Keras Posted April 23, 2020 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 56 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1,686 Content Per Day: 0.63 Reputation: 301 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/31/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 08/07/1941 Share Posted April 23, 2020 (edited) The deal is done: Netanyahu and Gantz sign a coalition pact. Deal ends 17-month political crisis Plan calls for annexation in July. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz sign a unity government agreement. Israel will have a new coalition government after an agreement was signed on Monday evening between Likud and Blue and White, putting an end to a 17-month political stalemate that resulted in three elections. As part of the deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has served as caretaker prime minister since December 2018, will remain prime minister for another 18 months and then will be replaced in October 2021 by Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, who will serve as vice prime minister in the meantime. Netanyahu will become vice prime minister under Gantz after that – but if he leaves the Prime Minister’s Office sooner, Gantz will take over. “I promised the State of Israel a national emergency government that will work to save lives and livelihoods of Israeli citizens,” Netanyahu said. Gantz expressed his relief that an election – which would have been held on August 4 if a deal was not reached by May 7 – had been averted. “We prevented a fourth election,” Gantz said. “We will protect our democracy and fight against the coronavirus.” US President Donald Trump’s peace plan, including its clauses enabling Israel to apply sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, will be able to be implemented in July, when maps are set to be finalized. The Likud and its satellite parties will receive the Finance, Health, Internal Security, Construction, Transportation and Education portfolios. Blue and White will receive the Defense, Foreign Affairs, Justice, Economy, Communications and Culture portfolios. The Knesset speaker will be from Likud. The government is expected to have 36 ministers and 16 deputies, split equally between the Center-Right and Center Left. Besides Likud and Blue and White, the government will include Shas, United Torah Judaism, Labor and the Gesher Party of MK Orly Levy-Abecassis. Ref: Jerusalem Post, 22nd April 2020 Edited April 23, 2020 by Keras Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keras Posted April 25, 2020 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 56 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1,686 Content Per Day: 0.63 Reputation: 301 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/31/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 08/07/1941 Author Share Posted April 25, 2020 What is in Trumps Peace Plan: The 29,000 word Plan contains two parts: Part A is a political framework which proposes: * Redrawing the boundaries to incorporate the majority of Israeli settlements into Israeli territory and annexing the Jordan valley and the Golan. [section 4] * Recognizing ‘Al Quds’, which is the Arabic name for Jerusalem; as the capital of a future Palestine State, while also saying Jerusalem is the undivided Capital of the State of Israel. [section 5] * Requiring that the Palestinian people become fully de-militarized. [section 7] * Withdrawing any right of return by the Palestinian refugees. [section 16] Part B contains an economic framework which promises to facilitate an investment in up to 50 billion over a ten year period. Including; a road tunnel between Gaza and the West Bank and an artificial island off the coast of Gaza, to develop an airstrip and port facilities. Ref: Aljazeera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Last Daze Posted April 26, 2020 Group: Royal Member Followers: 9 Topic Count: 84 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 4,011 Content Per Day: 1.12 Reputation: 2,519 Days Won: 4 Joined: 07/17/2014 Status: Offline Share Posted April 26, 2020 On 4/23/2020 at 4:02 AM, Keras said: The deal is done: Netanyahu and Gantz sign a coalition pact. Deal ends 17-month political crisis Plan calls for annexation in July. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz sign a unity government agreement. Israel will have a new coalition government after an agreement was signed on Monday evening between Likud and Blue and White, putting an end to a 17-month political stalemate that resulted in three elections. As part of the deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has served as caretaker prime minister since December 2018, will remain prime minister for another 18 months and then will be replaced in October 2021 by Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, who will serve as vice prime minister in the meantime. Netanyahu will become vice prime minister under Gantz after that – but if he leaves the Prime Minister’s Office sooner, Gantz will take over. “I promised the State of Israel a national emergency government that will work to save lives and livelihoods of Israeli citizens,” Netanyahu said. Gantz expressed his relief that an election – which would have been held on August 4 if a deal was not reached by May 7 – had been averted. “We prevented a fourth election,” Gantz said. “We will protect our democracy and fight against the coronavirus.” US President Donald Trump’s peace plan, including its clauses enabling Israel to apply sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, will be able to be implemented in July, when maps are set to be finalized. The Likud and its satellite parties will receive the Finance, Health, Internal Security, Construction, Transportation and Education portfolios. Blue and White will receive the Defense, Foreign Affairs, Justice, Economy, Communications and Culture portfolios. The Knesset speaker will be from Likud. The government is expected to have 36 ministers and 16 deputies, split equally between the Center-Right and Center Left. Besides Likud and Blue and White, the government will include Shas, United Torah Judaism, Labor and the Gesher Party of MK Orly Levy-Abecassis. Ref: Jerusalem Post, 22nd April 2020 Interesting development. And welcome back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keras Posted May 3, 2020 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 56 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1,686 Content Per Day: 0.63 Reputation: 301 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/31/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 08/07/1941 Author Share Posted May 3, 2020 Israel to annex West Bank territory in July: Netanyahu described Trump's Middle East deal as a promise to recognise Israel's authority over settlements in the West Bank: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he was confident the United States would give Israel the approval within two months to move ahead with de facto annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank. Netanyahu, in announcing a deal with his rival Benny Gantz last month to form a unity government, set July 1 for the start of cabinet discussions on extending Israeli sovereignty to Israeli settlements, illegal under international law, in the occupied West Bank and annexing outright the Jordan Valley. Such a move would need to be agreed with Washington, according to the Netanyahu-Gantz agreement. In a video address on Sunday to a pro-Israeli Christian group in Europe, Netanyahu described the Middle East plan announced by President Donald Trump in January as a promise to recognise Israel's authority over Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Palestinians have flatly rejected the Trump proposal, because it awards Israel most of what it has sought during decades of conflict, including nearly all the land on which Israel has built settlements. The Palestinians have already threatened to cancel existing peace agreements if Netanyahu moves forward with his plan, while the European Union foreign policy chief said annexation would be a violation of international law and force the bloc to "act accordingly". The United Nations Middle East envoy said: such a step would "ignite" the region. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday it was up to Israel whether to annex parts of the West Bank and said Washington would offer its views privately to its new government. The Palestinians and much of the international community regard Israel's settlements in the occupied West Bank as illegal under the Geneva Conventions that bar settling on land captured in war. Israel disputes this, citing security needs and biblical, historical and political connections to the land. Ref: Reuters news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keras Posted May 19, 2020 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 56 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1,686 Content Per Day: 0.63 Reputation: 301 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/31/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 08/07/1941 Author Share Posted May 19, 2020 Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has formed a new Israeli government that appears able and determined to carry out unilateral annexation of occupied Palestinian territory in the West Bank, with the approval of the Trump administration, within just months. Any annexation would be carried out with the deliberate intention of preventing the creation of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel and a negotiated resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Not surprisingly, the United Nations and the European Union warned Israel not to annex any part of the occupied West Bank. Israeli "liberal" commentators anticipate swift and terrible ramifications of a decision to annex parts of the West Bank. They have dark visions of an intensification of violence between Israel and the Palestinians and a severing of relations by Jordan and Egypt, which might even go so far as to nullify their peace treaties with Israel. They warn that the Gulf States that have been tacitly cooperating with Israel on security and intelligence fronts will end their cooperation; the European Union will condemn Israel in the strongest possible terms; scores of countries will recognize the Palestinian state; the BDS movement will significantly intensify; anti-Semitism will reach new heights; Israel will become a pariah state; and more. These apocalyptic forecasts are a terrifying nightmare which, if true, should deter any rational policymaker in Israel from implementing annexation on even a small scale. Consider the risk allegedly posed by annexation of the Jordan Valley to the Israeli-Jordanian peace agreement. The CIS has emphasized this risk on several occasions in a way that suggests an unbreakable bond between the Hashemite Kingdom and the Jordan Valley. In fact, the Arabic name of the Jordan Valley is Ghor al-Urdun, which refers to the Jordan River, not the state. Furthermore, on