Amazing Israel benefits to humanity
Israeli Technology Advances Key Agricultural Techniques
Because Israel is 60 percent desert, its farmers and agricultural scientists have long focused on expanding both the yield and quality of crops, as well as making agriculture more efficient overall.
Drip irrigation has become popular with fruit and vegetable growers in dry weather areas, from Southern California to the Middle East. The world’s first surface drip irrigation system was developed in the 1960s at Kibbutz Hatzerim near Beersheba. Similarly, Israeli scientists have developed genetically modified, disease-resistant bananas, peppers and other crops that are expanding the world’s food supply and helping to keep prices down at grocery stores around the globe.
Israeli Doctors Have Developed Life-Saving Treatments and Drugs
Throughout Israel’s history, Israeli doctors, scientists and researchers have produced countless medical advances. Whether achieved through independent research or joint projects with the United States, the medical discoveries made by the Jewish state are improving the lives of millions of Americans and others around the globe.
Israeli High-Tech Developments Are Used Around the World
Israel’s high-tech civil innovations have left an important mark on homes, offices and businesses around the world.
Many offices now have computerized phones that plug into the Internet, taking advantage of Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP. VocalTec Communications of Herzliya, Israel, developed the first practical Internet phone software. Similarly, those who enjoy chatting with friends over the Internet might be interested to know that this online phenomenon originated in Israel. Although the technology now belongs to AOL, Israel’s Mirabilis developed the first popular Internet chat program, ICQ.
Every day, millions of Americans watch online streaming video for entertainment or educational purposes. Metacafe, the world’s third-most-popular video sharing website, was founded in Israel. Likewise, tech-savvy Americans over age 30 remember the original IBM Personal Computer of the early 1980s. What they may not know is that its brain, the Intel 8088 processor, was developed by Intel’s Israel division. More recently, the Pentium M series of processors for laptop computers using the Intel Centrino platform, as well as some of Intel’s latest processors (Yonah, Merom, Woodcrest), were also designed by Intel Israel. In addition, Amazon.com’s Kindle e-reader owes much of its success to technology developed in Israel.
Israel Contributes to a Cleaner World
In an era of booming populations, shrinking resources and environmental degradation, Israel leads the world in such critical fields as solar power generation and seawater desalination. As nations struggle to make the best use of their resources, Israel’s cutting edge technologies promise to improve the health and living standards of hundreds of millions across the globe, while making industry more efficient and minimizing the environmental impact of human activities.
Israel’s plan to break from gasoline dependence is providing structure and predictability to the marketplace, combining long-term public sector commitment with regulatory stability to send a clear message that innovation will have a home in Israel. Through investments in basic science and industrial R&D, and the launching of pilot programs and full scale-ups for promising technology, Israel is taking the lead in confronting one of the most pressing security issues of our time. A country of under 8 million people, Israel alone cannot end gasoline’s global monopoly nor end the West’s dependence on hostile petro-regimes. But together with international partners, Israel can serve as a generator of intellectual property and a test-bed for innovative solutions, challenging the economic and security vulnerability that the United States and Israel both face through gasoline dependence.
Israel has also set a national goal consistent with the Copenhagen Accord to increase its share of renewable energy in electricity generation to 10 percent by 2020. In the same period of time, Israel plans to reduce its electricity consumption by 20 percent.
Sunday, August 31, 2014
of course BDSers should boycott this cancer cure potential too
EXCLUSIVE: A cure for ALL cancers is on the way as scientists make major breakthrough
MILLIONS of cancer sufferers have been given fresh hope of a cure after ground-breaking research.
Scientists have made huge leaps in cancer research [picposedbymodel REUTERS]
The breakthrough came in a 16-year study of the only animal immune to cancer.
The discovery by an Israeli specialist was last night hailed as “radical and potentially life-changing”.
In
a world first, Professor Aaron Avivi and his team found that cells from
the blind mole rat and its cousin the naked mole rat secrete a
substance that destroys cancer cells in mammals – including humans.
Experts
think harvesting this substance and making it safe to digest could wipe
out a disease that kills eight million people each year worldwide. Last
night Prof Avivi, of Haifa University in Israel was heading to London
where he is due to present his findings to professionals.
His
radical approach studied the two species of rat that both live mostly
underground – which the team discovered had led to a dramatic evolution
of their metabolism.
Blind mole rats outlive
other rodents by at least 20 years with no outward signs of ageing.
Researchers have never located a cancerous tumour on one of them.
Millions of cancer sufferers are given fresh hope for a cure [picposedby model GETTY]
The
team tested the underground rodents and regular mice and rats with two
potent carcinogens. Ordinary mice and rats developed tumours – none was
found in the subterranean rats.
The study,
published in the widely respected BMC Biology Journal, concluded: “Blind
mole rats are resistant to spontaneous cancer but also to
experimentally induced cancer.
“It shows the
unique ability of the blind mole rat to inhibit growth and kill cancer
cells, but not normal cells. It has evolved efficient anti-cancer
mechanisms.
“Exploring the molecular mechanisms
may hold the key for understanding the nature of resistance to cancer
and identify new strategies for treating humans.”
The
study was described as “exciting” by Prof Penella Woll, of the
University of Sheffield’s department of oncology. She said: “Other
researchers have taken a similar approach, studying sea creatures with
intrinsic cancer resistance to develop the anti-cancer drug trabectedin
– so we know that this can succeed.”
Cancer care
specialist Prof Sam Ahmedzai said: “If Prof Avivi’s research can help us
identify what genetic changes have occurred in the blind mole rat – and
if that knowledge can allow us to modify humans’ genetic codes – then
this is a radically and potentially life-saving treatment.
“There
will undoubtedly be many years of extracting the relevant parts of the
mole rats’ genetic differences and then – the most difficult aspect –
bringing those gene extracts into humans. Prof Avivi is to be
congratulated on opening up an exciting new phase of research.”
Oliver
Childs, of Cancer Research UK, added: “It’s a long way off, but it will
be interesting to see if further research can find a way to help
prevent or treat cancer in humans.”
