Operation Protective Edge: From Emunah of America. It's time for Action to help our people in Israel!

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Mordechai Kedar We, However are guilty. The terrorists are not the only ones who bear guilt for the murders of Naftali, Eyal and Gil-ad. Dr. Kedar replies to IMRA regarding his opposition to ground campaign in Gaza. Instead block electricity, fuel, food and water....

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Op-Ed: We, However, Are Guilty,  The terrorists are not the only ones who bear guilt for the murders of Naftali, Eyal and Gil-ad.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/15269#.U7wL3PldUWI

Dr. Kedar replies to IMRA regarding his opposition to ground campaign. Tuesday, July 8, 2014 4:01

...Ground operation is exactly the trap which Hamas wants us to fall into.

We have to create a situation in which launching rockets is too costly for 

those who do it, by blocking electricity, fuel, food and water, until they 

stop the rockets.

http://beforeitsnews.com/middle-east/2014/07/dr-kedar-replies-to-imra-regarding-his-opposition-to-ground-campaign-2460332.html

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Arab boy murdered! Trying to understand what happened...Soccer Thugs Burned a Palestinian Boy Alive in Jerusalem A close-knit gang of Beitar Jerusalem fans known as ‘La Familia’ ignites the Middle East? Moral Equivalency Jewish World and Arab World

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Soccer Thugs Burned a Palestinian Boy Alive in Jerusalem By Liel Leibovitz

A close-knit gang of Beitar Jerusalem fans known as 'La Familia' ignites the Middle East

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/178232/soccer-thugs-in-jerusalem?
Soccer Fanaticism Leads to Violence Everywhere. Israel is no different than any other sports-obsessed country http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/178406/soccer-fanaticism-leads-to-violence-everywhere

Re: Arab teen murdered by Jews. Comments by Robin Ticker Fwd: Anarchy by Shalom Pollack of Honenu

http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2014/07/re-arab-teen-murdered-by-jews-comments.html

Op-Ed: Hamas Violence: The Bigotry of Low Expectations. This absence of Western moral judgment of the Arab world, including Hamas, can only be explained by the acceptance of a lower standard of behavior for that population. by Ron Jager
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/15290#.U7wGYPldUWI

No moral symmetry - David Weinberg

http://davidmweinberg.com/2014/07/07/no-moral-symmetry/

Moral Equivalence, Moral Idiocy by Bruce Thornton TUESDAY, JULY 8, 2014 

http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.co.il/2014/07/moral-equivalence-moral-idiocy.html

The Blatant Moral Equivalency of the New York Times - Dr. Joseph Frager

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Message.aspx/5935#.U7s1yvldXOg

July 7, 2014: Very, Very Difficult  - Arlene Kushner

http://www.arlenefromisrael.info/current-postings/2014/7/7/july-7-2014-very-very-difficult.html

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Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing.

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Re: Arab teen murdered by Jews. Comments by Robin Ticker Fwd: Anarchy by Shalom Pollack of Honenu

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This is all conjecture as I really don't have all the facts and I am only responding to what I read and my own life experiences. 

It still is really hard to believe that 6 Jewish boys committed such a crime for no good reason. I am for now accepting the fact that this crime was indeed committed by Jewish teens as news reports have indicated.

 Israeli society must be introspective and analyse what led to this.senseless, cruel and inhumane murder.  The education, occupation and recreation of these Jewish boys need to be examined.  There is nothing in Torah that would justify something like this.  I don't get the impression that these boys are typical settler youth.  Perhaps they are influenced by extreme Arab culture that justifies burning of humans and this deviant and criminal mindset permeated their psyches..

If these kids were minors, we seriously need to see if proper limits and guidelines were in place for these kids when they acted out in the past,  Were detected issues,  addressed or alternatively,simply let to lie under the radar?  Chances are, had they been addressed professionally and responsibly,   this tragedy never would have happened.  

I don't think that the government's failure to protect Judea and Samaria from terrorists was the primary motivating factor of this crime. 

