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Lessons Along the Journey — Introduction by paraisrael (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 6/19/2010 11:25:26 PM
by Cirne Lessons Along the Journey — Introduction Earth’s crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees, takes off his shoes. The rest sit round and pluck blackberries. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning I stepped into New York City’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral to escape the snow and sleet of an icy November afternoon. As the massive wood doors creaked closed, I shook off the chill and decided to tour the church while I warmed up. I’d never visited St. Patrick’s, and the exquisite interior caught my attention. I turned to my right and began moving along the Stations of the Cross. I strolled passed stained glass windows and lingered at statues of Saints illuminated in the glow of flickering candles. Then I noticed the other visitors also wandering through the sanctuary. Many paused when some object of devotion caught their interest. Others sat quietly in pews. A few knelt in prayer. Some slept. Most, though, continued their tour until they reached the front door and exited back onto the street. As I watched, I realized each person illustrated points along my journey toward Christ. My journey began in Judaism. Mom did her best to give my sister and me some semblance of religious training, but she was too caught up in her own life dramas to do more than live her Jewish culture before us during holidays such as Rosh Hashonna, Yom Kippur, and Passover. But because I saw her pray over the Yahrzheit candles commemorating her mother’s death, I learned there is a God in heaven, and that we can speak to Him. I still remember my first prayer. I said it every night for years during my early childhood: “Oh God, please God, don’t let anything happen to me, Andrea, or my mother.” For reasons I now forget, I didn’t want my mom to know I was praying, so I spoke
secretly to God while lying in bed with the lights out. And also for reasons I now forget, I stopped talking to Him when I was around 12-years-old. We remained estranged until my later teen years when I grew curious about my mother’s God. What was He like? What did He think of me? Did He think of me? I wandered through the doors of faith in much the same way as one visits a church more from curiosity than devotion. I prayed, gave to charities, fasted, and tried to follow the Ten Commandments. But the longer I visited God, the more I learned He required things I was unwilling to give. Like obedience. Commitment. Sacrifice. It wasn’t long before I sought the nearest exit and stepped back onto the wind-whipped streets. All that changed when I was twentytwo. Protestant acquaintances introduced me to a kind of relationship with God I never knew possible. I soon experienced the warmth of our Savior’s forgiveness and acceptance. At times, I even sensed His presence as close as the air around me. During the following three decades in evangelical fellowships, I learned about prayer, worship, surrender, and confession. I taught Sunday school classes, led home Bible studies, and discussed theological nuances in spirited conversations with my friends over coffee. But like those asleep in the pews, I often dozed in the midst of the journey. I grew comfortable with my walk with Christ, I became satisfied with my Bible knowledge, church attendance, and religious acts. Without realizing it, I had lost the distinction between doctrinal accuracy and passion, between knowing about God and falling deeper in love with Him. My religion had become little more than monotonous routine. My church attendance faltered. My prayer life withered. That’s where I was in my journey that cold November day when I escaped the weather. That’s where I was when something else caught my attention in the Cathedral, something that reminded me why, despite my
growing coldness, I continued to press forward. I stared at the crucifix suspended behind the altar, and meditated on why the King of Glory emptied Himself of unfathomable grandeur and clothed Himself with inglorious flesh. Why did He subject Himself to hunger, cold, pain, and a hundred other afflictions common to our frailty? Most of all, why did He permit Himself to be mauled, spat upon, and then nailed to a splintered cross? Scripture tells why. From the earliest hours of creation, to its final curtain at the end of the age, God wove His deeply intimate love for each of us into the tapestry of history, history that culminated on the Cross and exploded from the empty tomb through timeless eternity. The Cross is our assurance that, despite our failures, sins and heartaches, the Father stands beside us, urging us to fix our eyes on the journey’s end. The journey’s end. Although I converted to Christ in 1972, I didn’t begin writing about the lessons I learned along my journey until 1995. It would be another decade after that before the path led me into the Catholic Church. Written at different points along my walk with Christ, and compiled here in relative order of their initial publication, these essays tell of my ambling journey from trust, to doubt, to confidence, to uncertainty, and back again to trust. They tell of the many times I learned obedience, and the oh-so-many times I failed to obey. They illustrate how often I learned of God’s glory, only to take His glory for granted. And they chronicle how the heavenly Father continued to reach for me, even as I stumbled and strayed from the narrow way. I hope you will find my experiences of some value as you make your own
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This Day, June 20, In Jewish History by melamed&mavin (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 6/19/2010 4:44:00 PM
JUNE 20 In Jewish History 840: Louis the Pious, King of the Franks and the Holy Roman Emperor by virtue of being the son of Charlemagne. When it came to dealing with his Jewish subjects, Louis followed in the footsteps of his father. During his reign charters were issued giving “Jews permission ‘live according to their Law.’ They promised protection of body and property and permitted freedom of movement and trade including…the right to hire Christians to work in their homes. Some Jews were also exempted from the laws of trial by ‘ordeal of fire and water.’” 1214: University of Oxford received its charter. Jews were not always welcome at Oxford. The Oxford University Reform Act passed in 1854 allowed Jews to take degrees at Oxford. Today, Oxford offers degrees in both Hebrew and Jewish Studies. 1391: “The Christian population of Toledo rose against the largest Jewish community in Spain.” Four thousand Jews were killed. 1567: Jews were expelled from Brazil by order of Regent Don Henrique 1652: During the reign of Mehemed IV, Tarhoncu Ahmet Pa?a was appointed grand vezir of the Ottoman Empire. During Pasa’s time of service, Mehmemed Jews fleeing the Chmielnitzki Uprising were encouraged to settle on the banks of the Danube in Morea, Kavala, Istanbul and Salonica. 1768: The third of the Haidamack uprisings called Koliyivschyna began. During the uprising an estimated 50,000 Ukrainian Jews were murdered by the Cossacks. “The Haidmamaks were gangs of Cossacks, who along with their peasant allies robbed traveling merchants and plundered the towns and villages in the Ukraine. They saw themselves as heirs to Khmelnitski. The Khmelnitski were the Cossacks who slaughtered Jews and Poles in wholesale lots in the middle of the 17th century. Both of these murderous slaughters were part of the drift into degradation that became the lot of increasing numbers of Eastern European Jews. This drift into degradation brought about numerous responses on the part of the Jews ranging from mysticism and messianicism to the Haskalah and immigration to Western Europe and eventually to the New World. 1757: In Kameiek (Podolia), the Frankists, calling themselves Zoharists, decided to wage war against the Talmud. They contacted the local bishop, Dembovsky, and convinced him to arrange a disputation. Naturally, the Talmud was condemned and thousands of