In Britain, nearly 350,000
people are diagnosed with cancer every year. Macmillan Cancer Support
predicts the number who will get cancer during their lifetime will rise
to nearly half the UK population by 2020. Other studies forecast global
cancer rates will increase to 16 million new cases by the same year.Ask a pharmacist
Ask
a pharmacist whether they have noted Muslims coming in regularly for
large doses of antibiotics with prescriptions from Muslim doctors. In
shul today heard report from one of van fulls that come weekly.
Yesterday a Isis laptop found with manuals to create biological weapons.
Wonder if Obama will allow Fbi to check it out.
patdollard.comSenior FBI agents have told me and other associates of mine directly that the agency has been infiltrated by, and vastly compromised by, the Muslim Brotherhood, and this fact has only worsened under the regime of Barack Obama. NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The head of the Newark FBI said Wednesday the NYP…
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Should UK Jews stay?
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Equating Israelis with murderers was still a social taboo when this exchange took place. True, there were the occasional anti-Israel marches through the streets, but calling an entire country killers was still considered rude; my fellow student apologized for making such a blatant, racist remark.
No more. Over the past several years, being anti-Israeli has become more and more the mark of a civilized person in Britain; opposing the Jewish state is increasingly a sine qua non, an essential hallmark, of being a considered "moral" person in Britain. And as anti-Israel sentiment grows, anti-Semitism is rising throughout the United Kingdom.
Biased Media
Britain's press has treated the current war in Gaza not just as another piece of world news, but as something utterly unrivalled in its scope or horror. Blanket coverage and biased reporting have ensured that Israel is uppermost in the minds of people throughout the United Kingdom.
Israel ranks fifth in the list of countries covered by the Guardian, the influential British newspaper, whose Associate Editor said Israel "has no right to defend itself" and claimed as his personal goal the spreading of "revulsion" against Israel around the world at an anti-Israel rally in London in August, 2014. Britain's Sky News characterized Israel's goals in the Gaza war as "smashing and maiming, dismemberment and mass grief" and compared Israel's actions to the bombing of Dresden and nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Over at Channel Four, all pretext of impartial reporting was abandoned when veteran journalist Jon Snow cried on camera as he spoke of visiting children in a hospital in Gaza. "I can't get those images out of my mind," he said. "I don't think you can either, because they've been everywhere. They are the essence of what is happening in Gaza."
Of course, to an objective reporter it is Hamas' provocation by firing thousands of rockets at Israeli civilians and its cynical use of human shields - Hamas headquarters are located in the basement of the Al-Shifa hospital that Mr. Snow visited - that are the "essence" of what is happening in Gaza. Mr. Snow, however, erroneously reported that none of Hamas' rockets have hit Israel.
BBC's bias is legendary. This lack of context - in which Israel is seen as a bloodthirsty aggressor - often echoes classic anti-Semitic themes. The Guardian defended its decision to run a cartoon portraying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu controlling British Prime Minister David Cameron as a puppet, even though it evokes the anti-Semitic canard that powerful Jews somehow control world leaders. An infamous cover of The New Statesman magazine depicted a Jewish star piercing a Union Jack, the British flag, under the headline "A Kosher Conspiracy"? Even the Lancet, the prestigious British medical journal, depicts Israel as a murderous provoker, calling Israel's measured response to thousands of rockets being launched from within civilian sites in Gaza "the creation of an emergency to masquerade a massacre" of innocent women and children.
Such images have an effect. 41% of Britons say their opinion of Israel has worsened because of the current Gaza conflict, and more than half feel Israel has acted disproportionately.
Media messages and provocative statements also create an atmosphere in which egregious statements receive little or no protest; these in turn enter the public dialogue and further degrade people's opinion of Israel. When Britain's National Union of Students, in an emergency session called to debate the Gaza war, voted to boycott Israel, a member erroneously stated "Palestinian students are tortured and imprisoned" in Israel: in the echo chamber created by such anti-Israel rhetoric, no allegation is too outlandish to repeat.
Anti-Israel Rallies
Simplistic, one-sided views of Israel have also been on display in the massive anti-Israel protests in Britain's cities this summer where Israel is slandered as the sole obstacle to peace, and routinely compared to Nazi Germany. Protestors in London waved signs saying "Well done Israel - Hitler would be proud". Many placards are provided by Britain's "Stop the War" coalition, which accuses Israel of bizarre, horrific crimes such as deliberately "slaughtering" pregnant women. Some protestors have chosen to identify with Hamas. Ignoring Hamas' brutal imposition of Islamic law, its execution of political opponents, refusal to hold elections, its sending of thousands of rockets into Israel, and miles of terror tunnels dug in order to carry out attacks, protestors this summer have shouted "We are all Hamas" at rallies in front of Britain's parliament and Israeli embassy.
Increasingly, anti-Israel sentiment is gaining official sanction. MP George Galloway declared that Israelis are not welcome in his constituent city of Bradford; MP Nick Ward, representing Bradford East, tweeted "if I lived in Gaza would I fire a rocket? - probably yes". In Scotland, prominent figures have come out strongly against Israel: activist Yvonne Ridley has declared her intention to make Scotland a "Zionist-free zone". Her message came ahead of decisions by governments in Glasgow and Fife to fly the Palestinian flag over official buildings in solidarity, a Glasgow spokesman said, with the "innocent victims" of Gaza - but not the innocent Israelis killed and terrorized by Hamas rockets. Scotland's Deputy First Speaker Nicola Sturgeon has also come out as an opponent of Israel, speaking at an anti-Israel event in Scotland.
Anti-Israel protesters are now using bully tactics to create an economic boycott. When protestors gathered outside a Sainsbury's supermarket in Holborn in central London on Saturday, August 16, 2014, calling for a boycott of Israeli goods, managers ordered their entire kosher section to be removed. A shopper who confronted asked why was told "because we support a free Gaza." It wasn't the first time a store gave into anti-Israel protestors: Ahava, an Israeli beauty company finally closed its Covent Garden location in 2011 after years of anti-Israel demonstrations outside its store, and 2014 saw the closure of Brighton's Sodastream outlet after similar protests, and the decision by John Lewis to stop selling the company's products. The Tricycle Theatre in London dropped - and then reinstated - its support for the annual UK Jewish Film Festival. The Israeli group Incubator was forced out of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (though it eventually performed in Glasgow, Leeds and London).
