Doc's Talk (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Ted Belman Mike Packard, a longtime friend of Israpundit, invited me to spend Shabbat with him and his family in Kibbutz Ein Harod. I gratefully accepted. So on Friday I hopped on a bus in Jerusalem headed for Beit Shean. The bus travelled down to Jericho, a trip I had taken in 1968 when I was first in Israel. The drop in elevation went from 2100 feet above sea level to 1200 feet below. What surprised...
Doc's Talk (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Ted Belman The Jerusalem Report has a major article, The Livni Beat, which attempts to explain Livni’s politics. In Livni’s view, the occupation of Palestinian territory must be wound up for two reasons: - to ensure that Israel will remain democratic with a Jewish majority, and to preempt attempts - to use the ongoing occupation to deligitimize the state. That’s what is motivating the present government...
Doc's Talk (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Comment by Ted Belman Bloomberg does not try to disprove the “lies”, he just gives his opinion. He does everything in his power to smear the purveyors of the “lies” . He doesn’t make the slightest attempt disprove the alleged facts and to deal with the adverse facts which are not discredited by him. He accuses us of indulging in the “politics of ethnic and religious division” of using “slimy, low-ball...
Doc's Talk (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
Ted Belman The other day, I met with MK Arieh Eldad to learn from his perspective what was going on, how the forces are lining up for the upcoming elections and how we can keep Judea and Samaria. Before ending the meeting he graciously gave me a book, The Jewish Revolution, written by his father, Dr Israel Eldad and published last year by Gefen Publishing House. Israel Eldad is described on the book...
Doc's Talk (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Ted Belman As I write, the “ceasefire”, lull” or whatever has been in place for an hour, but what are its terms? Nobody is saying at least not exactly. All responsible ministers are not to be seen and they are hiding behind the back of Maj Gen (ret’d), Amos Gilad who negotiated the deal under their orders. In his interview by YNET he had this to say, “If Gilad Shalit is not released, Rafah crossing...
Doc's Talk (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Ted Belman While media attention has been focused on the Palestinian track where no progress has been made and no real pressure applied, serious work has been going on with Syria. You will recall that the Iraq Study Group under Baker recommended in November ’06, that the US should engage Syria and Iran about Iraq without preconditions. While Bash and Rice rejected the recommendations publicly, they...
Israelated - English Israel blogs (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
Ted Belman Saudi Arabia is making moves to put a resolution before the Security Council dealing with Israeli settlement construction. So far the exact resolution hasn’t been formulated let alone tabled but is expected to demand a cessation of building additional housing units. The only question raised to date is whether the US will veto it. American U.N. ambassador, Alejandro Wolff, said. America will...
Doc's Talk (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Ted Belman Arab’s play offense while Israelis play defense. Nowhere is this more evident than in the field of propaganda. But first I want to look at the negotiations. Can anyone tell me what the Israelis are demanding. I’m waiting. On the other hand,the Arabs are demanding the holy city in Jerusalem, the greenline as the border and the “right of return”. It seems Israel is always struggling to meet...
Israelated - English Israel blogs (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Ted Belman Five months after the Six Day War in ‘67, The Security Council passed the much referred to Resolution 242. Here are the relevant parts. The Security Council, Emphasizing the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war and the need to work for a just and lasting peace in which every State in the area can live in security, Emphasizing further that all Member States in their acceptance...
Doc's Talk (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Ted Belman I see the “peace process” as a danger to Israel. It empowers the international community to pressure Israel to make concessions to their arch enemy. If only the US had decided to stand by Israel’s right to retain all captured territory after the Six Day War in ‘67, we would be in a whole better place today. But they didn’t. Also the leaders of Israel share some of the blame. After that war,...