copies were burned. The Frankists then became practicing Christians. The Frankists were Jews who were followers of Jacob Frank who had proclaimed himself the Messiah. 1808: Birthdate of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, leading founder of what some call Modern Orthodox Judaism. 1837: With the death of her uncle, King William IV, Queen Victoria assumes the throne. Since the British monarch reigns but does not rule, her influence on the progress of Jews of Britain and Europe were primarily tangential. Her treatment of Jews was a mixed bag. During the Damascus Blood Libel, the Queen put a British ship at the disposal of her friend and neighbor Moses Montefiore. But in 1869, the Queen blocked Lionel Rothschild elevation to the House of Lords. However, later she would agree to the elevation of Lionel’s son and would socialize with the French branch of the Rothschild family when she made trips across the channel. The change was brought about by Jewish financial support for the Suez project and her relationship with Benjamin Disraeli. 1879: In New York City, The Jewish Messenger reports that “A new congregation has been started on East 57th Street, called Orach Chaim.” Some of the members of the new congregation were disaffected members of Adas Israel, another congregation located on the same street. 1892: Birthdate of Barnett Janner British politician and leader of the Jewish community. He was first elected to the House of Commons at the 1931 general election as a Liberal, for the Whitechapel and St George’s constituency in the East End of London. He lost his seat at the 1935 election. Janner returned to Parliament ten years later, when he as returned at the 1945 general election as Labour MP for Leicester West. When that constituency was abolished for he 1950 election, he was re-elected for the new Leicester North West. He held that seat until he retired from the Commons at the 1970 general election, when his seat was held for Labour by his son Greville. In June 1970, he was made a life peer as Baron Janner, of the City of Leicester. He held many positions in the Jewish community, including President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, 1955-64. He passed away on May 4, 1982. 1902: Herzl learns that Turkey accepted the Rouvier Project. Maruice Rouvier was one of those permanent political animals created by the revolving door governments in the days of France’s Third Republic. He was not Jewish. Depending upon who formed the government Rouvier held different cabinet posts including finance and foreign affairs. He was Prime Minister twice himself. At this time, Rouvier was serving as the
Minister of Finance. At the same time, like most French politicians, he was always looking for ways to counter German influence. The Turks were in need of financial assistance and Rouvier was willing to do what he could if it would keep the Kaiser out of the Mediterranean. 1905: Birthdate of playwright Lillian Hellman. 1917: Birthdate of Franklin Littell, a pioneer in the field of Holocaust scholarship, who was also president of Iowa Wesleyan College and a founding board member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington. His best-known book, The Crucifixion of the Jews, pressed his view that Christianity is essentially Jewish and that Jesus, Paul and Peter would have been executed at Auschwitz. 1918: United States President Wilson sent Henry Morgenthau and Felix Frankfurter to Egypt to investigate how to best aid Jews in Palestine. 1921: Shortstop Reuben Ewing made his major league debut with the St. Louis Cardinals. 1928: A court in Tel Aviv “imposed short jail terms and sentences of deportation” on three Jews who resisted the police efforts to break up a demonstration protesting the flogging of prisoners in Palestine jails.” The three were additionally accused of being “Communists.” The demonstration was part of a larger protest by Jews against the propensity of the British immigration authorities for deporting Jews on the slightest pretext with little or no evidence of serious wrongdoing. 1931: A newspaper in Salonica called the Macedonia ran an article about a resident named Isaac D. Cohen. Cohen was sent as a representative to the meeting of the Maccabiah which was held in Sophia, Bulgaria. However the newspaper stated while away, he also attended a conference held by a revolutionary organization, which had come up with the decision to sue for the independence of Greek and Yugoslav Macedonia. This lie led to attacks on Jews who were said not to be patriotic. 1931: Birthdate of actor Martin Landau. 1936: The Palestine Post reported that according to the new Palestine Emergency Regulations a life sentence could be imposed on any person carrying arms, bombs or incendiary material. Arab attacks on Jewish settlements continued unabated. Police patrols were stoned in Arab villages and three British soldiers were injured in various shooting incidents throughout the country. 1939: In commenting on wave of violence gripping Palestine including yesterday’s bombing in Haifa, Davar wrote, “”Who throws bombs? Is it the same hand that is sowing blood and ruin in the Arab market in the Jewish
suburb? These are not the ways of the Jewish population in Palestine in their struggle…Ruin and paralysis of economic life will only hurt the Jews in Palestine. Sacrifices may be necessary for our political struggle but every act paralyzing our life unnecessarily weakens the Jews here more than its sabotages the Palestine Government’s new policy and it only causes failure of Palestine Jewry’s struggle against the policy.” In a separate column, David Ben Gurion condemned the violence saying “The Jews must sacrifice everything for immigration, colonization, selfdefense and independence but we must not sully our struggle with despicable acts of madness such as have been recently committed at Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa. The murder of innocent Arabs and Jews and stupid sabotage are act that are only helping our most bitter enemies. Such criminal acts soil our just struggle, undermine the efficiency of our work and play the game of our foes.” 1939: Final broadcast of Song School, a radio show featuring Jewish Jazzman Benny Goodman 1940: On the day when France surrendered to Germany Propper de Callejón was First Secretary of the Spanish Embassy in Paris. In order to prevent the German army from plundering the art collection that his wife’s family kept at the Chateau de Royaumont, he declared this castle to be his main residence, so it would be treated in the same privileged way as the accommodation of any other diplomat. Among the art works thus saved are a triptych of Van Eyck (one of Adolf Hitler´s favorite painters). In July 1940, , in co-operation with the Portuguese Consul Arístedes de Sousa Menendes, he would issue from the Spanish Consulate in Bordeaux more than thirty thousand transit visas to Jews, so that they could cross Spain to reach Portugal. When Spain’s Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suñer learned that Propper de Callejón was issuing visas without the previous authorization of his Ministry, he had him transferred to the Consulate of Larache in the Spanish protectorate in Morocco. Afterwards, he would be posted to Rabat, Zurich Washington, Ottawa and Oslo. Propper de Callejón’s father, Max Propper, was a Bohemian Jew, and his mother, Juana Callejón, was a Spanish Catholic; they raised Eduardo and his brothers in the Catholic faith His wife, Hélène Fould -Springer was a socialite and painter. She was from a notable Jewish Austrian-French banking family, though she converted to Catholicism upon their marriage and is a sister of prominent Paris art patron and philanthropist Liliane de Rothschild (Baroness Élie de Rothschild,) 1916—2003). He never gained public THIS page 3
