Birthday candle for Israel? Report just in http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/180340#.U2lqe_ldVwQ"immense explosion has been heard throughout the northern Iranian city of Qazvin, semi-official Fars news agency reported, and many casualties are expected from the blast.
The blast may be related to nuclear development in Iran, according to the Los Angeles Times. Iranian officials in the past have strongly denied claims by Mujahedin Khalq Organization, or MKO, a cult-like Iranian exile group, that it has a secret nuclear enrichment facility in Abyek, near the major city, according to the daily.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
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Sunday, May 4, 2014
J Street anti israel positions
Top ten+ traitorous, dangerously anti-Israel aspects of J street
1. Funded from dangerous sources: J Street has accepted funding from sources—such as George Soros and many from the Arab world, including Iran, —who are openly anti-Israel, and have kept this fact secret so as not to alienate its centrist supporters. J Street officials got caught misleading reporters on it and launched a clumsy spin campaign.
2. Hypocrites: J Street insists that all major pro-Israel organizations be open to speakers who favor the BDS movements, supporters of the single secular binational state approach, and those who oppose Palestinian recognition of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people J Street only wants people to hear views to the anti-Israel hard left of its position. It categorically refuses to allow its members to hear views that are more centrist and more pro-Israel, such as Prof. Alan Dershowitz.
3. It placed its imprimatur behind the despicable and mendacious Goldstone Report on Gaza by bringing Richard Goldstone to Capitol Hill and introducing him to members of Congress.
4. J Street has declared its support for the Palestinian refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
5. Some of J Street U campus branches began to drop the “pro-Israel” clause of the organization’s slogan
6. Iran sanctions:. Within hours of Netanyahu’s crystal clear speech that the deal between Iran and the west is a “bad deal, a very, very bad deal,” J J Street sent out the message through thousands of emails, and on its website, urging Americans to tell their senators to “take a time out from moving ahead with new sanctions. J Street throws its sheltering arms around the mullahs in Iran and tries to help browbeat members of the U.S. senate into easing Iran’s slide into the nuclear weapons club
7. J Street shamelessly and relentlessly push the Palestinian Arab propaganda line which claims Jews living and breathing beyond an arbitrary armistice line is the primary cause of unrest in the Middle East.
8. J Street is soliciting funds for congressional candidates who are openly hostile to Israel while simultaneously targeting for defeat explicitly pro-Israel lawmakers. Among the more than 50 candidates endorsed by J Street is a sizable delegation of lawmakers who have expressed hostility towards the Jewish state.
9. J Street launched campaigns to defend anti-Israel media campaigns and anti-Israel art and anti-Israel artists. Its PR flak defended Mary Robinson. Itbrought into the fold an apologist for the Muslim students who went after Ambassador Oren at UC Irvine. A J Street delegation held meetings with Palestinian diplomats in Ramallah on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day over Israeli objections and then Ben-Ami bragged about the trip in the Jerusalem Post. One of their board members met with Hamas.
10. Defrauds the public: Dershowitz called J Street’s branding of its message as pro-Israel “dishonest.” “It is a fraud in advertising to call J Street pro-Israel,” he said. “An organization that calls for the US to censure Israel at the UN is not pro-Israel. An organization that praises [judge Richard] Goldstone is not pro-Israel. An organization that calls for taking any military measure against Iran off the table is not pro-Israel. It should stop defrauding the public.”
11. J Street was accused of collaborating with anti-Israel groups such as Students for Justice in Palestine.
12. J Street has refused to condemn the Fatah-Hamas unity deal, claims it is no impediment to peace. Hamas has publicly stated it wants to destroy Israel and kill Jews, as have many Fatah leaders.
13. J street has refused to condemn Sec. State Kerry for using term apartheid regarding Israel or threatening a boycott etc.
13. It is against Jewish values for J Street to believe it knows better than Israel does what is good for its survival, and to try and use the USA to force Israel to make moves detrimental to her survival, which the Israeli population has strongly rejected.
14. It is against Jewish values to take money from known enemies of Jews as J street has repeatedly done
13. J street has refused to condemn Sec. State Kerry for using term apartheid regarding Israel or threatening a boycott etc.
13. It is against Jewish values for J Street to believe it knows better than Israel does what is good for its survival, and to try and use the USA to force Israel to make moves detrimental to her survival, which the Israeli population has strongly rejected.
14. It is against Jewish values to take money from known enemies of Jews as J street has repeatedly done
"Commentary magazine "J Street’s suggestion that this is the moment for Kerry to put forward his own peace plan shows just how out of touch they are. Kerry may have been foolhardy enough to think the magic of his personality could achieve what all of his predecessors failed to accomplish, but he is not so stupid as to think he could persuade a Palestinian government that included Hamas would accept the legitimacy of a Jewish state no matter where its borders were drawn. Nor would Obama risk his limited political capital in a midterm election year on a fight with Israel that would, like his previous squabbles with Netanyahu, do nothing to advance the cause. That’s why J Street, for all of President Obama’s sympathy for its goals, finds itself once again marginalized. "
Greek political anti-Semitism
Greek's Jewish community has attacked an Athens municipal coalition backed by the country's ruling New Democracy Party for fielding a candidate they say is an anti-Semite in the upcoming elections.
