Friday, August 07, 2015

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Agudath Israel continues to urge advocacy against Iran deal

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Highlights from AIMD brunch with Ambassador Ron Dermer
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Rabbi Ariel Sadwin
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Agudath Israel of Maryland released a highlights video from its recent event with Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer. The event and the powerful message delivered by Ambassador Dermer could not have taken place at a more crucial time with the very troubling JCPOA - Iran Nuclear Deal signed two days later in Vienna. 

Highlights from AIMD Brunch with Ambassador Ron Dermer - 7/12/15
Statement of Agudath Israel of America commending Senator Charles Schumer for opposing Iranian nuclear deal
Agudath Israel of America welcomes with great appreciation the announcement by Senator Charles Schumer that he opposes the proposed Iranian nuclear deal embodied in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, and intends to vote to disapprove the deal.

 

Senator Schumer has spoken out consistently and forcefully over the past several years about the grave threat a nuclear empowered Iran would pose to America and its allies, especially Israel. Indeed, in a major address to the participants in Agudath Israel's 93rd Anniversary Dinner earlier this year, Senator Schumer pointed out that "a nuclear Iran [would be] unlike any other threat that Israel has faced."

 

In that address, Senator Schumer also identified, in clear detail, a number of conditions that must be met in order to make any nuclear deal with the Iranians acceptable - some of which are plainly missing or inadequately addressed in the JCPOA. So it comes as no surprise that he has found the JCPOA lacking.

 

Yet while Senator Schumer's position is not surprising, it is courageous. He is the first and thus far the only Senator of his political party to publicly announce that he will be voting against the position of the Administration. His high rank among his Democratic Senate colleagues surely created an incentive for him not to buck the leadership of his party. Fortunately, however, as he said in the statement he issued in announcing his intention to vote to disapprove the JCPOA, Senator Schumer made his decision "solely based on the merits ... without regard to pressure, politics or party." For this he deserves our sincere admiration and deep appreciation.

 

We respectfully call upon other members of Congress, regardless of political affiliation, to recognize the serious shortcomings of the JCPOA, and to disapprove this deal.


Sen. Charles Schumer speaking
 about the Iran deal at Agudath Israel's dinner in May (beginning at 8:45).
Guest Speaker Sen Schumer


Statement of Agudath Israel of America commending Democratic Representatives who oppose Iranian nuclear deal

The announcement by Representative Eliot Engel that he intends to vote to disapprove the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action brings to eight the number of Democrats in the House of Representatives who have joined many of their Republican colleagues who have already announced their opposition to the proposed Iranian nuclear deal.  These Democratic Representatives - Ted Deutch, Steve Israel, Nita Lowey, Grace Meng, Kathleen Rice, Albio Sires, Juan Vargas and now Eliot Engel - are to be commended for their courageous position.

 

In Representative Engel's case, as the ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, it was surely no simple matter for him to defy the leadership of his party by publicly declaring that the proposed deal is unacceptable. We at Agudath Israel have met with Representative Engel a number of times over the past few years to discuss the Iranian nuclear threat, and we are deeply gratified that he is standing firm in rejecting the deeply flawed and dangerous deal currently on the table.

 

We congratulate the eight Democratic Representatives who have displayed courage in considering the proposed Iranian nuclear deal without reference to partisan party concerns; and we respectfully call upon other members of Congress, regardless of political affiliation, to recognize the serious shortcomings of the JCPOA, and to disapprove this deal.

Congressman Eliot Engel speaking with members of Agudath Israel of America's Board of Trustees, February 2015


Agudath Israel continues to urge advocacy against Iran deal
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Rabbi Abba Cohen

Vice President for Federal Affairs and Washington Director

Agudath Israel of America's staff and lay leadership reached out to members of Congress over the last two weeks to express their concern with the nuclear deal reached with Iran.  Face-to-face meetings are being arranged with key members of  Congress, both in Washington and in local districts.  Agudath Israel reiterates its July 17th statement calling for "both political and spiritual advocacy" and calls upon its lay leadership to contact members of Congress while they are home during the August recess. We urge community members to respectfully ask their members of Congress to push for a stronger deal that will  better protect the United States and its allies, especially Israel.

 

For talking points, sample letters, and contact information for your member of Congress click here.

Agudath Israel leaders meet with Senator Gillibrand on Iran nuclear deal
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Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel
Executive Vice President

As the U.S. Senate entered the final days of its session before breaking for summer recess, a high ranking delegation of Agudath Israel of America leaders traveled to Washington earlier this week to meet with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D, NY) to discuss the organization's deep concerns about the Iranian nuclear deal, and to urge her to vote against the deal.


 

In a meeting that lasted over half-an-hour, the Agudath Israel delegation delivered a clear message: the proposed deal with Iran is fraught with grave danger for America and its allies, especially Israel, and should be disapproved.


 

Senator Gillibrand, who was clearly knowledgeable about the many complex issues surrounding the proposed agreement yet deeply interested in the insights her guests brought to the table, took careful notes as the Agudath Israel leaders made their case. While she did not definitively indicate which way she planned to vote, the Senator spoke with great passion about the terrible threat a nuclear empowered Iran would pose, and she forcefully articulated America's responsibility to prevent that threat from materializing.


 

After the meeting, Agudath Israel executive vice president Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel described Senator Gillibrand as "diligent and intelligent, sensitive to the concerns we raised and clear-eyed about the nature of the Iranian threat.  It was a privilege for us to have an opportunity to engage the Senator in intense face-to-face dialogue on this vital issue."


 

The other members of the Agudath Israel delegation included three members of the organization's board of trustees, Charles (Hashi) Herzka, Ralph (Shmuel Yosef) Rieder and Jacob (Yaty) Weinreb, as well as Agudath Israel's executive vice president for finance and administration Rabbi Shlomo Gertzulin, and vice president for federal affairs Rabbi Abba Cohen.


