Hamas War

Monday, July 4, 2016

Arab Terror and The "Two State Solution"

Nickolay Mladenov, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Iraq, speaks to the media after a meeting with Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Najaf March 3, 2015.
REUTERS/ALAA AL-MARJANI

United Nations Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov mourns the failure to implement the "Two State Solution," while the truth is that it's an oxymoron. "Two State Solution" is a fantasy that could never exist/survive.

Even though the State of Israel, from its very troubled birth, even during the War for Independence fighting Arab armies which aimed to destroy it, was willing to find a solution to live peacefully side-by-side with an Arab country, the Arabs have always unabashedly proclaimed its aim to destroy and replace the State of Israel.

In the sixty-eight 68 years of the State of Israel's existence, the Arabs have not changed their stance one iota.
PMW-Palestinian Media Watch: Future: A world without Israel

This simple, but crucial, fact is systematically ignored and whitewashed by not only the United Nations and pretty much all foreign countries, but many in the State of Israel.
Arab terror is the tool the Arabs are using to try to make us leave the Land of Israel and close down the State of Israel, Gd forbid!
I can't ignore it! That's why I blog about this issue so frequently and urgently request that you share this article around, thanks.

Sunday, July 3, 2016

Elie Wiesel, Z"L, Allowed Others to Use His Words

I have nothing personal to add about Elie Wiesel, who passed away on Shabbat. People who knew him and worked with him and hired him to write moving speeches will have lots more to say than I could ever.
Wiesel was 'the conscience of the world,' Obama says
Holocaust survivor, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel dies at 87
Sorry, that a bit of cynicism has crept into what should be a very nice eulogy of a man who became a legend, an icon of Jewish survival.

President George W. Bush, joined by the Dalai Lama and Wiesel, October 17, 2007, to the ceremony at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., for the presentation of the Congressional Gold Medal to the Dalai Lama (Wikipedia)

US President Barack Obama hugs Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel as Wiesel introduced him to speak at the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, April 23, 2012. . (photo credit:REUTERS/JASON REED)

Especially in more recent decades, when Wiesel had to replenish the funds lost/stolen by Madoff and his notorious scams, Elie Wiesel wrote many speeches for politicians who needed to impress Jews and Israelis with the alleged care, friendship and allegiance.

Wiesel was an amazingly talented writer, and don't forget that English was not his first language. Wiesel survived the unimaginable, the Holocaust. He built a life, a totally new one, but one which was connected to his past. He didn't hide the past. Wiesel made people look at it so the newer generations couldn't claim ignorance of the cruelty of the Nazi Holocaust. Unfortunately, the world still hasn't fully learned what Wiesel had tried to teach.

Saturday, July 2, 2016

Last week, ended with a hail of bullets, a rocket attack...

Last week, ended with a hail of bullets, a rocket attack on a Sderot nursery school, stabbings, murders all perpetrated by Arab Muslims on innocent Jews. They, the Arabs murdered and injured Jews last week, a thirteen 13 year old girl has breathed and danced her last. A father and educator was shot before the eyes of his son, daughter and wife. Other Jews were attacked, injured some seriously for no reason, other than their being Jewish.
'They started shooting at us - and suddenly dad stopped moving'
Site of Har Hevron shooting attack
IDF Spokespersons Office
Online incitement and the end of the holy month drive Palestinian terrorists to kill
Hallel Yaffa Ariel and her bedroom after the attack

If you think such brutal deadly anti-semitism ended with the defeat of Nazi Germany, you're very wrong. Not only are there Arab terrorists who attack and murder Jews, but they are supported by the same countries which were once under Nazi control. Today there are all sorts of funds and projects and NGO sponsored by the EU, the European Union that encourage the Arabs to replace the State of Israel with a new Arab country called "Palestine," sic and attack Jews.

These Arab terror attacks are not limited to Judea, Samaria and other Land Israel liberated in the defensive war, a war for survival, the 1967 Six Days War. Arabs attack Jews in Tel Aviv, Netanya, Sedrot, all over. That's because they don't want any Jews to survive. Yes, that's just like the Nazis.