The candidate, Thanos Plevris, is a candidate for the Athens, You Can coalition, which is hoping to win back city hall in local elections later this month. Plevris was previously a member of parliament with the right-wing Popular Orthodox Rally (Laos) party.
In a joint statement, the Central Board of Greek Jews and the Jewish Community of Athens said that Plevris had never "repudiated and condemned the disgraceful things said about the Jews in the book 'Jews: The Whole Truth,' which is a monument to anti-Semitism and hatred."
The book was written by Plevris' father, Kostas, a self-declared racist and Nazi. In 2007, he became the first person to be convicted under a 1979 anti-racism law. The conviction was later overturned on appeal, with the judges accepting the argument that his book only referred to "Zionist Jews" and not Jews in general.
The community said that Thanos Plevris had defended the book's author when he was a Laos MP. His excuse that he was simply acting as a lawyer for his father did not prevent him from condemning the book and its contents after the trial, the statement continued.
It also noted that, in recent tweets, Plevris had avoided identifying the Jews as the main victims of the Nazi Holocaust.
"Our position is well known … Attitudes towards the Holocaust, fascism and Nazism, anti-Semitism and intolerance need to be clear and conscious and should not be used for short-term political expediency," the statement said.
The left-wing coalition Syriza blamed New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras, the current prime minister, for his party’s "rich collection of right-wing extremists and Holocaust deniers
The candidate, Thanos Plevris, is a candidate for the Athens, You Can coalition, which is hoping to win back city hall in local elections later this month. Plevris was previously a member of parliament with the right-wing Popular Orthodox Rally (Laos) party.
In a joint statement, the Central Board of Greek Jews and the Jewish Community of Athens said that Plevris had never "repudiated and condemned the disgraceful things said about the Jews in the book 'Jews: The Whole Truth,' which is a monument to anti-Semitism and hatred."
The book was written by Plevris' father, Kostas, a self-declared racist and Nazi. In 2007, he became the first person to be convicted under a 1979 anti-racism law. The conviction was later overturned on appeal, with the judges accepting the argument that his book only referred to "Zionist Jews" and not Jews in general.
The community said that Thanos Plevris had defended the book's author when he was a Laos MP. His excuse that he was simply acting as a lawyer for his father did not prevent him from condemning the book and its contents after the trial, the statement continued.
It also noted that, in recent tweets, Plevris had avoided identifying the Jews as the main victims of the Nazi Holocaust.
"Our position is well known … Attitudes towards the Holocaust, fascism and Nazism, anti-Semitism and intolerance need to be clear and conscious and should not be used for short-term political expediency," the statement said.
The left-wing coalition Syriza blamed New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras, the current prime minister, for his party’s "rich collection of right-wing extremists and Holocaust deniers
Saturday, May 3, 2014
Friday, May 2, 2014
How 600 rabbis can be wrong
Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, Executive Director of the Rabbinical assembly, the Conservative Movement's rabbinic arm, wrote a piece decrying the vote to DENY J Street membership in the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish organizations. She says almost 600 rabbis are on the J Street Rabbinic board. Its not enough that under her leadership the Conservative Movement continues to slide dramatically down in affiliation, down to 11% for Jews under 20, now she and the United synagogue vote to give J Street a bigger voice? Thank God wiser heads prevailed.
J Street is a dangerous group, whose polices weaken and endanger Israel and embolden Israel's enemies. The Executive Director of the Conservative rabbis group Rabbinical Assembly, who has overseen a sharp and dramatic decline in the movement under her reign) wrote a piece condemning that vote. This position is to be expected from the Reform Movement, but Conservative? Of course leaders are saying they do not necessarily agree with the J street positions, but they should have seat at the table. Should Hamas? Iran? You think that's an absurd question? See how close J Street positions are to some radical anti Israel groups and find out where their funding comes from?
This is the group she wants admitted to the Conference..
J Street is a dangerous group, whose polices weaken and endanger Israel and embolden Israel's enemies. The Executive Director of the Conservative rabbis group Rabbinical Assembly, who has overseen a sharp and dramatic decline in the movement under her reign) wrote a piece condemning that vote. This position is to be expected from the Reform Movement, but Conservative? Of course leaders are saying they do not necessarily agree with the J street positions, but they should have seat at the table. Should Hamas? Iran? You think that's an absurd question? See how close J Street positions are to some radical anti Israel groups and find out where their funding comes from?
This is the group she wants admitted to the Conference..
Top ten+ traitorous, dangerously anti-Israel aspects of J street
1.
Follow the money
J Street has accepted funding from sources—such as George Soros and many
from the Arab world, including Iran, —who are openly anti-Israel, and have kept
this fact secret so as not to alienate its centrist supporters. J Street officials got caught misleading reporters on overseas Arab and Muslim funding and then launched a clumsy spin campaign. Then they got caught misleading other reporters about
Soros funding and launched another clumsy spin campaign.
2.
