Oroväckande(?) lugnt efter historiskt beslut....

 

 

Alla s k experter hävdade att president Trumps historiska

Jerusalembeslut skulle resultera i att Mellanöstern sveptes

in i ett hav av eld och blod.

Därför är det med glädje man kan konstatera att i varje
fall första dygnet varit nästan "lugnt" (nåja, efter lokala

förhållanden). Trots att såväl Fatah som Hamas uppmanat

till "A Day of Rage" med blodbad i Israel tycks araberna i
stort sett ha struntat i sina s k ledare.

Bara i Gaza och Hebron förekom större upplopp, men när gör
det inte det... IDF tillämpade nolltolerans mot oroligheter.

 

De flesta arabstater tycks fullt upptagna med att positionera

sig inför det kommande Saudi-Iranska kriget. Bara Erdogan

och hans nye allierade kung Abdallah av Jordanien har ägnat

sig åt att vara otidiga mot den amerikanske presidenten.

 

I Europa utspelades ett otäckt intermezzo där en islamist

"hämnades" på en judisk koscherrestaurant i Amsterdam.

Inför ögon på två sömniga poliser demolerade han

restauranten med en påk. Och greps omgående.
I islamisternas ögon är varje jude ansvarig för vad
som händer i Israel...

 

 

Danel Pomerantz analyserar vad vi kan vänta
den närmaste tiden:



Tommy Hanssons kommentar

Några andra av dagens bästa kommentarer




 



Äntligen !!

 

 

President Trump meddelade igår det världen

väntat på under fem amerikanska presidenter :

 

1. Ett klarläggande att Jerusalem är Israels

huvudstad

 samt

 2. Budskapet att USA:s Israelambassad

äntligen kommer att flytta till Jerusalem

Läs hela Trumps uttalande

 



– När jag valdes lovade jag att se på världens utmaningar med öppna ögon och nytänkande. Vi måste hitta en ny ingång till konflikten mellan israeler och palestinier, säger Trump.

Han betonar att amerikanska presidenter i över 20 år har vägrat flytta ambassaden eller erkänna Jerusalem som Israels huvudstad, trots ett beslut i kongressen 1995 att ambassaden skulle flyttas och att varje land har rätt att självt välja sin huvudstad – The Jerusalem Embassy Act.

– Efter 20 år har vi inte kommit närmare ett fredsavtal. Det vore dumt att fortsätta upprepa samma försök till lösningar. Därför har jag beslutat att det är dags att officiellt erkänna Jerusalem som Israels huvudstad, säger Donald Trump.

– Nu när vi gör det är det inget mindre än ett erkännande av verkligheten. Det är något som måste göras.

Trump säger att USA erkände staten Israel för 70 år sedan och att huvudstaden ända sedan dess varit Jerusalem.

– I dag är Jerusalem den moderna israeliska regeringens säte, där finns parlamentet, högsta domstolen, officiella residens för president och premiärminister. Staden är inte bara en hjärtpunkt för tre stora religioner utan också för ”en av de mest framgångsrika demokratierna i världen”, säger Trump.

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Läs Netanyahus tack till USA

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Det stundar säkert en stormig tid, både för Trump och Israel.

Alla Israels fiender kommer att gadda sig samman och

genom hot och terror försöka omintetgöra det historiska

beslutet.

Bland de små och betydelselösa fienderna har naturligtvis

Sveriges utvecklingsstörda "utrikesminister" redan

utmärkt sig. Men varför skulle en inbiten Israelhatare

plötsligt bli mottaglig för förnuftsargument ?

 

Men Israels fiender är definitivt inte enade.

De muslimska staterna befinner sig i fullt krig mellan

Iran, Saudialliansen och Muslimska Brödraskapet/Qatar.

 

Inom EU har framförallt Visegradstaterna fått nog

av Bryssels maktfullkomlighet.

Tjeckiens president har inatt meddelat att man anser

att Jerusalem är Israels huvudstad och tänker handla

därefter (vilket väl torde betyda en ambassadflyttning).

