Netanyahu: Iran is An Enemy and Should be Treated As One - By Elad Benari - http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/187350#.VGOLEpt0x9C
PM Netanyahu tells Jewish Federations of North America that instead of a bad deal with Iran, the sanctions on it should be toughened.
Iran is not a friend of the United States and the sanctions against it should be maintained, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday.
Speaking by video to the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America, Netanyahu opened by responding to Vice President Joe Biden's remarks at the same conference that he and Netanyahu are "buddies".
"Tell Vice President Biden that I know we're still buddies. We'll always be buddies," said Netanyahu.
"It's important to have friends like the United States and Canada because, it's important for any country to have such alliances, but especially for a country like Israel that faces many challenges unlike any other nation on Earth."
"But none of these challenges is more important than the threat posed by Iran's nuclear ambitions," he added.
"Our goal must not be merely to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons today. We must also prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons tomorrow."
"Iran is openly committed to Israel's destruction. And even as Iran negotiates a nuclear deal with the leading powers in the international community, its Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, brazenly calls for Israel's annihilation. These are not my words, these are his words: Israel's annihilation.
"He just did it again three days ago on his Twitter account. That's apparently the Iranian regime's idea of modernity - tweeting about the annihilation of Israel," Netanyahu said.
The Prime Minister warned that "Iran's wild rhetoric is also backed by murderous action", citing the Islamic Republic's sponsorship of terrorist groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
"This is how Iran acts without nuclear weapons; now imagine how Iran will act if a deal is made that leaves it as a threshold nuclear power," warned Netanyahu.
"It's obvious that Iran wants to remove the sanctions that have had such a devastating impact on its economy. But it should be equally obvious that Iran is not prepared to dismantle its nuclear weapons program in return."
"Unfortunately, instead of holding firm and demanding that Iran dismantle its program, the international community is reportedly, and I hope these reports do not prove to be true, but the international community is reportedly willing to leave Iran's nuclear program largely intact. They hope to rely on intelligence and inspectors to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons," said Netanyahu.
He warned, "I believe this would be a bad deal and a huge mistake."
"As for inspectors, they weren't able to stop North Korea from getting the bomb. And if the ten year run-around that Iran has given the International Atomic Energy Agency is any indication, inspectors won't stop Iran from getting the bomb either."
"The IAEA itself has reported just last week that Iran continues to conceal the most suspicious aspects of its nuclear program from the international inspectors that are already in Iran."
"Some people have suggested that Iran can help America solve the problems of the Middle East," said Netanyahu, "But Iran is not part of the solution. It's a huge part of the problem."
He stressed, "The Islamic State of Iran is not a partner of America. It's an enemy of America. And it should be treated as an enemy - by keeping tough sanctions on the regime; by making clear that the international community is determined to do whatever it takes to prevent Iran from breaking out or sneaking out to get the bomb."
We won't let Israeli extremists 'contaminate' Temple Mount; warns of global 'religious war' - By Marissa Newman - http://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-israel-sparking-devastating-religious-war/
PA president says Palestinians want all the Jerusalem, West Bank territory captured in 1967; al-Aqsa rioters have 'right to defend themselves'; slams Hamas for 'destroying' unity
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday warned that the Palestinians will not allow Israeli extremists to "contaminate" the Temple Mount, and said that allowing Jewish prayer at the site would risk a global religious war.
The PA leader also maintained that the rioters at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the disputed holy site had the right to defend themselves, and said Muslims and Christians would never recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Abbas's remarks (Arabic link) came in an address to thousands who gathered in Ramallah in honor of the 10th anniversary of the death of PLO leader Yasser Arafat, during which he cautioned the Israeli government against changing the status quo at the Temple Mount.
"Keep the settlers and the extremists away from Al-Aqsa and our holy places," Abbas demanded. "We will not allow our holy places to be contaminated. Keep them away from us and we will stay away from them, but if they enter al-Aqsa, [we] will protect al-Aqsa and the church and the entire country," he said. It was unclear what church Abbas was referring to.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeated several times in recent days that he does not intend to change the status quo at the site - the holiest in Judaism, and the third-holiest in Islam. Jews are allowed to visit but forbidden from praying at the contested site, which Israel captured from Jordan in the 1967 war, but where it allowed the Muslim Waqf authorities to remain in administrative charge.
