Inisde The Inside of the J Street Conference

Lori on the J Street Conference:-

...and one kind of amusing note. As I traveled down the escalators this morning I heard several women complaining that most of the panels were all men. Apparently that was quite a topic on the sidelines because during one presentation one of the questioners called the panelists on it. So, same old, same old. Even the progressives are controlled by white males. But I did see plenty of women in the audiences. And there were more women than men wearing kippot. And more women than men with long gray ponytails. And I saw one participant wearing a rainbow kippa and a keffiya – she certainly was special.

For the disgusting part, read her full post.

A Pal. Mother's Boy

Did you notice Mom peeking out from between the barrier?

Is he making sure his aim is good?



Source

Beyonce, In Egypt? Ha!

The Muslim Brotherhood In Egypt is a political organization that once included Sayyid Qutb, the man who inspired Al-Qaeda. It was founded to promote Islamic law, oppress women etc. And now it wants to keep Beyonce out of Egypt!

Knowles is scheduled to perform her first ever concert in the land of fezes, camels carpets, pyramids and other obvious, slightly condescending cliches on November 6. Tickets for the show, at the Red Sea resort of Port Ghalib, are going for up to $400, according to a report on Al Arabiya.

But straight outta Cairo, a crazy Islamist MP named Hamdi Hassan, from a gang called The Muslim Brotherhood In Egypt, said he did not want no ho who appears nekkid in no goddamned videos up in his motherf***ing hood. (I can't speak Arabic, so I'm choosing to assume this is the way he originally phrased it.) He wants regulators to mount up and get her permission to perform revoked.

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A Round-up of Temple Mount Material

First, an interview:

Rabbi Cherlow: 'Human Rights' Includes Jews Worshipping on Mount

..."The term 'struggle' as it relates to the Jewish desire to worship on the Temple Mount does not accurately describe the desire, the longing of Jews to ascend to the Mount and worship G-d," he writes in an article in a journal distributed by the Yeshiva. Rabbi Cherlow appeals to "lovers of truth and justice" to identify with that desire – as a matter of freedom of worship, a basic human right.

...Respecting others' freedom of worship is a part of the mosaic of truth and justice, according to Rabbi Cherlow: "Despite our differences of opinions in other areas, I appeal to you, those with whom I have worked on such issues, to support me now. There is nothing more dangerous than hypocrisy. The power of a moral stance is only strong when there is no hypocrisy, when it is untainted by political motives. It is effective only if it is straightforward and honest. Those who seek to advance the cause of human rights and the basic elements of justice, but do not do so in an honest manner, cause untold damage to the cause of justice and ethics."

That logic applies when it comes to Jewish worship on the Temple Mount, he writes. "Those who fight for freedom of worship, but are quiet when Jews are shamed and bullied when they attempt to ascend the Mount, damage the cause of justice and morality. Those who claim that 'terrorists should not be rewarded' when it comes to a liberal cause, but here claim that we cannot ascend the Mount because of 'Muslim violence,' those who say that 'the time is not right,' but never seem to be able to find the right time, are committing terrible acts against the cause of justice – and still expect to be rewarded!...This hypocrisy hurts us all, right and left. Anyone who does profess those values of fighting for truth and justice has an obligation to fight in this instance, as well."

Next, an example of irrationality bordering on the criminal, and a lie as well:

Plot to "divide al-Aqsa Mosque" seen in latest Temple Mount violence

...The violence erupted when members of the Islamic Movement mobilized to the site to prevent followers of the right-wing Eretz Israel Shelanu [???] from holding a gathering at the Temple Mount...many Palestinian leaders see them as a tool in a larger Israeli agenda. In a televised news conference from Damascus after the riots, Hamas official Khalid Mash'al warned that Israel could attempt to divide the al-Aqsa Mosque compound: "It was the first time Israeli army locked the gates of the mosque with chains, barring the call to prayer, breaking into its yards for long periods of time...These acts are intended to divide Al-Aqsa and force their [Jews'] religious rituals on it." This was a seeming allusion to the division of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron, half of which is controlled by Israeli settlers.