 

The meeting with Senator Gillibrand was one of a series of targeted meetings Agudath Israel plans to have in the weeks ahead with Senators and Representatives who have not yet indicated how they intend to vote on the Iranian deal.  "We hope," Rabbi Zwiebel said, "that the relationship many of our key constituents across America enjoy with their elected officials, and the perspectives we have to offer, will prove useful in persuading those officials to vote no on this dangerous deal." 

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New York Jewish schools to receive millions of dollars in next two years

Mrs. Deborah Zachai
Director of Education Affairs

The New York State Education Department recently announced its plans for the disbursement of the $250 million in mandated services and Comprehensive Attendance Program (CAP) reimbursement the legislature appropriated at the close of this year's session in June.

 

At a meeting of the New York State Commissioner of Education's Nonpublic School Advisory Council, State Education Department officials announced that the $250 million would be paid out over a two-year period, with $125 million disbursed in each of the two years.  These payments are set to begin in September 2015. 

 

Mrs. Deborah Zachai, Agudath Israel of America's director of education affairs, who was one of the meeting participants, explained that these monies have been owed to nonpublic schools for more than a decade.  Due to budget shortfalls and the use of a flawed formula to calculate the actual reimbursement owed to nonpublic schools, the debt accumulated and became substantial over a more than ten-year period. 

  

It has been a long-standing legislative priority for Agudath Israel of America - whose late president Rabbi Moshe Sherer was instrumental in getting the mandated services law enacted over 40 years ago - to obtain payment on the debt.  With the state's allocation of $250 million for this purpose, that priority has now been accomplished.

 

"We are absolutely thrilled that, at long last, the state will be making good on the debt it has owed Jewish and other nonpublic schools for so many years. We anticipate that the Jewish schools' share of these funds should be approximately $80 million over the next two years, in addition to the regular mandated and CAP payments. This infusion of substantial funding is wonderful news for Jewish schools and should significantly help ease their cash flow over the next two years," said Mrs. Zachai. 

 

"We thank Governor Cuomo and the members of the Legislature for addressing this important issue. This development is long overdue, but nonetheless extremely welcome," said Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, Agudath Israel's executive vice president.  

Agudath Israel Ohio director attends Republican Presidential Debate in Cleveland

Agudath Israel's Ohio Director, Rabbi Yitz Frank, with Congressman Jim Jordan (OH-4th District) talking about school choice before the Republican Presidential Debate in Cleveland

 


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Fwd: Israeli Racism Against Jews, Lessons from the heatwave, Smash Iran and Aliya to Israel, and more

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Voice of Judea News and Commentary

1-      Israeli gov racism against Jews?
2-      Israeli gov treats Jewish activists worse than Arab terrorists
3-      Israel's heatwave is a wake-up call to ready for war - smash Iran and come home NOW to Israel!

1-      ISRAELI GOVERNMENT RACISM AGAINST JEWS?

Do Israeli leaders, legislators and Rabbis believe that Jewish blood is cheaper than Arab blood? Is the spilling of Arab blood a greater crime than the ongoing spilling of Jewish blood? Is one act of "terror" against Arabs to be viewed more harshly than thousands of combined terror attacks against Jews? Any objective bystander in Israel can hardly miss the clear preference given to the spilled blood of Arabs when it comes to the massive sweeping condemnation by Israeli leaders of such rare attacks against Arabs, in sharp contrast to the indifference shown by elected Israeli officials when it comes to the ongoing, massive attacks and massacres carried out by Arabs against Jews.

This self-hating national breast-beating- ritual performed by elected officials, rabbis and media across the board in Israel is particularly amusing when it comes to the recent torching of an Arab house which lead to the death of an Arab child. Before the flames were even extinguished, Israel's President Rivlin and a convoy of Jewish apologists were already begging forgiveness and attacking the "Jewish perpetrators" of the arson - in the harshest of hysterical epithets. As a side note, it has yet to be proven that the fire was an act of deliberate arson or that the arsonists were of the Mosaic persuasion. The fact that Arab calligraphic style Hebrew words of vengeance were carefully drawn on the home is hardly proof that the perpetrators were Jews. In fact, if anything can be concluded by the shape and style of the letters and words painted on the wall deep in the Arab village, it would be that it is unlikely the artistic work of Jews who would have penetrated so deep into the village and spent so much time painting as the flames raged through the house.

The fact that none of the village cameras and that no witness identified Jews roaming their village should only further cast some level of doubt over the logical integrity behind the crusade being launched against Jews for the arson. There are enough examples of Arabs having carried out attacks against rival Hamulot tribes where they cunningly left Hebrew messages of "vengeance" and "price tag" to instigate arrests against Jews and to incite violence against Jews. Let us not forget that the Hebron Massacre that occurred  this time of year back in 1929 and which led to the murder of dozens of Jews was instigated by false blood libels against Jews by Arabs who claimed Jews had raped and murdered Arabs.

 We Jews are all too familiar with blood libels against us that were construed to trigger, inspire and motivate Jew-haters to initiate, target and intensify their rabid terror/pogroms/massacres against Jews. It is one thing, though, when Arab haters jump on the bandwagon to demonize all Jews, and yet another when the President and Prime Minister of Israel do so. It is a further outrage, when thousands of attacks against Jews are virtually ignored by Jewish leaders, yet when one possible retaliatory attack that might likely have been carried out by Jews against Arabs brings unbalanced and excessive condemnation of Jews and opens the door to harsh collective punishment against "settlers" and hilltop Jewish youth with new draconian powers given to the Shin Bet to harass and intimidate Jews accused of being anti-Arab activists.

Here is a small aid to measure the unbalanced and distorted response of Jewish politicians in Israel to the recent incident in the Arab village of D/Tuma in contrast to their deafening response of silence after recent cases in which Arabs murdered Jews.

