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Betting on Iran by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/17/2010 6:12:00 PM
Betting on Iran Robin Wright wants to bet that neither the US nor Israel will attack Iran in the coming year. She lays out many things that would have to happen before such an attack would take place. The United States and the many other parties now consumed with Iran’s controversial nuclear program have at least a year of intense diplomacy — and possibly much longer — before they even consider military options. And that assumes diplomacy totally collapses, the Iranians can be clearly blamed, and reliable intelligence proves Tehran’s program has crossed a critical threshold. With Iran, the state-of-play is rarely that straightforward. First, Iranians are masters at brinksmanship. Diplomacy always gets dragged out, and even negotiations that appear dead have a way of miraculously reviving — like an Iranian merchant chasing a customer down the dusty alleyways of Tehran’s Grand Bazaar to renegotiate a price and avoid losing the sale. Iran has called for talks with its Western interlocutors after Ramadan, the holy month of fasting that ends in mid-September. (Last week, The New Yorker published an interview with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivering that message yet again.) The Obama administration is currently preparing for those talks — and taking them seriously. The main focus would be an interim deal, which would in turn open the way for comprehensive talks on Iran’s nuclear program. If Iran is also serious, this two-phase diplomatic process could go into late 2011 or longer.
Second, the Islamic Republic is also adept at not saying no. If diplomacy ultimately breaks down, Tehran has a long history of making it appear (sometimes accurately) that the impatient West walked away first — and should be blamed for failure. The perception about who is to blame is critical to the next step — returning to the United Nations for another resolution imposing more stringent sanctions or endorsing other punitive action. For the United States and its European allies to win backing for meaningful measures — and not face a Russian or Chinese veto — Iran must be seen as the guilty party. The shrewd Iranians know that. It’s hard to see the Obama administration ordering waves of bombers to strike Iran–or turning a blind eye to an Israeli attack — without at least trying another round at the United Nations. The last U.N. resolution took a full year to negotiate. The next one could be even tougher. Third, among the many things being debated in many capitals is just what the threshold for military action should be. Should it be Iran building a bomb, like Pakistan? Or having a quick turn-around capability, like Japan? Or achieving a certain number of centrifuges? Or gaining some murkier level of knowledge? Capitals currently disagree. Amassing accurate intelligence on any of these questions is also tough, one reason for the delay in a new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, which was originally due last year. Since 2003, when Iran was forced to admit it had secret facilities, much of U.S. intelligence has been based on deductive reasoning rather than tangible proof. Revelations last fall about another secret facility in Qom to enrich uranium changed that somewhat — but not on a lot of other fundamental questions about what
Iran is really up to. After the intelligence fiasco over Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction, hopefully the United States will not again undertake an act of war on the basis of guestimates [sic] and questionable sources. The bottom line: It’s not nearly as simple as this [ Goldberg's. CiJ] article portrays. Wright goes on to describe all the players who would then need to be satisfied before such an attack could take place, including another year of diplomacy at the UN to work out yet another set of sanctions. And her article may well reflect the Obama administration’s thinking. But it doesn’t reflect Israel’s. Here’s what she says about us: The Point of No Return” frames the tough decisions ahead from only a single prism — Israel and its hawkish prime minister. Throughout most of the piece, Operation Strike Iran is portrayed as a virtual fait accompli. Only at the end does it acknowledge that the Israeli army chief of staff has doubts about the usefulness of bombing Iran (as do many in the American military) and that Israeli President Shimon Peres is “uncomfortable” with unilateral action and thinks Israel “can afford to recognize its limitations.” Israeli politicians are not naïve about the costs and consequences of attacking
Iran, which Goldberg rightly suggests stand “a good chance of changing the Middle East forever.” Other Israelis surely accept that the real danger is unleashing an even graver existential threat from a wider array of sources than Israel already faces. Peres is an 87-year old figurehead who has a rich past but no political power. The Defense Minister is in the process of selecting a new IDF chief of staff, who is more likely to reflect Prime Minister Netanyahu’s ‘hawkishness’ than the current chief of staff whose contract did not receive a routine one-year extension. And while Wright may be correct about the Obama administration’s thinking, there’s another factor she did not consider: If we wait to jump through all the hoops she throws out, Iran will be nuclear long before the decision is made. What could go wrong? posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:12 AM Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • New Yorkers oppose Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero by 2-to-1 margin New Yorkers oppose Islamic supremacist megamosque at Ground Zero by 2-to-1 m a r g i n . . . • Part 1. The Book of Zohar – Selections, chapter “Shemot”, item 259, lesson 14 Lecturer: Rav Michael LaitmanDate: 2010-04-19Video: ENG 55.92MB Audio: ENG 9.97MB ... • Part 1: The Book of Zohar – Selections, chapter "Vayigash", item 10, lesson 2 Lecturer: Rav Michael LaitmanDate: 2010-06-07Video: ENG 55.28MB Audio: ENG 9.85MB ... Original post source
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Who is Really Politicizing Ground Zero? by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/17/2010 8:30:00 PM
