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Let us Fight on Multiple Fronts:
The Torah Front
The Self Defense Front
The Political Front
The Economic Front
Folks, the Holocaust actually happened! Gush Katif expulsion actually happened! The destruction of the 1st and 2nd Temple actually happened. Why are we sitting back assuming that in the face of evil all will be ok?
It's irrational, it's insanity to do nothing!
Iran is quite upfront with their intentions. Hitler Yemach Shemo was as well. Netanyahu spelled it out to Congress.
Read about what we can expect from Obama in the next 22 months from Caroline Glick.
http://carolineglick.com/israels-next-22-months/ "...Last Thursday, US National Security Adviser Susan Rice announced that the NSC's Middle East Coordinator Phil Gordon was stepping down and being replaced by serial Israel-basher Robert Malley. ...
Malley's appointment indicates that there is nothing Israel can do to stem the tsunami of American pressure it is about to suffer."Mark Langfan, Chairman of AFSI Op-Ed: Netanyahu's Congress Speech May Have Saved the World. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/16627#.VQMkmo7F8WI The Senate letter was a natural response to the speech.
Lynne and Nissim Tammam Chairpersons, Yom Hashoah Mobilization Committee went down to Washington when Netanyahu came. They hired a bus from Great Neck. Yael from Brooklyn and her baby left at 3am in the morning to be in Washington. My husband and others did as well and I know cause I drove them down to Great Neck at 3am to catch the bus. Here we see individuals doing their hishtadlus, putting in their best effort in making a difference. Even though they were few in number, they are the rational ones.
It's irrational, it's insanity to do nothing!
Did Mordechai and Esther of the Purim story just ignore the existential threat? NO! If we do nothing, and things progress without our intervention, we see how events unfold. Another Holocaust, another Churban Chas VeChalila!.
Other Arab Nations understand the existential threat and they are acting....We isnt the Jewish World??????
Saudi Deal Could Mean Possible Eruption of Nuclear Arms Race http://jewishvoiceny.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10408:saudi-deal-could-mean-possible-eruption-of-nuclear-arms-race&catid=95:breaking-news&Itemid=334
..It's irrational , it's insanity to do nothing to sit back and hope for the best!
THe Torah Front
Apparently we have a fifth column among us and it's not only the secular leftist like JStreet and NIF it's also the Neturei Karta influence and probably misinterpreted Satmar ideology. The Misguided notion that the gov't of Israel and Zionism is evil out to destroy Torah and that until Moshiach reveals itself, we are better off under the Sovereignty of the non Jew is the destructive fifth column within us as well. This ideology seems to be embedded in the top echelons of the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah. That is the reason for the success of Million man march last year, the hundreds of thousands of Chareidim that came out to protest the Chareidi draft a year ago against the gov't of Israel.
Wouldn"t any rational person understand that Israel without a strong moral army is a weak Israel?
Our enemies are probably thrilled that the Ultra Orthodox Jewish Leaders are bashing Israel's army.
Why has there been no mass protest against the real threat of Iran. The threat of Iran is the same threat of Haman, to annihilate the Jewish people. Why was there a massive rally organized against an imaginary spiritual threat of the gov't of Israel against the Jewish people for their desire of having a strong army made up of all the segments of the Jewish population?
Rabbosai. If the Neturei Karta or this idealogy was actualized, we would be under the hands of Amalek today.. No different than Nazi Germany and no different than the Yazidis and Christian Copts in the hands of ISIS. We don't even need to use our imaginations as per how they would treat us. Surely just what our worst enemies would like. Yes, that would be the scenario if there was a Palestinian State governed by the Muslim Brotherhood or alternatively by Iran as the Obama Administration, the EU and the UN and Neturei Karta would have it.
Just watch the Temple Mount Cartoons Indoctrinating Children to Hate if you doubt the blatant antiSemitism these groups have. http://www.israelvideonetwork.com/temple-mount-cartoons-indoctrinating-children-to-hate/?
So how can we respond?
The Biblical response is the first and primary response to the existential threat!
The Rabbanim who are not in the ultra orthodox 5th Column MUST come forward! The Rebbe of Lubavitch encouraged the resolutions of the Marianbad conference of 1937 to be publicized where the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah of that Generation met regarding their position of a nascent formation of an independent Jewish State.
