These Are The Morals & Values of The Arabs of the Former Palestine Mandate Territory

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Confronting Terror

I participated in the JCPA seminar today, this time with Dr. Boaz Ganor.

Ganor's presentation, listened to by about a dozen diplomatis who attended along with some other very involved Israelis, was broad and deep. He was critical of the lack of sophistication of the American perceptions of the processes going on in the Muslim world. He suggested some ways to contend and above all, that moderate Muslim elements be involved in various programs, including a sort of 'Marshall Plan' to be funded not exclusively by the West to assure that the status quo now disrupted not go the radical/fundamentalist route.

While there, I picked up a recent publication by the JCPA on Palestinian Unilateralism (it can be read here). If you go to page 22, a chapter on "Israeli Claims in the West Bank" while mentioning international legal experts who, if you take the time to read their works, make the point that Israel can base its claims also on the decisions made by the League of Nations in granting a Mandate so that the Jewish people may reconstitute their national home in the territory known then as Palestine, nevertheless new works, such as the tome of Howard Grief are missing and in essence, the pre-1967 history is lacking.

This, I think, is an error by the authors (and other JCPA experts) if only because the Arab counter-claim is all pre-1967!

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The J Street Wreck (the continuing series)

Reported:-

A Hastings woman is in critical condition Wednesday night following a 3 car crash east of Hastings Wednesday morning. 58 year old Janice O'Neil was involved in the wreck at J Street and Gunpowder Road.  Adams County Sheriff's said a vehicle headed north failed to yield and collided with an eastbound pickup.  The pickup spun around and hit a westbound Durango.

Failded to yield.
Spun around.

Yes, J Street all the way.

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Forget Bombs, Jerusalem To Be Rocketed

Last night, Shlomo Harari appeared on the Channel One TV late-night news diary program, "M'Hayom L'Machar" and informed a startled Dudu Witztum, the moderator, that Jerusalem is the next target of Gaza rockets.

LBD sent me searching for this rocket, which was already used against Israel by the Hezbollah in 2006:

the 333-millimeter Fajr-5 missile has a range of about 45 miles. Production of the Fajr-3 missile, with an estimated range of 45 km, was estimated to have started in 1991. Iran had for some time been manufacturing the Naze'at (Iran-130), similar to the Shahin series. Fajr-3 has the same caliber, range and warhead weight as three known North Korean systems.  The Fajr-5 missile, which is launched from a mobile platform, reportedly has a range of between 60-70 kilometers. The missile was constructed by the Iranians, reportedly with help from North Korea and China. Like the Katyusha rocket and the Scud missile, however, at its maximum range it is only accurate to within a radius of around one kilometer. There are unconfirmed though plausible reports that Iran has tested a chemical warhead for the Fajr-5

Accurate or not, I think Israel should be prepared.

However, the rumor that Israeli scientists are working on a method of creating a tsunami wave and then channeling it at a specific beach target, like Gaza, is just that, a rumor.  But I understand that some of the researchers are claiming that even if it is innaccurate, it would fall under the definition of "proportionate response weapon".  Or is it still Purim?

UPDATE

This just in from IDF spokesperson.  C-704.

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Protest Convoy Planned

The same coaltion that began an advertising campaign to urge Benjamin Netanyahu to distance himself from Ehud Barak, is now promoting a protest convoy fvrom Itamar to Jerusalem to Beersheva.

Leaving Itamar at noon today, it'll go through the Hizma checkpoint, Yirmiyhau Street, Binyanei HaUmmah, Latrun, Masmiya, Bet Kama and Beersheva.

The slogan: The Likud Government Must Separate from Ehud Barak.

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Star of David Follow-up on Sarah Palin

Remember my Sarah Palin 'Star of David' post?

Well, her adversaries were upset:-

Some American Jews, like Rabbi Jeffrey Falick of TheAtheistRabbi.com, feel that Palin is merely in Israel "for her own gain, unrelated to the best interests of Jews, Palestinians or anyone else in the region." Falick, for one, wishes that Palin would "take off" the star.

The Atlantic blogger Andrew Sullivan posted a response from a reader echoing Falick's sentiments: "I don't know if there [are] rules about this, but as a Jew, I find it offensive that Sarah Palin is out wearing a Star of David."

The Washington Post got up a slideshow of politicians at the Western Wall but Palin went to the tunnels, not the outside wall and she went to see the "cornerstone" element, not the regular "take-my-picture-at-the-wall" visit.  Which is indicative of a depth of feeling and identification that is different.

