ICHUD LEUMI and more on the Scorned Wife

bs"d

Fantastic!

Ichud Leumi seems to have a solid base in Torah and is really building up support and has a group of strongly committed activists. Politics is not important except when it is to promote Torah.  The Torah is universal to mankind and will unite. 

Ichud Leumi is presenting Eretz Yisroel in a manner that reflects true Judaism. Let Netanyahu loose all his supporters. The same for Moshe Feiglin if he insists are staying with Likud. The same for UTJ and Shas who claim that they represent Torah but have shown a willingness to forego on the sanctity of Eretz Yisroel and give away parts of Eretz Yisroelin the name of  Pikuach Nefesh for Israel's defense.

 Avraham Avinu was willing to give away his wife Sara to Pharoh, believing that he would be killed and she would be taken anyway and  because Avraham perhaps felt that she would be protected by a miracle.  That was before the giving of the Torah.  Also, Pharoh didn't actually know that Sara was Avraham's wife. 

Why don't the Nations of the world know that Eretz Yisroel belongs strictly to Am Yisroel?  Haven't we received the Torah? Isn't it public knowledge she is sanctified to Am Yisroel.

Is it because we haven't told them and haven't integrated this knowledge into our practice of Judaism?

 To  belong to a party that shows a willingness to negotiate away Eretz Yisroel, creates a situation of Pikuach Nefesh rather than prevents it.

There are certain things that one does not negotiate and your wife is one of them.

Because a willingness to give away your wife to your business associates as a political favor or in return for security is deplorable.   It doesn't make her feel much better when both she and you gets beaten up and you go back to take her and you tell her new master, had you only treated her properly she could have been yours.

Even the next higher level of saying,  I know that you will not treat her properly and will in fact beat us both up,  so I can not give her to you.  This too is extremely degrading to the wife.  And holding your nose when you say this, knowing that it's still an insult to your wife, doesn't help much.

This emphasis only on Pikuach Nefesh, Israel's defense is missing the point of not appreciating the sanctity of the marriage to begin with. It shows there there is no understanding of how truly wonderful and fantastic this marriage can be for the entire world!

Let us Shout Out to the world, I love my wife, it is a marriage made in heaven and I never want to depart from her.  I have hurt her terribly by not appreciating who she is and what she can become.  I have sinned against the Master of the Universe who has provided me with such a special partner and I have rejected her and cast her away. The Master of the Universe has been patient with me but for how long?  When will His wrath and fury reach the boiling point? The Land of Israel is the place of His dwelling, the place where His Shechina rests.

How can the government, Likud, Shas, UTJ,   or any other party talk about reciprocity thereby showing their willingness to share what is sanctified for us alone?

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On a separate, less emotional note, for your latest news on the War in Gaza

Please go on http://www.yeshabulletin.com

You can see running headlines of Arutz7, latest news posts from Ynet and Jpost, Activities of Women in Green, Ichud Leumi and all about the Yesha communities.  Last night alone it had 26,000 posts growing by leaps and bounds!

Also, I would like more serious discussion about returning the role of  Rabbanic Leadership in the decision making process of a Jewish Government using as a reference the role of the Sanhedrin and the Zekeinim in the times of the Shoftim. 

Sincerely, Robin

2009/1/13 eli7 <eli7@womeningreen.org.il>

 

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הודעה זו נשלחת שנית מאחר ושמענו מכמה אנשים שלא קיבלו הודעה זו או בעצם לא הבחינו שמדובר בדוא"ל בנושא איחוד לאומי, ומחקו את התוכן.

 

From: Nadia & David Matar [mailto:nmatar@netvision.net.il]
Subject: Wednesday in Hevron יום רביעי בחברון

 

 

ENGLISH TEXT FOLLOWS HEBREW TEXT

 

שלום חברים

 

מי שמקבל את האימיילים האלו הוא מי שנרשם כפעיל בכנס של מוצאי שבת במרכז הישראלי או מי שהביע נכונות לעזור ע"י שליחת אימייל.

אם אינכם מעוניינים לקבל מיילים אלו נא ציינו זאת באימייל חזרה.

 

בברכה

 

נציגות פורום הנשים הארצי למען האיחוד הלאומי:

יהודית קצובר 0545866059 - רחל סילבצקי 025865307 - נדיה מטר 0505500834 

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עידכון איחוד לאומי:

 

1) ביום רביעי הקרוב,(מחר!!) י"ח טבת תשס"ט, 14/1/09 בשעה 14:00

ביום רביעי, בשעה שתיים, מפלגת התקווה איחוד לאומי מסריטה תשדיר בחירות
במערכת המכפלה. . אנו זקוקים למשתתפים רבים
בסרטון, ולכן נודה לכם מאוד באם תגיעו למערכת המכפלה בחברון ותשתתפו בתשדיר.ב:

מקום:  מערת המכפלה בחברון
שעה:   14:00    

כדי שהתשדיר יהיה משכנע ומרשים, רצוי שיהיו הרבה משתתפים.

תודה,עתליה בן מאיר  0542345836 

 אנא התקשרו אלי ותודיעו לי באם אתם יכולים או לא יכולים להגיע

 

2) כינוס פעילים להצלחת המערכה של נאמני ארץ ישראל

הכינוס יתקיים ביום שני, אור לכ"ד בטבת, בגן האצטרובל בצומת גלילות שמצפון לתל-אביב בשעה 7 בערב. יותוו בו הדרכים לקראת המאבק הגורלי על ארץ ישראל, וממנו תצא הקריאה לאחדות למען הצלת ארץ הקודש. ינאמו רבנים, אישי ציבור ונציגי התנועה.

לפרטים: מוטי מרקוביץ, 054-6354468

3) סיכום כינוס איחוד לאומי במוצ"ש שאורגן ע"י פורום נשים למען האיחוד הלאומי

http://www.inn.co.il/News/News.aspx/184029

4) אודות כינוס נוער איחוד לאומי של היום

http://www.inn.co.il/News/News.aspx/184083

5) אז מה אפשר לעשות?

אין הרבה זמן והעבודה מרובה. ליזום ליזום ליזום! אל תחכו לטלפונים מפעילי האיחוד הלאומי. יזמו בעצמכם חוגי בית או פעילות אחרת.

מצורפים דפים שחולקו בכנס במוצ"ש. הדפיסו אותם ועליהם כתוב מה אפשר לעשות. דוגמא אחת:

תנו כח לאיחוד הלאומי: מדפיסים הדף המצורף- פותחים פנקס טלפונים אישי או רשימות של שמחות משפחתיות- מתקשרים לחברים ולבני משפחה ומשכנעים לפחות 28 איש (כח) להצביע עבור האיחוד הלאומי.רושמים את שמותיהם על הדף המצורף ומפקססים לנו. ישר כח!!

 

מארגנים חוגי בית של לפחות 20 איש. מתקשרים למתאמת חוגי הבית חיה קנדלר 0526051926 ומארגנים חוג בית עם אחד ממועמדי האיחוד לאומי.

 

בהצלחה לכולנו. בע"ה נעשה ונצליח!!

 

 

ICHUD LEUMI UPDATES:

This email is being sent to you because you have registred at the Motsaei shabbat Ichud leumi evening or because you have shown an interest by email to receive our Ichud Leumi updates. If you do not want to receive those emails please email us and we will unsubscribe you.

 

Sincerely

 

The representatives of the Women's Forum for the Ichud leumi

Yehudit Katzover 0545866059 - Rachel Silvetzky 025865307 - Nadia Matar 0505500834

1)On Wednesday January 14th at 2:00pm

The Ichud-Leumi Party is filming an election clip at the Maarat
haMachpela on Wednesday, 14 January, at 14:00. We want a
persuasive and impressive election clip and therefore it is important
that we have many participants. Please come and bring other Ichud leumi participants.

This is your chance to meet the Ichud leumi candidates.

The filming will be with the participation of the candidates, Rabbis, public figures etc...