British Jews
Attacks on Jews in Britain haven't reached the levels seen in France, where synagogues have been besieged and Jewish-owned stores firebombed. But anti-Semitic attacks have skyrocketed. July 2014 was the second worst month since records began, logging 240 anti-Semitic incidents in one month alone. Paul Morron, President of Glasgow Jewish Representative Council, has said "the level of anxiety is quite unprecedented." That sounds like a typically reserved British way of saying that the community is beginning to question its very future in Britain. A poll conducted by the Jewish Chronicle found that nearly two thirds of British Jews are questioning their future in the United Kingdom.
British Jews are fighting back, though. Pro-Israel rallies are flourishing throughout the UK, and British communal life is thriving. Perhaps the best way to counter the negative feelings about the Jewish state is to embrace what is being attacked: to engage in Jewish life, to use Jewish and Israeli products, to remain strong in our commitment to Jewish life around the world and especially in Israel, the Jewish state.
By Yvette Alt Miller via aish.com
Hoillary and terror tunnels
Hillary’s Hand in Hamas’ Terror Tunnels
August 26, 2014 by 24 Comments
The authors are members of the board of the Religious Zionists of America.
Much
has been said and written about the terror tunnels that Hamas built in
Gaza. But too little has been said about who it was that put the cement
into Hamas’ hands, thus making the construction of the tunnels possible
in the first place.
Until now.
In a bombshell revelation, Dennis Ross, the
senior Mideast policy adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from
2009 to 2011, has admitted that it was he who was assigned the task of
pressuring Israel to ease up on its military blockade of Gaza, in the
events after Israel’s withdrawal from that region in 2005.
“I argued with Israeli leaders and security
officials, telling them they needed to allow more construction
materials, including cement, into Gaza so that housing, schools and
basic infrastructure could be built,” Ross revealed in the Washington
Post on August 10. “They countered that Hamas would misuse it, and they
were right.”
Not that Hillary’s State Department had been
acting independently of the White House on the issue of cement. For
example, Vice President Joe Biden told interviewer Charlie Rose, on
Bloomberg TV in 2010: “We have put as much pressure and as much cajoling
on Israel as we can to allow them to get building materials” and other
forbidden items into Gaza.
But now that Mrs. Clinton is attempting to
distance herself from the president’s debacles in foreign affairs,
Ross’s admission shows that it was she who sent her personal envoy to
push for a policy that ultimately enabled Hamas to build the terror
tunnels.
Israeli officials have long been justifiably
concerned about the danger of dual-use items such as cement. On the one
hand, cement could be used for innocent purposes such as home
construction, in the hands of a peace-seeking, trustworthy government.
But in the hands of untrustworthy elements — such as the Hamas terrorist
regime that rules Gaza — it could also be used for other purposes. Such
as terror tunnels.
President Obama recently remarked, in his
much-discussed interview with Thomas Friedman of the New York Times:
“Because Israel is so capable militarily, I don’t worry about Israel’s
survival.” Secretary Clinton evidently shared that dismissive attitude
when she sent Ross on his mission to put cement into Hamas’ hands.
It seems Obama and Clinton forgot that Israel
is the only country in the world that is threatened with annihilation
by a nearby regime rushing to build nuclear weapons. Israel is the only
country in the world that, in the space of just 65 years, has been
forced to fight four major defensive wars and five smaller ones, in
order to survive. Israel is the only country in the world whose
next-door neighbors have built dozens of tunnels into Israel to
perpetrate massacres of civilians.
Today, at least thirty-two terror tunnels later, we know that Clinton, Obama and Ross have been wrong, while Israel is right.
Hamas spent between $1-million and
$10-million to build each of those tunnels, using as many as 350
truckloads of cement and other supplies per tunnel, according a report
in to the Wall Street Journal, quoting Israeli military officials.
And it is “likely that there are additional tunnels” that the Israelis have yet to uncover, according to the Journal’s report.
Instead of lethal purposes, the materials
used for each tunnel could have built 86 homes, or 19 medical clinics,
or seven mosques, or six schools. But Hamas had other priorities.
And Secretary Clinton consciously turned a
blind eye. Just as she turned a blind eye to other aggressive and
anti-peace behavior by the Palestinians, such as the Palestinian
Authority’s sheltering of known terrorists, its payments to imprisoned
terrorists, the anti-Israel and anti-America propaganda that fills the
PA-controlled media, and the anti-Semitic hatred in the textbooks used
in the PA’s schools.
What are the real-life consequences of
ignoring such Palestinian actions? An entire generation of young
Palestinians have grown up incited to hatred of Jews and Israel, and
glorifying terrorists as heroes and martyrs.
What are the real-life consequences of Mrs.
Clinton putting cement into Hamas’s hands? The tunnels into Israel were
used to carry out the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit and numerous other
attacks in which Israelis were murdered. They were being prepared to
carry out a mass coordinated attack on Israeli towns and kibbutzim, this
year on Rosh Hashanah.
Imagine a scenario in which a surgeon decided
that she wanted to employ a controversial and risky technique. She was
warned repeatedly that it was too dangerous, but proceeded anyway and in
the process nearly killed the patient. Surely that would be deemed
malpractice. The surgeon probably would be barred from ever again
practicing medicine.
Secretary of Stated Hillary Clinton committed
diplomatic malpractice. Her own top aide has revealed that it was she
who put the cement into Hamas’ hands, even after Israel warned
repeatedly that doing so was too dangerous. And Israel continues to
suffer the consequences.
Another lesson of the Gaza war: Even as we
condemn Hamas’ diversion of cement from the construction of housing to
the construction of terror tunnels, let us not forget that it was
Hillary Clinton who pushed through the policy that made those tunnels
possible.
[Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn are
members of the board of the Religious Zionists of America. This article
is part of a series. To view previous installments, please visit http://www.phillyreligiouszionists.org/lessons-from-the-gaza-war/.]
