Thursday, August 30, 2018

Israel and U.S. Team to Enforce Iran Sanctions

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Israel, US to form joint team to increase enforcement of sanctions on Iran
Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon and his American counterpart Steven Mnuchin agreed Tuesday to establish a joint team to work on increasing enforcement of the US economic sanctions on Iran. During their meeting in Washington, the two also discussed the economic cooperation between Israel and the US and joint tax issues.

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Monday, August 27, 2018

Just a Thought . . .

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We want to continue to fight the good fight but we can't do it alone.
The LSW (Long Suffering Wife) and I need your help.
There's no one else!

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Sunday, August 26, 2018

Assad's Iranian allies turn against him

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According to The Times of Israel:

Pro-Iran militias turn on Assad, try to establish land corridor to Mediterranean
Israel worriedly follows developments around key border crossing in eastern Syria, where battles between longtime civil war allies have been reported for first time

Pro-Iran Shiite militias have been observed fighting Syrian army forces several times over the last two weeks, in what has been described as a battle for one of Syria’s key strategic areas, with developments closely followed by a concerned Israel.

It is the first time the two sides have been reported to be fighting, with fatalities and casualties on both sides, after years of cooperation during Iran’s involvement and support for Syrian President Bashar Assad in the country’s civil war.-more

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Thursday, August 23, 2018

To a "Sweet New Year"

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Rosh Hashana 2018 will begin at sunset in the evening of Sunday, September 9 and ends in the evening of Tuesday, September 11.

It is the first of what we call the High Holidays (or High Holy Days), a ten-day period that ends with Yom Kippur—the Day of Atonement. Rosh Hashana celebrates the creation of Adam and Eve.

Shana Tova. Happy New Year.

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Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Pastor Brunson

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According to "the European Centre for Law and Justice":
Andrew Craig Brunson is a United States citizen and pastor from North Carolina. For over 23 years, he has lived peacefully in Turkey together with his wife and three children, who were educated in Turkish schools, and two of whom were born in the country. All this time, Andrew Brunson has been involved in serving as pastor of the Resurrection church in the city of Izmir. As the religious leader of the congregation, Pastor Brunson was known and respected by his own church and other Christian congregations, and the Brunson family have shown themselves to be people who love and respect Turkey and the Turkish society.

As a religious worker, Pastor Brunson specially worked to keep political activities away from himself and his church. As explained by his lawyer, he considered that establishing political and financial relationships with governments or other groups would sully the religious beliefs in which he believes and he always defended this viewpoint.

On October 7, 2016, as he arrived home, he found a written summons to report with his passport to a local police station. Believing the summons was related to his routine application for a renewal of his residence visa, Pastor Brunson promptly reported to the Izmir police that same day. There, he was informed that an order of deportation had been entered against him, as he had suddenly been deemed a threat to national security.

From that day, Pastor Brunson was held in detention at the Harmandali Detention Centre and was denied access to an attorney until December 9th 2016 – over two months later – when he was transferred in the middle of the night to a high security prison in Izmir. At that time, he was informed that he was being detained as a suspect, although “evidence had yet to be gathered”, on the grounds of Membership in an Armed Terrorist Organization. Indeed, on December 9th 2016, the Izmir 5th Penal Court of Peace ordered that he continued to be detained pending the investigation.-more

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Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Sitting Duck

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So have we lost our way? Are our leaders cowardly? or dumb? or just not the way they (and we) were in the "old days"?
If you remember those old days (or you'd like to see what they were like) you'll find my collection of those cartoon classics ("Young and Innocent:The Way We Were") at Amazon.
To see a shelf of Dry Bones books at: http://www.Amazon.com/author/kirschen
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Monday, August 20, 2018

UN Soldiers to Protect Gaza

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According to Ynet News:

Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, suggests 'UN-mandated armed forces or unarmed observers' should be deployed in the Gaza Strip in order to protect the local population; The proposal is part of a UN General Assembly report that condemns Israel for using excessive force against Palestinians; The report does not mention Hamas; 'The combination of prolonged military occupation, constant security threats, weak political institutions, and a deadlocked peace process provides for a protection challenge that is highly complex politically.'-more

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Thursday, August 16, 2018

Another Bogus Peace Plan?

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According to the Times of Israel:
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said Wednesday that neither Israelis nor Palestinian would be “fully pleased” by its long-awaited Middle East peace plan, whose contents are one of the most guarded secrets in Washington.
Jason Greenblatt, US President Donald Trump’s special representative for international negotiations, tweeted a statement from multiple officials that said the only way to achieve a final-status accord was for both parties to accept painful compromises.-more

ANOTHER fake "peace plan"? We've seen so many bogus plans over the years.So many demands for "painful concessions." If you remember the good old days (or you'd like to see what they were like) you'll find my collection of those cartoon classics ("Young and Innocent:The Way We Were") at Amazon.
To see a shelf of Dry Bones books at: http://www.Amazon.com/author/kirschen
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Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Jordan and Israel to Bypass PLO?

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According to Canada Free Press:

Jordan-Israel negotiations on Trump peace plan set to bypass PLO
By David Singer
Jordan-Israel negotiations based on President Trump’s long-awaited peace plan seem increasingly likely to happen - following retired Jordanian Ambassador and former editor of the Jordan Times – Walid Sadi – flagging Jordan’s legal and sovereignty claims in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and East Jerusalem (“disputed territories”).

