Why are We Afraid to be Jewish?

A Voice from Hebron by Gary M. Cooperberg

Why are We Afraid to be Jewish?
December 3, 2008

The State of Israel was established as a homeland for the Jewish People. While the founding fathers were secular Jews, inspired by Biblical Zionism, their attempt to create a secular zionism resulted in the confusion we see today. Ben Gurion certainly wanted to placate the Arabs as well as use them for his political advantage, but he also recognized the absolute necessity to maintain complete Jewish control of the Jewish State. He went so far as to suggest that, should the Arabs refuse to accept the Jewish character of Israel, they will be driven out if necessary.

Today secular zionism has completely fallen apart. The very concept of a Jewish State is being questioned by our own leaders. Not only are our Arab enemies given full citizenship in our country, including membership in our Knesset, but plans are being made by Jewish leaders to cede parts of our homeland in order to create a new Arab enemy state, where Jews will be forbidden to live, within the borders of the Jewish State... for “peace”.

Our government and court system seems to be suffering from national suicidal tendencies. It is taking measures which, under normal circumstances, would guarantee the destruction of the country they are sworn to protect! Any action taken against our enemies is called “racism”. Self-respecting Jews who try to stand up for Jewish rights are labeled “racists” by our own leaders! Yet it is our own government which practices discrimination against her own constituents!

Everyone has heard of the confrontation at Beit HaShalom in Hebron. Jews purchased a building from an Arab and moved in. Despite the fact that this legal transaction took place and that Jewish families are living in the building, because the Arab now claims that he did not sell the building, a claim backed up with no evidence what so ever, the government has decided to forcibly remove the Jewish families.

I wonder how many people have heard of Yitzchak Herskovitz. This elderly Jew bought property in Bet Tzafafa, a Jerusalem suburb, nearly fifteen years ago. When he went to take possession he discovered Arab squatters living there. When they refused to leave Herskovitz took them to court.

Although he is no youngster, he spent his time and lots of money going through the Israeli justice system. After thirteen years of fighting, he proved, beyond a shadow of a doubt, not only that the property is legally his, but that the Arab squatters are not only liars and thieves, but they are not even Israeli citizens and are not legally permitted even to be in Israel!

Herskovitz got court orders, on several occasions, to have the intruders evicted from his property. Every time either the Arabs found a legal loophole to reopen the court case or the police refused to carry out the court order for fear of violence beyond their control. To this day Herskovitz is fighting to gain possession of his property and the Arabs are still living upon it!

If Justice Beinish is so concerned about enforcing the law, why are these Arab criminals not punished, aside from being evicted? If the courts have proved, beyond a shadow of a doubt that these Arab squatters are thieves as well as illegal aliens, why are they still living on Herskovitz’s land? And if there is any reason what so ever to justify their being there, how is it that Jews, living in a legitmately purchased property must be forcibly evicted merely upon the unjustified claim of an Arab whose very life is in danger because he sold a home in Israel to a Jew?

If there is racism in Israel it is on the part of the government of Israel against her own people. The so called “peace” process has brainwashed our leadership into supporting our enemies and undermining loyal Jews! The term “settler” has acquired an evil connotation. The press presents those who are loyal to genuine Zionism as crazy hooligans. They conveniently forget that all of the modern state of Israel was created by “settlers” without which there would be no Jewish State.

The modern leadership of the Jewish State has forgotten the most basic concepts of even secular zionism and is actively working to undo the Jewish character of the Jewish State. With leaders like this we have no need for enemies.

It is truly a shame that we fail to realize the greatness which is destined for our country. Rather than fleeing from that greatness we should be embracing it. Redemption is ready for us, but it would seem that we are not ready for Redemption. Expelling Jews from any part of our homeland is a desecration of our G-d and a rejection of our obligations as Jews. The same is true about our failure to expel our enemies. Our hapless leaders are so busy trying to placate the world, an effort in futility, that they fail to try to placate the Creator of the universe who has performed countless miracles, not only to return Jews to our ancient homeland, but to protect us from our enemies and even our own leaders.