"Jerusalem for us, as Palestinians, is all of Jerusalem with all of its land, residents and its Islamic symbols... The Jews have no right to it," he added. "Jerusalem’s fate will not be decided in negotiations but in the balance of confrontation and resistance."

And another example of a bit of wrong-headed thinking:

Israel's "Third Templars" don't seem to care about the consequences of stoking an apocalyptic religious war with Islamic civilization - 56 countries, 1.57 billion faithful, most of them currently on the sidelines of the Arab-Israel conflict.

...AFTER ISRAEL captured the area from Jordan in 1967, Moshe Dayan decided to be magnanimous in victory and continue the authority of the Muslim religious trust, or Wakf, to administer the site. Jews, previously barred by Muslims from reaching the holy places, were allowed to ascend the Mount during visiting hours. In keeping with Jewish tradition and in cognizance of Muslim sensibilities, they were, however, prohibited from conducting religious services.

This seemed the perfect compromise...Now [now?] a diverse group of mostly post-Zionist settler rabbis, messianic followers of the late Lubavitcher rebbe and practicing "Third Templars" - abetted by a smattering of ultra-right-wing Knesset members - [no one else? Rabbi Tendler?] have banded together to force the "hand of God." Ostensibly, they are calling upon the Jewish masses to ascend the Mount and assert a Jewish presence there; we suspect that what many of them really want is to "disappear" the Muslim shrines, put up a Jewish temple and recommence animal sacrifices. [you mean like what every Jew prays three times daily?]

Therein our dilemma: Step back from the Temple Mount, and Arab intimidation wins. Assert Jewish rights, and risk heartening a band of Jewish extremists high on a toxic [toxic?] potion of piety and politics. That even a "moderate" Palestinian leader like Mahmoud Abbas does not accept the Temple Mount as sacred to Jews further complicates the predicament.

ONE POSSIBLE approach is for the government to explicitly remind the Wakf that its administrative role on the Mount derives from the authority vested in it by the Jewish state. [oh yes, the old nu-nu-nu approach; that has worked so well, especially with a Waqf that considers Israel as a non-existent illegitimate entity] Successive governments have abdicated their fiduciary responsibilities by failing to monitor Wakf treatment of Jewish visitors and, most troublingly, looking the other way as the Muslim trust carried out unauthorized excavations.

...Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu...should disabuse anyone who imagines that the antics of these "Third Templars" have support on the sane Right.

Given the Palestinians' endemic intransigence and quick resort to violence - including, it should be stressed, via malevolent inflation of tensions on the Mount - it is easy to be dismissive of all their grievances over Jerusalem. But sometimes, more sensitivity could be applied.

A K Street - Not A J Street - Whore Story

Okay, so I'm laughing anyway.

Fla. Democrat calls Fed adviser "K Street whore"

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Florida Democrat who said Republicans want sick people to "die quickly" is again facing criticism for his rhetoric—this time for calling a senior Federal Reserve adviser a "K Street whore" in a radio interview.

Rep. Alan Grayson hurled the insult at Linda Robertson last month on the Alex Jones Show, a syndicated talk radio program, while discussing the Fed's resistance to stronger congressional oversight...

Washington's K Street is where many lobbyists, trade associations and law firms have their offices.

Grayson took exception to Robertson's role, saying she has criticized congressional efforts to increase oversight. "Here I am the only member of Congress who actually worked as an economist, and this lobbyist, this K Street whore, is trying to teach me about economics," he said.

Grayson never identified Robertson by name, saying he couldn't remember her name, but he made clear whom he was referring to from her background and job.

Why am I laughing?

Read about pimps and prostitution and maybe J Street.

Pimping, Prostitution and ... and the pro-Israel camp?

I am going to go out a limb here but, as my veteran readers know, I am willing to go that extra step.

I skimmed the following story, and then went back to read it and made the decision to propose to you that its subject is a paradigm of sorts for Israel's less-than-staunch so-called 'supporters'. It deals with runaways who get ensnared in selling themselves for sex. Somehow, I sensed a resonation.