 I would like to add however that the government is truly at fault with 44 attempted kidnappings prior and no proper precautions put in place to properly protect the residents of Judea and Samaria from acts of terror and kidnappings. 

One can agree that this gruesome criminal act of burning an Arab teen is perhaps in response to the government's failure to protect its citizens from evil.  Evil can assert itself  in various fashions.

One example of Evil is rewarding terrorists for terror and releasing them to society.

 I believe in this case evil is manifested as a mindset and culture that is evil and societies' ignoring or perhaps looking the other way and refusal to seriously acknowledge a problem exists or rationalizing it's not serious when it is, or passing the buck and collectively failing to address evil in an effective manner. Let me explain. I am basing my assumptions on the conclusions of Soccer Thugs Burned a Palestinian Boy Alive in Jerusalem By Liel Leibovitz A close-knit gang of Beitar Jerusalem fans known as ‘La Familia’ ignites the Middle East

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/178232/soccer-thugs-in-jerusalem?

My gut feeling is that these kids were troubled teens with emotional deficiencies from before this incident, and were under observation as per news reports but their issues were not adequately addressed and things got out of hand and  tragedy struck. Were they under the influence of alcohol or drugs for example?

I've noticed that this is not a unique scenario.  Often society chooses to look the other way hoping kids especially teens, will miraculously straighten themselves out. They don't limit their access to alcohol, cigarettes or drugs.  Society tends to marginalize them and ostracize them rather than to help them address their issues with healthy dose of discipline and education when necessary. Other kids will be told to stay away from them and their bad influences. Sometimes kids manage to straighten out on their own, more often issues which are never addressed have repercussions lasting a lifetime that effects future relationships.  These same issues often continue to the next generation and if not addressed are played out even worse with the next generation. As a result family members suffer terribly and have to live with unhealthy dysfunctional spouses, parents, children and siblings unable to address the matter on their own. It can play out with incidences of domestic violence. The recent murder of 2 children by their father ages 14 and 10 demonstrates how things can escalate years down the road. Another example is the murderer of Leiby Kletzky.  Was there no indicators that he was unstable and dangerous before the tragedy occurred? Howard Greenberg, the defense attorney who clutched Aron's hand during the brief court proceeding noted that his client had untreated mental illness and came from a family with a history of schizophrenia. Maybe they were descendants of Holocaust survivors affected by the Holocaust generations later.  Unfortunately,  it takes a tragedy of great proportions to finally address the matter by society. Then it's too late.  Lives are lost. And that's when society will learn from the tragedy and institute reforms so that such a situation never happens again. Unfortunately, that's the best case scenario after the tragedy.  Alternatively, society can choose to merely memorialize the victims and then continue as usual blaming G-d for the tragedy without taking any responsibility or reason to address the direct cause.  They might even give inspiring lectures about Emunah and Bitachon and accepting G-d's decrees when all along it was negligence on the part of society to address evil that brought on the tragedy and not a simple a happenstance decree of G-d.

While kids need to grow and work things out in their own way, we can not afford to wait too long once ills of society and/or of an individual, is identified as pathological and evil. It must be addressed before much harm is done to hurt oneself or hurt others and society. It is the responsibility of the community and their government to be more proactive to protect society. 

Condemning the kids alone is not fair.  In fairness, society is to share in shouldering responsibility for not educating, mentoring and addressing evil before tragedy struck..

We are all collectively to blame and no one including myself is exempt or guilt free.

It's something all those who were so quick to condemn these kids who perpetrated the crime should be thinking about.

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From: Shalom Pollack <shalompollack613@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 3:15 PM
Subject: Anarchy
To:

As  I write  these  lines,  over  a million and  a half  Israelis are told  they should be ready at any moment to take  cover as scores of missiles  are slamming into  southern Israel at this  moment  from Hamastan / Gaza;( the  same place we brutally cleared of thousands of Jews and  handed over to our  worst enemies which was  supposed to bring peace)

Hamas  has issued terms for a cease fire including the release (again) of hundreds of Hamas terrorists

Flash: Now  it is  reported that sirens  are heard in  Jerusalem and we await the  decision of Hamas to fire  away or not...

