T. Belman. Not only is Qatar and Jordan drawing closer to Iran and Turkey on the question of Jerusalem, but so is the EU. Even Russia, China and India no longer insist on East Jerusalem being palestine’s capital city.
By David M Weinberg, ISRAEL HAYOM
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Consider, for example, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, who this week did not even try to hide her disdain for President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Speaking after Netanyahu left Brussels, she sneered that “nobody” was going to follow the U.S. lead on Jerusalem.
Take at look at the video of her press conference. Speaking as a grand high commissioner of Europe – which has a 2,000-year history of vicious anti-Semitism and which 75 years ago was saved by American troops from homegrown Nazis – Mogherini mocked America in disparaging tones and literally smirked as she scoffed at Netanyahu.
She proceeded to dictate European expectations for urgent, full-fledged Palestinian statehood, including a capital in east Jerusalem, and to threaten that Europe would not wait too long before yet again launching its own “peace offensive.”
In arrogant European-speak, this of course means a new campaign of pressure on Israel for unilateral West Bank withdrawals, and the granting of additional diplomatic and financial goodies for the Palestinians without any expectation of Palestinian diplomatic moderation or flexibility.
Old habits, it seems, die hard. European countries have a knack for judging and moving Jews, for restricting Jews to specific pales of settlement, and for showing a softer side to Israel’s adversaries.
Having failed so spectacularly in promoting Palestinian maturity or good governance over the past 20 years – despite the billions of euros that Mogherini’s minions have invested in the Palestinian Authority and in Israel-bashing human rights NGOs worldwide – you would think that the EU would adopt some humility.
But no. The EU has taken to regularly shelling out threats to downgrade diplomatic and economic ties with Israel, unless Israel does this or desists from doing that.
Boycotting Israeli settlement products no longer suffices for Brussels. Ramping up its confrontation with Israel, the EU has gone into the business of establishing tower and stockade-style settlements for the Bedouin and Palestinians in Judea and Samaria, with the explicit intention of eroding Israeli control of Area C and especially the Jerusalem envelope.
And concomitantly European governments and companies are rushing to embrace the Iranians (because there is big business to be done), while ignoring Iranian terrorism, Iranian missile advances and Iranian military moves in Syria and Gaza against Israel.
It is time to wipe that smirk off Mogherini’s face. The U.S. should withdraw from the Quartet, which gives the patronizing European Union (and the hostile United Nations) a formal role in Middle East peace diplomacy, and instead lead its own creative initiatives.
David M. Weinberg (www.davidmweinberg.com) is vice president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies.
Edgar G. Said:
How far can you spit? Metric is OK. I can convert.
wana a prefab home go shop in area A
@ Sebastien Zorn:
I just remembered that I have seen some pictures of illegal Arab encampments, supplied by the EU, before they were destroyed. In fact the articles said that there were even EU decals on them. And they were actually large enough and looked like a kind of mobile home, but possibly pre-fabs. As you know mobile homes no longer move under their own wheels, Once arriving at destination, the wheels are removed, they are placed on blocks and a kind of fairing is placed around the open space between the underfloor and the ground, to make it look more permanent and settled. Those narrow enough, basically large and long trailers, (say 56′ X 8′) are towed on the roads, the 12′ wide and up, are transported on large carriers, in sections.
@ Edgar G.:
Not what I’m looking at. I would imagine a lot has changed since 1977, coincidentally, the year I visited Europe after graduating high school. You can have it.