I'll select some excerpts and maybe you'll agree with me (but bear with me for a while):-

She ran away...grew so desperate that she accepted a young man’s offer of a place to stay. The price would come later.

They had sex, and he soon became her boyfriend. Then one day he threatened to kick her out if she did not have sex with several of his friends in exchange for money.

She agreed, fearing she had no choice. “Where was I going to go?”...

...explaining why she did not cut off the relationship once her first boyfriend became a pimp and why she did not flee prostitution when she had the chance [she said] “I’d also fallen for the guy. I felt trapped in a way I can’t really explain.”

...[his] task was to get Roxanne to consider leaving her pimp without forcing her to admit she had one. He needed to push hard enough to break her from her rehearsed script, without descending into a frustrating game of wits, a contest in liar’s poker. And he had to do all this at exactly the wrong time and place — at the police station after an arrest for solicitation, when the girl felt most panicked and most angry about being treated like a criminal.

A runaway’s relationship with a pimp does not occur by accident. It takes work...pimps described the complicated roles they played as father figure, landlord, boss and boyfriend to the girls who worked for them. They said they went after girls with low self-esteem, prior sexual experience and a lack of options.

“With the young girls, you promise them heaven, they’ll follow you to hell,” said Harvey...“It all depends on her being so love-drunk off of me that she will do anything for me."...Built of desperation and fear, the bonds they form with their pimps are difficult to break. Some girls continue working for pimps even after the pimps are incarcerated.

“My job is to make sure she has what she needs, personal hygiene, get her nails done, take her to buy an outfit, take her out to eat, make her feel wanted,” said another pimp...Wayne...wrote that the girls have to be convinced that the pimp is best equipped to handle their clients and finances.

Runaways are especially attractive recruits because most are already engaging in survival sex for a place to stay...Controlling girls through beatings or threats was common, but coercion was not an effective basis for a lasting relationship, most pimps emphasized.

“Everything about the game is by choice, not by force,” said Bryant

Okay, if you've reached this far, sit back and consider: renegades from Israel, Zionism and Judaism and move into the 'anti-' camp, do they display any of the characteristics you read above? Do they seek to comfort of those that exploit them? Do they refuse, despite their pain, to release themselves from a situation that harms them and harms Israel?

Update on Olive Harvest Incident

--- Hebrew-language video clip here ---


A)

Five Palestinians wounded in clash with settlers

(AFP) – NABLUS, West Bank — Five Palestinian farmers were wounded in clashes with armed Israeli settlers in the West Bank on Tuesday, Palestinian security services and witnesses said.

Israeli security forces fired tear-gas and arrested one Palestinian, the sources said, while Israel's military and border police declined to comment on the incident.

The clashes started after about 50 settlers, some firing guns in the air, hurled rocks at Palestinians who responded in kind, the sources said.

The witnesses said the Palestinians were picking olives near Qaryut village in the northern West Bank.

A settler told army radio that the Palestinians were faking the harvest and actually involved in "terrorist activities. They go to the fields to gather information to then commit attacks," said Dibi Degani.

B)

Settlers, Palestinians confront after protest march near olive grove

A confrontation between settlers and Palestinians broke out on Tuesday morning near Karayout, a village adjacent to Nablus, after a few dozen settlers conducted a protest march against olive harvesting taking place in a grove from which gunshots were fired at a settler a few weeks ago.

Border policemen at the site managed to bring a halt to the mutual stone hurling. No casualties were reported, and no arrests were made.

In related news, Palestinians from Turmus Aya on Tuesday morning claimed that dozens of their olive trees were uprooted, apparently during the night.

C)

Settlers, Palestinian olive harvesters clash


JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Jewish settlers and Palestinian olive pickers clashed in the West Bank. The residents of the northern West Bank settlement of Shvut Rachel, including of nearby illegal outposts, held a rally to protest the harvest because they say it poses a security threat.

Following the protest, the settlers and Palestinians began throwing stones at each other. The groups were separated without incident, according to Israeli news sources.

According to Palestinian sources quoted by the French news agency AFP, five harvesters were injured and the settlers fired gunshots in the air [???]

