MK Eldad: Gaza Exodus is 'Voluntary Transfer'
(IsraelNN.com) MK Aryeh Eldad (NU/NRP) said Wednesday that the crossing of hundreds of thousands of Arabs from Gaza to Egyptian Rafiah proves that a voluntary transfer of populations between territories is possible.
"The Israeli left continues to claim that there is no such thing as voluntary transfer, and simply ignores reality," Eldad said.
Another member of Eldad's party, MK Benny Elon, has proposed a plan for compensation and relocation of the "refugees" from Judea, Samaria and Gaza to Arab countries.
Showing posts with label Gaza. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gaza. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Friday, November 9, 2007
Too little too late...
Tell that to the 10,000 lives you ruined!!! (not to mention the creation of Hamasastan) We will not forget...
Labor Minister: Disengagement a Very Big Mistake
by Ezra HaLevi
(IsraelNN.com) Minister of Infrastructure and former Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (Labor) is the latest senior politician to admit that the 2005 Disengagement was a mistake.
Speaking in an interview with Radio L’lo Hafsaka, a regional radio station, Ben-Eliezer dropped the bombshell: "I admit and I confess that I was among those who strongly supported [former PM] Ariel Sharon [and the Disengagement]. Today I say, with my head held high, ‘We erred, we made a very big mistake.’”
Ben Eliezer did not say it was the withdrawal itself and abandonment of parts of the Land of Israel that was the problem, but rather the nature of the recipients of the territory. "Withdrawals can only work when the areas are handed over to responsible hands and rotted in agreements and international guarantees,” he explained. “Here we have a precedent - a territory we left turns into a base for terror - period."
Ben Eliezer also called for a wide scale counter-terror offensive in Gaza, complaining that Israel’s fear of harming civilians was harming its own populace instead. "Israel continues to say we bind ourselves to these ethical obligations that no other country in the world is bound by. We are facing a conflict here between two disciplines. One nation is prepared to commit suicide and sees it as a religious imperative and an honor, the other wants to spare every ounce of blood."
MK Reuven Rivlin, an opponent of the withdrawal from Gaza and northern Samaria from the outset, responded to MK Ben Eliezer’s about-face with alarm. “It is horrifying that someone who pushed for the Disengagement and saw in it a ‘window of opportunity’ can now simply say such a thing while his colleagues in the government are signaling that they once again see it as proper to give up the essential interests of the State of Israel,” Rivlin said.
Ben Eliezer is but the latest in a parade of Disengagement-regretting politicians and public figures, including:
* Maj.-Gen (ret.) Yiftah Ron-Tal, IDF ground forces commander at the time of the Disengagement
* Left-wing journalist Ilana Dayan
* Maj.-Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland, Chairman of the National Security Council and one of the Disengagement’s chief architects
* Avri Gilad, broadcaster and TV personality who supported Disengagement
* Brig.-Gen. (Res.) Moshe Ya’alon, IDF Chief of Staff at the time the government decided to carry out the Disengagement
* Yoel Marcus, left-wing commentator for Haaretz and ardent Disengagement supporter
* Yehoshua Sobol, author and prominent left-wing spokesperson and proponent of left-wing refusal to serve in the IDF
* IDF Central Commander Maj.-Gen. Yair Naveh
* Yair Lapid, popular TV personality and commentator
* Senior TV news anchor Dan Margalit, a strong supporter of Disengagement
* Maj.-Gen. Gershon HaCohen, who commanded the Disengagement and expressed his public agreement with it prior to implementation
* Several others
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Humanitarian Aid into Gaza
Humanitarian Aid into Gaza
June 28th, 2007
IDF SPOKESPERSON ANNOUNCEMENT
A summary of humanitarian activity in the Gaza Strip coordinated by the IDF throughout the day
Despite the volatile security situation in the Gaza Strip, the IDF is continuing its efforts to provide a response to humanitarian needs in the Gaza Strip.
Throughout the day the following humanitarian aid was transferred from Israel into Gaza through the Sufa and Kerem Shalom crossings with the coordination of the Gaza District Coordination and Liaison Office:
569 tons of animal feed
269 tons and additional 7 truckloads of flour
222 tons of straw
187 tons of sugar
143 tons of bananas and additional 9 truckloads of fruits
98 tons of salt
78 tons of cooking oil
28 tons of humus
12 tons of milk powder and additional 300,000 liters of milk
300,000 kg of seedlings
In addition, 480 tons of wheat seeds were transferred through a conveyor belt near the Karni crossing.
