Israel, the Jewish State, is going to win because it has no choice.
Israel, the Jewish State, has external enemies. Neighbouring hostile Arab Countries. Numerous Islamic States committed to its annihilation. Hamas, Hezbollah, the Palestinians, and other jihadist terror organizations
Israel, The Jewish State, has internal enemies. Woke liberal leftist Israelis who want a European Democracy and will allow the destruction of the Jewish State. Israeli Jews who are milking Israel financially and refuse to serve in the IDF. Israeli Muslims who openly declare their hate for the Jewish State without fear of losing their citizenship and being expelled.
After decades of failed efforts for peace, it is madness to expect Israel’s mortal enemies to accept the Jewish State voluntarily. Israel must stop begging for peace, and sacrificing land will get us nowhere.
Proudly declare that Israel is a Jewish State that has one goal: Protecting Jews at all costs! To achieve this goal, Israel must be more powerful than its external enemies and willing to demonstrate it. A weak Jewish State has no place in the Middle East.
Israel must use the next four years to align with the Donald Trump administration to achieve the following: Handle its External Enemies. Annihilation of Hamas and its Palestinian supporters and drive them out of Gaza. Annex Gaza. Annex Judea and Samaria. Destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Strengthen the IDF to ensure a swift preventative response to potential external threats. Handle its Internal Enemies. Judicial reform to combat the attacks by the Woke liberal leftist Israelis. Cancel the citizenship of any Jew refusing to serve in the IDF. Cancel the citizenship of any Muslim who refuses to take an oath of allegiance to the Jewish State.
Israel should stop any support to Jihadist-infested organizations like the United Nations or the Hague International High Court, where there are different rules for Jews.
Israel, the Jewish State, must survive, and it is going to win because it has no choice.
At the UN Special General Assembly in New York, held at the request of the leaders of the European Union and the New Arab Bloc, the representative of Israel, Miriam Novak, spoke. Standing at the podium in front of the green marble wall of the main UN hall, Miriam Novak said into the microphone:
“Ladies and gentlemen! As you know, eighty years ago, Europe, led by Germany, carried out an ethnic purge: it exterminated almost all the Jews who lived there. French, Belgians, Dutch, Norwegians, Hungarians, Slovaks, Poles, Lithuanians, and Ukrainians – all helped the fascists.
You killed at least six million Jews, including newborn babies. Each could have given the world children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, so you can multiply the number of killed by four or five… And now, when we are again plundered, beaten, and killed in all your countries, and your courts release the murderers, you tell us that we have no right to defend ourselves? We have no right to warn our enemies that we will respond to a new ethnic cleansing with an even more powerful strike? Perhaps you can name another nation whose extermination is so fanatically sought by your new Iranian-led international community? And why?
For two thousand years, we have lived among you, offering you our knowledge, discoveries, and inventions.
We have given you the alphabet, the Bible, the Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ, the twelve apostles, Spinoza, Disraeli, Columbus, Newton, Nostradamus, Heine, Mendelssohn, Einstein, Singer, Eisenstein, Freud, Landau, Gershwin, Offenbach, Rubinstein, Saint-Saëns, Kafka, Lombroso, Montaigne, Mahler, Marcel Marceau, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Yehudi Menuhin, Stefan Zweig, Arthur Miller, Maya Plisetskaya, Stanley Kubrick, Irving Berlin, Edward Teller, Lion Feuchtwanger, Paul Newman, Robert Oppenheimer, Benny Goodman, Eugène Ionesco, Imre Kálmán, Marcel Proust, Marc Chagall, Barbra Streisand, Claude Lelouch, Steven Spielberg, Anouk Aimée, Leonard Bernstein, Norbert Wiener, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, Andrew Lloyd Webber and thousands of other scientists and educators. Imagine how many such geniuses could have been born from the millions of Jews killed by you and then from their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren! But these unborn geniuses disappeared forever in crematoriums, burned synagogues, and mass graves.
So, do you really think that your resolutions, boycotts, and sanctions can bring us back to the gas chambers? No, ladies and gentlemen! Having lived among you for two thousand years, we have had to adapt to you and learn not only your languages but also some aspects of your psychology. Otherwise, how would we have survived in Persia without Persian perfidy? In Spain without the Spanish cruelty? In Germany without German submission to discipline? In France without French avarice? In Poland without Polish vanity, and in Russia without the oaths and the Russian habit of court latrines, where one must squat and talk about one’s spiritual greatness?
