If "A Rose by Any Other Name Would Still Smell as Sweet," Then is it Nazi-like to Want Judea-Samaria aka West Bank Judenrein?

Synagogue in German
-occupied Bydgoszcz. The inscription
 reads: "This city is free of Jews"

One of the main principles of the Nazis was to cleanse Germany, then Europe and all it could conquer of Jews. The term they used was to make the land "judenrein," cleansed of Jews.

Judenfrei ("free of Jews") or Judenrein ("clean of Jews") was a Nazi term to designate an area "cleansed" of Jewish presence during The Holocaust.^[1]While Judenfrei referred merely to "freeing" an area of all of its Jewish citizens, the term Judenrein (literally "clean of Jews") was also used. This had the stronger connotation that any trace of Jewish blood had been removed as an impurity.^[2]

Here we are, less than a century after the Nazis' rise and fall, and it seems like the world has totally forgotten what really happened in Nazi Germany and Europe during World War II.  International leaders while preaching their superior morality sic are also insisting on making the Middle East judenrein. They don't see the similarity to Nazism in their statements nor in the demands of the Arabs.  No doubt there will be some very hysterical people telling me that I've gone "too far" writing so bluntly.

Credit: REUTERS/Jason Reed

The American Secretary of State John Kerry is back in the area trying to force some sort of  "peace" agreement between Israel and the Arabs.  Not only is he ignoring the fact that the Arabs don't want peace with us.  They want peace without us.

"Let me emphasize at this point the position of the United States of America on the settlements is that we consider them... to be illegitimate," Kerry said after discussions with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Kerry made the comments in responding to Palestinian frustration over Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and stressed that "at no time" did the Palestinians agree to accept the settlements as a part of a negotiated peace accord.

Neither Kerry  nor US President Barack Hussein Obama seem to find anything wrong with the fact that the Arabs want the Land judenrein. It's clear that they either don't care or don't know that such policy was a cornerstone of Nazi ideology.

And was Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu conned?

Palestinians have warned of a brewing crisis if Israel continues to assert that they had effectively agreed to turn a blind eye to the settlement campaign, in exchange for the progressive release of 104 long-serving inmates.
Kerry dismissed Israeli suggestions there had been an understanding with the Palestinians about settlement expansion and stated "unequivocally" his belief that Abbas was "100 percent committed" to peace talks.
"I want to make it extremely clear that at no time did the Palestinians in any way agree as a matter of going back to the talks, that they somehow condone or accept the settlements," he said.

Human Rights! Civil Rights!

Where are the great activists, the idealists, those fighting for the rights of the persecuted?

How do they reconcile, excuse their silence in the face of judenrein land?

What does judenrein mean?

It's the German term the Nazis used to describe the goal of cleansing Germany of Jews.

Judenrein and Judenfrei (German: free of Jews) were Nazi terms to designate an area free of Jewish presence.[1] The words bear slightly different connotations; while Judenfrei merely refers to "freeing" an area of all of its Jewish citizens, Judenrein (literally "clean of Jews") demands that any trace of Jewish blood be removed as an impurity.[2]

Now, everyone but Holocaust deniers are adamant that the Nazis were bad. Right?

Then why didn't any of the many human rights or civil rights activists protest the expulsion of Jews and only Jews from Gush Katif during Disengagement?

Then why don't any of the many human rights or civil rights activists protest the fact that many Arab countries don't allow Jews?

Then why don't any of the many human rights or civil rights activists protest Bush, Rice, Blair, the Left etc and Olmert's plan to banish Jews from their homes and communities again?

It seems clear to me that their plans and goals are totally immoral!

Apartheid, The Truth

Apartheid is the epitome of segregation. It was the official term in South Africa for the legal policy of restricting rights of the native Black Africans. Nowadays, people claim that it exits in Israel against Arabs, but the truth is very different.

Apartheid
n.noun  An official policy of racial segregation formerly practiced in the Republic of South Africa, involving political, legal, and economic discrimination against nonwhites.

A policy or practice of separating or segregating groups.
The condition of being separated from others; segregation.

There are many more restrictions of Jewish Israelis than on Arabs in Israel. OK, to be clear, I define "Israel" as the Land of Israel and all of the Land the League of Nations mandated to Great Britain to develop into a Jewish State and Land that Israel liberated in the 1967 Six Days War.

This is the map of the land that the League of Nations had decided should be a Jewish State.

