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Some of What the
Livni Arrest Threat Really Means
The
issues surrounding the recent arrest threats – Almog, Barak, Livni – derive
in part from an attempt to impose some kind of “Rule of Law”, akin to the
promise made to Congress by George H.W. Bush (the senior), that the world
would come under such a fresh discipline as would amount to a “New World
Order”.
It
has to be faced that there are cries for the nation state to become
diminished in its scope: its legal position and territorial inviolability.
Internal affairs of states are no longer considered matters for themselves
alone. Partly this is a product of the crocodile tears shed by the West over
Rwanda, Cambodia and other tribal and genocidal actions. Of these, there
have been many, such as the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda and the
jihadic assaults in Sudan and Indonesia, for examples. It is also partly
because of the unleashing of the NATO forces against Serbia, following the
terrorism of the Muslim Kosovans and the porous border with Albania. In the
latter instance, NATO, whose brief had always been to defend against
Communist attack, changed its raison d’être and became a strike arm
against Serbia which had attacked no NATO member and posed no threat to one.
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On Responses to the Goldstone
Report
Prime
Minister Netanyahu has made clear two distinct areas on which Israel must
focus its response to the implications of this very cunning and devious,
grossly inaccurate, report by Judge Goldstone.
On October 20, 2009, Mr. Netanyahu said to the Israeli
Security Cabinet:
Our challenge is to
delegitimize the continuous attempt to delegitimize the State of Israel. The
most important arena where we need to act in this context is in the arena of
public opinion, which is crucial in the democratic world. We must continue
to debunk this lie that is spreading with the help of the Goldstone report.
Notoriously, Israel’s handling of its case in the
(so-called) wider community of nations, has been lamentably lackluster,
half-hearted and inadequate, according to the vast majority of professionals
involved in psychological warfare, the media and
hasbara efforts. This, then, must
alter in light of the Goldstone Report. Then again, it was always in need of
massive reform and investment. Israel’s image abroad has been in decline,
one way or another, ever since it won the 1967 war. Doing the Jewish state
down is, in the West, currently a regular pastime for the intelligentsia.
The report, like academic boycotts, has a place in this ugly wider picture.
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The Golan, the International Angles and Syria:
Apparently Israel’s Interests Do Not Really Count
Recently, President Assad of Syria made plain his
optimism about the return of the Golan to Syrian control. Of course, he
needs to sound optimistic as this goal has been a hallmark of Syrian foreign
policy since the Syrians were dislodged and removed from the Heights in
1967, after constant shelling and aggression against Israeli farmers,
kibbutzim and water sources. Life was made as wretched as possible for those
below, with many children regularly confined to sleeping in shelters against
the bombardments. But the international community has a short memory and is
disinclined to punish Arab aggressors against Israel even if it does so
against those who threaten oil supplies.
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Under the Surface
At the end of June 2009, the British
think-tank, The
Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC), published the following statement:
The government’s UK Trade and
Investment organization is co-sponsoring the “Islamic Finance and Trade
Conference” with the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and the
Muslim Council of Britain (MCB). The MCB has strong connections with the
Jamaat e-Islami, an Islamist political party which created the first
detailed argument for the creation of an alternative, Islamist financial
system. The government recently
distanced itself from the MCB because Daud
Abdullah, Deputy-Secretary General of the MCB, put his name to a
statement in support of
violent jihad in Israel which explicitly rejects all peace initiatives in
the region and makes indirect threats to British Naval vessels involved in
stopping the smuggling of weapons to Hamas.
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Anti-Zionism and
Anti-Semitism in Britain
In days full of
anti-Semitism and even more riddled with anti-Zionism, it is important to
recognize how far the two are really linked together and are proving Herzl
somewhat mistaken: Hatred of the State of Israel in Europe – particularly in
France and Britain, is frequently claimed not to be anti-Semitic per se. Yet
the two are, in reality, deeply related and in Britain today appear to feed
off one another.
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The International Delegitimization of the Settlers and
Its Echo in Israel
On Sunday,
September 7, 2008 the Israeli cabinet postponed its debate on monetary
compensation for those who voluntarily leave their communities in Judea and
Samaria and return beyond the “Green Line”. Already the treatment of the
former residents of the Gaza area blocs, labelled formerly Gush Katif, has
become a national scandal...
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Islam in Britain, Part I: The Situation
The
following is based upon an article from a specialist institute and
starts to deal with the British government’s naïve response to the
Muslim attacks in London in 2005. The article is quoted here at length
as it opens up a number of issues, which will emerge from this article
and its sequels, as essential for an understanding of the slide into
political and educational acquiescence to Islam and so, the
dhimmitude of the British government and people.
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Islam in Britain, Part II: The Call for Shari`ah Law
The London
Sunday Times reported on September 14, 2008:
Islamic law has been
officially adopted in Britain, with Shari`ah courts given powers
to rule on Muslim civil cases.
The government has
quietly sanctioned the powers for Shari`ah judges to rule on
cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to those involving
domestic violence.
Rulings issued by a
network of five Shari`ah courts are enforceable with the full
power of the judicial system, through the county courts or High Court.
Previously, the rulings
of Shari`ah courts in Britain could not be enforced, and depended
on voluntary compliance among Muslims.
It has now emerged that
Shari`ah courts with these powers have been set up in London,
Birmingham, Bradford and Manchester with the network’s headquarters in
Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Two more courts are being planned for Glasgow
and Edinburgh.
Sheikh Faiz-ul-Aqtab
Siddiqi, whose Muslim Arbitration Tribunal runs the courts, said he had
taken advantage of a clause in the Arbitration Act 1996.
Under the act, the
Shari`ah courts are classified as arbitration tribunals. The rulings
of arbitration tribunals are binding in law, provided that both parties
in the dispute agree to give it the power to rule on their case.
This
is no mere symbolic matter. It has profound constitutional significance
according to some analysts and also has a serious spin-off for the
Jewish community.
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