July 31, 1988, the late King Hussein formally announced his decision to politically disengage from the West Bank, leaving the PLO to fill the political vacuum. In an interview on MSNBC on Sept. 29, 2019, King Abdullah issued a warning: "If the policy is to annex the West Bank, then that is going to have a major impact on the Israeli-Jordanian relationship and also on the Egyptian-Israeli relationship because we are the only two Arab countries that have peace with Israel. It is true that Jordanian officials have made hardline statements about the US peace plan, but it appears their prime concern was possible harm to Jordan's status in Jerusalem. In King Abdullah's words, "Jerusalem is a red line; we are being pressured, but the answer will be a resounding No! The second consideration is the US call for naturalizing the Palestinian refugees in Jordan, which is considered by the regime as a severe threat to the throne and Jordan's stability." The Jordan Valley was on the agenda of a meeting between Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and his Palestinian counterpart Riad Maliki on April 24. The ministers warned that an Israeli annexation of the Jordan Valley and settlements in occupied Palestine would "kill" the two-state solution and undermine chances of peace. They called on the international community to combat any such effort and avert a worsening of tensions – especially now, when united efforts are required to tackle the coronavirus crisis. The dark prophecies proclaimed by "liberal" and "progressive" groups in Israel as well as abroad, as against the possible annexation of the Jordan Valley are overstated, and they obscure the strategic significance of the Jordan Valley to the security of Israel. As Netanyahu said: "The Jordan Valley has supreme importance in the context of the security of the State of Israel. The Middle East is unstable and violent. The Jordan Valley is a strategic defensive belt for the state, and without it, the fundamentalist flood could reach into Israel as far as the Dan region." Ref: Israel Hayom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willa Posted May 19, 2020 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 68 Topic Count: 186 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 14,242 Content Per Day: 3.33 Reputation: 16,656 Days Won: 30 Joined: 08/14/2012 Status: Offline Share Posted May 19, 2020 The West Bank and the heights are very strategic. They were won in the 67 battle as I barely remember. Israel has not taken land but when they were attacked and beet back the aggressors. This was a battle won by God as the Jews were out numbered and attacked from the north and the south. Correct me if I am wrong. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyn C Posted May 20, 2020 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 30 Topic Count: 266 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 13,203 Content Per Day: 3.49 Reputation: 8,497 Days Won: 12 Joined: 12/21/2013 Status: Offline Birthday: 10/06/1947 Share Posted May 20, 2020 On 4/26/2020 at 8:51 AM, Keras said: What is in Trumps Peace Plan: The 29,000 word Plan contains two parts: Part A is a political framework which proposes: * Redrawing the boundaries to incorporate the majority of Israeli settlements into Israeli territory and annexing the Jordan valley and the Golan. [section 4] * Recognizing ‘Al Quds’, which is the Arabic name for Jerusalem; as the capital of a future Palestine State, while also saying Jerusalem is the undivided Capital of the State of Israel. [section 5] * Requiring that the Palestinian people become fully de-militarized. [section 7] * Withdrawing any right of return by the Palestinian refugees. [section 16] Part B contains an economic framework which promises to facilitate an investment in up to 50 billion over a ten year period. Including; a road tunnel between Gaza and the West Bank and an artificial island off the coast of Gaza, to develop an airstrip and port facilities. Ref: Aljazeera Thanks Keras, I appreciate you informing us of the latest regarding Israel. I personally believe that Russia (& Iran, Libya & Ethiopia) will come through the Golan heights next year. I see that this area has been included in Trump`s Peace Plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keras Posted May 20, 2020 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 56 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1,686 Content Per Day: 0.63 Reputation: 301 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/31/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 08/07/1941 Author Share Posted May 20, 2020 2 hours ago, Marilyn C said: Thanks Keras, I appreciate you informing us of the latest regarding Israel. I personally believe that Russia (& Iran, Libya & Ethiopia) will come through the Golan heights next year. I see that this area has been included in Trump`s Peace Plan. The next prophesied event is not the Gog/ Magog attack, but what Psalm 83, Micah 4:11-12, Revelation 6:12-17 and many other prophesies that describe the great and terrible Day of the Lord's fiery wrath. It will be triggered by Iran and all the Islamic peoples attempting to 'wipe Israel off the map'. However in Israel, God will destroy the apostate and atheist people there too. Isaiah 29:1-4 That world changing Day will commence all the end time prophesies, leading up to the glorious Return of Jesus to reign over the world for 1000 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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