Ki MiZion Tezei Torah UDvar Hashem MeYerushalyim: Because from ZION the Torah will emerge and the Word of Hashem from Jerusalem.
The Torah is the source of justice and righteousness for all the Nations of the World!
Har Habayit, ....The site of the Akeida, The site of Jacobs dream, The site of the Holy Temples. The daily Sacrifices.. The Ketoret.....
All our dreams and aspirations in our daily Tefilloth and in every Parsha in the Torah from beginning till the end, and the object of the prophecies of our Prophets stem from HAMAKOM That special place where the Shechina resides.... Our enemies know it and that is why any mention of Har Habayit infuriates them....
Now is the time to speak with clarity as per our eternal Heritage to the Land of Israel based on the Biblical Promise as has Naftali Bennett eloquently done so below! BH Naftali Bennett understands that IT ALL BEGINS WITH THE BIBLICAL PROMISE!!!
And yes, Naftali Bennett also understands the dangers to our security and economy of a Palestinian State but emphasizing these dangers alone is not the way to win this war. The way to win the war with our enemies is to begin with asserting our Biblical inherent rights, out G-d Given gift of the Land of Israel to the Nation of Israel. This in turn will justify our armed struggle against the enemy and secure us physically and economically.
That is why the 5th Column of Jewish Leaders who refuse to publicly assert the Biblical Promise and then refuse to unite with the gov't of Israel to protect the Land of Israel is extremely dangerous to the Nation of Israel!
Who says we can't have a segment of the army whose designated job is to pray and learn for the wellbeing of the people and the security of the Land. Eleph, LeMateh.... Vehaya Machenecha Kadosh. Why is having a Holy Army, Pshuto Kmashmaoh, using the literal translation of these words, not even considered by this ultra Orthodox fifth column?
Naftali Bennett speaks with clarity regarding the importance of emphasizing the Biblical promise in the latest Sovereignty Newspaper published by Women in Green!
See pages 5-7 "The Annexation of Judea and Samaria is not far off. We must only really believe.
For economic minister and member of the security cabinet Naftali Bennett, the dangers represented by a Palestinian State, are a fatal combination of security and economy, but it all begins with the Biblical promise. "
Sovereigny Newspaper Issue 5 Adar 5775
The Self Defense Front!
Jews are in danger all over the world. Therefore let me tell you about some Jewish self defense initiatives that is happening
Brooklyn, NY
- Power Krav Maga Military hand to hand combat: Fighting Fitness classes http://www.powerkravmaga.com/
- Self Defense Class: Class for Rabbanim, Teachers, Gabbaim, Community Leaders
Date: Sunday, March 29th
Time: 12 noon to 3 pm
Location: 423 Ocean Pkwy (crnr of Courtelyou and Ocean Pkwy)
contact: Rabbi Avi Schwartz mschw136@aol.com
Pesach is fast approaching and acts of terror may occur, chas veshalom. As leaders it is our responsibility to protect our people from danger.
Rabbi Avi Schwartz, Director of Shomrei Haam, and world reknowned self defense expert,
Grandmaster Gerry Kushmakov will be conducting a 3 hour self defense seminar against terror attacks.
In Los Angeles: Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, Jews Can ShootPrice $20
Jews Can Shoot: http://cjhsla.org/jewscanshoot/
On the Political front:
The Christians United for Israel see the writing on the wall. 75,000 is impressive but still not sufficient. Where are Jews? Where are the grassroots?
It is here with this email. It is me and it is you. Let us not wait for others to initiate Lynne and Nissim took a lead. I am forwarding their email. Now is your chance to take the lead. Forward this email. Call your Senators! And Davan with your heart and soul. Repeat the words of Naftali Bennett
"It all begins with the Biblical Promise" and let us not be afraid to proclaim this Truth to our representatives in Congress. They have been raised in the Judea Christian tradition and they are strongly committed to these beliefs as well!
"It all begins with the Biblical Promise" and let us not be afraid to proclaim this Truth to our representatives in Congress. They have been raised in the Judea Christian tradition and they are strongly committed to these beliefs as well!
Remember! the Holocaust did happen. My parents were in it. Our grandparents and our aunts and uncles and their kids and their siblings and their neighbors and their cousins were all in a Holocaust. Lots of our extended family perished.
