Wednesday, March 22, 2023

US summons Israeli envoy, Netanyahu says 'we won’t rebuild settlements'

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אל המקום אשר...

What game is Netanyahu playing?

It seems to me that whoever applies stronger pressure on Netanyahu gets him to say what they want to hear.

Does Netanyahu have a backbone to stick to his guns?

Unfortunately, he buckles under pressure and does not keep his promises to either side.

Can he be trusted? Apparently by neither side or alternatively each side believes what they want to believe, independent of what Netanyahu actually says or what the ruling, unofficial, unelected elite in power policy makers decide.

Netanyahu's actual statements are in fact conflicting, whose primary goal purpose is to placate each side thereby keeping him in power.

A true leader leads and is true to his convictions even if it risks losing his followers.

We believe Moshiach is here and will be an authentic Leader whose primary objective is to please the Almighty by doing the Almighty's Will irregardless of public opinion. May we all be Zocheh!

US summons Israeli envoy, Netanyahu says 'we won't rebuild settlements'
By TOVAH LAZAROFF, OMRI NAHMIAS Published: MARCH 22, 2023 08:52
Updated: MARCH 22, 2023 21:49
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-735052


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Thursday, March 16, 2023

Re: Wanted to make sure you saw this: What terrible price will we pay for receiving government funding?

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Lichvod OU Advocacy:


"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me is a proverb that means if someone takes advantage of me twice, I only have myself to blame."

At what price is this security funding for Yeshivas?

Friday, March 04, 2016
Money for Jewish Refugees? Money for Jewish Education? AT What Price? Al Chait...Agudah and OU; AFSI Newsletter: Congress: Israel-Arab Peace Deal Must Include Jewish Refugees

I blogged how when Iran was producing nuclear weapons Chuck Schumer was busy with Education.


Agudah and Ou didn't really put any passion to campaign against Iran deal.  Or let me rephrase. They came out for being on the record against the deal but not in Tachlis (i.e. Not to significantly derail the Iran Deal)

My guess is that they were afraid of endangering the educational funding that miraculously seem to come through in the early summer of 2015 to the point that when asked about the Iran deal and everyone was looking towards Schumer for leadership, Senator Schumer replied that he was too busy with Education issues and didn't get a chance to study it. 


Caroline Glick asked publicly what exactly about hundred and fifty billion dollars to Iran did Schumer need to study?

Will this be blood money to be silent when they pressure Israel for a Palestinian State or to denounce those defending their very lives and property in Yehuda and the Shomron?

Or blood money to push our community to take a dangerous vaccine with dangerous side effects like myocarditis and fertility issues.

The Democrats and their anti G-d policies have created serious security threats in this country and we turn to them for funding to help our security? 

Lets mobilize our community and encourage classes in Krav Maga and Self Defense.  Be prepared for a food shortage or contamination of the water supply chas Vesholom.

Hashem KaKol Yachol. Ein Od Milvado. Let us place our trust in Hashem alone and speak out for His laws and Hashem can, if we are deserving, or just as an act of Chesed, protect us and provide for all our needs.

Tuesday, November 23, 2021
A G-dly World Requires Humanity to Observe the 7 Noahide Laws. The Present Ruling Party in the United States AKA the "Democrats" Reject the 7 Noahide Laws and Wish to Replace G-d Given Laws With Their Own.

Monday, November 15, 2021
It's All About The Benjamins

We don't need to beg for bones which they are more than happy to throw our way, for a steep price, especially if we pander to them. We probably will lose our soul in the process.



On Wed, Mar 15, 2023, 2:18 PM Nathan Diament, Exec. Dir., OU Advocacy <ouadvocacy@ounetwork.org> wrote:

Dear Friend,

 

Last week, we sent an important alert in our weekly newsletter about helping fund security for our shuls and schools. Budget talks are in the works, and we must act fast.

 

With antisemitism on the rise, we are advocating for an increase in funding for the critical Non Profit Security Grant Program (NSGP) to $360 million. 

