We’re going to delve into a practical analysis briefly. The situation in Israel is critical, though somewhat existential. Surrounded by enemies on all sides who have figured out a way to hit and hurt, Israel is unwilling as well as pressured by the world to avoid taking the steps that would defend herself and/or prevent further attacks.
Instead, she’ll allow herself, or pieces of herself, to be sacrificed so the Western nations can keep their oil suppliers happy and stable (as if Israel has anything to do with their stability).
But, some of her population is bleeding (S’derot and everything south of Ashdod). Some is nationalistic and insists on acting as if land actually matters. Some is national religious, and acts as if settling the Land of Israel actually matters. And some just cares about the Land of Israel.
The rest, which is the ’silent majority’? They’re just going about their lives, and as long as terrorist incidents remain ‘low’ and missile attacks remain outside where 70% of the population lives, hey, out of sight out of mind.
So what to do about those annoying segments that actually care? This isn’t speculation, we’ll define exactly WHAT WAS DONE starting with the Rabin government and continuing through the expulsion of Gush Katif…
1. Minimize the voice. No media reports. No government offices dispatched. Welcome to what’s happening in S’derot. How many rockets this week, how many people hurt this month? I don’t know, no reports IN ISRAEL.
2. Delegitimize. News reports focus on “crazy” settlers, “innocent” palestinians, “blockages to peace”. Every investigative government agency investigates, they’re is always something to find wrong, highlight it.
3. Organize trouble. Take the community trouble makers and let them run free. Have “friends” conveniently hand them trouble making resources. Make sure to have other “friends” nearby who are capturing information (video/audio) to make the evening news.
4. Make the community question itself, make the rest of the nation question the community. Take all the above together and you rob a community of it’s voice, you divide it as some say it’s gone overboard, and you make it considered either crazy, a laughing stock, or dangerous, by the rest of the nation.
This is not speculation, this is the program run several times in the past in Israel. As Jerusalem comes on the table and tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands stand to lose their homes, and murderers are to be brought within range of 90% of the Israeli population, you can be sure such tactics are already in progress.
You’ll note that almost every Israeli commentor found the situation regarding Rabbi Nati to be completely plausible and in line with PAST Israeli internal events. A few Americans wish to believe that such things must be paranoia or a scam of some sort. Those same people, however, probably scream about the lost rights due to the US Patriot Act and other similar security measures the US has taken. Yet when they see the results of such things in action, they fail to grasp it.
(IsraelNN.com) Nearly 60% of Israelis say the Israeli government is secretly negotiating the division of Jerusalem with the Palestinian Authority – despite government attempts to blur the existence of such talks.
This and other findings were the results of a survey carried out by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies in Bar Ilan University. The official numbers will be presented this Tuesday at a special seminar at Bar Ilan. The Guest of Honor will be Trade Minister Eli Yishai, the head of the government coalition member Shas Party. Yishai has stated frequently that the moment it becomes clear that Jerusalem is being negotiated, his party will quit the coalition.
PA is Sure to Make More Demands
The respondents were asked their forecast of the situation in the event that an Israeli-PA peace agreement would include an Israeli giveaway of Jerusalem’s Arab neighborhoods, Old City and Temple Mount to the PA. Nearly 70% said there is no or little chance that such an agreement would bring about an end to terrorism, and 56% feel there is a high or very high likelihood that the areas would be used for terrorist bases.
This is simply outrageous, here you have what our government thinks of G_d and His Torah.
Beloved, it’s time that all the Orthodox Rabbinate get together and get Klal Yisrael to unite and make this government and the whole political establishment resign.
How can this be done, well to start of, why not have all Klal Yisrael stay home and not show up to work.
Offices, public services, schools, universities, everybody just simply stay home, until these anti-Torah people resign.
Then have the Rabbinate, start putting order in Eretz Yisrael, by evicting all the Arabs.
Then destroy the Dome and all constructions/buildings that desecrate our Holy Land.
You probably think I’m out of my mind or under some high substance, nope, none whatsoever, simply these are things which should have been done a long time ago, and as they have not, we are paying the consequences now, today.
Make it very clear to the Arab World, that if they continue to harass us and kill our brethren, we shall recuperate the Holy Land that was given wrongly to them.