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
The Moral Psychosis of Jewish Voices for Peace
The Moral Psychosis of Jewish Voices for Peace
"That pro-Palestinian student activists, those who purport to be motivated by a desire to bring “justice” to the Middle East, could publicly call for the renewed slaughter of Jews in the name of Palestinian self-determination demonstrates quite clearly how ideologically debased the human rights movement has become. Activists on and off U.S. campuses, who never have to face a physical threat more serious than getting jostled while waiting in line for a latte at Starbucks, are quick to denounce Israel’s very real existential threats and the necessity of the Jewish state to take counter measures to thwart terrorism."
A key example:
Jewish Voices for Peace: Self-hating Anti Semites seeking the weakening and destruction of Israel
From the Times of israel
1. They organize pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli marches attended by tens of thousands
2. In the past two months of military operations in Gaza, the organization’s e-list has grown 37 percent and Facebook likes have more than tripled to upwards of 188,000 — “more than any other Jewish group working on this issue.” Twitter followers have also tripled to more than 34,000, and new chapters are forming in 18 cities, “representing 45% growth from our existing total of 40,” says Ari Wohlfeiler,
3. the New York-based Jewish Voice of Jewish Voice for Peace was founded by Julia Caplan, Julie Iny, and Rachel Eisner in 1996 in Berkeley, California, as a far-left activist group with an emphasis on the “Jewish tradition” of peace, social justice, and human
rights. It is currently led by Rebecca Vilkomerson, who joined the organization in 2002.
4. A staunch supporter of the global boycott, divest and sanction movement, JVP claims it pinpoint-targets its activities at companies who either support the Israeli military (Hewlett-Packard) or are active in the occupied territories of the West Bank (SodaStream). Jewish Voice for Peace protest against Friends of the Israel Defense Forces in New York, July 22, 2014. (courtesy Jewish Voice for Peace)
5. Self hating on its board include Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky, and Tony Kushner,
6. Other campaigns include lobbying efforts to push the Presbyterian church toward divestment from Israel.
7. The Anti-Defamation League in 2010 and 2013 listed JVP as one of the ten most influential and active anti-Israel organizations in the United States. “While JVP’s activists try to portray themselves as Jewish critics of Israel, their ideology is nothing but a complete rejection of Israel,” says ADL’s website in an entry on JVP.“While the group’s innocuous name and some of its outward policies seem mainstream, JVP consistently co-sponsors rallies to oppose Israeli military policy that are marked by signs and slogans comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, demonizing Jews and voicing support for groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. JVP has never condemned or sought to distance itself from these messages,” wrote the ADL in a 2013 report.
8. Palestinian politician Hanan Ashrawi says she has a lot of respect for JVP and admires its members’ conviction in “challenging the complacency” of those in power.She describes the group as activists that work in a collective to “be the voice of the dis-empowered” through forming coalitions in solidarity with the Palestinian people. She says JVP sends a message to the world that “not all Israelis and Jews are warmongers — and that is good for the health of the Jewish community.”
9. Cohen estimates JVP supporters account for 2% of all American Jews. They are, however, three times more likely to intermarry and disproportionately profile as unattached to Israel (9% of all “not very” or “not at all attached”) and think Israel is not essential for Judaism (4% of total).
10. Brandeis University Prof. Ilan Troen is no fan of JVP, whom he calls “self-appointed saints with no mass following.”“If you’ve ever dealt with the JVP, they themselves are a semi-terrorist group, promoting the disruption of free speech and the inability of others to conduct public discourse.”
Here is what they are supporting:
Morally despicable Hamas/Palestinian society examples. It is no different than Hamas. "Hamas is like ISIS. ISIS is like Hamas. They're branches of the same tree." (Netanyahu)
1. Hamas is a despicable terrorist group advocating genocide
A. Hamas, an official part of Palestinian govt. has a charter which calls for death of Jews and destruction of Israel WARCRIME
B. Hamas Palestinians use human shields to encourage civilian casualties and shoot missiles from hospitals and mosques WAR CRIME
C. Hamas Palestinians sends thousands of missiles at indiscriminant targets aimed to kill as many Jews as possible WAR CRIMES. Every civilian death is Hamas’ fault for sending the missiles in first place. Richard Kemp, former commander of British Troops in Afghanistan and a senior military adviser to the British government, said the following: “I don’t think there has ever been a time in the history of warfare where any army has made more efforts to reduce civilian casualties and deaths of civilians than the IDF (Israeli Defence Forces) is doing today in Gaza.”
D. Hamas Nuclear terrorism-sent missiles to Dimona to try and strike nuclear facility WAR CRIMES
E. Hamas WARCRIME wears Israeli uniforms to try and terrorize and kill
F. Hamas uses animals to suicide detonate bombs ANIMAL ABUSE
G. Tortures and kills domestic political opponents. 18 supposed collaborators killed August 21, 2014 as exampleHas no political or religious freedom and has no freedom of speech, press, or assembly, and no independent judiciary.
H. Rated a 6 by Freedom House in its 2013 report on freedom in the world. Seven is the worst possible rating. Hamas ranks 6 in freedom, 6 in civil liberties and 6 political rights.
I. Destroy buildings and kill civilians to frame Israel. WAR CRIME
J. Hamas terrorizes journalists into not reporting their abuses and killing or exiling any who do
K. Hamas killed 160 of their own children building the tunnels
L. Hamas executed the tunnel builders so they would not reveal any info
M. Rocket Scores Direct Hit on Ashdod Synagogue
Three wounded and synagogue damaged by rocket fired from Gaza. Follows third rocket attack on kindergarten earlier Friday.
N. Admits kidnapping and killing 3 Israeli teens
2. The Palestinian authority, supposedly the moderates, are equally as barbaric
a. Palestinian mom wishes all her 10 sons would be suicide bombers
b. Abbas routinely honors and praises terrorist murderers of Jews
c. Fatah, in UNITY government with Hamas, is just as bad. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183854#.U-azEJsg_cd
d. the kidnap and murder of the 3 boys by Hamas was widely celebrated in Palestinian
e. Palestinian curriculum teaches 5 year olds songs about killing Jew CHILD ABUSE
f. Saturates its education and airwaves with a demonic hatred of Jews
g. They say no Jews will be allowed to live in a Palestinian state, places Jews have lived 4000 years
h. They refuse to acknowledge the right of Jews to have a Jewish state
i. Abbas’ PHD was on holocaust denial
3. Both are monsters: Since Fatah agreed to UNITY government with hamas, they own whatever Hamas does. But, as I show above, pn their own, Fatah are terrorists also, mot moderates.
a. The survey asked about suicide bombing as a specific form of militant violence and found the highest support for it in the Middle East at 46 percent in Gaza and the West Bank,
b. Violently oppresses gays.
c. terrorize Christians and drive them out of their territory
d. Israel must exercise control over their borders, as EVERY sovereign nation does, or Palestinians import missiles and terror weapons to kill Jews.