 

Sydsudan var också tidiga med att meddela att man

tänker bygga sin nya ambassad i Jerusalem.

 

Intressant:

Ryssland konstaterade redan i april i år som en ren

självklarhet att Jerusalem är Israels huvudstad.

“We reaffirm our commitment to the UN-approved principles

for a Palestinian-Israeli settlement, which include the status of

East Jerusalem as the capital of the future Palestinian state.

At the same time, we must state that in this context we view

West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,” the Foreign Ministry in

Moscow said in a statement.

 

 

 

 

 



"A how-to guide for moving the American Embassy to Jerusalem"

Dr. Einat Wilf ger i Washington Institutes Fikra Forum

fyra goda råd till president Trump hur han med framgång

kan gå till väga för att flytta amerikanska ambassaden

i Israel till landets huvudstad Jerusalem.

Det är en viktig, men grannlaga, uppgift där han

säkert har stor nytta av experthjälp.... 

A short four-step how-to guide for moving the American Embassy in Israel from its present
location in Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem.

To the President of the United States, attached please find a short four-step how-to guide for moving the American Embassy in Israel from its present location in Tel-Aviv, Israel’s cultural and economic capital, to Jerusalem, Israel’s political capital.
This guide will enable you, the President, to realize a clear campaign promise, support an ally, stand by those truly committed to justice and peace, end a long-standing but entirely nonsensical US policy, and as a cherry on top, expose hypocrisy. 

Step 1:
Choose a location for the embassy in Jerusalem that is clearly west of the 1949 armistice line, also known as the 1967 line. This part of Jerusalem has been under undisputed Israeli sovereignty since there was a modern state of Israel. This part has nothing holy in it - it is humdrum neighborhoods (I know, I grew up there). Make a special effort to find a location that overlooks the most important sites in this part of the city, all conveniently located next to each other: the Israeli Parliament – the Knesset, the Supreme Court, the Government offices, the Hebrew University, and the new National Library. You will note that these are proud symbols of the achievement of Israel and Zionism, symbols of Israeli sovereignty, knowledge, and creativity. You could do no better than place the symbol of the friendship between our two countries in their proximity.

Don’t be tempted to place the embassy in the area that was the no man’s land before 1967, where some claim land has already been purchased for that purpose, and certainly nowhere east of the 1967 lines. This might not completely satisfy Jewish maximalists, but it is critical for the success of this move and for the ability to reach the above goals, especially the hypocrisy exposure one.

Step 2:
Make it clear in your statements that the move merely acknowledges what has been known for decades – the parts of Jerusalem west of the 1967 line undisputedly belong to Israel, and Israel has the sovereign right of every nation to place its capital in its undisputed territory. Add that this move will finally put to bed the fiction that the vast area that encompasses Jerusalem west and east of the 1967 line is a “Corpus Separatum” – a separate entity – that belongs to the international community, as envisioned in the UN 1947 partition proposal.

This fiction, as all good fictions do, never existed anywhere but on paper. It never existed for the simple reason that the Arabs rejected the partition proposal and opened war to prevent it from being realized, and in losing the war Jerusalem west of the armistice lines became undisputedly Israel’s, and Jerusalem east of the line entered an extended period of disputed claims.

Clarify that nearly 70 years after the end of that war, the US is finally ending an illogical policy that holds the undisputed status of Jerusalem west of the 1949 armistice line hostage to the ongoing dispute over Jerusalem east of that line. The US is done denying Israel a basic national sovereign right to establish its capital in undisputed territory. You can add a statement that the US continues to call upon Israelis and Palestinians to directly negotiate the future of Jerusalem east of the 1967 line, with a special call that any arrangement should be mindful of the importance of the holy places, found only in Jerusalem east of the 1967 lines, to Judaism, Christianity and Islam and secure freedom of access and worship to these sites.

This should minimize the threat of violence in response to the move, since such statements would allow Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims who are not opposed to Israel within the 1967 lines a face-saving hook that would allow them to treat the US move as changing nothing, and therefore not deserving of negative response. 

