URGENT: WE'LL STAND BY YOU, ISRAEL!!

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URGENT: WE'LL STAND BY YOU, ISRAEL!! 

This Sunday, 28 July, the Government of Israel will vote on the MidEast negotiation ideas that John Kerry is pushing.

These will include 3 red lines that are dangerous for Israel:

    1 Housing freeze:  Kerry is saying that about 1 in 10 Israelis (who happen to live in Jerusalem or over the Green Line) CANNOT build homes. Palestinians CAN build homes

    2  Kerry wants Israel to release terrorists  from prison

    3 Kerry wants a two-state "solution" -  i.e. a new terror state just a bike-ride away from Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem  

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/170294#.UfIXPL5BTbg         http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.538067

Israeli leaders need to know,  IMMEDIATELY, how much public backing they have to say no.

So, please email Israel's ministers and MKs the following important message, or similar (write your own!!):

I'LL STAND BY ISRAEL EVEN IF SHE TELLS KERRY: NO HOUSING FREEZE, NO TERRORIST RELEASE, NO TERROR STATE  

(SIGNED: YOUR FULL NAME)

Here are email addresses for Israeli ministers and MKs:

uorbach@knesset.gov.il; ebendehan@knesset.gov.il; nbenet@knesset.gov.il; awortzman@knesset.gov.il; myogev@knesset.gov.il; zkalfa@knesset.gov.il; smoalemr@knesset.gov.il; nslomiansky@KNESSET.GOV.IL; ysetbon@knesset.gov.il; ashaked@knesset.gov.il; ostruk@knesset.gov.il;uria@knesset.gov.il;sar@moch.gov.il;yedelstein@knesset.gov.il; iaharon@knesset.gov.il; Zelkin@knesset.gov.il; oakunis@knesset.gov.il; gerdan@knesset.gov.il; ggamliel@knesset.gov.il; ddanon@knesset.gov.il; zhotovely@knesset.gov.il; myaalon@knesset.gov.il; hkatz@knesset.gov.il; llivnat@knesset.gov.il; aliberman@knesset.gov.il; ulandau@KNESSET.GOV.IL; gsaar@knesset.gov.il; mfeiglin@knesset.gov.il; fkirshenbaum@knesset.gov.il; sohayon@knesset.gov.il; mregev@knesset.gov.il; drotem@knesset.gov.il; rrivlin@knesset.gov.il; ysteinitz@knesset.gov.il; sshalom@knesset.gov.il; rilatov@knesset.gov.il; yshamir@knesset.gov.il; ylevin@knesset.gov.il;tzhanegbi@knesset.gov.il;yiskatz@knesset.gov.il;slandver@knesset.gov.il

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Fwd: The two-state-solution contraversy heats up!

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The two-state-solution controversy heats up! Click here for  some great background:

http://zoa.org/2013/06/10205037-zoa-troubled-that-ajc-condemned-israeli-ministers-danon-and-bennett-for-opposing-pal-state-falsely-saying-pm-reprimanded-danon/

 

 

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Gush Katif Museum Dinner: Pls fw to friends in New York. Really important for them to come & bring others

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This SATURDAY NIGHT, MARCH 9: the New York dinner

for Jerusalem's GUSH KATIF MUSEUM

 

Please help ensure that indeed we get a large crowd.  We are counting on you!

 

The members of the Dinner Committee ask that you please join them at the Dinner.

 

Dr. Paul Brody, Committee Chairman

Rabbi Elie Abadi, The Edmond Safra Synagogue

Rabbi Pesach Lerner, Executive Vice President Emeritus, Young Israel

Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld, Young Israel Kew Gardens Hills, NY

Mr. Eugen Gluck, Founder and Chief Supporter Bet El

Mrs. Naomi Klass Mauer, Publisher of the Jewish Press

Mr. Larry Gordon, The Five Towns Jewish Times

Mrs. Odelia Jacobs, Int'l Committee for the Land of Israel

Mrs. Robin Ticker, Activist Eretz Yisroel, Blogger

Dr. Alan Berger, Activist, Englewood, NJ

Dr. and Mrs. Michoel Friend, Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY

Mr. Mark Langfan, Creator 3-D Topographic Maps of Israel

Mrs. Aliza Karp, Author "Banished"

Mrs. Sarah Lehmann, Freelance writer and editor

Mr. Mark Langfan

 

WHEN/WHERE:

Saturday night, March 9, 8 PM, at the Razag Ballroom, 739 East New York Avenue.

Museum dinner committee: 718-208-1770. Email Dinner@GushKatifMuseum.org, or see www.gushkatifmuseum.org.