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recognition for his heroic acts before his death in 1972 in London. 1942: Grace Goodside married cinematographer Jess Paley meaning that she would gain fame as Grace Paley. 1942: Mass killings of Jews by the Nazis began at Auschwitz. 1942: From now until October 9th, 13,776 Jews would be deported from Vienna to Theresienstadt 1943: Five thousand Jews from Amsterdam are deported to Auschwitz. 1943: The Ternopol (Ukraine) Ghetto is liquidated. 1943: Himmler sent 100 Jews to a concentration camp in Alsace called Natzweiler. They were killed there and their skeletons were sent to the Anatomical Museum in Strasbourg. 1943: Five thousand, five hundred Jews were rounded up in Amsterdam and deported. 1945(9th of Tamuz, 5705): German born author and playwright Bruno Frank passed away. Frank left Germany after the Reichstag Fire and eventually made his way to the United States. 1945: Aware that “British hostility to the Zionist enterprise was often a mask for anti-Semitism,” Churchill cautioned his colleague Lord Croft to “not be drawn into any campaign that might be represented as antiSemitism.” 1947(2nd of Tamuz, 5707): Ben “Bugsy” Siegel was gunned down by fellow mobsters over financial irregularities surrounding the building of the Flamingo in Las Vegas. 1948: During the Israeli War for Independence, the Etzel (Irgun) ship Altelena reached the coast of Tel Aviv carrying 800 new immigrants and weapons. The Etzel claimed they had an agreement that 20% of the arms on board would be used by its members in defending Jerusalem. David Ben Gurion, head of the new state of Israel, saw this as threat to the power of the new government. He believed that there could only be one army and that it had to be under the control of the national government. If the Irgun wanted to fight, then its members had to become part of the army just as the members of the Palmach and the Haganah had done. Ben Gurion refused to accept any compromise on this point. He ordered the ship to be fired upon. The incident almost caused a civil war and was only averted by an impassioned and at times incoherent speech made by Menachem Begin to his followers over the radio that night not to take up arms against fellow Jews. One only has to look at multiplicity of armed groups operating today on the West Bank and Gaza to see what would have happened if Ben Gurion had not reluctantly taken such bold action which was necessary if the new state of Israel was going to be a coherent nation. 1948(13th of Sivan, 5708): Twenty Jews were killed in a bombing in the
Jewish Quarter of Cairo. 1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that legislation empowered the minister of finance to underwrite up to 50 percent of mortgage loans for the construction of low-cost housing. 1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that Britain had promised to press Egypt to open the Suez Canal for oil tankers bound for the Haifa refineries. Contrary to earlier news, General William Riley, chief UN representative in the Middle East, reported to the UN Security Council on June 13 that Egyptian interference with Israel-bound shipping in the Suez Canal was an “aggressive, hostile action, undertaken in the spirit of blockade and having partial effects of a blockade.” 1952: In address to the Commercial and Industrial Club, Schmuel Elyashiv, Israel’s Ambassador in Moscow “said there were prospects of expanding Israel’s trade relations with Russia. This year Israel shipped oranges and bananas to Russia.” The Soviets would have bought more if the Israelis had produced a larger crop. 1954: Birthdate of Ilan Ramon, Israel’s first astronaut. 1965(20th of Sivan, 5725): Bernard Baruch passed away. 1965: The New York Times reports on the challenge facing Jack Benny as he faces the first summer in 33 years when he “does not find himself in the midst of hectic preparations for a new season on radio or television.” 1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that the US administration informed Israel that it would receive $200m. in transitional aid, much less than it was expected. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin told the Labor Party symposium “Israeli Arab citizens are entitled to full and equal rights, but with the knowledge that not all the duties of equal citizens are demanded of them, nor can all rights be granted to them as long as the enmity of the surrounding Arab world to Israel persists.” 1977: Shlomo Hillel completes his term as Interior Minister 1977: Yosef Burg begins his terms as Interior Minister 1982: Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin arrived in Washington. 1985: In Dublin, the Irish Jewish Museum is opened by the Irish born former President of Israel Dr. Chaim Herzog during his State visit to Ireland. 1990: Actress Ina Balin died at the age of 52 from pulmonary hypertension. 1990: “Rabbi With Tefillin” by Jan Styka goes on sale at Christie’s Auction House. The painting completed in 1892 was the product of a Polish artist. Can such a painting be described as Jewish Art? Look at the canvas and you decide. 1999: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish
readers including Noah’s Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About the Event That Changed History by William Ryan and Walter Pitman. 2004: In an article styled “Remembering Anne Frank, now 75,” The Cedar Rapids Gazette notes events around the world intended to celebrate the life and writings of one of the most famous victims of the Shoah. 2004: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including War, Evil, and the End of History by Bernard-Henri Lévy; translated by Charlotte Mandell. 2006: Haaretz reported that Israel’s ambassador to Germany presented medals of honor on Monday to relatives of five members of the first “European Union” – an anti-Nazi resistance group whose members hid and fed Jews during World War Two. This European Union, which had the same name but nothing to do with the modern 25-nation bloc of European countries, was an underground, Marxist-oriented group with around 50 to 60 German members, according to a protocol prepared by Yad Vashem Holocaust museum. 2007: In Jerusalem “legendary Israeli composer/singer Shlomo Gronich presents his newest compositions of biblical sources on a wide spectrum of themes: justice, righteousness, integrity, man and his identity, love songs & prayers. The performance includes Gronich on piano & shofar, the Jerusalem String Quartet and percussion.” 2007: The Jerusalem Post carried a page one report stating that Shin Bet had foiled a bombing of the synagogue in Modin known as the “pizza shul” or Zichron L’Avraham. 2008: In Washington, D.C. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, the former president of George Washington University, discusses and signs Big Man on Campus: A University President Speaks Out on Higher Education at Politics and Prose Bookstore. 2008: The Spertus Museum announced that it was shutting dow n an exhibition entitled “Imaginary Coordinates” in the wake of an outcry from Chicago –area Jews that it expressed an anti-Israel basis. 2008: In Sarajevo, at The Jewish Film Festival of Croatia, a member of the Jewish community speaks about filming the documentary “Sarayevo Mi Seudad de Oro,” (“Sarajevo My God City”) which tells the story of the Jewish community’s role in helping people escape the last war in Bosnia. 2009: At Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Sarah Maikon, daughter of Renee Maikon and Marc Maikon, and granddaughter of Sandy and Sol Maikon, is called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah. 2009: G’day Shalom Salaam Israel, presented by the Australia Israel
