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PM Netanyahu's LEGAL & MORAL CASE, Obligation, To Arrest Mahmoud Abbas! Commentary By Adina Kutnicki
Posted on October 19, 2015 by Adina Kutnicki
(This Israeli bus was completely incinerated by a suicide bomber. Buses are a favorite target of Palestinian terrorists.)
IN anticipation of Israel's March 17, 2015 election, the Inquisitr's Editor-in-Chief requested an interview, one which would (honestly) analyze the multi-pronged dangers facing Israel, as well as the fitness of the candidates.
NOW, while the choices were between awful and less awful, well, rational folks understood which "devil" to vote for, albeit, holding ones nose.
SUCH was the case this past March, even though many were (still are) loathe to publicly admit as much. Ahh…keeping the dirty laundry hidden from view. This American-Israeli has no such qualms. Too much is at stake.
BE that as it may, its focus became clear: PM Netanyahu's track record demonstrated that he did not have the internal fortitude to beat back domestic and outside foes, yet, voting for Herzog would be tantamount to (sooner than later) national suicide. In reality, it amounted to an either/or proposition: A slow boiling frog scenario, as opposed to a stepped-up version. Hardly palatable.
WOLFF BACHNER: And speaking of responsible world leaders, why isn't the Prime Minster of Israel bringing up these serious issues with the nations involved in the peace process and especially with Obama and demanding an end to all military threats to Israel before Israel will negotiate again? Is he trying too hard to appease Obama and the various European talking heads, and by doing so, weakening Israel's position even further in a peace process that is already an anti-Israeli charade?
ADINA KUTNICKI: It is this lock-step and debasing march which stopped him (during 9 years as PM, from 1996-1999 and 2009 -2015) from declaring victory over Hamas during the 2014 summer-long war, one which blanketed/blitzed the entire country with missile and rocket barrages. More indicting, instead of laying waste, years ago, to Iran's mushrooming genocidal WMD program, he is still begging President Obama to lead the charge, knowing full well that he has no such intention. Chasing ghosts.
Inherently, he could have taken a page out of (the late) PM Menachem Begin's playbook, when he defied President Carter and destroyed Iraq's Osirak reactor. Now, as then, Washington issued threats to "cease and desist", but one PM ignored said orders, while the other (continuously) caved. Statesmanship, or the lack thereof.
In the main, PM Netanyahu is best described as a "serial accommodator", comparable to a badly battered wife who just can't help herself from going back to her abuser, one last time, for more punishment. Now, others may tsk, tsk and opine: Well, the POTUS is the big man in the arena, therefore, what can poor "Bibi" do but genuflect? Hogwash.
For the record, PM Menachem Begin didn't have a problem executing what his mantle required of him; protecting Israel at ALL costs! Similarly, Israel's first PM, David Ben-Gurion, gave Eisenhower the proverbial finger, when he launched a war in 1956 in concert with Britain and France against an increasingly belligerent Egypt. As always, Washington attempted to stay Israel's hand. History repeats.
In furtherance to the above charge and indictment, whereas PM Ben-Gurion took on the U.S. when Israel was little more than a military pipsqueak, PM Netanyahu behaves as if Israel is a vassal state. This is the case even though he has at his disposal the most adept forces in the region, let alone technologically advanced. Hence, the question is not one of actual force strength, but one of inner and moral fortitude. Hmm.
At its base, the moment that PM Netanyahu conceded to a PA (terror) state (during his speech at Bar Ilan University in 2009, two and a half months into his tenure…regardless of how he framed it), the fact of the matter is that he gave Israel's "kosher" stamp of approval to carve a 23 rd Arab state out of the Jewish heartland. This historical injury lands at his doorstep. Agreed, previous PM's have been equally appeasing and beyond injurious, but the imprimatur for the above became cemented under his watch. No doubt.
Thus, he weakened Israel's position within (already hostile, pro Arab) international forums, once he gutted the nation's core standing. Realistically, are others supposed to be "more Catholic than the Pope", so to speak? Not only that, why should they disagree with Israel's PM, in effect, after he already conceded (his "reasoning" doesn't count for a damn) to the "rights" of the so-called Palestinians? Unforgivable.
Most significantly, the "peace process" was irrefutably designed to weaken Israel on numerous fronts, rendering her a walking corpse. This is hardly a secret.
" As early as August 1968, Arafat defined the PLO's strategic objective as "the transfer of all resistance bases" into the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, occupied by Israel during the June 1967 war, "so that the resistance may be gradually transformed into a popular armed revolution." This, he reasoned, would allow the PLO to undermine Israel's way of life by "preventing immigration and encouraging emigration … destroying tourism … weakening the Israeli economy and diverting the greater part of it to security requirements … [and] creating and maintaining an atmosphere of strain and anxiety that will force the Zionists to realize that it is impossible for them to live in Israel."
The Oslo accords enabled the PLO to achieve in one fell swoop what it had failed to attain through many years of violence and terrorism. Here was Israel, just over a decade after destroying the PLO's military infrastructure in Lebanon, asking the Palestinian organization, at one of the lowest ebbs in its history, to establish a real political and military presence—not in a neighboring Arab country but right on its doorstep. Israel even was prepared to arm thousands of (hopefully reformed) terrorists who would be incorporated into newly established police and security forces charged with asserting the PLO's authority throughout the territories"…..
Unarguably, PM Netanyahu is the best orator on the world stage. He proved it on several occasions, most recently, at his speech to Congress on March 3, 2015. Beyond a shadow of a doubt, he is a highly gifted and polished communicator. But his commanding presence is both a byproduct of having been a special forces commando in Israel's elite Sayeret Matkal Unit (General Reconnaissance Staff), coupled with the natural confidence gleaned from being a top graduate of MIT, one of the most acclaimed universities in the world. Not too shabby, brawn and brains alike.
To wit, it is not unreasonable to posit (and to expect) that a man of his inestimable gifts should utilize them (unlike at the aforementioned Bar Ilan speech) to highlight ALL the reasons why a PA (terror) state is a non-starter, regardless of any cockamamie caveats of "demilitarization", in and of itself an illegal demand! For heaven's sake…
Conclusively, to round out the first part of my interview, let me leave the readers with the following concrete shout out: as to the charge sheet that PM Netanyahu is essentially spineless, I would like nothing more than to be proven wrong, as would millions of others. Intrinsically, he can redeem himself without any oratory flourishes, and this can be accomplished by veering into immediate "action-mode." continue reading….
NOT only that, in the midst of Arabs killing Jews, what did PM Netanyahu's henchmen do? They APPROVED housing units in Jerusalem for Arabs, while a building freeze remains in place against Jews! Is this not tantamount to a major betrayal against the Zionist public??
MIND you, even the current round of bloodshed from Israel's domestic fifth column hasn't stopped the "serial accomodator" from intoning: "I call upon PA President Mahmoud Abbas to return immediately to the negotiating table in order to advance the diplomatic process."
PAR for the course, on the one hand, PM Netanyahu publicly calls out Abbas as a main inciter to Jewish genocide, in response to his latest brazen exhortation: "Al-Aksa is ours and so is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. They have no right to desecrate them with their filthy feet. We won't allow them to do so and we will do whatever we can to defend Jerusalem," Abbas said in his Ramallah office during a meeting with east Jerusalem activists. Truth dare be told, Al-Aksa squats atop Judaism's holiest site, The Temple Mount, and defiles it!
EVEN more so, at the latest UN confab, Abbas abrogated the so-called "peace process": "Palestinians will no longer continue to be bound by the Oslo accords unless they receive "international protection" from Israel." Nevertheless, as cited above, PM Netanyahu reverts true to form and wants to "engage" in the "peace process." When will he take NO for an answer and unshackle Israel from the most disastrous "process" to date, one which killed scores of Jews and maimed countless on its altar?
INEXORABLY, it is due to PM Netanyahu's (alongside others) deceptively dangerous charade (tantamount to absolute malfeasance) that ardent Zionists within Israel feel compelled to bear witness, akin to this American-Israeli investigative journalist. In tandem, some of notable stature call upon PM Netanyahu to execute his sworn duty, and they are doing so through their public platforms. Resultant, Professor Paul Eidelberg, a close associate (who requires little introduction at this site), put PM Netanyahu on notice:
Urgent: Arrest or Deport Mahmoud Abbas
Prof. Paul Eidelberg
1) The PLO-Palestinian Authority, headed by Mahmoud Abbas, has been inciting Arabs to kill Jews in Israel. This is not only a violation of International law, but also a blatant violation of the Oslo or Israel-PLO Agreement of September 1993.
2) Mahmoud Abbas must also be charged for having violated the October 1998 Wye Agreement, which was consummated by PM Netanyahu, an agreement that names the United States as its guarantor.
3) Mahmoud Abbas has renounced the Oslo Agreement.
4) Netanyahu, therefore, has solid grounds for arresting or deporting Mahmoud Abbas for inciting Arab terrorism, as a first step for dealing with the Palestinian Authority, whose terrorist activities, according to the United Nations Charter and international law, stamp it as a criminal organization, which must be duly punished.
5) It is the duty all members of the UN to assist in the punishment of such criminal organizations.
6) It logically follows that Mr. Netanyahu has the legal, as well as the moral, right to punish PA leader Mahmoud Abbas, either by having him incarcerated or deported for having committed the crime of incitement.
7) Israel's ambassador to the United Nations should submit a report covering the preceding facts to the appropriate agency of the UN.
8) Mr. Netanyahu should instruct Israel's ambassador to the United States to send a copy of this report to Secretary of State John Kerry.
9) To avoid misrepresentation by the media, Mr.Netanyahu should conduct an international press conference and elaborate on the PLO-Palestinian Authority's violations of international law and of the OSLO and Wye Agreements.
