Sunday, July 06, 2014

Fwd: Honor Killing: Burning People Is a Muslim Thing

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News has it that they have Jewish suspects for murder of Arab teen.  

I personally don't know what happened but my gut agrees with this post following this comment. It just not a Jewish thing to randomly pick a random Arab kid and burn him in revenge.  I have blogged about attempts to frame settler youth with Price Tag Vandalism.  Often it turns out that Arabs were perpetrators even though often political leaders and Rabbi's prematurely condemn the youth before there is any conclusive evidence or conviction.

I still wonder about the Rabin Murder and about Shabaq agent Raviv.

I still wonder how Baruch Goldstein went crazy and shot a bunch of Arabs unprovoked.  I personally knew him and his family and it just doesn't add up. He was a caring doctor . His Mother was President of Emunah women who loved Israel. She was typical American Dati Leumi Zionist. They were a family we all admired.  From my personal interaction with him, as neighbors,  I would never imagine him to lose it and just randomly shoot anyone unprovoked except of course for self defense.   I can not believe that he randomly wanted to kill a bunch of  Arabs because he hated all Arabs.  That wasn't the Baruch I knew. 


 I don't know what happened that day and I don't know what happened with this Arab Teen but I pray to G-d that in both cases the truth comes out.  Meanwhile my gut feeling is like the author below that Jews are being framed in order to create moral equivalency.  Creating moral equivalency will then in turn justify a Palestinian State since any terror activity on their part is no different than "alleged" terror activity on the part of Jews. This of course is false.

Jews are entitled to the Land if Israel and the borders are delineated.  All opinions agree that Judea and Samaria fall under the proper borders within Israel, promised by G-d as an inheritance to Israel and not an inheritance for  Arabs.  Jews are obligated to keep the commandments of the Land and Arabs are not.  Jews have no predisposition or anything to gain of taking the life of  an innocent soul be it Arab or Jew and burning it. We value human life.   It is against our Torah.  It is against our very nature.

There is a concept in Tanach of "Goel Hadam".  Family members are allowed to go after someone who accidentally killed their family member.  The Torah provides places of refuge, 6 Levite cities and other designated refuge cities, to this killer because it was not an intentional act of murder but rather an accident.  In the case of an intentional murder, society is obligated to find the murderer and he needs to be brought to justice and killed as punishment for having purposefully taken a life. That is why Refuge cities were set up for those who killed accidentally.  Please see a discussion on this topic by Rabbi Frand. http://www.torah.org/learning/ravfrand/5768/masei.html

Blood libels are part of the Jewish historical narrative and I would not rule out that this too is fabricated and a blood libel.  Before anyone rushes to condemn the "Jewish" murderers, before it is proven conclusively, I would advise to withhold judgement, apologies or comments.

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[Might as well bone up on Islam now. The Jihad is getting closer and there will be a test later. Below, a timely message from an Israeli friend – a lawyer. df]
 
 

Jews do not burn bodies but Arabs do.

Burning a corpse is strictly forbidden by Jewish law.

In stark contrast, burning someone alive is one form of the traditional ritual of Muslim honor killings. ,

Three weeks ago, in Tunisian news, A Father Burned His 13-Year-Old Daughter to Death for Walking Home With a Boy. Tunisian

Last week a news wire reports: A 17-year-old girl and her husband were killed by her family for marrying without its consent, and another young woman was burned alive by a man for refusing his proposal in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, police said Sunday.

In Yemen, a 15-year-old Yemeni girl was burned to death by her father for getting in touch with her fiancé before their wedding

In old news:

Horror in Nigeria: pupils burn to death in boarding school attack by Boko Haram

400 women burned in Iraq

Rarely does a victim of attempted honor killing by being burnt alive survive but one did and bravely told her story in her paperback book, Burned Alive: A Survivor of an "Honor Killing" Speaks Out. When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her West Bank village, as in so many others, sex before marriage is considered a grave dishonor to one's family and is punishable by death. This was her crime. Her brother-in-law was given the task of meting out her punishment. One morning while Souad was washing the family's clothes, he poured gasoline over her and set her on fire. Miraculously, she survived, rescued by women of her village, who put out the flames and took her to a local hospital. Horribly burned over seventy percent of her body and still denounced by her family, Souad was able to receive the care she needed only after the intervention of a European aid worker. Now in permanent exile from her homeland, she has decided to tell her story and reveal the barbarity of a practice that continues to this day. Burned Alive ...is the first true account ever published by a victim of an "honor crime." Souad's inspiring testimony is a shocking, moving, and harrowing story of cruelty and incomparable courage...and an inspiring call to action to end a heinous tradition.

