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Why Israel keeps moving to the right | Carlo
Strenger
by Carlo Strenger (Hija del Zion
para Israel - Daughter of Zion
for Israel)
Submitted at 7/19/2010 3:30:26 AM
Israel’s growing distrust of the
external world reflects a sense of
existential threat and deep anxiety
about its viability
Israel has been sliding into ever
greater isolation in the few last years
and this process has accelerated since
Binyamin Netanyahu came to power
in 2009. The international community
is put off by his tactics: whenever the
question of Israel’s settlement policy
comes up, he diverts attention to the
Iranian nuclear threat. He argues that
the world is facing a situation similar
to 1938, and that its reaction is that of
Neville Chamberlain, trying to
appease Adolf Hitler. The world
doesn’t buy Netanyahu’s rhetoric; his
policy of stalling the peace process is
perceived as a cynical ploy hiding
Israel’s true intent of holding on to
the territories.
This explanation fails to take into
account that Netanyahu’s rhetoric
reflects a paradoxical state of mind of
the Israeli electorate. Polls show that
a consistent 70% majority of Israelis
favouring the two-state solution. So
why has Israel’s electorate been
moving consistently to the right in the
last decade? Why is Netanyahu’s
popularity in Israel so high? And why
is Israel’s public less willing than
ever to listen to criticism of Israeli
policies?
This development can be elucidated
by a universal tendency of the human
psyche uncovered by existential
psychology in the last two decades.
When under threat, particularly
mortal threat, humans tend to defend
psychologically by entrenching in
their world views. These world
views, which include identity
narratives of righteousness, become
ever more rigid under these
circumstances, leading to growing
distrust, hatred and negative prejudice
against out-groups. Criticism of the in
-group and its world view is rejected
categorically.
This theory predicts that Israel’s
move to the right reflects a sense of
7/18/2010 at 11:15:09 PM - 7/19/2010 at 12:18:56 PM
existential threat. To outside
observers this may seem absurd,
given that Israel is a regional
superpower generally assumed to
have a substantial nuclear arsenal,
whereas the Palestinians don’t even
have a standing army. Nevertheless
all polls show that Israel suffers from
deep anxiety about its viability.
Part of the explanation is quite
concrete: Two realistic threats have
indeed emerged in the last years. The
first is the possibility that Iran will
acquire nuclear weapons, a threat that
most Israelis see as catastrophic. The
second is that groups like Hezbollah
and Hamas have moved from suicide
terrorism to rocket attacks on Israel.
Israel, for the first time since 1973, is
faced with security threats to which it
has no clear-cut answer. As a result,
Israel launched massive attacks in
Lebanon in 2006 and against Gaza in
2008-9 under the assumption that the
price of rocket attacks must be
destruction on a substantial scale.
This has pushed Israel into
unprecedented international isolation.
Israel’s electorate reacted to this
sequence of events exactly as
predicted by existential psychology:
during operation Cast Lead, the
Israeli public was unwilling to
tolerate any criticism of the massive
destruction in Gaza, and in the 2009
elections it moved strongly to the
right and effectively erased the Israeli
left.
The result is a vicious circle in which
Israel feels that its existential fears
are not taken seriously. Israel’s
electorate moves towards leaders who
address but also keep reinforcing its
fears. International opinion becomes
ever more negative, which in turn
reinforces Israel’s isolation which in
turn raises existential fears.
This has one, very unfortunate,
consequence. Israel’s best chance of
minimising the threat from Hamas
and Hezbollah and minimising
Iranian influence in the Middle East
is to engage with the Arab League
peace initiative. If Israel were to
normalise relations with all of the
Arab and most of the Islamic world,
particularly Syria, Hezbollah and
Hamas would be isolated to the point
of having to move towards
abandoning violence and recognising
Israel’s legitimacy.
Taking this road requires Israel to
take a risk and bet on the positive
dynamics of a peace process. But this
is precisely what Israel is incapable of
doing after the traumas of the second
intifada and the shelling of southern
Israel. Israelis at this point prefer
international isolation, painful as it is,
to reliance on Arab peace partners for
its own security.
Are there any ways to get Israel out
of its growing distrust of the external
world? Experimental existential
psychology suggests two main
means: one is, obviously, lowering
the real or perceived mortal threat.
The other is to decrease the sense of
isolation.
The Obama administration has
addressed both issues lately. It is
stepping up security co-operation
with Israel and increasing its military
aid, particularly to allow Israel to
complete the Iron Dome anti-missile
defence system developed to provide
an answer to the short-range rockets
used by Hezbollah and Hamas.
Barack Obama has also changed
course in that he has given Netanyahu
a warm welcome after more than a
year of giving him the cold shoulder.
This, as most commentators assume,
does not reflect a policy change:
Obama is adamant to go ahead with
implementing the two-state solution,
but he has come to the conclusion
that embracing Israel is a more
effective way of getting there than to
isolate it.
The big question is whether this will
in any way influence Netanyahu’s
overall security conception, that
Israel must retain control over certain
areas in the West Bank to have an
effective answer to any future attack
coming from the East of Israel. Since
this does not allow for territorial
contiguity of the future Palestinian
state, it will be unacceptable for the
Palestinians and the international
community.
