Netanyahu expressed his willingness for ‘further concessions’, but not in Jerusalem. What, however, is the difference between Ramat Shlomo in Jerusalem and any settlement in the blocs? Why residents of the settlements must suffer from overcrowding, unable to enlarge their legally built homes or build new homes nearby for their children?

We can only dream of having an Israeli leader who would tell flatly that we don’t need a peace treaty with Palestinians, are not willing to make any concessions for that piece of paper, and if the Arabs want it, we’re ready to study their concessions.

Biden, who demanded a contiguous Palestinian state yesterday, called Israel America’s best friend today.

The tourism minister, another Lieberman appointee, earlier similarly cornered his Iranian counterpart during an exhibition.

If only the progress of peace could be measured by the amount of handshakes.

The government will set up yet another commission, formally independent of the IDF, to re-investigate our soldiers.

No civilized country had ever accepted a demand by international organizations to investigate its troops.

But so does Fatah. One day Abbas talks to Mitchell and expresses interest in reaching peace with Israel, and the next day he gives a fiery speech in Ramallah vowing to fight the Zionists till the bitter end.

And so does Israel, whose leaders proclaim that Jerusalem will remain united forever, but negotiate its partitioning with Muslims.

Guess his opinion in the government’s debate on deporting illegals along with their children.

And indeed, today they met with Netanyahu. The PM told them that they can protest however much they want, but must assist the government in carrying out the construction freeze.

Gush Katif, deja vu.

Yishai is the most vocal proponent of the deportation.

Strictly speaking, issuing visas to temporary workers is different from condoning their illegal stay in Israel.

Olmert’s trial, set to start on February, will include all kinds of trivial charges—but not high treason.

The biggest problem is that any Israeli government, including Netanyahu’s, will give the Palestinians exactly the same deal, because the Arabs refuse to make peace with Israel without the Temple Mount, and for some bizarre reason Israel is bent on signing a peace treaty with our defeated enemies on their terms.

By bombing the conference hall, Israel could kill 90 percent of the West Bank terrorist leadership, including that of Tanzim and the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades.

The treacherous Jewish leaders have a precedent: twenty-seven years ago, another Israeli government allowed the PLO to escape Beirut for Tunis instead of sinking the entire terrorist group along with their ships, tanks, and leaders.

This is not news. Everyone knows that Britain and the EU finance Arabs and Jewish ultra-leftists in Israel. But the Israeli government is concerned about its image rather than the facts, and only protested after the aid was publicly announced.

A similar attitude pervades Israel’s negotiations with the Palestinians. Ever since Oslo, Israeli negotiators have secretly offered the Arabs much more than they tell the Jewish public. While publicly refusing to make concessions on Jerusalem, Netanyahu’s government prepared a secret memorandum with James Jones on bringing multinational forces onto the Temple Mount—thus surrendering it to the UN.

As an opposition leader, Netanyahu lambasted Olmert for much smaller transfers to Gaza.

There is no consensus, but the majority of the post-Zionist population in fact agrees to an enemy state in Judea and Samaria. That sentiment has existed for close to two decades and is in no way related to Bibi’s government.

Netanyahu tried to declare his acceptance of the two-state scenario without explicitly saying so. Ostensibly the people want two states, and Bibi does their will.

According to the Haaretz, Barkat has prepared a plan to legalize 80 percent of the illegal construction, which houses 180,000 of our Arab enemies.

By thus accepting its responsibility, the government opens itself to myriad Palestinian claims against IDF.

The government’s move is especially obscene considering that the Palestinian Authority refuses to make payments to Jewish victims of its terror as ordered by Israeli and American court verdicts. The government also ignored extensive damage to Jewish houses from routine Palestinian riots in Hebron, where many Jews live in bullet-ridden caravans.

Now his successor, Dalia Itzik, is accused of misappropriating public funds for her house renovation.

Today, Danny Ayalon announced his full support for the two-state solution. Which is, of course, neither a solution (Arabs will fight Israel no matter what) nor two-state (Palestinians would have two states, in Jordan and the West Bank).

The Israeli Foreign Ministry is busy exonerating itself of the politically incorrect activity instead of proudly admitting its role in cleansing the country of the hordes of illegal immigrants.

In a separate incident, Al Hayat reports from its sources in the Egyptian Foreign Ministry that during a meeting with the Egyptian intelligence chief Lieberman fully supported a two-state solution and has been “very moderate.”

