Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas agree at least on one point: The “conflict” between Arabs and the Jewish state was not settled in the 1948 War for Independence.

In his Knesset speech Monday night, the Prime Minister said, “This is not a conflict about 1967. This is a conflict about 1948, about the State of Israel’s very existence. You must have noticed that yesterday’s events [“Nakba Day”] did not take place on June 5, the day the Six Day War erupted; they took place on May 15, the day the State of Israel was established.”

In his Monday op-ed in The New York Times, Abbas wrote, “It is important to note that the last time the question of Palestinian statehood took center stage at the General Assembly, the question posed to the international community was whether our homeland should be partitioned into two states. In November 1947, the General Assembly made its recommendation and answered in the affirmative. Shortly thereafter, Zionist forces expelled Palestinian Arabs to ensure a decisive Jewish majority in the future state of Israel, and Arab armies intervened. War and further expulsions ensued.”

Abbas’ skillfully written op-ed implicitly rejected the existence of Israel by stating that the General Assembly partitioned “our homeland,” a phrase that previously has referred to a Jewish state in declarations by the League of Nations and in the Balfour Declaration, among others.

His description of the chain of events in 1947 and 1948 parallels several Muslim and Arab alterations of history and the Bible. His op-ed stated that Zionist forces expelled “Palestinian Arabs” after the United Nations recognition of Israel.

However, Britain still was in control of the country at the time under the Mandate, and Israel, where the Jewish people already were under siege by Arabs, did not establish itself as an independent nation until the following May. Also, the term “Palestinian Arabs” was not invented until years later. The entire country was referred to as Palestine under the British Mandate.

Abbas also tried to establish as a fact that Arab armies “intervened” to stop the alleged efforts to expel Arabs and create a Jewish majority. Virtually every history book outside the Arab world notes that Arab terrorists attacked Jews for decades, most notably the 1929 pogrom in Hevron, where Arabs slaughtered 67 Jews.

The “intervention” was a declaration of war against the existence of a Jewish state, which Arab forces vowed to annihilate.

Abbas wrote that “war and further expulsions” ensued but omitted reminding readers that every war against Israel was launched by Arabs. He did not mention the war drums that seven Arab nations beat until the beginning of the Six Day War in 1967.

Six years later, Egypt, followed by Syria, launched an unprovoked war with a large-scale invasion on Yom Kippur, the holiest Jewish holiday.

Muslim clerics and the Palestinian Authority also have tried to change the Bible, referring to binding of Isaac (Yitzchak) as the “binding of Ishmael.” They also have rejected any Jewish ties to the Temple Mount, which has been subject to an Arab campaign claiming that it was not built by Jews and that the Western Wall is a Muslim holy site.

Similar claims have been made that Rachel’s Tomb, south of Jerusalem and on the road to Efrat, actually was a Muslim holy place, even though Islam was not founded until nearly 2,500 years after the death of Rachel, wife of Jacob (Yaakov).

Brannon and Jimmy discuss Glenn Beck’s announcement that he made this morning which is to hold a rally in Jerusalem. Today Beck declared, “It is time to return inside the walls that surround Jerusalem and stand with people of all faiths, all around the world.” Beck continues to promote ecumenicalism, to talk about miracles and now he is calling all faiths of the world to Israel.

Is Beck laying the foundation for the coming antichrist who is described in the Bible as being one that will call for a one-world religion, perform counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders , and confirm a peace treaty with Israel before breaking it? Listen as Jimmy and Brannon explain why Glenn Beck is a threat to Israel as well as the Church.

Beck also stands to make a lot of money off this protect as he announces he will have tour packages available online by this Friday. Is Beck really a great manipulator? Becks said on his Monday program that the gates of hell were going to come against this project yet in his book, Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life, Beck said there was no lake of fire. Does Beck say things he does not even believe in order to manipulate his audience and promote his businesses?

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It turns out that the Fatah movement realizes that the international treaty signed at San Remo in 1920 grants internationally-accepted Jewish national rights in the Holy Land.

The WAFA news agency of the Palestinian Authority recently reported that Fatah issued a 25th anniversary statement proclaiming that the San Remo Conference is the root of all “Palestinian catastrophes and sufferings.”

The widely-disseminated article did not make clear what the 25th anniversary commemorated, however. Fatah is 47 years old, and the San Remo Conference was held 91 years ago. The statement was issued for the Fatah Revolutionary Council’s Mobilization and Organization Committee, whose mandate appears in the original Fatah charter of 1964.