Nobody knows what Netanyahu’s
long-term strategy is, exactly – and
sometimes I doubt that he knows. But
there is a simple way of gauging
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whether he is about the change
course. Tensions between Netanyahu
and his foreign minister, extreme
rightist Avigdor Lieberman, have
been mounting lately.
The day Netanyahu changes his
coalition by ousting Lieberman’s
hawkish Yisrael Beiteinu party and
replacing it with Tzipi Livni’s centrist
Kadima, we will have a strong
indication that he is moving towards
genuine progress with the
Palestinians.
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Tom Segev Critically Reviews Benny Morris’
new book, ’1948?
by Richard Silverstein (Hija del
Zion para Israel - Daughter of
Zion for Israel)
Submitted at 7/19/2010 1:12:03 AM
“1948: A History of the first Arab-
Israeli War” by Benny Morris – A
War of Necessity
Translated from English: Yaacov
Sharet. Published by Am Oved
In his new book, 1948, Benny Morris
presents his readers with a readable,
well-edited story…The writer focuses
on the fate of the Palestinians…but
his attitude toward their tragedy is
troublesome in terms of both
humaneness and morality.
Review by Tom Segev[translated by
Dena Shunra] Benny
Morris’…attempt to author a popular
history of the War of Independence is
praise-worthy, and as a former
journalist he is skillful at taking into
account the limits of his readers’
patience. The story he tells is well-
edited, the translation from English
flows well, and, and the general
picture takes shape clearly.
But Morris is now also a history
professor, and unfortunately he – like
his colleagues – writes primarily
about decision-making and processes,
armies and military maneuvers, and
tends to ignore the people behind the
documents. His book therefore
demonstrates what the books written
by his colleagues tend to prove: it is
generally not a good idea to abandon
a good story to history professors.
Like everything else Morris writes,
this book is also very political, and
for this reason, too, it is worth
reading. Like the books by his
colleagues, it also demonstrates that
history is written by the winners:
Morris’s position about the tragedy of
the Palestinians is shameful on both
humanistic and moral terms.
Securing the Homeland
The basic thesis appears in the very
first sentence: “The 1948 war was an
almost inevitable result of nearly half
a century of friction and disputes
between Arabs and Jews.” In the next
40 pages Morris takes his readers on
a whirlwind tour beginning in 1200
B.C. and ending at the end of the
British Mandate over Palestine…
Morris focuses on the fate of the
Palestinians, and that is indeed the
main story. Like other historians, he
divides the War of Independence into
two primary stages: from the Partition
Decision, on November 29 th 1947,
until the declaration of independence,
on May 15 th, 1948; and from the
invasion of the armies of Arabia until
the armistice agreements in 1949.
Morris calls the first stage a “civil
war” for some reason, as do others.
This is a spurious term because even
at this stage there was no political
dispute between citizens of one state
but rather, a national confrontation
between two nations. For some
reason Morris found it important to
prove that the Arabs of the country
were not a nation but just “a nation”.
He uses quotation marks a great deal:
the Arab Rebellion was not a
rebellion but a “rebellion”, the Arabs
did not have a plan but only “a plan”,
a promise made by an Arab prime
minister is only “a promise”. The
land of Israel is the land of Israel, but
Palestine is only “Palestine”, of
course, and the justice sought by its
Arab residents was not justice but
only “justice”.
Most of the Arabs in the country,
approximately 400,000, were chased
out and expelled during the first stage
of the war. In other words, before the
Arab armies invaded the country.
According to Morris, the expulsion of
the Arabs was meant to safeguard the
homeland before the invasion of the
armies of Arabia. This explanation is
problematic, first because according
to Morris himself, David Ben Gurion
was not at all afraid of the Arabs of
Israel, and for good cause: they were
almost powerless. Ben Gurion was
afraid of an invasion by the Arab
armies. Moreover, Ben Gurion was
not certain that they would invade
Israel. On May 7 th 1948 he wrote in
his journal: “Will the neighboring
countries fight?” Ben Gurion could
not know this for certain because,
according to Morris, the Arabs
themselves hesitated until almost the
very last moment. Be that as it may,
Morris states that the invasion plans
by the Arab armies played no role [in
the thinking and decisions of] the
Arabs of the land of Israel.
This brings the discussion back to
the question of why 400,000 Arabs
were expelled before these armies
had taken even a single shot at the
IDF, and the possibility arises that it
did not happen because the Arabs had
attacked Israel but vice versa: the
Arab states attacked Israel – among
other reasons – because it had chased
out and expelled 400,000
Palestinians. It is doubtful if any
person knows more about this subject
than Morris. The thesis which
transpires from his book is that
almost everything happened as the
result of an error: the Jews
exaggerated the force of the Arabs
and were afraid of another Holocaust.
In fact, they did not correctly estimate
their weakness and were unjustifiably
afraid of them. It seems that it was for
this reason that they expelled them,
with no justification. But Morris
wishes to justify the expulsion of the
Arabs: he says that they started the
attack, but the concrete information
that he brings forth about their
harassment of the Jewish settlements
cannot explain great extent of the
expulsion.
