Fwd: article and tour by Shalom Pollack. IDF Soldiers act Gentlemanly and with Restraint.... or Humiliated?

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So what? So what if a "Palestinian" girl smacks an Israeli soldier across his cheek.  Turning the other cheek is a classic Jewish ideal, isn't it?  Oh, excuse me it isn't a Jewish ideal, just a Jewish practice. So what if she spits in his face? Maybe it was really rain and we should not jump to conclusions. So what if she kicked him and hit him repeatedly? Perhaps he was standing exactly in the path of her limbs as she merely exercised them. Besides, it was occupied territory.  Anything is possible in the quest for "quiet" and a "good press" in the eyes of the world.  Has not decades of "restraint" has won us tons of friends and admirers? So what if she repeatedly cursed the soldier?  "Sticks and stones can break my bones...  Or maybe her exact words were lost in the translation and the whole thing is a mistake? Sought of like "Jihad" really means peaceful introspection... So what if an Israeli soldier (someone's son or father) quietly absorbed the humiliation as the cameras recorded the shame for the world to see? Israel is debating this latest "incident", and as can be expected, the well-known voices of "reason and temperance" praise the "restraint" of the soldier.  These are the same voices that brought us Arafat and Oslo - Rabin and Peres; the hysteric withdrawal from South Lebanon - Ehud Barak (into which the Hizbullah immediately entered and butchered  our SLA allies who we abandoned) These are the voices who expelled thousands of Jews from Gush Katif and northern Samaria - Ariel Sharon and help create "Gazastan" with its periodic torrent of rockets and death tunnels.  Add to the list the exceptionally brutal expulsion of Jews from Amona - Ehud Olmert. All of the above assured us that their criminal follies would make the world love us. These "moderate and experienced types, applaud the model behavior of the humiliated soldier, representing the mature, rational Israel, Israel that the world will learn to love. There was a time when this humiliating scene would not happen. It was not even a thought, not in the minds of Jew or Arab or any observer. Something has changed. Some of us have become tired. They tired before our enemy has.  They did not have the spirit to endure I have seen and felt that change in the forty years that I live in Israel. Apparently, I came just as the winds began to turn. One could feel it and smell it. I arrived just after the historic Sadat visit to Jerusalem where our ex Nazi neighbor was accepted as a Messiah.  An Arab leader finally smiled at us! Hallelujah! (he remembered to wear a tie of interlacing swastikas - just in case we took him too seriously)  Nothing he said; no demand, no threat could wipe the smile off the faces of those who embraced this true Messiah. He mesmerized many of us.  Israelis began a mass "return Exodus" to Egypt which lasted until Israelis began being gunned down in the land we so wanted to adore and to adore us.  Alas. Same goes for the initial mad rush into  Jordan after our peace treaty with them in which we assured them access to our water, agriculture assistance and the very stability of the king's throne.  We only sought their smile but were rejected again.  What were we doing wrong? The same "moderate voices" urged Israel to give the Golan Heights to Assad (Rabin, Peres, and Barak) in return for the dream of  "eating hummus in Damascus". Why are we so loved starved? Two thousand years of being spurned, humiliated and scorned may have something to do with it. Having our own country - a strong, wealthy free country was supposed to finally change this.  For many, it has not. I have observed that relatively few God-fearing Jews in Israel seem to share the same love obsession.  I wonder if that is just a statistical coincidence. The irrepressible hunger for a warm touch, some acceptance; to make up for millennia of love privation still has some of us in its grip.  There are those who still feel that it is better to be spat upon than be accused by the "world" of unacceptable behavior, i.e. Jews refusing to lay down and to be walked upon.  We don't want to upset anyone out there now, do we? We do not live alone in this world... After all, to whom can we look for our salvation..? So now this "Palestinian" teen is a hero and an example for millions like her who view the u tube clip and will now dare if they did hesitate before. Rest assured that there will be top Jewish lawyers,  journalists and such, falling over themselves to defend this "hero of the resistance to occupation" and squelch the voices of " irresponsible", simplistic Jews who have had just about enough. For some, it can be said, "you can take the Jew out of the Exile but you can not remove the Exile from him." www.shalompollacktours.com Pioneers, archeology, and Jacob's goats Wednesday, January 10 Itinerary: Travel through the Judean desert to Bet Hogla, a pioneering Jewish "ecologically friendly" village on the Jordan. There we shall be given a tour of the pomegranate, olive and Olivera orchards from which the exquisite products are produced locally for you to sample and purchase. We will visit the spot where Joshua crossed the Jordan river. We shall also visit the unique "Shofar, so good" exhibit. We continue on through the Jordan Valley and visit the Jordan Valley Memorial to our soldiers and terror victims of this exquisite area. Behold the beauty and miracle of the renewed Jordan valley since its children have returned to it after 1967. We continue to Bet Shean where we will visit the remarkable " Pompei of the south". This was Rome's very lavish showcase, window to the East that was destroyed in seconds in an earthquake. It is being unearthed now and will take your breath away! Finally, we visit one amazing couple living near the Lebanon border in Moshav Ramat Naphtali. Jenna and Gil moved from Canada to Israel a few years ago with a dream. They were accompanied by a flock of multi-horned, spotted "biblical sheep" which they raised in Western Canada.  This is exactly the breed that Jacob tended in the house of Lavan 3,500 years ago and is just now being reintroduced by them into the area after all those years. Departure, 7:30 from the Inbal hotel. Return, before 7:00 Bring a picnic lunch Cost: 200 shekels Cancellations prior to 72 hours of departure will be charged in full. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you know of anyone who you think might like to join my list, you may send me their emails.