The attached chart shows how the Primie Minister, President and other politicians repeatedly condemned the possible Jewish attack against Arabs on their facebook pages while they blatantly ignored recent attacks against Jews before and after the Arab house arson.


Placing the possible Jewish-hand in the D/Tuma arson into perspective and proportion: Find here a list of names of Israeli and Jewish children murdered by known Arab assailants in comparison to the handful of incidents carried out by Jews against Arab children.

How Many Children Have Been Murdered and by whom?
http://www.jewishpress.com/blogs/muqata/how-many-children-have-these-terrorists-murdered/2015/08/02/

Arab children killed by Jews – 1 maybe 2
Muhammad Abu-Khdeir, age 16
Ali Saad Dawabsha, age 1 (Undetermined. Possibly by Jews. )

Israeli children (Jews and Arabs) killed by Arab terrorists – 177 Read post for complete list of names and ages of Jewish children killed by Arab terrorists.

How many arson attacks have been launched against Jews this year? Hundreds, if not thousands. Not a day passes without dozens of incidents of boulders, fire bombs and arson against Jews. How many against Arabs? Approximately ten this year, assuming unproven allegations against Jews are all true.
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2-      Israeli Government: Treats Jewish Activists Worse Than Arab Terrorists

The Israeli Security Services recently arrested Meir David Ettinger, the grandson of the late outspoken Jewish activist Rabbi Meir Kahane. Ettinger is suspected of offering moral support and guidance to Jewish hilltop youth suspected of retaliatory "price-tag" attacks against Arabs. In one recent incident last week an Arab home was torched causing the death of an Arab child. The alleged arson occurred near the location where Malachi Rosenfeld was murdered last month. The Arab house located in the occupied Arab village of D/Tuma has produced its fair share of terrorists over the years. While no evidence has implicated Jews, an Arabic style Hebrew message of "revenge" was painted on the Arab home in Kfar D/Tuma.

The Israeli government jumped at the opportunity to give a greenlight to security services to investigate Jewish hilltop activists with the same controversial torture methods permitted against "Arab terrorist-time-bombs" (suspected of planning serious terror attacks against Jews.) Administrative detention of hilltop Jewish suspects has also been permitted and Defense Minister Yaalon already issued three such 6-month-administrative detention orders. Administrative detention allows the Shin Bet to hold and interrogate suspects for 6 months without a trial. Mordecai Maiyer, one 18 year old Jewish boy from Maaleh Adumim, Jerusalem has already been taken into Shin Bet "Dungeon" style custody.

Voice of Judea Commentary:

WHY NOT SIMPLY EXPEL THE HOSTILE ARABS?
Here we have it. One "Jewish terror" act of retaliation for thousands of Arab attacks triggers these draconian measures and demonizing of Jewish "settlers".  To make a moral comparison between one possible act of retaliation on the one side, with thousands of premeditated acts of terror and hundreds of first-degree murders perpetrated against Jews is absurd. However, if one possible act carried out by Jews merits collective punishment against Jews and such harsh action on the part of the government, then it seems only fair, in the name of quality, to drive the Arabs out of Israel for the thousands of acts that they perpetrate against Jews.

Such a reaction would be balanced in view of the intense measures now being executed against Jews. To place things into proportion, if one incident can bring about the detention and orders of expulsion to so many Jews, than the thousands of incidents carried out by Arabs should justify the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Arabs. Additionally, if there were no hostile Arabs in Israel, there would be no Arab terror in Israel or no reason for Jewish youth to seek retaliation against the ongoing barbaric, murderous assaults launched by Arabs against Jews. Once we place the numbers and reality into perspective and into fair proportions, we would reach the conclusion that the only answer left is to expel the hostile Arabs from Israel.


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SEEKING DIRECTION AND LESSONS FROM THE HEATWAVE PLAGUE IN ISRAEL THAT LED AMONG OTHER TRAGEDIES TO THE BIZARRE DEATH OF PRIVATE DAN SELA IN EAST JERUSALEM


HEAT WAVE CONTINUES TO PLAGUE ISRAEL, HOWEVER, IF IT IS ANY CONSOLATION, IRAN GOT A DOUBLE DOSE OF THE PLAGUE – but why us?

Israel cooled down by a degree or two today, however, forecasts predict the scorching weather to continue and intensify over Shabbat and into next week. With temperatures in Israel soaring in the direction of 100 degrees, it was no surprise to hear of heat-strokes, death and injuries due to the high temperatures over recent days.

Voice of Judea Commentary:
It was good to hear that Iran received a double dose of the heat plague, with temperatures approaching 170 degrees, after factoring in the humidity and other variables.

When nature hits us, it is G-d trying to tell us something
The heat plague is reminiscent of the Rat epidemic that plagued Iran last year. Once again, Israel too, received the plague in far less significant numbers and intensity. While the scorching heat has left millions of dollars of damage to Israeli agriculture and while there have been fatalities, it pales in complexion to the damage inflicted upon Iran and other Middle-Eastern countries. As happy as we might be to see our most bitter enemys  melting away in their Persian Hell-hole, this does not minimize the pain and anguish being caused by our own, albeit, smaller heat plague. The untimely death of Dan Sela - the soldier who mysteriously fell to his death, after exiting the air-conditioned  military bus on a tour with his unit of the "old city" of Jerusalem is only one of the recent tragedies caused by the heatwave in Israel. Naturally this is also a call for the Jews to Teshuva and to seek to find what needs tikun-correction as the Talmud teaches us in Tractate Taanit.

All disasters around the world are for the Jews, so says the Talmud in Yevamot
As we know natural disasters around the world are supposed to be analyzed by the Jews to understand what we need to correct and fix spiritually. The Talmud in Yevamot says (63a) that all major events of disaster  around the world, happen on behalf of the Jew, to do teshuva and to seek out the connection and the cause. Measure for measure is the way of G-d, and punishment and suffering of Jews and even of far-away gentiles is a wake-up call and a warning to us, before tragedy hits at home.