Abbas praised the "heroes" stationed on the Temple Mount combating the ostensible dangers there, and said they "have the right to defend themselves and the holy places" if attacked.
Israeli security forces have chased rioters who fled into the al-Aqsa mosque on several occasions, but Israel denied a claim last week that troops went deep into the mosque. Israeli forces say the Palestinians store rocks, bottles and Molotov cocktails inside the mosque for use in violent protests.
"Israel's leaders are making a big mistake if they think they can turn back history, to impose a reality, and to divide the al-Aqsa Mosque [into separate prayers times and areas] as they divided the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron," Abbas said, using the Arabic term for the Cave of the Patriarchs, which hosts both Jewish and Muslim prayer. Such a move "would be unsuccessful, since in their actions, Israel's leaders will lead the region and world into a devastating religious war," he added.
Abbas also castigated Israel for seeking to "impose facts via illegal settlement building." He said Palestinian claims to all territory captured by Israel in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza in 1967 were "not up for debate."
"The Muslim and Christian worlds will never accept Israel's claims that Jerusalem belongs to them. The Jerusalem that was occupied in 1967 belongs to us," he said.
The PA president was also harshly critical of Palestinian faction Hamas, accusing the terror group of trying "to destroy" efforts to broker national unity through a series of bomb blasts in Gaza last week.
Abbas said Hamas was behind the attacks targeting leaders of his Fatah movement in Gaza, saying the rival faction was trying "to sabotage and destroy the Palestinian national project."
Hamas and Fatah signed a unity pact earlier this year, though the agreement has come under the strain of internal disputes and a violent summer.
Hamas condemned the PA president's remarks Tuesday as a "web of lies."
"Abbas's speech is a web of lies, insults and disinformation," said Mushir al-Masri, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, denouncing the Palestinian leader as "sectarian and partisan. "
"What the Palestinian people need is a courageous president," he said.
In his address Tuesday, Abbas also maintained that Jerusalem will never be recognized as the capital of Israel in the eyes of the Christian and Muslim worlds.
"No one will accept that Jerusalem is the capital of anything but the state of Palestine," he said, later clarifying the he was referring to the areas outside the pre-1967 lines.
Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, and Economy Minister Naftali Bennett have repeatedly said in past weeks that the PA president was fanning the flames of violence in the capital. Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon on Tuesday said Abbas's incitement had been a factor in an ongoing wave of terrorism, and urged the PA to help calm the situation.
Top EU diplomat: Jerusalem should be capital of two states - http://news.yahoo.com/eu-foreign-chief-gaza-calls-palestinian-state-110846580.html
Zechariah 12:2-3 says, "I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves."
The European Union's top diplomat Federica Mogherini said on Saturday that Jerusalem "should be the capital of two states", as tensions gripped the holy city hit by Israeli-Palestinian violence.
"I think Jerusalem can be and should be the capital of two states," Mogherini told reporters in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, touching on a sensitive issue that has blocked peace efforts for decades.
Her appeal, at a joint news conference with Palestinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah, came hours after the killing of an Arab-Israeli by police fanned tensions between Israel and the Palestinians.
The shooting in northern Israel came after another night of clashes in east Jerusalem between youths hurling stones and firecrackers at police, who retaliated with rubber bullets, stun grenades and tear gas.
The violence has spiked as Israel has pushed ahead with its policy to build Jewish settlements on lands the Palestinians want for a future state and against the background of efforts by Jewish extremists to secure rights to pray at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque.
"Jerusalem is not just a beautiful city, the challenge is to show that Jerusalem can be shared in peace and respect," said Mogherini.
"The message is not for the people who live here, the message is to the rest of the world," she said.
"It is not a Palestinian-Israeli situation, it is a global issue."
On Friday, Mogherini met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who dismissed her criticism of Israeli settlement building in annexed east Jerusalem and the West Bank.
"Jerusalem is our capital and as such is not a settlement," he insisted.
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