Franco-British Boundary Convention Mandate for Palestine Map

Great Britain illegally chopped off much more than half, everything east of the Jordan River and gave it to the Hashemites who were not native to the area at all. They then declared Abdullah the Hashemite as Emir of Transjordan.

The Jordanian monarchy was set up in 1921, with the help of Britain. The sons of Hussein bin Ali, the Sharif and Emir of Mecca from 1908 until 1917, were set up as kings of Iraq and Jordan. In Jordan, Abdullah I was made Emir ofTransjordan, a post he held from 11 April 1921 until Transjordan was granted independence on 25 May 1946 as the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan. Abdullah was crowned the country's first king. The country's name was shortened to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on 3 April 1949. (Wikipedia)

That's illegal occupation if anything is!!

And if you want to check out a Jewish community and Jewish Rights in Jordan, then and today, you'll easily discover that it's judenrein, yes, the Nazi term for an area cleansed of its Jews.

Judenfrei ("free of Jews") or Judenrein ("clean of Jews") was a Nazi term to designate an area "cleansed" of Jewish presence during The Holocaust.^[1]While Judenfrei referred merely to "freeing" an area of all of its Jewish inhabitants, the term Judenrein (literally "clean of Jews") was also used. This had the stronger connotation that any trace of Jewish blood had been removed as an impurity.^[2] (Wikipedia)

Please don't ignore the timing of the invention of Jordan. It's barely a decade before the beginning of Nazism and explains why the Government of Great Britain never protested the Nazi persecution and murder of its Jewish population. Even though the the League of Nations was clear in what it demanded of Great Britain, the British did its best to sabotage the creation of a Jewish State. It only fought the Nazis to preserve its own sovereignty.

Transjordan/Jordan was established for the sole purpose to keep Jews out-- apartheid- of the historic and documented Land of Israel.

Post-World War Two, when the Zionists finally lost patience with the British and realized that we would only get a Jewish State if we took unilateral action and declared one, the British helped the Arabs in their attacks on the State of Israel and was one of the only two countries to recognize Jordan's illegal occupation of what they called the "West Bank," which was the land between the ceasefire lines and the Jordan River. Jewish communities in those areas, such as Gush Etzion, were massacred or forcefully taken from their homes, held in Jordan and eventually released to Israel.



And today most of the world, including a shocking amount of Jews and Israelis, still support apartheid against Jews in the Land of Israel.

We're condescendingly told that it is for our own good and safety, because if we enter, we may not come out alive. Now, they see nothing wrong or immoral in Arab terrorism. They do not condemn or try to stop the terrorist activity, but they placate them by giving them freedom of movement. Yes, the Arabs can travel all over, but we Jewish Israelis can't. That is the "apartheid" we have here. It is against Jews!

Anti-Israel Hypocrisy Reigns

There is no apartheid in Israel. Arabs, Jews of all races, Christians, Muslims, Bahais, Druze etc. all live in Israel.

• All live with full rights in Israel. 
• All can study in universities, together in the same classes.
• All get the same medical care.
• All are allowed to worship according to their own precepts.

FOPWA

Protests like these are anti-semitic lies. 

But if you want to talk about apartheid in the Middle East, there are many countries and a notorious "district" that practices it unabashedly. They discriminate against one religion, and that religion is not Islam. It's Judaism.

Jews are forbidden to live as Jews in Jordan, the PA-Palestinian Authority and many other places, but for some fokokt antisemitic reason, nobody calls that apartheid. 

The United Nations, United States, European Union etc. all support making large parts of the Land of Israel Judenrein.  Judenrein means "clean of Jews," which is a form of apartheid, plain and simple. There is no logical way to dress it up into anything else, but somehow when it comes to anti-Jewish apartheid people refuse to accept/admit the truth. It's so easy to see how the Holocaust happened without any international protests as the anti-Jewish discrimination laws got more and more vicious morphing into death camps. It's a miracle that there were still Jews alive in Europe when the war ended, because saving Jews was not part of the Allied Forces battle plan.

International antisemitism is getting worse, and I can't see an improvement at all. Universities all over the world have accepted and teach the lie that Israel is an apartheid state that stole land from Arabs. This can't be rolled back. I'm very pessimistic about the future. I feel safest in Israel. Here, at least, I can still blog the truth.

The Hypocrisy of a Judenrein (Empty of Jews) State

I've written about the international adoption of the Nazi policy of cleansing an area or state of Jews, making it judenrien, many times.  This totally immoral racist policy is the linchpin of the ideology, ironically supported by many Jews, proposing the establishment of a Pseudostian aka Palestinian sic State.  Israpundit has posted an excellent article on the same theme as I've written:

The West supports a Judenrein Palestine
by Matthew M. Hausman, AMERICAN THINKER

I recommend reading it.

