Makor Rishon - Front page headline:
"Financial interests are driving Haim Ramon to ask to block the transition to direct talks".

Yesterday, we posted that Haim Ramon (Kadima party chief) met with PA Negotiator Saeb Erekat at the American Colony Hotel and advised him to not go to direct talks with Israel.

According to the article, Ramon stated to Erekat that Shimon Peres and another unnamed third party were behind the request to avoid direct talks.

Anonymous government officials claimed that the unnamed third party is Martin Schlaff.

Martin Schlaff was one of the investors in the Peace Process Casino is Jericho, and is under investigation for questionable transactions involving Ariel Sharon and his sons. He was also involved in the arrangement with the ship from Libya that was trying to go directly to Gaza.

Peres's office has issued official denials that they sent Haim Ramon to meet with the Palestinians or to deliver the July 8th message to not go to direct talks. They added that Peres can and does meet the Palestinians, including Erekat, whenever he wants.

By the way, Shimon Peres and Haim Ramon had lunch together on July 7.



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Here's why the 'Palestinians' will never make peace with Israel. A specter is haunting the prospective Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations—the specter of the Nakba. The literal meaning of the Arabic word is “disaster”; but in its current, expansive usage, it connotes a historical catastrophe inflicted on an innocent and blameless people (in this case, the Palestinians) by an overpowering
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Would you believe that there are still people out there who believe that the Gaza 'disengagement' is an act worthy of repeating? UNILATERALLY!?! Here's Haaretz's Ari Shavit. The disengagement plan did have a strength, though: It was a bold attempt, the first of its kind, to deal with the lethal virus. The basic logic behind it was valid and remains so.According to the logic behind the
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1. Svensk gammelmedia har som arbetsrutin att rapportera först när Israel svarar på raketbeskjutning från Gaza. Men nu har i alla fall DN noterat Grad-attacken mot Ashkelon. Det är bra det. Men SVT och Aftonbladet m.fl kommer att titta åt ett annat håll fram till dess att vi får se Israels respons. Inte bra. [...]
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I've asked the same question that Michael Rubin is asking, and I've urged that Israel not sell more Heron drones to Turkey for the same reason. The truth is we don’t know. We’re on the verge of selling Turkey our most advanced fighter, and there has been little attention given to what the shift in Turkey’s foreign-policy orientation means when it comes to technology-sharing. From some
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Although he didn't explicitly make this a pre-condition to 'negotiations, 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen has added yet another impossible pre-condition to entering into an agreement with Israel. At a press conference in Cairo, Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas said that no agreements would be signed with Israel on ending the Middle East conflict as long as
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Let’s hope he doesn’t take in a movie during his visit to Israel and sit in front of you. Otherwise, there’s no downside to the disclosure that NBA superstar Amar’e Stoudemire is here and basking in his Jewishness. The former NBA Rookie of the Year and current New York Knick recently disclosed that his mother was [...]
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Here's Lipa Schmeltzer singing a letter to Moishele. This Moishele.Let's go to the videotape.Time to go study a little Torah. Maybe I'll have Moishele in mind in addition to my mother. Mom - may she rest in peace - would have cried over Moishele for days.
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July 29, 2010, 5:08 pm
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Toview the fullclip, click ...
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Here's a disturbing report about some of the things the United States has promised Egypt (which come on top of what it has promised the 'Palestinians'). A spokesperson for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Wednesday night that the United States had assured him in a phone call that direct talks between Israel and Palestinian Authority would begin soon. U.S. President Barack Obama told Mubarak
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Speaking after the burial of his son who was murdered by the Taliban, Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the Minister for Press and Information in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has vowed to defeat the Taliban and has called upon the Pakistani ...
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Caroline Glick reports on a pattern in the US in which certain elites are always the elites regardless of who is in power. She notes that regardless of who the President is and what his views are on the Middle East, the same people always hold power. And she reports on their Israeli collaborators. This week Ha'aretz - the trumpet of Israel's ruling class - gave us all a primer in how this sort
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On July 20, a major international conference on Afghanistan, which was attended by foreign ministers and diplomats from over 70 countries, endorsed Afghan President Hamid Karzai's initiative with regard to the Taliban in Afghanistan. A ...
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Muhammad Al-Suhaili, professor of Shariah at Umm Al-Qura University, Dr. Rajab Bersali, a psychiatrist at Hira Mental Hospital, and Ahmad Al-Shahrani, a spiritual healer, visit 29-year-old Turki at his home in Makkah. (AN photo by Badea Abu ...
July 29, 2010, 2:30 pm
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The Al-Qaeda-backed Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) has released a communiqué claiming responsibility for the July 26 bombing of the offices of Al-Arabiya TV in Baghdad. Al-Arabiya is a Saudi-owned satellite news channel that is despised by Al-Qaeda ...
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced a new program to encourage population growth in Iran and to do away with a long-held family planning policy. He offered to set aside a special account for every newborn child to be used when the ...
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Barack Obama and David Cameron are only making things worse with Turkey says Marty Peretz. What they ought to do is to shut up. The fact is that Turkish membership in the E.U. would be tantamount to European approval and support for the values of Turkish society. It once was that Turkey was in dissent from Islamic orthodoxies. This and its antagonism to the Soviet Union--or the antagonism of the
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The Wall Street Journal argues that David Cameron's speech in Turkey on Tuesday has made him irrelevant to any Middle East peacemaking efforts. In the late summer of 2005, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon stood up to ferocious opposition within his own party to remove all of Israel's soldiers and settlements from the Gaza Strip. But he did have the support of a Conservative Shadow
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A summer camp named for terrorist Dalal Al-Mughrabi got underway this week in Bethlehem. ...
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Saudi, Syrian, Lebanese flags in Beirut Lebanon is on alert in expectation of the planned visit tomorrow by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and Saudi King Abdallah bin Abd Al-Aziz. ...
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Fatah official Azzam Al-Ahmad has said that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud 'Abbas will present, today in Cairo to the Arab League's committee for monitoring the Arab peace initiative, the failure of the indirect ...
July 29, 2010, 1:31 pm
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Yes, this does indeed sound like what Cameron meant.Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip: Vlad Tepes via Gates of Vienna).He does sounds like Obama's flunkie, doesn't he? And you thought he was a Conservative.
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Earlier this week, I reported that the US General Accounting Office is complaining that Israel has been delaying the delivery of 'light' weapons to US General Keith Dayton's 'Palestinian police.' I implied (for those of you who follow links) that the reason behind that is a fear that those weapons will eventually be turned on Israel's security forces. David Hornik details what I implied by the
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The last thing 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen wants is a viable 'peace process' leading to a 'Palestinian state.' That's because for Abu Bluff, the name of the game is staying alive. [T]he last thing the Palestinian leader wants is a viable peace process, a fact that the administration may finally be starting to understand. Had Abbas wanted to accept a Palestinian
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You're invited to caption this photo.
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Due to lack of collaborating reports beyond the rumor mill, we've been sitting on this story for a while. But now it looks like the story is starting to break in the mainstream media as parts were reported on Israel radio this morning.

