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Rally in Chicago to speak out against Pali State and the expulsion of Jews from a Torah Perspective!http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/169655. The Torah is the Jewish Common Denominator. If you are the
Agudah, the Council of Young Israel Rabbis, the Orthodox Union of Jewish Congregations, Lubavitch Headquarters please make a Torah statement as per our entitlement to the Land of Israel and our right ot settle all parts of Israel and against the settlement freeze. Supporting Netanyahu's position isn't necessarily supporting Torah. Netanyahu is a politician and it's hard for him to stand up to Obama's pressure.
But Torah is Torah and Jews are waiting for their Rabbis to SPEAK OUT!. Contact Yosef Rabin so that he can read a Torah Statement from Rabbanim at Friday's Rally in Chicago backed by the Religious Zionist of Chicago! He would love additional voices of support.
The Eretz Yisrael Committee of Chicago can be contacted at: 773-885-9889
or emailed at
eyisrael1@gmail.com We hope that the Torah message of this rally will be covered in the Media undistorted!
If you are a print media source please use the following newsletter from UCI as material for your paper. Also please contact Agudah, Young Israel, OU and Lubavitch Headquarters and get a statement of clarity of their position regarding freezing of Settlements.
Rav Yaakov Perlow, Noveminsker Rav shlita
Rosh Agudath Yisroel of America
Agudath Yisroel of America
42 Broadway Suite 1400 New York, NY 10004
Tel
212-797-9000
Fax: (212) 254-1600
cc: Chaim Dovid Zwiebel Executive Vice President of Government and Public Affairs
Rabbi Pesach Lerner shlita
Executive Vice President of the National Council of Young Israel
The Council of Young Israel Rabbis USA: - CYIR,
111 John Street, Suite 450, New York, New York 10038
Tel:
212-929-1525 Fax: 212-727-9526
Rabbi Weill shlita Exec VP
Mr. David Olivestone shlita
Director of Communications and Planning
The Orthodox Union
11 Broadway,
New York, NY 10004
Tel::
(212) 563-4000 ♦ Fax: (212) 564-9058
Rabbi Krinsky shlita
Chabad Headquarters
770 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11213
Tel: 718 774.4000 / fax 718 774.2718
Please ask them if they really support a demilitarized Palestinian State knowing fully well that a Sovereign State must have some sort of military and can not be demilitarized. Netanyahu is a master politician and depends on the political game of rhetoric to appease the Obama Administration and the Palestinians know it. . Netanyahu is focusing on nuclear Iran. However, Netanyahu is creating facts on the ground that is anything but benign and Obama is grateful to him. .
(Side note to the Jewish Week: Yasher Koach to Jewish Week Editorial entitled "
Mary Robinson, Poor Choice" and for the excellent piece by Jonathan Mark, Associate Editor, Media Watch entitled "
Rush to Judgment - Tel Aviv's gay murder reveals anti-Orthodox hatred.")
UCI is spreading the right message! Excellent material!---------- Forwarded message ----------
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UCI <voices@israelunitycoalition.org> Date: Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:06 PM
Subject: Today`s News Summaries
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faigerayzel@gmail.com Editor's Note: Tuesday August 18, 2009
Contents: (summaries below) - Huckabee: 2-state solution `unrealistic`, Jerusalem Post, Josiah Ryan and Herb Keinon
- Israel`s Peculiar Position and the Obama Huckabee Middle East Showdown, LA Times and UCI, Eric Hoffer and UCI Editor
- Huckabee Supports Jewish Growth in Maaleh Adumim, IsraelNN.com, Hillel Fendel
- Obama`s State Department Submits to Islam, AmericanThinker.com, Pamela Geller
- Obama terms Netanyahu`s de facto freeze Movement in the Right Direction, IMRA.org, IMRA Staff
- Palestine problem hopeless, but not serious, Asia Times Online, David P Goldman
Huckabee: 2-state solution `unrealistic`
Josiah Ryan and Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post, August 18, 2009 Former US presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said Tuesday there is no room for a Palestinian state "in the middle of the Jewish homeland" and that Israel should be able to build settlements wherever it wants.
