Tuesday, June 06, 2017

Concert in the Park - Israel Day Parade 5777, June 2017 It was GeValtig! Honoring 50 Years of the Liberation of Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria

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http://www.israeldayconcert.com/


While in this article I will primarily focus on the speakers rather than the Concert in the Park, let me add that the entertainment was spectacular.  The crowd was so inspired, sometimes to tears and the love of Israel and our expression of thanks to HaKadosh Baruch Hu palpable.  The songs all stressed love of Israel, Faith in Hashem,  Love of Jerusalem and Eretz Yisroel Hashleima, Unity among Am Yisroel and indeed the singers themselves and the entire audience encompassed the entire spectrum of Jews and even some non Jews.  The rain didn't put a damper for those who gave it their all and danced and sang uninhibited with a love so pure for the Almighty!  Rather we recognized that with Rain comes Blessings! The energy was authentic!  For a few special hours we were transposed to the Israel we love and to Jerusalem the City of Gold. We captured these moments of love which we were able experience and recognize and appreciate in Central Park, NY.  

The Police in my opinion went way beyond the call of duty and the security was a bit over the top.  Hopefully the lines and security didn't discourage many people from entering the Concert especially in the rain. I am afraid it might have. 

Credit has to be given to security in the Park for helping my friend Evelyn Haies to get plastic to cover her books!

Kosher food and drinks thanks to Mendy's were available and delicious.

The planning of this event was unbelievable!  Even had there been no attendees, and Baruch Hashem there were plenty, the networking going on behind the stage, among the organizers, performers and speakers and media made this entire event worthwhile from that aspect alone!  

So in spite of the rain, hearty Israel lovers enjoyed a spectacular program! 

What a tremendous treat it was for us!  We were privileged to share together, in unity,  all for free,  all due to the generous support of all the sponsors and the hard work of the organizers and the incredible sacrifice of the entertainers and speakers who came to perform and speak at this event!

My blessing is that next year, all the attendees of the Israel Day Parade will join as one with the Concert and that all of us who couldn't make it can also merit to experience a wonderful taste of Israel like those of us who B"H did. 

A Tremendous Yasher Koach to Dr. Paul and Drora Brody and to Dr. Joseph and Karen Frager and to Odeleya Jacobs behind the scenes, and to Shloime Dachs and his Amazing Band and to Nachum Segal MC and all the Jewish Media and to all their family members who were there and part of the team, and to all the guests from Israel, and local performers and entertainers and to the  fabulous speakers, volunteering their time, and behind the scenes organizers and Tech people who put together this magnificent event and concert!

Invigorated by their recent trip to Israel celebrating Israel's 50th reunification of Jerusalem, Dr. Paul Brody spoke, sang and MC'd and Dr. Joseph Frager spoke and MC'd as well!  It is to their credit that they put together an impressive roster of speakers and entertainers.  They are not only connecting us in America to what's happening in the Holy Land,  they are actively engaged in creating the news and changing the Landscape of Israel (as Chezky Moskowitz would put it.) 

Speakers:http://www.israeldayconcert.com/speakers/ and highlights Please forgive me if I left people out.  It's bound to happen...Just send me updates and I will add them to this post on my blog.

 Farley Weiss:
President of the National Council of Young Israel which is one of the 52 major Jewish Organizations  overseeing over 130 Synagogues nationwide representing over 25,000 members.

Farley Weiss spoke about the support for the Jerusalem Embassy Act and calling on President Trump to move the Embassy to Jerusalem.   He pointed out that twenty years ago 84 Senators sent a letter to President Clinton that the Jerusalem Embassy Act Waiver only applied to moving the Embassy and not to recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.  The letter said that it is U.S. law that Jerusalem is the capital and this cannot be waived.  He also mentioned that twenty years ago they began the effort in Congress to bring Palestinian Arab terrorists who murdered or wounded Americans to Justice.  This led to a Congressional resolution on the issue and eventually the Kobe Mandel Act.  He mentioned that recently three such terrorists were indicted by the U.S. Justice Department and that they call for these terrorists to be transferred to the U.S. to face justice.  He added that they support the Taylor Force Act and to end the Palestinian Authority law and practice of financially rewarding terrorists and their families for murdering Israelis and Americans in Israel.  He said this law and policy of the Palestinian Authority must end now!   He brought up that two years ago he spoke about the injustice to Jonathan Pollard and is happy he was released from prison and the Young Israel  leadership was thanked by Pollard upon hearing about his release from prison.  Mr. Weiss  said that Pollard's parole terms were unacceptable and they need to be changed and that Pollard should be allowed to go to Israel. 

