Meeting with Rabbi Richman, Rabbi Algaze at JFK May 20th in planning

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What seems to be missing in our struggle to speak out against a Palestinian State is a clear religious message based on the Torah, of our entitlement to the Land of Israel!

May 20th Rabbi Richman of Temple Institute will be in JFK in his route back to israel.  Later that day Rabbi Moshe Goldsmith, mayor of Itamar will be in JFK on the first leg of his trip to the US.  We have reserved the Chapel Room in the afternoon, exact hours to be determined in order to meet with them and with each other.  We feel that it would be an excellent opportunity to make a public religious statement emphasizing the religious aspect of our entitlement, our eternal bond based on the Torah to the Land of Israel for thousands of years.  Who can speak up more strongly of our entitlement and of our holy Temple, than Rabbi Richman, Rav of the Bnei Noach and English spokesperson for Temple Institute?  Anyone that has heard Rabbi Algaze knows how passionate he is for Eretz Yisroel.  We would love to hook up to different cities like Chicago  (Yosef Rabin) and Toronto (TZC group if they are willing).  It would be phenomenal if additional Rabbanim like Rav Simcha Hacohen Kook , Rav Yaakov Yosef, Rav Rapp and Rav Wolbe, Rav Waldman and others would join in with their own message.  (it might be late for a live hookup)  This is the message we would like Netanyahu to convey to Obama when they meet but doubt he will do so.   Every Jewish outpost and settlement is part of the Biblcal Land of Israel. 

Anyone with technical expertise in arranging teleconferencing is needed - Anyone who has connections to Rabbanim in the States and in Israel  that are willing and able to speak out for our inheritance and heritage, or if you wish to sponsor the chapel for an hour or 2, Please contact us!  Anyone that can contact the press and knows the ins and outs of organizing  a press meeting please let us know.   We will address religious organizations that were silent by Gush Katif and continue to be silent when we are now being threatened to expel Jews from Judea nd Samaria.


Shmuel Koenig is making phone calls booking the Chapel, calling  Rabbanim and activists to come, spreading the word.  Yasher Koach! 

Pleae let us know how you can get involved!
"Shmuel Koenig" <shmuelkoenig@verizon.net>, "Robin Ticker" <faigerayzel@gmail.com>,

Please sign our petition which has reached over 1400 signatures and growing at a fast rate.  Please send out to your lists.  Thank you Susie Dym, Mattot Arim, Buddy Macy, Ted Belman, Nadia Matar, Janet Lehr etc. for sending it to their lists. Please forgive me if I excluded anyones name.  Let's build up this petition so that we have hundreds of thousands of vot4es.   http://www.PetitionOnline.com/1eys to all your family and friends.

If you can spread the word while promoting for the May 18th March in Washington DC, that would be great. It can be promoted on May 18th in Washington as well. This would be an excellent opportunity to have something in place in response to the meetings between Netanyahu and Obama. It can also be an opporuntity to respond  publicly to the Pope's visit as well..   It would either applaud Netanyahu for carrying the Torah proudly and if not, do the job for him.


WE SHALL GIVE THE BIBLE AND SCRIPTURES THE PLACE THAT THEY DESERVE AMONGST THE MOST MEANINGFUL OF SCHOOL SUBJECTS  Netanyahu made this commitment  at the annyal Bible Championship. 

Let  Bibi prove his commitment to the Bible and its relevance to todays times.

Please get in touch

Robin 7185102364


Kol Tuv,

Robin

Share my wife, You can have her heart as long as you recognize my rights to her arms and legs

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WE SHALL GIVE THE BIBLE AND SCRIPTURES THE PLACE THAT THEY DESERVE AMONGST THE MOST MEANINGFUL OF SCHOOL SUBJECTS 

Netanyahu made this commitment  at the annual Bible Championship.

WORDS WORDS WORDS -

My Dear Fellow Activists who are well meaning,

Search in your hearts and decide "Do we have sacred entitlement to the Land or do we not?   Is our relationship to the Land of Israel equivalent  to a marriage or is it merely a business proposition of a prostitute?

