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Rare Earth Elements: The World Is Rapidly Running Out And China Has Most Of The Remaining Supply by NoahDavidSimon (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/3/2010 4:47:00 PM
Most people have no idea what rare earth elements are, but a wide array of the technologies that we use every single day are dependent on them. Without rare earth elements, we would have no hybrid car batteries, flat screen televisions, cell phones or iPods. Without rare earth elements, the entire “green economy” would not be able to function, because almost all emerging green technologies use them. Not only that, but rare earth elements are used by the U.S. military in radar systems, missile-guidance systems, satellites and aircraft electronics. Without rare earth elements, the U.S. military (and militaries all over the globe) would not be able to function. There are 17 key rare earth elements that we rely on every day. But there is a huge problem. China owns more than 85 percent of the known global reserves of rare earth elements. Right now, the rest of the world is absolutely dependent on China’s exports of these metals. Without these Chinese exports, the western world would quickly run out of these precious resources. But in just a few years, the rapidly expanding Chinese economy will gobble up the entire domestic production of Chinese rare earth elements. So what will the rest of the world do at that point? This is a major problem that you aren’t hearing a lot about in the mainstream news. But analysts are now predicting that by 2012 this could be a tremendous crisis. So exactly what are rare earth elements? Well, rare earth elements are a group of 17 relatively rare chemical elements that you can find on the periodic table. These rare metals have names you may not be familiar with such as lanthanum, cerium, tantalum, neodymium and europium. As mentioned above, they are used in products that we use every day such as laptop computers, iPhones, magnets, catalytic converters, night vision goggles and wind turbines.
These metals are not well known, but they are absolutely crucial to our way of life. So what is going to happen when we start running out of them? According to The Independent, the move towards “green technology” will cause a dramatic increase in demand for rare earth metals in the years ahead. In fact, it is being projected that the world will need 200,000 tons of rare earth elements by the year 2014. But analysts fear that China may drop exports of rare earth elements to exactly zero tons by 2012. Can anyone else see a problem forming? Last summer, one leaked report indicated that Chinese authorities were already considering a complete export ban of the most critical of the rare earth elements. But while we may speculate when the complete ban is coming, the truth is that China has already moved to dramatically cut back exports of the metals. China recently announced that they have cut export quotas for rare earth elements by 72 percent for the second
half of 2010. The U.S. government reacted quite angrily to this news and warned that this could potentially cause a trade war. TechNewsDaily recently quoted W. David Menzie, chief of the international minerals section at the U.S. Geological Survey, regarding the coming shortage of rare earth elements…. “Countries and companies that have or plan to develop industries that need rare earth minerals to make products are concerned about China’s growing consumption, which they fear will eliminate China’s exports of rare earths.” So what needs to be done? Well, nations and corporations that use rare earth elements need to start weaning themselves off the supply coming from China. But there is a huge problem. That cannot be done overnight. According to a recent report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, building an independent U.S. supply chain for rare earth elements could take up to 15 years. So what in the world will we do until then?
That is a very good question. The truth is that those running the U.S. government are just not very good at thinking strategically. The U.S. Government Accountability Office report mentioned above lists Mountain Pass, California as perhaps the largest non-Chinese rare earth deposit in the world. But it almost fell into Chinese hands unnoticed. You see, the mine in Mountain Pass is owned by Unocal, and in 2005 a Chinese bid for Unocal almost succeeded. Yes, the Chinese were trying to strengthen their monopoly on rare earth elements and it almost worked. Not that they don’t have the rest of the world in a very difficult situation already. The truth is that if China cut off the export of all rare earth elements to the rest of the world tomorrow, it would throw the global economy into absolute chaos. That is a lot of power for China to have. Let’s just hope they don’t use it any t i m e s o o n . v i a intermexfreemarket.blogspot.com uh oh… one of those uh huh moments. we need to look at all these green technologies and ask ourselves how sustainable are they really? noahdavidsimon’s posterous Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Part 1: The Book of Zohar – Selections, chapter “Toldot”, item 77, lesson 4 Lecturer: Rav Michael LaitmanDate: 2010-03-02Video: ENG 76.23MB Audio: ENG 13.59MB ... • Is the Internet Creating a New Type of News Bias? Is the Internet Creating a New Type of News Bias? HonestReporting's social media editor, Alex Margolin, contributes occasional posts on social media issues. He oversees HonestReporting on Facebook. ... • TV Program "Kabbalah Lemathil" Tfila Lecturer: Rav Michael LaitmanDate: 2010-06-24Video: ENG 52.95MB Audio: ENG 9.43MB ... Original post source
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This Day, August 4, In Jewish History by melamed&mavin (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/3/2010 3:35:00 PM
August 4 In Jewish History 70: According to some record, the date on the secular calendar when the Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans. 367: Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-August by his father and associated to the throne aged eight. The reign of Valentinan I was a period of religious toleration where all cults, including Judaism, were practiced with little or no interference from the state. Gratian would reverse his father’s policy of toleration, although most of his actual edicts were aimed against the Pagans. 1265: During the Baron’s War, Prince Edward (the future King Edward I of England), leading the armies his father, King Henry III defeated the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester at the Battle of Evesham killing de Montfort and many of his allies. “During the Barons Wars, the Jews were seen as instruments of royal oppression and one Jewish community after another was ransacked and many of its inhabitants killed during the fighting” which had begun in 1263. In 1264, the violence became so bad, that many Jews fled to Normandy. As bad as things were under King Henry III, life would be worse under the reign of Edward who would order their expulsion in 1290. 1278: Pope Nicholas III ordered required attendance of Jews to hear sermons on conversion. 1558: The first printed edition of the Zohar appeared. This popularized the study of Kabbalah, mysticism and Messianism. 1578: This date is considered a Moroccan Purim (Purim de Los Christianos); a celebration of a time when Jews there faced near disaster because forces led by King Sebastian of Portugal nearly succeeded in conquering the country. The Portuguese were defeated at al-Qasr al-Kabir. Their defeat meant that the Inquisition would not be coming to Morocco. The Jews of Morocco saw themselves as being delivered from a Portuguese Haman, hence the name of the celebration. 1704: During the War of the Spanish Succession, a joint Anglo-Dutch force attacks and captures Gibraltar. Under the terms of the treaty ending the war, the British will gain control of Gibraltar but the British are enjoined from allowing Jews to settle on this newly acquired possession. The British ignore the prohibition and Jews are allowed to live there. 1821: Birthdate of Louis Vuitton, French designer and founder of the French fashion house that bears his name. According to Louis Vuitton, A French Saga, by French journalist
