tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85204597902357194522024-03-06T04:36:51.935+02:00Reb Mordechai WritesReb Mordechai Reviewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135349748761291865noreply@blogger.comBlogger199125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520459790235719452.post-89397577713138370372013-05-23T08:21:00.000+03:002013-05-23T14:12:57.177+03:00The Daily Telegraph manages to be Anti-Semitic about claims of Anti-Semitism<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Daily Telegraph this morning has this article headline:<br />
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<strong>Boy's death in intifada a 'fabrication', insists Israeli minister</strong><br />
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Look at the quotes and the word 'insists'!<br />
Translation into British English = "Pull the other one, it's got bells on it!"<br />
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<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/10073989/Boys-death-in-intifada-a-fabrication-insists-Israeli-minister.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/10073989/Boys-death-in-intifada-a-fabrication-insists-Israeli-minister.html</a><br />
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The article ridicules the claims of the Israeli Foreign minister, Yuval Steinitz, who claims that the boy might still be alive. It is clear from the article, that the Israeli Minister simply assumes that the Telegraph reporter knows that the Al Dura affair was a "Palywood" hoax. He doesn't and goes on to say so!<br />
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The Telegraph reporter states:<br />
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<strong>"Mohammad is widely believed to have been killed in the incident, probably due to Israeli gunfire - "</strong><br />
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Anyone reading this statement and then reading Steinitz's accusations of Blood Libels and anti-Semitism will conclude that Israel's statements are evil sick Nazi like propaganda.<br />
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The Telegraph reporter is either so ignorant, anti-Semitic or fearful of his job (just following orders) that he completely ignores the abundance of evidence that proves that the Al Dura incident was a hoax.<br />
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This article is clearly itself, anti-Semitic.<br />
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What I find most disturbing is the apparent mistaken notion of Israel's Foreign Minister, Yuval Steinitz who assumes that the Telegraph reporter knows that the Al Dura affair was a hoax and doesn't even refer to any evidence at all. Huge failure!<br />
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On the same day, the British media are reporting on the terrorist attack on a British soldier in Woolwich, in the centre of London yesterday afternoon. It is called "terrorism", the murderers are called "animals".<br />
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Listening on LBC radio last night and this morning, the presenters are still insisting that even though they shouted "Allah Achbah" and told people there they had done this in the name of Allah, the presenters repeatedly said that they could not have done this in the name of religion as 99.99% of Muslims soundly condemned this act and the murderers were obviously mentally deranged or on drugs! (Steve Allen Show, LBC Radio this morning).<br />
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It seems that Britain is determined to hate those who stand for democracy and freedom (Israel) and twist themselves into "<em>beigela</em>" trying to deny the fact that Islam is at war with them.Reb Mordechai Reviewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135349748761291865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520459790235719452.post-33783405159261054862013-02-17T11:51:00.000+02:002013-02-17T21:17:56.664+02:00Israel and International LawI know, I know, the video is 45 minutes long but please believe me, it's worth it. I'd say it's vital for everyone who loves Israel, to watch.<br />
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Not a day goes by when the MSM (Main Stream Media) tells you that the settlements are illegal under International Law and that Israel is considered an occupying force according to the Geneva Convention. They make it sound so clear cut. Watch this video and you will see that in fact, the opposite is true.<br />
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Professor Eugene Kontorovich's very watchable lecture gives you the facts to answer back.<br />
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<li>What exactly is International Law?</li>
<li>When they say that it's illegal under International Law, exactly which law are they referring to, if any?</li>
<li>Is there actually a court of International Law which is legally binding upon all countries?</li>
<li>What legal power does the UN's International Legal Advisory Council have?</li>
<li>Is a resolution passed in the United Nations binding under International Law?</li>
<li>What's the difference between the UN General Assembly and the Security Council?</li>
<li>Did the League of Nations have the status of the General Assembly or the Security Council when it came to binding International Law?</li>
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<strong>Some notes I made from the lecture.</strong><br />
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International Law which is binding is either an agreement made by the superpowers or a resolution passed by the United Nation's Security Council.<br />
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Any vote passed by the UN General Assembly has absolutely no legal binding whatsoever. Because of the inherent make up and bias of the GA, all democratic countries consider any GA resolution laughable nonsense, except that is when it comes to Israel.<br />
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The UN's International Law Advisory Council is just what it says it is, "an Advisor" to the GA. Its job is to rubber stamp any GA legal opinion. It has absolutely no legal binding power whatsoever.<br />
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All UN member states agree to abide by resolutions passed by the UN Security Council.<br />
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The League of Nations had the same legal status as the Security Council has today, not the General Assembly! Therefore, any resolution passed by the League of Nations is legally binding and can never be superseded by any GA resolution.<br />
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Almost all Middle East countries have had their borders fixed by the League of Nations Mandate process including Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Turkey as well as Palestine. The sovereignty and boundaries of these countries have never been questioned with the single exception of Israel.<br />
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In 1923, Britain unilaterally removed 70% of the Mandate over Palestine and created a country called Jordan which they gave to their allies, the Hashomite family. Only Britain and Pakistan have ever formally recognised Jordan but no International body has ever questioned its right to exist. There have been no UN resolutions of any kind regarding Jordan's right to exist.<br />
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The proposed UN partition plan of 1947 was voted on in the General Assembly but actually had no legal binding. Despite this, the Jews agreed to it but the Arabs rejected it.<br />
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The so called "1967 borders" are in fact the 1949 Armistice lines where the armies of Israel and the Arab nations were when they agreed to a ceasefire. The Armistice agreement actually states that these lines have no legal binding regarding any determination of internationally recognised borders.<br />
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According to the UN itself, Egypt and Jordan illegally occupied the Gaza and the west bank of Jordan including part of Jerusalem yet not a single UN resolution was passed between 1948 and 1967 against this occupation.<br />
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The only dispute regarding the legal status of land which was occupied by Jordan in the 1948 war and captured by Israel in 1967, (which became know as "The West Bank") is whether it has no legal owner at all or whether it in fact belongs to Israel. There is absolutely no legal case for this area either legally belonging to Jordan or the Arabs who were living there up until 1948.<br />
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The Geneva Convention forbids governments who began a war of aggression from transferring their own population into occupied territories. However this clause does not apply to wars of defense. When you ask "legal experts" if Israel's wars were defensive or aggressive, (when it is clear to any unbiased historian that all of Israel's wars have been wars of defense), they can never actually agree. Yet, somehow they almost all agree that Israel is in breech of the Geneva Convention!<br />
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So, the next time your family member, friend, work colleague or neighbour tells you that Israel's settlements are illegal under International Law, instead of gazing at the floor in silence, you can answer them in clear and concise terms that they are very much mistaken.<br />
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Whether the MSM is giving you false information due to laziness to look up the facts for themselves or because they are simply anti-Semitic and wish for it to be true is a subject for another discussion.<br />
<br />Reb Mordechai Reviewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135349748761291865noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520459790235719452.post-23656337949459690132013-02-13T10:05:00.001+02:002013-02-17T12:01:11.360+02:00Two Rightious amongst the Nations of the World<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have just read an outstanding article published in the excellent Internet Site <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/">http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/</a> entitled "Britain's Little Anti-Semitism Problem" in which Douglas Murray, a graduate of Eton and Oxford, described by Wikipedia as "...a British neoconservative writer and [right wing] commentator...", has written about the problems faced by British Jews.<br />
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Everything he has written is true yet you will find no British Jew who would dare to pen such opinions. This righteous Goy writes that Anglo Jewry is in a state of denial when it comes to blatant Anti-Semitism in mainstream British culture. After commentating on the outrage by Britain's Jewish leaders directed at Jerusalem Post's journalist Caroline Glick's statement:</div>
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I can say without hesitation that I hope never to return to Britain. I actually don't see any point. Jews are targeted by massive anti-Semitism of both the social and physical varieties. Why would anyone Jewish want to live there?</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"What these...things have in common is now unmistakeable -- as are the conclusions we must draw from them.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Jews will continue to live in Britain, and in the main, continue to live perfectly peaceful and pleasant lives. But there will be a price. And that price will be the volume of their support for Israel. For the "decent" mainstream has made a decision: Israelis are now what the Nazis were then. The Israelis are the easy target for needed outrage, the focal-center of pretended morality and the diversionary enemy in an era where the real problems seem too large to tackle.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Naturally there will be enough people to continue for a while to demand the odd complaint about this or that. They may manage to force a backtrack here and there. But these will be forced not because anybody has been persuaded of the complete wrong-headedness of what they have said – nor because they have realized the unbelievable wickedness and inaccuracy of their claims – but simply because the "timing" may have been inappropriate, or it should not have been said in this way, or on this or that day, or to these or those people. What all these events have in common is that they demonstrate that the friends of truth are losing. Any wins on these terms are skirmish wins in a war which has turned against the Jewish people."</span><br />
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See the full article here:<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">The Pope was Not a Friend of the Jews.</span></strong><br />
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I found it incredulous the outpouring of praises heaped upon the soon to be retired Pope by Israeli politians, World Jewish leaders and the Chief Rabbis, including the Israeli Chief Rabbi in yesterday's press. No, I am not refering to the fact that the current Pope was a member of the Hitler Youth as a child. A person can change after all. I am speaking however about his offical statements. Here is a man who has never ever spoken the words "The State of Israel", preferring the term "Holy Land" but does not miss an opportunity to speak about "The State of Palestine" which does not actually exist (for the moment). Here is a person who speaks of the Palestinians as "God's blessed people" and implies that although he disagrees with terrorism, he understands the motivation behind it seeing how the Palestinans suffer so much at the hands of the Israelis. He deligitimises Israel and the Jewish people at every occasion and yet somehow these Jewish leaders feel it appropiate to call him a friend!?<br />
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Well, today in Arutz 7 they published an article by another righteous Goy by the name of Giulio Meotti, an Italian journalist. He writes that:<br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"...The contrary is the case. The Pope has not been a friend of the Jewish people and he supported the world's most important source of anti-Semitism: the Palestinianism."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Pope Benedict did not condemn Arab terrorism, but launched an appeal to young [Arab] people: “Have the courage to resist any temptation you may feel to resort to acts of violence or terrorism.” His words “temptation for terrorism” hinted at the Vatican’s claim that Israeli policy is the root of Palestinian terrorism, while the truth is exactly the opposite."</span></blockquote>
Read the full article here: <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/12859">The Pope was Not a Friend of the Jews</a><br />
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Some have put forward the argument that he was a good Pope to the Jews if you compare him to the top possible replacements for the position. Unlike the current Pope, they are forthright in their anti-Zionism and blatant anti-Semitism. They preach "<span dir="auto">Supersessionism" and </span>publicly support the ancient Catholic "Replacement theology". This theology states that "The Church" are the new chosen people who have superceeded the Jews. The Jews are to be hated and despised being that God has cursed them for all their wicked sins, (primary for rejecting His Messiah). Many historians of Jewish history see this theology as the route and major cause of imbred anti-semitism throughout Europe which calminated in the <em>Shoah</em> and the murder of six million Jews.<br />
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The return of the Jewish people from the four corners of the earth and the establisment of the State of Israel is in direct contradiction to this theology, so it is not surprising that you will find these Catholic leaders at the forefront of Anti-Zionist and Pro-Palestinian demonstations.<br />
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That the current Pope does not openly espouse this theology does not mean that he rejects it. There is no justifiction to call him a friend! I think we will be in a better position when we can clearly recognise who our enemies are. At the same time, we should give better recognition to who our true friends are.<br />
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<em>Baruch Hashem</em> that there are still righteous amongst the nations of the world who are our true friends, who say what needs to be said when our Jewish leaders are too scared to. May <em>Hashem</em> bless them and protect them. <em>Amen.</em><br />
<br />Reb Mordechai Reviewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135349748761291865noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520459790235719452.post-60007396262266008922013-02-11T16:19:00.001+02:002013-02-11T16:20:07.565+02:00When everything fades to grey.<br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">"One man on a lonely platform,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">“Fade To Grey” 1982 by the Electro Synch-Pop ”New Wave” group Visage.</span></div>
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Propaganda is usually seen as the art of turning good into bad and bad into good. The world of truth is turned on its head. Black becomes white and white becomes black.