Haunting

These pictures have been haunting me.

I live here in Shiloh, in relative (bli eyin haraa--don't tempt the evil eye) safety. We're far from the kassams and other rockets the Arab terrorists are launching at southern Israel, and we're far from the missiles launched by the Hezbollah, the Arab terrorists of the north. But I'm finding my nights filled with nightmares just the same.




Bush claims to be anti-terrorist. He gave a rousing speech in the Knesset (of which I'm still trying to find out who wrote it--maybe Eli Wiesel?) Olmert, as Israel's Prime Minister, is supposed to have Israel's defense/survival as his main priority. But at the same time Israel's south is suffering Arab terrorist bombardments, innocent Jews are being killed and injured, the two of them are having a grand time.

My generation, the post World War II baby boomers, of which both Bush and Olmert are members, was raised to mock the excuses of our elders that they "didn't know that there was a Holocaust going on."

In the pre-satellite, pre-Internet, pre-digital, pre-cellphone, pre-cheap phone calls, etc. era it was much easier to hide the cruel anti-Jewish actions of the Nazis.

Today the news is out, the pictures are instantly published, there are no secrets, but we see that nobody cares.

In the 1930's when the democratically elected Nazis began the anti-Jewish laws culminating in the Extermination Camps and the murder of six million Jews, the official Jewish leadership tried to work with the Nazis, rather than broadcast emergency calls for help, condemnation and cessation of the Nazi Regime.

Yes, I do see similarities in the Nazi period with today. The Nazis aimed for a judenrein (an empty of Jews) Germany, later all of Europe, and the Arabs, with the full support of the entire world, including the United States, the United Nations, the world's media and the Israeli Left, want a judenrein Judea, Samaria (Biblical Heartland) and most of the Middle-East.

I'm horrified at myself for continuing my everyday life when our very existence is in danger!

Hitler May Have Lost the War, But His Judenrein Policy Lives On

Dry Bones has a brilliant, as usual, post about Hitler and Nazism.  The cartoon is minor in this one.  So read the entire post, please.

It's so totally outrageous and immoral that people all over the world, including Israel, have no problems with the demand that parts of the world including the Jewish National Homeland, the Biblical Land of Israel, be judenrein, cleansed of Jews.  That's racist.  That's immoral.  And that's part of the Nazi ideology.  Connect the dots.

Apartheid, The Basis for "Two State" Solution

Looking east from Shiloh, which has a very long and well-documented Jewish History, though people all over the world want it Judenrein, clean of Jews.

Read this New Yorker interview with Michael Oren, former Israeli Ambassador to the United States, by Isaac Chotiner to get to the nitty gritty of "anti-settlement" pro-Apartheid vs Jews world view and their worship of the "Two State" solution. In Oren's favor, I must say that he seems to be evolving Rightwards in terms of policy/ideology.

When Michael Oren was first appointed as Israel's Ambassador to the USA, lots of people were concerned about his Leftist reputation, but he did well. In the New Yorker interview he didn't go far enough, as far as I'm concerned. I would have liked for him to out and out call Isaac Chotiner pro-apartheid and anti-Jewish/antisemitic. Oren wimped out; instead he just ended the interview and hung up on Chotiner.

I have a strong feeling that Chotiner hasn't a clue that he came out sounding anti-Jewish, pro-Apartheid. Oren had requested that the interview be scrapped, if I understood him correctly. If I'm not mistaken, Chotiner just edited the transcription of the interview, in which he said some ridiculous things, and Oren tried to show him his hypocrisy. I guess that Oren wanted it scrapped, because he was understandably wary about what Chotiner could do with it as an article. B"H, Chotiner chose a format that allowed Oren's words to appear without much change.

What's most disturbing to me about the interview is that Chotiner seems totally oblivious to his pro-apartheid antisemitic ideology/position. This is so typical of those who promote the so-called Palestinians. They endorse as an acceptable requirement that Jews be banned from "Palestine," and they don't think it immoral that Jews are banned from quite a number of Arab countries. For some inexplicable reason they don't see the banning of Jews as apartheid. 

It's too bad that Michael Oren wasn't willing to confront Isaac Chotiner with the truth. That would have brought the interview to a much higher level. Oren should have recorded it, continued it making the truth clear and of course publicize it.

