Tuesday, December 16, 2014

EU Vote Tomorrow 4 PA State! Did you sign Petition? Confrontation in UN on the horizon? EU members France, Germany and Britain drafting UN Resolution on Israeli-Palestinian Peace to return to 67 borders.

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Time to remind ourselves about the miracle of Chanuka! 

We won, the few against the many!  Let us stay focused! Israel is our Biblical Inheritance! Judea and Samaria is the heartland of Israel. Israel needs to annex Judea and Samaria! Otherwise the EU leaders will ignore Article 80 of UN Charter.

Kerry in France meeting with European Leaders last night. http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.632185

On Monday night there was a four-way meeting in the VIP lounge at Orly Airport, near Paris, between United States Secretary of State John Kerry and the foreign ministers of France, Germany and Britain. Kerry arrived in Paris shortly after meeting with Netanyahu in Rome. He discussed the wording of the proposed French resolution with these foreign ministers, and ways of avoiding a diplomatic confrontation at the UN in the coming weeks.

On Tuesday Kerry also met the head of the Palestinian negotiating team, Saeb Erekat, and Palestinian intelligence chief Majid Faraj. At the meeting, called by Kerry, he tried to explore whether the Palestinians would consider postponing their moves at the UN. Kerry was slated to meet Arab foreign ministers later on Tuesday. They were going to request that the U.S. not veto a resolution on the Palestine issue if it comes to a vote at the Security Council.
 Three leading members of the European Union are reportedly working on a draft resolution to be submitted to the UN Security Council, as a counter to the Palestinian draft expected to be brought to a vote later this month.

The forces in Europe are out there against Israel.  

EU members said drafting UN resolution on Israeli-Palestinian peace http://www.timesofisrael.com/leading-eu-members-draft-un-resolution-on-israeli-palestinian-peace/

France, Germany and Britain were leading the effort with Paris at the forefront, Haaretz reported Wednesday night. According to the report, the US is aware of the French, German and British initiative.

The resolution is set to outline the principles of a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians in the time frame of two years. The Palestinian draft also reportedly calls for a two-year deadline, but specifies that this is for a full Israeli withdrawal from occupied territory.

While Germany has refrained from moves that would unilaterally recognize a state of Palestine, both the British and French parliaments have gone that route, albeit symbolically.

On November 17, the European Union harshly condemned Israel for settlement expansion, threatening to "take further action" to respond to Israeli moves deemed harmful to the two-state solution, but refrained from announcing concrete sanctions.

At the same time, an internal EU document was revealed in Haaretz that showed preliminary sanctions the union is considering imposing on Israel, including recalling European ambassadors and cutting ties with Israeli leaders who publicly oppose the two-state solution.


Palestinian envoy to world body says draft demanding Israeli pullout to '67 lines to be presented by mid-month. A draft resolution demanding an Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 lines by 2016, as part of a wider agreement to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, will be presented to the UN Security Council by the middle of the month, the Palestinian envoy to the United Nations said Monday.

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From: RANANAH GOLDHAR <rgoldhar2@sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 11:38 AM
Subject: Letter to the EU President, the Delegation for Israel Relations, all EU Members



Dear EU President, Delegation for Relations with Israel,  and EU Members,
 
Here is the Petition to the EU - Mandate for Palestine , explaining that a vote for a third Arab State in Palestine (in addition to Jordan and Gaza) is a violation of international law, since this land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea was already voted unanimously by Europe and the other League of Nations countries - to be the homeland of its indigenous People, the Jewish People.  The rights of the Mandate for Palestine included the Jewish People's right to settle the land acknowledged to be theirs on the basis of our historical ties which in turn are based on our Biblical inheritance.  THE UN CHARTER - ARTICLE 80 - PROTECTS THE RIGHTS GRANTED UNDER MANDATES - for all the more than 20 countries which were under Mandate - INCLUDING ISRAEL!
 
The EU is needed to deal with the  pitiful state of the surviving Yezidis and others who truly deserve help, to preserve justice for the Jews who have suffered enough, and to not support groups which present annihilationist false claims.   
For peace to have a chance in the Middle East, the world must honor the commitments it made to the Jewish People. 
 
 
Joe and Renanah Gemeiner
Click or enter this address for the petition against illegal  EU vote tomorrow 4 PA state! 
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/to-the-EU-parliament-the-mandate-for-Palestine

Article 80 and the UN Recognition of a "Palestinian State"

September 22, 2011 10:58 am 22 comments

Author:

avatar Howard Grief
        

The Signing of the United Nations Charter in 1945.

