Pres. Bush Rejects 'Negotiating With Killers,' ...Except Fatah
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Posted by JewishIndy on Friday, May 16 @ 00:29:25 EDT
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by Nissan Ratslav-Katz
Arutz Sheva
11 Iyar 5768, May 16, 2008
(IsraelNN.com) One theme repeated in the speech of US President George Bush at a special Knesset session on Thursday was the rejection of appeasement and negotiations with terrorists. In the same speech, and echoed in Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's speech, Bush praised Israel's concessions for peace and envisioned a Palestinian State.
"No nation should ever be forced to negotiate with killers pledged to its destruction," President Bush told the Knesset, adding that "we stand together against terror and extremism, and we will never let down our guard or lose our resolve." He went on to note that "the founding charter of Hamas calls for the elimination of Israel" and that "the President of Iran dreams of returning the Middle East to the Middle Ages and calls for Israel to be wiped off the map."
Bush then decried negotiations with "terrorists and radicals" as "the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."
On the other hand, in his speech, Prime Minister Olmert said that the visit to Israel by the US President "provided another important opportunity for us to discuss the advancement of a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in accordance with your vision, Mr. President, of two states for two peoples. Your personal involvement, and the commendable efforts of the Secretary of State, Ms. Condoleezza Rice, is vital for the success of the intensive negotiations taking place between us and the Palestinians."
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Parsha of the Week: Be'har
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Posted by JewishIndy on Thursday, May 15 @ 13:52:49 EDT
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Meir Weinstein
Jewish Defense League of Canada
May 15, 2008
This week’s parsha is called 'BeHar'. And the Basic English translation is 'from Mount Sinai' and starts with the following words: "Hashem spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying: Speak to the Children of Israel and say to them: When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall observe a Sabbath rest for Hashem. For six years you may sow your field and for six years you may prune your vineyard and you may gather in its crop, but the seventh year shall be a complete rest for the land, a Sabbath for Hashem… " (Vayikra 25:1-4) The Sages explanation of this verse is as follows, 'On Mount Sinai. What is the connection between Shemittah (when the land of Israel is to rest for one year) and Mount Sinai? This reference teaches that not only the broad outlines, but also the details of all the commandments were given at Sinai--as were those of Shemittah--even the commandments that the Torah recorded many years after the Revelation at Sinai. The otherwise superfluous “on Mount Sinai” is meant to indicate that all the commandments are of Sinaitic origin, as well (Rashi; Sifra)
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How to think about Israeli Democracy*
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Posted by JewishIndy on Thursday, May 15 @ 11:35:15 EDT
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To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing, end them? - Shakespeare, Hamlet (3:1)
Prof. Paul Eidelberg
The Foundation for Constitutional Democracy May 15, 2008
Aristotle, the father of political science, who wrote discourses on some 150 different regimes, distinguishes between five different types of democracy . To simplify matters, the present writer has only two types of democracy in view, one of which was unknown to Aristotle and perhaps to anyone else, for that matter .
Both types have as their basic principles freedom and equality . In one type, both freedom and equality are indiscriminate, which is to say that freedom and equality lack ethical and rational constraints . I call this “normless” democracy—the kind that characterizes post-Christian Europe and threatens to overwhelm the United States with every advance of moral relativism . Aristotle would have called this a democracy verging on anarchy, which is hardly a regime—for Aristotle, a term that signifies a distinctive way of life .
The second type of democracy I call “normative” democracy—some may prefer to call it a “republic”—a type whose principles are discernable in the American Declaration of Independence . This document implicitly derives freedom and equality from ethical monotheism and thus places limitations on freedom and equality . Obviously, Aristotle’s political science does not take account of such a regime . In any event, we need to clarify the use of the word democracy in relation to Israel .
The word is constantly on the lips of Israel ’s politicians, judges, rabbis, academics, journalists, the literati, and ordinary citizens . All boast of Israel as “the only democracy in the Middle East ,” and so people think throughout the world . In fact, Israel ’s reputation as a democracy is precisely what endows its Government with legitimacy and its ruling elites with respectability, especially in America , where Israel ’s classification as a democracy counts most .
What confuses the issue is this . The mentality of a society may be democratic insofar as its people may exalt freedom and equality . Yet, despite universal suffrage and periodic multiparty elections—prerequisites of democracy—the structure of a government may not be democratic . This can happen in a society where those who wield the Legislative and Executive powers of government are legally capable—between elections—of ignoring the abiding beliefs and values of the people with impunity . This is the case of Israel . Still, how are we to understand democracy as it exists in Israel ?
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Two Delusions
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Posted by JewishIndy on Thursday, May 15 @ 11:23:28 EDT
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Delusion: “A persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence, especially as a symptom of psychiatric disorder.”