Friday, July 1, 2016

Being Kind to The Arabs Just Fills Our Cemeteries and ERs

5:13pm Micky Mark - Victim of PA Arab Ramadan terror attack

Released for Publication -- Micky Mark, the Director of the Otniel Yeshiva was murdered this afternoon; his wife Chava and children wounded in a PA Ramadan terror shooting attack on Highway 60 in the South Hevron Hills.
  • The State of Israel very kindly reduced Jewish access to the Temple Mount in order to help the Muslims celebrate Ramadan.
  • The State of Israel very kindly reduced Jewish access to the Ma'arat Hamachpela in Hebron  in order to help the Muslims celebrate Ramadan.
And how do those same Arab Muslims thank us, show their appreciation?
And these are just a few of the attacks today and yesterday!

  • When will we stop coddling the terrorists? 
  • Kindness just makes them think we are weak, and it seems that they are right.
  • Only Jewish strength will defeat the terrorists!

If The "Condemnation" is Forced/Prompted, Then It's Fake!

Netanyahu: Palestinians Must Condemn Terror, Act to Stop it
unitedwithisrael.org
As in the past, like a broken record, again we hear our Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu begging the P.A.'s Abbas and others to condemn the dastardly murder/stabbing of 13 year old Hallel-Yaffa Ariel.
Now, honestly, how sincere is a forced condemnation?
It's very clear to me that it's fake, a farce, an absolute lie!
Rina Ariel, mourns over the body of her daughter Hallel, a 13-year-old girl who was fatally stabbed by a Palestinian terrorist in her home, during her funeral in the Kiryat Arba settlement on June 30, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Times of Israel
Bibi sounds like some pitiful woman, who after being raped begs the rapist to marry her. 

And as I had written last night, I was horrified to see that yesterday morning, after the murder, the brutal stabbing of Hallel-Yaffa Ariel, HaYa"D, while she slept in her bed, Israeli television continued to broadcast its programs as if nothing had happened!

Thursday, June 30, 2016

Why No Immediate Condemnations After 13 Year Old Girl Murdered in Bed by Arab Terrorist?

This morning, when I called a neighbor to invite her to a Shabbat meal, she asked:
"Did you hear about the pigua (terror attack)?"
"No," I answered. "Where?"
"In Kiryat Arba."
Hallel-Yaffa Ariel, HaYa"D
So I checked the internet, and Arutz 7 gave a summary of what was known at the time and got the awful news. At about 8am an Arab terrorist managed to get through the fence into Kiryat Arba, entered the home of the Ariel Family and began stabbing Hallel Yaffa, 13.
Speaking to reporters earlier Thursday, Hallel's grief-stricken parents told of their anguish, and remembered a talented, happy girl.
"My daughter was just sleeping - tranquil, relaxed, happy - when a terrorist came to her bed in Kiryat Arba and murdered her," mother Rina cried.
"This morning our daughter, 13-and-a-half years old - an incredible girl - was murdered in her sleep," she continued. "Every father and mother should consider their own children and they will feel slightly the pain that we are feeling now." (Arutz 7)
Since I had to cook for Shabbat I turned on the television news to learn more. The only problem was that there was no news on the three Israeli stations. When there was a terror attack in Turkey, the shows were cancelled, and news was on. Not all that long ago, if some tragic thing happened here, and isn't a terror attack murder of a 13 year old horrendous? regular programming would be off and sad music on.

I kept switching between BBC, France-English News and the three Israeli television stations until I had to leave for work just after one. Nobody mentioned the terror attack at all.

We all know that if Jews had been suspected of attacking an Arab, not only would the entire world and many Jews and Israelis condemn us and those Jews, but they wouldn't even wait to find out if was true. So why all the silence when a 13 year old Jewish girl was stabbed to death in her bed?

Guest Post: Refuting the Jew Haters


GUEST POST by Mr. Cohen

Before I begin, please let me make one thing clear:

DO NOT argue or debate with Jew-haters. 

STAY AWAY from them, both in the real world and the internet world.

There are many reasons for this:

First, our obligation as Jews is to serve G_d, not argue with Jew-hating lunatics.