Place: Maarat haMachpala
Time: 14:00

Please tell us if you are coming so we get an idea of how many people will come

by calling Atalia Ben Meir 0542345836

 

2) IcHud Leumi Activist gathering next Monday January 19th at 7:00pm in North Tel Aviv, tsomet Glilot in Gan itstrubal.

For details Motti Markowitz 054-6354468

 

3) Summary of Ichud Leumi meeting motsaei shabbat

http://www.yeshabulletin.com/FIGHT%20BACK/HaIchud%20Leumi1-Eng.doc

 

4) ICHUD LEUMI ANGLO department

We are looking for volunteers to help with the Ichud leumi English campaign

in preparation for the upcoming elections.

The Ichud Leumi is the only party that is fully committed to Eretz Yisrael.

If you would be interested in helping or contributing please contact me at
my e-mail address or phone number below.

Dov Kass

dovkass@013.net

050-8711334

5) Meet Katzele in Elazar Gush Etzion

Please join us as we meet the leader of the new Ichud Leumi party, the charismatic and dynamic, Yaakov Katz, also known as Ketzaleh who will be speaking in English at a chug bayit at the Moadon in Elazar, next Thursday, January 22 at 8 PM.

He is a founder of the town of Beit El and father of seven. Ketzaleh has headed the Beit El Yeshiva institutions for over 25 years and the Arutz Sheva broadcast network. Ketzaleh was a Shaked Commando unit officer who lost part of his leg in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. He has also served as senior advisor to Housing Minister Ariel Sharon during the period when Sharon promoted extensive building in Yehuda and Shomron. Ketzaleh's integrity and commitment to to the land and people of Israel is worthy of our support. Hope to see you there.

Alan Simanowitz

asimanowitz@yahoo.com

 

6) So..what can we do?

See attached flyers for ideas. Most importantly: do not wait for a phonecall but rather initiate!

Organize a Chug bayit: Call Haya Kendler who organizes chug bayits- she will tell you which Ichud Leumi candidate is available what night- make sure at least 20 people attend the chug bayit - kol hakavod

Koach to the Ichud Leumi: open your personal phonebook and convince at least 28 (koach) of your friends and relatives to commit to vote Ichud Leumi. Write down their names on the attached sheet and fax it to us.

 

Please G-d we will do and please G-d we will succeed. Behatzlacha

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fwd: TZC-Newsletter-Jan-9-09 Vayechi, Download, Print and Read.

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SHABAT SHALOM!

Israel and the Land of Israel - The Sanctity of a Marriage and Holiness is not merely a matter of Defense

bs"d

Dear Friends, amv"sh

Please Get (no pun intended) this point across. Please speak to your friends and email everyone. THIS WAR in  not merely a war to defend ourselves from rockets.  Because if that's the only issue it is like saying it's ok to give ones wife to ones business associates for his enjoyment on condition that she is not beaten up.

I fear from G-d's wrath upon all of Am Yisroel  How easy it is for us to simply take a plane and come to live and settle and the Land of Israel. The airways are still open. Yet have we come to claim our precious land and sanctify her as per G-d's wishes and Holy Torah???????Or are we complacent and sit by while the Land is given away???

How did Hashem respond in Melachim 2 Perek 17 respond when finally the Jews of Malchai Yisroel had access toJerusalem and didn't go up to Har Habayit to the Holy Temple. That was the final straw that brought the exile.   Where is our yearning and desire for the Beit Hamikdash and the Mitvoth of the Torah dependant on the Land.  Only in a bunch of speeches.  But not really relevant????

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:20 PM, <do4israel@live.com> wrote:

Let get this project rolling

 

 

by Maayana Miskin

(IsraelNN.com) Several Jewish nationalist groups have come together to sponsor a massive PR campaign calling to return to Jewish towns in Gaza. "There is a solution: Going back to Gush Katif," the campaign's posters say.
Advertisements bearing the slogan have been placed on 1,500 buses, and soon will go up on billboards throughout the country.
Shai Gefen of SOS-Israel, one of the groups behind the initiative, explained that the goal is to change the public way of thinking about Gaza. The campaign aims to convince Israelis that only a permanent return to Gaza will permanently solve the problem of Gaza terrorism.

A group of former Gush Katif residents is prepared to return to Gaza, SOS-Israel activists said. The group will meet on Sunday in the Gush Katif museum in Jerusalem to formally announce their intention to return to their former homes.
Former residents of Gaza began organizing a group of those ready to return four months ago, three years after they were expelled from Gaza under the 2005 Disengagement plan. The group styled itself after the "Homesh First" group, which seeks a return to the northern Samaria town of Homesh, from which Jews were expelled under the Disengagement plan.
Homesh First spokesman Yossi Dagan recently explained the initiative in light of the ongoing Operation Cast Lead military action in Gaza. "These days we're getting a dramatic illustration of what was already known, that the uprooting-Disengagement that was termed 'a national mission' was a national disaster of enormous proportions," he said.
Despite fully withdrawing from Gaza, Israel does not have quiet and is still involved in Gaza's problems, Dagan said. "The process cost Israel a captive soldier, Gilad Shalit, dozens killed, a cost approaching NIS 20 billion, a rend in the social fabric..." he explained. "We must at the very least go back to what we used to have, to take over Gaza and clean out the nests of terror."

YET THERE IS A CAMPAIGN AFOOT INVOLVING ALL MAJOR JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS TO GIVE THE LAND AWAY. WHEN WE GIVE AWAY JUDEA AND SAMARIA WE ARE GIVING AWAY THE CORE OF OUR LAND, THE HOLY PLACES WHERE OUR
HISTORY EVOLVED. WE ARE GIVING UP ONLY JUDEA?  WHAT WOULD JEWS BE CALLED IF WE GIVE UP JUDEA? AND
THOSE INTRUDERS WHO WILL OCCUPY JUDEA, WOULD THEY NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE CALLED JUDEANS AS WELL?
WHEN WE GIVE UP THE LAND, WE GIVE UP OUR HISTORY, WE GIVE OUR IDENTITY AND WE GIVE UP OUR SOUL.
WE HAVE COME TO STOP THIS MADNESS. TO SAY TO THEM:WE ARE TIRED OF EXPULSIONS, WE ARE TIRED OF POGROMS, WE ARE TIRED OF SUICIDE BOMBERS AND INDISCRIMINATE MURDER IN THE STREETS. WE ARE NOT GOING TO SPEAK OF THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS, WE ARE GOING TO SPEAK OF OUR LEGITIMATE AND INALIENABLE RIGHTS. WE WILL NOT ENDANGER OUR PEOPLE WITH FOOLISH DREAMS THAT HAVE BEEN TRIED AND DISCREDITED OVER AND OVER AGAIN.(
 
Speech at the Concert
in Central Park
June 1st, 2008


YET THERE IS A CAMPAIGN AFOOT INVOLVING ALL MAJOR JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS TO GIVE THE LAND AWAY. WHEN WE GIVE AWAY JUDEA AND SAMARIA WE ARE GIVING AWAY THE CORE OF OUR LAND, THE HOLY PLACES WHERE OUR
HISTORY EVOLVED. WE ARE GIVING UP ONLY JUDEA?  WHAT WOULD JEWS BE CALLED IF WE GIVE UP JUDEA? AND
THOSE INTRUDERS WHO WILL OCCUPY JUDEA, WOULD THEY NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE CALLED JUDEANS AS WELL?
WHEN WE GIVE UP THE LAND, WE GIVE UP OUR HISTORY, WE GIVE OUR IDENTITY AND WE GIVE UP OUR SOUL.
WE HAVE COME TO STOP THIS MADNESS. TO SAY TO THEM:WE ARE TIRED OF EXPULSIONS, WE ARE TIRED OF POGROMS, WE ARE TIRED OF SUICIDE BOMBERS AND INDISCRIMINATE MURDER IN THE STREETS. WE ARE NOT GOING TO SPEAK OF THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS, WE ARE GOING TO SPEAK OF OUR LEGITIMATE AND INALIENABLE RIGHTS. WE WILL NOT ENDANGER OUR PEOPLE WITH FOOLISH DREAMS THAT HAVE BEEN TRIED AND DISCREDITED OVER AND OVER AGAIN.(
 
Speech at the Concert
in Central Park
June 1st, 2008
Rabbi David Algaze

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My comments to Hallelukah re: National Union, Feiglin, Sanhedrin

bs"d

My Dear Friends, amv"sh

Sometimes I really wonder if my emails are being read.  Baruch Hashem I see that there is a listening audience.  Before I address the subject at hand let me mention that my email "Hallelukah" about the newly formed National Union Party was cc"d to my list unintentionally.  As you know,  I usually send TO: do4israel@live.com and BCC everyone else. I CCds rather BCC'd by accident. As a result my list is being bombarded with emails.