Prof. Paul Eidelberg
Foundation for Constitutional Democracy
May 15, 2008
Israel ’s government, as well as its rightwing critics, suffer from a delusion . During the past three decades, regardless of which party or party coalition has controlled the government, its ruling elites persist in the futile and fatal policy of “land for peace . ”
Rightwing critics of this policy also suffer from a delusion . For more than thirty years they have been playing on the turf of the enemy—on the territorial issue . Despite all their fine essays, their petitions, their newspaper ads—yes, despite all their patriotic protest demonstrations— Israel ’s government has never deviated from its suicidal policy of territorial retreat . The critics know this, but they remain fixed on the plying ground of this government . As I have written on several occasions, the critics—the groups composing the so-called nationalist camp—fixate on “policy” issues, not on “regime” issues . They fail to see that the policy of “land for peace” has been institutionalized, and that the only way to get this self-destructive policy de-institutionalized is to radically change Israel ’s political and judicial institutions . Instead of forming a united front whose explicit public goal is to change the regime, the non-parliamentary groups that compose the fictitious nationalist camp devote an enormous amount of time and energy, talent and money—a lot of money—persisting in their delusion .
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ISRAEL'S ARMY KNOWS EXACTLY WHICH JEWISH TARGETS ARE NEXT, BUT DOES NOTHING
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Posted by JewishIndy on Wednesday, May 14 @ 23:55:37 EDT
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IDF Intelligence Chief: Ashdod Next on Attack List
Arutz Sheva
10 Iyar 5768, May 15, 2008
(IsraelNN.com) Ashdod, Kiryat Gat and Be'er Sheva are next in line to be the targets of Arab terrorists' rocket attacks, IDF military intelligence chief Major General Amos Yadlin said in an interview with the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz. He made the comments before Wednesday's rocket attack on a shopping area in the port city of Ashkelon, several miles south of Ashdod. "Every community within a 40-kilometer (25-mile) range may come within range of the Hamas rockets," he predicted.
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Obama adviser: Divide Jerusalem
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Posted by JewishIndy on Wednesday, May 14 @ 16:54:23 EDT
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Mideast pointman blasted by Israeli leaders as 'hostile' to Jewish state
JERUSALEM – Jerusalem must be included in any negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, stressed Sen. Barack Obama's Middle East adviser Daniel Kurtzer. "It will be impossible to make progress on serious peace talks without putting the future of Jerusalem on the table," Kurtzer said yesterday at a conference organized by the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute or JPPPI. Kurtzer, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel, has long been recognized by Israeli leaders, including prime ministers, as biased against Israel and is notorious for urging extreme concessions from the Jewish state. He was appointed as a primary Obama adviser on the Middle East earlier this year. During a discussion panel yesterday, Kurtzer reportedly went on to fault the Bush administration for not doing enough to pressure Israel into dividing Jerusalem. In reaction, JPPPI head Yechezkel Dror said Jerusalem must become the cultural center of the Jewish people. Kurtzer said in response that "before we do that, we must first accept a number of facts and the political reality of Arabs who live in East Jerusalem who do not feel part of the city."
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Obama: Israel is a 'constant sore'
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Posted by JewishIndy on Wednesday, May 14 @ 16:50:13 EDT
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Questions whether 'settlements' are in Jewish state's best interest
WorldNetDaily
May 13, 2008
Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama says Israel is a "constant wound" and a "constant sore" that infects "all of our foreign policy." Obama, under fire for attracting praise and support for his presidential run from the terrorist group Hamas, spoke to Atlantic Monthly at length about his views of the Middle East. Asked if he thought Israel represented a drag on America's reputation overseas, Obama said: "No, no, no. But what I think is that this constant wound, that this constant sore, does infect all of our foreign policy. The lack of a resolution to this problem provides an excuse for anti-American militant jihadists to engage in inexcusable actions, and so we have a national-security interest in solving this, and I also believe that Israel has a security interest in solving this because I believe that the status quo is unsustainable. I am absolutely convinced of that, and some of the tensions that might arise between me and some of the more hawkish elements in the Jewish community in the United States might stem from the fact that I’m not going to blindly adhere to whatever the most hawkish position is just because that’s the safest ground politically." "I want to solve the problem, and so my job in being a friend to Israel is partly to hold up a mirror and tell the truth and say if Israel is building settlements without any regard to the effects that this has on the peace process, then we’re going to be stuck in the same status quo that we’ve been stuck in for decades now," he said.
