Historic Fact: It's NOT About "The Settlements!"

שנית עמונה לא תיפול
Sheinit Amona Lo Tipol
Amona Won't Fall A Second Time

All those all over the world, here in Israel and abroad, whether informally chatting over tea, coffee or beer or in hallowed halls of parliaments, think tanks or editorial rooms who keep claiming that "it's the settlements" keeping the "Arab-Israeli conflict," sic continuing are simply full of #$%%!!@#@! to put it mildly.

Modern Shiloh neighborhoods as seen from the Biblical location of the city

Arab violence against Jews, whether they were permanent residents -yes, Jews have always lived in the Holy Land- or just visiting pilgrims, has been a regular occurrence here even before the Zionist Movement began in  1870. And that was almost eighty 80 years before the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, which was nineteen 19 years before the 1967 Six Days War and subsequent "settlements," which these pseudo-historians claim is the core of the "conflict."

The 1967 Six Days War was the result of the aggression, the unabashed plans voiced very publicly by Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Jordan to destroy the State of Israel. Israel was forced to fight for its very survival and won. According to International Law and all precedent, any land conquered in such a war becomes the legal property of the victor.  So in June, 1967, when the Arab countries effectively surrendered, Israel should have very simply annexed all of the land, the Golan, Jordan Valley, Judea, Samaria and the Sinai including Gaza effectively erasing the temporary "green line" that had been drawn at the 1949 ceasefire when Arab forces which had attacked the newly established State of Israel decided to take a breather and regroup.

Communities like Shiloh, where I live, are not the cause of any so-called "conflict," and "conflict" is a very poor choice of word for the attempted annihilation/holocaust of the Jewish People that has been going on for millenia. Yes, I believe that the Arab terrorism against us here is related to the Nazi Holocaust against European Jewry and the tacit cooperation of the Western World, and prior to that there was the Spanish Inquisition ad the Crusaders among other evil and immoral efforts to destroy the Jewish People.

Antisemitism- Are we Paranoid or Pragmatic?

There are those of us who see and feel antisemitism as the underlying source of numerous/all acts against Israel and Jewish People all over the world.

And we also see many people who deny their antisemitism as antisemites. Their antipathy to Jews and Israel is so natural, ingrained and rationalized that they honestly don't realize the actual source.

• Can the illogical disproportionately huge amount of United Nations and Security Council resolutions and papers against Israel have any source other than antisemitism? 
• Can the unprecedentedly severe punishment and continued punishment of Jonathan Jay Pollard have any rationale besides antisemitism?
• Can the acceptance by the world of Nazi Holocaust/extermination of European Jewry have any cause other than antisemitism? Please remember that the war against the Nazis was to stop its political takeover of Europe and Great Britain, not to stop the systematic murders. 
• Can the Inquisition or the Crusaders invasion and pillaging of the Holy Land have any cause other than antisemitism?
• Can the pressure on Israel to rollback its miraculous victory in the war for survival, June, 1967 Six Days War, be anything other than antisemitism?

I can go on and on. What examples can you think of? Please comment, thanks.

Antisemitism = Crime Against Humanity

Shades of the 1930's, it's so "in" to be antisemitic, though they never call it that. The BDS movement and all the support for a Palestinian sic State and the continued imprisonment of Jonathan Pollard are blatant proof that there's a different law for Jews than for anybody else.

Photo courtesy of Wikipedia

Just the other day, the American Jewish rapper, who goes by his Jewish name, Matisyahu, found himself thrown out of a music festival because he wouldn't sign their anti-Israel manifesto.

The American reggae rapper (who was Orthodox Jewish when he rose to fame) was removed from the lineup for Rototom Sunsplash near Valencia, Spain, after he declined to confirm or deny his position on the creation of an independent Palestinian state. According to the rapper, the festival was being pressured by the BDS movement -- which has called for various boycotts against Israel -- to "stat[e] my positions on Zionism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to pacify the BDS people." Matisyahu's now-axed concert was set for Saturday, Aug. 22. (Yahoo!)

All sorts of performers think because they can carry a tune or can convincingly recite lines not their own aka "act," consider themselves experts in history, politics and morality. And they all think themselves more moral than Jews like myself.