The San Remo Conference was an international meeting of four of the leading Allied powers of World War I, known as the post-World War I Allied Supreme Council. It was held in San Remo, Italy, and was attended by the prime ministers of Britain, France, and Italy, and Japanese Ambassador K. Matsui. Its resolution that a Jewish state must be established in Palestine, based on the Balfour Declaration of 1917, was confirmed by the League of Nations in 1922.

“It’s not strange that Zionist gangs considered San Remo Conference as the ‘Magna Carta’ of the Jews,” the Fatah statement asserted.

Background
Following World War I and the fall of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, it became necessary to determine how the formerly Ottoman-ruled lands would be ruled. The ruling powers decided the Holy Land was to be entrusted to a Mandatory, as the San Remo resolution stated: “The High Contracting Parties agree to entrust… the administration of Palestine, within such boundaries as may be determined by the Principal Allied Powers, to a Mandatory, to be selected by the said Powers.”

The resolution continued: “The Mandatory will be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on November 8,1917 by the British Government, and adopted by the other Allied Powers, in favour of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”

Political Rights for Jews, not Arabs
The international community – the Alllies in 1920, and the League of Nations in 1922 – thus officially recognized the national legal rights of the Jewish People in the Land of Israel. Significantly, similar rights for the Arabs in the area were specifically not recognized.

The resolution mentioned that the “civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine” must be upheld – but specifically left out any mention of “political” or “national” Arab rights.

A parallel League of Nations resolution did grant the Arabs “political” rights in four other mandates – Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and later Trans-Jordan.

Last year at this time, the European Coalition for Israel marked the 90th anniversary of San Remo, noting that it essentially gave birth to the League of Nations’ “British Mandate for Palestine,” which laid down the Jewish legal right to settle anywhere in western Palestine between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Later, the 51 member countries of the League of Nations unanimously approved the Jews’ historical connection with the Holy Land.

Clearly, then, San Remo truly was a catastrophe for Fatah and the Palestinian Authority.

Walid Shoebat, a former Muslim terrorist who now supports Israel, has accused former Shin Bet agent Mosab Hasan Yousef, author of “Son of Hamas,” of duping his Western audience. Yousef denies the accusations.

Shoebat and Yousef are both former Muslims who converted to Christianity. Yousef became a celebrity when he wrote his book, which detailed how he assisted Israeli agents against Hamas. As the son of a high-ranking Hamas official, he had access to real-time information that helped the Shin Bet nab numerous wanted terrorists and saved many Israeli lives.

However, Shoebat – a noted author and commentator on the Middle East – claims in an article on hos website that Yousef “has since revealed himself to be more double agent than turncoat.”

“Mosab did not convert to what the West would recognize as Christianity, but to a fiery, Palestinian brand of the faith that is vehemently anti-Israel,” he writes.

Shoebat uses as evidence two videotapes of interviews Mosab granted to Arabic television channels. The videos, with English translation, can be seen here. 

Speaking on Al-Arabiya, Mosab said: “During my tours in universities and even churches, [I found] the real support for Israel stems from the church in the West. … We need to understand the difference between “revenge” and “resistance” and once the Palestinians do, we will have our victory against Israel. Israel is the problem and as an occupation it needs to end. … There are many ways to do this besides the cowardly explosive operations.”

He adds that he “suffered under all the problems of murder and the criminal operations that were carried out by the Israeli occupation against my people, my family, myself, and against humanity.”

When Mosab was being interviewed on Christian-Arabic television station Al Hayat, the presenter asked a caller what he would do if he were in Mosab’s position and could prevent dozens of school children from being killed by turning in a Hamas man to Israel. When the caller vacillated, Mosab spoke:

If I was in your shoes, you should not report it to Israel. I do not encourage anyone to give information to Israel or collaborate with Israel. If anyone hears me right now and they are in relation to Israeli security I advise them to work for the interest of their own people — number one — and do not work with the [Israeli] enemy against the interest of our people. They should collaborate with the Palestinian Authority only.

Mosab’s book is also “littered with factual errors and exaggerations,” Shoebat accused. For example: “Mosab portrays the Jerusalem prison as a center for torture and persecution of Palestinians. The reality is much kinder; each inmate has his own bed and an in-the-cell shower as well. I know this — I was a prisoner there myself. We ate three full meals a day, and drank tea or sweet punch.”

Shoebat warns: “Mosab is now touring churches to end Israel’s lifeline. Many Jews and Christians in the West are unable to determine friend from foe in the Mideast; they are not able to read what is said in Arabic. They must seek translations, and must be aware of double agents like Mosab.”

(Video) Ynet offers glance at unique covert operation which shuttled thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel

VIDEO – Operation Solomon was a 1991 covert Israeli military operation meant to bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel.

The operation was prompted by concerns that rebel forces in Ethiopia were about to topple the then-highly vulnerable regime, threatening the country with dangerous political destabilization.

