Acquaint yourself with Israel's issues and candidates for governing

Israelis go to the polls on Tuesday, January 22, 2013. Acquaint yourselves with the issues and policies of the candidates- filmed by JooTube in Jerusalem in January and February, 2009. 

Danny Ayalon, Deputy Foreign Minister's address 6th Jerusalem Conference, January 2009  

Israeli leaders address policy issues with Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, led by Malcolm Hoenlein- on their convention in Jerusalem 


 Jerusalem Conference: Danny Yatom, Martin Kramer, Yuval Steinitz, Arye Eldad

Tzipi Livni of Kadima speaks (English translated) at Jerusalem Conference

Moshe Feiglin: "Returning the Jewish State to the Jewish People"- recorded in Los Angeles, 2011.

Jerusalem Conference's Wednesday 17 Feb schedule begins with Livni, concludes with PM Netanyahu

The Jerusalem Conference provides a unique forum for the discussion of Israel's national priorities, social values, and aspirations, as well as the challenges and external threats faced by Israel and the West. Every year the Jerusalem Conference hosts key figures, opinion-molders and policy-makers from Israel and around the world -- all leaders in the political, economic, academic, media, communal, security, military, and rabbinic spheres.

The Jerusalem Conference is dedicated to the promotion of Jewish heritage and values and to Israel’s future as a viable, modern, democratic and Jewish state. The setting for the Jerusalem Conference – Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem – underscores the Conference’s devotion to Israel’s capital city. In the near future the Jerusalem Conference expects to hold additional conferences in other locations in Israel and in key cities in the United States.


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At Jerusalem Conference, Israeli candidates address Jews' domestic and global-relations concerns

Obama pulls Netanyahu towards concessions
to cede land to Palestinian state led by Abbas

The 6th Jerusalem Conference is an annual forum for the discussion of Israel's national priorities, social values, and aspirations, which hosts key figures and policy makers from Israel and around the world -- all leaders in the political, economic, academic, communal, security, military, and rabbinic spheres. 

The 2009 Jerusalem Conference focused on the "New Leadership and New Direction" that will emerge this year in Israel and the United States following the national elections in both countries. 

Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who leads the Likud Party, discusses maintaining the Jewish integrity, demographically and politically, between life in Jerusalem, East Jerusalem, and Yesha.

Amb. Danny Ayalon, Deputy Foreign Minister's addresses the 6th Jerusalem Conference.

Tzipi Livni of 2008/9 Kadima Party addresses Jerusalem Conference (English translated)  

Compiled speeches by MK Maj. Gen. Danny Yatom (Labour); Dr. Martin Kramer, historian / political analyst; MK Yuval Steinitz (Likud, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Defense Readiness); and MK Dr. Arieh Eldad (National Union).
 

After Netanyahu's Jerusalem Conference speech, he convened with his fellow party member Dr. Yuval Steinitz and Ichud Leumi (National Union) party Chairman Yaakov Katz. Katz asked the Likud chairman what his plans are for a coalition after the Israel elections. Netanyahu responded, "We will establish a broad coalition based on all the Zionist parties - blue and orange."

True Zionist Leaders' Audio from 'Jerusalem Conference'

'The West is Suffering Effects of Global Jihad's Psychological Warfare to Demoralize and Remake the West under Their Control' - Londonistan author, Melanie Phillips.

Ms. Phillips lays out the cognitive dissonance Israel faces among the Anglo-sphere. And what little Britain's Jews do to help their image-crisis.

Audiocast from the recent Jerusalem Conference, courtesy of Israel National Radio. Select Download from Radio News Highlights menu in left column.

She says, "The bottom line is that the global Islamic jihad is threatening the entire free world, and it is succeeding, and we don't even know what has hit us! Britain is sliding into Islamicization, because of a strategy outlined decades ago by the Islamic Brotherhood, which says: You set up your institutions, you then use the mores of your designated country to give you more and more, you Islamicize the country, and then you take it over.

The central point of this strategy is the demoralization caused by the intellectual confusion
brought on by the psychological warfare, the essence of which is that the victims have no idea of what is being done to them. Britain doesn't get it, at all. Israel doesn't get it. We must fight against their verbal fire - and realize that if our minds are enslaved, then our bodies will be
next. Israel is obligated, using our traditional skill with words, to retake the battlefield of ideology and of the mind - and win."

Israel National News' Hillel Fendel summarizes that Conference session on Israel's Public Relations Efforts, featuring a panel including former MK Elyakim HaEtzni, Isi Leibler, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, and Tzafrir Ronen.

HaEtzni presented his thesis that the simple explanation for Israel's failure at effective PR is "pathological. Israel is sick, with a condition called 'Jewish self-hatred,' and this phenomenon must be investigated... For 2,000 years, the world has been telling us that we're no good - so finally, like a child who receives only criticism, he naturally begins to believe he is no good! In addition, there is something in the Jewish religion that is very noble, but that if taken too far, can be dangerous. Other nations, when they are hit, blame the hitter - but we always blame ourselves; we ask what we did wrong. "

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