“And that is why I will tell you frankly: yes, we are not angels. Among us, there have been international crooks and gangsters, Lansky, Medoff, and Epstein, thieves, looters, adventurers, and even pedophiles. But in all our common history, there has never been a Jewish Bogdan Khmelnitsky, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. There have never been Jewish Josef Mengele and Erik Koch, Jewish Adolf Eichmann and Idi Amin, Jewish Andrei Chikatilo and Li Zicheng, Jewish Jeffrey Dahmer and Jean Bokassa, Jewish Fritz Haarmann and Ted Bundy, Jewish Nikolai Dzhumagaliev and Albert Fish.
We have never made necklaces with human ears, never scalped, never eaten human flesh, never made soap with human fat, never made lampshades with human skin, never made mattresses with women’s hair, never burned people in religious temples, and never killed children in gas chambers.
Instead, we created things that changed the world for the better. Drip irrigation, seawater desalination, Intel processors and Centrino and Core Duo platforms, the world’s smallest DNA computer and the world’s first USB flash drive, nanowire and camera pill, multiple sclerosis drug and exoskeleton, Google Glass for the blind and baby breathing monitor, The radar that can see through walls, the holographic reality artificial intelligence synthesizer, and hundreds of other wonderful things.
Representing only 0.2% of the world’s population, we have given the world 32% of the Nobel Prize winners.
Yes, I forgot to tell you: we have never consumed and do not consume the blood of Christian infants to make matzah. Already in 1913, three Orthodox experts on Judaism proved this at the famous Beilis trial in Kiev. In 1962, the Second Vatican Council lifted our guilt for the crucifixion of Christ, and in 2011, Pope Benedict XVI declared that “the Christian cannot be anti-Semitic, we have the same roots.” In 2019, his successor, Pope Francis I, said that “every Christian has a Jew in him” and that “one cannot be a true Christian without acknowledging one’s Jewish roots.” In addition, the head of the global Catholic Church said that “the covenant between God and Jews continues to apply” and “that anti-Semitism includes not only attacks on Jews, but also criticism of Israel.” Finally, in June 2020, the Rev. John Hagee, the leader of American Evangelical Christians, published his “Appeal to the World,” in which he said simply and clearly, “Why do we, eight million patriotic American Christians, support Israel? Because God is on Israel’s side!
If a Christian says he doesn’t like Jews, then his false Christianity is very dubious. God says, “I will bless those who bless Israel! I will curse those who curse Israel!”
And now I want to ask the European delegates in this room: who do you think you are? Are you Christians or not? When you pray to Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, and the holy apostles, are you not praying to the Jews? And when you say that you carry the image of Christ in your heart, do you not admit that you carry a Jew in your soul?
Even if you are a hard-core atheist, your ancestors were Christians for two thousand years, and therefore, Judaism is in your blood – whether you like it or not!
So, ladies and gentlemen. If you insist on the international boycott of Israel because you continue to hate Jews and want the total extermination of Jews on earth, then be consistent – start with yourselves, do seppuku! It will be an honest ethnic purge.
And now, as we say here in America, I have news for you. Now, after the Christians, it is the turn of the Muslims to get rid of anti-Semitism. Yes, it won’t be easy, but just as the Almighty helped humanity get rid of the bubonic plague, anthrax, cholera, and coronavirus, He will help you get rid of anti-Semitism. You ask: why? Why has the Almighty brought us back to Israel and forced you to give up your desire to destroy us? For He has to have a purpose, doesn’t He? I will give you my personal opinion. For according to His purpose, every nation is to bring to mankind what it does best. The French – cooks and perfumers. The English and the Russians – writers and poets. Italians – artists and musicians. The Germans – soldiers and philosophers. And we Jews – geniuses. Geniuses who, in all fields, are advancing humanity from barbarism and idolatry to culture, humanism and technical progress. This is our mission, which we have been accomplishing for two thousand years, despite everything! So whether we have genetic, torsional, nuclear, tectonic, cosmic, or other defense weapons, that’s none of your business! Whether you allow us to have defensive weapons or not, we don’t care.
As one of the founders of our state, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, once said: “Whether you like us or not, we don’t care, we arrived before you and we will leave after you.”
This is one of the most brilliant articles I’ve ever read. It was written by Miriam Lopian, a British medical specialist who recently moved to Israel.
October 7th caught us all by surprise, but I must admit that my anxious brain has always been waiting for it, and I don’t think I am alone.
I was prepared because the modern Jewish state was reborn during an era defined by the cry of “never again.” Never again would we march like sheep to the slaughter, but not never again would there be another attempt to annihilate us.
I was prepared because our entire state is built to function with this threat etched in our hearts. We hand over our family members to serve in the Israel Defence Forces from the age of 18; in Israel you are never too far from a bomb shelter, lest you get caught in a rocket downpour and a massive concrete wall separates Israeli and Palestinian villages, purposefully built to defend against terror.