How can we know what to fix?
How does one seek answers to know what we Jews must correct and about what sins to repent for? Firstly, the issue that we ultimately conclude needs to be corrected, needs to be within the framework of the halachic system and needs to jive with basic Torah values. The cause and affect would need to be things that make sense from a halachic Jewish perspective. For example, if there was a mass parade of Jews to say the shema and to proclaim commitment to faith and Torah on Sunday, and then on Monday if a tornado hit that very area, it would not be a legitimate Torah conclusion to derive as a lesson that "we should not say the shema or not commit to following the Torah." The conclusion needs to be Torah-proof and make sense.

G-d striking the gentiles is also a wake up call for us, even if we are not hit quite so hard
However, a look at the preceding events to the tragedy could be used as a moral compass to direct us to the cause of the tragedy. G-d in His infinite mercy upon Israel gives us warnings by afflicting the gentiles first for crimes that they do which we copy, as well as by repeatedly hitting the Gentiles harder and harder to serve as a wake-up call to us. Yes, we also receive a dose of the punishment for our sins, yet G-d strives for the Jew to repent and limits the punishment against the Jews.

Is this not the prophecy of Zephanya, Chapter 3?
This is apparently a fulfillment of the prophecy in Zefanya 3, where it speaks of the Jews sinning and of G-d, in His infinite mercy, dishing out punishment to the gentiles first. Then, small measures of punishment is exacted against the Jewish people to awaken them to repent. However, the Jews are stubborn and refuse to wake up, and even awaken to sin earlier than the gentiles - to copy their evil ways. And so the prophet speaks of the punishment then being meted out to the gentiles again. And then the Jews, still not learning a lesson from the punishment dished out to the gentiles, as the Jews continue to copy the decadent ways of the Goyim,  G-d further intensifies the punishment against the gentiles in the hope that the Jews will yet learn a lesson…Then Zephanya speaks of the end of days when the world will be punished into submission  for their plotting against the Jews. The context of the sins of the "pride people" and the "gay city" is also referred to in the backdrop of the verses. The Talmud in Yevamot brings down this chapter in Tzefania to prove that Jews need to learn from all of the plagues and disasters that are suffered by the gentiles as a wake-up call to Jews to do teshuva. Jews, wake up- Return to G-d and return to His land.

Rabbi Wasserman would learn the daily newspaper...
Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman was known to read the secular Russian media to learn what needed to be fixed by his local Yeshiva and community. The Hafetz Haim was said to have held a day of fasting after he heard about a devastating earthquake in Japan to do teshuva and seek repentance. We look at recent events that precede a tragedy or natural disaster to see if there is a measure for measure related connection to define the potential cause its effect. Only by defining the cause could one seek to know what deed or misdeed we need to fix.

Does the Torah warn that a particular sin would cause such a punishment? There is no other way to correct a sin, without knowing what the sin is that requires our attention. The illness can be cured if we know what the cause is. This is why we must have the ability to seek the cause by reviewing headlines, or the daf yomi of that day or the parsha of that week to see a hint and to know in which direction to find the answers. If the answers were not of the nature that anyone can google or see for himself after a basic of those days and the current events, then it would not be reasonable to expect us to wake up to teshuva for a specific sin.  The answer is there for any who cares to look at the blaring headlines. The answer is there for anyone who seeks to open his eyes and his ears and who truly seeks to avert future tragedy. The answers are staring  at us on the wall, otherwise we would not be expected to utilize the punishment or suffering as an indication about what needs correcting.

G-d is good. Punishements and suffering to wake us up and prevent worse...
The Talmud says in Baba Kama that one who says that G-d is "Vatran" - does not execute punishment, is then punished by G-d. Similarly the Rambam in Hilchot Taanit says that one who says that there is no rhyme or reason to events and that it is not all orchestrated by G-d but rather a matter of chance and a "mikreh" or "Kerry" - translated as a mere coincidence, then he will be given more and more "Kerry" until he wakes up and seeks to repent for the sin that has caused that tragedy.

When one looks at the news in the days prior to the heatwave in an attempt to try and piece-together a puzzle and to find a Torah-proof cause to the heatwave and the tragedy here, as well as the more intense tragedies elsewhere that need correction on our part, we see a series of events which immediately preceded the crippling heat-wave, we find the following headlines:

HEADLINES PRIOR TO THE HEATWAVE
Government destroys Jewish homes in Beth El. Indictment of Rabbi for sexual abuse of the wives of his disciples in Zefat. Israel's diplomatic efforts to lobby Congress against the Obama-Iran deal. Gay Pride Parade planned for Jerusalem. Jewish teens arrested and blamed for arson against a church near Tiberias.Yes, sexual decadence and abominations like the Gay Pride Parade do cause decrees against the Jewish people. Historically all of Israel's recent wars as well as last year's kidnapping and murder of the three boys that led to the war in Gaza all happened on the day or shortly after the Gay Pride Parades. Not to speak of the horrible allegations against the Rabbi in Zefat for his sexual crimes against many women which surfaced recently.. Driving Jews out of their homes and shelter onto the streets could bring about a decree that exposes all of Israel to heat and other woes of nature even in the confines of their air-conditioned homes that otherwise shelter them from heat and rough climate conditions. We also read in the days preceding the heatwave about more and more IDF officers and soldiers being investigated for "war crimes" for using "excessive unwarranted" force to defend themselves. In Israel's obsessive quest to find favor in the eyes of the gentiles they prosecute their own soldiers, for fighting back against the enemy. Now in the heat wave, a soldier dies for no apparent reason, and not in battle. A wake up call to stop putting our soldiers in harms way just for the sake of pleasing the gentiles?