 

Guests of Honor:

Rabbi Shalom Ber Drizin - The Renowned philanthropist

Rabbi David Algaze 

Assemblyman Dov Hikind

Mrs. Helen Freedman

Dr. Joseph Frager

Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo - President, Founder Gush Katf Museum

 

Guest Speakers:

Keynote Speaker:  Mike Huckabee - Former Governor of Arkansas, has personally toured the museum

Rabbi Yaakov Y. Jacobson on behalf of the Rabbis of Crown Heights Synagogues

Mrs. Rivka Goldschmidt, Refugee Gush Katif

 

 

From Robin Ticker: "This Dinner is not just another Dinner.  We are not illegal occupiers of Judea and Samaria!  This is Our Land.  It is the Promised Land, promised to the chlidren of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Jews of today!  Netanyahu and his advisors have forgotten their Jewish identity.  Perhaps it's understandable to be forgetful of there is a gun pointing in your direction. We the Jewish people must remind ourselves who we are and G-d's Covenant and Promise with our people.  If they destroy more homes will we be able to look ourselves in the mirror and say,  I had no part in this and yes I tried to stop it from happenng.  Al Taamod al Dam Reyacha. Those who Bless Israel will be Blessed!

 

From Gush Katif Museum Dinner Committee:  "LARGE CROWD EXPECTED AT GUSH KATIF MUSEUM EVENT, SATURDAY NIGHT, MARCH 9, TO PROTEST FURTHER EXPULSION PLANS DEMANDED BY OBAMA. Ahead of Obama's upcoming visit, rumblings of "withdrawal of Jews" from Judea and Samaria, "expulsions" and "unilateral steps" are heard once again. The appointments of Hagel and Kerry and the nomination of Brennan should send a clear warning to Israel and Diaspora Jews that Obama does not "have Israel's back". The upcoming dinner to benefit the Gush Katif Museum in Jerusalem will be an opportunity to protest any surrender of Jewish land and to demonstrate solidarity on behalf of a whole Israel – Yisrael HaShlaima. The expulsion from Gush Katif is the clearest evidence that land surrendered by Israel will be used for the purpose of creating an additional space from which to spread terror to innocent civilians and ultimately to weaken and dominate Europe and the US. A visit to this museum serves as a powerful educational tool to any visitor and coveys the message that the policy of surrendering land to people who continue to engage and abet terror is folly. The purpose of the Museum is to preserve the story of the horrors of the expulsion from Gush Katif for the specific purpose of declaring NEVER AGAIN!. Yet, demolitions have happened since and threaten to continue. We must protest against any such actions. A strong showing will send a strong message to PM Netanyahu that Diaspora Jews and Christians will fight demolition decrees and continue to stand up for our rightful claim to our Biblical Homeland."

 

Saturday night, March 9, 8 PM, at the Razag Ballroom, 739 East New York Avenue.

Museum dinner committee: 718-208-1770. Email Dinner@GushKatifMuseum.org, or see www.gushkatifmuseum.org.

 

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Shocking in London, worrisome appointments in USA: We need to keep on our toes...

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Shocking: Bye Bye London- no future for Jews in England

http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2013/01/bye-bye-london.php

 

With that backdrop, kudos to all those who wrote and persuaded the Chief Rabbi of England to take a very important, firm and principled stance regarding the anti-Semitic cartoon about Israel's PM Netanyahu:

http://www.chiefrabbi.org/2013/01/29/statement-on-the-gerald-scarfe-cartoon-in-the-sunday-times/

 

Also, please read Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors on new appointments of great concern in the USA:

 

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From: Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors

If you are unable to see this email, please click here. Dear Friend of Truth,   We cannot afford to leave our government on auto-pilot. Left to their own devices, without the oversight of an informed and active citizenry, our "representatives" have taken care only of themselves, their own interests and personal political ambitions. The more corrupt they have become, the more dismissive they are of their constituents whom they are meant to serve.   Thus, the confirmation of John Kerry yesterday as Secretary of State. Of the 45 Republicans in the Senate, only three senators opposed Kerry's confirmation as Secretary of State: Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz of Texas. Two senators were absent: Patty Murray, Democrat from Washington and John Hoeven, Republican from North Dakota. The will of the people is being flagrantly ignored not only by government officials, but by a co-opted and compliant media. In what we thought was a free country where we enjoy a free press, media personalities have become celebrities who compete for access to power instead of the scoop that would expose the truth.   If we are to have any influence at all over the direction the United States is taking, we must stop being the passive sheep to which everyone is accustomed and become actively involved in directing our own fate. We all know there is no consensus where the media tells us there is. We all know that civil disagreement abounds in a free society, however much the media may cast dissent as ignorance or radicalism. We all know that evil met halfway is still evil, no matter how hard the politicians and their support staff in the media try to convince us otherwise.   President Obama appointed three men - Chuck Hagel, John Brennan and John Kerry - to run the government departments that protect U.S. national security, who share a dangerous belief that the exercise of U.S. power in the world is a greater threat to peace than the murderous ideologies arrayed against us and our allies.  Chuck Hagel, John Brennan, and John Kerry: Have appeased Islamic terrorism and extremism    Have supported the butcher of Syria, Bashar al-Assad and the leader of the terrorism-supporting Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Morsi Have supported the weakening of the U.S. military and American influence around the world Believe the U.S. should have stronger ties to the Islamic world and a more distant relationship with Israel Expressed a desire to drastically defund and shrink the military and to cut American nuclear weapons drastically reducing America as a superpower - a position that has kept relative peace in Europe and America The inevitable result of their worldview will be a nuclear Iran, which will destabilize the world, threaten our economy and launch a new Cold War, if we're lucky. "History will not forgive those who allow Iran to arm itself with nuclear weapons," Benjamin Netanyahu warned, "This was, and remains, the main mission facing not only myself and Israel, but the entire world."  Already we have seen the result of President Obama's policy of working with Islamic extremists. Terrorists sacked the U.S. consulate in Libya and murdered our ambassador, and terrorists in Algeria brazenly seized American hostages. With John Kerry, John Brennan and Chuck Hagel in charge of U.S. national security, we will see more of this, and worse. It's up to us to tell the world that we are not resigned to a weaker U.S. military, a stronger Muslim Brotherhood, a smaller Israel and a nuclear Iran. Call the United States Senate and demand the rejection Chuck Hagel and John Brennan. Tell your senator that you don't want U.S. national security to be endangered by a policy of engaging with terrorists. We, the People, can prevail against the appointments of Hagel and Brennan and send a strong message to President Obama that we are  alarmed by direction he is heading on foreign policy; that he will get pushback from the people he serves; and that he needs to consider America's best interest in his nominations for these posts.   Find your senators here.  Call or fax NOW. Make sure your senators know you're a constituent and a voter -- provide your name, address and phone number. Urge them to VOTE NO on the Hagel for Secretary for Secretary of Defense and VOTE NO on John Brennan as Director of the CIA. Tell your senators that, "Americans are counting on you! Forward this e-mail to your family, friends and colleagues and urge them to make their voices heard.   I believe it is a risk to U.S. national security to allow any of these nominations to succeed. We lost on Kerry. Let us not lose on Hagel and Brennan who would be in even stronger positions to cut deals with terrorists weakening America, weakening our military, and making a staunch U.S. ally even more vulnerable to attack.   You and I know that tyrants and terrorists can never be negotiating partners of free nations, and we know what it means when government officials blame the Jews. We know how it ends. Some organizations pull their punches and worry about offending certain groups. We don't. We are fighting anti-Americanism, anti-Zionism, and Jew-hatred. We are fighting for a safe, secure, free country. We are fighting with everything we've got. Join us in this fight. Call your senators. Forward this e-mail to your friends. Help us to spread the word that the dangers we face cannot be ignored or wished away. Your donation of $25, $50, $75, $100, $250 or whatever you can afford will be a force multiplier in our battle to get the truth out. The president's power in foreign policy is nearly unlimited, and the damage that can be done is terrible to contemplate. We cannot be complacent. We cannot be silent.  And we refuse to be censored. Sincerely, Doris Wise Montrose Founder and President Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors  P.S. One-third of the U.S. Senate is up for re-election in 2014. If one of your senators is on the list below, be sure to tell them you are watching their votes on Kerry, Hagel and Brennan. Tell them you don't want the U.S. to engage with terrorists.   Be sure to thank Senators Inhofe, Cornyn and Cruz for stepping up on Kerry. 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Rabbi Sacks, what do you think of the new and shocking anti-Semitic caricature?

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Rabbi Sacks, what do you think of the new and shocking anti-Semitic caricature?

 

Read CAMERA below about a new and shocking anti-Semitic caricature in a leading, mainstream British newspaper!

The British caricature shows Israel's newly elected prime-minister Netanyahu using Palestinian blood for cement, and crushing Palestinians' live bodies,  in building activities.

The British newspaper, the Sunday Times, is insisting there is nothing wrong with the caricature.

 

Do the logical thing: contact the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, and ask:

Dear Rabbi Sacks, As the head of the British Jewish community, what have you done to combat the new and shocking anti-Semitic caricature in a leading, mainstream British newspaper!