If only a small percentage of 6,000,000 carried arms would this Holocaust have happened?
My husband's mothers family and community were virtually wiped out leaving a very small remnant from Poland. Yet the few from the Warsaw Ghetto held the fort...in spite of the shortage of weapons and training...Sheer will power....
Why are we complacent?
Because we are waiting for leadership? We can only look at ourselves in the Mirror and say like Rabbi Meir Kahana "NEVER AGAIN!"
On the Economic FRONT (Rabbi Meir Kahana recognized this FRONT as well and so must we!)
Meir Kahana in his book "Never Again" page 240 writes: (MY EMPHASIS rt)
(Hadar he defines as pride, nationalism, self respect and clear Jewish identity).
"TO IMPLANT INTO OURSELVES AND INTO OUR YOUTH HADAR AND AHAVAT YISROEL BECOMES THE IMMEDIATE, CRITICAL PRIORITY. IT IS THE FOUNDATION OF A JEWISH PROGRAM FOR SURVIVAL THAT CALLS FOR BOTH MORAL AND PHYSICAL JEWISH POWER.
IT MUST BEGIN WITH THE REORDERING OF OUR PRIORITIES, AND THE GATHERING OF JEWISH ASSETS, ENERGIES, EFFORTS AND MONEYS INTO A UNIFIED EFFORT TO MEET JEWISH PROBLEMS". THE FEDERATIONS THAT CONTROL JEWISH FUNDS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY MUST BECOME DEMOCRATIZED AND COMMITTED TO THE REALLY IMPORTANT AND STRICTLY JEWISH PROGRAMS. THE FIRST PRIORITY, THE ONE THAT WILL INSURE US A GENERATION THAT IS FILLED WITH HADAR AND AHAVAT YISROEL, IS TO SET ASIDE THE LION'S SHARE OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS FOR JEWISH EDUCATION.
....JEWISH LEADERS AND GROUPS CANNOT WAIT FOR YOUNG JEWS TO COME TO THEM; THEY MUST GO OUT TO THE CAMPUSES AND SIT AND TALK WITH THE YOUTH.
let me insert a link to todays world on campus and how visionary Rabbi Meir Kahana was.
From Durban to Los Angeles: the BDS movement's long trail of anti-Semitism MARCH 13, 2015 BY JEWISH AFFAIRS JOURNAL EDITOR By Tammi Rossman-Benjamin/JNS.org.
Rabbi Kahana continues....
WE MUST NOT WAIT AND WATCH AS ARAB PROPAGANDA FLOODS THE CAMPUSES, DOING MORE HARM AGAINST THE STATE OF ISRAEL THAN 10 EGYPTIAN DIVISIONS. IT IS NOT ONLY THAT SOME STUDENTS BECOME ARAB SYMPATHIZERS BUT THAT VAST NUMBERS BECOME "NEUTRAL.". INUNDATED BY THE FLOOD OF ARAB ARGUMENTS, ALMOST ALL WELL WRITTEN, SUBSTANTIVELY GOOD, AND OF THE MOST PROFESSIONAL AND SLICKEST FORM, THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS BEGIN TO "UNDERSTAND' THE ARAB SIDE AND ARE DETOURED TO A MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROAD POSITION THAT SEES GOOD AND BAD IN BOTH ISRAEL AND ARAB CAMPS. THE RESULT IS A BLASE RENDITION OF A "PLAGUE ON BOTH YOUR HOUSES." THE ARABS ASK FOR NOTHING MORE THAN THIS. IF THE FUTURE GENERATION OF AMERICANS, IF THE FUTURE LEADERS OF ISRAEL'S STRONGEST ALLY CAN BE NEUTRALIZED, THIS IN ITSELF IS A VICTORY OF THE GREATEST MAGNITUDE.
Our leaders have been neutralized my friends....
You be a leader. Our Major Jewish Organizations are not leading. It is painful to say and the last thing we want to do is spread Lashon Hara. But they are Silent.
Is History repeating itself?.
Hopefully not! It is not too late! Modah ANi Lefanecha.... Every morning we wake up and say Modeh Ani. Thank you Hashem that we are still alive that you returned our soul to us. With great compassion and great is Your faithfulness in us. . We may have had a brush with death but we have a new dawn, a new opportunity.A Rebirth... It still is in dream mode and the dream has yet to actualize. Wakeup our sleeping Leaders. We need you to lead.