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A Canaanite (or Hebrew?) Idol

Reported:

Some scholars say early versions of the Bible featured Asherah, a powerful fertility goddess who may have been God's wife. Research by Francesca Stavrakopoulou, a senior lecturer in the department of Theology and Religion at the University of Exeter, unearthed clues to her identity, but good luck finding mention of her in the Bible. If Stavrakopoulou is right, heavy-handed male editors of the text all but removed her from the sacred book.

What remains of God's purported other half are clues in ancient texts, amulets and figurines unearthed primarily in an ancient Canaanite coastal city, now in modern-day Syria. Inscriptions on pottery found in the Sinai desert also show Yahweh and Asherah were worshipped as a pair, and a passage in the Book of Kings mentions the goddess as being housed in the temple of Yahweh.

J. Edward Wright, president of The Arizona Center for Judaic Studies and The Albright Institute for Archaeological Research, backs Stavrakopoulou's findings, saying several Hebrew inscriptions mention “Yahweh and his Asherah." He adds Asherah was not entirely edited out of the Bible by its male editors.

"Traces of her remain, and based on those traces... we can reconstruct her role in the religions of the Southern Levant," he told Discovery News.

...Aaron Brody, director of the Bade Museum and an associate professor of Bible and archaeology at the Pacific School of Religion, says the ancient Israelites were polytheists, with only a “small majority” worshipping God alone. He says it was the exiling of an elite community within Judea and the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 586 B.C that lead to a more "universal vision of strict monotheism."

Well, as for Biblical references, we do have these

וַיָּקֶם מִזְבְּחֹת לַבַּעַל, וַיַּעַשׂ אֲשֵׁרָה כַּאֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה אַחְאָב מֶלֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵל, וַיִּשְׁתַּחוּ לְכָל-צְבָא הַשָּׁמַיִם, וַיַּעֲבֹד אֹתָם.
and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel,
2 King 21:3

וְהִנֵּה נֻתַּץ מִזְבַּח הַבַּעַל, וְהָאֲשֵׁרָה אֲשֶׁר-עָלָיו כֹּרָתָה
the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it
Judge 6:28

But the Torah has this:

לֹא-תִטַּע לְךָ אֲשֵׁרָה, כָּל-עֵץ:  אֵצֶל, מִזְבַּח יְ וָה אֱלֹהֶ-יךָ
Thou shalt not plant thee an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee
Deuteronomy 16:21

(A Hebrew-language Wikipedia summary.  A larger one in English.)

Seems to me Asherah is very prominent and well-known in  the Bible.  So what's the big deal?  Does one have to possess weird theories to be famous?

Bloggers - Denounce But Don't Threaten

If a blogger is free to engage in near-harrassment activity, can other bloggers engage in similar actiivity?

Quebec court rejects bid to restrain blogger

Michael Rosenberg, a member of the Montreal Hasidic community, sought a restraining order against blogger Pierre Lacerte, claiming he is harassing his family...blogger Pierre Lacerte is certainly a nuisance. A court this week described him as “a peculiar personality. He is excessive, meticulous, passionate. He is no picnic.”

But Judge Manon Ouimet of Quebec Court concluded that Mr. Lacerte’s campaign to expose what he calls the “unjustified political influence” of Montreal’s Hasidim was insufficient to justify an order under the Criminal Code that he keep the peace.

“The exercise, however abundant, of the defendant’s right to expression on his blog has a specific aim that does not threaten the personal safety of the plaintiffs,” Judge Ouimet ruled Monday. “It is not to intimidate, threaten or harass them that he is interested in them.”

...Mr. Rosenberg testified that Mr. Lacerte has harassed him since 2005, taking hundreds of photos of him or his car when it is double-parked in front of the synagogue. He took exception to being mocked and called the “half-billion-dollar man” on Mr. Lacerte’s blog and testified that he felt singled out because of his religion.

...“He is convinced that the city demonstrated unjustified complacency in both the illegal work on the synagogue and the illegal parking because [Mr.] Rosenberg is a rich and powerful man, and the authorities eat from his hand,” Judge Ouimet wrote.

She concluded: “The defendant asserts that he has absolutely nothing against Jews. He criticizes certain behaviour of Outremont’s orthodox Jewish community, and he decided to denounce what he considers to be abuses.”