Huckabee`s opposition to a Palestinian state puts him at odds with the accepted wisdom of both Democrats and Republicans - and to some degree even with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has come out in favor of a demilitarized Palestinian state.
Speaking to a small group of foreign reporters in Jerusalem, Huckabee, seen as a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2012, said the international community should consider establishing a Palestinian state some place else.
"The question is should the Palestinians have a place to call their own? Yes, I have no problem with that. Should it be in the middle of the Jewish homeland? That`s what I think has to be honestly assessed as virtually unrealistic," he said.
The politician, a Southern Baptist preacher and a two-time former governor of Arkansas, praised Israel for giving Muslims access to Jerusalem`s Dome of the Rock - also the site of the ancient Jewish temples - even though the presence of a mosque there "could be considered an affront."
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Israel`s Peculiar Position and the Obama Huckabee Middle East Showdown
Eric Hoffer and UCI Editor LA Times and UCI, August 18, 2009 [UCI Editor`s Note: We are re-publishing this poignant piece by Eric Hoffer, published in the LA Times May 26th, 1968. We are contrasting Hoffer`s sparse but powerful words with the "showdown in the Middle East" taking place today between President Obama, and his efforts to push the Saudi Two State solution, and Governor Huckabee, with his whirlwind speaking tour in Israel. Consider the recent video edit of President Obama`s statements at this year`s AIPAC annual meeting by road90.com. http://www.road90.com/watch.php?id=sj5zoLVlvZ
Obama`s words of identification with and friendship toward Israel, spoken June 4th, were quickly rescinded June 5th, when Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas sternly rebuked the US President for uttering, "Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided." In an interview with CNN, when asked whether Palestinians had no future claim to the city, Obama backpedalled hard: "Well, obviously, it's going to be up to the parties to negotiate a range of these issues. And Jerusalem will be part of those negotiations."
Watch the video, read the article and stand for a united Jerusalem, whether Barack Obama will or not! We can perhaps place more hope in near Presidential hopeful, Huckabee, who stated today, "The question is should the Palestinians have a place to call their own? Yes, I have no problem with that. Should it be in the middle of the Jewish homeland? That`s what I think has to be honestly assessed as virtually unrealistic."]
ISRAEL`S PECULIAR POSITION
by Eric Hoffer (LA Times 5/26/68)
The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to any other nations are forbidden to the Jews.
Other nations are allowed to drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it, Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey threw out a million Greeks, and Algeria a million Frenchman. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese and no one says a word about refugees. But in the case of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single one so that they can destroy the Jewish State..
Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious, it must sue for peace.
Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world. Other nations, when they are defeated, survive and recover but should Israel be defeated it would be destroyed. Had Nasser triumphed last June [1967], he would have wiped Israel off the map, and no one would have lifted a finger to save the Jews.
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Huckabee Supports Jewish Growth in Maaleh Adumim
Hillel Fendel IsraelNN.com, August 18, 2009 Past and likely-future U.S. presidential candidate Mike Huckabee spent his second day on a private trip to Israel visiting Maaleh Adumim, Beit El and other Shomron (Samaria) towns. He began the day by visiting with Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat.
Expressing strong support for Israelis' right to live where they want without having to receive American permission, Huckabee expressed incredulity that either the Arabs or the Americans would expect the tens of thousands of Jews of Maaleh Adumim to leave. "Where would they go?" he asked.
Maaleh Adumim is a city just to the east of Jerusalem with nearly 40,000 residents. Huckabee visited the city this morning, and met briefly with Mayor Benny Kashriel. The two, accompanied by a delegation of supporters of the U.S.-based Jerusalem Reclamation Foundation and a group of reporters, stood atop a Maaleh Adumim mountain top and looked out at the barren Judean Mountains below – the site of the controversial and not-yet started E-1 housing project.
"As you can see," the mayor told the former governor, "the land is desolate, and we are not pushing out any Arabs from their homes. This is state-owned land, designated for the expansion of Maaleh Adumim by [the late Prime Ministe Yitzchak Rabin. Yet, no construction is going on – because the Americans don't agree."
"We need your help in convincing the U.S. government to stop pressuring us on this matter," Kashriel said to Huckabee. "We would like our children to be able to live next to us."