Step 3:
Call out those Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims who are threatening violence over the US move for their real meaning: are they denying that Jerusalem west of the 1967 line clearly belongs to Israel? Are they laying claim to that territory too? After decades of asking the world to limit Jewish and Israeli claims east of the 1967 line, are they demanding Israel west of that line for themselves as well? If Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims will oppose the US move, as outlined above, they are essentially saying that Israel even within the 1967 lines is illegitimate, and thereby expose their enduring maximalist claims.

As a long-standing supporter of the Palestinian right to self-determination, I have found that it is critical that Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim maximalists should be called out for what underlies their fury:  nothing less than racism plain and simple, a continued denial that the Jewish people, no more and no less than any other people, possess the equal and universal right for self-determination in their land. While those Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims might react with violence, it is a violence that is based not on opposition to the move itself, but on a more base opposition to the very existence of the state of Israel. This is an important opportunity to clarify that America will not bow to that, and neither should any other country.

Step 4:
Call upon all other countries that have diplomatic relations with Israel to follow suit. Address your call especially to those countries that voted for UN Security Council Resolution 2334, that so thoroughly denied Jewish and Israeli claims east of the 1967 line, as well as to those countries who participated in the Paris Conference, which affirmed the resolution.

Their resolution, even if unintended, powerfully affirmed that there is absolutely no legal dispute or claim to Israeli territory west of the 1967, including Jerusalem. This legitimate interpretation of the language of the resolution provides sufficient legal basis for moving the embassy to Jerusalem west of the 1967 lines. Make it clear that the US will view as utter hypocrisy any country denying Jewish and Israeli claims east of that line, while refusing to take the most obvious step to acknowledge the undisputed nature of Israeli territory west of that line.

There you have it Mr. President, a clear and simple path to achieving a multitude of goals: swiftly realizing a major campaign promise, demonstrating your friendship to a long-standing ally, shaking stale beltway orthodoxies, standing up to maximalists and hypocrites alike, and actually taking a real step towards justice and peace for Israelis and Palestinians. Good Luck.

 

 

President Trump bromsar två miljarder i terrorstöd från Obama

 



Times of Israel avslöjar idag att president Trump

lyckats stoppa över två miljarder kronor som Obama-

regimen under sina sista timmar utanordnade till PLO

och Hamas.

Hamas är ju en avläggare till Obamas allierade Muslimska

Brödraskapet och Kerry har framstått som en av PLO-

regimens bästa vänner.

 

Obamas och Kerrys avsikt var uppenbarligen att göra det

möjligt för den bankrutta terrorstaten "Palestina"

att fortsätta den islamistiska terrorn mot Israel även

när USA fått en regering som motarbetar terrorism...

Men försöket tycks ha misslyckats genom kongress-

ledamöters vaksamhet.  

 

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The Trump administration has informed the Palestinian Authority that it is freezing the transfer of $221 million which was quietly authorized by the Obama administration in its final hours on January 20, a senior Palestinian source has told The Times of Israel.

 

US officials conveyed to PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah on Tuesday that the funds were not expected to be handed over in the immediate future, said the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

           

 On Tuesday, the State Department said it was reviewing the last-minute decision by former secretary of state John Kerry to send the funds to the Palestinians despite objections to the transfer by congressional Republicans.

The department said it would look at the payment and might make adjustments to ensure it comports with the Trump administration’s priorities.

 

The Obama administration had for some time been pressing for the release of the money for the Palestinian Authority, which comes from the US Agency for International Development, known as USAID, and is to be used for humanitarian aid in the West Bank and Gaza to support political and security reforms, as well as help prepare for good governance and the rule of law in a future Palestinian state, according to the notification sent to Congress.

 

Even without the $221 million, the Palestinian source noted that in 2016 the PA received $250 million from the US government.

 

 



 

Farväl Obama ! Välkommen Trump !