After crunching the numbers and realizing that backing a mosque near Ground Zero, plays to average Americans about as well as flag burning on 4th of July, the Dems have emerged with a new talking point. The Republicans are “politicizing” Ground Zero. Thanks to the exposure of Jornolist, we’ve already seen how liberal media pundits and Democratic campaign strategists collaborate to develop and distribute talking points in response to a setback. Now we’re seeing the same thing at work as Time’s Mark Halperin goes around promoting the “politicizing Ground Zero” talking point. It’s already been picked up by Senator Robert Menendez and Governor Christie, who worked to help Hamas linked Imam, Mohammad Qatanani, stay in America. But let’s talk about who’s really been politicizing Ground Zero. The mosque’s biggest supporter, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, had aggressively tried to politicize Ground Zero back in 2005 with the International Freedom Center, with George Soros and the ACLU pushing exhibits on Islamophobia and the loss of civil liberties in America. Governor Pataki shut down the IFC’s plans to politicize Ground Zero over Bloomberg’s loud protests. Meanwhile the current plans for exhibits commemorating 9/11 at the site are being attacked by liberals complaining about a “lack of context”, which is their way of saying that they want to politicize the site by suggesting that America was to blame. The New York Times has added its voice to the chorus of complaints about “politicizing Ground Zero”. But in 2005, the Times editorial complained that Campaign America’s call to refrain from politicizing Ground Zero is Un-American. The cynicism here is virtually unbelievable. The entire “Politicizing Ground Zero” talking point is a response to the fallout from Obama’s own attempt to politicize Ground Zero by pandering to a Muslim crowd. When the polls number turned red, the media rushed to attack Republicans for politicizing Obama’s own politicization of the issue. They claimed that Obama had just been functioning as a Constitutional law professor, delivering an abstract lecture on law at a White House event aimed at pandering to Muslims. The transparent ridiculousness of this excuse is almost lost in the clamor of self-righteousness, as the biggest supporters of the IFC suddenly discover a heartfelt desire not to
allow politics to intrude on Ground Zero. But just as with the IFC, the real politicization comes from Islam and the Left. It was Imam Rauf’s plan for a Cordoba House mosque near Ground Zero that was a deliberate attempt to politicize the site, with an Islamic message. Rauf himself emphasized the location, “ New York is the capital of the world, and this location close to 9/11 is iconic.” In response to Governor Patterson’s suggestion that he move the mosque elsewhere, Rauf backtracked claiming that, “ this has always been about serving Lower Manhattan“. But there is no actual Muslim community in Lower Manhattan, certainly not one that requires a 100 million dollar mosque. Rauf himself had previously admitted that his mosque does not cater to any Lower Manhattan community: “ The people who come here for jum’a [prayer] come from within the New York tri-state area. Of course, the majority work around here, but a number of them come from Uptown, Brooklyn or New Jersey, specifically to participate in the Friday prayer here and to hear my sermon.” The mosque he has now serves Muslims who work in the area. Commuters. This isn’t about serving a phantom Muslim community in Lower Manhattan. And commuters don’t need a 100 million dollar mosque and community center. Based on the likely number of his worshipers, Rauf would be spending roughly a million dollars per Muslim for a facility that very few of them even live near to. Imam Rauf and his media defenders have compared this to building a Jewish community center. But there are over 25,000 Jewish household in Lower Manhattan, or almost 20 percent of the population. There is no statistically significant Muslim population in the area. The 2000 census showed 3,522 people living in
the Ground Zero mosque zip code, 375 of whom identified as Asian. Considering the proximity of Chinatown, it’s likely that they actually are Asian, as opposed to Pakistani or Bangladeshi. (And the director of Al Arabiya has confirmed that:“there are no practicing Muslims in the area who need a place to worship“.) What the census numbers also show is that the mosque is being built in an area with a small residential population, that is heavily commercial, with far more offices than homes. Even if everyone living in that zip code were a Muslim, Rauf would still be proposing to spend nearly 30,000 dollars per Muslim on the mosque. But since they are not Muslims, what Rauf is proposing is a 100 million dollar expansion in an area whose Muslims are outside commuters and generally use basement and storefront mosques. Building a 100 million dollar facility for Muslims that most of them can only use on their lunch break or briefly after work, before they go home to Brooklyn or New Jersey, is not about serving the community. It’s about making a statement. There would be no way to raise that kind of money otherwise. Rauf is not building a facility that local Muslims need. His flock comes from different boroughs and states entirely. They hang around Lower Manhattan as part of the Hallal Mafia, peddling unhygienic burned food from carts, or in storefronts selling cheap knockoffs of brand name merchandise, pirated DVD’s and used clothes below Broadway. Some of them work as financial analysts helping Wall Street get the whole Sharia Finance thing right. There might be a call for a 100 million dollar facility aimed at Muslims in Jersey City or off Atlantic Avenue, but no need or use for it near Ground Zero. There is no reason to build a Mosque there, except to make a statement. Rauf admitted as much
early on, billing the mosque as part of a campaign of tolerance or healing. knowing that most liberals would not look past such euphemisms and enthusiastically embrace the project to showcase their vaunted tolerance, and rejection of “right wing extremists”. That Rauf himself is quite the extremist has not interested them at all. The same Time Magazine which wrings its hands over the “politicization” of Ground Zero has whitewashed Rauf and his own plans to politicize the site. Just as the rest of the media has ignored the inconsistencies in Rauf’s changing story, questions about where the money is coming from, and the most elementary question– who actually needs the Ground Zero Mosque. But the media’s endorsement for the Ground Zero Mosque is radically out of step with most Americans and with most New Yorkers. When the ADL and the Simon Wiesenthal Center both rejected the mosque, they were in line with the 66 percent of Jewish New Yorkers who oppose the mosque. Their leftist critics on the other hand were out of step and wrong. And as a sign that Jewish New Yorkers are ahead of the curve in recognizing what Islam is, a higher percent of Jews, than Catholics or Protestants, said that Islam encourages violence. Despite the leading questions, nearly a tie at 41 to 42 percent. Catholics were not very far behind at 31- 48. New York City Protestants on the other hand insisted that Islam was peaceful at a ratio of 68 to 12. Latinos oppose the Ground Zero Mosque in higher numbers than even whites at 60 percent to 56 percent. Jews oppose it by 66 percent. 49 percent of them have an unfavorable view of Islam. New York Women were more likely to have an unfavorable view of Islam than men. Women were more likely to think that WHO page 5
