Incite, rinse, repeat
No, yesterday was not a travel day. I spent yesterday at the
OurCrowd global investor summit trolling for clients. Lawyers have to do those things from time to time.
It's been relatively quiet here in Israel for the past week or two. Previously, the 'Palestinians' used the suicide by hanging of an Egged bus driver to incite a
terror attack on a synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood in Jerusalem.
Now, they have something even more likely to be used as incitement. This afternoon, a 'senior Palestinian official' (Note - NOT a minister as has been reported) who had a history of
high blood pressure and diabetes died of a
heart attack (Note - NOT of being choked or
hit by soldiers as has been reported) (possibly connected to his
inhaling tear gas) during some pushing and shoving at a demonstration in Samaria. In fact, he
refused medical assistance from an IDF medic, and even
arrived at the hospital in 'light' condition, and then had the heart attack here according to one report.
As you can see from the blurb above (more
here), Ziad Abu Ein was not exactly an admirable character. In fact, he was a terrorist murderer who murdered two boys in a bombing in a Tiberias market place and then tried to escape to the United States via Jordan.
But at the end of the day, none of this will matter. The 'Palestinians' have already condemned Israel (and
suspended security cooperation), and the world will
follow along.
How many people will die (God Forbid) to 'avenge' this terrorist scum's death?
Labels: Abu Mazen, IDF, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian incitement, Palestinian terrorism, security cooperation
Netanyahu instructs all ministries except Defense and Livni to stop cooperation with the 'Palestinians'
Prime Minister Netanyahu has instructed all ministries aside from the Defense Ministry and the Tzipi Livni Ministry to
cease cooperation with the 'Palestinians.'
An Israeli government official said that in response to "Palestinian
violations," Israeli government ministers were directred to refrain from
meeting their Palestinian Authority counterparts.
The order did not include Defense Ministry cooperation with the
Palestinians or Justice Minister Tzipi Livni's meetings with Palestinian
negotiators.
The edict was part of Israel's response to what one
official called the "Palestinians's grave violation of their commitments
in the framework of the peace talks", an apparent reference to their
signing of 15 international conventions last week amid a deep crisis in
the US-brokered negotiations.
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Israeli and Palestinian negotiators ended another US-mediated session on
Tuesday with no sign of a breakthrough in efforts to save peace talks
from collapse, but an Israeli official said they had agreed to meet
again.
Hmmm....
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Binyamin Netanyahu, John Kerry, Middle East peace process, Palestinian Authority, security cooperation, Tzipi Livni
Morons: Egypt admits it ignored Israeli warnings of attack
Israel had intelligence information last Friday about that attack on an Egyptian border police station that happened on Sunday. And it passed the warnings on to Egypt. But
Egypt is now admitting that it ignored the warnings. And wait until you hear why....
Egypt’s intelligence head admitted Tuesday that he received prior warnings of Sunday’s deadly attack on a border police station in Sinai, but did not believe such an event could take place during Ramadan.
Murad Muwafi said Israeli warnings of the deadly border attack were ignored because authorities couldn’t fathom that Muslims would kill each other during the Ramadan fast, the Turkish Anadolu news agency reported.
“Yes, we had detailed information about the attack, but we never imagined that a Muslim would kill a Muslim on the hour of breaking the fast in Ramadan,” Muwafi said following a meeting with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi on Tuesday.
Let's think about some more things that pious Muslims tell us that Muslims would never do. Develop nuclear weapons? Check. Carry out terror attacks? Check. Carry out suicide bombings? Check. Need I go on?
Labels: Egypt, Islamic terrorism, Ramadamadan, security cooperation
Obama's incredible shrinking security cooperation with Israel
Shavua tov, a good week to everyone.
The baby's name is.... I cannot tell you yet because this post is being prepared before the Sabbath....
The Obama administration and its supporters in the Leftist chattering classes (people like Jeffrey Goldberg) love to tell us how Obama has 'enhanced security cooperation' with Israel to 'unprecedented levels.' In fact, anytime anyone mentions the fact that Obama has abused Prime Minister Netanyahu, become the only American President to call for an Israeli return to the indefensible 1949 armistice lines, and been only the second American President (after his idol, Jimmy Carter) to declare Israeli 'settlements' 'illegal,' the response is to ignore the charge, and to talk about how Obama has 'enhanced security cooperation' with Israel to 'unprecedented levels.' Shoshana Bryen reports that security cooperation is
shrinking quickly. And one can only imagine what would happen to it if God forbid there is a second Obama term.
Turkey bluntly objects to sharing intelligence information with Israel – specifically the intelligence from NATO's Turkey-based, U.S.-run X-Band early warning radars. At a NATO meeting in Brussels, Turkish Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz told reporters, "We need to trust states' words. This is a NATO facility and it shouldn't be used beyond the scope of this purpose." The "state" in question was clearly the U.S., and "beyond the scope" referred to sharing information with Israel. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta replied, "Clearly, the NATO members are the ones that will participate in the program and access information produced by the missile defense system." In a meeting in February, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen parroted the Turkish formula. "We do stress that data within this missile defense system are not shared with a third country. Data are shared within our alliance, among allies, it is a defensive system to protect the populations of NATO allies," Rasmussen said.
Agreeing publicly to keep intelligence information from Israel – a more likely target of Iran than Europe/NATO – at the behest of Turkey is a serious diminution of the U.S.-Israel security relationship as well as the Israel-NATO relationship, and elevates Turkey to the role of spoiler.