Recently  Arabs brutally  murdered  three young  Jewish boys, killed  an off  duty police officer as he drove his family to a Pesach seder, and butchered a Jewish girl - all in the last weeks. No Jewish riots. Arabs continue to move  freely  and enjoy the  benefits  of the Jewish state.

For  a very long time, Israelis  have witnessed with  great perplexity and frustration as they are increasingly unsafe in their own country

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Israel's Arabs began wide scale rioting all over the country in response to the Israeli army dragnet seeking the  killers of the three boys.   Israeli Arabs  celebrated the news of their death including Arab  students  studying in Israeli universities.

Israeli Arab politicians refused to label the killers  as terrorists.

Israelis are continually told  by the Left media and intellectuals in academia that we are not  at  war. There are no enemies. We  have  a "situation' and we dare not loose our moral high ground.

Of course we really do have an enemy, a very determined one. Most normal Jews in Israel know this but are made to feel something is wrong with them if they want to engage the  enemy as  one does in a real war  

When government does not protect its citizens  anarchy reigns.

In conditions of anarchy the worst comes out in some people. Fear, anger and , frustration rule.,.  Six Jewish boys lost it and  killed an Arab.,a tragedy for  all involved

 This can be laid at the feet of those who have  continually refused  to do their job and lead and protect.

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Fwd: Honor Killing: Burning People Is a Muslim Thing

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News has it that they have Jewish suspects for murder of Arab teen.  

I personally don't know what happened but my gut agrees with this post following this comment. It just not a Jewish thing to randomly pick a random Arab kid and burn him in revenge.  I have blogged about attempts to frame settler youth with Price Tag Vandalism.  Often it turns out that Arabs were perpetrators even though often political leaders and Rabbi's prematurely condemn the youth before there is any conclusive evidence or conviction.

I still wonder about the Rabin Murder and about Shabaq agent Raviv.

I still wonder how Baruch Goldstein went crazy and shot a bunch of Arabs unprovoked.  I personally knew him and his family and it just doesn't add up. He was a caring doctor . His Mother was President of Emunah women who loved Israel. She was typical American Dati Leumi Zionist. They were a family we all admired.  From my personal interaction with him, as neighbors,  I would never imagine him to lose it and just randomly shoot anyone unprovoked except of course for self defense.   I can not believe that he randomly wanted to kill a bunch of  Arabs because he hated all Arabs.  That wasn't the Baruch I knew. 

 I don't know what happened that day and I don't know what happened with this Arab Teen but I pray to G-d that in both cases the truth comes out.  Meanwhile my gut feeling is like the author below that Jews are being framed in order to create moral equivalency.  Creating moral equivalency will then in turn justify a Palestinian State since any terror activity on their part is no different than "alleged" terror activity on the part of Jews. This of course is false.

Jews are entitled to the Land if Israel and the borders are delineated.  All opinions agree that Judea and Samaria fall under the proper borders within Israel, promised by G-d as an inheritance to Israel and not an inheritance for  Arabs.  Jews are obligated to keep the commandments of the Land and Arabs are not.  Jews have no predisposition or anything to gain of taking the life of  an innocent soul be it Arab or Jew and burning it. We value human life.   It is against our Torah.  It is against our very nature.

There is a concept in Tanach of "Goel Hadam".  Family members are allowed to go after someone who accidentally killed their family member.  The Torah provides places of refuge, 6 Levite cities and other designated refuge cities, to this killer because it was not an intentional act of murder but rather an accident.  In the case of an intentional murder, society is obligated to find the murderer and he needs to be brought to justice and killed as punishment for having purposefully taken a life. That is why Refuge cities were set up for those who killed accidentally.  Please see a discussion on this topic by Rabbi Frand. http://www.torah.org/learning/ravfrand/5768/masei.html

Blood libels are part of the Jewish historical narrative and I would not rule out that this too is fabricated and a blood libel.  Before anyone rushes to condemn the "Jewish" murderers, before it is proven conclusively, I would advise to withhold judgement, apologies or comments.

