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MK Levin: Revoke Raad Salah's Citizenship and Expel Him
by Gil Ronen .. 10/07/09

I didn't know Ra'ad Salah.

(IsraelNN.com) MK Yariv Levin (Likud) said Wednesday that the way the authorities dealt with the Arab rioting on the Temple Mount is an example of the mistaken approach that the Jewish people have adopted towards the problem of the Arab citizens of Israel, and in the matter of the Temple Mount especially.

"There is a crisis of judicial feebleness here,” he said in an interview for Arutz Sheva's Hebrew service.

Levin said that Israel must not fear violent responses by the Arabs to assertions of its sovereignty throughout Jerusalem and specifically on the Temple Mount. “If we live our lives according to fears of Arab rioting we will not go far,” he said. “We need to take charge of matters and to behave accordingly.”

Expel Salah

Regarding Sheikh Raad Salah, Levin said Israel should withdraw his citizenship and expel him from its territory, and that it should do the same for other inciters like him. At the same time, he said, it should determine regular arrangements for the ascent of Jews to the Temple Mount. The Israeli hesitation to act in this spirit is what causes more and more riots, he said.

"The riots are the result of a public that holds on to an Israeli ID card and wants to heat up religious flames,” the lawmaker explained. “We must take clear, sharp actions [and] convey a message that we own the place. We need to stare reality in the face.”

Levin, who understands Arabic, said that he hears what the Arab Knesset Members say and knows that they offer more than quiet support for the rioters, and that they themselves “stoke the fire” with clear incitement. An example of this can be found in the Balad party's internet website, which is funded with Israeli taxpayers' money, but lauds former Balad leader Azmi Bishara, who has escaped Israel after being investigated for treasonous activity.

Balad, he said, is even more extreme than the Palestinian Authority, as could be seen from its
criticism and denunciations of the PA chairman for failing to act upon the Goldstone report.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133750

On Goldstone report
Lawyers seek arrest of Israeli defence minister in UK for alleged war crimes
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=41994178&txt2find=Goldstone|report

and .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=42524974&txt2find=Goldstone|report .. and replies ..

Israel and the New Politics of Insecurity .. two bites of the suggested shift.

"Despite various Israeli politicians’ Obama-inspired rhetoric of change, .. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/04/AR2009020403789.html .. the real shift in Israeli society, which this election has brought to the fore, is the decline of left-wing Zionism, and the prevalence of a politics of insecurity, which inspires defensive patriotism rather than ideological zealotry. The fall of the centre-left Labour party, which came fourth with only 13 seats, and the rise of the right-wing party Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel our Home), which got 15 seats, encapsulate these two defining features: the death of grand-vision Zionism and the rise of a new politics of hiding behind walls."

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"But Israelis’ victim mentality, and its realisation through policy, has changed very much over the years. In the past, it was accompanied by a confident, ideology-driven politics and, in times of conflict, by clear strategic aims. By contrast, the 2006 Second Lebanon War and the recent war in Gaza, or ‘Operation Cast Lead’, had no definable or achievable goals. These were violent, defensive statements of Israel’s ‘right to exist’, rather than ideology-driven, expansionist wars.

As Mick Hume pointed out on spiked .. http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/6075/ .. last month, compared to the confident Zionism at the time of the founding of the state, ‘Israel today is a far more insecure and defensive society, concerned to bunker down behind its new security barriers and cut itself off from the Palestinians locked into Gaza and the West Bank, lashing out when it feels they won’t leave it alone’. In the run-up to the election, politicians played on the public’s fears and insecurities, competing over whom might best manage the country’s existential threats. For this, Palestinians – and a far smaller number of Israelis – have paid with their lives."
http://www.jewcy.com/post/israel_and_new_politics_insecurity

Netanyahu political extremist rhetoric. .. munch ..

Netanyahu takes power, warning of cultlike Iran with nukes

Of particular concern to world leaders is Netanyahu's long-standing opposition to the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel. A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been the guiding principle for international diplomats since Israel was established in 1948. Netanyahu refuses to accept that basic premise and favors giving Palestinians limited powers.
http://www.thesunnews.com/1014/story/937633.html?storylink=mirelated

Is it still the case? Israel will not talk to Hamas. Will not talk to Syria.

Likud to US: We won't honor Syria deal .. 'nother munchie ..

Overall, the Likud's position on Syria has differed from that of Kadima in that it does not
believe that Israel should be conducting negotiations with Syria until Syria's stance on a
number of key issues - such as support for Hamas and Hizbullah - changes, Steinitz said.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1225715331526