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Israel Wakes Up and Discovers Its Soldiers Abuse Palestinians by Richard Silverstein (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/17/2010 3:59:21 PM
Eden Aberjil's Facebook images captioned: 'Army service, the most wonderful time of my life!' Yesterday, a major scandal erupted in Israel over an IDF soldier, Eden Aberjil, who posted pictures on her Facebook account of her abusing bound Palestinian prisoners. All Israel appears to be SHOCKED, I say shocked, to discover that its soldiers actually taunt and gloat over Palestinians in such a way. It appears that such Israelis either don’t remember their own service in the Territories or are so old that their service predates the Intifada. Examples of such photos are so widespread both online and privately that the real shock is that anyone IS shocked. This scandalized reaction is further indication of the absolute disconnect between Israelis and the Occupation. I hate to say this, but they are little better than the neighbors of the concentration camps who saw no evil and heard no evil. It is all too easy in Israel now to be a nice liberal who tut -tuts when confronted by such images as Aberjil displayed, but who would far prefer to have the Occupation exist in some foreign or alien space they don’t visit either physically or mentally. The IDF proclaims itself scandalized that one of its members would misbehave in such a fashion. The company line is that its soldiers simply do not do such things. And if one does, that soldier is violating military procedure and discipline. The entire response is a sham, a virtual Potemkin village of fine moral statements which conceal a nasty, brutish Occupation in the background. The army is talking about disciplining Aberjil for her actions, which is utter bullshit. There are literally thousands, if not tens of thousands of pictures out there with virtually the same content; the same blindfolded Palestinians, the same smiling IDF soldiers besides them. Will the IDF prosecute all of them? I hate to be a broken record but there is only one way to end this moral scandal and it isn’t by putting Aberjil on KP duty for a week. It’s to end the Occupation entirely so that Israel’s children won’t be put in such situations to begin with. We can see from Abu Graibh and Guantanamo that Israelis are neither better nor worse than any other occupying soldiers. When one country occupies another the occupier victimizes the occupied. The story is as old as the history of human warfare. The way to stop this is to end the conflict.
Disabled Palestinian youth trapped by teargas If you don’t believe me about the prevalence of these abusive images online then check out this Facebook site, which displays many such images taken from the Facebook group devoted to the Israeli Border Police, a particularly nasty, brutish branch of miltiary service. It’s a pity that few of you can read Hebrew as the comments under these images are in some cases more revolting than the images. To her credit, Aberjil has defended herself rather than bowed her head as the IDF would no doubt prefer. It’s possible that once they work her over a bit and make her realize how much they can damage her future that she will put her tail between her legs and tell the world what a bad girl she was promising never to do it again. But right now, she’s professing her innocence (somewhat disingenuously I might add). The N.Y. Times quotes her as saying: [She] said that the “pictures were taken in good will, there was no statement in them.” She added that they were not intended to humiliate the prisoners but merely to document her “military experience,” and that she had no idea they “would be problematic.” Which is terribly disingenuous when you know that among her comments on her pictures were disparaging
remarks about the Palestinian prisoners genitals. I think it would be far better for her to argue that she did nothing that the average IDF draftee doesn’t do virtually every day of service. They certainly see and participate in such degrading events and sometimes they even document them on video or through photographs. Here is a sampling from a Facebook group founded to feature these images. Among the comments for the photo: “One of the funniest days–I can still remember there were about 100 disabled people in wheelchairs and as we began to shoot at them they all suddenly became healthy and began to run.” “Ha, ha, ha–let’s see you with three stun grenades in your wheelchair if you don’t get up and start to run.” The follow-up story from The Lede linked above provides comprehensive background documentation of the psychological damage that the Occupation inflicts on Israeli soldiers (and by extension Palestinians as well). Related posts: • Breaking the Silence: IDF Women Soldiers Testify to Abuse Breaking the Silence has regularly released eyewitness accounts by IDF… • Israeli Rightists Warn IDF Soldiers of Prison Time Thanks to New Israel Fund Some interesting developments today regarding the Im Tirtzu assault
on… • NY Times ‘Discovers’ $200Million American Jewish Settler Funding Network It only took them three years since bloggers like Phil… Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Facebook Offers Furtive Peek at Israel’s Nuclear Mysteries Israel maintains a studied ambiguity about its nuclear capability that is only unmasked in rare instances of candor like that of Ehud Olmert when he was prime minister and admitted it possessed WMD. ... • Don’t Like an Israel Palestinian MK? Burn Him One of my Israeli readers brings word of a truly ghoulish Israeli right-wing Facebook group, I Too Want to Burn MK Talib A-Sana. It seems that A-Sana, the Israeli Palestinian elected representative o... • Denial of Service Attack On Sunday, many of you noticed that you could not publish comments at this site. Others of you may’ve noticed you could not access the main page. I noticed yesterday night that instead of the ... Original post source