Trailer Park – Little Switzerland in Carmel
http://www.i-travelisrael.com/BusinessPage.aspx?BusinessID=10385&CategoriesID=1
“trailer park with add ons”
Review of Kinneret Village
https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g1968310-d3543948-r199219637-Kinneret_Village-Kinneret_Northern_District.html
800 Ethiopian Immigrants Still Find Refuge in Trailer Parks
Yair Sheleg Oct 12, 2001 12:00 AM
read more: https://www.haaretz.com/800-ethiopian-immigrants-still-find-refuge-in-trailer-parks-1.71699
http://mondoweiss.net/2013/09/clandestine-israeli-trailer-park-in-jnf-forest-aims-to-take-over-bedouin-village/
Leave your tent at home
Camping gets an upgrade as RVs roll into Israel with a new take on caravan living
https://www.timesofisrael.com/leave-your-tent-at-home/
Israel Campgrounds and RV Parks
http://www.whenwerv.com/campgrounds_destination/middle_east/israel/11_206/israel.jsp
https://www.israel21c.org/camper-tourism-rolls-out-in-israel/
http://nocamels.com/2014/11/israeli-students-turn-shipping-containers-into-swanky-sustainable-homes/
@ Sebastien Zorn:
I see that the link is “caravan”. What a real caravan, or travel trailer is, and what Israelis refer to as a caravan are two completely different things. Their “caravans” are small, sometimes rounded ends, like a poor imitation, and totally stationary, no springs, no axles, no wheels nothing , Just a little single sheeted wooden box with a little paint. Maybe 10-12′ X 6-7″. I’m not sure, About the size of a chicken coop, the ones I saw. After I saw a few in a cluster with people actually living in them, I didn’t want to examine them any further. Pathetic for living in for years as some of the poor evicted citizens have had to do. A Potemkin’s village affair, altogether a total and very obvious sham., can be seen from miles away.
I think they eventually changed the name to caravillas. Sounds nicer …eh…!!
@ Sebastien Zorn:
Well I lived in Israel for about 12 years so I know that you’re almost within spitting distance of everywhere, in a car anyway. As for your throw-away crack about a “memoir”, in a past life, many years ago I was deeply involved in writing-of a sort,
@ Edgar G.:
Forget my last reply. They weren’t talking about mobile homes.
Did find one. Mayber there are others.
http://www.hacaravan.com/
You suppose they grill customers about whether it will be used legally or that customers will just chattily volunteer that they intend to break the law?
OK. Here we go? Kindly click anywhere on this search page link or google, “trailer parks Israel”
https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&rlz=1CAACAJ_enUS775US775&ei=Xqw0WrbbHMOb_Qaj5IPoBw&q=trailer+parks+israesl&oq=trailer+parks+israesl&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i8i13i10i30k1.23240.26360.0.26518.21.20.0.0.0.0.161.1793.16j4.20.0….0…1.1.64.psy-ab..1.19.1681…0j35i39k1j0i131k1j0i131i67k1j0i67k1j0i20i263k1j0i20i264k1j0i22i30k1j0i22i10i30k1.0.lC8B4MQiNLo
Thank you. Ever thought about writing a memoir?
Back to the topic. What makes you assume all mobile vehicle dealers are so patriotic that it would even be necessary to lie or evade?
And there are quite a few Israeli mobile home companies. Manufacturers, that is, so there are, undoubtedly far more dealers. See:
http://www.jpost.com/Blogs/Unleavened-Media/150-Israeli-Companies-Exhibiting-at-Mobile-World-Congress-366066
How small is small, anyway? A country the size of New Jersey or Rhode Island, with a population the size of New York City’s Five
Boroughs, known as one of the world’s start-up capitols, is not too small to get lost in, in the world of business, is it?
@ Sebastien Zorn:
I considered that but thought that it would obviously be suspicious for so many to be bought and during buying conversation the question would arise as to where they would be erected. And Israel is so small that it wouldn’t be long before the seller noticed that there was no mobile home at the place he thought there would be. Salesmen might want to bring prospective customers out to where one was standing , to show how it looked and it would not be there. And a lot of people who would refuse the seller company’s offer of experienced men to do the building, would eventually be noticed, as well as the spike in sales, even spread out over many companies, with not even one of the prefabs ever seen at the spot it was supposed to be headed for. Much of the above I’ve just thought of whilst writing.
Someone would start scratching his head over it, and meet someone else in the same business with also an itch. There must be a large conspiracy involving more than one company.
That’s my off-the-cuff opinion anyway.
