Campaign of the National Camp for Eretz Yisroel Fwd: Petition is starting to grow, please re-send to your lists!

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Dear Fellow activists, amv"sh

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/1eys/petition.html

There are several campaigns currently underway on behalf of Eretz Yisroel.  Our campaign has been going on for some time.  We have been asking the public to contact their Rabbanim for a while.  The time has come for people to take this seriously and act upon it.  The major Torah organizations and media have influence over hundreds of thousands of caring Jews!  It is a grass roots campaign to address the Gedolei Hador and the major Jewish Torah Organizations to speak out forcefully on behalf of Yehudah and the Shomron and against a Palestinian State. The Silence is a Chillul Hashem, a desecration of G-ds name.  In  February 2008 the following campaign was conducted to contact the Agudath Yisroel of America and the OU and the YI to speak out for Yehuda and the Shomron. http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2008/02/timetodo4israel-action-campaign-just.html.  The message is more or less the same.

This past week  appearing in Hamodia page B21 did you know that there was a picture of  Ambassador Cunningham, Ambassador of the United States together with Rav Eliashiv and Rav Efrati. The article said that Rav Eliashiv greeted him warmly and gave him his blessings.  The Ambassador said that the US is looking forward to Netanyahus visit to the US...

DOESN'T this picture send a clear message to the Jewish People that Rav Eliashiv is supportive of a Palestinian State??????

In response to this meeting with Ambassador, we are starting a campaign to unite all those that are against a Palestinian State especially those that are the leaders in the struggle to settle Yehudah and Shomron  to insist that they too have a meeting with Rav Eliashiv and their picture be shown in  Hamodia and Rav Eliashiv greeting them warmly and bestowing upon them his blessings. 

Women in Green, you who are involved in building Shdema and call for resettling Gush Katif, Yad Yair and have been establishing facts on the ground don't you deserve the proper recognition you deserve?  A picture with Rav Eliashiv  would get us the recognition we require without even an expensive Ad campaign even though an Ad campaign on buses gets the attention of the people.   A picture with Rav Eliashiv  in the paper doesn't cost anything because it is news. .

 If Rav Eliashiv is hesitant to meet with women then please let Rav Eliashiv meet openly with Yaakov Katz of the the National Union, with  the hilltop youth and each and every one of the mayors and Roshei Yeshivoth in the Yishuvim in Yehuda and the Shomron,  Then our message will come across very clear.  Eretz Yisroel is our Biblical inheritance.  The hilltop youth represent Torah.

Dear Activists, Please expect a phone call from Shmuel Koenig who is working with us diligently and persistently to unite the activists to speak in a unified voice of Torah proclaring that the Land of Israel is our gift from G-d and our Biblical inheritance.  Shmuel Koenig will ask you if you would like to be included in a meeting with Rav Eliashiv and if you have any suggestions on how we can get an audience with  Rav Eliashiv please do so. We are very open to suggestions.  Perhaps you have some personal connections or political clout or suggestions.  Perhaps a series of phone calls to his office might do the trick since quiet diplomacy hasn't worked.  Years ago, we were told that he wasn't well etc.      True he is late in his 90's bli ayin hara, amv"sh but that didn't stop him from meeting with Cunningham this past month.  

Let our petition reach hundreds of thousands before Yom Yerushalayim. Two years ago at the Agudah Convention, there was a declaration by Agudah for a united Jerusalem.  Yet when Condeleeza Rice, made it clear that Jerusalem was to be divided there was Silence even when Rav Eliashiv instructed Rav Perlow, that it was good to publicize that Jerusalem must not be divided.  How come we haven't heard much regarding this matter and of Rav Eliashiv's position?

Please don't ask who else is joining this campaign before passing it along.  If you join then others will join.  If you hesitate then others will hesitate.  do you agree with the wording.  If so, what fear do you have in signing it?

Many of you have already signed this  petition or a similar one.  There is more than one verson. So if your name does not appear, sign again.This one will be the one that is distributed most widely.    Please include your email address  so that we get a working database of activists. Please forward to your lists  Even if the wording is not exactly the way you would have phrased it, let's not stand on semantics in order that we build in numbers and make a real difference.