I was prepared because we have had to degrade ourselves and the spirit of our peace-loving people by enforcing military control over large territories and restricting the movement of fellow human beings because of the very real threat some of these people pose.
I was prepared because I know you can’t simply walk into a mall here without being searched for weapons and the world’s most brilliant minds are working around the clock to gather intelligence on every suspect across the Middle East and beyond.
I was also prepared, thanks to my education in Jewish history, which taught me the enduring precedent of millennia-long animosity towards the Jewish people. The Bible, the world’s most widely read book, introduces this narrative with the story of the Exodus, where the Israelites escaped 430 years of slavery and persecution by the Egyptian Pharaoh’s, and were led to their homeland—Israel—more than 3,000 years ago. This theme of persecution and resilience is a consistent thread throughout our history, with various civilizations such as the Greeks, Romans, Babylonians, Persians, and Crusaders each playing their part.
I was prepared because I personally know countless people alive today who bore witness to the ease with which the most civilized nation of its time systemically exterminated over 6 million Jews. I know that from its inception, the newly decolonized State of Israel has served and continues to serve as a refuge for Holocaust survivors and Jewish refugees from around the world, including those fleeing Western democracies, Arab dictatorships, and Eastern European communist regimes.
But I don’t need to evoke history to remind me of the threats our people continue to face. Our enemies, some of whom reside mere kilometers from me, behind the security wall, electrified fences, and checkpoints, and even some who sit in our university lecture halls, take great pleasure in regularly reminding us of their murderous intent.
I was prepared because I know what they are taught in their schools, and I know that they hide stashes of advanced weaponry in their children’s Disney-decorated wardrobes. I also know the financial reward they receive from their government, who receive billions of dollars in international aid, should they accomplish their deadly missions.
I was unprepared, however, for the barbarity and sadistic nature of the violence inflicted upon my people on October 7th, including the acts of burning, rape, and mutilation, and the sheer glee with which they carried out these atrocities—actions that have no precedent, even among non-human species on the planet.
I also wasn’t prepared for the aftermath, which began on October 8th and has continued daily since.
I was unprepared when I witnessed British citizens dancing along Edgware Road in jubilation on that day, while we were still counting our dead.
I was unprepared to witness old friends and medical colleagues marching in Trafalgar Square supporting the genocide of my people, chanting “From the River to the Sea,” while the Police looked on with indifference.
I was unprepared for the deafening silence and hypocrisy of the UN Commission on the Status of Women and the #MeToo lobby in the face of the widespread sexual violence extensively documented on October 7th, yet despite this, many claim there is still not enough proof.
I was unprepared to discover that the murderers who participated in this barbaric carnage were employees of the UNRWA and Al Jazeera, both of which continue to operate freely.
I was unprepared for the silence of Michelle Obama, who proudly campaigned to “Bring Back Our Girls” for the Nigerian girls held by Boko Haram but not for the American citizens, toddlers, teenage girls, or even the Holocaust survivor hostages from Israel.
I was unprepared for the sight of a one-year-old ginger toddler featuring on a ‘Kidnapped’ poster, still waiting for the Red Cross to visit, and I was very much less prepared for that poster being defaced with swastikas so many times and in so many countries.
I was unprepared for the fact that the British Police instructed someone not to walk next to a Palestinian protest in London because he was “openly Jewish,” and they couldn’t guarantee his safety.
I was unprepared to encounter “I love Hezbollah” signs in Central London, even after I had become accustomed to the “I love Hamas” signs and even though they are both designated terrorist organizations by the British and American governments.
I was unprepared for Iran to launch hundreds of ballistic missiles at my home, my family, and my friends with the sole intent to kill me and my people. At the same time, those around me continued engaging me in irrelevant small talk.
I was unprepared to learn that the esteemed halls of Ivy League institutions are infested with venomous hate and racism. Despite their privilege and education, thousands of their students remain painfully ignorant yet eager to be useful idiots, rallying to a cause they themselves fail to comprehend.
I was unprepared for a reality where Kamala Harris is commemorating the 7th of October by planting a pomegranate tree in her garden while the Ayatollahs in Iran are busy getting on with testing their nuclear facilities.
I was unprepared for the Asserson report to reveal that the BBC’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict violated its own guidelines on more than 1,500 occasions. Yet, the BBC would continue to spew its hate as usual.
I was unprepared for Kay Burley to accuse Eylon Levy on Sky News that Israel releasing 150 convicted Palestinian murderers in exchange for 50 Israeli civilian hostages underscored the disproportionate disregard Israel had for Palestinian lives.