Stephanie Bonvicin the fashion house collaborated with the Nazis during the German occupation of France. Reportedly, “members of the Vuitton family actively aided the puppet government led by Marshal Philippe Pétain and increased their wealth from their business affairs with the Germans. The family set up a factory dedicated to producing artifacts glorifying Pétain, including more than 2,500 busts. Petain’s Vichy regime was responsible for the deportation of French Jews to German concentration camps.” 1856: The “Literary Items” column reported that a soon to be published 8 volume work about the religious and scholastic learning of the Jews by J.W. Etheridge is to be called Jerusalem and Tiberias, Sora and Cordova. According to the title page, the book was designed to be “A survey of the religious and scholastic learning of the Jews; designed as an introduction to the study of Hebrew Literature.” 1857: According to handbills which had been posted today is the deadline for all Germans and all Jews to leave Goldsboro, N.C. The order, from parties unknown, stemmed from a violent outburst that had taken place during a trial that pitted Dr. John W. Davis, a popular local physician, against Falk Odenheimer, a GermanJewish merchant. During the trial Windal T. Robinson, a nephew of Dr. Davis, struck Odenheimer on the head with a spade, or shovel, breaking his skull. In the ensuing mêlée Charley Spaght, a step-son of Odenheimer shot Dr. Davis, seriously wounding him. Even though Davis’ nephew had started the trouble, a crowd formed that wanted to lynch Odenheimer. Odenheimer had to be taken jail for his own safety where he was protected by a brave local citizen named T.T. Hollowell. Odenheimer and Davis both recovered from their wounds and many of the Jews who had gradually returned to Goldsboro. 1858: The New York Times reported on the final passage of the Oaths Bill in Great Britain. “Henceforth Jews may sit in Parliament. The Oaths Bill from the House of Lords has passed in the Commons, and is the law of the realm. A Jew may now qualify without swearing to uphold the Christian religion.” The final passage took place on July 21. Word of the passage was brought by ship from England. 1864: In accordance with the Proclamation issued by President Lincoln, today was observed as a day of fasting and prayer. All business was voluntarily suspended, the public offices, the banks and stores were closed, and citizens flocked to such places of worship as were open for services. At the Wooster Street Synagogue, Rabbi S.M. Isaacs, “after the usual morning service, read the Prayer for the Government, and delivered a discourse from Jonah, 3d
chapter, 8th verse: “Let men and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let man call unto God with might, and let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence which is in his hands.” He referred to the proclamation of the President calling upon all loyal and law-abiding people to convene at their usual places of worship and implore the Almighty not to forsake the nation. He alluded to these days of fasting and humiliation recommended to be observed by the Executive authorities as losing their value from the circumstance that fasting and prayer are too often devoid of meaning; that they are unaccompanied by practical amendment. This idea was predicated on the Book of Jonah, where it is recorded that God repented of the evil he intended the Ninevites, because He observed that they forsook their evil ways and became truly penitent. He adverted to the critical condition of the country and the singular appropriateness of our national appeal to the never-ceasing mercy and goodness of Heaven. Israelites, especially, have reason to sincerely pray for the restoration of the Republic to its former greatness, prosperity and harmony. While recognizing the unspeakable happiness they had enjoyed under the protection of the Stars and Stripes, they should gaze hopefully heavenward, and their supplication would not be in vain. He prayerfully invoked Heaven to endow the rulers and the people of the land with the proper spirit — the spirit of genuine, earnest patriotism — that the severe trial to which our capacity for selfgovernment and our professed loyalty to the principles of liberty and right may be for our ultimate benefit and regeneration; that the war which is now desolating the land may be speedily terminated by the return of the disaffected to the embrace of the banner whose far-spreading folds yearned to receive them as of old. He concluded his address with a suitable prayer. “ 1865: A Jew cigar peddler, hailing from New-York, was arrested and taken before Recorder Avery, of Hoboken, today, charged with peddling cigars without a license, and for which he was required to pay a fine of $5. The accused, who gave his name as Louis, pleaded and begged to be let off, declaring that he was poor; had only a dollar and a quarter; that he got married only six months since and that his wife had a baby, etc. When Wolfksy realized that the Recorder was unmoved by his plea for mercy, and that he would have to go to jail if he did not pay the fine, he very quickly produced the money and paid the fine. 1884: Herzl enters his law practice in the service of the state. 1894: As evidence of the acceptance of Jews at the highest level of British society, Lord Rothschild nominates
six horses for the upcoming Derby. 1900(9th of Av, 5660): Russian-born artist Isaac Levitant died days before his fortieth birthday. 1910: Birthdate of American composer and educator William Schuman. Schuman passed away in 1992 at the age of 81. 1911: Birthdate of Jacob Mortimer Rothschild the son of Pittsburgh, PA residents Lillian and Meyer Rothschild. 1911: In Russia, the St. Petersburg Jewish community opened a Teacher’s Training College and Museum in memory of two deceased Jewish communal leaders, Barons Horace and David de Gunzberg. 1911: The Jewish community of Ekaternioslaff, a Russian city on the Dneiper River, petitioned the government for the right to build a medical school next to the local Jewish hospital. The government agreed if the Jewish enrollment was limited to fifteen per cent. By October, the governor of the province would be attempting to ban Jews from the town. 1911: In Great Britain, American Reform Rabbi Israel I. Mattuck was named as the first spiritual leader of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue. Born in 1883, Mattuck, who passed away in 1954, was an author, commentator and proponent of Classical Reform Judaism 1911: At a conference in New York, the Seventh Day Adventists adopted resolutions condemning the mistreatment of Jews. 1911: Samuel Oppenheimer was elected professor of Astronomy at the University of Vienna. 1912: Birthdate of Raoul Wallenberg, one of the truly great, brave people of history. A Swede, Wallenberg risked his life by going to Hungary in 1944 and literally yanking thousands of Jews from the jaws of death. He disappeared into the hands of the Red Army when it liberated Budapest. Some claim that he passed away in a Soviet prison in 1947. But nobody really knows what happened to him other than the fact the world did nothing to save him. 1912: Birthdate of composer and writer David Raskin. In his long career, Raskin wrote the scores for numerous films, many of which were famous in their day but now are only seen on TCM or other such venues. Raskin was caught up in the Red Witch Hunt of the late 1940’s and 1950’s. He was not a victim of the blacklist since he gave the investigators the one thing they wanted, the names of more people they could investigate. He passed away in 2004. 1914: Germany invades Belgium which forces Great Britain to declare war on Germany since the British are guarantors of Belgian independence and neutrality. It was the invasion of THIS page 3
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Belgium that “sealed the deal” and turned the nascent European hostilities into World War I. From the vantage point of the 21st century, we can see so many places where this war might have been avoided and all that flowed from it including the Shoah. In other words, if the Germans had viewed treaties as more than “a scrap of paper” (the way one German leader reportedly described the treaty guaranteeing Belgium’s independence, six million Jews might not have been smoke and ashes.) 1915: Birthdate of pianist and band leader Irving Fields. “Fields pioneered the melding of Cuban sound with Jewish rhythm via his Bagels and Bongos series in the 1950’s to create a vibe which is equal parts Havana, Harlem, and the Catskills.” 1918: Corporal Adolf Hitler was award the Iron Cross, First class, based on the recommendation of his regimental adjutant, Captain Hugo Guttman who was Jewish. 1922: “A young Zionist named Zalker was killed by an Arab in the outskirts of Haifa.” Early in the day, five Jewish porters had been injured in a clash with Arabs over who would carry the luggage of tourists arriving at the port. 1937: Zurich was in a holiday mood with thousands of visitors arriving hourly for the 20th Zionist Congress. Hotels and pensions were filled to capacity. Only one Swiss paper, Die Front, a Nazi organ, published a venomous attack on Jews. Dr. Franz Kahn opened the Congress with the same gavel used by Theodor Herzl at the First Congress in 1897. Dr. Chaim Weizmann delivered his 40-minute opening address. He pointed out the need to decide whether to accept or reject the Royal (Peel) Commission¹s Report on Palestine, pointing out to the advantages and disadvantages of the scheme. 1937: In Geneva, the Permanent Mandate Commission of the League of Nations examined both the Peel and Palestine administration¹s reports and tried to determine whether the Palestine Mandate, drafted in 1922, was indeed no longer workable and whether the necessary fundamental changes, as requested by Great Britain, ought to be carried out. 1942: The first train with Jews from Belgium went to Auschwitz. The train contained 998 Jews. Normally the Germans would wait until they had an even thousand before sending a train from Belgium to Auschwitz. (On April 19, 1943, three Jewish resistance fighters would stop the Twentieth Train with Jews bound for Auschwitz. Several hundred Jews would escape, although many were caught in later round-ups and sent to the camps. This episode teaches us many valuable lessons. One of them is about Jewish courage in the face of almost certain death. Another of them is that history is not made up of events, but of the events we know
