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.

Will Orange Suffer a Boycott if it Divests of Israel?

I received the following message as a comment on my blog:

Batya, please post if Orange divests from Israel. I will not know about it from the UK, but here many people are with EE, which is owned by Orange. If Orange leaves Israel, I will leave EE here. 

I just wonder how many people will try to boycott Orange related companies if they really close down their Israeli operations.

The CEO of French telecom giant Orange SA said Wednesday that he would have liked to sever ties with Israel as early as "tomorrow," but isn't ready to take the financial risk such a move would entail.
French human rights groups have been pushing their government, which has a quarter stake in Orange, and the company itself to end its business relationship with its affiliate, Partner Communications Ltd., a popular Israeli mobile provider. The groups cite Partner Communications' activities in Israeli settlements as the reason for the push.
Speaking at a news conference in Cairo to lay out plans in Egypt for the years ahead, Stephane Richard said his company intends to withdraw the Orange brand from Israel as soon as possible, but that the move would take time. (Israel Hayom)

It seems that the company and its subsidiaries should be boycotted.

"We want to be one of the trustful partners of all Arab countries," says CEO of French mobile company Orange, Stephane Richard | Photo credit: AP

I'm glad that we left Orange years ago. We signed up with the relatively new Golan-Telecom about a year and a half ago. We get unlimited service including calls abroad and two foreign numbers. Family and friends call me at a Long Island phone number. Golan doesn't have large fancy showrooms and stores. It's an Israeli company.

Over the years we had tried almost all of the big cellphone service companies, and they just take tons of money without providing more service than we get now.

The boycott of Orange must be abroad. Boycott all of their related companies. If anyone can give a listing in the coments here, it would be appreciated.

And What About Our Prize-Winning Wines?

What's next in the creeping Nazism of Europe. Yes, I'm calling it Nazism when Israeli Jewish businesses are being systematically banned from Europe.

Israel to Stop Exports of 'Settlement Products' to EU
Israel will end its export of poultry and dairy produce from communities beyond the Green Line, in line with EU directives.

Only the historically blind can insist that there's no connection between the early anti-Jewish restrictions in Germany and what is going on now. And the worst is that the Israeli Government is cooperating Judenrat style with this!

Lodz, Poland, A group of Judenrat
members in the Ghetto,
Yad Veshem

As far back as 1933, Nazi policy makers had discussed establishing Jewish-led institutions to carry out anti-Jewish policies. The concept was based upon centuries-old practices which were instituted in Germany during the Middle Ages. As the German army swept through Poland and the Soviet Union, it carried out an order of S.S. leader Heydrich to require the local Jewish populace to form Jewish Councils as a liaison between the Jews and the Nazis. These councils of Jewish elders, (Judenrat; plural: Judenräte), were responsible for organizing the orderly deportation to the death camps, for detailing the number and occupations of the Jews in the ghettos, for distributing food and medical supplies, and for communicating the orders of the ghetto Nazi masters. The Nazis enforced these orders on the Judenrat with threats of terror, which were given credence by beatings and executions. As ghetto life settled into a "routine," the Judenrat took on the functions of local government, providing police and fire protection, postal services, sanitation, transportation, food and fuel distribution, and housing, for example......When the Nazis required a quota of Jews to participate in forced labor, the Judenrat had the responsibility to meet this demand. Sometimes Jews could avoid forced labor by making a payment to the Judenrat. These payments supplemented the taxes which the Judenrat levied to finance the services provided in the ghettos. (Jewish Virtual Library)

What is the point of having our own state when it cooperates with those who are against us?

Now Europe is blocking dairy and poultry, but next it will be fruit and vegetables and after that the import of wine and our participation in wine contests. Just wait!

For the past few years, Israeli wines from the Benjamin and Samaria areas have been consistent winners at prestigious Israeli and international wine competitions:

Rechallim: A Samaria (Shomron) vineyard has won the “Oscar Award of Wine” in Israel's annual Golden Grapes competition.The Tura vineyard in the settlement of Rachelim won both the gold and the silver medals in the annual Eshkol HaZahav – the Golden Grapes – competition.
The prestigious award has been dubbed by international connoisseurs as  “the Oscar of wine.”