As a side note, I myself brought the very first caravan seen in Israel, (travel trailer) from Oxford England, manufacturer’s factory, to Israel. I knew nothing about them except that I’d always wanted one. Sway bars were unknown to me, and I travelled across Europe from Dover-Calais to Piraeus , in 2 1/2 days. The blessed thing was swaying around behind whilst I was going over 60 m.p.h Sometimes the whole back of the car would lift… Would sleep at a garage parking lot, like a log,…. The worst roads were down through Yugoslavia, ridged as if made with side by side tree trunks, cut my speed down to 30 or less, and BUMPY.. right through the whole country. Got to Athens and found all boat spaces to Israel were full of cargo. They had no specific way to handle trailers. It was just before Pesach 1977 So although there was no Israel Embassy there then, I found a little office in a back street where they unofficially operated from. They got me a space for 10 days later, So I found a trailer park in a place called Kiffissea, about 10 miles from Athens. Not a soul there for at least a week until just before we left, a couple of trailers pulled in. At a pawnshop there, I bough an air pistol, looked exactly like a Mauser, always wanted one, and there it was sitting right in the middle of the window. $20. single shot.
Anyway. the time came, the ship was there, they lifted my trailer-18 ft. inc. towbar- onto the deck w/legs already extend, dumped it down and bent 2 angle iron legs…NO tie-downs, they didn’t have a clue. Luckily it was calm. Landed at Haifa, and went into the Customs shed where a few forklift drivers were busy driving their forks into crates, smashing them and taking out some of the contents. I was offered some myself….
So, came the Customs Inspection, I think they were all drunk, and we had enough extra. triple what we were allowed as olim, and when I opened a large case, the officer shook his hand and his head from side to side saying…”Close it, I didn’t see nothing”, exactly like that Sergeant Schultz in Hogan’s Heroes. I asked another official was there something happening.
YES…BIG…It was just then that the news had come that Maccabi Tel Aviv had won the European Cup for the first time. Everyone was going crazy.
To conclude, our first trailer trip in Israel was down to Elat a lovely, large area, again completely empty, until we were there a few days then UN “Peacekeepers” Radio Truck drove in. Nice guys actually. Every evening before closing up, I would go around the trailer with the pistol, squinting down the barrel etc, looking very threatening. I forgot to mention that one side of the trailer park, about 40 ft. from where we were just beside the water source, was an ordinary garden wire linked fence…….. THE OTHER SIDE WAS JORDAN. This was during Jordan terrorist days.
That was the 1977 Simca Chrysler, Car of The Year, and trailer that were both trashed by Israelis who lived in the same apartment block as we. I’ve mentioned it on an earlier post. Everything we owned, enough for 3 generations in our 5 roomed apartment was torn, broken destroyed completely. Over 40 large boxes of destroyed items brought down to the Dumpers outside the building.
An episode in the life of the Edgar G. Family. I started about mobile home smuggling, and being a spontaneous writer, see where it led…..
@ Edgar G.:
I googled, “Israeli mobile home companies.” There are quite a few. Maybe they are just buying everything in Israel over the counter. No smuggling necessary because no permits are necessary.
@ Sebastien Zorn:
They could simply ban the donations…but there would be no profit for Israel in this. I like your idea better.
A QUESTION……… HOW does the EU manage to smuggle in allthe prefabs and mobile homes, that they donate to the Arabs. YESHA is LANDLOCKED with only very limited access over a couple of well (?) guarded bridges on the Jprdan River. And the River itself could be patrolled. The items are large and cumbersome, not easily hidden…..
Is there a large Jewish ring of smugglers with special political pull, has to be Jews, Arabs wouldn’t have the influence…. and NOT ONE shipment has ever been caught in transit.
I asked the same question about the huge quantities of rocks and flammables that erupted from the top of the Temple Mount regularly, but nobody thought it important enough to even think about. I suggested that a regular, erratic patrol around the walls would find a windlass and derrick contraption ship type, doing the job.
The smuggling of the mobile homes and prefabs shouldeasily be caught….if the Jews have the will to catch them……..questionable….???
Israel should ban all donations from the EU or make them 200 percent taxable with no loopholes so organizations will have to give up all of the money and then the same amount again.