The irony of this last minute cancellation, and I certainly hope that Matisyahu succeeds in suing them into bankruptcy, is that the music festival is in Spain. Spain has one of the most notorious records in antisemitic acts on par with Nazi Germany. I trust that you've heard of the Inquisition. For centuries the Spanish Catholic Church forced Jews to convert or face death. And then they kept records of the converted to continue discriminating against them.

All the murderous acts of the arab terrorists here are justified by their promotion of "Palestine," which makes them among the most evil groups in the modern world. Those BDS supporters support terrorism showing them to be immoral hypocrites.

Don't Celebrate the Pope's Visit to Israel

I'm one Israeli who is not impressed nor happy that the current pope, head of the Roman Catholic Church will be in Israel next week. No doubt many Israelis will find themselves stuck in traffic as the papal convoys traverse the Jerusalem area, wherever his itinerary takes him. And the fact that some Israelis won't even be given any freedom of movement is worse.

An Israeli police spokesman said police and the Shin Bet internal security service handed restraining orders to "a number of right-wing activists" whom they believed intended to cause "disruptions during the pope's visit and be involved in provocative illegal acts".
The spokesman declined to say how many activists received the orders. But he said they would not be allowed to enter certain areas "for security reasons" for four days.

There is a very, very major problem with the planning of the visit. I don't agree with the concept of "equality/balance" between Israel and the so-called "Palestinians."

Despite the pope's strong ties to the Argentine Jewish community and appreciation for Judaism, which he cultivated during his years as the amicable archbishop of Buenos Aires, Pope Francis will maintain a policy of "total balance" when it comes to Israelis and Palestinians, the rabbi predicted.

Israel is a country sixty-six 66 years old, the return/continuation of a well-documented nation/people over three thousand 3,000 years old while the so-called Palestinians are a recently invented "people" who use terrorism against Jews and Israelis to get publicity and support. There's no comparison, no balance between us and the Arabs. It's an insult to the State of Israel to pretend that there is.

Davka that the pope's visit coincides with the forty-seventh anniversary of the 1967 Six Days War is terrible timing. We should be thanking G-d and celebrating the great miracle of our survival and victory and not celebrating the visit of a man who represents a religion with a long, very long history of murdering Jews and forcing conversion to Catholicism.

And I pray to G-d that we can trust those government "reassurances" that the Mount Zion, David's Tomb area won't be given to the Vatican.

If the pope really insists on coming here to Israel it should not only be to officially apologize for the Crusades, Inquisition and tacit support of the Nazis, it should be to admit that his Catholic religion is an attempt of identity theft since they claim to be the continuation of the Jewish Bible and want our historic Holy Land. Of course, there's no chance of that, but I can dream...

I Hope The Pope Doesn't Come

I don't care what the reason. This neurotically immature fawning and groveling, because a foreign non-Jewish religious leader will be visiting Israel is embarrassingly demeaning.

More Jews have been murdered in the name of his god over the two thousand years of their history, than were murdered by Hitler. I can't give you exact numbers, but my numerical instincts are generally uncannily correct. Just think of the Inquisition, Crusaders and the thousands and thousands of smaller attacks over the two thousand years.

The pope should come on his hands and knees begging forgiveness. And as gifts he should empty out those store rooms and bring us what the Romans stole from our Holy Temple in Jerusalem all those years ago.

Let's go back in history, to the time just before Christianity began. Jesus was a Jew. Yes, he was. That room on Mount Zion that the pope wants is possibly near the location where Jesus and his Jewish friends celebrated the Jewish Holiday of Passover. It couldn't be the actual room, since the building was built at least a thousand years after they died.

After the Romans executed Jesus, his followers began preaching a new religion, which contradicted Judaism. Foremost was their belief that their dead friend, Jesus was Mashiakh ben Yoseph. Later on his followers invented legends about an impossible "virgin birth" and other totally sacrilegious ideas. Then, they got really angry at all the Jews who refused to follow them.

They've never forgiven us for it.

So, why should the State of Israel, the one Jewish country in the entire world show any enthusiasm that the leader of that antagonistic religion is coming to our Jewish Holy Land?

Just my two cents.

*I made a couple of changes to this according to corrections by Ellen and "Shiloh." Thanks!