Lots of time and money is being spent to give Netanyahu the strength to "Stand UP" to Obama and save Israel.

So why do we encourage Netanyahu to say to Obama the following:

1.  We can not agree to a 2 State Solution unless they accept the terms of the Roadmap and show reciprocity and stop all rocket attacks,

(that's like saying I can not agree to sharing my wife with you so that we can live side by side in peace and harmony unless you stop acting with hostility towards us and stop beating us as per our prior agreement)

2. We can not agree to a 2 State Solution as long as  the PA  and Hamas don't recognize the State of Israel

(That's like saying I can not agree in sharing my wife with you as long as you don't recognize that she's my official wife)

3. We can not agree to a 2 State Solution as long as our Israeli Borders are not vulnerable.

(that's like saying we can not agree to let you take her heart as long as her arms and legs are vulnerable since I still want those parts of her)

Bibi is a pragmatist.  It has been suggested that the US is threatening Israel with cutting off military aid and funding unless it agrees to setting up the 2 State Solution.  Such a threat might make Netanyahu  feel vulnerable and alone and that he has no choice but to give in to their demands.

Our message to Netanyahu must be that his message to Obama and the entire world is that we have a sacred and eternal Bond with the Land of Israel that can not be shared by any other foreign sovereign entity.  This bond must not be violated. It is G-ds will as expressed in the Bible.  The Nations of the world will be blessed and prosper when the people of Israel are in the Land observing its laws and precepts.  Israel will model a society based on Charity and Justice and Peace will reign.

My Dear Fellow Activists,

Numbers matter only when the message itself is accurate and not a distortion of what is holy and true.

We have faith only in One G-d our Protector.

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Yosef Rabin <eyisrael1@gmail.com> wrote:

First, I would like to thank everyone for signing and helping to promote the petition. It is very important that everyone see that multitudes are coming together to stand up for the Nation, Land and God of Israel. The petition is nearing the 1,300 mark and with your help it will continue to grow. Please take a moment to forward the petition link http://www.PetitionOnline.com/1eys to all your family and friends. 

Second, there has been talk of organizing a vigil outside of the White House on Monday May 18th to oppose the creation of a Palestinian State. It should be noted that while no organization has yet to get involved, it is very important that people from all over converge of Washington DC to take a stand for the Nation and Land of Israel. The masses must take a stand. Talk to your local day school, synagogue or JCC  and urge that buses be organized immediately. 

If you are organizing a bus, please send an email to eyisrael1@gmail.com List the date, time and place of departure. 

Each outgoing bus will be posted on http://eretzy.blogspot.com/ 

Together - YES WE CAN!

Letter to Rabbi Kalish, Rabbi Zweibel of Agudath Yisroel - fyi A7News: Pope Benedict XVI Arrives in Israel - Please subscribe to Arutz7

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Dear Rabbi Kalish and Rabbi Zweibel, amv"sh

I hope you subscribe and regularly read Arutz7.   Please pass it on to the Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah if they don't have email.

Gush Katif happened and its pain is never ending.  If G-d forbid a Palestinian State is established will the officers of  Agudath Yisroel of America be the first ones to be called down to an inquiry and asked, "Why were you silent after numerous calls were made to you,  to use your influence to mobilize  over hundreds of thousands of caring Jews to speak out forcefully with actions and with words for our entitlement of Eretz Yisroel and against this Geirush of Yehudah and the Shomron?  

You will need to be on the record that you properly advised and informed the Moetzes Gedolei Hatorh regarding this matter.  If you see that the Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah refuse to get involved then you need to make a personal cheshbon nefest of whether you wish to keep your job and give of your time and energies to promote and defend  a policy of indifference and inaction or whether to make a personal sacrifice for Acheinu Beis Yisroe and work with those to defend Eretz Yisroel against our enemies that are surrounding her.