The Gaon of Vilna states that gematria is also a tool in these days of confusion before redemption

 A gematria of  "soldier Dan Sela" equals the numeric value of The "Winograd" Commision. The self-hating commission that was aimed at self-criticism. At a time when all of Israel's leaders fall over themselves to apologize to the Arabs and at a time when the news broadcasts daily about Israeli military trials and investigations against officers who used "excessive and unwarranted force" against he poor Arabs in recent battles and incidents.

The Final Report of the Commission to Investigate the Lebanon Campaign in 2006 (the Winograd Committee) was submitted on 30 January 2008 to the then Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, and to the Minister of Defense, Ehud Barak. A press release covered some of the major conclusions.The committee stood behind everything they had said in the Interim Report.

Taken from Wikipedia: The report categorized the 2nd Lebanon war as a serious missed opportunity. The war had ended without clear military victory, a much smaller para-military organization successfully resisted against a much larger force which had complete air superiority among other technological advantages. Lebanese rockets aimed at Israel's civilian population continued throughout the war which Israel could not effectively stop. Life in the affected regions of Israel was seriously disrupted, with many civilians either leaving their homes temporarily or spending time in shelters. When Israel initiated a large scale ground offensive the offensive did not result in military gains and was not completed.
Some of the troubling findings revealed that there were serious failings and shortcomings in the decision-making processes at both the political and military levels, in preparedness, decision-making and performance in the IDF, particularly the army, in strategic thinking and planning, in both the political and the military echelons, and in the defence of the civilian population and in coping with rockets.
The decision to react immediately to the kidnapping limited Israel's range of options to only two, a stand-off war or an invasion. Israel went to war before it had decided which option to use and military and political echelons failed to have a serious discussion of the options or decide between them. Even so, until the first week of August, Israel was unprepared to launch a large-scale ground operation.
As a result, Israel was 'dragged' into a ground operation too late. Despite the fact that it was a limited war initiated by Israel itself, Israel did not use its military force well and effectively. Israel did not gain a political achievement because of military successes.

Voice of Judea Commentary:
Was the death of this young healthy soldier a wake-up call to ready ourselves for war. Wow, sounds like a mirror warning and report that could G-d forbid be commissioned after Israel is struck off-guard by thousands of rockets or a nuclear assault from Iran. Crying before Congress to save us would not be so pathetic if we were now preparing our troops for the future war with our neighbors and preparing to take out Iran in a preemptive military strike. Are we going to be again dragged in to react too late after Iran and their proxies surprise us and determine the intensity and timing of teh next conflict? Will we again miss the opportunity to destroy them and finish them off once and for all?

Shmitta end means economic crashes in the Exile
The closing days of the shemitta year have unraveled  over recent shmittas as days of judgement upon the nations. Our Rabbis also teach us that a solar eclipse is a bad sign for the nations, something expected also at the close of the shmita year.. Stock market crashes and other calamities have been experienced after shmitta in recent history. Such tragedies always bring with them the risk that the Jewish scapegoat in the Galut will be forced to pay the price. Kerry and others are already hinting that the Jews will be blamed for the next war America is dragged into due to Israel's intransigent position in the region or for Obama's failure to sell the Iran deal to the American public. .Obama is openly blaming Jewish money for opposition to the Iran deal. The next war, with or without an Iran deal in place will bring about, G-d forbid, a rash of Jew hatred unparalleled in American history as the Jews are blamed for the "Jewish War" and for the ongoing campaign of terror that will inevitably be unleashed against  America and the Western "Satan".

Time to come home
This is not a time to be left behind in America or the Exile. It is no coincidence that the prophecy in Zephanya speaks also about the humble and the poor who adhere to the Torah who are saved and who survive, while the rich and the haughty G-d forbid perish. This, G-d forbid, is the fate that awaits American Jewry who live a lucrative and comfortable life of luxury in the Exile. Now, it is time to leave the Exile and come home to Israel, while this can still be done with relative ease. Liquidate the Exile before the Exile Liquidates you. Time is of the essence. Who knows how events will continue to unravel? Big things are happening around the world. It is all for the Jews and we are at the center of it all.


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Thursday, August 06, 2015

Jewish Terror Cells? Apparent “price tag” attack by Israelis was probably perpetrated by Arabs. Condemnation, Defamation of Settlers of Judea and Samaria. Can YOU now undo the damage?

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Jerusalem Jane's thoughts on the attack in Duma.

Arabs claim they found the arsonist from Duma - except he has been in jail since last December; family plans to sue over dangerous framing.

'Settler' Pays Troubling Condolence Visit to Arab Village
Samaria resident visits Duma to express condolences over baby's death in terror attack ascribed to Jews, leaves with question marks.

Arlene from Israel: "Rush to Judgment"

ZOA: Stop Rush To Blame Jews For Attack on Arab Home, In Light Of History of Arab Lies About Attacks

"Jewish" Arsonist a Frameup? The long list of Arab Attacks over Shabbat following Demolition of Jewish Homes by the Gov't of Israel

Inflammatory, Shameful PRICE TAG reporting in the Jewish and non Jewish Media:

ADL
Price Tag and Extremist Attacks in Israel August 5, 2015
Since 2008, there have been repeated attacks carried out by extremist Israeli Jews against Israeli Arabs and Palestinians, often in reprisal for Israeli government action against illegal settlement activity. These attacks, which are frequently labeled "price tag" incidents, target mosques, churches, Arab and Jewish homes and property, Israeli military bases and vehicles, as well as other Israeli Jews. They involve the desecration of property with anti-Arab and anti-government slogans. Most of these attacks include the phrase "price tag" and are accompanied by hateful and racist slogans, the name of an illegal settlement, or a reference to an Israeli casualty of Palestinian terrorism, the implication being that the violent incident is the "cost" of Israeli government action on settlements or for anti-Israeli violence.
More recently, there have been a number of violent and deadly arson attacks carried out by extremists who, according to Israeli law enforcement, seek to destabilize the country and overthrow the Israeli government in order to establish a new regime to be based on Jewish law.