 

 

 

Så här medan det amerikanska folket tar emot sin

nye president kan man ägna en tanke åt det som

försvinner idag. D v s Obamaregimen, denna vidriga

parentes i USA:s historia. Vad som blir historikernas

dom återstår att se. Blir det åtta års inrikespolitisk

inaktivitet, det ekonomiska fiaskot, ett Mellanöstern

i totalt kaos efter alliansen med Muslimska Brödra-

skapet eller hans sjukliga hat mot Israel

som blir det bestående minnet av president

Obama ?

 

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Till slut, läs en avskedshälsning till Obama från

den judiska församlingen i Hebron, den stad som

jihadisterna och Obama helst skulle vilja utplåna...

 

Men som Yishai Fleisher påpekar: Medan Obama

inte längre bor i Vita Huset finns det levande judar

kvar i Beit El, Efrat, Ma’ale Adumim och Shilo,

d v s i hela det Judéen och Samarien som Obama

(och EU) kämpade för att överlämna till PLO och

Hamas...

 

Låt oss hoppas att Obama därmed inte kan göra

mera ont mot Israel och det judiska folket.

Läs också mera om Hebron.

 

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Dear President Obama,

I wanted to say goodbye and show you the respect due to a tenacious adversary. Many US Jews, and even a few here in Israel, thought you were a friend. But for us settlers, there was no question that you were a challenger, a formidable foe.
It was easy to determine.

You and your team condemned our homes and lives in the West Bank as “illegitimate,” and branded us “occupiers.” Now, it is one thing to theorize that Israel should rip up settlements and part with our ancestral lands for the sake of a compromise to end the conflict. But it is quite another to say that our presence in these areas is “illegitimate” or that Israel is an “occupation.”
 

For us “settlers,” the West Bank of the Jordan River — Judea and Samaria — is the Jewish historic heartland, where most of our people’s foundational stories took place. From our perspective, living here is key to giving the modern state of Israel its rooting in Jewish history and connecting it to the two previous Jewish commonwealths that existed on this very soil. If we weren’t here, the historic foundations of our connection to this land would be undermined. If we have no rights to ancient Hebron, we certainly won’t have them to modern Tel Aviv.

Furthermore, it is a core settler belief that evacuation from Judea and Samaria — Israel’s mountainous highlands — would  undermine Israel’s security. The 2005 Gaza evacuation and immediate takeover by Hamas proved us right. Today, three wars and more than 1,000 of our casualties later, more than half of our country agrees that, as jihad becomes prevalent in the region, the last thing Israel needs is Palestine looking down on us from the mountaintops.
So, while you obsessively condemned us in Paris and at the Security Council as illegitimate occupiers, we see ourselves as historically legitimate, having a deep connection with our land and on the front lines of the battle to defend our small country.
However, your attack on Israel went beyond criticism of the settlements. If we were keeping a scorecard of the boxing match between you and Israel, I would say that you landed three big punches:

Iran — In your steadfast embrace of Iran, you dropped the sanctions and released millions of dollars into the coffers of the world’s number one terror exporter and a dangerous and determined hater of Israel. You legitimized the jihadists while delegitimizing the only light of liberty in the region, the Jewish state. Big point for you.

Jerusalem — In the Supreme Court case “Zivotofsky v. Kerry,” lawyers for your State Department successfully defended the idea that Congress cannot require the State Department to indicate in American passports that Jerusalem is part of Israel. In other words, you pushed hard to perpetuate the lie that Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel all the way up to America’s highest court, and won. Point for you.

Settlements — In your last days in office, you called for America’s abstention from an anti-Israel resolution at the UN, which derided the presence of Jews in Judea and Samaria and east Jerusalem in such famous Palestinian landmarks as… the Western Wall. You even supported a last-ditch delegitimization conference in Paris literally a week before you were no longer going to be a policy-maker in America — once again, to condemn Israelis as illegitimate occupiers on the world stage. Another big point for you.

However, the boxing match was not one-sided and you, President Obama, took a few punches as well:

The Middle East meltdown — You wanted the Arab world to rise during your presidency, but in fact, it plummeted into chaos. Without a strong American will and presence, the jihad turned on itself, killing half a million Syrians, with millions more displaced. The Arab Spring turned into a repressive blood-letting and your allies, our enemies, became weaker. Point for us.