The President of YI  also brought up that NCYI is proud to sponsor the Concert in the Park event.  "We started as an organization dedicated to saving Orthodox Jewish youth with our Rabbis speaking in English instead of Yiddish.  We helped with displaced persons after WW2 and assisted in the establishment of the State of Israel.  The Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry started in a Young Israel." He added that in Young Israel's they reach out to all Jews with a High Holiday booklet that explains the services and gives insights to the prayers and  they send out a Parsha Nation kids program for their Shul's youth.  They are working on a new innovative anti-Bds initiative as well. 



Dov Kalmanovich - Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem was a victim of terror. What an inspiration. He has a scarred face yet he and others( like Yael another victim of terror he told us about), overcame his disability to now live a full and productive life as Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem.  He emphasized that there is no such thing as East Jerusalem. There is only Jerusalem. He said that each time Arabs get control over an area they do not allow others.

 He gave three examples.  Beit Lechem, Kever Yosef and Har HaBayit. I have found links to illustrate his points.

The Deputy Mayor made sure to let us all know that Jerusalem is the Eternal Capital of Israel! 

Boris Epshteyn
Chief Political Analyst for Sinclair Broadcast Group...

Previously, Boris served as Special Assistant to President Trump and Assistant Communications Director at the White House. As a Senior Advisor to the Trump – Pence 2016 Presidential Campaign, Boris concentrated on communications messaging and strategy. Boris has made over 200 appearances across national, state and local media outlets (TV, radio, print) covering a diverse range of topics.

His Message at the Event:
President Trump is a great friend of Israel who views Israel as a beacon of Democracy and Freedom against Islamic Terror. President Trump was the 1st sitting President to visit Western Wall in first term of office.  Being at the Kotel was a special and moving moment for the President. President Trump is pushing against Iranian TerrorPresident Trump has an excellent rapport with  Netanyahu.Netanyahu supportive of Trump (or visa versa not sure)President Trump is Committed to making Peace

Mort Klein  ZOA 
Morton Klein is National President of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the oldest pro-Israel group in the U.S., founded in 1897. He is a member of the National Council of AIPAC. Mr. Klein is widely regarded as one of the leading Jewish activists in the United States. He is a child of Holocaust survivors, born in a displaced persons camp in Gunzberg, Germany.

Dani Dayan is the Consul General of Israel in New York since August 2016. He is an Israeli political leader, entrepreneur and advocate for the Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria. He served as the Chairman of the Yesha Council from 2007 to 2013. Dayan was subsequently appointed as Chief Foreign Envoy of the Yesha Council, as the only official representative of the Israeli settlement movement to the international community.

We have returned to our ancestral homeland never to leave again. Liberation was nothing short of a miracle. We will never give up Yerushalyim, Chevron, Bet El and Shilo...to Reaffirm Sovereignty never to rescind. He quoted from Naomi Shemer Yerushalyaim Shel Zahav. For your name scorches the lips Like the kiss of a seraph
If I forget thee, Jerusalem,Which is all gold...
Ach bevo'i hayom lashir lach 
Velach lik'shor k'tarim,
Katonti mitze'ir bana'ich 
Ume'acharon ham'shorerim.
Ki shmech tzorev et hasfatayim 
Keneshikat saraf ,
Im eshkachech Yerushalayim 
Asher kulah zahav...

 Danny Danon is Israel’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Danon previously served a member of the Knesset from the Likud Party, as Minister of Science, Technology and Space and as Deputy Minister of Defense. During his term in the 18th Knesset, Danon served as Deputy Speaker, Chair of the Special Committee on the Rights of the Child, and Chair of the Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs. In June 2016 Danon was elected as chair of the UN’s Legal Committee, the first Israeli to ever hold the position.

John Bolton - Ambassador Bolton's message and Proposal at the Concert in the Park mirrored what he said recently at the King David and in his interview with the Jerusalem Post in his recent trip to Israel.  While I am a great admirer of Ambassador John Bolton. and completely agree that the 2 State Solution is not viable, I have to respectfully differ on Bolton's 3 State Solution. 

John Bolton's Two State Solution Not Viable. Proposal for a 3 State Solution. Israel, Jordan and Egypt. My Objections to this Proposal and Alternative Proposals in Brainstorming mode!

Other amazing speakers included 

Lt. Colonel Yoni Chetboun is an Israeli politician and a decorated officer in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) who currently serves as a Lt. Col. (Res.). He is also author of the book Under Fire. Chetboun served as a member of the Knesset, where he sat on the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. During his active-duty service, the IDF awarded him the Chief of Staff Citation for actions taken during the Second Lebanon War. Currently, he runs Kanaf Strategy, a strategic consulting firm for companies and public organizations. He also lectures world-wide on combating terrorism and decision-making under pressure.

