One is a Lie~One is Not

Elder of Zion has produced an excellent report on the history of the "land" situation between Israel and it's "peace partners". It is in-depth and must be read by all thinking, honest people~The haters will not be interested. Please go to this link and read carefully. Examine the maps. Then think! 

Why is the world is screaming for Israel to hand over more land? Look at the maps. Think about what will result if the world powers force Israel to sacrifice more land. Remember that ALL land outside of Israel is "Judenrein". Mahmoud Abbas has stated in no uncertain terms that not one Jew will step foot on "Palestinian" land. Remember that Hamas has already displaced the PA in Gaza and refuses to renounce the vow that they will wipe Israel from the face of the earth. Remember that Jordan was originally given as a Palestinian state and to this day is occupied by a majority of Palestinians~who are denied basic civil rights by Jordan. The list is endless!

Elder closed the report closes with this:

This map shows that Israel gave up control of the Sinai, Gaza, Southern Lebanon and much of the West Bank over the years. Rather than falsely accusing Israel as a land-grabbing rogue state, it accurately shows Israel as perhaps the only state in history that has voluntarily given up more than two-thirds of the areas it controls in exchange for nothing more than a paper agreement - or sometimes not even that. All at the risk of serious security concerns for her people, no less.

This is all because Israel wants, desperately, to live in real peace with her neighbors. This desire is not reciprocated by those neighbors, unfortunately.

The real map shows the truth of Israel's incredible concessions in the often vain hope for peace.

Be honest with yourself and ask some hard questions:

   1) Why is Israel the only one being pressured?
   2) Why does the world refuse to honestly look at the history?
   3) Do I hate Israel so much that I want to see it wiped from the face of the earth?

Muslims Call for Demolition of the Statue of Liberty?

While browsing I came accross this article. It is just too good to pass over. You can read the entire post and see the "full sized proposed renovations" at  Moonbattery. I should note that the site calling for this latest "removal" features that "Madcap Muslim Andy Choudry". While it is hard to take Andy seriously, you need to remember that he is only voicing openly what the others are secretly working to bring about. So, in the end, is this post comical or a real threat?? You decide...

If flying jets full of innocent civilians into the World Trade Center wasn't perfectly symbolic of Islam's relationship to America, how about this--Muslims are calling for the demolition of the Statue of Liberty. From Shariah 4 America:

Suggested Renovations Prior to Demolition

The Statue of Liberty, designed by Frederic Bartholdi, stands on Liberty Island in New York Harbor; representing Libertas, the Roman (false) goddess of Freedom, it is symbolic of the rebellious nature of the US constitution that elevates the command of man over the command of God.

In Islam, the public veneration of idols and statues is strictly prohibited. This has forced sincere Muslims to develop realistic plans that will aid in the removal of the Statue of Liberty.

Due to the scale of the task at hand, it is highly likely that rigorous safety checks will need to be employed before the demolition of the Statue of Liberty can commence; thus as a temporary measure, it is proposed that a large burkha is used to cover the statue, thereby shielding this horrendous eye sore from public view as well as sending a strong message to its French creators.

Post demolition, it is recommended that a minaret be built as a fitting replacement, allowing the glorification of God to be proclaimed daily as well as act as a powerful reminder of the superiority of Islam over all other ways of life.

It reads like a joke at the expense of Islamic arrogance, but the site actually seems to be on the level. Not that this will dissuade any liberals from reflexively siding with Muslims against the Americans they want to kill or enslave.

Now Watch This...It Is Not Funny

PM Netanyahu Response to Massacre of the Fogel Family

The One Family Fund~Helping Victims of Terror

http://www.onefamilyfund.org/

Today I received an email from One Family Fund. If you would like to help victims of terror, including the three surviving Fogel children, you can do so through this organization

I have printed part of the email here, but you can read the entire letter and learn more about this organization on their website at THIS LINK.

OneFamily has already been to the grandparents’ home, where the surviving children were taken following the murders.  Today, we attended the funeral to show the Fogels that we are here for them, and that we will be here for them every step of the way; offering guidance, understanding and support.
   