Many of you welcome this discussion.  Thank you so much for sharing with others your views. Others do not and do not appreciate the volume of emails generated..

If you do not want to be part of this discussion please email the others to let them know.  Personally, I very much enjoy an open debate where we can address our opinions and concerns in a respectful manner. 

Rabbi Dov Stein of the Sanhedrin raise important points about speaking out proudly and forcefully about our Covenant and also raising awareness  of the Torah passages that people say are not relevant, politically incorrect, racist etc. The passages that speak about destroying the inhabitants of the Land if they continue with their idol worship is rarely quoted and if quoted will be labeled as very extreme and not to be taken literally.  Regarding this point please read if you haven't already,  http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2009/01/breaking-news-4-katyusha-rockets-hit-up.html which speaks about Parshat Shoftim Chapters 2-4.

 I would like to have an open discussion about what can be done to make Torah and Dat (do's and do nots of our religion) all inclusive for humanity rather than seen as coersion and repression in the name of religion.  The importance of a Rabbinic Authority acting as a Sanhedrin, or the Zekainim of our time and choosing a leader like a Shofet can become a reality in government that has Torah as its guide.

 It is a natural phenomenon to run like the wind when we feel that our personal way to express ourselves in this world, or the way we wish to express our Judaism and love of Hashem is being stifled and repressed in the name of religion. But Torah should do the opposite and if it is repressive, there is something not quite Kosher.

My own disappointment re: Moshe Feiglin's decision to stick with Likud can be found at http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2009/01/feiglin.html.  I do admire the entire MY team and hope that they understand that others feel that they are actually limiting themselves by sticking with Likud.

Again Thank You for your comments and I apologize for the inundation of emails.  Robin

Feiglin

bs"d

Dear Rabbi Friedman, amv"sh

Thank you for your comments!  It's an important discussion that should be addressed.

My position is that politics is really irrelevant except if it represents a Torah position. Because if we vote for the Torah position then we are voting for Hashem to be in charge. Hashem has shown in the past to give the many in the hands of the few by His miracles..

 I am surprised and disappointed that Feiglin has chosen Likud over one that reflects a more authentic Torah position. 
When will Feiglin realize that speaking up for Torah and Dat is not limiting but will unite and is actually all inclusive of the Jews all over the world as explained by A.B. YEhoshua in the article below?

Perhaps religion has gotten a bad name because too much has been done or said in the name of religion that is actually anti Torah. 

In the Spring 2008 issue 32 of Azure there is an article entitled "An Attempt to Identify the Root Cause of Antisemitism" by A.B. Yehoshua.  There is an Editor's  preface note as follows:

The following essay was originally published in the Hebrew journal Alpayim in 2005 and provoked an intense public debate. Its author, the renowned Israeli novelist A.B. Yehoshua, undertook a demanding task:  to decipher the most disturbing riddle of Jewish history to analyze and describe the quintessence of antisemitism in its various historical and cultural incarnations.

It is a lengthy and scholarly article but on page 55 the author writes;  The words of Haman ben Hammedata, a literary character created by the Jews themselves centuries before Christianity, provide the first clear focus on the structure of Jew-hatred.  They will continue the starting point of our discussion:

And Haman said to King Ahashverosh, "There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peopel in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from all people, nor do they keep the king's law:  therefore it is of no benefit to the king to tolerate them.  If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed, and I will weigh out ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries." An the king took his ring from his hand and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedata the Agagite, the enemy of the Jew.

I will try to make a detailed analysis of Haman's words which were put into his mouth by the Jews themselves as mentioned above, and are therefore all the more authoritative in the search for the truth about antisemitism.  ...

Haman clearly speaks of a specific people and a specific religion, and he differntiates between the two concepts.  He does not speak of a territotorial national minority (my emphasis, robin), but of one people scattered throughout many different nations and states.  Had the Jews settled within the borders of only one nation, the task of identifying them might have been simplex,  However - and this is a salient point - Hamas is not satisfied with the word "scattered" he adds dispersed. In my opinion this is not by chance, because by the addition of this adjective he implies that not only are the Jews scattered, they also do not resemble one another, they have been diversified, which adds to the difficulty of identifying and marking them.  Wherever the Jew lived, his features were different from those of Jews living elsewhere:  he dressed differently, his name was different (Jews often changed their names to local names), he adopted local customs, and his language differed from place to place, since Jews appropriate the languages, they mutated the host tongues.  As a reult, Jews could not understand each other on a primary level.  They lacked a common language, the very basis for communication between members of the same nation.

Haman's first sentense expresses this difficulty of identification, this element that is honed with the passage of history, in invisible "essence" that Freud hoped would in time be explained by scientific research, while Talmon and other historians bowed to it mystery.

Here we find the word dat (religion translated as "law" in the quote above), which Jews themselves sometimes hesitate to use as a legitimate description of their identity, alternately evading and returning to it through lack of choice even though there are various linguistic alternatives, and one could, in principle, use such designations as "halachic," "believing<" or "practicing" to describe this way of life.  Yet, because of the universal validity of the world "religion" Jews must continue to use it.  The source of the word dat is Persian, and the translation "law" faithfully reflects the Jewish religion, which is based on laws of do and do not.  Haman goes on to say that not only is this people diverse from all the nations among whom it has settled, but its religion is exclusively its own and different from all the local religions. 'That is, the Jewish religion cannot be shared with a different nationality, unlike other faiths, such as the Hellenistic religions, which were common to members of many different nations at the time this text was written.

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Yehoshua Friedman <friedy07@netvision.net.il> wrote:

I don't agree with this. The NU will be frozen out of coalition negotiations as being too far right and outside the consensus. Lots of votes for the Likud means Feiglin is in and possibly Effi Eitam's surrogate placed a couple of places below Feiglin. At the rate the war is going the winner might be Barak and the Labor Party or Kadima. Likud with a small plurality will take Labor in with Barak staying on as Defense Minister. Feiglin says that Barak will be the next PM. At least we could have a summit meeting of  (Ehud) Barak, Barak (Obama) and Mubarak. We'll see. I'm voting Likud with a clothespin over my nose.

Yehoshua Friedman

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Ticker [mailto:faigerayzel@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 8:53 PM
To: do4israel
Subject: Paul Eidelberg: PRELIMINARY NOTES ON THE FORTHCOMING ELECTION

 

 

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Date: Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:13 AM
Subject: PRELIMINARY NOTES ON THE FORTHCOMING ELECTION
To: list@foundation1.org

Preliminary Notes  on the Forthcoming Election

 

Paul Eidelberg

 

It is widely agreed that the Olmert-Livni-Barak government decided to inflict a crushing blow on Hamas to restore Fatah-leader Mahmoud Abbas' control over Gaza—a precondition for fulfilling the triumvirate's commitment to a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria.  This will obviously be the paramount issue in the February 10 election.

 

Although right-minded people will want Likud to win more seats than Kadima in that election, it is extremely important that the Likud not win too large a Knesset plurality.  Such an outcome would enable the Likud's questionable leader, Binyamin Netanyahu, to appoint too many Likud MKs to his cabinet, just as Ariel Sharon did after the 2003 elections.  This was too many for Israel's own good.

