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"The Identity-Impaired Jewish State"

by Yishai Fleisher

 "A Jewish State, what is that supposed to mean?  You call yourselves as you like, but I don't accept it, and I say so publicly."  This was Mahmoud Abbas' response to Binyamin Netanyahu's demand that Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish State as part of an eventual peace deal. What a classic Arab response to such a lame Israeli demand.

Asking the Arab and Muslim world for verbal recognition of Israel's Jewishness is the height of irony. Fatah and the Arab/Muslim world have always recognized Israel as a Jewish State. They don't recognize us in words – but they do so in actions - as every attack on Israel is the utmost recognition of its Jewishness.  They want to destroy us because precisely we are Jews in a Jewish State. They recognize who we are, they just don't accept it.

Why do we need enemies to give us affirmation, anyway? Where is the Israeli toughness, asserting our right to exist without concern for the opinion of others?

 Throughout the long Exile and in the absence of a homeland, the Jewish people needed their host nations to recognize them, grant them security, and provide a nice quiet ghetto to live in – which they rarely managed to do. The founding of Israel was supposed to change all that. "Never Again" would Jews put their fate in the hands of others - the Jewish State was to exist on its own will, without regard to the whims of other nations. Unfortunately, sixty-one years after the founding of the State, we have returned to old-fashioned Exile thinking, basing our policies and plans on the recognition and approval of those who don't have our best interest at heart. 

The Israeli government's fawning behavior toward the Pope is another example of the old-fashioned exilic thinking which has crept into our country:

For the last two millennia the Jews were kept lowly and persecuted under Christendom. The Catholic Church taught that G-d kept the Jews around as a 'witness' to their own downfall for rejecting Jesus, and to be 'witness' to the 'Second Coming'. Suddenly, instead of Jesus' resurrection, Israel was reborn.  Seemingly, the prophecies of the Jewish ingathering and sovereign revival had come true. In contrast to Church doctrine, the Jews were no longer losers – we were winners, posing a real dilemma for Catholicism.

However, in honor of the Pope's upcoming visit, Israel is rolling out the red carpet.  The Postal Authority has commissioned a set of stamps depicting Israel's churches while the Jewish National Fund is conducting a tour of trees that "are believed to have witnessed Jesus' deeds". Our President, Shimon Peres has even called for the transfer of six "Christian" sites over to Vatican control.

Perhaps the most enthusiastic member of the Pope's welcoming committee, Israel's Ministry of Tourism, has produced a website and movie worthy of the jealousies of any Catholic missionary. The film presents the story of a divine Jesus as absolute truth. It does not politely suggest that the stories and places accord with Christian traditions, but rather asserts that the events Christians subscribe to actually occurred, offering no qualifiers to accommodate alternative beliefs – like Jewish ones. It is chilling to think that in the Middle Ages, thousands of Jews chose to die rather then affirm the Jesus myth, yet now our own Tourism Ministry affirms it wholesale on its official website.

After watching the film, two ironic thoughts may occur to you: 1. Now you understand why the Church has always put such a premium on Jewish converts to Christianity - we are just that good! We make the best Christian propaganda out there. Nothing like a meshumad (Jew for Jesus) to peddle the Pope's wares. 2. When the pro-Pope website and movie came out, you could just hear the collective joy of missionaries worldwide: it must be Messianic times when the Jews themselves are preaching the Gospel of Jesus!

The truth is that there are no closet-Christians in our government. It is simply that the people running the show are representative of the identity-impaired ethos of our time. This ethos leads them to kowtow to, and be pushed around by, foreign interested powers. The Church, as well as the Arabs, love to take advantage of our identity vacuum and to tirelessly promote their alternative narrative of the land of Israel. This is where Jesus did this, this is where Muhammad did that…

Therefore, in this identity-crisis, the first people that need to recognize Israel as a Jewish State are the Jewish people and the Jewish government of Israel. We need to understand that demanding recognition from others is meaningless when we ourselves forget our own identity.

In the case of Mahmoud Abbas, Israel does not need his recognition of our Jewish State.  Rather, we need to act like a Jewish State by asserting our sovereignty over our land, and by having a zero-tolerance policy for hate crimes and Nazi-like incitement against Jews. 'Never Again' needs to become a meaningful mantra once more.