Huckabee Doesn`t Understand PA, US
"The Palestinians are asking you to leave this place?" Huckabee asked. "No, they are demanding it," Kashriel said, adding that the Americans "merely" want to stop further growth.
Huckabee had trouble understanding both positions: "If they want you to leave, where exactly do they expect you to go?! And if the Americans realize that you are not leaving, then why should your growth and job-creation and the like be stopped? You should remain and simply stop growing?!"
He stopped short of expressing all-out support for the E-1 project – some 3,000 housing units – but expressed support in general for Israel's right to build and grow in the disputed areas.
Huckabee later said he sees no reason why the Arab world needed yet another state.
Obama is Too Harsh on Israel
Asked his opinion of President Barack Obama's policy vis-à-vis Israel, Huckabee said, "We are all – both Republicans and Democrats – surprised at the new policies he has instituted, much harsher than previous administrations, and very different than his own campaign promises when he visited Israel. We simply do not know where he will end up."
Huckabee finished second to John McCain in the race for the Republican Party's nomination for presidential candidate in 2008. He is currently considered an early front-runner for the nomination for the 2012 elections.
From Maaleh Adumim, Huckabee traveled to Beit El, in the southern Shomron. None other than Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's brother-in-law, long-time Beit El resident Dr. Hagi Ben-Artzi, explained to the prominent visitor the historic significance of Beit El and the importance and vitality of the 6,000-strong Jewish community there.
"There are hundreds of places around the world named Beth El," Ben-Artzi told the visitors, "but you are now in the original Beit El, the inspiration for all the others..."
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Obama`s State Department Submits to Islam
Pamela Geller AmericanThinker.com, August 18, 2009 Here is but the latest act of submission to Islam by your State Department. A State Department cable has just been sent out with this announcement:
The Bureau of International Information Programs (IIP) has assembled a range of innovative and traditional tools to support Posts` outreach activities during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Here, in contrast, is the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
The State Department`s Ramadan programs are wide-ranging. "On August 10," the cable continues, "America.gov will publish a 'Multicultural Ramadan` feature. American Muslims trace their ancestry to more than 80 countries and the feature will highlight the richness of these various cultural traditions through the lens of Ramadan and Eid. Content will include essays by young Muslims who are part of Eboo Patel`s Interfaith Youth Core (IYC). Contact: Alexandra Abboud (AbboudAM@state.gov)."
There`s more! The Bureau of International Information Programs "will publish three articles for Ramadan 2009 addressing the concept of an Islam in America `brand`; advocacy (civic and political) of the Muslim American community; and community innovation/community building. The writer will contact Muslim American experts in each of these fields. These articles will be available on America.gov in English, Arabic, and Persian."
The main publication is Being Muslim In America: "Conceived as IIP`s flagship print publication on the rich and varied experiences of the nation`s growing Muslim population, this lavishly illustrated new book links the Muslim-American experience to those of other American racial, religious, and immigrant groups as they moved into the American 'mainstream.`"
Can you imagine every Embassy and consulate putting up a Menorah and having some Rabbis as speakers via a webcast?
Can you imagine if we had the Stations of the Cross put on the walls of all of our embassies, consulates, and other posts, as well as the many Department of State buildings across the country, including C Street?
Why aren`t priests, pastors, etc. invited during Christmas to give blessings or talk about Christianity in the United States?
Can you imagine if the Buddha were revered and we had some monks coming to do a meditation session with all of the officers of each embassy, consulate, etc.?
Can we get printed and distributed Hare Krishna posters for all of our posts, so as to reach massive audiences?
I mean, put it in reverse and see how crazy it is. Absolutely nuts.
Perhaps this is an initiative of President Barack Obama`s newly created Office for Outreach to the Ummah at State. In June Obama had the Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, at the White House. Ihsanoglu urged Obama to appoint a U.S. ambassador to the Islamic world - and Obama immediately created a new State Department Office for Muslim Outreach, with a Muslim woman, Farah Pandith, serving as the new U.S. Special Representative for Muslim Outreach. In keeping with Obama`s U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project, a charter of dhimmitude, we are to be conditioned to respect Muslim immigrants and accept their culture.