 

Right-minded people will therefore want to vote for National Union, which, unlike the Likud, is opposed to any further territorial withdrawal and is unequivocally opposed to a Palestinian state.  This non-compromising attitude cannot be ascribed to Netanyahu, whose slogan "reciprocity" between Israel and the Palestinian Authority means yielding more Jewish land to the disciples of Muhammad.  Netanyahu's track record at the Wye Summit and on disengagement from Gaza does not inspire confidence.

 

To state the matter more simply, Israel will need in its next government a significant number of cabinet ministers who are to the right of Netanyahu and who can block any attempt on his part to betray the nationalist camp, as he has done in the past.

 

Involved here is a problem of "strategic voting," difficult in Israel given its multiplicity of parties and party coalitions.  However, it may—repeat "may"— be possible to circumvent this problem.

 

Let the Likud, National Union, and the religious parties agree, prior to the February 10 election, that they will "unite" after the election, but solely for the purpose of forming the next government whose only common plank is opposition to further territorial withdrawal and opposition to a Palestinian state.  This will not only alleviate concern among right-minded people that refraining from voting Likud will NOT result in a Kadima-led coalition government; it will also reaffirm undivided Jerusalem as Israel's eternal capital.

 

Meantime, MK Arieh Eldad, the most prominent member of National Union, should challenge Netanyahu as to whether he is still wedded to the policy of "territory for peace," or whether his recently announced economic peace plan for the Arabs in Judea and Samaria envisions the creation of a sovereign Arab state in that area, a state that would obviously have arms.

 

It will also be necessary for Eldad to challenge former IDF Chief of General Staff Moshe Yaalon, now a member of the Likud Party.  The question is whether Yaalon's recently published policy paper, "Israel and the Palestinians: A New Strategy," surreptitiously envisions an Arab state in Judea and Samaria after the Arabs therein develop what he deems the economic, political, and judicial infrastructure required to make the Palestinian Authority a reliable negotiating partner vis-à-vis Israel?

 

Israel does indeed need a new strategy, but one beyond the secular mentality of Yaalon and Netanyahu.  As I have discussed elsewhere and will again elaborate, the key to solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is to make Israel more Jewish.   Of this, more later.

 

 

COMMENT: Open Letter to Annie Lennox - A Scorned Wife

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Dear Marilyn, amv"sh

Excellent letter and thank you for sending it to me. 

However, it does not speak of our entitlement to the Land.

Here's an analogy. 

A couple is married to each other in holy matrimony. They have a prenuptial agreement.  He claims that he loves her but offers her to foreigners for their own use to win them over in a business deal, and she suffers and is hurt by these other parties, her value is diminished. The husband then defends his right to stop these foreigners from hurting her.  He scolds his business acquaintences to whom he has offered her and says, if only you would have treated her nicely she could have been yours.

Now where in this statement does the husband show that he loves her and desires her and honors and values the sanctity of their marriage? 

The Land of Israel is the wife.  She is sanctified by her husband the Nation of Israel.  Yet he continues to degrade her by acting as if there was no sanctification and that the marriage is meaningless. He continues to act as if he has the right to farm her out to whomever he so desires as long as they are both not destroyed in the process.

At what point will he realize that his willingness to part with her is the source of her greatest sorrow and  degradation?

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Marilyn Safran <Marilyn.Safran@weizmann.ac.il> wrote:

>>> On 1/7/2009 at  9:04 pm, in message <13F8615F99064E97BDD1A2C1E9659DA8@taylornew>, Jeanette Taylor <jeanette@013.net> wrote:

AN OPEN LETTER TO ANNIE LENNOX

Dear Annie,

As a long time fan of yours, I must say that I was so
disappointed to see you sitting under a Palestinian flag, in the company
of "Red" Ken Livingstone, George Gallagher, etc, all of them unabashedly
not only anti Israel, but anti Semites to boot.

As well as being beneath your personal dignity to sit with such
people you are also placing yourself decisively behind and identifying
with only one side in the conflict and have abandoned any pretense of
impartiality whatsoever.

I definitely value your concern for human rights and my heart goes
out to your obviously genuine heartache for the Palestinian suffering.
As do ours. Where, however was that beautiful voice of yours when 6000,
yes, 6000 rockets rained down on unprotected Israeli civilian villages,
towns and kibbutzim, all of them purposely targeting civilians and only
civilians. A whole population lived in fear, children suffering post
traumatic stress, economies floundering, and for what?


We unilaterally pulled out of Gaza , uprooted enterprises of 30
years standing, which during that time had prospered and made the
previously neglected desert bloom.

We pulled out with peace in our hearts, and the deeds to prove
it. We left behind, intact, the most technically advanced hothouses in
the world. We were prepared to train Palestinians and conglomerates of
American Jews (please check the facts) were offering to do joint venture
with these Palestinians to help them develop their economy. This would
offer unheard of opportunities in the 'refugee' world which I might add
would really defeat the aim of the Islamic nations who USE these poor
people as pawns.

Gaza was presented an opportunity to have become a thriving tax
free port city and we could have been living in peace and trading (this
is the best method of peace) with a prosperous Gaza . The Gazans
unfortunately strengthened the old adage "The Palestinians never miss an
opportunity to miss an opportunity" and alas, the hothouses were looted
and wantonly destroyed and we were met with a barrage of rockets instead
of joint ventures.

Foreign aid was spent on deadly weapons. Even when we had a "cease
fire" rockets rained in on a daily business and the Hamas interpreted
our incredible restraint as weakness. We pleaded, we threatened, until
our threats had lost all meaning. Enough was enough.

Where were you (and Sky News for that matter) when we were shown
gruesome live footage of an Israeli boy screaming on the floor of a
Supermarket.yes, a Supermarket where civilians do their shopping,
subsequent to an unprovoked rocket attack.. His leg had been sheared off
by an assault calculatingly and cynically targeting civilians. The
stories are endless.

Military might doesn't solve anything.the answer is in diplomacy
suggests Miss Lennox. Annie, who with? The Hamas will neither speak to
us nor even recognize our basic right of existence. Like their Iranian
masters they steadfastly call for our utter and total destruction. Non
less.

It is said that they are holding out for open border crossings.

They had open crossings till they started bombarding us. The
crossings were never permanently closed but their temporary closures
were vainly and ineffectively used as a deterrent. They even bombed the
crossings!! Go figure.

Is all of this madness in order to gain what they already had, and
could have had way back then by doing one simple thing. Stop bombarding
us!

Israelis yearn for peace and have proved with deeds that we are
prepared to pay a high price for this. Our peace treaties with Jordan
and Egypt are living proof. The Gazans will not talk peace, at very best
a truce. The last "truce" with Hamas was exploited in their smuggling
weapons, building tunnels, training shock troops in Iran and building
fortifications, as well as maintaining their daily bombardment of
Israeli civilians. Hamas, Hizbollah, Al Quaida, etc. not only call for
the destruction of Israel but mock the Western democracies, which they
have also openly promised to demolish. These threatened Democracies call
for even handedness in the region which is also perceived gleefully in
their eyes as weakness. Did we learn nothing from Chamberlain? Be
forewarned, Annie, in Londonstan, when you are wearing a burqa , at
least we will, at least ,still be able to see your beautiful eyes.

Why is it that you, and other "liberal" people like yourself so
savagely condemn Israel , with its democratic government, vocal
opposition, free press, a world respected legal system, rights for
minorities, etc? In short the only people in the Middle East who adhere
by YOUR standards, are vilified whilst you defend the people who trample
on democracy, human rights, woman's in particular, freedom of religion,
freedom of speech.need I go on with the list?

We have tried restraint, negotiations through 3rd parties, (as
they won't speak to us) cease fires (albeit one sided) nothing worked,
all the above were seen as weakness. Like feeding the proverbial lion in
order to get him to leave you alone it only increased their insatiable
appetite, and so the time had come to act, and act strongly. Was our
reaction unproportionate? Maybe we should have emulated them. For every
Kassam rocket fired indiscriminately into a civilian population, should
we have replied by sending helter skelter a rocket aimed into civilian
areas and trust to luck where it falls? What would you, Red Ken and the
gang have said about us then?