about. The ambush took place on the same day as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Both were events of great courage. But we only celebrate the events at Warsaw because that is the one that most people know about.) 1942: One thousand Jews were deported from Theresienstadt. 1942: In Warsaw, Chaim Kaplan wrote the last entry in his diary before he was murdered: “If my life ends – what will become of my diary?” Saul Friedlander would see to it that the material covered in the diary would survive the killers and the victims when he would he use it as resource material for The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 1942(21st of Av, 5702): In Radom, Poland, 10,000 Jews were assembled for deportation to Treblinka. The Germans began shooting them as they gathered. 1942: An additional 13,000 Jews were rounded up in Warsaw as Operation Reinhard continued into its second month. 1944: A limited number of Jewish war refugees arrived in New York Harbor. They then moved to a decommissioned army camp in Oswego New York. Ruth Gerber, an American journalist was selected “to go on a secret mission to escort the refugees to the United States. This journey became ‘the defining Jewish moment’ of Gruber’s life. In her role as a spokesperson for the refugees, Gruber presented the refugees’ journey as a human interest story for the press. She told the New York Times that the refugees represented “a cross-section of every refugee now pouring into Italy,” including Jews, Catholics and Protestants for whom religious services were held onboard the ship. In a touching moment in Haven, her book recounting the voyage, Gruber recalls a rabbi conducting a service as the boat passed the Statue of Liberty, and her pride in telling the Jewish refugees of the Holocaust that the poem on the base was written by Emma Lazarus, an American Jew. The story of these European refugees stands out as a momentary relaxation of America’s restrictive immigration policy. President Roosevelt’s decision provided the refugees with a safe haven as “guests” in the United States during the war, with the assumption that “they were destined to be sent back to their homelands when the peace comes.” While Roosevelt planned to allow the nearly 1000 refugees to reside in the United States only until the end of hostilities, when the end of the war came, Gruber lobbied the President and Congress—with the help of Catholic, Jewish and Protestant clergy—and convinced the officials to let the refugees stay. While the story ended happily for these refugees, sadly it came at the expense of others waiting in displaced persons camps in Europe. Since the overall
immigration laws and quotas remained unchanged, the close to 1000 refugees were just subtracted form that year’s quota. 1944: Anne Frank was arrested with her parents and sister. Anne, 15 years old, was sent to Bergen-Belsen where she died in March 1945. 1945: Birthdate of actor and comedian Richard Belzer 1952: Rishon Lezion or First for Israel celebrated its 70th anniversary. Rishon is approximately seven miles southeast of Tel Aviv. By the time of its 70th century, several well known Israelis had worked or lived on the Moshav. Two future prime ministers of Israel, David Ben Gurion and Levi Eshkol worked in the winery at Rishon Lezion. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the father of the Modern Hebrew language taught at Rishon LeZion. 1962: Birthdate of television executive Michael Gelman 1964: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney were found buried inside an earthen dam in Mississippi. Schwerner and Goodman were two Jewish youngsters who had come to Mississippi to work in a drive to register Black voters. Chaney was an African-American from Mississippi. Their deaths helped to galvanize support for what would become the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 1973(6th of Av, 5733): Sam Katzman an American film producer and director passed away Born in 1907,into a poor Jewish family, Katzman went to work as a stage laborer at the age of 13 in the fledgling East Coast film industry. He would learn all aspects of filmmaking and become a highly successful Hollywood producer for more than forty years. 1977: US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy. Dr. James Schlesinger, the son of Russian and Austrian Jews, was named the first secretary of the Department. Unlike another famous Harvard PhD. named Henry Kissinger, Schlesinger converted to Christianity, when, according to some sources, he discovered that the “faith of his father’s was an impediment to his budding academic career. 1977: Three terrorists who were on their way to Kibbutz Ashdod Ya’acov were killed and two captured after they crossed the Jordanian border. 1977: Syria rejected the American initiative to hold a Middle Eastern mini-summit in the US and asked for the reconvening of the Geneva Peace Conference instead. 1981(4th of Av, 5741): Famed American actor Melvin Douglas passed away. Born Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg in Macon, Georgia, Douglas began his film career in 1931. Some of his more memorable films include “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House” and the “Americanization of Emily.” He won two Oscars, including one for best
supporting actor as the crotchety old rancher in “Hud.” He has an additional claim to fame as the husband of Congresswoman Helen Cahagan Douglas. Rep. Douglas ran against Richard Nixon for the Senate in 1950. She was an early victim of Nixon and the right-wing Republicans smear tactics in which all liberals were equated with Communists. 1990 (5750): Shabbat Nachamu 1993: Harvey Weinstein, a formalwear manufacturer and chairman of Lord West Formal Wear was kidnapped in New York. 2002(26th of Av, 5762): A Palestinian suicide bomber blew up a bus in northern Israel during rush hour, killing nine passengers. 2002: The New York Times book section featured a review of Stravinsky and Balanchine: A Journey of Invention about the relationship between the gentile and his Jewish apprentice by Charles M. Joseph, I’ll Be Short: Essentials for a Decent Working Society by Robert B. Reich, Bill Clinton’s first and Jewish, Secretary of Labor and Elvis In Jerusalem: Post-Zionism and the Americanization of Israel by Tom Segev. 2005(28th of Tamuz, 5765): Eden Natan Zada, age 19, who was absent without leave from the Israeli army opened fire on a public bus traveling to an Arab town in northern Israel, killing at least four people and wounding 10. In the immediate aftermath, passengers swarmed the gunman, killing him before he could leave the bus. 2005: The Jerusalem Post reported that for the second year in a row, Canadian hockey Jean Perron legend is conducting camp at the Canada Centre, in the town of Metulla near the border with the Lebanon. Perron has brought Israel’s hockey program along way in a short time. The Israeli team is ready to move up to division one, the highest level of international competition. One of the camp’s attendees is a fourteen year old from China. Born in Israel, his father was transferred by his Israeli employer to China. While in China, the youngster learned to play hockey and now is returning home to try and play on the national squad. Sounds like a Disney movie (The Mighty Kosher Ducks) but everything about Jewish history has a slight whiff of the unbelievable except that it is always true. 2005: Israeli archaeologist Eliat Mazar announced the discovery the site of Palace of David, a 10th Century BCE building in the Old City of Jerusalem. The site is widely recognized as a major find but there is dispute over the identification of the building as being David’s Palace which is described in the Bible. 2006: Marissa Carson leads Friday Night Services at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as part of the THIS page 4
