Arab Terror Plagues Israel

Rocket attack sparks chaos at festival in southern Israel

Arab terrorists, the darlings of the pro-Palestine BDS supporters, haven't let up terrorizing Israel, innocent Israeli citizens. In the past few weeks teenagers were murdered and others seriously injured by Arab terrorists in multiple terror attacks. For over a year, Israel's south has been plagued by various genres of terror by Arab terrorists located on the Gaza Strip.

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We can't get away from it, since, everyone's family here. It doesn't take long to find out family connections. Condition of injured terror victims is a frequent topic of conversation, even in the most peaceful locations.

The Israeli public is getting very fed up with the same tired, ineffective slogans from our government leaders and politicians.

Less than a month before elections, and I see no enthusiasm, just cynicism. Instead of seeing voting as an act of positive patriotism, I'm getting the feeling it's dreaded as much as a mammography or serious dental work sans novocaine.

We Israelis would like some serious anti-terror policies.

• Immediate execution of any Arab terrorist caught in the act, no matter how young. OK, a parent can volunteer to be executed instead of guilty child, but the child will be jailed for life.
• Shoot to kill Arab terrorists trying to enter Israel, and if they're using children as "human shields," that's their problem, not ours.
• Any foreign NGO, media, politician etc who supports the terrorists and BDS should not be allowed into Israel. Those who are here should be banished. 
• Any Israeli, Arab, Jew or whatever who supports the terrorists and BDS should be jailed in isolation, sans phone, internet etc.

Israeli security is more important than the "civil rights" of our enemies.

American Left Defends Anti-Israel BDS as "Free Speech"

LEFT WING PUSHES BACK AGAINST LAST-MINUTE EFFORT TO PASS ANTI-BDS BILL

While Democratic leadership supports the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, which targets US companies that join the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the Jewish state, two powerful senators in Democratic politics expressed their opposition to its passage on Wednesday....

Among the senators claiming that BDS should be protected as "Free Speech" are Jews, and no surprise that the extreme Leftist J Street also opposes the bill.

American Jewry on the whole are extreme in their unquestioning support of the Democrats and the Left. I don't think there's an actual Mitzvah, Torah Commandment they observe more than voting for Democrats.

Even today, when the 21st century Democratic Party has adopted policies that support the destruction/annihilation of the State of Israel, Jewish Americans have continued their unquestioning support.

It's no secret that most American Jews eat the Torah-forbidden ham and shrimp, besides not having a clue that there's a fast day mid summer called the 9th of Av when we mourn the destruction of our Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Intermarriage has passed the tipping point, and it is now the norm, except in the most Torah observant circles. It is also rationalized/justified with Leftist slogans of "equality" and "free speech."

American Jewry has become so pro-Left Democrat that many actually oppose the American Embassy in Jerusalem, davka, because it was opened by a Republican President. That's the proof that they have ceased to think as Jews; they are now religiously Leftist Democrats.

I'm saddened by this development. And I'm pessimistic. The future of the Jewish People is here in Israel, no place else. Europe and other parts of the world are no better for Jews to remain true Jews.

Here I am marching in the 1970 Salute to Israel Parade with NCSY, just a couple of months before making aliyah, moving to Israel. It was the best move we could ever have made, B"H, thank Gd.

End BDS!

If you'd like some anti-BDS, that's the euphemism for anti-Israel those who are trying to destroy us financially and politically, information, then check out the End BDS site.

BDS is supported by extreme Leftists who influence the media, politicians, industry, business, academics and even celebrities, singers, actors etc. Their ultimate aim is to destroy the State of Israel, even though they don't like to come out with the "dirty words." Instead they give all sorts of idealized benign reasons and aims, but don't fall for their lies. BDS is Leftist fascist antisemitic. They have no problem with Arab terrorism, but they can't abide Israeli self-defense.

We con the world...

Natalie Portman, Typical Leftist Double-Talk

Natalie Portman may be a very talented and successful American actress, who was actually born in Jerusalem, Israel, but that doesn't make her a good Jew or expert in what's best for the State of Israel.

I haven't a clue as to how the Genesis Prize Foundation committee chooses its winners.

Some people obviously have money to burn and look for headline friendly celebrities of their political ilk to accept a couple of million dollars.

I must admit that I'm not on the same political wavelength as those controlling the Genesis Prize, but at least up to now, as far as I can remember, the recipients have all been polite enough to come to Israel to accept the prize. That is until Natalie Portman. Portman has announced that since she refuses to appear at the same ceremony as Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, she will not attend the ceremony. So far, she hasn't refused to accept the money. She plans on giving it to groups she approves of. And she doesn't consider her behavior as BDS, though it is.

