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What exactly has given such sudden impetus, organization, and unity to the anti-Netanyahu front?
Who stands to gain from Israel's partition?
And from Palestinians gaining a sovereign platform to attack Israel?
The issues of foreign interference and corruption
in Israeli politics.
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It's only a few days before Israelis elect a new government, and an alarming number of signals indicate that something more than the usual dysfunctional Israeli politics is at work.
It is not easy to speculate on this matter, so all we can do is assemble some clues to the machinations that could result in a political coalition backing the suicide of Israel - in the name of "peace".
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| Martin Sherman |
A couple of days ago Martin Sherman, a brilliant analyst and a man with vision and integrity, wrote an article that he called the saddest column he had ever written.
In it he tells how Shabtai Shavit, former Mossad director, a man in whom he has entrusted his own life, a close friend and a mentor - had suddenly come out supporting a suicidal plan for Israel. Sherman entitled his article "Selling surrender as strategy".
Security officers call for the partition of Israel
Shavit is not alone. He has joined a new group of around 200 high-ranking former security officials called "Commanders for Israeli Security".
Last November 100 security and intelligence officials signed a public letter to PM Netanyahu asking for a resumption of talks aimed at the partition of their own country for the creation of a terror Palestinian State.
Only in Israel would a group of top intelligence and security official advocate for the partition of the country in the name of "security".
No other country would, voluntarily and forever, part with its historical heartland in exchange for the promise of peace by undemocratic here-today-gone-tomorrow tyrants.
Bear in mind that Egyptians under the rule of former president Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood were calling for the abrogation or "modification" of the much touted Peace Treaty with Israel This only a few decades after being signed by Anwar Sadat - who was assassinated for doing so, by the way. Giving land away in exchange for a piece of paper is suicidal.
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| Meir Dagan |
Former Mossad director Meir Dagan went even further a few days ago when he characterized PM Netanyahu's speech to the US Congress as "bullshit". He said Iran was not a threat to either Israel or the US.
Dagan also called for a Palestinian state to avoid Israel becoming "a bi-national" state, and gave a keynote address at an anti-government rally where he said he was more afraid of his own government than of his enemies.
Netanyahu's appeasement - A secret document surfaces.
As a background for some of these clues we need to take into account that PM Netanyahu is not the hawk he likes to present himself to be. Under his years of tenure there has been a constant series of gestures of appeasement and surrender to the enemy that never bode well for the country.
He still rides his hawkish reputation at election time, and today he is the most viable alternative to the suicidal left.
But the chickens have come home to roost.
The media have uncovered (possibly with help from the antagonistic White House) a 2013 document detailing how far Bibi Netanyahu was willing to go in surrendering land to Palestinian terrorists.
The government's giveaway, according to the documents, is not surprising because PM Netanyahu was the first ever PM who made the offer of statehood for the Palestinians an official one. He did it at a 2009 speech where he called for two states for two peoples.
That in itself was a major concession to the Palestinians. The land he felt entitled to give away is Judea and Samaria - which has been Jewish for thousands of years, the Biblical and historical Israel. He is willing to give it away to the Muslim conqueror for the purpose of creating another Arab terror state.
What prevented Netanyahu's vision from becoming a reality was the contentious issue of Jerusalem. The Arabs covet it. The Jews insist it is the foundation stone of Judaism and the reason why so many Jews came back to Israel. Jerusalem is in Judaism's DNA.
Netanyahu would be willing to explicitly give it away, but he has always been afraid that the price is too steep: his own political survival. So he obfuscated, and allowed Arabs to build facts on the ground all over Jerusalem, as well as across the Green Line, to make their claims to the land irreversible.
What Arabs want
They - the 'moderates' and the extremists - want the destruction of Israel. The 'moderates' are willing to achieve their goal through a "Piece" agreement that will give them a sovereign launching pad for the decisive attack on Israel.
The 'moderate' Fatah charter expresses this goal clearly. And the 'moderate' Fatah has a militant wing called the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade that does the actual killing, while Fatah only pays salaries to the terrorists who kill Jews. It only appears complicated, but in simple terms, all Palestinians want Israel to be wiped off the map. They only disagree on the methods.
What Israelis want
Who knows?
It's been said that - having lost all hope of a peace agreement with the Arabs - Israelis are now voting on domestic issues. It could be. Because in the important issue of borders the difference between the main parties is rather fuzzy.
Latest polls indicate that the suicidal left, that has misappropriated the word "Zionist" to its name, and the fake-right wing Likud are neck-to-neck.
Why would Israeli voters lean towards a leftist Labour party that wants to openly give away the Jewish heartland to the Arabs?
Unfortunately, the alternative - Likud - holds secret talks with the same purpose, while proclaiming that "Israel's security is paramount".
Substantially the same - with different tempo and styles.
Where are the true Israeli patriots in this game?
Something that intrigues observers is how the pro-land of Israel movement has never solidified into a true national force.