 

Background: Rabbi Sacks is a fairly radical pro-Palestinian himself.

He once even had the audacity to state that Israel's stance towards Palestinians is "incompatible with Judaism": http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2218571.stm

 

However, Rabbi Sacks  is a public figure, so it is his job to protect Israel whatever his own personal political positions may be. 

Please contact him therefore.

Contact information for Rabbi Sacks: info@chiefrabbi.org   or telephone info here: http://www.chiefrabbi.org/contact-us/

 

Please send a copy of your email to Israel's Diaspora Affairs minister, Yuli Edelstein, to show the Government of Israel that you are working for Israel: yedelstein@knesset.gov.il

 

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From: CAMERA Alert

Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 2:56 PM

Subject: CAMERA Alert: In Sunday Times, Picture Worth a Thousand Anti-Semitic Words

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In London's Sunday Times, Picture Worth a Thousand Anti-Semitic Words January 28, 2013	Please click here to support CAMERA's vital work!   Click on the icons below to follow CAMERA:
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Attention CAMERA E-Mail Team:   January 27 was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. That same day, The Sunday Times of London published an editorial cartoon showing a hook-nosed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu building a wall on the bodies of Palestinians and using their blood as mortar.   Michael A. Salberg, International Affairs Director of the Anti-Defamation League described the cartoon as having "a blatantly anti-Semitic theme and motif which is a modern day evocation of the ancient 'blood libel' charge leveled at Jews."   "This cartoon would be offensive at any time of the year, but to publish it on International Holocaust Remembrance Day is sickening and expresses a deeply troubling mindset," said European Jewish Congress President Dr. Moshe Kantor. "This insensitivity demands an immediate apology from both the cartoonist and the paper's editors."   In answer to this and other criticism, a spokesperson for The Sunday Times said, "This is a typically robust cartoon by Gerald Scarfe. The Sunday Times firmly believes that it is not anti-Semitic. It is aimed squarely at Mr. Netanyahu and his policies, not at Israel, let alone at Jewish people."   In The Commentator, Raheem Kassam described the cartoon as "not simply treading the fine line between criticism and blood libel, but indeed spitting all over it, leaving it for dust, and careering head first into anti-Semitismsville." He continued: I would never have thought the editors of the Sunday Times were in amongst those who would seek, in true Der Sturmer fashion, to use Holocaust Memorial Day to publish a blood libel, and knowingly undermine the memory of one of the worst genocides ever…. I guess I was wrong on that count. Just so. Flowing blood, hook-nosed Jews and their innocent victims feature in both the Sunday Times cartoon and this one from Der Stürmer. It was published in 1934, before the fires of the Holocaust burned their hottest and certainly fueling them.   It is perverse that an image like the Scarfe cartoon pollutes the pages of a mainstream news outlet, using the same imagery as Nazi propaganda, on Holocaust Remembrance Day. And it is beneath contempt for editors to deny the hatefulness of this imagery.
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Please use the information in the alert as background for your own letter. Do not copy and paste directly from the alert and do not forward it to the media.   Please contact those responsible for this offensive image and express your outrage: • Write to Acting Editor Martin Ivens at martin.ivens@sunday-times.co.uk.   • Call the newspaper switchboard. From the U.S. dial 011-44-20-7782-5000, from the U.K. dial 020-7782-5000. Press 5 to be connected to an operator. • Write a Letter to the Editor of The Sunday Times at letters@sunday-times.co.uk. • Contact cartoonist Gerald Scarfe through his Web site contact form.   • Send your feedback to the newspaper at feedback@thetimes.co.uk. Please make the following points: • Demand an apology for printing a cartoon replete with anti-Semitic imagery.   • The cartoon uses the same blood-libel imagery as Nazi propaganda. • Hate-filled imagery helped make the Holocaust possible by dehumanizing Jews. The Sunday Times should not disseminate similar imagery.   • Publishing a cartoon depicting Jewish blood lust on Holocaust Remembrance Day is nothing short of perverse. If you are on Twitter, tweet about this issue. Sample tweets include: • In @thesundaytimes, #GeraldScarfe disgusting blood-libel #Jew-hatred cartoon. On #Holocaust Remembrance Day! SHAME. @CAMERAorg #Israel   • Why do @thesundaytimes editors think blood-libel #Jew-hatred cartoon OK? On #Holocaust Remembrance Day? SICK! @CAMERAorg #Israel • Apology needed from @thesundaytimes editors for #Jew-hatred blood-libel cartoon! DECENCY PLEASE @CAMERAorg #Israel Please send blind copies (bcc) to letters@camera.org