Portman interprets Israeli history and "Jewish values" as a Leftist. She claims that Israel's establishment was a reaction to the Holocaust, which ignores and denies the well-documented history of the Zionist movement long before Nazism. Zionism, Jewish Nationalism, the right for Jews to have a state in the Historic Jewish Homeland, began in the 19th century.

The Genesis Prize committee should withdraw their prize to Portman, but they won't. If you look at the list of recipients, you'll see that their politics is no further to the Right than Natalie Portman's. The only difference is that the other recipients were more gracious and polite and willing to do anything for the money, even appear on the same stage as Bibi Netanyahu.

Israeli money

Negotiations With The Arabs Won't Bring Us Peace

I've been following news in Israel since before the 1967 Six Days War, and I've lived here since 1970, so I do have quite a long perspective. I remember when Israel's political Center and even Left mocked the idea of a Palestinian State and People. That was the consensus here. Some of us haven't changed our opinions, but most inexplicably have.

I emphasis  inexplicably, because facts and history haven't changed. All those Israelis who in recent decades, Right, Left and Center, who now insist, as I've heard Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu say, "...the Palestinians deserve a state..." have fallen for a dangerous con/sting.

Why should and how can anybody insist that a bunch of immoral blood-thirsty terrorists should be given land from a peaceful legitimate internationally recognized country so they can invent a new state?

Netanyahu keeps claiming that if he puts enough impossible conditions on this state, it just won't happen, but he's wrong.

Palestinian Media Watch

The ultimate and unrepentant aim of those Arab terrorists, who are called Palestinians, sic, is the destruction of the State of Israel, Gd forbid. Yes, it's that simple, that black and white.

Highlights of the speeches from the Jerusalem Post Conference in New York, see this and this, show that there are politicians and government ministers who are wary of such a state, but that's not enough to make me feel safe. And of course, all of their proposals are based on negotiations.

There's a basic, and very dangerous, premise in negotiations. That is the recognition of the other side as legitimate, equal. That's the tragic flaw in negotiating which shouldn't be ignored.

For decades already, the Americans have made it clear that they see the Arabs, even Hamas, as equal to Israel and peaceful citizens like myself.

PM Rabin with Arafat and Bill Clinton

Over twenty years ago, in my living-room, an American Consular official had the utter gall to equate me and my neighbors with the terrorists of Hamas. I told him off and he seemed very surprised. Since Yitzchak Rabin had been willing to accept the terrorist Arafat, the game had changed for many, but not for me.

Arafat never stopped his support of terrorism against Jews and Israelis and ditto for his successors, such as Abbas.

Support of terrorism isn't something that can be negotiated away by a bit of compromise. It's an intrinsic fact.

It doesn't matter what the format, how direct, indirect, whether in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv or the White House, negotiations with terror supporters won't bring peace. Such negotiations will just weaken us, militarily, ideologically and diplomatically. Take a good look. This is exactly what has been happening the past few decades. Israel's legitimizing the so-called Palestinians have just chipped away at our acceptance. Today most universities, all over the world, are hotbeds of anti-Israel, pro BDS ideology.

The cat's out of the bag and we have an almost impossible mess to undo. Gd willing we will succeed.

The Radical Jewish Left and The 1967 Six Days War

There are too many, OK even one would be bad, radical Leftist Jewish groups calling themselves "pro-Israel" while their policies support the delegitimization and dismantling of the State of Israel.

Here in Israel there's "Peace Now," as if "peace" is s commodity that one can just buy for a price. And there are those women's groups that harass soldiers who are too polite or confused to arrest them.

Internationally there's BDS, as insidious as a group can be, trying to attack Israel's economy, even though many, or most for sure, of the businesses they target employ the very same Arabs they claim to support.

And there's J Street, the darling of the American Left, like Obama, the Clintons etc.

American Protesters' Cause Isn't Clear to Israel

It used to be that American pro-Israel Jewry, Right, Left and Center, could unite around groups like AIPAC, but the anti-Israel element in American Jewish society has been getting bolder. They're beginning to remove their "pro-Israel" disguises and revealing their essence, allowing the world to see the truth. They are pro-Arab, pro-Palestine and do not accept the legitimacy of the State of Israel and Zionism.