Jews are being discriminated against, and hypocrisy rules the media, diplomacy, universities etc.

Biblical Shiloh, one of Judaism's Holy Cities, well-documented Jewish History, though people all over the world want it Judenrein, clean of Jews.

#145 New Year, Old Problem

Musings #145
October 6, 2005
The 3rd of Tishrei

New Year, Old Problem

There was a time in many countries, when it was common to see signs: “No dogs, no Irish allowed” And even now, when the signs are illegal, there is still all sorts of discrimination. When I was googling the subject just now, I found a fantastic article in “The Village Voice” from eight years ago about the anti-conservative discrimination by the “liberals.”

Now, the definition of “liberal” is: “that all citizens have equal rights under the law.” The only problem is that there isn’t a single country that truly guarantees equal rights to all, and frequently the “liberals” are most militant in imposing their views on others. They favor their pet “victims” with all sorts of assistance, and they don’t care who suffers, who’s discriminated against in the process.

When I was in high school, I heard about the terrible discrimination against Jews in the USSR and immediately became one of the activists protesting the situation. I tried to publicize the situation and the demonstrations in my mostly Jewish suburban Long Island school. But I wasn’t successful. The popular cause at that time was “Civil Rights,” that was the civil rights of American blacks. I was alone in seeing the rights of Soviet Jews to go to synagogues, eat kosher, have Brit Milah, and keep Shabbat as a civil rights issue.

During the Nazi rule in Germany, nobody seemed concerned by the discrimination of Jews. Of course it first started with minor things, like being forbidden to sit on park benches and being required to wear a “Jewish star” on their clothes. Then more serious restrictions, like moving into the ghetto and much later systematic murder. Think of it as “salami tactics.” The Nazis stressed that they wanted their land Judenrein, “Cleansed of Jews, denoting an area where all Jews had been either murdered or deported.”

There were no protests neither from the great Liberals of the age, nor by World Jewry. Even when thousands of Jews were being murdered daily, the world was silent. Growing up post World War II, I was certain that such a thing would never happen again, but here we are, not even two months after Disengagement and more of the world is Judenrein.

Jews are forbidden to enter large sections of the Land of Israel. Just this morning Jewish worshippers were arrested for praying in the Shalom Al Yisrael Synagogue in Jericho. This didn’t happen in Jericho, Long Island, New York, or Jericho, Vermont or Canada. In those locations Jews are guaranteed the right to pray. It’s just in the Middle East, which includes the Holy Land, where Jews are restricted. Even though up to the middle of the twentieth century there were large and affluent Jewish populations in various Arab countries, today, after massive migration, the few remaining are severely discriminated against.

And where are the cries and protests of the lovers of human rights and liberalism? And where is the UN Security Council, which is so quick to condemn Israel for existing, for defending itself?

How can the same human beings who cry and protest at the disappearance of some rare snail, bird or lizard, which apparently isn’t hardy enough to survive according to the principle of evolution not be willing to support human communities destroyed for political reasons? The communities were healthy and vibrant. Why did they have to be destroyed? The only reason was hate, racism, hatred of Jews.

According to Jewish Tradition, we have just begun the New Year, and we all have the power to repent, to cleanse ourselves of sin. If we repent properly, sincerely, the sins convert to good deeds. We are all capable of change and improvement.

G-d willing, the world’s human and civil rights activists will recognize the continuing discrimination against Jews and use all their powers to stop it. And even more important, G-d willing, the entire Jewish People will wake up and unite for all Am Yisrael, the People of Israel.

Batya Medad, Shiloh
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Déjà Vu, Like in The Days Of "Judges"

My chevruta, study partners, and I are repeating Matan's Al Haperek program in which we learn Na"Ch, meaning the Prophets and Writings Sections of the Bible. We enjoyed It so much when the program was running that we decided to repeat it on our own. We finished Joshua and now we're up to Shoftim, Book of Judges.

Learning the Bible puts a very good perspective on today's political situation here in Israel. Certain things get repetitive. I'm not talking about the sins here. I'm talking about conquering the Land. We notice that some cities end up being conquered more than once. Apropos to the fact that we're a half a century, yes a full fifty years, since the miraculous 1967 Six Days War, way back when the Jewish People had to reconquer Land, meaning go to war again for a very simple reason.

Conquering is one thing, but it doesn't change facts on the ground unless you keep the mitzvah of yishuv ha"Aretz, live in the Land, build homes, cities, plant vineyards etc. That's part of  being sovereign.