Donald Trump — Your policies, President Obama, which alienated the American people, allowed, in part, for the Trump phenomenon. The new president may be a wild card, but most indications show that he does not share your contempt for Israel, for Jerusalem and for the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. We are looking forward to the next four years. Point for us.

A stronger Israel — Strangely, we can thank you for the positive growth in Israel since you came into office. Inadvertently, you, President Obama, made Israel stronger. The average Israeli never bought into your charm and knew that you were an adversary. This helped Israel gain a new sense of self, a realization that though we have friends and allies, we cannot be a puppet state, and must act independently with our own best interests at heart. You helped bring about this healthy evolution in the Jewish state. Furthermore, your pro-Iran stance propelled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a player on the world stage and gained him, and Israel, popularity in the US and around the globe.

Moreover, with all the threats of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement damaging Israel, which you have tacitly supported, Israel’s economy is booming and the world can’t get enough of what we have to offer. Finally, in spite of your efforts, and probably to your great consternation, there are more Israelis in Judea, Samaria and east Jerusalem today than when you started. Indeed, Jewish communities are flourishing, and there is more political support for the Jews of Judea and Samaria then ever. Big point for us.

On balance, given that you’re not living on Pennsylvania Avenue anymore, but we’re still living in Beit El, Efrat, Ma’ale Adumim and Shilo, I think Israel wins.

But we have no doubt that you’re not down for the count. I hear that you are the first US President since Woodrow Wilson who will remain in Washington after his term, and I bet you will find a way to affect global affairs and spar with us once again. I assure you, though, that we here in Judea, Samaria and east Jerusalem intend on staying put, as well.
We wish the American people well, as they — and we — put your presidency behind us.

Until next time,
Yishai Fleisher

International Spokesman for the Jewish Community of Hebron

 

 



 

Återigen: Eliten besegras av folket

 

 

 

Karen Jespersen, Danmarks f d inrikesminister, är

en vettig och kunnig journalist. Numera med sin

egen nättidning Den Korte Avis.

Hennes kommentar och analys av valresultatet

i USA är värt att läsa:

 

Meningsmålingerne tog fejl. Det sker efterhånden ganske ofte. De har åbenlyse problemer med at fange folkestemningen.
 
Medierne tog fejl. De fleste af dem fornemmede ikke styrken i det folkelige oprør, som banede sig vej i USA.
 
Den etablerede elite tog fejl. Den undervurderede, hvor meget befolkningen havde sin egen dagsorden, og hvor stor mistilliden er til de eksisterende magthavere og meningsdannere.

                                        

I Europa har vi allerede set en række af den type folkelige oprør. I form af Brexit-afstemningen og folkeafstemninger om EU. Og i form af opbakning til politiske partier og bevægelser, som kræver en langt strammere kurs i forhold til indvandringen.

 
De politisk korrekte snakkende klasser tabte
Politisk korrekte journalister, meningsdannere og ”eksperter” vil gerne forklare disse oprør med, at de skyldes vreden i lavt uddannede grupper, der føler sig tilsidesat. De vil gerne fremstille de utilfredse vælgere som en slags sociale tabere.
 
Men det er forrykt. Det er en bred del af den amerikanske befolkning, der nu sender Donald Trump i Det Hvide Hus.
 
Én ting kan man dog godt slå fast: Trump har ikke mange vælgere fra den akademiske overklasse – eller de snakkende klasser, som vi kalder dem på Den Korte Avis.
 
De politisk korrekte snakkende klasser er dette valgs helt store taber. De har mistet den alliance med arbejderbefolkningen, som tidligere har holdt Demokraterne ved magten.

Forskel mellem USA og Europa
Der er ligheder mellem de europæiske og amerikanske oprør. Men der er også betydelige forskelle. Amerikansk politik er trods alt meget anderledes end europæisk, og Trump kan ikke rigtig sammenlignes med noget, vi kender fra Europa.
 