It's now a half a century since the 1967 Six Days War, which was a war for the very survival of the State of Israel. Today it's only my generation and older who remember the war and the tension and threats that led to it.

The State of Israel had to fight for its life, its very existence, and we had absolutely no allies.

• Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Jordan allied against Israel under the leadership of Abdel Nasser of Egypt. 
• Nasser demanded that the United Nations remove its peacekeeping forces from the Suez Canal, and the UN complied.
• Nasser announced that he was going to destroy the State of Israel, pushing it into the sea.
• And the world was silent. 

Not only was the world silent, no condemnations of Nasser, but you could feel them sitting comfortably waiting to see how long it would take for Israel to be defeated. At the time, Israel was a very poor, rather backwards country with a brain-drain population loss. And the popular joke was:

"Would the last person to leave, please turn off the lights at Lod Airport."

It was just over twenty years since the end of World War Two, and it was easy to see that little had changed since that same "world" had ignored the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis and had done nothing to stop it. 

The totally miraculous result of the Six Days War shocked Israelis as much as it shocked and horrified those who had been secretly hoping that Nasser would succeed. I have no delusions. I remember it all so well. The pro-Soviet Israeli Left had more power and influence in Israeli society than people like to admit. That's why there wasn't immediate annexation and settlement of the Land we so miraculously liberated.

Israel didn't decide on that surprise attack on the Arab air forces for a "land grab." It was the only way our smaller and weaker military forces had a chance to survive a war. It was also clear that if Nasser made military headway, more armies would join him against us, and the State of Israel wouldn't have had a chance to defeat them. Remember that we were all alone; we had no allies at all.

The State of Israel's victory in 1967 was of Biblical proportions and due to the miracles Gd performed.

וְעַל הַנִּסִּים וְעַל הַפֻּרְקָן. וְעַל הַגְּבוּרות. וְעַל הַתְּשׁוּעות וְעַל הַנִּפְלָאות וְעַל הַנֶּחָמות שֶׁעָשִׂיתָ לַאֲבותֵינוּ בַּיָּמִים הָהֵם בַּזְּמַן הַזֶּה
And [we thank You] for the miracles, for the redemption, for the mighty deeds, for the saving acts, and for the wonders which You have wrought for our ancestors in those days, at this time— (Chabad)

Israeli Sovereignty vs Terror

No surprise. More terror attacks.

Stabbing attack foiled in Hevron
TERRORIST STABS THREE BEFORE BEING SHOT DEAD IN OLD CITY

Those Arabs sure don't "deserve" a state.

BDS is just a front for pro-Arab terror antisemitism.

When we look for help from the outside world, we'll only find people willing to help us dismantle and weaken the State of Israel.

There is no need to get approval for Israel's existence and survival. On November 29th, 1947, the United Nations grudgingly voted "approval" of a Jewish State, but those countries that voted "yes" never expected that theoretical Jewish State to survive at all.

Every single time we try to please foreigners we get weaker. Dependence on approval of others and foreign aid is the diametric opposite of INDEPENDENCE.

There is only one power mightier than the United Nations, United States etcetera, and that is GD ALMIGHTY!

For those who read the Bible, that's the message there.

Time after time various rulers/dictators/pharaohs/emperors/kings etc attack, invade, conquer and occupy us and our Land, and then somehow we escape/defeat them and renew our rule and independence. If we declare full and uncompromising sovereignty over all of the Land we hold, we will enjoy permanent peace under Gd's eternal protection. But if yet again come to some compromise and follow foreign dictates, we will again find ourselves exiled, attacked and enslaved.

War of Words Must Be Fought, Too

I'm glad and relieved to see that the Israeli Government is paying attention to the non-military attacks on Israel.

BILL BANNING BOYCOTTERS FROM ISRAEL BECOMES A LAW

It's about time, better late than never, for sure.

Unfortunately, even close to seventy 70 years after the establishment of the State of Israel, which had davka been approved by a majority of the members of the United Nations on November 29, 1947, there is a large international movement questioning and attacking our legitimacy. Their weapons may be "words," but those words bring financial resources to Arab terrorists who kill, maim and terrorize innocent Jews.

It is now a full twenty-one 21 years since I was injured in a terror attack while waiting for a bus (or ride-depending on which would come first) in Jerusalem. Yes, I, too, among many Israelis and visitors, am a victim of Arab terror.

Location of "my Arab terror attack" as it looks today.
French Hill, Givat Hamivtar, Jerusalem
I was injured along with about twenty others, and a woman was murdered.

