יום חמישי, 11 בפברואר 2010

America, the last man standing



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THIS SPEECH CLEARLY SHOWS OUR SITUATION IN THE EUROPEAN WORLD.....WELL WORTH READING


Geert Wilders is a Dutch Member of Parliament.


"America, the last man standing"

 

'In a generation or two, the US will ask itself: who lost Europe ?'

Here is the speech of Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party for Freedom, the Netherlands , at the Four Seasons, New York , introducing an Alliance of Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem .

Dear friends, 

Thank you very much for inviting me.

I come to America with a mission.  All is not well in the old world.  There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic.  We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe .  This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West.  The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe .

First I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe .  Then, I will say a few things about Islam.  To close I will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem .

The Europe you know is changing.

You have probably seen the landmarks.  But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world.  It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration.

All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighbourhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen.  And if they are, they might regret it.  This goes for the police as well.  It's the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children.  Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead.  With mosques on many street corners.  The shops have signs you and I cannot read.  You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity.  
These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics.  These are Muslim neighbourhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe .  These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe , street by street, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, city by city.

There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe .  With larger congregations than there are in churches.  And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region.  Clearly, the signal is: we rule.

Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam , Marseille and Malmo in Sweden .  In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim.  Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighbourhoods.  Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities.

In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that would be an insult to Muslims.

Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark only serve halal food to all pupils.  In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims.  
Non-Muslim women routinely hear 'whore, whore'.  Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to stations in the country of origin.

In France school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot; the same is increasingly true of Darwin .  The history of th e Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.

In England sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. Many neighbourhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves.  
Last week a man almost died after being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels , because he was drinking during the Ramadan.

Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II.  French is now commonly spoken on the streets of Tel Aviv and Netanya, Israel .  I could go on forever with stories like this.  Stories about Islamization.

A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in Europe .  San Diego University recently calculated that a staggering 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now.  Bernhard Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century.

Now these are just numbers.  And the numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate.  But there are few signs of that.  The Pew Research Centre reported that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France .  One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks.  The British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British Muslim students are in favour of a worldwide caliphate.  Muslims demand what they call 'respect'.  And this is how we give them respect.  We have Muslim official state holidays.

The Christian-Democratic attorney general is willing to accept sharia in the Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority.  We have cabinet members with passports from Morocco and Turkey .

Muslim demands are supported by unlawful behaviour, ranging from petty crimes and random violence, for example against ambulance workers and bus drivers, to small-scale riots.  Paris has seen its uprising in the low-income suburbs, the banlieus.  I call the perpetrators 'settlers'.  Because that is what they are.  They do not come to integrate into our societies; they come to integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam.  Therefore, they are settlers.

Much of this street violence I mentioned is directed exclusively against non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their neighbourhoods, their cities, their countries.  Moreover, Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored.

The second thing you need to know is the importance of Mohammed the prophet.  
His behaviour is an example to all Muslims and cannot be criticized.  Now, if Mohammed had been a man of peace, let us say like Ghandi and Mother Theresa wrapped in one, there would be no problem.  But Mohammed was a warlord, a mass murderer, a paedophile, and had several marriages - at the same time.  Islamic tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how he had his enemies murdered and even had prisoners of war executed.  Mohammed himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza.  If it is good for Islam, it is good.  If it is bad for Islam, it is bad.

Let no one fool you about Islam being a religion.  Sure, it has a god, and a here-after, and 72 virgins.  But in its essence Islam is a political ideology.  
It is a system that lays down detailed rules for society and the life of every person.  Islam wants to dictate every aspect of life.  Islam means 'submission'.  Islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is sharia.  If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies.

Now you know why Winston Churchill called Islam 'the most retrograde force in the world', and why he compared Mein Kampf to the Quran.  The public has wholeheartedly accepted the Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the aggressor.  I have lived in this country and visited it dozens of times.  I support Israel .  First, because it is the Jewish homeland after two thousand years of exile up to and including Auschwitz, second because it is a democracy, and third because Israel is our first line of defence.

This tiny country is situated on the fault line of jihad, frustrating Islam's territorial advance.  Israel is facing the front lines of jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines, Southern Thailand, Darfur in Sudan, Lebanon, and Aceh in Indonesia .  Israel is simply in the way.  The same way West-Berlin was during the Cold War.

