Israel's Yielding on Jerusalem

On April 22, this year, MK Yariv Levine asked the Foreign Minister a Parliamentary Question regarding the PA-Jordanian Agreement on Jerusalem.

Noting that the agreement seemingly represents an attempt to negatively affect Israel's sovereignty in Jerusalem and its holy shrines, his two queries are:

1.  What is Israel's official stand regarding the agreement?

2.  Why does Israel not declare publicly and firmly that it rejects this injurious attempt?

 The answer came a month later from then Deputy Foreign Minister Zev Elkin:

and reads:

Re: Israel's Ignoring of the Agreement between King Abdallah and the PA President as regards the Temple Mount

1.  The setting of Jordan's position complies with Israel's outlook and contributes to the distancing of undesired elements, including Qatar and other Arab Muslim countries.

2.  The Jordanian recognition of Palestinian sovereignty in East Jerusalem is not new but has been reestablished by this agreement.

3.  The agreement does comply with the terms of the special status awarded to Jordan concerning the holy sites to Islam according to the Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty, 9 (2), and therefore restricts the Palestinian aspirations (symbolically and administratively) on the Temple Mount.

This is outrageous.

I complained about the ignoring.

I asked Yariv to pursue the matter. 

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P.S.  

If you comprehend Hebrew, listen here to the Internal Security Minister admitting he was told recently by the Prime Minister not to allow prayer by Jews on the Temple Mount.

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Preferred Option Three: Extending Sovereignty

No to statehood, yes to annexation is an op-ed of Dani Dayan, chairman of the Judea and Samaria Council of Settlements which suggests that "the peace process is stuck, it is time for Israel to protect its citizens and interests by annexing its population centers in Judea and Samaria".


Excerpts:

...Ever since Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat signed that pathetic [Oslo] agreement that was composed in secret in the Norwegian capital, the entire world has been playing a game of pretend. At the beginning, the game was innocent...But over the past few years, the game has turned cynical...

The Oslo Accords, the Road Map, the diplomatic process, two states for two peoples – all of these are synonyms for a situation that can never lead to an agreement or to peace...The Israeli minimum and the Palestinian minimum simply do not overlap. When a mathematician encounters this type of equation, he may feel very frustrated, but he knows that even years of attempts will not bring him any solutions. It’s a waste of his time.

There is no solution to the system of equations in the Middle East, partly because the Palestinians will never give up the return of the refugees and because the Jews will never give up the Temple Mount, but primarily because the Palestinians want to establish a state without putting an end to the conflict. They want their state (like the Palestinian state in Gaza that has been in existence for some six years) to serve as a spring board for the ongoing destruction of the State of Israel.

...Why waste more years in fruitless discussions or in useless negotiations that merely provide income for the owners of five-star hotels and conference centers throughout the world? Why continue a process that has brought nothing but frustration and humiliation to US president after president? In the current constellation, the diplomatic process is not only useless – it’s counterproductive...if we could only admit the simple fact, which we all know in our hearts to be true – that there will not be a Palestinian state – then we would be left with three possibilities. The first – a unilateral Israeli withdrawal and tossing the keys to whoever catches them – died with disengagement. Any reasonable Israeli understands that this would mean suicide for Israel. The second – maintaining and enforcing the current status quo – is a possibility. In contrast to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s contentions that the status quo is not sustainable, the status quo could become, to use terminology taken from games theory, a stable equilibrium. But this would not be optimal for Israel.

...option three is annexation. The area referred to as “Area C” in the Oslo Accords, the home of more than 350,000 Israelis and to only some 50,000 Palestinians, must become an integral part of the State of Israel...That is what Benjamin Netanyahu must do now: He must extend Israeli sovereignty over most of Judea and Samaria.

Read it all.

P.S.  I prefer the term "extending sovereignty" to 'annexation'.


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Action Call - Make Our Roads Safe

Noting:

STONES KILL- DON'T BE THE NEXT VICTIM!