J Street insists that all
major pro-Israel organizations be open to
speakers who favor the BDS movements, supporters of the single secular
binational state approach, and those who oppose Palestinian recognition of
Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people J Street only wants people to
hear views to the anti-Israel hard left of its
position. It categorically refuses to allow its members to hear views that are more centrist and more
pro-Israel, such as Prof. Alan Dershowitz.
3. It has taken positions that undercut Israel’s security and that virtually no Israeli center-leftists support. It placed its imprimatur behind the despicable and
mendacious Goldstone Report by bringing Richard Goldstone to Capitol Hill and
introducing him to members of Congress.
4. March 21, 2014 In a development that is not sending shockwaves
through the pro-Israel community, J
Street has declared its support for the Palestinian refusal to recognize Israel
as a Jewish state. J Street’s belief is that the U.S
should use its status as Israel’s only ally to pressure it to make concessions
to a Palestinian Authority that has repeatedly demonstrated its unwillingness
to recognize the legitimacy of a Jewish state no matter where its borders are
drawn.
5.
Some of J Street U campus
branches began to drop the “pro-Israel”
clause of the organization’s slogan
6.
Iran sanctions:. Within
hours of Netanyahu’s crystal clear speech that the deal between Iran and the
west is a “bad deal, a very, very bad deal,” J J Street sent out the message
through thousands of emails, and on its website, urging Americans to tell their
senators to “take a time out from moving ahead with new sanctions. J Street throws its sheltering arms around
the mullahs in Iran and tries to help browbeat members of the U.S. senate
into easing Iran’s slide into the nuclear weapons club – a club whose doors
should and must be shut to any nation that threatens to “exterminate” or “wipe
off the face of the Earth” another nation, especially Israel – it makes it
impossible to do anything but grimace at their tag line: “pro-Israel,
pro-peace.”
7.
J Street shamelessly and
relentlessly push the Palestinian Arab
propaganda line which claims Jews living and breathing beyond an arbitrary
armistice line is the primary cause of unrest in the Middle East.
8. The self-described “pro-Israel, pro-peace” liberal advocacy group
J Street is soliciting funds for
congressional candidates who are openly hostile to Israel while
simultaneously targeting for defeat explicitly pro-Israel lawmakers.
who
do not agree with its radical Middle East agenda, according to aWashington
Free Beacon analysis of J Street’s election year strategy.
Among
the more than 50 candidates endorsed by J Street is a sizable delegation of
lawmakers who have expressed hostility towards the Jewish state.
9.
J Street launched campaigns
to defend anti-Israel media campaigns and anti-Israel art and anti-Israel artists. Its PR flak defended Mary Robinson. Itbrought into the fold an apologist for the Muslim
students who went after Ambassador Oren at UC Irvine. A J Street
delegation held meetings with Palestinian diplomats in Ramallah on the eve of
Holocaust Memorial Day over Israeli objections and then Ben-Ami bragged about the trip in the Jerusalem Post. One of their board members met with Hamas.
10.
Dershowitz called J
Street’s branding of its message as pro-Israel “dishonest.” “It is a fraud in
advertising to call J Street pro-Israel,” he said. “An organization that calls
for the US to censure Israel at the UN is not pro-Israel. An organization that
praises [judge Richard] Goldstone is not pro-Israel. An organization that calls
for taking any military measure against Iran off the table is not pro-Israel.
It should stop defrauding the public.”
11.
J Street was accused of collaborating with anti-Israel
groups such as Students for Justice in Palestine.
12.
J Street has refused to
condemn the Fatah-Hamas unity deal, claims it is no impediment to peace, refused to condemn Sec. State Kerry for
using term apartheid regarding Israel or threatening a boycott etc .
"Commentary magazine "J Street’s suggestion that this is the moment for Kerry to put forward his own peace plan shows just how out of touch they are. Kerry may have been foolhardy enough to think the magic of his personality could achieve what all of his predecessors failed to accomplish, but he is not so stupid as to think he could persuade a Palestinian government that included Hamas would accept the legitimacy of a Jewish state no matter where its borders were drawn. Nor would Obama risk his limited political capital in a midterm election year on a fight with Israel that would, like his previous squabbles with Netanyahu, do nothing to advance the cause. That’s why J Street, for all of President Obama’s sympathy for its goals, finds itself once again marginalized. "
What kind of radicals are running our national organizations? Received this from pro Israel activist
"If you are as horrified as I am by the reprehensible position of the United Synagogue and the RA, please, as I have done, contact your Rabbis and synagogue presidents and urge your synagogue’s resignation from the United Synagogue and your Rabbis’ resignation from the RA. There is no place—none—at the pro-Israel table for J Street, and no place for our synagogues to be supporting it through our umbrella organizations. This was a very sad day for the Conservative Movement. Please take action."
"If you are as horrified as I am by the reprehensible position of the United Synagogue and the RA, please, as I have done, contact your Rabbis and synagogue presidents and urge your synagogue’s resignation from the United Synagogue and your Rabbis’ resignation from the RA. There is no place—none—at the pro-Israel table for J Street, and no place for our synagogues to be supporting it through our umbrella organizations. This was a very sad day for the Conservative Movement. Please take action."
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