PRISONER RELEASE SOON - REDICULAS ISRAEL

LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.

Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.

12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE

HERES AN ISRAELI SONG FOR ALL US ZIONISTS THAT BELIEVE ITS ISRAELS LAND.GOD GAVE THE LAND TO ISRAEL AND NO BODY ELSE.AND THAT GOD WILL KEEP HIS PROMISE.ITS CALLED ZION BY JUMP BABYLON.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS-zWrScAPA
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL20A4A04E70EA4287
http://jumpbabylon.com/

Zion (I.J. Rosenblatt)

Looking over the hills as the red sun sets
A beautiful crown for the king of capitals
This day has ended a new one begins
As people fill the streets and crowd the city square

Different colours speaking different languages
Gathered together from all four corners
From the east to the western wall to the
Dance hall and study hall,
Markets, bus stops, line-ups, stand up
‘Cause we…

Won’t see these pictures on the news
Or read them in reports by NGOs
Just walls and blown out cars
Not the music in the bars
The children playing in the streets
Nor the old folks smiling

We no longer weep by Babylon’s rivers
Our guitars no longer hang in the trees
We never forgot thee
My tongue cleaves to nothing
My right arm is strumming can’t you see my right arm strumming

Zion is not a four-letter word x4

“Consolation, consolation my nation”
We shout it from the hills as we dream of home
Alleys and valleys paved with psalms
And songs that we’ve been singing for 3000 years

Chorus

“Mevaseret Zion” we cry
After double the exile twice the reward
Lectured on justice Hey we invented justice putzes
Screw UN sanctions and cable news pogroms

Chorus

LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).

THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

ISAIAH 33:8
8  The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

Israeli cabinet approves bill to put any peace treaty with Palestinians to referendum

Published time: July 28, 2013 10:49
Edited time: July 28, 2013 14:10-RT

The Israeli cabinet has backed a bill that requires any peace deal with the Palestinians to be put to a referendum."Any agreement which may be reached in negotiations will be put to a referendum," said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office as quoted by AFP. "It is important that on such historic decisions every citizen should vote directly on an issue deciding the country's future."The government regards approval of the new bill dubbed ‘Basic Law: Referendum’ as "urgent and important," and it will be asking the parliament to speed up putting it into law, a cabinet briefing paper also said.‘Basic Law: Referendum’ is expected to be brought to the Knesset for a first reading on Wednesday, according to the Jerusalem Post. Netanyahu hopes to bring it through the second and third readings on the same day, so that to have it as a law already next week, a senior government source told the daily.The referendum bill is seen as a goodwill gesture to right-wing members of the government who might oppose concessions Israel could have to make within the peace process negotiations - including giving up land. This bill will only deal with sovereign land, so the government would not have to hold a referendum on giving parts of Judea and Samaria away to the Palestinians – if that should take place. But if any agreements in the peace deal included a land swap in parts of Jerusalem it would be put to a popular vote.Netanyahu’s quick action on the bill comes just three days after Trade Minister Naftali Bennett threatened that his Bayit Yehudi party might not support the government’s budget, which will be brought to a vote on Monday if no progress is made on the referendum bill.Netanyahu has said that he is firmly supportive of the idea of a referendum.“Peace with our neighbors requires peace among ourselves, and the way to ensure this is through a referendum,” the PM stated.But not all government ministers are behind the idea of a popular vote. Justice minister Tzipi Livni reiterated her commitment to vote against such legislation, with the agreement of most of her party. While Avigor Liberman, leader of the Yisrael Beytenu party, opposes a referendum but has said that he would support it if it became government policy.The cabinet has also approved the PM's proposal to authorize the liberation of 104 Palestinian prisoners ahead of expected peace talks with the Palestine Authority in the US. Now the ministers are expected to appoint a ministerial committee to keep an eye on negotiations with the Palestinians.