Meanwhile, each one of us is a leader, and in a place where there is no leaders strive to be a leader.
How can we expect a Leader getting his salary from sources which aim to silence, be outspoken? His/her job is on the line.
Let us Acknowledge those leaders who demonstrate Mesirat Nefesh! Reject all the leaders that don't!
We must fight and and speak the truth even at risk of our lofty position. ...
What good is ones job or money saved in the bank following a Holocaust???? You don't take your job or money with you after death G-d forbid.
Maybe that puts things in the proper perspective and our priorities are re-prioritized.
Hopefully, trust in G-d, and don't be afraid to speak up for Truth, for Torah, for our Jewish Heritage and fight the Amalek of our day.
This recent Parshat Zachor, my friend Vered told me her insights to Parshat Zachor. Deuteronomy 25:19. She remarked that she felt that the word בְּהָנִיחַ means that when we have the capability of fighting Amalek, like today, we have an obligation to do so. Surely today that is the case. Israel has an army and is a Sovereign Nation. . Yehoshua fought Amalek and didn't wipe them out completely, even Shaul, King Saul, fought Amalek though he fell short of doing the job. In the time of Haman the Jews fought back and killed tens of thousands.
Today, we are facing a nuclear Iran and the evils of ISIS.
וְהָיָה בְּהָנִיחַ יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ | לְךָ מִכָּל אֹיְבֶיךָ מִסָּבִיב בָּאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ נֹתֵן לְךָ נַחֲלָה לְרִשְׁתָּהּ תִּמְחֶה אֶת זֵכֶר * (זֶכֶר) עֲמָלֵק מִתַּחַת הַשָּׁמָיִם לֹא תִּשְׁכָּח:.
[Therefore,] it will be, when the Lord your God grants you respite from all your enemies around [you] in the land which the Lord, your God, gives to you as an inheritance to possess, that you shall obliterate the remembrance of Amalek from beneath the heavens. You shall not forget!
Does the pshat, simple meaning, mean that we must wait until our enemies stop attacking us to begin to attack them back?? I don't think so. Perhaps the finality of Amalek is after we go to war with them and there is a peaceful ceasefire and respite because our enemies were weakened and defeated. At that point perhaps we have an obligation to obliterate them and any remembrance of them. But there is no precedence in Tanach or Jewish history to indicate that we are exempt from fighting them begin with just because they are still fighting us. We have the obligation to fight them each and every generation on each FRONT.
So Mordechai's approach "Lech Knos Kol Hayehudim" especially the children seems to be in order! Now is a Shemittah year! All of our resources must be combined, Kibbutz style to fight the existential threat of Iran and Isis. Federation has gone bankrupt. All Jewish Philanthropy must be redirected to proper Jewish causes and education and yes even military preparedness. Nobody will start up with a shul if each of its members have guns and wearing cell phones, trained and ready to defend their right to pray and their right to exist. It is a Milchemet Mitzvah in the Holy Land. An obligatory War. And even in Chutz LeAretz, we must be of the same mindset, acting together as ONE, KeIsh Echad BeLev Echad!
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Lynne Bursky Tammam <hashoah@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 9:41 AM
Subject: Action Alert: Contact Schumer, Gillibrand, Booker...re: S. 615
To: "hashoah@hotmail.com" <hashoah@hotmail.com>
It has been reported that Senator Cardin (D-MD), Senator Coons (D-DE), Senator Blumenthal (D-CT), and Senator Bennet (D-CO) have all committed to overriding President Obama's anticipated veto of the newly introduced Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 (S. 615)!!!! This bi-partisan legislation authored by Senators Bob Corker (R-TN), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Tim Kaine (D-VA) will delay the lifting of sanctions against Iran and establishes a procedure for congressional review and approval of any nuclear agreement with Iran before it is finalized.