Hamas is to be judged, not only by its hideous actions but also by
the company it keeps, Iran, Hezbollah, Syria, El Qaeda, all "giants of
democracy and human rights," all reviled by the democracies of the
world, which nevertheless combine in a knee jerk reaction to malign
Israel, when it eventually does what any other country would have done
ages ago.exercise its right of self defence and fulfill its obligations
to its beleaguered citizens.

Annie, unfortunately you too, whom I so admired, must ultimately
be judged by the company you keep.

Stanley Lipschitz

Jerusalem

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Fwd: utube: Reb Shlomo Karlebach speaks out for Eretz Yisroel.

Yosef: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlxoNRwjHBo

BREAKING NEWS! 4 Katyusha Rockets Hit up north near Nahariya 1:24am NY time,,,Sefer Shoftim - a must read

bs"d

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/129295

I initially found out because I just got a call (its 1:24am NY time, 8:24AM Israel time) from my daughter in an Ulpana in Israel up north) calling from a Miklat, Bomb Shelter.

Dangers are facing us from all over.  Pro Hamas rallies in Florida and Toronto. 

Tonight my 5th grader told me that he has a Navi test on Chapters 2-4 in  Shoftim, the Book of Judges.  So I read the Little Midrash Says on the Book of Judges by Rabbi Moshe Weissman.

Let me quote passages from this book.  Parallels to our times are amazing.

Shevet Yehuda fights additional battles.  They make a grave mistake by allowing Canaanim to stay in their portion.

The men of shevet Yehuda continued fighting for their part of the land.  They also helped shevet Shimon to conquer its part of the land.

The soldiers of Yehuda captured part of Yerushalayim and destroyed the Yevusim - one of the seven nations of Eretz Canaan - Hashem had commanded. (Another part of Yerushalayim belonged to shevet Binyamin)

The army of Yehuda also conquered Aza, Ashkelon and Ekron, three cities owned by the Pelishtim near the coast.

Soon afterwords, the men of shevet Yehuda had an unpleasant surprise.  After conquering a mountain in their part of the land, they began to attack the Canaanim who lived in the valley below.  To their dismay, they discovered that those Canaanim possessed iron chariots!  In those times, iron chariots were the equivalent of modern powerful tanks or airplanes.

The men of Yehudah had no iron chariots.  They said, "It is useless for us to fight against an army that has iron chariots!  We will all, chas veshalom, be killed!"

Because the Jewish soldiers lost heart, they did not put in much effort in the fight against the Canaanim in the valley.  They merely advanced a little and then withdrew.

In reality, the men of shevet Yehuda  were lacking the proper trust in Hashem .  Had they been confident of Hashem's help, they would have won the war.

Because of this, a number of Canaanim survived and remained in shevet Yehuda's portion of the land.  This was a serious sin.  The men of shevet Yehuda transgressed Hashem's command to kill (or drive out) all the seven nations living in Eretz Canaan....

Bnai Yisrael fail to keep the mitzva of getting rid of the seven nations

Hashem commanded Bnai Yisrael in the Torah, "Do not allow any of the seven nations to remain free men in Eretz Canaan!"

The Jews had several choices:

1. To drive them out of the land. OR:
2. To use them as servants, in which case the Canaanim would pay taxes and keep the seven mitzvos of Bnai Noach: OR"
3. If the nations would not agree to either of the above choices, Bnai Yisrael had to destroy them completely.

What is the reason for this commandment?  First of all, those nations all served idols, which Hashem did not want the Jews to imitate.  Furthermore, the people of Canaan had bad midos (character traits). do you remember the wicked city of S'dom that was destroyed in Avraham's time?  The people of S'donm robbed and abused the poor. S'dom was in Eretz Canaan and the other cities of Eretz Canaan were almost as wicked.  But because they were not quite as bad as Sdom, Hashem waited another 400 years until the Jews arrived in Eretz Canaan to drive those nations our of the land.  Now their measure of sin was full and it was time to get rid of them. 

As we will see from the mext Midrash, the Canaanim were trained by their parents and grandparents to be wicked,

The Midrash tells us:
Canaan's last words to his children

Canaan was Noach's grandson (Cham's son).  Noach cursed him and his children with a curse that they would be slaves.  Before he died, Canaan gathered his children around him and told them, "I want to give you five important pieces of advice: 1. You should always love each other. 2. Try to steal as much as you can! 3. The more immorality, the better 4. Hate your masters. 5. Never tell the truth. (If your masters ever accuse you of stealing or anything else, never admit you did it)"

This became the lifestyle of the Canaanim.

We Jews are supposed to behave in exactly the opposite manner. the first point, "Love each other," sounds like a good thing to do.  But even with that Canaan had a bad intention;  "Gang up together to do bad!"

Bnei Yisrael knew that the Torah forbad them to let any of the seven nations stay in the land if those nations continued to serve idols.  But they found the mitzva of getting rid of them very hard to keep.  After Yehoshua's death, Bnai Yisrael thought, "We are sick of all these battles!  We already fought the Canaanim for seven full years in Yehoshuah's time!  What's so terrible, if some Canaanim are scattered about in the land?  It is too hard to get rid of every last Canaani!  The main thing is that we rule over them!  We can always drive them out later, if necessary.'

When the tribes of Efrayim and Menashe conquered their part of the land, they therefore allowed some non-Jews to stay.  They only forced them to pay taxes.  (This was not enough, according to the Torah.  Those nations were also required to keep the seven mitzvos of Bnai Noach.  Of course, the Canaanim did not want to do that.  So the Jews left them alone.)

When the tribes of Zevulun, Asher and Naftali conquered their property, they too, allowed many non-Jews to remain there, because they were tired of fighting so many battles.

Hashem's messenger scolds Bnai Yisrael

At that time Pinchas, the grandson of Aharon, was still alive.  He was a holy man.  He received a nevua (prophesy) from Hashem.  He gathered all of the Bnai Yisrael in order to speak to them.  While he spoke, his face glowed with the fire of the Schechina, so that he looked almost like an angel of Hashem.

These were Hashem's words which Pinchas gave over to Bnai Yisrael.

"I kept My promise to your forefathers to give you Eretz Yisrael.  I brought you out of Egypt and made a treaty with you that you would be My people forever.  Your part of the treaty is that you must keep My mitzvos. I warned you, "Do not make peace with the people who live in this land! Destroy all their objects of idol worship!".

"You have not listened to Me!  You acted foolishly by violating your treaty with Me.  Instead, you made a treaty with the nations.

"You were not serious in driving out those nations from the land.  As you wished, so shall it be! I will no longer help you drive out those nations.  But know that in the end they will harm you.  They will be like thorns that prick you, and their gods will trap you!"

But the main part of their teshuva was missing.  Bnai Yisrael should have begged Hashem to help them drive out all the Canaanim from the land.  That was even more important than offering korbanos, but they missed that point.  They named the place where they gathered "Bochim/Crying," to remember that there they had regretted their wrongdoing.  But they did not make a serious effort to correct their mistake."

Hallelukah! Ketzaleh , R' Yaakov Katz of Beit El Unites for Torah! National Union

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Please visit the Arutz7 link below.

His words are song to my ears.  Yasher Koach to all those activists like Susie Dym and Nadia Matar that worked so hard to get this together.  My only hope is that now, Moshe Feiglin will join in with this fantastic group because it is exactly what Feiglin believes rather than wasting time and energy on Likud.  The same goes for Menachemr Porush and UTJ. May all the Shas people join in under their courageous Rabbinic Leader Rabbi Yaakaov Yosef.  The Torah is what will unite Am Yisroel.  No longer shall we run away from our Torah that can sometimes feel like a burden but is ultimately for our own good and the good of the World.