Also, On May 20th Rabbi Richman and his wife Rena will be on his way back to Jerusalem after meeting with Bnei Noahides throughout the States. .  Rabbi/Mayor  Moshe Goldsmith and his wife Lea  from Itamar  are on their way from Itamar.  We hope that their paths will cross in JFK. We want to take this opportunity to have an activist meeting and perhaps make a press conference to state a Torah Rabbinic ruling against a Palestinian State . If you wish to attend and be a part of this  meeting please let me know.  IF you know of any Rabbis that would be willing to participate please let us know.  Impress upon each and every Rav that his physical presence is greatly appreciated. Please note that Netanyahu will be in town starting May 18th and he might be sending a very different message  G-d forbid in favor of a Palestinian State if there is reciprocity.  We emphasize entitlement!. Even with reciprocity, the Land of Israel is our entitlement!

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Fwd: NEW BOOK BY AARON KLEIN ON MORTAL DANGERS FACING ISRAEL

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Please Forward!

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Date: Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:07 PM
Subject: NEW BOOK BY AARON KLEIN ON MORTAL DANGERS FACING ISRAEL
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A crucial new book was released this week that every supporter of Israel must read. It's called "The Late Great State of Israel ." (link: http://www.amazon.com/Late-Great-State-Israel-Threaten/dp/1935071084) In the book, author and WorldNetDaily.com Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein documents the unprecedented, mortal danger that Israel faces.  The subtitle of the book – released as Israel celebrates its independence – reads, "How enemies within and without threaten the Jewish nation's survival." "The greatest threat, the one that magnifies all others exponentially, is that only a few in Israel or abroad are aware of the real extent of the dangers facing the Jewish country – both from within and without," writes Klein. The book is a clarion call for all supporters of Israel . The great Mideast democracy is headed down a road that, if not altered, may result in catastrophe, warns Klein. Klein pulls no punches, fingering the Israeli government as often being its own worst enemy. He also shows how policies from the Obama administration and international community harm Israel 's interests and how Iran , Hamas, Palestinian terrorists and a host of other players are poised to end the Mideast democracy once and for all. If Israel falls, America will be next in line, argues Klein. Among the highlights of "The Late Great State of Israel ." How the Israeli government has turned a blind eye as Islamic authorities physically erase archaeological evidence on the Temple Mount , including actual Temple artifacts. How Jerusalem ALREADY has been divided. Is Obama poised to legitimize Hamas terrorists? Plus, how Obama's Mideast policies, including talks with Iran and Syria , threaten the Jewish state and, ultimately, America . How Iran is positioning its proxies to wreck havoc on Israel while Tehran inches toward nuclear weapons. How Israel is waging a war against some of its own citizens who want the Jewish state to be defined by Jewish traditions and character. How the U.N. fuels a fake "refugee crisis" that directly threatens Israel 's existence. How and why Israel failed in its recent 22-day war in Gaza . How the U.S. funds and fuels Mideast terrorism How the news media is covering for terrorists and playing a dangerous lying game about the Mideast and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In doing so, how they are emboldening the enemies of the U.S. and Israel Israel's peace partner exposed; and much more. "Unless these perils are countered soon," writes Klein, "the only remnant of the Jewish country may soon be an epitaph: 'The Late, Great State of Israel .'"   IZZY KAPLAN 416 824 2858 416 256 2858 Check out my new blog http://israelonisrael.blogspot.com

UTUBE : Paris March 2009 Once again the world watches, as they did in 1930's !!!!!!

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Subject: Once again the world watches, as they did in 1930's !!!!!!