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Myanmar tragedy and 'global warming'
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Posted by JewishIndy on Wednesday, May 14 @ 16:45:27 EDT
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"...If Gore and his global-warming deceivers ever have their way with us, we, too, will have nowhere to flee."
by Joseph Farah
WorldNetDaily
May 14, 2008
Al Gore has made the pronouncement: Tens of thousands were killed by a cyclone in Myanmar because of "global warming." During an interview with National Public Radio's Terry Gross about his new paperback, the appropriately titled "The Assault on Reason," Gore said: "And as we're talking today, Terry, the death count in Myanmar from the cyclone that hit there yesterday has been rising from 15,000 to way on up there to much higher numbers now being speculated. And last year a catastrophic storm from last fall hit Bangladesh. The year before, the strongest cyclone in more than 50 years hit China – and we're seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming." In fact, later counts suggest the death toll in Myanmar may reach 100,000. But those tragic deaths will not be a result of global warming. They will be the result of several other factors under denial by the climate-change zealots:
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IRANI BOMBS HIT 100 IN ASHKELON SHOPPING MALL
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Posted by JewishIndy on Wednesday, May 14 @ 16:37:53 EDT
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Up to 100 injured by Iran-made rocket which wrecks crowded Ashkelon shopping mall
Jihad Islami and Popular Committees claimed the attack with Hamas' blessing. After examining the rocket shrapnel, police commander Uri Barlev confirmed it was a Grad (Katyhusha) military rocket made in Iran.
Of the 100 people injured in Ashkelon’s bustling mall, four people were seriously hurt including a mother and her four-month old baby. Two women suffered moderate injuries and the others of whom many were children were slightly hurt. Four were dug out of the debris.
The Palestinian rocket crashed without warning into the roof of the three-floor building, fired from the former Israel Dugit site in N. Gaza just when President Bush was winding up a conversation with Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert. The attack revived fresh demands for a major operation to put a stop to the daily attacks from the Gaza Strip. Ashkelon is 15 km north of Gaza.
Furious complaints were heard in the streets of Ashkelon over the failure of the siren to sound an alert in time for people to take shelter from the rocket attack. Homeland Command officers explained the decision not to activate the siren by the many recent false alarms that kept the population on edge and the wish not to disturb the Bush visit.
Security minister Avi Dichter, trade and industry minister Eli Yishai decide to skip the gala banquet in the US president’s honor and travel to Ashkelon instead.
Casualties have mounted recently from the daily Palestinian attacks on Israeli communities outside Gaza. Two people were killed in the last week.
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Gaza Region Kibbutz Spokesman Demands Protection From Gov't
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Posted by JewishIndy on Wednesday, May 14 @ 16:32:38 EDT
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by Baruch Gordon
Arutz Sheva
9 Iyar 5768, May 14, 2008
(IsraelNN.com) Dari Barkin, spokesman for the Israeli kibbutzim surrounding Gaza, says that daily life has been very tough for civilians in the last seven years under rocket and mortar fire. Can't see video player? Click here.
When asked what he wants the government to do to protect the Jews in the region, he said that they need more shelters and safe places to run to when attacked. He did not mention a demand for the military to silence the attacks.
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Rocket Hits Shopping Center Medical Clinic in Ashkelon
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Posted by JewishIndy on Wednesday, May 14 @ 16:23:02 EDT
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by Hillel Fendel
Arutz Sheva
9 Iyar 5768, May 14, 2008
(IsraelNN.com) Arab terrorists in Gaza fired two Grad Katyusha missiles at southern Ashkelon late Wednesday afternoon, and one rocket scored a direct hit on a children's medical clinic inside a shopping center. Parts of the building collapsed, trapping four people for a half-hour. Many ambulances rushed to the scene. Israeli suffers facial wounds in Ashkelon rocket attack. 14May08
Flash 90 Medics evacuate wounded Israeli from scene of rocket impact. Ashkelon, 14May08.
Flash 90
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Activists to Defy Bush by Building New Jewish Town in Judea
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Posted by JewishIndy on Wednesday, May 14 @ 00:46:34 EDT
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by Ezra HaLevi
Arutz Sheva9 Iyar 5768, May 14, 2008 (IsraelNN.com) A new Jewish town will be established during US President George W. Bush's visit to Israel, in defiance of US governmental pressure to cease building in Judea and Samaria. The new location, called Shdema, is on the site of a former IDF base located along the road between Jerusalem's southern Har Homa neighborhood and the eastern Gush Etzion towns of Nokdim and Tekoa. The Olmert government, in negotiations with the Fatah-run Palestinian Authority, has agreed to turn the location into an Arab village. The activists seek to instead turn the place into a thriving Jewish community providing contiguity between Jerusalem and the eastern Gush Etzion bloc. "We have invited President George W. Bush and his entourage to join us at the ceremony of the laying of the cornerstone," organizers announced Tuesday evening. “Only an insane government that has no qualms abandoning its citizens to Arab terror can come up with such an outrageous idea as building the enemy new cities in strategic locations, thus endangering the lives of Jews in Jerusalem and Gush Etzion.”
