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When the astronauts landed on the moon they practically missed their target. They were going in the right direction for so long but at the very last moment due to the conditions on the moon that made the landing difficult they practically missed it. With G-d's grace, with almost no time to spare they succeeded in landing.
Netanyahu's speech was brilliant up to the point where he failed to make any equivalence between Fatah and Iran. Then he strayed from his destination. Because there is no distinction between Iran's ideology, Fatahs ideology and Nazi ideology except one poses a nuclear threat and the other doesn't.
Netanyahu's recognition of a Palestinian State contingent on their acceptance of Jewish State indicates that he does not understand the purpose and raison d'etres of a Jewish State. Because if he did, he would understand that a Palestinian State can never actualize the holiness and Kedusha of Eretz Yisroel, Eretz HaKodesh, the Holy Land.
Not just Netanyahu is at fault. The mindset of the Jewish People including Chareidim, modern orthodox, and secular share this mindset. It is our stubborn refusal to accept the aspect of Kedushin, sanctity and exclusivity of the partnership with Hashem, Am Yisroel and Eretz Yisroel. A Jewish marriage is holy and has sanctity One does not share ones wife with another.
Our relationship is holy based on our observance of the Mitzvoth and from this holy and sanctified relationship comes holiness, blessings, peace, and prosperity for the entire world!
Od Yeshama B'Arei Yehuda Uvechutzot Yerushalayim...The prophesy for the future is that the rejoicing of the bride and groom will be heard in the cities of Judah and the outskirts of Jerusalem.
Chag Sameach!.
Thursday, October 01, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
JTA Treif News Source. Switch to Arutz7 and other authentic Jewish Kosher News
Hatred -- of any group -- does not drop out of the sky like rain. It is cultivated. Let's ask the JTA (the news agency which supplies most American Jewish newspapers) not to cultivate hate and not to falsely accuse settlers of criminal deeds.
Dear Jewish Telegraph Agency, Your website http://jta.org/about states that the JTA strives to be "the definitive, trusted global source of ...current events". But this past year you printed a series of 3 one-sidedly negative articles against settlers which does not fit this description.
I am told that Mattot Arim www.mattotarim.org, an Israeli grassroots organization, has approached you several times regarding the most distasteful "fact" presented in your series: "[R]adical settlers ...have ...thrown acid at Israeli soldiers" http://jta.org/news/article/2009/06/24/1005829/behind-the-headlines-radical-jewish-settlers. I understand that Mattot Arim told you they have carefully looked into this matter with the Hebron spokesperson, the Shomron Council spokesperson, Women in Green founder Nadia Matar, Gush Katif spokesperson and others and all believe that this allegation is not factual.
I also understand that you (the JTA) have claimed that an un-named Israel Police spokesperson made this allegation to you and you merely reported it. Could you, the JTA, possibly confirm this to me by return email. This will allow the un-named spokesperson's behavior to be raised in the Israeli Knesset or cabinet by Mattot Arim. Could you also write to the Israel Police, inform them that the information they gave you has been challenged and ask them to corroborate their allegation by providing the JTA in writing some elementary details regarding their allegation (copy of the chemical analysis performed if any, who (names, dates) purportedly witnessed these events, were any soldiers purportedly injured and if so where are the medical reports, etc.).
Or, since it's Yom Kippur season -- the traditional apology season -- could you simply publish a correction and apology indicating that no facts are available to support this allegation so it is hereby retracted until further notice! I look forward to hearing from you, sincerely, Robin Ticker
Dear Jewish Print Media,
You are Jewish aren't you?... and some of you are even Orthodox and Chareidi....
Why bring your news from treif sources even if they call themselves Jewish? Can't you syndicate from the following Kosher sources regarding Settlements in Judea and Samaria? A Palestinian State has its ideological partner with Nazi Germany. Settlement in Judea and Samaria has its ideological roots in the Torah. Why isn't your news waking up the Jewish People that the Land of Israel is our entitlement based on our Jewish Heritage? Front Page Coverage of Women in Green and Matot Arim will tell the authentic Jewish news. Netanyahus handshake with Abbas is newsworthy but so is the fact that he is willing to negotiate away Land that does not belong to him making this agreement as well as Oslo null and void based on Biblical entitlement. Freezing Jewish Settlement in Judea and Samaria and removing outposts indicates weakness in our ideological religious and historical conviction and claim to our Land. (The Land belongs to G-d and He chooses to whom he will give it. First Rashi of Breishit). Yasher Koach to 5TJewish Times for their news coverage....
