Ehud Olmert is acquitted on a majority of corruption charges; an Israeli commission says that West Bank settlements should be legal; showing what it takes to be a Jewish triathlete and more!
Ehud Olmert is acquitted on a majority of corruption charges; an Israeli commission says that West Bank settlements should be legal; showing what it takes to be a Jewish triathlete and more!
“People tend to forget that the doctrine of territories-for-peace was used by Hitler in 1939, when he declared that he would leave Europe in peace if territories in Poland that Germany lost in World War I were ceded to Germany.”
(said by Moshe Arens, former Member of Knesset and Israeli Minister of Defense, HaAretz, 2004/1/22
500 North American Indian nations gave their land in exchange for peace. Where are they now?
Trading land for peace is like fornicating for virginity.
Amazing how Olmert getting convicted on a corruption charge turns into “Olmert acquitted on corruption charges”.
Thank you Daniel!
I though I was the only one who noticed this.
It is amazing what adopting the “progressive” left wing line
in politics does for your press.
Netanyahu sneezes and he is called corrupt.
Olmert is convicted and he “is acquitted” in the press.
Same thing happened when Sharon was withdrawing from Gaza, the press ignored his sons errupting corruption scandal.
When Shimon Peres was running in 1996 and accidentally bombed the UN camp at Kana while returning Hezbollah fire, the left wing press gave him a free pass.
When Clinton sent a state trooper to bring state employee Paula Jones up to his hotel room, the “progressives” make excuses, but
when Clarence Thomas asks Anita Hill out on a date he is evil incarnate.
The Orwelling whitewashing of corrupt Olmert by the press who love him for converting from right wing to left wing, is very instructive on how dishonest, hypocritical and unreliable they are.
And this source above TJC, has the double Chutzpah of commenting on the “spin” of the story, when their little graphic and headline writes “Olmert Acquitted”.
Negotiations with the Arab leaders beyond Palestine were being carried out by T. E. Lawrence, who informed [Winston] Churchill on 17 January [1921] that he had concluded an agreement with Hussein’s* eldest son, Emir Feisal, under which, in return for Arab sovereignty in Baghdad, Amman and Damascus, Feisal “agreed to abandon all claims of his father to [West] Palestine**.”
SOURCE: Churchill and the Jews (chapter 5, page 46) by Martin Gilbert, year 2007
* Sherif Hussein of Mecca
** West Palestine means Israel and East Palestine means Jordan.
CHRONOLOGY: Winston Churchill was British Prime
Minister from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1955.
This comment from Winston Churchill appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle dated 1929 September 12, one day after he said it:
“The Jews have developed the country, grown orchards and grain fields out of the desert, built schools and great buildings, constructed irrigation projects and water power houses and have made Palestine a much better place in which to live than it was before they came a few years ago. The Arabs are much better off now than before the Jews came, and it will be a short time only before they realize it.”
SOURCE: Churchill and the Jews (chapter 8, page 91) by Martin Gilbert, year 2007
In his memorandum [to Winston Churchill on July 16, 1937, Zev] Jabotinsky stressed that a partitioned Palestine would create a Jewish State too small in area to be defendable from sustained Arab attack from outside it.
SOURCE: Churchill and the Jews (chapter 11, page 125) by Martin Gilbert, year 2007
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[Winston] Churchill was emphatic that the partition [of Palestine] would be a mistake.
The small Jewish State envisioned in the Partition plan, he argued [in 1937]:
“Can be ravished by its enemies, defeated in war, annexed to other powers or suffer any of the other incidents that are common to small States in the fortunes and chances of war.”
SOURCE: Churchill and the Jews (chapter 11, page 131) by Martin Gilbert, year 2007
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The policy of Partition [of Palestine], [Winston] Churchill warned [in year 1937]:
“Will not lead away from violence, but into its very heart;
will not end in peace, but in war.”
SOURCE: Churchill and the Jews (chapter 11, page 133) by Martin Gilbert, year 2007
Winston Churchill said [in year 1955]:
“You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it is they who made it famous.”
SOURCE: Churchill and the Jews (chapter 26, page 292) by Martin Gilbert, year 2007
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The 1929 September 13 edition of the New York Times printed an article which quoted Winston Churchill saying:
“To Jewish enterprise, the Arab owes nearly everything he has. Fanaticism and a sort of envy have driven the Arab to violence and for the present the problem is one of proper policing until harmony has been restored.”
SOURCE: Churchill and the Jews (chapter 8, page 92) by Martin Gilbert, year 2007
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[Winston] Churchill did not accept that the Jews were a foreign race [to the Holy Land]. He said [in 1937] it was the Arabs who had been the outsiders, the conquerors.
SOURCE: Churchill and the Jews (chapter 10, page 115) by Martin Gilbert, year 2007
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Winston Churchill said this in 1937:
“When the Mohammedan upset occurred in world history, and the great hordes of Islam swept over these places, they broke it [Palestine] all up, smashed it all up.
You have seen the terraces on the hills which used to be cultivated, which under Arab rule have remained a desert.”
SOURCE: Churchill and the Jews (chapter 10, page 116) by Martin Gilbert, year 2007