According to one source, Turkey assured Iran that the X-Band radars were not aimed at the Islamic Republic and that a Turkish military officer was in charge of receiving the intelligence information. Here the U.S. appears to have balked, telling Israel that Americans were in charge of the information, but not reassuring Israel on the subject of information sharing. Further, since the station in Turkey also acquires information from the X-Band radar based in Israel, it raises Israeli concerns that Turkey will have access to security information from Israeli skies.
Turkey also demanded the exclusion of Israel from Anatolian Eagle, a NATO exercise conducted every few years to enhance aerial cooperation. The Turkish decision caused Italy and the U.S. to pull out, and the exercise was canceled – "postponed," according to US sources as was the planned U.S.-Israel missile defense exercise, Austere Challenge, which would have had a strong intelligence-sharing component.
NATO's snub of Israel at the meeting in Chicago in May was simply waved away: "Israel is neither a participant in ISAF nor in KFOR (Afghanistan and Kosovo missions)," said Rasmussen, even as he acknowledged that 13 other "partner" nations would attend because, "In today's world security challenges know no borders, and no country or alliance can deal with most of them on their own."
It was said then that Turkey used its NATO veto. But Israel was similarly not invited to the inaugural meeting of the Global Counterterrorism Forum in Istanbul -- not a NATO meeting.
Coming on the heels of Eager Lion 2012, a Special Operations exercise involving 12,000 troops from 19 countries (excluding Israel and including several countries at war with Israel), the counterterrorism forum was designed by Secretary of State Clinton to "build the international architecture for dealing with 21st century terrorism." The State Department was responsible for the invitations, so Turkey had no veto. If the Administration had wanted to make the point that Israel is a valued partner in counterterrorism activities, it could have insisted that Israel be there or else moved the meeting.
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Turkey is riding high with the Administration right now; and President Obama welcomed the Turkish Prime Minister in March as an "outstanding partner and an outstanding friend on a wide range of issues" -- including, apparently, in reducing relations with Israel.
Read the whole thing. So much for Obama's claims of 'unprecedented' security cooperation with Israel. I wonder whether Obama's Best Friend Forever is raising money in Turkey for Obama's reelection campaign. What could go wrong?
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, security cooperation, Turkish obsession with Israel
'Palestinian Authority' may stop security coordination with Israel
In its continuing war against Israel and the 'peace process,' the 'Palestinian Authority' may
stop its security coordination with Israel.
The Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) is currently reviewing whether to halt security coordination with Israel and downgrade the PLO's ties with Israel taking into account stalled peace negotiations and the undermining of the political atmosphere, said a top PLO official.
Speaking to Gulf News, Wasel Abu Yousuf, a member of the PLO Executive Committee, said that walking away from the security agreement with Israel remained an option that was being seriously discussed. "This is the current Palestinian move as the Israeli government stalled the peace process and completely locked the political horizon," he said.
"A change in the status quo is a must," said Abu Yousuf, stressing that walking away from unfair prior agreements with Israel remained a key Palestinian option.
"The Paris Economic Agreements will also be re-reviewed and amended should the Israeli government decide to freeze the Palestinian revenue funds again," he said.
The Israeli government under Benjamin Netanyahu has been blocking all attempts to revive serious and fair peace negotiations, strictly refusing to halt colonist activities and endorse the two-state formula based on the 1967 borderline, he said. "The entire political equation in Palestine is completely blocked, and the Palestinian leadership cannot stand still," he said.
Given that the 'Palestinians' and Egypt are both about to walk away from signed agreements with us, why should Israel ever trust these people or enter into agreements with them again?
Labels: Palestinian Authority, security cooperation
Good grief: Israeli General calls on Congress not to cut aid to 'Palestinian Authority'
Brig. Gen. Nitzan Alon, who is the commander of the Judea and Samaria brigade, has told the New York Times that Congress
should not cut aid to the 'Palestinian Authority.'
“Stability in the region includes the ability of the Palestinian Authority to pay its salaries,” General Alon said this week in a rare on-the-record interview, reflecting a consensus among Israeli defense officials. “Reducing the Palestinians’ ability to pay decreases security. American aid is relevant to this issue.”
The position of both the White House and a number of American legislators is that the only path to Palestinian statehood is through direct talks with Israel. The Obama administration has promised to veto the recent Palestinian bid for recognition by the United Nations Security Council, but some legislators — Republicans and Democrats — want to go beyond that and cut off the hundreds of millions of dollars that Congress allocates annually to the Palestinian Authority.
General Alon, a former commando and intelligence officer who is scheduled to end his command after two years in his post, agreed to discuss issues that have arisen during his tenure. In a wide-ranging conversation, he brought up American aid and spoke with great concern about increasing violence by radical Israeli settlers, which he called “Jewish terrorism.” “We should do much more to stop it,” he said.
He called for more police officers and for getting them to shift some focus from their main mission of protecting settlers to stopping radicals. The army has sent some troops in for this.
General Alon said violence was a problem in both directions. He said Palestinian rock-throwing had increased since the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, went to the United Nations last month, leading to the deaths of a settler and his infant son whose car turned over after they were pelted. In recent months, the militant settlers have burned several mosques and destroyed acres of Palestinian olive and fig trees. Last week, dozens of settlers surrounded an Israeli Army vehicle and assaulted soldiers.
Alon ignores the fact that 60% of the aid that goes to the 'Palestinian Authority' gets turned over to Hamas to pay 'salaries' to its terrorists in Gaza and in Israeli jails. Oh wait - will that amount be reduced now that so many of the terrorists are being let go?
Alon also pretends that 'Palestinian' cooperation is permanent. It's not. It's far more likely that the IDF presence in Judea and Samaria is permanent, because without it, we would surely be in the same position we were in from 2000-2004. The 'Palestinians' cannot be trusted.
Labels: Nitzan Alon, Palestinian Authority, security cooperation, US foreign aid