There is however a more subtle, sophisticated and even more sinister form of propaganda which makes it impossible for anyone but the most astute to recognise. This is when the propagandist fades both black and white into grey! If it can be shown that both sides are guilty of something with no clear idea of who is right or wrong, then no one cares and the perpetrator of true evil gets off Scott free!<br />
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This is exactly what A. Jay Adler describes in his brilliant analysis of a recent report which was supposed to look for incitement to hatred in Israeli and Palestinian Schoolbook textbooks. The results of the survey however, astonishly conclude that incitement exists in equal measure on both sides and therefore the blatant and constant Palestinian hatred reported so often can simply be ignored. This incredible piece of propaganda is accomplished by cleverly choosing “academics” with a proven hatred for Israel as well as a list of dirty tricks and out and out lies. Mr Adler aptly compares this survey of lies with the infamous Goldstone report.
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<a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/02/08/the-israeli-palestinian-textbook-study-fraud/">The Israeli-Palestinian Textbook Study Fraud</a><br />
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Read and be amazed at the sophistication of the lie which has already succeeded in doing Israel no end of damage.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #252324; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/world/middleeast/study-belies-israeli-claim-of-hate-in-palestinian-texts.html"><span style="color: #004276; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Academic Study
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #252324; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“<a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hcQ_dTzTUh1lgZJ1nKu8RAbVtYyA?docId=4c4f1b664fbc4d88a68757828abc07e9"><span style="color: #004276; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Textbook study
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Other articles have appeared in most of the British and Western press.<br />
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<strong>Message:</strong> Don’t take any notice of crying Israel babies when they complain of Palestinian incitement. They are just as bad!<br />
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Evil flourishes when apathy sets in and everything fades to grey…Reb Mordechai Reviewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135349748761291865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520459790235719452.post-91914588789710398662013-02-10T09:49:00.000+02:002013-02-10T11:25:16.948+02:00Is there a future For Jewish life in Britain?After Caroline Glick's statement that Jews should leave Britain, Michael Coren, born in England, who is a major commentator in Canada today, says that he is very disturbed by the sharp rise in blatant Anti-Semitism in the UK.<br />
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He correctly identifies a newly found confidence of intolerance in British society of any Jew who identifies with Torah Judaism and /or a Jew who identifies with the State of Israel. British Jews, whether at school, university or work must prove themselves by being totally secular by making anti-Israel statements or else, face a mass of personal attacks, not only tolerated but encouraged by mainstream British society.<br />
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As Douglas Murray (who by the way is not Jewish) says: It would be bad enough if Jews in Britain were blamed and felt pressured to apologise for crimes that their fellow Jews in Israel were doing but the situation is even worse than that. The accusations of Israeli crimes are pure fabrications and lies. <strong></strong><br />
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The current situation should come as no surprise to any student of Jewish history. Whilst living in Britain I was accused on more than one occasion of murdering their "Lord". The notion that I was somehow personally responsible and had to apologise for what the Jews of the Holy Land did to their "Messiah" some 2,000 years is bad enough. What was worse is the fact that history records that it was the Romans who practiced the execution of early Xtians and that the accusations of Israelite crimes were pure fabrications and lies.<br />
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<strong>It's a kind of an anti-Semitic double whammy!</strong><br />
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Ancient Israelites and modern Israelis. The same message.<br />
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The main point that kept cropping up in this Video interview above is that barefaced unashamed irrational Anti-Semitism is not being condemned by Britain's politicians and the MSM but actually excused and rationalised.<br />
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<strong>Variations of an Anti-Semitic Theme. The years 1013ce to 2013ce</strong><br />
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To paraphrase some of attitudes being expressed:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"The politician has to make these statements because they have a high Muslim population in their constituency. I wouldn't worry about it!"</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Well, you can understand the animosity, enmity and hostility of British people towards their Jews seeing that they identify so closely with the Nazi like actions of the State of Israel. They really have it coming to them!"</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Muslims would not be so angry and be forced to commit acts of terrorism if it weren't for the Jews..."</span></blockquote>
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I see it whenever I speak to Jews in Britain today. They adamantly deny it but they are scared and constantly on the defensive when it comes to their own Jewish identity. Anglo Jewish leaders are warning not to outwardly show signs of Jewishness in the streets. It seems it's open season for Jews in Britain.<br />
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Is there a future For Jewish life in Britain?Reb Mordechai Reviewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135349748761291865noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520459790235719452.post-44833037549019944862013-02-07T12:28:00.002+02:002013-02-07T12:38:50.267+02:00Classic antisemitism from Palestinians and the British establishment<br />
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<span style="color: red;">"Jews were corrupt and brought tragedy on the Europeans ...Faced with the Jews' [evil] schemes, Europe could not bear their character traits, monopolies, corruption, and their control and climbing up positions in government,...In 1290, King Edward I issued a decree banishing the Jews [from England]. Following him were France, Germany, Austria, Holland, Czechoslovakia, Spain and Italy. The European nations felt that they had suffered a tragedy by providing refuge for the Jews. Later the Jews obtained the Balfour Declaration, and Europe saw it as an ideal solution to get rid of them..."</span></blockquote>
Please note that this is from the "moderate" Palestinian Authority TV.<br />
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The British Mainstream Media constantly tell you that Hamas (<em>Chamas</em>) are the extremists and the Palestinian Authority (who call themselves <em>Fatach</em>) are the moderate Palestinians who want peace. This is blatent lie.<br />
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The truth is that both Hamas and the PLO Mahmoud Abbas say openly that their goal is to wipe Israel off the map and murder every Jew they can get their hands on. Sometimes humour brings the message home more than actual documented facts so here is Latma TV with an explanation of the difference between Hamas and Fatah.<br />
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The obsessive hatred for Israel shown in Britain's MSM is simply antisemitism with a modern twist.<br />
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The breading grounds for British media antisemitism starts in the universities.<br />
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Despite overwhelming proof brought before the university's authoroties that an invited speaker to an Oxford debate was an out and out fraud and liar, it didn't bother them at all. This despicable woman says things that the British academic elite desperately want to believe, no matter whether it is true or not.<br />
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This irrational emotional need of the MSM as well as British academia to believe every piece of anti-Israel news, whether unconfirmed or even proved a hoax can only be due to a deep seated hatred for Jews.<br />
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Caroline Glick writes about how she participated in a university debate in London hoasted by the "Intelligence Squared" society, a society made up of the elite of British students.<br />
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"I was prepared to conduct a civilized debate based on facts and reasoned argumentation. I expected it to be a difficult experience. I was not expecting to be greeted by a well-dressed mob. My pessimism about Europeans' capacity to avail themselves to reasoned, fact-based argumentation about Israel has only deepened from the experience."</blockquote>
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Some further snippets from her article:</div>
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"...First, I can say without hesitation that I hope never to return to Britain. I actually don't see any point. Jews are targeted by massive anti-Semitism of both the social and physical varieties. Why would anyone Jewish want to live there?</blockquote>
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<span style="color: blue;">As to visiting as an Israeli, again, I just don't see the point. The discourse is owned by anti-Israel voices. They don't make arguments to spur thought, but to end it, by appealing to people's passions. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: blue;">For instance, in one particularly ugly segment, Levy made the scurrilous accusation that Israel systematically steals land from the Palestinians. Both Dayan and I demanded that he provide just one example of his charge. And the audience raged against us for our temerity at insisting that he provide substantiation for his baseless allegation. In the event, he failed to substantiate his allegation. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: blue;">At another point, I was asked how I defend the Nazi state of Israel. When I responded by among other things giving the Nazi pedigree of the Palestinian nationalist movement founded by Nazi agent Haj Amin el Husseini and currently led by Holocaust denier Mahmoud Abbas, the crowd angrily shouted me down. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: blue;">I want to note that the audience was made up of upper crust, wealthy British people, not unwashed rabble rousers. And yet they behaved in many respects like a mob when presented with pro-Israel positions."</span></blockquote>
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British Jewry refuses to understand that they are not dealing here with an uninformed but good meaning press that given enough information and facts, would balance its reporting to be less anti-Israel. What so many British Jews refuse to recognise is that there is an inbred antisemitism within the heart of the elite of Britain which cannot be combatted with mere truth.<br />
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Reb Mordechai Reviewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135349748761291865noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520459790235719452.post-14235774740028031272012-12-20T12:00:00.002+02:002012-12-25T10:08:52.767+02:00LBC's Iain Dale and his knowledge of Judaism<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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was listening to the Iain Dale show on LBC (London Talkback) radio last night. The show started
off talking about cults and then somehow switched to discussing the Anglo Jewish community.