PM's Open Letter to Citizens: Full Text

In a rare communication, Netanyahu spells out his rationale for releasing terrorists, despite opposition by the public.-By Gil Ronen-First Publish: 7/27/2013, 10:18 PM-israelnationalnews

Binyamin Netanyahu-Isrsael news photo: Flash 90

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took the rare step Saturday evening of publishing a long missive to the Israeli public. In it, he explains why he has agreed to release 104 terrorists as a "gesture" accompanying "peace talks" with the Palestinian Authority. He also states that the talks need to last at least nine months.
Netanyahu's messages to the public are usually delivered through much shorter communiques, or in interviews. His decision to opt for a relatively long letter may reflect his awareness that the Israeli public is solidly opposed to the terrorist prisoner release, and is generally fed up and cynical about “peace talks” that have been going nowhere for 20 years.

This is the text of the letter:
"Prime ministers are occasionally required to make decisions that are contrary to public opinion, when the matter is one of importance to the state."There is no need for prime ministers, in order to make decisions that enjoy the support of public opinion."At this time, I believe it is very important for the state of Israel to enter a diplomatic process. This is important for fully exhausting the chances for ending the conflict with the Palestinians, and also for solidifying Israel's status in the complex international reality that surrounds us.
"The huge changes in our region – in Egypt, Syria and Iran – pose new challenges before the state of Israel, but they also present considerable opportunities before us."For these reasons, I believe that it is important that Israel enter a diplomatic process that will last at least nine months – in order to examine if an agreement can be reached with the Palestinians within that time."But with all the importance that I attach to a diplomatic process, I was not willing to accept the Palestinian demands for retreats and [building] freezes as preconditions for entering into negotiations."I was also unwilling to accept their demand to release Palestinian prisoners before the negotiations begin. I did agree to release 104 Palestinians in measured portions after the beginning of the negotiation and in accordance with its progress."This is a tremendously difficult decision to make. It hurts the bereaved families, it hurts the entire nation of Israel and it hurts me very much.
"It collides with an exceedingly important value – the value of justice."It is a clear injustice when evil people are released before the end of their sentences, even if an absolute majority among them have served over 20 years in jail."The decision is doubly personally difficult for me, because I and my family know personally the price of bereavement from terror. I know the pain well. I have felt it on a daily basis for the past 37 years.
"The fact that Israeli governments that preceded those that I have headed released over 10,000 terrorists, does not make things any easier for me today, and did not make my decision to free Gilad Schalit any easier.
"Bringing Gilad home involved an exceedingly difficult decision for me – the release of terrorists. But I believed that the value of briging our sons home must supersede that difficulty."People in positions of leadership must choose between complex options, and sometimes the required decision is particularly difficult when most of the public opposes it."Thus, I decided to end Operation Pillar of Defense after archterrorist Ahmed Jaabari was liquidated, and after the harsh blows that Hamas and the terror organizations received at the hands of the IDF."I made the decision to end the operation although most of the public backed continuing it – something that would have required a ground offensive into Gaza. As prime minister I thought that the goal of deterrence had been largely achieved by the determined actions we took.
"Today, about a year after Operation Pillar of Defense, we are witnessing the most quiet situation in the south in over a decade. Of course, this quiet can fall apart at any moment, but my policy is a clear one on all fronts: as far as possible, we prevent threats in advance, and we respond with force to any attempt to hurt our civilians."In the next nine months we will examine if the Palestinian element that faces us wants to truly end the conflict between us, as we do."This end will only be possible if the security of the citizens of Israel is assured, along with our vital national interests."If we reach a peace arrangement of this nature, I will bring it to a public referendum."A crucial decision like this must not be made on the cusp of a few votes in the Knesset. Every citizen must be allowed to directly influence our future in such a central question."The best response that we give to those base murderers who wanted to defeat us through terror is that in the course of the dozens of years when they sat in jail, we have built a wonderful country and turned it into one of the world's most prosperous, advanced and powerful countries."I promise that we will continue to do so.
"Yours, Binyamin Netanyahu."

On the Release List: Terrorists who Murdered Children

Terrorist release list includes several who murdered children, unarmed captives.