In the entire debate now taking place on whether the United Nations Security Council or General Assembly has the right to approve the application of the "Palestinian Authority" to be recognized as a new member state of the UN, almost no mention is made of the legal fact that the UN itself is barred by its own Charter from acting upon or approving such an application. The reference here is, of course, to Article 80 of the UN Charter, once known unofficially as the Jewish People's clause, which preserves intact all the rights granted to Jews under the Mandate for Palestine, even after the Mandate's expiry on May 14-15, 1948. Under this provision of international law (the Charter is an international treaty), Jewish rights to Palestine and the Land of Israel were not to be altered in any way unless there had been an intervening trusteeship agreement between the states or parties concerned, which would have converted the Mandate into a trusteeship or trust territory. The only period of time such an agreement could have been concluded under Chapter 12 of the UN Charter was during the three-year period from October 24, 1945, the date the Charter entered into force after appropriate ratifications, until May 14-15, 1948, the date the Mandate expired and the State of Israel was proclaimed. Since no agreement of this type was made during this relevant three-year period, in which Jewish rights to all of Palestine may conceivably have been altered had Palestine been converted into a trust territory, those Jewish rights that had existed under the Mandate remained in full force and effect, to which the UN is still committed by Article 80 to uphold, or is prohibited from altering.
As a direct result of Article 80, the UN cannot transfer these rights over any part of Palestine, vested as they are in the Jewish People, to any non-Jewish entity, such as the "Palestinian Authority." Among the most important of these Jewish rights are those contained in Article 6 of the Mandate which recognized the right of Jews to immigrate freely to the Land of Israel and to establish settlements thereon, rights which are fully protected by Article 80 of the UN Charter.
It should be common knowledge that under the Mandate, all of Palestine was reserved exclusively for the establishment of the Jewish National Home and future independent Jewish State, as was previously decided at the San Remo Peace Conference that took place in April 1920. Or put another way, no part of Palestine was allotted for an Arab National Home or state, since Arab self-determination was being generously granted elsewhere – in Syria, Iraq, Arabia, Egypt and North Africa – which has led to the establishment of the 21 Arab states of today, over a vast land mass from the Persian Gulf to the Atlantic Ocean. There is thus no necessity for a new independent Arab State in the specific area of former Mandated Palestine reserved for Jewish self-determination, most particularly, in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Creating such a state out of Jewish land would be blatantly illegal under Article 80 of the UN Charter and beyond the legal authority of the UN itself.
In this respect, neither the League of Nations nor its successor, the United Nations, ever had sovereign rights over the land we Jews call Eretz-Israel. As a non-sovereign, the UN has no power whatsoever to allot territory to the "Palestinian Authority" where the allotted territory already belongs to the Jewish People.
Moreover, there is no article in the UN Charter which gives either the Security Council or the General Assembly or even the Trusteeship Council the power to create a new independent state. If the UN had such power, then logically it would also have the inverse power to "de-create" or dismember an existing state, a power it certainly does not enjoy under the UN Charter. If, theoretically speaking, this power did exist, the UN would be in effect a world legislature that could make or unmake states by its own volition, a power that would put in jeopardy the present world order.
For the foregoing reasons, the bill introduced in the US Congress by Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is definitely the proper course of action to follow. UN illegality needs to be roundly condemned and stopped dead in its tracks by an appropriate punitive measure, exactly as Ros-Lehtinen has proposed. Her bill would be even more worthy if it were to include a direct reference to Article 80 and to the fact that the UN has no legal power to create a state or to allot another state's territory for that purpose, accomplished through the devious or underhanded means of accepting the applicant's request for membership in the world body.
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Monday, December 15, 2014

Miracles

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Fwd: ​The story behind the terrorist attack on the kosher supermarket.
http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2015/01/fwd-story-behind-terrorist-attack-on.html

'God Gave Me My Life Back to Continue With My Mission'
Even bullets won't stop him: Yehuda Glick explains why he's more determined than ever to fight for Temple Mount rights.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/188769


Tel Aviv Suicide Bomb Plot Foiled 
Released for Publication: The female suicide bomber was going to dress up as a pregnant Jewish woman.
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/tel-aviv-suicide-bomb-plot-foiled/2014/12/15/



Pre-Hanukkah Miracle for Israeli in Sydney Siege [video] 
Gad Elbaz wrote on Facebook, “A Miracle, a miracle a miracle of Hanukkah.”  for Elbaz family

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Another Amazing Israeli Invention. The Cicret Bracelet: Like a tablet...but on your skin.


Another amazing Israeli invention

http://youtu.be/9J7GpVQCfms


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A Flaw, an Untruth, in the Proclamation of the State of Israel is Source of Modern Day Crack: This translates into a Curse on the People and the Nation of Israel by Prof. Paul Eidelberg

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Brilliant.  Robin  Please read carefully.  The flaw according to Prof. Eidelberg is the denial of the Sinai Covenant in the Proclamation of the State of Israel (read below):

Let me suggest as follows:  

The Secular are in denial of the Sinai Covenant, 

The Ultra Chareidi are in denial of the centrality of the Land of Israel to modern day Judaism and the centrality of the Temple and the Temple Mount to modern day Judaism.  They seem to be of the opinion that modern day Judaism suffices in the prayer  and study halls.  The actual Land  of israel and/or Temple Mount is not relevant especially until the Messiah comes and is revealed.

The Secular focus on being a light unto the Nations taking on a Leadership role as being a Nation and being a Nation with territory while the Ultra Religious focus on being a Holy people. 

We need both perspectives.  When Israel is united we will indeed become a Mamlechet Kohanim VeGoy Kadush. A Kingdom of Priests and a Holy Nation. A Light unto the Nations.

The territory itself, the boundaries of the Land of Israel needs to be in sync with the delineated boundaries specified in the Torah given at Sinai rather than on random boundaries which have changed numerous times in modern history since 1948.  The Law of the Land needs to be governed by Judaic Law which is the union of the Written Law and the Oral Law (Torah Shebichtav and Torah Shebaal Peh) with the High
Court being modeled after the Sanhedrin.   

Even non Jews like Selden acknowledged Hebraic Law. See JOHN SELDEN AND THE BIBLICAL ORIGINS OF THE MODERN INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SYSTEM by Abraham Berkowitz.  

Why does Israel  of today need to be governed by a hodge podge of Turkish and British Law?

Important:  Please note difference between "people" and "nation".  As commentators have noted, whereas an ahm ( (עםsignifies a collectivity united by a religious heritage, goy (גו') signifies a collectivity united only on the basis of a common territory or homeland.

The time has come to correct the flaw with Truth!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Paul Eidelberg <foundation612.12@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 11:45 PM
Subject: The Curse
To:

The Curse

 

Prof. Paul Eidelberg

 

According to the first sentence of Israel's May 14, 1948 "Proclamation of the State," the Land of Israel, [Palestine] was the birthplace of the Jewish people [העם היהודי]. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Books."

 

The first sentence of the Proclamation implies that the Jews did not become a people until the conquest of Canaan by Joshua, hence only after the Law-giving at Mount Sinai. The Book of Deuteronomy tells a different story, but some preliminary definitions are necessary. 

 

First, we must define the difference between a "people" and a "nation."  Here I will rely on the fourth-century Aramaic translation of the great Babylonian convert to Judaism, Onkelos (which has been rendered into English and annotated by Israel Drazin and Stanley M. Wagner). However, before consulting Onkelos, let us recall Numbers 23:9 which highlights the unique character of the Jewish people: "Behold a people(עם = ahmthat dwells alone and shall not consider itself [as simply one] among the nations [goyim = plural of גו' ].   

