Strong messages at JPOST Conference

JPOST CONFERENCE

Gideon Sa’ar
He underlined the need to create a sequence of construction between Ma’aleh Adumim and Jerusalem and said, “I call on both candidates to declare that they will not place obstacles in our way in building in our capital.”

“The battle for Jerusalem will be determined using the facts on the ground,” said Sa’ar. “There is a de facto freeze on building for Jews, while Arabs build illegally.”

I AM GLAD HE RAISED THIS ISSUE BUT UNHAPPY THAT HE ASKED FOR US APPROVAL.

Ron Dermer
Slammed the “fiction” that a partner for peace exists within the Palestinian Authority, warning of a hostile reaction from Jerusalem to any effort to impose terms of a two-state solution through international bodies. i.e French led conference.

world powers supporting an initiative by France to outline parameters for peace between Israel and the Palestinians are “ignoring the will of the free people who live in the most endangered democracy on Earth.”

“These powers, albeit with the best of intentions, will only encourage the Palestinians to continue their 100 year campaign to destroy the one and only Jewish state,”

“Such an effort will not only prevent peace today,” he said, but could prevent peace “for decades to come” and bolster international efforts to delegitimize Israel.

WELL SAID AND RIGHT ON.

Son of Hamas
The collective mind of society is representing something, an ideology, a culture, a state of consciousness that is stuck in the 6th and 7th centuries in a tribal lust for power, he said.

“We can fool ourselves,” he continued, but “there is an Islamic problem,” going on to mention various radical Islamic terrorist groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah, Boko Haram and Islamic State.

“All killing in the name of Allah,” he said adding that other religions do not act in such ways. “There is an Islamic problem and humanity needs to stand against this danger.”

Political correctness means to bury your head in the sand, but we are afraid of the truth and of “trying to provoke them, to not create a religious war. But there is one whether you like it or not.”

This threat needs to be faced with “courage,” said Yousef. “To tell them Islam is the religion of peace gives them the ability to continue terror.”

Islam is a belief system and the world should unify against it just as it did against Nazism, he went on to argue.

“When the president of the free world stands and says ‘Islam is a religion of peace’ he creates a climate to create more terrorism,” asserted Yousef.

WHY CAN’T OUR LEADERS BE SO FORTHRIGHT?

Dennis Ross
White House has worked under the assumption that “Israel is more of a problem than it is a partner.”

“If you distance yourself from Israel, you’ll gain with the Arabs,”

But he said the assumption is not unique to this White House as former presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, Carter and H. W. Bush all tried to distance themselves from Israel for the same reason.

“Every administration that has tried to distance itself from Israel has gained nothing,”

The diplomat also said the Obama administration worked toward a two-state solution believing it would bring peace to the wider Middle East, but argued that assumption is flawed, as well.

“If tomorrow you could solve this issue, it wouldn’t stop one barrel bomb in Syria,” he said. “It wouldn’t change Iran’s ambition in the region. It wouldn’t change the challenges Egypt is facing.”

HE GOT ALL THAT RIGHT.