By Maayana Miskin-First Publish: 7/28/2013, 8:26 AM-israelnationalnews

Terrorists are released (archive)-Flash 90

On Saturday it was confirmed that Israel’s government plans to release 104 Palestinian Authority-resident terrorists from prison as a “gesture” to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. New reports have also confirmed rumors that the list will contain several terrorists responsible for some of the most horrific attacks of the 1980s and 1990s.The full, official list of terrorists to be freed will not come before the government Sunday. Rather, the government will vote to free unspecified terrorists, and the list of individuals to be freed will be confirmed by a smaller ministerial committee – allowing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu a forum more likely to approve the “gesture” despite the killers’ notoriety.On the list are Mahmoud Salam Saliman Abu Harabish and Adam Ibrahim Juma'a-Juma'a, who in 1988 murdered 26-year-old schoolteacher Rachel Weiss, her three young children, and a young soldier. The two hurled firebombs at a civilian bus, sending it up in flames; Weiss and her children ages 3, 2 and 9 months were unable to escape.Soldier David Delarosa died trying to save them.Also on the list is the terrorist who committed a similar murder the year before. The 1987 firebomb attack on a family car killed pregnant Ofra Moses and her young son Tal Moses. Father Abie Moses and three other young children were badly burned but survived.The murderers of Moshe Tamam and Tzvi Klein are to be freed as well. Tamam was kidnapped and murdered.Klein, a father of three, was shot and murdered in 1991 as he drove home from work.The government originally planned to release 82 prisoners in an effort to keep Abbas at the negotiating table. However, PA leaders added a demand that Israel free 24 Israeli Arabs serving prison time for terrorism.Abbas has expressed happiness at the killers’ imminent return to society, telling reporters to expect “joyful news” on Sunday.

Cabinet majority on prisoner release safe, but shrinking

Vote postponed as Netanyahu tries to pressure Likud ministers; in surprise move, Shai Piron says he’ll vote against; terror victims’ families hold protest outside PMO

By Haviv Rettig Gur and Ron Friedman July 28, 2013, 11:58 am 1-the times of israel

Just moments before they were to step into the cabinet meeting to vote on releasing security prisoners as part of the restart of peace talks with the Palestinians, Education Minister Shai Piron and Homefront Defense Minister Gilad Erdan announced that they planned to vote against the motion.Though the decision by Yesh Atid member Piron and prime minister loyalist Erdan came as a surprise, it will likely not be enough to turn the tide in the vote on approving the release of 104 Palestinian and Arab Israeli prisoners jailed since before the 1993 Oslo Accords.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu postponed the commencement of the meeting in order to take time to convince his Likud party ministers to back up his proposal. Netanyahu invited Shin Bet head Yoram Cohen to brief the ministers on the security ramifications of approving the release, reiterating that any decision regarding the release of Arab-Israeli prisoners would be brought before the cabinet and that any “provocation” would lead to the halt of further releases.“I believe that renewing the diplomatic process is important for Israel, both in order to bring an end to the conflict and in light of the complex realities in our region, primarily the security challenges from Iran and Syria,” said Netanyahu at the start of the meeting. “Any agreement that will be reached through negotiations, will be brought before the public in a referendum. It is important that on such critical decisions, every citizen gets to weigh in directly.”

As the tally currently stands, Yesh Atid’s four other ministers and Hatnua’s two are planning to vote for the measure. In the Likud, Netanyahu will obviously vote in favor, as will those ministers who are politically dependent on Netanyahu for their positions, including Minister of Intelligence, International Relations and Strategic Affairs Yuval Steinitz and most likely also Culture and Sport Minister Limor Livnat.Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar and Water and Energy Minister Silvan Shalom are thought to support the release, or at least to be willing to grudgingly vote in favor in order to permit Netanyahu to move ahead with the American-brokered peace talks.Significantly, two separate sources confirmed to The Times of Israel on Saturday night that Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon is expected to vote in favor. Ya’alon has opposed prisoner releases in the past, and his security credentials — he is a former chief of staff of the IDF — may ease the worries of many ministers who are hesitating to vote with Netanyahu.Already on the “no” side are the Jewish Home’s three ministers — party head Naftali Bennett, Housing Minister Uri Ariel and Pensioners Affairs Minister Uri Orbach — and Likud’s Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz. Katz on Sunday morning called the prisoner releases “a mistake.”Yisrael Beytenu’s four ministers were granted the right to vote as they see fit by party leader Avigdor Liberman. While Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch is expected to vote in favor, it is likely that Agriculture Minister Yair Shamir and Tourism Minister Uzi Landau will vote against.