Regarding the Pope, let him keep the Vatican and we will keep Israel. Instead of promoting Catholicism, our government should use its time, money, and effort to promote the Jewish version of the Bible, our history. Tourism will not be harmed if the thrust of Israel's marketing campaign focuses on Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob instead of the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost.

The world needs to be told the truth – Jewish Israel is here to stay. Yet, Jews of the world need to understand that the world's acceptance of Israel as a Jewish State is totally dependant on our creation of that fact. We Jews must be reminded that the more we stand up for our truth and our beliefs, the more we will be respected, but the more we compromise on our heritage and our destiny, the more our right to exist will be challenged by those interested in promoting their own alternative narrative.

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Yishai Fleisher is the Director of Israel National Radio (www.israelnationalradio.com), and the founder of Kumah (www.kumah.org), the Neo-Zionist lobby.

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SHABAT SHALOM!

SIGN OUR PETITION! OBAMA PREPARES TO THROW ISRAEL UNDER THE BUS, Melanie Phillips

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Please sign our petition with your email address and shul affiliation in order to be on our activist database!  http://www.petitiononline.com/1eys/petition.html

We are interested in building an activist database of email addresses and shul affiliation. Please join us.  Our goal is a grassroots effort to unite the activists by location and by activity to speak out forcefully for our entitlement of Eretz Yisroel and against a Palestinian State chas vechalila.

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Obama Prepares To Throw Israel Under The Bus

Melanie Phillips

WEDNESDAY, 6TH MAY 2009

As predicted here repeatedly – Obama is attempting to throw Israel under the Islamist bus, and he's getting American Jews to do his dirty work for him. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel reportedly told the Israel lobbying group AIPAC on Sunday that efforts to stop Iran hinged on peace talks with the Palestinians. General James Jones, National Security Adviser to Obama, reportedly told a European foreign minister a week ago that unlike the Bush administration, Obama will be 'forceful' with Israel. Ha'aretz reports:

Jones is quoted in the telegram as saying that the United States, European Union and moderate Arab states must redefine 'a satisfactory endgame solution.' The U.S. national security adviser did not mention Israel as party to these consultations.

Of course not. If you are going to throw a country under the bus, you don't invite it to discuss the manner of its destruction with the assassins who are co-ordinating the crime. As I said here months ago, the appointment of Jones and the elevation of his post of National Security Adviser at the expense of the Secretary of State was all part of the strategy to centralise power in the hands of those who want to do Israel harm.

Yesterday Vice-President Joe Biden and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry turned the thumbscrews tighter, telling Israel to stop building more settlements, dismantle existing outposts and allow Palestinians freedom of movement.

This is all not only evil but exceptionally stupid. The idea that a Palestine state will help build a coalition against Iran is demonstrably absurd. The Arab states are beside themselves with anxiety about Iran. They want it to be attacked and its nuclear programme stopped. They are desperately fearful that the Obama administration might have decided that it can live with a nuclear Iran.

The idea that if a Palestine state comes into being it will be easier to handle Iran is the opposite of the case: a Palestine state will be Iran, in the sense that it will be run by Hamas as a proxy for the Islamic Republic. The idea that a Palestine state will not compromise Israel's security is ludicrous.

It is of course, by any sane standard, quite fantastic that America is behaving as if it is Israel which is holding up a peace settlement when Israel has made concession after concession – giving up Sinai, giving up Gaza, offering all the territories to the Arabs in return for peace in 1967, offering more than 90 per cent of them ditto in 2000, ditto again to Mahmoud Abbas in the past year -- only to be attacked in return by a Palestinian terrorist entity, backed in its continued aggression, let us not forget, by the countries of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, which has made no concessions at all and is not being pressured to do so.

It is not the aggressor here but the victim of aggression that America is now choosing to beat up. In any sane world, one might think the Americans would be piling the pressure on the Palestinians to renounce their genocidal ambitions against Israel, to stop teaching and training their children to hate and kill Jews, to adhere to the primary requirement in the Road Map that they must dismantle their infrastructure of violence as the first step in the peace process; one might think, indeed, that they would view Mahmoud Abbas's repeated statements that the Palestinians will never accept Israel as a Jewish state to be the main impediment to peace.

