Sunday, October 4, 2009

Remove the Arab threat to Temple Mount

Arab Threats Close Temple Mount
by Hillel Fendel

The Temple Mount is closed to both Arabs and Jews, though many of the latter wished to visit the site in honor of the Sukkot holiday. North of the holy site, at the Lion’s Gate, some 250 Arabs rioted and hurled rocks and bottles at police. One policeman was lightly injured, and some arrests were made.

The site – the holiest site in Judaism – was closed by police after Islamic clerics called upon Arabs to “come and defend the Mount.” The threat alone was enough to have the police do the job for them; the area was cordoned off and a helicopter was seen hovering above the Temple Mount.

A group of Arabs from central Israel was arrested on their way to Jerusalem.

Jewish activists on behalf of the Temple Mount protested peacefully against the closure in the area of the Mugrabi Gate, at the Western Wall plaza. ..
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Israel again rewards Arab terrorism and cowardly closes the Temple Mount. Common sense demands Israel remove the threat the Nazi Muslims pose and guarantee freedom of access to faithful Jews to the holy Temple Mount, especially during the biblical festival of Sukkot.

A House of Prayer For All Peoples?
Jewish guards prevent Christians and Jews from exercising their religious right to pray on the Temple Mount? That's right! Only Muslims have unlimited access to Judaism's most holy site. Only the Koran is permitted within. The Tanach (Jewish Scripture, known to much of the world as the "Old Testament") and Christian Scriptures (the New Testament) are forbidden. Yet Israel claims to respect the religious rights of all people.

Jews Must Demand Rights to Temple Mount
During a 1995 Root and Branch lecture in Jerusalem, Professor Nahum Rakover, author and then Deputy Attorney General of Israel, publicly agreed with me that it isn't illegal for Christians or Jews to pray upon the Temple Mount, even though it is forcibly prevented by the police.

Restore Israeli Sovereignty Over Temple Mount
The Wakf, the militant Muslim authority that oversees Jerusalem's Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site and Islam's alleged third holiest site (following Mecca and Medina) continue to show blatant disregard for Jewish, Christian and biblical history and non-Muslim sensitivities.

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Palestinianism exposed

A dirty little secret
by Moshe Dann
October 1, 2009


Every time someone writes, speaks of 'Palestinians' a myth is reinforced

The establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the Nakba (catastrophe) for Arabs, and the aggression by five well-armed Arab countries, assisting local Arab gangs and militias that had been attacking Jews for years, placed Jews in Israel and the state in mortal danger.

Fighting back, Israel eventually negotiated an armistice in 1949 that allowed a respite from open war, albeit not terrorism, and without peace. The Egyptians occupied the Gaza Strip; the Jordanians occupied Judea, Samaria and the eastern part of Jerusalem, including the Old City and Temple Mount; Syria continued to occupy the Golan Heights, from which it constantly shelled Israeli settlements; all trained and supplied terrorists who raided Israel. The UN did nothing.

Arabs who left homes and property in Israel and many from other countries who joined Arab armies and did not want to return, remained in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, most as "refugees" under the care of UNRWA.

This heterogeneous population was called "Arab refugees," not "Palestinians," because at the time there was no such group, or people.

One reason they were called "Arab refugees" was because there were many other refugees in Palestine, who were Jewish. Hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries streamed into Israel. UNRWA offered no aid, although Jewish refugees had lost everything and the newly established state had few resources.

It took a crafty Egyptian, Yasser Arafat, to create the PLO with his friends to promote the destruction of Israel and the return of Arab refugees. Arab countries saw them as convenient proxies in their war against Israel, to "liberate Palestine."

Except for Jordan, no Arab host country permitted the newcomers to obtain citizenship; as temporary residents, their civil and humanitarian rights were harshly restricted.

The designation "Palestinian" did not become widely accepted until after the war in 1967, in which Israel, in self-defense, captured areas that had been assigned to a Jewish State by the League of Nations and Mandate, and then occupied by Arab countries: Judea, Samaria, and eastern Jerusalem; the Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, rich in Jewish history and archeology, and the Sinai Peninsula.

As the PLO launched mega-terrorist attacks around the world, "Palestinianism" became accepted, backed by the Arab League, Muslim and "non-aligned" countries, and the United Nations.

As the proportion of anti-Israel countries in the UN grew, "Palestinians" were given more and more recognition, support and legitimacy, unlike any other group.

And the fraud worked! It worked so well because the world's media accepted the Palestinians' self-definition and their cause. Even the Israeli media, politicians and jurists adopted this myth. Academics promoted "Palestinian archeology," "Palestinian society and culture." Every time someone writes or speaks of "Palestinians" it reinforces this myth.


Liberating Palestine’

Most major newspapers use only the term "West Bank" ­ a Jordanian reference from 1950 to distinguish the area from the "East Bank" ­ rather than its authentic names, Judea and Samaria, apparently to deny its Jewish history.

"Palestinian" came to mean Arabs who lived in Judea, Samaria and Gaza ­ as well as those in UNRWA-sponsored "refugee camps" in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, and hundreds of thousands of "Palestinians" living throughout the world. By UNRWA's unique and controversial definition, anyone who claims to live or have lived in Palestine, and all descendents, forever, are considered "Palestinian," with full rights and privileges.

Spread among 58 "refugee camps" (in many cases entire towns) UNRWA's over half-billion dollar budget supports about 1.5 million "refugees in camps" and 5 million "registered refugees;" the total population is expected to reach 7 or 8 million next year, and growing.

As Palestinian nationalism spread among Israeli Arabs, the term became an identity magnet for Arabs on both sides of the 1949 Armistice Line ­ the "Green Line," as well as those living in other countries. Today, "Palestinian" can be anyone who for whatever reason identifies as such, including their children, grandchildren, etc.

This amalgam of national identity is possible because "Palestinian" is not a separate, unique linguistic, cultural, ethnic, religious or racial group. Nor does this motley group, currently led by Fatah and Hamas terrorist organizations, aspire to a country with clearly defined borders. Their goal is not statehood, but exterminating the Jews, thereby "liberating Palestine."

The success of "Palestinianism" is a tribute to what money, influence and Jew-hatred will buy and attract. That Jewish and Israeli media and NGO's support Palestinianism stems from liberal ideals of helping those who are less fortunate, the underdog, and even a genuine, although misdirected desire to live in peace, a supreme Jewish value.

Although there's probably no way to prevent the notion of "Palestinianism" from spreading, there's no reason to ignore it, and less to accept it. Arabs of Palestine are entitled to civil and human rights in the countries in which they have resided for generations. That there needs to be a second Arab Palestinian state, in addition to Jordan, which was carved out of Palestine and whose population is two-thirds "Palestinian," and whether such a state will resolve all the attendant problems is extremely doubtful.

That the State of Israel should commit suicide to accomplish this goal is unthinkable.


The author, a former assistant professor of History, is a writer and journalist living in Israel.
http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3783717,00.html


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Every Israeli government aids and abets the big lie of "Palestinianism" (whose terrorist goal is the destruction of Israel) when they continue the lying "peace" process that dismantles the Jewish homeland and dismembers the Promised Land of Israel.

Lying Visions of Peace

Peace Now: Arabs and Jews Must Go Their Separate Ways

EU to Conquer Anglo-Saxons and Jews

In His Sukkah

Dvar Torah
by Label Lam




Here we go again, moving out of the comfort of our warm homes to expose ourselves to the elements, in our chilly Sukkos, in celebration of what we refer to in our prayers as the time our joy. I realize that it may not seem like such a happiness inducing activity to be watching your breath as a visible vapor while youre trying to enjoy your Yom Tov meal. At the risk of sounding heretical, what is that we are meant to find in the confines of that flimsy backyard box thats supposed to deliver that ever elusive feeling of pure joy?

In the forests around Buczacz on Sukkos in the Jewish calendar year 5703, a mere 67 years ago, the following personal account was given by Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Horowitz: The tramp of the storm troopers came suddenly to our ears. It was the third day of Chol HaMoed, and I was sitting with my son Shmuel in our Sukkah in the midst of the forest. All the Jews, who were with us, hurried out and escaped to their hiding places. We two, however, could not do this, since our hideout was only a little away from the Sukkah, and if we went there we would could easily be tracked and found by our searchers. I decided that we would do best to stay in the Sukkah and leave the rest to HASHEM.

