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Obama appointee, Howard Gutman made the remarks at a recent conference. “The legal experts at the event were visibly stunned by Gutman’s words, and the next speaker offered a scathing rebuttal to the envoy’s remarks.”



Bottom line: A supermajority, or something close to it, of the new Egyptian parliament will be Islamist. Wonderful.



The Journal says the unofficial split is 50 percent for the Muslim Brotherhood and 15 percent for the even more radical Salafists. The Times says it’s more like 40 percent for the Brotherhood and 25 percent for the Salafists.

“Our claim is that misconstruing the biblical teaching is misleading many Christian Zionists to support settlements on Palestinian land that are unjust, that violate God’s will as well as international law, and that cause dangerous hostility against Israel.” Letter opposing Christian Zionism sparks Israel debate

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/u-s-republicans-submit-re… ]”U.S. Representative Joe Walsh (R-IL), introduced on Monday a resolution (with 30 co-sponsors) to support Israel’s right to annex the West Bank in the event that the Palestinian Authority continues to push for vote at the Uni

http://forward.com/articles/142864/ A committee within the Presbyterian Church USA has reopened controversy by recommending that the church divest from three companies doing business with Israel. 

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/why-palestinians-can-t-rec… ]”For the Palestinians to recognize Israel as a Jewish state is to declare their surrender, meaning, to waive their group dignity by negating their historical narrative and national identity.”

The Iranian president said on Friday there will be no room for Israel in the region after the formation of a Palestinian state, and that once the state is established, the liberation of all Palestinian lands should follow.The comments by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reflected his typical anti-Israeli rhetoric, which has drawn international condemnation since he first said in 2005 that Israel should be “wiped off the map.”Full report is at

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/146897#.Tkv—GHyRQg ]”Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has turned down U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s requests and will not apologize to Turkey for the IDF’s counter terrorist action…”