But no. The repeated professions that America will never jeopardise Israel's security are stomach churning when Obama is actually blaming Israel for measures it has taken to safeguard its security – the settlements were always first and foremost a security measure, and the travel restrictions are there solely to prevent more Israelis being murdered – and trying to force it to abandon them. Today comes further news that Obama will also try to force Israel to give up its nuclear weapons – which it only has as a last ditch insurance against the attempt to annihilate it to which several billion Arabs remain pledged.

Of course Obama doesn't care that Hamas would run any Palestinian state. Of course he doesn't care that Israel would be unable to defend itself against such a terrorist state. Because he regards Israel as at best totally expendable, and at worst as a running sore on the world's body politic that has to be purged altogether (see this bleak assessment by Sultan Knish: http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2009/05/obamas-plan-to-destroy-israel.html). His administration is proceeding on the entirely false analysis that a state of Palestine is the solution to the Middle East impasse and the route to peace in the region. What that state will look like or do is something to which at best the administration's collective mind is shut and at worst makes it a potential cynical accomplice to the unconscionable. So Israel is to be forced out of the West Bank. Far from building a coalition against Iran, Obama is thus doing Iran's work for it.

None of this, however, should come as the slightest surprise to anyone who paid any attention to Obama's background, associations and friendships before he became President and to the cabal of Israel-bashers, appeasers and Jew-haters he appointed to his administration, with a few useful idiots thrown in for plausible deniability.

American Jews, meanwhile, are reacting as predicted – with a total absence of spine.  As IsraelMatzav reports, AIPAC was sending delegates to visit Congress to 'convince' Representatives and Senators to sign a petition calling for a two-state solution. Inspired! Almost eighty per cent of American Jews voted for Obama despite the clear and present danger he posed to Israel. They did so because their liberal self-image was and is more important to them than the Jewish state whose existence and security cannot be allowed to jeopardise their standing with America's elite.

But the ordinary American people are a different matter. They do value and support Israel. They do understand that if Israel is thrown under that bus, the west is next. And it is they to whom Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu must now appeal, over the heads of the politicians and the media and certainly America's Jews and everyone else. He must tell the American people the terrible truth, that America is now run by a man who is intent on sacrificing Israel for a reckless and amoral political strategy which will put America and the rest of the free world at risk.

This is shaping up to be the biggest crisis in relations between Israel and America since the foundation of Israel six decades ago. Those who hate Israel and the Jews will be gloating. This after all is precisely what they hoped Obama would do. To any decent person looking on aghast, this is where the moral sickness of the west reaches the critical care ward.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3590646/obama-prepares-to-throw-israel-under-the-bus.thtml


     

 

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Activist Database via Petition; Shdema; LaGBaOmer; Chomesh; Hevron; RCRF; ViolentPolicemen

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Dear Fellow Activists, amv"sh

If you haven't already, please subscribe to Eretz Israel Shelanu.

If you haven't already, please sign the petition. http://www.petitiononline.com/1eys/petition.html

We are interested in building an activist database of email addresses and shul affiliation so if you are interested in being part of such an activist group please provide your email address and shul affiliation when you sign the petition.  Your contact information will be made available to the owners of the petition. It does not need to be public for public viewers unless you specify so. Beezrat Hashem we will be in contact with you.  Our goal is a grassroot effort to unite the activists by location and by activity to speak out forcefully for our entitlement of Eretz Yisroel and against a Palestinian State chas vechalila.

Please be aware that you might have signed an earlier version of this petiion.  If this is the case please sign again. If you did not include your email address and shul affiliation, then please sign again even if it means a duplicate entry since it is not possible to edit a previous entry.   This information will help us build an activist database and this information will be used to empower us to eventually work more efficiently together to coordinate our collective activities on behalf of Eretz Yisroel. Our goal is to enable us to share our resources and professional expertise and give chizuk to one another. .  It will reduce redundancy in what we are doing and like the Continental Congress in the United States of America served to unite all the colonies, this will hopefully unite all the organizationa, Yishuvim, Yeshivot, outposts, activists, spokespeople of Yehuda and the Shomron into a more cohesive group.  Please note that this is a relational model. That means that while for various purposes things can be set up as a hierarchy, for other purposes the same information is set up completely differently either in a different hierarchy or as a relational model . 

