Opuscula When did Gantz Join the Joint List?

HOW IS IT THAT co-Prime Minister, Benny Gantz, supports the PLO/PLFP’s Slay for Pay?

According to Yediot Aharonot, as reported by Israel National News/Arutz 7¹, Gantz over the weekend extended the moratorium on an order imposing criminal sanctions on Palestinian Arab banks that hold accounts of terrorists and their families and which are budgeted by the Palestinian Authority.

The imposition of sanctions was initiated by former Defense Minister Naftali Bennett, and Gantz froze the sanctions a month and a half ago.

 

Ayalet Shaked and Naftali Bennett

 

Granted, Gantz is not a member of either Netanyahu’s Likud or Bennett’s Blue and White political party, but leader of the so-called Israel Resilience Party.

It seems more than a little strange that Gantz, former Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, is so willing to fund the killers of Israeli military and civilians.

Abu Mazen and the PLO/PFLP cuts the pay of its workers to pay prisoners in Israeli jails salaries that often are greater than the wages they would get at an honest job.

At the same time, the PLO/PFLP don’t pay their bills for utilities they get from Israel. Abu Mazen, in a fit of pique,

  * Refuses to accept tax money Israel collects for the PLO/PFLP

  * Condemns his people to second rate health services by preventing access to Israel’s superior health care workers and facilities

  * Prevents his people from working in Israel for better wages.

Meanwhile, Abu Mazen calls the continued payments to terrorists a "red line" that would not be halted under any circumstances.

 

Is Gantz a PLO agent?

While Gantz may not be an active member of the anti-Israel Arab Joint List, his allowing the PLO/PFLP to continue paying people who have slain Israelis seems to be counter-productive — unless you are Abu Mazen.

Will allowing Slay for Pay payments bring the PLO//PFLP to the bargaining table? So far it has not, Abu Mazen et al are as intransigent as before.

Based on past discussions, the only way Abu Mazen will be satisfied is when the last Jew leaves Israel.

Abu Mazen has lost face with Arabs around the globe. He still is the darling of non-Arab liberals everywhere, but in truth, he has become an embarrassment to the PLO/PFLP bosses.

Hanging on to the Slay for Pay is his last gasp — and Gantz is helping him by allowing the program to continue.

Not only is Gantz propping up Abu Mazen, he is showing the world that (like the U.S.) Israeli decisions are cast in Jell-O^®, if even that much.

With Netanyahu fighting for his political life, Gantz is PM heir apparent.

The only alternative to a Gantz-led government similar to Rabin, Olmert, and Peres, to name but three leftists prime ministers, is a government headed by Bennett, Shaked, or similar strong personality.

Abu Mazen — even despite losing support from other Muslims in the Middle East — refuses to even DISCUSS borders with any right wing government and Netanyahu, who flips and flops daily on settlements, still is considered “right wing.” Abu Mazen is no fool. He realizes that with Gantz as prime minister the PLO/PFLP again will be in position to demand additional concessions from the leftists . . . with the likelihood of getting them.

I would not wish yet another election on the people of Israel, but the current kluge is similar to having Trump as president and Biden as vice-president.

 

 

Sources

1. Arutz 7: https://tinyurl.com/y2ufy62o

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Opuscula Will Palestinians Rush to accept Israel citizenship?

IF GIVEN THE CHOICE — AND IF ALLOWED TO CHOOSE, will Arabs in “Area C” prefer to live under PLO rule or as Israeli citizens?

ACCORDING TO Arutz Sheva (a/k/a Israel National News),¹, Justice Minister Shaked says she's willing to give Area C Arabs Israeli citizenship in exchange for applying Israeli law to the area.

 

Map of “West Bank” per Oslo II Accords
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Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (right) of the New Right party aligned with Likud, reportedly said "If we apply Israeli law to Area C, I'll live peacefully with the fact that we gave 400-500,000 Palestinians Israeli citizenship and allow them to vote in the Knesset's elections."

In other words, the Arabs — Muslims — in Area C will be just like all other Israeli Arabs.

They will have all the rights of all Israelis.

They will be able to freely move about the country. Translation: they will be able to work wherever it is available in Israel sans special permits.

The only difference between Jewish Israelis and non-Jewish Israelis is that the Muslims in Area C will not be drafted into the IDF (but they will be expected, albeit not forced to, do national service, usually in their home communities).

Poll after poll has been taken that indicate many Muslims living in PLO-controlled areas would prefer to live under Israeli rule.

But as with all polls, the results have to be viewed with skepticism.

   * Who was polled?

   * Where was the poll made?

   * What were the poll questions?

   * When were the polls taken?

   * Who was watching over the pollsters’ shoulders?

If you poll residents of Ramallah, the PLO capital, most responders will express hatred for Israel. If you poll residents of Detroit MI, most residents will express hatred for President Trump. It is not only WHAT is said and HOW it is said, but WHERE it is said than can skew a poll to get the result the poll’s sponsor desires.

When asked whether 400,000 residents of Jerusalem's Arab neighborhoods would also receive full Israeli citizenship and the right to vote in Israel's elections, Shaked said, "Jerusalem's residents choose to receive residency, not citizenship.

Non-citizen residents are similar to non-citizens legally working or studying in the U.S.; they have many rights, but not the right to vote in any government elections.

Shaked’s proposal is no more than that. Barring undue political pressure from outside Israel, Israel’s current citizens — Jews and non-Jews alike — should have the right to vote on the issue.

Whether or not the offer of citizenship is made, it would be interesting to see how the Muslims in Area C would vote if they could be guaranteed a secret ballot and an honest count.

And it they preferred the PLO to Israel, what then? Deport them to Areas A and B? Perhaps to Muslim Palestine, a/k/a Jordan? (Would Jordan take them?) They should remain in Area C as a Fifth Column.²

How many residents of Muslim neighborhoods in Jerusalem have been caught committing attacks on Israeli civilians? Residents who elected not to become Israeli citizens.

Attacks by these people and those of Area C would spell the death knell for Shaked’s plan.

Sources

1. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/259137

2. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fifth%20column

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Truth is an absolute defense to defamation. Defamation is a false statement of fact. If the statement was accurate, then by definition it wasn’t defamatory.

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