TO wit, keeping up the charade of any "peace" with said Hitlerite regime should be deemed unconscionable and illegal. And being that Arabs in Israel (for the most part) identify with their "Palestinian" brothers and sisters, unless Abbas's PA/Fatah junta is FULLY held to account, Jewish blood will flow through the streets. No doubt.
(A Palestinian holding a knife to slaughter Jews….and "instructions" on "How to stab a Jew" can be found in PA textbooks…is this not enough of a reason to arrest Abbas? If not, why not?)
JUST as clearly, PM Netanyahu is reverting true to form, hoping to kick the can down the road by gaining a reprieve through some "quiet" until the next round. Unfathomably, how many Jewish sacrificial lambs will be enough, before said calculus becomes untenable??
ALAS, few would argue that the most sacred obligation of any leader is the protection of the nation's citizens. In reality, two recent commentaries expose the heretofore inexplicable, at least to those who are unfamiliar with said terrain – "Israel On Fire, Arab-Israelis Wage Militant Jihad Against Jews: What's To Be Done?" and "Israel's Leadership Self-Abasement, Its Bloody Knock-On Effects: Arab-Israeli Militant Jihad."
MOST significantly, Israel's Jewish/Zionist majority public dare not become sacrificial lambs on behalf of the Arab/Muslim minority. In fact, the Jewish people's four-thousand (plus) year old homeland was not rebuilt in 1948 to become a multi-culti facsimile of western nations.
IN this regard, nation-saving imperatives have been amply expounded upon by Dr. Martin Sherman, another close contact – arguably Israel's foremost strategic policy analyst – through his many Jerusalem Post columns and global interviews. Readers would do well to review "Confronting Israel's Precarious Future: An Interview With Dr. Martin Sherman." It serves as a clear-eyed analysis, relative to the double and triple standards heaped upon Israel by the international community, as well as reveals the myth of a "Palestinian" homeland.
INCONTROVERTIBLY, PM Netanyahu has both a LEGAL and MORAL obligation to arrest Mahmoud Abbas and the rest of Israel's internal fifth column inciters; namely, Arab Knesset members who regularly incite to kill Jews, as well as the leadership of the Islamic movement in Israel's north.
(Burying another brave son of Israel who died to protect his people and his homeland.)
ANYTHING less must be construed as another smoke and mirrors show (demonstrated within the link) and duly signed off by PM Netanyahu, the results of which are a foregone conclusion – many more dead and maimed Jews!
JEWISH history will indict all the players, and a goodly portion of the onus will land (rightfully) at PM Netanyahu's door.
(While Obama pressures Israel to divide Jerusalem and sign a suicidal peace treaty, Hamas, the PA/Fatah junta alike, dreams of finishing what Hitler started.)
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ISRAEL'S "PEACE" OBSESSED LEADERSHIP COMMIT CRIMES AGAINST JEWISH NATIONAL SOVEREIGN RIGHTS, IN CONTRAVENTION OF ITS PENAL CODE !…Commentary By Adina Kutnicki
Posted on December 26, 2013 by Adina Kutnicki
A person who, with intent that any area be removed from the sovereignty of the state or placed under the sovereignty of a foreign state, commits an act calculated to bring this about, is liable to life imprisonment or the death penalty. – Section 97(b) of the current Penal Code in Israel – under "Treason."
As to the illegality of releasing terrorists, the U.S. is in breach of the international legal aspect to the Palestinian demand for Israel to free terrorists, and to the US support for this demand. Binding UN Security Council resolution 1373 requires all states to "Deny safe haven to those who finance, plan, support, or commit terrorist acts, or provide safe havens." In addition, Israel's leadership are equally in violation of said international binding resolution by bowing to U.S. demands.
IN tandem with the above, there are a slew of laws within Israel's Penal Code – primarily dealing with Jewish SOVEREIGN rights within Israel – which are violated with impunity by Israel's leadership on a regular basis, yet propped up under political "necessity", as if there is no other option but to chop apart the Jewish patrimony – or else. Really. This is the insidious cover under which the leadership hides behind, and opines that it just can't be helped, as it is in the nation's "interest" to do "this and that". How ignorant of the laws of the land do they think its Jewish citizens are? As to the Arabs in Israel, they (mostly) support said lawlessness.
Regardless, there is no getting around this horrific fact. In effect, those who are entrusted to protect the rights/title inherent to the Jewish people's eternal homeland, are its grossest violators. For even if the Jewish majority wanted to concede parts of Israel, they have NO mandate to do so. NONE at all.
In this regard, let us hark back to yesteryear and take a trip down historical (legal too) memory lane, one which is fully supported within the following legal treatise authored by the (late) preeminent legal scholar, Howard Grief:The Legal Foundation And Borders Of Israel Under International Law: A Treatise on Jewish Sovereignty over the Land of Israel.
"No Jew is at liberty to surrender the right of the Jewish Nation and the Land of Israel to exist.This right is reserved to the Jewish People throughout the generations. Our right to this land, in its entirety, is enduring and eternal and until the coming Redemption, we shall never yield this historic right." -David Ben-Gurion, 20th Zionist Congress speech, Basel 1937
Israel's Legal Right to Samaria is enshrined in International Law!
A cold, hard look at the law reveals an undeniable if inconvenient (for some) truth: Israel and the Jewish People have full sovereign rights to Judea and Samaria. A fair and objective analysis of the various post-WWI declarations, agreements, decisions and treaties regarding the Question of Palestine (not to be confused with today's made-up "Palestine" that the "Palestinians" claim as theirs) can only lead to this conclusion.
The most significant of these decisions was the San Remo Resolution of 1920, which recognized the exclusive national Jewish rights to the Land of Israel under international law, on the strength of the historical connection of the Jewish people to the territory previously known as Palestine. The outcome of this declaration gave birth to the "Mandate for Palestine," an historical League of Nations document that laid down the Jewish legal right to settle anywhere in western Palestine, between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. In fact, in San Remo, the nations of the world had formally obligated themselves not only to establish a Jewish state on the historic Jewish Homeland but also to facilitate its development as well (see Article 6 of the still-binding Mandate for Palestine). This plainly means that today's Israeli settlements are in fact 100% legal and that the accusation of "occupation" is completely false. Back then, the concept of a "Palestinian People" was unheard of and "Palestine" referred only to a Levantine region and never to an Arab nation or state. Believe it or not.
From San Remo to Samaria: Following the WWI defeat of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, the League of Nations (precursor to the U.N.) decided to divide up the huge landmass of the vanquished Ottomans as follows: a mandate, or trusteeship, for France (Lebanon and Syria) and a mandate for Britain (Iraq and Palestine [comprised of what is today Israel, Gaza, Judea, Samaria and Jordan]). The legal position of the whole of Palestine was clearly defined in several international agreements*, the most important of which was the one adopted in April 1920 at the San Remo Conference, attended by the Principal Allied Powers (Council of Four). It decided to assign the Mandate for Palestine under the League of Nations to Britain. Two years later an agreed text was confirmed by the League and came into operation in September 1923. In Article 2 of that document, the League of Nations declared that
"The Mandatory shall be responsible for placing the country under such political, administrative and economic conditions as will secure the establishment of the Jewish national home, as laid down in the preamble."
The preamble clearly stated that
"recognition has hereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country."
It was on this basis that the British Mandate was established. The San Remo Agreement was the last legally binding international decision regarding the rights to what is today known as the West Bank, and thus, according to international law which is still binding to this day, these parts, Judea and Samaria, belong to Israel and the Jewish People, period.
The significance for Israel and the Jewish People of San Remo cannot be overestimated. None other than Chaim Weizman, the Zionist leader of that time, declared:
"The San Remo decision…is the most momentous political event in the whole history of our (Zionist) movement, and, it is perhaps, no exaggeration to say in the whole history of our people since the Exiles"
Moreover, similar evidence was brought forth in the following interview: The Inquisitr Interviews Adina Kutnicki: The Reality Of Life For An Israeli Patriot (May 2013) –
Wolff Bachner: In your own writing, you have been quite outspoken about the Israeli government's abusive treatment of the Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria (Gaza and the West Bank). They were encouraged by Israel's leaders to move into the territories after 1967 and build entire communities, but since 2005 they have been uprooted time and time again by the order of the Israeli government.
What is the legal status of Judea and Samaria ? Wasn't the land promised to Israel in 1924 under the San Remo doctrine, which is considered irrevocable international law under the UN's founding charter? Isn't Judea and Samaria actually Jewish land and don't Israelis have the right to settle in these areas?
Why are Israeli leaders treating their own citizens which such brutality and contempt, as we have seen over and over in the gruesome videos of Israeli soldiers and police viciously assaulting Jewish settlers and destroying their homes with tanks and bulldozers?
Adina Kutnicki: Wolff, you keep hitting them out of the ballpark. Herein lies another lightning rod question which requires much needed edification (and disinfectant) for the general public.
The legal status of Judea and Samaria is currently "disputed" territories, even after Israel recaptured its (San Remo codified) heartland from an annihilatory waged war in 1967. Besides, whatever happened to "the victor goes the spoils" ? Regardless,"occupied" territories has become the accepted lexicon and tragically Israel's left keeps trotting out the "occupation", as if it is a truth derived from Sinai. Adding to the crux of the matter, it is absolutely, irrefutably the legal case that San Remo bestowed Palestine to the Jewish people. San Remo bases itself on Article 22 of the League of Nations, as such, " a sacred trust of civilization" was declared and this Mandate created a Jewish national home in Palestine (incidentally, Palestine is the pejorative name given to Judea by the Roman Emperor Hadrian, over 2,000 years ago, as a reminder of the Philistines, an ancient enemy of the Jewish people). Even more so, the following clause was significantly added: "Whereas recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country." The legal case is closed, or so it would seem. But when it comes to Jewish title to their historical, legal, biblical birthright, nothing is as it should be. Up is down and wrong is right. Is it any wonder that evil is now reconstituted as good? For a complete education on the subject I refer the readers to Howard Grief's (an eminent international legal expert) tour de force " The Legal Foundation and Borders of Israel Under International Law." What a fountain of (legal) truth.