It would have been amusing had it not been so tragic with such dangerous consequences.
The untruths which were spouted out about Judaism on his programme went completely
unchallenged.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Iain
asked his listeners a question. How many Jews live in Britain? He then added
that no one would believe it when he told them! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Iain eventually gave a figure of around 266,000
and remarked that the Jews certainly punch above their weight. I wasn’t sure
what he meant by this. Was he saying that the amount of Jews who contribute to British society is way out of promotion to the percentage of the UK population (Less than one half of one percent), or was he
saying that for a tiny minority, they have an incredible amount of power and influence?
Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt and believe he meant the former.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">A
caller called Keith came on and said that he was from “Jewish extraction” (whatever that means?) and said
that although there were “officially” 170,000 Jews, this figure was a count of
only Jews who had registered with a synagogue and, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>most importantly, this figure did not include (and
I quote) – “The Ashkenazis” (who I understood by his comment, were not real Jews!). If you counted them, he informed us, then there
were around <b>two and a half million</b>!</span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">He went on to say that he couldn’t
believe in a religion that believed that the world was created in seven (sic)
days. "Don't get me wrong!", he said, he wasn’t against Judaism or Jews and proved it by saying that he had recently
gone to his friend’s Chanukah party which he explained was the commemoration of
G-d creating the world in 8 days (sic)!</span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p>Iain seemed fascinated by his caller's "knowledge" and seemed to accept everything he said as fact without confirmation or challenge.</o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">I
had had enough. I immediately fired off an email via the LBC web site on my
mobile phone explaining why Keith was talking total
and utter nonsense. I have no idea if Iain even read my email as he never mentioned
it during the show and I did not get a reply.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">These
were the points I made:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
Jewish population of the UK</span></span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></b> </div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
Jewish population includes both Sefardi and Ashkenazi Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">If
we discount those people who wrote round that they were Jewish despite not
being so according to Halacha (Jewish Law) and count in those who by choice chose
not to answer the Census question on Religion I would guess that the figure
would come to around 300,000 Jews left in Britain.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to Institute for Jewish Policy Research UK,
www.jpr.org.uk/) there are around 270,000 Jews who identify themselves as
Jewish living in the UK. <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Most
of these, (with the exception of the Orthodox Jewish community), it claims will more
likely than not see their children marry non-Jews. The Institute </span>estimates
that there were some 450,000 to 500,000 Jews in the Britain around the 1950s. <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">Chanukah<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Chanukah is the commemoration of the civil war and the victory by the Jews of Israel who remained loyal to G-d and His Torah against the Jews who had adopted Greek culture, during the second Temple period. However, most Jewish children in the UK are taught that it was a war between the Jews of Israel and the Greeks invaders in order to avoid the painful issue of secular verses religious Jews.<br /><br />Therefore, the vast majority of British Jews do not learn beyond kindergarten level Judaism and therefore would not know anything about the civil war. However The Talmud, tractate Shabbat 42-43 states it openly.</span></span></span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
Age of the World<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
estimate that the world is millions of years old is totally compatible with
Torah Judaism. It is the fundamentalist Xtians who absurdly interpret their
Xtian Bibles literally, despite the text which they are relying upon having
gone through numerous mistranslations(sometimes unintentional, others
intentional) from Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, German and various English versions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">It
is quite ridiculous to assume that the word “day” in the context of Bereishis (the
Genesis) story means a period of 24 hours or even a single night and day period
when you consider that the sun was not created until the fourth day!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
Hebrew word used in the Bereishis story is “Yom”. The word consists of three
letters. A Yud, Vav and Mem. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Yud is
a tiny vertical line. The Vav is a larger vertical line. The Mem is completed
box, the same height as the Vav. Its true meaning is expressed in its graphical
format. Tiny, larger and completed. In other words, a process of creation. The
word “Yom” simply means an unspecified period of creation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Another
“Jewish” (I use the term lightly) caller phoned in and said that he was very proud
that all his family celebrated Xmas, his daughter had married a Buddhist and
his son a Xtian. Iain Dale praised him for his open mindedness. The caller remarked
that he assumed that the quoted figure of UK Jews was very low due to
assimilation or moving to Israel and he would guess that it had been a lot
larger at one time. Iain replied that he would check but he was sure that the
Jewish population of Jews in Britain had remained steady for generations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">I
found Iain Dale’s complete ignorance when it came to Jews and their beliefs staggering
and deeply troubling. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">If this is what the
cream of British intelligencer believe then it shows a frightening ignorance
of who Jews are and what they believe in, within mainstream Britain which profoundly effects its views not only of local Jewish issues,
but also its views of Israel and our historical and religious right to the Land of Israel.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">I received a reply from Iain Dale the next morning:</span><br />
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Rob<br />Thanks for this. I don't think I ever professed to have any great knowledge of Judaism! In the new year we will be doing an hour every Wednesday looking at different religions.<br /><br />Kind regards<br /><br />Iain</blockquote>
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">Well, at least he read the email.</span><br />
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Reb Mordechai Reviewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135349748761291865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520459790235719452.post-86348776519242889062012-12-11T12:16:00.000+02:002012-12-18T13:30:08.902+02:00Answering the Lies. What every Jew should know.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"From the river to the sea..."</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"></span></span></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Addressing a crowd in Gaza on 14 December, Gaza prime minister Ismail Haniyeh
said,</span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;"><blockquote class="tr_bq">
"<span class="DL-original-quote" jquery1355829032568="65" style="background-color: white;">Today, we say, in a clear and unambiguous fashion: the
armed resistance and armed struggle are our strategic choice and our path to
liberate the Palestinian land, from the [Mediterranean] Sea to the [Jordan]
River, and to drive the usurping invaders out of the blessed land of
Palestine.</span>"</blockquote>
</span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">He added, "The fact that Hamas, at one stage or another,
accepts the goal of gradual liberation - of Gaza, of the West Bank, or of
Jerusalem - is not at the expense of our strategic vision with regard to the
land of Palestine."</span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Lie:
Israel intentionally targeted civilians.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">(IDF
statistics)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">177 Palestinians were killed in Operation Pillar of
Defence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">120 were ‘engaged in terrorist activity’ and 57 civilian
deaths.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" dir="LTR" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">That total is a tiny number of deaths from 1500 air
strikes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A ratio of more than two terrorists for every civilian
killed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Afghanistan ratio was <em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">3</span></em>
<em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">civilians</span></em> for every one combatant killed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Iraq ratio <em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">4</span></em> civilians for every one
combatant killed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This
is a staggering feat of precision the Israelis achieved.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This
is even more astonishing given that the Hamas situated their rockets and
ammunitions in the middle of civilian areas in order to get its own people
killed to score propaganda points.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">There is a whole army department whose job it is to
warn Palestinians of an impending attack. Amongst other things, they phone families
in surrounding buildings of a target and warn them to evacuate. No other army
does this.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Lie:
There is a cycle of violence which only Israel can stop.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hamas
attacks are not caused by ‘frustration with the blockade’. The blockade is only
there <i>because</i> of the murderous attacks by the Palestinians.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The
cycle is only driven by one side. There is Palestinian aggression and Israeli
defence and prevention!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Lie:
All the Palestinians want is a state of their own.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The
media fail to understand that the real goal of the Palestinian rulers is not the
establishment of a viable independent state but the destruction of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Even a cursory investigation would prove
this:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo2;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Palestinian
media outlets shout out this message every day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo2;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Official
public recognition for terrorists who murdered Jewish civilians as
national heroes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo2;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Religious
leaders on public radio and TV preach hatred and incite to murder on a
daily basis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo2;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Palestinian
schools teach this as well as children’s TV.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo2;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">They
define occupied land as the whole of Israel, not just “The West Bank”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" dir="LTR" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Just a search in <b>YouTube</b>
for “<b>Palestinian media watch</b>”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Go
to <b>Palwatch.com<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<b><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Lie:
There is an Israeli Blockade which is starving the Palestinian people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">No one ever
talks about the Egyptian border!</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> The media forgets that there are in
fact two borders. It is <i>Egypt</i> which keeps its border with Gaza sealed
not allowing any aid, yet turns a blind eye to a free flow of weapons being
smuggled in over the border.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Mysteriously the Hamas isn’t firing rockets at
Cairo!</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" dir="LTR" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Israel only restricts
certain goods from coming in on security grounds.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" dir="LTR" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Israel not only allows
in a huge amount of humanitarian and medical supplies each and every day, it
provides a large percentage of that aid itself.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" dir="LTR" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 21.3pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Most importantly
however, Israel insures a two way free flow of trade goods 24 hours a day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" dir="LTR" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 21.3pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Due to signed trade
agreements, Israel is the biggest buyer of Palestinian exports.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Look
at <b>YouTube</b> videos showing Palestinian markets and shopping centres, restaurants
and cafes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<b><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Lie:
The core obstacle to ME peace is the illegal Jewish Settlements on Palestinian
land.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The core
