עמנואל מורנו – Emmanuel Moreno

Naftali Bennet talks about his friend Emmanuel Moreno( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Moreno ):

“Сын ХАМАСа” – об Израиле

Future weapons: Israel

Moshe “Bogie” Yaalon’s speech

On Wednesday, August 3, 2011, The State of Israel’s Vice Premier and Minister of Strategic Affairs, Lt. Gen. Moshe “Bogie” Ya’alon, and the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces’ National Vice President, Rabbi Isaac Jeret, were invited to Paepcke Auditorium at the Aspen Institute by the Coalition For An Enduring Mid-East Peace. Rabbi Jeret offered introductory remarks, Vice Premier Yaalon presented a significant address regarding the Netanyahu Administration’s perspective on the challenges Israel faces in a rapidly changing Middle East. The Vice Premier commented in depth on the peace process with the Palestinians and threats and challenges posed by Iran, Hamas, Turkey, Egypt, Hezbollah, and Syria. Rabbi Jeret then interviewed the Vice Premier, in dialogue, throughout the remainder of the program.

Jihadist’s Dream (Die zusammengerollte Verfassung)

Changed Middle East – days before September 2011

A Strategy for Israel in the Changed Middle East
by Efraim Halevy

“The options for Israel and the Palestinians basically can be boiled down to these: a permanent agreement, an interim agreement, a de facto interim agreement, and a situation of no agreement. The best possible option – a permanent agreement – is not operable at this time and is the least probable…”

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What Are the Palestinians Planning after September?
by Pinhas Inbari

“What the Palestinians really envisage after September is to exploit a UN endorsement of statehood to legitimize an escalation of the conflict. After having the 1967 lines recognized so as to negate the results of the Six-Day War, they plan to seek recognition of the 1947 partition lines…”

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A Blast from the Past: The Upcoming Durban III Conference (September 2011)
by Alan Baker

“A further attempt to re-legitimize Durban will take the form of a ten-year anniversary commemoration of the Durban conference at the UN in New York on 22 September 2011.
This event will coincide with the Palestinian attempt to have the UN recognize and accept a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state, in violation of the peace negotiation process. This juncture of events confirms and endorses the interconnection between the Durban process and the ongoing international campaign to delegitimize Israel…”

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Hizbullah’s Predicament in Light of Syria’s Decline
by Shimon Shapira

“Five years after the Second Lebanon War, a war whose results Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah considers a “divine victory,” Hizbullah has currently reached one of its lowest points due to the endangered survival of the Assad regime in Syria, as well as the international tribunal that has demanded the extradition of four Hizbullah members suspected of murdering former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri…”

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The Syrian Uprising: Implications for Israel
by Eyal Zisser

“In Syria, the story is the emergence of social groups from the periphery and their struggle to gain access to power and take over the center. The emergence of the Baath party and the Assad dynasty in the 1960s involved a coalition of peripheral forces led by the Alawites, but many others joined who came from the periphery. Now, because of socioeconomic reasons, the periphery has turned against the regime…”

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“Two-State Solution Will Lead to the Collapse of Israel”

ד″ר מדרכי קידר על מיניות ולחימה בתרבות הערבית

Рав Ури Шерки: “Ислам – нам есть о чем говорить” (радио “7-й канал”)

- Здравствуйте, рав Шерки !
- Здравствуйте !
- Я сейчас говорил с востоковедом проф. Рафи Исраэли. Он говорит, что исламский мир становится более исламским, невзирая на интернет и т.п., но, с другой стороны, другие востоковеды считают, что исламский мир станет более терпимым, более “западным”. Каково Ваше мнение ?  Т.с., с “философской точки зрения”.

- Смотрите, есть в современной западной философии некий исходный тезис – “когда религиозное движение становится еще и политическим, то оно постепенно превращается в секулярное движение”.  Этот тезис ослепляет многих, в т.ч. “востоковедов”.
На примере ислама мы видим обратный процесс – фанатизм крепнет с усилением политической власти ислама.
Но давайте рассмотрим это в более широком плане.
Наши политические лидеры всегда смотрели на  Ближневосточный конфликт как на конфликт политический.
Догмой была и есть идея, что если смотреть на конфликт как на конфликт религиозный, то решения уже точно не найти.

