Fwd: MK DR. ARIEH ELDAD DIAGNOSES THE ISRAELI DISEASE AT AFSI EVENT

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February 15, 2010

 

 

MK DR. ARIEH ELDAD DIAGNOSES THE ISRAELI DISEASE

 

            Thursday evening, February 11, 2010, at an event sponsored by Americans For a Safe Israel/AFSI, over one hundred people braved the icy streets of NYC to attend a briefing on the situation in Israel delivered by MK Dr. Arieh Eldad.

           Drawing on his experience as Chief Medical officer for the IDF, and Director of Plastic Surgery at Hadassah Hospital, MK Dr. Eldad provided some very vivid metaphors. He suggested that if Israel were to be compared to a sick "patient", with the diagnosis of "land for peace" as the cure, this would obviously be a disastrous prescription of the wrong medicine.  If administered in continuing doses to the "patient", this would bring about its demise. In this case, the right medicine is recognition that no amount of land, and no degree of concessions can win the peace with the Arabs for which Israelis are so eager. The diagnosis of the illness has to be changed.

The illness has to be recognized as one that is grounded in the Arab Islamic religious belief that Israel has no right to exist.  A whole new approach has to be created that requires a stiff spine on the part of Israel's leaders. This approach is being promoted by the new Land of Israel Forum, newly created in the Knesset, which Dr. Eldad co-chair         MK Dr. Eldad, a member of the National Union party, appeared to mesmerize the audience at West Side Institutional Synagogue as he reiterated the ideals of the Forum. With MK Ze'ev Elkin from Likud as his co-chair, and representation from seven other parties, the imperative of a "whole Israel" is the focus.

            MK Dr. Eldad spoke about the weakness of the Netanyahu leadership which can consider giving away parts of Judea, Samaria, and the Golan, and dividing Yerushalayim. He bemoaned the tragedy of discussing the possibility of a "Palestinian state" and then attempting to retract  that statement. He said that once an Israeli Prime Minister concedes the possibility of such a reality, it is difficult for the Knesset and/or the Israeli public to negate it. Therefore, his Land of Israel Forum is essential in asserting that Jews have the right to live everywhere in the Jewish land of Israel and this right is the divine right promised in the Bible. He warned against using the security argument as one of entitlement since generals and politicians have a way of changing their assessments under pressure.

            The subject of Iran was addressed, and MK Dr. Eldad cautioned us that Israel would probably have to "go it alone" in defending itself against the Iranian nuclear threat since the Obama administration could not be depended upon to confront the issue. Clearly, sanctions and threat of sanctions would not deter the Ahmadinejad regime to remove its threat to Israel and the world.

It is unfortunate that the snowstorms in Washington, DC prevented the delegation from the Israeli Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, of which MK Dr. Eldad is a member, from scheduled meetings with Senate, House and Petagon members on matters relating to U.S. and Israeli defense issues. Hopefully these meetings will be re-scheduled so that MK Dr. Eldad's voice of sanity can be heard in the halls of the U.S. Congress and State Department.

 

Fwd: HATRED OF ISRAEL AND OF JEWS: WHY? Professor Eidelberg When Torah Shines Forth from Zion, Hatred will stop

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Hatred of Israel and of Jews: Why?

Prof. Paul Eidelberg

 

In view of the hatred of Israel and of Jews raging abroad, even in liberal America, I felt obliged to republish an article I wrote on the subject in 2004.

 

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Ask almost any Jew, "Why Does the World Hate Israel?" and he will say:  "Because Israel is a Jewish state."  Wrong!  The world hates Israel precisely because Israel is NOT a Jewish state!  This is what we learn from the Sages.

 

Israel-bashing is God's way of reminding Jews they are Jews.  It's His way of admonishing Jews when they have strayed from the Torah, cluing them that they need to get their house in order—in this case, making their state Jewish.

 

Let's face some seldom-faced facts.  Without impugning the religious sentiments of one or two Israeli prime ministers—I have especially Menachem Begin in mind—every government of Israel, despite the participation of religious parties, has been dominated by agnostics or practical atheists.  No government of Israel has pursued, as its paramount objective, the goal of making Israel a Torah-oriented state (which would require interfacing Torah with science).   

 

We live in an age of science, but nothing is less rational and less Jewish than the way Israel forms its government.  With the Book of Books in mind, take a glance at Israel's governing institutions.  Does the Torah prescribe a plural executive consisting of rival political parties?  "There can be but one leader for a [people] and not two" (Deut. 31:7; and see Sanhedrin 8a).  Does the Torah prescribe a legislature or a judiciary whose membership is based on whim and includes non-Jews?  "Select for yourselves men who are wise, understanding, and known to your tribes and I will confirm them as your leaders" (Deut. 1:13).

 

Institutions aside, who ever heard of a Torah-oriented government yielding Jewish land to a foreign entity, indeed, to a gang of terrorists?   That's Oslo, concocted by a government diametrically opposed to a Jewish state.  And who ever heard of deporting Jews from their homes as proposed by the government of Ariel Sharon?  And you call this a Jewish state?!