The war against Israel is not a war against Israel .  It is a war against the West.  It is jihad.  Israel is simply receiving the blows that are meant for all of us.  If there would have been no Israel , Islamic imperialism would have found other venues to release its energy and its desire for conquest.  
Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children to the army and lay awake at night, parents in Europe and America can sleep well and dream, unaware of the dangers looming.

Many in Europe argue in favour of abandoning Israel in order to address the grievances of our Muslim minorities.  But if Israel were, God forbid, to go down, it would not bring any solace to the West. It would not mean our Muslim minorities would all of a sudden change their behaviour, and accept our values.  On the contrary, the end of Israel would give enormous encouragement to the forces of Islam.  They would, and rightly so, see the demise of Israel as proof that the West is weak, and doomed.  The end of Israel would not mean the end of our problems with Islam, but only the beginning.  It would mean the start of the final battle for world domination.  If they can get Israel , they can get everything.  
So-called journalists volunteer to label any and all critics of Islamization as a 'right-wing extremists' or 'racists'.  In my country, the Netherlands , 60 percent of the population now sees the mass immigration of Muslims as the number one policy mistake since World War II.  And another 60 percent sees Islam as the biggest threat.  Yet there is a greater danger than terrorist attacks, the scenario of America as the last man standing.  The lights may go out in Europe faster than you can imagine.  An Islamic Europe means a Europe without freedom and democracy, an economic wasteland, an intellectual nightmare, and a loss of military might for America - as its allies will turn into enemies, enemies with atomic bombs.  With an Islamic Europe, it would be up to America alone to preserve the heritage of Rome , Athens and Jerusalem .

Dear friends, 
liberty is the most precious of gifts.  My generation never had to fight for this freedom, it was offered to us on a silver platter, by people who fought for it with their lives.  All throughout Europe , American cemeteries remind us of the young boys who never made it home, and whose memory we cherish.  My generation does not own this freedom; we are merely its custodians.  We can only hand over this hard won liberty to Europe 's children in the same state, in which it was offered to us. We cannot strike a deal with mullahs and imams.  Future generations would never forgive us.  We cannot squander our liberties.  We simply do not have the right to do so.  We have to take the necessary action now to stop this Islamic stupidity from destroying the free world, that we know.

 Please take the time to read and understand what is written here. Please send it to every free person that you know, it is so very important.

Also, US4Israel asks that you please write to Israel's Prime Minister  bnetanyahu@knesset.gov.il;   and tell him you will stand by him if he firmly rejects the periodic initiatives to set up yet another Islamic state -- this one situated so close to Tel-Aviv that it will endanger the only Jewish state in the world.

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יום שני, 8 בפברואר 2010

One of Israel's best known Knesset Members (Dr. A. Eldad) speaking in NYC area Thu & Sat nites


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REMINDER:  Portrait of Arieh Eldad

Please fw to your friends in NYC:

Dr. Arieh Eldad, Member of Israel's Knesset will be speaking  twice in New York City this weekend

O   Former Chief Medical officer of the Israel Defence Forces

O   Former Director of Plastic Surgery at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem

O   Member of Knesset since 2003

O   Member, Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee

O   Co-chair, Knesset's new Land of Israel Forum uniting representatives of 7 different Israeli political parties  

 

* ISRAEL'S SURVIVAL STRATEGIES: Thursday, Feb. 11, 7:30 P.M., West Side Institutional Synagogue, 120 West 76th Street, between Columbus & Amsterdam Aves., NYC. 212-828-2424 or  afsi@rcn.com for particulars. Admission free. Light refreshments.

 

* ISRAEL FACES THE WORLD'S CHALLENGES. Saturday evening, Feb. 13, 8 PM, Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills, 70-11 150th Street, between Jewel Avenue and 70th Road.