In a study on Honor killings about half are not killed but tortured to death which includes being burned to death. This appears to be an age old method which is found in the Qur'an (48:29) - "Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. ... Muhammad orders his men to burn alive those who do not present themselves at the mosque for ...

In some perverse sense bringing alive is one way that the sinner can still get into heaven as a martyr. A family who is shamed by the adulterer or homosexual and is charged with the obligation of executing the honor killing finds in this a method so that their wayward relative is not forever damned.

The Prophet (p.b.u.h.) said, "The martyrs are seven, other than the one who is killed in the Way of Allaah, Ta'aalaa: 
- one who dies of plague,
- one who drowns,
- one who dies of pleurisy,
- one who dies of stomachache,
- one who dies due to burning
 
- one who dies under a demolition (by accident)
- a woman who dies with a baby in her womb."
(Maalik, Aboo Dawood, An-Nasaaee, Ibn Maajah, Ibn Hibban, Haakim, Ahmad. Authenticated by al-Albaanee)

The Prophet (p.b.u.h.) said: "Getting killed in the Path of Allaah Ta'aalaa is martyrdom,
- (death in) confinement during childbirth is martyrdom,
- (death by) getting burned (by accident) is martyrdom, 
- (death by) drowning (by accident) is martyrdom,
- (death due to) tuberculosis is martyrdom,
- (death due to) stomachache is martyrdom."
(Tabaraanee, Ahmad, authenticated by al-Albaanee)

Someone who "knew" the victim in the biblical sense claims that this 16 year old was at one time his consort.

In a new video you can see the faces of the abductors – no way settlers or Jewish.

Where there is smoke, there is fire.

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Dan Friedman
NYC



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Thursday, July 03, 2014

The Tragedy in Eretz Yisroel! Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz speaks Sorting it out Ourselves; Explaining it to Our Children

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Dear Friends and Activists, 

Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz has an amazing series on Project Yes teaching Personal Safety for Children. (Please check out his links 5-minute child safety videos, Child Safety Video #1Child Safety Video #2, and Child Safety Video #3)

He apparently spoke tonight on the topic  "The Tragedy in Eretz Yisroel – Sorting it Out Ourselves; Explaining it to Our Children."  


It upsets me that there seems to be total resignation that what happened comes from Hashem and that all is for the good and we are incapable of understanding why Hashem is sending us such tragedies.  Isn't it also true that if we go in happenstance (Kerry)  Hashem sends us curses?.....   

Rabbi Horowitz asked for questions.  So I asked him some rather down to earth questions....  I also had some answers that I thought would help....

Dear Rabbi Horowitz, amv"sh

How after 44 or so, failed kidnapping attempts and finally a "successful" attempt, 3 brutally kidnapped and murdered, can we reassure our children with confidence that there won't be any more kidnappings and murders.  

What if anything is deterring the terrorists?  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182448#.U7TPD_ldXOg.  

When Yesorim, afflictions come, we need to ask ourselves what message is Hashem sending us.  Yefashfesh Adam Bemaasav....Let us examine our deeds.

Project Yes has been proactive with Summer Safety messages to prevent tragedies. If known pedophiles were allowed freedom to roam the streets and access to classrooms and camps, all your education would be compromised and made so much harder!  

I believe this tragedy of kidnapped teens in Israel is first and foremost a wakeup call that we need to confront evil, specifically Hamas and Fatah..  There is a danger of just focusing on Emunah and Betachon and accepting that what Hashem does is ultimately for good when one does not confront the evil itself. 

Will we then blame G-d or recognize that we perhaps were at fault?   Adults know this and will have a hard time explaining the failure to act with resolve and strength to protect society and kids will sense it as well.

I hear you say. there is nothing I personally can do, "It's not my place but the Government of Israel to act. All I can do is strengthen my Emunah and Betachon." This reminds me of a true story that happened in my community.  A Rebbe's young son hurt his finger. The boy's mother took him to the doctor who bandaged the wound and told the mother to keep the bandage on and to come back in a week.  The mother tried to comply with the doctor's orders.  The kid was in a lot of pain and the doctor insisted it would heal and be fine.  On Shabbos the pain was too great and they took the kid to a neighbor who was a PA.  The PA took off the bandage and saw that the problem was that the bandage was on too tight cutting off circulation. Baruch Hashem the finger was saved.