 

Do you know that the government of this so-called Jewish state has deliberately pursued a policy that allows Arab terrorists to murder an "acceptable" number of Jews?   It's called the policy of "self-restraint" [embraced by Netanyahu in 1996 and by the same Netanyahu today]. 

 

To simplify matters, let us say that this policy was initiated by the government when the Oslo War erupted on September 29, 2000.  But Oslo and the Oslo war and the resulting worldwide explosion of Jew-hatred would not have occurred if Israel were a Jewish state!

 

Let's stay with Oslo for a moment.  The explosion of anti-Semitism would not have occurred had the government immediately eliminated Arafat's Palestinian Authority (PA) and its terrorist network in one swift and devastating blow as it could and should have done once Oslo was violated.  Do you know when Oslo was violated?  How about September 14, 1993, the day after Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser shook hands on the White House lawn?  Yes, and virtually every day since then! 

 

By not abrogating Oslo and destroying the PA, Israel's government enabled that terrorist organization to accumulate more and deadlier weapons, which obviously prolonged the war.  Had the PA been utterly uprooted, there would have been no weekly video displays [abroad] of the government's intermittent retaliations against terrorist attacks, with the inevitable "collateral damage" that has inflamed worldwide anti-Semitism.  There would have been no CNN and BBC coverage of "Operation Defensive Shield" in Jenin, for the PA would not have had the opportunity to develop bomb factories in that city.  There would have been no incitement of Arabs via the Palestinian media because such media would have been shut down.  All these (and other) violations of the Oslo Accords would not have occurred, and a generation of Arabs children would not have been brainwashed to emulate suicide bombers if Israel were in reality a Jewish state.  Therein is the unknown but underlying cause of worldwide Israel-bashing.

 

And this Israel-bashing is not going to stop so long as Israel is not a Jewish state.  It's not going to stop so long as Israel has prime ministers who do not think and act like Torah-oriented Jews.  I'm not talking about being "religious."   The illustrious Rabbi Raphael Samson Hirsch has said that the word "religion" is the greatest obstacle to an understanding of Judaism.  The great Maimonides and other Medieval Jewish philosophers did not regard Judaism as a "religion" but as an all-comprehensive truth-system, else they could not prefer Judaism over its "competitors" on rational grounds.   Maimonides makes it clear in The Guide of the Perplexed that science is the only path to the knowledge of God.

 

A Jewish state will of course have certain aspects that may be called "religious."  But a truly Jewish state will manifest, above all, the convergence of Torah and science.  When this convergence becomes a reality—when the Torah shines forth from Zion—then and then only will the world cease to hate Israel and turn with reverence toward Jerusalem.

 

 

Post Script February 10, 2010

 

According to the Gaon (the genius) of Vilna, "To the extent that one lacks knowledge of the properties of the natural forces [hence of natural science], he will lack one hundred-fold in the wisdom of the Torah." (To understand even this sentence requires deep knowledge.) It has been said by one of his disciples that the Gaon mastered the "Seven Wisdoms" of science that included mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry, engineering, pharmacology and medicine, musicology, parapsychology, and the brain sciences. With the rebirth of Israel, we are approaching this confluence of knowledge. It is in this light that we are to understand the current storm of Jew-hatred and the frantic maledictions from Iran about wiping Israel off the map. Israel was created to relate God's praise (Isaiah 43:21)—His infinite wisdom, power, and graciousness in every domain of existence.  But lo and behold: Israel, far from being a light unto the nations has become a black hole.  No wonder we're hated by the nations. One Israeli government after another has been betraying God!

 

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Memorial Website, and Memorial Event- for 8 Kedoshim Yeshiva Boys from Yashlatz tonight at 8:30pm in Yeshurun - Al Elah Ani Bochiya -

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It happened Rosh Chodesh Adar 2 years ago in the library.... Yeshiva Boys from YASHLATZ...

Second yartzheit of the Eight Kedoshim;Memorial, main event being at Yeshurun Shul at 8:30pm tonight, Feb. 11,Thursday night. (see attached yahrzeit press release)

For those of us that can not attend the memorial in Yeshurun in Yerushalyim, please go on the website and watch a short memorial video for each boy...  and cry..... My personal suggestion is to watch one a night because it's just very painful.  Each boy so precious... 

Thank you Yaakov Cohney of Yeshiva Yashlatz for this amazing but heart wrenching website and memorials.   Robin

www.yashlatz.com/memorial and on our Facebook group.

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Fwd: J Street manipulates mainstream organizations to falsely represent itself by Lori Lowenthal Marcus

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The New Wing of the "pro-Israel, pro-Peace" Lobby Comes to Town
J Street deceives others in order to falsely represent and promote itself.
The Weekly Standard
by Lori Lowenthal Marcus
February 10, 2010

The "new," "progressive" voice of the "pro-peace and pro-Israel" lobby
known as J Street has had its "pro-Israel" label questioned by many
observers, and even some of its own have shed that label. J Street has
now also revealed it doesn't keep its word to trusting Jewish
organizations.