As the initial shock is replaced with realization that their lives will never be the same, OneFamily professionals and volunteers will be on call and available to help the Fogel children cope. The surviving children will join our specialized support group for orphans of terror--currently including 51 orphans from 14 families just like theirs. They will also receive the care and support of  OneFamily’s Youth Division, whose ongoing programs, activities and personal attention are given to nearly 2000 young Israelis bereaved by senseless acts of terror.  The bereaved grandparents will be invited to join OneFamily’s support groups for bereaved adults.

OneFamily is the only non-profit organization dedicated to providing Israel’s victims of terror and their families with the personalized, comprehensive and long-term support they need to rehabilitate and reintegrate back into society--from the moment of trauma and for as long as assistance is needed.

In this case, that will be a long time. Beyond their psychological needs, funds will be needed far into the future to help the three surviving Fogel children grow into adulthood, to complete their education, and to achieve independence. In short, to do for them what their parents would have, had they survived the terrorists’ knives.

It is always very difficult to find the words to ask for your help, especially when we are still caught in the horror ourselves. But with a deep sense of mission, OneFamily must ask you to help us help these latest victims of terror in Israel.  Our programs and dedicated care and rehabilitation for victims cannot exist without your support.

Donations can be made online at www.onefamilyfund.org 

or by phone 1-866-9-1FAMILY.

With your help, OneFamily will continue to help the bereaved, maimed, psychologically traumatized and financially devastated victims to rebuild their shattered lives.

Barbaric! Palestinians Murder Family of Five on Shabbat

Baby Hadas

All around the world people are gearing up for Israel Apartheid week, meanwhile on Sunday, 12 March 2011 in Jerusalem, Rabbi Udi Fogel (36), his wife Ruth (34), 11-year-old Yoav, 4-year-old Elad and three-month-old baby Hadas are being laid to rest in Har HaMenuchot cemetery. As I look out the window the sun has given way to dark gloomy clouds and it makes me think that even the heavens are mourning for this barbaric attack on innocents.

Baby Hadas & Father Udi~Throats Slashed

The Facts:  Between 22:20 and 22:30 the terrorists entered the house through the living room picture window (not seeing the 6-year-old boy sleeping on the couch) they  continued to the first bedroom where they slashed the throats of the father and newborn baby who were sleeping there. 

Mrs. Fogel Fought

Ruth Fogel came out of the bathroom when she was attacked and stabbed. The evidence shows she tried to fight with the terrorists.

11-Year Old Yoav~Throat Slashed

They then slashed the throat of the 11-year old-son who was reading in his bed.

They did not notice the 2-year old who was asleep in his bed, but murdered the 4-year old with stabs to his heart. After that, they locked the door, and exited  the way they entered--through the window.

Exactly two hours after the initial infiltration, there was another warning signal from the same spot on the fence, as the terrorists left the same way they had come. The security patrol did not identify the source of the signal as infiltration either time "because the fence was not cut".

4-Year Old Elad~Stabbed in Heart

When their 12-year-old daughter Tamar returned home at 00:30 and found the door locked,she asked her neighbor, Rabbi Yaakov Cohen, of the Itamar Yeshiva, to help her. He brought a weapon with him once he noticed tracks and mud near the house. The two woke up the 6-year old sleeping in the living room by calling through the window and when he opened the door, the Rabbi returned to his home.

When she entered the bedrooms, she saw the horrific blood soaked scene  (with her 2-year old brother crying and trying to wake his parents up) and ran out of the house screaming. The neighbor ran back and fired several shots in the air to alert security personnel.

Gaza Celebrates Murder with Sweets

The primary reaction of news outlets was to state that they  were "very concerned that radical settlers might retaliate". The always biased BBC made a point of announcing the building of houses and managed to tie the murders to that while parroting their line that the settlements are illegal--they are not! (I will address this in another post) These victims were not radical settlers! They were Israelis, a husband and wife, and their three young children!