The Israel Defense Forces approved the rally and gave the Palestinians permission to pick olives in the area. The settlers say the harvesters use the time to gather intelligence about the nearby settlements and launch attacks from the olive groves.

D)

Nine injured as settlers rampage through olive harvest

Nablus – Ma’an – Nine Palestinians were injured and one was detained on Tuesday when dozens of Israeli settlers attacked farmers were harvesting olives in the West Bank village of Qaryout, south of Nablus, according to witnesses, local officials, and medics.

According to sources in the village, the incident began when dozens of Israeli settlers assaulted farmers working near the Israeli settlement of Shavout Rachel. After the initial attack, both soldiers and settlers stormed the village [??? do you know how far the village is from the orchard?], clashing with Palestinian residents who defended the area by throwing stones at the marauding groups. Soldiers fired bullets and tear gas, residents said.

Medics identified some of the injured people as: 21-year-old Isra’ Badawi, who was hit in the eye; 50-year-old Hani Kassab, the village council’s accountant; 30-year-old Jawad Badawi; 70-year-old Muhammad Muqbil; 46-year-old Abdullah Badawi; and 31-year-old Mu’taz Ghassan.

Qaryout’s Mayor, Abd An-Nasser Al-Qaryouti, told Ma’an the farmers obtained permission to enter their own fields from the Israeli army through the Palestinian Authority’s liaison office. Part way through the olive harvest season, Israeli authorities implemented a mandatory registration and permission process for farmers who wished to access agricultural land in the West Bank for the harvest.

Despite this prior coordination, the mayor said, settlers arrived in more than 70 cars. He said the settlers initiated the fight by hurling stones at the farmers. Israeli forces were present, and they did not attempt to stop the settlers, he added.

You don't need me to read between the lines, do you?


P.S. And even Gawker gets in to the act:

No Friend Of A Farmer

[Qaryut, West Bank; October 27. Image via Getty]

A Palestinian farmer from the West Bank village of Qaryut reacts in front of Israeli soldiers on October 27, 2009. Five Palestinian farmers were wounded in clashes with armed Israeli settlers in the West Bank, Palestinian security services and witnesses said. AFP PHOTO/MARCO LONGARI (Photo credit should read MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)

"Witnesses"? Ah, independent objective non-involved witnesses?

J Street? J?

A close friend suggested that we search for the true meaning of the "J" in J Street.

Well, there's:

Jabberwocky of Lewis Carroll fame and a film by Terry Gilliam.

First, it's a poem of nonsense verse:-

..."Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"



...The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!...

and this:

jahiliya

1. (Islam) The age of ignorance, barbarism and unbelief in Arabia before the coming of Islam; more recently its meaning has been expanded to mean Western non-Muslims.

Any other suggestions?




(Kippah tip: BPO)

Shiloh - What's In A Name

I have been asked by many, both Jews and non-Jews, for the meaning of the name Shiloh (שילה), the community in which I live and which, for almost four centuries served as the site of the Tabernacle in the pre-monarchic period of the Jewish tribal federation rule over the Land of Israel.

So, for the interested, here are various Midrashic interpretations of Shiloh.

1. Shiloh is another name for the Messiah and in the verse: ...until Shiloh come... (Genesis 48:10), the reference is to the arrival of the Messiah and then Judah is relieved of his status.

2. It is an abbreviation for שם יפרה למקיימי התורה - there will flower for the upholders of the Torah.

3. That the kingdom is his, or in Hebrew שלו.

4. A gift for God, or in Hebrew שי לה'

5. Or a gift for the Messiah שי לו.

6. As the verse in Genesis refers to Judah's scepter that shall not depart from between his feet, the verse in Deuteronomy 28:57 is recalled: "and towards her after-birth that comes from out from between her feet" and the Hebrew term for after-birth there is: שליה.

7. Shiloh (של"ה) without the yud, in gematria equals 335 which recalls the 1335 of Daniel 12:12. And since we really don't know when those days will be, it will be sudden and here in Genesis the impression is "until Shiloh [335] comes". And the 1000 figure is not that import but the 335 is.