It is possible that intelligence services control those organizations, never letting them get too popular or too powerful, and exerting control over their leaders.
Just a few years ago there was a coalition for the annexation of Judea and Samaria called the National Union. They got enough votes to have a respectable representation in the Knesset, but once there they became rather passive and complacent.
The National Union made no attempt to expand its base, to communicate its message across the country, to really make a difference. They were apparently content with just being a token representation of the genuine right wing movement, and so in the next election they were wiped out.
That leaves Israel with two choices: the left that calls itself Zionist but that wants to empower the Arabs and give away the store, and the fake right wing Likud and other minor parties that want to empower the Arabs and give away the store, but under certain conditions.
The real puppet master in Israel: The State Department
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| US Sec. of State Kerry |
Everything is fair in love and war, and the State Department has been involved in a covert war against Israel for many years.
While publicly proclaiming support for Israel - to appease the pro-Israel American public - the State Department has been consistently pursuing pro-Arab policies and arming Israel's enemies to the teeth, in the hope that they will be able to crush Israel in the next war.
The US also sells weapons to Israel, but that's just good business for their military industry. They have forced Israel to become dependent on the US, thus preventing Israel from developing its own. And in times of war, the US has withheld the supply of badly needed weapons and ammunition to Israel.
This US war against Israel has intensified under the Obama administration to the point where the usual diplomatic niceties that made it appear as if the US and Israel were friends forever have been tossed to the side.
See links to a two-part timeline of the US-Israel history at the bottom of this page, showing how hostile and malevolent US policy has really been.
Their base is their Consulate in the Arab-populated area of Jerusalem. A consulate to the Palestinians, not to the Israelis. The White House has called the Jewish presence in their ancient capital of Jerusalem "illegitimate'.
The US Consulate keeps tabs on everything that goes on in Israel, no matter how minor. They have connections with political officials, with journalists, with the military, and with whoever has some influence in the country. And they develop their own persuasive methods to gain influence over them.
The White House had no compunction about sending its own team of experts to advise the leftist parties on how to manipulate the electorate, mobilize the Arab vote, and topple Netanyahu. This is interference of the highest degree, and yet, they did it. Openly. No shame about it.
That is what we see. What goes on behind closed doors is much more insidious.
That's why it's not surprising that just before a key national election suddenly an organization of security-linked Israeli officials springs up calling for the partition of the country in exchange for absolutely nothing. In any other country this would be tantamount to treason. Not in Israel.
Martin Sherman bitterly writes about his friend and mentor Shabtai Shavit's group :
Recently, however, Shavit has chosen to affiliate himself with a newly formed group of around 200 high-ranking former security officials (brigadier-generals and above in the IDF and their equivalents in the Mossad, Shin Bet and Police), which calls itself “Commanders for Israeli Security.”
CIS has taken upon itself to promote a “vision” for the resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict, based on the Saudi Peace Plan – a.k.a. the Arab Peace Initiative (API), and a regional arrangement with the “moderate” Arab states.
The API in effect calls for the return to the indefensible pre-1967 lines (with “comparable and mutually agreed minor land swaps” – whatever that might mean).
In exchange for this the Arab states would, allegedly, consider the Arab–Israeli conflict over, sign a peace treaty with Israel and establish normal relations, within the framework of a comprehensive peace.
According to CIS’s prescription, the durability of this unlikely arrangement will be underwritten by the goodwill and credibility of some of the most decadent, corrupt and unstable regimes on the planet, all located in the world’s most tumultuous region, in which uncertainty is the only certainty.
Divine justice?
Among the most vociferous voices calling for the expulsion of Jews from Gaza back in 2005 were Israelis living in the Gaza Belt, an area which consists in part of Israeli secular kibbutzim (communal farms) surrounding Gaza.
Well, once the Jews from Gaza were gone, there was no barrier between the Hamas jihadists and the Jewish farms. This past year this threat was made more obvious with the Hamas terror tunnels dug straight into some of those secular Jewish communities.
Many Jews living in the Gaza Belt were forced to evacuate until the IDF cleared the tunnels. But they know that many of the tunnels remain, just waiting for the moment to strike one of those Jewish families who so wanted the Jews out of Gaza.
The same situation is bound to happen to all of Israel, if the Palestinians succeed in getting their state. But it will be of many more orders of magnitude.
No inch of Israel will ever be safe again. And Israel won't be able to hit terror tunnels or rocket launching pads because - unlike Gaza now - the state of Palestine will be a sovereign nation backed up by Middle East bullies such as Iran and Turkey.
Many people think that the State of Israel will eventually be dismantled, not because of a major military attack by its enemies, but as a result of a series of fateful decisions made by the secular pro-Palestinian Israeli left - while patriotic Israelis slept.
THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT - FOUR BASIC FACTS YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Continue reading, access links, including a flashback to the 2005 Israeli withdrawal from Gaza - motivated by what it is alleged to be corruption on the part of then PM Ari Sharon, as well as other allegations of corruption against many top officials over the years.