 

As commentators have noted, whereas an ahm ( (עםsignifies a collectivity united by a religious heritage, goy (גו') signifies a collectivity united only on the basis of a common territory or homeland. The Torah designates the Jews aa an ahm as well as a goy kodesh, a Holy Nation (which makes it an ahm). The distinction between an ahm and a goy (עם and a גו') in secular terms corresponds to the difference between a people and a nation

  

people may be monocultural, united not only by language, but also by culture, i.e., endogamous patterns of marriage and by shared religious beliefs and values rooted in a common and immemorial past.  Conversely, a nation can be multicultural as well as monocultural. For example, the Poles and Lithuanians have historically put their ethnicity and national interests ahead of their common religion, Catholic Christianity.  This subordination of religion to nationality (or ethnicity) is to be attributed to the fact that both peoples possessed nationhood  long before they were forced to accept Christianity.  What distinguishes the Jews, however, is religious nationhood.  The "Old Testament," unlike the "New," does not record the source of a religion, but rather the divine founding of a people-cum-nation, and prior to the establishment of its territorial domain.

   

Now let us consult Onkelos with some help from his two translators Drazin and Wagner. Our text is Deuteronomy 26:17-19:

 

You have made the Lord [HaShem] an object of your love this day [the day before the Children of Israel crossed the Jordan River and entered the Promised Land], to be [your God], that you will walk in the ways that are right before Him and keep His laws, His commandments, and his ordinances … The Lord has made you an object of His love this day, to be His beloved people [ahm], as He told you keeping all His commandments. And He will set you high above all the nations [goyim  plural of goy] that he has made, in praise, in renown, and in honor, and so you shall be a holy people [an ahm kodesh] before the Lord your God, as He said [i.e. promised].

 

It should be evident from the preceding that the first sentence of the Proclamation of the State of Israel is misleading, to say the least. By asserting that the Jews became a people in the Land of Israel (Palestine), the secular authors of that document deliberately denied the Covenant that made the Jews a people before they crossed the Jordan River and entered the Land of Israel.  

This explains why the only name that appears in the text of the Proclamation of the State of Israel is that of Theodor Herzl. It also explains why the authors of that document refused to include the name of God, but instead, as a concession to the rabbis that signed that document, substituted the biblical term "Rock of Israel." 

 

But this is not the end of the story. If the opening statement of the Proclamation of the State is deemed misleading if not false vis-à-vis the verses from Deuteronomy cited above, then that statement is a subtle denial of the God as the Law-Giver at Mount Sinai, hardly mitigated by the Proclamation's inclusion of the phrase "Rock of Israel."

 

Now, at risk of being condemned by apologists of the Proclamation of the State, a document cherished by State's ruling class, I dare say that the first sentence of that document is the source of a terrible and self-inflicted curse. 

 

That a curse has descended upon Israel is intimated by the fact that regardless of which party or party leader has been at the helm, it has pursued, year after year, for more than two decades, the same demonstrably futile and existentially fatal policy of "land for peace" – the very land on which the Jews first became a people, and NOT at Sinai.  

The curse has taken or ruined the lives of thousands of Jewish men, women, and children. I repeat: the curse originated in that first sentence of the Proclamation, would have the Jewish People believe that they became a People not by virtue of the Torah to which they gave their solemn word at Mount Sinai, but only by after they entered Eretz Israel.  

What incredible irony! Having denied the Sinai Covenant, the swath of land that supposedly made them a people is now claimed by an "invented" people, the Palestinians, as prophesied in Deuteronomy 32:21: "I will vex them with that which is a non-people ((לא-עם and ano god ((לא-אל.

As serious scholars know, the Palestinians are not a people but an aggregation of terrorist groups hailing from North Africa and the Middle East. As for Allah, let others serious scholars comment on this subject.☼

 

 

 

 

 



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Urgent Time Sensitive! Did you sign the petition? TO EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: DO NOT RECOGNIZE PALESTINIAN STATE! Please fwd and send viral.

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Dear Friends, amv"sh

The Land of Israel can be compared to a violin.  

Would you give a  precious violin to a hater of music?  

If you want to see that violin destroyed then give it to the Palestinians and/or Hamas or the like.  They hate the music!

How about giving it to a museum to have it encased? 

Bottom Line:  If you want to hear beautiful music you must give it to the virtuoso violinist who knows how to read notes and has talent and can play!

Robin

From Renanah and Joe Gemeiner:


Following is a petition to the European Parliament, demanding that it not recognize an independent"Palestinian"-Arab state in any part of what was unanimously declared, under international law to be the Jewish Homeland.  This legal right is enshrined in the UN Charter - Article 80.  No act of binding international law has reduced our legal rights to the land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, including Judea and Samaria.  
Please read and consider signing  and send out to everyone you can, urgently!   The EU vote is this Wednesday.

 
Thank you,
Joe and Renanah Gemeiner

Even a Peace loving Democratic Arab State that wants peace with Israel, "envisioned"  by the EU and Obama and Netanyahu (in theory alone since he admits that it is not at all realistic)  will at best be able to make Israel into a museum piece.  It will not be able to produce music for the world to enjoy!.  

If you are interested in hearing beautiful music coming from Zion, only Israel, G-d's Chosen People (seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob), has the credentials, the innate talent (coming from the genes), and the notes (the Torah), to rightfully inherit and own the violin (the Land of Israel). 

Righteous converts are considered Israelites and are full fledged members of the Israelite family.  Righteous Noahides, who by definition accept the 7 Noahide laws and Israel's Sovereignty over the Land, are very welcome to join as residents in Our Land.


Shavua Tov. 


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Fighting in Gabara village (Yezidi region in Mountain footage) SHAME SHAME on us for not helping Yezidis - read today's SOS from Mirza Ismail Chairman Yezidi Human Rights Organization-International

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Dear Fellow Activists, Freedom Lovers, Media and Clergy,

Please forward to your lists.  Let this go viral. Let us raise our voices and break down the doors.  We are doing this for ourselves and not only the Yazidi's.