obstacle to peace between Israel and any Arab nation is the Arab’s refusal to
recognise the State of Israel as a Jewish State. There will never be peace so
long as the central policy of the Palestinian rulers is not the establishment
of a Palestinian state with peaceful borders (as the world media keeps telling
you) but the destruction of the State of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Note
also that the central goals of both the Palestinian Authority and Chamas are
the same.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Even a cursory investigation would prove
this:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo2;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Palestinian
media outlets shout out this message every day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo2;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Official
public recognition for terrorists who murdered Jewish civilians as
national heroes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo2;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Religious
leaders on public radio and TV preach hatred and incite to murder on a
daily basis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo2;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Palestinian
schools teach this as well as children’s TV.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo2;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">They
define occupied land as the whole of Israel, not just “The West Bank”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
</ul>
<div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Just
a search in <b>YouTube</b> for “<b>Palestinian media watch</b>”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jewish settlements on land over the 1967 border
constitute just fewer than 2% of the entire land.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Israel is offering to give up on 98% of what is
historically, the heartland of the land of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The question
itself assumes that the settlements are in fact illegal whereas in fact they
are legally disputed!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">See </span><a href="http://www.2nd-thoughts.org/id351.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.2nd-thoughts.org/id351.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
for various expert legal opinions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Jews have the legal – as well as the moral and
historical right to settle within Judea and Shomron, historically the heartland
of the land of Israel, a right given to them by the Great Powers after the
First World War on account of the unique historical claim by the Jews to the
land then called Palestine. This Jewish right to settle anywhere in that land
was entrusted to Britain to deliver under the terms of the Mandate for
Palestine – an obligation which it proceeded to break. Yet this history and law
are denied or ignored by European and United Nations legal experts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Judge Stephen
Schwebel, former president of the International Court of Justice, determined
that Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria was rooted in self-defense and
therefore did not constitute “occupation.”</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Eugene
Rostow, former dean of Yale Law School, former undersecretary of state and
co-author of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which sets out the criteria
for Israel-Arab peacemaking said U.N. Resolution 242 does not call for
withdrawal to the pre-1967 boundaries; Israel’s withdrawal from Sinai amounts
to a 90 percent withdrawal from post-1967 areas; the legality of Jewish
settlements in Judea and Samaria “cannot be terminated except by a recognized
peace between Israel and its neighbors, and perhaps not even then, in view of
Article 80 of the U.N. Charter, ‘the Palestine article,’” which upholds the
1922 British Mandate for Palestine. This 1922 international legal instrument
considered Judea and Samaria part of the Jewish national homeland: “Jews have
the same right to settle [in Judea and Samaria] as they have to settle in
Haifa.”</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The 1993 Oslo
Accord does not prohibit the construction of Jewish settlements in Judea and
Samaria.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #38761d;">The Real Solution.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">There would be peace between Israel and the
Palestinians which would include a Palestinian State living peacefully with
Israel if the Palestinian Authority would declare, in Arabic as well as
English, that it accepts the right of the state of Israel to exist as the
nation state of the Jewish people, and announce to its own people (in Arabic
and English) that their policy is no longer to wage a war of destruction
against the Jewish State of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">If the Palestinian Authority were to say that and to
match those words by actions, for example, by ending the constant message that their
aim is to capture the incitement in the educational materials and media under
its authority, to hatred and murder of Jews and Israelis, then there would be
peace and a state of Palestine. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This would happen despite right-wing Israeli objections
because Israel is a democracy and the overwhelming majority of Israelis favour
a compromise over land for a true long lasting peace.</span></span></div>
Reb Mordechai Reviewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135349748761291865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520459790235719452.post-58987042243064993782012-09-05T11:19:00.000+03:002012-09-05T12:52:50.512+03:00The War for the minds of Anglo Jewry.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Commentator site has an excellent article which I think is a must read for everyone who wants to put some essential facts in their pockets when coming face to face with a so called “Pro-Palestinian” person in Britain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1609/_pro_palestinians_don_t_seem_to_be_pro_anyone_"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1609/_pro_palestinians_don_t_seem_to_be_pro_anyone_</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">The photo accompanying the article is extremely apt seeing that the girl holding the ridiculous piece of paper looks so Jewish. Sadly, the person in Britain who you most likely will come face to face with, when you will need these facts, comes from the secular Anglo Jewish community. I’m afraid years of British media bias and university brain washing have taken its toll on today’s Anglo-Jewish community and it’s quite common, even in your average [Orthodox] United Synagogue, to hear talk of “Palestinian Rights” which is only a euphemism for Anti-Zionism. Just read the article, he explains the concept far better than I could.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">The London Evening Standard is the only daily evening paper published in London and is read by millions of Londoners (including many thousands of Jews). In fact, one copy is read by two or three people as there is a tradition amongst London commuters on the Underground, on their way home to the suburbs, to leave their already read copy on the seat of the tube carriage when they leave, for someone else to pick up.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Whilst in London last week, I picked up one such copy to read the following article which I subsequently found on the paper’s Internet site.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/israeli-court-rejects-lawsuit-by-parents-of-activist-rachel-corrie-crushed-to-death-by-army-bulldozer-8083758.html"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/israeli-court-rejects-lawsuit-by-parents-of-activist-rachel-corrie-crushed-to-death-by-army-bulldozer-8083758.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">This staggeringly spectacularly one sided article makes not the slightest attempt at even appearing balanced to the casual reader. It would seem from the article that the Israeli judge reached his verdict without any evidence at all. Indeed the article tells us that the judge was instructed by the Israeli government to cover up the “obvious” Israeli army’s guilt. This is anti-Israel propaganda at its most crude. The article quotes exclusively from interviews with Corrie’s lawyer and members of the terrorist linked movement ISM. In fact, had the ISM been asked to write an account of the court decision themselves, it is doubtful that they could have done a better job?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'll mention just some of the evidence that any media report on the verdict should have mentioned. On this particular occasion the so called “Peace Activist” was there trying to prevent the IDF from destroying houses containing tunnels used to smuggle weapons. On other occasions ISM members have been used as human shields to allow Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists to fire at Israeli soldiers whilst preventing the IDF from firing back. However, their most sinister activities are assisting terrorist snipers in murdering Israeli soldiers by standing in open ground and trying to lure soldiers to come and arrest them, at which point the soldiers are picked off. Trying to get someone murdered is not a peaceful activity!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">No mention was given to the facts that came out in court that after examining film taken at the scene, so called eye witnesses weren’t actually there at the time and that widely publicised photos “proving” that Corrie had been intentionally crushed were shown to have beeen Photoshopped by ISM activists. The photos were debunked years ago as complete fabrications yet continued to be used by Western media even after the court case. Sloppy lazy journalism or intentional lies?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Is it any wonder that the average secular Jew living in Britain today would be anti-Israel or even if still pro-Israel, would be racked with shame and make sure they kept their mouths shut whilst at work or at college?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">For those British Jews who stubbornly hold on to pro-Israel views, there is an article dedicated to them in The Independent newspaper. HonestReporting.com has a report about this insidious piece of Nazi style propaganda so I suggest you read that as well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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I've looked through all the comments below this Latma video and through all the talkbacks on Caroline <a href="http://carolineglick.com/">Glick's blog</a> where she features this video and can find no one who thinks that the first sketch was unacceptable. I however do. I think it crosses a red line and wrote to Caroline Glick and told her so. My talkback was not published.<br />
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I think that Caroline Glick and the Latma team are doing a fantastic job battling the left wing and anti-Zionist liberal media and have always enjoyed their biting humour. However this sketch where they employ Holocaust survivor humour to complain about cramped conditions on flights to London is quite simply sick.<br />
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Doesn't anyone else think so? From the total lack of complaints on the YouTube page, it seems I am in the minority.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Chizbollah, Chamas aka, The Muslim Brotherhood are gradually sweeping across the Middle East. Lebanon has been ruled by Chizbollah for some time now. The Egyptian people have just voted in The Muslim Brotherhood. Syria will fall to the Islamic Empire any day now. Gaza is already in the repressive hands of Chamas and we see in the news today that there are riots in the Palestinian Controlled areas of Machmud Abass screaming for out and out war with Israel and the end to the P.A.’s corrupt regime. It looks as if Chamas will be ruling over Ramallah very soon. The Western and liberal Israeli media call this a “grass roots” demonstration. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A cry from the people!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Looking at the pro-Palestinian left-wing sites, (mostly run by guys with lovely Jewish surnames), there is a very obvious sharp change of policy against Abass. He is now not just in Israel’s pocket but is in fact an agent of Israel! He is working for the IDF and is part of the Israeli occupation. If the Palestinians ever want human rights, they tell us, they must be ruled by Chamas, ie, The Muslim Brotherhood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">How can you say “Chamas” and ”human rights” in the same breath and still keep a straight face? The liberal press manage it without any difficulty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Is the P.A. and Abass corrupt? Absolutely yes! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are corrupt because the United States and the West allow them to be so. They shower the regime with money and then sit back with closed eyes and crossed arms. The Western governments proclaim that they cannot interfere into the internal policies of these regimes. They cannot insist on accountability for their own donations, for freedom of speech, free press and for democracy. Then, the West looks on and through misty eyes, wonders why the Muslim Brotherhood is sweeping through the Middle East.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Keeping an eye on the world going by my window<br />Taking my time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">But time is running out for the West. The Muslim Brotherhood has a strong foothold into Europe now and is given free rein in America to brainwash the next generation in all its universities. This is exactly what has been happening in the universities in Europe for the past 30 years. I know, I was there!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">At least there will be clean water for the future rulers of the West to wash their feet with before they go off to the mosque for morning prayers.</span></div>Reb Mordechai Reviewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135349748761291865noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520459790235719452.post-39111285107285253002012-07-01T12:39:00.001+03:002012-07-01T12:52:00.866+03:00A sweet little poem and my reply<br />