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Date: Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 1:13 PM
Subject: Honor Killing: Burning People Is a Muslim Thing
To: unknownrecipient@mail.com

 

[Might as well bone up on Islam now. The Jihad is getting closer and there will be a test later. Below, a timely message from an Israeli friend – a lawyer. df]

 

 

Jews do not burn bodies but Arabs do.

Burning a corpse is strictly forbidden by Jewish law.

In stark contrast, burning someone alive is one form of the traditional ritual of Muslim honor killings. ,

Three weeks ago, in Tunisian news, A Father Burned His 13-Year-Old Daughter to Death for Walking Home With a Boy. Tunisian

Last week a news wire reports: A 17-year-old girl and her husband were killed by her family for marrying without its consent, and another young woman was burned alive by a man for refusing his proposal in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, police said Sunday.

In Yemen, a 15-year-old Yemeni girl was burned to death by her father for getting in touch with her fiancé before their wedding

In old news:

Horror in Nigeria: pupils burn to death in boarding school attack by Boko Haram

400 women burned in Iraq

Rarely does a victim of attempted honor killing by being burnt alive survive but one did and bravely told her story in her paperback book, Burned Alive: A Survivor of an "Honor Killing" Speaks Out. When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her West Bank village, as in so many others, sex before marriage is considered a grave dishonor to one's family and is punishable by death. This was her crime. Her brother-in-law was given the task of meting out her punishment. One morning while Souad was washing the family's clothes, he poured gasoline over her and set her on fire. Miraculously, she survived, rescued by women of her village, who put out the flames and took her to a local hospital. Horribly burned over seventy percent of her body and still denounced by her family, Souad was able to receive the care she needed only after the intervention of a European aid worker. Now in permanent exile from her homeland, she has decided to tell her story and reveal the barbarity of a practice that continues to this day. Burned Alive ...is the first true account ever published by a victim of an "honor crime." Souad's inspiring testimony is a shocking, moving, and harrowing story of cruelty and incomparable courage...and an inspiring call to action to end a heinous tradition.

In a study on Honor killings about half are not killed but tortured to death which includes being burned to death. This appears to be an age old method which is found in the Qur'an (48:29) - "Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. ... Muhammad orders his men to burn alive those who do not present themselves at the mosque for ...

In some perverse sense bringing alive is one way that the sinner can still get into heaven as a martyr. A family who is shamed by the adulterer or homosexual and is charged with the obligation of executing the honor killing finds in this a method so that their wayward relative is not forever damned.

The Prophet (p.b.u.h.) said, "The martyrs are seven, other than the one who is killed in the Way of Allaah, Ta'aalaa: 
- one who dies of plague,
- one who drowns,
- one who dies of pleurisy,
- one who dies of stomachache,
- one who dies due to burning 
- one who dies under a demolition (by accident)
- a woman who dies with a baby in her womb."
(Maalik, Aboo Dawood, An-Nasaaee, Ibn Maajah, Ibn Hibban, Haakim, Ahmad. Authenticated by al-Albaanee)

The Prophet (p.b.u.h.) said: "Getting killed in the Path of Allaah Ta'aalaa is martyrdom,
- (death in) confinement during childbirth is martyrdom,
- (death by) getting burned (by accident) is martyrdom, 
- (death by) drowning (by accident) is martyrdom,
- (death due to) tuberculosis is martyrdom,
- (death due to) stomachache is martyrdom."
(Tabaraanee, Ahmad, authenticated by al-Albaanee)

Someone who "knew" the victim in the biblical sense claims that this 16 year old was at one time his consort.

In a new video you can see the faces of the abductors – no way settlers or Jewish.

Where there is smoke, there is fire.

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Dan Friedman
NYC

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