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Saudi comedy provokes anger with episode in which woman marries four husbands by Marisol (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/17/2010 3:29:25 PM
Saudi comedy provokes anger with episode in which woman marries four husbands Call it interfaith cooperation of sorts, as steaming Saudi Sunnis prove the Shi’ite Ayatollah Khomeini’s assertion that: Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious.” “Role reversal Saudi comedy provokes anger among male population,” by Richard Spencer for the Telegraph, August 17: A role reversal comedy shown on Saudi television in which a woman marries four husbands has hit the very nerve it satirised – male pride and double standards. The comedy was an episode in Saudi Arabia’s most celebrated satirical
series, Tash Ma Tash or No Big Deal, a take-off of social prejudices shown annually during the holy month of Ramadan. The central character takes four husbands, explaining herself using the conventional arguments Saudi men use to exercise their legal and religious privilege of marrying four times. When she remarries for the first time she complains that her existing husband has stopped caring about his looks after five years, and is preoccupied with work. The next marriage is for a dare with friends, and the fourth marriage, to a Syrian, she explains by saying that she is now bored with Saudi men. Then she decides she wants to marry for a fifth time, making the four husbands draw lots to see who will be divorced and plunging them into a morass of jealousy. Conservative imams, currently on the defensive as King Abdullah attempts to modernise some social attitudes in the country, have been predictably hostile, while men on internet bulletin boards have attacked the series as promoting prostitution. “What this does is hurt us,” said one
imam, Sheikh Saad Al-Buraik. “In the name of comedy, they make fun of our religion and beliefs.” There are regular calls to ban Tash Ma Tash, but it is said to be one of King Abdullah’s favourite programmes. Last week, an episode also provoked controversy, portraying two men who visit the brother of their dead mother, a foreign-born Arab, only to discover he is a Christian priest. The shock lies in discovering that despite his religion, they come to respect him for his honesty and generosity. And that’s drawn fire as well, with Reuters reporting: “A Muslim is allowed to praise only the one true religion — Islam,” said Eissa al-Ghaith, a judge at the Justice Ministry, in remarks carried by alMadina newspaper on Sunday. Independent Islamic scholar Abdulwahab al-Salhi said the “indecent lot of ‘Tash Ma Tash’ … used drama to destroy Muslims’ stable religious principles by portraying Christians as believers and not apostates.” Posted by Marisol on August 17, 2010 3:29 PM | No Comments
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Refuting the ‘colonialist’ meme by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/17/2010 8:33:00 PM
Refuting the ‘colonialist’ meme Dore Gold takes apart the notion that Israel is a colonialist state. Unlike the charge of racial separation, the tag “colonialist” cannot be refuted simply by looking around modern Israel. It is a historical charge about how Israel came to exist: In effect, it amounts to the claim that Israel was established as an outpost of another distant power imposing itself on the territory and its native inhabitants. But the fact is that while modern Israel succeeded the 1922 British Mandate for Palestine, it was created by neither the British nor any other occupying power. The Jews were already asserting their right to self-determination well before the British and the French dismantled the Ottoman Empire. For example, the Jewish people had already reestablished their majority in Jerusalem by 1863. Decades later, Britain and the rest of the League of Nations considered Jewish rights in Palestine beyond their power to bestow because those rights were
already there to be accepted. Thus the League of Nations gave recognition to “the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine.” In other words, it recognized a preexisting right. It called for “reconstituting” the Jewish people’s national home. And the rights recognized by the League of Nations in 1922 were preserved by its successor organization, the United Nations, which in Article 80 of its charter acknowledged all rights of states and peoples that existed before 1945. The accusation that Israel has colonialist roots because of its connection to the British Mandate is ironic, since most of the Arab states owe their origins to the entry and domination of the European powers. Prior to World War I, the Arab states of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan did not exist, but were only districts of the Ottoman Empire, under different names. They became states as a result of European intervention, with the British putting the Hashemite family in power in two of these countries. Saudi Arabia and the smaller Gulf states, meanwhile, emerged from treaties that their leaders signed with
Britain. By means of those treaties, the British recognized the legitimacy of local Arab families to rule what became states like Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar. A similar British treaty with the al-Saud family in 1915 set the stage for the eventual emergence of Saudi Arabia in 1932. Moreover, during Israel’s War of Independence, Arab armies benefited directly from European arms and training—and even manpower. The Arab Legion initially fought in Jerusalem with British officers, while the skies of the Egyptian Sinai were
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A Lasting Connection with the Tzaddik
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A Lasting Connection with the Tzaddik My maternal great grandfather, Reb Yankev (“The Blacksmith”) Podrub from Grodno, Belarus (formerly Poland) was a legendary figure in the annals of Stolin-Karlin Chassidus. He arms were like twisted steel, but his disposition was extremely gentle. Although he was a blacksmith. he was also a Talmudic scholar. He worked so that his brother, Arie Leib, could attend rabbinical yeshiva. Ultimately, Arie Leib became the head rabbi of Meretch in Lithuania. The renowned “Yanuka” of Stolin, the famous Rebbe Yisroel Perlov ob’m who had over 20,000 Chassidim, would stay in Reb Yankev’s house every Shabbat Chanuka when he’d visit his chassidim in Grodno. Even more, The Stoliner Rebbe – who loved horses – insisted that only Reb Yankev shoe his horses. What was so special about Reb Yankev? He never spoke small talk. Even at work, he’d mumble tehillim and mishnayot. Also, his trust in Hashem was phenominal – he’d only work long enough to earn that same day’s bread with one extra kopeck; he