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#NoWayToTreatAChild: A Cynical Campaign to Manipulate Palestinian Children | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com

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Fwd: Behind “Disengagement”: The Ugly Truth NY Prof. Paul Eidelberg

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Behind "Disengagement": The Ugly Truth 

By Prof. Paul Eidelberg 

Fourteen years ago, those who gave the Likud a stunning victory over Labor in the January 2003 election never expected they would be ruled by a party responsible for Oslo and rejected by an overwhelmingly majority of the electorate.  They never expected a government whose parliamentary approval would depend on the support of Arab MKs, as well as on a far-left party like Meretz that wants to transform the Jewish state into "a state of its citizens."  The 2003 election was an affirmation of Zionism.  Ariel Sharon nullified that election and made nonsense of democracy! 

The central issue of that election was "disengagement" – a euphemism for the expulsion of Jews from Gaza and other parts of Israel.  The only reason why the Likud trashed Labor in that election is because Mr. Sharon campaigned against Labor's disengagement/expulsion policy.  Whereas Labor won only 19 seats, the Likud won 38 – a disparity unprecedented in Israel's history.  Yet the new Sharon government, with Labor chairman Shimon Peres as Sharon's viceroy, was hell-bent on creating an Arab state by expelling Jews from Judea and Samaria! 

To appreciate the extent of Sharon's betrayal of the nation, let us tally the number of seats won by parties that opposed disengagement/expulsion on security and Zionist or religious grounds: 

Likud — 38 seats 

Israel B'Aliya — 2 seats (which subsequently joined the Likud) 

National Union — 7 seats 

National Religious Party — 6 seats 

Shas — 11 seats 

United Torah Judaism — 5 seats 

The above electoral results produced a Knesset with 69 of its 120 members opposed to disengagement/expulsion!  But there is more to be said about Sharon's betrayal of the nation.  In that 2003 election, Shinui, which won 15 seats, spoke against unilateral disengagement (but subsequently yielded to Israel's Machiavellian prime minister). 

And so, thanks to Sharon, Israel obtained an ostensibly democratically elected government committed to a policy that was decisively rejected by the electorate!  But how can one rightly attribute this undemocratic state of affairs to the treachery of one man? 

Such treachery could only occur in a country lacking institutional checks and balances, a country whose system of government is intrinsically susceptible to dictatorship.  Yet there is not a single party or faction in the Knesset that exposed this despotic state of affairs; and none called for systemic institutional reform to reverse the disastrous course of this nation.  Why not?  Because every party has a vested interest in preserving the existing system!  No less than the illustrious Alexis de Tocqueville defines this system as "democratic despotism" – a system that enables a democratically government to ignore public opinion with IMPUNITY! 