Aaron Klein is an American weekend radio talk show host, author, and senior reporter and Mideast bureau chief for Breitbart News

Major Pete Hegseth is a former executive director of Vets For Freedom and was a senior counterinsurgency instructor at the Counterinsurgency Training Center in Kabul with the Minnesota National Guard in 2011–2012.
Hegseth is a FOX News Channel contributor.

and Chezky Moskowitz a grandson of the Late Irving Moskowitz spoke as well.  Chezky spoke with great admiration for his late grandfather Irving Moskowitz ZT"L and his wife Cherna Moskowitz who as Chezky put it changed the Landscape of Jerusalem.  His message is that all of us can make a real difference just like his grandparents did! 

Featuring: Star Performers Beri Weber, Tal Vaknin, Elron Zabatani accompanied by Shlomi Aharoni, Shloime Dachs Orchestra & Singers, Avi Kilimnick, Michoel Pruzandsky, Mati Shriki, Dr. Meyer Abittan, Jerry Markowitz, Chaim Kiss, Izzy Kieffer and Heshy R, White Shabbos and Others.

Next year in Jerusalem or as we sing BeShana HaZot BeYerushalayim HaSheleima veHaBenuya!


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Monday, June 05, 2017

John Bolton's Two State Solution Not Viable. Proposal for a 3 State Solution. Israel, Jordan and Egypt. My Objections to this Proposal and Alternative Proposals in Brainstorming mode!

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 Opening remarks:

 No one can deny that John Bolton has been an exceptional friend to Israel and the Jewish People!  He is truly one of the Righteous Gentiles in our Generation! From his perspective his proposal is logical, a great compromise and the best solution given a tough neighborhood. 

 However, we are coming from a Biblical perspective and it appears that his latest proposal  of a 3 State Solution is simply not consistent with the Bible.  

 This having been said, John Bolton is to be highly commended for having greatly greatly advanced the debate in a positive direction regarding the ongoing Peace Process.  He has forcefully rejected the Two State Solution. For that we owe him an immense expression of deep gratitude and appreciation.  We know he has the President's ear.  We know he has an open mind and is a seeker of truth. He has been a listening ear to our concerns and we believe he has the best of intentions for America and for Israel and for World Peace in the Middle East. 

May G-d Bless the Current Administration and the Advisers to the President of the United States of America with wisdom to lead our Great Nation!  
EX-UN ENVOY BOLTON TO JPOST: TRUMP HAS NO CHANCE AT ULTIMATE PEACE DEAL 
BY YONAH JEREMY BOB   MAY 29, 2017 20:46  
In an exclusive interview with the 'Post' the former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton said: "I don't think the two-state solution is viable anymore."
Bolton said both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority were not viable interlocutors for peace and that any two-state solution would lead to "a terror state or an anarchic state."

 Instead, he proposed a threestate solution to include, "giving Gaza to Egypt, dividing up the West Bank – however it would be divided – with those not included in Israel becoming part of Jordan."

 The plus for the Palestinians, according to Bolton, would be "two viable economies and a better life day-to-day for Palestinians and their children."

In Response: 
Jerusalem Post  Opinion 
OUR WORLD: THE LIMITS OF ISRAELI POWER 
BY CAROLINE B. GLICK   JUNE 1, 2017
The crowd at the King David responded enthusiastically to Bolton's proposal. This is not surprising.

Caroline Glick writes:
Bolton then turned to his preferred policy for resolving the Palestinian conflict with Israel, which he dubbed "the three-state solution." Under his plan, Egypt and Jordan would work with Israel to solve the Palestinian conflict. Egypt would take over the Gaza Strip and Jordan would negotiate the status of Judea and Samaria with Israel....Bolton noted that if Jordan is responsible for the Palestinians of Judea and Samaria, the issue of Jerusalem will be removed from the equation. After all, if their capital is Amman, Israel has no reason to divide its capital city.

Caroline Glick is favorable to Bolton's vision and apparently according to her Bolton won over most of the people at the King David.  However she herself admits that his proposal is not realistic.  But not for the same reasons I will spell out. 

Her reasons are basically because it would be too risky for the Arabs. I assume she is referring to being risky for moderate Arabs like King Hussein of Jordan and Prime Minister Sisi of Egypt. She writes:

Unfortunately, Israel's support for Bolton's plan is irrelevant. Israel is powerless to advance it. Israel cannot convince Arab nations to help it resolve the Palestinian conflict any more than it can convince the PLO to cut a peace deal with it.
Like PLO leaders, the leaders of the Arab world know that they cannot help Israel with the Palestinians.
Doing so would involve disowning the Palestinian narrative.
The Palestinian narrative claims that the Jews of Israel are colonialist interlopers who stole the land from the Palestinians, its rightful owners. The narrative makes no distinction between Tel Aviv and Hebron. All of Israel is a crime against the Arab world. All of Israel is illegitimate.
The overwhelming majority of the Arab world believes the Palestinian narrative. For an Arab leader to walk away from it or even to signal an attenuation of his fealty to it in the interest of regional peace would be the riskiest of moves.