and

Samaria Regional Council head Gershon Mesika sent his congratulations to the owners of the Har Bracha winery for two medals won in 2013 DECANTER competition held in Britain.  Shira and Nir Lavie established their own winery in the Samaria region ten years ago, when they realised other wineries in the country were interested in buying the grapes they produced.  This young winery took a silver medal for its 2011 Petit Syrah and a bronze for its 2009 Highlander Cabernet Sauvignon Gold.  With over 14,000 wines from 52 countries in the competition, this is no small honour.
Har Bracha, which produces about 30,000 bottles a year, is now one of seven wineries in the Samaria region.  As farmers realise the perfect mix of altitude, climate, and soil available for grape-growing, wine production has become more popular there.
Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/470/israeli-wineries-take-prizes-in-international-competition/#PFMPugqFFCDmIbyQ.99

It's not only abroad that Israeli Judean-Samarian wines that already suffer discrimination. Here in Israel Leftist Israelis boycott it.

Given that some in Israel have accused international boycott advocates of being anti-Semitic, such domestic parallels are a sensitive issue.
Yoram Cohen, of the Tanya winery in the settlement of Ofra, called the Israeli boycotters "trendy" hypocrites who had no problem purchasing wine from countries with much worse human rights records. Berg said he was afraid that a vocal minority was "poisoning" the public discourse and influencing others to shun settlement products...
...Along with other West Bank wineries, Berg recently went public with news that dozens of Tel Aviv restaurants were boycotting their wines in hopes of shaming them into reversing course.
The Associated Press contacted more than a dozen Tel Aviv restaurants, including some named by settlers. All refused to discuss the subject.
It wasn't just the fear of alienating clients that likely deterred them from speaking but also a 2011 law in Israel that could expose them to lawsuits if a boycott became official. The law did not make a boycott call a criminal offense, but rather a civil issue that could trigger financial compensation. There is no actual precedent of this happening yet.

Grapes are traditional crops here in the Biblical Heartland. Even totally incompetent gardeners like me and my husband manage to grow large quantities of grapes. We haven't tried our hand at making wine, but many people in our area, Benjamin Regional Council have.

I find it extremely upsetting and a horrendously dangerous precedent for the Israeli Government to cooperate with the anti-Israel boycott movement.

What's Really Behind All the Anti-Israel Boycotts?

Food for thought...

Dry Bones, European Boycott

Think about it.  It doesn't seem to be a moral point.  Europeans are typical of the others who look for any excuse to boycott Israel.  There's an agenda behind the pompous pronouncements. 

They certainly don't believe in freedom of choice, free market etc. because they literally terrorize people who defy them, like entertainers who had contracted to perform in Israel.  The latest of cancel, just days before his performance is Eric Burdon, former lead singer of the British band The Animals.  Those actions are fascist, certainly not peace-loving or liberal.

Another example is the total hypocrisy of the countries that have banned shechita, the proscribed way of Jewish animal slaughter.  Every single one of those countries permits hunting.  Now there is nothing more cruel to animals than hunting.  If those countries really cared about animal rights, hunting would be forbidden.  But they don't care about animal rights nor cruelty to animals.  They just want the Jews to leave their country.  That's called racism, anti-Semitism.

And another point.  How many countries in the European Union, for example, still rule over various "colonies" in other parts of the world?  Just a few years ago Great Britain went to war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands, which are next to Argentina.  Britain rules that piece of land, and there's no reason they should be there at all.

Sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas in Spanish) is disputed between Argentina and the United Kingdom.
The British claim to sovereignty dates from 1690, and the United Kingdom has exercised de facto sovereignty over the archipelago almost continuously since 1833. Argentina has long disputed this claim, having been in control of the islands for a brief period prior to 1833. The dispute escalated in 1982, when Argentina invaded the islands, precipitating the Falklands War.

Israel and the Jewish People have a long documented history of thousands of years of continued connection to the Land of Israel including what's sometimes called the "West Bank," Judea and Samaria.

None of the countries preaching "morality" to us have histories as long as ours.  We count our history in millennia (thousands of years,) while they at most count in centuries (hundreds of years.)

There is only one way to end these attacks on our country, our sovereignty and right to be here is for the Israeli Government to declare all countries participating as enemies.  Their diplomats should be sent packing, and our ambassadors should come home.

The Truth About The EU From Latma and More

This week's Latma gives a very accurate portrayal of the priorities of the European Union:

Flock Builder with a special report from the hospital and EU representative Johann Phlegmat explains the new boycott.

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I also highly recommend dreading Ruthie Blum's latest article, Peres, Kerry and the EU.