saved the extra kopecks in a jar all year long, and then at the end of the year, he’d use the money to travel to his Rebbe in Stolin for Rosh Hashanna. As such, my great grandfather lived his connection with the tzaddik all year long. The minute Reb Yankev finished his day’s work, he’d fly up the stairs to the Stoliner shtiebel, conveniently located on the second floor over the smithy, and open up a Gemara. Grodno lore holds him as one of the hidden tzaddikim of the area, may his blessed memory be cherished always. I heard the above stories and many more from my grandmother Kailie of blessed memory, from Rav Yitzchak Kulitz of blessed memory, former head Rabbi of Jerusalem, who as a little boy saw my great grandfather, and from Rav Benyamin Adler shlit’a of Jerusalem, whose uncle knew my great grandfather well, and from the elderly Stolin-Karlin chassidim of Jerusalem. ******* Trying to emulate my great grandfather, I set aside twenty dollars every week and put them in a special envelope marked, “Uman – Rosh Hashanna.” That way, I live Rosh Hashanna with my beloved Rebbe, Rebbe Nachman of Breslev, all year long. Today, I’m doubly happy, for I now have my fully-paid ticket to Uman for
this coming Rosh Hashanna, 5771. Just hearing the name “Rebbe Nachman of Breslev” is enough to kindle a fire in my heart. I know that alte zaidie(Yiddish for great grandfather) has nachas(gratification) that his great granchildren are continuing on in the way of Torah and Chassidus. You know what that means? Hitler and western assimilation lost and we won. We shall continue to overcome, amen. Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • The F Word: Anger over Israel Hurts US As we wait to see any substantive response from the US president to Israel's killings of peace workers seeking to break the yearslong Gaza siege, it's worth no...... • Daily Quote: Adar 13, 5770 – February 27, 2010 If a poor man happened to come to the wicked city of Sodom, every resident gave him a coin, upon which he inscribed his name; but no bread was given him. When he died, each came and took back his coi... • Part 2: Beit Shaar Ha-Kavanot, item 60, lesson 20 Lecturer: Rav Michael LaitmanDate: 2010-0407Video: ENG 29.99MB Audio: ENG 5.35MB ...
Ground Zero. But instead of doing that, they’ve tried to take the issue off the table. Which just means silencing anyone who dares speak out against the Ground Zero Mosque. The facts are in We know Imam Rauf’s support for Islamic law, which treats Christians, Jews and Women as inferior. We know that the Ground Zero Mosque has no legitimate purpose. That it does not exist to serve a local community. We know that the money is coming from the same countries that financed Al Queda. We know. And we know who’s really politicizing Ground Zero. It’s the Left and Islam who refuse to let the dead rest, without shoving in their revisionist history into the mix. Without trying to hijack the site to suit their own agenda. Enough is enough. We know the truth. And we will not be silenced. Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Part 1: The Book of Zohar – Selections, chapter “VaYaera”, item 159, lesson 8 Lecturer: Rav Michael
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Islam encourages violence, and less likely to see it as a peaceful religion. And they were more likely to oppose the mosque than men, 54 to 50. Statistics that can probably be explained by Muslim gendered violence and attacks on women. But what these numbers mean is that even Democrats in one of the more liberal cities in America, can’t win on this issue with Latino, Jewish, Catholic or Women voters. And without those votes, their only base of support is located on the Upper East Side. This is why Congressional Democrats and their media defenders are running scared. Because they can’t win on this, and they know it. And so after endorsing Rauf’s politicization of Ground Zero, they’re now claiming that it’s Republicans who oppose his Islamist politicization of Ground Zero that are the ones politicizing it. It’s a repeat of the same cynical game they played 5 years ago with the IFC. The only right answer is to stand up to the Cordoba House’s attempt to politicize
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Three Weddings and a Bar Mitzvah (86 Bloomberg Place Series #4) In the final installment in the 86 Bloomberg Place series, Melody Carlson follows the girls in a crazed competition for bridesmaids, wedding locations, and showers. Newly engaged Lelani has returned from Maui to Bloomberg Place and is trying to book her wedding date. Unfortunately there are scheduling conflicts for that same weekend. For starters, Megan and Marcus have a family wedding commitment. Anna and Edmond have promised to attend his younger stepbrother’s Bar Mitzvah and, to everyone’s surprise, Kendall has just accepted her “Maui Man’s” proposal of marriage and also wants to be wed on that first weekend in June. Wedding madness ensues at 86 Bloomberg Place, yet at the same time friendships are being forged that will last a lifetime. Rating:(out of 13 reviews) List Price: $ 14.99 Price: Bar mitzvah dancefloor Image by danielle_blue Ben Stiller as Bono and a send up of The Partridge Family, Rattle and Hum. Funny stuff. Video Rating: 4 / 5 Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Three Weddings and a Bar Mitzvah ISBN13: 9781589191082Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionIn the final installment in the 86 Bloomberg Place series, Melody Carlson follows the girls... • Pics Of Bloomberg With His Muslim Buddies~It is ALL about $ Bloomberg, on his knees where he belongs, begging for mercy before we n e v e r m i n d . v i a themadjewess.wordpress.comhehnoa hdavidsimon's posterous ... • The Yom Kippur Avodah: A descriptive and pictorial guide to the Yom Kippur Avodah as presented in Parshas Achray mos = [Avodat Yom ha-Kipurim] (The Pictorial avodah series) Reviews The Yom Kippur Avodah: A descriptive and pictorial guide to the Yom Kippur Avodah as presented in Parshas Achray mos = [Avodat Yom ha-Kipurim] (The Pictorial avodah series) Rating: (out ...