The Torah was rejected in 1948 by the Zionist State but the State of Israel has much to be proud of in spite of this flaw. They built up the Land including establishing many Yeshivoth, and religious strongholds.  With this current Tikkun in our generation, of recognizing that the Torah is everlasting and relevant and our Covenant with Hashem is relevant in our day, we are doing what we need to fight Hamas.  Beezrat Hashem, no longer will there silence, a terrible chillul Hashem when they speak of Occupation. Finally a voice that speaks with pride of our entitlement to Eretz Yisroel based on Torah!  What a tremendous Kiddush Hashem!



http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/129256

Ketzaleh: "Follow Me to the Land of Israel" - Part 1

 
by Chagit Rotenberg

(IsraelNN.com) "We will bring smiles back to the faces of those who cherish the Land of Israel," says National Union party leader Yaakov "Ketzaleh" Katz in an exclusive interview with B'Sheva Magazine.
Translated by Rochel Sylvetsky

Honest Reporting - The Real Story of Israel's Gaza Operation - in self defense. Sign petition and fwd.

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Dear Friends, amv'sh

Nothing gave me greater satisfaction than reading in Arutz7 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/129227how Israel shut down Hamas' communication, cell phones and website. 

Arab propaganda is Hamas' strongest and most effective weapon.  The best possible defense is not to allow reporters into Gaza so that they will be forced to feel the Kassam rockets from the side of Israel when they report.

See how distorted the mainstream news is in reporting this War (New York Times etc.). Then please sign the petition of Honest Reporting.  If you do not see the video then show,enable pictures.

Freedom of speech, humanitarinism, mosques, schools, children  have become the weapons of Hamas to further their cause to gain public sympathy.  These are the vehicles Hamas use to facilitate evil and we must respond accordingly.

Robin

 

 

 

Israeli citizens have been under the threat of daily attack from Gaza for years. Only this week - hundreds of missiles and mortars shells were fired at Israeli civilian communities including the firing of 80 missiles on a single day. See how the international media is reporting on these events.

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IDF Soldiers Need Warm Jackets - Yashar Lachayal, YI

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Message from the Nirenbergs: This message was sent to us by our friends Jeff & Heidi Nirenberg whose son is in a unit in the army in Israel. This young man, Zev Neirenberg, was in our BSA troop.  He has volunteered for the Israeli army and is in ____. Please read the emails below from Zev , Y.I. & Yashar Lachyal. (It's long but I just did not know what to leave out.) A check can be sent through the National Council Young Israel or directly to yasharlachayal.org Please enclose a note that the donation is for Zev Nirenberg's Unit.  Kol Tuv, Linda & Aaron Kinsberg Thousands of soldiers are stationed in and around Gaza and at bases and checkpoints  throughout the country.  We are having a very cold winter.  The army issues basic winter gear but it simply is not enough - the boys are outside, rain or shine, and it is very cold.The IDF's policy is as follows, an entire unit must be sponsored. It is impossible for just a few soldiers to recieve fleeces,rathere the entire unit must receive fleeces at once. Zev ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMAIL FROM Y.I. Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 10:22:34 -0500 Subject: RE: FW: urgent - soldiers in need of warm jackets WE ARE WORKING ON THE ISSUE WE ARE WORKING WITH YASHAR LACHAYAL   MONIES CAN BE DIRECTED VIA YI CHARITIES, WE WILL SEND IT TO YASHAR LACHAYAL Rabbi Pesach Lerner Executive Vice President National Council of Young Israel 111 John Street, Suite 450 New York, New York 10038 Tel: 212-929-1525 ext. 100 Fax: 212-727-9526 ------------------------------------------------------------ YASHAR LACHAYAL Three years ago we met a young man at the hesder yeshiva and he became part of our family.  After going back to the US for a year, he returned to Israel and is now in the army.  His sister's classmates in New York has raised $1600 for extra coats for this young man's unit, but it is not enough.  There are over 150 young men stationed with him, and the policy is to purchase for the entire unit, not just some of the boys.  We are working to raise additional money (at least another $1500) and purchase the jackets within the next few days, and we need your help, to help the soldiers. Donations can be made payable to Yashar HaYachal, an organization based in our community that assists with projects like this.  Please send US checks to: Yashar HaChayal c/o Les Adler Binstock, Adler, A.L. 1 Datrun Center 9100 South Dadeland Blvd.  Suite 1600 Miami, FL 33156  Yashar HaChayal has applied for 501C3 status but the process is not yet complete.  Your donations may or may not be tax deductible in the US at this time. If you are in Israel and would like to help, please be in touch! Please let me know if you will be sending a check and the amount, since it enable us to move more quickly if we know how much money is on the way. Thanks, and Shabbat Shalom. -- Lisa Weinsoff Mitzpe Navo 108/3 Maale Adumim 02 590 3726 cell 054 765 9646 U.S. 954-633-5268

Lipa Schmelzer and Shia Mendlowitz upcoming concert and the- Mitzvah of "Vehaya Machenecha Kadosh"

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The following letters were written to Zev Brenner, of Talkline Communications, Lipa and Shia regarding tonights radio program featuring Shia Mendlowitz and Lipa Schmelzer.

Last year before Purim if you recall, they had advertised a concert called the "BigEvent" produced by Shia Mendlowitz and starring Lipa Shmeltzer.  Soon after, signs were put up all over Boro Park and Flatbush banning this concert because it violated "Vehaya Machanecha Kadosh" the Biblical commandment to have a holy camp.  This ban had the endorsements of 33 very prestigious Rabbanim.  On tonights radio program with Zev Brenner, Shia and Lipa said that they personally went to the Rabbanim who had their names on the ban in order to ask how come.  Apparently at least 5 said that they were misled and were now encouraging Lipa to continue performing and would not come out against another concert and some actually encouraged him to perform .

However, when listeners asked who these Rabbanim were that actually changed their tune (no pun intended), Shia and Lipa refused to disclose this information.  The reason they gave was because they didn't want it to be another source of Machlokes, friction, and Lipa said he didn't want the Rabbanim to be bothered all day long with calls of stupidities of such nature because of him.

Dear Zev, amv"sh

This is not a funny manner but a question that should be addressed to the Rabbanim.

Why were so many Rabbanim willing to put their name, even if misled, on a ban that is shtuyot, narishkeit, instead of really addressing the Biblical Commandment "Vehaya Machanecha Kadosh" in a Pshuto shel Mikreh, literal reading of the Torah.  If Lipa would ask this question from the Rabbanim it is not a waste of their time or his time but rather is the burning issue of our day.

This Mitzvah "Vehaya Machanecha Kadosh" is a reference to a military camp in a Milchemet Mitzvah, an obligatory war that is a Mitzvah in Eretz Yisroel. 

There has been no acknowledgment on the part of these Rabbanim as per our entitlement to Eretz Yisroel or our obligation to fight a Milchemet Mitzvah when attacked by our enemies.  It is clear beyond a shadow of a doubt that we are fighting an enemy clearly out to destroy the Nation of Israel.  Why has this Mitzvah instead taken on a perverted meaning in banning a separate seating concert.

Sincerely, Robin Ticker

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Date: Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:51 AM
Subject: Lipa - Mitvah of Vehaya Machenecha Kadosh - distorted
To: zev@talklinecommunications.com


bs"d

Dear Lipa and Shia, amv"sh

The Rabbanim banned your separate seating concert last time because of "Vehaya Machanecha Kadosh", "Thou shall have a H-ly camp".  Isn't that a reference to a Milchemet Mitzva, an obligatory war that is a Mitzvah,  where the soldiers of Israel must act in the proper holy way when they are in the midst of battle?  In fact it would be the right topic to discuss right now when Israel is in a state of war with Hamas in Gaza and the Rabbanim would speak about the obligation to go to war under such conditions and the Halacha, the Rabbinic law that is relevant to the Chayalim, the Israeli soldiers while fighting this war. 

I can't understand how the Mitzvah of "Vehaya Machanecha Kadosh" is violated with a separate seating concert?  What prohibition can possibly happen under such conditions? 