While waiting for the meeting to begin, Bennett spoke to families of terror victims who were staging a demonstration against the decision outside the prime minister’s office.“Releasing murderers brings a lot of bereavement and it is a mark of disgrace against Israel. Anyone on the other side [the Palestinians] who today calls for the release of murdrerers and burners of children and women, does not deserve to be called a partner,’ said Bennet.Bennet told the families to keep their heads held high. “Terrorists need to be wiped out, not released. We will vote against releasing murderers,” he promised.Finance Minister Yair Lapid said ahead of the meeting that while he was saddened by the decision to release murderers, it was necessary in order to give peace a chance.“This is not a happy day for the State of Israel. These people should rot in prison all of their lives, but we need to do what is possible in order to start the peace process,” said Lapid.A new appointment that Netanyahu hopes will prevent future cabinet squabbles was announced Sunday. Minister of Science and Technology Yaakov Peri will be joining the inner cabinet committee set up to select which prisoners will go free and oversee the implementation. Peri, a former Shin Bet head who belongs to the centrist Yesh Atid party, will join Netanyau, Ya’alon, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and Aharonovitch on the committee.The addition of Peri is meant to ensure Netanyahu a majority in the event that Ya’alon and Aharonovitch were to decide to torpedo aspects of the deal.Opposition leader Shelly Yachimovich on Sunday urged the ministers to vote in favor of the releases. “It is a difficult and painful decision, first and foremost to the victim’s families, but it will not damage Israel’s national fortitude and instead will enable the jump-starting of the negotiations,” said Labor chair Yachimovich. “The prime minister must stop being led by the extremist elements of his cabinet.”Netanyahu reportedly promised US Secretary of State John Kerry that the decision to release the 104 long-term prisoners would go through. On Friday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told the Palestinian public that it could expect a “pleasant surprise” on Sunday.

The prisoners are set to be freed in four phases over the next nine months, as Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, set to resume in Washington on Tuesday, progress.On Saturday, Netanyahu called the decision “extremely difficult,” saying it “pains the bereaved families [of the victims], it pains the entire Israeli public and it pains me very much. It clashes with a foundational value — justice.”The letter continued: “Our best response to the loathsome murderers who tried to terrorize us into submission is that in the decades that they sat in prison, we built a state to be proud of.”Shortly after his announcement, families of Israeli terror victims came out strongly against Netanyahu.Netanyahu’s decision constituted “surrender,” the families from the Almagor terror victims’ association said in a harshly worded statement. “Again it seems that the prime minister is falling apart and can’t withstand pressure at the difficult moment.”The families alleged that Israel was being “pressed again into failed negotiation” because of the personal ambitions of US President Barack Obama and his secretary of state, John Kerry.They said that Netanyahu had issued “repeated assurances” that Israel would not be releasing terrorists and had rebuffed with “various evasions” their requests that he meet with them.Elhanan Miller contributed to this report.

MKs: Has America Ever Freed Murderers?

MKs ask why American officials urge Israel to free killers, while continuing to hold Jonathan Pollard.