The Israeli police have established a special unit tasked with cracking down on those committing price tag assaults. The unit has thus far had minimal success.
[maybe there is minimal success because it is contrived by the Israeli Police. My comments RT]

AMI Magazine
Late last week, the Jewish world found itself horrified by two murders, both apparently committed by religious Jews.
...
The second murder came just hours after the parade stabbings.
Early Friday morning, two Palestinian homes were set ablaze in the West Bank town of Duma. The inhabitants of one, the Dawabsha family, stumbled frantically through heavy smoke to escape. The parents and four-year-old son finally managed to get out, seriously injured by the smoke and flames; the four-year-old suffered burns over 60 percent of his body. But 18-month-old Ali Saad Dawabsha remained inside and was burned to death in the conflagration. 
Graffiti on the house, written in Hebrew and mentioning "Moshiach" and "price tag," indicated that the attack was carried out by Jews, and the Shin Bet has since stated that it believes that members of an extremist religious Jewish group were responsible. 

Times of Israel
PM condemns suspected 'price tag' attack on West Bank mosque.  Police believe right-wing extremists are behind arson and vandalism in village near Ramallah; PA demands arrests http://www.timesofisrael.com/suspected-price-tag-attack-on-west-bank-mosque/

... Yesha settlers council head Danny Dayan also denounced the attack on the mosque, saying that anyone who took part in "price tag" attacks is "both a criminal and a fool." Dayan said that such incidents harm the settler cause and called out against those in the settlement movement who failed to condemn the acts.
Former Shin Bet deputy director MK Yisrael Hasson (Kadima) told Israel Radio that the attack was likely perpetrated by youths acting independently and not by people being directed by a central authority. 

PM condemns 'horrific, heinous terror attack' on Palestinians/ Army beefing up West Bank presence in fear of riots after baby burned to death; politicians denounce attack; Lapid: We're at war with an enemy within
 http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-condemns-terrible-heinous-terror-attack-on-palestinians/
(the implicit understanding is that we are talking about hilltop youth who were the alleged perpetrators rather than Arabs who don't get such condemnation for acts of terror against Jews let alone their own people. My comments RT)

Orthodox Union Condemns Arson Attack On Palestinian Home
http://advocacy.ou.org/2015/orthodox-union-condemns-arson-attack-palestinian-home/

The leadership of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America strongly condemns today's apparent "price tag" attack by Israelis on a Palestinian home near Nablus—burning homes and murdering an infant. Such a heinous act offends all people of good will and violates basic Jewish values.

[This is a good group but why were they so quick to condemn Israelis? I hope next time they will note that history has shown that indeed Israeli's are framed in many Arab "Price Tag" attacks.  my comments. RT]

YNET


Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said in the afternoon that the police force was at its highest alert level to prevent disturbances. He added that "a people whose children were burned in the Holocaust needs to soul-searching at a time like this."


Ghasan Gaghlas, a Palestinian official from the area, said Jewish settlers broke the window of the house and flung a burning object inside, "causing a quick and huge fire."


[MK Gilad Erdan is a good guy but why did he have to believe the Palestinian official and that Jews did it? My comments RT]

 

VICE NEWS

Palestinian Baby Burnt to Death in Suspected 'Jewish Terror' Attack By Harriet Salem 

July 31, 2015 

 
Israel 'Ignored Warnings' on Jewish Terror Cells Before Attack that Killed 18-Month-Old Baby By Harriet Salem 
August 4, 2015 
The existence of Jewish terror cells [fabricated existence my comments RT] capable of carrying out deadly terror attacks and seeking to topple Israel's government have been well-known to the country's intelligence service for years. Yet in the wake of an arson attack that killed an 18-month old Palestinian baby on July 31, it has emerged that security advice about the hardline groups was apparently ignored by politicians....

 
"The Shin Bet [security service] asked the government on several occasions for the capacity to use administrative detention and other intelligence resources against these [Jewish] radicals and it was denied," Lior Akerman a former Shin Bet division head of internal security in the occupied territories told VICE News. 
"These people, their names, where they are living and operating, their extremist websites and blogs where they write are familiar to security services… They are very fanatical and dangerous. They have no respect for the Israeli law, the police, Shin Bet; they don't care, they believe only in God's rules so they will do whatever is needed according to this fundamentalist interpretation of the religion [Judaism]."

My comments

I probably fit their description of being fanatical and dangerous since I have this blog which some might find offensive. Dr. Aaron Lerner  August 5, 2015 Weekly Commentary: Confusing bad taste for illegal activity counter productive http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=68052 teaches us how confusing offensive language with truly illegal activity is counter productive because this may serve to actually reduce the degree of unacceptability of 
truly illegal behavior. .  

Honestly, does the passionate Jewish dream of generations, to return to Zion as of Days of Old,  the daily prayers of our people, translate into lack of respect for the Israeli law, the police, Shin Bet and the desire to do whatever is needed according to this fundamentalist interpretation of the religion [Judaism}? 

Only when accompanied by unlawful acts of violence. 

Therefore, the blood Libel.   If one wishes to successfully discredit this group  of "fanatical and dangerous Jewish radicals" then they need to fabricate their acts of violence. 

This false implicit condemnation of the religious Zionist is replayed by news report after news report.  What is very disturbing is that not only do the leftist Jewish media rush to condemn the Religious Zionists but so do other religious leaders, religious orgs, MK's, religious magazines and religious and secular media. Condemnation almost cross the board even among the higher ups in the Nationalist camp.  Even though past history has shown that the trustworthiness of the initial police report based on an Arab's testimony is suspect. 

No fair hearing. No fair trial. No conviction of a Jewish Settler as hard as they try...But the defamation of the entire religious Zionist community by apparent conclusions of suspecting our own....... 