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Increased US – Israel military cooperation by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel)
by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/17/2010 7:26:00 PM
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Increased US – Israel military cooperation As part of a report on increased cooperation between the IDF and the US military, the Wall Street Journal recounts this story of a recent joint exercise. This month, about 200 U.S. Marines joined a battalion of Israeli soldiers for an all-night march through the Negev desert, the culmination of three weeks of joint drills. As dawn approached, they crept up on a mock village, an Israeli military-built recreation of a typical Palestinian hamlet, used for combat training. Explosions, triggered by pyrotechnics engineers, shook the night. Soldiers from another Israeli unit, playing the role of Arab guerrillas, crouched in the fake village’s narrow allies and empty cinderblock homes. They shouted “Allahu Akbar,” Arabic for “God is Great,” and rattled off rounds of blank ammunition from machine guns at the invading U.S. and Israeli forces. Behind a dune on the village’s edge, a U.S. Marine company commander conferred with his Israeli counterpart before the two barked orders—the Marine in English, the Israeli in Hebrew—to soldiers scattered behind them. As dawn gave way to the Negev desert’s grinding August heat, the forces battled house-to-house in mock battle, as Israeli and Marine generals watched on from the sidelines. The exercise was the biggest U.S.Israeli joint infantry exercise ever, according to officials. By comparison, at the same exercise last year, there were only around 20 U.S.
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Marines involved. In the fall, there will be an even bigger joint infantry exercise involving tanks and armored vehicles, officials said. The problem is that there are two ulterior motives for this cooperation. One is for it to act as insurance that Israel does not go off and strike Iran on its own. And the other is to try to pry concessions to the ‘Palestinians’ out of Israel. So is all this cooperation a good deal for Israel? Well, maybe. Another part of it is increased aid to Israel, which has been comes amid increased aid and arms sales to the Arab countries. That has to make you wonder what the US is trying to accomplish here. The Arab countries are even less likely to use those arms to protect themselves against Iran, although it is conceivable that they will use them against Israel in the future (God forbid) or that they will ultimately fall into the hands of terrorists. It seems that it would be much cheaper and would have the advantage of not fueling an arms race if the US didn’t increase the military aid, gave up on trying to get the
‘Palestinians’ to accept a state, and attacked Iran on its own. posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:43 AM Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Sweden: Syrian diplomat tried to kidnap daughter because he didn’t approve of her boyfriend Sweden: Syrian diplomat tried to kidnap daughter because he didn't approve of h e r b o y f r i e n d . . . • Defending Obama on Israel Defending Obama on Israel No, of course I'm not going to defend President Obama's policies on Israel. But Representative Steve Rothman (D-NJ) ha... • Israel/Palestine and Iran: Linkage Should be Hard Wired by Obama Team Another book that Obama took very seriously and had his pic snapped with is Fareed Zakaria's The Post-American World. What Obama likely learned from Coll's book... ... Original post source
Sestak’s favorite Senator has a poor record on Israel Here’s Democratic Senate candidate Joe Sestak talking about his favorite Senator. Let’s go to the videotape. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb) has an atrocious record on Israel. I discussed it at length here and here, and you can find more here (Hat Tip: Republican Jewish Coalition Headquarters via Twitter) and here. If Sestak wants to be like Chuck Hagel in the Senate, that’s yet another reason to vote against him. posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:26 AM Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Part 2: Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah, item 170, lesson 67 Lecturer: Rav Michael LaitmanDate: 2010-02-15Video: ENG 30.3MB Audio: ENG 5.4MB ... • Did Israel offer to sell South Africa nuclear weapons? Israel has long kept silent on its nuclear weapons capability. But The Guardian newspaper reported today that it had written proof of an Israel nuclear program ... ... • Engraved Wooden USB Flash Drive 8 GB with chain – Engraved name Pesach Product DescriptionCapacities: 8GBCompatibility PC or Notebook with a USB interfaceOperating Systems: Windows Vista/XP/2000/ ME/98SE/95 and Mac 9.X/ OSXDrivers Only required for Windows 98/95. Onlin... Original post source
Lebanese pass law to allow Palestinians to have jobs by Elder of Ziyon (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/17/2010 6:32:00 PM
From Naharnet: Palestinian Ambassador to Lebanon Abdullah Abdullah on Tuesday lauded as “a progressive step forward” Lebanese parliament’s adoption of a law granting full employment rights to Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, but said in a statement that the step “does not meet all of our demands.” He said Palestinians would continue to push for their rights, “primarily the
right to own property.” The Lebanese constitution prohibits the naturalization of the refugees, but Palestinian officials have consistently said they refuse permanent resettlement in Lebanon. Note that last paragraph: Palestinian “officials” say they refuse permanent settlement, but Lebanese Palestinians themselves would disagree strongly. As I have mentioned before, in the 1950s, Lebanon offered citizenship to many Christian Palestinians as well as Muslims who could prove Lebanese ancestry, and some 50,000 people jumped at the offer. A loophole that opened up in 1994 that
offered citizenship was equally pounced upon and tens of thousands more became Lebanese citizens – many even falsifying papers- before that loophole was closed. In other words, the Palestinian “officials” in Lebanon are totally at odds with what a great percentage of Lebanese Palestinians really want. Note also that the idea of Palestinian Lebanese owning land was taken out of the proposed bill. Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Kabbalah Art – 01 Image taken on 2009-11-06 12:19:05 by michalska1....