As a point of interest, Rabbi Udi and Ruth Fogel and three of their six children were expelled from Gush Katif in 2005 as part of "then Prime Minister" Ariel Sharon's plan to end the same terror that cruelly ended their lives. They were forced out of Netzarim in central Gaza, re-located to Ariel in Samaria along with other expellees. Two years ago, they moved to Itamar, where Rabbi Fogel, a former IDF tank unit officer, taught in the post-high school yeshiva there. Yes, giving up land really leads to peace...

Celebrate Murder~Sweets for Hamas Police

Hamas websites are jubilant for their heroic "Mujahid" and true to form in Gaza, there were celebrations and sweets for all!

In the picture to the left a Palestinian man offers sweets to Hamas policemen in the streets of the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on March 12, 2011 to celebrate the barbaric attack in Itamar.

The Arabs have been attacking Israelis since 1948--Israel accepted the division of their tiny country but the Arabs were not satisfied to get half. Then, there were no "settlements". Then, as now, the Arabs (most of whom were migrants who came looking for jobs when the Jews started building the country) decided they wanted the whole pie. Then, as now, it had nothing to do with building and everything to do with hundreds of years of hatred of Jews. Almost every day "PA Arabs" are throwing rocks and attacking Jews. While "Israeli Arabs" go freely anyplace they choose in all of Israel, if a Jew makes a wrong turn and ends up in an Arab neighborhood he risks a lynching. PA areas are Judenrein and Mahboud Abbas had remained adamant that not one Israeli wiill step foot on "Palestinian" land--and they say Israelis are racist? Wake Up!! Stop falling for the lies and media spin doctors!

"Official" PA Photo Shows ALL of Israel as Palestine

The Palestinian terrorists, emboldened by  the leftist, anti-Israel groups, partnering with the EU, UN, USA and others around the world now feel it is their "right" to kill Jews.

The Al Quassams website, in referring to the murders, makes their claims that "according to International Law" (which I cannot find) the Palestinian resistance factions have full right to resist any kind of occupation on the land of Palestine...to use all tools and means of resistance against the Israeli occupation forces and the armed Israeli settlers...Yes, you stupid boobs, that 4-month old baby girl was very heavily armed and I bet it took at least two of you to overpower her and cut her throat.

This is part of a post I read on Israel Jewish News Blog. I could not have said it better:
What sickness does it take for armed men to come into a family's home in the middle of the night and murder a rabbi, his wife, and three innocent children?  I will tell you what sickness it takes. It takes the sickness of a society that raises their children to hate Jews.  It takes the sickness of a society that gives school children books that poisons them to think that murdering a Jew will send them to heaven. It takes the sickness of a society where the Prime Minister would suggest his own people were living illegally in their own homes, and a Secretary of Defense that would collaborate with the enemy to destroy Jewish homes. It takes the sickness of a society that will listen to anti-Semites dressed in the robes of "Peace Now" rather than supporting their own people who are trying to make a life in the land that Gd has given us. (Ed. emphasis mine)

Over the next weeks I will be posting links and information detailing some "facts" regarding this ongoing hatred of Israel. You can read for yourself that our "peace partners" maintain the clause in their constitutions calling for the elimination of Israel. You will see the facts that in the middle east there is no tolerance for any non-muslims. And if you are honest with yourself you will ask why the world is posturing to a gang of medieval murderers, pedophiles and rapists. The easy answer is OIL. But is that enough to make good, decent people with stand by while babies have their throats cut?

The video below is being posted on many sites  with permission by the surviving family members with the plea:  "Do Not Let This Happen Again!" Please share with everyone you know.  It is especially important that all the useful idiots parading  their banners for Israel Apartheid week see this. It is their uninformed, anti-Israel hatred that has made these terrorists feel bold enough to carry out this barbaric slaughter. The blood of these five innocents is on the hands of everyone who ignores the truth.