8. Anagram for Moshe (משה) for in Shiloh (שילה) you have two of the Hebrew letters that make up his name, the the shin and the hey, and if you add the yud and the lamed, that is, 10 + 30, that equals 40 which is the Hebrew letter mem which is the missing letter!

9. It is a form of the Hebrew word שלוה or tranquility. That when Messiah comes, peace and quietude will reign.


There are a few more but I think these will keep you busy for a while.



Referenced at Rav Menachem Kasher's "Torah Shleima".

Another Letter of Mine the NYTimes Did Not Publish

Your report on the violence at Jerusalem's Temple Mount asserts that "the disturbances...were precipitated by calls from both Jewish activists and the Islamic Movement for their faithful to ascend the mount".

However, no Jew ascended into the sacred compound while Muslims did initiate unprovoked rock-throwing in two separate instances. That was the true precipitation and the sole illegal violent act. Jews were not in any way involved.

Yisrael Medad

"To The Mount of the Lord" Society

Jerusalem

Israel

Pal. Democracy: Voting Booth Signs

Found at GazaMom's Flckr site

Shalits Going To Bethlehem for Matriarch Rachel's Yahrtzeit

As received:

26 October 2009

For Immediate Release

100,000 People to Visit Rachel's Tomb on the Anniversary of her Death

Prayers this Year will be Dedicated

to the Release of Gilad Shalit

(JERUSALEM) – As the situation at Jerusalem's holy sites intensifies, a mass pray-in with 100,000 expected participants from every corner of Israel and many overseas communities will be held at Rachel's Tomb - Kever Rachel – in Bethlehem on Thursday (October 29, 2009). The 11^th day of the Jewish month of Heshvan is commemorated around the world as the day on which the matriarch Rachel died en route to Efrata in Bethlehem.

For thousands of years Jews have traditionally turned to Rachel to pray for her children. This year organizers have called for special prayers to be dedicated to the release of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli solider held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since July 2006. "We call on Jews and non-Jews all over the world to dedicate their prayers on this holy day to Gilad's immediate release in good health," said Rabbi Yosef Schwinger, Director of Israel's Holy Sites Authority. “For generations Rachel has prayed for her children to return home safely, and we hope that this year our prayers will be answered and Gilad will return home to his family."

These prayers will take place from 11AM-12 Noon on Thursday.

Members of the Shalit family are expected to be present at the prayer

Amy Censored - UPDATE

Look, they made my life easier and censored Amy Winehouse for me:

At the Q Awards, whatever they are -




Oh, and Amy, that's no Kiddush cup:




And yes, they are enhanced (35,000 pounds sterling).

And here, she's even 'wearing' a Jewish star, or two:




Pics found here and here

I feel sorry for all you so here is the best I can do about her whatchmacallems:

A Baggy Future

KC sent me here:

On the streets of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, clusters of men wear long tunics over baggy trousers, a costume common in Pakistan but virtually unknown among Palestinians -- until recently.

It is an emblem of the Salafi, a branch of Islam that advocates restoring a Muslim empire across the Middle East and into Spain. Some preach violence, even killing Muslims deemed not pious enough. While historically a fringe group in the southeastern Mediterranean, they have sought inroads in Lebanon and Jordan and are battling Hamas in Gaza.

While al-Qaeda, which shares the Salafis’ conservative religious views and promotion of holy war, hasn’t gained a foothold in the region, Salafis may be the wave of the future.

This Just In: Arabs Violently Attack Peaceful Jewish Protest

Jews from from the Samarian Jewish communities of Gush Shiloh and Keida were attacked Tuesday morning when they held a march in the nearby Arab village of Al-Moir in protest of the arrival of Arabs and leftists near Keida, ostensibly to take part in the olive harvest. Residents of Al-Moir threw stones at the Jews during the attack.

And Ynet:

Settlers, Palestinians clash in West Bank
Published: 10.27.09, 09:54 / Israel News

Jewish settlers clashed with Palestinians Tuesday morning near the village of Krayut in the Nablus area. The settlers marched towards the village in protest of the olive harvest that is taking place there.