Sometimes, even a lay person needs common sense. 

How can we explain to kids what could be done differently so that this doesn't happen again.  

If you suggest teach them never to hitchhike, is that a solution? Stopping to hitchhike in Judea and Samaria where buses don't run frequently and are often not affordable, will significantly disrupt how people live their lives.  Hitchhiking is a common practice and an accepted way to commute within a close knit trusting community.  Blaming the hitchhikers puts blame on the victims.  It's like telling young children who were abused that their skirt was too short and if they dress with longer skirts this wouldn't happen.  Sure precautions, more buses and phone apps should be taken but the emphasis must be on stopping the perpetrators, the murderers and kidnappers. 

Emunah and Bitachon


Let us have Emunah and Bitachon that Hashem Promised the Land to Am Yisroel and not the Palestinians and that in the Torah, only those who accept Jewish Sovereignty and 7 Noahide Laws are welcome as Ger Toshav entitled with full human rights as specified in the Torah (VeChai Imach)
לה וְכִי-יָמוּךְ אָחִיךָ, וּמָטָה יָדוֹ עִמָּךְ--וְהֶחֱזַקְתָּ בּוֹ, גֵּר וְתוֹשָׁב וָחַי עִמָּךְ.35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and his means fail with thee; then thou shalt uphold him: as a stranger and a settler shall he live with thee.
It seems to me that we must take care of the Ger Toshav, a non Jew in Israel, by making sure that they have a livelihood and that they don't get too poor. Human rights like medical benefits and education seems to be in order. However, if they don't accept Jewish Sovereignty and the Noahide laws, this does not apply.  Those that celebrated the kidnappings and murder do not fall into the category of Ger Toshav.  For these individuals, there are 22 neighboring Arab countries  with 800 times the land mass of Israel where Arabs can find their relatives and their respective communities and tribal affiliation.http://www.standwithus.com/booklets/25Answers/ page 2 

Frankly, it seems pretty clear that there is no strong deterrence for terrorist and in fact the opposite.  Terrorists have it pretty good in Israel: They are rewarded with money, education, power, honor and even eternal blessings.  Check out these links.

The world says that Jews are "occupying their land". They have stolen our Identity and we do not protest.

Jews have yet to unite and assert our entitlement to Eretz Yisroel based on Torah.

I am a bit cynical of those who memorialize the victims when they empower evil to begin with. Why did Shimon Peres have to speak at the Levaya?  http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/244698/president-peres-eulogy-at-the-funeral-for-eyal-yifrach-naftali-frankel-and-gilad-shaar.html
I didn't appreciate him lecturing about Torah or offering to talk to Obama ,
 

Therefore, let us trying a different approach! Even if you don't actually live in Eretz Yisroel, the Land is also your inheritance. 


Each and every person can do their little part to convince themselves, their Rav,  the government of Israel to Annex Judea and Samaria  Accept Levy Report. 
​Buddy Macy suggests these s
imple steps:
 
1) Open a second email window.
3) Copy & paste the following to the Subject Line of the email: HONOR OUR BOYS: ANNEX JUDEA & SAMARIA NOW!
4) Type your name and country in the text of the email; feel free to include a brief message, if you'd like.
5) Forward this email to everyone on your email, Facebook, LinkedIn and/or Twitter lists!!!
 
Here are additional suggestions:  Some of these points are discussed at length at http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2014/06/more-on-bring-back-our-boys-hardline.html
  • Ask your Rav to speak out for our entitlement of Judea and Samaria.  Ask Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah, Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation,  Agudath Yisroel of America, Young Israel, Chabad, OU, RCA etc to say Judea and Samaria is part of Biblical delineated boundaries. 
  • Speak out for our entitlement of Har Habayit, Hebron, Kever Yosef, Kever Rochel, Kever Dovid Hamelech etc. all of our Holy Sites situated in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria in areas conquered in 1967 after our enemies attacked us from all sides. 
  • Encourage Building in Judea and Samaria instead of the opposite slowdown of building in Judea and Samaria.  
  • Collective Punishment on PA and Fatah when the situation calls for it  
  • Throw out Arab Knesset MK's who don't recognize Israel's rights to Judea and Samaria. Deny voting rights to those who don't accept Israel's Sovereignty over the entire Israel. 
  • Stop libeling, arresting, provoking, condemning and vilifying settler youth of Judea and Samaria. They have witnessed expulsions, homes cruelly demolished, their Yeshiva taken over and friends kidnapped and murdered.
  • Hitchiking:  There are those who believe that it's a way of life in Judea and Samaria that has many pluses.  (Of course we need to take proper precautions. Robin)
  • Try to visit Israel and work towards Aliya.  Just look at the US National Debt and your confidence in the dollar will plummet. 

