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Report: What Will An Israeli Attack on Iran Look Like?

As speculations that Israel will attack Iran’s nuclear facilities continue, NBC reports what such an attack may look like.

[JewishIndy Editor: If this is what NBC is speculating, we can be assured that it is not going to happen this way, at all! These guys will say anything! Their mouths cannot speak the facts, or the actual truth about anything, after all.]

By Elad Benari
Arutz Sheva
Shevat 10, 5772, 03/02/12 10:59

As the rampant speculations that Israel will soon launch a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities continue, a report on NBC on Friday revealed what such an attack may look like.

The report, the main points of which were presented by Israel’s Channel 10 News, is based on conversations the American network held with current and former officials in Israel and the United States. The report suggests that an attack on Iran will combine air and ground faces but will not include naval forces.

The officials interviewed said that the attack will be led by the Israeli artillery, which will use Jericho 2 missiles that have a range of 2,500 kilometers. The report also says the artillery will be assisted by F-15i aircraft and Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

The officials also told NBC that the operation will include ground units, but that they will not be involved in the actual attacks, focusing instead on marking targets or collecting intelligence.

MK Ben-Eliezer's Daughter Released from Custody

Talia Ben-Eliezer, daughter of MK Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (Labor), released after being arrested at an airport in New York.

By Elad Benari
Arutz Sheva
Shevat 12, 5772, 05/02/12 03:06

Talia Ben-Eliezer, daughter of MK Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (Labor), was released over the weekend after being arrested at an airport in New York late last week for purchasing painkillers without the required documentation.

39-year-old Ben-Eliezer was passing through security at the airport when she was told by the officers that an arrest warrant was issued against her last July for illegal possession of the painkiller Oxycontin.

Ben-Eliezer, an American citizen, was defined in the arrest as a “fugitive.” When she arrived with her mother Dolly Ben-Eliezer at JFK airport to board a Delta Airlines flight to Tel Aviv, the authorities discovered the arrest warrant and took her into custody.

Israeli, Jewish Institutions Warned to be On Guard

Israel has placed its consulates and embassies around the world on high alert, and has warned Jewish institutions to be on guard.

By David Lev
Arutz Sheva
Shevat 11, 5772, 04/02/12 07:17

Israel has placed its consulates and embassies around the world on high alert, and has warned Jewish institutions in North America, South America, and Europe, to be on guard – because Iran may be planning terror attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets. The warnings were distributed last week by Israeli security officials over the past week, said ABC News, which published over the weekend what it said was text from several documents sent from Israeli consulates.

"We predict that the threat on our sites around the world will increase … on both our guarded sites and 'soft' sites," onr letter quoted by ABC News said. Another document said that “In the past few weeks, there has been an escalation in threats against Israeli and Jewish targets around the world. pen source has reported many demonstrations against Israel are expected to be concentrated on Israeli embassies and consulates. Such demonstrations have occurred internationally as well as domestically. These demonstrations could potentially turn violent at local synagogues, restaurants, the Israeli Embassy and other Israeli sites. … Law enforcement should be vigilant when making periodic checks at all Jewish facilities.”

A third document said that “here is a possibility that the forged passports will be used in order to pass as Israeli citizens at the security checks in Israel and around the world. Israeli security authorities may consider an Israeli citizenship as a [criterion] to proceed with a more lenient security check in secure sites such as airports, etc.”

Parashat Beshalach (Exodus 13:17-17:16) - ''Bones''

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Adapted from the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous memory

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“Bones”

For many people, a major aspect of life is looking for the "essence." What does it mean? they ask, what does it really mean? The questioners might be teenagers looking cynically and quizzically at the world around them, students at university, backpackers in the Far East, housewives in the pay queue in a supermarket, businessmen at the end of a day in the office, senior citizens musing on a park bench. The person and the location might differ, but the question is the same: What is the essence of it all? What does it mean?

This week's Torah portion, Beshalach (Exodus 13:17-17:16), provides a valuable clue. The Jewish people are at last leaving Egypt, where they have been enslaved for many years. Now they will be traveling towards the Land of Israel. At this point the Torah tells us, "And Moses took the bones of Joseph along with him."

Joseph, viceroy of Egypt, had requested of his brothers that after his demise, when they would finally leave Egypt, they would take his remains with them for eventual burial in the Holy Land.

This tells us of the centrality of the Land of Israel in the consciousness of the Jewish people. Yet the term used -- "bones of Joseph" -- sounds a little intriguing. In fact, this is the word used by Joseph himself, before he died: "G-d will redeem you and you should take my bones with you" (Genesis 50:25). Why the emphasis on bones? Surely a more elegant expression could have been used, something a little more respectful?

Nothing in the Torah is without reason, and this expression too has a lesson to teach us.

BESHALACH 5772: CLOUDS AND FIRE

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By Rav Zvi Leshem
Shevat 10, 5772 / February 03, 2012

The Tora informs us that as soon as we left Egypt HaShem led us during the day with a pillar of cloud and at night with a pillar of fire. Additionally the pillar of cloud did not depart during the day or the pillar of fire at night from before the people.[1] In the Chassidic work Divrei Zaddikim of Rebbe Dov Berish of Ushpitzin there is an important understanding of this verse for our avoda.[2] The Rebbe's message is a simple but crucial statement of the importance of maintaining emotional balance in our spiritual lives and of the Divine help which is always present to assist us.

Firstly let us look at his symbolic reading of the key words in our verse:

Cloud = a feeling of extreme submissiveness and lowliness. This is based upon a play on words from anan (cloud) to ani (impoverished). In can also mean humility (anava). It may be related as well to a dark and "cloudy" feeling, although the Rebbe does not make this point.