AS Caroline Glick suggests, the root of the problem is the theological debate between the Palestinian narrative and the Jewish Narrative as per who rightly owns the territory which we call Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria.  
They, the Arabs and Israel's enemies and even some of Israel's allies commonly refer to this territory as "East Jerusalem" and the "West Bank".  

The Palestinians claim that we the Jews are Occupying their Palestinian Land. We stole it from them.

Our claim, based on the Torah,  is that the Land belongs to the Almighty! 
See Biblical verses from 
So let us speak Truth.  Collectively surely we can find a G-dly solution that brings peace and not war!

Bolton's vision, while seemingly lofty and well meaning,  is a nullification of the Eternal Biblical Covenant between G-d and our forefathers individually, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the Nation of Israel, reiterated as well to Moses. 

 Shemot - Exodus - Chapter 19:5 For Mine is the Entire Earth     http://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/9880/jewish/Chapter-19.htm

Also read the 1st Rashi, a commentary of the Bible. Bereishit(Genesis 1:1-6:8) The First Rashi
http://www.aish.com/tp/i/gl/173304521.html

The Land of Israel is an Eternal Inheritance of the Jewish People and to deny this is to deny Torah. 

Those who believe in the Bible believe that The Nation of Israel is the Chosen Trustee of the Chosen Land. 
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Those who have Faith in the Bible believe that those living in Judea and Samaria and elsewhere in the Land of Israel are obligated to keep G-d's commandments.  By doing so they are thereby actualizing their joint inseparable mission and potential which is to be the Light onto the Nations and a Kingdom of Priests in the Holy Land, The Land of Israel, our Promised Land!  
We all know and sing the beautiful song "This Land Is Mine. G-d Gave This Land To Me"

Only the people of Israel, can actualize the full potential of the Land by settling the Land and keeping the commandments. Jews are obligated with 613 Commandments, many of which are dependant on the Land itself.  Non Jews are obligated with 7 Noahide laws.

Portions of Judea and Samaria should not be part of Jordan as this will cause a definite clash, ambiguity, confusion and conflict between Jews who claim this Land belongs to Israel and Arabs who claim this land belongs to Jordan.  

Our objection based on Torah: 
Judea and Samaria according to the Bible, is an integral part of the Land of Israel.  Judea and Samaria is the heartland of our ancient ancestral Homeland.  This parcel of Land known as Judea and Samaria is commonly referred to as the Footsteps of the Patriarchs, known as Derech Ha'avot, דרך האבות -it encompasses the Holiest cities, starting from the Negev going northward, Be'er Sheva, Hebron, Jerusalem, Har HaMoriah - Temple Mount, Beit El and Shechem in the Shomron/Samaria. 

If anything, according to the Bible, Jordan is an extension of Israel proper and not visa versa,  The East Bank of the Jordan River is the Biblical inheritance of the Tribes of Reuvein and Gad conquered by Moses before Joshua conquered the rest of Israel. 

This balancing act of sitting on the fence trying to bridge peace between two mutually exclusive claims has already left too many scars.  It is not a peaceful solution for either side. 

Let Israel and the Jewish people finally get off the fence and assert our rightful claim to Our Land! Not to do so has only caused and brought suffering hardship and bloodshed.

Besides the ongoing terror attacks upon civilians  justified by the  "unlawful and Illegal Occupation",  the Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria do not enjoy the same legal rights as those who live in other parts of Israel by their own government the State of Israel!  They have suffered greatly emotionally and physically as a result.  Sad to note that the government of Israel has taken sides against Jewish settlers and in favor of Arabs. 

As it is impossible to split a baby as Solomon wisely demonstrated, it is impossible to divide Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria.   

The sad reality is that there has been a silent building freeze for Jewish Settlers in Judea and Samaria for many years.   Growth has been terribly stunted due to International pressures.  Please compare the statistics on the number of Jewish homes built in Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem relative to the Jewish population and the Jewish population growth in such territory captured in 1967 compared to number of Jewish homes built elsewhere in areas in Israel proper prior to 1967. Statistics will clearly show that there has been a silent freeze in spite of Netanyahu's denials of such.  