Naturally, the question arises: were
the Arabs expelled in order to get rid
of them. Morris states at as early as
December 1947, at least, which is
nearly half a year before the Arab
armies invaded, two goals were at the
forefront for the Jews of the land of
Israel: expanding the territory
designated by the United Nations
resolution for the founding of a
Jewish state; and reducing the
number of Arabs living in that
territory. And that was what they did.
Historiographically, that is sufficient,
but Morris brings his readers into an
old dispute about a subject with
which he is also well-familiar: the
Zionist movement’s yearning to
transfer the Arabs of the country, or
at least some of them.
This idea has accompanied the
Zionist movement since the time of
Herzl himself. It took center stage in
the thinking of the leaders of the
Zionist movement, including Chaim
Weizmann and David Ben Gurion.
But Morris makes a great effort to
detach the chasing out of the Arabs
from the idea of transfer. A similar
measure of logic could detach the
founding of the state from the Zionist
vision.
The rest of the Arabs [300,000 more]
were expelled during the war and
thereafter. What Morris says about
the frontline conditions does not
demonstrate the military need to
expel the population, especially as
Israel’s military power was much
greater than the armies of Arabia
within two or three weeks, and the
remaining Arab population did not
constitute any kind of threat to the
country. The question of why they
were expelled remains without an
answer in this book. Morris says that
they wanted to throw the Jews into
the sea and states: “The Arab
expulsion clearly derived from the
Zionist transferist thinking in the 30s
and 40s.” This is a perplexing
statement, as Morris goes out of his
way to prove the marginal status of
transferist thinking.
Cleansing – without quotation marks
About six years ago Benny Morris
said that Israel had not expelled
enough Arabs. In an interview with
Haaretz’ Ari Shavit, he stated that if
Ben Gurion had carried out a full,
rather than just a partial expulsion he
would have stabilized the State of
Israel for generations. It would
eventually transpire as his fatal error,
warned Morris at the time. He does
not repeat this opinion in his current
book, but he describes Ben Gurion as
an obsessive “generalissimo” who is
not always aware of the goings on
around him.
Morris’ obliviousness to the story of
the people behind the documents he
quotes is also revealed by an almost
complete avoidance of describing the
suffering of the refugees. It seems
that in his opinion at least some of
them, especially the residents of Lyd
and Ramleh, should have been
grateful for the expulsion: “there is no
doubt that after they had experienced
battles, massacres, and Israeli
occupation, many of the residents
wholeheartedly wished to leave and
move to areas controlled by Arabs,”
writes Morris. In his opinion, the loss
of their homes was not so terrible for
them: “The Palestinians, a mostly
rural nation, used to living outdoors,
exhibited resilience,” he says,
wishing to soothe his readers. The
decision not to permit the refugees to
return is also acceptable to Morris,
and in a footnote he states that most
of the refugees are not refugees at all,
as they had been permitted to remain
in the land of Israel, in the West Bank
and in the Gaza Strip.
The murdered of Deir Yassin
He exhibits a great deal of
understanding for a series of
atrocities which went along with the
expulsion. He describes some actions
which were meant, among others, for
the expulsion of residents – as
cleansings, with no quotations. This
is embarrassing and indeed, in the
American original, quotations were
added to this phrase in one case. At
the same time, he carefully states
again and again that Arabs, including
prisoners of war and civilians,
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including women and children, were
“executed”. Jews, on the other hand,
were generally “murdered”, as he
puts it. The civilians who were killed
by Arabs in Gush Etzion were
murdered in a “massacre” writes
Morris. This was after the events of
Deir Yassin, but the Deir Yassin
incident is not one that he defines as a
massacre. Even those of the villagers
who were shot after the battle were,
as he put it, “executed.”
He directs his readers to a footnote in
which he complains that the
Commissioner General “believed
exaggerations” when he cabled his
superiors about women and children
being stripped, stood in a row,
photographed, and then massacred by
automatic gunfire in Deir Yassin.
Morris sarcastically comments that “it
seems like the British were prepared
to believe everything that is said
about the Etzel and the Lehi.”
Horrifically, the State of Israel
conceals to this day photographs
taken in the course of the attack on
Deir Yassin and prevents their
publication. The Haaretz newspaper
has appealed to the Supreme Court of
Justice in this matter, and the State
explained that making these
photographs public could damage not
only the country’s foreign relations
but also “the dignity of the deceased.”
Having seen the photographs, the
Supreme Court justices decided that
the State was correct. For this reason
it would perhaps be better to wait a
bit with the guess about the
Commissioner General having
“believed exaggerations.”
Do not forget Saddam Hussein
…It is customary to say that the
YNet: Hamas brags that it swaps fake shekels to
Israel for real ones
by Elder of Ziyon (Hija del Zion
para Israel - Daughter of Zion
for Israel)
Submitted at 7/19/2010 2:31:00 AM
From YNet:
The Bank of Israel is about to
transfer tens of millions of shekels to
the Gaza Strip this week. It has been
less than six months since the last
time this occurred. Hamas’ website
claims that the amount to be
transferred is NIS 81 million (about
$21 million).