This is absurd!  We have Yazidi fighters who are now facing ISIS and want to fight back....ISIS who has already taken control of several countries and going strong!  The Yazidi's lack weapons and ammunition? Shall we empower the Yazidi's or shall we let ISIS win and then wait till ISIS comes to our backyards or doorsteps? Where is Israel?  Where is America?   Shall we make deals and  arm Iran and Hizbullah to fight Isis only to have it haunt us or shall we empower the Yazidi's and other forces out there who truly love Freedom and Democracy? 
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: RANANAH GOLDHAR <rgoldhar2@sympatico.ca>
Date: Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 12:45 AM
Subject: SHAME SHAME on us for not helping Yezidis - read today's SOS from Mirza


 

From: ezidis@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 01:48:17 -0500
Subject: Fighting in Gabara village (Yezidi region in Mountain footage)
To: martehudson@gmail.com; CannonLR@state.gov; NotarSA@state.gov; padgettDM@state.gov; dihemom@un.org; hannajh@state.gov

Dear friends of Democracy and Freedom,

Hope you all are doing well.

I am now in Cairo, Egypt and I just received a phone call from a colleague in Sinjar saying that there is a heavy fighting between the Yezidi fighters and the ISIS militias in Gabara village that is located on the mountain footage about 10 KM West of Sinjar city. The Yezidi fighters do not have good weapons and ammunition to fight the ISIS militias therefore, they (Yezidi fighters) are asking for the "Urgent airstrikes" in that area.

Please help save innocents!


Best regards,

Mirza Ismail
Chairman
Yezidi Human Rights Organization-International


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Thursday, December 11, 2014

TZC Newsletter - December 12th 20 Kislev 5775, Parshat Vayeshev

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B86sGl9yfinjUEtqa1BQYndjY2U4Q1RzRDBoUVRkRVBONkJj/view?usp=sharing

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Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Fwd: The Late Chief Rabbi Goren's position on Har Habayit by Rabbi Eliezer Melamed


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From: <womeningreen@womeningreen.org>
Date: Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 12:47 AM
Subject: The Chief Rabbi's War on Har Habayit by Rabbi Eliezer Melamed

Rabbi Goren and the Temple Mount

The controversy with the Wakf is a nationalistic issue. There is also
an halakhic issue on which rabbis disagree. The late Chief Rabbi Goren
tried to arrange a mass prayer on the Mount in 1967 and was stopped by
the government.

From Rabbi Eliezer Melamed
November 14, 2014

The yahrzeit of late Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel Rav Shlomo
Goren's is this week.

Rabbi Goren's Decision to Print his Book about the Temple Mount

Next week on the 24th day of the Jewish month Mar Cheshvan (Monday)
will be twenty years since the death of the Chief Rabbi of Israel, the
Gaon, Rabbi Shlomo Goren ztz'l. In these days, when Har Habayit (the
Temple Mount) is in the headlines, it is worth quoting segments from
his book "Har Habayit", published a year before his death. In his
book, he investigates in detail the site of the Mikdash (Holy Temple)
and the azarot (Temple courtyards), areas that are forbidden to enter
even after immersion in a mikveh (a bath used for the purpose of
ritual immersion in Judaism), and areas that Jews are permitted to
enter after immersion.

The time was the days of the second Rabin government, which conducted
agreements with the PLO terrorist organization, and handed over parts
of the Land of Israel to our enemies. In his introduction to the book
he wrote: "Currently, when Jewish sovereignty over the Temple Mount is
in danger, Mount Moriah is liable to become the subject of negotiation
between us and the Arabs, and unfortunately, there are politicians who
are willing to negotiate our sovereignty over the Temple Mount,
relying on the alleged prohibition of the Chief Rabbinate to enter Har
Habayit. This prohibition is liable to be used as an excuse to hand
over the nation's Kodesh ha'Kodashim (inner sanctum) to the Muslims.
Therefore, I decided to publish the book now, from which it will be
proven that there are large areas of the Temple Mount which all Jews
are permitted to enter, according to all halakhic opinions, after
immersion in a mikveh..."(p.15).

The Reasons for the 'Heter'

The Temple Mount is composed of two areas. The first, which is the
smallest area, includes the site of the Holy Temple and the
courtyards, and is called machaneh shechina (the inner azara), which
nowadays is forbidden to enter because we cannot be cleansed from
tumat met (defilement of the dead). The second area, which includes
the majority of the Temple Mount, is called machaneh levia, and it is
permitted to enter these areas today after immersion. Indeed, in the
years preceding the establishment of the State of Israel the rabbis,
including Rabbi Kook ztz'l, instructed us not to enter the Temple
Mount at all, for fear that people might go beyond the permitted areas
and enter forbidden places.

Three factors prompted Rabbi Goren to permit going up to the majority
of areas on the Temple Mount: 1) the precise mapping of the Temple
Mount conducted by the I.D.F. Engineer Corps under his orders after
the liberation of the Temple Mount; with these maps, it was possible
to accurately determine which areas were permitted to enter according
to all halakhic opinions. 2) The many testimonies that for more than a
thousand years after the destruction of the Holy Temple, Gedolei
Yisrael (eminent rabbis) used to pray on the Temple Mount in the
permitted areas. 3) The threat to Jewish sovereignty on the Temple
Mount.

It is possible that one of the motivations for placing the warning
signs not to enter the Temple Mount might have been so as not to
provoke the Muslims when the British ruled Israel, and in events of
riots, did not properly protect the Jews.

Lowering Ourselves to the Kotel - The Result of the Sufferings of Exile

Rabbi Goren wrote about his feelings after the Six Day War: "I could
not escape the feeling that from a historic perspective, assigning the
Western Wall plaza for Jewish prayer was nothing but the result of the
expulsion of the Jews from the Temple Mount by the Crusaders and
Muslims together. Thus, an intolerable situation was created in which
even after our liberation of the Temple Mount, the Muslims remained on
top of Har Habayit, and we were down below; they were inside, and we
were outside.