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This Means War
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Posted by JewishIndy on Tuesday, May 13 @ 21:58:25 EDT
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By Ted Belman
ISRAPUNDIT
May 12, 2008
Hezbollah is now in control of Lebanon. What is painfully obvious is that the vacuum created by retreat, is quickly filled by Iran through her proxies. So Israel’s retreat from Gaza enabled the takeover by Hamas. Israel’s retreat from Lebanon enabled the takeover by Hezbollah. Similarly a retreat from Iraq by US forces will enable Iran’s proxy to takeover.
Sheik Yazeeb Khader, a Ramallah-based Hamas political activist and editor, said militant groups across the Middle East are gaining power at the expense of U.S.-backed regimes, just as Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip from forces loyal to U.S.-backed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. “What happened in Gaza in 2007 is an achievement; now it is happening in 2008 in Lebanon. It’s going to happen in 2009 in Jordan and it’s going to happen in 2010 in Egypt,”
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Pres. Bush: Olmert is Honest and Abbas is a True Peace Partner
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Posted by JewishIndy on Tuesday, May 13 @ 12:55:38 EDT
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by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
Arutz Sheva
8 Iyar 5768, May 13, 2008
(IsraelNN.com) United States President George W. Bush called Prime Minister Ehud Olmert an honest man and labeled Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas as an authentic peace partner. He also said a Palestinian state is a necessity for Israel's existence. Bush was speaking with Israeli reporters in Washington on Monday, ahead of his trip to the Middle East May 13 through May 18.
The US President is coming to Israel Wednesday morning. He also will visit Saudi Arabia and Egypt, ending his tour at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Sharm Al-Sheikh, in the Sinai Peninsula. Twelve heads of state will be attending the WEF, along with dozens of ministers and other economic leaders.
In his comments to the Israeli press, Bush said Prime Minister Olmert is "an honest guy" who is easy to talk to. He avoided questions about Olmert's alleged involvement in a campaign financing scandal, which was revealed to the public last week. Bush characterized his own relationship with Olmert as "excellent."
The president expressed confidence in PA Chairman Abbas as well, describing him as a partner for peace. When asked if he believed Abbas would be willing to give up the Arab demand for the "right of return" to Israel of millions of foreign Arabs, Bush replied that it would depend on how badly Abbas wanted a sovereign state.
President Bush called the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state "an important notion for Israel's very existence," adding that he believes there is now "a chance to get something defined."
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Empty Rhetoric of Deceitful Candidates
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Posted by JewishIndy on Tuesday, May 13 @ 09:26:17 EDT
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by Steven Shamrak
May 13, 2008
White House candidates proclaimed their ties to Israel and vowed to stand by the Jewish state as the key US ally celebrated its 60th anniversary. Obama: "What I love about Israel is it is such a robust democracy and... So it is critical that we send a message around the world, we will stand with Israel, we want them around not just for 60 years..." Hillary Clinton: "In every generation, Israel faces serious challenges to its security and threats to its existence… united by shared values and strong bonds of friendship... and strengthen these bonds, so that the State of Israel will continue to grow, from generation to generation, in security and peace."
McCain: "Let no one doubt that, while the challenges will continue, Israel will survive and it will flourish. There will always be an Israel, and there will always be a vital bond between our two peoples."
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Iran-backed Hizballah offensive closes in on Israeli border
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Posted by JewishIndy on Tuesday, May 13 @ 09:14:29 EDT
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DEBKAfile Exclusive
May 10, 2008
DEBKAfile’s military sources report: Hizballah’s advance on two key Lebanese locations Saturday, May 10 had immediate effect on the strategic balance between the Iran-backed Shiite group and Israel. Sidon in the south, Lebanon’s second largest city, which provides Hizballah with control of a continuous coastal strip from its southern Beirut district all the way to Tyre.
The second point is on the northern slopes of the Hermon range. After Hizballah seizes control of this enclave and the Syrian 10th and 14th armored divisions step over the border into Lebanon, the two forces can join to form a strong military line opposite Israel near the Litani River.
Our military sources report that the vanguard of the 10th Division has already moved across to the Lebanese side of the border.
Hizballah’s victory in taking over western and central Beirut therefore has had the effect of adding another link to the pro-Iranian chain encircling Israel. In many ways it is a more damaging setback for Israel’s national security than the Palestinian Hamas' seizure of the Gaza Strip
Yet Israel’s prime minister, defense minister and foreign minister are all too busy with the political fallout of the bribery case against Ehud Olmert to lift a finger to arrest Lebanon’s decline to a Tehran satellite before it is too late - any more than Hamas was stopped from developing into a major military menace.