A senior official in Israel’s banking
system claimed that the sum will be
smaller than what Hamas claims, but
confirmed that tens of millions of
shekels will be cashed for residents of
the coastal enclave.
The Hamas website asserts that the
Bank of Israel is cashing money of
two kinds for banks in the Strip.
Israelis won, being “a few against
many”, thanks to their fighting spirit,
the sense that they have no other
country, and the remembrance of the
Holocaust. The victory cost the lives
of nearly 6,000, nearly 1% of the
Jewish population in the country.
Morris does not ignore all of these
factors, but he tends to focus more on
the professional quality of the
IDF…The defeat of the Arabs does
not, for this reason, come to be seen
as a “miracle.”
Morris wishes to persuade his
readers that the primary cause which
led the Arabs to attempt to throw the
Jews into the sea was religious and
anti-Semitic. In his opinion, this is
not an Israeli problem but rather, a
global struggle between the Muslim
Orient and the West. In doing so, he
meticulously gathers up every Arab
call for a Jihad against the Jews. At
least in one case, he adapts his source
to his own needs, using an ellipsis:
Kind Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud did indeed
write President Roosevelt about the
religious hostility between Jews and
Muslims and mentioned the
“treacherous conduct” of the Jews
toward the Prophet Muhammad
[Peace Be Upon Him], but where
Morris placed an ellipsis the king
suggested that the religious issue be
put aside and stated that even without
it, the land of Israel could not resolve
the problem of the Jews. And indeed,
the Arabs did not need the Quran in
order to object to the intention by the
Zionists to take over the land of
Israel. The expulsion of the
Palestinians proved to them that they
had been right.
Morris knows what he does about the
Firstly, it is exchanging worn-out
banknotes for fresh ones, and,
secondly, it is cashing money that
Salam Fayyad’s government in the
Palestinian Authority transfers to
Gaza as part of its aid program to the
Strip.
Officials in the Israeli and
Palestinian banking systems
confirmed Hamas’ claims.
The Bank of Israel declined to
comment.
Deputy finance minister in the
Hamas government Ismail Mahfouz
boasted on the movement’s website, “
We are transferring counterfeit
money to Israel, and they transfer real
money to us in exchange.”
I’m not sure if this is true. The
screenshot that accompanied the story
was not a Hamas website, but rather
the PA Ministry of Finance site, in a
story from a few weeks ago about
Arabs, primarily from having read the
reports of the Hagana intelligence
service. This is a doubtful source, as
according to Morris himself, the
foundational perceptions of the Jews
about the power of the Palestinians
and the Arab armies were entirely
mistaken. His choice of sources to
quote is sometimes odd. In one case
he quotes a news item, translated into
English, which had appeared in
German in a Swiss newspaper, which
stated that hundreds of Jews had been
murdered in Egypt. It is not clear why
Morris did not find a better source for
this than the Basle National Zeitung,
and he states in a note to this that
there apparently were not hundreds of
casualties.
To remove any doubt that the Arabs
are really scoundrels, he also gets
carried away and quotes the
Palestinian National Covenant of
1964 and does not forget Saddam
Hussein. A long line of such quotes
reminds one of Morris’ own scolding
of the Palestinians: they do not have
serious historiography.
The bottom line is this: the IDF won
because it was stronger than the
Arabs of the land of Israel and the
Arab armies put together, it carried
out more atrocities than the Arabs,
some of which were perpetrated in
order to cause the Arabs to escape
and to expel them, but not to worry:
“a total number” of approximately
800 Arab citizens and prisoners of
war were murdered in the war, writes
Morris; the war crimes in Yugoslavia
and Sudan are worse.
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about the possibility of a new
Palestinian Arab currency, plus a few
other topics, but nothing about
counterfeiting.
The YNet story is mentioned in a
number of Arabic media, but without
attribution, so it might be that YNet
got it from a Fatah site, or vice versa.
At any rate, I cannot find any Hamas
site that says this.
On the other hand, the Hamas-linked
Felesteen site says that Hamas denies
the charges that it sends counterfeit
money, saying that Israel checks the
worn-out notes. It also has a story
about Hamas itself busting a
counterfeit money operation over the
weekend – where someone was
printing out US currency on his laser
printer.
YNet might be mistaken in this case.
(I updated this with new information
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CCTV and police abuse of power | Nicola
Cutcher
by Nicola Cutcher (Hija del
Zion para Israel - Daughter of
Zion for Israel)
Submitted at 7/19/2010 4:00:28 AM
Investigations into the London Gaza
protests last year have called into
question how CCTV evidence is
being used by police
Last week there was a slight tipping
of the justice scales in relation to the
London protests against the Israeli
offensive in Gaza in January 2009.
Protesters were awarded reduced
sentences by the court of appeal who
judged that the starting point for their
sentences had been too high.
Meanwhile, we had the first
acknowledgement of police
wrongdoing at the demonstrations.
Beyond these documented facts lie
much wider concerns about how the
police used CCTV of the protests and
how that affects the judicial process.