...Mr. Lacerte said in an interview that he has nothing to apologize for. His quarrel is not with Jews, he said, only with the “fundamentalist” Hasidim. “They refuse all contact. They even refuse the bylaws if they do not suit them,” he said. “That is what is disturbing.”

Lacerte's blog is here.

Denounce at will. Criticize. Don't threaten.

Be lawful.

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Jane Fonda on Elizabeth Taylor

Jane Fonda led the tributes pouring in from Taylor's celebrity friends. She said in a statement: 'Elizabeth, on every level, was a mensch. Kind, generous, brave.'

As for that use of mensch, Yiddish for a 'good soul' (but literally: a man or a nice human being), well

Maestro Zubin Mehta Receives a Star on the Walk of Fame
Mehta, who was the music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for over a decade, called a "mensch" by Kirk Douglas

and Taylor's former husband, Eddie Fisher:

"Late last evening the world lost a true America icon," Fisher's family said in a statement released by publicist British Reece. "One of the greatest voices of the century passed away. He was an extraordinary talent and a true mensch."

And the headlines announcing the passing of Tony Curtis announced he was a mensch

I guess that's a Hollywood buzzword.

In her memory:

Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe are in the powder room, getting themsleves even more pretty and discussing the aspects of Judaism they appreciate as converts.

In walks Brigitte Bardot.

Liz turns to Marilyn and whispers: "sha, redd yiddish".

By the way:

In her book Elizabeth Takes Off, Taylor writes, "[Conversion to Judaism] had absolutely nothing to do with my past marriage to Mike [Todd] or my upcoming marriage to Eddie Fisher, both of whom were Jewish. It was something I had wanted to do for a long time."

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And That Bombed Bus Was Headed Where?

Le Monde knows why that bus was selected:-

Le bus visé, dont toutes les vitres ont volé en éclats, se dirigeait vers la colonie juive de Maale Adoumim en Cisjordanie, selon des témoins.

(it was "headed toward the Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim in the West Bank, witnesses said.")

Of course, the area of the explosion has three or four bus stations and buses to Givat Shaul and Har Nof stop there as well as Ramot, Bet Shemesh and various Jerusalem Corridor moshavim.
 
But Le Monde knows what the bomber intended.
 
But we know all he intended was simply to kill Jews.
 
Alors!
 
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"Dear Mark Zuckerberg - Sincerely, Minister Yuli Edelstein"

This is an authentic letter:

‏‏‏AdarII 17, 5771‏‎
‏March 23, 2011


אסמכתא: הס-2011-4258


To
Mr. Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook Founder and CEO


Dear Mr. Zuckerberg,


During these past few days a Facebook page entitled "Third Palestinian Intifada" has been garnering attention on the web by calling for a third intifada against the State of Israel to begin on May 15th, 2011.


On this Facebook page there are posted many remarks and movie clips which call for the killing of Israelis and Jews and the "liberating" of Jerusalem and of Palestine through acts of violence.


It is important to note that this page's inflammatory calls are supported by over 230,000 "friends" at the time of the writing of this letter.


As Facebook's CEO and founder you are obviously aware of the site's great potential to rally the masses around good causes, and we are all thankful for that. However, such potential comes hand in hand with the ability to cause great harm such as in the case of the wild incitement displayed on the above-mentioned page.


I turn to you with the request that you order the immediate removal of this Facebook page. I write to you not only in my capacity as Israel's Minister of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs who is charged with monitoring and combating anti-Semitism, but as someone who believes in the values of free speech, and knows that there is a difference between freedom of expression and incitement.


I am sure that you too hold fast to these values and would prefer that all of the pages on your site operate according to them.


Sincerely,




MK Yuli Edelstein
Minister of Public Diplomacy
And Diaspora Affairs

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Self-Loathing & Self-Hate: Amira Hass

Here she is, at her usual worse:

The sanctity of the soaring Qassam

Perhaps Hamas thinks the Palestinians in Gaza were ready for another high-tech Israeli onslaught, for another IDF video game in which children playing on a roof are identified as lookouts and sentenced to death.

By Amira Hass (rhymes with, oh, never mind)

The Hamas authorities once again forgot that the neighbor/occupier to its east is crazy. Fact: Over Shabbat, Hamas' military wing fired more than 50 mortar shells at Israel. Or perhaps it didn't forget: Perhaps it merely thought the Palestinian people in Gaza were ready for another high-tech Israeli onslaught, for another Israel Defense Forces video game in which children playing on a roof are identified as lookouts and sentenced to death.