Today there is a very "sophisticated" war being waged against Israel by so-called "humanitarian" groups which incredibly see the humanity in terrorists, but look at Israelis like myself as terrible monsters. Their perversion of morality, history and facts is very dangerous.

Many, attacks, demonstrations, boycotts and riots are instigated and supported by foreigners who come to "help" the Arabs. Israel is safer to keep them out. Their ultimate aim is the destruction of the State of Israel and replacing it with a judenrein "Palestine," Gd forbid!

Experience teaches us Israelis to always be on the alert. Since, we know that a terror attack can come at anytime and anyplace, my fellow teacher and myself became terribly nervous when we saw all of these cars stopped and Arabs on the side of the road. I quickly checked news sites on my smartphone to see if there had been an attack, Gd forbid. But nothing could be found. Within a few minutes, security forces arrived and the Arabs ran back into their cars and traffic moved as if nothing had happened. Maybe nothing had happened...

Why Do Otherwise Intelligent Moral People Keep Saying "There Should Be A Palestine?"

As readers here know, I've complained innumerable times about the illogical support of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for a Palestinian State. Not only does such a thing go against my own logic and reasoning, but the legitimacy of such a state goes against his own.

The call for a Palestinian, sic, State is like some illogical mantra that otherwise intelligent, moral, educated people keep repeating as if it was a magic formula to be accepted by the international media, political leaders and accademia.

The idea that there is a Palestinian sic nation/people is just a few decades old. It's a total fiction/invention to push out a Jewish State from the land labeled "Palestine" on some maps. On other and older maps that piece of land is called Judea, because the only native people to have a history and kingdom there were Jews. Every other ruler here was an invader, an occupier, whether Roman, Persian, Greek, Turkish or British. 

And before some of you will start with your "Jordan is Palestine," please don't. Jordan is another of those modern inventions. Great Britain offered the Hashemite tribe from Saudi Arabia a big empty piece of land to call their own and keep out Jews. The British mentored the tribal chief who became the king and subsidized Jordan's economy for decades. A major reason that Jordan is so relatively peaceful is because the government did its best to keep out the so-called Palestinian refugees, sic. Jordan is rather like an Arab Judenrein Canada.

The former Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, recently came out with a fantastic little animated film about the hypocrisy of BDS. 

It just has one little flaw.

Rabbi Sacks made it clear; he said: "I support a Palestinian State." What a shame. The cartoon would have had been just as effective, if not more so, without the statement. That's especially because he shows exactly what has happened where Israel has gaven the Arabs a chance to rule themselves.

Yes, dangerous terrorist chaos. 

Must Watch: Brad Stine's "Boycott This!"

Fantastic ‘Boycott This!’ Anti-BDS Documentary. Light and easy to digest.

"Boycott of YESHA Products Proves How Productive We Are"

Many years ago, I heard that message from Women in Green founder Nadia Matar, and it's relevant today, too.

The fact that there's industry in Judea, Samaria, Jordan Valley and the Golan Heights owned by Jews is a wonderful thing. And the fact that the BDS and their fellow travelers love to list them makes it much easier for people to davka patronize them.

There's industry here, and the products are sold and used all over the world, not just locally.

Too many people even in Israel still like to think that we somehow live in tents and caravans commuting to work in "Israel." The "settlement enterprise," sic has been thriving for about forty years already.

Besides the traditional, going back to Biblical times, of wines, olive oil etc, there's also high tech here and all sorts of other industries, international, too. And contrary to what people like to think, Arabs work together with Jews in some of them.

The Ariel University is probably the fastest growing one in Israel. And it, too, benefits Arabs.

Nothing is apartheid against Arabs. The only people restricted are Jews. There are places where are warned not to enter, roads not to drive on, businesses we are kept out of and schools we are forbidden to study or teach in.

BDS and the like-minded actually do us a favor by mentioning all of the businesses and educational opportunities here. Patronize them, please.

American Jews Should Rethink Their Worship of Democratic Party

There's some totally illogical worship of the Democratic Party by American Jewry which goes against logic and history. And even worse is the fact that in today's policies it's a hotbed of the support of BDS, Palestine and other causes/ideologies that delegitimatize the State of Israel and support its destruction, Gd forbid.

I am not exaggerating one iota here.

For some strange reason, although four term President Franklin D Roosevelt did everything in his power to keep Jews fleeing the Nazis out of the United States, at the same time American Jewry considered him their savior.

