Shiloh Musings (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's capitulation to foreign demands for a building freeze in Judea and Samaria should make him totally kaput for those who kept insisting that he's Right and Reliable. I could have titled this: Re:Bibi, I Told You So! Granted that I haven't trusted the Likud, and its forerunners (Herut, GaHaL) since Menachem Begin signed the Camp David Accords to give Egypt's...
Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
I have discussed the United States' Logan Act several times on this blog, most recently here and here.Many of you outside of Israel may never have heard of Shaul Mofaz, but he's a former defense minister and IDF chief of staff, and he's number 2 in the opposition Kadima party. For the past two weeks, he has been promoting a 'peace plan' of his own in the United States. He doesn't represent the
Developing your Web presence (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
From JTA via email alert: Mofaz, the Likud Party defense minister-turned-Kadima leader, says the first step is the immediate establishment of a Palestinian state with temporary borders on 60 percent of the territory in the West Bank. Then, over the course of the next four to six years, the two sides would negotiate the final-status issues, including permanent borders. The final deal would be put to...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
JERUSALEM – In defiance of President Obama's demands that Israel cease building in sections of Jerusalem and the West Bank, New York state assemblyman Dov Hikind laid the cornerstone for the second phase of a new Jewish construction project in the Nof Tzion neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem.. Together with Knesset Member Danny Danon, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party,...
Israel & Palestijnen Nieuws Blog (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
.... als Hamas Israël erkent. Dat detail maakt de kop wat lang, dus heeft men dat weggelaten, met als gevolg dat de voorstanders van onvoorwaardelijk praten met Hamas nu zeggen: 'onze oproep met Hamas te praten wordt gesteund door meer dan de helft van de Israëli's'. Zo gemakkelijk gaat het verdraaien van informatie. RP -------------- Israelis seen backing possible talks with Hamas http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5AC1CC20091113...
Israeli Occupation Archive (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
[T]he majority of the public - 57% - supports the view of MK Shaul Mofaz of Kadima, who published a plan earlier this week, in which he called for dialogue with Hamas under certain conditions. Inside... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Middle East & Israel Breaking News » Opinion » Columnists » ArticleNov 11, 2009 21:56 | Updated Nov 11, 2009 22:26Candidly Speaking: Kadima must form a unity government, nowBy ISI LEIBLER Talkbacks for this article: 9Ill winds are blowing. Tensions with the Obama administration are escalating. The odious Goldstone Report has provided a massive boost to the global campaign to delegitimize...
The Muqata (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Israeli political specialist Benny Mercury ( Ben Caspit ) has decided that that a recent Shas promoted and preliminarily-approved legislation, stating that any future political agreement that addresses compensation or relocation for "Palestinian refugees" must be accompanied by a parallel agreement providing compensation for Jewish refugees from Arab countries,-- will deadlock any future...
Israellycool (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
With Kadima “Number 2″ Shaul Mofaz appealing to legal experts outside of Israel to examine the possibility of holding meetings with Hamas terrorists as part of his hairbrained peace plan, another terrorist group has basically told him where he can shove it. Clue: It involves a place on his anatomy where the sun don’t shine. Updates (Israel [...]
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Gaza - Ma'an - The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) on Monday slammed the Mofaz plan to establish a Palestinian state on 60% of the West Bank.
Shiloh Musings (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Shaul Mofaz, presently Kadima MK and formerly IDF Chief of Staff, is another of Israel's too long list of retired army officers who provide very accurate examples of the Peter's Principle : "In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence." First of all, Kadima is the political home of the least principled of all the Israeli politicians. At least it's reassuring that...
War On You (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Hamas rejects Mofaz call to talk as ‘Zionist vulgarity’ By Mazal Mualem, Haaretz Correspondent November 8, 2009 The Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip said Sunday that they would never negotiate with the “Zionist enemy”, hours after Kadima MK Shaul Mofaz presented a plan to hold talks with the [...]
Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
I hope my computer is now fixed, although I am working on a hardwired connection because the WiFi still did not work well. At least Firefox opens.On Sunday, Kadima # 2 Shaul Mofaz presented his 'diplomatic plan.' The 'plan' is to enter into 'negotiations' with the 'Palestinians' in which the outcome is predetermined as usual. But this time the outcome is a 'Palestinian state' on 60% of Judea and
The Debate Link (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
And 'round and round we go : The Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip said Sunday that they would never negotiate with the "Zionist enemy", hours after Kadima MK Shaul Mofaz presented a plan to hold talks with the group and establish a Palestinian state in 60 percent of the West Bank within one year. In its official response, Hamas called Mofaz's offer "Zionist vulgarity" and said it...
Middle East Watch (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Jerusalem Post : "Hamas rejected a new political plan presented by Kadima No. 2 Shaul Mofaz on Sunday, saying it would not negotiate with Israel, Army Radio reported. 'Hamas will not negotiate with Israel,' said Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum. 'We do not believe in engaging with the occupation, or in talks that would beautify its face in the eyes of the world.' Mofaz's speech was timed with Palestinian...
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