Even the Times of Israel, seemed by many as a voice of the Prime Minister allow their readers to believe that the Prime Minister finds the religious Zionist Enterprise at fault.   While the actual text of the PM's statement does not put the blame on the Settlers directly, by implication it does. Why did Times of Israel juxtapose the condemnation of the PM with the assumption it was the Religious Zionists??  They even quote Danny Dayan, a Yesha Council Head, condemning the arson.  In my mind that also makes Danny Dayan suspect. Am I paranoid? It was only 10 years ago that the The Yesha Council Heads corroborated with the Gov't of Israel during the Gush Katif expulsion or Churban as Helen Freedman described it at the annual  AFSI Jabotinsky Memorial event.

Why didn't Dayan stick up for the people in Yesha?  Why didn't he point out that there have been 177 incidences of violent murderous terror attacks upon Jewish children by Arabs and there was only 1 proven nonmilitary attack by Jews upon an Arab teen and after a full investigation the perpetrators were found to be secular Soccer thugs, a close-knit gang of Beitar Jerusalem fans known as 'La Familia' and not Religious Zionists after all. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/178232/soccer-thugs-in-jerusalem?  We still don't know for sure what happened in Duma but I would bet my money that it was not Jews who burnt this Arab baby and family.

177 Jewish children murdered by known Arab terrorists (glorified and often compensated for their acts of terror funded by American taxpayer money. Please read Edwin Black Financing the Flames). Where is the same condemnation by Jews for these Jewish children murdered by Arab terrorists? It's never too late to rectify this omission....

Leo Alexander Sendler, age 5
Gabriel Sendler, age 3
Daniel Aryeh Viflich, age 16
Elad Fogel, age 4
Hadas Fogel, age 1
Yoav Fogel, age 10
Jonathan Palmer, age 1
Shlomo Nativ, age 13
Segev Peniel Avihayil, age 15
Yonatan Yitzhak Aldar, age 16
Yonadav Haim Hirschfeld, age 18
Neria Cohen, age 15
Yochai Lifshitz, age 18
Avraham David Moses, age 16
Roey Aaron Roth, age 18
Anas Awisat, age 18
Khaled al Ziyadat, age 12
Fathi Assadi, age 4
Eliyahu Pinchas Ashrai, age 18
Raviah Taluzi, age 6
Mahmoud Taluzi, age 4
Mazal Zaribi, age 15
Daniel Welch, age 16
Muhammad Hamudi Faoure, age 17
Dua Abbas, age 16
Amir Naim, age 17
Shaked Lasker, age 16
Omar Manasseh Visachov, age 8
Ella Abuksis, age 17
Rachel Helli Ben-Abu, age 16
Oz Yisraeli Ben-Meir, age 14
Nufar Hurvitz, age 16
Avihay Levy, age 16
Aviad Yehuda Mansour, age 15
Yuval Ababa, age 4
Afik ZahaviOhayon, age 3
Lior Azulai age 18
Aviel Yitzchak Atash, age 3
Khalil Zatunyah, age 9
Dorit Masrat Binsan, age 2
Ronnie Sarah Hatuel, age 6
Meirav Rachel Hatuel, age 2
Hilo Esther Hatuel, age 10
Hadar Simcha Hatuel, age 9
Binaya Yonatan Zuckerman, age 18
Lior Liorinkha Niv age 3
Gilad Giladi Niv, age 11
Qamar abu-Hamed, age 13
Shaked Avraham, age 1
Tomer Almog, age 9
Haviv Dadon, age 16
Benjamin Bergman, age 15
Avraham Bar-Or, age 12
Samuel Zargary, age 1
Noya Zer-Aviv, age 1
Liran Zer-Aviv, age 4
Erez Gizro Hershkowitz, age 18
Tom Hershko, age 15
Daniel Harush, age 16
Shmuel Taubenfeld, age 1
Moran Menachem, age 17
Yuval Mendelevich, age 13
Abigail Leital, age 14
Noam Leibowitz, age 7
Samich Sarsur, age 10
Muhammad Sarsur, age 12
Tehilla Natnazan, age 3
Elisheva Mashulmi, age 16
Elizabeth Liz Katzman, age 19
Assag Balondi Tzur Tzolinger, age 17
Smadar Firsteter, age 16
Assaf Shteir, age 10
Issachar Dov Reinitz, age 9
Tal Kerman, age 17
Shani Avitzedek Abotzedakah, age 16
Osnat Abramov, age 16
Matan Ohayon, age 5
Noam Levy Ohayon, age 4
Yael Ohana, age 11
Orly Ophir, age 15
Noa Auerbach, age 18
Dvir Anter, age 14
Yaakov Avraham Eliyahu, age 1
Lidor Ilan, age 11
Oriya Ilan, age 1
Gal Eisenman, age 5
Galila Bogela, age 11
Hodaya Hodiyosh Asraf, age 13
Noi Anter, age 12
Shoval Tzion Dickstein, age 9
Elmer Dazbrailov, age 16
Adi Dahan, age 17
Yehonatan Gamliel, age 16
Hadar Hershkowitz, age 14
Rachel Gila Teller, age 16
Gabriel Choter, age 17
Shmuel Efraim Yerushalmi, age 17
Atara Libna, age 15
Rachel Heli Levy, age 17
Shiraz Nechmad, age 6
Shaul Nechmad, age 15
Liran Nechmad, age 3
Avraham Eliyahu Nechmad, age 16
Baruch Asher Zvi Marcus, age 18
Aviha Malka, Age 1
Nehemia Amar, age 15
Lino Sarussi, age 14
Avraham Yosef Haim Sitton, age 17
Gaston Farfi Farfiniel, age 15
Ilan Perlman, age 8
Aharon Mordechai Eric Karogliak, age 18
Sinai Keinan, age 1
Tal Zvi Talik Kurzweil, age 18
Ran Korn, age 18
Gal Korn, age 14
Assaf Moses Tzfira, age 18
Abraham Neriah Shebo, age 16
Avishai Joseph Shebo, age 5
Keren Shatsky, age 14
Netanel Riahi, age 17
Erez Shlomo Rond, age 18
Ofer Ron, age 18
Yafit Revivo, age 14
Daniel Bat-El Shefi, age 5
Adi Shiran, age 17
Sarah Tiferet Shilon, age 1
Gilad Stiglitz, age 14
Tzvi Yaakov Yisrael Shebo, age 12
Hadas Turgeman, age 14
Michael Szerszevski, age 16
Assaf Avitan, age 15
Irina Osdetchi, age 18
Yosef Ish-Ran, age 14
Yossi Elezra, age 18
Yuri Gostz'inm age 18
Marina Berkovsky, age 17
Shoshana Rachel Shushi Ben-Yishai, age 16
Adam Weinstein, age 14
Israel Yaakov Danino, age 17
Jenia Dorfman, age 16
Ido Cohen, age 18
Maria Tegiltzab, age 14
Tamar Mesengiser, age 8
Jacob Koby Mandell, age 13
Aliza Malka, age 16
Mariana Medvedenko, age 16
Naftali Ben-Zion Lentzakron, age 13
Ronen Landau, age 17
Alexei Lufalo, age 17
Raya Sachiweschurder, age 14
Hemda Bracha Sachiweschurder, age 2
Abraham Yitzchak Sachiweschurder, age 4
Irina Nafomniastzi, age 16
Raisa Nemirovsky, age 15
Yerena Nemilov, age 18
Julia Nemilov, age 16
Avraham Nahman Avrum Nichni, age
Shalhebet Tehiya Pas, age 1
Yair Amar, age 13
Julia Yael Sklianik, age 15
Liana Sakian, age 16
Michal Sarah Raziel, age 16
Malki Chana Roth, age 15
Eliran Rosenberg, age 14
Simona Rodin, age 18
Menashe Manny Regev, age 14
Katrina Arias, age 15
Anya Aniota Kazachkov, age 16
Golan Turgeman, age 15
Yocheved Shushan, age 10
Judah Shoham, age 1
Ophir Rachum, age 17
Gil-Ad Shaar, age 16
Naftaly Frenkel, age 16
Adelle Biton, age 4
Yael Botwin, age 14
Chaya Zissel Braun, age 3 months