Second, they can be dangerous, and even if you think you are anonymous on the internet, you are not as anonymous as you think you are, and they may find you, G_d forbid. 

Third, many Jew haters are fanatics and/or lunatics, who will never listen to anything you say, or even use your words against Jews in ways you did not anticipate.
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Still, there are rare situations when it helps to know how to refute their accusations against Jews; for example, when a sincere Gentile co-worker or neighbor is influenced by the accusations of the Jew haters.
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One favorite accusation of the Jew-haters is that Jews have been expelled from many countries and cities. Jew haters use this to imply that Jews are bad people.

This accusation can be countered, like this.

When a Medieval king expelled Jews from his country, Jews were usually not able to take their possessions with them, so all the possessions of the Jews became the property of the king, including: land, houses, furniture, gold, silver, jewels, farm animals, etc. 

Even if the Jews had some way to take their money with them (which was far from guaranteed) they could not take their larger possessions with them.  This permitted the kings to increase their wealth quickly with little risk.

Additionally, when Jews were expelled, all debts owed to expelled Jewish creditors became as if they never existed, or were made payable to the king.

“Although King Philip IV had allowed Jews back into Paris, in [year] 1306 [CE] he had cash flow problems. He therefore devised a secret plot to solve the problem. On July 22, the day after Tisha B’Av, some 100,000 Jews were arrested and thrown into prison.
They were informed that they were going to be expelled and could leave with only the clothes on their backs and a small sum of money. The king had confiscated the rest of their possessions. In addition, any money owed to them by Christians would be payable to the king.”

SOURCE: Is French Jewry Headed Toward Its Final Expulsion
by Libi Astaire 2014/11/17, The Jewish Press
www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/feautures-on-jewish-world/bonjour-goodbye-is-french-jewry-headed-toward-its-final-expulsion/2014/11/17/0/

CONCLUSION:
Kings had big financial incentives to expel their Jews, and also lords and dukes.
This explains why Jews were expelled dozens of times in the medieval era.
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Another reason why Jews were expelled many times from Christian countries was that Medieval Christians did not tolerate people whose beliefs disagreed with their own. 

Medieval European Christians also persecuted other Christians whose beliefs differed from their own.
Three very short examples:

EXAMPLE 1: 

In October 1536 CE, William Tyndale was publicly executed because he translated the Bible into English, even though he was Christian.

EXAMPLE 2:

The Thirty Years' War was a series of wars in Central Europe between 1618 CE and 1648 CE.
It was  one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, resulting in millions of casualties. It started as a war between various Protestants and Catholics.

EXAMPLE 3:

“For the rest of his life, [Professor J.R.R.] Tolkien blamed his mother’s death on the financial and emotional stress she suffered as a result of her conversion to Catholicism and her consequent rejection by her family.”

SOURCE: Myth and Middle Earth (chapter 1, page 22) by Leslie Ellen Jones,
2002 CE, Cold Spring Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724,
JOpenRoad@aol.com, ISBN 1-892975-81-5.
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UNFAIR DOUBLE STANDARD:

Have you ever noticed that:
people who want a Jew-free Palestine are called peace-lovers;
but people who want an Arab-free Israel are called racists?
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OTHER BLOG POSTS BY MR. COHEN:
 

Ancient Roman historians connected Jews with the Land of Israel and Jerusalem:
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/02/guest-post-josephus-vs-muslim-liars.html
http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/05/guest-post-cornelius-tacticus.html


Rambam Rejected Childless Messiah:

http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/08/rambam-rejected-childless-messiah-by-mr.html

Why Muslims Hate Jews:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/12/guest-post-why-muslims-hate-jews.html
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/01/guest-post-moynihan-1982.html


Forgotten Oppression against Jews:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/01/guest-post-forgotten-oppression.html
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/03/guest-post-forgotten-anti-semitism.html


American anti-Semitism:
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/01/guest-post-seven-times-stronger.html

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/01/guest-post-jewish-nyc-mayor.html
 
How a Reform Rabbi Become Orthodox (true story):
http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/07/how-did-reform-rabbi-become-orthodox-jew.html