Operation Solomon, which marks its 20th anniversary this month, saw Israeli forces open and maintain a 36-hour long air corridor, which saw 34 Israeli aircraft – IAF C-130s and El Al cargo planes – perform a non-stop shuttle, carrying 14,325 Ethiopian Jews safely to Israel.

Israel’s Solaris Synergy is one of the companies to see a future in floating solar panels, Green Economy reports.

Such panels would float on agricultural and mining ponds, hydroelectric reservoirs and canals, and similar locations.

In addition to being an efficient use of space, floating solar panels have other economic benefits attached. First, they minimize the use of steel, which is the main cost in the production of land-based panels. Second, the water’s cooling effect can increase electricity production over typical ground-mounted systems. And third, a solar system floating on water also reduces water evaporation 70%, while inhibiting destructive algae growth by blocking sunlight on the water.

Solaris engineers say such systems can produce up to 2 MW of electricity per mile.

Solaris has installed its first live floating concentrated photovoltaic (F-CPV) system connected to the Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) grid. The system is based at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies’ Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation located on Kibbutz Ketura, 30 kilometers north of Eilat.

The project is part of Capital Nature Experimentum, a verification and inspection center for new technologies developed by renewable energy companies.

“This installation is a milestone for us,” Solaris Synery CEO Yossi Fisher said. “We’re confident that it’s just the first of many future Solaris implementations in Israel and throughout the world.”

Solaris Synergy also plans to float a solar array on a reservoir in the south of France in a trial with French utility EDF.

The leaders of Fatah and Hamas signed a reconciliation agreement in Cairo on Wednesday, ending their schism that began four years ago.

“We announce to Palestinians that we turn forever the black page of division,” Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who is also chairman of both Fatah and the PLO, said in his opening address.

The meeting marked the first time since 2006 that Abbas met with Khaled Mashaal, the Damascus-based leader of Hamas.

Arab MKs Ahmed Tibi, Muhammad Barakei and Taleb a-Sanaa traveled to Cairo to witness the ceremony.

Their participation was blasted by several of their Jewish colleagues as an act of treason.

Mashaal said his group’s only fight was against Israel, not rival Palestinians.

“We have decided to pay any price so that reconciliation is achieved,” he said.

“Our real fight is with the Israeli occupier, not Palestinian factions and sons of the one nation.

“Our aim is to establish a free and completely sovereign Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, whose capital is Jerusalem, without any settlers and without giving up a single inch of land and without giving up on [refugees’] right of return,” Mashaal said.

In what appeared to be a sign of lingering friction, Mashaal did not share the podium with Abbas and the ceremony was delayed briefly over where he would sit.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said the agreement struck a blow to peace, while rewarding terrorism.

Some Israeli experts said the coming together of the two factions was a marriage of convenience, that was not likely to last.

“This is an artificial reconciliation,” said Yoni Ben- Menachem, a research fellow at the International Institute for Counterterrorism at the IDC Herzliya and a veteran analyst of Palestinian affairs.

“Both sides have an interest in making a deal.

In the long run, it’s only going to be a temporary deal.”

In September, Abbas is widely expected to ask the UN General Assembly to recognize a Palestinian state in all of the West Bank and Gaza – a move opposed by Israel and the United States.

“The deadline is in September. Both sides have an interest in reaching September united,” Ben-Menachem said.

Abbas “doesn’t want to go to the UN and have other countries ask him, ‘Why do you want us to recognize Palestine when you don’t control part of it?’ And Hamas feels Abbas is going to have a big success in the UN, so they want to ride that wave of success and not be left behind,” he said.

The agreement calls for the formation of an interim PA government to run the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and to prepare for longoverdue parliamentary and presidential elections within a year.

Against expectations, neither Abbas nor Mashaal signed the unity document – signed in the presence of UN, EU and Arab League representatives – though it remained unclear why.

In his speech, Abbas repeated his call for a halt to settlement construction as a condition for resuming peace talks with Israel.

“The state of Palestine must be born this year,” he said.

Hours before the agreement was signed, Gaza’s Hamas government executed a man convicted of collaborating with Israel, openly defying Abbas. The man was executed by firing squad after being sentenced to death last month for helping “the Israeli occupation,” Hamas’s Interior Ministry said, referring to him only by his initials A.S.

Under Palestinian law, executions should be carried out only with presidential approval. It was not clear if the execution had been rushed through ahead of the unity ceremony in Egypt, or whether Hamas would seek Abbas’s approval in the future.

The PA president was later visited by Mashaal to discuss the deal, Palestinian sources said.

