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Contents:
1. David Jackson: Kennedy was not so good!
2. Call to Encourage Palestinian Arab Emigration to Other Countries.
The humanitarian approach: Responding to readers; Â Part I by MARTIN SHERMAN
3. Why the USA Needs Israel! The Brit-Am/Hebrew Nations Version.
1. David Jackson: Kennedy was not so good!
Re. to Alexander Zephyr: In Defence of Mitt Romney.
I appreciate AZ's writings and agree with him on just about everything he
says, but in this case I'd like to say that not all American's are enamored
with the memory of John Kennedy's administration. The liberal press was and
is exceedingly pro-Kennedy and they like to promote him as a kind of Camelot
figure.
He was President for only about 3 years and in that short period of time
managed to oversee a failed invasion of Cuba (popularly known as the "Bay of
Pigs"), secretly back down before a Soviet military vastly inferior to our
own in the Cuban Missile Crisis (by agreeing to remove our missiles from
Turkey), and start the Vietnam War (in which some 58,000 American soldiers
died in vain).
He was also a serial adulterer who essentially turned the White House into a
whore house.
He furthermore selected as his Vice President, and therefore his successor,
Lyndon Johnson whose list of achievements include greatly expanding the
Vietnam War and starting "Great Society" programs that managed to do what
200 years of slavery had not: reduce the black population of the US to
welfare-reliant, broken families begging the federal government to take care
of them.
The two terms of Kennedy-Johnson running from 1960 to 1968 saw the US go
from a peaceful, affluent society with little to fear from any foreign enemy
to one engaged in an entangling and costly Asian war, race riots, multiple
political assassinations, and expanded dependency.
John Kennedy dutifully served his country in WW2. He was apparently
well-intentioned and bore no undue malice toward his political opponents.
But to remember him as an important, much less a successful President is a
disservice to Presidents before and after him whose accomplishments speak
for themselves.
If one were to compile a biblical Chronicles-like list of our Presidents,
his entry would essentially be:
And Kennedy began a needless war and was slain in his car. He reigned 3
years and he slept with his fathers.
Dave Jackson
Roanoke, TX
2. Call to Encourage Palestinian Arab Emigration to Other Countries.
The humanitarian approach: Responding to readers, Â Part I
By MARTIN SHERMAN
09/20/2012 22:18
Into The Fray: Not economic cost, but lack of political will in Israel and perceived legitimacy abroad prevent implementing the humanitarian solution.
Extracts:
The humanitarian alternative is rooted in the recognition that Palestinians are not a cohesive national entity, but merely a contrivance meant to undermine the Jewish national entity. This realization suggests that rather than relating to the Palestinians as a national collective, they should be addressed as an amalgam of unfortunate, exploited individuals, cynically misled into their current predicament by cruel, corrupt ruling cliques.
Addressing the Palestinians on an individual, rather than a collective, level calls for a solution oriented policy that depoliticizes the context of the problem and atomizes (individualizes) the measures to dissipate it.
This approach translates into a comprehensive proposal, consisting of the following three interactive and interdependent components:
'Dismantling' or dramatically restructuring, the anomalous organization UNRWA, which deals (exclusively) with the Palestinian refugees, to bring their treatment into line with all other refugees on the face of the globe, who fall under the auspices of another organization, the UNHCR.
As explained in previous columns, this would reduce the 'refugee' problem to almost negligible dimensions (from around 5 million to under 50,000). It would also go a long way toward debunking the duplicitous and deceptive Palestinian narrative, which draws, in large measure, on the image of millions of dispossessed refugees.
Applying assertive diplomatic pressure on Arab governments to end the ethnic discrimination against Palestinians ('refugees'), resident in their countries for decades, and to allow them to acquire citizenship of those countries, which, according to available evidence, most of them desire.
To ease the execution of this measure, the funds that currently go to UNRWA to perpetuate the culture of dependency of the 'refugees' could be channeled to the governments of the countries, in which they are resident, to finance their absorption as contributing citizens.