Sephardic Jews Reject Reform Judaism:
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/07/sephardim-reject-reform.html
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/08/guest-post-persian-rabbis-decree.html

Greek NYC Jews and Syrian NYC Jews:
http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/03/greek-jews-syrian-jews.html

How to Convict the New York Times:
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/11/guest-post-how-to-convict-new-york-times.html
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/11/guest-post-nyt-erases-israel-from-map.html
http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/03/guest-postnyt-vs-israel.html

Why Pray for Tzahal-IDF:
http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/04/guest-post-why-pray-for-idf.html

How to Pray for Tzahal-IDF:
http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/09/how-to-pray-for-tzahal-idf.html

Why Israel’s 1967 Borders are Undefendable:
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/03/guest-post-why-1967-borders-are-suicide.html

Do Palestinians Want a Two-State Solution?
by Daniel Polisar, PhD in Political Science
https://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/2017/04/do-palestinians-want-a-two-state-solution/

Articles Refuting the so-called “Two-State Solution”:
www.algemeiner.com/2017/10/08/the-two-state-solution-is-holding-israel-hostage/
https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/2017/06/when-it-comes-to-territorial-compromise-israel-doesnt-have-a-choice/
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An Insider’s Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth

by Matti Friedman, 2014/8/26

www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/183033/israel-insider-guide

SUMMARY: This article exposes intentional anti-Israel bias in the news media.
It is still very relevant today, even though it was written in 2014.
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***** PLEASE HELP SUE THE TERRORISTS IN COURT:

www.TheLawFareProject.org

***** THANK YOU!
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Rabbi Steven Pruzansky said:

“In the genocidal war being waged against the Jewish people,
the New York Times is an accomplice.”

SOURCE:
http://rabbipruzansky.com/2015/10/29/a-new-low/

PERSONAL COMMENT:
Please do teshuvah by NOT BUYING the New York Times!
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LEARN HOW TO DEFEND ISRAEL FROM UNFAIR NEWS MEDIA:

www.camera.org                                
www.DanielPipes.org

www.HonestReporting.com              
www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com
www.memri.org
www.memriTV.org                            
www.MideastReporter.com
www.MythsAndFacts.org                 

www.BBCwatch.org             
www.jhrw.com                                  

www.PalWatch.org               
www.UKMediaWatch.org                
www.UNwatch.org
www.aish.com/jw/mo/4-Reasons-Why-the-Media-is-Biased-against-Israel.html

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Havel Havelim: חי 18 Jewish/Israeli Blog Posts

There are so many really good blog posts out there to read, so I figured that today, quite a while since I had last put together a Havel Havelim, round-up of Jewish/Israeli Blog Posts, that today would be the day!


And as as been my practice of late, ever since I found myself as the last surviving/willing HH host, I will just list eighteen 18 חי linked titles of blog posts for your reading pleasure. Bloggers, an intriguing title attracts more readers! Sometimes I callout on facebook (please, join our HH fb group) for suggestions, but this morning, I'll choose them on my own. I hope you don't mind. Of course, if anyone would like to host a Havel Havelim, you're invited. Please let me know, thanks, shilohmuse@gmail.com.

All I ask is that you read/enjoy, comment and share, thanks!

Launching in the Negev
The Danger of Comparative Religion
Jerusalem Light Show, 5776, 2016
Temple Mount Worship Or Desecration?
Schizophrenia and the Narrow Bridge, thoughts for Parshas Shlach Lecha
Serious Water Problems in Shiloh-- Rotten Government Planning!
To Be a Pioneer
Quick Shabbat Cooking with Minimal Water
Igniting Souls
The Jews Are The Indigenous Population of Israel
The Last Day
Now, There's One More Location in Warsaw
06/29 Links Pt1: Why Palestinians Throw Rocks; 10 Britons planned riots at Temple Mount during Ramadan
US Betar Reunion in Israel, June 23, 2016
Jerusalem Craft Beer Fair -- July 20-21
Israeli Debacle in Turkish Agreement!
Moral Oppression
Goodbye and Farewell

Let me know which is your favorite post or two or three, and also let me know which other blogs you like and think should be included. And remember that you don't have to be a blogger to read, comment and share HAVEL HAVELIM!!