But besides stunting growth with young families finding great difficulty to find affordable housing close to their parents in Judea and Samaria,  Jews have literally been thrown out of their homes in Ofra and Amona based on cruel BaGatz, Supreme Court Rulings, biased  in favor of Arabs not Jews. 

In reality, the Israel Civil Administration COGAT has been biased against Jewish Settlement.  It's nice in theory for John Bolton to allow and expect  increased Jewish building and Jewish Settlement in Judea and Samaria in areas under Israel  Civil Administration, but practically, even without Jordan in the picture this has not been the case in Area C.  In fact the Netanyahu's cabinet recently approved 20,000 illegal Arab units prior to President Trumps visit. Compare that to the newly approved Jewish houses.

  Please read about Israeli Civil Administration  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Civil_Administration.  The Shin Bet has held Jewish Hilltop Youth under Administrative Detention without habeas corpus.  They have forced confessions of crimes that these kids never committed only to put them in a negative light and frame them.  Their goal was to demonize these kids to present a false impression to the world of Jewish Terrorists. This would make it much easier for the government of Israel to justify the expulsion of Jews from their homes  in Judea and Samaria to satisfy International demands to "End the Occupation". Feel free to investigate the manner. You can visit the Honenu Organization which legally represents these kids. 
http://honenu.org/ http://honenu.org/cases/
The only way that coexistance can exist,  is for Israel to officially annex Judea and Samaria and East Jerusalem as per the Levy Report, including all the Arab populated areas no different than Jewish areas. The idea is for all residents, Jew and non Jew alike, to be required to abide by the laws of the Land that apply to them under Israel Sovereignty!  These laws will hopefully protect their property and their civil rights, provide health and education and ensure their security, safety and prosperity.

Presently, Israel keeps Arab populated areas in much worse condition than Jewish populated areas. Speak to Arieh King Member of the Jerusalem Council.  They are not offered the same quality of services. Perhaps, once under official Sovereignty and annexation of Israel that situation would change for the better for their benefit! 

The reality is that Arabs are not being helped if they are treated in an apartheid segregated fashion.   Their quality of life would surely be superior under Israel's Sovereignty than under Jordan's.  Under Israel's Sovereignty, let me suggest that  they would be required to pledge allegiance to Israel similar to what is required for all those living in Puerto Rico to USA.  They would also be obligated to abide by the 7 Noahide laws.  Their status according to the Bible is Ger Toshav.

Ambiguity as per who is truly Sovereign over a particular parcel of Land will surely lead to great conflict.   Israel will continue to be accused of Occupying territory illegally.  

The Mount of Olives is at the heart of the dispute for Israeli sovereignty, as well as the Jewish People's tradition, history and most sacred real estate. The Mount and cemetery are involved in the territorial dispute between Israel and the Muslim nations as well as the Palestinian-Arabs, because Islam rejects Jewish sovereignty and Arabism rejects Zionism. Moreover, the Palestinian Arabs have demanded that Israel withdraw from the Mount of Olives, or give up control over it, claiming it is part of their "occupied territory."

Another example is how Teddy Kollek dealt with supplying electricity to Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem.  It was a balancing act.
  
6 things you didn't know about the Six-Day War by Ron Kampeas
 http://www.jta.org/2017/05/15/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/6-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-six-day-war

 For 20 years, Jews paid fees to a symbol of Palestinian pride.

 "Separate and Unequal," penned by three Israelis – Amir Cheshin and Avi Melamed, two former municipality liaisons to the city's Palestinian population, and journalist Bill Hutman – cited the conundrum as an example of the balancing act that Israeli officials had to perform: Maintaining a Jewish claim to the entire city, while at times deferring to Palestinian nationalism, in order to keep the peace.

 Ron Kampeas in this JTA article says that Jerusalem was never officially annexed or declared under Israeli Sovereignty.Can Jordan be trusted not to advance against Israel when pressured by other Arabs as in 1967 when they attacked  Israel?  Perhaps what happened to King Abdullah I is what Caroline Glick is afraid of and therefore referred to Bolton's Proposal as  "riskiest of moves"....

