Israel Replies to the 40 USA "Machers"................from Dan Friedman

[A few days ago, a blue ribbon panel of Israeli legal scholars found that Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria is well within international law. Over here on our shores, the reaction was akin to showing Dracula the cross. A group of mainly Reform Jews (sic) fired off a letter calling on Israel to reject the report. If you still need an explanation for the panic overcoming America’s assimilationist Jewish movers and shakers, you can start with the two news items below. df]

Times of Israel, 7/16/12

The newly confident Israeli proponents of a one-state solution

Demanding a Greater Israel used to be exclusively for the far right.

Now even coalition chairman Ze’ev Elkin is insisting Israel annex the West Bank, ‘regardless of the world’s opposition’

Israel National News, 7/16/12

Knesset Speaker Rivlin: Settlements Guarantee our Existence

‘Settlements don’t threaten our existence, they guarantee it,’ Rivlin tells Peres.