The prayers at the Western Wall are a symbol of destruction and exile,
and not of liberation and redemption, because Jewish prayers at the
Western Wall began only in the sixteenth century - before that, Jews
prayed for centuries on the Temple Mount ... only about three hundred
years ago, the Jews began praying at the Western Wall. And this the
proof: in every reference in the Midrash where it is mentioned that
the shechina (Divine Presence) has not moved from the Western Wall,
and learns this from the verse in Shir Hashirim (Song of Songs):
'Behold! There he stands behind our wall' - this refers to the western
wall of the azara, or the wall of the heichal, in other words, the
wall of the Kodesh HaKodashim, and not the wall of the Har Habayit,
which we call the Western Wall"(pg. 26).

The Necessity to Ascend from the Western Wall to Har Habayit

However, the intensity of the minhag (custom) based on over three
centuries was considerable, and therefore after the Six Day War, the
public at large thronged to the Western Wall to pray. Rabbi Goren
himself wrote that one of the things that prevented him from acting
quickly to regulate the ascent of Jews to the Temple Mount was his
being "bound by the 'chains of love' for the remnant of our Holy
Temple, the Western Wall, where I used to pray every Shabbat, holiday,
and Rosh Chodesh evenings. Since my first visit to the Western Wall
(as a child), my love and emotional affinity for the Wailing Wall has
not faded... ","but our shout ...Who may ascend the mountain of the
Lord"... aroused him to become stronger and clarify the heter to
ascend Har Habayit (pg. 14). Consequently, he began organizing prayers
on the Temple Mount (ibid, pg. 27).

The Canceled Prayer

Before the Shabbat following Tisha B'Av in 1967, Rabbi Goren publicly
announced a mass, gala prayer to be held on the Temple Mount in the
areas where entrance was permitted after immersion. However, by the
orders of Prime Minister and Defense Minister the prayer was canceled.
A few days later, the ministerial committee decided that the Defense
Minister and the Chief of Staff order the Chief Rabbi of the I.D.F.,
Rabbi Goren, not to arrange any more prayers on the Temple Mount (pg.
29-30).

The Shock

The order shocked Rabbi Goren, and he tried everything within his
power to cancel it, including writing a long and detailed letter to
the ministerial committee, in which he argued: How is it possible that
precisely in the holiest place for Jews, it is forbidden for them to
pray?! True, there are a limited amount of areas in which entrance is
forbidden according to the Torah for Jews and Gentiles alike, but
entrance to the majority of the Temple Mount is permitted. Towards the
end of his letter, he called out: "Distinguished men! Save the Holy of
Holies of the Jewish nation; do not hand over the Temple Mount to
those who defile it ..." (pp 30-33).

The Defense Minister

Unfortunately, Rabbi Goren's call went unanswered. Defense Minister
Moshe Dayan decided to transfer the responsibility for managing the
Temple Mount arrangements to the Waqf, and ordered the Military
Rabbinate to evacuate Har Habayit, and not to interfere in matters
concerning the Temple Mount any more. Rabbi Goren responded with "rage
and sorrow", informing the Defense Minister that "this, God forbid,
could lead to the destruction of the Third Temple, for the key to our
sovereignty over Judea, Samaria and Gaza is the Temple Mount" (page
34).

Nevertheless, the Defense Minister implemented one of the most
shameful acts in the history of Israel, and handed over the affairs of
the Temple Mount to the Muslim Waqf. For many years it was known that
Moshe Dayan had both a dark and a light side jumbled together. On the
one hand, he was a Jewish military hero, but on the other hand, an
adulterer and a thief. Apparently, his adultery and thievery tipped
the scales against him. That is when he began to lose his public
status. His name go down in infamy.

Sovereignty

Still, when the Muslims closed the Mughrabi Gate to prevent Jews from
entering the Temple Mount, at the request of Rabbi Goren, the I.D.F.
broke through the gate to ensure free entry for Jews, thereby
expressing sovereignty over the Temple Mount. However, this act did
not change the order prohibiting Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount.

Rabbi Goren goes on to relate: "Whenever I warned about handing over
of the Holy of Holies of the Jewish nation to the Waqf, the response
of consecutive Prime Ministers was: 'Look, in any case the Chief
Rabbinate forbids Jews from ascending the Temple Mount, and we are
prohibited from praying there." As a result, he decided to write the
book and explain the ways, places, and conditions under which it is
permitted to enter the Temple Mount (pg. 35). Consequently "we must
utilize to the fullest all sides of the heter, so we can demonstrate
continuous Jewish presence there, and maintain Jewish sovereignty over
the Mount, like the apple of our eye" (pg. 46).

The Chief Rabbinate's Sign

It has been claimed that during his tenure as Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Goren
agreed to the prohibition of entering the Temple Mount, but this is
not true. In the introduction to his book, he wrote: "During my tenure
as Chief Rabbi of Israel, I brought a proposal to the Council of the
Chief Rabbinate to remove the signs banning entrance to the Temple
Mount as determined by the previous Chief Rabbis. Because there were a
few members on the Council who had signed on the ban at the time, they
requested delaying the decision to remove the signs prohibiting going
up to Har Habayit until after I published the book ..." For various
reasons, the books' publication was delayed, and the signs remained in
place, "which, in effect, led to the handing over of Har Habayit to
the Muslim Waqf" (ibid pg. 35).

Desecration of the Holy

Moreover, he wrote: "This shameful situation, where under Israeli rule
a Jew does not have the right to pray on the mountain of God, cannot
be tolerated under any circumstances. The debate over where it is
permitted according to Jewish law to go on the Temple Mount, or where
it is forbidden, has nothing to do with the government ... These
sacred places are not the private property of the Muslim Waqf, whose
members have always been a source of bitterness and poison for the
Jews, with their incitement from within the mosques on the Temple
Mount to slaughter the Jews... had they closed the Temple Mount to
Jews and non-Jews alike, I would have kept quiet, but to allow the
Arabs to do there as they please while Jews are forbidden to even open
up a Book of Psalms and pour out their hearts before the Creator of
the world - this is a religious, historical, and legal scandal -
nothing short of blasphemy! "(pg. 41).