No power on Earth can stop the Biblical process of Redemption. But all those who try to interfere will be punished for their efforts. The future of the Jewish People in all of the Land of Israel is guaranteed by G-d. All but the completely blind can see Divine intervention turn a country, which should have disappeared even before it was reborn, into a truly modern and growing nation which sets standards for the world to emulate. And this in spite of leaders who are working against the process.

Project Shofar is sounding the alarm in an effort to wake up the Jewish people and the world to the G-dly process which has already begun. The murder of innocent Jews in India should remind us that it is not the Jewish State, rather the Jewish People as a whole, which faces the hatred of G-dless people. Those murdered in India were not living in the “occupied territories”. They were murdered simply because they were Jews. We are “a nation that stands alone, not to be reckoned among the nations of the world.” Just as G-d stands with us and protects us, we must stand with G-d and sanctify His Name. When we recognize this fact and turn our complete trust unto the Living G-d of Israel by coming home and standing up to the entire world, we will hasten the Redemption and bring an end to terror. Only thus will we ever find true peace.

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A Voice from Hebron by Gary M. Cooperberg
P.O. Box 1444,
Kiryat Arba-Hebron, Israel 90100
Tel. 972-2-996-3761
Fax 972-2-996-1778
Email: gary@projectshofar.org
Website: http://www.projectshofar.org

Project Shofar is dedicated to spreading these truths wherever it is possible to do so. It is sounding the alarm, to Jew and Gentile alike,to open our eyes to the G-dly process that is presently underway, and work to support it. We dare not stand idly on the sidelines.
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A Voice from Hebron
by Gary M. Cooperberg
P.O. Box 1444,
Kiryat Arba-Hebron,
Israel 90100

Tel. 972-2-996-3761 Fax 972-2-996-1778
Email: gary@projectshofar.org - Website: www.projectshofar.org

What if...?

November 10, 2008

What if tomorrow all of our Arab enemies really wanted to make peace with Israel? What if Syria truly agreed to have complete peace with Israel in exchange for the Golan Heights? What if the PLO agreed never to launch another scud; never to blow up another bus or supermarket; never to crash a tractor into civilian cars and busses; never to stab another Jew; never to throw another rock at a passenger car, in exchange for a real state in Judea, Samaria and Gaza?

I would imagine that any of our leaders, or likely potential leaders, here in Israel would declare a national holiday and rush to sign on the dotted line to give away parts of our holy inheritance for real peace! Yes, even Bibi Netanyahu would exude joy and delight at the prospect of a new era of peace.

While, clearly, such a scenario is most unlikely, the reality is that a true Jewish leader would never consider parting with any part of Eretz Yisrael, even for genuine peace with our Arab neighbors. If we look at the other side of the coin we will see that no Arab nation ever willingly parted with what he considered his land. This is because the Arabs really believe the land belongs to them and they have self respect. The Jewish government, on the other hand, does not really believe that the land belongs to us, and they have no idea what self respect means. As President Shimon Peres once said, “Any entity which refuses to compromise its principles will never achieve peace.” Of course it is only Israel which compromises its principles... and she has yet to see any peace.

No country in the world would dream of sitting with murderous thieves in a futile attempt to appease them by willingly giving up parts of its homeland. This isn’t “negotiations”. It is out and out blackmail. It is what Al Capone once called “protection”. If you pay the goons “protection money”, they will stop wrecking your store. Is this the kind of “peace” we seek? Yet all of our leaders seem to eagerly accept such a peace.

Aside from the fact that this is obviously self delusion, we have no right to give away our inheritance even for real peace. We Jews were not given the land as a gift. We were given an obligation to possess, dwell in, and develop the Land according to Jewish mandates in our Torah.

