a court of law.
Just the same there is no way to be “fair and balanced” by ignoring the facts and ignoring the law.
First it was “peace-for-peace”, then it morphed into “land-for-peace” and now finally it has tranmongrelled into “piece-for-continued-we-live-to-kill-you”. At the same time vocabulary slide from “disputed territories”, to “occupied territories” to “Palestinian Occupied Territories”.
All this happened because our “leaders” decided to keep the truth and the law locked up in a vault.
Today we are reaping the bitter fruit that we have sowed.
Israelis need to continue to focus on protecting our families and homeland. We KNOW this is expected of us. We may not be the Jews of the Bible but I am certain that those Jews are smiling down on us and thinking ‘HOW do you do it?’
Fair and balanced are nice words (Fox News slogan) for a news reporting outfit. However, for Israel what matters is what is needed to progress as a country, keep its rights and security paramount. What works for Kerry does not need to work for Israel. What works for Abbas certainly does not work for Israel.