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ORIGINALLY cast as a conservative, Naftali Bennett, Israel’s young Minister for the Economy, is discarding or destroying shibboleths in a way the country’s establishment finds disconcerting but voters love.

He is eagerly “going east” in search of new trade and investment partners instead of focusing on the country’s older European and US business roots.

It is in that role that he has been travelling in Australia after visiting Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country. His first two overseas visits were to China and India.

He is also pushing two new groups to participate for the first time in Israel’s economy in a significant way: Arab women and the ultra-Orthodox.

Now aged 41, he was born in Israel and, like a succession of political leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak, he served in the elite Sayeret Matkal commando unit.

When he was 26, he left the military and co-founded Cyota, an anti-fraud software company that was sold eight years ago for $145 million.

He says: “When you log online to your bank, our software makes sure who you are,” with 70 per cent of Western bank transactions incorporating Cyota.

http://www.ruthfullyyours.com/?p=64785 http://acdemocracy.org/ In the Arab-Islamic Political Culture rumors are an integral part of social activity that quickly become absolute truth that cannot be challenged. It has to do with exaggerations, flights of fancy and especially, in a society that believes in conspiracies… every date is important, remembering everything and forgiving nothing. This is a society wherein […]

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With gathering momentum a new approach—egregious and evil—is emerging as latest endeavor to breathe life into rapidly expiring feasibility of so-called “two-state-solution”.
[We need] to create a continuous stretch of new settlements; to bolster Jerusalem and the surrounding hills, from the north, east, south and west, by means of the establishment of townships, suburbs and villages – Ma’aleh Adumin, Ofra, Gilo, Bet El, Givon – to ensure that the capital and its flanks are secured, and underpinned by urban and rural settlements. These settlements will be connected to the Coastal Plain and Jordan Valley by new lateral axis roads; the settlements along the Jordan River are intended to establish the Jordan River as [Israel’s] de facto security border; however it is the settlements on the western slopes of the hills of Samaria and Judea which will deliver us from the curse of Israel’s “narrow waist.” – Shimon Peres, Tomorrow is Now, 1977.

I wish you all, the parents and the entire tribe of settlers…restorers of the Jewish settlement in Hebron… great blessing and joy in raising your son. Bringing your son into the covenant of the Patriarch Abraham, in the city of Abraham after 40 years separation from it, has special symbolic significance.
It bears testimony to our continuous connection to this place, to which we have returned never to leave. – Yigal Allon, January 29, 1969.

A person who, with intent that any area be removed from the sovereignty of the state or placed under the sovereignty of a foreign state, commits an act calculated to bring this about, is liable to life imprisonment or the death penalty. – Section 97(b) of the current Penal Code in Israel – under “Treason.”

There are ever-increasing signs that something infuriating, insidious and immoral is beginning to surface in the political debate in Israel – particularly in regard to policy on “settlements” and “settlers.” Accordingly, I would ask you to keep these excerpts in mind while reading the rest of this column.

Their full significance will become clear in its final section.

Orwellian conversion of vice into virtue
With gathering momentum a new approach – one that is egregious and evil – is emerging as the latest endeavor to breathe life into the rapidly expiring feasibility of the so-called “two-state solution.” It involves a macabre attempt to transform vice into virtue, and virtue into vice.