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| Myths & Facts: Online Exclusive | If Israel makes peace with the Palestinians will other Arab states normalize ties with Israel? ![Myths & Facts: 2012]()
One way that Israel is being pressured to make concessions to the Palestinians is to suggest that by doing so it will bring about a sea change in the region whereby the rest of the Arab world will normalize relations with Israel. Proponents of this idea often point to the Arab peace initiative of 2002 as evidence for this belief. Unfortunately, neither the Arab plan nor the words and the deeds of Arab states support this rosy scenario. |
Israel & California Increase Business Ties | Israel and California trade and cooperate extensively in business, science and agriculture. When Prime Minister Netanyahu visited California, he and Governor Jerry Brown signed a pro-business agreement to expand current Israel-California cooperation. The pact includes collaboration in cyber security, biotechnology, health, water conservation and effective strategies to fight drought. "California doesn't need to have a water problem," Netanyahu said. "Israel has no water problems because we are the number one recyclers of waste water, we stop water leaks, we use drip irrigation and desalination." |
Israeli Navy Intercepts Weapons Shipped from Iran |
Israeli naval commandos interdicted the Klos C, an Iranian vessel sailing under a Panamanian flag that was making its way to port in Sudan while carrying a cargo of advanced rockets destined for Palestinian terror groups in Gaza.![]() The Navy intercepted the ship in open waters on the maritime border of Sudan and Eritrea, some 1,500 kilometers south of Israel in the Red Sea. After bringing the ship back to Israel and performing an in-depth inventory, Israel revealed that the cargo contained 40 Iranian-made 302M ground-to-ground missiles, 181 mortar rounds and 400,000 rounds of 7.62 mm ammunition. |
Russia Invades Crimea, Once Proposed as Jewish Homeland |
Russian troops invaded the Crimean peninsula after Ukraine's democratically elected government was overthrown in Kiev. The Crimean parliament decided to hold a referendum asking whether the region should become part of Russia. Crimea was once a potential location for the Jewish State. In the years of the British Mandate, Crimea was a training ground for Jewish pioneers who tested agricultural techniques before moving to Palestine. From 1924 until 1938, the Joint Distribution Committee financially supported agricultural settlements in Soviet Crimea. An official proposal was submitted in a meeting with a senior Soviet minister in 1944, but Stalin grew suspicious of Soviet Jewry after the UN voted to partition Palestine in 1947, and used the proposal as a premise to attack them. |
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Mitchell Bard AICE Executive Director |
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