Let me explain.  For example,   I am my own individual. I have my own id.  I am also the daughter of my parents.  I can express myself either as an individual and I can express myself under my parents umbrella.  Alternatively, I can express myself as a teacher of my students, and my students, can express themselves as being my students or alternatively as individuals of their own with their own individual ID or as children of their parents.

Our purpose is not to take the character out of any particular cause or organization but rather to strengthen each individual worthy cause or institution  while working united to fight the formation of a Palestinian State.  While in a sense all of our organizations are competing for funds to support our individual worthy cause, we all recognize that when we strengthen our brothers and sisters, we strengthen ourselves. The shuk, the market in  Mechaneh Yehuda is an example of how competing vendors join to sell their wares in order to benefit all. .

Given the unfortunate reality that the mainstream Jewish organizations and mainstream media have been SILENT and are not speaking out for our entitlement, we have no choice but to be our own voice that will only be heard when we unite as one.

 Each one of us is too weak individually to fight an effective struggle against the raging storm facing us.  Yet if we look toward the origins of the founding of the State of Israel, it was built upon the ruins of the Holocaust.  No one had too much.  Everyone was basically poor.  Yet the Kibbutz ideology, enabled the Nation to survive since the socialist concept of sharing enabled  each individual to contribute whatever they had to contribute.  When we share our resources, professional expertise, and if we have any money left after volunteering, there is so much we can accomplish together w/o requiring tremendous funding. This is consistent with the spirit of Shabbat Haaretz, which is the spirit of Eretz Yisroel.

Eventually, our sharing can and should  turn into personal profit making that is typical of a capitalist society. We will be subject to the laws of ownershipa and tithes.  However, every seven years we will once again be reminded of the Spirit of Shabbat, the spirit of Gan Eden, the spirit found in a Kibbutz or in a  Bungalow Colony lehavdil  that will put things back in perspective.  It will provide the necessary balance to our competitive spirit that threatens to take over our lives restoring our equilibrium and balance once again.

The following newsletter serves to notify the activist population of various events and posts on behalf of Eretz Yisroel Shalanu (our Eretz Yisroel and not theirs).

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Petition - Say "NO" to an Arab State in the Heartland of Israel http://www.petitiononline.com/1eys/petition.html

FRIDAYS in SHDEMA. (For more info: eli7@womeningreen.org.il , http://womeningreen.org/shd.htm)
This Friday, May 8 / Iyar 14, at 09:00 - Shiur by Rabbi Uzi Sharbaf
Contact: Yehudit Katzover 0545-866-059, Nadia Matar 0505-500-834, Inna Vinyarsky 0545-620-017, Igor Bielsky 0544-745-322

LaG BaOmer – TUESDAY, Iyar 18 / May 12 - 38 links about it, at http://www.jr.co.il/hotsites/j-hdayla.htm
           RETURNING TO CHOMESH! Details and Transportation: 052-6070-521

"The Israel-Palestine Seesaw" by Moshe Feiglin http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/8758

"Obama's Plan to Destroy Israel" by Daniel Greenfield http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/

"Abbas mocks idea of Jewish state" by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook http://www.pmw.org.il/Bulletins_May2009.htm#b040509

Prof. Moshe Arens will talk about his book "Flags Above The Ghetto" in Be'er-Sheva's Zabotinsky Order, on
SUNDAY, May 17 / Iyar 23, 18:30. Venue: Beit Ariel, off Wingate Str (Arlozorov / Golomb Strs)
Details: Dani drosing@netvision.net.il  or Ya'akov liluf2000@walla.com

Shabbat Hevron in Hevron On Shabbat Yom Hevron, Memorial Day Weekend, May 23 Parshat BaMidbar
* Special English program with Noam Arnon, Simcha Hochbaum, David Wilder and others
* Special Shabbat afternoon tour with Noam Arnon in to the Casbah – shuk area normally closed to Jews
* In Israel call  0524-317-055 In US  (1-718-677-6886, tour@hebron.com