You will probably be thinking, we are going to have the whole world on top of us, yes one way or the other we will have the world on top of us, but you know what, it doesn’t matter one bit as Hashem will be with us once again.
And lastly, this whole affair can be handled without one drop of blood, Heaven forbid that a Jew extend his hand against another Jew.
Now see with your own eyes and hear with your ears, what Shimon Peres is teaching our youth.
Shimon Peres tells Israeli youth that history is irrelevant, borders and land are the past, and science and technology alone are the future.
“G-d makes us crazy,” he says, and tells us mankind has found new partners in science and technology that are much more dependable.
He tells youth not to listen to their parents or their teachers (those that actually love and care about them the most) and that they should look towards a new world, a new reality.
History, Torah, and heritage should be stored on a computer to be remembered, states Peres, but that youth should forget the past and look towards a “new world” and a new future.
Peres instructs that land and borders are “old world” and simply cause wars.
If by any chance there are any mistakes in the composition, please bear with me, as I just feel very upset about this.
The American Right loves Israel. We love Israel because Israel is us. Israel has McDonald’s, night clubs, a middle class, semiconductor plants and nuclear weapons. The Left hates Israel for exactly these same things. Some liberals go one better and equate Israel with Nazi Germany, with Palestinians acting the part of the Jews. As bizarre as this seems to me, it plays well in the emotionally-driven finger-pointing crowd.
Israel is rich, stable and secure, and Palestine is poor and in turmoil. The fallacy is the idea that Israel’s success caused the poverty of the Palestinians. People looking for “root causes” of violence often stop at poverty and assume that the nearest rich people are to blame.
The myth then tells how the poor Palestinians were herded into the ghettos of the West Bank and Gaza and forced to live as animals. Any defensive use of Israel’s military is fuel for the myth of an Israeli “genocide” against the Palestinians, which completes the picture of Israelis as Nazis.
Despite enormous and continuing denial on the part of left and liberal ideologues and the media, we are facing an exceedingly pathological strain of Islamofascist terrorism. So a crucial question must be asked: from a psychological and anthropological point of view, what kind of culture produces human bombs, glorifies mass murderers, and supports humiliation-based revenge?
According to Minnesota based psychoanalyst and Arabist, Dr. Nancy Kobrin, it is a culture in which shame and honor play decisive roles and in which the debasement of women is paramount. In an utterly fascinating and as-yet unpublished book, which I will be introducing, the Sheik’s New Clothes: the Psychoanalytic Roots of Islamic Suicide Terrorism, Kobrin, and her Israeli co-author, counter-terrorism expert Yoram Schweitzer, describe barbarous family and clan dynamics in which children, both boys and girls, are routinely orally and anally raped by male relatives; infant males are sometimes sadistically over-stimulated by being masturbated; boys between the ages of 7-12 are publicly and traumatically circumcised; many girls are clitoridectomized; and women are seen as the source of all shame and dishonor and treated accordingly: very, very badly.
(IsraelNN.com) A survey carried out the Panels Research Institute finds that more than 75% of Israelis see partial or total transfer for Israeli-Arabs out of Israel in any final-status agreement that includes a Palestinian state.
The poll asked whether it would be justified, in the framework of an agreement for the establishment of a Palestinian state, to demand the transfer out of Israel of all Arabs. Nearly 30% said yes with no reservations, while 28% said only Arabs who did not express loyalty to Israel should be expelled. In addition, another 19% said that Arabs who lived in areas bordering the PA-controlled areas, such as Wadi Area and the southern Galilee, should be transferred out.
The response of the current Jewish government to the Mercaz HaRav massacre – the brutal slaying of unsuspecting children in the eternal capital of our people – agreeing to a ceasefire or “lull” in violence with those ultimately responsible, thus defies the logic of its own existence.
Following a war of terror that lasted several years, the members of this government, in the name of peace, led an assault on their own citizenry, expropriating their property, homes, livelihoods and communities without just compensation. Our enemies responded with kidnappings and a torrent of indiscriminate rockets, which has lasted two years. Now, after the Mercaz massacre, the government continues in its policy of active inaction, proving once and for all the maxim that Jewish blood is cheap.