Twins Russell and Ashley Inglis
were each struck forcefully on the
head by a police officer at the Gaza
demonstrations. They couldn’t
identify the officer at the time
because his number was covered. The
IPCC referred their complaint to the
Metropolitan police for internal
investigation. The Met concluded that
there was “no case to answer”
because they could not identify the
officer. The twins appealed this
decision and were again told there
was “no case to answer”.
Disillusioned, the twins took their
case to a solicitor for a civil claim and
have now been awarded £25,000
compensation. This is the first public
acknowledgement from the Met that
aspects of policing at the
UK: Muslim drivers refuse to let guide dogs on
board
by Esther (Hija del Zion para
Israel - Daughter of Zion for
Israel)
Submitted at 7/18/2010 11:56:00 PM
UK: Muslim drivers refuse to let
guide dogs on board
Via Daily Mail:
Blind passengers are being ordered
off buses or refused taxi rides because
Muslim drivers or passengers object
to their ‘unclean’ guide dogs.
One pensioner, a cancer sufferer, told
how had twice been confronted by
drivers and asked to get off the bus
because of his guide dog, and had
also faced hostility at a hospital and
in a supermarket over the animal.
The problem to carry guide dogs on
religious grounds has become so
widespread that the matter was raised
in the House of Lords last week,
demonstrations were unacceptable,
though the officer remains
unidentified.
By contrast, no effort was spared to
pinpoint protesters. Following the
Gaza demonstrations, police officers
spent months trawling through hours
of CCTV footage to identify
protesters and compile dossiers and
videos showing their misdemeanours,
the majority of which involve
throwing placards or bottles at lines
of police in riot gear. More than 100
arrests were made and 65 people
charged with violent disorder. At
least 29 are now serving custodial
sentences. It is only right that similar
efforts are made to uncover police
wrongdoing.
More worrying is the way in which
CCTV is being used by the police.
Demonstrator Jake Smith was
charged with two counts of violent
disorder. These charges were later
dropped when Smith’s solicitor, Matt
Foot, viewed the original CCTV
footage and discovered that the police
video had been edited to show events
out of sequence, at one point
implying another man was Smith
while omitting footage showing
Smith being assaulted by a police
officer without provocation.
Considering the potential for abuse
of power, the control that the police
have had over the use of CCTV is
frightening. Foot warns, “We should
be both curious and suspicious about
how the police use CCTV footage in
these cases.”
Foot’s concern extends to how police
have dictated the use of their edited
material. Solicitors representing the
protesters were told to sign an
prompting transport minister Norman
Baker to warn that a religious
objection was not a reason to eject a
passenger with a well-behaved guide
dog.
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to refuse to carry non-disabled
passengers with dogs, they are
compelled to accept guide dogs under
disability discrimination law.
Yesterday both the Guide Dogs for
the Blind Association and the
National Federation of the Blind
confirmed the problem was common,
and, according to the latter
organisation was ‘getting worse’.
The tension stems from a strand of
Islamic teaching which warns against
contact with dogs because the
undertaking by the Met that
prevented them sharing their police
videos with anyone but their client.
This stopped defence solicitors
working together to establish a wider
picture of the protests and their
context. This worked hand in hand
with the decision to charge all the
protesters individually rather than
collectively.
At the court of appeal last week,
Lord Justice Thomas stated that the
video evidence was good for
identifying individuals at the protests
but not helpful in providing an
overview of the demonstrations.
When considering sentencing for
violent disorder, it is commonplace to
consider the overall view of the
protests first and then the individual
acts second. It seems doubtful that
any of the judges thus far have been
able to sentence with all the facts
necessary to form an accurate
overview of the demonstrations.
The court of appeal upheld that it
was correct to use deterrent sentences
because we must deter protesters
from acting in a violent manner
towards police. But police officers are
not being deterred from assaulting
protesters. This is grossly
hypocritical. The protesters who were
sentenced for violent disorder did not
commit anything as serious as
assaults on individuals. The Met
evidently cannot be relied upon to
investigate their own officers. The
IPCC needs to deal with police
services who cannot hold themselves
accountable. There are calls for a
judicial inquiry into the handling of
the Gaza protests. It is high time for a
purposeful investigation examining
animal’s saliva was considered to be
impure, the Muslim Council of
Britain said.
It urged Muslims to show tolerance
and common sense over the issue.
‘We need to be flexible on this,’ a
spokesman said. ‘Muslim drivers
should have no hesitation in allowing
guide dogs into their bus or car.
‘If a dog does lick you, it’s not the
end of the world. Just go home and
wash yourself.’
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Israel
by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del
Zion para Israel - Daughter of
Zion for Israel)
Submitted at 7/19/2010 12:50:00 AM
Why American Jewish students
won’t defend Israel Evelyn Gordon
points to an interview of political
consultant Frank Luntz with David
Horovitz that appeared in the
Jerusalem Post over the weekend.
This part was deeply disturbing.
The greatest challenge for the Israeli
position isn’t in the media. It’s on the
typical college campus. Because
there, the truth doesn’t matter.
There, day after day, the Palestinian
advocates will say anything and do
anything and these Jewish kids are
totally ill-prepared to stand up and
challenge.
We did a session with MIT and
Harvard students.
The best of the best. We had 35
people in the room: 20 of them were
non-Jewish, 15 were Jewish. And I
didn’t tell anyone who was which.