I was unprepared for the New York Times to eulogise Hassan Nasrallah, as a “powerful orator, beloved by Shi’ite Muslims” who “provided social services for Lebanon.” and wanted “one Palestine, with equality for Muslims, Jews, and Christians.” All the while, Syrians, Lebanese, Iranians, and Israelis celebrated his assassination as it ultimately unloosened the noose around our necks a little.
I was unprepared for Naomi Klein to write an article in the Guardian yesterday entitled, “How Israel has made trauma a weapon of war,” nor was I prepared for Raz Segal’s “Israel must stop weaponizing the Holocaust” a year ago.
I was unprepared for UN Secretary-General Antonio Gueterre’s failure to condemn the Islamic Regime of Iran for lobbying 180 ballistic missiles into Israel. However, the UN’s shocking conduct warrants its own entirely separate article.
I was certainly unprepared for the fact that on October 7th, 2024, I would be writing this from my bomb shelter, which ironically reminds me of a gas chamber I saw in Majdanek, whilst thousands of Americans are converging on the steps of Columbia University in New York, chanting “globalize the intifada” and again, silence.
I never thought I would understand how the Holocaust happened, but now I do.
By: Eli Etsion 2024-02-04. I live in Israel, in a serene valley, an agricultural region. I have no idea of what goes on in the USA, aside from what I see on the news. I don’t see myself as qualified to march and demonstrate – demanding certain actions be taken by the United States…
In the meantime, in the USA, thousands of people who know nothing about what is really happening in Israel or Gaza, who are spoon-fed loads of fake news by useless social media which they foolishly consider as reliable sources, have the nerve to chant “from the river to the sea..” and “free Palestine,” under the pretense of being “pro-Palestinian, “ demanding of Israel to do things differently…
Some of these people are just hypocrites. Most are mainly misinformed and driven by propaganda they swallow eagerly.
Here are some short facts and numbers that should help you get your knowledge aligned:
1. Israel is a sovereign country that was invaded by several thousand militants on October 7th, 2023. They were led by activists of the “Hamas,” which is recognized worldwide as A TERROR ORGANIZATION.
2. In the aforementioned attack, over 1200 Israeli civilians were brutally butchered, some raped first. These were innocent civilians, men, women, children, elders, and babies. Another 240 or so were kidnapped into Gaza, taken out of their beds in PJs, on the morning of a holy day. Do you want a sense of what it means in American terms? Multiply these numbers by at least 35, and imagine it happened on Christmas morning when you’re getting ready to open your presents.
3. Hamas claims they have no food, water, medicine, etc., for their population – but they still seem to have plenty of missiles and rockets, and they never run out of weapons or materials for their tunnels. Those tunnels are stocked with all the food, water, and fuel necessary for the leaders of Hamas hiding in them to survive. The civilians of Gaza are pawns used by Hamas, yet still, 80% of them support Hamas. Hardly a case of innocent and uninvolved.
4. In 5 months of bombardments, aerial strikes, armed forces with tanks and guns being used in urban surroundings – the average death toll in Gaza every day is roughly one-sixth or less than the death toll inflicted in a few hours on Israel on October 7th. Most casualties in Gaza are not innocent civilians; they are Hamas militants – many wearing civilian clothes while firing RPGs and shooting at the IDF.
5. The UN agency for refugees in Gaza, UNRWA, employs mostly local people. Many of them are also members of Hamas. UN vehicles were used by these “humanitarians” to transport kidnapped bodies from Israel into Gaza. The UN was used as a cover for terror activity. Shocking? Not to anyone who lives in Israel.
6. While you pity the population of Gaza and demand that they receive aid – have you also demanded the immediate release of the remaining 130+ Israeli citizens held hostage – against all international laws – for FIVE MONTHS? Have you voiced any concern regarding the civilians on the Israeli side of the border, who have been living under constant fire from Gaza for over 15 years? Does it even slightly matter to you that tens of thousands of Israelis have been displaced since October 7th?
There is more, so much more.. but I would like to leave you with one more thought: It is claimed that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The narrative of the Palestinians for many years has been one in which they are a poor victim of constant genocide and massacres – but in reality, the population in Gaza and the West Bank has been constantly growing in numbers.
Most of the killings in our little area are a result of assaults against Israeli civilians carried out by suicide bombers, knives, running over civilians with a car, and any other means that they see fit. Their chant – which so many Americans are repeating – “from the river to the sea…” basically says that from the river Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea, they will kill all Jews and take over “Palestine.” THAT IS A CALL FOR GENOCIDE.
I call on all of you to be responsible when choosing your sources. Make educated decisions based on actual data and facts – not on PR and propaganda.