"That pro-Palestinian student activists, those who purport to be motivated by a desire to bring “justice” to the Middle East, could publicly call for the renewed slaughter of Jews in the name of Palestinian self-determination demonstrates quite clearly how ideologically debased the human rights movement has become. Activists on and off U.S. campuses, who never have to face a physical threat more serious than getting jostled while waiting in line for a latte at Starbucks, are quick to denounce Israel’s very real existential threats and the necessity of the Jewish state to take counter measures to thwart terrorism."
A key example:
Jewish Voices for Peace: Self-hating Anti Semites seeking the weakening and destruction of Israel
From the Times of israel
1. They organize pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli marches attended by tens of thousands
2. In the past two months of military operations in Gaza, the organization’s e-list has grown 37 percent and Facebook likes have more than tripled to upwards of 188,000 — “more than any other Jewish group working on this issue.” Twitter followers have also tripled to more than 34,000, and new chapters are forming in 18 cities, “representing 45% growth from our existing total of 40,” says Ari Wohlfeiler,
3. the New York-based Jewish Voice of Jewish Voice for Peace was founded by Julia Caplan, Julie Iny, and Rachel Eisner in 1996 in Berkeley, California, as a far-left activist group with an emphasis on the “Jewish tradition” of peace, social justice, and human
rights. It is currently led by Rebecca Vilkomerson, who joined the organization in 2002.
4. A staunch supporter of the global boycott, divest and sanction movement, JVP claims it pinpoint-targets its activities at companies who either support the Israeli military (Hewlett-Packard) or are active in the occupied territories of the West Bank (SodaStream). Jewish Voice for Peace protest against Friends of the Israel Defense Forces in New York, July 22, 2014. (courtesy Jewish Voice for Peace)
5. Self hating on its board include Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky, and Tony Kushner,
6. Other campaigns include lobbying efforts to push the Presbyterian church toward divestment from Israel.
7. The Anti-Defamation League in 2010 and 2013 listed JVP as one of the ten most influential and active anti-Israel organizations in the United States. “While JVP’s activists try to portray themselves as Jewish critics of Israel, their ideology is nothing but a complete rejection of Israel,” says ADL’s website in an entry on JVP.“While the group’s innocuous name and some of its outward policies seem mainstream, JVP consistently co-sponsors rallies to oppose Israeli military policy that are marked by signs and slogans comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, demonizing Jews and voicing support for groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. JVP has never condemned or sought to distance itself from these messages,” wrote the ADL in a 2013 report.
8. Palestinian politician Hanan Ashrawi says she has a lot of respect for JVP and admires its members’ conviction in “challenging the complacency” of those in power.She describes the group as activists that work in a collective to “be the voice of the dis-empowered” through forming coalitions in solidarity with the Palestinian people. She says JVP sends a message to the world that “not all Israelis and Jews are warmongers — and that is good for the health of the Jewish community.”
9. Cohen estimates JVP supporters account for 2% of all American Jews. They are, however, three times more likely to intermarry and disproportionately profile as unattached to Israel (9% of all “not very” or “not at all attached”) and think Israel is not essential for Judaism (4% of total).
10. Brandeis University Prof. Ilan Troen is no fan of JVP, whom he calls “self-appointed saints with no mass following.”“If you’ve ever dealt with the JVP, they themselves are a semi-terrorist group, promoting the disruption of free speech and the inability of others to conduct public discourse.”
Here is what they are supporting:
Morally despicable Hamas/Palestinian society examples. It is no different than Hamas. "Hamas is like ISIS. ISIS is like Hamas. They're branches of the same tree." (Netanyahu)
1. Hamas is a despicable terrorist group advocating genocide
A. Hamas, an official part of Palestinian govt. has a charter which calls for death of Jews and destruction of Israel WARCRIME
B. Hamas Palestinians use human shields to encourage civilian casualties and shoot missiles from hospitals and mosques WAR CRIME
C. Hamas Palestinians sends thousands of missiles at indiscriminant targets aimed to kill as many Jews as possible WAR CRIMES. Every civilian death is Hamas’ fault for sending the missiles in first place. Richard Kemp, former commander of British Troops in Afghanistan and a senior military adviser to the British government, said the following: “I don’t think there has ever been a time in the history of warfare where any army has made more efforts to reduce civilian casualties and deaths of civilians than the IDF (Israeli Defence Forces) is doing today in Gaza.”
D. Hamas Nuclear terrorism-sent missiles to Dimona to try and strike nuclear facility WAR CRIMES
E. Hamas WARCRIME wears Israeli uniforms to try and terrorize and kill
F. Hamas uses animals to suicide detonate bombs ANIMAL ABUSE
G. Tortures and kills domestic political opponents. 18 supposed collaborators killed August 21, 2014 as exampleHas no political or religious freedom and has no freedom of speech, press, or assembly, and no independent judiciary.
H. Rated a 6 by Freedom House in its 2013 report on freedom in the world. Seven is the worst possible rating. Hamas ranks 6 in freedom, 6 in civil liberties and 6 political rights.
I. Destroy buildings and kill civilians to frame Israel. WAR CRIME
J. Hamas terrorizes journalists into not reporting their abuses and killing or exiling any who do
K. Hamas killed 160 of their own children building the tunnels
L. Hamas executed the tunnel builders so they would not reveal any info
M. Rocket Scores Direct Hit on Ashdod Synagogue
Three wounded and synagogue damaged by rocket fired from Gaza. Follows third rocket attack on kindergarten earlier Friday.