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Obama terms Netanyahu`s de facto freeze Movement in the Right Direction
IMRA Staff MRA.org, August 18, 2009 Obama sees progress on Israeli settlements issue
After meeting Egyptian counterpart Mubarak, US president says freeze on construction starts in settlement blocs, east Jerusalem `movement in the
right direction`
News agencies Published: 08.18.09, 20:47 / Israel News
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3763917,00.html
US President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he saw encouraging signs of a
softening of Israel`s resistance to his call for a freeze on
settlement-building in the occupied West Bank.
Earlier on Tuesday, an Israeli government minister said no tenders had been
issued for new housing projects in Israeli settlements since Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu`s right-leaning government took office five months ago.
Netanyahu has rebuffed Obama`s push for a complete freeze, creating the most serious rift in US-Israeli relations in a decade.
"There has been movement in the right direction," Obama said when asked
about the latest development after talks with Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak at the White House.
The two leaders, meeting for the third time in as many months, talked about
how to jump-start the stalled Middle East peace process, a top foreign
policy priority for Obama.
It was Mubarak`s first visit to the United States since 2004. He had stayed
away after falling out with former President George W. Bush over the
latter`s focus on promoting democracy in the Middle East and criticism of
human rights in Egypt.
Mubarak`s visit comes as the Obama administration has been pushing moderate
Arab states to take steps that could encourage Israel to freeze settlement
building on Palestinian territory.
Mubarak, however, said Arab states would only take a more active role in
supporting the peace process once Israelis and Palestinians began direct
negotiations.
Arab states have so far been cool to the idea of steps such as giving
overflight rights to Israeli civilian aircraft and allowing Israel to open
interest sections in foreign embassies in their capitals.
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Palestine problem hopeless, but not serious
David P Goldman Asia Times Online, August 17, 2009 "The situation for the Palestinian people is intolerable," declared United Sates President Barack Obama in his June 4 Cairo address. Really? Compared to what? Things are tough all over. The Palestinians are one of many groups displaced by the population exchanges that followed World War II, and the only ones whose great-grandchildren still have the legal status of refugees. Why are they still there? The simplest explanation is that they like it there, because they are much better off than people of similar capacities in other Arab countries.
The standard tables of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita show the West Bank and Gaza at US$1,700, just below Egypt`s $1,900 and significantly below Syria`s $2,250 and Jordan`s $3,000. GDP does not include foreign aid, however, which adds roughly 30% to spendable funds in the Palestinian territories. Most important, the denominator of the GDP per capita equation - the number of people - is far lower than official data indicate. According to an authoritative study by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies [1], the West Bank and Gaza population in 2004 was only 2.5 million, rather than the 3.8 million claimed by the Palestinian authorities. The numbers are inflated to increase foreign aid.
Adjusting for the Begin-Sadat Center population count and adding in foreign aid, GDP per capita in the West Bank and Gaza comes to $3,380, much higher than in Egypt and significantly higher than in Syria or Jordan. Why should any Palestinian refugee resettle in a neighboring Arab country?
GDP per capita, moreover, does not reflect the spending power of ordinary people. Forty-four percent of Egyptians, for example, live on less than $2 a day, the United Nations estimates. The enormous state bureaucracy eats up a huge portion of national income. New immigrants to Egypt who do not have access to government jobs are likely to live far more poorly than per capita GDP would suggest.
Other data confirm that Palestinians enjoy a higher living standard than their Arab neighbors. A fail-safe gauge is life expectancy. The West Bank and Gaza show better numbers than most of the Muslim world:
Life Expectancy by Country in Years
Oman 75.6
Bahrain 75.6
West Bank and Gaza 73.4
Saudi Arabia 72.8
Jordan 72.5
Algeria 72.3
Turkey 71.8
Egypt 71.3
Morocco 71.2
Iran 71.0
Pakistan 65.5
Yemen 62.7
Sudan 58.6
Somalia 48.2
Source: United Nations
Literacy in the Palestinian Authority domain is 92.4%, equal to that of Singapore. That is far better than the 71.4% in Egypt, or 80.8% in Syria...
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