Der er givetvis også mange af dem, der har sympatier for det folkelige oprør i Europa, som ser med stor skepsis på Trump. Denne skepsis har sine gode grunde.
 
Trumps valgkamp har været masser farverige udfald, masser af skud fra hoften, men ikke nogen sammenhængende politisk linje.
 
Nogle af Trumps holdninger og tju-bang meldinger er bekymrende.
 
Protektionisme
Det gælder ikke mindst hans holdning til fri handel over graenserne.                           

                                     

Frihandel er en kæmpemæssig økonomisk fordel for enhver rimeligt fungerende økonomi. Trump har sendt signaler om en kommende amerikansk protektionisme, der svarer til at få varmen ved at tisse i bukserne. Man sikrer ikke holdbare arbejdspladser på den måde.
 
Dansk økonomi vil i høj grad også lide skade, hvis USA slår ind på en protektionistisk kurs.
 
Putin
Trumps meget venskabelige tone over for Vladimir Putin er en anden grund til bekymring. Rusland fører en aggressiv udenrigspolitik. Den skal Vesten holde i ave og ikke kæle for.
 
Det skal dog siges, at der stadig er meget stor usikkerhed omkring, hvordan Trump egentlig har tænkt sig at håndtere forholdet til Rusland.
 
Man skal i det hele taget gøre sig klart, at Trump meget vel kan vise sig en hel del mere pragmatisk som beslutningstager, end han har været som farverig valgkæmper.
 
Desuden skal man tænke på, at Kongressen – der også får republikansk flertal – har stor indflydelse.
 
Indvandring og islam
Men selv om der på vigtige områder er stor europæisk skepsis over for Trump, så rammer han samtidig nogle af de holdninger, som også står stærkt i det europæiske folkelige oprør.
 
Med Trump får USA en præsident, der er helt anderledes kritisk over for politisk islam, end Barack Obama har været det. Hans holdning til indvandring fra de muslimske lande er præget af dette. Det er et stort og betydningsfuldt fremskridt.
 
Trump lægger generelt op til en langt strammere kurs i forhold til den indvandring, der gør USA til et stadig mere opsplittet samfund. Også dette er stærkt påkrævet.
 
USA er aldeles ikke den ”smeltedigel”, som man ynder at påstå. De etniske grupper lever i hver deres verden.  Og latinoernes verden fylder stadig mere, mens den del af samfundet, der har europæiske rødder, skrumper.
 
I modsætning til, hvad mange tror, vil Trump styrke USA’s europæiske identitet. Han vil bygge en fornyet national stolthed op omkring europæiske værdier. Hillary Clinton ville have gjort det modsatte.
 
Lad os se på, hvad han gør
For Trump er tiden nu inde til at levere ordentligt politisk arbejde, som styrker hans land på en måde, der får den vestlige verden til at hænge sammen.
 
For os andre er tiden inde til at droppe de rygmarvsreflekser mod Trump, som venstreorienterede medier har dyrket så flittigt.
 
Trump har vitterlig sagt en del mærkelige ting. Men lad os nu vurdere USA’s næste præsident på, hvad han gør.

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Och min kommentar till natten:

Som Karen Jespersen skriver finns det många

osäkerhetsmoment kring president Trumps

kommande politik. Ett viktigt sådant område är

Mellanösternpolitiken.

Det är frestande att skriva att varje förändring

på den fronten måste bli till det bättre....

 

Obamas katastrofala politik, byggd på en

allians med Muslimska Brödraskapet och

förakt för Israel , har efterlämnat en

världsdel i kaos.

Man får hoppas att den utrikespolitiskt

okunnige Trump lyckas omge sig med

kunniga rådgivare.

 

Rådgivare som kan vägleda honom till en

stark och realistisk utrikespolitik av Reagan-

modell. En politik som stöder de få positiva

krafterna i regionen som Israel, Sisis Egypten

och Kurdistan. En politik som aktivt bekämpar

islamismen (och då inte bara Kalifatet...) och

inser det ständiga hotet från Iran.