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A few weeks ago I received an email from a "<em>Dati Leumi</em>" friend of mine containing a sweet little poem which I'm sure he thought was very amusing. I did not!<br />
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Here is the original poem and below is my reply.<br />
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<b><u>THE FANAT IN THE HAT</u></b><br />
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I sat there with Sally.<br />
We sat on the bus.<br />
We sat there together.<br />
No one made a fuss.<br />
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Then who came aboard?<br />
The Fanat in the Hat!<br />
And he said to us,<br />
“How can you sit like that?<br />
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“You know it is wrong<br />
To sit next to each other.”<br />
I said, “She’s my sister,<br />
And I am her brother.”<br />
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He pointed at Sally, <br />
“Go back there to sit.<br />
If you stay in front,<br />
I think I will spit.<br />
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“I do not want to see you</div>
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Go out or come in.<br />
Your elbows are showing<br />
And making men sin.”<br />
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“I paid for my seat</div>
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Just like you,” Sally cried.<br />
“I can sit where I want!<br />
It’s for me to decide!"<br />
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“Where do you think you are?</div>
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This is not Tel Aviv.”<br />
The Fanat in the Hat said,<br />
“Sit in back or you leave.”<br />
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“Now do as I say,</div>
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You loose woman, you.”<br />
Then out from behind<br />
Came Thug One and Thug Two.<br />
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They had beards, they had hats, </div>
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And they wore black and white.<br />
Their fingers were curled<br />
Into fists that were tight.<br />
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They were big, they were mean,</div>
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And they blocked our way.<br />
They did not look like men<br />
Who learn Torah all day.<br />
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They screamed at poor Sally.</div>
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“<em>Prutzoh</em>!” they shouted.<br />
“We will take care of you.”<br />
And we did not doubt it.<br />
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We looked up to heaven.</div>
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We looked left and right.<br />
Should we try to run <br />
Or stand up and fight?<br />
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We needed a plan, </div>
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A way to escape,<br />
Before those two Thugs<br />
Squashed us both like a grape.<br />
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Then Thug One and Thug Two </div>
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Shouted, “Oy! Help us please!”<br />
The Fanat in the Hat<br />
Just fell to his knees.<br />
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What made them shake</div>
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And what made them yelp?<br />
What made those bullies<br />
Cry out for help?<br />
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We looked and we saw </div>
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A giant black cat, <br />
Walking erect<br />
In a red and white hat.<br />
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The Cat in the Hat</div>
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Looked the Thugs in the eye.<br />
“These things need to stop.<br />
And I’ll tell you why.<br />
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“Scaring young women</div>
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Is not a good game.<br />
Worse, it is causing<br />
A <em>Hillul Ha-Shem</em>.<br />
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“Here is a new game</div>
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To play,” said the cat.<br />
“The game is called boxing.<br />
Are you good at that?”<br />
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The Thugs said, “We box.</div>
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When we finish with you,<br />
You will lie on your back <br />
For a week or for two.”<br />
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The cat pulled a box out</div>
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And opened the top.<br />
We heard a big voom<br />
That made everything stop.<br />
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The Fanat in the Hat</div>
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And the Thugs in their beards<br />
Were sucked into the box.<br />
They all disappeared.<br />
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The cat closed the lid</div>
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And sealed it with glue.<br />
“Goodbye,” said the cat, <br />
“And good riddance to you.”</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>...And here is my reply...</strong></span><br />
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They gathered outside <em>Bnai Brak</em> and <em>Meah Shaarim</em>,</div>
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From out of every corner,</div>
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The mob could be seen,</div>
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From <em>Chelonim, Datai Leumi</em> and everyone in between.</div>
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“Get rid of the <em>Dossim</em>, get rid of them all”!</div>
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“They are parasites on society”, came the loud call.</div>
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All the cameras were there, recording the scene,</div>
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Was it Berlin 1933? It could well have been.<br />
“Go back to Poland and Russia, go to hell!<br />
Stop using our blood for <em>matzos</em>,<br />
And throwing our babies down the well”.<br />
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Voom! the last ship left, the last plane flew,</div>
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Filled only with <em>Chareidi</em> refugees, (as well as the crew).</div>
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Gone were the men in black hats, their wives and children too.<br />
The crowds screamed hysterically “Good riddance to you!”</div>
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Then the sky turned red as the missiles came down,<br />
Tel Aviv went first, then every town.<br />
For who was left <em>davaning</em> for <em>Am Yisrael?</em><br />
The <em>yeshivos</em> fell silent with no one around…<br />
As the last <em>Kollel</em>, <em>Beis Midrash</em> closed its door,<br />
The State of Israel was no more.<br />
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(C) Author of blog <em>Reb Mordechai Writes</em></div>
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</div>Reb Mordechai Reviewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135349748761291865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520459790235719452.post-50786466174799993222012-06-14T15:50:00.001+03:002012-06-14T17:38:18.923+03:00You can't escape it. Not anywhere.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">As anyone who is raising teenage sons would know, you have to find things of common interest in order to try and persuade them that you weren’t born on another planet. (I was however born in another country which may as well be the same thing as far as they are concerned).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">My boys, despite claiming that they are 100% culturally Israeli, nevertheless are fanatic supporters of Arsenal (pronounced “Arsnol”) Football Club, following the game results you could say, almost religiously. My eldest son even submitted his English <i>Bagrut</i> project on the subject of the English FA, dedicating a whole page to his beloved Arsenal and their historic rivalry with the other “Jewish” football team up the road, Tottenham (pronounced “Totnum”) Hotspurs, better known by their nickname, “Spurs”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">In order to keep up to date and have some kind of opinion on the latest Arsenal related matter whenever my sons are home from <em>yeshiva</em>, I am a regular reader of Arseblog, one of the most popular Arsenal FC blogs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">It amuses me that just as a religious Jew might write a particular <i>Avoda Zara</i> (idol worship) by missing out some letters and replacing them with asterisks, so Arseblog refers to their arch rivals at Tottenham as “<strong>Sp*rs</strong>”. Anyone thinking of going to the site should be warned that it contains the usual football fan related swearwords.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">I found this blog rather refreshing and a change from my usual Internet haunts and enjoyed a bit of escapism, following the insignificant discussions over which player was best and how much money the manager ought to spend to keep Van Persie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Only once in the past have I made a contribution by adding to a discussion about one of Israel’s best players who was on loan to Arsenal for the season, Yossi Benayoun. They were wondering about the level of his English. In fact, Yossi probably has a better grasp of the language than many contributors to the blog. One guy said matter-of-factly that his mother tongue was of course <em>Yiddish</em>. Obviously I could not resist putting them straight and pointing out that Benayoun comes from a Sefardi family and was hardly likely to know more than a few words in Yiddish. I explained to them that his mother tongue was in fact Hebrew which is the national language of Israel. They were most amused!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Then, last week, I was forced to submit another post. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My escapism fantasy world was shattered as I read an article where the author commented that the subject he was writing about was similar to the fact that the Palestinian and Israeli sides were just as bad as each other. I would have let his comment go had it not been for posters who taking their cue from the article, waded in with Anti-Israel comments. One of them I could not ignore:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">It's been two days since I posted this comment. So far, no one has replied. Let's hope it stays that way.</span></div>Reb Mordechai Reviewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135349748761291865noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520459790235719452.post-78150459781410299212012-06-14T14:39:00.002+03:002012-06-14T14:42:47.630+03:00HonestReporting.com Are we missing the point?<br />
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I pop by the website of HonestReporting.com every now and again to check out the latest article on media bias. A few years ago I would have considered this essential reading but today I question if article after article of outrage at Israel hatred and Jew hatred is simply missing the point.<br />
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There is no doubt that there are many anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic reporters and journalists in the British press. They are not on the fringes of British media or given a forum simply for counter opinion sake. They are mainstream writers in mainstream media outlets.<br />
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There can be no doubt by any objective criteria that The Guardian as well as other British media outlets have crossed the line between legitimate criticism of Israel and Jew hatred (and I don’t mean a small incursion over the line but a full blown invasion).<br />
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One has to ask oneself, why have the so called politically and racially sensitive media watchdogs been either silent or totally dismissive of complaints of Anti-Semitism and allowed these hate publications to continue with impunity?<br />
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Why don’t other mainstream media outlets openly condemn these articles and treat them with the disgust they deserve? Silence in the face of hatred amounts to complicity in the crime.<br />
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I believe Honest Reporting is doing a fine job in exposing these hate articles but haven’t we got to the stage where there are simply too many of them? In fact, it is rare to find a balanced, let alone pro-Israel article in the British press today and when there is one then the writer is considered at the fringes of acceptable opinion.<br />
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At the heart of this issue is the inescapable conclusion that it is not simply one or two British media outlets which express these opinions but indeed the majority. This is a nation which views these hate filled articles as perfectly acceptable and sees nothing wrong with it. In fact, many in Britain would say that it is their moral obligation to spread Israel and Jew hatred wherever possible.<br />
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There have always been Jew haters but Britain today is a country which allows them to flourish in mainstream media. One can only conclude that Britain is a morally corrupt and evil society.<br />