By Maayana Miskin-First Publish: 7/28/2013, 11:18 AM-israelnationalnews

MK Miri Regev-Israel news photo: Flash 90

Members of Knesset expressed frustration Sunday that Israel is releasing terrorist killers in order to negotiate with the Palestinian Authority, following intervention from United States Secretary of State John Kerry.
The United States would never do what Israel is being asked to do, they accused.“It isn’t moral to release murderers. It isn’t safe to release murderers… Has the United States ever released murderers as a concession to terrorism?” asked MK Motti Yogev (Bayit Yehudi).“The United States hasn’t even freed Jonathan Pollard, after he served his sentence and has been in prison for more than 28 years,” he noted.
“Negotiations based on releasing killers have nothing to do with peace, or security, or morality, or truth,” Yogev warned.MK Miri Regev (Likud Beytenu) also brought up the stark contrast between Pollard’s case and that of the terrorist murderers who are expected to be released as part of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s gesture to the PA.“Pollard didn’t commit murder, and he is still serving a harsh sentence in prison. Just as the Americans guard their honor, so we must guard our national honor, and respect the families of the victims,” she argued.“It’s unthinkable that we release prisoners, murderers, terrorists who murdered innocent Israeli citizens, before we even sit down to talk,” Regev declared.“Everyone knows that Prime Minister Netanyahu already gave the Palestinians a free ‘gesture’ – a ten-month building freeze,” she added. “Not to mention the mistaken process headed by Sharon – the Disengagement.”

The wrong capitulation?

The Palestinians had three preconditions for talks. In agreeing to release pre-Oslo prisoners, has Netanyahu conceded on the most damaging one of the three?

By David Horovitz July 28, 2013, 12:15 pm 6-the tomes of israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not want to alienate the Obama administration as he grapples with the potential existential threat to Israel posed by Iran’s relentless progress toward nuclear weapons capability.Netanyahu does not want to see Israel blamed for the failure of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s relentless efforts over six visits to the Middle East to restart peace negotiations with the Palestinians.

And Netanyahu, while entirely unconvinced that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas intends to take viable positions on the contours and modalities of a Palestinian state when those negotiations resume, is adamant that Israel must not return to what he considers indefensible pre-1967 lines and insists on seeking to drive a harder territorial bargain than his predecessor Ehud Olmert if the talks do make some headway.

