So who cares if Israel is a democratic state, which just held elections and voted for a Prime Minister? Apparently for the hotshots at AIPAC, the fact that a wide majority of Israeli’s voted for the right wing is irrelevant, and these delegates are going to decide the future of Israel. There is no explicable reason why AIPAC delegates are going to lobby congressmen all over Washington to sign a letter, supporting a 2 state solution with the Palestinians. Something that newly elected PM Netanyahu opposes.

No offense, but who the hell is AIPAC to make this decision? It’s like sticking a knife into the back of the Israeli public. Here is a news alert: Maybe a 2 state solution would be bad for Israel!

Is the reason for this abuse of power to cozy up to President Obama, who clearly has an agenda that is questionable at best vis-a-vis Israel.

According to the Jpost: ” The pro-Israel advocacy group’s annual conference culminates each year with a mass lobbying effort, in which the thousands of participants from across the United States spread out across Capitol Hill for meetings with their respective members of Congress and encourage them to endorse policies and positions that AIPAC believes will advance the American-Israeli interest.

In this year’s lobbying effort, to take place on Tuesday, the AIPAC thousands will be asking their congressmen to sign on to a letter addressed to Obama that explicitly posits the need for a “viable Palestinian state.”

A ‘viable Palestinian State’…. hello?? The PA won’t acknowledge that Israel is a Jewish state. While you drive home to your palace in New Rochelle feeling good that you are doing good by the Palestinians and ending the injustice that Israel has done to them, those of us who live in Israel, will be dodging missiles, drive-by shooting and other types of terror.

Thanks for selling us out, AIPAC.

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The new Netanyahu governemnt bought a bit of time to submit their budget.

According to Globes: “The amendment, submitted by Minister of Finance Yuval Steinitz, allows the government and Knesset to approve the two-year budget from 45 days from the day the government was sworn in to 106 days. The extension means that the two-year state budget will be submitted to the Knesset for its second and third readings on July 15.The vote was 63:27. Most of the opponents to the amendments were Kadima MKs, who objected to laws defined as temporary directives, but including amendments to Basic Laws. They argued that it is not possible to anticipate the measures that will help Israel deal with the economic crisis beyond a one-year timeframe.”

Hopefully the extra time will allow the policy makers to come up with a sound budget.

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New Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is certainly a breath of fresh air for many on the political right as he generally says things as they are. For the Israeli elite, this is disaster.

Case in point Eitan Haber’s editorial in today’s Ynet. Haber takes issue with Lieberman’s assumption that the Oslo Accords were a disaster for Israel. Well Mr. Haber, they were, and Lieberman is pointing that out. In just a bizarre defense Haber points to all the economic progress that he attributes to Oslo.

He says, “Here is the first “private lesson” for the foreign minister, as I rely on my memory at this late hour of night. It would be good for him to learn about the “nothing that came out of Oslo,” as he put it.

• A total of 33 states recognized the State of Israel (for the foreign minister this should be basic knowledge.)

• Economic growth reached 6% and beyond (and what is it at this time?)

• A total of 600,000 new immigrants moved here and settled in the country (and how many came here ever since then?)

• Israeli diplomatic missions were opened in seven Arab capitals (and how many were opened during the time you, Mr. Lieberman, served in the government?)

• The education budget was doubled, for the first time in the history of the state.

• About 200 international companies, most of them giant, made it to Israel for the first time (yes, this includes McDonald’s.)

Uh, what about the thousands of Israel’s killed and injured as a result of Oslo? Hello. Just look at all the terror that was caused.

The economic progress happened naturally and because of lower taxes and privatization. It had nothing to do with Oslo, and to say it did is disingenuous.

Keep up the attack FM Lieberman.

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It’s no secret that i am not the biggest fan of current foreign Minister and PM wannabe Tzipi Livni and have raised many times the point of why the media doesn’t report her objectively. Well an unlikely source, from the left-leaning Haaretz newspaper, came out with a blistering attack on her, and how she can’t be PM.

Ari Shavit rips into her ability to be a leader. ” But there is one fault that no one disputes: Livni is short-tempered. Her more serious critics believe she has an attention deficit. She is incapable of delving into the details of a document or of sustaining an extended discussion. She does not stay with a topic until it has been completely clarified. Her thinking is not clear and she cannot distinguish the wheat from the chaff. Unlike Netanyahu and Barak, who can get to the bottom of an issue and discuss it in all its complexity, Livni tends to oversimplify, to go for the schematic. One of the most respected figures in the country says she is opinionated and superficial.”

While that is bad enough I think it’s the fact that she can’t make a decision that should doom her in the minds of voters. After all, an Israeli leader needs to be able to make tough, unpopular decisions, and make them quickly. Shavit says, “She finds it very hard to make decisions. Even with noncritical decisions she deliberates, wavers, delays and changes her opinion over and over. Some people believe the combination of inexperience and lack of confidence paralyzes Livni. They think the foreign minister is incapable of deciding whether to launch a strike against Iran. Livni does not have the spine, levelheadedness and internal calm necessary to take the most critical decisions.”

This is really scary stuff, and the fcat that the mainstream media refuses to report it is a tremendous dis-service. Shavit takes one more shot at Livni at teh conclusion of his article. “One of the people I spoke to was especially agitated despite being a mature, restrained and conservative person. He told me he felt like a member of some cult with a terrible secret: Tzipi Livni is not fit to be prime minister. There is a black flag waving above her journey to the Prime Minister’s Office. The witness said it was inconceivable to him that the media are not revealing this secret; intolerable that the public does not know. That is why he spoke, that is why I recorded his words. That is why this piece was published. So the public will know - and decide.”

Wow. Let’s hope that the Israeli electorate heeds the warning beofre it’s too late.

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