Cultural Exchange opens in Israel. As part of the G’day Shalom Salaam Israel event Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard will participate in the first Australian Israel Leadership Forum organized by the Australia Israel Cultural Exchange (AICE). The forum will provide an opportunity for both nations to build stronger ties as well as build important people-topeople links.”Joining Gillard at the leadership forum will be a number of her parliamentary colleagues from both sides of the house, including former treasurer Peter Costello, Jewish MP Mark Dreyfus and Shadow Education Minister Christopher Pyne. They are expected to meet with their Israeli Knesset counterparts. Alongside the highprofile leadership forum, the weeklong AICE event is expected to showcase some of Australia’s best talent to Israeli audiences. Legendary pianist David Helfgott will perform in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, acclaimed Australian-based chef Guillaume Brahimi will whip up a meal at the King David Hotel and jazz great Paul Grabowsky will perform for the first time in Israel. The week will also see the annual Australian Film Festival in Israel, which made headlines last year when it opened in the besieged southern town of Sderot. AICE is a relatively new organisation that promotes ties, particularly cultural ties, between Australia and Israel. It was launched in 2002 in simultaneous ceremonies: one at Australia’s Parliament House in Canberra and the other at the Israeli Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem. 2010: The Los Angeles Times features a “Sunday Conversation With Daniel Handler” who is perhaps better known for his pen name, Lemony Snicket, and his bestselling volumes of children’s books, A Series of Unfortunate Events and The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story. 2010: Memorabilia and Memory: Hitler’s Hat and other shorts by local filmmaker Jeff Krulik is scheduled to be shown as part of the Jewish Study Center Film Festival in Washington, D.C. Created, Compiled and Edited by Mitchell A. Levin, Cedar Rapids, IA melech3@mchsi.com Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Rabbi Steven Moskowitz Product DescriptionRabbi Moskowitz is the rabbi of the Jewish Congregation of Brookville on Long Island's North Shore. In his blog he shares insights on a range of topics, especially those about ... • Links for 2010-03-21 [Digg] Happy Passover: Settlers, Immigrants, and Jewish Values "You shall not oppress the stranger because you know the soul of the stranger for you yourselves were immigrants in the land of Egypt (Exo... THIS page 8
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Socialism’s Gilded Cage by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 6/19/2010 8:11:00 PM
The one great truth found at the convergence of economics and politics is that government costs money. The more government you have, the more money it costs. This has both its good and its bad sides. The bad side is obvious. We need only look at the national deficit to see that. The good side is that just as the number of sheep helps limit the number of wolves, so too the amount of available money helps limit the size of government. Of course given power, governments will vastly overspend beyond the money available to them, but that cannot go on forever. If the population of wolves increases drastically beyond that of the sheep, no matter what the wolves do, there eventually will be a dieback and a lot of dead wolves. Because as wolves sustain themselves on sheep, governments sustain themselves on money gathered from their own subjects. A government that expands beyond the ability of its subjects to sustain it, will collapse sooner or later. It can go deep into debt. It can turn the entire country into a slave labor camp, as the USSR did. It can invade other countries and rob them, as Nazi Germany did. But in the end, there will be a dieback, and it will fall. Alternatively, the need of a government for money can actually lead to reforms and more freedom. It is doubtful that America would exist today, if King George III hadn’t needed more money. Much the same can be said of Protestantism in Europe. But it doesn’t always have to come about as a violent reaction against a central authority. The colonization of the New World is a more positive example. As was the rise of a European Middle Class and the survival of the Jews in a Europe and the Ottoman Empire. All are examples of governments being forced to grant rights or decentralize their power in order to fund the exercise of that power. The visible paradox here is that governments actually lose money by increasing their power, and in order to increase their revenues, they have to give up some level of control over the people they rule. That is why authoritarian ideologies on both the left and the right constantly warn about the dangers of money as a disruption of their moral and social order. They are well aware that freedom is financially rewarding, and that open markets undermine central authority. The left’s obsession with capitalism emerges from the fear of an ownership society, dominated by the
wishes of a socially conservative middle class. It is not the poor and oppressed that they care about, but themselves. The far right meanwhile is still stewing in the brew of inherited lamentations over the fall of kings and the diminution of inherited nobility at the hands of a capitalist meritocracy. Authoritarian ideologies on the far left and the far right, are both marked by symptomatic obsessions with Rockefellers and Rothschilds, banking institutions and billionaires. They claim to do so because they are concerned about the centralization of power. More often they simply want to be the ones to centralize power, and recognize capitalism as a dangerous tool that puts social mobility outside the control of any individual ideology or political faction. The intersections of power politics and economics can often produce a cycle, in which governments allow freedom in order to draw in more revenues, only to have those same freedoms lead to more government control. Immigration is one obvious example. As is urbanization. Complexity and diversity can lead to more profits, but they also invite a new degree of complexity in government. Which means the rise of a larger and more controlling government. A growing middle class and urbanization was in the long run structurally incompatible with feudal monarchies, but both led to a demand for even more centralized government to serve as a provider of services and control over dense population centers. Monarchy gave way to socialism. And socialism proved to be even better at bad budgets and spending money than Louis the Sixteenth. The lesson is that the trap of tyranny is
always waiting by the side of the road. Outsmarting it requires not only moving fast enough to escape what is behind you, but studying to see what waits ahead of you in the direction in which you are headed. A citizenry with more money only makes for a more tempting target. Robbing the middle class is much more fun than robbing peasants, because they tend to have bigger bank accounts. And they have already been trained to meet life’s needs by exchanging money for services. Which is exactly the socialist pitch. Along with the fine print that says the government is not obligated to actually provide those services, or have them available, that the cost of those services may change any time it sees fit, and that it may change the terms of the arrangement at any time, and in any way it sees fit. Tyranny dropped its iron collar and reinvented itself as a gilded cage. A Utopian system in which a wise and kind government would see to everyone’s needs and curb individual greed and power. But when the golden paint washed off, the gilded cage turned out to be the old fashioned black iron after all. The paint only existed to sucker its new occupants long enough for them to be on the wrong side of the bars. Governments, like con artists, configure themselves to fit the people. Even tyrannies are an expression of that. The greatest danger of tyranny is therefore not that it will be imposed against your will, but that you may actually welcome its imposition. That you may not even be able to recognize it as tyranny, until it is much too late. The fundamental shift that happens is that of the locus of control passing from the power. In democratic republics, the people