Unfortunately, successive Israeli Governments have intentionally left most of the Land we liberated in 1967 judenrein, empty of Jews. In addition it hasn't been fully annexed and made part of sovereign Israel. That's why we're under diplomatic and terrorist attack.

It's not enough to have a miraculous victory of Biblical proportions. We must use the Land for the good of the Jewish People. Gd willing, speedily in our days...

Why do we relegate ourselves to the  Kotel?

Shiloh celebrating 40 years

Ancient Biblical Shiloh

Ancient Biblical Shiloh

Yes, Bibi, "The World Ignored Our Annihilation"

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu at
Auschwitz, June 13, 2013.
Photo: Israel GPO.

 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is right that "The World Ignored Our Annihilation," but he doesn't seem to understand that nothing has really changed.  And the lesson to learn from it is that we should remember that we can't rely on anyone when in trouble.  We must have policies that don't require being rescued or help by any other country.

“The leaders of the Allies knew about the Holocaust in real time. They understood exactly what was happening in the death camps. They were asked to act, they could have acted, and they did not. To we Jews the lesson is clear. We must not be complacent in the face of threats of annihilation. We must not bury our heads in the sand or allow others to do the work for us. From here, the place that attests to the desire to destroy us, I, the Prime Minister of Israel, the state of the Jewish People, say to all the nations of the world: The State of Israel will do whatever is necessary to prevent another holocaust.”

I'm just a lowly blogger; I'm not in any position to change or make policy, but Netanyahu is the Israeli Prime Minister and he can do a lot more than just tap letters on a keyboard.

The Holocaust teaches us that normal cultural and "moral" values are ignored when the victims are Jews. 

Today we are victimizing ourselves by agreeing to empower Arab terrorists and given them sovereignty over our Land.  Claiming that it's possible to make a "Palestinian state" that doesn't endanger Israel is like claiming that 1 + 1 = 3.

The early Nazi laws which only "discriminated" against Jews in Germany were nothing compared to the laws against Jews in most Arab countries today and also in the "PA Authority."  Yes, Jews were still safer then in Germany, than we are today in Jenin, Ramallah or Shechem.

Just like there was silence from international human rights organizations then when Jews were losing their jobs and being thrown out of schools, who is complaining about the Judenrein policies of Jordan, Dubai and the PA Authority, among others?

It's time to learn our lesson and stop talking "peace."  We have a country to build.  We shouldn't expect any help from others.  Once we concentrate our energies on true sovereignty, we'll be the "light to all nations," strong and secure.

Shabbat Shalom

Vayeitzei, Let's Go Out to Meet Some Blogs, aka Havel Havelim

This week is the Torah Portion Vayeitzei Genesis 28,10-32,3 and Ya'akov went out...

One of the wonderful things about this day and age and the fact that G-d made man smart enough to invent the internet is that we can get out of our small world and meet other people.  Blogging and reading blogs are a good way of taking advantage of these modern inventions. Havel Havelim is the weekly blog carnival, started many, many years ago by David of Soccer Dad, which offers links to many Jewish and/or Israeli blogs. HH  floats around the internet.  We organize it on our facebook page.  Links can be sent via blog carnival.  Let me know if you'll like to host an edition.  It's not hard.  Hosts will receive the links and the "instacarnival" from them and should also include other posts of their choosing. For this week's edition, I'm using the "secret" format, my very favorite.  I'm just going to give you the titles and hope you'll visit more and more blogs.  Please share, visit and comment. Enjoy...

Sisterhood,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

• Little Things - BMT +73
• Historic Jerusalem Building, A Pisher's Guide to Jerusalem #3
• Jerusalem has a brewery!

The Mansion of Halakhah 

The Baby Update!
The Fate of the Iraqi Jewish Archive
Lehava’s Benzi Gopstein Discusses Assimilation and the Problem of Arab Bus Drivers
Another Amazing Book Swap for Charity...