And I’d recruited them by telling
them “we’re going to talk about Iraq,
Iran and the Middle East,” not telling
them that the real focus was Israel.
Got them all into the room. It was so
crowded that we had kids sitting on
the floor. But that added to the
intensity. They felt like they were in a
dorm room. And within 10 minutes,
the non-Jews started with “the war
crimes of Israel,” with “the Jewish
lobby,” with “the Jews have a lot
more power and influence” – stuff
that’s borderline anti-Jewish.
And guess what? Did the Jewish kids
at the best schools in America, did
they stand up for themselves? Did
they challenge the assertions? They
didn’t say sh*t. And in that group was
the leader of the Israeli caucus at
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“THE LOSS OF LIBERTY” —
Howard Films On June 8, 1967,
Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats
launched a ferocious two-hour attack
against the USS Liberty, an American
intelligence ship operating in the
eastern Mediterranean. Of the 294
men aboard the vessel, 34 were killed
and 172 were wounded. For years the
Harvard. It took him 49 minutes of
this before he responded to anything.
The group is over. It’s a three-hour
group. I then say, “Who’s Jewish,
who isn’t?” At that point some of the
Jewish kids got a little outraged. I
dismiss all the non-Jewish kids.
And the Jewish kids are there. And
they’re now ticked at me for doing
this, you know, “Why have you
segregated us?” I said, “I’m Frank
Luntz and I’m Jewish, and I’ve been
working on this now for 10 years, and
you all didn’t say sh*t.”
And it all dawned on them: If they
won’t say it to their classmates, who
they know, who will they stand up for
Israel to? Two of the women in the
group started to cry. I got the whole
thing on tape. The guys are like, “Oh
my God, I didn’t speak up, I can’t
believe I let this happen.” And
they’re all looking at each other with
horrible embarrassment and guilt like
you wouldn’t believe.
And I take this tape down, this little
DVD, to the Jewish community and I
say, “This is what we’ve done – or
not done.” It’s not just giving them
the facts. It is also teaching them how
survivors kept silent about what
happened, under threat by military
authorities of severe punishment if
they revealed the truth. Now, in this
powerful film documentary, USS
Liberty survivors speak with moving
candor about what really happened.
“The Loss of Liberty” includes
interviews with high-ranking Israeli
military officers. High-ranking
American military and civilian
officials, including Dean Rusk,
former US Secretary of State, and
Admiral Thomas Moorer, former
Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of
Staff, provide authoritative analysis.
“I have never believed that the attack
on the USS Liberty was a case of
mistaken identity,” Admiral Moorer
has said. “What is so chilling and
cold-blooded, of course, is that they
to say it, when to say it, when to
crack a joke, when to acknowledge
someone else’s points, when not to be
argumentative or judgmental.
The problem that I see is that so
mahttp://www.blogger.com/post-
create.g?blogID=20498788ny parents
in the Jewish community taught their
kids not to judge. I’m going to say
something that’s a little bit
ideological, but I find that kids on the
Right are far more likely to stand up
for Israel than kids on the Left.
Because kids on the Right believe
that there is an absolute right and
wrong; this is how they’ve been
raised.
Kids on the Left have been taught
not to judge. Therefore those on the
left will not judge between Israel and
the Palestinians; those on the Right
will. I’ve now been doing this
research for eight years.
Gordon says it’s the American Jews’
fault – that the parents should be able
to get across to their children that for
all its faults, Israel is better than the
undemocratic regimes around it. She
also says that defending your values
should apply to both right and left.
[the Israelis] could kill as many
Americans as they did in confidence
that Washington would cooperate in
quelling any public outcry. I have to
conclude that it was Israel’s intent to
sink the Liberty and leave as few
survivors as possible.” “Israel’s
premeditated, sneak attack, on the
USS Liberty was a direct attack on
America,” says Phillip Tourney, a
crewman wounded in the attack.
Awarded the Bronze Star for his
heroism under fire, he is president of
the USS…
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The problem is that too many Jewish
parents don’t talk to their kids at all
about Israel. They’re too embarrassed
because there’s so much about Israel
that doesn’t accord with their
fantasies of Liberalism – most of
which is necessary to survive in the
neighborhood in which we live.
And as to the unwillingness to
defend their own values, isn’t that
exactly what the multi-culturalism
and the non-exceptionalism being
promoted by the Obama
administration is all about? Is it
surprising that those ‘values’ have
seeped through to those American
Jews whose parents support Obama?
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Submitted at 7/18/2010 11:25:10 PM
by Robert Couse-Baker
Jewish Gifts at the Judaica Store
Check the Judaica store holiday
sales. The judaica store has a wide
selection of Jewish gifts. Shabbat
items can be found at the Judaica
store. Items like candlesticks,
Havdalah sets, Kiddush cups and
more. If you have not yet visited an
internet Jewish store this is the time.
On Passover Jewish people mostly
buy Seder plates, Matzo covers,
Afikkomen covers and Matzo plates.
You can find Jewish holiday items
here. The answer to the question
about where to buy a menorah is
simple: go online. You can find
Judaica Menorah at the Judaica store.