control the government. In tyrannies, the government controls the people. The power shift comes down to whom both the people and the government believe is best fit to control. Who should hold the rope. This is a question that comes down to what people actually need from their government and what they think they need from their government. The two tend to overlap, but they are never quite the same. For government, the matter is rather simple indeed. What governments need from the people is power. Money is simply another expression of power. Its popular potency lies in its symbolic decentralization of authority. By drawing the money back, governments monopolize power and diminish the available options for citizens of that country. By purchasing services from the government through taxation, rather than from corporations, the citizenry create a much more insidious monopoly. And they are engaging in a transaction of unequals that shifts their power balance much more dramatically than any corporation could do. And so the transition from capitalism to socialism begins. Socialism however is already a dead end. Economic centralization leads to a poverty of economic options. The sheep begin to die off, and eventually the wolves have to follow. Unless the wolves reluctantly let the sheep live to breed, and create many more sheep to prey upon, and then the cycle begins again. Governments liberalize to allow for wealth creation that they end up restricting and consuming anyway. And the social changes that encourage wealth creation also create new temptations for tyranny. The cycle repeats itself again when governments are formed into traps for a new generation, and when that new generation, having lost the wisdom of the old, flies into the gilded cage, and does not even notice when the door slams shut. Socialism’s gilded cage is a new incarnation of the recurring trap by which governments deprive the people of their power. And though a cage may be gilded, it is still a cage. Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Bar Mitzvah Invitations Cards Bar Mitzvah Invitations CardsIf you're getting ready to celebrate a Bar Mitzvah, then now is the time to begin reviewing some of those etiquette issues associated with the big event. ... • visuals Image taken on 2007-07-07 06:43:26 by Oferico.... • IMG_0867.JPG Image taken on 2007-04-26 21:09:46 by Iconoduel.... Original post source
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Jewish, Muslim Tensions Rise at UC Irvine After Suspension of Muslim Group by NoahDavidSimon (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 6/19/2010 7:57:00 PM
Tensions are rising at UC Irvine after a Muslim student group wa suspended for repeatedly disrupting a speech by Israel’s ambassador to the United States Michael Oren, pictured here. (Reuters) Tensions are high at the University of California-Irvine after the school recommended suspending a Muslim student group for its role in the disruption of an Israeli ambassador’s speech earlier this year. Students at the university say Jews and Muslims have been accusing each other of discrimination and harassment, as both sides have embraced campus speakers seen as hostile to Israel or Islam. Now the proposed suspension of the Muslim Student Union for at least a year has made an already hostile situation worse. The school revealed this week that it had recommended suspending the Muslim group after 11 students were arrested in February for repeatedly disrupting a speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren, who was repeatedly interrupted and called “murderer” and “war criminal” by pro-Palestinian students as he gave a talk on the Middle East peace process. The Muslim group is appealing the recommendation — a process that is expected to be completed before the next school year begins. The appeal comes after more than 60 faculty members at UC Irvine signed an open letter last month condemning what they said was an anti-Semitic atmosphere at the school. “We…are deeply disturbed about activities on campus that foment hatred against Jews and Israelis,” the letter read, citing incidents over the past few years that included “the painting of swastikas in university buildings and the Star of David depicted as akin to a swastika.” “Some community members, students, and faculty indeed feel intimidated, and at times even unsafe,” the letter read. But a lawyer for the Muslim Student
Union said any tensions on campus derive from a Jewish organization that is not connected to the college: the Jewish Federation Orange County. “A lot of the tension and friction is not on the campus,” attorney and activist Reem Salahi said. “It’s not divided between Jewish and Muslim organizations. There’s more tension between Muslim students and these Jewish organizations pressuring the university.” She said Muslim students have been intimidated and harassed and have even received death threats in which they’ve been called “every type of superlative imagined.” In recent years, UC Irvine has been accused of fostering anti-Semitic activity as the MSU hosted proPalestinian speakers critical of Israel. In 2005, the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights found that Muslim students had engaged in offensive behavior, but that their actions stemmed from opposition to the politics of Israel rather than to Jewish students themselves. Three years later, Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote to the Education Department expressing concerns that the office decided not to further investigate charges that UC Irvine had failed to respond quickly and effectively to complaints by Jewish students of being repeatedly intimidated and harassed. But now Muslim students find themselves on the defensive. The university on Monday released a
letter from a student affairs disciplinary committee to a Muslim Student Union leader saying the group was found guilty of disorderly conduct, obstructing university activities and other violations of campus policy. The committee recommended suspending the group for one year, placing it on disciplinary probation for an additional year and requiring the student organization to collectively complete 50 hours of community service, a move that would prevent the group from conducting organized campus events until at least the fall of 2011. University spokeswoman Cathy Lawhon said the committee’s decision will be a binding recommendation to the campus’ office of student affairs if the group’s appeal does not succeed. Lawhon said all the focus and attention paid to tensions between Jewish and Muslim students “has largely been generated by the outside community.” “There’s been a lot of attention on us by outsider groups for whatever reason for things that go on at every UC campus around the state,” she said, adding that controversial speakers usually go to all the UC schools in the state. “The only time you hear about it is when they’re at UC Irvine.” The Jewish Federation Orange County, which compelled the school to release the letter after filing a Freedom of Information Act, praised the school for its decision.