Once again the world watches, as they did in 1930's !!!!!!   coming soon to a supermarket near you......   when they do it unopposed in one place, copy cats mushroom, and the event is cloned far and wide.   Note that the PARIS police did nothing.   unfortunately there are no subtitles to the french sound track, but you don't need words to see what is happening..     ==============================================================x From the city where police once happily aided the SS in ridding Paris of its Jews and is now host to an "Annual Intifada Festival" comes another economically destructive form of organized anti-Semitism:  Destroying products of Israeli origin.  And, in their historically lax defense of Jews and justice, the French police do absolutely nothing to prevent the destruction of private property, this time in a supermarket.    Similar actions are taking place  all over EUROPE, PARTICULARLY IN LONDON where extensive boycotts also include books written by Israeli authors. ========================================================x video shows ~50 Pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel Muslims and sympathizers in Paris as they DESTROYED ALL the Israeli products in a large supermarket, took control inside the supermarket and loudly urged the people to Boycott Israel products.   Click below to watch the March 8, 2009 anti-Israel demonstration in the French supermarket chain Carrefour:    www..youtube.com/watch?v=kfK7Yal64S0& ==========================================================x   IZZY KAPLAN 416 824 2858 416 256 2858 Check out my new blog http://israelonisrael.blogspot.com

Our Message to the World. Entitlement vs. Pikuach Nefesh

The Lubavitch Rebbe writes

 

TRUST IN G-D –
and you will have peace.

When the Jewish people will trust in G-d, that the Land of Israel belongs unequivocally to them, and are willing to declare this openly to the nations of the world, then "No one will contest the matter, and you will not need to go to war." In fact, even weapons will prove unnecessary…" The Rebbe, (Likutei Sichos, vol. 34, p. 8)

In the beginning, G-d created the Heavens and the Earth

What is the reason the Torah begins with Creation? Because if the nations of the world say to Israel: "You are robbers because you have conquered with force the lands of the nations of Canaan" Israel can answer: "He created it and gave it to whomever was proper in His eyes. Of His own will He gave it to them and of His own will He took it from them and gave it to us."

-- Rashi on Genesis 1:1

 

 Unless we address the root of the problem we can not cure the disease.  It just resurfaces. 

Addressing Pikuach Nefesh/security concerns and  the rockets facing us  is merely addressing the symptoms. 

Forget about PR and public opinion.  It's irrelevant.  Case in point. Mass public protest called for Jonathan Pollards' release and in the final analysis it didn't really make a difference.. The comment hotline was closed due to large volume of calls regarding this matter.  Many Congressman and Senators lobbied for Jonathan Pollard's release and it was all disregarded.  So the campaign was successful in that it generated an outcry for our position but nevertheless it ultimately failed  in its goal...at least in Bush's administration.
 
One can truthfully argue that after all, Obama is publicly addressing our security concerns.  Very responsibly in his opinion. Extremely responsibly. His solution is to  give money to moderate Fatah our partner in peace, and train their soldiers so that they can fight Hamas.  He is for appointing the UN  as our guardians to address our security concerns.   Now why do you want to waste your time arguing with Obama's proposed solutions. He gets counsel from the worlds  leading experts on the matter.  Mitchell, Hillary Cinton. Even Jewish ones like Rahm Emanuel. Bush was advised by Malcolm Hoenlein the leading expert on antisemitism. Do you honestly think that you know better than them?

 If entitlement is our claim then we stop Obama in his tracks before he can give us solutions on how to solve our Pikuach Nefesh/security concerns..  They know this and that is why they will demonize us for being religious extremists, fanatics, crazy Messianic extremists etc.  We must ignore this negative PR and put our faith in Hashem to help us.  We get negative PR anyway especially when we bend over backwards to get good PR.  Case in point - Jenin Massacre.

Unless we openly declare our entitlement, then Obama's administration united with the State Department will claim that the Arabs have the right to protect themselves as well. Go argue with them and waste your time trying to show that we are justified in fighting a moral war and they are not. The funding to support their position, way outnumbers our own.

That is why emphasizing entitlement  is the only answer.  We need not talk about the dangers we face from our enemies such as rockets in order to prevent further attacks.  However,  we must act on them.  We are justified in our actions in self defense when we emphasize our entitlement.  If one has entitlement then one is justified  and obligated to act in self defense for ones own survival.

