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Tikun Olam-×ª×§×•×Ÿ ×¢×•×œ×: Make the World a Better Place Â» Mideast Peace
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Saving Ramat Shlomo for the Jewish Peopleâ€¦and Chabad For those of you following the story of the provocation directed at Joe Biden by the Israeli government in approving 1,600 new housing units in Ramat Shlomo AKA occupied East Jerusalem during his visit, it will tickle you to learn precisely why the state of Israel is ’saving’ this particular sacred ground for the Jewish [...] Related posts: Limbaugh: Obama ‘Attack’ on Bankers Will Rankle Jewish ‘Money People,’ Guess Which Jewish Groups Sprang to His Defense?If you’re wondering what’s that faint stink is wafting from... Wiesel: Goldstone Report ‘Crime Against the Jewish People’What was the last event in world history you can... Shlomo Momo’s Mojo Hits Birthright Go-SlowI really couldn’t help myself on that post title.Â There... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. Palestinians Out of Peace Talks, NYTâ€™s Bronner Gets It Wrong Once Again No sooner does the NY Times Israel correspondent put finger to keyboard when he gets things wrong yet again.Â Last night, I wrote that Sheera Frenkel reported in the Times of London that Mahmoud Abbas attended an emergency meeting of the Arab League which threatened the end of the U.S. brokered proximity peace talks because [...] Related posts: Abbas and Arab League On Verge of Pulling Plug on Peace TalksThanks to the Netanyahu government’s finger-in-the-eye announcement of 1,600 new... Why Jewish Peace Movement Got It Wrong on FreemanI think it’s useful to do a little debriefing in... Israel-Palestine Proximity Talks, Game of CharadeSen. George Mitchell announced with a flourish the resumption of... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. Abbas and Arab League On Verge of Pulling Plug on Peace Talks Thanks to the Netanyahu government’s finger-in-the-eye announcement of 1,600 new housing units to be built in occupied East Jerusalem, Mahmoud Abbas told a hastily convened emergency meeting of the Arab League in Cairo that he was prepared to ditch the Israeli-Palestinian “proximity” peace talks even before they begin.Â Sheera Frenkel writes in the Times of [...] Related posts: Palestinians Out of Peace Talks, NYT’s Bronner Gets It Wrong Once AgainNo sooner does the NY Times Israel correspondent put finger... Obama to Invite Abbas, Mubarak and Netanyahu for Separate TalksIt’s beginning to become clear to me that it’s important... Obama on the Verge of First Meeting With Netanyahu: A Change is Gonna ComeThe N.Y. Times has written a pitch-perfect article about the... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. Israel-Iran War Game Scenario Predicts Disaster Israel’s leading columnist, Nahum Barnea, published a column this week about an academic war game exercise conducted at Bar Ilan University’s Begin-Sadat Center Strategic Studies.Â In a paper published last September (Hebrew pdf here), Prof. Moshe Vered considered under what conditions the two nations might enter a war, how long it might last and how [...] Related posts: Iran’s Game of ChickenIn a game of chicken of massive and momentous proportions,... Israel-Palestine Proximity Talks, Game of CharadeSen. George Mitchell announced with a flourish the resumption of... Biden Gives Israel Green Light for Iran AttackI cannot believe what I’ve just read in the N.Y.... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. Mossad Assassins Draw Red Interpol Cards In a soccer match, when the referee draws a red card the player is ejected.Â In international law enforcement, when Interpol issues a red card you damn well better be in a secure place and never raise your head to see the light of day.Â This means that the 27 Mossad agents implicated by Dubai [...] Related posts: Dubai Has DNA, Fingerprint Evidence of Dubai Assassins; Israeli-American Finance Company Provided Killers’ Credit CardsSeveral interesting developments in the Dubai assassination investigation. Al Arabiya... Interpol Warrants Against Dagan, Netanyahu LikelyThe Dubai police have announced that they plan to introduce... Israel Notified British Intelligence Before Hit, Dubai Threatens Arrest Warrant for Mossad ChiefRobert Fisk’s recent provocative column claiming that Britain may have... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. Springtime for Goldstein in Sheik Jarrah Those in the know (especially if you remember the original Zero Mostel-Gene Wilder version of The Producers) will remember that lovely musical number, Springtime for Hitler in Germany. Well, it appears Purim has just passed and it’s no joke that it is the anniversary of Baruch Goldstein’s genocidal rampage against Palestinian worshippers at the [...] Related posts: Settler Threatens Gun Violence in Sheikh Jarrah This is precisely the type of chaos, lawlessness and... Battle of Sheikh JarrahThe settlers rage not just in Yasuf, where they burned... Bibi Names Cave of Patriarchs, Where Goldstein Murdered 29, as National Heritage SiteThe list of surreal developments reeled off by the Netanyahu... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. Joe and Shimon Strike a Pose Photo from fOTOGLIF I’m going to give the Hot Hasbara Award to the reader who comes up with the best caption for this image. It’s simply too priceless to go uncaptioned. You wonder what the hell these two old geezers were actually saying when they made these gestures and faces. What makes this [...] Related posts: Shimon, Moral Pygmy Calls Goldstone ‘Small’ ManThis is rich, this is really rich: Judge Richard Goldstone... Mitchell Slapdown: Refuses Netanyahu Demand That Palestinians Recognize Israel as Jewish StateRecently, I wrote about a Shimon Shiffer Yediot report claiming... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. Bibi Disses Biden Yesterday, on the first evening of Vice President Joe Biden’s official visit to Israel, when you’d think there would’ve been a state dinner to honor him, Bibi Netanyahu joined John Hagee in a massive Night to Honor Israel.Â Bibi pointedly dissed Biden while celebrating with Christians United for Israel, that country’s intransigence (or its adherence [...] Related posts: Biden Gives Israel Green Light for Iran AttackI cannot believe what I’ve just read in the N.Y.... The Israeli Right Disses Obama’s NobelOne way of knowing someone is by who their friends... Israel Education System Disses Arab StudentsI have often half-jokingly written here that Israeli nationalists and... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.