Failing to do so in no way lessens our obligation. Trying to make “peace” by denying our obligations not only will never bring peace... it will and does bring needless tragedy as we have clearly seen. Look at all the peace we achieved by giving Gaza to the PLO. How can any intelligent person imagine that real peace will be achieved by giving away yet more land to those who are just waiting to use it as a base from which to destroy Israel?

It is forbidden to give away any part of our homeland, even to those who wish to live in peace with us.

How much moreso to think to give away land to those who are committed to our destruction? For real peace we should welcome foreigners to live as resident aliens, with no political rights and certainly no rights to sovereignty. Should such people wish to live in Israel and abide by our laws they should be given human rights only. When someone comes as a guest and then demands sovereignty, he is not really a guest, rather an enemy who must never be accepted under any circumstances. To negotiate with such people is to surrender your sovereignty even before any agreement might be reached. It is time for all Jews to understand the difference between peace and yielding to blackmail. It should be obvious. But clearly it isn’t.

Project Shofar is dedicated to spreading these truths wherever it is possible to do so. It is sounding the alarm, to Jew and Gentile alike,to open our eyes to the G-dly process that is presently underway, and work to support it. We dare not stand idly on the sidelines.

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If You Don't Like What You See in the Mirror, Smash the Mirror
By Gary Cooperberg
October 30, 2008

The cowards in our government are shaking in their boots in reaction to public criticism of Husnei Mubarak by Knesset Member Avigdor Lieberman. Both the President and Prime Minister rushed to apologize for Lieberman's comments, as if anyone would have dreamed that either of them would have supported it.

Lieberman expressed his exasperation with our leaders who praise our enemies as they spit in our faces. Just like Abu Mazen and Arafat before him were never peace partners, neither are Mubarak or Abdullah.

Both Egypt and Jordan made "peace" with Israel as a strategy to destroy her since they learned the hard way that we cannot be destroyed by war. As ridiculous and transparent that strategy is, none the less it is actually working. The Jewish State has done far more harm to itself via the peace process then our enemies were able to accomplish via war.

Gilad Shalit is not a prisoner of war. He was simply kidnaped and is now being used to extort Israel to release murderers. Our leaders praise Mubarak for "helping" in the negotiations to free him. Rather than negotiate, our leaders should simply demand his immediate release in exchange for our permitting their terrorists to live in jail. That demand should be backed up by a statement and a willingness to execute those prisoners, one by one, every day Shalit is not returned unharmed.

Why is it that Arab nations are given diplomatic respectability for carrying out acts of terror and political extortion while Israel is expected to accept such atrocities and even aid and abet them?
In spite of the fact that we have a president who thinks that he is the prince of peace, we are not at peace with any Arab entity. All Arab nations, including Egypt and Jordan, seek the destruction of the Jewish State. When a self respecting Knesset Member points out the fact that our "Emperors" are all naked, they all attack him and call him a racist.

Our leaders have a need to convince themselves that their delusions and fantasies are true. They have been living them for so long that to even think that their peace process is a fraud is more than they can bear. So rather than face reality they attack those who hold up a mirror to their nakedness. They prefer to smash the mirror rather than to look into it.

Like the ostrich which buries its head in the sand, even as a predator runs to devour him, the leaders of the Jewish State consciously refuse to recognize the fact that our alleged "peace partners" are enemies dedicated to our destruction. One never negotiates with enemies until a war is fought and won. Our war for survival is still going on, but we choose to call it a peace process. Rather than fighting to hold on to what is ours, we are choosing the path of surrender in the futile hope it will appease our enemies. All acts of appeasement accomplish is to encourage our enemies to demand more.

Elections are coming soon. We Israelis will, once again, have the democratic right to vote for the dictator of our choice. All of the contenders are willing to give away Jewish Land for meaningless paper promises. Our system of government is not a democracy. . . it is a fraud designed to keep the power brokers in power. If we cannot change the system, we can certainly elect not to give our support to the fraud. What would happen if we had an election and no one came? To vote is to endorse the legitimacy of a fraud. The time has come to say "enough".