Be honest and true; be balanced. Know that if you want to support Hamas, you are supporting a radical terror organization. If you choose to support Gaza in this conflict, if you demand that they receive humanitarian aid – don’t forget to fight for the release of the hostages held there too.
If you choose to be humanitarian only when it concerns the people of Gaza, you’re not a humanitarian; you’re a fraud.
If you chant “from the river…” and blame Israel for committing genocide – you’re a hypocrite.
It’s okay to take sides; just be honest about it, and don’t hide the motive behind your actions.
To end membership of the United States in the United Nations.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 3, 2017
Mr. Rogers of Alabama (for himself, Mr. Jones, Mr. Biggs, Mr. Smith of Missouri, and Mr. Massie) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
A BILL
To end membership of the United States in the United Nations.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1.SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2017”.
SEC. 2. REPEAL OF UNITED NATIONS PARTICIPATION ACT OF 1945.
(a) Repeal.—The United Nations Participation Act of 1945 (Public Law 79–264; 22 U.S.C. 287 et seq.) is repealed.
(b) Termination Of Membership In United Nations.—The President shall terminate all membership by the United States in the United Nations, and in any organ, specialized agency, commission, or other formally affiliated body of the United Nations.
(c) Closure Of United States Mission To United Nations.—The United States Mission to the United Nations is closed. Any remaining functions of such office shall not be carried out.
SEC. 3. REPEAL OF UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS AGREEMENT ACT.
(a) Repeal.—The United Nations Headquarters Agreement Act (Public Law 80–357) is repealed.
(b) Withdrawal.—The United States withdraws from the agreement between the United States of America and the United Nations regarding the headquarters of the United Nations (signed at Lake Success, New York, on June 26, 1947, which was brought into effect by the United Nations Headquarters Agreement Act).
SEC. 4. UNITED STATES ASSESSED AND VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE UNITED NATIONS.
No funds are authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available for assessed or voluntary contributions of the United States to the United Nations or to any organ, specialized agency, commission or other formally affiliated body of the United Nations, except that funds may be appropriated to facilitate termination of United States membership and withdrawal of United States personnel and equipment, in accordance with sections 2 and 3, respectively. Upon termination of United States membership, no payments shall be made to the United Nations or to any organ, specialized agency, commission or other formally affiliated body of the United Nations, out of any funds appropriated prior to such termination or out of any other funds available for such purposes.
SEC. 5. UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS.
(a) Termination.—No funds are authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available for any United States contribution to any United Nations military or peacekeeping operation or force.
(b) Terminations Of United States Participation In United Nations Peacekeeping Operations.—No funds may be obligated or expended to support the participation of any member of the Armed Forces of the United States as part of any United Nations military or peacekeeping operation or force. No member of the Armed Forces of the United States may serve under the command of the United Nations.
SEC. 6. WITHDRAWAL OF UNITED NATIONS PRESENCE IN FACILITIES OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND REPEAL OF DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY.
(a) Withdrawal From United States Government Property.—The United Nations (including any organ, specialized agency, commission or other formally affiliated body of the United Nations) may not occupy or use any property or facility of the United States Government.
(b) Diplomatic Immunity.—No officer or employee of the United Nations (including any organ, specialized agency, commission or other formally affiliated body of the United Nations) or any representative, officer, or employee of any mission to the United Nations of any foreign government shall be entitled to enjoy the privileges and immunities of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of April 18, 1961, nor may any such privileges and immunities be extended to any such individual. The privileges, exemptions, and immunities provided for in the International Organizations Immunities Act of December 29, 1945 (59 Stat. 669; 22 U.S.C. 288 et seq.), or in any agreement or treaty to which the United States is a party, including the agreement entitled “Agreement Between the United Nations and the United States of America Regarding the Headquarters of the United Nations”, signed June 26, 1947 (22 U.S.C. 287 note), and the Convention on Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, entered into force with respect to the United States on April 29, 1970 (21 UST 1418; TIAS 6900; UNTS 16), shall not apply to the United Nations or to any organ, specialized agency, commission or other formally affiliated body of the United Nations, to the officers and employees of the United Nations, or of any organ, specialized agency, commission or other formally affiliated body of the United Nations, or to the families, suites, or servants of such officers or employees.
SEC. 7. REPEAL OF UNITED STATES MEMBERSHIP AND PARTICIPATION IN THE UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION.
The joint resolution entitled “A joint resolution providing for membership and participation by the United States in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, and authorizing an appropriation therefor”, approved July 30, 1946 (Public Law 79–565, 22 U.S.C. 287m et seq.), is repealed.
SEC. 8. REPEAL OF UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM PARTICIPATION ACT OF 1973.
The United Nations Environment Program Participation Act of 1973 (22 U.S.C. 287 note) is repealed.