GOOD and Kosher NEWS SOURCES
Yosef and Melody Hartuv, Love of the Land,
http://www.eish-l.org subscribe to their newsletter
Israel National News - Arutz7
The David S. Wyman Institute forHolocaust Studies
Act for America - Brigitte Gabriel
Palestinian Media Watch , www.palwatch.org,Independant Media Review Analysis _IMRA
http://israelbehindthenews.com - David Bedein
http://www.afsi.org/OUTPOST/outpost.htm - link to past issues
Outpost July August 2009- (12 pages long, very worthwhile reading)
www.yeshabulletin.com (excellent online news source )
http://yeshabulletin.blogspot.com/
Dear fellow activist, amv"sh
Please send your own letter to the above media and let them know that you'd appreciate front page non skewed, objective media coverage that reflects the position of the settlers and Torah
cc: mattotarim@gmail.com and faigerayzel@gmail.com
Gmar Chasima Tova! Gmar Chatima Tova!
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Newsflash! Powerful AFSI letter by Helen Freedman to DM Ehud Barak re SHDEMAI Rav Amnon Yitchok
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To the New Media,
If you haven't already, please put this letter on the front page of your newspaper. It is well written and speaks the truth!
Let your readers continuously be aware that there is a very strong movement worldwide against American Foreign policy and the freezing of building and construction in Judea and Samaria. The freeze is effectively in place now for several months due to failure of the Netanyahu administration (Barak and company) to issue permits. From many News Print headlines (and you know who you are),many readers have come to wrong conclusion that negotiating away parts of Eretz Yisroel be it an outpost or a full community is inevitable, a done deal something we are too weak to protest given the massive international pressure and therefore must come to terms with as painful as it may be. We are being brainwashed by front page articles and sometimes back page articles in news media that majority of Jews in the USA and around the world is comfortable or must be satisfied with "gestures of normalization" from the Arab world in return for giving away portions of our Land ("confidence building measures"). The implication being that we must maintain the good graces of America and the Nations of the world and seek their approval. . Your readers will gain chizuk from Rav Amnon Yitzchok that speaks from the Torah and of having faith in the Almighty Hashem and from Helen Freedman and the Women in Green to protest unjust, anti Torah, militarily irresponsible and suicidal policies
Contact the Shofar Organization shofar@netvision.net.il, and get some transcripts of Rav Amnon Yitchok's latest speeches that reach hundreds of thousands of caring Jews and blasts the policies to remove Jews from the Land of Israel and the secular character of the State of Israel that is coercive in their secularism. He is entertaining, convincing and charismatic and speaks with clarity. He has a tremendous following among secular Israelis who are becoming Baalei Teshuva in spite of serious efforts on the left to stifle his voice. .
To the Leaders and Rabbanim of major religious Jewish Organizations in America please also take your cue from Rav Amnon Yitchok that is Mekarev hundreds of thousands of chilonim with words of Torah and Emunah and from Helen Freedman, a courageous women with a powerful voice who is not afraid to speak the truth, for Torah, for Eretz Yisroel and Am Yisroel about Jewish entitlement and about the Palestinians lies and untruths about "occupation" and against any agreement or compromise that involves a settlement freeze and/or the formation of a Palestinian State Chas Vechalila!
To the New Media,
If you haven't already, please put this letter on the front page of your newspaper. It is well written and speaks the truth!