Thank you Joe Settler for this comprehensive list! 
http://www.jewishpress.com/blogs/muqata/how-many-children-have-these-terrorists-murdered/2015/08/02/

The Jewish hilltop youth have no history of proven criminal murderous violence against Arab children. 

However, there IS is a long history of trying to convince the public that they are dangerous and violent and unlawful especially following immoral and illegal demolitions of settler homes.  

So I ask, is there really a need for a special commission to target the Jewish hilltop youth?  

Let me suggest that this is done to rationalize and/or justify Jewish violence perpetrated against thriving communities of Judea, Gush Katif, the Shomron  by the government of Israel who betray(ed) their own by  destroying their homes and communities and continue to do so sparking a wave of Arab violence. http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2015/07/a-protest-letter-to-knesset-members.html

LeHefech, On the contrary. This  community, representing Religious Zionism have been exemplary in transforming their pain and suffering into positive action of rebuilding. and to their credit have not engaged in violent acts of terror even when their accusers almost wish it upon them, in order to perhaps alleviate their own Jewish guilt and psychological suffering in being complicit in acts of property violence, and even personal violence against their own fellow Jew.  How sad....

Moral of story is MKs, Rabbis, Jewish Organizations and Newspapers, Don't believe the Police and Don't believe the Shin Bet nor the Arab who testify when it comes to Price Tag reports and allegations! Don't rush to condemn your fellow Jew and especially not the Torah observant Jews or their youth, living in Judea and Samaria. 

It makes perfect sense for Arabs to project their interpretation of revenge, set up a false narrative and proceed to slander/ libel Jews .  It works!  It provides a convenient excuse and sickening cover and backdrop to then terrorize additional Jewish  settlers in Israel while Israel's elite, government officials, etc. world Jewry, Jewish media are sidetracked and can't act fast enough with apologetics and self righteous moral equivalency condemnations of  their own people.  Implicit in such condemnation is that the "Jewish religious fanatics, the settler community, the religious Zionists are guilty until proven innocent.  

The Arabs and Israel's attackers have a hey day.  See, Israel too have their terrorists...  

Our enemies probably derive much satisfaction from seeing how Jews verbally attack fellow Jews based on false allegations and narratives. ... "Hamas had already declared Friday a "Day of Rage" to protest the deaths of several Palestinians by Israeli forces in the past few weeks, and demonstrations were expected to escalate into violence."

Jews of Judea and Samaria know that rebuilding is the best kind of Revenge against the evil decrees that demolished their homes at the whims of those beholden to the likes of Obama.   They do not and have not engaged in terrorism as do their enemies who destroy and uproot as their Modus operandi

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"The U.S. government is moving closer to intervening in a high-stakes civil case over deadly Palestinian terror attacks as officials met Tuesday with victims' families to discuss concerns over a jury verdict worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

The meeting with representatives from the Justice and State departments came amid objections from a lawyer for the plaintiffs, who said the United States was "considering putting a thumb on the scale" because the Palestinian government opposes the jury verdict.

"The Palestinians got a fair trial. The judgment was foreseeable, and they can afford to pay it over time," attorney Kent Yalowitz said in an interview.

At issue is $218.5 million in damages awarded by a New York jury in February for attacks that killed 33 people and wounded hundreds more — a penalty that lawyers say would be automatically tripled under the U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act, but that the State Department fears could weaken the stability of the Palestinian government." -more

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