SEC. 9. REPEAL OF UNITED STATES PARTICIPATION IN THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION.
The joint resolution entitled “Joint Resolution providing for membership and participation by the United States in the World Health Organization and authorizing an appropriation therefor”, approved June 14, 1948 (22 U.S.C. 290), is repealed.
SEC. 10. REPEAL OF INVOLVEMENT IN UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND AGREEMENTS.
Effective on the date of the enactment of this Act, the United States will end any participation in any conventions and agreements with the United Nations and any organ, specialized agency, commission, or other formally affiliated body of the United Nations. Any remaining functions of such conventions and agreements shall not be carried out.
SEC. 11. REEMPLOYMENT WITH UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AFTER SERVICE WITH AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION.
Nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect the rights of employees under subchapter IV of chapter 35 of title 5, United States Code, relating to reemployment after service with an international organization.
SEC. 12. NOTIFICATION.
Effective on the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall notify the United Nations and any organ, specialized agency, commission, or other formally affiliated body of the United Nations of the provisions of this Act.
SEC. 13. EFFECTIVE DATE.
Except as otherwise provided, this Act and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on the date that is two years after the date of the enactment of this Act.
By Bruce Abramson and Jeff Ballabon
Saturday, 24 Dec 2016 12:08 PM
The gloves are off.
The United Nations, knowing full well it could pass anti-Israel resolutions designed to prolong the Arab-Israeli conflict only while President Obama still held office, moved forward with such a plan on Friday, December 23.
President Obama made it possible.
President-elect Trump had tried to take steps to forestall this blood libel.
He had coordinated a day earlier with President al-Sisi of Egypt to orchestrate a delay, and went public with his own view that the U.S. should maintain its standard practice of vetoing all such resolutions.
But it is the office of the president that possesses actual power; the office of president-elect has only the bully pulpit. And President Obama chose to wield that power in a way that will make another Arab-Israeli war more likely, create a diplomatic crisis for the United States, and operate to the detriment of traditional Arab allies like Egypt. Following on the heels of UNESCO’s decision, earlier this year, that the Jews lacked any historical connection to Israel — notwithstanding three thousand plus years of physical, archaeological, documentary, written, and oral evidence — the UN Security Council has now decided that Jewish settlement in the historic Jewish homeland is illegal.
Those who voice consistent, principled support for Israel are livid — but not remotely surprised. It has been clear for years that President Obama, Secretaries Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, and Ambassador Samantha Power were true, deep sonei Yisrael, an ancient religious term far older than “anti-Semite” that translates literally as “haters of Israel.” There has never been much hope that the lame duck Obama would leave office before inflicting further harm on the Jews and on the Jewish State — though the harm he has inflicted over the past eight years has already been considerable.
Nor are Trump supporters surprised by the president-elect’s extraordinary intervention.
We backed him — at no small risk to personal and professional relationships — because we saw a man far more interested in ensuring that the good guys win than in playing with a deck stacked to favor evil.
We hope that principled Israel supporters who opposed Trump’s candidacy can already see the folly of their ways — and set aside prejudice and ego to judge our incoming president by his actions, not the media’s slander.
There is a limit, of course, at the rage one can direct at Jew haters for acting like Jew haters. It’s expected. Israel’s false friends — Jews and non-Jews alike — have enabled and condoned their hateful behavior.
For years, Israel supporters have had to endure the obvious lies of American Jewish leaders that Obama was not only an excellent president, but a good friend to Israel. Even now they continue to insist that when it comes to Israel, there is no difference between Republicans and Democrats.
Leading allegedly “pro-Israel” organizations made the case that even though the Obama-Iran deal was a clear existential threat to Israel, those who supported it showed just as much love for the Jewish State as those who opposed it.
That the empty platitudes of Sen. Chuck Schumer represent real advocacy or exertion then and now.
That Israel or Prime Minister Netanyahu bear the blame for angering Obama and making the Democratic Party and the left home to open anti-Semitism — by the crime of allowing Jews merely to live.
It would be preferable to think them fools rather than knaves, but it becomes harder to do so with each passing year. Genuinely pro-Israel voters and donors are misled by dismal political and organizational leadership either incapable of or unwilling to appreciate the difference between Israel’s true friends and genuine Jew haters.
They are reprehensible, and those who continue to fund them or follow them in any way share culpability in their crimes against Israel and against the Jews.
To say that the vast majority of American Jews who not only voted against Donald Trump, but who spent months slandering him in the vilest of terms, owe him an apology is a vast understatement. What they need is a full program of self-reflection, a twelve-step program, and a full day of atonement.