June 28th, 2007
IDF SPOKESPERSON ANNOUNCEMENT
A summary of humanitarian activity in the Gaza Strip coordinated by the IDF throughout the day
Despite the volatile security situation in the Gaza Strip, the IDF is continuing its efforts to provide a response to humanitarian needs in the Gaza Strip.
Throughout the day the following humanitarian aid was transferred from Israel into Gaza through the Sufa and Kerem Shalom crossings with the coordination of the Gaza District Coordination and Liaison Office:
569 tons of animal feed
269 tons and additional 7 truckloads of flour
222 tons of straw
187 tons of sugar
143 tons of bananas and additional 9 truckloads of fruits
98 tons of salt
78 tons of cooking oil
28 tons of humus
12 tons of milk powder and additional 300,000 liters of milk
300,000 kg of seedlings
In addition, 480 tons of wheat seeds were transferred through a conveyor belt near the Karni crossing.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Principle Positions: Solve the Palestinian refugee problem
Posted by Rabbi Benny Elon
Last week was a difficult time for the ingenious engineers of Oslo and the disengagement. They suffered many sleepless nights tossing and turning, their liberal consciences heavy. How could they sleep when Gaza was burning and the vision of an independent Palestinian state was being engulfed in the flames? The lack of sleep must have clouded their judgment - they saw it fit to ally with the “good gangsters”, Dahlan and Abbas who prefer to shoot their brothers in the knees as opposed to the “bad gangsters”, Hamas who shoot their brothers in the back.
The infighting among the Palestinians and the resulting deaths of countless of innocent men, women and children has reached new levels of intolerability. We must heed this violent wake up call to re-evaluate the issue at the core of the conflict- the Palestinian refugee situation. We have avoided resolving the refugee problem by hiding the refugees behind walls and like a ticking bomb waiting to explode; the refugee situation threatens to blow up in our faces. More than two-thirds of Gaza residents now live in filthy refugee camps and by allowing things to continue as they are we are allowing the perpetuation of a great injustice.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is mandated to negotiate with governments to rehabilitate refugees everywhere in the world except in the Middle East. Here, the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) does not have the goal of rehabilitating refugees, its duties are reserved to providing services such as education, health, relief and social services.
Since it’s creation in 1949, UNRWA has been pressured by Arab countries to maintain the refugee camps. As a result, four generations of Palestinians have been used as pawns in an attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the State of Israel. Palestinian refugee camps are breeding grounds for the terrorist infrastructure.
The children of the UNRWA refugee camps are born into the slavery of hatred and oppression. They are living in a dreadful state of poverty where indoctrination breeds freely. The refugees have been indoctrinated with the false hope of reclaiming the land that their forefathers abandoned before the War of Independence. The situation is explained clearly in the PLO’s refugee files, “In order to keep the refugee issue alive and to prevent Israel from evading responsibility for their plight, Arab countries - with the notable exception of Jordan -have usually sought to preserve a Palestinian identity by maintaining the Palestinians’ status as refugees.”
Under UNRWA’s control the refugee population has grown from 670,000 to the current figures of 4.4 million registered Palestinian refugees in the Middle East. The situation in these camps is desperate and only a true humanitarian solution- one that will provide these interned peoples with basic freedoms will solve this ongoing problem.
Israel must demand the release of all Palestinian refugees interned in camps, the closure of these camps, and total dissolution of UNRWA. When surveyed, the majority of Palestinian refugees want a visa to another country and seed money to help begin a new life outside the walls of the refugee camps. The reallocation of UNRWA funds combined with a few billion dollars from Israel, the United States and Europe could provide each refugee family with $100,000- $200,000 and the opportunity to begin a new life.
Providing visas and money is the solution that the refugees prefer. Restoring the basic human rights of Palestinian refugees by fully rehabilitating them and assuring their absorption into the country most compatible for them is the most humane thing that the world can offer them and it will present the Palestinian refugees with the greatest opportunity that they ever been given, to live in freedom.