 

CLICK HERE to send an urgent letter to your representative urging them to support this increase in funding. 

The NSGP program awards thousands of grants to nonprofit organizations like day schools, synagogues, and community centers in our community. The funding can be used to increase security measures, including purchasing and installing fencing and lighting, video surveillance, X-ray machines, metal detectors, and hiring security guards.

 

Thanks to your help, $305 million was secured for the program last year. This year, we want to increase this funding further.

Congressmen Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) are leading a Dear Colleague letter to the chairwoman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security to increase program funding. 

 

CLICK HERE to protect our schools and shuls by sending a letter to your Member of Congress and asking them to sign on to the Pascrell - McCaul appropriations request.

 

Thank you for your support for crucial security funding. 

 

Best regards, 

 

Nathan Diament

Executive Director

The Orthodox Union Advocacy Center is the non-partisan public policy arm of the Orthodox Union and leads its advocacy efforts in Washington, DC.

 

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Tuesday, March 14, 2023

re: News�Jewish groups boycott Smotrich, in US to address Israel Bonds�By JNS -March 13, 2023. My comments

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Re: News
Jewish groups boycott Smotrich, in US to address Israel Bonds
By JNS -March 13, 2023
https://jewishwebsite.com/featured/jewish-groups-boycott-smotrich-in-us-to-address-israel-bonds/88342/#comment-31191

My Comment:

There are many G-d fearing Jews and non Jews who admire MK Smotrich. They admire him for many reasons. He is a proud Jew.. A proud Jew wants to emulate G-d who loves Tzedek UMishpat, Chesed veEmes.. . translation... Righteousness and Justice, Kindness and Truth.

Stopping Arab Terrorists from murdering innocent civilians is Righteous and Just. Torturing innocent people, Jew or Arab alike, so they confess to a crime they never committed is not Righteous nor Just. Smotrich has defended Amiram ben Uliel. Why would Smotrich want to murder/punish innocent Arab civilians for crimes against humanity they never supported or committed? He doesn't. He is not a monster. The Torah forbids murder of an innocent person Jew or nonJew. Our enemies want to create a false narrative for a political agenda that Settlers and supporters of Settlers are Jewish Terrorists. This false narrative than serves to justify Arab Terror. JNS and "Jewish" orgs are spreading lies and slander by suggesting that Smotrich is a Jewish Terrorist. They think by distancing themselves from the Settler movement and by slandering their brothers and sisters living in Judea and Samaria the world will Love them. Actually Hitler Yemach Shemo didn't differentiate between Jews. Rather these Organizations should demand Truth and Justice for humanity and teach the 7 Noahide Laws, laws of Universal Morality. Condemning Smotrich is falling into our enemies trap to cause divisiveness rather than uniting on bringing G-dliness into this wirld making it a better and more peaceful world. True terrorists and those who educate their young from an early age to murder innocent civilians and reward and encourage acts of terror must be found and brought to justice. Yes roads need to be safe and why werent they? and the culture also needs to be wholesome. The 7 Noahide laws should be inculcated into the education of Jew and non Jew from early on. Finding an innocent scapegoat to put the blame and bear the punishment for a crime he or she never committed is something to protest and Smotrich is doing precisely that by defending Amiram ben Uliel who is sitting in isolation, for 3 life sentences for a crime he never committed. Why isn't JNS and these organizations focusing on extracting truth and Justice for Amiram Ben Uliel and finally find the culprit(s), also very likely Arab, involved in clan fighting who firebombed the Dewabshe home, murdering the parents and their son . Let us condemn the outrageous authorization to torture young Settlers, and or anyone for that matter, to extract confessions and convict with absolutely no other evidence other than confessions extracted under duress.

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Thursday, March 02, 2023

Terror Attacks in Israel Coincide with Blinken coming and with Aqaba Summit Peace Talks. Happenstance? Check out William Koenig Eye to Eye. New Right Wing MKs are Disregarded and Bypassed.