And if we are not brought to a human court of law for an accounting of our actions what about being Chayav Bidinei Shamayim which is even worse????  Merely hoping that a potential holocaust will not materialize chas Vechalila is not sufficient. 

Mobilizing the people with prayer AND ACTION to strengthen the yishuv in Yehuda and the Shomron is what's necessary!  Build up Shdema, Negahot, build up Yad Yair and the Yeshiva run by Rabbi Shimondorfi in the Shomron and the Beit Knesset Chazon David near Kiryat Arba and  the Yishuv in Hebron, and the work of Arieh King and the Israel Land Fund and Israel Danziger of Mishmeret Yesha  and strengthen each and every outpost in Judea and Samaria.

Uvacharta BaChaim - and you should choose Life.

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1. Pope Benedict XVI Arrives in Israel
2. PA Tries to Use Pope's Visit for Control in Eastern Jerusalem
3. Netanyahu Prepares for Obama: Israel to Be Left Alone in World?
4. Abbas Rejects Talks with Israel; Abdullah Warns: War or Peace
5. Chief Rabbi Protests Proposal to Cut Ethiopian Aliyah
6. Austrian Hotel: No Jews Allowed
7. Promoting Agrotourism
8. Bassi: Evictees were 'Calf that Does Not Want to Suckle'

1. Pope Benedict XVI Arrives in Israel

by Hillel Fendel

Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Israel at 11 AM as scheduled, on a direct flight from neighboring Jordan. On hand to greet him were President Peres and most of the government; the Chief Rabbis were not there.

The pope had said his visit was a personal pilgrimage, and Voice of Israel goverment radio talk show host Yaron Dekel said that the pope requested that the Israeli flag and anthem not be in evidence.  However, the Jordanian plane carrying the pope to Israel flew flags of both Israel and the Vatican, and the anthems of both were played upon his arrival.

Footage of the pope's arrival was aired around the world, including in Jordan and Iran.

Herzog, Hershkovitz
The only yarmulke-wearing Jew to greet the pope was Science Minister Prof. Rabbi Daniel Hershkovitz of the Jewish Home party. Welfare Minister Yitzchak Herzog was there and exchanged a few words with the Pope; his grandfather, Israel's first Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Yitzchak HaLevy Herzog, had asked to meet with Pope Pius XII during and after the Holocaust, but was rebuffed.

The Shas Party ministers did not arrive, and neither did Knesset Speaker Ruby Rivlin or the Chief Rabbis. The latter do not plan to meet the visitor during his visit to the Western Wall on Tuesday, but rather only later in the day at the Chief Rabbinate's formal headquarters in the Heichal Shlomo building. A spokesman for Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar said, "When the Chief Rabbis visited the Vatican, he met them in his office, and the Rabbis will meet him in their office as well."

In the background of this decision still lurks the tension of 45 years ago, when Pope Paul VI made the first-ever papal visit to Israel – and refused to meet the Chief Rabbis in Jerusalem. In response, then-Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Nissim refused to meet the pope altogether.

Against Israel
In addition, Prof. Yitzchak Minerbi, an expert on Catholic-Jewish relations, said, "During an 8-day period during Israel's Operation Cast Lead against Hamas in Gaza a few months ago, I counted five statements made by the Pope against Israel's offensive - yet I did not find any parallel regarding the Hamas rocket attacks on Sderot. He definitely sides more with the Palestinian side and not the Israeli side."

Peres and the Pope
President Peres and the pope delivered short remarks at the airport. Peres spoke of the "ongoing dialogue in the spirit of the Prophets between Judaism and Christianity,' and emphasized the freedom of religion and access to religious sites that Israel grants. 

The pope mentioned the "State of Israel" in his opening sentence, as opposed to Pope Paul VI, who refrained from doing so during his entire 11-hour visit. Benedict XVI emphasized his "pilgrimage of peace" and criticized anti-Semitism around the world. He said that the Jews had tragically suffered the consequences of destructive ideologies, and that he would go to Yad Vashem to "honor the memory of the six millions Jewish victims of the Shoah." His German nationality and his membership in the Hitler Youth and German Army of World War II weighed heavily in the background, though not mentioned.