Circumstances had brought me to such a level of faith as I had never before experienced, and I think I never will again. I said to myself that if HASHEM wished us to be revealed to the enemy and be killed, I was prepared to accept this. I only asked that it not happen here in the Sukkah. What a Kiddush HASHEM it would be if I could tell my fellow Jews that the Mitzvah of sitting in the Sukkah had saved me from death! The non-believers in our group, seeing this, would be convinced too. They would all see that one who keeps a Mitzvah will come to no harm. Not for my sake, HASHEM, I prayed, but do it for Your sake (Tehillim 115:1) that Your Name may be sanctified before everyone. I recited Tehillim in a whisper and mentioned the names of my ancestors back to the Baal Shem Tov, which tradition says helps to draw down divine protection.

Then we saw the evil ones approaching. The thud of their boots came closer and closer. They walked back and forth in front to the Sukkah three times- but they did not seem to see anything. It was as if they had been struck blind. We peeked out through the cracks in the Sukkahs walls. We saw them standing right next to us. We saw every detail of their uniforms, but they could not see the Sukkah. Suddenly one of the evil ones pointed off to the distance, indicating that he spotted something suspicious, perhaps a Jews hiding place. Immediately they all set off and disappeared into the forest. We took a deep breath, thanking G-d for taking us from death to life. Later on others were all wondering where we had been while the thugs were searching the area. When they heard that we had been in the Sukkah, they were astonished, and agreed that a miracle had occurred. Even the scoffers among them admitted that G-ds hand had been at work. King Davids words had come true for us: He will hide me in His Sukkah on the evil day. (Tehillim 27:5)


The Nazis did not find who they were looking for that day but Rabbi Horowitz discovered something very rare, even in this day and age. He found himself a safe place in His Sukkah!

DvarTorah, Copyright 2007 by Rabbi Label Lam and Torah.org.

Leviticus 23:34; Deuteronomy 16:13; Zechariah 14:16-19

Leviticus 23:34
34 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the LORD.

Deuteronomy 16:13
13 “You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, when you have gathered from your threshing floor and from your winepress.

Zechariah 14:16-19
16 And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 17 And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, on them there will be no rain. 18 If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

Friday, October 2, 2009

Sukkot

Sukkot 2009


Sukkot

I am off on a speaking tour in the States until the end of October. I wrote, drew, and posted a set of cartoons to provide you with a daily chuckle while I'm away.
This is one of those cartoons.
-Dry Bones- Israel's Political Comic Strip Since 1973

How the West was lost

Who lost the West?


Re: Israel is protecting the West
‘In a generation or two, the US will ask itself: who lost Europe?’

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Who lost Rhodesia now Zimbabwe ruins? Who lost South Africa, now a Communist ANC cesspool where the lives of people of white color are threatened with genocide? Who lost the United States? Self-hating and defeatist white people. White Israelites have shamefully empowered those who hate us to rule over us, whether smooth-talking terrorist Nelson Mandela, Mugabe or Emperor Obama, a fraud and foreigner, whose ACORN-pimped election was a black day in America.

Islam is dangerous, especially when its adherents can collaborate with militant minorities, throwing fuel on the fire of the always angry blacks and subversive illegal aliens, and target major American cities for terrorism, but the curse of Jeremiah Wrights pales Islam in comparison.

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Thursday, October 1, 2009

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On this day in ...


* 1800, Spain ceded Louisiana to France in a secret treaty

* 1907, New York's Plaza Hotel opened to the public

* 1908, Henry Ford introduced the Model T automobile to the market

* 1907, New Zealand went from being a colony to a dominion within the
British Empire

* 1936, Gen. Francisco Franco was proclaimed the head of an insurgent
Spanish state

* 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the People's Republic of China during a
ceremony in Beijing

* 1961, Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hit his 61st home run to set a new record for homers in a season

* 1971, Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Fla.

* 1987, eight people were killed when an earthquake measuring magnitude
5.9 struck the Los Angeles area

* 1997, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu freed Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin, ym"sh. (Yassin was freed to secure the release of two Mossad agents arrested in Jordan following a botched
assassination attempt against Hamas political leader Khalid Mashaal.)

* 2002, Iraq agreed to a plan for the return of U.N. weapons inspectors for the first time in nearly four years, but ignored U.S. demands for
access to Saddam Hussein's palaces and other contested sites

* 2004, Mount St. Helens in Washington state erupted for the first time in 18 years, but without nearly the force of the 1980 disaster

* 2006, Tiger Woods won the American Express Championship in Chandler's Cross, England. (It was his eighth victory of the year, making him the
first player in PGA Tour history to win at least eight times in three
seasons.)

* 2008, after one spectacular failure in the House, the $700 billion financial industry bailout won lopsided passage in the Senate, 74-25,
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