The story has it that on July 8th Haim "Kiss and Tell" Ramon met with PA negotiator Saeb Erekat and advised him not to let the PA enter into direct talks with Israel. The rumor mill has it that this advice came from an individual known during the Oslo Heyday as the "'Palestinian's Advocate" - none other than President Shimon Peres.

The logic behind the advice is that Netanyahu would never agree to the PA's terms, so it is better for them to not meet at all. In the long term, this will only produce additional international pressure on Israel, especially if the Freeze ends because of no direct talks.

Keep watching this story. It could be huge if all the details prove to be true.


UPDATE: The President's office has denied they sent Haim Ramon to talk to Saeb Erekat. Ayala Hasson, the Israel radio interviewer has been strongly implying (as it may be illegal to have made use of it) that there is a recording where Ramon can be heard saying that he is representing Peres.



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I've just had two and a half hours with no internet service.We used to have this nice little company called Actcom. We had them from 1994. Unfortunately, a couple of years ago, they were bought out by Bezeq (yes, that's how they spell it), our (allegedly former) monopolist local phone company.Bezeq's service is AWFUL - we have much more frequent outages than we ever had. If you're in Israel, I
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People in Israel are afraid to be heard.Someone got onto Israel Radio's morning talk program on Thursday morning and claimed in a disguised voice (sounded credible) to have overheard a meeting between Kadima (main opposition party) number 3 Chaim Ramon and 'Palestinian' chief negotiator bottle washer Saeb Erekat. In the meeting in a hotel lobby, Ramon advised Erekat not to go to direct
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Discuss.








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You've all heard of the BDS Movement - Boycott, Divest, Sanction Israel. What are they about? This video will tell you.Let's go to the videotape.Long-time readers may recall that Ali Abunimah is a buddy of President Obama.For the record, Ronny Kasrils is a Jewish former minister in the South African government.
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Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister, Danny Ayalon, goes after Lebanon for flotilla hypocrisy in Thursday's Wall Street Journal. Today, there are more than 400,000 Palestinians in Lebanon who are deprived of their most basic rights. The Lebanese government has a list of tens of professions that a Palestinian is forbidden from being engaged in, including professions such as medicine, law and
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In Hamastan, it is now illegal to display pajamas or lingerie in store windows. Among the prohibitions include displaying lingerie or pajamas in store windows, having fitting rooms or cubicles inside shops, and using tinted glass for store windows. Security cameras inside women's stores will also be banned.Gaza police spokesman Brigadier Ayman Al-Batniji said the new restrictions will "protect
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