• Oslo: "They’ve taken my religion and are using it in a way that scares me" Oslo: "They've taken my religion and are using it in a way that scares me"The course series "Da'Wah - how to hold dialog with non-Muslims", has been held every Friday in a classroom at Oslo Universit... • Sacred Dance to Celebrate the Harvest Shavuot This is a beautiful dance of girls celebrating the Hebrew festival of Shavuot - commemorating the first harvest and the Seven Maidens... Original post source
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IAF Air Strike in Response to Mortar Fire from Gaza, 18 Aug 2010 by IDF Spokesperson's Unit (Hija del Zion para Israel Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/17/2010 3:38:30 PM
Did You Know That There Is A Mosque Inside The Pentagon? by NoahDavidSimon (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/17/2010 5:46:00 PM
By Geoffrey Grider • August 16, 2010 ——————————————— ——————————— What the..? In all the furor over the proposed mosque at Ground Zero, there is another mosque that doesn’t seem to bother anyone at all. Want to take a guess where it is? It’s inside the Pentagon where an army of over 100 Muslim clerics dispense the Koran on a daily basis. Did you know that there is a mosque inside the Pentagon? “Navy imam Chaplain Abuhena M. Saifulislam lifted his voice to God as he called to prayer more than 100 Department of Defense employees Monday at a celebration of Ramadan at the Pentagon. God is most great, sang the lieutenant commander and Islamic leader, in Arabic, as iftar – the end of the daily fast began. Uniformed military personnel, civilians and family members faced Mecca and knelt on adorned prayer rugs chanting their prayers in quiet invocation to Allah.” source –
Salon.com This is what the Muslims did to the Pentagon on 9/11. Now there is a mosque inside the Pentagon. The “ground zero mosque” story seems to be dying down, but nothing lays bare the absurdity of what we’ve just lived through quite so much as this Washington Times story, quoted above, from 2007. Yes, Muslims have infiltrated the Pentagon for their nefarious, prayerful purposes — daring to practice their religion inside the building where 184 people died on Sept. 11, 2001. They haven’t even had the sensitivity to move two blocks, let alone a mile, away from that sacred site. The “desecration” began shockingly soon after the attacks. Cox reported in October 2001: Army Chaplain AbdulRasheed Muhammad, the first Muslim chaplain to serve in the military, read a verse from the Koran at the memorial service at the Pentagon on Thursday, exactly one month after the attack. Muhammad, who became a chaplain eight years ago and works at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, ministered to rescuers in front of the smoldering Pentagon after the attack. Any guesses as to why no one has
ever heard about Muslims praying at the Pentagon — let alone cared? ” source – Salon.com “We live in a great nation,” said master of ceremonies Air Force Lt. Col. Timothy Oldenburg, a Muslim. “Yes, it is our First Amendment right do that – to practice our religion the way we feel, to worship God and to come to the Pentagon and celebrate Ramadan.” via nowtheendbegins.com OMG noahdavidsimon’s posterous Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Hanukkah Candles (12) – judaica Hanukkah Candles (12) Pack includes 12 candles. White/blue Menorah candles for Hanukkah. Rating: (out of reviews) List Price: Price: $ 7.49 ... • Shelach sources by aliyahrishon (Bamidbar 13:1)sheni (13:21)shelishi (14:8)revii (14:26)chamishi (15:5)shishi (15:17)shevii (15:27)maftir (15:37)haftarah (Yehoshua 2), wit... • Kabbalah Moments – February 26, 2010 Tweet This Post Delicious Facebook Stumble It... Original post source
August 18th, 20100 In Response to Mortar Fire Causing Injuries to IDF Soldiers, IAF Targets Smuggling Tunnels, Weapons Manufacturing Site and Terror Tunnel in Gaza Strip The Israel Air Force struck a weapons manufacturing site in the central Gaza Strip, two weaponssmuggling tunnels and a terror tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip overnight. The attack is in response to the mortar shells that were fired at Israel, hitting the Eshkol Regional Council communities, during the past 24 hours, causing light injuries to two IDF soldiers. More than 115 rockets and mortars have been fired at Israeli territory since the beginning of 2010, and over 420 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel since the end of operation Cast Lead. The IDF remains committed to protecting the citizens of Israel and will continue to act against terror. The IDF holds Hamas solely responsible for terror emanating from the Gaza Strip. Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Response to Rocket Fire, IAF Targets Hamas Infastructure in Gaza, 1 Aug 2010 In Response to Second Incident of Rocket Fire this Weekend, IAF Targets Hamas Terror Infrastructure in Gaza Strip 1 Aug 2010 Overnight, the Israel Air Force struck a Hamas-linked terror tunnel and a w... • IAF Targets Rocket Launching Squad in Northern Gaza Strip, 7 June 2010 The IAF recently targeted a terrorist squad preparing to fire rockets into Israel from the northern Gaza Strip. Direct hits were identified. Over 10 rockets and mortars were fired from the Gaza Strip ... • In Response to Rocket Fire, IAF Targets Terrorist Sites in Southern Gaza Strip, 10 May 2010 The Israel Air Force struck two terrorist sites in the southern Gaza Strip overnight. The attack is in response to the rocket that hit Israeli territory on Saturday night, landing in the Hof Ashkelo... Original post source