A Reflection on "Bad TV"

I am posting this short clip done by a friend and colleague. The film is a reflection on the effects of TV, created and produced for an Israeli film contest by an up and coming young producer, editor and film-maker, Ilya Marcus. He is creative and hard working and I think he will go far in the film industry. You can see more of his work on his Vimeo Site.

Bad TV from Ilya Marcus on Vimeo.

The Forgotten Refugees~1 Million Expelled

There seems to be a world impression that all Jews are from eastern Europe--Not So! If somebody wants to understand what is going on in the Middle East they have to understand the Jewish refugees from Arab countries and learn about the mass exodus of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa in the 20th century.

This film is not a "Hollywood Blockbuster" rather, it documents the history, culture, and forced exodus of Middle Eastern and North African Jewish communities in the second half of the 20th century. This is an extensive testimony of refugees from Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Morocco and Yemen~the joy and suffering~that nearly one million individuals have carried with them for so long. These are the personal stories and dramatic archival footage of rescue missions, historic images of exodus and resettlement, and analysis by contemporary scholars to tell the story of how and why the Jewish population in the Middle East and North Africa declined from one million in 1945 to barely several thousand today.

Whether you hate Israel and the Jews or love us, it is important for you to watch this film. Watch and listen closely. Think about where the truth lies as the haters scream blood-libels to this very day.

The Forgotten Refugees

Israel Apartheid Week~Part I

I have decided to do a few posts about the world-wide Israel Apartheid Week. I have spent a great deal of time reading the manifestos of those who join the hate-fest (yes, it is a hate-fest). I went from surprise, shock, disbelief to realization. The realization that these people who are screaming the loudest have no idea what they are talking about. 

Yes, I could spend endless time pointing out the daily things in Israel that are not right--but I think there are more than enough critics out there. On the flip side, I wonder if those screeching for the destruction of Israel would be that critical of their own country? Those marching with the PA, Hamas, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey--why do they not criticize what is happening in those countries? Those countries along with all of our other muslim neighbors are almost completely Judenrein. Why does nobody protest that?

Instead, what I choose to address is outright lies that are being flaunted (and sadly) believed. What I choose to do is show why I love my country.

Iraniam~Watch it Now!

This is a re-post. The original "full" movie has been removed by the producers but it is available in five segments which is posted below for you to watch.

The Iranian nuclear program is progressing thanks to the childish policies of Obama and the deception of Mohamed ElBaredei when he was the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). As this movie shows--there is no way to deter Iran from its goal--its goal is the destruction of the world! They are not afraid of death. They believe that if the world is destroyed they go to heaven and the rest of us will burn in eternity. Please watch, Please think about what our politicians have allowed to take root!

Iranium~Part 1


Iranium~Part 2


Iranium~Part 3


Iranium~Part 4



Iranium~Part 5

Purim is Right Around the Corner!

I look forward to Purim and it is always a fun day to be in Jerusalem. In Judaism we do not use musical instruments on Shabbat and Holy Days, rather we use our voices. In synagogues and homes you will hear singing (sometimes a bit off tune), but much of the time the beautiful sounds of acapella float through the air. 

Here is something to get you in the mood for Purim from my favorite acapella group the Maccabeats...Enjoy!

International Women's Day

As women around the world attempt to make themselves heard it is clear that the issues are far too many to even begin to count. Have we really come so very far in 100 years?

Elder of Ziyon has a great post on how women in Gaza celebrate the day.  Do go to his site to read the entire post. He links to the Guardian's interview of a Gazan woman speaking about her love of life, and how oppressed she is (by Israel, of course). He also cites an article from Palestine Today marking the occasion by an interview with Mrs. Dadhouh, whose  claim to fame is the fact that three of her children were Islamic Jihad terrorists that were killed by Israel. Mrs. Dadhouh is, of course, proud of her sons:   "I do not regret that three of my children are martyrs; we all must have the Certificate [of martyrdom], and be ready to continue on this path for Palestine and for the redemption of Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque...Palestinian women are willing to sacrifice and give all that they possess for Jerusalem and to walk on the path of the martyrs."  