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Sunday, June 29, 2014

Leading Rabbi: War, Not Music Concerts, Will Save Kidnapped Boys. He Who is Compassionate to the Cruel will Ultimately Become Cruel to the Compassionate.

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Dear Prime Minister Netanyahu and Members of the Knesset amv"sh


 "He Who is Compassionate to the Cruel Will Ultimately Become Cruel to the Compassionate" Contemporary Lessons from an Ancient Midrash by Eliav Shochetman This paper was published as ACPR's Policy Paper No. 124 (2001).  



The Rosh Yeshiva of the Beit El Yeshiva, Rabbi Zalman Melamed, urged the public to set up a protest in front of the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv Sunday to call for a tougher crackdown against Hamas. 

Leading Rabbi: War, Not Music Concerts, Will Save Kidnapped Boys

Leading religious-Zionist rabbi says solidarity event won't help find kidnapped boys, urges protests for tougher IDF crackdown on Hamas.

I believe that Rabbi  Zalman Malamed is on the mark

What incentive currently exists for the Hamas kidnappers to free the abducted kids?  The IDF has a full scale operation in progress and weapons and hidden tunnels have been uncovered. The names of the abductors have been released. The boys still have not been found.  Is this approach tough enough? 

Will merely, rounding up terrorists and throwing them into Israeli Jail scare them? Quite the opposite. In Finance the Flames http://www.financingtheflames.com/index.php?page=60124  Edwin Black conclusively documents how millions of American taxpayer dollars are funding the salaries of specific terrorists sitting in Israeli prisons, salaries that are among the best paid jobs in the Palestinian Authority, and are calculated to increase with the level of mass murder and destruction!!!

 Besides receiving a salary, terrorist earn degrees while in jail. http://bigstory.ap.org/article/palestinians-earn-degrees-while-israeli-jail.  The prisoners say they have found ways of earning degrees. Issa Karake, the Palestinian minister for prisoners affairs, said the inmates were now "secretly studying" in coordination with Palestinian universities in the West Bank and Gaza.

"Education is one of the basic rights for the prisoners and when the Israelis reject this right we have to find ways to give our people the proper education they need," he said. "With education, prisoners feel they are human beings. They feel hope for their life, they benefit from the endless time in jail, they turn something negative into something positive."
Barghouti, the uprising leader, earned a doctorate from an Egyptian university in 2010, making him eligible to teach university-level courses in prison.
Barghouti was jailed 12 years ago and is serving five life terms after being convicted of involvement in the killings of four Israelis and a Greek monk. 
Terrorists and families of terrorist do not fear for their lives nor do they live in constant terror of being beheaded and dismembered.  Images of Daniel Pearl and the Fogel family are constantly on our minds. Poetic justice demands that this should be reversed and it should be on the terrorists minds......
In the past terrorists have been released and received a hero's welcome.  In Palestinian society, prisoners held by Israel are revered as heroes and freedom fighters. Those released are welcomed home with posters, parades and large feasts.
Therefore,

Let us call for harsher measures.  Stopping electricity to the Gaza Strip  http://www.jewishpress.com/cartoons/the-note/ along with stopping the salaries of terrorists http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=11822 would send a clear message that there are some real consequences for terror activities and kidnapping.

Dear Irgun Chazak in Kew Garden Hills, Queens, NY (and fellow activists) amv"sh

Yasher Koach on organizing a Press Conference and Protest Rally and raising awareness about the Kidnapped boys. Heartfelt Tefilla is of course our greatest weapon and this needs to be coupled with Hishtadlus as well.  Let us take our cue from the thesis by Eliav Shochetman linked above and from Rabbi Melamed when delivering the message. Kol Tuv.