 Kampeas writes:
During most of his reign, King Hussein of Jordan sought a peaceful arrangement with Israel, taking a cue from his beloved grandfather, King Abdullah I, whom he saw assassinated in Jerusalem in 1951 because he was seeking peace with Israel.Like his grandfather, he sought peace in secret but did not escape opprobrium – and was wary of meeting Abdullah's fate. Hussein felt he had little choice but to join President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt in saber rattling against Israel in 1967 – Nasser, wildly popular in the Arab world, had already taunted the king as being subservient to Israel.Moreover, Israel had humiliated Hussein a year earlier with a massive daylight raid into his territory to exact revenge for an attack carried out by Palestinian Fatah troops, who then operated with relative impunity from Jordanian soil.According to historian Martin Gilbert's "Jerusalem Illustrated History Atlas," on June 4, 1967, Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol relayed a message to Hussein: "We shall not initiate any action whatsoever against Jordan. However, should Jordan open hostilities, we shall react with all our might and (Hussein) will have to bear the full responsibility for all the consequences."At 8:30 a.m. the following day, Jordan started shelling western Jerusalem, and at 9:30 a.m., Hussein broadcast, "The hour of revenge has come."
Kampeas suggests that Jordan since then has gained Israel's trust.
King Hussein drove Fatah out of Jordan in 1970 and in 1973 waited out the Yom Kippur War. In 1986, he came close to signing a peace deal with Israel.
In 1994, symbols bold and subtle made evident that Hussein had earned the trust of leading Israelis. The king was present at Israel's Arava terminal when Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed a peace treaty with his Jordanian counterpart, Abdelsalam al-Majali.

While I truly hope the the King of Jordan can keep Fatah and radical Islam into submission, it is my opinion it will only be possible if Israel takes matters into its own hands and annexes Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria and normalizes Judea and Samaria as being part of Israel.

The King of Jordan and the other nations will get strength from Israel's refusal to allow the cuckoo bird to take over its nest.

Otherwise, the King and Jordan will be under tremendous pressure to allow Fatah full reign in the areas it has been allowed to govern in Judea and Samaria which they  call the West Bank or Bolton's Third State.  This is a  clear recipe for disaster. Realistically, even Caroline Glick and John Bolton can agree that this can never be a viable solution.

 The only Solution is the G-dly Solution.  Then  Peace and Prosperity will reign!

Biblical Claim to the Land of Israel

Alternative Solutions -- Brainstorming...Thinking Jewish out of the box!

The Art of Negotiation under Trump. How Jews Should Negotiate Against the 2 State Solution
The promise was first made to Abraham (Genesis 15:18-21), then confirmed to his son Isaac (Genesis 26:3), and then to Isaac's son Jacob (Genesis 28:13),Abraham's grandson. The promised land was described in terms of the territory from the River of Egypt to the Euphrates river (Exodus 23:31).

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    Fwd: 2 Articles: "CUNY'S Curious Defense of Linda Sarsour" and "Linda Sarsour and the Progressive Zeitgeist"

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    My comments and take of the situation re: Linda Sarsour:

    The concept of Freedom of Speech is being abused by those who are champions in suppressing Freedom of Speech. 

    They succeed to monopolize the platform of an uneducated population to brainwash the population under the guise of Freedom of Speech. Then they suppress anyone who dares to challenge their pack of lies.

    Therefore, 

    It is proper to suppress anyone that promotes Islam as a legitimate religion and not give them a platform and not feel the necessity to bend over backward to provide them with a forum for what is a pack of lies and untruths. Such freedoms only serves to suppress those who truly engage in Freedom of Speech and have been suppressed as a result of those being overly merciful and gracious to the cruel. We have no obligation to honor their Freedom of Speech rights.  To go even further, we have the obligation to suppress their freedom of lies and hate speech.  To insist that it is their legal rights to engage in brainwashing is to play into their deceptive Lawfare. 

    America stands for Judeo Christian values.  Not Islam.  Islam means submission.  If Judeo Christian narrative is suppressed then Islam wins.  If the narrative of Islam is suppressed then the values of Western Civilization wins.  

    Unfortunately, it is Islam that has set these rules of engagement. 


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    Dear Friends,

    It is so important that we continue to educate as many people as possible.   Please share these two excellent articles by A.J. Caschetta and Caroline Glick that appear below.  

    May we all go from strength to strength,

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    In an era when saying the wrong thing, deemed offensive by someone, can end a career, social justice warriors always seem to get a pass. Few have received more than Linda Sarsour, a Muslim self-styled "feminist" who supports a political system that

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    Robin,

    Before we let the left's collective meltdown destroy the polar ice caps, let's remember that we've heard this hysteria before. Every time a Republican President backs out of a terrible deal or treaty negotiated by a Democratic predecessor, the left and the media behave as if the world is coming to an end.

    The closest example to Trump dumping the Paris deal came in 2001, when George W. Bush pulled America out of the Kyoto Protocol, which was arguably worse than the Paris deal because its CO2 emission restrictions were actually binding. Bush said he believed the free market would be more effective at reducing CO2 than restrictive government. European leaders, the left and the media assailed him as a crazy, corporate-controlled maniac who was going to "DESTROY THE WORLD!!" (Trademark registered.)