Equally inert are the two presidents who are pledged to support the Siniora regime, George W. Bush and Nicolas Sarkozy. The United Nations, which maintains 15,000 armed peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, backed by marine forces off the shores of Beirut, has no thought of stopping the Iranian-Syrian-backed terrorist militia from capturing the country.
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Gaza missile against Moshav Yesha kills Shuli Katz, 70, from Kibbutz Gvar-Am
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Posted by JewishIndy on Tuesday, May 13 @ 09:10:20 EDT
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DEBKAfile
May 12, 2008, 12:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
Shuli Katz, 70, mother of four, grandmother of five, from Kibbutz Gvar-Am, was on a family visit to Moshav Yesha south of Ofakim. She was killed instantly as she stepped out of a car by an exploding Qassam missile fired from Gaza. Jihad Islami claimed the second Israeli fatality of Palestinian attacks in four days.
Jimmy Kedoshim from Kibbutz Kfar Azza died after being struck by a Palestinian mortar last Friday, May 9. Over the weekend, more than 22 missiles were fired from Gaza. Early Monday, May 12, two Katyusha rockets from Gaza exploded in southern Ashkelon. One just missed a school, leaving several children in shock and damaging buildings. An alert sent town-dwellers diving for shelter.
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A LIGHT UNTO THE NATIONS
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Posted by JewishIndy on Tuesday, May 13 @ 08:12:56 EDT
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By Rabbi Adam Winston
May 5, 2008
Over the years it has been heart-wrenching to watch our fellow Jews react with pain, hurt, and a sense betrayal, when the nations of the world treat Israel and The Jewish People unfairly.
We ask "How could they say/do/think such a thing?" "Can’t they see that we – according to any standard of even minimal objectivity – are "the good guys". That we are trying?"
So we "pull our hair out" in frustration. How can the world be so blind? Can’t they see? Can’t they hear?
The problem is that they, in fact, see and hear very well. My dear friends, we Jews have in fact done them a terrible disservice over the years. We have brought them the limitations of a G-d given morality. Hitler understood the problem quite well. As Hitler said:
"Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish, like circumcision."(1)
"Providence has ordained that I should be the greatest liberator of humanity. I am freeing men from the restraints of an intelligence that has taken charge: from the dirty and degraded self-mortifications called conscience and morality, and from the demands of a freedom and personal independence, which only a few can bear" (2)
"Against the "so-called" Ten Commandments, against them we are fighting" (3)
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Gush Katif Expellees Sue PM's Office Wednesday
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Posted by JewishIndy on Tuesday, May 13 @ 07:58:57 EDT
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Arutz Sheva
8 Iyar 5768, May 13, 2008
(IsraelNN.com) Former residents of the Jewish communities in Gaza, evicted from their homes in 2005, will appear in court Wednesday in a lawsuit they filed against the Director of the Prime Minister's Office.
The lawsuit is due to broken promises that their communities would be reestablished in the Lachish region. Residents say that the latest outrage is the arbitrary decision to raise the cost of the plots by hundreds of thousands of shekels per family.
The lawsuit, to be heard by the Supreme Court, targets the Prime Minister's Office and the Disengagement Authority.
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How Bush lost the war
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Posted by JewishIndy on Sunday, May 11 @ 08:33:04 EDT
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by Joseph Farah
WorldNetDaily
May 10, 2008
President Bush faced one of the greatest challenges of any leader in American history – and came up short. Not since 1812 had the mainland of the U.S. been attacked by a foreign enemy – and never before Sept. 11, 2001, were so many civilians killed in such an attack. Nearly seven years later, despite invasions of two foreign countries, the mastermind of the attack has not been caught or killed. Half of America doesn't even remember why we're engaged in those seemingly endless wars. And Americans have still not been enlisted in what the president himself has characterized as one of the gravest threats to the nation's security it has ever faced. In fact, the enemy has not even been defined. Well, that's not quite true. It has been defined, redefined, misnamed, changed, mischaracterized, misunderstood and mislabeled. First, the enemy was "terrorism." Then those we battled were "cowards." Then Bush got closer by referring to "Islamo-fascists." Later, his State Department prohibited the use of that term as well as "jihadists."
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“Does Olmert Have a Mental Disorder?”*
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Posted by JewishIndy on Sunday, May 11 @ 08:18:24 EDT
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*Transcript of The Eidelberg Report May 12, 2008 on Israel National Radio. Listen to the interview
Prof. Paul Eidelberg
Foundation for Constitutional Democracy
Part I . Schizophrenia
Like his Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and his Education Minister Yuli Tamir, Ehud Olmert is tainted by multiculturalism, hence by cultural relativism . Hence, he cannot wholeheartedly believe in the justice of Israel ’s cause vis-à-vis the Palestinians—and this is why he is ready to surrender even part of Jerusalem . Moreover, although all human beings are susceptible to egoism, relativism conduces to self-aggrandizement, moral indifference, and even schizophrenia .