Finally, the pope spoke of his wish for a "just and lasting solution" to the current conflict, expressing his hope for "both nations to live in secure and recognized boundaries."

Meeting with Shalit
The pope's next stop, after an afternoon break, will be at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, at 4:00 p.m. At the initiative of President Shimon Peres, the pope will also meet there with Noam Shalit, father of Hamas terrorist-kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. Shalit was abducted nearly three years ago, and Hamas has released barely any sign of his life since.

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2. PA Tries to Use Pope's Visit for Control in Eastern Jerusalem

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

The Palestinian Authority attempted to seize control of the "Bridge for Peace" visit by Pope Benedict XVI by claiming authority over media coverage of his tour in Jerusalem. It arranged a meeting in the Ambassador Hotel in eastern Jerusalem for journalists covering the visit, but Public Security Minister Yitzchak Aharonovitch (Yisrael Beiteinu) promptly issued an order to close the hotel.

A police order to the hotel was based on the law that prohibits the PA from operating in the capital. Law enforcement officers confiscated documents at the hotel, and no violence or serious resistance was reported.

PA officials maintained that the government order will not stop it from taking responsibility for welcoming the Pope and supervising media coverage in Jerusalem's Old City, arguing that arrangements for the tour are its responsibility.

"Eastern Jerusalem is our responsibility, and we are supposed to take care of all matters there, including the Pope's visit," officials told the Hebrew-language web site of the Yediot Acharonot newspaper.

The PA is expecting the Pope to encourage a resumption of talks between Israel and the PA, which wants the discussions to be based on Israel's accepting in principle a new PA country on all of Judea, Gaza and Samaria, with its capital in eastern Jerusalem.

The Pope's visit is highly politicized, partly because of his plan to visit Arabs in eastern Jerusalem and in Bethlehem who are living near the separation barrier, which the PA and most international media call the Apartheid Wall.

He also will arrive in Sakhnin, the Arab city in the Galilee whose mayor earlier this year led massive demonstrations highlighted by anti-Israeli incitement during the Operation Cast Lead counterterrorist campaign.

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3. Netanyahu Prepares for Obama: Israel to Be Left Alone in World?

by Hillel Fendel

As Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu prepares for his visit to the United States next week, warnings abound that the Obama Administration's policies will leave Israel to face Iran and Hamas alone.

The warnings are summed up in recent articles by the West's two main pro-Israel female commentators: Melanie Phillips and Caroline Glick. Writing in the Spectator (United Kingdom) last week, Philips warns that "Obama is attempting to throw Israel under the Islamist bus." She cites the report that Obama's National Security Adviser told a European foreign minister that Obama will be 'forceful' with Israel, and plans to impose, with the EU and moderate Arab states, "a satisfactory endgame solution" upon Israel.

PA State: Evil and Stupid
"This is all not only evil," Phillips says, "but exceptionally stupid… 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… 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."

American Jewry: Spineless
After expressing incredulity at the American demands for further Israeli concessions in the light of the utter failure of the Disengagement, Phillips writes that U.S. Jews are reacting "with a total absence of spine… 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."

Netanyahu must therefore take Israel's message to "the ordinary American people," she concludes: "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."

Glick: Obama Forcing Israel into Corner
Caroline Glick, writing in The Jerusalem Post, states that ahead of Netanyahu's visit to Washington, "the Obama administration is ratcheting up its anti-Israel rhetoric and working feverishly to force Israel into a corner."

She notes that quartet mediator Tony Blair has announced that within six weeks the US, EU, UN and Russia will unveil a new framework for establishing a Palestinian state, and that it is "being worked on at the highest level in the American administration."