    Actual result: thanks to the free market, fracking was invented, producing abundant clean natural gas, which has reducing CO2 emissions in the US by about twice the levels required by the Kyoto Protocol. And all while expanding the US economy, not hamstringing it. So when you hear the leftist leaders' howls of outrage over what Trump just did and the claim that he's going to "DESTROY THE WORLD!!" remember that we've heard it before and the world is still here. And for some fathomable reason, so are they.

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    Mike Huckabee

     

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    Left Wing Insanity

    By Mike Huckabee

    I predicted last week that before President Trump had even finished his speech pulling the US out of the Paris Climate Accord, the reaction from the left would be so overheated, it would warm the Earth more than all the CO2 ever generated by humans.

    And so it has. Some of the more over-the-top reactions, of course, have come from Hollywood, Silicon Valley and other leftist enclaves. The mayor of Pittsburgh rebuked Trump for saying he was elected to represent the people of Pittsburgh, not Paris, by announcing that he'll make Pittsburgh abide by the Paris CO2 restrictions. So there you go, Pittsburgh voters, you now know who your mayor prefers to represent. As for the Hollywood crowd, the rest of us will believe your hearts sincerely bleed for Mother Gaia when you give up your multiple mansions, stop flying around the world on private jets and stop sailing to environmental conferences at five-star resorts on massive rented yachts. There's this thing now called Skype; look into it. And if you must attend in person, rent a rowboat and ask some supermodels to help paddle. Let me know how that works out.

    As for the European leaders who are acting like Margaret Dumont in a Marx Brothers movie, dropping their lorgnettes and huffing, "Well, I never!": Trump invited them to meet with him to forge a new deal that does as much or more to protect the environment but doesn't harm the US economy and destroy or export our jobs to other nations that don't have to abide by pollution restrictions. Their response: "Never!" This deal cannot be renegotiated!

    So let me get this straight: You sincerely believe that the US pulling out will bring about environmental Armageddon, but you refuse to do anything to help prevent that if it means meeting with President Trump? Gee, it sounds as if you're more concerned with virtue signaling to your leftist supporters that you hate Trump than you are with saving the world. If you have any other explanation for your reaction, we'd all love to hear it. Please hurry, though, because as you've made very clear, the world is going to end soon.

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    Obama Slams Trump

    By Mike Huckabee

    Former President Obama ripped President Trump for pulling out of the Paris climate deal that he got America into. Obama claimed that it's the nations that stay in it that will reap the benefits of economic growth and new jobs. Well, that's good enough for me. Who knows more about stimulating economic growth through government micromanagement and promoting "green jobs" than the man who gave us Solyndra and an unprecedented-in-US-history, eight straight years of GDP growth under 3%?

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    Fwd: Daniel Greenfield's article: Breaking Up With Mr. Islam

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    Daniel Greenfield's article: Breaking Up With Mr. Islam

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    Breaking Up With Mr. Islam

    Posted: 04 Jun 2017 05:29 PM PDT

    Islam is peaceful. Just ask Rafiqi Islam, a loving husband, who told his wife that he had a present for her, blindfolded her to make it a surprise and then cut off her fingers. Then the rest of the Islam family mopped up the blood, while Mr. Islam threw her fingers into the trash, and after a few hours took her to the hospital where they warned her to tell the doctors that she had an accident.

    The proximate cause of this event was that Mrs. Islam wanted to continue her education and Mr. Islam being a good Emirati Muslim was not so fond of the idea.

    This is the sort of thing that Mr. Islam does from time to time. Diners in London got a surprise from Mr. Islam, three of him, who began stabbing and slashing their way through some trendy nightspots. The blindfold had been slapped on them by their own government and their own media.

    Close your eyes while hundreds of thousands of Muslim migrants show up in America and Europe. Keep your eyes closed and Mr. Islam will give you a great big surprise.

    Before the machete comes down, the blindfold goes up. We ourselves have had quite a few Muslims asking us to put on a blindfold because they have a present for us and they don't want to spoil the surprise. All we have to do is close our eyes for twenty years or so and we'll be missing a hand or a head too. Surprise, you're a backward theocracy with a legal system overseen by child abusing Mullahs. Now blow out the bomb belt and make a wish.

    There are a number of lessons here. The first is don't go into a room with Mr. Islam. The second is don't put on a blindfold when he tells you that he has a surprise for you. The third is don't marry Mr. Islam in the first place.