 

Elder ends with his own question: I wonder why the Guardian didn't interview Mrs. Dadhouh?   Why indeed...

Finally, Although I am not a fan of the current 007 (only Sean Connery for me), I thought this clip made for Women's Day might appeal to some...

From Drugs To Mugs©

Today drugs are everywhere in every country around the world and many consider it OK to experiment. We watch as famous names from TV and movies publicly parade their addictions. The fast cars, jewelry and high life style comes across as cool and the way to be. It is hard to convince anyone that drugs are destructive. The Multnomah County Sherrif's office decided to try and educate young people before they get caught up in this scene.

This is a preview of Multnomah County Sheriff's Office From Drugs to Mugs© educational program. For more information on how to purchase the soon to be released full length DVD program for your educational purposes, please visit www.facesofmeth.us.

To see the true effects of drugs on people enter the Main Page, and hold your cursor over each picture to see the devastating effects of drug use after only a short time.
 
This is real. Drugs are dangerous. Drug use ruins lives. Drug use kills. Be Informed!

The Mercaz HaRav Massacre~06 March, 2008~Jerusalem

There is an article today in Shearim about the Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav Memorial today, with a link to an article written by the mother of Avraham David, one of eight boys killed in the terrorist attack, on the OU Site HERE. Do take the time to read her story.

I remember exactly where I was three years ago when the Mercas HaRav Massacre happened. After davening at the Kotel joined hundreds of Jews for the monthly Rosh Chodesh Sivuv Shearim, walking around the Temple Mount and stopping at each of its gates. There were hundreds of police and soldiers along the route for our protection. I remember my rabbi explaining all of the historical sites on the way--it was fascinating.

Suddenly everything changed. People were being herded against walls and there was an atmosphere of panic--we suspected it was another pigua (terror attack) and were able to slip out the  last gate and jumped onto a bus. Nothing was moving and everyone had their phones out trying to find out news. Soon we heard there had been an attack at Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav. My rav was very upset as a mutual friend of ours was there studying. Immediately he tried phoning. Our friend, normally very calm and laid back answered and frantically whispered. "I can't talk--they're shooting everybody!" He was with a group who had been upstairs. Armed only with prayer books they hid in the dark until help arrived. They survived, but the horror they witnessed stayed with them.

We would soon learn that eight very young boys were brutally murdered and eleven others  were injured--five of them critically. What was their crime? Was it because they were studying Torah, and because they just happened to be there, and because they just  happened to be Jews?

Even today, when I think of that night I ask Why? Why would anyone want to murder young boys studying Torah? Why would anyone hate so much to do such a thing? Why?

There is no answer. There is no reason, no explanation because this was an act of savage hate. A hate that has permeated the Middle-East since the rise of Islam--a people who raise their children to hate instead of to learn and grow, and love life.

You will not hear about this hate in the mainstream media--it is a subject that seems to be taboo with most journalists. Call it what you want--make as many excuses as you want, but it is there like a cancer, and like a cancer it grows. Golda Meir was once quoted as saying "Peace will come when the Arabs start to love their children more than they hate us". So far this has not happened. Meanwhile, the Jewish people will carry on.

Below are three videos. The first is the emergency call on the night of the attack. The 2nd is an interview with David Shapiro--the man who entered the Yeshiva and killed the terrorist. The third is details of the attack. Watch at 4:19 to see the joy and celebration in Gaza after the attack.

Here is the interview with David Shapiro--who hear the noise, ran to the Yeshiva, entered and shot the terrorist. Around 1:45 he tells how he went to a room where about 15 students had locked themselves in and knocked on the door. They asked him to identify himself and he did, with Shema Yisrael...

The Mercaz HaRav Massacre

The Tribal Updates from Latma

Latma is known for their comic look at life in Israel by bringing everyday things to light in the form of an Israeli news show..Enjoy!

Hitler Phones Muammar al-Ghaddafi

Time for a fun break...