Schizophrenia is deemed the core concept of modern psychiatry . Fortunately, schizophrenia is not necessarily an all-encompassing illness that sets those affected apart from their fellow men . A World Health Organization study concludes: “schizophrenics, for all their vulnerabilities, are in the full sense responsive social beings like the rest of us . ”
Various researchers distinguish between positive- and negative-symptom schizophrenia . The positive includes hallucinations and delusions . The negative includes escapism, apathy, self-effacement, anxiety, stereotypic behaviors, and impairment of volition . These negative symptoms obviously exist on a continuum with normal behavior . Consider Ehud Olmert .
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Jews can’t vote for Obama and be pro-Israel at the same time
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Posted by JewishIndy on Saturday, May 10 @ 21:35:00 EDT
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By Ted Belman
ISRAPUNDITMay 9, 2008
In the poll of Jewish voters (conducted April 1-30), it showed Obama getting 61% of the Jewish vote against John McCain (32%). Yet in the same poll Hillary Clinton beat Obama among Jewish voters 62% - 38%. So obviously Jews are lifelong democrats who would vote for Obama, whom they rejected in the primaries, rather than vote for McCain. Thus, for them, party loyalty is preferable to Israel loyalty.
Recently I posted two articles by Yarom Ettinger, former Israeli Ambassador to the US, The Prospects of a Palestinian State and National Interests of the United States and It’s American interests, stupid, both of which clearly demonstrate that keeping Israel strong is to keep America strong. Thus to be pro-Israel is to be pro-America. Now some would argue that most Jewish Americans are not one issue voters but they must realize that to favour a basket of issues or the Democratic Party above favouring Israel, makes them less pro-Israel and thus less pro-American. This I am sure will get howls of protest from the J-Street Lobby which represents progressive Jewry, who would have you believe that by forcing Israel to capitulate, they are acting in the best interests of Israel and the US. I hope you don’t buy their thinking. These articles fly in the face of such thinking. Consider them carefully it is important.
While most Jews favour Obama in a run off with McCain because he is a Democrat, they ignore how pro-Palestinian and anti-American he is.
Let me list the ways:
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NEW YORK TIMES TRASHES ISRAEL’S 60TH MEMORIAL & BIRTHDAY
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Posted by JewishIndy on Friday, May 09 @ 07:18:15 EDT
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by Emanuel A. Winston
Middle East Analyst & Commentator
May 8, 2008
Once again the New York Times, owned by the German Jewish Sulzbergers show their bias toward the Jewish State of Israel. Wednesday, May 7th was Israel’s Yom HaZikaron (Commemorating the deaths of 22,437 fallen soldiers and 1,634 men, women and children who were victims of Arab Muslim Terror - most of them, paradoxically, since the 1993 Olso Accords). The NYT (and the International Herald Tribune) published an article by Ethan Bronner on that day - just before Israel’s 60th Birthday. Bronner’s theme was the "tragedy" that the Muslim Arabs who live in Israel did not feel welcome. Bronner didn’t mention that they had a higher standard of living, greater freedoms, superior education and better health care than their compatriots in Arab Muslim countries.
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ISRAEL’S INDEPENDENCE DAY 2008
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Posted by JewishIndy on Friday, May 09 @ 07:12:30 EDT
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by Ruth Matar
Women In green
May 8, 2008
Do we actually have a reason to celebrate Israel’s Independence Day this year? Should this day more accurately be called Israel’s Dependence Day?
Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the rest of the current political leadership are actively betraying the People and the Land of Israel by negotiating with the Arab enemy about the abandonment of Israel’s biblical heartland.
Last Monday, May 5, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, according to his spokesmen, made major progress in negotiations over the borders of a new Arab state to be carved out of biblical Judea and Samaria. The creation of such a state would necessitate the evacuation of 60,000 Jews from Judea and Samaria!
The responsibility for this tragic state of affairs is not only that of the Olmert government, but the responsibility of American President George W. Bush as well, who called for the creation of a Palestinian state in his June 25, 2002 policy speech.
I found an excellent article by Herbert Zweibon in the May 2008 issue of the magazine OUTPOST, entitled “Bush’s Legacy”.
“In his second term, President Bush has shifted gears from engaging in the war on terror. Secretary of State Rice has formulated the new target: ‘There could be no greater legacy for America than to help to bring into being a Palestinian state for a people who have suffered too long…and who have so much to give to the international community and to all of us’ ”.