Let your readers continuously be aware that there is a very strong movement worldwide against American Foreign policy and the freezing of building and construction in Judea and Samaria. The freeze is effectively in place now for several months due to failure of the Netanyahu administration (Barak and company) to issue permits. From many News Print headlines (and you know who you are),many readers have come to wrong conclusion that negotiating away parts of Eretz Yisroel be it an outpost or a full community is inevitable, a done deal something we are too weak to protest given the massive international pressure and therefore must come to terms with as painful as it may be. We are being brainwashed by front page articles and sometimes back page articles in news media that majority of Jews in the USA and around the world is comfortable or must be satisfied with "gestures of normalization" from the Arab world in return for giving away portions of our Land ("confidence building measures"). The implication being that we must maintain the good graces of America and the Nations of the world and seek their approval. . Your readers will gain chizuk from Rav Amnon Yitzchok that speaks from the Torah and of having faith in the Almighty Hashem and from Helen Freedman and the Women in Green to protest unjust, anti Torah, militarily irresponsible and suicidal policies
Contact the Shofar Organization shofar@netvision.net.il, and get some transcripts of Rav Amnon Yitchok's latest speeches that reach hundreds of thousands of caring Jews and blasts the policies to remove Jews from the Land of Israel and the secular character of the State of Israel that is coercive in their secularism. He is entertaining, convincing and charismatic and speaks with clarity. He has a tremendous following among secular Israelis who are becoming Baalei Teshuva in spite of serious efforts on the left to stifle his voice. .
To the Leaders and Rabbanim of major religious Jewish Organizations in America please also take your cue from Rav Amnon Yitchok that is Mekarev hundreds of thousands of chilonim with words of Torah and Emunah and from Helen Freedman, a courageous women with a powerful voice who is not afraid to speak the truth, for Torah, for Eretz Yisroel and Am Yisroel about Jewish entitlement and about the Palestinians lies and untruths about "occupation" and against any agreement or compromise that involves a settlement freeze and/or the formation of a Palestinian State Chas Vechalila!
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Date: 2009/9/9
Subject: NEWSFLASH! AFSI letter to DM Ehud Barak re SHDEMA ASFI מכתב בנושא שדמה ממנכ"לית תנועת
To: eli7 <eli7@womeningreen.org.il>
From: eli7 <eli7@womeningreen.org.il>
Date: 2009/9/9
Subject: NEWSFLASH! AFSI letter to DM Ehud Barak re SHDEMA ASFI מכתב בנושא שדמה ממנכ"לית תנועת
To: eli7 <eli7@womeningreen.org.il>
From: Nadia Matar [mailto:nmatar@netvision.net.il]
Subject: CORRECTED-AFSI letter to DM Barak re SHDEMA-AFSI
להלן מכתב חזק בנושא שדמה שהלן פרידמן, מנכ"לית תנועת AFSI ,כתבה אתמול לשר הבטחון עם העתק לראש הממשלה ולשרים,
לאחר שהשתתפה לאחרונה בפעילות בשדמה וראתה במו עיניה את המצב ההזוי בו ליהודים מונעים מלשהות בשדמה יותר מכמה שעות ולערבים נותנים לבנות בנייה בלתי חוקית מאסיבית על שטחי C בשליטה ישראלית למרות צווי ההריסה וצווי איסור שימוש המבנים.
Daar friends,
below please find Helen Freedman's powerful letter to Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
Helen Freedman, AFSI's executive director, recently spent a morning with us in Shdema and saw with her own eyes the ludicrous situation in which Jews are prevented from showing a constant Jewish presence at the site while Arabs
continue to build illegally on Shdema's territory depite the destruction orders.
Sincerely,
The committee for a Jewish Shdema and Women in Green
1751 2nd Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Tel: 212-828-2424; Fax: 212-828-1717
E-mail afsi@rcn.com Website; http://www.afsi.org/
Contact: Helen Freedman, Executive Director
September 8, 2009
To: Minister of Defense,
Mr. Ehud Barak
Re: Shdema
Dear Mr. Barak
I'm writing to you in the name of the thousands of members of Americans For a Safe Israel (AFSI) in the United States who are concerned about the illegal Arab land grab taking place everywhere in Israel, and in particular in the abandoned army base of Shdema.
I was recently in Israel, viewed the situation in Shdema firsthand, and took part in one of the weekly cultural events put on by The Committee for a Jewish Shdema. I have followed the Committee's evolution from a small group of activists, to an established organization with ambitious plans for the area and strong support by the public, local authorities, and governmental figures and MPs.
I believe the Committee's goals of keeping Shdema in Jewish hands is an imperative for both practical and principled reasons. As a practical matter, Shdema overlooks the highway connecting Jerusalem with Eastern Gush Etzion and southwards. Controlling Shdema is therefore vital to the safety and security of Israel's Jewish citizens that reside and travel in those areas. As a matter of principle, for Israel to abandon sovereignty over its territory de facto and out of inaction will lead to chaos, violence, and a tsunami of Arab lawlessness, as we are already seeing everywhere in Israel, in the Galilee and the Negev as well as Gush Etzion.
