The argument, to many, is not Land for Peace, but Land is Peace. Although the nature of warfare has changed, strategic depth is still critical. That is, the final determinant is what happens on the ground. Hence, maintaining possession of the lands taken in the Six Day War is necessary not only to prevent attack, but also to protect against terrorism. For these reasons, when considering solely the security perspective, no military expert has ever counseled return of the lands Israel conquered in ’67. In fact, military men in the U.S. are sometimes surprised that Israel has spoken about making any concessions.
—This second salesperson was right. “The Ballad of the Weeping Spring,” a film directed by Benny Torati, has not issued a soundtrack, and it seems that no such disc will be released soon. That is an artistic absurdity, and it appears also to be a dubious economic decision. The seller at the record store was right – it has been a long time since music has played such an essential part in an Israeli film. If the music wasn’t so melodious, that would be one thing. However, Eliyahu’s score is superb (and, justifiably, won an Ophir award last year ). It’s a safe bet that many of the film’s viewers left the theater and later looked for a soundtrack and found nothing. That’s absurd, but not very surprising. —Read More:http://www.haaretz.com/culture/arts-leisure/haunting-iranian-music-stars-in-new-israeli-film-but-don-t-expect-to-buy-the-soundtrack.premium-1.485733
The Arab regimes are for the most part totalitarian dictatorships prone to coups and unpredictable changes of heart. What would happen if the leader who made peace fell? Would his successor keep up the agreement? In such a scenario Israel would have compromised its security, and brought the enemy closer, without having any guarantee of future safety….
A restaurant serves cups of coffee that flies occasionally find their way into…
The Italian – throws the cup, breaks it, and walks away in a fit of rage.
The German – carefully washes the cup, sterilizes it and makes a new cup of coffee.
The Frenchman – takes out the fly, and drinks the coffee.
The Chinese – eats the fly and throws away the coffee.
The Russian – Drinks the coffee with the fly, since it was extra with no charge.
The Israeli – sells the coffee to the Frenchman, sells the fly to the Chinese, sells the cup to the Italian, drinks a cup of tea, and uses the extra money to invent a device that prevents flies from falling into coffee.
The Palestinian – blames the Israeli for the fly falling into his coffee, protests the act of aggression to the UN, takes a loan from the European Union to buy a new cup of coffee, uses the money to purchase explosives and then blows up the coffee house where the Italian, the Frenchman, the Chinese, the German and the Russian are all
ng to explain to the Israeli that he should give away his cup of tea to the Palestinian.
Caroline Glick:International relations is not a high-school popularity contest. For Israel, it is a matter of survival, of staving off threats to our existence and countering those who seek our destruction.
It was David Ben-Gurion who famously declared that “it doesn’t matter what the gentiles say; what matters is what the Jews do.”
While there is a great deal of truth in this, I think he may have overstated the case. By suggesting a dichotomy, Ben- Gurion made it sound as if we can only have one or the other….click for source…
…The proposition of exchanging land for peace is unheard of in the annals of history. Whenever has a nation that won territory in a defensive war surrendered it to the very nations which attacked it?
And will giving back the land lead to peace? Never in the history of Israeli-Arab relations have concessions led to an attitude of conciliation and peace. Instead, the initial concessions have communicated feelings of weakness and insecurity that have been exploited by the Arabs and have encouraged them to make further and more excessive demands. ( to be continued)…
—The Matchmaker tells the story of Arik, a boy in his early teens who works for Yankele Bride, a Holocaust survivor and friend of Arik’s father from the old county who is a matchmaker in the seedy harbor district of Haifa in 1968. Mr. Bride’s office is in the back of a movie theater run by a family of Romanian dwarves that only screens love stories. Arik falls in love with his best friend’s cousin Tamara who has returned from a summer in America with ideas about women’s rights, the sexual revolution, and rock music recordings, and that is only one of several intricately interwoven plot lines. The story is told in retrospect from 32 years later when Haifa is under rocket by Hezbollah. —Read More:http://www.examiner.com/article/israeli-film-the-matchmaker-opens-tomorrow-8-17-12
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