Obama Humiliates Peres
Yet another milestone in the U.S. path towards abandoning Israel is the "humiliating reception" President Shimon Peres received from Obama. Visiting in Washington last week, "Peres was tasked with calming the waters ahead of Netanyahu's visit. It was hoped that he could introduce a more collegial tone to US-Israel relations." However, the Obama government barred all media from covering the event, thus "transform[ing] what was supposed to be a friendly visit with a respected and friendly head of state into a back-door encounter with an unwanted guest, who was shooed in and shooed out of the White House without a sound."

Abrogating 40 Years of Understanding
Another point raised by Glick and Eli Lake of The Washington Times: US Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller told the UN that Israel and others must adhere to the NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty), thus effectively abrogating a 40-year-old US-Israeli understanding that the US would remain silent about Israel's nuclear program because it understood that it is defensive, not offensive in nature. The statement also erases "any distinction between nuclear weapons in the hands of US allies and democratic states and nuclear weapons in the hands of US enemies and terror states," Glick wrote.

"The fact that if Iran acquires nuclear weapons, all chance of peace between Israel and the Palestinians and Israel and the Arab world will disappear," Glick continues, "is of no interest to Obama and his advisers. They do not care that the day after [Hamas said it was] suspending its attacks against Israel from Gaza, the Iranian-controlled terror regime took credit for several volleys of rockets shot against Israeli civilian targets from Gaza."

"The operational significance of the administration's anti-Israel positions is that Israel will not be well served by adopting a more accommodating posture toward the Palestinians and Iran," Glick concludes.

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4. Abbas Rejects Talks with Israel; Abdullah Warns: War or Peace

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has rejected talks with Israel at this time, according to the Hebrew-language Maariv newspaper, apparently waiting for the outcome of next week's meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Last week, the Prime Minister offered to return to the negotiating table immediately and without any pre-conditions.

The Arab world is expecting the U.S. to pressure Israel into specifically accepting the "two-state solution" and halting all construction in Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. The discussions in Washington are being billed as crucial to the future of the Middle East.

Prime Minister Netanyahu has maintained the PA must become more stable economically and politically before a new Arab state can be created alongside the Jewish State, a concept that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has rejected.

Israel fears that the objective of the Arab world is to allow the return of several million Arabs who claim to be descendants of former residents in the country. The result would be the domination of Arabs in Israel.

Abbas has conducted a determined single-minded four-year campaign to win international backing for a new PA state based on the Saudi Arabian 2002 Peace Plan that calls for Arab immigration and a new Arab country to be established on all of the land of Judea, Gaza and Samaria, including the Old City of Jerusalem,

The PA includes 250,000 Jews in Jerusalem neighborhoods which were restored to Israel in the Six-Day War in 1967. The municipality annexed the neighborhoods, including Gilo, Talpiot, Ramot and French Hill, into the capital more than 20 years ago, but the international community has not accepted the change.

Abdullah: Peace or War
Meanwhile, Jordan's King Abdullah II continued a worldwide campaign to pressure Israel into accepting the Saudi Arabian 2002 Peace Plan or face war in 18 months. He told the London Times, "If the call [decision] is in May that this is not the right time or we are not interested, then the world is going to be sucked into another conflict in the Middle East."

King Abdullah issued a similar warning during his visit to the United States three weeks ago and repeated his claim that the Jewish state faces war if it does not accept Arab demands.

The newspaper confirmed a report published last week in Israel National News that he and U.S. President Barack Obama discussed a plan for 57 Arab countries to recognize Israel in return for the Jewish State's acceptance of the Saudi Arabia 2002 Peace Plan.

King Abdullah did not directly respond to the report last week that President Obama suggested that the United Nations take responsibility for Jerusalem's holy sites. However, he stated that Jerusalem is an "international solution" as opposed to a problem. He did not respond to a report that President Obama suggested the United Nations flag fly over religious sites in the capital.