 Providing generous funding for the relocation and rehabilitation of the Palestinian Arabs resident in Judea/Samaria (and eventually Gaza) in third-party countries of their choice. This should not be done through any Palestinian organization, which may have a vested interest in this measure's failure. Instead, it should be made available directly to individual familyheads/ breadwinners, to afford them a chance to extricate themselves from the regressive and repressive regimes in these territories, and an opportunity to build a better future for themselves and their families elsewhere.
... these measures are not intended primarily as actionable policy items. Rather they are meant to comprise important elements in the arsenal of a diplomatic offensive, aimed at putting Israel's adversaries on the defensive, exposing the flawed and fraudulent foundations of their positions...
Their purpose is to inform interested publics of existing realities in order to change the conversation, restructure (mis)perceptions regarding the conflict, and dispel the ignorance on which they rest.
Clearly then, the decision variables involved in launching both the diplomatic and the actionable elements of the proposed initiative are in Israel's hands.
Calculating costs
Many readers were concerned that the cost of the envisaged emigration incentives might be prohibitive. These concerns are unfounded.
The first and crucial point to grasp is that the absolute cost of the proposed measures is not really the issue, but rather the comparative cost, relative to other proposals ...
To the total cost needed to create and maintain a Palestinian state, one also needs to add the cost of resettling hundreds of thousands of Jews living east of the pre-1967 Green Line, and the huge increases that will be required in Israel's defense budget to enhance capabilities to adequately patrol and secure the indefensible frontiers ...
... Perversely, the cost of moving millions into the Palestinian state, which, in all probability, would be higher than moving smaller numbers out of it, has never been considered a prohibitive obstacle.
If the claim is that only a few would return, with most preferring to stay in their current places of abode, this would constitute resounding endorsement of the first two elements of the proposal, greatly bolstering the feasibility (and desirability) of the notion of Palestinians building better lives elsewhere.
Israel, with its current GDP close to a quarter trillion dollars, could probably shoulder the bulk of the burden itself, if spread over the specified time period.
.. one might be excused for being baffled as to why Western governments would be prepared to contribute billions to facilitate the establishment of what in all likelihood would be doomed to become a failed mini-micro-state [Arab Palestine], harboring some of the most extremist terror organizations on the planet, but would resist contributing to a program that would prevent its establishment.
Accordingly, it should be clear that the economic cost is not the major obstacle to implementation, but rather the need to muster the political will in Israel and international legitimacy abroad.
(Indeed, one might envision the establishment of a national authority, a Zionist-oriented version of the Sela Disengagement Authority set up to accompany the coercive evacuation of Jews from Gaza in 2005, Â to advise Palestinians on their options in implementing the voluntary evacuation-compensation ... principle).
It should be noted that the prospective relocation grants would be sufficient to qualify recipients for immigrant status in numerous countries, not only Arab or Muslim ones. There are, for example, reportedly over half a million Palestinians in South America.
Martin Sherman  is the founder and executive director of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.
More articles by Martin Sherman
3. Why the USA Needs Israel! The Brit-Am/Hebrew Nations Version.
To be read in conjunction with:
#3. How the United States Benefits from Its Alliance with Israel
Michael Eisenstadt David PollockÂ
http://hebrewnations.com/features/jn/jn1002.html#a3
The Brit-Am/Hebrew Nations Version. -1
The Brit-Am/Hebrew Nations Version. -2
Headings:
1. Introduction.
2. The Prototypical Intended Role of Joseph in Egypt.
3. Judah and the State of Israel.
4. The State of Israel is PREPARING THE WAY for all the other Tribes!
5. The USA is Manasseh. The USA is the Pioneer Ground-Breaking Force for all of the Ten Tribes.
6. Manasseh will be the first to return.
7. The USA Needs to Support the State of Israel because by Doing so it justifies its own reason for being and comes closer to realizing
its Biblical destiny.
8. Judah Needs Joseph therefore Joseph Should Stay "Close".
9. The Blessings and Tasks of Joseph.