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Besides the attached TZC newsletter I am including a later Caroline Glickpost, an editor of the Jerusalem Post. Once you start to read Caroline Glick it is hard to put her down. From what I can tell, her posts are being forwarded to many email lists.
Please download the attachment of the TZC newsletter. It contains a previous Caroline Glick's article. TZC newsletter is wonderful in my opinion and when I brought it into shul I almost regretted doing so because people couldn't put it down (during leining, the Rabbi's speech etc). Email or call the contact info on top of the newsletter to subscribe to the newsletter weekly.
There is a mediafare war going on and in a war situation one is not even handed as some of the Jewish Media has been. Why isn't Caroline Glick on front page news presenting a side that is hidden to the Chareidi world who do not go on the Internet.? Presenting a picture of Obama in Hamodia in an OP ED as between a rock and a hard place is Jewish even handedness which is not appropriate in this case. Obama clearly understands how free elections in Gaza brought Hamas. Why is he advocating Mubareks ouster and free elections? Being evenhanded, Hamodia will quote Barry Rubin of Gloria and weaken his points and readers will come away thinking that there are 2 sides to every story and we don't really know what the actual reality is. Emphasizing the secular nature of the Egyptian population being doctors and lawyers is actually a distorted picture of this same population that supports Sharia Law.
Most mainstream Jewish M edia do not tell a complete picture as Caroline Glicks presents it here in order to shield the public from an ugly reality reminiscent of the 1930s that the world does not want to face and defeat. If we don't know who our enemy is, we will be unable to defeat it.
Let me suggest Arutz7, Israel National News as well as a good source of Kosher News . The Republican candidates are not getting as much press as they should be getting. Kudos to 5TimesJewishTimes and JewishVoiceNY for putting Mr. Mike Huckabee on the front cover. There is no lack of plentiful news sources and blogs who understand radical Islam and expose their motus operendez w/o feeling the need to be evenhanded about it.
I am compiling a list of what seems to me good news/blgs/organizations/ sources that speak up for our Biblical rights of Judea and Samaria and against a Palestinian State and Radical Islam. If you have any sources that you love that you feel others should know about feel free to email me.
JTA needs some healthy competition.
Kol Tuv, Robin
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tzc@torzc.org <tzc@torzc.org> Date: Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:43 AM
Subject: Israel and the Jewish World Feb 4
Column One: Israel and Arab democracy
By CAROLINE B. GLICK, The Jerusalem Post
February 4, 2011
Whether they are democrats or autocrats, we fully expect they will
continue to hate us.
Over the past week, Israel has been criticized for being
insufficiently supportive of democratic change in Egypt. While Prime
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been careful to praise the cause of
democracy while warning against the dangers of an Islamic takeover of
the most populous Arab state, many Israelis have not been so
diplomatic.
To understand why, it is necessary to take a little tour of the Arab world.
In the midst of Tunisia's revolution last month, the Jewish Agency
mobilized to evacuate any members of the country's Jewish community
who wished to leave. Until the end of French colonial rule in 1956,
Tunisia's Jewish community numbered 100,000 members. But like for all
Jewish communities in the Arab world, the advent of Arab nationalism
in the mid-20th century forced the overwhelming majority of Tunisia's
Jews to leave the country. Today, with between 1,500 and 3,000
members, Tunisia's tiny Jewish community is among the largest in the
Arab world.
So far, six families have left for Israel. Many more may follow. Two
weeks ago, Daniel Cohen from Tunis's Jewish community told Haaretz,
"If the situation continues as it is now, we will definitely have to
leave or immigrate to Israel."
Since then, Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of Tunisia's Islamist party
Ennahda, has returned to Tunisia after 22 years living in exile in
London. He was sentenced to life in prison in absentia on terrorism
charges by the regime of ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Then on Monday night, unidentified assailants set fire to a synagogue
in the town of Ghabes and burned the Torah scrolls. In an interview
with AFP, Trabelsi Perez, president of the Ghriba synagogue, said the
crime was made all the more shocking by the fact that it occurred as
police were stationed close by.
The day after the attack, Roger Bismuth, president of Tunisia's Jewish
community, disputed the view that the scorching of Torah scrolls had
anything to do with anti-Semitism. The man responsible for
representing Tunisia's Jewish community before the evolving new regime
told The Jerusalem Post that the attack was the fault of the Jews
themselves, "because they left [the synagogue] open... This is not an
attack on the Jewish community."