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אל המקום אשר...
Whether or not Israel actually follows through on the recent Communique by The State Department, (see 
U.S. Department of State
White House
Aqaba Joint Communique below) the mere willingness to discuss giving away parts of our homeland, freezing construction etc. seems to coincide with terror attacks in Israel.  Israel needs to make it clear,  that the Heartland of Israel, Judea and Samaria is non negotiable. Clearly this was not the case!

This is what the Lubavitcher Rebbe taught as well. Links follow.

Here are news links to recent terror attacks in Israel over the past 3 weeks coinciding with pressure on the new right wing Israeli coalition to stop building in Judea and Samaria and to stop Judicial reform.

US Secretary of State Blinken to visit Israel, PA next week
23 Jan 2023, 8:53 pm 

10 killed in Jerusalem terror attacks in just 2 weeks
Deadly ramming attack comes 2 weeks after Neve Yaakov synagogue massacre. Feb 11, 2023, 6:16 PM (GMT+2)

While Aqaba Summit was in progress Hillel and Yigal Yaniv were murdered

2 murdered in Samaria shooting attack
2 Israelis killed in shooting near Huwara, raising death toll in recent terror wave to 13. Security forces are pursuing the terrorist.Feb 26, 2023, 2:00 PM (GMT+2)

The same day of this terror attack was the Aqaba Summit.

Aqaba Summit: Israel agrees to 4-6 month settlement freeze
The Jordanian-sponsored summit between Israel and the PA has ended with limited agreements to restore cooperation between the parties. Feb 26, 2023, 6:48 PM (GMT+2) 

U.S. Department of State
White House
Aqaba Joint Communique
FEBRUARY 26, 2023

US reveals Israeli concessions to PA, plans for second summit
Israel will join US-mediated talks with Palestinian Authority, Jordan, and Egypt again next month, State Department reveals. Published: Feb 26, 2023, 8:28 PM (GMT+2)
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/367991 (Is this foreshadowing terror attacks for next month Chas veSholom?!!!)

And yet another Terror attack...
The last selfie of Elan Ganeles
Younger brother of man murdered in shooting attack describes family's reaction to the shocking news. Feb 28, 2023, 7:56 PM (GMT+2)

Judicial Reform is on the table as well 

It seems Netanyahu is reneging on his agreements made to right wing coalition partners, bypassing them when setting policy.  They enabled him to form a coalition. These right wing choices were the will of the people of Israel.

We thought that this time it would be different. This time the right wing government in Israel would actually govern in action and not merely in name.  We were ecstatic that 9 Settlements were approved and a new dawn for Settlement in Judea and Samaria was on the Horizon. 

We were ecstatic that finally the Supreme Court in Israel would not self appoint and regulate itself.

We were ecstatic that with Otzma Yehudit in the coalition, the Hilltop Youth would stop being the victims of fishing expeditions of Shabak and the Jewish Division of Terror. There were condemnations going all the way to the top of government.
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Campaign to Divide and Conquer Yesha. Duma Suspects get Guilty Verdict! Condemned in the Media. Verdict is decided before the Trial has begun...
 pressured by powerful foreign political operatives, Settler youth have been literally deprived of all their human and civil rights. They are victims and pawns in the  pursuit to find and  frame and slander Settlers as "Jewish Terrorists".

We dared to dream that we are returning to the Eretz Yisroel for which we pray and yearn for each and every day for thousands of years.

Sad to say but our democratically elected Right Wing MKs have their hands tied.

Ben-Gvir sets policy but the commanders of Police apparently report to 
Israel Police Commissioner Yaakov (Kobi) Shabtai who disregards Ben-Gvir.

Police Commissioner: I have no intention of stepping down
Amid disagreements with National Security Minister, Police Commissioner Yaakov Shabtai says: The minister sets the policy, but does not replace the commander in the field.

Reports: Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, Clashing
"It's inconceivable that we should hear about policy conferences and political announced from the media, such as the decision to unseal the terrorist's home, and it's inconceivable for the residents of Evyatar to be evicted contrary to coalition agreements and contrary to right-wing policy."