The illegal Arab building in Shdema is a striking example of brazenness that was actually funded by the American (USAID) and European governments. AFSI has every intention of raising a furor over U.S. governmental funds going to fund illegal, politically motivated construction in the Israeli territory of Area C. The Internet sites of some of the international organizations active in Shdema are full of hatred for Israel and lies and incitement against her.
The Arabs have plenty of land under their own jurisdiction on which to build whatever they'd like. We at AFSI hope that as defense minister you will defend Israel's vital interests and ensure that Shdema remains Jewish.
Sincerely,
Helen Freedman
Executive Director, AFSI
Friday, September 04, 2009
Women In Green: Judea and Samaria or State of Terror - Yoram Ettinger front page news article
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Dear Journalists and Rabbanim,
Let us choose Life - Jewish Judea and Samaria rather than Fatah Terror State! This terror State aligns itself with Nazi ideology and those that were Partners with Hitler Yemach Shemo. Let this reality be in the consciousness of your readers and congregations that a 2 State Solution is actually the empowerment of evil of the likes of Nazi Germany as Israel's neighbors. Why is our tax money $900,000,000 going to them? Where will the $20 billion dollars from an arms deal with Saudi Arabia go?
To all Journalists and Rabbanim, Why not go on this chizuk trip and do your part to promote life rather than empower evil. Raise consciousness to your readers and members of your Kehilla of the ugly reality that the 2 State Solution really is the embodiment of evil aligned with Nazi ideology. The best way to counter and to fight this evil is by choosing life, Jewish settlement and expansion in Judea and Samaria. Passivity on our part and activism on their part leads to our destruction chas Vechalila! Our Hishtadlus and G-ds intervention will beezrat Hashem weaken our enemies until we can be worthy of destroying Amalek from our midst. Shabbat Shalom!
Dear Journalists and Rabbanim,
Let us choose Life - Jewish Judea and Samaria rather than Fatah Terror State! This terror State aligns itself with Nazi ideology and those that were Partners with Hitler Yemach Shemo. Let this reality be in the consciousness of your readers and congregations that a 2 State Solution is actually the empowerment of evil of the likes of Nazi Germany as Israel's neighbors. Why is our tax money $900,000,000 going to them? Where will the $20 billion dollars from an arms deal with Saudi Arabia go?
To all Journalists and Rabbanim, Why not go on this chizuk trip and do your part to promote life rather than empower evil. Raise consciousness to your readers and members of your Kehilla of the ugly reality that the 2 State Solution really is the embodiment of evil aligned with Nazi ideology. The best way to counter and to fight this evil is by choosing life, Jewish settlement and expansion in Judea and Samaria. Passivity on our part and activism on their part leads to our destruction chas Vechalila! Our Hishtadlus and G-ds intervention will beezrat Hashem weaken our enemies until we can be worthy of destroying Amalek from our midst. Shabbat Shalom!
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Dear Friends,
Please mark your calendar for Wednesday, September 23rd, and join us on a uplifting chizuk trip to some outposts in Binyamin and Samaria who are on the national public agenda.
Following the information on our trip is an article by Yoram Ettinger, "State of Terror", explaining the dangers of the creation of a Palestinian State in Israel's Heartland.
After reading Ettinger's article one understands even more how important it is to strengthen the outposts and do all we can to build more and more Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.
With love of Israel,
Nadia Matar
Women in Green
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MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
WOMEN IN GREEN CHIZUK TRIP TO OUTPOSTS IN BINYAMIN AND SHOMRON!
Women in Green invite you all to a special and moving morning of chizuk in the hills of Eretz Israel .
We will visit some of the outposts on the national public agenda. We will see that "outposts" are real thriving Jewish communities, defending the larger communities of Judea and Samaria who in their turn are the ones who defend Jerusalem.
When?
Please G-d, between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, WEDNESDAY,SEPTEMBER 23rd, 2009
Where?
We will visit Bnei Adam- Mitzpe Yossef-the Ronen Farm and Haresha
With whom?
With the great and special tour guide Aryeh Klein who will fascinate us with his stories and explanations. The tour will be in Hebrew with translation into English for English speakers.