N. Admits kidnapping and killing 3 Israeli teens
2. The Palestinian authority, supposedly the moderates, are equally as barbaric
a. Palestinian mom wishes all her 10 sons would be suicide bombers
b. Abbas routinely honors and praises terrorist murderers of Jews
c. Fatah, in UNITY government with Hamas, is just as bad. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183854#.U-azEJsg_cd
d. the kidnap and murder of the 3 boys by Hamas was widely celebrated in Palestinian
e. Palestinian curriculum teaches 5 year olds songs about killing Jew CHILD ABUSE
f. Saturates its education and airwaves with a demonic hatred of Jews
g. They say no Jews will be allowed to live in a Palestinian state, places Jews have lived 4000 years
h. They refuse to acknowledge the right of Jews to have a Jewish state
i. Abbas’ PHD was on holocaust denial
3. Both are monsters: Since Fatah agreed to UNITY government with hamas, they own whatever Hamas does. But, as I show above, pn their own, Fatah are terrorists also, mot moderates.
a. The survey asked about suicide bombing as a specific form of militant violence and found the highest support for it in the Middle East at 46 percent in Gaza and the West Bank,
b. Violently oppresses gays.
c. terrorize Christians and drive them out of their territory
d. Israel must exercise control over their borders, as EVERY sovereign nation does, or Palestinians import missiles and terror weapons to kill Jews.
Monday, August 25, 2014
Yom Kippur Katan
Tonight is Rosh Chodesh Elul, One month until rosh hashanah. Have you ever heard of yom Kippur katan, the day before rosh chodesh each month? YOM KIPPUR KATAN (Heb. יוֹם כִּפּוּר קָטָן; lit. "minor day of atonement"), the eve of the new month which became for the pious a day of fast and repentance. The custom of keeping Yom Kippur Katan is a late one, and is not mentioned in the Shulḥan Arukh. It began among the kabbalists of *Safed in the second half of the 16th century and is first spoken of by Moses *Cordovero. The waning of the moon was conceived by the kabbalists as a symbol of the exile of the Shekhinah ("Divine Presence") and the diminution of the power of holiness during the Exile, and its renewal as a symbol of the return to perfection in the age of Redemption. They based this conception on the talmudic legend according to which God had said to Israel: "Bring atonement upon me for making the moon smaller" (Ḥul. 60b). Yom Kippur Katan
The day before each Rosh Chodesh (beginning of the month) is referred to as 'Yom Kippur Katan," the "Little Yom Kippur." R' Gedalya Schorr, in explaining why this is the case, first discusses the purpose of Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur, simply stated, is a day for one to take an accounting of what he or she has accomplished or failed to do. It is time for people to inspire themselves, to arouse within their heart and soul a desire to accomplish more, to strive for greatness. The very end of a month, when the moon is barely visible, is an appropriate time to remind ourselves of what we are to be doing with our lives. We can gaze upwards and see almost none of the moon, knowing that a mere two weeks later, the moon will be full. Similarly, we can gaze within ourselves and see not even a tiny spark of inspiration or desire to strive for greatness. At the same time, we should know that we have the ability within us to shine brightly. Right before we begin a new month, we should inspire ourselves to improve, regardless of the method we employ to do. For this reason, specifically the day before Rosh Chodesh is set aside for a day of self improvement and introspection, thus earning it the name Yom Kippur Katan
The day before each Rosh Chodesh (beginning of the month) is referred to as 'Yom Kippur Katan," the "Little Yom Kippur." R' Gedalya Schorr, in explaining why this is the case, first discusses the purpose of Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur, simply stated, is a day for one to take an accounting of what he or she has accomplished or failed to do. It is time for people to inspire themselves, to arouse within their heart and soul a desire to accomplish more, to strive for greatness. The very end of a month, when the moon is barely visible, is an appropriate time to remind ourselves of what we are to be doing with our lives. We can gaze upwards and see almost none of the moon, knowing that a mere two weeks later, the moon will be full. Similarly, we can gaze within ourselves and see not even a tiny spark of inspiration or desire to strive for greatness. At the same time, we should know that we have the ability within us to shine brightly. Right before we begin a new month, we should inspire ourselves to improve, regardless of the method we employ to do. For this reason, specifically the day before Rosh Chodesh is set aside for a day of self improvement and introspection, thus earning it the name Yom Kippur Katan
Obama's Hypocrisy on Hamas, ISIS, and Iran
Obama's Hypocrisy on Hamas, ISIS, and Iran
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The beheading of U.S. journalist James Foley
has raised concerns in the West about Islamist threats. But Israel has
been facing this specter for decades and – given Israel's proximity to
the Islamist threat – the Jewish State is the canary in the coal mine
for the West. But Gaza seems to be the Western blind spot, even though
the Hamas-ISIS parallels are glaringly obvious.
Since beheadings are the current media focus, and ISIS has beheaded infants, it's worth noting that Hamas praised the 2011 Itamar murders, which involved the decapitation of a baby.
Islamist beheadings should surprise no one, given that they've been
happening for much of (and despite) modernity – perhaps because "Islam
is the only major world religion today that is cited…to legitimize
beheadings," according to this study.
While there have been no reported Hamas beheadings of journalists,
the similarities between Hamas and ISIS are more important than their
differences.Both would like to establish a Caliphate. Hamas Interior Minister declared as much in this 2013 speech.
Both gain and keep power through savagery and fear. Hamas rose to power in Gaza thanks to its violent, 2007 coup, and recently planned a second putsch (in the West Bank). Hamas famously threw its political opponents off rooftops.
Like ISIS, Hamas uses clinics, schools, mosques, and charities to gain legitimacy, and inculcates children with the values of jihadi terror. A Vice documentary exposed how ISIS indoctrinates and uses children for war, but Hamas has been doing so for years, educating children to worship death and using child soldiers.
Hamas' use of human shields has been widely documented (and proven very effective in turning public opinion against Israel by exponentially increasing Gazan civilian casualties). ISIS used 500 Yazidi captives and 39 abducted Indians as human shields.
ISIS is known for its expulsion of Christians from Mosul and its genocidal murder of Yazidis and Christians who refuse to convert to Islam or pay the jizyah.