In this testosterone-rich competition, there will always be more checkmarks on the Israeli side. But Israel is clever enough to act like the threatened party and to hide its deadly performances. Who cares that the "appropriate Zionist response" to 50 mortar shells, which sowed fear but did not kill, was the killing of two 16-year-olds? Imad Faraj Allah and Qassam Abu Uteiwi, from the Nuseirat refugee camp, were the people killed by Israel's retaliatory bombing later that evening - not "two terrorists," as our media obediently said, parroting the commanders' dictation.

She always manages to make Israel seem worse.

Such a talent.

And I just saw Joseph Dana on Twitter:

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BD vs. BDS: Bob Dylan Coming to Israel

Reported:

Folk legend Bob Dylan is apparently planning to return to Israel for a concert on June 20, according to a fan-run web site.


The concert has not yet been confirmed, but the web site reported that Dylan would take the stage for one night at the Ramat Gan Stadium, where Canadian singer Leonard Cohen played in 2009.

Dylan has played in Israel twice, in 1987 and 1993. In September 1987, he gave two concerts, on in Tel Aviv's Hayarkon Park and the other at the Sultan's Pool in Jerusalem. In 1993, he played at the Tel Aviv cultural center.

The journal I edited, COUNTERPOINT, conducted an interview with Bob way back when.

And he does look great in tefillin.

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More Arab Civilian Casualties

In Syria, though, not Gaza:

Syrian forces killed at least six people on Wednesday in an attack on a mosque in the southern city of Daraa, site of unprecedented protests challenging President Bashar Assad's Baathist rule, residents said.

Those killed included Ali Ghassab al-Mahamid, a doctor from a prominent Daraa family who went to the Omari mosque in the city's old quarter to help victims of the attack, which occurred just after midnight, said the residents, declining to be named.

Israel not involved.

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IDF Operates And No Civilian Casualties

My advice to those "militants" in Gaza, aka Hama/Islamic Jihad terrorists, don't play the averages with us:

Rocket Launching Device in Northern Gaza Targeted

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Israel Defense Forces

Earlier today, Israeli Air Force (IAF) aircraft targeted a rocket launching device in the northern Gaza Strip from which a Grad missile was fired at Ashdod last night. A hit was confirmed.

The Grad missile landed last night 5 kilometers south of the port city of Ashdod in which over 200,000 Israeli residents live. Shortly thereafter, the IAF had targeted the terrorist in the northern Gaza Strip from which the Grad was fired, identifying a hit.

Best way to avoid civilian casualties in  Gaza is not to try to cause civilian casualties in Israel.

Quite simple.

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NYTimes vs. Washington Post

Thanks to DG:-

Yesterday in response to continue rocket and mortar fire the IDF responded striking at positions where terrorists had been. Which newspaper reported the following essential information?


Relatives and neighbors were unusually open about the fact that the Israeli mortar attack was an attempt to hit militants firing rockets from the nearby grove.

“We heard the sound of four mortars being fired by militants from a grove just beyond our house,” said Hassan, the older brother of Mohammed Harrara. “A few minutes later, the Israeli shells landed in the area.”

It was in Fares Akram's report in the New York Times.

By the way the Times headlined the report with "Israeli Attack on Gaza Militants Kills 4 Civilians," which is more accurate than the Washington Post's Palestinian civilians and 4 militants killed by Israeli fire in Gaza.

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Not Only Not "Pro-Israel", J Street Is "Anti-J Street"

J Street and its allies are up-in-arms, oops, up-in-words about a Knesset committee 'hearing' devoted to it and its activities. It'll be held at a session of the Immigration and Diaspora Affairs Committee today.

So what does J Street do?

Well, as the JPost reports:

J Street’s opposition to a congressional letter criticizing Palestinian incitement has led more members to sign on, according to Hill sources tracking the issue. The letter to US President Obama...charges that “Palestinian incitement continues and there is almost no effort by them to promote coexistence and peace.”

...In response, J Street sent an email to members of the US House urging them not to sign it and issued a statement attacking the its contents as “containing material omissions and misrepresentations of fact and presenting a biased and inaccurate picture.” The statement specifically criticizes the letter for not acknowledging the PA leadership’s efforts to end incitement and blaming incitement for the impasse in peace talks.

...“J Street’s opposition to the Rothman-Austria letter has only increased the willingness of members to sign on. It begs the question of what are J Street’s goals,” said one congressional staffer. “If J Street’s goals are to have fewer people sign onto the letter, they’ve already failed.”

Real dumb, that.