In his interview with the Times, King Abdullah recalled that his first – and last - meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu 10 years ago was the "least pleasant" during his reign. The Prime Minister is flying to Sharm El-Sheikh Monday morning for talks with Egyptian Prime Minister Hosni Mubarak in what is expected to be a frank exchange of views without any dramatic results.

King Abdullah will continue his "peace campaign" Monday with a visit to Syrian President Bashar Assad, two days after President Obama ordered the extension of sanctions against the country for supporting terror.

The intense American-led pressure on Israel is expected to receive an additional voice this week with the visit of Pope Benedict XVI. "It is all part of one major effort," King Abdullah told the Times.

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5. Chief Rabbi Protests Proposal to Cut Ethiopian Aliyah

by Hillel Fendel

With budget preparations well underway for the fiscal years 2009-2010, the Finance Ministry's proposed Arrangements Law is under scrutiny.  One of its clauses – calling for an end to Ethiopian-Jewish immigration – has aroused the protest of the Rishon LeTzion, Rabbi Shlomo Amar.

"It is hard to conceive that the Government of Israel would refrain from bringing Jews because of economic calculations," Rabbi Amar wrote to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. So reports Yitzchak Hildesheimer in Makor Rishon.

The Finance Ministry proposes to save 400 million shekels a year by ending the immigration to Israel of the Falash Mura community. The Cabinet voted just last September to continue bringing in Falash Mura Jews, at the rate of approximately 100 each month. The Finance Ministry now proposes to nullify that decision.

Though the Jewishness of the Falash Mura has long been an issue of contention, Rabbi Amar has ruled that the community is Jewish and should be aided in coming to Israel. Rabbi Amar visited Ethiopia himself to investigate the matter, and relies on the ruling of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef as well. 

Jews, With a Minority of Christians
Rabbi Amar wrote to Netanyahu: "The leading Halakhic [Jewish legal] authority, our master Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, has already ruled that the Jews of Ethiopia are Jews in every sense. I, too, small in stature, have found and ruled that the Falash Mura, too, are kosher Jews who were forced to accept Christianity. However, because some non-Jews married into them and we cannot ascertain the precise status of every single one, they should undergo formal conversion.  But in any event, there is a definitive obligation to bring them to the Land of Israel and save them."

Minister Yishai
Interior Minister Eli Yishai's comment: "If we were talking about potential immigrants from the former Soviet Union, would their Aliyah be stopped because of budgetary considerations?  This proposal must be opposed totally."

The United Jewish Communities (UJC), as well, which represents 157 local Jewish Federations and 400 independent communities across North America, has also come out against an end to aid for Ethiopian Aliyah. "UJC/Jewish Federations of North America has long supported efforts to definitively resolve the immigration status of Falash Mura remaining in Ethiopia," a UJC letter to Netanyahu states. "For that reason, the UJC applauded the 2008 cabinet decision, urging that adjudication and immigration of those found eligible should be completed in as short a time as possible."

Background
The number of remaining Falash Mura in Ethiopia is estimated at between 1,500 and several thousand, of which not all are eligible for Aliyah to Israel. Last year's Cabinet vote took place just a month after what was thought to be the last official airlift of Ethiopian Jews landed in Israel. A total of 120,000 Ethiopian Jews had been brought to Israel over a 30-year period.

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6. Austrian Hotel: No Jews Allowed

by Yehudah Lev Kay

A hotel in Austria has refused a request by a Jewish family of seven from Vienna to lodge. The hotel owner told the family by email that the room was available, but she did not want to host Jewish guests because of "bad experiences in the past."

The incident occurred at the Haus Sonnenhof apartment hotel in the village of Serfaus. The surrounding region is popular with Orthodox Jewish tourists. Local hotel owners said the incident would be bad for the tourist industry in the area.

The story was reported by the local daily newspaper Tiroler Tagezeitung on Sunday. Owner of the Alpenruh-Micheluzzi hotel, Petra Micheluzzi, told the paper that the incident would be "bad for the image" of Serfaus. Irmgard Monz, the owner of the Hans Sonnenhof hotel, refused to comment.