As to Israel's leaders…where to begin? A good place to commence is through a basic understanding of Israel's political system – an (un)holy mess. In this vein, I penned an op-ed at American Thinker (reprinted at The Jewish Press) entitled " The Paradox of Israeli Politics: Vote Right, Get Left." To be precise, due to this glaring paradox, whereby the majority public elects a generally right wing leadership, citizens find themselves governed from the left. The reasons are manifestly beyond the scope of this forum, but a simple google search will direct interested readers to the aforementioned article.
In any case, this dysfunction explains how PM Sharon (and others have followed suit) was able to defy the will of the majority electorate who carried him to victory. Hence, he ordered the unilateral "disengagement" from Gush Katif (aka Gaza) and the northern Shomron, as he directed Israel's citizen soldiers to bulldoze thriving Jewish communities, all the while over 8,600 lawful, taxpaying citizens were expelled – almost as if by fiat – even defying a referendum in the process. Orwellian. If any other western leadership behaved in such a brutish, non-democratic manner towards its Jewish citizens, well, all hell would have broken loose. Not to be lost in the discussion, had PM Sharon executed the same wholesale destruction towards its Arab citizens, then let's just say that hell on earth would be more than an apt description. And in memory of the 6th year of said expulsion, another op-ed ("The Bitter Fruits of Disengagement", August 19, 2011) was penned. It was featured at the Jewish Press and several other media outlets.
The above political pitfalls covers the "how" part of the question, and the "why" segment falls under the general purview of appeasement syndromes, not unlike Stockholm Syndrome. But as related above, its genesis lies in the Oslo "peace" process, thus, the "Oslo Syndrome" is highly applicable.
Wolff Bachner: The Netanyahu government seems dedicated to persecuting Israeli Jews who are Nationalists and believe in a strong Israel. Zionist patriots are prosecuted for hate speech if they say a word that is critical of Palestinians or Israeli officials and Rabbis are arrested for quoting Torah. Jewish homes in Israel proper are being destroyed by the Israeli authorities while Arabs squat and build with impunity on Jewish owned land. Israeli NGO's accept millions of dollars of foreign money from nations and organizations that are openly hostile to Israel and use the money to defame Israel in the eyes of the world and endanger the lives of Israelis.
No other nation on the planet would tolerate hostile foreign governments undermining their national sovereignty and allow their citizens to accept money from those governments to attack the policies of their own country. Has the government of Israel lost its mind and its Jewish soul?
Is it now a crime in Israel to stand up for your country in the face of endless Muslim / Arab aggression and demand the government stop compromising with people who want to commit genocide against the Jewish people?
Adina Kutnicki: The Netanyahu government is emblematic of the disparate treatment meted out towards nationalist Jews, in contrast to kid glove treatment reserved for leftists and Arabists. It is entirely befuddling to those who are convinced that Israel has a nationalist leadership. While there are nationalists within, the overall policy is far from "right wing". The left has a stranglehold on the justice/court system (Tzipi Livni, the current AG, is an avowed leftist), and its state prosecutors are beyond the pale. They haven't met a Jewish nationalist who is not "guilty" and in need of "re-education". Again, much of this lies within the scope of Israel's broken parliamentary system of governance, whereby MK's are not held accountable, hence, the lack of responsibility to a particular constituency.
As a matter of record, on behalf of my work with HONENU Legal Defense Organization – an Israeli non-profit designated to defend Israeli soldiers and citizens, free of charge, from legal traps which ensnare "settlers" and those who support their efforts – a series of investigations ensued. A centerpiece expose' detailed a stunning indictment of Israel's General Security Service (GSS), and as a reference point, its equivalent arm in the U.S. is the FBI. Instead of utilizing its frontal assault against a dangerous Arab fifth column, both inside the "green line" and in Judea and Samaria, it expends huge resources to entrap "settlers', in the expectation that they will give up their defense of the heartland and just go "home" within Israel proper. Good luck with that. "Administrative Detention Orders Against Jewish Nationalists" (October 2011) delineates said internal struggle. Aside from its posting at HONENU, it can be found at the Freeman Center For Strategic Studies/The Freeman Blog. It is not easily digestible, so I apologize in advance for any ensuing heartburn.
I will leave it up to the readers to make their own determination, as to whether the leadership has lost its mind, its Jewish soul or both. It's not a hard calculus to discern.
But never mind, the leadership's treachery is executed and conducted under the banner of "political maneuverings", disguised as diplomatic imperatives, and "what we see from there, you don't see from here". Reprobates.
Aside from their oft repeated diplo speak and mumbo jumbo, multiple Israeli governments have egregiously vitiated Israel's own laws, (with the "peace" process at the forefront, they also violate concrete laws when releasing terrorists, not only in contravention of Israel's "Basic Laws", but in the international legal arena too), making nonsense of any semblance of "rule of law".
As a result, they continually exhibit grave (im)moral bankruptcy, and worse! So, even if they wake up one morning and collectively decide, that ceding the majority of the Jewish heartland is "mandatory" for "peace", they are STILL not allowed to do so! Manna dropping from the sky couldn't cover their behinds. End of story. Or so one would believe…
THEREFORE, pay rapt attention to the following column by Dr. Martin Sherman, a close associate; the most incisive strategic policy analyst – bar none – within Israel! Into the fray: Infuriating, insidious, immoral.
Then hop on over herein: Confronting Israel's Precarious Future: An Interview With Dr. Martin Sherman: Part One. Mind numbing.
In a nutshell, those who are bereft of any semblance of moral and ethical behavior think little of betraying their dead & living, therefore, JEWISH JUSTICE is always denied. Recoil, when thinking how easily legal (not to mention moral) dictates are thrown asunder!
Tragically, aside from the insidious, immoral treachery emanating from Obama Inc., rest assured, Israel's leaders bear just as close watching, as it is THEIR sworn obligation to protect Israel from said predators!
And if more evidence is required, it important to recognize that the release of CONVICTED Jew-killers is never sanctioned under Israeli law – for political considerations or otherwise – nor under International Law, so much so that the following would hardly come to pass without the leadership's violations thereof: Terrorist hard core swapped for Gilead Shalit believed orchestrating current Palestinian attacks. So, as a result, any ensuing Jewish blood lands at the leadership's door. They have become – unwittingly or not – accomplices. Years of terror releases surely tells the bloody tale.
NO sense placing lipstick on whatever pig stinks up the truth. The results lead to the same foul and deadly ending.
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VOTE RIGHT, GET LEFT: ISRAEL'S DANGEROUSLY DYSFUNCTIONAL POLITICAL SYSTEM STRIKES AGAIN. Additional Leftist Treachery In Store Via A Newly Appointed COMMISSAR, Shai Nitzan!…Commentary By Adina Kutnicki
The following op-ed at American Thinker (by this blogger) was not only well received, but linked to other sites, including The Jewish Press – The Paradox of Israeli Politics: Vote Right, Get Left by Adina Kutnicki. In addition, an interview was conducted by Inquisitr.com regarding this very same subject matter: The Reality of Life For An Israeli Patriot. All of it, headache inducing… head spinning…mind boggling.
Both were written for American (western) and Israeli audiences (translated into Hebrew too) due to the fact that so many have expressed profound bewilderment/befuddlement at Israel's incomprehensible – dare one say, schizophrenic – decision making process.
In this regard, there is a "coalition of the willing" who refuse to be cowed by the "powers that be" – including this American-Israeli – taking them to task in very public forums, come what may.
Israel's pre-eminent strategic policy analyst, Dr. Martin Sherman, spelled out the resultant strategic disasters from said dysfunction, in too many prominent venues to count. But a recent analysis is a stand alone, Confronting Israel's Precarious Future: An Interview With Dr. Martin Sherman.
The failure of Israel to defend its image—never mind, advance—its image abroad has given its detractors virtually free hand in attacking it and in undermining its international legitimacy. This has the inevitable result of allowing the animosity towards Israel to grow unchecked, leaving its supporters abandoned without adequate arguments to defend it – or themselves – against the unfounded defamation and slander.
This diplomatic debacle is in fact a grave dereliction of duty by the Jewish state and its official organs. For it has not only made it far more difficult to publicly support, defend and identify with Israel and Zionism. It has made it considerably more dangerous.
Indeed, Israel's anemic efforts to explain its policies and the constraints and imperatives that mold it –reflected, among other things, by the miserly budgets it allots its public diplomacy–are putting Jewish communities across the world increasingly at risk. For through their association with Israel, they have become surrogate targets for the anger the distorted portrayal of the country has aroused among numerous sectors across the globe.
This situation was rather caustically, but aptly, diagnosed by the very eloquent British columnist Melanie Philips, a staunch supporter of Israel, who in a brilliant but scathing interview on Israeli TV, scolded: "Israel has made itself defenseless…Israel has vacated the battlefield of ideas…"
In tandem, do pay keen attention to Dr. Martin Sherman's latest tv interview at i24news, regarding the counter intuitive, obsessive compulsive "peace process". A "road map" to Israel's dismemberment…"peace by peace"…"piece by piece". What kind of dysfunctional leaders continue down such a path? Israel's.
Moreover, without a doubt, Professor Steven Plaut holds the leadership's feet to the fire too. Evidence abounds to his broadsides. I'm An Israeli Soldier coupled with Schadenfreude & Israel's Left are simply two illustrations of his clear thinking.