But then they will cut off our funding for important matters such as fighting Iran and the nuclear threat you argue?

Well, my answer is that there was one Shemittah year that I didn't work all year and trust me, I didn't starve.  I gained 30 pounds.  G-d provided as he promised.  This is a practical, hands on  lesson in Emunah Peshuta which gives us the moral strength to withstand all economic sanctions placed upon us.  We depend on G-d and not on America for our security in spite of their threats and even implement to cut off funding..

 According to the Torah,  Ushavtem Betach Baaretz is the reward for keeping Shemittah and not the reward for placating Obama.

If the Chareidim claim that we have been keeping Shemittah properly, then I would argue then where is the security? Where was the feeling of Shabbat Haaretz when prices of produce sky rocketed?  Is buying from Arabs and Yevul Nochri  the solution the Torah had in mind?  What about Shmitas Kesafim? Isn't Pruzbul a loophole instituted by Hillel Hazakein because of lack of faith after Churban Bayis?  If we observed Shemittah so wonderfully then why has our security deteriorated so dramatically.  Was Hashem not fulfilling His promise to us in the Torah for keeping Shemittah properly?

Let us reconsider.  Maybe the chareidi solutions have not been the best way to observe Shemittah and neither is the Heter Mechira Solution?

Let us try addressing the root of the problem which is our failure to want the entitlement in order to keep the Mitzvoth and only this way we will be worthy of the Land. 

We are all desperate to win this battle.  But winning the war is our goal.  But we can not do it alone.  We need G-d's help and we must earn it with putting forth our best efforts to address the Biblical commandments that pertain to the Land like tithes, leaving portions of the field for the poor, the Sabbatical year etc,  It's not easy obviously but let's at least try.....Isn't this better and easier than facing Kassam Rockets daily?

Rather than blame the world for the dangers facing us, let's proclaim that the Land of Israel belongs unequivocally to us and then  look inward and address whether we are keeping the commandments properly which according to the Torah promise security.

Also please read http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2008/05/land-of-your-possession-on-behar-2.html

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Jewish Press - Fantastic articles this week!

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Did you get this weeks Jewish Press.  It's the best I've seen. Read the front page article entitled "Israel's Founding Revisited" by Elliot Resnick about Israel Eldad z"l author of the "First Tithe" and father of Arieh Eldad who ran the Lehi movement also known as the Stern group.  It blew my mind. The Jewish Press  staff reporter Elliot Resnick interviewed Zev Golan who described the difference in ideology between Hagana and Lehi, Begin and Eldad.   Here are some excerpts:

Resnick:    People also credit the UN vote of  November 29, 1947 as instrumental in creating Israel.  However, while many Jews in Palestine danced in the streets the night of November 29, Eldad walked around depressed.  Why?

Golan replies: Eldad compares that night to the time when Israel danced around the Golden Calf and said, "This is the god who took you out of Egypt."  Here they were looking to the UN and saying "this is the god who has given us the State," and it wasn't. 

About the Altalena  ship where the IDF, on Ben Gurion's orders, fired on the ammunition - laden Altalena ship, killing 16 Irgun fighters.

Resnick asks: "So if it had been up to Eldad, the Jews on the Altalena would have shot back? Golan responds

"Without a doubt.  He would've shot back and made a move elsewhere to take power"

...and create a separate Jewish State in Jerusalem
Right, that's what he wanted to do.  But at that point, not only was Begin not on his side in terms of strategy but neither really was Lehi, which had moved leftward.
 
Begin said "I won't allow a civil war.  If they shoot at us, we're not going to shoot back" and Eldad said "We need to take power; we can't let power stay to the hands of people who are shooting at us and killing Jews".

Elliot Resnick:  "Many would consider the thought of shooting back at fellow Jews to be horrific. 

Golan: The horrific thought is not that Jews would shoot back at people trying to kill Jews and prevent the salvation of Israel.  The horrific thought is that Jews would take that first shot at Jews whose only goal was to help Israel.