And if a boy would meet a girl on their way to walking to the concert and eventually decide to build a Bayit Neeman Beyisroel, a faithful Jewish home, wouldn't that be the greatest Mitzvah?  And if there is a concert on Sukkot or Pesach then isn't there an added Mitzveh of "Vesamachta Bechagecha" to be happy on our holidays.  All this is in addition to the Mitzvah of "Mitzvah Gedolah Lihiyos BeSimcha Tamid" as the Breslov Chasidim sing, "it is a big Mitzvah to be happy all the time". Almost all would agree that a Shia Mendlowitz production starring Lipa Schmelzer  is a source of great Simcha, happiness. 

Why are the Rabbanim so quick to assume that Hamonei Am, the general religious population would have inappropriate thoughts when they go to your concert?  Have they ever attended your concert?  Isn't that a violation of Motzei Shem Ra, spreading a false report and Lashon Hara and isn't that a violation of "Judging your fellow Jew in a favorable light?".

Didn't this ban a year ago,  cause tremendous monetary loss to many people and Tzedakah organizations. not to mention the terrible agmas nefesh, aggravation to so many people.

Isn't this ban based on "Vehaya Machanecha Kadosh" an example of adding to the Torah  thereby bringing forth the situation of detracting from the Torah.

Doesn't it say "Lo Yeh-iy-eh Lachem Elokim Acheirim Al Panei", You shall not have any other G-ds. 

Judging by some of your callers and their judgement call of what is considered worthy of a ban, I believe that it's important that they know that it is no Mitzvah of Emunas Chachamim, believing our Rabbis,  to follow blindly a Psak, a Rabbinic ruling, even when there is no basis in the Torah for such a Psak. Of course we are obligated to follow a Psak if the Psak is "Al Pi Hatorah" according to the written Torah.  But if the only Mitzvah the Rabbanim base this ban on is "Vehaya Machanecha Kadosh" then aren't the Rabbanim disregarding the literal meaning of this Mitzvah in the Torah and in fact distorting its context?

I believe that the Rabbanim that now wish to give their approval for your concert should do so openly and not be afraid. In fact a discussion of  the Mitzvah of "Vehaya Machanecha Kadosh" and how it relates to the war iin Gaza is definitely in order.  These Rabbanim should be willing to stand up for what is Torah and what they believe and know to be Torah, apologize for misleading the public in their participation of the ban and stand up against all the peer pressure of others that might actually be the voice of the Sitre Acheir, the other side or of the Eirev Rav, the mixed multitudes.


This will be posted on shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com

Jonathan Pollard - Why isn't America expressing remorse?

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Dear Friends, amv"sh

It appears that the whole campaign to free Pollard is not working.  It doesn't look like the President is interested in pardoning Pollard even though the consensus and arguments are clearly in Pollards favor. Quiet diplomacy has been going on for 23 years with no results.

How come?

We can also ask a different but related question.  How come after seeing the rocket attacks in Sderot and Southern Israel, people can not put 2 and 2 together.  It is obvious that these attacks come as a direct consequence of giving away Gush Katif.  

If we succeed in quieting Hamas, after the price of a ground offensive, will the Government of Israel then hand over Gaza to Fatah?

The answer is clear. We as a nation have failed to assert our entitlement to the Land of Israel, and our rights for security. It's almost as if we really don't want the burden, and in fact are running away from the Divine yoke (known as Ol Mitzvoth) of our entitlement.

When Jonathan Pollard expresses remorse and pleads for clemency simply because he has served a prison sentence that is excessive,  effectively he is admitting that he has wronged America. 

Jonathan Guilty????  Let's think it through!

We know that Jonathan was acting on behalf of America and Israel.  We know that Jonathan acted to protect Israel when it became apparent that the USA was not sharing intelligence and actually being a partner with developing a power plant that would put Israel in harms way.

Jonathan Pollard acted as a spy for Israel, America's ally, only when the United States betrayed Israel and its agreement with them, by allowing Saddam Hussein to gain access to weapons of mass destruction that could be used against Israel. 

United States of America at the time may have had their reasons for building that power plant in Iraq.  Not that long after however, they themselves realized that Saddam Hussein is not the proper venue to fight the war against a terrorist regime.

In our day, we are facing the same dilemma as Jonathan Pollard.  Do we speak out against American Foreign Policy that is clearly endangering Israel?   Do we risk America's wrath at our audacity to question American foreign policy and thereby according to our  critics "endanger" America's interests abroad? Aren't we too afraid of being called disloyal and traitor to America and this is holding us back?

President Bush and Condoleeza Rice have convinced themselves that they are justified in endorsing, promoting and supporting a Palestinian State.

Believing Jews know that whatever logic they have, it goes against G-d's Torah and in fact it not only puts Israel in danger but puts humanity in danger. Peace and security for Israel means peace and security for mankind.

So, will we continue with the apologetics and beg merely to survive, to be free of the non ending rockets?  Will we continue to remain Silent when the people of Judea and Samaria have no rights to buy property, expand or defend themselves without being put into prison? 

OR will we stand with uprightness and assert our entitlement to the entire Land of Israel, reclaiming Gaza and rebuilding the destroyed Jewish communities and declare that Judea and Samaria is our entitlement and so is Temple Mount. 

In this war on terror we can only rely on G-d in Heaven to protect us. When we scorn our birthright by expressing our willingness and even eagerness to give it away for a mere pot of lentils as did Eisav and annul our Torah in the process, why should G-d want to fight for us? 

And that dear friends is why I believe Pollard still isn't free and the rockets are coming to Beer Sheva, Ashkelon and Ashdod and the judge in Iowa will not allow a Jew out on bail because of the Law of Return and why in Fort Lauderdale in a Jewish neighborhood, Florida there is a pro Hamas rally. 

What more will it take to wake us up???.

In the merit of our desire to reclaim Gaza and to hold on to our heartland Judea and Samaria and Har Habayit and ...

in the merit of Am Yisroel expressing yearning and desire for Eretz Yisroel, Eretz Hakodesh and...

in the merit of Am Yisroel recognizing our obligations to fulfill the Torah commandments in Eretz Yisroel

May we continue to see miracles.  May our righteous soldiers and those that regret any participation, either active or passive, in giving away Eretz Yisroel be protected in Eretz Yisroel or in the Diaspora. And may the rest of us wake up quickly.  Otherwise we are eating the poison of what we ourselves have sowed.

Posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com


Shavua Tov!

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 12:47 PM, kati <kk77@012.net.il> wrote:

G-D BLESS YOU, DEAR ROBIN ["YESHAR KOAH"]

KATI

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To: president@whitehouse.gov

Cc: justice4jp@gmail.com

Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 8:55 AM

Subject: Jonathan Pollard - A Non Apologetic Letter to the President of the United States of America

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Honorable President George W. Bush:

I write to you pleading for the release of Jonathan Pollard.

Jonathan Pollard gave intelligence of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq to Israel.  This intelligence should have been shared as per a prior agreement between Israel and the USA.

I don't believe that Jonathan Pollard was disloyal to America.  I do believe that America betrayed Israel by failing to supply her with intelligence that Israel needed for her security. 

I also believe that the USA is currently betraying Israel by endorsing and promoting a  Palestinian State. Millions and maybe billions of dollars is flowing into Fatah with the delusion that Fatah will use it to fight Hamas. This infusion of support and funds for Fatah is putting the security of Israel in grave danger.   Fatah is out to destroy Israel. They believe in diplomacy to achieve their goals.  They have no qualms about using their money, weapons and military training against America's ally Israel.  In the past, money, arms and training given to Fatah ends up with Hamas against Israel or simply used by Fatah against Israel.

With similar logic, another terrorist regime led by Saddam Hussein was being given weapons of mass destruction to fight the Islamic Revolution. In the 1980's, Bechtel, an American company was building a power plant in Iraq under the disguise of producing fertilizer. Israel intelligence noticed that it looked suspicious but was reassured  by America that it was nothing.  After seeing that America was withholding this crucial intelligence that compromised Israel's security, Jonathan Pollard decided to become a spy for Israel. Jonathan Pollard was able to supply the intelligence revealing that the plant was not so benign. Maybe at the time America felt it was justified to supply Saddam Hussein with the wherewithal to bring down Islamic fundamentalism.  It is noteworthy to remember that just a few years later in 1991, America went to war with Saddam Hussein, in order to fight the axis of evil. America was grateful at that time that Israel had knocked out the nuclear capabilities of Iraq years earlier even though at the time America was not consulted and had  retaliated by withholding intelligence, the same intelligence Jonathan had supplied Israel with.