Departure by bus from Jerusalem at 9:00am, Inbal Hotel
Approximate return: 3:30pm
Fee: 30 nis (which will help to partially cover the expenses of the day)
More details about the trip will be posted soon.
As usual, we come to strengthen and come back strengthened.
Registration for the bus is a must. Please call Elisheva Ginzburgh and register now: 052-300-3689
For details: Nadia Matar 050-5500834, Yehudit Katzover 050-7161818
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The idea that a Palestinian state can lead to enduring peace in the Middle East has become a diplomatic obsession for American policy makers. Bringing such a state into being has become the equivalent of finding the Holy Grail. In fact, however, a Palestinian state would not only fail to bring peace and stability to the region, but would make it an even more dangerous place than it already is. And ironically, given its adamant backing for a government that would have been led by Yasser Arafat and now would be headed by Abu Mazen, U.S. support for the creation of "Palestine," which would immediately ally itself with and become a client of rivals and enemies of America such as Iran, would harm American, Israeli, and even Arab interests.
The history of the PLO's Abu Mazen who is hailed by the US administration as a peaceful leader tells us something important about the likely character of a Palestinian state. As a graduate of Moscow University (Ph.D. thesis: Holocaust Denial) and a beneficiary of KGB training, he managed the logistics of the Munich Massacre of eleven Israeli athletes in 1972. He was the architect of PLO ties with ruthless communist regimes until 1989 and, since 1993, a series of PLO accords with Hamas. In 1950, 1966 and 1970, he was forced to flee Egypt, Syria and Jordan, respectively, for subversive activities. During the 1970s and 1980s he participated in PLO attempts to topple the Christian regime in Beirut, which resulted in the 1976 Syrian invasion of Lebanon and a series of civil wars, causing close to 200,000 deaths and hundreds of thousands of refugees. As Yasser Arafat's confidante and first deputy for over fifty years until Arafat's death, Abu Mazen is one of the engineers of contemporary Palestinian hate education, which has become a production line for terrorists. In 1990, he collaborated with Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, despite the Gulf country's unique hospitality to 400,000 PLO-affiliated Palestinians.
This history is not that of a peace maker, and the PLO's track record of inter-Arab treachery, non-compliance, corruption, repression and terrorism does not give evidence of peaceful Palestinian state of the future. Since its makeover from a terrorist organization to a semi-independent entity in 1993, the Palestinian Authority, which has been led by PLO graduates of terrorist bases in Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria and Tunisia, has become an incubator for terrorist tactics, which have been exported to Iraq, Afghanistan, England, Spain and other countries.
The 1968-70 and 1970-1982 PLO autonomy in Jordan and in Lebanon respectively provided training and inspiration for scores of international terror organizations; introduced the first wave of commercial aircraft hijackings; and facilitated the murder of 300 US Marines in the 1983 attack on the US Embassy and Marine Headquarters in Beirut. The year 1993 when the PLO catapulted to prominence marked a wave of anti-US Islamic terrorism, starting with the first bombing of the World Trace Center in 1993 and ending with the September 11 attacks.
The proposed Palestinian State would inflict destruction upon America's Arab allies and would enhance the fortunes of its rivals and enemies. Other states in the region know this. During the October 1994 signing of the Israel-Jordan peace treaty, top commanders of the Jordanian military urged their Israeli counterparts to stop short of a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River, "lest it destroy the [pro-US] Hashemite regime east of the River." Home to the largest Palestinian community in the world, Jordan is considered by the PLO to be Palestinian land. Why would the US support the Hashemite regime on one hand, but doom it to oblivion, by promoting a Palestinian State, on the other?
Even more worrisome are the ties between the PLO and Iran. The PLO was one of the earliest allies of the Ayatollah Khomeini when he toppled the Shah of Iran in 1979. After his 2005 election to the chairmanship of the Palestinian Authority, Abu Mazen's first visits were to Teheran and Damascus. A Palestinian state would extend Iran's long terrorist arm, facilitating subversive operations against pro-Western Arab regimes. It would also enable Iran to enhance its intelligence and military operations in the region, including port facilities in Gaza.
A Palestinian State would be a tailwind to insurgent terrorists in Iraq. With its long record of connections to Soviet intelligence, it would provide Russia and possibly China and North Korea with a foothold in the eastern flank of the Mediterranean at the expense of vital US interests. The increasingly Islamist and anti-US direction of Abu Mazen's educational and media efforts indicates that a Palestinian state would export terrorism to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states.
