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God I love Israel! One of the people in that picture does in fact have “skin in the game”, the other is a poser who has to tell people repeatedly. One person in that picture just got “schooled” is not hard to tell who. LOVE IT!!!!
The United States should give Israel New Mexico and Arizona we should then send all our terrorist loving liberals to what was once Israel. Lets see how long Libland is on the map. LMAO
Oh and on the other side of that coin lets see how much crap Mexico is willing to dish out to New Israel. Not much and not for long!
I would like to welcome the American Jewish community to the republican party! You have always been welcome here and you will fit right in.
Here is a really good history refresher.
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Friday, May 20, 2011, 8:10 AM
From Jewish World Review
Despite Obama’s Speech, Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria Will Outlive Us All
By Rabbi Dov Fischer
What the the past half-century has taught those who are awake.
In approximately 18 months Barack Obama may no longer be President, or just a lame duck limping to January 2013. At most, he would be President for another 5 and half years.
During the same period, more thousands of Jews will continue being added to the population of Judea and Samaria. Since 1967, the following people have passed away when G-d took them in His own good time: Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan. During that same period, the Jewish population of Yesha (Judea and Samaria), including the areas of East Jerusalem liberated in June 1967, have grown to 558,000 230,000 in Greater East Jerusalem and 328,000 throughout the rest of Yesha.
The numbers are on the way to reaching a million.
Yitzchak Rabin had an Oslo plan to withdraw from Yesha, and he tragically was assassinated. Shimon Peres thereupon entered as Israeli Prime Minister with a higher than 90% poll rating, and assured everyone that he would complete the process of withdrawing. Yet, in an unforeseen short period, an outbreak of Arab bus bombings wiped out his support, and he lost office to Binyamin Netanyahu. After Bibi compromised on Hebron at the Wye Conference, his stellar polls suddenly plummeted south, and he was ousted by Ehud Barak. Barak, touted as “Mr. Security,” proceeded to withdraw unilaterally from South Lebanon, creating a vacuum soon filled by Hezbollah, and then worked with Bill Clinton to prepare a complete withdrawal from virtually all of Judea and Samaria.
Miraculously, Arafat turned him down, started an Intifada, and Barak lost the government to Ariel Sharon in a landslide. Sharon unilaterally withdrew from Gaza, creating a vacuum soon filled by Hamas, and then turned his attention “kadimah” (eastward) to withdrawing from Judea and Samaria. And suddenly, just in the blink of an eye, he sustained a stroke that has left him in a coma for years. Ehud Olmert followed him with the promise to complete the withdrawal from Judea and Samaria. Suddenly, however, a war erupted in Southern Lebanon, and Olmert’s military miscalculations and failures, augmented by the incompetence of a Defense Minister with no meaningful qualifications other than being a union organizer who rose to head the Labor Party, obliterated his authority. Stymied by the scandal of war, Olmert eventually recouped over some time and again began to work towards withdrawing from Judea and Samaria, until financial scandals suddenly erupted and forced him out. Next came Tzippi Livni, and she was voted out soon after. And now Netanyahu again.
Nothing seems to have prevented Israel from withdrawing from the Sinai, from Southern Lebanon, or from Gaza. By contrast, everything the logical, the inexplicable, and yes the miraculous repeatedly has prevented a withdrawal from Judea and Samaria. During that same period, Nixon had the Rogers Plan. Nixon is dead, and Rogers is dead. Ford came up with the Reassessment Plan. Ford is dead. Jimmy Carter has done everything imaginable to advance the cause of Hamas and Fatah. As President, he pushed Israel until he remarkably was overwhelmed by 19% inflation, Iranian hostages and a botched rescue mission, and Soviet progression throughout Asia, Africa, and South America. Israel got a bit of a remission during the Reagan Years, particularly with Secretaries of State Alexander Haig and George Shultz.