He further added (pg. 42) that by abstaining from going up to the
Temple Mount, the Torah prohibition of 'lo techonem' ('nor be gracious
to them'), which may also be rendered 'do not allow them to settle on
the soil' (Avoda Zara 20a) is transgressed, seeing as the poskim
(Jewish law arbiters) have already established that the loss of
sovereignty is similar to destruction (B.Y. and M.A., O.C. 561:1).
Thus, when the government forbids Jews to go up freely, it destroys
the place of our Holy Temple yet again.

The Words of Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda HaKohen Kook

Our teacher and guide, Rabbi Tzvi Yehudah HaKohen Kook, agreed with
the poskim who prohibited going up to Har Habayit. But in my humble
opinion, it seems that had he known that the over- cautiousness of
going up to Har Habayit would result in the loss of sovereignty and
turning the Temple Mount into a focal point of hatred against Israel -
he would have agreed with Rabbi Goren that it is permitted and a
mitzvah to go up. In addition, in my humble opinion, he would have
trusted Rabbi Goren's halakhic inquiries in regards to the areas
permitted to enter.

Blessed are Those Who Ascend the Temple Mount

The continuation of the disgraceful situation on the Temple Mount
brings our enemies hope, and motivates them to kill and riot
throughout the country. In order to suppress the wave of terrorism and
incitement from its roots, the government and the police must assert
Israeli sovereignty over the Temple Mount in the most decisive manner.

Blessed are those who go up to Har Habayit, but only if that is done
according to halakha. Thanks to them, our sovereignty over the Temple
Mount and all of the Land of Israel becomes clearer, and precisely as
a result of this, we will merit security and peace.

This article appears in the 'Besheva' newspaper, and was translated from Hebrew.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/15980#.VGg4FcnNlfZ

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The Sanctity of Eretz Yisrael by Moshe Dann. Relationship of Jewish People and Eretz Yisrael is fundamental component of Judaism

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Zachor: The sanctity of Eretz Yisrael
By MOSHE DANN, The Jerusalem Post
December 5, 2014
The relationship between the Jewish People and Eretz Yisrael is a
fundamental component of Judaism.


... But why do we need a homeland? Isn't being a People
and practicing Judaism enough? The laws of Shmita provide an answer.
These Torah-mandated laws which take effect at the end of a seven-year
cycle restrict Jews in Eretz Yisrael from agricultural work, even that
done in private gardens.....The sanctity of Eretz Yisrael does not come only from exercising control over it, but from recognizing that God alone is sovereign.
...Without Torah and Eretz Yisrael, we lose our connection to the process
of redemption, our opportunity and obligation to transform the world.
...We transform the land, and the Land transforms us. That process can only happen in the context of Jewish sovereignty in Eretz Yisrael.
...The core of Jewish civilization is living Torah, bringing ethical
monotheism to the world, rebuilding Eretz Yisrael and reestablishing
Jewish nationhood. That dream did not begin with Theodor Herzl, or
with his successors. 
...With Jews unable to express their collective, national consciousness at the
Temple Mount, Judaism was recast; ritual became embodied in prayer.One of the critical elements of that common purpose is the constant focus on Eretz Yisrael and the Temple, symbols for the spiritual and physical wholeness of the Jewish People.
...Reestablishing the State of Israel and regaining most of Biblical
Israel in 1967 created a new context and opportunity for the Jewish
People.
...The Covenant which binds us to Eretz Yisrael links Jewish history and
Jewish destiny, past and future.
...
Possession of Eretz Yisrael by the Jewish People confirms and is a
manifestation of God's presence and the purpose of the Jewish People.

That explains the very first Rashi in the Bible: when Jews are accused
of stealing Eretz Yisrael, they can respond that just as God created
the world, every nation received its land, including the Jewish
people.

Not only is Eretz Yisrael holy, it gives and receives holiness, as if
it were alive; it stands for an awareness of God's presence, not only
as Land, but Being.

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Zachor-The-sanctity-of-Eretz-Yisrael-383716
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Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Likud, Rule of Evil? What have the Hereidi Politicians done to confront the real enemy of the Jews?

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Motzei Shem Ra  (false derogatory statements, slander) by MK's who receive their guidance from the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah?  How can this be?

Hareidi MKs Welcome End of 'Worst Government in History'

MKs from United Torah Judaism party welcome the dissolution of the Knesset, saying it was "the worst one in the country's history".

...MK Menachem Eliezer Moses agreed with his colleague, saying, "The rule of evil has come to an end. There is not one area where the government acted in the interest of the public. We can only welcome the dissolution of the Knesset and the dismantling of government."

MK Meir Porush said that "the worst coalition for hareidim was disbanded this evening with the dissolution of the Knesset. United Torah Judaism is determined to make a fundamental change, and restore the honor of the Torah and those who study it."

"The 19th Knesset will be remembered as the worst one in the country's history, due to the failure of the government in all areas: an economic collapse, loss of vision in terms of housing, cost of living and the continuous attacks on the middle class," said MK Ya'akov Litzman.



Preacher in Al Aqsa: We Will Slaughter You Jews

Blatant incitement against Jews on Temple Mount sees preacher claim Jews are 'abominable,' with growing audience.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/188379#.VIdGJzHF8WI

Please,  MK Moses:  

Calling Netanyahu and Bennett: Rule of Evil? Are you sure you are being guided by the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah?  Because your public statements put them in a very bad light.

Surely you agree that those preaching at Al Aqsa are evil!  Hitler yemach shemo was evil.....But the Likud Gov't? Everything in its proper perspective!  

Have we forgotten Operation Protective Edge and the missiles flying over the entire country.  Surely Hashem protected us and there were countless miracles. Can we ignore the fact that the gov't of Israel and the military did its  part, their hishtadlus, with IDF manning the Iron Dome not to mention the intelligence, airforce and the groundtroops that did the job!   No one can deny the threat to the soldiers lives...Arabs leaving behind booby trapped homes, underground tunnels filled with weapons, children used as civilian shields not to mention hospitals, ambulances, schools, UN buildings as well.   Why no expression of acknowledgement or Hakoras Hatov?  Surely the Tefillot of the Chareidim helped and the fact that some Yeshivot didn't have bein hazemanim in solidarity but we can not disregard the soldiers who actually fought nor the gov't that trained them and gave them weapons.  They too prayed as only a soldier whose life is in danger prays.  They had on them siddurim and tehillim, tzizit and Tefillin.  A true Jewish Army.  Please read the Commander Ofer Winter's letter http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2014/07/please-fwd-and-let-go-viral-time.html of Givati Brigade.