Leaders of the two factions will meet next week, likely in Cairo, to work on instituting the agreement, and Egypt has set up a committee to oversee its implementation.

Amr Moussa, the outgoing chief of the Arab League – and a leading candidate in Egypt’s presidential race – said the agreement would unify Palestinian negotiators and prevent Israel from claiming that all Palestinians were not properly represented in negotiations.

“The description of Hamas as a terrorist organization is over,” Moussa said in an interview with the pan-Arab daily Asharq Al-Awsat.

Hamas has said in the past that it would accept an interim solution in the form of a state in all of the territory Israel gained in the Six Day War, along with a long-term cease-fire.

“We have given peace since Madrid till now 20 years, and I say we are ready to agree among us Palestinians and with Arab support to give an additional chance,” Mashaal said, referring to the 1991 international Middle East peace conference that launched Israeli-Arab peace talks.

“But, dear brothers, because Israel does not respect us, and because Israel has rejected all our initiatives and because Israel deliberately rejects Palestinian rights, rejects Fatah members as well as Hamas… it wants the land, security and claims to want peace,” he said.

The Cairo ceremony was greeted with celebrations in the Gaza Strip. But the public displays were less enthusiastic in the West Bank, where Abbas’s Fatah movement holds sway, and some doubted the deal was genuine.

The United States has reacted coolly to the reconciliation accord. A State Department spokesman, Mark Toner, said the US would look at the formation of any new Palestinian government before taking steps on future aid.

David Makovsky, director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, wrote on Tuesday, “Although PA officials have indicated that security cooperation with Israel will continue, it is difficult to imagine how the Palestinian power-sharing arrangement will not hinder that partnership.

Hamas has long called for Israel’s destruction, and most of the Israeli-PA security efforts have been based on preventing Hamas terrorists from gaining a foothold in the West Bank. This is perhaps the biggest test of Abbas’s credibility; while he is assuring Washington, the EU and Israel that little will change, given his commitment to coexistence, questions abound.”

“Once he enters a power-sharing agreement with Hamas, he will probably lose US aid and impair his credibility – at least in the United States and Israel – as a proponent of coexistence with Israel,” Makovsky wrote.

Translated by Al Mubadara, the Palestinian National Initiative, this document is currently in the process of being signed by all of Palestine’s factions and parties.

Under the auspices of Egypt, delegations from the Fatah and Hamas movements met in Cairo on April 27, 2011 to discuss the issues concerning ending the political division and the achievement of national unity. On top of the issues were some reservations related to the Palestinian National Unity Accord made in 2009.

Both political parties mutually agreed that the basis of understanding made during the meeting are committing to both parties in the implementation of the Palestinian National Reconciliation Agreement. The basis of understanding agreed upon by Fatah and Hamas are as follows:

1. Elections

A. Election Committee:

Both Fatah and Hamas agree to identify the names of the members of the Central Election Commission in agreement with the Palestinian factions. This list will then be submitted to the Palestinian President who will issue a decree of the reformation of the committee.

B. Electoral Court:

Both Fatah and Hamas agree on the nomination of no more than twelve judges to be members of the Electoral Court. This list will then be submitted to the Palestinian President in order to take the necessary legal actions to form the Electoral Court in agreement with the Palestinian factions.

C. Timing of Elections:

The Legislative, Presidential, and the Palestinian National Council elections will be conducted at the same time exactly one year after the signing of the Palestinian National Reconciliation Agreement.

2. Palestine Liberation Organization

The political parties of both Fatah and Hamas agree that the tasks and decisions of the provisional interim leadership cannot be hindered or obstructed, but in a manner that is not conflicting with the authorities of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

3. Security

It was emphasized that the formation of the Higher Security Committee which will be formed by a decree of the Palestinian President and will consist of professional officers in consensus. 4.Government

A. Formation of the Government:

Both Fatah and Hamas agree to form a Palestinian government and to appoint the Prime Minister and Ministers in consensus between them.

B. Functions of the Government:

1. Preparation of necessary condition for the conduction of Presidential, Legislative and the Palestinian National Council elections. 2. Supervising and addressing the prevalent issues regarding the internal Palestinian reconciliation resulting from the state of division. 3. Follow-up of the reconstruction operations in the Gaza Strip and the efforts to end the siege and blockade that is imposed on it. 4. Continuation of the implementation of the provisions of the Palestinian National Accord. 5. To resolve the civil and administrative problems that resulted from the division. 6. Unification of the Palestinian National Authority institutions in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem. 7. To fix the status of the associations, Non-Governmental Organizations and charities. 5. Legislative Council:

Both Fatah and Hamas agree to reactivate the Palestinian Legislative Council in accordance to the Basic Law.