Netanyahu Appoints a Bolshevik Commissar
Professor Steven Plaut
Whenever the Likud has been in power, the first priority on its agenda has been to implement the policies of the Labor Party and those to the left of it. This is why Bibi "two states solution" Netanyahu appointed more leftist judicial activist judges than his Labor party predecessors did. This is why Netanyahu refuses to end agricultural bolshevism or break up the cartels and monopolies that operate in Israel, ironically including those for milk and for honey. This is why freedom of speech for non-leftists has been curtailed under Likud administrations. This is why Netanyahu scuttled laws that required disclosure of funding for leftist anti-Israel NGOs operating in Israel, along with other laws to defend Israeli democracy. This is why Netanyahu did nothing to end the governmental funding for tenured treason. Under Netanyahu governments, Israeli state prizes general go to anti-Israel leftists. Leftist institutions are coddled and often funded with state money. Netanyahu thinks that such decisions make him popular among the Left and its captive media venues, and make him appear a supra-partisan statesman.
One of the most aggressive enemies of freedom of speech and democracy under the Netanyahu governments has been Shai Nitzan. He served as the special button man for the Attorney General's office in Israel to harass and persecute the "Right." While Nitzan repeatedly attempted to prosecute "Rightists" for daring to exercise freedom of speech, including Rabbis who expressed opinions not to the liking of the Left, I personally think his very worst assault on democracy took place in the "Bukay Affair," which is described here: http://frontpagemag.com/2009/steven-plaut/the-bukay-affair-by-steven-plaut/ . I issued my own calls for the dismissal of Nitzan as early as 2009 (seehttp://www.isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/Israeli%20extremism%20-%20thought%20control%20in%20israel.htm ). While interrogating Soviet-style a nationalist professor (not me) for things he said in the classroom and prosecuting teenage children for attending rightist demonstrations, Nitzan refused to prosecute leftists and Arabs calling for murder and violence (see http://zioncon.blogspot.co.il/2011/07/open-calls-for-bloodshed-and-violence.html ).
Nitzan is so openly leftist that he ruled that leftist portraits showing Netanyahu in SS uniform are protected speech while anything that implies disagreement with the theology of Yitzhak Rabin or anything that "insults" any leftist public official (like a Supreme Court judge or Shimon Peres) is "incitement" and a crime that must be prosecuted.
This morning the Netanyahu government announced that Nitzan is to be the next State's Attorney, in essence the Israeli Chief Prosecutor.
The only conceivable reason for this seems to be that Uri Avnery or Tamar Goszansky (from the Israeli communist party) were not available to serve.
As to the abundance of evidence proving the bonafides of the latest COMMISSAR, Shai Nitzan, Israel's State's Attorney, its Chief Prosecutor, "Nitzan is widely perceived as an avowed ideological enemy of the Jewish settlement enterprise in Judea and Samaria, a perception that engendered much criticism of the possible appointment in the months leading up to the announcement."
As to how "voting right ALWAYS gets left", thus, rendering pernicious leftist outcomes, bear this uppermost in mind: ALL occurred under a supposed "right wing" leadership! Below are three indictments – out of enumerable – which serve as devastating exhibits:
ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION ORDERS AGAINST JEWISH NATIONALISTS – ADINA KUTNICKI – Freeman Center For Strategic Studies is a case study whereby right wing leaders pursue Jewish nationalists with equal impunity, as do their leftist counterparts. Same modus operandi.
Once they set their sights on a Jewish nationalist target, the Israel Security Agency utilizes a variety of methods. It may move the process forward quickly by citing 'information' which requires immediate detention or expulsion. Gleaned mostly through unsubstantiated intel in the first place, (which is often fabricated) the cases rarely lead to formal indictments, with many charges quietly dropped. Sometimes, they dangle incentives before those identified as more likely to succumb to pressure. For instance, they may offer to pay for everyday necessities to ease a family's financial burdens. Lately the security services have employed a new tool of harassment–arresting those who come home after midnight!….
Justice in the Holy Land?
Is It Ideologically Driven? Honenu (Legal Aid to Israeli soldiers & citizens in distress) can attest that it is –
Adina Kutnicki – demonstrates that there are two parallel legal criteria set up in Israel; one used to judge Jewish nationalists, the other used to adjudicate against leftists and their Arab counterparts.
Could it be true, are there really two parallel sets of justice/rules of law, one applied to leftists and their Arab counterparts, the other to right wing nationalists and their 'settler' brethren? These questions require urgent answers, particularly in light of several recent high profile, disturbing events taking place in Eretz Yisrael…..
The outrageous, humiliating spectacles of Rabbi Dov Lior and Rabbi Yaakov Yosef hauled into police stations, for the 'crime' of endorsing (issuing a haskama) a leading Jewish legal treatise, Torat HaMelech, The King's Torah, raises the specter of the arrival of a new level of selective prosecution against the nationalist sector. The threatened charge: Incitement. A troubling thought indeed……
On the other hand, unlike Rabbis and Jewish nationalists, leftists do not suffer the same personal and public humiliations nor are they arrested for their comments which actually incite to Jewish murder!….
Consider the following, albeit a tiny sampling of their high profile utterances: Professor Yehudah "Judd" Ne'eman, Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University Faculty of the Arts, an Israel Prize Winner (usually reserved for those on the far left), publicly called for a civil war. Unlike the above Rabbis who simply interpreted Jewish law, Professor Ne'eman urged his fellow leftists to execute a "war between the political left and the Jews of Judea and Samaria", AKA the "settlers". Even though recordings of Ne'eman's statements were obtained and publicized by Israel's TV Channel 1, incredulously, he was never called in for investigation by the State Prosecutor's office.
His call follows a recent statement by former Technion physics professor Oded Regev that he would be willing to volunteer in a civil war against the radical right. Oded lobbed this verbal grenade,"I believe that there is only one way to overcome the religious extremists and that is through organized violence, through launching warfare in the full meaning of the term. Anyone who does not surrender in that war will be incarcerated. Those Rabbis and their friends continue in the tradition of Goebbels".
Not to be outdone in his leftist vitriol, Professor Eyal Nir, of Ben Gurion University's Chemistry department, (following in the infamous footsteps of Neve Gordon, BGU's poster boy for worldwide anti-Israel rhetoric) likewise incited against the nationalist sector, calling "on the world to come and help break these scoundrels' necks." His " scoundrels" were young Jews who marched with Israeli flags on Jerusalem Day through areas lightly populated by Jews in our united capital…..
And, The Hunt Continues:The Hunt Against Jewish Nationalists Continues – Adina Kutnicki – exhibits the brazen, often illegal tactics used to pressure Jewish nationalists into giving up their quest to live within the Jewish heartland, Judea and Samaria aka the West Bank. Simple as that.
Under extreme pressure from the left wing media, Israeli police continue to arrest Jewish nationalists with little or no evidence. Even though most charges are eventually dropped, the detainees face difficult conditions in prison cells and interrogation rooms…
WITH the above firmly planted in mind, the seemingly inexplicable dichotomies and paradoxes have hopefully become clearer. YET, this recent explosive interview with Professor Paul Eidelberg, Organized Treachery vs. Organized Hypocrisy: A 35-Year Study of Israel's Dysfunctional Government strips bare the treachery and the hypocrisy of Israel's dysfunctional government!
Despite the fact that the Likud Party won more than 70 percent of the votes in February 2003, when it campaigned against the Labor Party's policy of unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, Likud Prime Minister Ariel Sharon adopted Labor's policy and thus effectively nullified that 2003 election! Moreover, in October of the following year, the Knesset "legitimated" Sharon's coup by enacting the "Gaza Evacuation Law," thanks to the votes of 23 Likud MKs who thus betrayed their February 2003 election pledges to the nation…
Sharon's nullification of the 2003 election was actually political coup d'etat. Add the spiritual coup that Prime Minister Netanyahu pulled four months after the March 2009 election. In June of that year, Netanyahu, without Knesset or public debate (and contrary to his own Likud Party's constitution), endorsed the creation of an Arab Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria, the cradle of Jewish civilization! So much for Proportional Representation, exalted as one of the blessings of democracy…
The fact that almost every democracy on the planet manages to conduct its public business by means of multi-geographic- constituency elections should dispel the fiction that Israel cannot function well or justly without its existing system. The truth is that 65 years of this "system" has engendered the shoddiest politics. In the 1999 elections, 29 Knesset Members hopped over to rival parties in order to obtain safe seats! Israel's political "system" is a disgrace as well as a disaster, and only the ignorant along with self-serving politicians want to preserve it!"…..
Israel has not only flawed politicians but also flawed political institutions—and this includes Israel's Supreme Court which has usurped legislative and executive powers of government by its pernicious and unparalleled dictum that "everything is negotiable." This dictum gives the Court the power to negate the cherished values of the Jewish people–and it has done so! The lack in Israel of a Constitution that defines the Legislative as well as the Executive powers of the Government renders the range of these powers extremely vague—so much so that the PEOPLE have no idea of what is permissible or impermissible. Even law professors find it difficult to distinguish a basic law from ordinary legislation. But here's the coup de grace. In 1992, a coup d'état occurred in Israel without the public having the vaguest idea of what was in store for the Jewish state.In that year the Knesset enacted Basic Law: Human Freedom and Dignity. This so-called basic law was enacted by the absurd vote of 32-21, i.e., with less than half of the Knesset's membership voting! This was an act of judicial despotism for which Israel may thank the Court's President Aharon Barak— famous or infamous for his dictum "everything is justiciable."…….
Does anyone still wonder how/why Shai Nitzan is merely the latest (in a VERY long line) socialist COMMISSAR to be elected by a pithy "right wing" leadership?