On Hanukkah Jewish people mostly
buy Hanukkah Menorah, Dreidels
and Jewish gifts. Judaica products on
the internet became very popular in
the last decade.
On Rosh Hashanah Jewish people
buy mostly Shofars, Jewish gifts, and
Honey dishes. Jewish holidays are a
busy time for a Judaica store. Bar
Mitzvah gifts can be found in a
Jewish store. Gifts like Jewish
Jewelry, Bar Mitzvah Kippahs.
Buying at an internet Judaica store is
safe and secured. Getting ready for
Hanukkah, Passover Rosh Hashanah
or other Jewish holiday is easier than
ever. The great thing is that you can
order Jewish items from almost
Limiting Israel’s academic boycotters
by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del
Zion para Israel - Daughter of
Zion for Israel)
Submitted at 7/19/2010 1:05:00 AM
Limiting Israel’s academic
boycotters Where is the line between
academic freedom and harmful
actions that should result in a
professor being dismissed? Eli Pollak
and Mordechai Keidar try to draw it.
The problem starts when the event
where such foolish claims are uttered
is not academic, but rather political in
nature (for example, the “Israel
apartheid Week.”) It’s even graver
when an Israeli academician urges the
pension fund of Finnish miners (for
example) to withdraw its investments
from Israel and from his university
while boycotting them and imposing
sanctions on them.
This kind of activity is not academic,
but rather, purely political. The
moment an academician undertakes
such acts he deviates from his field
and operates as though he’s a political
man. In the political arena, there is no
significance to academic freedom,
just like academic freedom does not
grant anyone the right to drive on the
wrong side of the road or park
anywhere.
It does not matter if you are looking
for a Menorah, a Tallit, a Mezuzah or
any other Jewish item, you came to
the right place. The answer to
questions like where to buy menorah
accessories? where to buy a Shofar?
as well as where to buy the menorah
itself, are simple: shop online. Now,
you can purchase gorgeous jewish
jewelry, sacred items such as Tallit
prayer shawls, Tefilin, and much
more at online stores like
TheJudaicaStore.com. You can even
find Synagogue furniture at an online
Judaica store.
A marketting manager of a Judaica
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Perry talks in Israel with his tour
group. The believer must be
concealed in Heaven during the seven
year tribulation. There are three
themes of Rosh Hashanah. He tells us
some words that we use that are not
in the bible. There are two ways you
will be able to understand the rapture.
He gives us both ways and then he
uses it in his teaching. He talks about
illegally, even on campus.
… Read the whole thing. Yes, they’re
Freedom is not unlimited: Freedom
of speech does not include the right to
yell out “fire” in the theater for no
reason, while freedom of occupation,
which grants any carpenter the right
to drill holes, does not allow him to
drill a hole in a ship carrying other
passengers. Similarly, academic
freedom is limited to academic
activity and related areas and does not
apply to political activity.
Academic freedom does not grant
academicians the right to risk their
colleagues’ place of employment, and
should such academicians believe
their university deserves to be
boycotted, they should be honest with
themselves and start the boycott
themselves by resigning and shunning
their salary and the research budget
they received.
There is no reason that would require
a State, just like any other
organization, to fund and sponsor
people who travel the world and call
for boycotts and sanctions against it,
as such people threaten the State’s
legitimacy and thereby its existence
as well.
An academician who exploits
the Feast of Trumpets and how it
relates to the concealment of the new
moon and the concealment of the
righteous. He tells us why he believes
the righteous will be taken at the
beginning of the rapture. He gives us
scripture to back up what he is
saying. God will always give at least
three verses to back up what God
says — Isaiah 28:10. There are
people who don’t believe in the
rapture. But you have got to study
this from a Hebraic perspective.
When you see the words that he
speaks and understand that he was
talking to a Jewish audience — the
whole thing will come alive and
together. The whole key is to
understand the ancient Jewish
wedding. Isaiah 26:19-21 –
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activity necessarily pushes the
institution he draws his salary from
into a political position, even though
he was not authorized by his
employers and colleagues to do so.
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earth shall cast out the dead. 20
Come, my people, enter thou into thy
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Dagestan: Pastor and apostate from
Islam shot and killed
by Marisol (Hija del Zion para
Israel - Daughter of Zion for
Israel)
Submitted at 7/19/2010 12:03:36 AM
Dagestan: Pastor and apostate from
Islam shot and killed Someone
decided to follow Muhammad’s
orders yet again. “Pastor killed by
gunman,” from the Barnabas Fund,
July 16 (thanks to
Dumbledoresarmy):
A dynamic Christian pastor has died
after being shot in the head as he was
leaving church, in what is being seen
as a bid to intimidate converts from
Islam in the strongly Islamic republic
of Dagestan.
Artur Suleimanov (49), himself a
convert from Islam, was murdered by
a gunman who approached and
opened fire as the pastor got into a car
outside Hosanna House of Prayer in
the capital, Makhachkala, on
Thursday 15 July. He died from his
wounds in hospital around an hour
later. Nobody else was injured in the
attack. Pastor Suleimanov leaves
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behind a wife, Zina, and five
children, the youngest of whom is
twelve years old.