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rituals marking her Bat Mitzvah. 2006: Over 200 rockets were fired at northern Israel, killing three people. At least 86 more were wounded, one critically and five seriously. A barrage of rockets landed near Karmiel just before 6 p.m., killing two people in the villages of Majdal Krum and Dir el-Assad. 2007: To his everlasting credit, Chet Culver, Governor of the state of Iowa, officially proclaims this day as Raoul Wallenberg in honor of the Swedish Diplomats work in saving thousands of Hungarian Jews and as an example of a great humanitarian who provided living proof that one person’s efforts can make a difference in the fight against evil. 2008: Taking time from dealing with aftermath of the floods and tornadoes that have struck Iowa, Chet Culver, Governor of the state of Iowa, officially proclaims this day as Raoul Wallenberg in honor of the Swedish Diplomats work in saving thousands of Hungarian Jews and as an example of a great humanitarian who provided living proof that one person’s efforts can make a difference in the fight against evil. 2008: In a testament to the involvement of Jews in diverse strata of American life, U.S. News & World Report discloses that Henry Kissinger, the first Jewish U.S. Secretary of State has agreed to lend his name to a foreign policy think tank (at the Woodrow Wilson Center) while Sports Illustrated reports on the recent death of legendary baseball writer Jerome Holtzman and marvels at re-emergence of basketball great Nancy Lieberman, who at the age of fifty had two assists in playing nine minutes for the Detroit Shock 2009: Despite being forced to deal with worst economic downturns since the Great Depression, Iowa Governor Chet Culver still finds the time to proclaim today Raoul Wallenberg Memorial Day on the 97th anniversary of the great Swede’s birth. This is the third year in a row that the Governor of Iowa has issued such a proclamation. 2009: Rashi’s Daughters: Book III – Rachel by Maggie Anton goes on sale today. This is the third and final volume in a fictional trilogy based on the lives of the daughters of the great sage. 2009: Israeli police have broken up an Israeli-American crime ring specializing in tax fraud and moneylaundering in an operation codenamed “American Pie.” Seven people were arrested today on suspicion of involvement in massive tax fraud in the United States following a joint investigation by Israeli and American law enforcement authorities. The suspects, six Israelis and one American, were remanded by the Tel Aviv Magistrates Court today, on charges of money laundering, fraud and forgery. Further arrests are likely, Israeli police sources say. The
ringleader is allegedly a 62-year-old American named Marvin Berkowitz, an expert on tax, who holds dual Israeli and U.S. citizenship. The suspects defrauded the U.S. internal revenue of tens of millions of dollars and deposited the money in Israeli bank accounts, according to the police statement. Police say Berkowitz obtained personal details of inmates in U.S. prisons and then used the data to falsify claims for income tax refunds in their names for the period before their arrests. While residing in Israel, he is believed to have pocketed around $12 million. Police believe that he fled the United States and settled in Israel in 2003. The investigation was launched at the request of legal authorities in the United States a few months ago. Several people were also arrested last month on suspicion of defrauding elderly persons in the United States, following a ’sting’ operation in September of last year. In this case the suspects, who operated out of offices located at the Ramat Gan Diamond Exchange district, are believed to have extracted money from dozens of elderly persons all over the States – telling them they needed to pay fake ‘fees’ in order to claim supposed lottery winnings. The first nine suspects in the affair were arrested about six months ago, and the extradition applications filed by the American authorities are currently being deliberated in the Jerusalem District Court. A hearing on the request to temporarily remand 13 others for extradition, filed by the U.S. authorities, is scheduled for this Thursday. 2009(14th of Av, 5769: Amos Kenan, a member of Israel’s founding generation whose writing and art helped define modern Israeli culture died in today in Tel Aviv. He was 82. Born in 1927 in Tel Aviv, which had been founded less than two decades earlier by Jewish pioneers, Kenan was a product of the city’s rich cultural life.He was known for his newspaper columns, plays and books, many of which satirized the Israeli government and organized religion, and also as a prolific painter, sculptor and movie director.In the 1940s, Kenan was one of a number of artists and intellectuals who sought to create an Israeli identity without Judaism by rejecting Jewish history and harking back to the Biblical Cantinas, whose name the artists adopted for their group.”Amos Kenan was one of the creators of Hebrew culture — Hebrew, not Jewish,” said Israeli political activist and journalist Uri Avery, a friend and colleague of Kenan’s since the two met as soldiers during Israel’s 1948 War of Independence.Kenan saw Israelis as an entirely new creation separate from the Jewish Diaspora, Avery said, and believed they had more in common with Palestinian Arabs.Kenan was party to several efforts to create an alliance with the
Palestinians. Along with Avery, he helped pen a 1957 manifesto calling for the creation of a Palestinian state in federation with Israel at a time when few Israelis acknowledged the Palestinians’ existence as a national group. An infamously argumentative and hard-drinking personality, Kenan was also one of the key figures in the creation of a new, more vernacular Hebrew that replaced the stodgier, biblically tinged language that had been used in Hebrew literature before Israel’s creation. He is survived by his partner, the Israeli film and literature scholar Nurd Hertz, and by their two daughters. One, Rona Kenan, is a popular Israeli singer. 2009: The Russian gentile who saved former chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau during the Holocaust was posthumously honored at Yad Vashem with the prestigious Righteous Among the Nations award today. As a young adult, Feodor Mikhailichenko risked his life to feed, clothe and protect the young Lolek Lau, who was 10 years his junior, in the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Last year, Lau, chairman of the Yad Vashem Council, finally succeeded in identifying Mikhailichenko after decades of searching. The deceased Mikhailichenko’s two daughters accepted the award, which honors non-Jews who helped Jews during the Holocaust, on their father’s behalf. More than 22,700 gentiles have been recognized as Righteous Among the Nations. Mikhailichenko is the 164th Russian gentile to receive this honor. About 200 people, including Lau’s family and Israeli and Russian officials, gathered at the Jerusalem museum’s Hall of Remembrance, synagogue and Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations for a memorial service and ceremony and to view Mikhailichenko’s name on the wall listing the honored gentiles. “I don’t know if you can understand the feeling of a child all alone, and here is a man who owes him nothing,” Lau told those at the ceremony about Mikhailichenko’s heroic deeds. “There are angels of death, but also angels of life, no matter how few, and one of the most prominent among them is this Feodor,” said Lau. Mikhailichenko, a Russian prisoner-of-war, and Lau, who had been separated from his brother in Buchenwald, were in the same barracks in the camp. Mikhailichenko used to steal potatoes, collect small rocks in the courtyard near their barracks and cook Lau soup. He also once took a beige sweater from a corpse, unraveled the thread and used it to sew Lau flesh-colored earmuffs so that when Lau removed his hat as per the Nazis’ command, his ears wouldn’t freeze. When Buchenwald was liberated in April 1945, Mikhailichenko covered Lau’s body with his own, acting as a shield to protect him from the gunfire. After
the war ended, Mikhailichenko wanted to take Lau back with him to Rostov-on-Don, his hometown in Russia. But Lau, who was eight years old when Buchenwald was liberated, had promised his brother Naftali that he would go to Israel, so he and Mikhailichenko separated. “I must not forget there is a place in the world Israel. He made me repeat the word ‘Israel,’” Lau remembered, describing what Naftali had told him. “Tell people to take you there.” Over the years, Lau tried to locate his savior. Unfortunately, he had neither a picture nor a last name. Lau asked various people for help, and at one point a notice was printed in a local paper, but to no avail. One Russian dignitary told him point-blank, “There are more Feodors in Rostov than Danis in Tel Aviv,” but Lau still hoped that one day he would succeed. “He always spoke about him,” Lau’s son Rabbi David Lau told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. “We always heard about the fact that he wanted to see him.” In fact, at one family birthday party, the children put on a play, and one of them played the part of Mikhailichenko.Then in June of last year, 63 years after the end of the Holocaust, someone contacted Lau with the news: An American researcher studying Gestapo documents about Buchenwald had identified his rescuer. For the first time, Lau said, he had known Feodor’s last name. He got in touch with the Chabad emissary in Rostov, who found a lifelong friend of Mikhailichenko. The friend told him Mikhailichenko had died of illness in 1993 at age 66. The friend knew of the little Jewish boy Mikhailichenko had saved and told the Chabad emissary that Mikhailichenko used to tell his daughters, “If he had not gone to Israel, you would have had a brother.” Soon after, Mikhailichenko’s two daughters, Yulia Selutina and Yelena Belayaeva, came to Israel to meet the person about whom their father had spoken so fondly. “Lolek, who father was so attached to – the child who he loved so much,” Selutina told the crowd on Tuesday. Selutina said her father had also tried looking for Lau, but had not been successful. Lau spoke of the debt he owed Mikhailichenko for his selfless deeds, a debt of gratitude he could not quantify. Even though the gates of Buchenwald were inscribed with the words “Jedem das Seine,” or “to each his own,” Mikhailichenko had not lived like that, Lau said. Pointing first to Mikhailichenko’s two daughters, and then to his own son David and his nine-month-old granddaughter, Lau told a group of attendees outside the hall, “If not for their father, both this one and this one would not be here.” 2010: “Surviving Hitler: A Love Story,” a documentary about a young Jewess named Jutta who joined the THIS page 10
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Israel Will Act to Prevent a Nuclear Iran | about menachem begin by paraisrael (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/3/2010 7:20:08 PM
by jaime.silva Israel Will Act to Prevent a Nuclear Iran The United Nations is proving once again how irrelevant it is in preventing wars and resolving conflicts. Three rounds of impotent United Nations Security Council sanctions have not acted as a deterrent in stopping Iran from its path of uranium enrichment. In fact, it would appear that any further sanctions in the next several months will prove equally futile as well. As a result, many international experts now believe that Iran is only six months away from enriching uranium and the procurement of its own nuclear weapons. The reality of a nuclear Iran presents serious ramifications for the global community to consider. First, the entire Middle East will be transformed into a nuclear arms race so other countries can maintain military equality with Iran. In addition, terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah will gain direct access to new Iranian weapons of mass destruction. Iraq would become increasingly destabilized and the existence of the state of Israel will be directly threatened. Consider that, for many years, Iran has made no secret of its dubious long-term intentions. Israel’s destruction has long been its fundamental objective. Iran’s Supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, said in a sermon on Iranian television on December 15, 2000, “Iran’s position, which was first expressed by the Imam Khomeini and stated several times by those responsible, is that the cancerous tumor called Israel must be uprooted from the region.” Iranian threats have only increased during the last several years. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly called for action to “wipe Israel off the map”. Then, his government sponsored a conference titled “A World Without Zionism” in October, 2005. His most recent outrage was calling Israel “a stinking corpse” on the occasion of its 60th birthday. Indeed, Ahmadinejad’s intentions were unequivocal when he told a crowd of thousands gathered at a rally
in support of the Palestinians in Tehran: “This regime, thanks to God, has lost the reason for its existence. Efforts to stabilize this fake (Israeli) regime, by the grace of God, have completely failed. You should believe that this regime is disappearing”. Ahmadinejad also called Israeli leaders a “group of terrorists” and has threatened any country that supports the Jewish state. “You imposed a group of terrorists … on the region,” Ahmadinejad said, addressing the U.S. and its allies. “It is in your own interest to distance yourself from these criminals… This is an ultimatum. Don’t complain tomorrow.” So, in less than a year, a nuclear Iran under the leadership of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will appear on the world stage. It will be a country that successfully defied the sanctions of the United Nations and its nuclear capability will destabilize the entire Middle East and the world community. Based on history, it is also a prospect that would threaten Israel directly. So, consider that the most important election in the world this fall may well be held in Israel. The Kadima Party primary election will be held in September, 2008. The election features Israeli Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, competing against hardliner and former Army Chief of Staff, Shaul Mofaz. Recent public opinion polls show that the race between the two candidates is very close. A Mofaz victory could well lead to the bombing by Israel of various nuclear power facilities in Iran. It is also possible that the next Kadima leader would not be able to form a coalition government. In that event, new elections would be called, and held early in 2009. Currently, the overwhelming favorite to win any new election in Israel would be former Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu certainly fears the threat of a nuclear Iran. He left few doubts about his position on the problem of a nuclear Iran in December 2005, when he said the solution was “a preemptive strike similar to the 1981 attack ordered by then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin that destroyed an unfinished Iraqi nuclear reactor.” ” I will continue the tradition established by Menachem Begin, who did not allow Iraq to develop such a
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nuclear threat against Israel, and by a daring and courageous act gave us two decades of tranquility,” Netanyahu told the Maariv Daily. “I believe that this is what Israel has to do.” His statements in November of 2006 also point to his increasing fear of Iranian nuclear capability: “It’s 1938 and Iran is Germany. And Iran is racing to arm itself with atomic bombs,” Netanyahu told delegates to the annual United Jewish Communities General Assembly. In his address, he repeated a phrase several times, like a chorus, “Believe him and stop him,” Netanyahu said of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “This is what we must do. Everything else pales before this. “While the Iranian president “denies the Holocaust,” he is preparing another Holocaust for the Jewish state.” The multi-year international crisis with Iran is nearing its conclusion. Several months from now, Iran will have successfully achieved the capability to produce a nuclear weapon. Sadly, international diplomacy and an ineffective United Nations will not deter Iran from its nuclear ambition. The result is that the world is well on the path to another international military confrontation. Indeed, the ongoing threats from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appear to leave Israel very little choice. In the next six months, Israel will act to prevent a nuclear Iran. James William Smith has worked in Senior management positions for some of the largest Financial Services firms in the United States for the last twenty five years. He has also provided business consulting support
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Zvi dissects the facts of the Lebanese attack by Elder of Ziyon (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/3/2010 6:41:00 PM
Zvi looks at the events of the day: Ynet says that: Lt. Col. Dov Harari was indeed killed in the gunbattle. The seriously injured soldier was Capt. Ezra Lakia (res.). May Mr. Lakia recover quickly and completely. The Scotsman(writer: Bassem Mroue): A Lebanese journalist says that the UNIFIL troops warned the Israelis that the Lebanese would open fire (it is not clear whether this was the “Down, down!” that I mentioned before[in the comments], or something more explicit). Ronith Daher, 32, a Lebanese journalist who was at the scene, said she saw a Unifil peacekeeper ask Israel not to allow the Israeli soldier to cross the fence and warned them the Lebanese troops would open fire. The Israelis proceeded, however, and Lebanese soldiers fired into the air, Ms Daher said. She said the Israelis fired back directly at the Lebanese soldiers. Note that the Lebanese video stream broadcast by Israel’s Channel 2 appears to contradict Daher’s claim that the Lebanese soldiers fired in the air. First of all, the Lebanese soldiers in the video are pointing their guns toward the Israelis, NOT visibly angling them away from the Israelis. In addition, an apparent plume of dust in the video appears to rise immediately in front of the Israeli position, which would not have happened had the Lebanese fired in the air.