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Israel's Political Leaders (Via Releasing Terrorists/Murderers & So Much More) Betray Zionist Public: Beholden To The "Gang Of The Rule Of Law". Professor Paul Eidelberg Elucidates
WITH the ongoing "peace" train chugging apace, much has been written about the seemingly "inexplicable", counter intuitive behavior of Israel's leaders, particularly regarding their bowing, scraping and appeasing of foreign players who wish the Jewish homeland ill will. Yes, they do, regardless of their sweet nothings. In fact, what kind of "friends" demand that terrorists/murderers be set free, as a condition for "peace" to spring forth? More to the point, what type of "peace" partners MAKE such demands in the first place? As to Israel's leaders agreeing to such insanity, well, therein necessitates the commentary. The national tragedy.
Time and again, Israel's leadership outdo themselves through their mendacious (actionable) behavior, becoming "legal" outlaws in the process – Nullum Crimen Sine Poena: No Crime Without Punishment. A partial listing of recent terrorists/murderers released by PM Netanyahu cries out for Jewish justice – from Israel's derelict and craven leadership! So much so, stalwart Zionists can't help but take them to task and upbraid them publicly. To assert that this is a painstaking, depressing and degrading task, well, is to underestimate the gravity of the situation. The "matzav".
But before we assess the heart of the matter – to garner a clear understanding of how Israel got from there to here – it is worth reviewing some content for contextual heft. Let us now do so, mainly through Israel's ship of fools and Confronting Israel's Precarious Future: An Interview With Dr. Martin Sherman.
Onto the (putrid) meat….
The Reported but Ignored Conspiracy of Israel's Government:
Ariel Sharon, The Role Model of Benjamin Netanyahu
Prologue. The time: June 21, 2005. Imagine [then] Prime Minister Ariel Sharon scanning the Jerusalem Post during a trip to Washington. He knows the Post is about the only Israeli newspaper read by American officials. He sees the weekly article penned by the Post's most respected political analyst, Caroline Glick. Her article is dated June 21, 2005, just a few weeks before Israel's withdrawal from Gaza. The article is entitled:
"A coward for a prime minister"
The longest chapter in Machiavelli's The Prince is on conspiracy. A profound but unreported conspiracy was perpetrated in Israel ten years ago. Strange as it may seem, details of the conspiracy were publicized by [former] Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin in a wide-ranging interview of Ariel Sharon by journalist Ari Shavit and published in the June 5, 2003 issue of Ha'aretz Magazine.[1] The interview contains unprecedented and startling revelations. Indeed, Mr. Rivlin exposed what may arguably be called a criminal conspiracy of Israel's entire Political and Judicial Establishment! What is more, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu current endorsement of a Palestinian state is the consummation of this conspiracy!
Part I. Introduction to the Rivlin Revelations
Ari Shavit entitled his June 5, 2003 interview of Speaker Rivlin "Courting Disaster," à propos of the policy of territorial retreat or "disengagement" adopted by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. This policy necessitated a legal or judicial foundation. Abandoning Gaza required the forced expulsion of 8,000 Jews from their homes. Since this involved a basic issue of law, it required the cooperation or collaboration of Israel's Supreme Court.
Shavit's interview of Rivlin tells the unvarnished story. Speaker Rivlin not only had much to say about Ariel Sharon's character, but also about the mentality of Supreme Court Justice Aharon Barak. Sharon needed Judge Barak to "legalize" Israel's Gaza withdrawal, which amounted to a Jewish cleansing policy. Stated more precisely, Sharon needed Judge Barak's judicial cooperation because the forced expulsion of Jews from their homes in Gaza was clearly a violation of their property rights, indeed, of Basic Law: Human Dignity and Freedom of which Barak was the principal author!
To legalize the expulsion, the Barak Court simply held that Gaza (as well as Judea and Samaria) are "belligerent occupied territory" to which the Basic Law in question does not apply. But what gave the Supreme Court the authority to designate Gaza "belligerent occupied territory" and ignore that Basic Law? No such judicial power was granted to the Court by any legislation of the Knesset. Chief Justice Barak simply proclaimed the unprecedented dictum that "everything is justiciable," a dictum that gave the Court virtually unlimited power. This and more is spelled out in the Rivlin interview of June 5, 2003.
Before examining this extraordinary aspect of the Rivlin interview, the fact that political scientists virtually ignored the revolutionary implications of Barak's dictum suggests they were either suffering from a cerebral vacuity or that most were reluctant to publicly denounce Sharon's adoption of Labor's disengagement policy, even though this policy had been opposed by Israel's highest military and intelligence officials in public testimony before the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee!
However, rather than impugn the intelligence and patriotism of the political science fraternity, let us exercise our intellects and perhaps amuse ourselves by exploring the more interesting scenario of a publicized but ignored conspiracy, even though it may be nothing more than a case of political cowardice and stupidity, characteristics often attributed to Israel's government and its advisors. We don't want to be confused with conspiracy addicts.
Accordingly, to clear the ground for a serious and scholarly inquiry, I shall cite the most relevant parts of Mr. Rivlin's June 5, 2003 Ha'aretz interview and let the reader himself answer the accusatory question, "What's going on here in Israel?" I hasten to add that the Rivlin interview is by no means dated, for Israel's current Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is following the Sharon-Barak legacy so candidly exposed by the Knesset Speaker.
Part II. The Rivlin Revelations
Of its many fascinating revelations, most significant are those involving the character of Israel's ruling elites and the authenticity of Israeli democracy. Only two need concern us:
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was a "closet leftist," and
Chief Justice Aharon Barak's dictum that "everything is justiciable" was nothing less than a "putsch," a coup d'état."[2]
It was precisely the Barak dictum that "everything is justiciable" that allowed the Court to "legalize" the government's "unilateral disengagement" policy and the consequent expulsion of Jews from Gaza. This dictum, which virtually transformed Israel into a judicial dictatorship, violates the democratic orientation of the prophets of Israel, who were the primary defenders of the rights of the Jewish people vis-à-vis their government.
For the sake of clarity, I will divide Rivlin's far-ranging interview into sections and inject only a few explanatory remarks.
Ari Shavit's Interview of Speaker Rivlin
Shavit asks Rivlin: "Is [Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon tormented by his personal responsibility for the establishment of the settlements and the need to deal with his mistakes?"
Rivlin: "Whereas in the personal realm Sharon is a very sensitive person whose eyes often grow moist, in the national realm he is entirely without emotions. He has no inhibitions. He is a Mapainik without inhibitions, referring to the Mapai party, the precursor of Labor, which was known for its rampant [left-wing (PE)] pragmatism. When he forms an opinion, nothing will stop him. No sentiment and no human commitment will hold him back."
"Rivlin himself," Shavit continues, "is agitated and of two minds about the Sharonist shift. In the room of the Jerusalem hotel in which we meet, his voice cracks and his eyes shine as he talks about the shattered dream of the 'national camp' and the loss of the Land of Israel. Even though he understands the logic that is guiding his political patron, Prime Minister [Sharon], he is not willing to accept it. He, Reuven Rivlin, will never lift a finger to hand over the Land of Israel. Even if he remains utterly alone, he will prefer to show allegiance to the lost ideal of Ze'ev Jabotinsky and Menachem Begin and to the integrity of the homeland. It is only after some time … that he begins to speak with the same fervor about the subject we are here to discuss: theconstitutional revolution, Supreme Court President Aharon Barak and the threat posed to democracy precisely by the Israeli establishments. The speaker of the Knesset does not mince his words. He talks bluntly and directly about the things that are disturbing him and making him lose sleep [emphasis added (PE)]."
B. The Relationship between Rivlin and Sharon
Shavit: "Ruby Rivlin, you are very close to Sharon. You hold intimate conversations with him. Where is he taking us?"
Rivlin: "Arik is trying to achieve a solution that will put him into the history books as a person who fomented a historical turning point – like Ben-Gurion in 1947, Begin in 1979 and Yitzhak Rabin in 1993. But Arik also understands in the clearest way possible that he cannot achieve a permanent settlement that will satisfy the Arabs. He understands that no one on the Arab side will agree to forgo the areas that he regards as essential for the defense of the State of Israel.
"I refer mainly to areas in the Jordan Rift Valley and to the strip running from Arad to Jerusalem, in the Dead Sea region. Arik is therefore aiming for a temporary settlement. But the temporary settlement he has in mind is far-reaching. He truly intends the establishment of a Palestinian state with territorial contiguity and a true separation between us and 3.5 million Palestinians."
Shavit: "Are you saying that the moderate Sharon we have seen … is the real Sharon?"
Rivlin: "Undoubtedly. Whether I like it or not, the moderate Arik is authentic. Look, sometimes he zigzags. Sometimes he says things ambivalently, which can be interpreted either way. But to my chagrin, he has passed the point of no return. I can tell you and your readers with certainty that Arik Sharon is resolute in his position that a settlement has to be reached immediately. When he talks about the end of the occupation and about painful concessions, he is not pulling a fast one and he is not lying – unfortunately."
Shavit: "When did you grasp that this is it, that he crossed the Rubicon?"
Rivlin: "In October. One night he called me into his office and showed me the road map and asked me for my comments. At that moment I understood that we were approaching the moment of truth. That he's really going for it."
Shavit: "So deep down he really has remained a Mapainik?"
Rivlin: "Without a doubt. In the end, Arik believes in security above all and is a salient pragmatist, a disciple of Ben-Gurion….
"Look, Arik Sharon has a doctrine of life that is far more coherent than what journalists give him credit for. It's true that in the past he moved from one place to another. I myself was critical of him for changing certain positions for political purposes. But people here didn't understand that from the day he assumed the post of prime minister, his security and political outlook was very crystallized.
"He didn't know, and he still doesn't know, how to reach a permanent settlement, but he is determined to recognize a Palestinian state and reach a settlement. Think about the fact that when he says the occupation is hard for the people of Israel he is really saying that the occupation corrupts. That we have the right to the land but that we can't realize it. In this, he is actually accepting the ideology of the left."