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Adam Levick of CiF Watch, an independent project of CAMERA, posted this entry about the cartoon: How one British paper decided to depict living Jews on Holocaust Memorial Day   In my 2010 report published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs about antisemitic cartoons, I noted that political cartoons often have more of an immediate impact in reinforcing negative stereotypes than a lengthy essay.  They express ideas which are easy to understand, and thus represent an efficient way to transmit hate and prejudices, including antisemitism.   While the largest output of antisemitic cartoons nowadays comes from the Arab and Muslim world, some "respectable" European papers have published graphic depictions of Jews evoking classic Judeophobic stereotypes.   Some of the core motifs of antisemitic cartoons are Jews as absolute evil; imagery equating Israel with Nazi Germany; Jewish conspiracies; Zionists controlling the world; and variations of the blood libel.   While mainstream Western papers avoid explicitly promoting the blood libel, variations of this theme – suggesting in cartoon and in prose that bloodthirsty Israeli Jews intentionally kill innocently Palestinians (often children) – have been published at popular sites.  For instance, one of the most popular news sites in the Anglo world, The Huffington Post, posted a cartoon in 2012 by notorious antisemitic cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, which clearly conveyed the idea that the Israeli Prime Minister was murdering Palestinian babies to gain votes in the upcoming election, suggesting that baby killing was supported by the Israeli public.   A similar motif of infanticide appeared in a 2003 cartoon by Dave Brown in the progressive British daily The Independent. The cartoon shows Sharon eating the head of a Palestinian baby and saying, "What's wrong? Have you never seen a politician kissing a baby? It won Britain's 2003 Political Cartoon of the Year Award.   The following cartoon was published at The Sunday Times (the largest-selling 'serious' British national Sunday newspaper) today, Jan. 27, International Holocaust Memorial Day. In case you didn't notice, the text reads 'Will Cementing Peace Continue?', an apparent allusion to Israeli construction across the green line.   However, the Sunday Times cartoonist decided to depict such building as not only injurious to peace, but (as the bloody, mangled bodies being buried over with cement, laid by the bloody trowel of a sinister Israeli Prime Minister) as a sadistic act of violence against innocents in order to gain votes in the Israeli election.     In light of the Sunday Times' decision to publish a cartoon on Holocaust Memorial Day depicting a blood-lusting Jewish leader, as well as recent comments by British MP David Ward suggesting that, on Holocaust Memorial Day, Jews should learn to stop "inflicting atrocities on Palestinians", as well as other routine debasements of Holocaust memory, here's a simple, if counter-intuitive request to those who believe that the Holocaust means anything at all:   Spare us your Holocaust pieties, your monuments, your memorials, museums and days of remembrance, and consider that, instead of honoring Jews murdered over 65 years ago, you may want to begin, instead, to honor Jews who are still among us.   There are many ways to show reverence for a tiny minority which has somehow survived despite the best efforts, past and present, of practitioners of homicidal antisemitism. However, the especially morally righteous among you may wish to gain a basic understanding of the precise manner in which Jews have been caricatured, vilified, demonized and dehumanized prior to pogroms, massacres and genocides, studiously avoid advancing narratives or creating graphic depictions which evoke such antisemitic imagery, and righteously condemn those who do so.   You cannot undo the horrors inflicted upon six million souls, but you can live your life with a steely determination to never again allow lethal, racist narratives about living Jews to go unchallenged, and to assiduously fight efforts to reintroduce such toxic calumnies into the "respectable" public discourse.
With thanks,   Sarit Catz International Letter-Writing Director CAMERA	To subscribe to CAMERA's E-Mail Team alerts, click here.

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Mainstreaming annexation
By JOSH HASTEN, The Jerusalem Post
January 15, 2013

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In 2011, Women in Green... hosted a
conference to discuss applying full Israeli sovereignty over Judea and
Samaria...  In total there were just over 200
participants...However, on January 1 of this year, the third annual Women in Green
conference on the "Application of Israeli sovereignty over Judea and
Samaria," drew over 1,000 diverse attendees, from college students,
journalists and bloggers to veteran activists and pensioners, and was
held in a jam-packed, standing room-only Jerusalem hall, featuring
some of most influential government leaders and policy makers in
Israel today.  To put it simply...today the concept of establishing

Jewish sovereignty over all of the land from the River to the Sea

has grown into an entire movement.

Read more:

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=299561


Link to all lectures of 3rd Annual Conference on Application of
Israeli Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria:
http://www.youtube.com/user/NashimBeYarok/videos?view=0

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