To deny the validity of this proposal is to subjugate the Palestinian refugees to fifty-nine more years of suffering with the illusion that they have the right to return to Jaffa, Haifa and Katamon in Jerusalem. Anyone willing to allow the refugee situation to further perpetuate lacks an understanding in sound politics and more importantly in basic human decency.
http://blogcentral.jpost.com/index.php?cat_id=6&blog_id=75&blog_post_id=1247

Last week was a difficult time for the ingenious engineers of Oslo and the disengagement. They suffered many sleepless nights tossing and turning, their liberal consciences heavy. How could they sleep when Gaza was burning and the vision of an independent Palestinian state was being engulfed in the flames? The lack of sleep must have clouded their judgment - they saw it fit to ally with the “good gangsters”, Dahlan and Abbas who prefer to shoot their brothers in the knees as opposed to the “bad gangsters”, Hamas who shoot their brothers in the back.
The infighting among the Palestinians and the resulting deaths of countless of innocent men, women and children has reached new levels of intolerability. We must heed this violent wake up call to re-evaluate the issue at the core of the conflict- the Palestinian refugee situation. We have avoided resolving the refugee problem by hiding the refugees behind walls and like a ticking bomb waiting to explode; the refugee situation threatens to blow up in our faces. More than two-thirds of Gaza residents now live in filthy refugee camps and by allowing things to continue as they are we are allowing the perpetuation of a great injustice.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is mandated to negotiate with governments to rehabilitate refugees everywhere in the world except in the Middle East. Here, the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) does not have the goal of rehabilitating refugees, its duties are reserved to providing services such as education, health, relief and social services.
Since it’s creation in 1949, UNRWA has been pressured by Arab countries to maintain the refugee camps. As a result, four generations of Palestinians have been used as pawns in an attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the State of Israel. Palestinian refugee camps are breeding grounds for the terrorist infrastructure.
The children of the UNRWA refugee camps are born into the slavery of hatred and oppression. They are living in a dreadful state of poverty where indoctrination breeds freely. The refugees have been indoctrinated with the false hope of reclaiming the land that their forefathers abandoned before the War of Independence. The situation is explained clearly in the PLO’s refugee files, “In order to keep the refugee issue alive and to prevent Israel from evading responsibility for their plight, Arab countries - with the notable exception of Jordan -have usually sought to preserve a Palestinian identity by maintaining the Palestinians’ status as refugees.”
Under UNRWA’s control the refugee population has grown from 670,000 to the current figures of 4.4 million registered Palestinian refugees in the Middle East. The situation in these camps is desperate and only a true humanitarian solution- one that will provide these interned peoples with basic freedoms will solve this ongoing problem.
Israel must demand the release of all Palestinian refugees interned in camps, the closure of these camps, and total dissolution of UNRWA. When surveyed, the majority of Palestinian refugees want a visa to another country and seed money to help begin a new life outside the walls of the refugee camps. The reallocation of UNRWA funds combined with a few billion dollars from Israel, the United States and Europe could provide each refugee family with $100,000- $200,000 and the opportunity to begin a new life.
Providing visas and money is the solution that the refugees prefer. Restoring the basic human rights of Palestinian refugees by fully rehabilitating them and assuring their absorption into the country most compatible for them is the most humane thing that the world can offer them and it will present the Palestinian refugees with the greatest opportunity that they ever been given, to live in freedom.
To deny the validity of this proposal is to subjugate the Palestinian refugees to fifty-nine more years of suffering with the illusion that they have the right to return to Jaffa, Haifa and Katamon in Jerusalem. Anyone willing to allow the refugee situation to further perpetuate lacks an understanding in sound politics and more importantly in basic human decency.
http://blogcentral.jpost.com/index.php?cat_id=6&blog_id=75&blog_post_id=1247

Sunday, June 24, 2007
Some thoughts on current events in Gaza...
This was a quick radio interview that I conducted on June 22 about the situation in Gaza... http://www.jewishexperienceradio.com/archives.html
Monday, June 18, 2007
Looters raid Arafat's home, steal his Nobel Peace Prize | Jerusalem Post
Here's a classic! Let's see when this winds up on Ebay...
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1181813047962&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1181813047962&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Friday, June 15, 2007
Gaza - The next Iran...
I think that the only "logical" result of the new Islamic State of Gaza (and Hizballah in Lebanon) is to pressure Israel into evacuating more territory and hoping that the resulting vacuum pulls in more friendly radical Islamist Al Quaeda types....I have already heard of reports from Gaza Arabs saying that they WISH Israel was back there!!! "Oh, how things used to be so nice when Israel was around"...
The repercussions of this are very serious and far reaching. It is already spreading to the "West Bank" and its only a matter of time before it effects the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt!