Their behavior has been despicable and reprehensible, and we are tired of it.
We believe strongly in Jewish unity, but some things are more important than unity. Jewish survival is among them. Or rather there can be no real unity until there is clarity and a commitment to Jewish morality and survival at its core. It is far past time for America’s Jews to learn how to tell their friends from their enemies, and the friends of Israel from its enemies.
The gloves are off.
Barack Obama and Donald Trump have each removed any reasonable doubt that might have lingered. Obama is a Jew-hater; Trump is our friend. There is no longer room for reasonable people to disagree.
Bruce Abramson is the President of Informationism, Inc., Vice President and Director of Policy at the Iron Dome Alliance, and a Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research.
Jeff Ballabon is CEO of B2 Strategic, Chairman of the Iron Dome Alliance, and a Senior Fellow at the American Conservative Union’s Center for Statesmanship and Diplomacy.
All credits to Arutz Sheva By: Jack Engelhard, 25/12/16 00:1
All bets are off now that the Security Council voted 14-0 to condemn Jewish settlement activity over Biblical Judea, Samaria, and even Jerusalem.
Israel now has the green light to build, baby, build and Trump will have all the incentive he needs to move the United States Embassy to Jerusalem.
All because that Security Council measure is so preposterous.
Coming as it does from the United Nations, which is in the hands of terrorists, mobsters and tyrants whose only business is to condemn Israel.
Blast and damn the gluttonous Liberals, here, there and everywhere who delivered Israel into the claws and arms of those jackals. Their names will be associated together with Haman.
As of that day, another date that will live in infamy, Friday, December 23, 2016, Israel owes nobody nothin’. Annex Judea and Samaria. Forget the Oslo Accord. Forget 800 trucks a day plying food and supplies into Gaza. Forget the illusion of Abbas as a partner in peace. Declare him and his PA (Palestinian Authority) persona non grata.
From Donald Trump and US Congress, cease $600 million a year in direct funding for the PA and millions more through UNRWA and other false-front agencies.
Dismantle the PLO’s office in Washington, D.C.
Forget the mirage of a two state solution. For Kerry, Obama, and Samantha Power, the action was taken to “further peace.” Nothing can be further from the truth. This was an act of infamy against the Jewish State.
They say it was meant to advance a two state solution whereby two peoples live side by side in peace and security. Where do Arabs live in peace and security even among themselves – Syria, Iraq, Yemen?
The two state solution is a trap – a device to swarm Israel out of existence. That’s been the plan all along…to uproot the Jewish people from their ancestral homeland, by hook or by crook.
That the United States, under Obama, took part in this abomination, by letting it go through by the trick of abstaining, is an everlasting blight on our reputation.
Senators Lindsay Graham and Ted Cruz say so. Here’s Cruz: “And for those who acquiesced or facilitated the UN resolution–especially President Obama, Secretary Kerry, and Ambassador Power–history will record your abiding and shameful legacy undermining our friend and ally Israel.”
How have the mighty fallen? This is President John F. Kennedy in 1961 at his inaugural address: “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” Instead, friends of liberty were blindsided by Obama’s farewell address of sorts, his parting shot to sock it to the Jews.
So now the table has been set for Donald Trump to do what’s right. As the news came in, in anger we wrote (on Facebook): “Donald Trump will have to DRAIN THAT SWAMP. “Immediately end all financing for the UN, consider all resolutions against Israel flagrant, nonsensical, bigoted and non-binding…dissolve diplomatic status and immunity across the board…give all members 48 hours to pack up and leave town…and then destroy the building to a heap of rubble.”
Now that we’ve had a chance to calm down, we say it again, exactly as is, but add – Build, Baby, Build.
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PM spokesman says Israel has “ironclad information” Obama Administration helped craft anti-Israel UN resolution.
The Israeli government has publicly accused the Obama Administration of having helped develop and push for the UN Security Council resolution condemning any and all Jewish presence over the 1949 armistice lines.
David Keyes, the spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, made the accusation on Fox News’ “America’s News HQ” program, claiming that Israel had “ironclad information” that the Obama Administration not only allowed the resolution to pass by going against the longtime US policy of vetoing one-sided resolutions against Israel, but took part in crafting the resolution and pushed for its passage.
“We have rather ironclad information from sources in both the Arab world and internationally that this was a deliberate push by the United States and in fact they helped create the resolution in the first place.” Keyes said.
The Prime Minister warned government ministers earlier that President Obama could cause further harm to Israel before he leaves office on January 20.
Army Radio broadcaster Erel Segal today reminded listeners that Obama began his presidency with a visit to Cairo, avoiding a stop in nearby Israel. While in Cairo, he spoke of Israel’s existence being a result of WWII’s genocide of the Jews, exactly as the Arab world does, thereby making the Jewish state an alien entity with no roots in the Holy Land.