Sadi - in an op-ed article in the Jordan Times on 12 August - has forcefully argued that Jordan’s decision to cut off all legal and administrative relations with the disputed territories in July 1988 did not amount to Jordan ceding its claims to sovereignty for the following reasons:

“First of all, the unity of the West Bank with the East Bank was officially and constitutionally adopted on 24 of April 1950. No one disputes this fact. The Constitution of the country at the time was the 1952 Constitution, which stipulated in no uncertain terms that no part of the Kingdom shall be ceded, period. This provision makes the 1988 decision to cut off all legal and administrative relations between the two banks stopping short of ceding the West Bank to any side whatsoever. Any other interpretation of the 1988 political decision is absolutely untenable constitutionally.”

The Jordan Times is published by the Jordan Press Foundation – in which the government-owned Social Security Investment Fund has a majority stake. Wadi’s politically-charged and highly-significant article could only have been published with the knowledge and approval of Jordan’s King Abdullah.-more

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Monday, August 13, 2018

Waving the Flag

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In the old days, years ago, we regularly referred to our local Arab population as "Israeli Arabs". It now seems that many (most?) now reject the idea that they are "Israeli"
If you remember those old days (or you'd like to see what they were like) you'll find my collection of those cartoon classics ("Young and Innocent:The Way We Were") at Amazon.
To see a shelf of Dry Bones books at: http://www.Amazon.com/author/kirschen
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Thursday, August 09, 2018

When is it "News"?

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I remember doing a similar cartoon in the Jerusalem Post years ago.
If you remember those old days (or you'd like to see what they were like) you'll find my collection of those cartoon classics ("Young and Innocent:The Way We Were") at Amazon.
To see a shelf of Dry Bones books at: http://www.Amazon.com/author/kirschen
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Wednesday, August 08, 2018

You know you're old when . . .

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Back in the "old days"I did a full page Friday cartoon in the Jerusalem Post. I often did a feature called "You know you've been here too long when. . . "
I was thinking of those golden oldie days when I did today's cartoon.
If you remember those old days (or you'd like to see what they were like) you'll find my collection of those cartoon classics ("Young and Innocent:The Way We Were") at Amazon.
To see a shelf of Dry Bones books at: http://www.Amazon.com/author/kirschen
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Sunday, August 05, 2018

Cease-Fire or Hudna?!

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Israel's Hebrew press is spreading the story that Egypt has brokered a "Hudna"between Hamas and the State of Israel which includes giving a Hamas an airport in Sinai. It is to be noted that Egypt signed a peace treaty with us, as did Jordan. A Hudna is NOT a peace treaty or agreement or a cease-fire, as pointed out in the following correction to the Jerusalem Post's misuse of cease-fire as a translation for Hudna:

Pause to re-arm
The Jerusalem Post mistakenly reported that a “cease-fire” was achieved with Hamas (“Shaky cease-fire after Gaza sniper kills IDF soldier,”​ July 22).
​The paper’s ​use of the term “cease-fire” is a misinterpretation of the terms in Arabic that the Palestinian Arab leaders use when they when they refer to a temporary halt in fighting: hudna, tahadia and hudaybiyyah, all of which mean ​​continued war after a respite for rearmament.

• Hudna connotes only a tactical pause intended for rearmament in the war between Islamic forces and non-Islamic forces. The authoritative Islamic Encyclopedia (London, 1922) defines hudna as a “temporary treaty” that can be approved or abrogated by Islamic religious leaders, depending on whether or not it serves the interests of Islam. A hudna cannot last for more than 10 years.
• Tahadia is a temporary halt in hostile activity that can be violated at any time
• Hudaybiyyah is an understanding that there will be no fighting for 10 years named for the “treaty of Hudaybiyyah” in 628 AD.
The Islamic Encyclopedia mentions the hudaybia treaty as the “ultimate hudna.”

Hudna, tahadia and hudaybiyyah – the only options on the table with Hamas – do not compare to the mu’ahada treaty of peace that Egypt signed with Israel in 1979, or the mu’ahada treaty of peace that Jordan signed with Israel in 1994.
Bottom line: hudna, tahadia and hudaybiyyah do not ​connote a “cease-fire.”

DAVID BEDEIN
Director, Israel Resource News Agency

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Thursday, August 02, 2018

Blocking Iran

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According to The Times of Israel:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran on Wednesday that Israel, together with an “international coalition,” would not allow the Islamic Republic to close a key regional waterway.
Speaking to graduates of the Israel Navy’s elite captains’ course at its naval training base in Haifa, Netanyahu said, “At the beginning of the week we witnessed a serious clash with Iran’s proxies who tried to obstruct international movement in the straits at the entrance to the Red Sea.”
He added: “If Iran tries to block the Bab Al-Mandab Straits, I’m convinced that it will find itself facing a determined international coalition to prevent this.
“This coalition would include Israel,” he promised the 36 newly-minted naval commanders, “in all its branches.”-more

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Wednesday, August 01, 2018

Nikki Socks it To Them!

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According to Israel National News:

Trump warns UN for hypocrisy on PLO, Hamas and Israel
By David Singer
Last year, Iran’s contribution to UNRWA was zero. Algeria’s contribution to UNRWA was zero. Tunisia’s contribution to UNRWA was zero. Haley named and shamed.
President Trump has challenged United Nations (UN) member States to put their money where their mouths are in a hard hitting speech delivered by US Permanent Representative to the UN - Ambassador Nikki Haley – at a UN Security Council Open Debate on the Middle East on 24 July.
Following Trump’s dressing down of NATO – Haley attacked UN member States who are full of words but short on money when it comes to supporting the Palestinian Arabs.-more

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