And if the Jews who are fighting to save the country announce in advance that they will not fight back if the government comes to kill them, why fight at all?  If you announce that in advance, the other side really can get away with anything it wants.  So Begin had lost as soon as he made that announcement.  He was saying essentially, I don't care if Ben-Gurion runs the country.

Robins Comment, Dejas vu.  When the Yesha Council in Gush Katif agrees to be dragged to jail rather than declare their entitlement and rights to the Land of Israel and express a willingness to fight Kassam or Yassam, they lost as soon as they made that announcement  and was saying essentially, let Sharon run the country and carry out the disengagements.   Who knows if today we would be negotiating giving away our heartland in Judea and Samaria had we stopped it in Gush Katif and would have said we are making our own Judean State whose capital is in Jerusalem.Instead of handing over parts of Jerusalem to Fatah we could have suggested dividing Jerusalem between Jews and Jews.

 Let us defend ourselves of Arab aggression and if the government of Israel decides that it does not want to defend these territories, we are proud Jews that are willing to fight to defend our land.  (even though our settlement protects the rest of Israel as has been clearly proven with Sderot).  Rather than a civil war between brothers we could have suggested a parting of the ways between brothers such as Abraham and Lot where each side chooses to separate peacefully. This is a situation where the sides can not coexist as one and G-d is unable to dwell with Lot in Abraham's midst.  This is a situation where the positions are mutually exclusive and cannot coexist but each side continues to love each other and do not hate one another.

Golan says that there is no doubt that his vision (Eldad's) of redemption is the biblical, prophetic and traditional view of redemption.  Avraham Stern (Lehi's founder) put the building of the Temple into the principles of the Stern Group and called it a recognition, a symbol of redemption.

 Also read Paul Eidelberg M34 (Magazine section) entitled :"From George Washington to Barack Obama. The Decline of America" He writes: Notice that first Washington identifies the good of America with the good of mankind.  Rightly so, because America was the first and only nation explicitly founded on the Seven Noahide Laws of Univeral Morality.    Eidelbertg points out how Obama consistantly demotes America and puts Islam ahead of Judaism.  to be continued. 

Robin comments: I like that Prof. Eidelberg is speaking about the Noahide laws.  This is the Jewish answer to the Non Jew rather than Xtians, since we do not believe in J as the Savior of humanity.

Then read a phenomenal article by Caroline Glick page 22 entitled "Extrordinary Jews"  She describes the sacrificing actvists, the individuals and not the organizations who are extraordinary Jews  who finance her speaking engagements out of no compensation for themselves but merely to be there for Israel and safeguard her settlment.  Now even though I and my friends are not mentioned since we have not personally funded Caroline Glicks articles we do publicize them.  She writes "Their willingness to devote their time and effort to the increasingly lonely task of defending Israel makes them all extraordinary Jews.  it takes one to know one.   We agree. to her assessment.

Finally, they are printing the right kind of articles..  Even Menachem Porush in "As I see It" on Page 16 in an article entitled "Israel: Sixty-One Years Later" spoke up for our entitlement of EY and not merely because there is no peace partner.  "Many politicians continue to give the impression that Israelis are in agreement vis-a-vis a Palestinian state, but lacking is the condition that our enemies commit to the existence of a Jewish State.  While the ARabas seek our destruction, G-d forbid, we religious Jews firmly believe in G-d's Torah promise that "To you and to your children will I give this Land."

Robin's Comment:  Case in point, unfortunately, the Young Israel Campaign emphasizes such points rather than G-d's promise to us and to our children.  www.youngisrael.org/content/usa.cfm


As for Feiglin's article on Page 45, it was very disappointing.  Feiglin  has the right ideology which is to keep Judea and Samaria and Gaza but still can not declare independence from Likud, a party that is selling the country down the tubes.  Shimon Peres is now representing Likud in Washington thereby betraying the entire Nationalist camp that voted for Likud.

