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The 'Israeli lobby' mirage : Comments

By Colin Rubenstein, published 21/4/2006

If the "Israeli lobby" is so powerful, why does Lowenstein get published so frequently?

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When you read the attitudes of the Muslim Arabs you will find that they believe that Israel must be wiped off the face of the Earth. It is authorised in the Koran. Compare this attitude with the following news report from Israel.
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"The PRC is a network of local Palestinian terror militias in Gaza with close ties to the Hamas government, and is responsible for many of the Kassam rocket launches on Israel. Its leader, Jamal Abu Samhadana, is number one on Israel's most wanted list but was recently appointed by Hamas to be inspector general of Palestinian security forces.

"Labor party leader Amir Peretz officially assumed his position as Minister of Defense at a ceremony in Tel Aviv on Sunday, replacing 40-year veteran of the IDF and defense establishment Shaul Mofaz as the leader of Israeli armed forces. In his speech during Sunday's ceremony, the new defense minister addressed his "Palestinian neighbors" saying, 'Not through the path of terror will you accomplish your goals. You must abandon the terrorism, combat incitement, and then you will again find the hand of the Israeli government extended towards you with a readiness to reach agreements, with ... concessions'."

After 40 years of vigilant service in the IDF and the defense community, Mofaz was visibly shaken during his address to the incoming defense minister. He urged Peretz to work to lower the level of terrorism so that Israel's citizens could go about their daily lives feeling secure, and added that the security bodies of the State must also prepare for tomorrow's challenges by turning over every stone in order to reach negotiations with the Palestinians.
Posted by Philo, Wednesday, 10 May 2006 7:15:22 PM
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And the Christian Arabs not much better -from Israel surely.

Is it clear, those-playing-the-words-here?
Posted by MichaelK., Wednesday, 10 May 2006 8:54:48 PM
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Scout: I'm afraid that Eisen's piece is just another obfuscating Zionist apologetic. As has been the fashion of the Zionist propaganda mill since 9/11 a colonial struggle between a European settler movement (Zionism) and an indigenous population (Palestinians) over land is caricatured as a conflict between all Jews and Christians (representing civilization) on the one hand and all Muslims (representing barbarism) on the other. It's designed to throw us off the track. "Every Palestinian teenager lifting a stone to throw at an Israeli soldier will be viewed by Jews...as a threat" says Eisen. This attitude of course is one cultivated by Zionism, but to assume that "Jews" (that is, all Jews) feel/think this way is surely an insult to them. No one in all honesty could be that stupid. Any attempt such as Eisen's to suggest a balance between oppressers and oppressed, rapists and raped is morally bankrupt.
Posted by Strewth, Wednesday, 10 May 2006 10:01:21 PM
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DM Peretz, FM Livni supports aid to PA
NIS 50 million will go to health, education services

Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz has persuaded Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to support his plan to transfer some NIS 50 million in withheld tax funds to the Palestinians - under Livni's condition that the money not be used to pay Palestinian Authority salaries. The offer - made to the Quartet of international peace brokers (US, EU, UN, Russia) following its Tuesday decision to renew humanitarian aid to Palestinians - is an extension of the policy of using the withheld money to pay Israeli electricity and sewage companies for services rendered to the PA.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Gideon Meir told Channel 10 that the money would only be used to buy "goods and services for medical care that can help the Palestinians." Since February, Israel has frozen approximately USD 50 million a month in taxes and tariffs collected on behalf of the PA and refused to transfer the funds until the Hamas-controlled government recognizes Israel, renounces violence, and accepts all previous signed agreements.

Likud MK Yuval Steinitz heaped criticism on both Israel and the Quartet for their plans to restore aid payments. "If we want to make clear to the Palestinian people and everybody else that nobody can support a terrorist government, then we cannot support the Palestinian Authority by other means," he said. "The Quartet decision was wrong and very damaging, and if we proceed in this direction, the next result will be that we will in fact be supporting a terrorist regime."

Against the wishes of Israel and the US, the mechanism under development by the European Commission to relieve the humanitarian situation in the PA territories may be used to pay the salaries of some PA officials, EU external affairs spokeswoman Emma Udwin told The Jerusalem Post. Speaking from Brussels Wednesday, Udwin denied that the system would funnel money through the offices of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas as initial reports suggested
Posted by Philo, Friday, 12 May 2006 8:44:34 AM
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For those who try making others being fools for not-so-perfect accents: providing PA bureaucrats as health officials is one-two-three for terrorists: any recent payment to the PA is hypocrisy of assuming non-assumable.
Posted by MichaelK., Friday, 12 May 2006 11:06:26 AM
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To those who try making others being fools for not-so-perfect Aussie-English accent: providing PA bureaucrats as health officials is one-two-three for terrorists: any recent payment to the PA is hypocrisy of assuming non-assumable.
Posted by MichaelK., Friday, 12 May 2006 11:07:48 AM
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