Fire = the excitement that comes from a feeling of spiritual superiority.

Pillar = a powerful manifestation of whatever quality that it is attached to.

Day = the time when a person is feeling great about himself, perhaps even suffering from the illusion that he is a Zaddik.

Night = those times when one feels really bad about oneself, thinking that he has no good qualities at all, and comes close to despair.

Israel: A Priceless Strategic Military Asset for the US

From Mark Langfan
Arutz Sheva
Shevat 10, 5772, 03/02/12 09:21

After Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, in America, there were Hitler enablers like the American hero Charles Lindbergh who publicly championed-- the Big Lie-- that England was a strategic liability to the US, was the cause of world war, and, that England needed to be dumped.

Today, there is a new crop of neo-fascist enablers by the names of Walt and Mearsheimer. These Neo-Lindberghs espouse an analogous -Big Lie- that Israel is a strategic liability to the US, the cause of Middle East wars, and, that Israel needs to be dumped, and there are also neo-isolationists like Ron Paul who says “the US would be better off without Israel.”

I will now graphically show you in 3 simple steps that these “Professors” and these neo-Ostriches are, in fact, Neo-Lindberghs.

Step One, if you would look at the 8½ x11 colored “Katyusha Rocket” graphic of Israel, www.marklangfan.com/Postcard2.html, in any “West Bank” Palestinian “Demilitarized” state, Hamas will smuggle in thousands of chemical-warheaded Katyushas into the “Demilitarized” West Bank which they will launch, en masse, into the Tel Aviv. Imagine, if to placate Muslim “anger,” some US president ceded Brooklyn to al Qaeda, and al Qaeda-Brooklyn had thousands of chemical Katyushas aimed at Manhattan. Manhattan would be toast. And if there is ever a Palestinian State, Hamas with thousands of chemical katyushas backed by Iranian long-range missiles will toast the Tel Aviv coastal corridor holding 5 million Jews.

Holder accused of stonewalling Congress

Democrats fight back at hearing, charging GOP with political motives

By Jerome R. Corsi
WorldNetDaily
February 3, 2012

Attorney General Eric Holder testified today before a contentious House hearing in which Republican members accused him of engaging in a continuing cover-up of Department of Justice activity in the gun-tracing operation known as Fast and Furious.

Republicans on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, led by chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., pointed out that Holder and the Department of Justice were still withholding 93,000 documents. They suggested the committee may need to issue a subpoena to obtain the withheld records if the DOJ refuses to comply voluntarily.

In testimony, Holder admitted that no DOJ employee had been reprimanded or otherwise admonished for their participation in Fast and Furious some 13 months after Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed in Arizona by Mexican drug-war operatives using guns that traced back to the gun operation.

Under Fast and Furious, the Obama administration allowed weapons to be sold to suspected Mexican drug operatives so they could be traced to the higher echelons of the cartels. But the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which ran the operation, lost track of hundreds of weapons and many have been linked to crimes, including the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

Looking Ahead to the Election Coverage of 2048

By Daniel Greenfield
The Sultan Knish Blog
February 1, 2012

Election Coverage 2048 - Al-CNN

As the election of 2048 approaches, the candidates from both parties continue to exchange strong views on the issues that affect the lives of Americans. The Party of Democracy and Justice (Hezb-Al-Dimukratie-Wa'al Adalah) continues to maintain that the election will come down to social justice issues.

“With 34 percent unemployment and the price of goat so far out of range of most working families that they have been forced to switch to chicken, it is time that our opponents stopped dodging the issues and took a serious look at the economic consequences of their policies,” Bashar Mohammed Hussein Al-Hamdani, said during a campaign stop at a HalalBurger in Peoria, Illinois.

However the ruling Freedom and Religion Party (Hezb Al-Hurriyah Wa'al Allah) denounced this as class warfare. Still preoccupied with the ongoing occupation of the Netherlands and Greece, the party has taken criticism for ignoring the economic problems of the United States while being preoccupied with waging foreign wars in the name of Islam.

Labor MK's Daughter Arrested in New York

Talia Ben-Eliezer, daughter of MK Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, arrested at Kennedy Airport while making her way back to Israel.

[JewishIndy Editor: Do you remember when, after 9-11, The U.S. government arrested all those Israeli suspects in Manhatten? They still have everything reversed! With friends like that, who needs enemies!]

By Elad Benari
Arutz Sheva
Shevat 9, 5772, 02/02/12 11:58

Talia Ben-Eliezer, daughter of Labor MK Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, was arrested on Wednesday at the Kennedy Airport in New York as she was making her way back to Israel.

Ben-Eliezer was arrested after airport authorities discovered that an arrest warrant had been issued against her by the State of Florida.

The suspicion is that Talia Ben-Eliezer, who came to the United States for medical treatment, purchased pain relievers without first acquiring the necessary documents.

According to media reports on Thursday evening, the arrest warning against Ben-Eliezer said she is a “fugitive”.

Muslim Firsters and Israel Firsters

By Daniel Greenfield
The Sultan Knish Blog
January 31, 2012

If you were to suggest in a public forum that just possibly Israel's failure to reach a peace agreement with a terrorist organization, run by kleptomaniacs and homicidal maniacs, which still continues to applaud the murder of Israeli children, might possibly be due to the terrorists and not because of Israel, then according to the consensus of the left, you are an Israel Firster.

The paradigm of the Israel Firster only works if you assume that the America First position is to support Islamic terrorists. Even if we were to dismiss the threat of Islamic terrorism to the United States then a position sympathetic to the territorial claims of Islamic terrorists in Israel would still not be the America First position, it would be the Muslims First position.