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יום חמישי, 4 בפברואר 2010

Nobel Laureate Prof. Aumann's insights on Israeli policies

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Nobel Laureate Prof. Aumann's insights on Israeli policies

You can bring the Aumann interview to the attention of Prime Minister Netayahu by forwarding, or writing to: bnetanyahu@knesset.gov.il

 

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יום ראשון, 13 בדצמבר 2009

Fw: Building Freeze - Message from an Israeli Mayor

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From: Saul Goldman

Dear Friends,
Please read the letter below from Ron Nachman, the mayor of Ariel a so-called "illegal settlement".  Throughout history various agencies from the Church to the German Government de-legitimized and dis-enfranchised Jews. Today the movement to invalidate our identity and claims to our own land are being led by Barak Obama. Please resist such an effort by writing and calling your legislators and by showing your support for cities like Ariel. I do not believe that the United States is represented by Obama's policies. Our country was forged out of a Biblical vision of liberty and justice.  In the words of the colonial preacher, Amiel Abbott, we are the American Israel. Do not let America fall to a corrupting ideology that would alienate Americans from Israelis because some in Washington confuse the peace of justice with the peace of surrender and accomodation. 
Saul Goldman (Rabbi)
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Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 12:05 AM
Subject: Building Freeze - Message from the Mayor

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Message from Mayor Ron Nachman
The Building Freeze
December 10, 2009
Dear Rabbi Saul,

On Friday afternoon at 3:00pm, just one hour before Shabbat, I received a call from an Israeli Defense Forces officer. He came to bring me the building freeze orders.

What had been presented as a government statement, to be implemented at a reasonable pace and with sufficient warning, was all of a sudden propelled into immediate and heavy handed motion.
 
Young families, who took out mortgages to buy homes that were under construction will no longer be able to afford their payments, now that the entry date to their new homes has been pushed off by 10 months.
 
The Netzarim community, which resides in Ariel since the 2005 Disengagement from Gush Katif, has finally received the necessary licenses and permits to begin building a neighborhood of 100 homes in Ariel. The building freeze stops them in their tracks, leaving them in their trailers and shipping containers for yet another 10 months. 
 
Businesses that chose to invest in the region and build their factories in Ariel's Industrial Zone are set back 10 months, paralyzing their marketing programs and threatening them with economic collapse.
 
Unfortunately, the aggressive implementation of the freeze has grossly oversimplified a complex issue. Even the environment is at risk, with concerns that Ariel's connection to the Dan Region Wastewater Treatment Plant may be postponed, or that its budget may be routed elsewhere for lack of progress on the long awaited project.
  
Prime Minister Netanyahu has succumbed to extreme and relentless pressure from the Obama administration and from Europe. I met with him last week, along with other representatives from Samaria and Judea. He explained that the 10 month building freeze throughout Judea and Samaria is a gesture to the international community, indicating that Israel is willing to take practical steps towards a so-called "peace" arrangement. Though he has not personally changed his belief system, he has initiated an unbearable situation with far reaching implications.
 
The City of Ariel, along with 14 other cities and regional councils, has issued a claim against the government's recent actions. The Supreme Court responded that it will address the case in the coming days.
 
We have been frozen in the past, but we have always persevered.
In 1980 Prime Minister begin froze us for 3 months, but that didn't stop us.
In 1992 Prime Minister Rabin froze us for 4 years. There have been many long term affects to that policy, but Ariel remains an undeniable reality.
 
Notwithstanding our strength, we need to understand the threatening nature of this building freeze. It means that we can't absorb new immigrants, because we can't build new homes. It means that we can't attract young couples to Ariel, resulting in kindergartens closing and schools shrinking. It means that people don't know what to expect from day to day, or what their community will look like a year from now.  
 
No less harmful than the freeze are the government's budget cutbacks. Funding that went to Ariel as a national developmental priority has been discontinued. The repercussions are felt in the city's Department of Education, Social Services, Youth Department and in private households. Families who receive a 90% discount on childcare and nursery school are now required to pay 100% of the required tuition. No grants are given for young families to purchase homes in Ariel. No incentives are given to educators to come and teach in Ariel.    
 
Peace will not emerge from this building freeze, just as no good has emerged from the previous so-called peace initiatives, beginning with the 1993 Oslo Accords.  This building freeze is yet another Israeli gesture towards an unwilling group of Palestinians. In the meantime, it causes unnecessary hardships to the people of Samaria and Judea, and it serves to delegitimize future attempts at creating some form of peace in the eyes of the Israeli people.
 