And for Hebrew readers:

מתנחלים ופלסטינים יידו אבנים אלו על אלו

קבוצת מתנחלים הגיעה לכניסה לכפר הפלסטיני קריות באזור שכם, כדי למחות על כך שצה"ל מאפשר מסיק במטעים הסמוכים, ש"נועדו לפרובוקציות". כשהגיעו לשם, החלו הצדדים ליידות אבנים. הפלסטינים: עשרות מתנחלים גירשו חקלאים ממטעי הזיתים

אפרת וייס ועלי ואקד
פורסם: 27.10.09, 09:40

עימות אלים פרץ הבוקר (יום ג') בין פלסטינים למתנחלים סמוך לכפר קריות באזור שכם. כמה עשרות תושבי גוש שילה יצאו עם סגן-אלוף במיל' יאיר הירש שנפצע בפיגוע ירי במטע הזיתים הסמוך ליישוביהם. הם צעדו לעבר הכפר ואז החלו המתנחלים והפלסטינים ליידות אבנים אלו על אלו. איש לא נפגע ואיש
לא נעצר.

המתנחלים מוחים על כך שצה"ל מאפשר להמשיך למסוק את מטעי הזיתים, בשעה שלטענת המתחלים, המטעים משמשים לפרובוקציות של פלסטינים ופעילי שמאל. משם צעדו התושבים לכיוון הכפר קריות והגיעו עד לכניסה לכפר. ההגעה לכפר היתה בתיאום עם צה"ל ובאישורו.

כאשר הגיעו לכניסה לכפר טענו המתנחלים כי הפלסטינים החלו ליידות לעבר אבנים. כוחות יס"מ ומג"ב שהיו במקום הפרידו בין הניצים. לטענת הצבא יידויי האבנים היו הדדיים ונמשכו מספר דקות.

לפלסטינים גרסה מעט שונה לאירוע. לטענתם, כ-50 מתנחלים גירשו בכוח חקלאים שמסקו את עצי הזית שלהם ליד המאחז שבות רחל. הפלסטינים הגיעו למסיק בתיאום עם הצבא ולטענתם - החיילים לא מנעו מהמתנחלים לרדוף אותם עד עד כפרם ולגרשם מהמקום. הפלסטינים דיווח על הארוע לארגון רבנים לזכויות אדם שהחל לברר את פרטי המקרה מול הצבא.

Haaretz flash:

09:59 הארץ
עימותים בין תושבי ההתנחלות שבות רחל לפלסטינים מכפר קריות; מתנחל היכה פלסטיני באגרוף, אחד מהפלסטינים בעט בשוטר (חיים לוינסון)

MJ Rosenberg - Little Known Fact

In February 1969, MJ Rosenberg convened a student meeting at Albany State when he denounced "Nazi-like" tendencies in the university's administration and socialist student groups.

Really. At the founding meeting of the Hebrew Student Alliance.

Page two, top right. Here.

Today, MJ is Senior Fellow on Foreign Policy, Media Matters Action Network, (formerly?) of the Israel Policy Forum and as left(out) as possible.

Syncopathic Siegman

Henry Siegman, director of the U.S./Middle East Project and a former national director of the American Jewish Congress and of the Synagogue Council of America, has been a frequent target here. I don't think he thinks.

A recent example:-

If an Israeli government were truly interested in reaching a peace accord that would end the occupation and establish a viable Palestinian state, it could do so only with a government that includes both major Palestinian political parties, Hamas and Fatah. It is precisely because Israeli governments know this that they have consistently incited Fatah to engage in fratricidal conflict with Hamas

...no, Hamas did not send rockets into Sderot – a war crime no matter what their purpose – in order to repay Sharon for his generosity, but in response to the prime minister’s strangling of Gaza, also a war crime...

...the first question should not be, “Should Israel talk to Hamas?” but rather, “Should Israel be allowed by the United States and the international community to continue its settlement enterprise to the point of irreversibility?”...An appropriate response to this continuing deceit would be an American engagement with Hamas, conditioned on Hamas’ implementation of its promise to allow Abbas to negotiate a peace agreement on behalf of a unity government...