The long and determined effort by American administrations to soften the Palestinian Authority's harsh features cannot change the fact that a Palestinian State would add fuel to the fire of terrorism in the region. In tying its fortunes to the creation of such a state, the United States may be signing a suicide note for its Middle East policy.
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Ambassador Yoram Ettinger served as Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel's Embassy in Washington and Director of Israel's Government Press Office, in addition to other posts. He speaks frequently on U.S. college campuses about the conflict in the Middle East.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=36065
Dear Friends,
Please mark your calendar for Wednesday, September 23rd, and join us on a uplifting chizuk trip to some outposts in Binyamin and Samaria who are on the national public agenda.
Following the information on our trip is an article by Yoram Ettinger, "State of Terror", explaining the dangers of the creation of a Palestinian State in Israel's Heartland.
After reading Ettinger's article one understands even more how important it is to strengthen the outposts and do all we can to build more and more Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.
With love of Israel,
Nadia Matar
Women in Green
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
WOMEN IN GREEN CHIZUK TRIP TO OUTPOSTS IN BINYAMIN AND SHOMRON!
Women in Green invite you all to a special and moving morning of chizuk in the hills of Eretz Israel .
We will visit some of the outposts on the national public agenda. We will see that "outposts" are real thriving Jewish communities, defending the larger communities of Judea and Samaria who in their turn are the ones who defend Jerusalem.
When?
Please G-d, between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, WEDNESDAY,SEPTEMBER 23rd, 2009
Where?
We will visit Bnei Adam- Mitzpe Yossef-the Ronen Farm and Haresha
With whom?
With the great and special tour guide Aryeh Klein who will fascinate us with his stories and explanations. The tour will be in Hebrew with translation into English for English speakers.
Departure by bus from Jerusalem at 9:00am, Inbal Hotel
Approximate return: 3:30pm
Fee: 30 nis (which will help to partially cover the expenses of the day)
More details about the trip will be posted soon.
As usual, we come to strengthen and come back strengthened.
Registration for the bus is a must. Please call Elisheva Ginzburgh and register now: 052-300-3689
For details: Nadia Matar 050-5500834, Yehudit Katzover 050-7161818
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State of Terror
By Yoram Ettinger
August 26, 2009
Why a Palestinian state would be a threat to American, Israeli and even Arab national security.By Yoram Ettinger
August 26, 2009
The idea that a Palestinian state can lead to enduring peace in the Middle East has become a diplomatic obsession for American policy makers. Bringing such a state into being has become the equivalent of finding the Holy Grail. In fact, however, a Palestinian state would not only fail to bring peace and stability to the region, but would make it an even more dangerous place than it already is. And ironically, given its adamant backing for a government that would have been led by Yasser Arafat and now would be headed by Abu Mazen, U.S. support for the creation of "Palestine," which would immediately ally itself with and become a client of rivals and enemies of America such as Iran, would harm American, Israeli, and even Arab interests.
The history of the PLO's Abu Mazen who is hailed by the US administration as a peaceful leader tells us something important about the likely character of a Palestinian state. As a graduate of Moscow University (Ph.D. thesis: Holocaust Denial) and a beneficiary of KGB training, he managed the logistics of the Munich Massacre of eleven Israeli athletes in 1972. He was the architect of PLO ties with ruthless communist regimes until 1989 and, since 1993, a series of PLO accords with Hamas. In 1950, 1966 and 1970, he was forced to flee Egypt, Syria and Jordan, respectively, for subversive activities. During the 1970s and 1980s he participated in PLO attempts to topple the Christian regime in Beirut, which resulted in the 1976 Syrian invasion of Lebanon and a series of civil wars, causing close to 200,000 deaths and hundreds of thousands of refugees. As Yasser Arafat's confidante and first deputy for over fifty years until Arafat's death, Abu Mazen is one of the engineers of contemporary Palestinian hate education, which has become a production line for terrorists. In 1990, he collaborated with Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, despite the Gulf country's unique hospitality to 400,000 PLO-affiliated Palestinians.