Project Shofar is dedicated to spreading these truths wherever it is possible to do so. It is sounding the alarm, to Jew and Gentile alike,to open our eyes to the G-dly process that is presently underway, and work to support it. We dare not stand idly on the sidelines.

A Voice from Hebron by Gary M. Cooperberg
P.O. Box 1444, Kiryat Arba-Hebron, Israel 90100
Tel. 972-2-996-3761 Fax 972-2-996-1778
Email: gary@projectshofar.org -
Website: http://www.projectshofar.org

Can’t Anyone See what is Happening?

A Voice from Hebron by Gary M. Cooperberg
P.O. Box 1444, Kiryat Arba-Hebron, Israel 90100
Tel. 972-2-996-3761 Fax 972-2-996-1778
Email: gary@projectshofar.org - Website: Project Shofar

Can’t Anyone See what is Happening? — September 16, 2008

I remember, many years ago, discussing with friends and neighbors in the Jewish community where I then lived, the possibility that America may one day be dangerous for Jews. One fellow boldly stated that the minute he sees such dangers he will pack up and make aliyah. He failed to recognize the futility and impropriety of such a statement. First of all he, and those who think as he does, will never see the danger even when it stares them in the face. What he was really saying was, “it can never happen in America because America is my home.” This is the real problem.
As Jews we should be planning to come home, not because the place where we live now is or will become dangerous, rather because we are able to go home to our destined homeland for which we have been praying for over two thousand years! It is not merely a mitzvah, a commandment, to live in the Land. . . it is an amazing privilege which we should all be yearning to fulfill.

There are two opposing concepts which our rabbis tell us cannot coexist... Exile and Redemption. For Redemption to be complete the Exile must come to an end. The idea of a Jew witnessing Redemption in all of its glory while living happily in the USA is an expression of complete ignorance of the concept of Redemption. G-d wants us to choose to fulfill our destiny. He is giving us every opportunity to recognize our potential and to fulfill it. Instead of seeing the great miracles He has performed in our time, we find all kinds of rational explanations and insist upon being like all of the other nations in the world. Leaders in both Israel and the USA really think that they can make peace by violating Jewish obligations. All this will do is make things worse for everyone.

Every time the USA threatens Israel, G-d has sent “natural” disasters to warn it to stop. I was amazed to watch on television the incredible similarity to the evacuation of New Orleans to the evacuation of Katif.

After 9/11 President Bush still insisted upon looking at Islam as a peaceful religion. Or maybe he was just trying to pacify his Saudi friends. Yet the bombing of the Twin Towers was praised by so called “Palestinians” in Israel as they handed out candy in the streets to celebrate.

Every crisis in the USA also is a warning to Jews to go home while they still can. But Jews consider themselves American first and Jewish second. . . much like the Jews in Germany in the 30's who thought themselves loyal Germans first. I don’t know if the latest financial crisis in the USA will become the beginning of a new nightmare or not.

Perhaps America will find a way to recover. It is also possible that the first domino has fallen and the entire world may find itself in financial chaos. It doesn’t take a prophet or a genius to see how such a situation can become a breeding ground for rabid antisemitism. When people are hungry and desperate they seek a scapegoat to blame. History has always found the Jews to be the convenient scapegoat. There is no reason to assume that this won’t happen again.

The G-d of Israel has already begun the process of Redemption. This process will not stop until it is completed. Those who seek to thwart it only invite disaster upon themselves and will fail in their efforts.

Those who truly believe in G-d will seek to please him. For the Jew it is time to just come home. For the Gentile it is time to recognize that the Jewish State is a Biblical process, not a political one. There is no room to negotiate its future as it has already been determined. Those who seek to replace Biblical destiny with man made “road maps” only invite disaster. Listen to the sound of the shofar and wake up before it is too late.

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Project Shofar is dedicated to spreading these truths wherever it is possible to do so. It is sounding the alarm, to Jew and Gentile alike,to open our eyes to the G-dly process that is presently underway, and work to support it. We dare not stand idly on the sidelines.

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