What will emerge is a strong Ariel. Without a strong Samaria the State of Israel cannot survive. Without a strong Ariel there would be no Samaria. The geo-political situation in Israel continues to become increasingly more obvious to Israelis and even to the Western World. The City of Ariel will continue to provide jobs for our Arab neighbors. We will continue to provide them with water and electricity. We will continue to contribute to a meaningful and lasting peace in the region. After all is said and done it is our commitment to progress and to peace that will prevail.   
 
Sincerely,
Ron Nachman
Mayor of Ariel
 
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יום שבת, 14 בנובמבר 2009

Fw: Action Alert - Please congratulate Prime Minister Netanyahu on his speech.


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Dear friends of Israel,
 
Please consider clicking below to write to US and Israel leaders, but before you go on, "scoop up" the following paragraph with your mouse, and consider pasting it into the recommended letter below. It provides balance that is very important for Israel's Prime Minister to have, and can go right after the first paragraph of the recommended letter below:
 
PARAGRAPH TO ADD TO THE LETTER BELOW:
    Mr. Netanyahu, Your speech contained some sections I would not expect an Israeli Prime Minister to endorse or utter. First, I do not think that it is wise for you to stand before us endorsing  "two states for two people" nor do Israeli polls as a whole support the assertion that this is a majority view in Israel; the Palestinian Arabs, after all, do have a viable state esablished especially for them in Jordan last century, whereas Israel, the only state possessed by the Jewish people, will no longer be viable if a new Arab state is set up just a bike-ride away from Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv and Ben-Gurion airport. Firm opposition to a Palestinian state was therefore a hallmark of both of Israel's famous Nobel Peace laureates Menachem Begin and Yizhak Rabin, and is expected from you as well. Furthermore, it is not wise to rush to sign a peace treaty with the Palestinian Arabs, particularly not until they are mature enough to accept the Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria in a neighborly way -- as Israelis accept their Arab neighbors. Finally, "no Israeli government has been so willing to restrain settlement activity" is an offensive statement  accurately describing an extremely offensive policy. All Israelis have the right to build homes, schools, health clinics, farms and industries.
 
----- Original Message -----
From: UCI
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 5:09 AM
Subject: Action Alert - Please congratulate Prime Minister Netanyahu on his speech.

Unity Coalition for Israel

netanyahuThis Urgent Action Alert congratulates Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on his brilliant speech this November 9th, 2009. We hope it will encourage him to stand strong for Israel's sovereignty and security.

A video of his speech, delivered at the Jewish Federation General Assembly meeting can be seen here - 30 minutes.

The transcript is also available here.

A sample letter is shown below. You can send it "as is" or modify it as you would like. Click here to send now. Copies will be sent to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton and select Members of the Knesset and the Israeli Consulates in the US and in Israel.

The letter you will send to Prime Minister Netanyahu reads as follows:


Dear Prime Minister Netanyahu,

I have been deeply inspired by your November 9 speech before the Jewish Federation General Assembly. I commend you for the positive message about Israel you have brought to the entire world.

Not only did you mention Israel's past achievements and commitment to the future in all fields of scientific, religious and humanitarian endeavors, but you clearly articulated the geopolitical and other necessary security measures that Israel needs to survive. And you outlined the stark contrast in approach between Israel and that of her enemies in pursuing a peaceful Middle East. You described the type of life that could emerge if Israel had a partner, committed to peace, with whom to negotiate.

As you stated in your speech, "any peace agreement we sign today must include ironclad security measures that will protect the State of Israel." This is particularly critical given the recent Israeli capture of Iran's shipments to Hezbollah on the Francop freighter, filled with 500 tons of Iranian arms, as well as the Iran-supplied Hamas rockets that can reach 37 miles, potentially destroying Tel Aviv.

I am very disappointed that one day following your fine speech, William J. Burns (Under Secretary for Political Affairs - a top US State Department official), said that the goal of the US in it's Middle East negotiations is to pressure Israel to expel Jews from Judea and Samaria in order to "end the 'occupation' that began in 1967!"

He went on to further indict Israel: "Our goal in the region is clear, two states living side by side in peace... an independent Palestinian state with contiguous territory that ends the 'occupation' that began in 1967, that ends the daily humiliations of Palestinians under 'occupation,' and that realizes the full and remarkable potential of the Palestinian people."