                             SUNDAY, May 31 / Sivan 8
(a) Press Conf in Paris on The German documentary proving that the news report about the A-Dura story,
narrated by Charles Enderlin and broadcasted by France 2 on Sept 30, 2000, is A FRAUD that sinks France2
Presented by Mr. Philippe Karsenty (pk@M-R.fr) of Media-Ratings (www.M-R.fr , + 33 (0)6 60 68 74 85)
To attend, send your contact info to confpresse@m-r.fr . To be invited, send it to presentations@m-r.fr

(b) NYC's Salute to Israel Parade - http://salutetoisrael.com/parade/
[Rainer Merkava (bsham@gmx.net) from Germany wishes to find a group for him to march together with]

         Annual Spring Learning Experience - Cheese, Wine & Cordials
The Rachel's Children Reclamation Foundation, 60 West End Ave, Brooklyn NY 11235
718-648-2610, 054-224-2649, rachelschildren@gmail,com , www.rachelschildren.org
THURSDAY, June 4 at 18:30 (RSVP $26 per person)
Program: "Rachel Imeinu, Fears, Tears and Cheers" by Evelyn Haies, President RCRF and Bnei Rachel Corp
Special Guest Speaker from Jerusalem: Rabbi Ephraim Sprecher
Evolution & Kabala - "Were there Cavemen and Dinosaurs in Eden?", "Was as Jewish State in 48 Told in the Torah?"

* Fight The VIOLENT POLICEMEN (H) http://www.inn.co.il/News/News.aspx/183206
Shmuel Sokol's (ssokol@torahfromzion.com) website http://peacehouseexpulsionpictures.blogspot.com
with pictures and movies of the brutal expulsion from Beit HaShalom, to identify violent policemen
Send pictures and videos to toratyisrael@gmail.com or call 0525-666-942

Authorities are saying it is very bad that violent policemen who hurt our people are being prosecuted:
http://www.news1.co.il/Archive/001-D-188735-00.html?tag=22-46-16 - Please, TalkBack
also in (H) http://www.inn.co.il/News/News.aspx/184713

* "Soldier Jailed for Not Razing Outpost, Police Entrap Jews" by Hillel Fendel http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130644

* Worse than Antisemites! (H) http://www.inn.co.il/News/News.aspx/184695 . details Yehuda 0524-767-495

* Amona's website at www.amona.org.il. There is access for English speakers
For more info about the Amona Visitors Center, phone 0545-680.020 (Avital, the manager)

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Safeguard Israel Ad Campaign - We need a different kind of ad in my opinion

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Dear Nadia and Yehudit, amv"sh

You know how much I love you and what you do!  There is no one is Israel that does more for ERetz Yisroel then WOMEN IN GREEN WIG.  I am the first person to support your campaigns. I am not against raising $28,000 for an ad campaign. 

However, I have no faith in our ability to convince Bibi and therefore I don't think this ad campaign will work. (see attachment of ad)  I do hope that Bibi will do Teshuva but  my expectations based on his past history is that he won't.

I have no expectations of convincing the Gedoilim as well. Based on their past history my expectations are that they won't.

Our campaign therefore is to get the people to scream out in a forceful way that Eretz Yisroel is our Biblical inheritance, our gift from Hashem and no elected or spiritual leader has the authority or mandate to act otherwise to annul G-ds Covenant with the Jewish people..

Each individual must safeguard Eretz Yisroel by supporting settlement in Eretz Yisroel in whatever individual capacity they have.  No one can leave this  job to a political official be it a prime minister or a Rav  who masquerades politics behind Torah.

Signing the petition is a simple non costly act and we can build up a database of people that love Eretz Yisroel. 

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

Please help promote it.

 Raising money or donating money to an ad that proclaims our entitlement is another way.  Helping a family or business in Yesha or partnering with them is another way etc.

Our job as activists  is to be mezakeh the Rabim, making the nation worthy of the Land by an expression, verbal and with facts on the ground of  our collective desire and longing for the Land of Israel and for her commandments.  Then G-d will be on our side and He is all powerful to fight for us and defend us from our enemies.

Yasher Koach and may Hashem guide us!

Robin