Today Tuesday we will patrol the Efrat-Nokdim road (details below) New signs have been put up all over Judea in Hebrew and Arabic urging all drivers to drive safely "because on the road , we are all equal". But that does not seem the case. Asher and Jonathan Palmer HY"D were brutally murdered by Arab who threw stones in a drive-by car stoning. This seems to be the new tactic for Arab terror against Jews in our area. After the security forces lied and tried to pretend that the Palmers had been killed in a car crash and not in a terror attack, they were forced to admit it was terror. That is when we also found out that in the previous days no less than 18 complaints to the police had been made by Jews in Judea who had been attacked in a similar way.

If we thought that the murder of Asher and Jonathan would push the security forces to increase the deterrence against Arabs, sadly that is not the situation. It is with shock and horror that we woke up this morning reading the news about Rabbi Yaron Durani from Nokdim who was attacked last night by Arabs in a similar way; his front windshield was smashed . Thank G-d he wasn’t hurt too badly. In addition, two more Jews were attacked too. The Arabs want us to capitulate to terror. The Left is already wringing its hands in pleasure saying: "we told you that if we don’t capitulate there will be terror". The media is collaborating with the Arab enemy, inviting terror, marches against yishuvim and funerals.

We the residents of Judea and Samaria know the script all too well. Our determined stand has prevented the Land of Israel to be abandoned. The residents of Judea and Samaria are the defensive shield protecting all of Israel. We will continue to stand firm defending our homeland. We will not agree to return to the stone-age. We must put a stop to the Arab stone throwing before another funeral G-d forbid.

TODAY, TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 27th at 5:00pm we will patrol The Efrat- Nokdim road with a car convoy We will demand from the government of Israel to apply Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, to expand the Jewish settlements, to build, and to knock out ,once and for all Arab terror with heavy punishments to the terrorists.

Departure from Efrat southern gate: 5:00 pm
Departure from Tekoa on main road: 5:15pm
Departure from Nokdim gate: 5:20 pm
Women For Israel's Tomorrow (Women in Green) – Efrat and Gush Etzion Action Committee

For details:
Yehudit Katsover 050-7161818 Nadia Matar 0505500834
Ina Viniarsky 0545620017 Karni Eldad 0545210549

Oh, and this is the group's new poster:

Next Year - Israel Sovereignty

Over Judea and Samaria
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Can You Imagine This Headline?

Casting Aside World Criticism, Israel Applies Its Sovereignty To Major Portions of Judea and Samaria

Can you imagine that?

Okay, neither can I.

But can you imagine this one - and it's real:

Casting Aside World Criticism, Syria Invades Town

Think about that.

Do good guys always finish last?

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Preferred Option: Israel Sovereignty Over Judea & Samaria

The OU-Israel Center Presents:

THE PREFERRED OPTION: ISRAELI SOVEREIGNTY OVER JUDEA & SAMARIA

Exploring the issues and creating a serious discussion

SPEAKERS:

• Yoram Ettinger – Ambassador (ret.)

• Dani Dayan – Chairman, Yesha Council

• Dr. Mordechai Kedar – Bar Ilan University

MC: Yoel Meltzer whose articles appear on YNET & American Thinker

Monday Night, June 20, 2011, 7:30 PM

(Doors Open at 7:00 PM)

OU-Israel Center, Jerusalem

Rechov Keren Hayesod 22

(Regular Fees: Members NIS 25, Non-Members NIS 30, Life Members NIS 5)

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Another Annexation Announcement

Reported by AFP:-

An Israeli official says Israel is considering annexing major West Bank settlement blocs if the Palestinians unilaterally seek world recognition of a state. The official said Tuesday that Israel can respond to unilateral Palestinian action with one-sided acts of its own.

...The official spoke on condition of anonymity on Tuesday because no final decisions have been made.

I'd prefer a less-than-anonymous source but in any case, as Menachem Begin would say, you can't annex what is yours.

Extending sovereignty is what is needed.

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