Clearly, with this biased message, the US State Department is not serving as an "honest broker." The Under Secretary's remarks came barely 24 hours after you met at the White House with President Obama for talks grudgingly scheduled for you.

Prime Minister Netanyahu, I feel that our US government, including our President and our State Department, should reinforce your peaceful message by providing a neutral viewpoint in their Middle East policy. They must understand that Israel cannot risk another Gaza-Hamas terrorist takeover within their borders as a result of new negotiations.

I congratulate you on your masterful presentation. Your overview will help to encourage and galvanize millions of pro-Israel American Christians and Jews who stand staunchly with Israel and with you.

We know that Israel, under your vigil, will continue her mission to serve as a "light unto the nations." May G-d give you strength to continue your successful leadership and to bring to fruition the elements you so eloquently expressed on November 9th.

With respect and appreciation,

Esther Levens, CEO and Founder, Unity Coalition for Israel

Co-signed by the following:

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יום חמישי, 5 בנובמבר 2009

Let's thank the New York Mets who have stood up for us


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Dear Friends of Israel,

You have a perfect opportunity to show your support of Israel, support
for the Jewish people, and to thank the New York Mets (sounds strange,
but it's true!) for standing up against intimidation by defamers of
Israel, posing as "civil and human rights" activists.

Left-wing internet activists have whipped up their followers to
barrage the Mets players and leaders with demands that they cancel a
pro-Israel event to be held at Citi Field on November 21st. That
union of haters includes those who actively encourage boycotts of and
divestment from Israel, ardent supporters of Yasir Arafat, and public
figures who claimed Jewish "money" pushed the US into the war in Iraq.

BUT THE METS HAVE STOOD UP TO THOSE THREATS! Let's send them letters
thanking them, let's show that we won't be intimidated and let'sgo to
the event affirming our ties to and support for Hebron, and let's
share this information with everyone we know!

Lets write the Mets---

Thank you for rejecting the request of hate-monger

organizations to cancel the fundraiser for the Jewish Community of Hebron.

By standing with the Hebron Fund you are standing with the Jewish
community at large.

Thank you for stepping up to the plate and hitting a home run for
freedom and liberty!

Mets contact info: (718) 507-8499 fanfeedback@mets.mlb.com

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יום רביעי, 30 בספטמבר 2009

Journalism which Cultivates Hatred of Israel and Israelis

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Journalism which Cultivates Hatred of Israel and Israelis 

 

Hatred -- of any group -- does not drop out of the sky like rain. It is cultivated. Sadly, it has become necessary to ask the JTA (the news agency which supplies most American Jewish newspapers) not to inadvertently cultivate hate -- in particular, not to falsely accuse Israeli settlers of criminal deeds. This is important because unfounded hatred of settlers causes much of the unfounded hatred of Israel.
 
Here's an example letter that you can send (or write your own...):
 
Dear Jewish Telegraph Agency, Your website  http://jta.org/about  states that the JTA strives to be "the definitive, trusted global source of ...current events". But this past year you printed a series of 3 one-sidedly derogatory articles against settlers which does not fit this description.
 
It is my understanding that an Israeli grassroots organization, Mattot Arim www.mattotarim.orghas approached you several times regarding the most distasteful "fact" presented in your series:  "[R]adical settlers ...have ...thrown acid at Israeli soldiers" http://jta.org/news/article/2009/06/24/1005829/behind-the-headlines-radical-jewish-settlers. I understand that Mattot Arim told you they have carefully looked into this matter with settler leaders such as the spokesperson of the Jewish Community of Hebron, where the event allegly occurred, the Shomron Council spokesperson, Women in Green founder Nadia Matar, Gush Katif spokesperson and others and all believe that the allegation you published is not factual, i.e. not a single settler is known to have thrown acid at even a single soldier.  
 
I also understand that you (the JTA) have claimed that an un-named Israel Police spokesperson made this allegation to you and you merely reported it. Could you, the JTA, take responsibility for your story and write to the Israel Police, inform them that the information they gave you has been challenged by concerned readers such as myself and ask them to corroborate their allegation by providing the JTA in writing some elementary details regarding their allegation (copy of the chemical analysis performed if any, who (names, dates) purportedly witnessed these events, were any soldiers purportedly injured and if so where are the medical reports, etc.). I would be pleased to receive a copy of the Israel Police spokesperson's response to you in due course.
 