June 4, 1939: Jewish refugee ship turned away from Florida coast 
Carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing the oppression of Nazi Germany, the German ocean liner MS St. Louis was anchored so close to the Florida coast, its passengers could see the lights of Miami. (Florida History Network)

Even though the American military were perfectly aware of the Death/Concentration Camps which the Nazis used to murder Jews and others they considered undesirable, stopping that cruel and inhuman situation was not part of the American plan.

Roosevelt's government didn't protest the earlier antisemitic policies of the Nazis either.

And today, over seventy years later, when the foreign policies of Democratic politicians endanger the security of the State of Israel still the vast majority of American Jewry votes Democrat.

I'm not surprised that Keith Ellison has a strong chance of heading the Democratic Party, because he really represents its policies:

“The United States foreign policy in the Middle East is governed by what is good or bad through a country of 7 million people. A region of 350 million all turns on a country of 7 million,” said Ellison, D-Minn. “Does that make sense? Is that logic? Right? When the Americans who trace their roots back to those 350 million get involved, everything changes. Can I say that again?” Keith Ellison 

Ellison is now trying to clean up his image, but whitewashing all of his anti-Israel statements is just cosmetic. It doesn't change the essence of Ellison.

For those who fear the Republicans because of the old KKK connections, get real. The BDS and pro-Palestinian groups are much, much larger and a greater danger to democracy, world peace and Israel.

BDS Equals Collective Punishment!

There's nothing more discriminatory, irrational, hypocritical, illogical, antisemitic and immoral than the BDS movement. The instigators and followers work hard at branding it as a moral peaceful movement, but the truth is the exact opposite. The actual aim of BDS is the delegitimization of the State of Israel. It's that simple.

Demonstrators gathered outside New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's office on June 9, 2016 to denounce his executive order targeting the BDS movement [Sainatee Suarez/Al Jazeera]

"Boycotting Peace by Fred Taub provides eloquent proof that those advocating boycotting Israel and the divestment from the Israeli economy are not only not interested in arriving at peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors, but have only one interest, and that is the destruction of the State of Israel. They are enemies of peace in the Middle East. From this kind of hate campaign against Israel it is only a small step to blatant anti-Semitism, a step that most of these Israel-bashers take without hesitation.   This is a very important and timely book." - Moshe Arens, Ambassador, former Israel Defense Minister, Professor

They certainly don't let facts get in their way. The BDS people will say and do anything to make Israel look bad. And they don't care if the fallout from their campaigns harm Arabs living in Israel, like those who lost their jobs when Sodastream buckled to their pressures and moved their factory from Samaria.

David Bedein speaking at ISRAEL ADVOCACY  DAY

This week I attended David Bedein's fascinating ISRAEL ADVOCACY DAY where I heard a number of excellent speakers, Noam Bedein, Arnon Groiss, Bassem Eid, David Bedein and Arlene Kushner give information you won't hear in other places, certainly not in the mainstream media.


One thing the media, NGOs and politicians ignore was brought up by Bassem Eid, founder and director of the Jerusalem-based Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, who stated with great emphasis was that Arabs prefer living under Israeli rule. They don't want to live under the PA-Palestinian Authority.

Yehoshua Friedman, the Goyishe Rebbi,
with David Bedein. 

Arlene Kushner

There was a nice crowd of people of all ages attending. I enjoyed the talks and chance to see old friends. I highly recommend attending David's programs and keeping up with his and Arlene's informative sites.

Is There Another Holocaust on The Horizon?

Anne Frank pictured in 1940

Adolf Eichmann

Unlike many of my peers of Jewish Ashkenaz-European background, I wasn't raised with any Holocaust awareness, stories, survivors etc. You can stress the "awareness," because I knew absolutely nothing about targeted Jewish death/murder in Europe during World War Two until the Diary of Anne Frank got a lot of publicity when made into a movie in the late 1950's and after that the Eichmann capture and Trial at around the same time. There may have been some earlier mentions in Hebrew School, but I did not feel particularly connected.

Last week, just before Passover, when I was sitting shiva for my father, many of the comforters who came to the shiva were surprised that my paternal grandfather's family, the Spiegelman's of Neshelsk/Nasielsk, Poland had moved lock, stock and barrel to New York well before Hitler had taken over Germany. My father and his two siblings had grown up with two sets of grandparents, also his mother's parents and most of his aunts (and families) had left Rogotshov, Belarus, well before the Holocaust, and lots of cousins on both sides.