Hoping Bibi's Response to the EU isn't Just Bluff

In typical bully/abuser versus apologetic victim behavior, the European Union has come out with an immoral anti-Semitic boycott of all Israeli things connected with "post-Six Days War" Israel.

The European Union has recommended that its 27 member states "prevent" all financial transactions that support Israel's settlement activities in the West Bank.

In its Jerusalem Report 2012, an internal report written by the EU mission heads in Jerusalem and Ramallah, the European Union suggested that member states "prevent, discourage and raise awareness about problematic implications of financial transactions, including foreign direct investments, from within the EU in support of settlement activities, infrastructure and services," the French news agency AFP reported.

Their policy is a continuation of longstanding British-European actions which support Arabs and undermine Jewish sovereignty.

Going back almost a century, from the establishment of the British Mandate to facilitate a Jewish State and the rise of Nazi Germany, there has always been more sympathy and support for Arabs here than for Jews.  It's too bad that our leaders, the politicians, media and academics, refuse to see the Europeans and British for what they always have been-- anti-Semites.

No great surprise that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has made a strong impressive statement claiming outrage etc against the EU policy decision.

PM Netanyahu Comments on Intention to Add Conditions on Contacts between the EU and Israel in the Future
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this afternoon (Tuesday, 16 July 2013), in his Jerusalem office, held consultations with Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, Economy Minister Naftali Bennett and Deputy Foreign Minister Zeev Elkin in wake of the intention to add conditions to contacts between the EU and the State of Israel in the future.
Prime Minister Netanyahu said, "I would expect those who truly want peace and stability in the region would discuss this issue after solving more urgent regional problems such as the civil war in Syria or Iran's race to achieve nuclear weapons. As the Prime Minister of Israel, I will not allow the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who live in Judea and Samaria, on the Golan Heights and in Jerusalem, our united capital, to be harmed. We will not accept any outside diktat about our borders. This issue will be decided only in direct negotiations between the sides."

Unfortunately form prior experience I'd say it's just words, bluster and bluff.  Our wimpy Foreign Ministry won't do what it should do and send all those European diplomats packing.   It may be late, but it's not too late.  We must break this cycle of abuse, bluster-then apology, then more abuse.

Nobody takes Israel's threats seriously, neither our allies sic nor enemies.  Why should they, when we act no more dangerously than a paper tiger?

The Hawking Boycott, Fact or Fiction?

Today, as if Israel has no more pressing needs, the media is full of news about Stephen Hawking.  Is his change in travel plans, his cancellation of a trip to Israel due to a medical issue or an ideological one?

By the time I came home today, lots of keyboards have been pounded about the question.  First it was stated that he's staying away to boycott us.  And then I saw on Algemeiner.com that it was simply a deterioration in his medical situation. 

It turns out that Stephen Hawking’s cancelled trip to Israel is not a matter of boycotting the Jewish state, but rather merely a result of his health.
The Guardian, which broke the faux story late last night, claimed that Hawking was to boycott the Presidential Conference in Jerusalem next month after receiving an erroneous statement from the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP),  which claimed that it had issued it with Hawking’s approval.
The statement said that the move was “his independent decision to respect the boycott, based upon his knowledge of Palestine, and on the unanimous advice of his own academic contacts there.”

His Israeli fans were relieved and worried after hearing that news.

Then another news item was published saying that he is boycotting Israel.

A University spokesman told The Algemeiner that “We have now received confirmation from Professor Hawking’s office that a letter was sent on Friday to the Israeli President’s office regarding his decision not to attend the Presidential Conference, based on advice from Palestinian academics that he should respect the boycott.

IMHO, if he really likes and respects those Arabs so much, then he should be declared persona non grata and not allowed to enter Israel at all. 

Yes, the same should be for all of the international  extreme Leftists.

Just because Stephen Hawking has survived and functioned longer than probably anyone else with ALS doesn't make him right and correct in terms of his opinions and ideology, especially his opinion about Israel.  Everyone should stop judging him as some sort of miracle novelty item and listen to what he says and look at what he does.  Hawkin's support of the Arabs whose aim is the destruction of the State of Israel makes him a very dangerous man.  We shouldn't let sympathy for his medical condition cloud and distort our feelings for him.  If he prefers our enemies, then he is one of them, an enemy of the State of Israel.

Are We Really Guilty...?

That's guilty of inventing what most people in the 21st Century consider essential...



Hat tip, Tikkkun Olam.

I really don't like the sacrsm in it, but it's still worth watching.