On Thursday, February 4, 2010, J Street launched a new "grassroots"
division­J Street Local­with an event at the University of
Pennsylvania, which was webcast to twenty other locations.

The event involved a deception by J Street leadership on the local
Hillel and the surrounding Jewish community. When it was discovered
that J Street planned to have its new division roll-out from the Penn
Hillel, many Israel supporters were concerned that the outside world
would assume that Hillel had endorsed J Street, especially because J
Street would be webcasting live from there to cities across the
country. Not to worry, said J Street to the local Hillel leadership:
We promise not to mention that we're using your facility, and to make
clear in our written and oral statements that Hillel does not endorse
us.  That condition was agreed upon­it was "not just a promise, it was
an agreement"­according to Rabbi Howard Alpert, the executive director
of all the Philadelphia area Hillels.  On the strength of that
essential agreement, Hillel went ahead and rented J Street its space.

And then? J Street's Ben-Ami said exactly what he'd promised not to
say­that he was speaking "here at Penn Hillel"­and failed to say a
word about what he'd promised solemnly to make clear: that Hillel does
not endorse J Street or its message.

In short, J Street manipulated the Hillel of Greater Philadelphia (of
which I am a board member) into leasing to them space in the Hillel
building for their J Street Local launch by entering into a firm
agreement, and then ignoring that agreement to Hillel's detriment. J
Street's deception made Hillel's carefully planned and extensive
pre-event efforts to soothe concerned donors, students, and others
that there was no­and that it would be made very clear that there was
no­connection between Hillel and J Street.

Within hours of the event J Street sent out thousands of releases and
emails urging everyone who was not present at the launch to go to its
website and watch the video. The video of Ben-Ami's remarks is still
up on his website, and the text­that is, the pre-drafted statement,
not an extemporaneous slip­is
<http://www.jstreet.org/blog/?p=833>here. You can see for yourself.
(After remonstrations by the HGP executive director, after thousands
of emails and press releases were sent out without the agreed-upon
disclaimer, days later a terse note went up in the site under the
video box that Hillel had not endorsed the speech.  But "Penn Hillel"
is still in the video and in the transcript of Ben-Ami's speech.)

Now we know: J Street will deceive and damage the central organization
representing Jewish life on college campuses in order to falsely
represent and promote itself.  Perhaps the rest of J Street's
exaggerations and misrepresentations fall under the rubric of clever
marketing.  Lying, manipulation and damaging Hillel's reputation
should be beyond the pale.

Lori Lowenthal Marcus is president and co-founder of Z STREET.
http://weeklystandard.com/blogs/new-wing-pro-israel-pro-peace-lobby-comes-town

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Fwd: Urgent Save a life Request Pidyon Shvuyim from National Council of Young Israel

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	February 10, 2010   To Friends and Constituents of the National Young Israel movement: As you may or may not know, a Jewish man is slated for execution in Florida next Tuesday. Martin Grossman was convicted of killing Margaret Parks, a Florida Wildlife Officer, in 1984, when he was 19 years old. He did so while under the influence of drugs and alcohol, and in an act of panic, not premeditation. He has conducted himself as a model prisoner since his incarceration some 25 years ago and has shown profound remorse and regret for his actions. National Council of Young Israel has joined other Orthodox Jewish groups including Agudath Israel of America and the Orthodox Union, in asking Florida  Governor Charlie Crist to grant clemency , from the death penalty to life in prison, to Mr. Grossman, and we have also requested a meeting in person with Governor Crist to discuss the matter. But it is important that the Governor hear from the grassroots as well - certainly from people who live or spend significant time in Florida, but even from non-Floridians. His e-mail address is Charlie.Crist@myflorida.com , his phone number is (850) 488-7146 and he can be faxed at 850-487-0801. Letters and calls should be polite to the Governor to take into account Mr. Grossman's youth and impairment at the time of the crime and his good behavior and remorse in the years since. And the request should be that Mr. Grossman be permitted to serve his debt to society by serving the rest of his life in prison. May we have happier occasions to demonstrate our achdus and ahavas Yisroel.                                                        "Even those who strongly support capital punishment would limit it to recidivists or people who ‎commit the most heinous of crimes.  Martin Grossman fits neither of those categories.  He does ‎not belong on death row.  His crime, committed when he was a teenager, was unplanned, ‎unpremeditated and impulsive—the product of a serious mental illness, that can now be proved ‎by medical technology that was unavailable at the time of his sentencing.  He has been in prison ‎for more than a quarter of a century, during which time he has been a model prisoner who has ‎shown great remorse for what he did.  All that he is seeking now is a 60 day postponement of his ‎execution, so that his supporters can martial the evidence and present his case for clemency.  No ‎one should be rushed to execution while doubts remain unresolved.  Justice demands that he be ‎given the 60 days to prove that he does not deserve to die at the hands of the state."  ‎ Alan M. Dershowitz ‎

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