Bank of Israel buys US dollars to increase the reserves to $44 billion. The rest of the world is desperate to dump the dollar. It’s counter-intuitive to stock currency of the country most affected in a major economic crisis. The money will sit idly in the reserves precisely when Israeli economy is desperate for credit resources.
Bank of Israel is under great pressure from exporters who need weak shekel though it harms consumers.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak informed the settlers that the army won’t evict Jews from the Peace House they purchased in Hebron until the next government is formed. His words are not necessarily true, though.
It appears that the settlers’ rough determination to resist the eviction frightened off the leftists. Initially, they thought to frighten the populace into voting for Kadima with the show of unruly right-wing mob violently resisting the eviction. As the conflict escalated, the PR effect looked different: population is likely to blame the leftists for provoking the clashes way exceeding the Amona incident.
The struggle around the Peace House is a waste of efforts; the establishment allows right-wingers to blow off their steam. When the government relinquishes Judea and Samaria to Palestinians, no amount of peaceful protests would help the settlers.
Jerusalem Post reports that the procurator of Judea and Samaria petitioned the Supreme Court to overrule the military appellate court’s decision which applied the Ottoman homestead law to Jews.
According to the law, in force since 1860s, a ten-year cultivation creates homestead rights to the land, which the farmer can register in his name. Israeli leftists normally use the law to issue land titles to Palestinians while ignoring that Jews cultivate land plots in the same area for decades.
The government sent Israeli Navy to intercept the ship which carried 3,000 tons of humanitarian cargo. Too cowardly to state clearly that we will blockade Gaza from any supplies because the Arabs are firing at Sderot, the government alleged ridiculously that the ship might carry weapons to Hamas.
0.1 of Israeli population is registered with AIDS. The most simple and efficient measure to stop AIDS in Israel would be to deport the Ethiopian Christians and African illegal migrants who carry the bulk of disease.
Noam Federman, an exemplary Jew who resists the treacherous establishment, surprisingly won a second court battle. Jerusalem Court rescinded the police order barring Federman from Judea and Samaria. Very reasonably, the court rejected as absurd the police argument that Federman somehow poses a public threat because he “attacked the police.”
The alleged attack took place in the middle of night when huge police forces stormed Federman’s farm in what the leading rabbis described as Nazi pogrom. The attack consisted in Federman resisting the police which was throwing his nine small children out of the house’ windows.
The court’s decision is both rare and brave. Israeli court usually uphold police order barring particular Jews from Judea and Samaria.
Hussein Obama was elected because he promised new politics. Immediately, he started appointing some very old figures. It’s hard to believe that the Hussein’s policy would be drastically different after he appointed Hillary Clinton secretary of the state. Is it not obscene that the very woman who denigrated Obama for months during the election campaign and was denigrated in return - now became Obama’s right hand? Those who voted against Hillary and for Obama now see their country’s foreign policy led by Hillary.
Hillary is a fan of negotiations. She already spoke to Assad in the violation of US diplomatic blockade of Syria, and will now continue small talk with Assad and Ahmadi Nejad while they pursue their nuclear programs. Hillary is commonly thought to be pro-Israel, which means in practice that unlike Condi Rice she will smile politely while pushing us to abandon Jerusalem to Muslims.
Anyway, Clinton’s appointment is perhaps Israel’s best option in Obama’s circle of leftist monsters. But it might become a huge problem, as well: Israeli leaders will find it hard to resist her pressure. Unlike her husband who was pushed around by Rabin and Barak, the lady is semi-tough. Hillary would be especially dangerous if paired with Tzipi as their thinking is very much alike and they can swiftly bring Israel to any concessions.
Hillary will also be influenced by her husband who took upon himself to carry out the legacy of his idol Rabin. The big problem is, the well-wishing Clintons genuinely believe that the capitulation to Arabs is good for Israel. This is what various Israeli leaders and negotiators told Bill Clinton on numerous occasions, and he just doesn’t realize this view’s fallacy.
Obama’s national security adviser will be James Jones, a wildly anti-Israeli general who oversaw the training of Fatah militia.
US ambassador to the UN will be black ultra-leftist Susan Rice, an extremely arrogant and ignorant lady.
The Jew who tried to rid our country of Rabin the traitor protests his brutal treatment in Israel jail. Despite him exemplary behavior, Yigal Amir was punished by solitary confinement for an interview he gave to Israeli TV. Yigal is barred visits and the use of books. His treatment is much worse than of Palestinian terrorists locked in the same jail. Unlike the Palestinians, he faces no prospect of release in prisoner exchange.
Police disconnected huge loudspeakers on a private house in Sur Bahir Arab village on the outskirts of Jerusalem. For some time, the Arabs used the loudspeakers to transmit mosque prayers at 3 o’clock in the morning, mostly to wake up Jewish residents of Har Homa and East Talpiyot neighborhoods.
After the government and ultra-leftists inflamed tensions over the Peace House in Hebron, local Jews and Arabs engage in intermittent squabbles and stone-throwing. Jews, too, wounded a few Arabs with stones. Dozens of Jewish youth hurled stones at Arab cars and houses.
Haim Ramon became the latest Kadima mafioso to demand that Olmert relinquishes his post. Their calls have nothing to do with justice. It is widely assumed in the art of elections that acting head of state automatically receives an extra 10-20% of the vote. If Tzipi replaces Olmert substantially before the elections, she would garner a lot of otherwise undecided votes. For this reason, Netanyahu doesn’t join the chorus to demand Olmert’s resignation.
After Olmert steps down, there’s no chance that Kadima-Avodah government would attack Iran.
The only Jewish survivor of Chabad House attack in Mumbai is two years old. After the terrorists bounded and gagged other people in the house, they refused to kill a baby and sent him with his nanny downstairs, which allowed her to escape with the child.
It’s hard to recall a single instance when Palestinian terrorists had spared a baby. Israeli government recently released an Arab star terrorist Samir Kuntar, one of the many Arabs who murdered the entire Jewish family.
In the last two decades, the number of welfare recipients grew from 20,000 to 150,000 despite the booming economy. The increase is fueled by Arabs’ claiming benefits, elderly Russian Jews, and burgeoning haredi population. Many able Israelis refuse to take the available jobs, and subsist on welfare.
out the 11,000 total. Though the released Arabs are really insignificant folks with no terrorist connections, their release encourages other Palestinians to throw stones and firebombs at Jews.
Livni praised the release as the move which strengthens Abbas. One is left to wonder why Abbas remains so weak after Israel released several batches of Palestinian security prisoners?
General Doron Almog revealed that the IDF judicial branch turned down his request to demolish a particular house in Gaza. Later on, terrorists dug a tunnel from that house and kidnapped Shalit.