And see this from today's Knesset committee session.

Oh, and this:

Are the Palestinians Ready for Peace?

Palestinian Incitement as a Violation of International Legal Norms
Alan Baker

• Genuine peace between peoples requires far more than signed agreements. It requires bona fide mutual trust, respect, and a psyche of peace to prevail throughout all levels of society, and must emanate from the leadership.

• Tragically, the extreme anti-Israel and anti-Semitic indoctrination that is so pervasive in all levels of Palestinian society has inevitably led to violence and terror, and serves to undermine any hope for peaceful relations between the two peoples.

• Officially-sanctioned and encouraged incitement against Israel and against Jews has become a central theme in all spheres of Palestinian society, whether religious, cultural or in the education field. This inevitably results in violence and terror against Israel and its citizens.

• The Palestinians are committed in the agreements with Israel to act to prevent incitement. Nevertheless, the Palestinian leadership continues to glorify terrorists as role models for Palestinian youth and encourage hostility and hatred toward Israel.

• The Palestinian leadership cannot come with clean hands to the international community to ostensibly call for peace while at the same time undermining any hope for peace through incitement to terror.

And this, too, by Dore Gold.

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Testimony of the Medic On the Scene at Itamar

Transcript of Phone Interview with Sergeant Edi (Edward) Itelman, March 22, 2011

Provided by IDF Spokesperon's Office, Foreign Press Branch:

Edi: I'm a paramedic in the army. My base is located 10 minutes from Itamar. So, Friday night, approx. 1:00 AM, I get a call that there has been a terrorist penetration in Itamar and I should come there because there are wounded. There's a special code in the army, it was used and it meant someone's in the village in Itamar and there's a terrorist attack right this moment. So I take my crew, me, another medic and our driver, and we take the ambulance to Itamar. When we reached the house, we were careful, of course, because we weren't sure whether the terrorists were still in the house or not. There could be a situation. So we entered the house carefully – gun first and all that – and we made sure no one is there, and then we tended to the wounded. At the far end of the first room I see a frail little child lying on the carpet with three stab wounds in his chest. I leave my medic there to attend to him, because I thought he was still alive. Later we realized he was not. So I left the medic there; he was the first one we saw. Second room, a child about 4 years of age lying on his bed – butchered is the best way to describe it. I guess you saw the pictures. A very grotesque, very unpleasant sight. The whole floor was blood. I go into the third room and I see the mother lying on the floor in her own blood with multiple stab wounds. She seemed dead on sight. I checked for bleeding, but nothing. On the bed in the same room there's the father. Again – dead on sight, no bleeding. Single stab wound near his neck. The third, the baby, she was found kind of underneath the father. At first I saw it and didn't realize what it was. Kind of wrapped up in a blanket but it didn't look like one. I turned her over and realized it was a baby.

Q: Was the father trying to protect the baby?

A: Seemed like the baby was behind the father. She was dead with one stab wound to her skull. So these are the five patients I saw. I come back to the first room and the first boy, when I tried to help him I saw he was dead as well. Carpet was full of blood; there was no movement or breathing. I reported back, said there were five casualties and there was nothing we could do for them, they were butchered.

Q: Can you tell us a little bit about what that was like for you, in personal terms?

A: It was different in professional and personal terms. In professional terms, it was very upsetting and frustrating that as a paramedic, I help so many people, but there's nothing I can do for an entire family who are right before my eyes. On personal terms… the first thought that came to mind is that I have a little sister, not much older – she's five – it was kind of hard for me. You know, I've seen terrorist attacks and bombings and all sorts of things. But it's different. When you have a suicide bombing, you blow up next to a dozen people, there's nothing personal about it. But stabbing three kids to death is very personal. And the people who did it, they have ideologies and stuff, I get that. But to stab three children to death – it's incomprehensible. You can't understand it, how someone could do something like that. That's the thing that bothered me most. How can you—? When you hold a little child, it doesn't matter who he is. And they didn't stab to injure, they stabbed with mass brutality – again and again and again until they were dead.

Q: Sorry for asking such a dispassionate question, but do you have any idea how much time it would take – if they could have responded earlier?

A: I'll tell you what. The murder probably occurred – first thing, are you asking how the murder was discovered? Itamar, being a religious settlement, Friday night is a bad time. They were dead approximately half an hour before I arrived there; about seven minutes before they were discovered. I don't think there's anything we could have done. The easiest solution is to close up all the Palestinian villages and say 'no, you're not going out' – but we can't do that, because we're humanitarian. Me, as a paramedic, I mean this is why I chose to become one in the IDF – because we're humanitarian. So this is my opinion. We couldn't do anything for these people.

Q: To what degree is it difficult for you, after being present at such a carnage scene caused by a Palestinian, to treat Palestinians?

A: The next time I had to treat Palestinians was a day after that. And you know who I got to treat? One of the people they captured as a suspect for the attack. He was maybe part of the plan, something like that. But the only thing you can do is be as detached and professional as you can be. You don't think about what he might do in the future or what he did in the past. Because if you do that you're in the wrong business. And I treated him and he survived.

Q: Have you been in contact with any of the relatives to the murdered family?

A: My medic, the guy who was with me, wanted to go to the funeral. We thought it would be in Itamar. Eventually it was in Jerusalem and we couldn't leave the area since we're stationed here. The next day we came over with the ambulance to see the house – part of a routine tour. We saw some people there and people came and talked to us. It's such a small place; a settlement with no more than 100-200 people. Everybody knows everybody. I know people there. We talked to them, it was difficult but we did.

Q: Can you tell us about other experiences you've had as a paramedic?

A: I tell you what, my job, as a paramedic, is the best I could have chosen. I believe, and I'm sorry because now I'm giving you all my ideology, but I believe we're a very humanitarian army, because when we have a severely injured Palestinian citizen or even a terrorist, I will treat them the best I can and I get full backing. If I need a helicopter I'll get one, and if I need a trauma surgeon I'll get one. The only thing you focus on is the job, on saving lives. You don't concentrate on who you'll save, only how.

Q: Did you have any events when you had to take care of Palestinians?

A: A few weeks ago there was a major car accident – simply a car accident between two vehicles, both cars with Palestinians inside. We came there and started doing our job. Eventually – remember I told you I can get all the backup when I need it? – I decided the patient needed a helicopter now, and I got it 10 minutes later, which is the soonest I could physically get it. The patient went to Beilinson Hospital and recovered. We treat them all, guys. The West Bank – you have Israeli and Palestinian people. We believe that each and every one of them deserves the same standard of care. This is what we give to everyone. No matter if it's an Israeli, Palestinian, or a foreign citizen. We give the same care to everyone.

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Right Turn

From "Young Israelis: A Turn to the Right?" by Eyal Press in TNYRB which discusses, rather promotes a critique of "Israel’s alarming recent shift to the right":-

...One reason is apathy. Increasingly cynical about politics and the prospects of peace, not a few young Israelis I’ve met in recent years have told me they’ve stopped following the news...“For the last two or three years, we’ve been seeing a very consistent trend of younger Israelis becoming increasingly right-wing,” Dahlia Scheindlin, a public opinion analyst who also contributes to +972, told me...

...Young Israelis also tend to take a hard line on the Palestinian conflict. Having watched their country grow increasingly isolated for prolonging an occupation now in its forty-fourth year, one might expect the younger generation to be pressing for a resolution. But while a small number of young activists have been taking part in regular Friday protests against the expansion of settlements in Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem and joining groups like Anarchists Against the Wall, which supports unarmed Palestinian resistance to the occupation, many of their peers oppose making concessions to end the conflict. In October, a poll conducted by New Wave Research asked, “If Palestinians and Israelis reach an agreement… and the Israeli government brings the agreement to a referendum, would you vote for or against?” Among voters over 55, 61 percent—nearly two out of three—said they would support a deal. Among those younger than 35, it was the opposite: only one in three (37 percent) would vote in favor of an agreement.

...The fact that Palestinians in the Gaza Strip chose in 2006 to elect Hamas, whose Charter cites the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and foresees Israel’s eventual destruction, hasn’t helped matters. Neither has the collapse of the peace process. Israelis in their late teens and twenties barely remember the hope that greeted the signing of the 1993 Oslo Accords. They do have strong memories of the Second Intifada (2000-2005), when a wave of suicide bombings “managed to obliterate any trust the Israelis had in a political settlement,” as the public opinion analysts Jacob Shamir and Khalil Shikaki observe..

but there's this:

“Maybe it’s not a surprise that the minority in any country is very supportive of democratic rights,” says Dahlia Scheindlin. “But it does seem ironic that in the Jewish State, which insists on defining itself as the Jewish democratic state and the only democracy in the Middle East, the Arabs are our most democratic citizens.”

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Katzav's Line of Appeal: The Gladstone Defense?

Here.

Here.

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