Я думаю, здесь есть несколько ошибок:
1) Конфликт – религиозный и игнорирование этого факта не поможет его разрешению.
2) Поняв, что конфликт – религиозный, мы сможем найти решение, т.к. между верующими может быть диалог. Даже если он в начале – диалог в форме конфликта. Но как минимум участники знают причину и друг друга.

Еврейский религиозный взгляд на ишмаэльтян известен. Если он будет нашей позицией, то на Западе он найдет понимание.
Исламский ренессанс может быть полезен: все карты на столе и видно кто стоит за секулярными фигурами типа Мубарака и т.п.  В конце концов, из этого ренессанса может вырасти нечто хорошее для всех, если все смогут его правильно использовать. Как ?

Мы должны распространить знание Торы – чему мы можем научить мусульман, как то – “теория бней Ноах”, статус “гер-тошав”. Мы должны также знать о великой благодати для Израиля, которая может произойти от сынов Ишмаэля…
Если, конечно, диалог будет настоящим – т.е. на базе религий.

- Есть такая возможность ?  Между Ицхаком и Ишмаэлем не особенно-то велся диалог.

- Да, они не разговаривали, в отличие от Яакова и Эйсава. Христианство вело религиозный диалог с иудаизмом, иногда диалог “со взломом”, но – диалог. Связи ислама с иудаизмом ограничивались философией и наукой.
Однако, Тора говорит, что Ишмаэль раскаялся в конце жизни, когда встретил Ицхака на похоронах Авраама в Хевроне…

- Почему ислам не примет западные религиозные ценности ?

- Потому, что один из постулатов христианства – разделение светской и религиозной властей. “Богу – богово, кесарю – кесарево”.  Ислам это не примет никогда. Даже перенимая “светские” идеологии, арабский мир аборбирует их –  единственное,что остается в итоге – это ислам.

Toward a Radicalism ?

Democracy does not seem to be closer in Tunisia today than it was four months ago, since the beginning of the so-called “Jasmine Revolution.” Instead it seems that Tunisia is in a stalemate, caught in moving sands, unable to stabilize and consolidate the domestic political scene.

Rather than advancing, it looks as if Tunisia has made a great leap backwards: Democracy has not eased the economic situation. The majority of the 350,000 employees in the tourism sector are unemployed, 25% of the main hotels are in a state of bankruptcy, while 80% of them are still closed. TunisAir, whose flights were cancelled, is being paid by the government for the lost seats in order to survive the absence of tourists. Supermarkets are still attacked and looted. Anarchy is such that the transitional government has reinstalled the notorious night curfew in Tunis as if former President Ben-Ali was still in power. Tanks and armored cars are still on the streets of Tunis.  Moreover,Tunisia is in an open conflict with Libya, which has tried several times to attack Tunisian units deployed on their common borders. Last but not least,Tunisia has had three transitional governments since the Jasmine revolution and instability still prevails.

 

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The Rafah border crossing connecting Gaza with Egypt was officially opened on May 28, 2011, by the Egyptian authorities and the Hamas government. The Egyptian news agency MENA reported that the crossing will be open six days a week, excluding Fridays and holidays, as part of Egyptian efforts to bring the internal Palestinian split to an end and to promote national reconciliation.

Gaza residents will now enjoy simplified procedures while crossing the border in both directions at Rafah and at all other border crossings in Egypt. Palestinians are no longer required to apply for a visa to enter Egypt, although a visa valid for at least six months is needed if a Palestinian is travelling through Egypt to a third country. According to the Egyptian announcement, the new procedures will apply to men under the age of 18 or above 40, students at Egyptian universities, patients who come for medical treatment, and children joining their parents.

 

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The reality that confronts Lebanon today raises hidden fears of Shi’ite domination and the transformation of Lebanon into a radical factor in the Middle East, aligned with Syria and Iran. That explains why Mikati sought in an interview with AFP to reassure the world and the Lebanese that “the fact that Hizbullah and its allies have 18 seats in the 30-member cabinet does not mean that the country will join the radical camp in terms of its relations with the international community.” Mikati was also quick to reiterate that his government will respect Lebanon’s international commitments, a reference to the International Tribunal investigation over the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, whose conclusions might point at some Syrian-backed Hizbullah operatives who were involved in the assassination plot.

 

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