Shavit: "So the person who heads the Likud today is really a Ben-Gurionist?"
Rivlin: "Arik is definitely a Ben-Gurionist. In our conversations, he laughs and calls me the ideologue, and I laugh and call him [Ben-Gurion's] disciple. But there's nothing funny about it. It's completely true. And for me it's rough, because since October I have been wracked by an inner conflict between my uncompromising belief that all of Zion is ours, and my close friendship with the prime minister. That's why, when he offered me a cabinet post in his government, I preferred to become Speaker of the Knesset. I told him openly: Arik, we are now on an irreversible collision course. You are a disciple of Ben-Gurion and I am a disciple of Jabotinsky. You are a pragmatist and I cannot free myself of my belief. I will not convert my religion, I told him. I have no intention of converting."
C. Historic Earthquake
Shavit: "Let's get back to him. If he is truly serious, as you describe it, there will be a settlement within half a year to a year. That's not just talk. There will really be a historic earthquake here.
Rivlin: "For many months I've been telling my journalist friends that an earthquake is happening. Arik Sharon is serious about the words he is speaking. And the moment you embark on that road, there is no knowing where it will lead, because once a sacrosanct principle is shattered, anything goes. The process is very powerful."
Shavit: "Give me a scenario. What's going to happen?"
Rivlin: "There is one thing on which Arik will make no concessions: terrorism. On this subject Arik has no doubts and everyone can trust him, including Likudniks. If there is terrorism, he will not hand over territory. [More Jews were murdered by Arab terrorists during Sharon's reign than under that of any other prime minister. (PE)]. But if we actually reach a situation in which a solution is found for terrorism, and there are signs that the Palestinians are trying to meet us halfway, he will establish a Palestinian state in the territories held by the Palestinians with territorial contiguity, which could be very significant from the point of view of the Israeli government's attitude toward the sacred principle of non-evacuation of settlements."
Shavit: "Are you saying that Sharon will evacuate settlements already in the stage of the establishment of the temporary Palestinian state?"
Rivlin: "It is definitely possible that an impossible friction between certain settlements and the need for a situation in which the Arabs will not pass through our territory and in which we will not rub shoulders with them – that this will thrust him into a situation in which he will make an Arik-style decision that it's possible that settlements will have to be evacuated."
Shavit: "I ask again, Ruby Rivlin: Has Arik Sharon accepted the fact that he will evacuate settlements?"
Rivlin: "What he has accepted is that for us to live within borders that make movement possible for them other than through our territory, it will be necessary to reach a decision to evacuate a number of settlements."
Shavit: "How many settlements are we talking about?"
Rivlin: "When Arik assumed the office of prime minister, and even earlier, in discussions he held with [former prime minister] Ehud Barak, about 17 settlements [in this category] were identified."
Shavit: "When Sharon mentions painful concessions, is he referring to these 17 settlements?"
Rivlin: "He sees them above all. Arik has made clear and explained a number of times that their evacuation is necessary in order to stabilize some sort of way in which we will be able to reach some sort of settlement. Today we have cantons. Those cantons will be unified and connected. Connecting the cantons will necessitate this blow to the settlement project. It obliges the evacuation of about 17 settlements."
Shavit: "Are you telling me that Sharon has reconciled himself to the fact that he will evacuate 17 settlements already at the state of the interim agreement?"
Rivlin: "Yes. When he talks about painful concessions, he is talking about a concrete map that some of the Yesha people [referring to the Yesha council of Jewish settlements in the territories (brackets in original] know about and that he has already talked to them about."
Shavit: "And does Sharon believe that an evacuation on that scale will bring about calm and conciliation?"
Rivlin: "Sharon thinks that it's necessary to build some sort of relations of trust. Even though, knowing Sharon as I do, I don't see him placing any trust in the Arab side" (Italics added PE).
Shavit: Not even in Abu Mazen [Mahmoud Abbas]?
Rivlin: "Not even in Abu Mazen."
Shavit: "So there is a basic problem in placing trust in the Arabs?"
Rivlin: "He has no trust in them (italics PE). Arik doesn't like them much because he doesn't believe them. But Arik knows that negotiations are not conducted only with people you believe. Negotiations are conducted in order to solve problems [!?! (PE)]. Look, Arik does not view the Arabs from a position of superiority. He sees the Arabs as people to whom we owe nothing. We owe nothing to anyone who wants to attack and kill us. That side of the issue is of no interest to him. So when he talks about 3.5 million Palestinians, it is not because of their suffering, but because he has reached the conclusion that to go on ruling them is impractical."
Shavit: "Will he evacuate Netzarim [an isolated settlement in the Gaza Strip]?" (Bracket in original.)
Rivlin: "Arik is ready to pay the price in places where it is necessary to guarantee the Palestinians continuity. There is no such problem at Netzarim. At Netzarim, the problem is that of Netzarim, not of the Palestinians. Therefore he is more accepting of the need to evacuate [settlements] in the Binyamin region than in the Gaza Strip. But the American pressure in the direction of the Gaza District is very heavy" (brackets in original).
Shavit: "And what about the permanent settlement? Will he not forgo the Jordan Rift Valley and the Gaza Strip and the strip between Arad and Jerusalem even as part of a final peace agreement?"
Rivlon: "In my opinion, he will be more adamant on that than on the question of Jerusalem. That is his casus belli. As far as I know Arik, he will not compromise on that issue. To him, these are territories without which it is impossible to defend Israel. But a situation is liable to develop in which the decision about them will not be his to make" (italics PE).
D. New Sounds about Jerusalem
Shavit: "Is it possible that Sharon will also compromise on Jerusalem?"
Rivlin: "I don't want to believe that. Arik is suffused with a mystical belief about Jerusalem. But when you embark on the road, you will be asked – Will you now ruin everything just because of Jerusalem? I have a musical ear. In one of his recent speeches I heard new sounds about Jerusalem. They worried me."
Shavit: "So what you fear is that the process will pull him in further than what he himself supposes?"
Rivlin: "When you embark on a trans-Atlantic flight and the pilot informs you that you have crossed the ocean, you can no longer go back to Europe, you have to land in North America. That is Arik's situation today, without a doubt. Politically, too. He took the risk knowingly and willingly, and he knows he will have no choice but to land on the other side…."
Shavit: "Is it your assessment that the very course Sharon has embarked on will in the end lead to the 1967 borders or something approximating them?"
Rivlin: "That's more than an apprehension. That's a clear scenario. Unequivocally (emphasis added (PE). Because once we live in a global village and the American sheriff is the sheriff of the whole world, you can be the world's greatest ideologue, but you have to take account of the political situation. And from the moment a crack appears in your belief, the crack gets wider and wider. You get into a state of mind that is not amenable to change [emphasis added (PE)].
What Arik is now doing is causing the national movement to largely shed its basic tenets. Even principles that Arik promised me he would uphold just a few months ago have been eroded. We are entering a process here that does not make conditional the end of one stage before the transition to the next stage. We have already recognized the Palestinians' right to a state and we are talking about the Saudi plan and the right of return. It's all up for grabs. So it's clear that even if there are things that Arik really will not forgo, his successor will continue what he began." …
[E] Aharon Barak
Shavit: "Ruby Rivlin, your attack on the Supreme Court was unprecedented. What brought it on? Why do you perceive the court as being so dangerous?"
Rivlin: "In 1992 I was a member of the [Knesset's] Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, which formulated and passed the Basic Law on Human Dignity and Freedom. So I know what the idea behind that law was. The idea was to consolidate the rights of people insofar as they are people and the rights of the minority insofar as it is a minority. Under no circumstances was the idea to transfer legislative authority from the Knesset to another body. No one even talked about changing the balance of power between the Knesset and the court (emphasis PE).
"So a few months later, when Dan Meridor declared that a constitutional revolution had taken place, I was stunned. Dan Meridor is one of the followers of Justice Barak [Aharon Barak, the president of the Supreme Court]. Follower is a nice word. I don't want to use a different word, heaven forbid. But unlike him, I thought – like several former Supreme Court presidents – that there had been no constitutional revolution here. No such thing.
"Yet as time passed and the court moved ahead with great deliberation and by creeping annexation took over more and more powers, I realized that not only had there been a constitutional revolution, there had been a coup d'état. (emphasis added (PE). [Rivlin continuing:]I do not accept this revolution. In my view, the Knesset never approved it and therefore it is taking place contrary to the democratic spirit and without authorization."
Shavit: "'Coup d'état' is a serious term to use in this context; it means a putsch" (emphasis PE).
Rivlin: "Correct. And that is the term I used at the President's Residence last month. Supreme Court President Barak was very hurt by the expression, but in my opinion, when a group of people sit in a room and say that from this moment we are the power, that is a putsch. You tell me: Isn't it a putsch? It's a putsch. After all, they did not receive authorization from anyone. They did not consult with anyone. They created a situation of going ahead and seizing power."
Shavit: "Do you see this as the imposition of a particular worldview on the public by means of an improper procedure? Do you see a move to establish a kind of enlightened absolutism?"
Rivlin: "Yes. It's as clear as day. Aharon Barak says that we have to distinguish between the Knesset as framing and the Knesset as legislating. He says that if you don't frame a constitution, I will set forth a constitution instead of you. But who gave him the right? Who gave him the right?"
Shavit: "What you are actually saying, then, is that the whole constitutional move that Justice Barak led in the past decade is illegitimate?"
Rivlin: "Of course. On the basis of the false claim of a constitutional revolution, a new reality was created here. A new government was forged that is above everyone: both above the Knesset and above the government and above the law, too. Take note that the court has effectively placed itself above the law…."