So many other Jewish families are plagued and haunted by stories of grandparents, great-grandparents who refused to read the writing on the wall, were opposed to Zionism and even refused the precious visas that their relatives had gotten for them to facilitate moving away from Europe. They refused to recognize the dangers that were sprouting around them. There had to be some GD given wisdom in my great-grandparents to have made the decision to leave.

Deja vu...  Today, when I read the news I see that the future will only get worse for Jews all over the world.  It is so obvious to me. The "best" universities in the United States delegitimize the State of Israel, support BDS and Arab terrorism against us, and that includes me personally and all my family and friends. Nobody today is surprised when yet another antisemitic/anti-Israel statement comes of the United Nations and other international and foreign bodies. We all shrug our shoulders; so, what else is new? We've lost the ability to be shocked at the antipathy that Isrel suffers from all the time all over the world. Another Israeli official is threatened by a foreign country with a lawsuit for alleged terror? Big deal, not the first time.

We shouldn't let these things roll off like liquid on teflon. We should be fighting it and World Jewry should be on their way home to the HolyLand!! 

MAKE ALIYAH NOW BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!

Arab Leaders and "Fellow Travelers" Support Terror

I sincerely pray for a refuah shleimah, a full and speedy recovery, to all of the injured in yesterday's Arab terror attack against Jews in Jerusalem. Special prayers for the toddler whose leg was seriously damaged, Yotam Shmuel ben Yael.

Scene of ramming attack at Chords Bridge in Jerusalem.
Jerusalem Post (photo credit:ISRAEL BEN HEMO)

Maybe this is deja vu time again, like in the early, mid-1930's when "good" sic people all over the world closed their eyes to the rising antisemitism and systemized murder of Jews in Nazi Germany. All this acceptance and agreement and cooperation with the BDS and the support of Fatah and Hamas and the Arab terror against innocent Israelis bodes bad news for world peace.

American Secretary of State John Kerry is threatening Israel again, claiming that we are the cause of the "impasse" and lack of peace here.

Secretary of State John Kerry

Reuters

Kerry told the magazine that he believes that Israelis headed toward becoming a “unitary state that is an impossible entity to manage” and warned that such a reality would lead to Israel becoming like a “big fortress” and strengthen groups like Hezbollah. (Arutz 7)

Of course he totally leaves out the fact that his buddies in Ramalla support and justify the terror against Israelis, civilians and patrolling soldiers.

Two-thirds of Palestinians support knife attacks: poll    

Abbas: Palestinian violence is "justified popular uprising"

Considering all that, how can we expect a "State of Palestine" sic to be a good neighbor to the State of Israel?

The safest place in the Middle East, even especially for Arabs is Israel. There is less violence, better police, the best medical care and social benefits. Whenever the "land trading" idea is raised, Israeli Arabs throw fits, because the very last thing they want to do is to live under an Arab government.

We, Israel have a job to do, and that is to annex all of the Land we hold, full sovereignty in all of the Jordan Valley, Judea, Samaria and the Golan. Make it clear that we are no longer interested in negotiations. There is nothing to negotiate about. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu must apologize to the Israeli public for his support for a "two state solution" meaning a Palestinian state! He must admit that he had been wrong about it. That's the sign of a true Jewish Leader. Like in the Bible when Judah admitted that Tamar was the righteous one, and he had been wrong, which made their descendants into the most suitable to be King, yes David.

Enough with weak politicians running the country. We need true Jewish Leaders!!!

Support Jewish "West Bank" sic Businesses!!

A worker carries boxes containing wine bottles for export at Shiloh Wineries, north of the West Bank city of Ramallah November 8, 2015.

Reuters/Baz Ratner

Read more at Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/11/us-israel-eu-labelling-idUSKCN0T013B20151111#BokQOFrd1yTmiOjX.99

I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.
George M. Cohan

Gd willing the labeling of products made in Jewish businesses Judea/Samaria will help rather than hinder! EU moves ahead with labeling goods made in Israeli settlements. There are many people who will davka use the labeling to buy products produced here.  I hope they will put out a comprehensive list so that people will know which products are best to buy.

Thanks to the international and home-grown antisemites we can grow even greater!!

ZERO TOLERANCE: Terror, BDS and More

Reuters

The Jewish People have begun a new year, 5776, and it's time for a new policy, "Zero Tolerance!"

We must react strongly and firmly against all attacks, whether terror or BDS or faux human rights
sic boycotts etc.

Benny Shoham, father of Yehuda, HaY"d, who was murdered
by Arabs who threw a large rock at their car, holds him
during the funeral.