Or, since we are in Yom Kippur season -- the traditional Jewish apology season -- could you simply publish a correction and apology indicating that (1) your acid story was challenged; (2) you have not found any facts to support it and (3) your acid story is therefore  retracted until further notice. I look forward to hearing from you, sincerely, (NAME)."
 
 
Please email the above (or write your own!) to uheilman@jta.org, to  info@JTA.org, and to Gary Rosenblatt gary@jewishweek.org who is on the JTA's board of directors. If you know anyone  else  on the board, http://jta.org/about/board, please cc them. And please cc us4israel@gmail.com  so that the necessary parliamentary action in Israel can be arranged regarding the partial role of an Israeli Police spokesperson alleged by the JTA. Finally, if you get a response from the JTA, please fw it to us4israel@gmail.com immediately. Thank you very much.
 
Please pass this on, particularly to Jewish leaders and Jewish (or pro-Israel) news media so that the JTA does not, in future, poison attitudes toward Israel and its citizens by careless journalism. Please note: No libel suit can be filed because the JTA article merely accused un-named "settlers" of throwing the acid at the soldiers. The JTA has avoided mentioning the name of any settler hence it cannot be prosecuted. However, the JTA very much cares about its reputation (even more than it cares about a legal proceeding) in the eyes of the public, so please -- contact them, explain that you are not happy, and ask your friends to do likewise. Thanks for helping Israel.

 

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יום רביעי, 5 באוגוסט 2009

Pro-Israel News: Caroline, WIG, Naomi & Lori appeal to US Jewry...


 

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COME JOIN US FOR A

 

Rally for Israel Against Rahm Emanuel

and Obama's efforts to Divide Israel and Jerusalem

 

No 2- States, No Division of Jerusalem , It's been Jewish for 3,000 years. NO Nukes for Iran ; No Freeze on Israeli's cities, No funding of Islamic terrorists via the UN, EU or Obama/Hillary.  Israel has been ours for 5,000 years

When:             August 9, 2009  - Noon to 3:00 P.M.
Where:            Daley Plaza, Downtown Chicago, at the Picasso Statue

 

CAROLINE GLICK (JERUSALEM POST) WILL BE THE HONORED GUEST SPEAKER

 

Caroline B. Glick grew up in Chicago . She made aliyah to Israel in 1991, two weeks after receiving her BA in Political Science from Columbia University . She joined the Israel Defense Forces that summer and served as an officer for five and a half years. Ms Glick is the senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy in Washington , DC and travels several times a year to Washington where she routinely briefs senior administration officials and members of Congress on issues of joint Israeli-American concern. Ms. Glick's writings, which have also been published in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Sun Times, the Washington Times, the Journal of International Security Affairs, Commentary, and other publications, focus on the strategic and political issues challenging the Israel and the United States. She is Israel bureau chief for Pajamas Media Television website where she broadcasts weekly commentary on Israel and the Middle East . Ms. Glick has appeared on MSNBC, FOX News, Sky News, Christian Broadcast Network, Israel Television channels 1, 2, 3 and 10. She is a frequent guest on talk radio shows in the US , Britain , Australia and Israel . She blogs at her website www.carolineglickcom.


Bob Kunst - President, Shalom International

305-864-5110 - www.defendjerusalem.net


 
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 3:50 PM

From Naomi Ragen: Our ardent Zionist friend, Lori Lowenthal Marcus, President of Philadelphia's ZOA, has been instrumental in starting a new organization to combat the pernicious influence of the far Left anti-Israel 'J Street.'. Her group is called 'Z (for Zionist) Street.' Expect the full barrage of Counter attack from the enemies of Zion. Let us organize and say we did what we could when others buried their heads in the sand. Background and positions of the organization:

Z street -- By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

There is a chilling scene in the 2002 movie "The Pianist."  In it the train was already chugging along on the path to insanity and destruction, but before all was destroyed.  The family of the protagonist has been moved into the Warsaw Ghetto and the head of the family is sitting at a table, reading a newspaper.  He looks up and says, "I blame the American Jews."

He was talking to me. (...) I resolved then not to be our time's analog of a World War II American Jew -- you know, the ones who read the newspapers, see what is happening to Israel, mutter "tsk, tsk" and turn the page. (...)