What is mind boggling is that: number one, the whole Israeli cabinet is on summer vacation and out of the country (Olmert, Peretz and Livni), and number two, PM Olmert is trying to put good old Ehud Barak back in charge (as Defense Minister)! Do they not realize that it was his unilateral withdrawal from Southern Lebanon, in the middle of the night, scheme that started all this in the first place? Do they not remember "Intifada I" when Rabin was out of the country and by the time he got back it was out of control? Where are peoples memories??? I keep having flashbacks of Dori from Finding Nemo...
Likewise, I have no words to express my dismay over Peres becoming Israel's 9th president...other than, A: He lost yet again (in the first round) and maybe they put him there just so he would keep his big nose (no, that was not an anti-semitic slur) out of real politics! Wishful thinking...I'm sure that this will come back to bite us in the end..:-(
The repercussions of this are very serious and far reaching. It is already spreading to the "West Bank" and its only a matter of time before it effects the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt!
What is mind boggling is that: number one, the whole Israeli cabinet is on summer vacation and out of the country (Olmert, Peretz and Livni), and number two, PM Olmert is trying to put good old Ehud Barak back in charge (as Defense Minister)! Do they not realize that it was his unilateral withdrawal from Southern Lebanon, in the middle of the night, scheme that started all this in the first place? Do they not remember "Intifada I" when Rabin was out of the country and by the time he got back it was out of control? Where are peoples memories??? I keep having flashbacks of Dori from Finding Nemo...
Likewise, I have no words to express my dismay over Peres becoming Israel's 9th president...other than, A: He lost yet again (in the first round) and maybe they put him there just so he would keep his big nose (no, that was not an anti-semitic slur) out of real politics! Wishful thinking...I'm sure that this will come back to bite us in the end..:-(
Sunday, May 20, 2007
A Zionist Response to the Rocket Attacks
According to Israel's Channel 10 today, "8,000 of Sderot's 23,000 residents are currently residing outside of the town, because of the intense rocket barrage that it has been subjected to in recent days."
Israel's tit for tat retaliation strategy is obviously not working and the Israeli citizens living in the surrounding areas around Gaza feel abandoned by the government that was tasked to defend them.
I don't blame the individuals that flee to protect the lives of their loved ones, but this is EXACTLY WHAT THE TERRORISTS WANT!
They would love to see nothing more than Jews running from their homes, evacuating what they call 'occupied territory'. They adore the sight of tens of thousands being held hostage as virtual prisoners in their own homes. (This was a lesson learned all too well in last summers rocket attacks in the north!)
The solution is a simple one. For each rocket attack, the government in turn supports the building of an additional 'settlement'. For each bombing, another dunam of land is annexed. This would be a true punishment to dissuade terrorists from continuing their aggressive campaign.
The threat of loss of land, is the key to peace in the Middle East. It is the one card that Israel holds that puts fear in even the most hardened Arab heart. They cannot afford to lose any more wars. Israel must end this war of attrition ASAP as it is destroying what is left of the national morale. To paraphrase former PM Shamir, "I don't believe in land for peace, I believe in peace for peace. If they want peace, we are happy to reciprocate with peace!"
Once it is clear that violence will not be rewarded can both sides sit down at the negotiating table and figure out how they can avoid a mutually assured destruction!
Israel's tit for tat retaliation strategy is obviously not working and the Israeli citizens living in the surrounding areas around Gaza feel abandoned by the government that was tasked to defend them.
I don't blame the individuals that flee to protect the lives of their loved ones, but this is EXACTLY WHAT THE TERRORISTS WANT!
They would love to see nothing more than Jews running from their homes, evacuating what they call 'occupied territory'. They adore the sight of tens of thousands being held hostage as virtual prisoners in their own homes. (This was a lesson learned all too well in last summers rocket attacks in the north!)
The solution is a simple one. For each rocket attack, the government in turn supports the building of an additional 'settlement'. For each bombing, another dunam of land is annexed. This would be a true punishment to dissuade terrorists from continuing their aggressive campaign.
The threat of loss of land, is the key to peace in the Middle East. It is the one card that Israel holds that puts fear in even the most hardened Arab heart. They cannot afford to lose any more wars. Israel must end this war of attrition ASAP as it is destroying what is left of the national morale. To paraphrase former PM Shamir, "I don't believe in land for peace, I believe in peace for peace. If they want peace, we are happy to reciprocate with peace!"
Once it is clear that violence will not be rewarded can both sides sit down at the negotiating table and figure out how they can avoid a mutually assured destruction!
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