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Here's an interview INN conducted with Caroline Glick, where she makes some points about what Israel cannot concede on:

Glick noted Trump’s “credibility” with Israel, built over the past two years through a series of policy changes including the relocation of the US embassy to Jerusalem, but emphasized that Israel must remain adamant regarding its control of not just the capital city, but also Area C of Judea and Samaria.

“The Trump administration has built up credibility with the Israeli people because they’ve done some things that are important that none of their predecessors have done. They defunded the Palestinian Authority, they defunded UNRWA, they left the UN Human Rights Council, and of course, they moved the embassy to Jerusalem.”

“However, they are certain things that Israel cannot concede, and indeed we have to perpetuate our control over Area C in Judea and Samaria.”

Since the 1990s, Judea and Samaria has been under divided control, with the Palestinian Authority receiving civil and security control over Area A, and civil control over Area B, while the Israeli military retains full control over Area C, which makes up roughly 60% of Judea and Samaria.

“That means that we cannot make any territorial compromises whatsoever in Area C, and obviously Jerusalem is not on the table,” Glick continued. “So it really depends what they’re offering. But we have national interests, we have strategic interests, and we’re not going to concede them. I don’t know what is in the plan, but I do know that the responsibility of the next government is to ensure that Israel advances our claims in Judea and Samaria, implements our law in Judea and Samaria in Area C and that we explain to the Trump administration that these are our positions, we’re not going to move them.”

Well that's spot on for a viewpoint. And since we're on the subject, AIPAC, startlingly enough, took away a lot of the sympathy I'd wanted to show for them after they virtue-signaled by attacking Netanyahu's pressing National Union to join with Otzma Yehudit, because some of the members are former Kahane disciples:

After facing heavy criticism in recent days for brokering a political deal that could see the extremist Otzma Yehudit party enter the Knesset, and following a rare rebuke from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday evening fired back at critics.

“What hypocrisy and double standards by the left,” he wrote on Facebook, in a post that did not mention AIPAC. “They’re condemning [the formation of] a right-wing majority bloc with right-wing parties, while the left acted to bring extreme Islamists into the Knesset to create a majority bloc.”

He then went on to list several instances of alleged support by left-wing politicians for radical Arab legislators and leaders.

“In 1999 [Ehud] Barak took part in a campaign rally with the inciting Sheik Raed Salah,” he said, referring to the Islamist cleric who has repeatedly been arrested for fomenting violence. (The Haaretz newspaper noted that Barak took a tour in the Arab town of Umm al-Fahm during the campaign, which Salah, then the mayor, attended.)

“Representatives of Labor and Meretz voted for Azmi Bishara, who spied for Hezbollah, to enter the Knesset, and [Isaac] Herzog sought a surplus vote agreement with the Joint List and said the Arab MKs were legitimate in the government,” Netanyahu also wrote.

Bishara first entered the Knesset in 1996 as part of an alliance between Hadash and his Balad party. He was accused of espionage after fleeing the country in 2007. Haaretz noted that Labor MK Shelly Yachimovich has said she voted for Hadash in the 1996 election. Netanyahu may have been referring to her statements.

“A union with right-wing parties is wrong, but working to bring in inciters and those who spy against Israel is legitimate,” he asked bitterly, calling the notion “the height of absurdity.”

If AIPAC and the AJC never condemned those kind of leftist alliances, then suddenly, I have to wonder: were they ever worth supporting? They sure have ruined everything after the whole disgusting episode with Ilhan Omar. The Otzma Yehudit party may not be saints, but their members today are far from being as extreme as Kahane himself was at the time he served in the Knesset.

Glick said later on:

I don't recall @aipac and the @ajc expressing misgivings when leftist Israeli government's existed by the grace of Arab parties who support Israel's annihilation.

— Caroline Glick (@CarolineGlick) February 23, 2019

Somebody told her the 2 outfits have become tools of the Democrats, and they certainly have trashed all the credence I'd want to give to them earlier with their stupid interference. The Otzmad Yehudit party had the following response:

"We call on AIPAC members to do the right and expected thing and return home to Israel before they involve themselves in elections," the party said. "When they arrive here, they will be able to be partners in the crucial and existential decisions of those living in Israel, and we will be happy for them to make decisions together with Israel's citizens."

"In any case, AIPAC's hypocrisy rings loud and clear: We have never heard AIPAC condemn so strongly Joint Arab List MKs Hanin Zoabi and Ahmad Tibi running for the Knesset. They also never came out against certain Israeli leftists, such as Ofer Cassif, who called to cancel the Jewish State.

So upon further pondering, I have to sadly conclude AIPAC and AJC isn't really worth it, and they've really disappointed here. Time for realists to distance themselves from such phonies.

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