Then George H.W. Bush came in, reached 90% popularity with the Desert Storm Kuwait War, turned his attention to pressing Israel under an anti-Semitic James Baker and even condemned American Jews for lobbying in Washington for Israel, and his poll numbers disappeared overnight, as the economy up-ended and as he was caught on camera in all his human mortality vomiting at a dinner in Japan. Bill Clinton came in, invited Arafat to the White House more than any other Clinton White House visitor, pressed Ehud Barak to give up Judea and Samaria, including most of East Jerusalem, and somehow saw it all fizzle as Arafat rejected the offers and as the Clinton White House unexpectedly became consumed with its own survival as scandals up in scandals began erupting.
George W. Bush came in, supported Israel initially as no President before had done, and enjoyed stellar poll numbers, even expanding his party’s leads in the first bi-elections and then winning reelection. As he turned during his second term to pressing Israel, under his “Road Map,” to give up Judea and Samaria, the American economy inexplicably collapsed overnight, eradicating his poll numbers and wiping out his party.
And now Barack Obama.
Obama came in with excellent poll numbers, rapidly moved towards pressing Israel to halt all construction in Judea and Samaria, and heaped the onus for Mideast problems on Israel, even traveling throughout the Arab world on an Apology Tour, making that speech in Egypt and pressing Israel to retreat from Judea and Samaria. As the pressure grew on Israel to withdraw, even with White House snubs of Netanyahu, suddenly the oil well inexplicably blew in the Gulf of Mexico. And now, as he has unfolded his new Mideast speech, the Mississippi crests as housing starts recede, joblessness sits at 9 percent, gasoline moves beyond $4 a gallon, all before and leading up to the speech.
As all experienced public speakers know, sometimes a one-hour speech is significant for the two or four sentences buried within the hundreds of other sentences. The entire speech today was crafted around those few sentences in the end, calling on Israel to squeeze itself back to the 1967 borders. A cursory look at all the newsmedia reports of the Obama speech confirms that each and every news analyst understood that the key points of the speech were Obama’s call for Israel to return to the 1967 borders, with minor land-swap adjustments essentially the proposal that Ehud Barak offered to Arafat, long since rejected by Israelis and by Arabs in Judea and Samaria, as well as by those in Hamas Gaza.
All the talk about demilitarizing and assuring and guaranteeing that weapons will not infiltrate into such an Arab Judea-Samaria are ridiculed and amply countered by the massive rearming of Hezbollah in South Lebanon under the noses of the UNIFIL forces and the rearming of Hamas in Gaza since the Goldstone War. If the past half-century has taught anything, it has taught that Israel will not withdraw from Judea or Samaria unless a Higher Power than those in the White House or the Knesset agree and that the Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria will outlive all of us, including those now in the White House and the Israeli Prime Minister’s residence.
Wow Peggy, you really had a good find! Thanks.
That is a good article Peggy!
Like the Man SaidYou Cant Negotiate With Terrorists
Arutz Cheva
Or trust what might be going on behind the scenes:
Wall Street Journal
Obama had to be aware of this if not a party to it.
I felt a lot better after reading it and remembering who really is in charge.
In the book of Isaiah God promises to protect the people of Israel and the Promise Land. I needed a reminder AND to stand with Him for His chosen people.
We all need to pray, because Muslim terrorist consider Israel, “The Little Satan” and America, “The Big Satan.” Unbelievably, our president who professes to be a Christian just sided with those set out to destroy us.
I know what you mean Peggy. I have to keep reminding myself that He is in charge when things get crazy.
Here is another article worthy of sharing from the endless supply of stupid actions our president has done.
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On Day of Obama’s Mideast Speech, State Dept Named Gaza Terror Group
Dr. Richard Swier (Scribe) on May 21st, 2011
Want irony?
This week, on the exact same day that President Obama made his historic 1967 borders speech and gave a pass to HAMAS, the U.S. State Department declared the Army of Islam (AOI) located in Gaza a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
The following is the official declaration:
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
May 19, 2011
The Secretary of State designated Army of Islam (AOI) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act. The Secretary also designated AOI under section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224. AOI is a Gaza Strip-based terrorist organization founded in late 2005, which has been responsible for numerous terrorist acts against the Governments of Israel and Egypt, as well as American, British and New Zealander citizens. These actions include a number of rocket attacks on Israel, the 2006 kidnapping of two Fox News journalists in Gaza (an American and a New Zealander) and the 2007 kidnapping of a British citizen, journalist Alan Johnston, in Gaza. The group is also responsible for early 2009 attacks on Egyptian civilians in Cairo and Heliopolis, which resulted in casualties and deaths.