This history is not that of a peace maker, and the PLO's track record of inter-Arab treachery, non-compliance, corruption, repression and terrorism does not give evidence of peaceful Palestinian state of the future. Since its makeover from a terrorist organization to a semi-independent entity in 1993, the Palestinian Authority, which has been led by PLO graduates of terrorist bases in Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria and Tunisia, has become an incubator for terrorist tactics, which have been exported to Iraq, Afghanistan, England, Spain and other countries.
The 1968-70 and 1970-1982 PLO autonomy in Jordan and in Lebanon respectively provided training and inspiration for scores of international terror organizations; introduced the first wave of commercial aircraft hijackings; and facilitated the murder of 300 US Marines in the 1983 attack on the US Embassy and Marine Headquarters in Beirut. The year 1993 when the PLO catapulted to prominence marked a wave of anti-US Islamic terrorism, starting with the first bombing of the World Trace Center in 1993 and ending with the September 11 attacks.
The proposed Palestinian State would inflict destruction upon America's Arab allies and would enhance the fortunes of its rivals and enemies. Other states in the region know this. During the October 1994 signing of the Israel-Jordan peace treaty, top commanders of the Jordanian military urged their Israeli counterparts to stop short of a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River, "lest it destroy the [pro-US] Hashemite regime east of the River." Home to the largest Palestinian community in the world, Jordan is considered by the PLO to be Palestinian land. Why would the US support the Hashemite regime on one hand, but doom it to oblivion, by promoting a Palestinian State, on the other?
Even more worrisome are the ties between the PLO and Iran. The PLO was one of the earliest allies of the Ayatollah Khomeini when he toppled the Shah of Iran in 1979. After his 2005 election to the chairmanship of the Palestinian Authority, Abu Mazen's first visits were to Teheran and Damascus. A Palestinian state would extend Iran's long terrorist arm, facilitating subversive operations against pro-Western Arab regimes. It would also enable Iran to enhance its intelligence and military operations in the region, including port facilities in Gaza.
A Palestinian State would be a tailwind to insurgent terrorists in Iraq. With its long record of connections to Soviet intelligence, it would provide Russia and possibly China and North Korea with a foothold in the eastern flank of the Mediterranean at the expense of vital US interests. The increasingly Islamist and anti-US direction of Abu Mazen's educational and media efforts indicates that a Palestinian state would export terrorism to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states.
The long and determined effort by American administrations to soften the Palestinian Authority's harsh features cannot change the fact that a Palestinian State would add fuel to the fire of terrorism in the region. In tying its fortunes to the creation of such a state, the United States may be signing a suicide note for its Middle East policy.
----------
Ambassador Yoram Ettinger served as Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel's Embassy in Washington and Director of Israel's Government Press Office, in addition to other posts. He speaks frequently on U.S. college campuses about the conflict in the Middle East.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=36065
=============================================
Women For Israel's Tomorrow (Women in Green)
POB 7352, Jerusalem 91072, Israel
Tel: 972-2-624-9887 Fax: 972-2-624-5380
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Thursday, September 03, 2009
Teshuva Elul! STOP Nothing is as important ! WATCH THIS FILM! CHOMESH 1 Hour and 4 minutes
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It is Elul. Time for Teshuva and self reflection. How can we allow history to repeat itself? Please forward! Show and send to your family and friends!
"HITNA'ARI" – Menora Chazani's Film about Jews' Expulsion from Chomesh is Presented Free of charge
Till SUNDAY, September 6 / 17 Ellul , at http://www.wejew.com/hitnaari
OR http://wejew.com/media/5878/Hitnaari_Exclusive_Online_Movie_Launch
(Book the high resolution film with screenings@12tribefilms.org (From Dr. gadi.eshel@ptk.co.il)
PS. To support Chomesh First!: http://yeshuv.org/help_homesh/
It is Elul. Time for Teshuva and self reflection. How can we allow history to repeat itself? Please forward! Show and send to your family and friends!
"HITNA'ARI" – Menora Chazani's Film about Jews' Expulsion from Chomesh is Presented Free of charge
Till SUNDAY, September 6 / 17 Ellul , at http://www.wejew.com/hitnaari
OR http://wejew.com/media/5878/Hitnaari_Exclusive_Online_Movie_Launch
(Book the high resolution film with screenings@12tribefilms.org (From Dr. gadi.eshel@ptk.co.il)
PS. To support Chomesh First!: http://yeshuv.org/help_homesh/
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