“While we would have liked for the administration to have come to this conclusion more quickly, we are please that after due process, the MSU has finally been sanctioned,” Shalom Elcott, president of the group, said in a written statement. Elcott told FoxNews.com that the MSU has been largely responsible for creating an anti-Semitic atmosphere on the campus by inviting speakers who equate Jews to Nazis and rally support for jihad, or holy war. “The MSU has been looking for a battle for a long time,” he said, adding that his group is only trying to help bridge the differences between the two sides. Salahi declined to say whether legal action is being planned in the event of an unsuccessful appeal. But she said students were “outraged” and “disappointed” with the university’s decision. “It’s unprecedented a university would ever do this,” she said, adding that the suspension would “create a really dangerous precedent for shutting down dissent.” via foxnews.com Posted via web from noahdavidsimon’s posterous Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • London: Muslim protest against university prayer room closure London: Muslim protest against university prayer room closureRelated post: London: Attacks on Muslim studentsSee a short clip of the protests here.Hundreds of Muslim students have been holding prayers... • Britain calls Israel’s Gaza flotilla raid unacceptable Britain Prime Minister David Cameron said Israel's Gaza flotilla raid was 'completely unacceptable' and called for an end to the economic blockade of the impove... ... • Where’s the outrage? Where's the outrage? In the course of commenting on Prime Minister Netanyahu's Holocaust Day address, Jennifer Rubin takes the American Jewish c... Original post source
It’s summer camp time in Gaza! by Elder of Ziyon (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 6/19/2010 7:19:00 PM
It’s time for summer camp – that time of year when Hamas and Islamic Jihad can inculcate young men in the ways of murder and jihad! Palestine Today writes that Islamic Jihad summer camps will enroll some
10,000 youngsters between the ages of 12 and 16 this year. Hamas camps will have far more than that amount. A report about Hamas camps from two years ago can be seen here. And how can I talk about summer camps in Gaza without showing my video, “Hello Martyr, Hello Fatah”? Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel
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Mainstream media: Only Islamophobes could wonder about a 52,000 square-foot megamosque complex in Murfreesboro, Tennessee by Marisol (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 6/19/2010 5:47:16 PM
Mainstream media: Only Islamophobes could wonder about a 52,000 square-foot mega-mosque complex in Murfreesboro, Tennessee“The Islamic Center of Murfreesboro ’s plans call for a 52,000-sq. ft. facility that would include a pool, gym, and school in addition to a mosque.” But only Islamophobes could wonder who’s paying for it all. Only Islamophobes could think there’s something odd about a mega-mosque in a town of 100,000 in middle Tennessee. And so this story makes every effort to make the locals who are opposed to it look like narrowminded, reactionary xenophobes who jest plain don’t cotton to people with different beliefs — that’s all it could be. “Plan for Mosque in Tennessee Town Draws Criticism from Residents,” by Bradley Blackburn for ABC News, June 18: A plan to build an Islamic community center in the middleTennessee town of Murfreesboro sparked an eruption of ugly criticism
on Thursday from some residents who don’t want a mosque built in their backyard. More than 600 people turned out for a meeting of the Rutherford County Commission Thursday night, with some sharing their opposition in public comments that at times turned intolerant. “We have a duty to investigate anyone under the banner of Islam,” Allen Jackson, the pastor of World Outreach Church, said at the meeting. The implication: Jackson has no possible reason to object to the mosque except as pastor of World Outreach Church. The Islamic Center of Murfreesboro ’s plans call for a 52,000-sq. ft. facility that would include a pool, gym, and school in addition to a mosque. The center has had a facility in Murfreesboro since 1997, but says that with over 250 Islamic families in the community, it needs more space. A whole lot of space, apparently. “It is not a huge mosque as they are saying,” said Imam Ossama Bahloul. “This place is too small for us and we have to move.” Murfreesboro has a population of just over 100,000, according the the U.S. Census Bureau. It is about 30 miles southeast of Nashville.
Would enough Music City Muslims even commute on a regular basis to fill the place? Some at the Thursday meeting wore religious or patriotic-themed clothing, and no one defended the plan in two hours of public comments, the Tennessean newspaper reported. “They seem to be against everything that I believe in, and so I don’t want them necessarily in my neighborhood spreading that type of comment,” said one man at the meeting. Tracey Steven, who also attended, said, “Our country was founded through the founding fathers — through the true God, the Father and Jesus Christ.” Some Cite Traffic, Housing Values as Concerns Others opposed to the plan did so for more practical reasons, citing concerns about the effects on traffic and housing values. The mosque would be built in a primarily residential area. “I was very surprised they would approve of that for any religion,” said resident Jackie Archer. Despite the outrage, county officials said Thursday that the plan will go ahead. They defended their decision by noting that the mosque plan met zoning requirements and it is illegal
6th Circuit Court of Appeals overturns lower court’s ruling prohibiting Christians from distributing leaflets at Dearborn Arab-American festival by Marisol (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 6/19/2010 7:09:36 PM
6th Circuit Court of Appeals overturns lower court’s ruling prohibiting Christians from distributing leaflets at Dearborn Arab -American festival Good news, in an update on this story. Meanwhile, of course, we wait to find out the grounds on which another group of Christians was arrested there, as BWI — Breathing While Infidel — is not yet against Michigan law. If it’s an Islamic festival, call it an Islamic festival. Otherwise, stop hiding behind the generality of “Arab -American” while persecuting ArabAmericans who also happen to be Christian, but refuse to be dhimmis in a free country. “Local news: Pastor gets OK for handouts,” from the Detroit Free Press, June 19: A Christian pastor can distribute literature on the streets at this weekend’s Arab-American festival along Warren Avenue in Dearborn, a