Whomever you vote for, you end up with the same scum.

When Bibi entered the government, he reversed his perception.

Bibi proved more capable financially, and found the 100 million for security needs—his own security.

The annual cost of guarding Netanyahu’s mammoth government of thirty ministers exceeds 100 million shekels.

Upon taking over the Foreign Ministry, Lieberman praised Mubarak as Israel’s key partner and expressed hope to visit him in Cairo soon.

It is hardly coincidental that Netanyahu’s government took office on the Fool’s Day.

Now that his coalition deal is complete, Netanyahu has ended up with twenty-seven ministries and billions of shekels in coalition promises. A few months ago, he screamed murder when Shas demanded a billion shekels in subsidies for joining Livni’s coalition. Now we know that Bibi offered Shas 1.5 billion.

Nor is Livni any better. Her now unflinching support for a Palestinian state contrasts with her pre-election speech, in which she essentially supported Lieberman’s position that Israeli Arabs must move to their own state if it is created.

“We have many ministries conceived in sin, as a coalition bribe. Thus was invented… the ministry of absorption…”

Controlling the Absorption Ministry, Lieberman is likely to push for the “aliyah by great-grandparents,” which he praises in the same book, in the chapter “State and Religion.” Israel already enjoys 300,000 to 800,000 good Slavs posing as bad Jews.

Lieberman’s 2004 program argues against his own slogan, “No National Service, No National Insurance.” The chapter, “Citizenship Law,” part 2: “Those who refuse National Service would lose the right to elect or be elected. They would, however, retain the right to work, national insurance, and unemployment insurance.”

Rather than Friedman, the leftists would accept just about anyone, including Lieberman’s own MK Landau, who of course cannot ethically go on appointing judges while Lieberman is likely to be charged with money laundering.

The leftist establishment and courts exert immense pressure on the coalition to remove Friedman because he tries to curtail extreme activism and judicial excesses, such as appointment of its own members.

Mofaz filed a case against IDF for a traffic accident; an army truck hit a bridge on Highway 4 and the ex-general was stuck in a traffic jam for several hours.

Yossi Beilin published an abominable book, The Long Road to Peace detailing his efforts at forcing Israeli capitulation. Therein, Beilin relates an encounter with Palestinian strongman Muhammed Dahlan where he recommended that Lieberman join the Israeli peace team.

And don’t forget Lieberman’s role, in tandem with Barak, in transferring the Ashkelon gas field to Arafat.

Following the Zionist victory in Israel, Jews were expelled from all the Muslim countries. Three-thousand-year-old Jewish communities in Egypt, Iraq, and Syria were completely extinguished. Iraq, a center for Jewish learning since time immemorial, now is home to less than ten Jews. Even Muslim countries friendly to Israel, such as Morocco and Tunisia, became so inhospitable that almost all Jews emigrated from them. The young Israeli state accepted the entire burden of repatriation. Sephardi Jews left affluence—and often riches—behind in their former countries, and lived for many years in refugee camps during the period of absorption.

Various UN bodies issued hundreds of resolutions on Arab refugees from Israel, but not a single one on Jewish refugees from Arab countries. While Arab and “human rights” organizations bug Israel over the meager property of 400,000 expelled from Israel in 1948, Israel traditionally has refrained from counter-claims.

In Hebron alone, Arabs confiscated the entire Jewish quarter, hundreds of houses, after Jews fled the city of Abraham following the 1929 massacre. After conquering Judea in 1967, the Israeli government holds the real estate in trust, but has not returned even a single house to its heirs, lest the Jews come back to live in their ancient city.

The claims affair is an election trick. The Pensioners Affairs Ministry established the claims board to send a message to Sephardi voters: if you do not elect the Pensioners Party, the next government will dismantle the sinecure ministry along with its claims program.

Israel stopped pumping from Lake Kineret as its level dropped dangerously low. The government barred Jewish farmers from watering new trees and severely restricted municipalities in watering city parks. None of the restrictions affect Israeli Arabs, who simply steal the water.

But the government also continues unabated water supplies to Gaza, Jordan, and the West Bank.

Chavez hedged his bets and welcomed the ambassador back in a humiliatingly reduced status of charge’ d’affaires.

Nothing to be surprised about after Arafat maintained in Israel his personal bank accounts, with hundreds of millions dollars on deposit.