Hamas would undoubtedly behave the same way towards the religious
minorities within its reach, if Israeli Jews didn't have the protection
of a superior military, and if Hamas didn't depend on international
donations to Gaza that might dry up after a wholesale slaughter of the
tiny Christian community there. But even with these checks on Hamas'
brutality, Hamas regularly practices and preaches religious hatred. For
years, Hamas has attacked Christians, including defiling Christian graves, abducting and murdering Christians, and more recently using a Gazan church to launch rockets at Israel. Hamas preaches hateful incitement against Jews, has desecrated Jewish holy sites, and has murdered hundreds of Jews in terrorist attacks.
ISIS uses Sharia to justify its barbaric treatment of women. Also enamored with Sharia, Hamas treats women as second-class citizens and endorses honor killings.
Like ISIS, Hamas advocates the death penalty for homosexuals, lets Islamic morality police govern economic activity, and punishes crime with lashings, amputations, and executions.
There have been no broadcast beheadings of homosexuals by ISIS yet, but
such horrors can't be far off, given that ISIS fighters include gay-hating Westerners.
Hamas condemned the assassination of Osama Bin Laden, and ISIS aspires to surpass him.
Yet, astonishingly, President Obama and liberals have continually called for restraint
when Israel's military has confronted Hamas (after Hamas' countless
attacks against Israeli civilians) and Obama has pressed Israel to
negotiate with Hamas (as if the U.S. would ever negotiate with ISIS).
Worse still, the Obama Administration tried to advance Hamas' negotiating position and recently pressured Israel into letting Hamas keep its military capabilities. Given the opportunity to obliterate ISIS' terrorist infrastructure, would the U.S. ever spare any part of it?
Even more troubling – in terms
of the perils involved – is Obama's feckless strategy towards the
Iranian regime, which is the world's chief sponsor of Islamist terrorist
groups (including Hamas and Hezbollah). Like so many Islamist terrorist
organizations, Iran executes homosexuals; mistreats women; persecutes religious minorities; employs barbaric, Sharia-law punishments (like amputation and stoning); and brutalizes political dissenters (among myriad other human rights violations). But unlike the terrorist organizations, Iran could theoretically acquire a nuclear weapons capability in under two months. Imagine an Islamist state, which openly supports Islamist terrorists, possessing nukes. Alarmingly, Obama's overall approach and eagerness to negotiate any deal he can get with Iran have signaled weakness in a region that respects only strength. As if to laugh at Obama's naiveté, the Iranian regime has continued supporting Hamas despite the sanctions relief that Obama delivered
to the Islamic Republic. Obama's meek and misguided policy has only
emboldened the Iranian regime, improved its economic condition, and
given diplomatic cover to Iran's nuclear program.
Islamist groups like ISIS,
al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, and Iran-backed Hamas and Hezbollah, all seek the
destruction of Western values and civilization. The pursuit of nukes by
the Islamist state of Iran – which could eventually enable nuclear
terrorism by Iran's jihadi proxies – poses the greatest threat of all.
The West ignores these facts at its peril, and should therefore support
Israel's war against Hamas, and its efforts against Iranian nukes, just
as the U.S. has rightly (albeit tardily and minimally) supported the
Kurds in their fight against ISIS.
Noah Beck is the author of The Last Israelis, an apocalyptic novel about Iranian nukes and other geopolitical issues in the Middle East.
Netanyahu ISIS=Hamas
"Many
states in the region and in the West are beginning to understand that
this is a single front, that Hamas is ISIS and ISIS is Hamas. They act
in the same way. They are branches of the same poisonous tree. They are
two extremist Islamic terrorist movements that abduct and murder
innocents, that execute their own people, that shrink at nothing
including the willful murder of children. In recent days we heard from
Hamas spokesmen that they admit to what we have been saying all along,
that they murdered [the three Israeli teens] Eyal, Gilad and Naftali."
"Both movements are, in effect, making an effort to establish Islamic rule, caliphates, without human rights, across wide areas, by slaughtering minorities....With every passing day the world understands more and more that Hamas operates like ISIS and that ISIS operates like Hamas. The State of Israel will continue to stand alongside the civilized world in its war against extremist and violent Islam." (Prime Minister's Office)
"Both movements are, in effect, making an effort to establish Islamic rule, caliphates, without human rights, across wide areas, by slaughtering minorities....With every passing day the world understands more and more that Hamas operates like ISIS and that ISIS operates like Hamas. The State of Israel will continue to stand alongside the civilized world in its war against extremist and violent Islam." (Prime Minister's Office)
Sunday, August 24, 2014
the signficance of the date 9-11
I have not seen this but it makes sense. Why 9-11 2001,? Why was
Benghazzi on 9-11? In 1683, on Sept.11, a force of 300,000 Muslims from
Istanbul attacked Vienna and hoped to destroy Vienna and then march to
Rome. They were opposed by a much much smaller force of Catholics, led
by the Polish king and a monk. The Ottomon general said this day will be
remembered in history. The Muslims miraculously lost. The monk told the
troops they were fighting for their families, for their faith,
for their civilization. They will never give up trying to take Europe.
They believe it is theirs, as well as Israel, since Muslims ruled it
before. This is a NEVER ending battle with islam. They will NEVER give
up. Gird our loins. Obama will be gone eventually. Keep up the pressure
with our congress so they understand. Hopefully Europe will wake up in
time. Fight the agents who have taken the side of evil or are too
stupid or pc to understand. . Nowadays Students for Justice in
Palestine, J Sreet, New York times, Time magazine etc. arer part of this
band of those undermoining the struggle. 97% of Israelis get it. Many
in Congress get it. Canadian leadership gets it. Even some muslims
understand now is not the time for them (Egyptian government, saudis
etc). This is a war for our preservation.
Israel says it found Hamas training manual in Gaza
By Luke Baker
JERUSALEM
(Reuters) - The Israeli army has released what it says is a page from a
seized Hamas training manual that would appear to support its case that
Palestinian militants deliberately use the cover of residential areas
for combat operations.
The Israeli army said the training manual was found in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun at the end of July, when troops were operating inside the enclave. The full manual is 102 pages long, the army said, but it released just one page of it.
That page appears to set out guidelines on how to hide weapons and ammunition in civilian areas, how to transport them into buildings and how to conceal or camouflage explosives.
It is marked at
the bottom with "Izz-el-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Training and Guidance
Branch, Engineering Corps". The al-Qassam Brigades are the military wing
of Hamas, the Islamist group that has controlled Gaza since 2007.