three-judge panel of the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled. George Saieg of California wants to hand out pamphlets aimed at converting Muslims. The Thursday ruling overturned a District Court decision that supported Dearborn’s policy, which said Saieg and anyone else must hand out literature only around their booths because of crowd control concerns. “Crowd concerns.” The Ann Arbor-based Thomas More Law Center filed suit on behalf of Saieg. This story just happened to appear directly under the preceding one: Once-banned professor to address fund-raiser Tariq Ramadan, a noted Muslim scholar, is to speak tonight in Dearborn at a fund-raiser for the Muslim Legal Fund, a Texas-based nonprofit. He is to speak about rights, duties and justice at the 6 p.m. banquet at the Hyatt Regency in Dearborn. Tickets are $30. Ramadan was banned from visiting the U.S. under the Bush administration, but had his ban lifted
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The Revolt by paraisrael (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 6/19/2010 11:20:11 PM
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Pro-Obama parody of ‘We are the world’ still up at YouTube 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 6/19/2010 6:56:00 PM
Pro-Obama parody of ‘We are the world’ still up at YouTube Pajamas Media interviews Caroline Glick, who is behind the ‘We con the world’ video that was removed by YouTube for ‘copyright violations’ last week. I’m sure you’ll all be shocked – just shocked – to hear that there’s an obscenity-laced parody of the same song by pro-Obama Leftists that has been left up by YouTube – apparently without any ‘objections’ by the copyright holder. Warner/Chappell, which owns the rights to “We are the World,” had YouTube remove the video, supposedly for copyright infringement. Glick, who is appealing, contends there were no violations of the fair use doctrine or U.S. copyright law. Indeed, I quickly found that YouTube hosts another parody video, “Obama’s Inauguration Party Song,” which also uses the tune from “We are the World”. Neither YouTube nor Warner saw fit to pull this video, though the lyrics are objectionable. Glick comments about the obvious hypocrisy: They are trying to personalize everything and demonize what they can’t contend with. The left has one card, and they play it over and over again for dealing with issues. They have no answer but to resort to the politics of destruction. Their favorite method is to call anyone who gives them an answer that they can’t contend with a racist. They cry for terrorists who would destroy them, but come out against democracies. Here’s more: The critics of the parody show a definite disconnect with what actually happened, according to publicly
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available video footage of the incident. The supposed “peace activists,” some members of the terrorist group IHH (Foundation for Humanitarian Rights and Freedoms), initiated the violence. Says Glick: Calling them peace activists is a complete lie. If you want to get some credibility you attach the word peace to your name or title, and you can get immunity to criticism. Instead of listening to the message, they are demonizing the messenger. She continues: There is a boycott of Israel by Hollywood and the rock world. They would rather champion a terrorist organization against Israel. Where are the Jews of Hollywood — Steven Spielberg, Barbara Streisand, and David Geffen? They will not speak out on Israel’s behalf. They care far more about being leftist than they care about being Jews. Unfortunately, that’s not much different than most of the rest of the American Jewish community. But read it all.
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Overnight music video Here’s Shloime Dachs singing Acheinu Kol Beis Yisrael (Our Brethren the Entire House of Israel), a prayer we say for all Jews under threat everywhere every Monday and Thursday. Did I ever mention that Shloime Dachs once gave a private concert in our house? Really…. Let’s go to the videotape. posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:48 AM Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Happy Birthday Israel... • First praise, then a rebuke: Biden’s Israel visit turns sour By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem The Israeli government last night managed to overshadow a high-profile visit by the US Vice-President, Joe Biden, with an annou... ... • Festive Shofar Flat Card Holiday Rosh Hashanah Product DescriptionHave some fun this Rosh Hashanah and send this light-hearted, ecru flat card. The greeting card features a simple, blue drawing of a Jewish man reading and playing a shofar. The... Original post source
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Lawsuit against Egyptian soccer star for "normalization" by Elder of Ziyon (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 6/19/2010 8:53:00 PM
From Al Arabiya(Arabic)(h/t for initial translation Ali) Famous Egyptian lawyer, Nabih Al Wahsh, filed a lawsuit demanding that Egyptian soccer player Emad Moteab be stripped of his citizenship because of “normalization.” Moteab joined Belgian soccer club Standard Liège, whose squad includes Rami Gershon, an Israeli soccer player. Moteab signed the contract without any reservation over
the fact that there is an Israeli, which created an “unprecedented situation.” The lawyer goes on to argue that Motaeb knowingly joined the Belgian team despite Egyptian hatred for Israel. Motaeb is very popular in Egypt, having scored a last-minute goal against Algeria to bring Egypt close to World Cup competition last November. Al Arabiya quotes a prominent Egyptian scholar Gamma al-Banna (brother of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, but considered much more liberal) who said that there is nothing wrong with Motaeb being on
the same team as Gershon, as long as he doesn’t become friends with him. Hatred for Israel is a given, he says, but asking him to not be on a team with an Israeli is going a little bit too far. The newspaper does bring up the question of whether the Egyptian should refrain from hugging the Israeli when a goal is scored. Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Weekly Parshah "Korach", The Book of Zohar, selected excerpts Lecturer: Rav Michael LaitmanDate: 2010-06-11Video: ENG 54.74MB Audio: ENG 9.75MB ...