What perpetuates this despotic system is a simple fact:  In Israel the entire country constitutes a single electoral district in which fixed party lists compete on the basis of proportional representation.  The result is party dictatorship on the hand, and, on the other hand, a Knesset whose members are not individually accountable to the voters in constituency elections.  This renders the Legislature, the Knesset, subservient to the Executive. i.e., the Government,  above all, its Prime Minister.  And now, the Prime Minister, instead of being primus inter pares, can dismiss cabinet ministers as if he were a President of the United States.  (In America, however, the late Mr. Sharon would have been impeached long ago for malfeasance of office.) 

Therefore, those who opposed the expulsion of Jews from their homes in Gaza, but who remained silent about the grotesque structure of a government that made Ariel Sharon the Labor's Party's surrogate prime minister, are not innocent.  Lacking the guts to reveal that Israel is not a genuine democracy, hence, that Israel is in need of "regime change," those who opposed the crime of Gaza – called such by Benjamin Netanyahu's father (!) – will only perpetuate democratic despotism and thereby facilitate the policy of "disengagement" they rightly called evil.◙

 

 

 

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Fwd: NO MORAL BACKBONE from truth provider on Barak Obama empowering Hezbollah. These revelations require the immediate appointment of Special Counselor and indictments of the perpetrators, including the 44th President, should the revelations prove true.

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Dear friends,

Professor Abraham Ben-Zvi is one of Israel's foremost authorities on US affairs. He is not "right" or "left" just a scholar. Here is his article published today about the latest Obama-Hezbollah revelations.

As I mentioned yesterday, these revelations require the immediate appointment of Special Counselor and indictments of the perpetrators, including the 44th President, should the revelations prove true.

Your Truth Provider,

Yuval.

http://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/no-moral-backbone/

No moral backbone

By Professor Abraham Ben-Zvi

The 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, who won the Nobel Peace Prize before he even managed to make an impression on the international reality, and who tirelessly repeated his commitment to promoting universal values and morality, is now being portrayed as someone who crossed all normative red lines by allowing Hezbollah and its satellites to carry out crimes undisturbed, even on U.S. soil.

Indeed, according to an expose by the news site Politico, it appears that the Obama administration knowingly thwarted the Drug Enforcement Agency's "Project Cassandra," which was designed to deal a fatal blow to Hezbollah's global logistics, finances and operations. The work was supposed to have exposed the corrupt channels through which enormous revenues from drug deals were funneled. The money was directed, via drug lords and business people with contacts - straight to Hezbollah, and allowed the organization to improve its military capabilities.

The Politico report also said that the regime of President Bashar Assad in Syria, a strategic partner of the Lebanese terrorist group, enjoyed the rotten fruits of this conduit in the form of shipments of conventional and chemical weapons to Damascus during the Syrian civil war. Despite the frightening picture revealed by those involved in Project Cassandra, it quickly became apparent that the upper echelon of the Obama administration, particularly the U.S. Justice and Treasury departments, consistently blocked the effort to eliminate the drugs and weapons axis, thus giving Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah and Assad the quiet and the room to maneuver that they needed.

If even a fraction of the facts detailed in the report by the reliable site are accurate, they would provide sufficient ground to rip off the drapes of righteousness that still cover the true nature of the Obama era. Specifically, if indeed "all the president's men" thwarted the operation to avoid spoiling the relations between Washington and Hezbollah's patron, Iran, in the period when Obama was working feverishly to set up the nuclear deal with Tehran, it expresses the unbearable cynicism of the White House that prided itself on a flawless "ethical code" of conduct in the international arena, including its approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

This latest affair is like a tunnel that sends us back through time to the end of World War II and the start of the Cold War, when the administration of then-President Harry Truman stopped at nothing to enlist some 1,600 Nazi scientists, engineers and technicians, particularly in the field of missile development. That campaign, which was dubbed Operation Paperclip, is now considered the essence of immoral, inhumane conduct, which ignored the crimes against humanity the candidates had committed.

It is becoming clear that the liberal President Obama did not learn from history, and in complete contradiction of his saintly statements, effectively gave a green light to an entire web of ongoing crimes, based on his perception - ridiculous in itself - that it was in America's national interest to do so.

To sum up, Obama not only refrained from taking action against the ruler of Syria when he crossed all the red lines that had been drawn on chemical warfare but also contributed - if indirectly - to Assad building up his chemical arsenal and deploying it against his own civilian population. Obama deserved a Nobel Prize for his Machiavellian, opportunistic and immoral conduct, which also hurt the security of the U.S.'s partner, Israel.

 

 

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