What is interesting is HAMAS works closely with AOI. AOI embraces al Qaeda. This is why Israel cannot ever negotiate with any Palistinian government that includes HAMAS: they are terrorists.
Even Mr. Obama’s own administration says so.
Maybe he missed the memo?
From Peggy’s article:
“The entire speech today was crafted around those few sentences in the end, calling on Israel to squeeze itself back to the 1967 borders. A cursory look at all the newsmedia reports of the Obama speech confirms that each and every news analyst understood that the key points of the speech were Obama’s call for Israel to return to the 1967 borders, with minor land-swap adjustments essentially the proposal that Ehud Barak offered to Arafat, long since rejected by Israelis and by Arabs in Judea and Samaria, as well as by those in Hamas Gaza.”
Almost none of this is true. Obama said that the agreements should be “based on” the 1967 borders, which is not the same as calling for a complete return to those borders; nor is it at all a departure from longstanding U.S. policy. And many Jewish and Israeli groups support this policy.
J Street:
“We, the citizens of Israel, call on the public to support the recognition of a democratic Palestinian state as a condition for ending the conflict, and reaching agreed borders on the basis of the 1967 borders. Recognition of such a Palestinian state is vital for Israel’s existence. It is the only way to guarantee the resolution of the conflict by negotiations, to prevent the eruption of another round of massive violence and end the risky isolation of Israel in the world.”
http://www.jstreet.org/campaigns/israelad/
The AJC:
“President Obama has sternly warned the Palestinians, and the international community, to stop this senseless drive to try to achieve a state without any negotiated agreement with Israel,” said AJC Executive Director David Harris.
“The parameters of a two-state solution are just as clear today as they were when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas walked away from the peace talks last September,” said Harris. “The Palestinians must return now to close the deal.”
http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=2818289&ct=10711747¬oc=1
The ADL:
“We support the President’s vision of a negotiated Israeli-Palestinian settlement with strong security provisions for Israel, and a non-militarized Palestinian state. We appreciate his direct rejection of a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state and his understanding that the Hamas-Fatah agreement poses major problems for Israel.”
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/IslME_62/6045_62.htm
This meme that President Obama is in some way anti-Israel, or that he is siding with the Palestinians, is baseless and always has been. It’s nonsense propaganda promoted by people like Pamela Geller, who believe that even the slightest criticism toward Israel’s national policies makes one an evil anti-semite jihadist.
Gee Chris, Obama spoke and a lot of people thought he said something different from what he meant. How odd. Liberals are incapable of such inarticulate speech, aren’t they? I’m surprised he hasn’t been accused of extreme racism and judaphobia. I mean isn’t the standard that you have to be absolutely clear every time you speak, making sure to cover all bases and please all factions?
Slightest criticism? Please.
Onbama’s stance, that Israel must make concessions to win the peace, is not founded in truth or reason.
Palestinians don’t have a state because they won’t agree that Israel has the right to exist.You can’t broker an agreement if you don’t understand and accept this simple truth. In his need to be PC, like a typical liberal, he cannot effectiveley lead on this issue.
Would that you would ask dear leader to be as accountable as you do the Republican field.
Tina: “Gee Chris, Obama spoke and a lot of people thought he said something different from what he meant. How odd. Liberals are incapable of such inarticulate speech, aren’t they?”
Liberals are of course capable of any human flaw. And conservatives have proven to be amazingly capable of distorting the president’s words every time he opens his mouth.
“I’m surprised he hasn’t been accused of extreme racism and judaphobia.”
It’s call “anti-semitism,” and he’s been accused of that and far worse by several people on your side for years.
“Onbama’s stance, that Israel must make concessions to win the peace, is not founded in truth or reason.”
I think that’s painfully stupid. Yet even if it were true, Obama’s stance is still the same stance as every president before him for the past fifty years. Your selective outrage reveals more about you than your political opponents.