    Unfortunately the free world has been forced into an arranged marriage with Mr. Islam. One day he just showed up on our doorstep and the authorities told us we would be living with him from now on. Sometimes he cuts off a head, plants a bomb or kills a few thousand people-- but when we complain to the authorities, they warn us not to cast any aspersions on the good name of Mr. Islam. There might be people doing these terrible things, but it's only because we haven't made them feel at home. We didn't make their coffee just right, we told the wrong jokes and didn't prop up their self-esteem. But whoever those people are, they are certainly not Mr. Islam who is a fine peaceful gentleman and would never harm a fly.

    There are quite a few people who would like to be able to get a divorce from Mr. Islam, but the authorities won't hear of it. Mr. Islam is here to stay and we had better make him feel at home or he'll have another surprise for us.

    That leaves us with a choice between putting away the books and learning to Salaam with the worst of them, or go on trying to learn while wearing a blindfold so that we don't see the machete coming. The leaders of the West have donned the blindfold and are eagerly awaiting the surprise that Mr. Islam has for them. Will it be moderation they wonder, or perhaps some of that Islamic science we have been hearing so much about. Unfortunately it's just a machete. It's always a machete.

    Lucy always pulls away the football and Mr. Islam always brings down the machete. And if Charles M. Schultz had allowed Mr. Islam to emigrate to Peanutsland, then Lucy would soon have no hands. But those who wear the blindfold go on being fooled, believing that the moderate Muslims will be in their corner when they need them and that the football will be there when they kick it. And if it isn't, then it must be their fault.

    Within a generation our leaders have turned the West into the battered spouse of the East, always going around with black eyes or missing parts, while singing the praises of Mr. Islam, that very peaceful gentleman who wouldn't harm a fly. There's no shelter for the free world to go to, not when it used to run the shelter for the battered peoples of the world. But now that their Muslim batterers have boarded and are having their way in London, Paris and New York, there's no shelter anywhere.

    Early divorce proceedings are underway, in the Netherlands, Mr. Wilders, ESQ, would like a divorce. But dumping Mr. Islam is very controversial. In parts of Europe, they are looking to renegotiate the terms of the marriage to bar some of its more unpleasant aspects, such as burqas and machetes, but they haven't gotten all that far. You can't have Islam without burqas and hijabs. And you can't have burqas and hijabs without machetes.

    There's no word on whether Mrs. Islam has become an Islamophobe ever since Mr. Islam cut off her fingers. But it wouldn't be an irrational response. When Islam cuts off your fingers, it's natural to feel a twinge of unease when he shows up at your door with a gift wrapped machete. And if Americans, Europeans, Israelis, Canadians, Australians, Filipinos, Thais, East Timorese, Greeks, Paupans, Armenians, Serbians, Russians, Ivorians, Nigerians and any of the other countless peoples who have had their lives made more interesting and more final by Islam are made a little uneasy by Mr. Islam, it's not really a phobia, more of a sense memory.

    Naturally we mustn't confuse Mr. Islam with Islam. There are millions of Muslims who have not yet chopped off their wives' fingers and probably never will. And that remains our best hope. The odds are in our favor until it happens to us.

    All this can be a little confusing, but the rule of thumb (if they haven't been chopped off yet) is that Islam is never associated with anything bad, only with something good. If you see Mr. Islam tossing a coin to an orphan on Eid Eve, then he's being a Muslim, but if he's chopping off his wife's fingers then he has nothing to do with Islam. Hamas' social services are to be praised, but its rocket launches are to be deplored.

    The easy way to do this is to always wear a blindfold and hope for a surprise. Think Eid dinner, not September 11. And if your hand is intact, then it's an Eid miracle. But for those who want a life without playing the game of blindfold and machete (Machete and Blindfold (TM) is the official game of Ramadan) then there's no choice but a divorce.

    Divorce is still controversial in the multicultural household, but sometimes it's the only answer. The more we wear the blindfold and hope that this time it will be a good surprise, the harder it is to contemplate breaking the "Till Death Do Us Part" part, even with someone who takes the death part rather literally. But it's not as if we have any choice.

    This arranged marriage of ours with Islam is going very badly. Our home has become a dangerous place and every night out has become another opportunity to experience one of Mr. Islam's surprises.

    The longer this marriage goes on, the more we forget who we used to be, courageous peoples who used their minds and were not afraid of anything. Artists, warriors, scientists writers, builders. And it can be hard to do remember what we used to be capable of doing when we're trying to build up the self-esteem of Mr. Islam, who gets very upset when we read too many books because it makes him feel inferior.

    Either we go on playing the game of blindfold and machete, or we take off the blindfold, take away the machete and show Mr. Islam the door.


    (Daniel Greenfield will be speaking on Defending Israel and Fighting Anti-Semitism in Los Angeles at the Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture on Sun, Jun 11 at 10 AM at the Auditorium, 1619 South Robertson Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90035)
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