Trump Was Right to Try and Stop Obama From Tying His Hands on Israel
by Alan Dershowitz
The Egyptian decision to withdraw the one-sided anti-Israel United Nations Security Council resolution should not mask the sad reality that it is the Obama administration that has been pushing for the resolution to be enacted. The United States was trying to hide its active behind-the-scenes role in the matter by preparing to abstain rather than voting for the resolution. But in the context of a Security Council where only an American veto can prevent anti-Israel resolutions from automatically passing, an abstention is a vote for the resolution. And because of this automatic majority, an anti-Israel resolution like this one cannot be reversed by a future American president. A veto cannot be cast retroactively.
The effect, therefore of the Obama decision to push for, and abstain from, a vote on this resolution is to deliberately tie the hands of the president’s successors, in particular President-elect Trump. That is why Trump did the right thing in reaction to Obama’s provocation. Had the lame-duck president not tried to tie the incoming president’s hands, Trump would not have intervened at this time. But if Trump had not urged the Egyptians to withdraw the resolution, he would have made it far more difficult for himself to try to bring about a negotiated resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The reason for this is that a Security Council resolution declaring the 1967 border to be sacrosanct, and any building behind those boarders to be illegal, would make it impossible for Palestinian leaders to accept less in a negotiation. Moreover, the passage of such a resolution would disincentivize the Palestinians from accepting Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu’s invitation to sit down and negotiate with no preconditions. Any such negotiations would require painful sacrifices on both sides if a resolution were to be reached. And a Security Council resolution siding with the Palestinians would give the Palestinians the false hope that they could get a state through the United Nations without having to make painful sacrifices.
President Obama’s lame duck attempt to tie the hands of his successor is both counterproductive to peace and undemocratic in nature. The lame-duck period of an outgoing president is a time when our system of checks and balances is effectively suspended. The outgoing president does not have to listen to Congress or the people. He can selfishly try to burnish his personal legacy at the expense of our national and international interests. He can even try to settle personal scores and act on pique, which is what seems to be happening here. Congress does not support this resolution; the American people do not support this resolution; no Israeli leader – from the Left, to the center, to the Right – supports this resolution. Even some members of Obama’s own administration do not support this resolution. But Obama is determined – after 8 years of frustration and failure in bringing together the Israelis and Palestinians – to leave his mark on the Mid-East peace process. But if he manages to push this resolution through, his mark may well be the end of any realistic prospect for a negotiated peace.
One would think that Obama would have learned from his past mistakes in the Mid-East. He has alienated the Saudis, the Egyptians, the Jordanians, the Emirates and other allies by his actions and inactions with regard to Iran, Syria, Egypt and Iraq. Everything he has touched has turned to sand.
Now, in his waning days, he wants to make trouble for his successor. He should be stopped in the name of peace, democracy and basic decency.
But it appears that Obama will not be stopped. Four temporary Security Council members have decided to push the resolution to a vote now, today. It is difficult to believe that they would have done so without the implicit support of the United States.
Stay tuned.
Addendum
As predicted, the United States allowed the anti-Israel resolution to be approved by the United Nations Security Council. Votes in favor were cast by Russia, which has occupied Kornengsberg since 1945, after capturing that ancient German city, ethnically cleansing its population and bringing in hundreds of thousands of Russian settlers; China, which has occupied Tibet and brought in thousands of Chinese settlers; France who occupied and settled Algeria for many years; Great Britain which has occupied and colonized a significant portion of the globe; and assorted other countries, several of which have horrendous human rights records.
Israel on the other hand, offered to end the occupation and settlements in 2000-2001 and again in 2008 only to be rebuffed by the Palestinian leadership. But Israel is the only country to have been condemned by the Security Council for an occupation and settlement. This hypocrisy is typical of the United Nations as even our representative acknowledged when she explained why the United States abstained.
Now peace will be more difficult to achieve, as the Palestinians become further convinced that they do not have to accept Netanyahu’s offer to negotiate without preconditions.
Thank you, President Obama for completing your 8 years of failed foreign policy with a final blow against, peace, stability and decency.
Congress can ameliorate the impact of this destructive resolution by enacting a statute declaring that the resolution does not represent the United States’ policy, which is that peace will not come through the United Nations but only by direct negations between the parties. The law should also prohibit any United States funds to be spent directly or indirectly in support of this Security Council resolution. I suspect that the incoming president will be willing to sign such a law.
Alan M. Dershowitz is Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Law School and author of Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law and Electile Dysfunction: A Guide for the Unaroused Voter.