It is possible (warning: complete speculation) that the UNIFIL troops heard what was going on among the Lebanese troops and tried to warn the Israelis to take cover (they yelled “Down! Down,” gesturing downward). This occurred immediately before the Lebanese opened fire. Another possibility is that the UNIFIL troops already knew that the Lebanese force was planning to attack the Israelis. In either case, why UNIFIL did not prevent the Lebanese side from ambushing the tree removal patrol is a question that UNIFIL must answer. The Lebanese Army claimed it had opened fire on Israeli soldiers who infiltrated Lebanese territory. But as UNIFIL and the Lebanese’ own video shows, the Israelis were in fact in Israel. Furthermore, the Israelis had told UNIFIL what they intended to do two weeks in advance. Had the tree in question been in Lebanese territory, then UNIFIL would have had ample opportunity to object and say so. The fact is that UNIFIL merely sent its observers to a point where they could observe the tree removal operation. They also told the Lebanese army, which sent an ambush squad. Bloomberg and the UK’s Telegraph: Maj Gen Eisenkot says that the Lebanese army asked Israel for a ceasefire. The Israelis believe it to be an isolated incident. The Israelis (Ynet) believe that the officer who ordered the attack was an extremist. Al Jazeera English (Gregg Carlstrom): * UNIFIL has promised to announce
results of its investigation of the clash on Wed. * Avital Liebovich: “We coordinated this operation with Unifil. It was not done in a secret manner. We have reason to believe this attack was preplanned by the Lebanese army.” * Nasrallah followed up with a speech. * The usual attacks spewed from the offices from Arab officials, who don’t mind not knowing the truth because they make it up as they go along anyway. * Hariri condemned Israel (what else) and demanded that the UN stop the fighting. Unless Hezbollah wants it to go further, it won’t go anywhere. Let us ask: 1. Who was the Lebanese officer who ordered his men to open fire? 2. Why did UNIFIL only address its requests to the Israelis, who were doing what they had arranged to do 2 weeks before? 3. Why were not one, not two, but more than two Hezbollah-affiliated reporters brought to the scene in advance just to witness Israeli soldiers cutting down a tree in Israeli territory? Hint: if you are Hassan Nasrallah, and you know there’s going to be a gunbattle, and you want to milk it for its PR effect, then you send your propagandists to spin the story immediately. 4. Which Lebanese party, writhing under probable indictment for assassinating the former prime minister, benefits from tension with Israel? Okay, so that on is a rhetorical question : – ) Finally, we should remember that in the very possible event that this clash
was planned by Hezbollah, then the purpose was to distract people from the pending UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon indictment of a high-level Hezbollah member or members for assassinating Rafik al-Hariri, and maybe to embarrass the UN in the process. I just looked at the video again, and (again assuming that the edits are roughly in order) the Lebanese “warning shots” are from a machine gun, large enough to jostle the camera significantly – hardly from a pistol or other small gun that one would expect a warning shot to come from. I think it is pretty clear that the entire “warning shot” scenario is a sham meant to try to square away the obvious evidence of Lebanese aggression with a face-saving lie. By the way, Al Quds al-Arabi has a fawning op-ed glorifying the LAF for its position of defending the homeland, and saying that their bravery shames other Arab countries. Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Ner Tamid Mezuzah Image taken on 2006-07-07 15:33:02 by Carly & Art.... • Israel forced to defend ‘Mossad spy’ arrested in Poland Israel has been forced to the defence of an alleged Mossad spy who has been arrested in Poland on charges of using a German passport in an operation to kill a P... ... • first night of hanukkah 01 Image taken on 2008-12-21 18:53:14 by isfullofcrap.... Original post source
‘Linkage’ making a comeback? by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/3/2010 3:32:00 PM
‘Linkage’ making a comeback? There are some people out there who still believe that Israel ought to pay price in return for being ‘allowed’ to attack Iran’s nuclear program. That price is the creation of a ‘ Palestinian state.’ Even if undertaken solely by Israel, a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities poses considerable risks to American interests. That’s why the White House should insist that an Israeli strike – if it happens – doesn’t merely weaken Tehran’s capabilities, but also entails a decisive breaking of the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate. While the Obama administration hasn’t ruled out direct US military action against Iran, the United States would rather focus its energies on the overflowing plate of challenges it already faces, at home and abroad. And the American electorate has little enthusiasm for another war after almost nine years in Afghanistan and
more than seven years in Iraq. Even if undertaken solely by Israel, a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities poses considerable risks to American interests. That’s why the White House should insist that an Israeli strike – if it happens – doesn’t merely weaken Tehran’s capabilities, but also entails a decisive breaking of the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate. While the Obama administration hasn’t ruled out direct US military action against Iran, the United States would rather focus its energies on the overflowing plate of challenges it already faces, at home and abroad. And the American electorate has little enthusiasm for another war after almost nine years in Afghanistan and more than seven years in Iraq. … But it’s almost impossible to imagine Jerusalem accepting a nuclear-armed Iran. … The US should insist that a military strike by its close ally be part of a broader “grand bargain” that also finally resolves the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict. While this continuing conflict is not the only source of violence in the region, ending it is a strategic imperative that will do much for US and allied interests in Southwest Asia and beyond. The essence of this “grand bargain” is that the US would greenlight an Israeli strike against Iranian nuclear facilities designed to remove the single threat the Israelis most fear. … But Washington’s price for this would be the Netanyahu government’s ironclad commitment to a peace deal with the Arabs on USendorsed terms: not the continued freezing of settlement activity, not the resumption of direct talks; rather, a substantive deal (contingent only on the acceptance of these terms by the Palestinians and the other Arab governments). There’s a name for this, and it isn’t linkage. It’s blackmail. And that’s disgusting. posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:32 AM Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel
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Bloody Hands by LazerBeams (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/3/2010 5:01:00 PM
Bloody Hands The ink is barely dry on my op-ed from less than a week ago, entitled Winning Back the Land of Israel. Among other things, I wrote: “Achmedinejad and his nukes don’t scare me. Neither does Nasrulla and the Hizbulla. But such public debauchery here in the Holy City of Jerusalem [ I was referring to the Gay -pride Parade, this past Thursday, July 29, 2010] is terrifying… this is the worst threat to our security here in the Holy Land. How? Open up your Gemara to tractate Sanhedrin, 93a: “The Lord of Israel despises debauchery.” You can’t begin to imagine the tons of hate mail I get for a post like the above. That won’t keep me from telling it like it is. We had over a year of peace and quiet here in Israel. We don’t have to take cover in the bomb shelters everytime Achmedinejad, Assad, Nasrulla, or Hamas shoots their mouths off. Saber-rattling and bravado is still a far cry from missiles dropping in your neighborhood. We had a year with no sirens, until a group of people decided to publicly flaunt their abominations – not in Tel Aviv, which is selling itself as the capital of pink tourism, enough of a reason to make it a dangerous place – but in the Holy City of Jerusalem. So, after a more than a year of quiet,
what happened since last Thursday’s defiling of Jerusalem? Friday, July 30, 2010: Katyusha rocket falls in the center of an Ashkelon residential neighborhood – miraculously, there was only property damage and no loss of life Saturday, July 31, 2010: A Kassam rocket from Gaza scores a direct hit on a school, destroying 3 classrooms; miraculously, the building was empty Sunday, August 1, 2010: Kassam rocket and mortar fire attacks on Eshkol area settlements Monday, August 2, 2010: Five Iranian-made Grad missiles fired from Sinai toward Eilat – one fell on the neighboring Jordanian city of Aqaba, killing a cab driver and wounding 4 others Tuesday, August 3, 2010: Weird flare-up of hostilities on Israel’s Northern border, with one Israeli officer killed and another seriously wounded A coincidence? Only a deaf, dumb, and blind mummy could fail to make a connection between last Thursday and the subsequent days of violence. Our sages say that one idiot throws a rock in the well that a hundred wise men don’t know how to remove. I’ve been begging Hashem for mercy all day long. Hashem is waiting for us to do teshuva, but there’s not much time. If things were tense here two weeks ago, those days were like Sesame Street compared to the drawn ballistic bowstrings of today. Our gay brothers and sisters must understand that neither are we passing judgment on them nor
limiting their freedom. The Land of Israel belongs to Hashem, not to anyone else; we are entitled to be here by virtue of the Torah and its commandments. Any public display of Torah violations is national suicide. We would oppose a pork and shrimp festival the same way we oppose the Impurade. Do what you want behind closed doors – be prepared to pay your own consequences. But why trample on the Torah in the heart of Jerusalem? You say that you have a right to drill a hole in the bottom of the boat you’re sailing in – but wait a minute, I’m in that boat too… Don’t forget that the Second Lebanon War broke out immediately after the Jerusalem Impurade of 2006. That war led to a million Jews having to leave their homes in the North of Israel. Hashem has now sent wake-up calls North, Center, and Deep South Israel, in places least expected. We had better heed His message. Any person that tramples the holiness of the Land of Israel has blood on his hands. How? Each act of unholiness creates an accusing, darkside spiritual force that looks to spill innocent blood. Let the organizers of the Gay Parade now go to sleep with that on their conscience. I’d much rather write about happy things and spiritual growth. But the shriek and subsequent exsplosions of GRAD rockets drown out my flute music. As a rabbi and spiritual guide, it’s my solemn duty to spread spiritual awareness and emuna,
arousing people from their slumber. Let there be no more war and no more Holocausts, and let no one shrug his shoulders in the smoky aftermath of a devastating pushbutton conflict, “Why didn’t anybody warn us?” It’s your choice – either join the battle to save our land and our people, or pop open another beer. This week’s Torah portion is all about choosing sides – you won’t be able to straddle both for long. It’s either good (with its rewards) or evil (with its consequences). Whose side are you on, my brother and sister? Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Hanukkah in Santa Monica John Bayless sings the classic Tom Lehrer song for Roger Englander's 80th birthday party at the Villa Marina Inn in Newport RI, November 19, 2006... • Israel a primary issue in midterm elections Israel a primary issue in m i d t e r m e l e c t i o n s Politico reports that many candidates for House and Senate seats in the US midterm elections later th... • No Laughing Matter – the One about Hamas No Laughing Matter the One about Hamas After the furor over the Gaza flotilla, here is a satirical reminder of the true nature of Hamas, from No Laughing Matter. http://www.youtube.co... Original post source
Israels concerns towards UNIFIL by Suzanne (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/3/2010 2:55:00 PM
I was wondering to which UNIFIL contributing country the blue helmets belong to. I think my question was answered when seeing this picture on which the flag of Indonesia can be seen: In April this year Israel expressed its concern: that Indonesia could take up command of UNIFIL’s naval force, making it difficult for the IDF and particularly the Israel Navy to maintain a high level of coordination with the peacekeeping force. Israel’s concern is that if Indonesia takes command of the force, coordination and ties will deteriorate,
since Israel and Indonesia do not have formal diplomatic or military relations. Indonesia already contributes to UNIFIL 1,300 soldiers who are deployed in the eastern sector near the southern Lebanese village of Tayba.