Perhaps if B'nei Torah synagogue, the shul in Har Nof  where the massacre took place, had mispallelim, worshippers,  with ammunition on them, as is the case of most Dati Leumi shuls (religious Zionists synagogues)  perhaps the terrorists could have been neutralized sooner than the 7 minutes it took for the police to come.  
Will you blame the gov't for not providing you equal protection as other Israeli citizens?

Let's talk Torah not politics:

Has UTJ or SHAS proclaimed that the Promised Land is G-d's Promise to the seed of Abraham Isaac and Jacob. Have they said that the Jews are indigenous People to the Land of Israel, whose borders are delineated in the Torah.  According to the Torah,  Temple Mount, Hebron and Shchem  are the most holy of places and Judea and Samaria constitute the Biblical heartland of Israel.  For a more thorough discussion please read, Parshat Matot-Masei - The Biblical Borders of the Land of Israel by Menachem Liebtag http://www.tanach.org/bamidbar/matot/matots1.htm  Here is a beautiful video about Israel that will bring tears to your eyes: The Words Of Our Prophets Come To Life. http://www.israelvideonetwork.com/the-words-of-our-prophets-come-to-life. Now these are words and images of Torah! 

Have the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah followed the rulings of the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah of the past in Marienbad 1937?

כנסי' מועצת גדולי התורה במריינבד בעברית The Knessiah Gedolah of Marienbad. Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah discussion re: A Jewish State: YES or NO? Yes for Jewish State! You will find links to the pdfs of the Pardes Journal September and October 1937. which documented the conference and the conclusions of the Gedoilim of that generation.  
http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2014/11/knessiah-gedolah-of-marienbad-moetzet.html

Read some of these other posts which are related.

Search on Marienbad in Shemittahrediscovered.

http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/search?q=marienbad

Let the readers decide for themselves!
Bennett Asks Indyk: How Many Need to Die Before You Wake Up? (Watch the youtube. The same questions should be asked to the Chareidi MK's as well,  When will they wake up? Robin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5haOuQJALAY&feature=youtu.be
From Arelene Kushner's post :"The World Keeps Turning" http://www.arlenefromisrael.info/current-postings/

Bennett Signs Up UST Global to Bring 10,000 Jobs to Israel
The giant firm will build a cyber-defense center outside of central Israel and train Haredim and others.

We Will Never Apologize For Defending Ourselves By: Ron Prosor
December 11th, 2014
http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/we-will-never-apologize-for-defending-ourselves/2014/12/11/2/  Ron Prosor, who represents the gov't of Israel, the government whose rulership was called evil by UTJ MK's writes

... Israel is the land of our forefathers – Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It is the land where Moses led the Jewish people, where David built his palace, where Solomon built the Jewish Temple, and where Isaiah saw a vision of eternal peace.

For thousands of years Jews have lived continuously in the land of Israel. We endured through the rise and fall of the Assyrian, Babylonian, Greek, and Roman empires. And we endured thousands of years of persecution, expulsions, and crusades. The bond between the Jewish people and the Jewish land is unbreakable.