• Shmuel Shkedi Suffers Stroke
• MISSIONARY DEAN BYE TO BRING GROUP OF XIANS AND NEW OLIM TO TOUR SHOMRON COMMUNITIES
• Video: Iranian TV posts animation of attack on Tel Aviv and Dimona
• More Five Shekel Food in Jerusalem
• What Have Israeli Leaders Been Cooking Up for Us?
• Sokolka, Russia And The Balfour Declaration: The Israel Forever Foundation
• Eye On The Prize: The Temple Mount
• What is Peace?
• Shiur Theatre: Religious Coercion: A Modern Defense of Rachel
• New Site: History of Israel 
• TorahMama: Vayetze
• In Cold Blood
• Twelve Tribes Philosophical Framework (for the Yeshivish)
• ADL's Top 10 Anti-Israel Groups in the U.S.: Ammended by ... 
• A beautiful election story
• Vayeitzei Challah
• The continuing assault on Resolution 242
• JewishIsrael Responds to Rav Eliezer Melamed's View of the Christian Role in Prophecy
• Kristallnacht – 75 Years Ago
• Only in Chutz la’Aretz, you say? Pity!
• The Get: A Systemic Problem
• If "A Rose by Any Other Name Would Still Smell as Sweet," Then is it Nazi-like to Want Judea-Samaria aka West Bank Judenrein?
Walk Article-Vayetze
• WoW, Rosh Chodesh Kislev at Western Wall
• Searching for Exile - Truth or Myth (video)
• Only in Israel, Prayer Praising G-d as Hit Song
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They Really Want to Destroy Us

On the Jewish Calendar, the 40th anniversary of the Six Days War was a few weeks ago, but on the Christian Calendar it's now.

People of my generation and older have very clear and distinct memories of it and the horribly tense and frightening month before. The Arab countries were very proudly and clearly stating that they wanted Israel destroyed and the Jews thrown into the sea to drown. Pharaoh had failed at it thousands of years before when G-d opened the sea and the Children of Israel marched safely through. It closed up on the Egyptians, and they drowned.

The United Nations cooperated with all of the Arab requests and hastily withdrew its troops to facilitate the Arab war aim. The United States stood by passively. Not a single country offered aid or threatened serious sanctions against the Arab threats and plans.

At a press conference on May 28, Egyptian president Gamel Abdel Nasser said, "The existence of Israel is in itself an aggression… We will not accept any…coexistence with Israel... Today the issue is not the establishment of peace between the Arab states and Israel… The war with Israel is in effect since 1948."

On May 31 the Egyptian newspaper Al Akhbar reported, "Under the terms of the military agreement signed with Jordan, Jordanian artillery, coordinated with the forces of Egypt and Syria, is in a position to cut Israel in two at Kalkilya, where Israeli territory between the Jordan armistice line and the Mediterranean Sea is only 12 kilometers wide."

On June 1, Ahmed Shukairy, the PLO representative in Jordanian Jerusalem, responded as follows when asked what would happen to Israelis if there was a war: "Those who survive will remain in Palestine. I estimate that none of them will survive." for complete article, click this

Remember that this was just over twenty years after Nazi Germany was defeated and skeletal Jewish survivors were paraded on newsreels as the warm-up for post-war comedies. The United States had joined the war against Germany to save Britain and protect its own interests, not to stop the murder of Jews. Six million Jews had been murdered by the time the war was over.

Too many Israelis insist on believing that they're invincible and that the Arabs haven't really changed since the miraculously easy victory of 1967. That's the tragic flaw of Israel's Left Wing, which, contrary to the standard political labels, is truly reactionary, worshipping a past, which had a precarious, at best, security. The past they worship is the early days of the State of Israel, the time of the tzena, rationing, financial deprivation, frequent terrorism and sniper attacks on innocent Jewish civilians.

Instead of welcoming the Six Days War victory, the left-wing, and the psychological illness has spread to the "middle," all we hear from the media and most politicians is that it's "evil to rule over others." Shtuyot, as we say in Hebrew. That's not true at all. What's evil is the attempt to destroy a nation, and the Arabs still want us all dead, just like the Nazis did. The Nazis wanted Germany, and all of Europe, Judenrein, clean of Jews, and that's what the Arabs want for Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel. And... that's what the UN, the US and even some Jews want for Eretz Yisrael.

That's evil.

Why can't we Jews live in our HISTORIC HOMELAND? I'd like a good answer. Honestly, I'm sick and tired of hearing that I can't live in my home. There's no reason why I shouldn't be able to live in Shiloh, Israel. Why not? Would I be thrown out of Shiloh, Tennessee?

Remember; instead of being destroyed in 1967, Israel was victorious and liberated historical Jewish Land. There's nothing wrong with that. And that land must stay in our possession for the use and benefit of Jews.

We don't have to be sorry for winning and surviving.

Re: The Ulpana Neighborhood "Evacuation," I Don't Know What Makes Me Saddest

My thoughts, some at least, about the forced evacuation of homes in Beit El's Ulpana neighborhood are very sad.  I must admit that I didn't join any of the demonstrations.  It's not that I don't believe in demonstrating; it's just that I don't trust the organizers.  I don't/didn't think they were ready to risk all for the cause.