Z STREET is based on these ironclad positions:

The right of the Jewish people to a state, and the right of Jews to live freely anywhere, including inhaling oxygen in areas the world insists are reserved for Arab Palestinians; (...) Categorical rejection of agreements with, or concessions to, terrorists (or their supporters) who are dedicated to Israel's destruction.

Unlike other organizations that claim to be pro-Israel, Z STREET will not pander to politicians who invite us to their offices and pay attention to our pocketbooks but ignore our positions.  (...)
 
A fuel source previously untapped has been released: within days of the launch  thousands clamored to our site, asking how to join and how they can help.  Z STREET already includes members from five continents and more than twenty states.News articles are being written about Z STREET from the far right and the center, and we have been viciously denigrated and cartooned from the far left - all of which is gratifying.(...)

A very few World War II Jews acted as catalysts for those who refused to be cowed. (...). This band of warriors, led by Peter Bergson and Ben Hecht, staged marches, rallies and theater events.  They refused to mimic the Jewish leaders who shrank from their moral duty to demand the US government face the irrefutable facts of the plans, and then the execution of those plans, to murder millions.  It would be an honor for Z STREET to be compared to the Bergson Group. 

I sleep better knowing that when my grandchildren ask me what I did to help prevent the destruction of Israel, I can tell them about Z STREET with a clear conscience and a sense of pride.  What will you say?
 
Naomi Ragen asks: Please join Lori and myself in gearing up for this battle:  http://ziostreet.wordpress.com

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יום רביעי, 29 ביולי 2009

Israeli marchers to Obama: Let My People Grow (with photos)

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Israelis protest Obama's settlement freeze policy (photos attached)

At least one thousand Israelis came to Jerusalem earlier this week to protest Obama's settlement freeze policy and the arrival of Obama's Middle East envoy George Mitchell, who arrived in Israel on Sunday. The protestors, which organizers said numbered 2000 and local press put at 1000, stood at Paris Square, near Prime Minister Netanyahu's official residence and then marched to the American Consulate.  "Yes to Israel's independence, no to American dictates" stated Hebrew language signs, with flyers reading: "Israel is a sovereign independent state; we will not allow life in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria to be frozen". Signs in English said simply: Let My People Grow, referring to the almost half a million Israelis who reside in the eastern neighborhoods of Jerusalem, as well as Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank, all of whose rights to build are being challenged by the Obama administration. Marchers rythmically chanted, "Mitchell go home".
 
The demonstration came just days after Independent Media Research and Analysis (IMRA) published a surprising poll by a prestigious polling company, Maagar Mochot, according to which Israelis regard settling Judea and Samaria as almost as important as the heavily subsidized national enterprise of settling the Negev and Galilee. http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=44698. A huge majority (71:20) of Israelis also agreed with a tongue-in-cheek proposition presented by the poll, according to which Palestinians should be made to freeze settlement in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) if Jews were forced to do so. The poll also found that Israelis strongly prefer Palestinian autonomy over Palestinian statehood --  which is the concept strongly promoted by the Obama administration.  
 
Not a few well known rightist Israelis publicly boycotted the protest which they said was too tame. "I'm willing to remind Netanyahu to be Israel's Prime Minister, not Obama's poodle," snapped Batya Medad, a well known Israeli blogger. "America would cut out the pressure if we sent them packing. The American government has enough trouble with a sinking economy, health care issues and Iraq."   Yair Mendelson from Herzlia, one of the cities that would be adversely affected if a rogue Palestinian state is established, told his email list that such demonstrations are "sterile", "useless" and "deceptive". The main issue, said Mendelson, was the "lies alleging illegality of the settlement enterprise", without which "the Americans would be unable to justify intefering in the legal, sovereign affairs of another state". Mendelsohn recommended to his distribution list that rather than demonstrating, Israelis and committed American Jews should work together to "restore liberty" to the national home of the Jewish people.
 