The fear now gripping the Jews of Tunisia is not surprising. The same
fear gripped the much smaller Iraqi Jewish community after the US and
Britain toppled Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003. The Iraqi community
was the oldest, and arguably the most successful, Jewish community in
the Arab world until World War II. Its 150,000 members were leading
businessmen and civil servants during the period of British rule.
Following the establishment of Israel, the Iraqi government revoked
the citizenship of the country's Jews, forced them to flee and stole
their property down to their wedding rings. The expropriated property
of Iraqi Jewry is valued today at more than $4 billion.
Only 7,000 Jews remained in Iraq after the mass aliya of 1951. By the
time Saddam was toppled in 2003, only 32 Jews remained. They were
mainly elderly, and impoverished. And owing to al-Qaida threats and
government harassment, they were all forced to flee.
Shortly after they overthrew Saddam, US forces found the archives of
the Jewish community submerged in a flooded basement of a secret
police building in Baghdad. The archive was dried and frozen and sent
to the US for preservation. Last year, despite the fact that Saddam's
secret police only had the archive because they stole it from the
Jews, the Iraqi government demanded its return as a national treasure.
As embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak began his
counteroffensive against the anti-regime protesters, his mouthpieces
began alleging that the protesters were incited by the Mossad.
For their part, the anti-regime protesters claim that Mubarak is an
Israeli puppet. The protesters brandish placards with Mubarak's image
plastered with Stars of David. A photo of an effigy of newly appointed
vice president, and intelligence chief, Omar Suleiman burned in Tahrir
Square showed him portrayed as a Jew.
ON WEDNESDAY night, Channel 10's Arab affairs commentator Zvi
Yehezkeli ran a depressing report on the status of the graves of
Jewish sages buried in the Muslim world. The report chronicled the
travels of Rabbi Yisrael Gabbai, an ultra-Orthodox rabbi who has taken
upon himself to travel to save these important shrines. As Yehezkeli
reported, last week Gabbai traveled to Iran and visited the graves of
Purim heroes Queen Esther and Mordechai the Jew, and the prophets
Daniel and Habbakuk.
He was moved to travel to Iran after Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad ordered Esther and Mordechai's tomb destroyed. The Iranian
media followed up Ahmadinejad's edict with a campaign claiming that
Esther and Mordechai were responsible for the murder of 170,000
Iranians.
Gabbai's travels have brought him to Iran, Gaza, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon
and beyond. And throughout the Arab and Muslim world, like the
dwindling Jewish communities, Jewish cemeteries are targets for
anti-Semitic attacks. "We're talking about thousands of cemeteries
throughout the Arab world. It's the same problem everywhere," he said.
Israelis have been overwhelmingly outspoken in our criticism of
Western support for the antiregime forces in Egypt due to our
deep-seated concern that the current regime will be replaced by one
dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Representing a minimum of 30 percent of Egyptians, the Muslim
Brotherhood is the only well organized political force in the country
outside the regime.
The Muslim Brothers' organizational prowess and willingness to use
violence to achieve their aims was likely demonstrated within hours of
the start of the unrest. Shortly after the demonstrations began,
operatives from the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood branch in Gaza –
that is Hamas – knew to cross the border into Sinai. And last
Thursday, a police station in Suez was attacked with rocket-propelled
grenades and firebombs.
Hamas has a long history of operations in Sinai.
It also has close ties with Beduin gangs in the area that were
reportedly involved in attacking another police station in northern
Sinai.
Western – and particularly American – willingness to pretend that the
Muslim Brotherhood is anything other than a totalitarian movement has
been greeted by disbelief and astonishment by Israelis from across the
political spectrum.
It is the likelihood that the Muslim Brotherhood will rise to power,
not an aversion to Arab democracy, that has caused Israel to fear the
popular revolt against Mubarak's regime. If the Muslim Brotherhood
were not a factor in Egypt, then Israel would probably have simply
been indifferent to events there, as it has been to the development of
democracy in Iraq and to the popular revolt in Tunisia.