Apparently there were government orders to keep the children away.  The pictures look sterile and dead.  The silent protest included letting the government workers do a lot of the packing.

It's hard to sort my thoughts into clear prioritized reasons.  Listing as "1, 2, 3..." means that one is either the most or the least upsetting.  I guess I'll write them in "bullets," rather than number them.

• I remember the terror attack in which Arab terrorists murdered some of the Tzur family.
• I remember that Yoel Tzur, the bereaved father and widower was given the opportunity to develop the Ulpana neighborhood in the memory of his wife and son.
• I remember the buildings being built and how they looked when they were new.
• I remember losing my faith in Moetzet YESHA during the painful time leading up to Disengagement.  I remember a ride in a taxi from a demonstration and what the driver said: "It's so obvious that Disengagement will be bad for the country, that the fact that Moetzet YESHA hasn't succeeded in getting it canceled means that there's something wrong with Moetzet YESHA."
• I finally realized that Moetzet YESHA is  working with the government of the State of Israel before Gush Katif became not only judenrein but the launching pad for deadly missiles against Israel.
• I remember the horror of Amona and how the "government forces" attacked innocent Jews, among them my students and their teachers.
• I could see the ulpana neighborhood drama play out as deja vu.
• The government did, too and put lots of pressure on the Beit El people so there wouldn't be those fantastic inspiring pictures of young Jews defying the armed riot squad police.

• The final terribly silent evacuation of those houses reminds me of when the family of a severely injured or dying person is put under pressure by the doctors to "pull the plug," while some protest that he/she is still alive.

I feel so sorry for those who actually believed that the could beat Bibi's government.  The coalition is ninety-four out of one hundred and twenty Knesset Members.  Bibi has each held tightly.  If they move too far, they're out.  Yes, that's why I don't vote Likud.

The Likud's Not For Me

The statement in the title can be read at least two ways.

• The Likud is not my party of choice to vote for in the upcoming Israeli Elections.
• The Likud doesn't promote policies I consider necessary for the survival and growth of the State of Israel.

Yesterday, for the second time in less than a week, I ran into an old friend who touts himself as pro-Land of Israel, Right wing etc, but he's a loyal Likudnik. We had one of those quick, straight to business, talks on the sidewalks of Jerusalem. He considers himself a pragmatist, a realist, and that's why he thinks it's important to support Bibi Netanyahu and the Likud.

I also consider myself a pragmatist, a realist, and that's why I'm not supporting the Likud. He is encouraged by the addition of strong ideological Israelis, such as Benny Begin, but I'm disappointed. Benny has returned to his father's party, which has made the sentimental and nostalgic very happy.

My sentiments are here in Shiloh, the center of Israeli political history, where the Jewish People became a Nation, the first administrative and spiritual Capital, which lasted 369 years.

The two Binyamin's, Begin and Netanyahu have mentioned nothing about the importance of Israel holding onto and strengthening its presence in Judea, Samaria and specifically Shiloh. All we hear are platitudes about an undivided Jerusalem and the importance of security.

Well, there's no security without land. It's that simple. The cease-fire lines after the 1967 Six Days War gave Israel security. Successive governments bumbled, stumbled and weakened us by handing over land and sovereignty to the Arabs. Every step in the "peace process" has increased terrorism. Much of Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel, is Judenrein, scoured/empty of Jews, and the Likud party is not promoting anything to change it.

I hope and pray that there will be a political party I can vote for with a clean conscience, a political party I can promote and work for without embarrassment and the need to make excuses for. All I want is one with a very simple platform.

Zot Shelanu!

All of the Land of Israel

For the Betterment of Israeli Jews

We Have One Land

It is Ours!

Negotiations? A Rather Naive Means to Peace and Security

When discussing life and death, deadly hate, war and peace, it's pretty obvious to me that words, negotiations are not the means to a pleasant successful repair of a bad situation.  A negotiated agreement generally turns out to be cosmetic, temporary. People who have had cosmetic surgery for reduce a large, ugly nose can't expect their children to be born with a nose that looks like their small, surgically reduced one. That big one is in their genes, and the small one is man-made, artificial.

Can a leopard change his spots?