Rightist Knesset Members addressing the crowd included the chairperson of the Knesset's influential Law and Constitution Committe, MK David Rotem, who told the Israeli Bar Association's journal last month that razing of outposts for political reasons constituted discrimination against settlers. "It's time America realized we are surrounded by enemies here," Rotem announced tonight. Another Knesset Member, former Chief Medical Officer of the IDF Prof. Aryeh Eldad, said that half a million Jews were being de-humanized by settlement freeze proposals. The chairman of the National Union, the only rightist party not in Netanyahu's coalition, MK Yaakov Katz, told the crowd that as a Cohen, having a priestly perogative to bless the people according to ancient Jewish tradition, he wishes to bestow a blessing of another child in the upcoming year, on all families in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria. "This is our answer to Obama's cruel proposals," Katz, a disabled military hero who leans heavily on a cane, told the emotional crowd. 
 
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יום חמישי, 9 ביולי 2009

Hamas Barbarians Get Lucky Break from New York Times??

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Hamas Barbarians Get Lucky Break
From New York Times??
 
Distributed TODAY by Palestinian Media Watch: Suicide bomber's children shown re-enactment of mother's death
on Hamas TV kids' show 
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Reminder: Who is the Hamas? (then scroll down to the bottom for some disturbing food for thought)
 
Famous Hamas terror attacks include
First Jerusalem bus 18 suicide bombing  February 25, 1996 Jerusalem Central Bus station 27 DEAD
Second Jerusalem bus 18 suicide bombing March 3, 1996 Jaffa street, Jerusalem 20 DEAD
Dizengoff Center suicide bombing March 4, 1996 Tel Aviv 13 DEAD
Mahane Yehuda Market attack July 30, 1997 Jerusalem main market 16 DEAD
Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing August 9, 2001 Downtown Jerusalem 15 DEAD
Ben Yehuda Street Bombing December 1, 2001 Downtown Jerusalem 11 DEAD
Haifa Bus 16 attack December 2, 2001 Haifa 15 DEAD
Café Moment bombing March 9, 2002 Rehavia, Jerusalem 11 DEAD
Passover massacre March 27, 2002 Park Hotel, Netanya 30 DEAD
Matza restaurant suicide bombing March 31, 2002 Haifa 15 DEAD
Rishon LeZion attack May 7, 2002 Rishon LeZion 16 DEAD
Patt junction bus bombing June 18, 2002 Jerusalem 19 DEAD
Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing March 5, 2003 Carmeliya neighborhood, Haifa 17 DEAD
Jerusalem bus 14A attack June 11, 2003 Downtown Jerusalem 17 DEAD
Jerusalem bus 2 suicide bombing August 19, 2003 Shmuel Hanavi, Jerusalem 23 DEAD
Beersheba attack August 31, 2004 Downtown Beersheba in buses 7 and 12 16 DEAD
 
Disturbing food for thought:
 
A New York Times article by Jerusalem bureau chief and former deputy foreign editor, Ethan Bronner, dated June 6, 2009, sets out "parallels" between "Hamas militants" and "settler extremists". http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/weekinreview/07bronner.html 
 
"There are striking parallels between the hard-core opponents of a peace deal on each side," explains Bronner, giving various examples, such as: "They are generally driven by a belief in a law higher than any created by human legislatures".
 
The New York Times has done a terrible thing.
 
* It is absolutely unacceptable to write about "parallels" between those Israelis (about one-half) who oppose Palestinian state and the Hamas. Doing so is not only a vicious denigration of Israelis -- it is a public relations boon of the first order for one of the worst terror groups in the world.
 
* Yes, any two groups of people have things in common. But when the New York Times chooses to write about what two specific groups have in common -- that gives a message. In this case -- the wrong message. Example: There are "parallels" between Ethan Bronner and Bin-Laden, for example. Both have a last name that begins with B, both are male, and both have issues with Israeli "settlers". But if someone were to write this in a mass-circulated newspaper, even though it is true, it would be an abomination. The only reasonable thing that can be said about Mr. Bronner and arch-terrorist Bin-Laden is that they have nothing significant in common. Similarly, a respectable opinion-setter like the New York Times should be the first to stand up and say that the Israeli "settlers" and "peace deal opponents" have nothing significant in common with the Hamas, because the trademark of Hamas is their concerted effort to slaughter men, women and children in the name of hate. So, the Hamas can be compared to other terror groups, and to organized crime groups. They cannot be compared to hundreds of thousands of Israelis - in many cases, ironically, themselves victims of Hamas.   
 
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