F. Threat to Democracy
Shavit: "Do you really believe that the court is operating contrary to the democratic spirit and contrary to the values of democracy?"
Rivlin: "Without a doubt. The court is disrupting the whole order of government. I will give you an … example. On the issue of the Landau report [a 1987 report about the Shin Bet security service's interrogation methods, drawn up by a commission headed by Justice Moshe Landau, a former president of the Supreme Court], Aharon Barak comes and says, Look, even if all 120 members of the Knesset tell me that in the case of a human 'ticking bomb,' moderate physical pressure can be used [as the Landau Commission recommended in certain interrogations], I will strike it down. In other words, Barak is placing himself above 120 legislators. He says, If I think it's wrong, I don't care what the Knesset thinks ….
Shavit: "Still, why now? What decisions by the court made you react so harshly?"
Rivlin: "There was of course the ruling by a Magistrate's Court that brought the process ad absurdum. When a junior judge allows himself to invalidate a law of the Knesset, you realize that we have reached a state of total madness. But in my opinion what was even more serious was the decision by the High Court of Justice on the question of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem [when armed Palestinians took refuge there during Operation Defensive Shield in May, 2002 (brackets in original).
"The very fact that the court did not kick out the petitioners and agreed to get into a discussion about the conduct of war policy in wartime proved to me that the court is now placing itself above the government, too. Because the moment the court starts weighing the considerations of the government in matters about which only the government can decide and for which it alone bears responsibility, it's all over. The court has actually turned itself into a meta-government.
"Therefore, I reached the conclusion that someone had to tell His Honor Justice Barak that there is a limit. Someone had to tell him, It's not your affair. It's the affair of the government."
Shavit: "Do you seriously intend to curb the power of the court by means of legislation?"
Rivlin: "Definitely. It has to be done. We are talking about a burning problem. We are talking about a situation in which they are already talking about a requiem for the law, about how the judge overcame the law. And we are talking about a situation in which the judicial system is endangering the democratic system in Israel because its people are sure that they are better than others. What's going on here, after all? Effectively there is no longer any law here because the law changes every minute according to the interpretation of the court based on some sort of meta-norm that has never been defined, so no one knows what it is. The result is a situation in which a very small group of people has arrogated to itself the authority to decide values and rules and even policy for a whole country and for a whole public that never gave them any such authorization."….
Therefore I tell you that they are a gang …. A gang like any other gang. Except that the name of this gang is the gang of the rule of law" (emphasis PE).
[1] For the full text, see IMRA – Independent Media Review and Analysis Website: www.imra.org.il.
[2] This dictum effectively nullified Israel's Penal Law governing treason, since it enabled the Court to legalize the yielding of Jewish land contrary to the Penal Law governing treason, which law defines four kinds of acts as treason:
1. acts which "impair the sovereignty" of the State of Israel—section 97(a);
2. acts which "impair the integrity" of the State of Israel—section 97(b);
3. acts under section 99 which give assistance to an "enemy" in war against Israel, which the Law specifically states includes a terrorist organization;
4. acts in section 100 which evince an intention or resolve to commit one of the acts prohibited by sections 97 and 99.
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Israel's Arab Enemies Exhort The Truth In Arabic: We Will DESTROY Israel. Israel's Leaders Lie To Its Jewish (Majority) Citizens About "Peace". What's Going On? Commentary By Adina Kutnicki
Much has been written at this site regarding Islamic mandates, particularly in relation to jihad. Terms are bandied about by others, some of whom have little understanding of their depth and breath.
In this regard, a mission herein is to enlighten and duly inform, with the goal being action-oriented, as opposed to throwing up ones hands.
And just because Islamic leaders lie to their citizens (on a regular basis) regarding other matters, it doesn't mean that the collective Arab/Muslim goal to destroy Israel isn't full of truth telling. Say what? But first things first.
Islamic imperatives dictate submission to Allah – Islam LITERALLY means to submit – and this is not up for debate. It is obligatory. Besides, unlike other religions, there are no squishy areas in ones adherence to Islam, if one seeks to stay in the fold, or even remain alive in Muslim-ruled countries. And it is this all or nothing ideology which renders the world awash in jihadist bloodletting.
On the other side of the spectrum, Israel's leaders lie on a regular basis too, but from the opposite side of the spectrum. They (for the most part) understand full well that "peace" (as defined by their enemies, with the unbearable price tag to be extracted) is unattainable, as it will literally destroy the nation – through every "peace" process and by every piece of land they surrender. This is not rocket science. Their "peace" at all costs obsession/quest has left a trail of thousands of dead and maimed Jewish bodies. In fact, one only has to peer through a PA officer's binoculars to realize how attainable their end goal is. Easy as pie.
Few Israeli intellectuals have the integrity to admit as much, but Professor Paul Eidelberg is not among the liars and fraudsters.
Paul Eidelberg
When Yasser Arafat said, "Peace means the destruction of Israel," that's speaking as it is.
When Benjamin Netanyahu said (at his most recent speech at Bar-Ilan University), "For peace, the Palestinian Authority must recognize the Jewish homeland," that's speaking as it ain't.
Arafat, an accomplished liar, was telling the truth—to his audience, an Arab audience that possessed understanding, not fools.
Netanyahu, a less accomplished liar, was obscuring the truth—to his audience—an audience that lacked understanding, an audience of fools.
Translate Netanyahu's Bar-Ilan remark into Arabs terms. "For peace, the Palestinian Authority must renounce Islam, jettison the Qur'an and 1,400 years of Islamic history and theology."
What would be the audience of such a remark? Obviously not an audience of fools. The audience would be one that understood the true nature of the conflict. Such an audience would recognize that the democratic or ethnocentric and "value-free" idea of conflict resolution does not apply to the anti-democratic world of totalitarian Islam.
Such an audience would understand—as did Alexis de Tocqueville—that nations devoted to Islam have much in common with the pagan nations mentioned in the Bible. Such nations which, like the Canaanites, sacrificed their children as burnt offerings to Baal, are comparable to Muslims nations that use their children as human bombs.
Since such nations do not recognize the Biblical concept of man's creation in the Image of God, they reject the idea of the inviolable dignity of the human personality. This Islamic denial of Genesis 1:26 prompts Muslims to call Jews "pigs" and "dogs." Hence, the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians of which Netanyahu speaks is a conflict between good and evil, and this is beyond the ken of the "value-free" political science that has either influenced Israel's Prime Minister or that induces him to speak of the conflict as it aint and not as it is.
Here's another way of rendering Netanyahu's Bar-Ilan remark into Arab terms. "For peace, the Muslim world must change its power structure. Its leaders must cease being autocrats and become democrats."
The above renderings of Netanyahu's Bar-Ilan remark means that the conflict in question is not resolvable in peaceful terms. However, to make such a "politically incorrect" statement is beyond the capacity of politicians like Mr. Netanyahu, who dare not speak of the conflict as it is, but only as it aint.
Similarly, Prof Eidelberg's rendering of Oslo's Authentic Truth makes nonsense of Israel's leadership's "promises", and exposes what the enemy has in store for her. Would Israel's leaders ever be so truthful? NOT if they want the powerful, non-elected leftist "elites" to back them.
However, there are some duly doable prescriptions for the onset of long-standing "peace and quiet", thus, promising to usher in decades of calm and without surrendering an inch of the Jewish homeland! It has yet to be tried: Kill For Peace. Hell, it worked for the U.S. (when they had leaders who understood how to take care of business) and allied powers during WW 2.
In tandem with the above insights and recommendations, Dr. Martin Sherman is another such intellectual giant who stands above the fray of Israel's braying "peace" jackals. His weekly Jerusalem Post column skewers the leadership's mendacity, and it can be found within Into The Fray. MORE than worth the read, if truthfulness is your barometer. His recent interview at Inquisitr.com, Confronting Israel's Precarious Future: An Interview With Dr. Martin Sherman, is a devastating indictment of Israel's leadership, most trenchantly, their lack of strategic policy making, which, by default, has led to many "peace" disasters.
The point being, it doesn't have to end this way, as there are intellectual warriors at the ready. They just need more support.
Heed the valiant profs and their dire, but sober, warnings.
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The Islamist-in-Chief Jaw-Jaws Iran To The WMD Finish Line In A Side 'Deal' With Syria: Allah's/Devil's Bargain With America's Foes…Commentary By Adina Kutnicki
WHEN this period in time is recorded for all posterity, rest assured, the anti-American, pro Islamic actions of Barack HUSSEIN Obama will become manifestly visible. Clear as a bell. Not because revisionists (via historicism) won't try and whitewash/Allah-wash his crimes, but they will be unable to. The results will be too stark for any (historical) cover up.
But before we seep into the muck, please recall these ominous, chilling words from America's Islamist-in-Chief, and do take a moment to let them sink in – for time immemorial: In his book he stated without guile: "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction….The quote comes from page 261 of the paperback edition of "The Audacity of Hope." Now that that is settled, much of what passes for 'mismanagement', ill conceived winds, inept advisers, and so called parsing, is no such thing. His malfeasance, throughout his entire stewardship, is nothing short of premeditated.
Still, in order to accomplish his ultimate goal, bringing down America, economic chaos has to unfold, resulting in the deconstruction of the military, ostensibly due to a lack of funds. Yup. As such, his first order of business, back in 2008, targeted the economic edifice: DHS and America's Deconstruction Via Valerie Jarrett: Domestically and Foreign Police-Wise.
In tandem, almost as a well orchestrated American death dance, Barack HUSSEIN Obama set out on an unprecedented Muslim outreach tour in Cairo, back in 2009. Consequently, he acted as a shield for Islamic regimes, more as a Muslim Caliph, as opposed to the leader of the free world. In an effort to diminish America, via apologies, his emphasis targeted its (non)exceptional status, making sure to let the Muslim world internalize: the U.S. is no better than even third world countries.