Smotrich, who also holds the post of minister in the Defense Ministry and has been tasked by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with overseeing the Civil Administration
 is apparently undermined and can not override policies and negotiation agreements authorized by Defense Minister Gallant. He can't help stop the police who are getting their orders from this government from destroying vineyards in Samaria nor stop the police from brutally attacking the Settlers who protest. He had no power to prevent an assault on an MK for protesting the destruction of vineyards. 

Defense Minister Gallant orders suspects detained minutes after court frees them
Jerusalem court orders 8 suspects released for lack of evidence, Defense Minister orders 2 of them held for 4 months immediately.

And Menachem Porush resigns because they reneged the agreement with him as well.

 MK Chikly is treated as a non person by US Ambassador for his position on Judicial Reform.

US Ambassador takes swipe at Minister Chikli: An Israeli official that I don't know
Ambassador Tom Nides fires back after Minister Amichai Chikli told him to "mind his own business" when it comes to the judicial reform.

But not only Israel suffers...

Bill Koenig brings facts and statistics that show high correlation with natural disasters and terror attacks in America closely following and in timely proximity with US Presidents pressuring Israel re Palestinian State. 

Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Eye to Eye: Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel by William Koenig. 
 another more recent example...
Thursday, October 22, 2020
William Koenig - Pattern Consequences of Dividing Israel is followed by Disaster. Pandemic Follows "Deal of the Century"

There in nothing new under the sun. 

Instead of negotiations with John Kerry it is now negotiations with the current US Secretary of State Antony Blinken or with  US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides

The Lubavitcher Rebbe's position is spelled out in these posts:
Op-Ed: American Friends of Lubavitch Crown Heights Women For The Safety and Integrity of Israel protest American Friends of Lubavitch presence at the August 8, 2013 briefing with Secretary of State John Kerry on the "peace process" 

Sunday, November 15, 2015
Shluchim Conference Declares 2 State Solution Null and Void.

As Tamar Adelstein from Crown Heights Women for  the Safety and Integrity of Israel states "The Lubavitcher Rebbe said, when the pain is so great, SCREAM  and bang your fist on the table in PROTEST".

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

New York Times has a history of slandering Jews with Peyos

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אל המקום אשר...

Lichvod
Rabbi  Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, Shlita


Yasher Koach on your advocacy on behalf of Charedi Yeshivas!

Rabbi Zwiebel of the Agudah: "You reach a certain tipping point when a newspaper [NY Times] devotes such substantial resources, with nothing positive to say, and sometimes stretches the truth to say bad things."



This slandering of Charedim ( ultra Orthodox Jews) by the New York Times is not new.

 Perhaps had we protested in past libels against our brothers in Peyos we would not need to do it again.  After all, all Jews in Peyos look alike.  In this blog post in Jan 2016, I alluded to this possibility.

Duma Blood Libel calling Hilltop Youth Jewish Terrorists. Yesterday Tue. Jan 12, 2016 New York Times Print Edition, Front Page blurb to article on page A9, Front cover Forward January 15, 2016
https://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2016/01/duma-blood-libel-calling-hilltop-youth.html?m=1

Rabbi Zwiebel, Shlita

Please advocate now as well to release Amiram ben Uliel. It's been 8 years since he has been incarcerated and convicted to 3 life sentences for a crime he was convicted for based solely on his own confession with no other evidence following torture. The torture was permitted based on a decision of Israel Supreme Court. Basically it seems obvious that this miscarriage of justice was a political setup in order to find and frame and slander a Jew as a Jewish Terrorist.

Amiram is presently held under the harshest solitary confinement conditions. He was not allowed to pray with a Minyan on Yom Kippur and can not be in close  contact with his own  family members including his young daughter except with draconian rules and barriers.

Does Torah allow conviction based on confession  and torture without any other evidence?  

Related:

Fwd: Nobel Laureate Robert Auman Calls Upon Israel Supreme Court to Reconsider Ben Uliel Confession Under Torture


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