Nothing can change one simple truth – Israel is our home and Jerusalem is our eternal capital.
~~~~~~~~~~Ambassador Ron Prosor became Israel’s 16th Permanent Representative to the United Nations in June 2011.

Now about Netanyahu.  I often disagree with his politics and not standing up for Torah but would never call him or his gov't a rule of evil.  misguided, weak perhaps but EVIL????

Netanyahu Slams Abbas for Letter of Support to Family of Yehuda Glick's Shooter
NOVEMBER 2, 2014
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/11/02/netanyahu-slams-abbas-for-letter-of-support-to-family-of-yehuda-glicks-shooter/

Netanyahu accuses Abbas of violating pledge to calm tensions in Jerusalem


I love Netanyahu's comments!  He is spokesman par excellence. 

This Jewish State bill sounds terrific! Almost too good to be true! 

But.... I am worried about that but....Will the changes Netanyahu pushes undermine the very essence of the bill? 
The prime minister vowed to push the bill forward, but said it must undergo many changes.
"In the end, we will make it clear that Israel is the Jewish nation-state, while promising equal rights to all its citizens," he added. "

Right now, following a wave of violence in East Jerusalem, Temple Mount, random acts of terror spreading all over the country, the Prime MInister is losing support.  He needs to show that he hears the voice of the people.  However, in the past the Prime Minister has responded to situations as the above, with eloquent and powerful statements, music to our ears but then suddenly veers off course by actions that undermine what he just stated.  Proclaiming his support for a 2 State Solution for example, misses his target completely bowing  to political pressures from the US and EU.

Sunday, June 08, 2014 Fwd: Netanyahu Strong but still some unclarified messages

Netanyahu needs to acknowledge that the Promised Land is G-d's Promise to the seed of Abraham Isaac and Jacob.  Jews are indigenous People to the Land of Israel, whose borders are delineated in the Torah.  According to the Torah,  Temple Mount, Hebron and Shchem  are the most holy of places and Judea and Samaria constitute the Biblical heartland of Israel.  For a more thorough discussion please read, Parshat Matot-Masei - The Biblical Borders of the Land of Israel by Menachem Liebtag http://www.tanach.org/bamidbar/matot/matots1.htm  Here is a beautiful video about Israel that will bring tears to your eyes: The Words Of Our Prophets Come To Life. http://www.israelvideonetwork.com/the-words-of-our-prophets-come-to-life


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Editorial: Chained by a Malicious Lie
Hamodia [NY] - Hamodia Editorial - December 9, 2014
This editorial was originally published in the Weekend print edition
November 26, 2014
http://hamodia.com/2014/11/25/chained-malicious-lie/

The anguish-filled saga of Jonathan Pollard took yet another painful
turn last week, when it was revealed that the Parole Board denied
Pollard's request for parole after 29 agonizing years in prison. The
members of the Parole Board, which is an arm of the U.S. Justice
Department, had the opportunity to end a travesty of justice that has
been going on for far too long. Instead, they compounded it, making a
mockery of the American justice system.

Since Hamodia's inception, we have been a vigorous and forceful
advocate for Jonathon Pollard. On numerous occasions we have published
editorials, interviews and opinion pieces calling for his release. On
occasion, we have received inquiries from readers demanding to know
why Jonathan never chose to apply for parole.

The answer is simple: Every legal expert the Pollard camp has spoken
to -- and there were many -- told them that the Parole Board would
reject Jonathan's request out of hand. For one thing, the Department
of Justice steadfastly refused to allow Jonathan's attorneys -- both of
whom have the appropriate Top Secret/SCI-eligible security clearances
-- to see the documents that were submitted to the sentencing judge
prior to Mr. Pollard's sentencing in 1987. With access to that file
denied, persons opposed to parole know that they have free rein to say
absolutely anything about Jonathan without risk of being contradicted
by the documents.

The experts insisted that not only would parole be denied, but the
refusal would actually damage the only viable option to gain his
release. So Jonathan, his wife, Mrs. Esther Pollard -- who has
literally dedicated her life to try to gain her husband's freedom --
and their supporters focused on trying to obtain presidential
clemency.

Over the years, repeated hopes that clemency would be granted were
raised, only to be quashed. In 1998, President Clinton actually
promised to free Pollard as a way to convince Prime Minister Netanyahu
to attend the Wye River Summit. During the summit, Clinton again
promised to free Pollard, but ultimately reneged on his promises. Many
had hoped that his successor, President George W. Bush, widely
considered a friend of Israel, would use his final days in office to
free Pollard. Later, as the ever-growing list of extremely prominent
former American officials lent their voices to the clamor for an end
to this gross injustice, it was hoped that President Obama would
hearken to their pleas and grant clemency.

In December of last year, during President Obama's trip to Israel, the
president indicated that while he was not ready to grant clemency, if
Pollard would apply for parole, he would be treated fairly. Reading
this as a positive sign, Pollard submitted a parole application.

In the meanwhile, last March, mainstream media outlets revealed that
the United States may free Pollard as part of Secretary Kerry's
efforts to save Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. But the peace
talks fell apart, and once more the hopes of so many were shot down.

In June, as he concluded his term as president of Israel, Shimon Peres
visited Washington. Peres, ironically, was the prime minister at the
time of Pollard's arrest, and under his stewardship Israel actually
gave the U.S. documents with Pollard's fingerprints, which
incriminated him -- a bizarre and unprecedented betrayal by a country
of its own agent.

Peres reportedly requested of Obama to at the very least privately
inform the U.S. Justice Department that he didn't oppose parole for
Pollard.

According to the law, the U.S. Parole Commission may grant parole if
(a) the inmate has substantially observed the rules of the
institution; (b) release would not depreciate the seriousness of the
offense or promote disrespect for the law; and (c) release would not
jeopardize the public welfare.

Certainly Jonathan, a model prisoner who has served far longer than
anyone else who committed the same crime of passing classified
information to an ally, fit the bill perfectly. But at the hearing,
which was described by those present as a "kangaroo court," Pollard
was treated with contempt, and his attorney wasn't even allowed to
make his case.

As eight senior former American officials, all with first-hand
knowledge of the case and fully familiar with the classified file,
wrote in a letter to President Obama: "The Parole Commission decision
document mischaracterizes Mr. Pollard's actions and makes a patently
false claim upon which it bases its denial of parole."

The government relied heavily on a stale, discredited, 28-year-old
classified memorandum written by former Secretary of Defense Caspar
Weinberger. As Lawrence Korb, who served as assistant secretary of
defense under Weinberger, and knew him well, wrote, that memorandum
was based on an "almost visceral dislike of Israel and the special
place it occupies in our foreign policy."

The eight officials put it well when they wrote that "Denying a man
his freedom based on a claim of damage that is patently false while
ignoring exculpatory documentary evidence and hiding behind a veil of
secret evidence is neither fair nor just, and it simply is not the
American way."

We should also bear in mind the words of former CIA director R. James
Woolsey, who said that "If anybody is hung up over the fact that he's
an American Jew or that he's Israeli, just pretend that he's a South
Korean and set him free."

But our reaction to the parole board decision must be more than
outrage and empathy.

We must recognize the fact that each and every one of us is obligated
to do all we can to help him gain his freedom. It is imperative that
we let the president -- and every elected official who can possibly
influence the president -- know, in a respectful but forceful way, how
hurt the entire Jewish community is over this dreadful miscarriage of
justice. The fate of Jonathan Pollard must constantly be on the front
burner; it must be raised for discussion at every meeting with
government officials.

Most importantly, we must increase our tefillos for Yehonoson ben
Malka, who is 60 years old and in very poor health. Ultimately, his
fate lies solely in the Hands of Hashem. As Mrs. Pollard has pointed
out in past interviews with Hamodia, it is tefillos that are keeping
Jonathan alive. It will be our tefillos that will set him free.

SEE ALSO
   * <http://jonathanpollard.org/2014/111414.pdf>: Letter to Obama by
8 Senior US Officials slamming the unjust denial of parole to Jonathan
Pollard
   * <http://jonathanpollard.org/2014/120514.htm>Conference of
Presidents Joins 8 Senior US Officials in Decrying Pollard's Continued
Incarceration on False Charge; Calls for his immediate release
   *  <http://jonathanpollard.org/2014/120414a.htm>The Truth About
Jonathan Pollard's 'Escape Plan': Pesach Lerner - Hamodia [NY]
   *  <http://jonathanpollard.org/2014/120314.htm>Editorial: Prisoner
of Zion in the US: The Jerusalem Post

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