If we don't start acting firmly against all of our enemies, whether they are well-dressed with high-class polished accents or armed with rocks, firebombs or guns, things will continue as is getting much worse, meaning dangerous, for the Jewish People and the State of Israel.

All terrorists, whether they succeeded in murdering a Jew or not must be immediately executed. They are not regular criminals; the self-confessed terrorists. That means, that they do not need a trial, because there is no justification and no chance of mistake if found with the weapons in the act of murder or attempted murder.

Boycotts, whether just against Judean/Samarian products or all Israeli products, like the new call to boycott from Iceland must be taken as seriously as a terror attack.

European Jewish Groups Rail Against Reykjavic Decision to Boycott Israeli GoodsEuropean Jewish groups railed against the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik’s decision this week to adopt a boycott of Israeli goods, with many calling the move purely discriminatory. (Algemeiner)

The Israeli Ambassador must be recalled and all diplomatic and commercial contact stopped. It's not Jewish to "turn the other cheek," and even the Christians don't follow such a precept.

Arab terrorists of all ages must be punished, and if they are minors their parents should also pay the price. Adding special guns to the police arsenal will not stop terrorism.

And performers who break contracts to placate the BDS antisemites must be fined so much that they will suffer financially for years.

The Temple Mount must be cleared of Arab terrorists and their weapons. And as collective punishment, no Arabs should be allowed in for a long period of time. In the interim, a place for Jewish Prayer must be built.

Shabbat Shalom and Gmar Chatimah Tovah

Arabs Prefer Israeli Right to Left

The recent uproar in the Knesset is no surprise to me.

Arab MK Attacks Labor Party: 'You Leftists Urinate on Us'
MK Zahalka surprises plenum with tirade against Labor's Stav Shafir; 'The right-wingers are much better than you!'

From my first acquaintance with Arabs to my most recent, it has been very clear that many Arabs prefer us, people like me and my neighbors in Judea and Samaria to the Israeli Leftists.

• When I studied for my English Teachers Certificate, there were Jews of all "stripes," addresses and ideologies in the group and an Arab, too. She lived a Jewish-Arab community that was supposed raise the children to be completely bilingual with Arabic and Hebrew, but she complained that the Jews were hypocrites. They wanted to reduce the Arabic being afraid that their children would have Arab accents in their Hebrew. She would tell us that she prefered being with us, who were honest and open, to being with her Jewish neighbors.
• When Arabs talk of "going home" they refer to Jerusalem, Beersheva, Haifa, Ramat Aviv, etc. and not Shiloh. That's because there wasn't an Arab city or community in Shiloh, but Jews now live on Arab villages or in Arab homes in all those other places, which are inhabited by many Jewish Israeli Leftists.
• BDS has been pressuring international companies to desert their factories in post-1967 Six Days War Israel, although that causes unemployment for the Arabs they claim to be supporting. 

"The [South African] leaders of the movement were stunned to hear a Palestinian who says that Israel is not an apartheid state..." Eid said. "I'm opposed to the boycott because it only ends up harming the Palestinians themselves," he says.
Ynet/Amit Shabi"Bassam Eid"From the Palestinian point of view, BDS gives the distinct impression that the Palestinian side has no interest in the pursuit of compromise, peace and the two-state solution; activists have managed to block attempts at dialogue between ordinary Israelis and Palestinians in Ramallah and East Jerusalem.
From an economic standpoint a boycott of West Bank's settlement businesses ends up hurting the Palestinians who are employed by those companies. (I24NEWS)

I work with Arabs, and many of my customers in Yafiz, Sha'ar Binyamin are Arabs. If they didn't want us here, they'd be boycotting Rami Levy and Yafiz. But the truth is that they are loyal workers and customers and want us here.

Arab shoppers taking family photos in Rami Levy, Sha'ar Binyamin

Many times I've heard that Arabs prefer our honesty to the Left's fake friendship. We all know that one of the main reasons that the Left wants to get Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley out of Israel is to reduce the Arab population.

Matisyahu's Very Public Spiritual Journey

Matisyahu performing on stage at Rototom
Sunsplash Festival in Benicassim, eastern Spain [EPA]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that most readers here have heard of the Jewish performer, rapper reggae singer Matisyahu, who though raised in an ordinary (not Torah observant) American Jewish home found religion, became Orthodox, more specifically Chabad Chassidic, then in the full uniform  of beard, hat, coat etc became a hit reggae performer. Then he began having some spiritual doubts and shaved off the beard, took off the kippa, coat and all.