First Schism At J Street

Phillip Weiss reports:

The leadership of J Street is to the right of its base. The base is leftleaning. A lot of them are old Brit Tzedek types who are overjoyed to be in the mainstream at last (as Scott McConnell observed) but they don’t cheer when Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky of Illinois says she’s signed on to the Iran sanctions bill. That’s big, that they’re sitting on their hands. Also the young people are many of them weirded out by Israel. They’re openly uncomfortable, upset, and the big news tonight, the thing that excited us at dinner, was learning that the campus branch of the group has dropped the "pro-Israel" phrase from its slogan, "pro-Israel, pro-peace." This strikes me as a historic blow of non-Zionism, or anyway of Jewish discomfort with the ways of the Jewish state.

There, the source is Lauren Barr, secretary of the J Street U student board who is quoted saying:

"We don't want to isolate people because they don't feel quite so comfortable with 'pro-Israel,' so we say 'pro-peace, but behind that is 'pro-Israel.'...people feel alienated when the conversation revolves around a connection to Israel only, because people feel connected to Palestine, people feel connected to social justice, people feel connected to the Middle East."

Sedition Must Be Outlawed

From Moshe Arens' op-ed on the dangers from extremist within Israel's Arab population:-

...there is an Arab movement..whose objective it is to destroy the State of Israel. That is the Islamic Movement, an ally of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. It is actively engaged in inciting the Arab population to hate Israel and its Jewish citizens. Frequently the incitement leads to riots like the recent ones in Jerusalem...the lie is spread that Israel is planning to destroy the Muslim holy site, and that Israel's Muslims and Muslims throughout the world must mobilize to prevent this sacrilege.

The fact that Israel scrupulously provides for freedom of worship at all holy sites does not matter to them. The lie is being spread and believed by many.

A few years ago the Islamic Movement initiated the building of a mosque in Nazareth opposite the Church of the Annunciation, a Christian holy site...It was only after much hesitation that the government finally insisted on enforcing the law and prohibited the pursuit of this grandiose project, designed to spread hate between the Muslim and Christian communities.

In working toward the integration of Israel's Arab citizens in Israel's society, the government must clearly differentiate between law-abiding citizens and those who are working to undermine the State of Israel.

The Islamic Movement is a subversive organization that is attempting to undermine the State of Israel. Most of the Israeli Arabs who have engaged or planned to engage in acts of terror were members of the Islamic Movement and products of its educational institutions. It is a movement engaged in sedition - inciting to rebellion against the authority of the state.

Sedition is unlawful, and the Islamic movement should be declared illegal. That would not only avert a growing danger but also send a clear signal to Israel's Arab citizens that respect for the law and the country's institutions is an essential element in the process of integration into Israeli society.

Sovereignty Now! the only viable road map to peace, stability

From Moshe Dann's latest op-ed:

Abandoning parts of Eretz Yisrael - "Land for Peace" – in practice, Land for Nothing, has only produced more terrorism and suffering on all sides. Asserting Israel's sovereign rights is the only viable, realistic and authentic road map to peace and stability.

Based on myths and fabrications, Arab "Palestinians" offer claims motivated by politics, not history or legal foundation. Their concept of "Palestine" is defined by the absence of Jews, not by the presence of Arabs.

Extending Israeli sovereignty to Judea and Samaria affirms Jewish claims to the land, not as "occupier," but as rightful inheritor, not as "oppressor," but to establish justice and the rule of law, not to deprive Arabs of civil and humanitarian rights, but to ensure them.

Extending Israeli sovereignty affirms the historical truth that Israel's right to exist does not come from the Holocaust, but from Scripture and history, millennia of Jewish civilization, documented by myriad ancient sources, universally acknowledged.

Israeli sovereignty, therefore, is not a matter of international acceptance, but of Jewish self-respect, self-determination and self-affirmation. The State of Israel represents the Jewish return to history and its homeland. Protecting its citizens, the raison d’être of every nation, requires extending Israeli sovereignty to Judea and Samaria; that is not only necessary, but intrinsic and compelling, the essence of authenticity.