Overnight music video by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/17/2010 5:06:00 PM
Overnight music video Here’s Yonatan Razel, the Pirchei Etzion boys choir and the Ra’anana
symphonette with Esa Ainay (I lift my eyes). Let’s go to the videotape. posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:06 AM Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • We didn’t start the fire Image taken
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Activist Naimh Moloughney packs bags to be loaded into the cargo ship the MV Rachel Corrie at the weekend There were fears of further clashes as Israel warned i... ... Original post source
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Israel: Turkish Embassy Break-In BBC fair and balanced for a change by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/17/2010 3:31:00 PM
BBC fair and balanced for a change Honest Reporting agrees with me that the BBC segment on the Mavi Marmara that I posted earlier was – shockingly – fair and balanced. Instead, we were pleasantly surprised that the BBC has produced a balanced and comprehensive examination of the incident, including unique access to Israel’s Naval Commando 13, the unit which seized the Mavi Marmara and interviews and footage of the Turkish IHH organization, whose members openly acknowledge their wish to become martyrs. Let’s hope this happens more often. posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:31 AM Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Bosnian Muslims call Christians on
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Israel loses five days’ worth of time to bomb Iran in one day! – Wa… by israel (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/17/2010 5:16:00 PM
Israel loses five days’ worth of time to bomb Iran in one day! This morning, Israel had eight days to launch a strike against Iran — it’s already down to three… Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Europe is un-Islamic, complains Ihsanoglu… Europe is un-Islamic, complains Ihsanoglu…by sheikyermami on May 7, 2010Not. Turkey’s bullshitter in chief whines that Burqa bans are ‘un-European’ Bans on burqas are “v... • Bar Mitzvah Charm, Sterling Silver Product DescriptionPlease note that product images are enlarged to show detail. The actual item is 0.774 (approx. 3/4 in.) inches long and 0.774 - (approx. 3/4 in.) inches wide.
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by israel (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/17/2010 7:22:00 PM
By ETHAN BRONNER A West Bank Palestinian who once collaborated with Israel’s Shin Bet security service and said he was being persecuted by the Palestinian Autho… Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • TechArt Turbo Aero Kit I: Rear Spoiler Wing PU-RIM for 996 Turbo 01-05 The worldest largest aftermarket Porsche Tuner Product DescriptionTechArt Rear Wing I Porsche 996 Turbo 01-05The worldest largest aftermarket Porsche Tuner, TechArt, has this rear wing for the Pors... • Jerusalem Pickle Plant 10 Seeds Smallest cucumber in the world; fruits are 2 inchesOriginal ancestor of
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Jerusalem Court Rules Israel Was Responsible for Death of a Palesti… by israel (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/17/2010 6:31:00 PM
By AP JERUSALEM (AP) — A Jerusalem court decided in a ruling made public Tuesday that the state was responsible for the death of a 10year-old Palestinian gir… Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • The Meaning of Yom Kippur Cantor Jack Chomsky of Congregation Tifereth Israel gets to the core of the Jewish High Holy days and the meaning of Yom Kippur. Footage for this piece was taken at Con... • Mae 2007 Yom Kippur Break the Fast – 20 Image taken on 2007-09-22 19:50:53 by Cirne.... • Hamas claims that new cement will not benefit the "ordinary citizen"
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Pics Of Bloomberg With His Muslim Buddies~It is ALL about $ by NoahDavidSimon (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/17/2010 7:01:00 PM
Word Quiz 2010 by Yaakov Kirschen (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/17/2010 8:00:00 PM
Like the guy in the last panel of today’s cartoon, I’m still trying to answer the question. Is it any easier for you to answer?Dry Bones- Israel’s Political Comic Strip Since 1973 Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • In the Oval Office The Obama administration has managed to alienate America's friends without picking up any new allies. Most intriguing is his loss of popularity on
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Israel • Three Weddings and a Bar Mitzvah (86 Bloomberg Place Series #4) Three Weddings and a Bar Mitzvah (86 Bloomberg Place Series #4) In the final installment in the 86 Bloomberg Place series, Melody Carlson follows the girls in a crazed competition for bridesmaids... Original post source