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Please, someone, anyone, convince me that I am wrong or at least cast doubt on my conclusions.Reb Mordechai Reviewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135349748761291865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520459790235719452.post-65520734311311255542012-03-26T12:35:00.000+02:002012-03-26T12:37:02.403+02:00Jewish Telegraph's answer to Anti-Semitism? Stop being Jewish!<div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: large;">Were we to succumb to near-paranoia every time there is a tragedy of this type, we are playing straight into the hands of those who seek to destabilise our lives. As a community, in this country, we are well-protected both within and without. Members of the Community Security Trust provide a reassuring presence at major events and in some communities can be seen on the streets with police and community support officers in sensitive areas, particularly during yomim tovim and on Shabbat. And our schools are secure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>Reb Mordechai Reviewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135349748761291865noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520459790235719452.post-12800692926033217882011-12-19T19:05:00.000+02:002011-12-23T07:28:03.280+02:00YNET and the Female Reporter on Bus<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">YNET doesn't allow facts to get in the way of a good story especially when it comes to their favourite sport, that is <em>Chareidi</em> bashing!</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: blue;">"I won’t sit at the back of the bus</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Ynet special: Tanya Rosenblit recounts clash of civilizations she experienced on Israeli bus; ‘until yesterday, I was sure that I live in a free country,’ she says "</span></span></span></b></div>
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<span class="text141"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">YNET descibes Tanya Rosenblit "as a student" who innocently happened to board an Egged bus that runs through a <em>Chareidi</em> neighbourhood and sat behind the bus driver in order to ask directions. She was sitting there, quietly minding her own business, when a spontaneous crowd of men speaking in <em>Yiddish</em> formed around the bus…</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: blue;">“…I was a little scared at that point. Nobody bothered to turn to me and ask me to do what seemed so logical to them – for me to move to the back. They made do with pointing at me, calling me names, and expressing outrage over Egged’s failure to safeguard their rights. I must admit I still don’t understand what these rights are.”<span class="text141"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="text141"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">In her article, Tanya asks why these men don’t obey the Talmudic statement of <span style="color: blue;">“<em>Derech Eretz Kadma LaTorah </em>(proper behavior comes before the Torah.)”</span>?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">She finishes her article with:</span></span></div>
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<span class="text141"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: blue;">“We must not allow one pressure group or another to overrun the unique voice of any one of us. Freedom is not a curse word; everyone aspires for it in every society and in any situation. If we give up the stigmas and approach the person who hides behind the words “haredim” or “seculars” we can produce genuine dialogue and possibly minimize the gap between us.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Any normal person reading this account would feel genuine sympathy for her or even admiration. Some have even called her a “hero”.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am personally against Egged sex segregated buses</span></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Let me state from the outset that I am personally against Egged, Israel’s public bus company, agreeing to sex segregated buses. If the <em>Chareidi</em> community wish to organise private coaches and arrange with consent of both the men and women to segregated seating then <em>gezinterhait</em>, fine! However the public bus system should not agree to impose such restrictions. If I were traveling on an intercity Egged bus with my wife or daughter then I'd certainly like to sit next to them. There is, as far as I understand, no <em>halachic </em>precedent for such a <em>chumra</em> (stringency).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">It could be the case that Egged bus passengers on buses that run through <em>Chareidi</em> neighbourhoods will, on their own volition, organise themselves so that women sit at the back but it should be made clear that, being that this is a public and not a chartered coach, if a female passenger gets on and for whatever reason, wishes to sit at the front of the bus then no one has the right to complain. I would consider it appropriate for someone, who would have to be a woman, to politely and with respect explain what the practice (by common agreement) on these buses is but if the female passenger nevertheless refuses to comply with the request, they should be left alone and not harassed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">While traveling on Egged buses I have experienced a few related but not exact same cases as this one.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The young couple became noticeably distressed at the attention they were receiving and were completely clueless as to what had caused it, not understanding any Hebrew at all. I pushed my way through the crowded bus to their seat and stood over them and proceeded to explain to them what was happening. They actually seemed embarrassed if not a little scared and confused. The girl took a shawl from her bag and wrapped it around herself. I then turned to the crowd and said to them in a firm but friendly voice to “Leave them alone, they are tourists, Jews estranged from Judaism and in any case, they don’t understand what you are saying to them”. To my amazement, the crowd calmed down and many looked away. I had half expected them to start screaming at me but <em>Baruch Hashem</em>, this did not happen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I got talking to the couple who said that they were on an Israel trip organised by their Reform Temple. I said to them that when they got to the Western Wall, to look out for Outreach guys in the men’s section and women doing the same thing in the women’s section, who could find them, if they wanted, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>places for Shabbat so that they could experience a real Jewish old City <em>Shabbat</em>. “Free?” they asked me. I assured them that yes, it was free and added that they should use the opportunity to ask as many questions as they wanted about Judaism and assured them that they’d have a great time. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I don’t know if they found a <em>kiruv</em> worker but I’d like to believe that they did and today are living blissfully in the <em>Rova</em> (the Jewish quarter of the Old city) with 8 kids. Who knows?</span></span></div>
Getting back to the YNET article, it is a personal account of events by this woman. However I found another, very different account of the same incident in the <em>Chareidi</em> Internet site <strong>bhol.co.il</strong>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.bhol.co.il/article.aspx?id=35652&cat=1&scat=1">http://www.bhol.co.il/article.aspx?id=35652&cat=1&scat=1</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Eye witnesses state that both men and women attempted to persuade her gently, in a friendly manner to stop the provocation and move to the rear of the bus with the other women. They said that they attempted to talk to her “Jew to Jew” but to no avail. The woman reporter screamed that if she wasn’t allowed to sit at the front then she’d undress on the bus and then proceeded to play with the buttons of her blouse.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">‘Israel warns Assad: Attack us, we’ll hit you personally’</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Israel reportedly sends message through Ankara following intelligence reports revealing unusual troop, missile movement, Kuwaiti reports<span style="font-size: x-large;">.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">“In meeting with Turkish FM, Syrian president discusses possibility of NATO strike, says 'I won't need more than six hours to transfer hundreds of rockets to Golan to fire at Tel Aviv' <span style="font-size: x-large;">”</span></span><br />
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The punch line “…this is why I’m transferring you to the SPG…” is only understandable by those who lived in Britain in the 1970s and 80s. The SPG was a very controversial special Police unit to combat public unrest, named the “Special Patrol Group”. The unit was deployed to confront possible riot situations. Because they were trained in anti-riot techniques and crowd control, using non-standard police equipment that made them look like a South American Para Military force, they quickly became very unpopular and were seen as an affront to the British way of life. In 1987, after a public outcry due to a series of controversial court cases and accusations of brutality brought against the force, they were disbanded.<br />
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Photo shows Police tackling protesters in the Southall riots in April 1979 - Blair Peach, an anti-fascist protestor, received a fatal blow to the head minutes after the Special Patrol Group arrived at the scene. A Police report determined that he was killed by a member of the SPG although no officer was ever arrested.<br />
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Although it is tempting to see a need for such a force in times of crisis, at least in Britain, the consensus was that the danger to freedom, justice and democracy outweighed any possible advantage of having such a police unit.<br />
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Now look at this video taken on the 6th September 2011 in the Jewish settlement of Migron.<br />
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I have to say that I was shocked to the core and deeply ashamed after watching this, that anything like this could happen in Israel. This Police unit, known as the ”<em>Yechida Siur Meyuchedet</em>” (a direct translation being “The Special Patrol Unit”) or “<em>Yasam</em>” for short, has the almost identical name to the British force which was disbanded all those years ago. This unit is an insult to everything we hold dear in Judaism and the State of Israel. <br />
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I would hope that anyone watching this video, whether left or right wing, religious or not, must surely condemn the existence of such a unit within Israel’s police force.<br />
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They seem to be made of trained inhumane thugs who have been given a license to be a law unto themselves. <br />
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They have no name tags and refuse to divulge their names which means that unwarranted assaults and abuse carried out by these men will go unpunished.<br />
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What happened in Migron is unacceptable in any freedom loving democratic country which claims to have a civilised legal system with full citizen’s rights. There needs to be a public outcry from everyone who believes in even basic human rights of Israeli citizens to dismantle this unit.<br />
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A leftwing friend at work said that being that this occured "over the Green Line" and not "in Israel proper" so regular civil rights do not apply and that in certain situations, the police must have the power to use more force than would usually be acceptable, if only to protect themselves and prevent a potentially dangerous situation. You know what, I can understand what he was saying but, and this is a huge BUT! No one, but no one should be beyond the law. There must be a way to hold these men accountable if and when they cross the line.Reb Mordechai Reviewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135349748761291865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520459790235719452.post-81881700392114916552011-09-25T13:15:00.004+03:002011-09-25T13:50:09.754+03:00With the deepest respect,…badly done, badly done!...<div dir="ltr">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chief_Rabbis_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="List of Chief Rabbis of the United Kingdom"><span lang="EN" style="color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Great Britain and the Commonwealth</span></a><span lang="EN"> </span>of Great Britain, Lord Jonathan Sacks does seem to consistently and successfully annoy me with his writings and speeches. I’m sure it’s nothing personal as indeed is this criticism of a <i>Parshat Hashavuah</i> he wrote some few weeks ago.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvTK5C361DL6aErXTCyS2HSSPCDrXVtB9PLjdE7KqupQ2IBnoORpwEame5XCZ9mdfO3TpfHu4lWCHMgLZnMLPdJKVYeWox1teUHDodloC4rfmB6j2cZPQUrOPdHh1dw7TCWEBRUxBT7zE/s1600/LORD_SACKS_full_length.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hca="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvTK5C361DL6aErXTCyS2HSSPCDrXVtB9PLjdE7KqupQ2IBnoORpwEame5XCZ9mdfO3TpfHu4lWCHMgLZnMLPdJKVYeWox1teUHDodloC4rfmB6j2cZPQUrOPdHh1dw7TCWEBRUxBT7zE/s320/LORD_SACKS_full_length.jpg" width="188" /></a></div><div dir="ltr"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr">The article in question was penned for <i>parshas Ve’eschanan</i>.</div><div dir="ltr"><br />