ISRAEL'S INDIFFERENCE to democratization of the Arab world has been a
cause of consternation for some of its traditional supporters in
conservative circles in the US and Europe. Israelis are accused of
provincialism. As citizens of the only democracy in the Middle East,
we are admonished for not supporting democracy among our neighbors.
The fact is that Israeli indifference to democratic currents in Arab
societies is not due to provincialism.
Israelis are indifferent because we realize that whether under
authoritarian rule or democracy, anti-Semitism is the unifying
sentiment of the Arab world. Fractured along socioeconomic, tribal,
religious, political, ethnic and other lines, the glue that binds Arab
societies is hatred of Jews.
A Pew Research Center opinion survey of Arab attitudes towards Jews
from June 2009 makes this clear. Ninety-five percent of Egyptians, 97%
of Jordanians and Palestinians and 98% of Lebanese expressed
unfavorable opinions of Jews. Threequarters of Turks, Pakistanis and
Indonesians also expressed hostile views of Jews.
Throughout the Arab and Muslim world, genocidal anti-Semitic
propaganda is all-pervasive. And as Prof. Robert Wistrich has written,
"The ubiquity of the hate and prejudice exemplified by this hard-core
anti-Semitism undoubtedly exceeds the demonization of earlier
historical periods – whether the Christian Middle Ages, the Spanish
Inquisition, the Dreyfus Affair in France, or the Judeophobia of
Tsarist Russia. The only comparable example would be that of Nazi
Germany in which we can also speak of an 'eliminationist anti-
Semitism' of genocidal dimensions, which ultimately culminated in the
Holocaust."
That is why for most Israelis, the issue of how Arabs are governed is
as irrelevant as the results of the 1852 US presidential elections
were for American blacks. Since both parties excluded them, they were
indifferent to who was in power.
What these numbers, and the anti-Semitic behavior of Arabs, show
Israelis is that it makes no difference which regime rules where. As
long as the Arab peoples hate Jews, there will be no peace between
their countries and Israel. No one will be better for Israel than
Mubarak. They can only be the same or worse.
This is why no one expected for the democratically elected Iraqi
government to sign a peace treaty with Israel or even end Iraq's
official state of war with the Jewish state. Indeed, Iraq remains in
an official state of war with Israel. And after independent lawmaker
Mithal al-Alusi visited Israel in 2008, two of his sons were murdered.
Alusi's life remains under constant threat.
One of the more troubling aspects of the Western media coverage of the
tumult in Egypt over the past two weeks has been the media's move to
airbrush out all evidence of the protesters' anti- Semitism.
As John Rosenthal pointed out this week at The Weekly Standard,
Germany's Die Welt ran a frontpage photo that featured a poster of
Mubarak with a Star of David across his forehead in the background.
The photo caption made no mention of the anti-Semitic image. And its
online edition did not run the picture.
And as author Bruce Bawer noted at the Pajamas Media website, Jeanne
Moos of CNN scanned the protesters' signs, noting how authentic and
heartwarming their misspelled English messages were, yet failed to
mention that one of the signs she showed portrayed Mubarak as a Jew.
Given the Western media's obsessive coverage of the Arab-Israel
conflict, at first blush it seems odd that they would ignore the
prevalence of anti-Semitism among the presumably prodemocracy
protesters. But on second thought, it isn't that surprising.
If the media reported on the overwhelming Jew hatred in the Arab world
generally and in Egypt specifically, it would ruin the narrative of
the Arab conflict with Israel. That narrative explains the roots of
the conflict as frustrated Arab-Palestinian nationalism. It
steadfastly denies any more deeply seated antipathy of Jews that is
projected onto the Jewish state. The fact that the one Jewish state
stands alone against 23 Arab states and 57 Muslim states whose
populations are united in their hatred of Jews necessarily requires a
revision of the narrative. And so their hatred is ignored.
But Israelis don't need CNN to tell us how our neighbors feel about
us. We know already. And because we know, while we wish them the best
of luck with their democracy movements, and would welcome the advent
of a tolerant society in Egypt, we recognize that that tolerance will
end when it comes to the Jews. And so whether they are democrats or
autocrats, we fully expect they will continue to hate us.
caroline@carolineglick.com--
Sincerely,
Robin Ticker
This email is L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) a great activist and lover of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichrono Baruch.