Unlike other Hamas documents, the page bears no Hamas logo.
"The process of hiding ammunition inside buildings is intended for
ambushes in residential areas and to move the campaign from open areas
into built up and closed areas," reads the document, written in Arabic.
Don't fall for Palestinian myth of moderation
Islamic Palestine and Arafat’s rejectionism
August 23, 2014, 10:14 am
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Second, Arafat continued to demand the complete return of all Arab refugees and their multitude of descendants from the original Palestinian-Israeli war of 1948. If such an event were to happen, Israel would become a bi-national state with a Jewish minority. The Jewish people have long experience with minority status in both the Muslim and the Christian worlds. Neither of these historical eras ever engendered the remotest sense of security or justice within the long memory of the Jews. Yet Arafat had the audacity to base his so-called “peace of the brave” on such a spurious concept as this “right of return”. Did this sound like the position of a man interested in anything other than the complete defeat of Jewish sovereignty in any part of the Holy Land?
From a historical perspective, Arafat’s statement has large elements of both truth and falsehood simultaneously. Yes, it is fundamentally true that in the minds of most Muslims, Jewish power in Palestine (an Islamic land from their theological point of view) is perceived as anathema. But there is nothing new about this. From the very inception of the Arab-Israeli conflict, from 1920 onward, the religious dimension was primary. The first Palestinian leader, Hajj Amin el-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, was a disciple of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. Arafat knew this. He also felt that in a world of 1.2 billion Muslims, the Palestinians would certainly outlast Israel in a religious war of attrition. In order for that to happen, the religious dimension became essential. Arab nationalism never served the interests of Palestinian nationalism. On the contrary, in the various large-army nation-state wars against Israel, it was Egyptian, Jordanian or Syrian interests which always superseded the interests of Palestine.
Arab nationalism had a secular veneer, but it failed to take root in what is essentially a supernaturally oriented social structure. It was always couched with Islamic religious symbols. Arafat’s charisma was based on his personal ability to exploit many of these same symbols. But religion couldn’t save Arab nationalism. Its lifespan was brief, nothing more than fifteen years in its heyday. Arafat understood all along that religious authority in the Muslim world is far deeper in terms of culture and meta-historical psychology than any form of nationalism. Islam would fight the long war against the Jews, Arafat understood this. Hamas was the true future of the Palestinian movement, and Arafat understood this as well.
The Chairman of the PLO simply couldn’t sign on to a final-status agreement at Camp David. He refused to go down in history as a Sadat or a King Hussein. Arafat was playing for time, a whole lot of time. He understood that it was Israel which was the weakest and smallest party to the conflict. After all, Islam had once conquered nearly two-thirds of the known world. And Arafat was an Islamic believer, a nephew of the Grand Mufti himself. When his private plane went down in the vast desert of the Libyan Sahara, the PLO chairman termed his rescue no less than miraculous, the very work of Allah. When he started the second intifada, he had completely abandoned Oslo and was in full cooperation with Hamas. In fact, Arafat was always with Hamas, if not in body then in spirit. In the final analysis, he believed in the complete rejection of the right of the Jewish people to a state in any part of the ancient Holy land. At Camp David, when confronted by US President Bill Clinton as to the historical validity of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem, he denied it ever existed. To a modern Jew or Christian, this response is not only contrary to history, it also reveals a deep structural rejection of anything but Islamic hegemony. It is extreme Islam at its core.
So what were the Oslo accords all about? The short answer is that Oslo represented the true genius of Yasser Arafat, or what I call the “myth of moderation.” Oslo was a mask, a disguise for a gullible left-wing European and American audience who knew next to nothing about the vagaries of language in the Muslim Near East. The PLO leader was the master of these two very distinct tongues — one in English, of moderation, and another in Arabic, as to true intentions. Even the Labor Party in Israel succumbed to Arafat’s siren song of peace, but not the Likud. They warned the West. They warned repeatedly, but to no avail. The nations of the European Enlightenment have a predilection for rational answers to most problems, including issues of war and peace. It mattered little to these Westerners that the battle for the Holy Land had a theological dimension, which can only be rooted out by a novel and revelational (Torah and Koran) approach to the Islamic-Judaic dialogue.
Normal, non-aggressive politics has long become the absent phenomenon within the context of Islamic political succession. As for interfaith struggles, the Crusades were a historical laboratory for long wars of Muslim attrition. The key lesson to be learned from these Crusades and the centuries of conflict is that the West Bank of the Jordan River is the vital strategic territory in the battle for Israel-Palestine. Arafat understood this. That was the reason for his mask. But when push came to shove at Camp David, the mask came off. When offered ninety percent of the West Bank for a demilitarized state, he refused. Arafat was a Muslim through and through. NO, he was NOT able to sign an agreement with an “end of conflict” clause. NO, he would NOT allow Israel to remain on the Jordan River Valley. His strict interpretation of his religion wouldn’t allow for such compromises.
Arafat was not a true moderate, because moderation is not a component of modern Palestinian history. For most of the conflict, religious sentiment has been the primary focus of Palestinian politics. Only for a very brief period were the Palestinians masquerading as secular socialists or democrats. Essentially, this was a tactical ploy in order to maintain a strong connection with the Soviets, while also engendering sympathy from their anti-religious left-wing friends in Western Europe. Islamic Palestine has always been the norm. Arafat’s rejectionism was merely a variant or subspecies of this ongoing religious paradigm. The Hamas “holy war” is as old as the conflict itself. In order for peace to reign, the Jews must always remain vigilant when confronted with demands for West Bank withdrawal. Simultaneously, they must develop a devastating theological argument (rooted in the current struggle itself) to overcome a vast world of Muslim religious rejection. If little Israel is successful, the region will have a future. If it isn’t successful, G-d will only help those who remain true to the idea of a genuine peace.
Gaza war is an Obligatory war in Jewish law
Maimonides Mishneh Torah Melachim uMilchamot - Chapter 5.1
Amalek, as described in the Bible was a barbaric, terrorist nation that attacked civilians, women and children from the rear, as opposed to sending their soldiers to attack soldiers. This is a parallel to the way Hamas and other Islamic terror organizations
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