Esther Fritsch, president of the local Jewish community said that the rejection was "terrible" but said it was the first incident of its kind.

The Jewish family decided to vacation elsewhere. "I don't want to spend my vacation in such a racist nest, and I will inform all my friends about what is going on," the father said.

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7. Promoting Agrotourism

by IsraelNN TV Staff

In addition to all the stands at Agritech 2009, the expo where various types of technological developments in the field of farming make their debut each year, the Ministry of Agriculture's "agro tourism" department added a stand to promote tourism in farms.

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Can't see the video player? Click here to view the entire Israeli Salad report.

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8. Bassi: Evictees were 'Calf that Does Not Want to Suckle'

by Gil Ronen

Yonatan Bassi, the man who headed the SELA Administration for the resettlement of families who were forcibly evicted from their homes in Gush Katif and northern Samaria in 2005, testified Sunday before the official commission of inquiry established to look into the delays in their resettlement and compensation. Bassi was emotional and spoke in a shaky voice, but maintained that the Sela Authority was not to blame for the problems with resttlement. Rather, he said, it was the evictees who refused to cooperate with the Authority.

"As time went by and the Disengagement got nearer, a disconnection formed between the Authority and the community of evacuees," Bassi said. However, he said that he disagreed with the criticism leveled at the Authority by the State Comptroller and Ombudsman. "I think that the State Comptroller did not see things as we did," Bassi stated. "We made a great effort to help all of the evacuee communities." Bassi quoted the idiom: "The cow wants to give milk but the calf does not want to suckle."

The commission's head, Judge (ret.) Eliyahu Matza, asked Bassi if his statements regarding the Disengagement caused the rupturing relations between him and the evictees. Bassi said that "a process of grief is always accompanied by anger. People were angry at Ariel Sharon and at Yonatan Bassi… If the Administration was headed by a person without a kippah, there would be less anger."

Commission members Bar-Ilan University law Prof. Yedidya Stern (R), retired justice Eliyahu Matza (C) and Dr. Shimon Ravid (Israel News photo: Flash 90)

Regarding the slow pace of resettlement of the evictees, Bassi did not take the blame on himself or the Sela Authority: "One can evict by force but we could not [re]settle by force. With a lot of soldiers one can evict but we were not able to forcefully [re]settle," he explained.

"We thought at first that there would be 50 percent who would get by on their own and 50 percent in which we would have to intervene. In the end it was 80 percent who did not get by and 20 percent who did. We thought that it would not be right to build the alternative communities and only then carry out the plan, but I knew that the rehabilitation would take more than three years.," Bassi said.

"We did everything to meet with the people, both people on the ground and leaders…  meetings in hotels, in basements… we held many meetings with individuals and groups. We put up an internet website, we sent letters and they burned the letters we sent," he complained.

The uprooting of the cemetery was "hard, painful and sensitive," he said.

Nevertheless, Bassi also said, "The state owes this to those evicted, it has to bring them back to living productive lives. Regardless of the debate on whether the disengagement was the right thing or not, they made the greatest sacrifice."  

Bassi 'lost all shame'
The Legal Forum for the Land of Israel accused Bassi of "losing all sense of shame" following his initial testimony. "Bassi was a senior associate to the greatest failure in Israel in the last generation, to a moral crime against basic human rights and to an unpardonable sin," the Forum stated. "His blaming the evacuees for the situation that he and his masters led them [into] is the height of cynicism," it added.

"The Legal Forum struggled, fought and begged to stop the evacuation until a communal solution was found for the evacuess, but Bassi and the Administration ran a false campaign that stated that there is 'a solution for every resident' – something that was proven to be a lie," the Forum went on to state. "Had Mr.Bassi cooperated with the Legal Forum's suggestions, he would not now be sitting as the first person to be questioned by the Committee of Inquiry."

Judge Matza said that Bassi would appear again before the commission of inquiry.

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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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