The confrontation between the victims and their community and Education Minister Yuli Tamir was a continuance of this policy. While a visit by an education minister to an educational institution where there was a tragedy sounds normal, Tamir is infamous for cutting funding to religious schools like Mercaz HaRav, while allowing Palestinians to label Independence Day as al-Nakba (the catastrophe) in their textbooks.
Just finished reading Rabbi Lazer Brody’s, Emuna News Special Report: The Sword on Israel’s Jugular. Which states the following:
Israel faces its greatest existential threat in its history. At this very moment, every single city, town, and village between the northern border and Dimona is a push-button away from oblivion, for the triple menace of missiles from Syria, Hizbollah, and Iran rest like a sharp sword on Israel’s Jugular.
Is there anything we can do? Most of us are hundreds or thousands of miles away, in our own communities; yet our very being cries out: What can we do?
Here my dear brethren are some ideas that we can start puting into action immediately.
The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, taught us that, yes, there is something we can do.
The Rebbe taught us the power of a mitzvah.
A mitzvah, a G-dly deed, has the power to reach deep into the core of our being–where we are all one, and the physical distance between us is of no consequence. At this core, a positive deed on our part will help bring salvation to a brother and sister in distress.
During past conflicts in the Land of Israel, and during times of danger for the Jewish people, the Rebbe made practical suggestions of mitzvot that would elicit G-d’s blessings and protection.
Let us not underestimate the power of good! With a single good deed on our part, here and now, we can each contribute toward the victory and safety of our fellow Jews in Israel.
Take a minute to do one or more of the following. You can make a difference!
Torah study
Say a prayer for the soldiers of the IDF, and for all residents of the Holy Land (suggestion: Psalm 20 is traditionally said in times of distress).
Charity and acts of kindness: Put a coin in a charity box, give a gift of money to a fellow in need or to a charitable cause, or extend a helping hand to someone who needs it.
Tefillin: If you already put on tefillin every day, encourage a friend to do so. If you don’t yet, now is a good time to start!.
Mezuzah: If you don’t yet have a mezuzah get one now! If you already do have one, it may be time to have it checked to ensure that the words on the parchment have not faded.
Tzitzit: start wearing tzitzit even during the night, and even while sleeping.
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As Rabbi Brody say’s “Let’s invoke Divine compassion by turning the tides of assimilation and spiritual contamination with a worldwide return to Hashem. Our lives depend on it”.
In op-ed published prior to Purim, prominent Zionist rabbi notes that IDF troops must boldly and directly defy orders instead of evading acting as ordered.
By Kobi Nahshoni – Israel Jewish Scene
In an op-ed released prior to Purim, prominent Zionist Rabbi Zalman Melamed stated that “when an IDF soldier is given an order which contradicts halacha or Jewish law, he must not find ways to evade acting as ordered or make excuses for not following orders, but state outright and directly that he refuses to act in any manner which contradicts halacha.”
In an illustration stemming directly from the story of Purim itself, the rabbi noted that Mordechai’s adamant refusal to bow down to Haman, as told in the Book of Esther, teaches us that soldiers must proudly refuse to follow orders which contradict Jewish law, even if this comes at great personal risk.
Archeological sites to this very day continue to yield artifacts with Hebrew writing, not some fictitious “Palestinian” or Arabic text! The so-called “Palestinian” Arabs were simply then, as they are now, Arabs no different culturally, historically or ethnically from other Arabs living in any of the 24 Arab countries from which they emigrated.
The suggestion that the “Palestinians” are some sub-group of Arabs with their own unique identity is pure fiction! Great propaganda… but still pure fiction!
And had not the Arabs continued to brainwash generation upon generation into believing this HISTORICAL HOGWASH about some ancient “Arab Palestinian” ties to the Holy Land, most could have gotten themselves a real life by now with much less bloodshed and suffering for everyone concerned!
Remember:
When we use their language (i.e. “West Bank” instead of Judea-Samaria, “occupied territory” instead of liberated Jewish lands, “settlements” instead of Jewish communities, “Palestinian” instead of Arab, “Haram esh Sharif” instead of the Temple Mount, etc.), we are allowing the enemies of Eretz Yisrael to define the issues, create or distort history and control the debate.
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