Feiglin has a way with words.  What is he saying when he writes about (Begin, Shamir, Netanyahu and Sharon, ) "They lack in the Jewish aspect  (meaning lacking in faith) that gives flavor to the entire Jewish Nationalist enterprise and therefore internalized the Left's agenda rather than Likud's agenda.   If all the Previous Likud's administrations failed to carry through on our entitlement of Eretz Yisroel, why is Feiglin holier then the pope and feel that he can reverse the trend and be true to the Likud's constitution?   It was in these administrations that Oslo, Wye and the Disengagement happened.  Why can't Feiglin come out and say that by doing so Hefeiru Toratecha, they annulled our Covenant which is Divine,  and  precedes the Likud Constitution by thousands of years?

  I don't remember Feiglin denouncing Annapolis publicly and aggressively and he did not lead or join a campaign to condemn Annapolis. He chose instead to concentrate on campaigning.  In doing so, he neutralized the activism of the best lovers of Eretz Yisroel and a significant section of the Nationalist camp that voted for Likud.  That is painful to me because his following includes the most dedicated, hard working devoted, ardent lovers of the Land of Israel.  Why should all their energies dissipate under Likud?  What a waste.  He did not choose to join with National Union as an equal partner which is under a Torah ideology since he felt that is did not represent a cross section of the country but only a faction. Where is our faith that Torah is Universal?  Feiglin still chooses instead to be subservient to the Likud party under Netanyahu's reign until he is Prime Minister.  He is afraid to use the words Torah in his speeches but rather couches his words with more politically correct usage such as "lacking in the Jewish aspect that gives flavor the the entire Jewish Nationalist Enterprise".  It pains me to suggest that   Feiglin really does belong within Likud since his leadership is consistent  with their leadership. While his words are music to the Nationalist camp and are consistent with Torah his actions do not reflect faith in Hashem but rather his faith that sticking with the Likud party, an established party,  will bring about his leadership and Israel's salvation.


We are clearly seeing under the Obama administration that words are meaningless unless they are backed up with actions that are consistent with these words. 

In the Jewish Press's editorial "What the President Didn't Say" Page 5 Obama spoke very movingly at the Holocaust Remembrance speech to the Congressmen on the Capitol Rotunda .  The Jewish Press reports that "The President called on Americans to give force to the pledge "Never Again" and with stirring cadence asked, "How do we ensure that "never again" isn't an empty slogan, or merely an aspiration, but also a call to action?"

The Jewish Press brought this to light obviously annoyed at this hypocracy with an adjacent article on page 4 by Larry Domnich entitled "A Post Pesach Dayenu: Enough"  which concludes Dayenu, Mr. President. Enough is enough..

This Dayanulists 23 or so actions of President Obama that speaks of  how he befriended anti-Semtic leaders and terrorist regimes  prior and during his administration. These actions include having been a member of Jeremiah Wrights church for 20 years, befriended Bill Ayers, Rashid Khalidy, bowed to the Saudi King, declared friendship to mullahs of Iran, called for talks with North Korean dictator Kim Yong,  called for more talks with nuclear ambitious mad dictator Ahmadinejad, embraced Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez and accepted an American-hating book, gave audience and credibility to Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ordega appointed Janet Napolitano director of Homeland Security, appointed Eric Holder attorney general, recommended Chas Freeman as chief of National Intelligence Council, apportioned $920 million to Gaza, ordered  the closing of Guantanamo Bay and expressed approval of an investigation of former Bush officials whose objectives were to protect Americans and did in fact  protect Americans in their interrogations techniques by preventing further terror attacks, cut military budget, announced his intentions in Prague to destroy Americas nuclear weapons and called America arrogant before other Nations.

 How disturbing that words become the vehicle to say one thing but actually mean exactly the opposite.  Will we be forced to become cynical and learn to take empty words of Obama and interpret them to mean the opposite?  Will we continue to believe what we read and hear by political figures and media as truth or as lies?

Thank you to the Jewish Press for publishing these articles that serve to express our entitlement of Eretz Yisroel and to expose Obama without rose tinted glasses. thank you as well for other excellent articles regarding Shalom Bayis (Dr. Yael Respler, Rebbetzin Jungreiss, Rabbi Daniel Schonbuch etc)

Sincerely, Robin Ticker