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</div><div dir="ltr">My general criticism of the article is that the writer sounds more like an Oxbridge educated Church of England parish vicar rather than an Orthodox Rabbi in his writings.</div><div dir="ltr"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr">I thought his blatant and inappropriate criticism of the State of Israel very unfortunate. However this point should be a subject of a blog post all on its own.</div><div dir="ltr"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr">What I also found disturbing which is the subject of this post, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is the astonishing credence and honour he gives to a Church of England translation of the Bible, lending it dangerous and (unorthodox if you will) totally undue legitimacy in the eyes of his target audience which I assume are the members of the Orthodox Jewish community. His words would however warm the cockles of the hearts of his fellow English Bishops in the House of Lords. I cannot read Lord Sack’s mind but were these Xstian Clerics his real intended audience?</div><div dir="ltr"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">He writes</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Then came the </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">translation</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> of the Bible into the vernacular. We tend to forget that the Hebrew Bible is a subversive work…..In the 1530s the great Tyndale translation appeared. Tyndale paid for this with his life: he was arrested, found guilty of heresy, strangled and burned at the stake in 1536”.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Surely his Lordship’s words are incompatible with any accepted [Orthodox] <i>hashkafa?</i></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br />
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</div><div dir="ltr"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">The Tyndale Bible is a translation into English of (at least according to most modern scholars) the German translation by Luther, written some few years earlier. It is not, as is commonly claimed, a direct translation from the Hebrew. We see that wherever Luther mistranslates from the original Hebrew (sometimes through ignorance and sometimes intentionally to conform to Xstian theology and score some anti-Jewish propaganda points) so does Tyndale.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">One example which really catches Tyndale out is Luther’s mistranslation of the word “<i>Matzah</i>” which, as any Jewish child would tell you means “unleavened bread”.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Luther mistranslates this word <i>Matzah</i> as “<em>ungesdäuert</em><em><span style="font-style: normal;">” which means "unsoured" </span></em><em><span style="font-style: normal;">bread because he mistranslates the word “</span>seor<span style="font-style: normal;">” as sour. The word “</span>Seor<span style="font-style: normal;">” is used in Rabbinic </span>Halachic<span style="font-style: normal;"> terminology to refer to sourdough (a substance that in itself is non-edible but can be used as a leavening agent to make </span>chametz<span style="font-style: normal;"> bread) but within a Torah context means any kind of leavened or fermented dough either still raw or later cooked. Tyndale gives the game away by translating Luther’s </span>“ungesdäuert<span style="font-style: normal;">” for <em>Matza</em> as “sweetbread</span><span style="font-style: normal;">”, that is, bread which is not sour. Translating from German into English, it is an understandable mistake.</span></em></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr"><em><span lang="EN" style="font-style: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN;">There are many other examples but this simple and blatant one will suffice to prove my point. Despite legend, there is no evidence that he even knew Hebrew, let alone consulted with </span></em><em><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Rabbonim</span></em><em><span lang="EN" style="font-style: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> as to the correct way to translate the Torah.</span></em></div><div dir="ltr"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Tyndale’s execution probably has more to do with his break from the traditional Catholic doctrine into Lutheranism rather than his supposed blasphemous translation from Hebrew.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Tyndale is to be praised for his passionate campaign in the reintroduction of English as the official language of government and religion.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">To quote Melvyn Bragg, “William Tyndale has had more influence on the way we speak than anyone except Shakespeare.”</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">His Bible caused a radical change in the English language and English society as a whole. Tyndale promised “A Bible for the people in their spoken language”. He waged a cultural war against what he saw as foreign influences within England and as part of this, believed passionately in the wide spread dissemination throughout England of a Bible written in plain English, not necessarily an accurate one though.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">He was found guilty of heresy and executed in Holland in October 1536. His last words were reportedly “Oh Lord, open the King of England’s eyes”. In fact, the king’s eyes had already been opened and within days, Henry VIII started adopting Tyndale’s very reforms, breaking away from Rome. Unfortunately it came just too late to save Tyndale.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">I would agree with any Englishman that Tyndale is without doubt a national hero. However praise and credence for his Bible in a <i>Parshat HaShavuah</i> sheet which is meant after all to teach us Torah, is in my opinion, nauseatingly inappropriate.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Let no British Jew forget, least of all an Orthodox Rabbi that Tyndale’s Bible still contains all the mistranslations, out and out lies and pure anti-Semitism which you will find in any Xstian Bible. This is the same Xstian Bible which has been used for centuries to kick up anti-Jewish hatred and inspire and instigate persecution and pogroms, eventually and directly resulting in The Holocaust.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">With the greatest respect to the chief Rabbi, to quote from another great English classic, Jane Austen’s Emma:</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: blue;">“<strong>…badly done Emma, badly done!</strong>...I must tell you the truth while I still can, proving myself your friend by the most faithful counsel, trusting that sometime you will do my faith in you greater justice than you do it now...”.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br />
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</div>Reb Mordechai Reviewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135349748761291865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520459790235719452.post-85434481374374606112011-09-20T15:05:00.000+03:002011-09-20T15:05:18.283+03:00Looking for a great red wine for Rosh Hashana?<span style="color: black;">Looking for a great red wine to start your <em>Rosh Hashana</em> with?</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Well I have been busy lately writing some wine reviews.</span><br />
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<strong>Ramat HaGolan (Golan Heights) Winery Yarden Mount Hermon Red 2009</strong> versus <strong>Psagot "Edom" Blend 2009.</strong><br />
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<strong><a href="http://rebmordechaireviews.blogspot.com/2011/09/tale-of-two-wine-blends.html">http://rebmordechaireviews.blogspot.com/2011/09/tale-of-two-wine-blends.html</a></strong><br />
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<strong>Har Odem (Odem Mountain) Volcanic Merlot 2009</strong><br />
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<a href="http://rebmordechaireviews.blogspot.com/2011/09/har-odem-odem-mountain-volcanic-merlot.html">http://rebmordechaireviews.blogspot.com/2011/09/har-odem-odem-mountain-volcanic-merlot.html</a><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">And lastly:</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><strong>Dalton Reserve Merlot 2007</strong></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I wish to give tribute to Israel’s first and foremost wine expert and critic, Daniel Rogov, who sadly passed away this month. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><em>Baruch Dayan Emes. </em></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span>Daniel Rogov was actually a pen name, his real name being </span></strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">David Joroff.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Oh how I remember when he used to write Israeli restaurant reviews in the Jerusalem Post back in the 1980s. He regularly incensed me with his reviews of non-kosher restaurants and recommendations of <em>treif</em> food. I remember thinking that there are thousands of <em>treif</em> food and drink reviews all over the world published every week. Was it too much to ask for that Israel’s leading English language newspaper review kosher restaurants and publish recipes with only kosher ingredients? I was not alone in my thinking.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Daniel, like the majority of Russian Jews who emigrated to the West in the 1930s, was a product of 2,000 years of assimilation, pogroms, starvation and general Jewish persecution. Most Jews who escaped the horrors of Europe just wanted to live a comfortable life and leave the <em>Shtetl</em> and “all that Jewish thing” behind. Remaining <em>Torah</em> observant was the exception not the rule. Many so called experts predicted the demise of Orthodox Jewry and <em>Mitzvah</em> observance by no later than the 1960s. How wrong they were but looking back at the state of World Jewry in the 1930s and 40s, how very understandable that feeling must have been.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I have heard Rav Zev Leff say in many of his <em>shiurim</em> that we <em>Shomrei Shabbos</em> Jews living today in the 21<sup>st</sup> century do not fully appreciate the heroism of those simple <em>Yidden</em> who remained loyal to the <em>Rebeinu Shel Olam, Avinu Malkeinu</em> when Orthodox Judaism was probably as popular as a skin rash. We should look back in awe at those holy champions who sent their children to <em>Torah</em> schools, refused to work on <em>Shabbos</em> and refused to buy <em>treif</em> food when they hardly had any money to feed their own children as it was. Despite all their trials, <em>Shabbos</em> in their homes was so sweet and overflowing with <em>kedusha</em>. How seductive assimilation must have been and understandable it is that the vast majority succumbed and compromised on their Judaism. Who are we to judge Jews like Rogov? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We who did not experience their challenges!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Had <em>Hakodesh Baruch Hu</em> not had <em>rachmanus</em> upon <em>Klal Yisrael</em> and sent the likes of Rav Moshe Feinstein (zt”l) and Rav Shlomo Zalman Aubach (zt”l) as well as many other <em>Torah</em> giants to save <em>Klal Yisrael</em>, who knows what would have happened?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNsZuK-31MvbcNjrLhp2EkFMIfkjC3_Msh5dt6yLGs3waX8Dm8YW90V_ZT_H9zNNBLrsm84CJaScsg8lo_ebwLJJ39WRleQFYiNUx95d2BxzDbR1nGNOBeopOJLTARPXChNp37dOl9nyY/s1600/rogovSmell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" rba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNsZuK-31MvbcNjrLhp2EkFMIfkjC3_Msh5dt6yLGs3waX8Dm8YW90V_ZT_H9zNNBLrsm84CJaScsg8lo_ebwLJJ39WRleQFYiNUx95d2BxzDbR1nGNOBeopOJLTARPXChNp37dOl9nyY/s1600/rogovSmell.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Back in the 1980s, I don’t suppose there weren’t many if any <em>Shomrei <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mitzvos</em> food and wine experts out there with the talent to write professional and objective reviews. Despite taking a lot of (in my opinion) legitimate flak from those who condemned his promotion of <em>treif</em> food and saw him as “the enemy” in the war against assimilation, Daniel doesn’t seem to have become anti-religious in any way. Instead of ridiculing kosher food and wine, Daniel instead took the position that kosher consumers had every right to insist the same quality in food and wine as the gentile world's equivalent. It is no exaggeration to say that Daniel was in a large part, responsible for the tremendous success of the award winning Israeli Wine industry we have today and the abundance of excellent kosher Israeli wineries which spoil us rotten with their varieties and elegance and sophistication, considered as good as, if not the best in the world.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5xSGp7ZBE3ZBGfwWvhwVvrRILobGOz8i6K8G59ARr1hyBst5MGltMfyS30yLi2u33_VOXEv0DngDP_OOatB_C1MIPuuHOxAA83wyPfrI8rr7XsyvsHNmduEkKmYTtpbSg9jXlZeqM_HM/s1600/RogovGuidetoKosher.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" rba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5xSGp7ZBE3ZBGfwWvhwVvrRILobGOz8i6K8G59ARr1hyBst5MGltMfyS30yLi2u33_VOXEv0DngDP_OOatB_C1MIPuuHOxAA83wyPfrI8rr7XsyvsHNmduEkKmYTtpbSg9jXlZeqM_HM/s320/RogovGuidetoKosher.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><strong><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Daniel, at least in the beginning, almost single handedly waged (what was considered at the time) and almost impossible campaign against the world who associated kosher wine with sweet cough syrup like liquid, and he won! Today, people all over the world enjoy “Made in Israel” quality wines which brings much needed exports as well as associating excellence with something made in Israel. Most importantly however, Daniel’s legacy will be that today’s <em>Frum</em> Jews can raise the <em>kedusha</em> of their <em>Shabbos Kiddush</em> like no other previous generation by the <em>hidur mitzvah</em> of using a suburb quality kosher wine grown in in the soil of <em>Eretz Yisrael</em>, thanks to Daniel.</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Many Rabbonim teach that it </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">is preferable to use unsweetened wine for <em>Kiddush</em> as well as the mitzvah of the <em>Arbah Kosos</em> on <em>Leil HaSeder</em>. The reason being that sweetened wine was not suitable for use in the <i>Beis HaMikdash</i> service. </span><strong><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Daniel Rogov, with his unique <em>Yiddishe</em> insight explains that </span></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">the Land Of Israel before the destruction and exile of the Jewish people was a major wine producer (as is confirmed by certain <em><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Mishniot</span></em>). The knowledge of making good <em><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">kosher</span></em> wine was lost however when we were sent into <em>Golus</em>. All over Europe, the <em><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">non-Jews</span></em> issued harsh decrees forbidding Jews from owning land or even being partners with a <em><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">goy</span></em> in having a share in a field. Consequently the Jewish community was forced to buy grapes from the local food markets in order to make kosher wine. These grapes were of course of the eating variety and not meant for wine making. To try and compensate for the poor quality grapes that produced bitter wine, the <em><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">kosher</span></em> wine maker was forced to add a lot of sugar. This is how, according to Daniel, we came to associate kosher wines with what is in fact “sweet alcoholic syrup”.