-- From: Lynne Bursky Tammam <hashoah@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 9:41 AM
Subject: Action Alert: Contact Schumer, Gillibrand, Booker...re: S. 615
To: "hashoah@hotmail.com" <hashoah@hotmail.com>
Dear Friends of Israel and the Jewish People,
It has been reported that Senator Cardin (D-MD), Senator Coons (D-DE), Senator Blumenthal (D-CT), and Senator Bennet (D-CO) have all committed to overriding President Obama's anticipated veto of the newly introduced Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 (S. 615)!!!! This bi-partisan legislation authored by Senators Bob Corker (R-TN), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Tim Kaine (D-VA) will delay the lifting of sanctions against Iran and establishes a procedure for congressional review and approval of any nuclear agreement with Iran before it is finalized.
Christians United for Israel was able to get 57,000 supporters of Israel to write letters to the Senate. A similar effort on your part will dramatically enhance the effort to pass the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015. It is urgent that we call, e-mail, and write to those senators below who supported the Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act in the past but who have maintained silence or are non-committal regarding their willingness to override Pres. Obama's expected veto of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015. Our phone calls, e-mails, and letters DO make a difference! This was emphasized first-hand by Congressional representatives during recently attended AIPAC sessions.
The websites of Senators are warning that intense security in Washington is causing significant delays in the receipt of regular mail. They are advising to fax letters rather than sending them by regular mail to Washington.
NOTE: Although it was reported in the Wall Street Journal that Senator Schumer was committed to overriding Obama's expected veto of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, the Jewish Voice (3/11/15) has just reported that Schumer "declined to confirm that he would vote to override a veto." Ask Senator Schumer: Is he or is he not going to be counted among those brave Democratic Senators who are putting our national security and that of Israel before partisan politics and protocol?
For those in New York, call Senator Schumer at 202-224-6542 (or 212-486-4430).
E-mail him by going to www.schumer.senate.gov
Fax a letter to: 202-228-3027
For those in New York, call Senator Gillibrand at 202-224-4451 (or 212-688-6262).
E-mail her by going to www.gillibrand.senate.gov
Fax a letter to: 202-228-0282
For those in New Jersey, call Senator Cory Booker at:
E-mail him by going to www.booker.senate.gov
Fax a letter to: 202-224-8378
For those in Pennsylvania, call Senator Bob Casey: Call 202-224-6324 (or 215-405-9660)
Fax a letter to: 202-228-0604
Senators Mark Warner (D) of Virginia, Joe Donnelly (D) of Indiana, and Joe Manchin (D) of West Virginia are also senators who originally supported the Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act but who are now silent. If you are in these states or have contacts in these states, please encourage them to launch phone, e-mail, and letter-writing campaigns to these senators.
The message we sent:
"Your support for the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 (Senate Bill 615) is urgently needed. It is critical that the proposed agreement with Iran be subjected to Congressional review and approval before it is finalized. We are urging you to put the security of the United States of America, its closest ally Israel, and the entire Middle East region above politics and protocol and to commit to overriding President Obama's expected veto. 77 % of Americans now agree that Iran's development of nuclear weapons is a "critical threat" (Gallup World Affairs Poll, Feb. 8-11, 2015).
The Administration is about to enter into an agreement with Iran which is described by our State Dept. as the "world's foremost leader of state-sponsored terrorism" and is ruled by a regime that has reneged on every agreement it has signed since 2003. It continues to refuse the International Atomic Energy Agency access to its Parchin military complex and has refused to allow the IAEA to inspect the technologies it is developing which are related to building a nuclear weapon. Iran has done nothing to establish itself as a credible negotiating "partner."
There is every indication that the strategies being used with Iran are the ones that failed with North Korea which now has nuclear weapons. Iran's nuclear ambitions are threatening to create a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.
THE PRICE FOR THIS ADMINISTRATION'S OUTSOURCING OUR FIGHT AGAINST ISIS MUST NOT BE A NUCLEAR-ARMS-CAPABLE IRAN. YOU MUST HOLD THIS ADMINISTRATION ACCOUNTABLE FOR ITS DANGEROUS STRATEGY.
On behalf of our children, our grandchildren, and future generations, we beseech you to find the courage and fortitude to support the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 and to commit to overriding Pres. Obama's expected veto! At this perilous juncture in history, we need heroic action!"
Lynne Bursky-Tammam and Nessim Tammam
Chairpersons, Yom Hashoah Mobilization Committee
Sincerely,
Robin Ticker
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.
Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com
Robin Ticker
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.
Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com
Personal emails to individuals will not be posted to my blog.