[RM: I shudder to think what such a terrorist state would mean for Israel’s safety or even American interests.]
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PM Harper of Canada stands up for Israel, unequivocally.
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Posted by JewishIndy on Friday, May 09 @ 07:05:07 EDT
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By Michael Diamond
ISRAPUNDIT
May 8, 2008
PM Harper appeared on CFRB today in advance of his appearance tonight at the Israel@60 event at the Ricoh Centre.
Key Points Made
- enemies of Israel are enemies of Canada
- Canada has to take a principled position on the Middle East, and not bow to political pressure from voting demographics
- Israel is a beacon in the Middle East
- Canada supports a democratic Palestinian state- but that can only happen when Israel’s enemies allow Israel to live in peace.
- it is not a question of demographics- it is a question of what is right and wrong
- in some circles, anti-Israeli sentiment is a thinly disguised for antisemitism which is unacceptable
- those who hate and wish to destroy the Jewish people will destroy the rest of us today- it was true in WW2, it is true today
- this government is not prepared to cater to that kind of sentiment
- Canada and Israel will remain steadfast friends
- Israel’s existence as a nation of freedom and democracy in the Middle East is consistent with Canada’s short and long term interests
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THE LATEST OLMERT CORRUPTION COVERUP
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Posted by JewishIndy on Thursday, May 08 @ 00:21:41 EDT
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by Emanuel A. Winston
Middle East Analyst & Commentator
May 7, 2008
We all know about the crooked Winograd scheme to preserve Ehud Olmert as Prime Minister so he could continue the Oslo-Gaza Doctrine of abandoning Jewish Land, security areas (like the Golan Heights - along with Israel’s major water resource of Judea and Samaria). This was a "judicial plot", admitted to on February 6, 2008 by Professor Yehezkel Dror, member of the Winograd Lebanon war probe committee, who said that political considerations to prevent "endangering" the peace process biased the Final Winograd Report of January 2008. No one was looking for the next judicial plot - which is now on its way to completion. Most know about the delayed investigations of Olmert on four or more other scandals. Here the collaborators were the Police and the Attorney General, Mani Mazuz. This latest scandal of an Olmert cover-up is as follows:
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Israel: Iran could have nukes by '09
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Posted by JewishIndy on Wednesday, May 07 @ 14:38:00 EDT
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The Jerusalem Post
May 6, 2008
With Iran racing forward with its nuclear program, Israel now believes the Islamic Republic will master centrifuge technology and be able to begin enriching uranium on a military scale this year, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
The new assessment moves up Israel's forecasts on Teheran's nuclear program by almost a full year - from 2009 to the end of 2008. According to the new timeline, Iran could have a nuclear weapon by the middle of next year. Iran, a senior defense official said on Tuesday, had encountered numerous technical obstacles on its way to enriching uranium but was now on track to master the technology needed to enrich uranium within six months. Israel is also concerned that Teheran is developing a cruise missile that can evade interception by the Arrow, the IDF's anti-ballistic missile defense system. Iran is suspected of having smuggled Ukrainian X-55 cruise missiles and using them as models for an independent, domestic project. A cruise missile, which flies at low altitudes to dodge radar detection and interception, could be used to carry a nuclear warhead.
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IS THE US LEADING A WAR ON TERROR?
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Posted by JewishIndy on Wednesday, May 07 @ 14:32:25 EDT
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by Rob Muchnick
May 6, 2008
US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice last week harshly criticized former US President Jimmy Carter for his attempt to bring the Hamas terror group into the mainstream by insisting that Israel must negotiate with them.
Mr. Carter clearly deserved the criticism, but Ms. Rice is no less deserving of criticism for pushing Israel to make ever more suicidal concessions to the allegedly moderate PA led by Mahmoud Abbas. Since assuming power from his mentor Yasser Arafat, terror organizations affiliated to Abbas' PLO umbrella organization have committed more attacks against Israel than Hamas and all the other “palestinian” terror groups combined. The "moderate" Mr. Abbas' own "Presidential" Guards even attempted an assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert late last year, and Mr. Abbas recently publicly reinforced his policy of only recognizing the State of Israel if it has an Arab majority population.
The only difference between Hamas and the PLO/PA is that Abbas says a few meaningless words about "peace" in English whereas Hamas does not engage in this charade.
Israeli Generals are on record in the past few days saying that the removal of checkpoints - the ones that Rice is demanding be removed - will certainly lead to Jewish deaths at the hands of Arab terrorists. Disgracefully, the Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and his equally pathetic colleague, the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, have agreed to remove these checkpoints in order to curry some temporary favor with the ever more Arabist-leaning US government led by the lame-duck President George Bush and by Secretary Rice. Additionally, the Israeli government gladly further pacified Rice and Bush this week by destroying the Chazon David synagogue in Hebron . The destruction of this synagogue is particularly symbolic, as it was named after two Jews (David Cohen and Chezi Mualem) who were murdered by Arab terrorists in 2001.