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US asks Paraguay to extradite Brooklyn-born Hezbullah financier by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 6/19/2010 11:28:00 PM
US asks Paraguay to extradite Brooklyn-born Hezbullah financier The United States has asked Paraguay to extradite Brooklyn-born Moussa Ali Hamdan, who is accused of being a financier for Hezbullah (Hat Tip: Jihad Watch). The United States has asked Paraguay to extradite a Lebanese national suspected of funneling money to the Shiite militant group Hezbollah from the South American nation, court sources said Wednesday. Mussa Ali Hamdan, 38, was arrested Tuesday in Ciudad del Este, part of the Triple Frontier, a region the United States has repeatedly cited as being exploited by militant groups that “finance terrorist activities.” Hamdan is accused of 31 crimes, according to Interpol. The US extradition request cites his alleged material support for Hezbollah “including falsified documents.” The suspect is also accused of counterfeiting US currency and conspiracy to commit passport fraud, according to the request. Hamdan appeared Wednesday before judge Hugo Sosa Pasmor to confirm
his identity as part of an extradition request, and then was transferred to Asuncion’s Tacumbu penitentiary. Local media, citing local security officials, have said Hamdan was financing Hezbollah, which fought a devastating 2006 war with Israel and is blacklisted as a terror group by Washington. A cosmopolitan area and significant tourist spot, the Triple Frontier is also considered a major spot for smuggling and other organized crime. Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina however deny their shared region is a hotbed for terror financing. It’s well known that area of Latin
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Lebanese pop star banned from Hezbullah ship by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 6/19/2010 4:34:00 PM
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Saudi Arabia Wants to Go Nuclear. by NoahDavidSimon (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 6/19/2010 10:33:00 PM
Not Enough Oil? Saudi Arabia could be interested in developing a uranium enrichment capability as part of the kingdom’s efforts to establish a civilian atomic power sector, an adviser hired by the Middle Eastern state to devise its nuclear strategy said Wednesday (see GSN, Aug. 24, 2009). The uranium enrichment process can produce nuclear-weapon material as well as fuel for civilian applications. Over time, Riyadh is expected to want to be involved in as many parts of the atomic energy production process as it can be, said David Cox, a consultant whose firm was hired by Saudi Arabia to prepare the nuclear strategy. “Enrichment could happen there and the same with mining uranium,” Cox said, adding that “outsourcing will happen initially.” Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy chose Cox’s firm, Poyry, to analyze
the potential for Saudi participation in all aspects of the atomic-energy production process, Reuters quoted the consultant as saying. Cox said his firm’s study “is to evaluate what part of [nuclear energy production] is possible at a reasonable economic cost.” The feasibility study would be finished in several months and would contain comprehensive guidance on
the economic, institutional and technical aspects needed for beginning nuclear plant construction, he said (Reuters/ Daily Star, June 18). via gsn.nti.org I’m not going to act shocked. I’m just not. Jordan is doing it with Obama… and the Saudis are terrified of Iran. This is what happens when you encourage this. Posted via web from noahdavidsimon’s posterous
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Hezbullah ship Hezbullah has banned Lebanese pop star Haifa Wehbe from boarding the women’s-only ship called Mariam, which is supposed to head to Gaza in the coming days. They’re afraid she’ll be a bad influence on the rest of the terrorists. According to the Kuwaiti paper, Hajj was told yesterday by Hizbullah leaders that Wehbe would have to be prevented from taking part in the journey on grounds that her “nudity … and immodest dress will harm the reputation of all women participating in the trip.” The leaders further noted that the ever-popular Wehbe’s presence was likely to “divert attention from the main objective of the trip.” Later on Friday, Hizbullah denied it was involved in preparations for the trip, saying the group had “decided from the very beginning to stay away from this humanitarian act in terms of
organisation, logistic support and participation so as not to give the Israeli enemy any pretext to attack the participants.” Earlier this week, Hajj declared that the female activists were “all independent women who believe in breaking the siege on Gaza.” She added that “This has nothing to do with Hizbullah, although it is an honor for us to be supporters of the resistance.” Israel has said it won’t allow the ship to land. posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:34 AM Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Israel and Syria announce nuclear energy ambitions Israel and Syria have both told a conference in Paris they want to use nuclear power to generate electricity. Israeli Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau
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Oh joy! Adviser says Saudis may want to enrich uranium by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 6/19/2010 10:14:00 PM
Oh joy! Adviser says Saudis may want to enrich uranium An adviser to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia says that the Sheikhdom may want to enrich uranium as part of its efforts to establish ‘civilian’ atomic power. The uranium enrichment process can produce nuclear-weapon material as well as fuel for civilian applications. Over time, Riyadh is expected to want to be involved in as many parts of the atomic energy production process as it can be, said David Cox, a consultant whose firm was hired by Saudi Arabia to prepare the nuclear strategy. “Enrichment could happen there and the same with mining uranium,” Cox said, adding that “outsourcing will happen initially.” Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy chose Cox’s firm, Poyry, to analyze the potential for Saudi participation in all aspects of the atomic-energy production process, Reuters quoted the consultant as saying. Cox said his firm’s study “is to evaluate what part of [nuclear energy production] is possible at a reasonable economic cost.” What could go wrong? posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:14
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The Delft University of Technology, Architecture School collapsed in a pancake reaction to a fire. Let me repeat that …. the School Of Architecture. I’m highly doubtful they built a deficient building for themselves. Steel frame high rise building collapses and is utterly destroyed by a fire begun by a shorted out coffee pot. It wasn’t bombs, renegade black-ops, secret demolition, cruise missiles or remotely controlled fake 737s that brought down the architecture school’s steel frame building. It was fire that weakened the interior steel beam structure to the point that the weight and mass from above finally collapsed under the weight. Video of the moment is identical to the kind of collapse and dust/debris cloud witnessed on 9/11 at the World Trade Center. View the fire and collapse here: LiveLeak.com – Delft University of Technology in Holland on fire and collapsing History of the Delft University of Technology – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It’s a powerful slap in the chops to 9/11 Truthers. via americanthinker.com I doubt this story will convince anyone that we want. they don’t want to believe Islam does anything bad. Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Lecture at the Study ?enter "Kabbalah for the Nation", "The Peace"n1 Date: 2010-06-15Video: ENG 84.46MB Audio: ENG 15.05MB ... • Psalm 2 – Tehillim Two – ????? – ? A prelude to the Nations Futility of Massing against Israel... • World Jewish Congress Pres Ronald Lauder Stands up to Obama In an unprecedented open letter to President Obama, Ronald Lauder, the President of the World Jewish Congress asks the President to stop his public feud with the State of Israel and sta... Original post source
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The Jews of Santa Coloma de Queralt (Hispania Judaica) by paraisrael (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 6/19/2010 11:10:08 PM
The Jews of Santa Coloma de Queralt (Hispania Judaica) This book is an attempt to describe, on the basis of notarial acts found in local archives, Jewish life in a small community, of which little is known. The book shows the immense possibilities available in many provincial Catalan archives for a well -documented economic and demographic study of small communities on which the material from central archives is almost inexistent. Rating:(out of reviews)
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A Family Haggadah II Wedding Menorah by (Passover) Karen Rossi, Judaica – judaica by paraisrael (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 6/19/2010 7:20:22 PM
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