Jonathan Pollard has publicly shown remorse.

He is being advised that this is the only way that he will obtain freedom.  In the past he was advised to plea bargain in return for the promise of freedom. We all know where that led him. Life Imprisonment.

When a person deprived of basic human rights is told that expressing remorse is the only way out, what would most normal humans opt for? Most people would express remorse. 

But behind closed doors what is he saying to himself? 

How could he have responded differently?  He was in a moral dilemma.  Should he have withheld intelligence regarding weapons of mass destruction from Israel after it was clear that his superiors refused to share the intelligence in spite of a prior agreement? Had he spread the beans of America's refusal to share intelligence, who would have stood by him against America's perceived national interests.  Israel's security takes 2nd fiddle to what is perceived to be what's best for America. 

Yet, if a friendly country would have had intelligence of 9/11 and not shared it with the USA wouldn't we have held them indirectly responsible for the horrific tragedy of 9/11.

Would Jonathan Pollard been able to live with his conscience, a sentence worse than the one he is in, had an attack been launched against Israel using these weapons of mass destruction with results far deadlier then the impact of a few airplanes of 9/11?????

Please review the facts of the Jonathan Pollard case and use the power of your office to release Pollard. His case cries out loudly for an apology and payback for his torture and suffering in jail. Please recognize as well that any support for Fatah and a Palestinian State is support for terror and has been the catalyst to advance terror, terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism.

If Jewish organizations and Jewish Leaders and influential Jewish Rabbis have not been openly critical of a Palestinian State and the Roadmap, please be aware that this is not how they feel privately. Privately they know that the Land of Israel belongs exclusively to the Jewish Nation. It is G-d's Divine promise  to Israel and G-d's Covenant with Israel for the benefit of mankind as written in our Holy Torah.

Mainstream Judaism is very concerned to speak out critically against American Foreign Policy.  They worry about how that might affect their non for profit status or their funding.  If they are influential politically, they do not want to jeopardize their influence or harm close political ties they might have fostered.

Jews have learned the hard way that their only hope is in their trust in the Creator of the World. Peace and prosperity can only come about with world recognition of Israel's entitlement of the Land of Israel. 

 Israel is the Chosen Nation by G-d to inherit the Land of Israel and to observe the commandments of the Torah in the Land of Israel.  

This and only this will bring peace and prosperity to mankind.

Respectfully,

Robin Ticker
Brooklyn, NY

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utube of Pro Hamas rally in Fort Lauderdale, Florida December 30, 2008.

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Dear Fellow Activists, amv"sh

Unfortunately, nothing works better to wake up the Jews then finding that Hamas is in our own  neighborhood.  My son is learning in a Yeshiva in Florida not that far from the airport.  The airport, is in Fort Lauderdale.

And I thought I only needed to be concerned with my daughter in Israel. Hashem Yerachem! 

I told my son that the way Jews fight a war is not only with the military. Each and every Jew is needed.  I asked him to be extra careful in making Minyan on time, putting on Tefillin and have Eretz Yisroel in his prayers and when he learns.  These are the weapons we have that can protect our lives wherever we live.


PRO HAMAS Demonstration on Dec. 30, 2008 in Fort Lauderdale Florida.  Make sure to watch at least the 2nd video (the one with the date on it).

http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2008/12/pro-palestinian.html

Jonathan Pollard - A Non Apologetic Letter to the President of the United States of America

bs"d

Honorable President George W. Bush:

I write to you pleading for the release of Jonathan Pollard.

Jonathan Pollard gave intelligence of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq to Israel.  This intelligence should have been shared as per a prior agreement between Israel and the USA.

I don't believe that Jonathan Pollard was disloyal to America.  I do believe that America betrayed Israel by failing to supply her with intelligence that Israel needed for her security. 

I also believe that the USA is currently betraying Israel by endorsing and promoting a  Palestinian State. Millions and maybe billions of dollars is flowing into Fatah with the delusion that Fatah will use it to fight Hamas. This infusion of support and funds for Fatah is putting the security of Israel in grave danger.   Fatah is out to destroy Israel. They believe in diplomacy to achieve their goals.  They have no qualms about using their money, weapons and military training against America's ally Israel.  In the past, money, arms and training given to Fatah ends up with Hamas against Israel or simply used by Fatah against Israel.

With similar logic, another terrorist regime led by Saddam Hussein was being given weapons of mass destruction to fight the Islamic Revolution. In the 1980's, Bechtel, an American company was building a power plant in Iraq under the disguise of producing fertilizer. Israel intelligence noticed that it looked suspicious but was reassured  by America that it was nothing.  After seeing that America was withholding this crucial intelligence that compromised Israel's security, Jonathan Pollard decided to become a spy for Israel. Jonathan Pollard was able to supply the intelligence revealing that the plant was not so benign. Maybe at the time America felt it was justified to supply Saddam Hussein with the wherewithal to bring down Islamic fundamentalism.  It is noteworthy to remember that just a few years later in 1991, America went to war with Saddam Hussein, in order to fight the axis of evil. America was grateful at that time that Israel had knocked out the nuclear capabilities of Iraq years earlier even though at the time America was not consulted and had  retaliated by withholding intelligence, the same intelligence Jonathan had supplied Israel with.

Jonathan Pollard has publicly shown remorse.

He is being advised that this is the only way that he will obtain freedom.  In the past he was advised to plea bargain in return for the promise of freedom. We all know where that led him. Life Imprisonment.

When a person deprived of basic human rights is told that expressing remorse is the only way out, what would most normal humans opt for? Most people would express remorse. 

But behind closed doors what is he saying to himself? 

How could he have responded differently?  He was in a moral dilemma.  Should he have withheld intelligence regarding weapons of mass destruction from Israel after it was clear that his superiors refused to share the intelligence in spite of a prior agreement? Had he spread the beans of America's refusal to share intelligence, who would have stood by him against America's perceived national interests.  Israel's security takes 2nd fiddle to what is perceived to be what's best for America. 

Yet, if a friendly country would have had intelligence of 9/11 and not shared it with the USA wouldn't we have held them indirectly responsible for the horrific tragedy of 9/11.

Would Jonathan Pollard been able to live with his conscience, a sentence worse than the one he is in, had an attack been launched against Israel using these weapons of mass destruction with results far deadlier then the impact of a few airplanes of 9/11?????

Please review the facts of the Jonathan Pollard case and use the power of your office to release Pollard. His case cries out loudly for an apology and payback for his torture and suffering in jail. Please recognize as well that any support for Fatah and a Palestinian State is support for terror and has been the catalyst to advance terror, terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism.

If Jewish organizations and Jewish Leaders and influential Jewish Rabbis have not been openly critical of a Palestinian State and the Roadmap, please be aware that this is not how they feel privately. Privately they know that the Land of Israel belongs exclusively to the Jewish Nation. It is G-d's Divine promise  to Israel and G-d's Covenant with Israel for the benefit of mankind as written in our Holy Torah.

Mainstream Judaism is very concerned to speak out critically against American Foreign Policy.  They worry about how that might affect their non for profit status or their funding.  If they are influential politically, they do not want to jeopardize their influence or harm close political ties they might have fostered.

Jews have learned the hard way that their only hope is in their trust in the Creator of the World. Peace and prosperity can only come about with world recognition of Israel's entitlement of the Land of Israel. 

 Israel is the Chosen Nation by G-d to inherit the Land of Israel and to observe the commandments of the Torah in the Land of Israel.  

This and only this will bring peace and prosperity to mankind.

Respectfully,

Robin Ticker
Brooklyn, NY