These are among the central factors that led Netanyahu in the last few days to capitulate to the Palestinian demand to release more than 100 hardcore terror convicts — including men who planned and executed some of the most brutal acts of violence against Israelis in the years before the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993.In an open letter to the Israeli public on Saturday night, Netanyahu defended the volte face, asserting that sometimes prime ministers have to take decisions that fly in the face of public opinion “for the good of the country.”There were doubtless other factors, along with the arguments cited above, that propelled him to a decision which, had he been serving in the opposition, he would have strenuously opposed.He must have told himself that releasing prisoners in an arrangement with Abbas, designed to give a boost to peace hopes, was a far more constructive action than surrendering to the blackmail by Hamas that saw him free more than 1,000 Palestinian security prisoners to secure the freedom of hostage soldier Gilad Shalit less than two years ago. That was a vindication of Hamas’s terrorism, albeit to save a precious life and honor Israel’s commitment to its soldiers, while this might be construed as a reward for Abbas’s efforts to fight terror in the West Bank and the PA president’s ostensible interest in an accord.He would likely have consoled himself, too, with the assurances of the Shin Bet security service and the IDF that Israel’s security establishment could cope with the releases of such hardened killers — that while some would probably seek to return to terrorism, their efforts could be thwarted.The counterarguments are powerful, however.As Netanyahu acknowledged in his open letter, the imminent releases make a mockery of the concept of justice. They undermine the Israeli judicial system, which tried, convicted and jailed these offenders. They constitute a betrayal of the bereaved families, who will now see the killers of their loved ones going free and being celebrated as heroes on their return home. They undermine the ongoing operations by the security services to track down and arrest further would-be terror perpetrators, at considerable personal risk. All of which combines to encourage further acts of terrorism — since the would-be killers can reasonably assume that they will not pay an intolerable price should they succeed in murdering Israelis.Furthermore, while a more powerful case could be made for freeing these hardcore convicts at the successful culmination of a negotiating process — if and when the sides were able to agree on a permanent end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — these releases are set to take place in the early stages of negotiation, as a reward simply for coming to the table, with no guarantee of success in the talks and a track record of failure. The very fact that Abbas demanded the release of these murderers, under intense pressure from the Palestinian “street,” says a great deal, too, none of it new and all of it worrying, about attitudes to Israel and Israeli lives among the Palestinians.The Palestinian leadership had three preconditions for returning to negotiations: the release of the pre-Oslo prisoners; a halt to settlement expansion; and a commitment from Israel to negotiate the borders of a Palestinian state on the basis of the pre-1967 lines.In agreeing to the prisoner releases, Netanyahu appears to have crossed a dramatic political line. Already more dovish than most of the Likud Knesset faction by virtue of his rhetorical commitment to Palestinian statehood, the prime minister finds himself increasingly at odds with his party for deepening his involvement in the diplomatic process, but the self-styled “deeply painful decision” to order the freeing of the pre-Oslo inmates seems likely to stretch the Netanyahu-Likud relationship to the breaking point. It surely won’t be long before loud voices in the Likud rank and file complain that they thought they were electing a right-wing prime minister and have instead found themselves with a Rabin-lite.Internal Likud dissent aside, however, the concern is that Netanyahu has chosen the wrong one of the Abbas preconditions — the most damaging — on which to concede. By definition, talks on Palestinian statehood take place on the basis of the pre-1967 lines, since those are the limits of what the international community considers to be legitimate Israeli sovereign territory. And a settlement freeze is instantly reversible if negotiations collapse. Not so the release of callous, largely unrepentant murderers. Not so the damage to the Israeli rule of law.It may be that Netanyahu is still betting that the releases will not come to pass — that the talks will collapse before the phases of the prisoner releases are completed and the worst of the offenders are set free. That would seem to be an improbable gamble, however, and would not change the fact that the prime minister has proved ready to do something for which he would unquestionably have castigated any other prime minister.Oh, and so long as Netanyahu insists on expanding settlements, Israel will be blamed for the collapse of peace talks anyway.

Rabbi: Zionists Fought Hareidim, and Lost

The Rabbinate elections show the religious-Zionist community what happens if it fights the hareidi world, religious-Zionist rabbi says.-By Maayana Miskin-First Publish: 7/28/2013, 1:27 PM-INN

Hareidi religious protesters face police-Flash 90

Religious-Zionist rabbis lost to hareidi-religious rabbis for the two Chief Rabbi posts because religious-Zionist politicians tried to fight the hareidi world, according to Rabbi Mordechai Nagari, the religious Zionist Chief Rabbi of Maaleh Adumim.“Unfortunately, the terrible stupidity of the religious-Zionist movement, which just this week supported the enlistment law, created a war here with the general public against the Torah scholars,” Rabbi Nagari told Arutz Sheva.“Of course then the Torah scholars rose like lions to vote against religious Zionism, no matter who its candidates were,” he explained. “It was a war, one camp against the other.”“The minute that the great Torah sages Rabbi Ovadia [Yosef] and Rabbi [Aharon Yehuda Lieb] Shteinman entered the picture [and forged a hareidi deal, ed], the battle was decided,” he said.Every time the religious-Zionist community goes up against the hareidi community, it loses, Rabbi Nagari warned.
“We fought against the Torah, we got the Disengagement, we fought against the Torah again and we got the European boycott which hurts Judea and Samaria, and the rabbis’ loss [in the Rabbinate elections],” he argued.“I advise Naftali Bennett not to talk about a national referendum. That’s not what will save us, what will protect the Land of Israel is protecting the Torah world,” he added.Division within the religious-Zionist community also played a part in the elections failure, Rabbi Nagari said. “After all, Rabbi [David] Stav opposed the view of Torah espoused by normative religious Zionist rabbis. Rabbi [Haim] Druckman wanted to run Rabbi [Shlomo] Amar and Rabbi Ariel – it’s no wonder that this is the result,” he stated.