Jewish blood is not as cheap as Olmert, Barak, Rice and Bush think it is. Those that risk Jewish lives in order to hand the "good terrorist" Mahmoud Abbas a terror state of his own in Biblically-Jewish Judea and Samaria should not be leading the State of Israel or the United States.
The consequences for Israel of continuing to have leaders who are so willing to give up its sovereignty will be cataclysmic.
The consequences for America of continuing to have leaders who refuse to differentiate between good and evil - while theoretically fighting a "war on terror" - are no less potentially cataclysmic.
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GOING TO ISRAEL THIS YEAR? DON'T MISS THESE HISTORIC SITES!
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Posted by JewishIndy on Wednesday, May 07 @ 10:06:59 EDT
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by Moshe Phillips
Philadelphia Chapter of Americans For a Safe Israel – AFSI
May 7, 2008
Visiting Israel to mark her 60th Anniversary? Been to Israel? Been there and done that? Beyond the Western Wall, beyond the Diaspora Museum and the Knesset and beyond Masada there are places to visit that will help the untold history of Zionism come alive.
The leftist establishment controlling Israel during its formative years from 1948 to 1977 did much to prevent, through official government mechanisms, the political opposition’s attempt to write its own history and thereby protect and preserve its story. Even after Menachem Begin's election to prime minister in 1977 these entrenched bureaucrats of Israel’s elite left were allowed to maintain control over the vast majority of the nation's cultural and academic institutions.
Below is a list of eight places to visit in Israel that will help you to develop a more accurate picture of the struggle to build the Jewish State. The sightseeing adventure Israel’s Ministry of Tourism hopes you don’t take.
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Greed behind food price rises: development bank head
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Posted by JewishIndy on Wednesday, May 07 @ 09:48:09 EDT
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By Ingrid Melander
REUTERSMay 6, 2008 BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The food price crisis is caused largely by greed and speculation rather than food shortages, the head of Southern Africa's development bank said on Tuesday.
Spiraling food costs -- called a "silent tsunami" by the World Food Program -- have ignited fury and a rash of protests from Haiti to Somalia to Bangladesh. Exporting countries have curbed shipments to ensure domestic supplies and tame inflation.
"These increases in food prices are not the consequence of food shortages, it's the consequence of human greed that is putting at risk the lives of millions of men, women and children," Jay Naidoo told Reuters.
"There are companies that are making super profits on this issue."
The root causes of the more than 40 percent rise in food prices in the last year are disputed. Experts point to strong demand from Asian emerging markets, adverse weather in some producer countries and increased use of biofuels.
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| · | Reports: Livni Getting Set to Replace Olmert |
| Tuesday, May 06 | | · | SEARCHING FOR THE HISTORCIAL MUHAMMAD |
| · | WHY IS ISRAEL LIKE CAPONE’S CHICAGO? |
| · | SAUDI ARABIA - ENEMY #1 |
| · | Real Obama and Disingenuous Jews |
| Sunday, May 04 | | · | AP explains why Israel shouldn’t exist |
| Friday, May 02 | | · | THE OIL SWINDLE NEVER STOPPED |
| Thursday, May 01 | | · | Haaretz in 1932: Hitler makes better impression than expected |
| · | For president: None of the above |
| Wednesday, April 30 | | · | Concentration Camps being built for U.S citizens |
| · | I’m Not Saying It Is Going To Happen. But It Could. |
| · | Constitution Party candidate says U.S. sovereignty at risk |
| Tuesday, April 29 | | · | CONSPIRACY TO LET IRAN GO NUCLEAR |
| · | Gov't Destroys Swimming Pool in Small Samarian Town |
| · | WHO IS CRIPPLING THE CIA? |
| · | 'U.S. partner' to affirm 'armed struggle' against Israel |
| · | QUEEN OF DARKNESS |
| · | Israel's traditional elites |
| · | Hardball with Washington |
| · | Food-buying panic hits Canadian stores |
| Monday, April 28 | | · | Cherished Books, Hopes and… |
| · | Gloom of the Next War |
| · | Rice's Prices Crisis |
| · | Defense Minister Waffles on Security Checkpoints |
| · | Abbas's PA Sentences Man to Death for Fighting Terrorism |
| · | As Hamas negotiates truce, 'peace partner' attacks Israel |
| Sunday, April 27 | | · | CHURCHILL, THE JEWS, AND THE ARABS |
| Friday, April 25 | | · | Poll results: SPP plans are 'treason' |
| · | Meet Mr. and Mrs. William Ayers |
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