Mind you, despite a volte face, he currently opines during the Syrian crisis: yes, America has to lead the world in demonstrating that chemical weapons can never be tolerated! All of a sudden the opposite is the case. Isn't that peachy. But his patriotic sentiments are utter gall and rubbish, for the kiddies are just gum under his shoes, his infamous 'red line' be damned. Alas, his Brotherhood Mafia, the 'rebels', need assists.
But never mind, despite braying leftists – and with the Jewish left cheering him on – the Islamist-in-Chief is not only gunning for America, but Israel too, as he boxes in the only stable nation in the fiery Mid East – pincer-like. More than a pyromaniac.This acute assessment was blared at the inception of this blog and again, back in November 2012, before the fateful election.
So, here we stand, transfixed, as the leader of the free world throws off the 'yoke' of America's leadership (commencing in his first term), and its poisonous fruits will soon blow back via WMD's; gifted through the POTUS's jaw-jaw! Meanwhile, Iran and Syria (and their proxies) become ever more brazen under the protective umbrella of Russia's strong man, Putin. He's the master. Yes, he is. Most significantly, there ARE global repercussions, when the heretofore leader of the free world abdicates America's exceptionalism!
Obama-Putin deal didn't stop at chemical Syria: US eases sanctions on nuclear Iran
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report September 11, 2013, 11:59 AM (IDT)
Tags: Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, Hassan Rouhani, Iran nuclear, chemical weapons,
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
Iran, and not just Russia and Syria, is taking advantage of President Barack Obama's decision to refrain from military force against Syria to collect a shower of diplomatic and political dividends.
The new Iranian president Hassan Rouhani announced Tuesday that the coming meeting of the General Assembly opening in New York later this month "may prove the perfect setting to reignite talks about the nation's nuclear program." The US Treasury Department accordingly lifted a string of sanctions restricting humanitarian and athletic exchanges between US and Iranian NGOs and environmental projects, as a counter-gesture of good will.
Washington was not put off when that comment proved to be an exercise in image-burnishing for the benefit of the West. That same day, the Iranian president declared his country would not give up "one iota of its nuclear capabilities."
DEBKAfile's Iranian sources disclose that the posturing on all sides provided the façade for the secret exchange of messages between Washington, Tehran, Moscow and Damascus. They focused first on a Russian pledge to bring Assad's chemical arsenal under international control and destroyed. This was followed by Tehran consenting to engage in direct dialogue with Washington when the next UN General Assembly session opens in New York on September 23.
Rouhani, who has consistently refused to enter into direct talks with Washington on his government's nuclear program, said Friday, Sept. 6: "Initial steps in the future of nuclear talks may be taken in New York and then these talks will be pursued by the Group 5 + 1."
DEBKAfile: For President Obama, the two issues – the disposal of Syria's chemical weapons and resolution of the nuclear controversy with Iran – were closely interwoven in his quiet exchanges with Vladimir Putin, which emphasized the diplomatic, non-military route.
The Russian leader appears to have assured Obama that an agreed formula for defusing the Syrian chemical weapons issue without military force would provide the key to progress in nuclear talks with Iran.
Our Iranian sources report that Tehran was in on all stages of the discreet Obama-Putin discussions on Syria: High-ranking Iranian officials were present in Damascus and Moscow throughout, and points of agreement were brought to Tehran for approval.
After freezing sales to Iran for years at US and Israeli insistence, Vladimir Putin has finally decided to release the sophisticated S-300VM anti-ballistic missile weapons to Iran instead of the S-300PMU Tehran requested, DEBKAfile's military and Moscow sources report. The Russian and Iranian presidents have arranged to meet Friday, Sept. 13, in Kirgizstan….spelled out herein as well…Russia 'to renew offer to supply S-300s to Iran'!
RESOLVED, once Israel is targeted it becomes much easier for Obama's Brotherhood Mafia – the Muslim world in general, the side which he admits he would stand by ! – to march on America. Readers must internalize what the priorities of Islamists are, and what animates them most. As such, a march on Jerusalem is their first stop – the 'Little Satan' – submission-wise. After which, going after the biggest prize – the 'Big Satan' – becomes more than doable. Don't believe it, fine. The west has been duly warned.
DESPITE all the above, the absolute onus lies atop Israel's leadership, as it is they who are tasked to protect Israel, our Jewish patrimony. Instead, year after year, under PM Netanyahu's leadership, he spent his tenure attached at the hip with the Islamist-in-Chief, understanding full well that his designs are distinctly in the Islamic camp, yet too terrified to unleash the tether. Thus, this blog warns the world: Barack HUSSEIN Obama is a clear and present danger to Israel, but it is Israel's PM who is tasked with ensuring that its 'red lines' are NOT crossed !
IF lovers of Israel/Zion truly want to understand the extent of the dangers – aside from listening to self serving political 'messaging' – look no further than to an interview, at Inquisitr.com, with a close associate: Confronting Israel's Precarious Future: An Interview With Dr. Martin Sherman. Study it.
Shiver us timbers….
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Le Stena Baltica est un ferry commandé en 1979 au chantier naval Stoczina Gdanskau de Gdańsk par la compagnie suédoise Stena Line. Sa construction est annulée en 1986 à cause des problèmes financiers rencontrés par le chantier naval qui entraînent du retard dans la construction. Le navire est renommé Regent Sky à la suite de son rachat par Regent Cruises en 1989 et remorqué jusqu'à Chalcis pour être achevé, mais la compagnie fait faillite en 1995, alors que les travaux sont achevés à 60 %. Plusieurs fois mis aux enchères, le navire est finalement acquis par un chantier de démolition navale turc et détruit à Aliağa en 2011 sous le nom de Zoe.

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Le Stena Baltica fait partie d'une série de 4 ferries (composée par le , le  et le Stena Polonica) commandé en 1979 au chantier naval Stoczina Gdanskau de Gdańsk par la compagnie suédoise Stena Line. Sa construction débute en 1984, après le lancement des deux premiers ferries, mais elle est ralentie par les problèmes financiers du chantier naval et la Stena Line annule la commande des deux derniers navires (le Stena Baltica et le Stena Polonica). Le navire est alors désarmé sur le slipway et les moteurs prévus pour sa construction sont vendus.

En 1989, la coque est achetée par la compagnie Regency Cruises qui souhaite en faire un navire de croisière sous le nom de Regent Sky. Le navire est lancé en  sous son nouveau nom, puis remorqué jusqu'aux chantiers Alvis Shipyards de Perama où il est agrandi de  et reçoit quatre moteurs Diesel Wärtislä. En 1995, la Regency Cruises fait faillite, alors que la construction est achevée à 60 %. Le navire est alors saisi par la Banque de Grèce. Les moteurs sont retirés et vendus, puis le navire, qui devient, en 1999, la propriété de la Sea Nomad Maritime. Cette dernière a pour but de compléter la construction. En , la construction est interrompue, puis le navire est désarmé en baie d'Éleusis en . La compagnie Jay Management l'achète en , avec comme projet d'achever le navire, mais la rouille accumulée sur la coque pose un problème de flottabilité qui force la compagnie à vendre le navire à un chantier de démolition turc en . Le Regent Sky est alors détruit à Aliağa sous le nom de Zoe.

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This College Student Held up a Flight To Stop a Deportation in Sweden
4 0 Katerina Papakyriakopoulou Friday, August 3, 2018 Edit this post
Elin Ersson boarded an airplane in Gothenburg, Sweden, in July 2018, and refused to sit down, to prevent the aircraft from taking off, as reported by The New York Times.
Her only protest earned the ire of her fellow passengers, that clamored for her to sit down. However, she was there on a moral mission.
Ersson, a student activist, aimed to halt the deportation of an Afghan man by preventing the airplane he was on from taking off. The person she initially intended to help was not on the flight, but another Afghan asylum seeker was on the aircraft ready to be deported. As her objective was larger than one person, the focus of her protest changed.
"I'm not going to sit down until this person is off the plane," she said in a live-stream of the situation, "because he is most likely to get killed if he is on this plane when it goes up."
In the footage, Ersson spoke about the dangerous conditions the man would return to in Kabul while mentioning the ongoing war in Afghanistan and the various attacks which have occurred in Kabul over the recent year.
During the video, Ersson can be seen crying, while arguing with fellow passengers, and ultimately rejoicing when the Afghan deportee is removed from the flight which was in route to Istanbul, according to the Times.
"I am doing what I can to save a person's life," she tells a fellow passenger at one point. "As long as a person is standing up, the pilot cannot take off. All I want to do is stop the deportation, and then I will comply with the rules here. This is all perfectly legal, and I have not committed a crime."
The video has since racked up over 2.7 million online views, and Ersson is being regarded as a human rights champion for her effort.
There are over 2.5 million Afghan refugees all around the world, the majority of which escaped their home country after the outbreak of the US-led invasion in 2001.
The ongoing intense national security crisis around the country, especially in Kabul, means that the whole country is producing a steady stream of refugees every month.
While Sweden is relatively difficult to reach for migrants and asylum seekers, approximately 42,000 Afghans applied for asylum in Sweden in 2015, according to the Swedish Migration Agency, and another 4,700 applied over the next two years.
Critics of Ersson claimed that she interfered with the law and was a nuisance for fellow passengers, reported BuzzFeed. Swedish authorities that spoke with the Times said she didn't commit a crime, but by delaying the flight for over two hours, she could be sued by Turkish Airlines.
Either way, her protest has demonstrated that people can obstruct unjust deportation systems.
The Afghan refugee that was spared deportation will still likely be removed from the country, according to CNN. However, Ersson has provoked a reckoning with what several citizens are calling overzealous immigration enforcement.
Reference: Global Citizen
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