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

"Safe" Turkish Airport Explodes in Terror Attack!

NY Times People spoke with friends and family on their cellphones outside the airport.CreditOzan Kose/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Different news sites are reporting various numbers of dead and casualties from last night's bombing of the Turkish Airport.

I guess we won't have the exact numbers immediately.

Three suicide bombers opened fire then blew themselves up in Istanbul's main international airport on Tuesday, killing 36 people and wounding close to 150 in what Turkey's prime minister said appeared to have been an attack by Islamic State militants.
One attacker opened fire in the departures hall with an automatic rifle, sending passengers diving for cover and trying to flee, before all three blew themselves up in or around the arrivals hall a floor below, witnesses and officials said.
The attack on Europe's third-busiest airport was one of the deadliest in a series of suicide bombings in Turkey, which is part of the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State and is struggling to contain the spillover from neighboring Syria's civil war. It is also battling an insurgency by Kurdish militants in its largely Kurdish southeast.
Police fired shots to try to stop two of the attackers just before they reached a security checkpoint at the arrivals hall, but they detonated their explosives, a Turkish official said. (Reuters)
NY Times Bodies lay in the street outside the terminal after the attack at Ataturk airport.CreditIlhas News Agency, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images


On the Israeli TV news last night, the commentators kept repeating that the Turkish airport is considered one of the safest in the world. It begins its luggage inspections at the entrance to the airport (if I followed what he said) and not in the departure lounge. But I think we all know that when terrorists are determined, we must have Gd on our side, willing to lend a Hand, aka siyate d'Shmaya, in order to escape or minimize the damage.

Also, we know perfectly well that Turkey supports Arab terrorism against Israel. That is what the Mavi Marmara Flotilla was all about. Those who harbor and legitimize terrorism against others shouldn't be surprised when terrorists terrorize them, turning them into targets. That is what has been happening in Turkey. All countries that think that they can pacify terrorists by offering them Israel as an accepted target are completely wrong. Look at Europe, France, Belgium etc.

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Since Obama & Soros Opposed Brexit, Must be Good!

thecommentator

As the international LEFTIST media, politicians and policymakers have been racking their brains trying to comprehend how what they had considered impossible actually, surprisingly happened-- the victory of Brexit... They are now finally beginning to discover that it, davka, was the anti-Brexit campaign that created the crucial tipping point, which caused people to vote yes.

All of the threats and doomsday predictions, especially the interference by people like United States President Barack Hussein Obama just strengthened the feelings of ordinary Brits that staying in the European Union would further weaken their national sovereignty. George Soros's unpopularity with many also served to convince people to vote for the bill.

Many pro-Brexit voters admitted to the media that they had actually been on the fence until they actually voted, and the point that pushed them into voting to leave was the campaign to stay. This is proof of how totally disengaged politicians, the media and policy makers are to the feelings and fears of ordinary people. In the United States it can easily be seen in the rise and popularity of Donald Trump. All the anti-Trump campaigns has succeeded in doing is to make him more popular with ordinary Americans.

Remember the "Silent Majority?" Well, obviously those in power don't.

Monday, June 27, 2016

Israeli Debacle in Turkish Agreement!

Simply put:
I am embarrassed to be an Israeli!
Elder of Ziyon

Turkey supported an armed terror ship towards Israel, the Marmara, and now Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu has agreed to pay them as if we're guilty!!!
Netanyahu traveled to Rome on Sunday to meet U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Israeli and Turkish officials were also in the Italian capital to finalize the deal.
Israel, which had already offered its apologies - one of Ankara's three conditions for a deal - for its lethal raid on the Mavi Marmara activist ship, agreed to pay out $20 million to the bereaved and injured, the Israeli official said in a briefing to Israeli reporters traveling with Netanyahu. (Reuters)

I am so disgusted that Bibi is paying off these terrorists and terror supporters. It will just encourage them to kill more Jews.