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Fwd: please send to ue email contacts/Tizku LeMitzvot: Press Conference and Rally to denounce the kidnapping of the three Jewish teens in Israel


 

 

PRESS CONFERENCE & RALLY

Come one, Come all...

 

WHAT:             The CHAZAQ organization will hold a rally / press conference outside its office to denounce the kidnapping of the three Jewish teens in Israel.  

 

WHEN:              This Sunday, June 29, 2014

                        At 2:00PM

 

WHERE:            CHAZAQ

                        141-24 Jewel Avenue

                        Flushing, NY 11367

 

WHO:                Distinguished Community Leaders, Elected Officials and Rabbis

 

CONTACT:        718-285-9132

                        Email: Info@Chazaq.org 

 

Cant Make it in Person?

Listen LIVE on www.ChazaqRadio.com 

(Possibly will be a live video)

 

(This event was originally a Ribbon-cutting for our new office, but due to the situation in Israel, we added this important Rally and Press conference to the program)

 

Please Come and Spread the Word!!!

 

ALSO... 

 

 

 

 

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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Fatah Peaceful and Jewish Youth terrorists? Depending on Fatah to help find Kidnapped boys?

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Fatah Peaceful and Hamas Terrorist?  Jewish Youth called terrorists? 

Hamas Indoctrinates Palestinian Youth after Kidnapping Published on: June 22, 2014

Look at this cute picture, photographed today on the Temple Mt., sponsored by Israel's police department.
These sweet 'Palestinian' children and their teachers are celebrating the abduction of our children, holding up their three fingers in what has become the viral sign of joy at the kidnapping. For this abomination alone Internal Security Aharonovitch should be fired! 

Aharonovitch: Price tag suspects are terrorists, use administrative detention against them By BEN HARTMAN, TOVAH LAZAROFF 05/07/2014 http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Aharonovich-Price-tag-suspects-are-terrorists-use-administrative-detentions-against-them-351538

Security Minister Admits Police Criticism Justified.  
Aharonovich visits yeshiva of kidnapped teens, says recording of ignored emergency call will be published.

My comments: Perhaps now,  Security Minister Aharonovitch  understands the fundamental difference with alleged Jewish "Price Tag Youth Suspects" who are barely identified supposedly coming from Judea and Samaria and real terrorists who kidnap youth. Apparently the police were confused by Aharonovitches previous statements and mistakenly diverted their resources to targeting the wrong population. As a result, real cries for help from Jewish youth were ignored and mistaken as "pranks" while real terrorists got away.  His previous instructions were...."Price Tag suspects are terrorists.  use administrative detention against them!!!

Fatah Video Threatens Israelis: Death is Near. Not to be outdone by Hamas, Mahmoud Abbas's party releases aggressive propaganda video calling for more attacks against Israelis.

My comments.There needs to be a new paradigm to address how to deal with brutality of such scale. Beheadings, (graphic, viewer discretion advised) dismembering, hangings etc their modus operandi. Suggestion, Why not take the Fogel Family murderers guilty of some of the above atrocities and treat them as they treat their victims like dismember a finger at a time and then go on to the next terrorist with blood on their hands until the the 3 boys are released.  Hopefully that will stop their celebrations...and hate education and finger raising .... Next, hold Fatah responsible for the Unity gov't and stop funding by Israel, the US, EU until the kids are freed!  Collective punishment is in order especially when there has been collective support and glorification for the kidnapping. 



Terrorists' Home Will Be Razed:At Prime Minister's orders, the home of the murderer of Baruch Mizrahi will be torn down. Leftists aghast. Mizrahi was driving to Kiryat Arba for a Passover seder meal with his pregnant wife and three of his children when the terrorist opened fire onthe family car. He had served as head of the Technology Division in the Sigint Unit, part of the Intelligence Brigade in the Investigations and Intelligence Branch of the police.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182082#.U6oJBvldXOg

Interesting that this punishment is not reserved for terrorists alone. For Jews though the crime is Iack of proper permits.  
Ma'ale Rehavam outpost buildings razed, 4 arrested
Illegal structures in Givat Asaf, Ramat Gilad also slated to be demolished in coming days

What happened in Ma'ale Rechavam on the day Adam and Genya were expelled with cruelty from their home and their home demolished. 
מה שקרה ביום הגירוש במעלה רחבעם- האוהל של אדם וג׳ניה

Sincerely,

Robin Ticker
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