</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0xzWQdPaO_9yh_iPWKQVNL7D7IRlCHUZ4owPkFSj9FnqweCSrJmuOhjSYnv350SpRcJiQ5elYEEbPG6sK2ibrvFsrxsUykPxXp4oCVLAOdmm5rkUD0hb4odmJdefTCJ7AHv64Spgi6UA/s1600/DaltonReserveCabarnet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" rba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0xzWQdPaO_9yh_iPWKQVNL7D7IRlCHUZ4owPkFSj9FnqweCSrJmuOhjSYnv350SpRcJiQ5elYEEbPG6sK2ibrvFsrxsUykPxXp4oCVLAOdmm5rkUD0hb4odmJdefTCJ7AHv64Spgi6UA/s320/DaltonReserveCabarnet.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Now that we are back in our land after 2,000 years of exile (<i>Baruch Hashem</i>), Israel has quickly relearned all the wine making skills we once had by adopting skills from the French and Californians and even resurrected a few ancient skills of our own from examinations of archaeological digs. It would seem to me that the continued use of sweet sugary so called "<em><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Kiddush</span></em> wine" for the <i>mitzvos</i> actually perpetuates the old anti-Semitic decree!<strong><span style="font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span></strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo0XtSW_H4q1q6kAn3skU3OZOcIt-anLt6vXcGYj43EXCM9y6zNel6qgvE0ehMWmpUHP66e2Zamy4dipNogq-5paTDLt65tjWRlLaTNGlwNKA9O7g__lHhOu68dDzls2hd47LEhyphenhyphensvDiQ/s1600/Yarden_Cask.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" rba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo0XtSW_H4q1q6kAn3skU3OZOcIt-anLt6vXcGYj43EXCM9y6zNel6qgvE0ehMWmpUHP66e2Zamy4dipNogq-5paTDLt65tjWRlLaTNGlwNKA9O7g__lHhOu68dDzls2hd47LEhyphenhyphensvDiQ/s320/Yarden_Cask.jpg" width="210" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><strong><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">It is said that the Vilna Gaon put on his <em>Shabbos</em> Clothes to meet the first batch of kosher wine arriving in Vilna from <em>Eretz Yisrael</em>. The legend goes that the first batches were pretty awful stuff yet the Vilna Gaon insisted that wine from <em>Eretz Yisrael</em> took priority over better quality wine made in <em>Chutz LaAeretz</em> when it came to the <em>mitzvah</em> of <em>Kiddush</em>. Like the Vilna Gaon, Daniel’s actions and efforts in promoting quality kosher wine has made sure that wine from <em>Eretz Yisrael</em> today has become the preferred wine for most <em>Shomrei Shabbos</em> Jews all over the world.</span></strong></div>May Daniel Rogov's name be remembered for a blessing, <em>zichrono Lebracha.</em>Reb Mordechai Reviewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135349748761291865noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520459790235719452.post-88134211302068393742011-08-28T15:38:00.000+03:002011-08-28T15:38:11.111+03:00Caol Ila single malt whiskyI have a new review featuring Caol Ila single malt on my Reviews blog. before the review, I give a quick rundown on Islay Malts available on the market.<br />
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<a href="http://rebmordechaireviews.blogspot.com/2011/08/caol-ila-single-malt-whisky.html">http://rebmordechaireviews.blogspot.com/2011/08/caol-ila-single-malt-whisky.html</a><br />
Reb Mordechai Reviewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135349748761291865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520459790235719452.post-84410169172635797202011-07-20T11:43:00.028+03:002011-07-20T20:13:39.829+03:00An Israeli Android phone App which will lead to the murder of Jews, chas veshalom!Here are two “Blue and White” Israeli Android phone apps which I will not be buying. It will become clear to you, dear readers why I have chosen my main Blog to write about these apps and not my Review blog very soon.<br />
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The first Android App, written by an Israeli by the name of Nir Yaniv claims to do nothing. For $ 1 (NIS 3.41) you can download his app from the Android Market and it will do absolutely nothing.<br />
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But that’s not all. It’s quite common to find Android apps in two versions. The “Lite” version and the “Pro” version which costs more money obviously, offering more options etc. Well Nir has also produced the Nothing Pro version for $ 9 (NIS 31). He claims that the app also does nothing but uses less CPU and memory doing it! Amazingly, people have bought his apps. I cannot call it a scam because this guy quite clearly states that you are paying for nothing!<br />
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I contemplated writing to him asking Nir to add at least a Language option so that you could switch his app into Hebrew/French/Spanish etc., to show “Nothing” in your own language but then it would actually be doing something wouldn’t it!<br />
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Now for a far more sinister Android App. A syndicate of Israeli iPhone and Android developers being hosted under various names like “Happy App” (such a cute and cuddly name) and “Activismos” but all registered to one Meital Sharon, have produced an app called “Buy No Evil”.<br />
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This app purports to give you an up to date database of all products made in Judea, Shomrom and the Golan so that you can boycott them. It claims that the developers are not falling foul of Israel’s new anti-boycott law because they claim that the app simply informs people who wish to boycott Israeli products and does not actually promote the boycott. It’s like having an App that teaches terrorists how to make bombs and the best place to blow them up and then claiming that it doesn’t in fact promote terrorism!<br />
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The app says “Israeli settlements are an obstacle to peace, Consumer awareness can stop it..” Install and donate.<br />
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There is a link to the developer’s website. This takes you to a site called activismos.com. That’s when you see the bloodied hand for the first time.<br />
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This site leads you to a Blog/News site called hahem.co.il/slipperyslope with more hands shown prominently on every page.<br />
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(Incidentally, going to the parent site hahem.co.il, I see it hosts a collection of ultra-left-wing Israeli bloggers who write, amongst other things that Israel has no right to exist, that the Balfour Declaration is invalid as it was written by Imperialist Britain and anything decided by Imperialism is today null and void. Their position is that the only thing that really matters is the rights of the indigenous inhabitants of the land which they say are the Palestinian people who they believe have been living in a country called Palestine since the year dot! Fewwww!)<br />
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The site claims that its purpose is:<br />
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<div style="text-align: right;">אנו נשתדל להפוך לארכיון כתבות שיתעדו את התדרדרותה המהירה של ישראל, ממצב זכויות האדם בשטחים ועד לאלימות המשטרתית בישראל עצמה, אנחנו נתעד.</div><br />
A rough translations being:<br />
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"We will try and record articles to document the rapid decline of Israel, the human rights situation in the territories and Israel itself, police violence, we’ll keep a record [of everything]."<br />
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The understanding I get from reading their site (in Hebrew) is that these Israelis are complaining that the “occupation” of (as they see it) Arab owned lands is destroying Israeli democracy and the only way to save Israel is to give the Arabs all the land. The obvious problem with this is that these Israeli idiots probably believe that this means all the land acquired since the Six Day War in 1967. What they don’t or won’t understand is that the Arabs demand all the land including their precious Tel Aviv and Ramat Gan. The Arabs scream from every roof top, at every demonstration all over the world “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free!” In other words, the total destruction of Israel.<br />
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Pay special attention to the video at 5:24 when the narrator explains what this common chant, shouted out at demonstations all over the world, actually means.<br />
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The Israeli developers of “Buy No Evil” also have an English site which was translated by volunteers.<br />
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</div><div style="border: currentColor;">It is interesting how this site translates the original Hebrew site. The same sentence quoted above in Hebrew, now in English:</div><br />
“We will try to become an archive of news stories which document <strong>the swift collapse of Israel</strong>, from human rights in the Occupied Territories to police violence inside Israel-proper, we will be documenting them all.”<br />
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Is it just me or do we see a subtle change in objectives here on the English site? They have translated the word “decline” as “collapse” so that the goal now reads “the swift collapse of Israel”. This implies that their goal is chronicling not the perceived “decline” of Israeli democracy but the destruction of the State of Israel itself!<br />
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Of cause, those red hands are everywhere, on every page.<br />
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What is their significance?<br />
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Cast your mind back to 12/10/2000<br />
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The video shows the sanitized version of what happened when two Israeli reserve soldiers got lost and wandered into Ramallah. They were taken to the police station and a mob, including many children, rushed in and murdered the two soldiers, mutilating their body remains, throwing them out the window, tearing out their organs and parading them through the streets to the cheers of everyone. The most famous snapshot of all was one of the murderers sticking his bloodied hands out of the window and cheering.<br />
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This animalistic scene has been memorialized and celebrated at children’s school dramas and plays and graduation ceremonies throughout the Gaza and Palestinian territories.<br />
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The bloody hands of Ramallah are also prominently displayed with pride at Anti-Israel demonstrations all over the world.<br />
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These pathological Israeli extremists know that the Arabs want to kill them. Instead of blaming the Arab murderers, the Palestinian’s culture of hatred and their school system which promotes suicide bombers and glorifies martyrdom in order to murder as many Jews as possible, they actually blame themselves! It’s not they argue, the fact that we are Jews that they hate us but because we occupy their land!<br />
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It’s the same psychological sickness as a victim of abuse. Instead of blaming the abuser, the child/spouse blames themselves. It is now their fault that they are being abused and they convince themselves that it is within their power to stop the abuse by correcting their own actions! In this way, the victim deludes themselves into thinking that the solution lies within them because now they can control the situation.<br />
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Here’s a video “Why Islam hates the Liberals the most”. It is a brilliant analysis of America’s view of the Arab/Israel conflict.<br />
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Particularly, please check out the conversation at 2:30 minutes.<br />
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As the video says, it is a “childish narcissism” of American and European Liberals and these "Buy No Evil" Israelis which is actually encouraging terrorism and will cause more Jewish blood to be spilled.<br />
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May Hashem protect us from <u>all</u> our enemies.<br />
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</div>Reb Mordechai Reviewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135349748761291865noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520459790235719452.post-59379097571264035682011-06-26T19:15:00.001+03:002011-06-26T19:17:50.709+03:00Your enemy’s enemy is your friend?<div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">I came across this YouTube video about the rise in Anti-Semitism in the UK.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvH4jzO2PDo"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvH4jzO2PDo</span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">The video continues that if we want to reverse this trend and “stop the anti-Semitic madness” then we needed to vote BNP!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">I’m puzzled. Are the BNP saying that their attempts at throwing the Jews out of Britain in the 1970s were misguided and in fact British fascists should now love and protect British Jews? Can you imagine? The British fascist skinheads standing shoulder to shoulder with the Jewish community!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Men with Swastika tattoos standing outside London shuls, guarding the Jews from attacks?</span><br />
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