Tayba (or Taibe) is just northwest of Aadaisse and kibbuts Misgav Am, where the incident of today took place. Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • IAF Targets Terrorist Sites in
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After Lebanon Border Ambush, Reuters First Out Of The Gate With Demonstrably False AntiIsrael Propaganda by NoahDavidSimon (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/3/2010 5:50:00 PM
Here’s what happened this morning along the so-called Blue Line, the internationally recognized UNcodified border between Israel and Lebanon. Israeli soldiers were trimming trees and clearing brush as they routinely do, because that kind of natural cover has been used by Iranian-backed Hezbollah soldiers to kidnap Israelis and start wars. Behind them there was a group of commanders who were supervising the operation, because Israeli protocol calls for troops working near the border to be supervised from afar – again, in case Iranian-backed Hezbollah soldiers try to kidnap Israelis and start wars. Israel’s physical border fence is very specifically built several meters on the Israeli side of the border inside the Jewish State’s territory, so that the Israelis can safely trim trees and clear brush, because – you know. At some point soldiers dressed in Lebanese Armed Forces uniforms launched an ambush, with snipers trying to kill the supervising commanders in the distance. The Israelis promptly retaliated, wounding several of the LAF-uniformed soldiers. Then the Israelis – after receiving an explicit request from the other side of the border – suspended their fire so that the wounded could be evacuated. The Lebanese used the momentary humanitarian gesture to again open fire on the Israeli troops – this time it was an RPG at an Israeli tank – and the Israelis again retaliated. Israel is reporting one IDF soldier killed, one wounded. There’s a post to be written about how this is the predictable outcome of the US pouring weapons and logistical training into the LAF, even though the Lebanese political
hierarchy and several LAF units long ago fell under Hezbollah’s control. Of course some of that security assistance will inevitably find its way into a battle with Israel. Of course it will be. But that’s not this post. This post is about how Reuters is again using their viciously anti-Israel stringers to dishonestly try to blame the violence on Israel. It’s a pitchperfect repeat of their Jihad Flotilla performance, when they and the rest of the MSM used the early hours after the incident to valorize the ostensibly unarmed activists who turned out to be death-worshiping terrorists. Knowing the now-confirmed facts that you know, see if you can spot what’s wrong with this Reuters caption: This was an out-and-out ambush either by Lebanese soldiers or Hezbollah soldiers dressed like Lebanese soldiers. It was pre-planned – you can tell as much by how the commanders were fired upon and not
the trimming team – and there was even a photographer on hand. Reuters somehow got that picture, evaluated it, and came to exactly the wrong conclusion. The Israelis were on their side of the border, in a so-called enclave, exercising legitimate authority on their sovereign territory. Even the Lebanese have admitted as much in the past, though they don’t like it and complain about how it increases tensions or whatever. But Reuters immediately published a seemingly conclusive photo and caption insisting the exact opposite. Strange how their mistakes always coincide with anti-Israel propaganda. Photo: * Magne Hagesæter[Wiki Commons] via mererhetoric.com noahdavidsimon’s posterous Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Golda Meir, the UN, and "Palestinians" One of the most quoted, supposedly racist sayings by
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Ridiculous media bias against Israel: Israeli soldiers did not enter Lebanon, as was widely reported
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Ridiculous media bias against Israel: Israeli soldiers did not enter Lebanon, as was widely reported Yet another example of why mainstream media journalists are just a notch above child molester. Or maybe a notch below. “Today’s Example of Ridiculous Media Bias Against Israel,” by Barry Rubin, August 3: Along Israel’s border with Lebanon, east of Metulla, some bushes were pushing in on the border fence. The fence is set in slightly from the border precisely so that Israeli soldiers can work on it. The IDF called UNIFIL and informed the UN that this work was going to be done today so that they could tell the Lebanese army that there was no aggression going on but just routine maintenance. Soldiers from UNIFIL came to observe and can be seen standing next to Israeli soldiers in the photos. Photographers were also standing by to film the operation. But Lebanese soldiers opened fire on the Israelis who were working and in no way acting aggressively. The fact that journalists were standing next to the Lebanese soldiers shows that they knew Israel was going to do this maintenance and were observing.
After the Israeli soldiers were ambushed, they returned fire. One Israeli officer was killed, another seriously wounded; three Lebanese soldiers, and a Lebanese (?) journalist were killed. So how did Reuters and Yahoo report this? By saying that Israeli soldiers had crossed into Lebanon and been fired on, thus implying the Lebanese army was acting in selfdefense! Other news agencies merely reported: Israel says the soldiers were inside Israel; Lebanon says they were on Lebanese territory. Reuters: “An Israeli soldier is seen on a crane on the Lebanese side of the Lebanese-Israeli border near Adaisseh village, southern Lebanon August 3, 2010. Israeli artillery shelled the Lebanese village on Tuesday, wounding two people, after Lebanese Army troops fired warning shots at Israeli soldiers.” Yahoo: “A Lebanese officer spoke on condition of anonymity under military guidelines, said the clash occurred as Israeli troops tried to remove a tree from the Lebanese side of the border.” No Israeli is quoted. What a surprise. There is much more. Read it all. Posted by Robert on August 3, 2010 3:23 PM | 1 Comment Print this entry | FaceBook
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2 Reasons Why Today’s Border Clash Smells Like a Set Up
‘Are we too critical of Israel?’
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Here are two reasons why today’s clash on the Israeli-Lebanese border smells like a set up: 1. The IDF’s tree clearing was routine border maintenance, and notified UNIFIL in advance. As Yisrael Medad points out, once the info trickled down to Hezbollah, it wouldn’t be difficult for someone to stage an incident, complete with invitations to reporters and photographers. 2. A UN tribunal investigating the assassination of Rafik Hariri is due to indict Hezbollah figures. If Hezbollah wanted to divert Lebanese attention, a cross-border provocation is just what
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‘Are we too critical of Israel?’ At the BBC, Douglas Murray debates the question of whether ‘we’ are too critical of Israel. It’s great theater. Let’s go to the videotape (Hat Tip: The Weekly Standard). Heh. posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:43 AM Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Respect Islam! Or do you want us to ram it down your throat…? Respect Islam! Or do you want us to ram it down your throat…?by
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WikiLeaks Leaker Pvt. Bradley Manning Is A Gay Activist, May’ve Sought Revenge For "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" by NoahDavidSimon (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/3/2010 5:17:00 PM
Examiner.com: “The revelations of Manning’s openly pro-homosexual conduct suggest that a more liberal Department of Defense policy, in deference to the wishes of the Commander-in-Chief, had already been in effect and has now backfired in a big way. The result could be not only the loss of the lives of U.S. soldiers, as a result of the enemy understanding U.S. intelligence sources and methods, but damaged relations with Afghanistan and Pakistan and a possible U.S. military defeat in the region as a whole.” Accuracy in Media The suspect in the leaking of classified military files, Spc. Bradley Manning, voiced his disgust with US Army commanders and U.S. ”society at large” on his Facebook page just prior to his alleged downloading of thousands of secret documents, according to the British news media. According to one story appearing in Britain’s The Telegraph, Manning, who served as a US Army intelligence analyst, became depressed after a break-up with his homosexual campanion. He also wrote: “Bradley Manning is not a piece of equipment,” and quoted a joke about “military intelligence”
Robert Fisk: IsraelLebanon tensions flare after skirmish leaves fo… being an oxymoron. Manning, who is openly homosexual, began his gloomy postings on January 12, saying: “Bradley Manning didn’t want this fight. Too much to lose, too fast.” The 22-year old Manning is awaiting court martial as the primary suspect in the leaking of more than 90,000 secret documents to Wikileak.org creator Julian Assang, who in turn posted the documents on his web site. The secret documents subsequently appeared in major U.S. newspapers in a security breach which Pentagon officials say has endangered the lives of serving soldiers and Afghan civilians. via politikditto.com noahdavidsimon’s posterous Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Auschwitz – Inside the Nazi State Product DescriptionStudio: Warner
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