Mr Suleimanov’s church is one of
the largest Protestant churches in
Dagestan. In a context where
Christians face regular harassment
and intimidation, his life had been
threatened on several previous
occasions.
Barnabas Aid has supported
Christians in Dagestan, and our co-
ordinator for the Former Soviet
Union met Pastor Suleimanov a
number of times. He said, “Pastor
Suleimanov was a wonderful
Christian brother and his shocking
death is a devastating loss for the
Dagestan church. He and the Hosanna
House of Prayer church were very
active in ministry and outreach in
particular. We see his murder as an
attempt to put further pressure on
Christian converts in Dagestan.”
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North Caucasus. The population is 98
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India’s home minister:
Pakistan’s ISI
orchestrated Mumbai
jihadist attacks
by Marisol (Hija del Zion para
Israel - Daughter of Zion for
Israel)
Submitted at 7/19/2010 1:02:25 AM
India’s home minister: Pakistan’s ISI
orchestrated Mumbai jihadist attacks
And yet the Pakistani foreign minister
quoted below seems baffled as to why
“India: ISI ”controlled” Mumbai
attack,” from AdnKronos
International, July 16:
New Delhi, 16 July (AKI) –
Pakistan’s intelligence service
orchestrated the 2008 Mumbai
attacks, the Indian home secretary
said, in one of the most
straightforward accusations of
Pakistan’s suspected involvement in
the coordinated assault on India’s
financial centre that killed 166
people.
“It was not just a peripheral role,”
G.K. Pillai was cited as saying in the
Indian express newspaper.
“They (Pakistan’s Inter-Services
Intelligence) were literally controlling
and coordinating it from the
beginning till the end.”
Pillai’s comments come a day before
the Indian and Pakistani foreign
ministers were to meet in Islamabad
in an effort to patch up relations
worsened by the Mumbai attacks.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood
Qureshi on Friday said that India was
not prepared for a positive outcome
of the talks, DawnNews reported.
Qureshi said Indian officials were
constantly taking directions from
New Delhi.
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And another ‘Palestinian’
precondition
by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del
Zion para Israel - Daughter of
Zion for Israel)
Submitted at 7/19/2010 2:13:00 AM
And another ‘Palestinian’
precondition Here’s yet another
precondition to direct talks between
Israel and the ‘Palestinians,’ this one
from Arab League chief Amr
Moussa.
After his meeting with US mediator
George Mitchell on Sunday, Arab
League chief Amr Moussa affirmed
that Palestinians cannot enter direct
talks with Israel without written
guarantees.
Mousa told reporters that “moving
from proximity talks into direct ones
without any confirmation or
guarantee on Israel’s seriousness
means that we have entered into crisis
management and not solving the
crisis.”
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by Honest Reporting (Hija del
Zion para Israel - Daughter of
Zion for Israel)
Submitted at 7/19/2010 1:17:34 AM
Hamas exerts considerable influence
over journalists. Look at what is and
isn’t being reported in the news.
In the news( AP)
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Lest any of you think otherwise,
when he says ‘written guarantees,’ he
means written guarantees of the
outcome.
Well I’m going to give you a written
guarantee and you can take it to the
bank: Without direct talks, there isn’t
going to be a ‘Palestinian state.’ So
there.
What could go wrong?
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:13
PM
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In the news( AFP)
Top EU Diplomat Calls for Further
Lifting of Gaza Siege
Out of the news( Daled Amos)
Gazan Businessmen Demands
Hamas Embargo As Israel Relaxes
Restrictions
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and want to shield their businesses
from competition from outside
products. How come correspondents
on the ground in Gaza aren’t
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Top EU diplomat
calls for further
lifting of Gaza siege
by paraisrael (Hija del Zion
para Israel - Daughter of Zion
for Israel)
Submitted at 7/18/2010 11:15:09 PM
by merdi
Top EU diplomat calls for further
lifting of Gaza siege
The European Union’s top diplomat
on Saturday called for the further
easing of Israel’s blockade of the
Gaza Strip on the eve of a visit to the
Hamas-ruled territory.
Read more on AFP via Yahoo! News
Finance: Exempt insurance market
from antitrust law
The Finance Ministry and the Israel
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able to come to a compromise on a
new antitrust law to decrease the
concentration of power in the
economy, due to a demand to exempt
the insurance companies from the
proposal.
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Should Israel bomb
Iran?
by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del
Zion para Israel - Daughter of
Zion for Israel)
Submitted at 7/18/2010 11:26:00 PM
Should Israel bomb Iran? Here’s a
lengthy and important piece by Reul
Marc Gerecht in the Weekly Standard
in which he lays out the case for
Israel bombing Iran’s nuclear
facilities if no one else will. It’s too
long to excerpt and I urge you to read
the whole thing.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:26
AM
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Part 2: The Book of Zohar –
Selections, chapter "Lech-lecha",
item 68, lesson 8
by Bnei-Baruch (Hija del Zion
para Israel - Daughter of Zion
for Israel)
Submitted at 7/19/2010 12:44:15 AM
Lecturer: Rav Michael Laitman
Date: 2010-07-19
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