Spot the Difference

Simply put, this is why I think that Israel is making a very dangerous mistake trying to negotiate with the Arabs for "peace."  I just don't think that a massive group of people, and the Arabs who want the State of Israel destroyed and the Land of Israel judenrein are many, many millions, can suddenly change their spots with a "peace treaty."    It's harder than painting a dark blue and pink striped room solid white.

Simultaneously to the pressure the United States has been very blatantly putting on Israel to agree to all Arab demands for "peace," Obama's Government has been trying to negotiate with Iran to get them to stop their nuclear weapons development.  Luckily, there are other countries involved, and some of them have more seichel, common sense.

Photo Credit: FARS

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif insists that Tehran will never accept plans written by others. Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says that's precisely the problem.American, Russian, Chinese, British and German diplomats are all hot and heavy about the new Iran deal, making Prime Minister Netanyahu look like the poor girl who wasn’t invited to the prom, but then, when all seems lost – French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says he doesn’t like the deal. “There are still a couple of points that we are not satisfied with,” Fabius told a French radio station, among them the Arak nuclear plant and the fact that Iran gets to keep its stock of 20 percent enriched uranium. “We are for an agreement, that’s clear. But the agreement has got to be serious and credible. The initial text made progress but not enough,” Fabius said, suggesting the French government will not fall for “a fool’s game.”
Read more at: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/hallelujah-france-does-not-like-the-iran-deal/2013/11/09/

In all honesty, I think that it is much, much more difficult for Israel to negotiate a serious, viable, realistic agreement with the Arabs, because the Arabs have been attacking us physically with international diplomatic, academic and media support for more than a century.  Generations of Arabs have been raised with hate of Jews and Israel.  That can't be wiped out with the swipe of a pen in a photo-op ceremony.

It's very clear from United States Secretary of State Kerry's threats to Israel that he and the Obama government are not neutral mediators.

(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned Israel on Thursday that it could face a third Palestinian uprising and deepening international isolation if American-brokered peace negotiations failed.

There is no way for us to have peace with the Arabs until the Arabs want to live with us in peace.  At present there is absolutely no sign of that.  They want us, Jews and the State of Israel dead, destroyed and gone. And their also want more foreign funds to give to their cronies and add to their secret bank accounts.  All investigations of their finances show this.

Over the past four years, the Palestinian Authority has managed to "lose" nearly $3 billion in financial aid from Europe, according to a report by the European Court of Auditors that was leaked to Britain's Sunday Times.
The news comes just days after Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbaspublicly blamed Israel for his regime's economic woes.
The European Court of Auditors is an organ set up by the European Union to monitor income and spending by member states. In its report, the court revealed that $2.7 in direct aid to the Palestinians between 2008 and 2012 could not be accounted for. What's more, EU investigators who visited Jerusalem and the so-called "West Bank" were unable to access information or speak to Palestinian officials regarding suspected corruption.
Of course, this comes as no surprise to the Palestinians themselves. In a survey published last month by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, 79 percent of respondents said the Abbas government is corrupt to the point of being ineffective.

So, let's get real, pragmatic and stop this dangerous farce!  No more negotiations.  No more "gestures" to the so-called "Palestinians."  Let's pull a Fidel Castro and tell the United States to butt out!  When the Arabs want real peace, whether it's in one generation or ten, we'll be ready.

PA Covered With "Teflon"

Shiloh Hakeduma, Tel Shiloh

The acceptance and promotion of the PA-Palestinian Authority by numerous countries and international organizations is totally irrational, unless you are willing to recognize the inherent antisemitism which is even stronger than the history of terrorism of the PA.

PA joins more international organizations

Nobody lets simple facts and history get in their way of their enthusiasm for this corrupt administrative body.

• There never was a Palestinian people.
• There never was a country called Palestine.

The so-called Palestine was invented to block the Jewish return to our historic Holy Land. The British who were supposed to facilitate a Jewish State during the period of the Mandate did everything in their power to invent an alternative. That's why they invited the Hashemites to take over Transjordan, which was far from the Hashemites' own land. 

The easiest thing to prove about the Arabs is their violence and terrorism against both Jews and Christians. That's why if you look at the demographics, you'll see that the only country in the middle east that isn't rapidly losing their Christian population is Israel. And the only country that gives full human and religious rights to all is Israel. Most of the Arab countries, including Jordan, are judenrein. That's the Nazi term for "Jew free," no Jews allowed.

While it's so easy to prove a Jewish connection to Jerusalem and the rest of the Land of Israel, the world keeps trying to invent an Arab narrative to compete.

Many kingdoms, nations etc occupied the land here, but only the Jewish People had an independent kingdom here.