As a visibly Torah observant performer who wrote and performed Jewish themed songs, reggae style, he was in a category all his own. Nowadays it has been more difficult for him to keep up a following. But the BDS lobbyists gave Matisyahu a great gift by putting pressure on the Spanish Sunsplash Festival to ban him after he was scheduled to perform. In short, he was banned, and then after great international pressure, his invitation was reinstated, and he performed there Saturday night.

Pro-Palestinian groups during Matisyahu performance [EPA]

And he didn't sing about the weather. Facing antagonistic anti-Israel flags and signs promoting Arab Palestine sic, Matisyahu sang a song about Jerusalem, and this performance and all that led up to it will certainly be good for his career.

Jerusalem, if I forget you,
fire not gonna come from me tongue.
Jerusalem, if I forget you,
let my right hand forget what it’s supposed to do.
In the ancient days, we will return with no delay
Picking up the bounty and the spoils on our way
We’ve been traveling from state to state
And them don’t understand what they say
3,000 years with no place to be
And they want me to give up my milk and honey
Don’t you see, it’s not about the land or the sea
Not the country but the dwelling of his majesty
[chorus]
Rebuild the temple and the crown of glory
Years gone by, about sixty
Burn in the oven in this century
And the gas tried to choke, but it couldn’t choke me
I will not lie down, I will not fall asleep
They come overseas, yes they’re trying to be free
Erase the demons out of our memory
Change your name and your identity
Afraid of the truth and our dark history
Why is everybody always chasing we
Cut off the roots of your family tree
Don’t you know that’s not the way to be
[chorus]
Caught up in these ways, and the worlds gone craze
Don’t you know it’s just a phase
Case of the Simon says
If I forget the truth then my words won’t penetrate
Babylon burning in the place, can’t see through the haze
Chop down all of them dirty ways,
That’s the price that you pay for selling lies to the youth
No way, not ok, oh no way, not ok, hey
Aint no one gonna break my stride
Aint no one gonna pull me down
Oh no, I got to keep on moving
Stay alive (PJ Media) 

We all know the well known saying:

"I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right."  George M Cohan quotes

Matisyahu stood up to this challenge, and now that he's targeted, in the sights of the BDS no doubt they won't let up against him.

I don't know if that was the song that Matisyahu had previously planned on performing there, but it really was the perfect response to the antisemitic and anti-Israel campaign against him. Whether he likes it or not, with or without the beard and tzitziyot, he's still a symbol of Judaism and Israel for many. And I have no doubt that his spiritual journey is far from over.

BDS, Based on Lies!

Last night, when I should have been sleeping I found myself watching a very disturbing television show explaining to the Israeli public what our enemy, BDS, really is. Just like Nazism and other antisemitic movements over the millennia the BDS Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions is based on lies.

The campaign was started on 9 July 2005 by 171 Palestinian non-governmental organizations in support of the Palestinian cause for boycott, divestment and international sanctions against Israel. Citing a body of UN resolutions and specifically echoing the anti-apartheid campaigns against white minority rule in apartheid era South Africa,^[3] the BDS campaign called for "various forms of boycott against Israel until it meets its obligations under international law".^[4]There is considerable debate about the scope, efficacy, and morality of the BDS movement. Critics argue that the BDS movement is antisemitic^[5][6]and promotes the delegitimization of Israel.^[7][8] Critics have also accused the movement of using threats, bribes and coercion to ensure that unwilling participants are agreeable to BDS demands.^[9] [10] BDS supporters argue that both the movement (and criticism of the movement) are similar to the earlier boycotts of South Africa during its apartheid era,^[11][12][13] a comparison that the critics categorically reject on the grounds of dissimilarity of the regimes.^[14] (Wikipedia)

Their basic premise is that the Jewish People have no historic rights to be in the HolyLand and that we have no connection to this Land. From there they go on to lying about life here and how the Arabs are treated.

Of course they base their general ideology on what they call their superior morality. The fact that their logo includes the word "equality," they certainly don't promote equality when it comes to Jews. Forget about equal rights; we have no right, nor respect. The supporters of the BDS encourage Arab terrorism, too. They promote the boycott of business that davka hire/employ Arabs if owned by Jews. Now, what's just about that?

They've coated their rabid antisemitism with pseudo-liberal terminology, but they are as honest and fair as Orwell's Big Brother.

Listen to Fred Taub of Boycott Watch: