From Helen Freedman

News of MK Moshe Feiglin's "punishment" for reacting to his being banned from ascending the Temple Mount, only adds fuel to the claims that Israel's leadership is in a dysfunctional mode. We at AFSI who visit the Temple Mount semi-annually with our AFSI Chizuk mission, and were just there this past May 9, understand how important it is to establish and maintain the rights of Jews everywhere to ascend the Mount. We are dismayed and strongly oppose the banning of Feiglin from the Mount, and the punishment that has ensued. The AFSI Chizuk mission, on its recent visit to the Knesset on Yom Yerushalayim, May 8, were pleased to be greeted by MK Moshe Feiglin, and especially pleased to view him in his role as Deputy Speaker of the Knesset. For him to be subjected to outrageous disciplines is beyond the pale. We call upon all AFSI members to email PM Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the vital importance of the Temple Mount to the Jewish people and the inexcusable behavior of the government in denying MK Feiglin his rights along with "punishing" him for exercising them: memshala@pmo.gov.il; bnetanyahu@kneset.gov.il, pm_eng2@it.pmo.gov.il.

Arutz Sheva - May 22, 2013

Likud Punishes Feiglin, Dismisses Him from Knesset Committee

by Elad Benari

MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud) was dismissed on Tuesday from the Knesset's Education Committee, a punitive action due to his recent decision to suspend his parliamentary activity.

Feiglin was informed of his removal from the Education Committee by the chairman of the Knesset's House Committee, MK Tzachi Hanegbi (Likud). Feiglin decided to suspend his parliamentary activity after the Justice Ministry banned him from the Temple Mount, claiming his "behavior" was not in line with what was expected from a Knesset member.

Despite the Likud's decision to dismiss him from the committee, Feiglin emphasized that he does not regret his decision to suspend parliamentary activity in protest of the ban from the Temple Mount, which was taken by the highest echelons and was rumored to have been ordered by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu himself.

"The State of Israel's sovereignty on the Temple Mount, which is in the heart of Jerusalem and the nation, is dearer to me than any other role," he said.

"As long as the Prime Minister chooses to continue to succumb to the dictates of Waqf and does not allow me to exercise my right as a citizen and member of the Knesset to ascend the Temple Mount, I will continue to see myself as not obligated to coalition discipline," added Feiglin.

"I will be more than happy to go back and cooperate for the benefit of the success of the coalition, of which I am a member, when the government of Israel respects the sovereignty of the Knesset. If there is no sovereignty, there is no real value to the Knesset," Feiglin said.

When Israel liberated the Temple Mount during the 1967 Six Day War, then Defense Minister Moshe Dayan decided to leave the Islamic Waqf in charge of the compound.

The Waqf, in return, has removed every sign of ancient Jewish presence at the Jewish holy site and has consistently destroyed Jewish antiquities on the Temple Mount in a direct violation of a ruling by the Supreme Court.

Israeli Police, in an attempt to appease the Waqf, discriminate against Jews by limiting the number of Jewish worshippers allowed on the site holiest to Judaism, the Temple Mount, at one time in order to prevent conflict with Muslim worshippers. They often close the Mount to Jews in response to Muslim incited riots.

The only connection Islam has to the site is the legend that Mohammed tied his horse to the Temple Mount wall, although that is not clearly stated, when he ascended to the heavens. Moslems pray to Mecca, with those on the Mount turning their backs to it so as to face Mecca. Jews, in contrast, have faced the Temple Mount from wherever they are praying for thousands of years. Both religions connect the site to the sacrifice of Isaac.

Jews are forbidden to pray or show outward signs of worship at the holy site due to fears that doing so would anger Muslims praying at the Al-Aqsa mosque.

MK Feiglin regularly visits the holy site, usually on the nineteenth of every Hebrew month, and has in the past been detained at the site for allegedly praying or bowing.

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AFSI's newly selected Chairman, Mark Langfan, is a frequent contributor to Arutz Sheva. His subjects usually point to the futility and danger of creating a PA state inside Judea and Samaria, as well as highlighting Israel's strategic value as an asset to the U.S. and NATO. His brilliant maps clearly illustrate these points and more, and are available at his website, www.marklangfan.com, and can also be found on the www.afsi.org website, among many others. Two important recent articles penned by and about Langfan are printed below. Comments to him may be sent to mapmun@aol.com

Rabbi Guido Sarducci's 5-Minute 'West Bank' University

From Mark Langfan

Everything you need to remember about the dangers of a Palestinian "demilitarized" state that you'll remember 5 years from now.

In 1987, Father Guido Sarducci was a well-known comical fictional chain-smoking priest with tinted eyeglasses who appeared on TV and invented the "5-Minute University.".

For $20, Father Sarducci would teach you everything you would remember from college 5 years after having left college. So, for instance, for economics he taught "supply and demand"; business - "buy low, sell high"; French- Voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir?" Then, you take a quick sip of orange juice for spring break. And, so on. Very, very funny.

In 2013, Rabbi Guido Sarducci is a tragicomical, fictional non-smoking rabbi with wire rim glasses who has exposed the "Two-State Solution" as a hoax. For bupkis, he will teach you everything you need to remember about the dangers of a Palestinian "demilitarized" State that you'll remember 5 years from now. Here is the lesson.

First, just remember 400 million Middle Eastern Muslims will annihilate 11 million Greeks. Why? Because, the only non-Muslim country between the 400 million Middle Eastern Muslims (with 65% of the world's oil) and the 11 million Greeks (who are bankrupt) is Israel. So, it's either NATO enables Israel to keep the 'West Bank' so Israel is able to fight the Muslims in Israel, or NATO will be fighting Muslims in Greece and defending Greece.

Second, no Israeli 'settlements' mean no Tel Aviv water. About 900 million cubic meters of water flow in various directions from the mountains of Judea and Samaria to pre-1967 Israel, or rely critically on the area's water flow. Judea and Samaria's mountain aquifer water flows westward to the Sharon Plain (370 cu. m.), Northward to the Beit She'an Valley( 250M cu. m.), or south-eastward to the Dead Sea (about 150M cu. m). Without the westward vectoring water from Judea and Samaria, the coastal aquifer would be destroyed from salt water intrusion (320 cu. m).

Water desalination only takes care of 20-25% (400 cu. m.) of Israel's annual use of about 1,500 million cubic meters of water (excluding the additional 600 cu. m. of effluent and brackish water.) So, without this water, Israel is up a creek, without a creek.

Third, Katyusha rockets placed in a "Palestinian state" can carry Sarin poison gas(GB). If the Syrian Muslims easily murdered Syrian Muslims with Sarin gas shells, Palestinian Arabs will have no compunctions about murdering Israeli Jews with sarin gas Katyushas. So, if the peace crazies create a 'Palestinian state', you can bank on Sarin Katyusha rocket barrages into Tel Aviv. The newest yet-to-be-deployed, yet-to-be-battle-tested lasers only have a range of at most 2 miles. This puts them into easy anti-tank missile range. The anti-rocket lasers and their testing only proves a "demilitarized Palestinian state" in Judea and Samaria will have the same rockets rockets Gaza has, but worse.

And as the "moderate" Jibril Rajoub just said, he "would have used an atomic bomb against Israel from the West Bank if I had one." If the "moderate" Rajoub is publicly promising he would use an atomic bomb on Israel, Hamas is secretly planning to use sarin Katyushas. And, of course, Obama will need a beyond reasonable doubt "chain of custody" to show a Palestinian Arab actually fired the rocket with sarin while Jews lie asphyxiated and murdered.

Fourth, the leftists are really fighting for "2 million West Bank Palestinians today, 4 million West Bank Palestinians tomorrow." For, if the leftists give the "Palestinians" a state, in Judea and Samaria, Abbas and company will also get the immigration control over the their Palestinian Arab "refugees" to immediately move them into the new State.

Man, if the lefties think they have a Palestinian Arab demographic problem today, just wait till Iran imports multitudes of Iranian volunteer al Quds pioneers into their new state - tomorrow!

Lastly, as Golda Meir once said, "By the time you get here, we won't be here." American Jews are "peace process" lemmings. 75% of them have never traveled to Israel even once, but somehow, 85% of them have very strong, nay, passionate feelings about forcing Israeli Jews into into Auschwitz "peace" borders. Fact: 99.9% of the American Jews who support a Palestinian 'West Bank' state have no, I repeat, no idea what they are actually supporting.

While, Oslo may be a "suicide" process for Israelis, it's a "homicide" process for rich American Jews who think they are more moral than the Israeli Jews because they live on Park Avenue, and collect fancy expensive art. Just ignore them.

My 5 minutes are up. Don't forget, there are many American Jews who truly love Israel and Israeli Jews. We will prevail. Watch Guido!

For more info, visit www.marklangfan.com

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AFSI: Sen. Grassley's "Hitler" Reference is Spot On

Arutz Sheva Staff

NJDC attacked Sen. Grassley for saying lack of policy could lead to a Hitler. AFSI says he's right.

. Chuck Grassley's tweet reference to Hitler's 1939 invasion of Poland, as part of statement that the US currently lacks a foreign policy, is "spot on," says Mark Langfan, Chairman of Americans for a Safe Israel (AFSI).

On Saturday, Senator Grassley from Iowa tweeted:

US has no foreign policy. We should remember what happened the last time we had no foreign policy. It was Sept 1939 Hitler started WWII [in]Poland - ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) May 18, 2013

The National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) promptly attacked Sen. Grassley, claiming his "Hitler" reference was "absolutely inappropriate."

The NJDC further escalated its rhetoric by demanding an apology, and saying the Senator should "realize the dangers of making such extreme comparisons."

AFSI Chairman Langfan responded by saying that "the NJDC won't recognize there's another Hitler out there until another 6 million Jews have been murdered."

He further stated that Sen. Grassley is a modern-day hero and his Hitler reference is "100 percent appropriate."

"If America had men with the vision of Sen. Grassley in 1939, maybe we could have stopped Hitler before Hitler laid waste to the free world, and exterminated 6,000,000 Jews," Langfan added.

"Maybe the NJDC doesn't read the newspapers, but the Iranian-controlled Assad has just murdered 100,000 human beings, and has aimed his missiles at Tel Aviv. NJDC is more interested in shilling for Obama than defending a democratic Israel."

It is clear from the opening red sign declaring that entering the Arab area is dangerous to Israelis, along with the PA flags flying, that within the very heart of Israel, the enemy is clearly present. The size and grandeur of the Arab homes may be surprising, but travelers in the Shomron, in the Galilee, and in the Negev, see such homes on a regular basis. The Arabs live in sprawling, unfenced communities. Please feel free to ask me any questions on the subject, and feel free to print these photos along with my comments.

Two signs, one showing US Aid to the PA, and the second warning Israelis of Dangers in Arab areas

Iran to chair U.N. disarmament conference

Exclusive Report by UN Watch

GENEVA, May 13, 2013 - Iran will chair the United Nations' most important disarmament negotiating forum during the panel's May session, which opened today, sparking calls by an independent monitoring group for the U.S., the EU, and UN chief Ban Ki-moon to protest. Click here for UN website.

"This is like putting Jack the Ripper in charge of a women's shelter," said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, the Geneva based non-governmental organization, which announced it will hold protest events outside the UN hall, featuring Iranian dissidents.

"Iran is an international outlaw state that illegally supplies rockets to Syria, Hezbollah, and Hamas, aiding and abetting mass murder and terrorism. To make this rogue regime head of world arms control is simply an outrage. Abusers of international norms should not be the public face of the UN."

U.N. officials say Iran's post is merely the result of an automatic rotation. But UN Watch rejected attempts to downplay what it described as "a fundamental conflict of interests" and "an act certain to be exploited by Iranian propaganda to legitimize the mullahs' cruel regime."

"UN Watch calls on U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice, EU High Commissioner Catherine Ashton, and UN chief Ban Ki-moon to make clear that when the United Nations imposes four rounds of sanctions on Iran for illicit nuclear activities, condemns it for illegally arming the murderous Syrian regime, and denounces Tehran's massive abuse of human rights, this kind of appointment just defies common sense and harms the UN's credibility," said Neuer.

"Any member state that is the subject of UN Security Council sanctions for proliferation-and found guilty of massive human rights violations-should be ineligible to hold a leadership position in a UN body. The U.S. and Canada have asserted this principle in the past, and should do so again," said Neuer. "We urge world leaders to declare that allowing Iran to chair a UN disarmament body is simply unacceptable, given the fundamentalist regime's illicit activities in precisely the opposite direction."

"The U.S., the EU, and other nations should call on Iran to pass the chair on to a credible country that will advance the disarmament agenda within the UN," said Neuer. The Conference of Disarmament reports to the UN General Assembly and is billed by the UN as "the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community."

Iran will assume the presidency of the Conference on Disarmament on May 27 and hold it over four weeks, until June 23.

The conference chair helps organize the work of the conference and assists in setting the agenda.

The conference was established in 1979 after a special U.N. General Assembly session, and is made up of 65 countries. In the past, the conference and its predecessors negotiated major multilateral arms limitation and disarmament agreements. In recent years it has become paralyzed, with member states often divided even on setting the agenda.

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Word is out about the amazing work of Israeli doctors at Beth Israel hospital in Boston in responding to the horrific bombing attack at the Marathon. Their expertise in dealing with trauma victims was credited with saving many lives and limbs. Israel can be rightly proud of its skills in this area; however, we must recognize why Israel is the leader in this and so many counter-terrorism procedures. It is because Israel deals with this horror every single day as ordinary citizens go about their daily lives. Below we have the report on the stabbing of a Jew by an Arab terrorist at Tapuach Junction. This is a place that the AFSI Chizuk group passes through many times on its travels through the Shomron. When we visit the wonderful community of Kfar Tapuach, we go through that Junction. It's a busy traffic point, with Jews and Arabs traveling freely. Check points have been removed for confidence building. But is that action worth the Jewish lives that it costs? My answer is NO! See the report below and following that, read Rabbi Wolpo's letter on rewarding those who apprehend terrorists.

Israeli Father of Five Killed in Shomron Terror Attack

By Arutz Sheva Staff

Jew Killed in Shomron Terror Attack

An Arab terrorist armed with a knife stabbed an Israeli at the Tapuach junction in Shomron (Samaria) on Tuesday morning.

The terrorist stabbed the victim, identified as Evyatar Borovsky, in the upper body, wounding him critically.

The terrorist then grabbed his gun and fired at the Border Police who were stationed in the area. Border Police officers fired back, wounding the perpetrator.

Magen David Adom teams arrived at the scene and tried to revive the 31-year-old Israeli father of five from the Yitzhar, but pronounced him dead on the spot.

Evyatar was an actor who appeared in various theater productions and also worked in Yitzhar, where he lived. One of three brothers, he was raised in the village of Kfar Hassidim in the Zebulun Valley and will be buried there this evening.

The Tapuach junction in Samaria has known many attacks. The last one stabbing attack occurred in mid-January, when a terrorist stabbed a 17-year-old-boy near the checkpoint.

Gershon Mesika, head of Shomron Regional Authority, speaking on Radio Kol Chai reminded listeners of critically injured Adelle Biton, aged 3, who has not woken from the coma caused by a rock that hit her while she was riding in her mother's car last month. "The terrorist had no problem getting to the junction with a weapon now that the IDF dismantled so many checkposts in recent weeks... the IDF can easily bring quiet to the area if it is allowed to by political echelons...the Palestinian Authority gets tens of millions of shekels from us every month and is behind every terrorist act," he said.

A Border Police force chased the attacker and managed to stop him from escaping thescene of the attack. The terrorist, a resident of a village near Tul Karem, was turned over to security forces for questioning.

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The Jerusalem Post Conference was held this past Sunday, April 28, 2013, in NYC. The program was a full one, with many prominent speakers from Israel. At the closing panel, TWO STATES FOR TWO PEOPLES?, the panelists were Yuval Steinitz, Intelligence Minister, Amos Yadlin, Director INSS, Harvard Law Prof. Alan Dershowitz, Senior Contributing Editor at the Jerusalem Post, Caroline Glick, and Gil Hoffman of the Jerusalem Post moderating.

Prof. Dershowitz spoke about his plan to restart the peace talks involving the "Allon Plan."

AFSI's newly elected Chairman, Mark Langfan, has written a letter to Prof. Dershowitz, clearly outlining the present day security and water rights issues.

Langfan has challenged Prof. Dershowitz to a debate as to whether the "1970 Allon Plan in 2013 is a hoax on the Jewish people." We look forward to the Professor's response. We sincerely hope and urge him to accept the challenge, enabling the public to hear Prof. Dershowitz has an opportunity to transparently and clearly explain his position and the truth about the critically important issues facing Israel today.

See the Mark Langfan letter below, published in today's Arutz Sheva:

Opinion Iyar 20, 5773, 30/04/13 01:34

Open Letter to Professor Alan Dershowitz

Your Allon Plan is a total military hoax. I (by myself) challenge you, and any combination of your military advisors to a televised debate in Israel.

From Mark Langfan

Dear Prof. Dershowitz,

I personally thank you for your many years of pro-Israel and pro-Jewish advocacy.

However, at the 2013 Jerusalem Post New York Conference I attended yesterday, April 28, 2013, you publicly claimed the 1970 Allon Plan was a safe solution to the 2013 Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

I'm sure you don't realize it, but your military and security advisors have sold you a military hoax. Your Allon Plan is a total military hoax. I (by myself) challenge you, and any combination of your military advisors to a televised debate in Israel.

On August 31, 1992, close to 21 years ago, the Jerusalem Post published an article which I co-wrote entitled "Rabin not Faithful to Allon." http://www.marklangfan.com/rabinsallonplan.html (May Rabin rest in peace.) In that 1992 article, I outlined three basic military problems with the Allon Plan that then, and now, would represent an existential threat to Israel. Those 1992 problems with the Allon plan which I outlined were:

1.It failed to protect Israel's international riparian rights to water that falls in the West Bank and topographically migrates westward and northward to pre-1967 Israel. That water accounts for over 50% of Israel's water supply.

2.It failed to account for the air-space of the Allon West Bank State.

3.It failed to require full inspection rights of all cargo into the Allon West Bank State. This would allow Hamas to smuggle katyushas, man-pad anti-air craft missiles, and anti-tank missiles like the one that was fired into a yellow school bus killing Daniel Viflic (may he rest in peace). All of these small "terrorist" state-deniable-type weapons (unimaginable to Allon in 1967) would be in range of Israel's dense heartland of the coastal plain. Imagine al Qaeda firing a ball-bearing katyusha into Manhattan.

To add a couple more problems:

1.Israel would lose control of Palestinian immigration to the Allon West Bank State. There isn't enough potable water for the Palestinians who are there now, let alone with millions of new West Bank Palestinians. And if Israel was forced to reinvade after your Allon Plan failed, there would be millions more Palestinians there than there are now under the status quo. What are you going to do then?

2.Katyushas rockets can carry Sarin(GB) nerve gas just like the gas used by Assad on his own people. If fellow Muslims can use Sarin warheads on fellow Muslims, then they can certainly fire Sarin katyushas on Jews in Tel Aviv if they ever got the chance. And, we now see that "small-scale use" of chemical weapons on civilians means nothing to the President of the United States.

3.The Allon Valley would become just another indefensible 'Philadelphia corridor' of the Gaza Strip attackable from both the east and west, which Israel will be forced to abandon.

4.The Allon Plan doesn't include any of the Western Samarian settlements including the entire Ariel Block (which I have heard you publicly incorrectly include as being in the Allon Plan).

In short, your Allon Plan is a military hoax. I challenge you (and any battery of Israeli generals or admirals) to a televised debate over whether the 1970 Allon Plan being implemented in 2013 is a hoax on the Jewish people.

Sincerely,

Mark Langfan

www.israelnationalnews.com

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Remember the portion of the Bible where Moses sends twelve spies to scout out the Promised Land and ten of the spies return with the report that "we were grasshoppers in their eyes"? Once again, a Jewish leader allows the world to see that we are grasshoppers in our own eyes. Israeli sovereignty in the holiest place in Jewish life, the Temple Mount, the Har HaBayit, is challenged, and Israel's Prime Minister, Bibi Netanyahu succumbs. See the report below citing MK Moshe Feiglin's attempted monthly visit to the Temple Mount, the threats from the Arab world, and the PM's cave-in.

Following that humiliation, let your spirits be uplifted by the encouraging report from Nadia Matar and Yehudit Katzover about applying Israeli sovereignty to Judea and Samaria, an effort which AFSI supports 1000%. It is the only way to put an end to the nonsensical and dangerous posturings about the "two-state solution."

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/on-muslim-demand-bibi-ordering-mk-feiglin-off-temple-mount/2013/04/28/

Bibi Capitulates to Muslim Threats, Orders Feiglin Off Temple Mount

The Waqf threatened Netanyahu with "World War Three" should Feiglin go on the Mount tomorrow.

By: Yori Yanover

Published: April 28th, 2013

For the past ten years, MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud-Beitenu) has been visiting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on the 19th of the Hebrew month, every month. But on Sunday, April 28, 2013, Feiglin received a phone call from Deputy Commander Moshe Barkat, Chief of the Israeli Police David Precinct, which includes the Old City of Jerusalem.

"He informed me that, on direct order from the prime minister, I would not be permitted to enter the Mount tomorrow," MK Feiglin wrote in his Facebook page.

A source close to Feiglin told The Jewish Press that the deputy commander told the MK that the Waqf, the Jordanian charity organization which runs the Temple Mount, warned the Prime Minister's office that should Feiglin go up on the Mount on Monday, it would "start World War Three."

No one wants that. Except that the same Waqf has been cautioning about new world wars frequently, and is often involved in organizing, rather than trying to prevent them.

According to Feiglin, the prime minister has no legal authority to give such an order, because it violates three basic laws:

1. Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty, which gives each person freedom of movement, and requires the state to protect this right.

2. Basic Law: The Knesset, which grants every MK complete immunity in carrying out his duties.

3. Basic Law: Jerusalem, which says: "The sacred sites shall be protected from desecration and any other violation and from anything likely to violate the freedom of access of the religionists to the sites they hold sacred, or their feelings concerning those sites."

Also: "Any and all authority applying to the area of Jerusalem that is granted by law to the State of Israel or the Jerusalem Municipality, shall not be transferred to a foreign entity, political or governmental, whether permanently or temporarily."

"The only legal way to prevent me from going up to the Temple Mount tomorrow (without changing existing law)," says MK Feiglin, "is if, in the opinion of the officer in charge of the place there exists an immediate, clear and present danger."

But, having given him the warning a full day in advance, Feiglin argues, security forces should have ample time-had the prime minister only told them so-to organize and prevent dangerous gathering and violence.

According to MK Feiglin, the Prime Minister's decision "confirms what I was told by the police command when I asked to tour the Dome of the Rock, that the Temple Mount is under Muslim sovereignty."

This unfortunate decision, writes Feiglin, can be added to reports this week about transferring broad supervisory authority to UNESCO in Jerusalem, as well as the reality of a de facto construction freeze in Jerusalem, as Housing Minister Uri Ariel warned last week.

The source close to Feiglin says the MK will obey Netanyahu's directive, but that as of tomorrow Feiglin would no longer be voting the Likud-Beitenu party line.

"When, just before Jerusalem Liberation Day, the Prime Minister orders an Israeli Knesset member that-contrary to Israeli law- he not to go up to the Temple Mount, it means that the Prime Minister has officially and openly revoked Israeli sovereignty on the Mount and given it to the Muslim Waqf," MK Feiglin wrote.

"This is an entirely new situation, more severe than before, and I must consider now how to force the Prime Minister to respect the sovereignty of the State of Israel in its capital Jerusalem," he concluded. -----------------------------------------------

Women in Green Applauds the Poll that Shows: 80 Percent Want Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria

The Women in Green movement applauds the data that emerge from a poll conducted ahead of the Ariel Conference for Law and Mass Media (to be held on April 29th), according to which some 80 percent of the public support the application of Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria. Today (Sunday, April 21), saw the publication of the results of a special poll conducted by the Geocartography research institute on behalf of the Ariel Conference for Law and Mass Media, according to which some 80 percent of the public support the application of Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria. The Women in Green movement applauds the results which, according to the heads of Women in Green, are not surprising.

According to the poll, some 80 percent of the respondents believe that Israel should apply sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, under whatever conditions. Of those, more than a third of the Israeli public is of the opinion that Israel has to apply sovereignty over all Judea and Samaria, while almost a quarter believes that it should be applied only over the settlement blocs. Publications by the Ariel University further indicate that only about 20 percent of the public as a whole are of the opinion that Israel should apply sovereignty within the framework of an agreement.

Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar, leaders of Women in Green, the movement that for the past few years champions the acceptance of the idea of the application of sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, say that "these figures might be surprising for a part of the Israeli public, but this comes as no surprise to us. In recent years we have been traveling throughout Israel, and wherever the question of sovereignty is raised, the idea is received favorably, with extensive support." The two note the constantly growing numbers of participants in the conferences for the application of sovereignty ­ with the last one receiving tremendous media coverage - and the growing number of supporters of the idea, among both public figures and the public at large. Katsover and Matar report that the three conferences held until now will have a continuation shortly, in the format of small and more focused lectures that will be held throughout the country, in order to continue to strengthen the awareness of the idea and the ability to realize it. "We call upon the government of Israel to heed the voices that arise from the people. The government has a golden opportunity to demonstrate a true Zionist pioneering spirit and lead the public a step forward on its way to its political and security redemption. Today, the application of sovereignty is a necessity, that can be implemented with determination and courage. The people has sobered up from the two-state illusion, and it seeks a true Zionist answer, one based on values. The application of Israeli sovereignty over the cradle of Jewish history, Judea and Samaria, is undoubtedly such an answer," Katsover and Matar say.

It should be noted that the demand for sovereignty, as indicated by the poll commissioned by Ariel University, is not necessarily centered among voters for the right. A total of 60 percent of the respondents who define their views as left wing views think, to some degree or other, that Israel has to apply sovereignty over all or a part of Judea and Samaria. Among those who define their views as left wing, 42 percent agree, in some degree, that international law must recognize Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.

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Women For Israel's Tomorrow (Women in Green) POB 7352, Jerusalem 91072, Israel mailto:wfit2@womeningreen.org http://www.womeningreen.org For online donations to Women in Green: http://www.razoo.com/story/Women-In-Green

from Helen Freedman:

Caroline Glick once again brilliantly lays out the heart-wrenching truths that face Israelis and Americans today. President Obama's deceit, deception, denials, are all too painful and dangerous for America, and Israel. His pretense to "have Israel's back" is one we understood from the beginning was actually a promise to knife Israel in the back. The President's approach to the red lines of Syria and Iran is to ignore them, despite his proclamations. This leaves Israel on its own in confronting these dangers.

Obama's refusal to acknowledge the existence of Islamic Jihad in America, and its ties to the Boston Marathon bombings, endangers all Americans. As a New Yorker, I am very proud of Police Commissioner Ray Kelly in recognizing the dangers of young Muslim terrorists and Mayor Bloomberg who backed him in protecting New Yorkers. As is often said, not all Muslims are terrorists, but most terrorists are Muslims. For President Obama to admit this seems an impossibility. He will therefore continue to put American lives at risk. Caroline Glick's column leaves us dazed, but determined to continue doing all we can to protect our beloved America, and our promised land, Israel.

Time to Confront Obama

By Caroline B. Glick

Israel has been brought to its knees by its superpower patron

JewishWorldReview.com

The time has come for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to confront US President Barack Obama.

A short summary of events from the past three days: On Tuesday morning, the head of the IDF's Military Intelligence Analysis Division Brig. Gen. Itay Brun revealed that the Syrian government has already used "lethal chemical weapons," against Syrian civilians and opposition forces. Brun described footage of people visibly suffering the impact of chemical agents, apparently sarin gas.

Hours later, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Netanyahu had told him on the telephone that "he was not in a position to confirm" Brun's statement.

It is hard to imagine the US was taken by surprise by Brun's statement. Just the day before, Brun briefed visiting US Defense secretary Chuck Hagel on Syria. It is not possible he failed to mention the same information.

And of course it isn't just the IDF saying that Syrian President Bashar Assad is using chemical weapons. The British and the French are also saying this.

But as a European source told Ma'ariv, the Americans don't want to know the facts. The facts will make them do something about Syria's chemical weapons. And they don't want to do anything about Syria's chemical weapons.

So they force Netanyahu to disown his own intelligence.

Thursday afternoon, in a speech in Abu Dhabi, Hagel confirmed, "with some degree of varying confidence," that Syria used chemical weapons, at least on a "small scale."

What the administration means by "some degree of varying confidence," is of course, unknowable with any degree of varying confidence.

Then there is Iran.

Also on Tuesday, the former head of IDF Military Intelligence, Maj.-Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, said that Iran has already crossed the red line Israel set last year. It has already stockpiled 170 kg. of medium-enriched uranium, and can quickly produce the other 80 kg. necessary to reach the 250 kg. threshold Netanyahu said will mark Iran's achievement of breakout capability where it can build a nuclear arsenal whenever it wants.

Yadlin made a half-hearted effort Wednesday to walk back his pronouncements. But his basic message remained the same: The die has been cast.

Due to American pressure on Israel not to act, and due to the White House's rejection of clearcut reports about Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium, Iran has crossed the threshold. Iran will be a nuclear power unless its uranium enrichment installations and other nuclear sites are destroyed or crippled. Now.

True, the Americans set a different red line for Iran than Israel. They say they will not allow Iran to assemble a nuclear bomb. But to believe that the US has the capacity and the will to prevent Iran from climbing the top rung on the nuclear ladder is to believe in the tooth fairy - (see, for instance, North Korea).

Iran has threatened to use it nuclear arsenal to destroy Israel. Have we now placed our survival in the hands of Tinkerbell? And yet, rather than acknowledge what Iran has done, Netanyahu, President Shimon Peres and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon carry on with the tired act of talking about the need for a credible military option but saying that there is still time for sanctions and other non-military means to block Iran's quest for the bomb.

Perhaps our leaders are repeating these lies because they want to present a unified US-Israel front to the world. But the effect is just the opposite.

What their statements really demonstrate is that Israel has been brought to its knees by its superpower patron that has implemented a policy that has enabled Iran to become a nuclear power.

Indeed, the US has allowed Iran to cross the nuclear threshold while requiring Israel to pretend the course the US has followed is a responsible one.

The announcement that the US has agreed to sell Israel advanced weapons specifically geared towards attacking Iran should also be seen in this light. Israel reportedly spent a year negotiating this deal. But immediately after its details were published, the US started backing away from its supposed commitment to supply them. The US will not provide Israel with bunker-buster bombs.

It will not provide Israel with the bombers necessary to use the bombs Israel isn't getting. And anyway, by the time Israel gets the items the US is selling - like mid-air refuelers - it will be too late.

When, after overthrowing Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, the US failed to find chemical weapons in the country, then-president George W. Bush's Democratic opponents accused Bush of having politicized intelligence to justify his decision to topple Saddam. In truth, there is no evidence that Bush purposely distorted intelligence reports. Israel's intelligence agencies, and perhaps French ones, were the only allied intelligence arms that had concluded Saddam's chemical weapons - to the extent he had them - did not represent a threat.

The fact that Bush preferred US and British intelligence estimates over Israeli ones doesn't mean that he politicized intelligence.

In contrast, what Obama and his advisers are doing represents the worst case of politicizing intelligence since Stalin arrested his senior security brass rather than heed their warnings of the coming German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941.

Never in US history has there been a greater misuse and abuse of US intelligence agencies than there is today, under the Obama administration.

Take the Boston Marathon bombings. Each day more and more reports come out about the information US agencies had - for years - regarding the threat posed by the Boston Marathon bombers.

But how could the FBI have possibly acted on those threats? Obama has outlawed all discussion or study of jihad, Islamism, radical Islam and the Koran by US federal government agencies. The only law enforcement agency that monitors Islamic websites is the New York Police Department.

And its chief Ray Kelly has bravely maintained his policy despite massive pressure from the media and the political class to end his surveillance operations.

Everywhere else, from the Boston Police Department to the FBI and CIA, US officials are barred from discussing the threat posed by jihadists or even acknowledging they exist. People were impressed that Obama referred to the terrorist attack in Boston as a terrorist attack, because according to the administration-dictated federal lexicon, use of the word terrorism is forbidden, particularly when the act in question was perpetrated by Muslims.

Then there are the Palestinians. On Thursday, it was reported that in the midst of everything happening in the Middle East, Obama is planning to host a peace conference in Washington in June to reinstate negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.

The terms of reference for the conference are reportedly the 2002 Arab League "peace plan."

Among other things, that plan requires Israel to accept millions of hostile foreign-born Arabs to whatever rump state it retains following a "peace" agreement with the PLO. In exchange for Israel agreeing to destroy itself, the Arab peace plan says the Arabs will agree to have "regular" relations with Israel. ("Regular" by the way, is a term devoid of meaning.) During his visit here last week, Kerry announced that the new US policy towards the Palestinians is to pour billions of dollars into the Palestinian economy. Among other things, the administration is going to convince US companies like Coca-Cola to open huge plants in Judea and Samaria.

Sounds fine. But as usual, there is a catch. The administration wants US firms to build their factories in Area C, the area of Judea and Samaria over which, in accordance with the agreements they signed with Israel, the Palestinians agreed Israel should hold sole control.

In essence, the policy Kerry announced is simply an American version of the EU's policy of seeking to force Israel to give up control over Area C.

Area C, of course, is where all the Israeli communities are, and almost no Palestinians live.

Those Israeli communities and the 350,000 Jews who live in them are the strongest assertion of Israeli sovereign rights to Judea and Samaria. So the EU - and now the Americans - are doing everything they can to force Israel to destroy them. The campaign to coerce Israel into surrendering its sole control over Area C is a central component of that plan.

It cannot be said often enough: The administration's focus on the Palestinian conflict with Israel in the midst of the violent disintegration of the Arab state system and the rise of jihadist forces throughout the region, coupled with Iran's steady emergence as a regional power, is only understandable in the framework of a psychiatric - rather than policy - analysis.

For the past five years, perhaps Netanyahu's greatest achievement in office has been his adroit avoidance of confrontations with Obama. With no one other than the US willing to stand with Israel in public, it is an important national interest for Jerusalem not to have any confrontations with Washington if they can possibly be avoided.

This attempt to avoid confrontations is what made Netanyahu agree to Obama's anti-Jewish demand to deny Jews their property rights in Judea and Samaria in 2010. This is undoubtedly what stood behind Netanyahu's decision to apologize to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan during Obama's visit to Israel last month. That apology constituted a moral abandonment of the IDF naval commandos who Netanyahu's government sent - virtually unarmed - to face Turkish terrorists affiliated with al-Qaida and Hamas aboard the Mavi Marmara terror ship.

To a degree, all of Netanyahu's seemingly unjustifiable actions can be justified when weighed against the need to avoid a confrontation with America.

But by now, after five years, with Iran having passed Israel's red line, and with chemical weapons already in play in Syria, the jig is up.

Obama does not have Israel's back.

Contrary to the constant, grinding rhetorical prattle of American and Israeli politicos, Obama will not lift a finger to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power. He will not lift a finger to prevent chemical weapons from being transferred to the likes of al-Qaida and Hezbollah, and their colleagues in Syria, or used by the Syrian regime.

From Benghazi to Boston, from Tehran to Damascus, Obama's policy is to not fight forces of jihad, whether they are individuals, organizations or states. And his obsession with Palestinian statehood shows that he would rather coerce Israel to make concessions to Palestinian Jew-haters and terrorists than devote his time and energy into preventing Iran from becoming the jihadist North Korea or from keeping sarin, VX and mustard gas out of the hands of Iran's terrorist underlings and their Sunni competitors.

No, Israel doesn't want a confrontation with Washington. But we don't have any choice anymore.

The time has come to take matters into our own hands on Syria and Iran. In Syria, either Israel takes care of the chemical weapons, or if we can't, Netanyahu must go before the cameras and tell the world everything we know about Syria's chemical weapons and pointedly demand world - that is US - action to secure them.

As for Iran, either Israel must launch an attack without delay, or if we can't, then Netanyahu has to publicly state that the time for diplomacy is over. Either Iran is attacked or it gets the bomb.

Lauri Regan, in her recent article in the AMERICAN THINKER, asks whether President Obama can fulfill his oath to protect Americans, while he seems to make protection of Muslims his priority. Reading this article, one can only despair over the future of America with Obama as our leader. The eagerness to portray the Boston Marathon Bombing simply as the work of two brothers, one influenced by the other, without any connection to a larger Islamic jihad plot, is simply deplorable. The American public is being deceived about a subject that is life threatening. Liberals who side with the President in brushing aside the seriousness of this, are endangering the lives of their children and grandchildren. Words are not enough to convey the urgency of this matter. We pray that all Americans will make their voices heard in contacting the White House: 202-456-1111; 1414.

Can a President Who Has Promised to Stand with the Muslims Protect Americans?

By Lauri B. Regan

In Obama's Audacity of Hope, he insinuated that he would stand with Muslim Americans should the political winds shift in any ugly direction." He also asserted in Bob Woodward's Obama's Wars, "We can absorb [another] terrorist attack." These are two straightforward statements that raise the question of whether a man who has been seemingly obsessed with reaching out to "the Muslim world" since taking office is capable of fulfilling his duty as commander-in-chief to keep America safe and secure.

The negative implications of Obama's time in office will be felt for decades, but one thing is clear. The U.S. President who does not recognize America's exceptionalism and who has promised to stand with Muslims has been unable to keep Americans safe from Islamic terror -- both at home and abroad. Asserting that "The Obama Years are Synonymous with Terrorism," a recent IBD editorial chronicled the terrorist attacks, both failed and successful, during Obama's term. From Little Rock and Ft. Hood to Benghazi and Boston, terrorism directed at Americans is far from waning despite Obama's never-ending claims of al-Qaeda's decimation. And unless Obama's policies of appeasement, political correctness, government dependency, leading from behind, and willful ignorance regarding the Islamic threat to the West will lead to further terrorism.

Obama did not create the Islamist ideology that has fed the fervor of modern-day terrorism. But from his Cairo speech through his speech Monday night just after the Boston bombings, in which he refused to call the attacks terrorism (he conceded the point the following day), he has made it clear that he does not believe that terrorism is a continuing threat to the lives and safety of Americans. His refusal to use the terms "War on Terror" and "Islamic fundamentalism" are just examples of a belief either that he can wish away evil or that evil simply does not exist. But what the country needs is a president who understands Islamic jihad for what it is -- the totalitarian, fundamentalist dogma that drives the violence perpetrated by those who have waged holy war on the West. And Obama has yet to give us any indication that he understands these very real threats, or that he is interested in, and capable of, protecting us from them.

Based on the fact that, in response to information provided by a foreign government (presumably Russia), the FBI questioned one of the Boston terrorists two years ago and a 2009 domestic violence arrest that should have led to his deportation but did not, Tuesday morning quarterbacks are focusing on Obama's questionable immigration policies, including administrative amnesty that "apparently directs ICE to wait until an illegal alien commits a serious crime or two before considering deportation." And while most people think of Hispanics crossing our southern border illegally, few realize that Hezb'allah has operatives working throughout Latin America. Unfortunately, securing our borders for national security purposes is taking a back-seat to Obama's politicking and demonization of the GOP as anti-immigrant.

Alas, would that it were simply Obama's indifference to our immigration problem that led to the successful terrorist attack last week. Unfortunately, Obama seems driven by a desire to befriend Muslims and demonize those who recognize that, while not all Muslims are terrorists, most terrorists are Muslims and that radical Islam is a clear, present, and dangerous threat. Martha Raddatz observed, "The president has been so worried about offending non-jihadist Muslims that he's tried to take the ideology out of our enemy, which is nuts considering our enemy is the violent ideology."

The administration's assertions that the Muslim Brotherhood is moderate epitomize the administration's cluelessness. Notwithstanding the MB doctrine -- "Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Koran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope." -- the administration's assertions of secularism and moderation rather than Islamism and sharia domination are indicative of willful ignorance on the part of those formulating foreign policy. As Barry Rubin stated:

[T]he ability to critique precisely what is radical in Islam and what is wrong with Islamism is handicapped by the successful effort to brand any attempts at making such distinctions as "Islamophobia" instead of a sensible fear of revolutionary Islamism[.]

But is it really ignorance, or is there a dangerous ideology that drives Obama policy in this regard? In an in-depth essay on the MB's penetration of the government," Clare Lopez observed:

Under the Muslim Brotherhood-influenced Obama administration, U.S. policy has undergone such a drastic shift in the direction of outright support for these jihadist movements -- from al-Qa'eda militias in Libya, to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and both al-Qa'eda and Muslim Brotherhood-linked rebels in Syria -- that it is scarcely recognizable as American any more.

This mentality likely led to Obama's Justice Department dropping the charges against unindicted co-conspirators CAIR, ISNA, and other Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated organizations in the Holy Land Foundation terror-funding trial. It also helped bring the MB to power in Egypt as Obama threw Mubarak under the proverbial bus despite a decades-long history of a peaceful alliance among Egypt, America, and Israel. And with numerous MB operatives working with or in the administration, it is no wonder that an Egyptian cleric recently stated, "Trust me, very soon we will see the flag of 'There is no god but Allah' flying over the White House. They are already holding [Muslim] prayers in the White House."

This worldview coupled with the need to ensure some elitists' perceived politically correct discourse is leading to troubling policy decisions. Succumbing to pressure by MB-affiliated organizations, the FBI was forced to rewrite counter-terrorism training manuals instructing agents on the religion of Islam. Allen West responded to the fiasco, stating, "We have to understand when tolerance becomes a one-way street, it will lead to cultural suicide[.] ... [W]e should not allow the Muslim Brotherhood-associated groups to be influencing our national security strategy."

One has to wonder whether this played a role in the FBI's failure to discover the Boston terrorists and stop them before they killed. Rep. Pete King stated on Fox News Sunday:

[T]his is the latest in a series of cases like this. Anwar Awlaki, Major Hasan, Carlos Bledsoe, Robert Headley [sic], and now, this case with the older brother, where the FBI is given information about someone as being potential terrorists, they look at them, and then they don't take action. And they go out and carry out murders after this. So, again, I'm wondering, again, is there something deficient here? What was wrong?

Whether due to efforts to be politically correct or efforts to hide reality from the public, Obama's refusal to call terrorism what it is is distressing -- and dangerous. Major Hasan's terrorist attack at Ft. Hood is labeled "workplace violence" despite clear evidence (including screams of "Allahu Akbar") to the contrary. And a filmmaker accused by the administration of producing a video that led to the Benghazi attacks remains in jail while our new secretary of state echoes Hillary "what difference does it make" Clinton and pronounces, "We got a lot more important things to move on to[.]" This willful ignorance will lead Kerry, along with Obama's other similarly incompetent appointees, to serve as indirect and unintentional co-conspirators in future terrorist attacks on Americans.

The administration's refusal to discuss what motivated last week's terrorist attack (recall that David Axelrod surmised that Obama was thinking that it was due to "Tax Day") is leading to left-wing apologists and our enemies blaming America. Until Obama admits that Islamism is a failed ideology and proudly asserts the wisdom of Americanism, how can we expect to end the growing appeal of violence among the Islamic faithful?

In a speech after the Boston attack, Obama referred to himself as "Reverend Obama." If only he would take on that role in the context of preaching to the Muslim world what a privilege it is to live in our great country. But it is this refusal to recognize the evils of Islamic fundamentalism that have neutered the administration's ability to confront the problem. And while the administration declares that the War on Terror is over and Janet Napolitano declares that the Boston attacks were not part of a "broader plot," the terrorists' War on America and its values rages on (a recent story explains that the only reason the terrorists did not kill the carjacking victim was because he was not an American). Andrew McCarthy explained:

Islamic supremacism is a mainstream Islamic ideology - held by tens of millions of Muslims, not just a few thousand al Qaeda members and collaborators. Thus, if the administration were to admit that this ideology and agenda catalyze terrorism, they would logically have to admit the problem is much bigger than al Qaeda.

... This leads the administration to the absurd conclusions that...a mass-murder attack committed by Muslims, no matter how obviously it is terrorism, should not be acknowledged as terrorism unless it has been committed by either a member of al Qaeda or a group that can be portrayed as "inspired" by al Qaeda (meaning, inspired by "violent extremism," not by Islam).

And Stephen Hayes observed:

This is not, of course, the first time we've seen an apparent eagerness from the Obama administration to minimize or dismiss the possibility of broader ties to international terrorism after attacks or attempted attacks on U.S. interests. Three days after the attempted bombing of an airplane on Christmas Day 2009, President Obama suggested that the attempted attack was the work of "an isolated extremist." He made the claim despite the fact that the bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, told interrogators in interviews shortly after his capture that he'd worked with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Five months later, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano called the attempted bombing of Times Square by Faisal Shahzad a "one off" attack. Other administration officials downplayed the likelihood of ties to foreign jihadists.

In the coming days and weeks, we will learn more about the influences that led to the radicalization of the Boston terrorists. What we do know is that the imam from the mosque that the terrorists attended is affiliated with a MB front-group and that he sermonized about violence. And while the NYPD was vilified for recognizing that there is an incitement problem in America's mosques, the federal government should mirror those anti-terror surveillance programs but likely will not.iii

Exacerbating the problem is Obama's domestic spending sickness that is leaving our military capability in shambles and our homeland security seriously wanting. In an article discussing the military's "State of Unreadiness" in the context of an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, Col J.E. Dyer observed:

Even during the penurious Carter years, things weren't this bad. It really isn't possible to overstate the seriousness of it...

Burned readiness for the Air Force and Navy -- the services that would execute a strike on the Iranian nuclear program -- means forces that can't be called on when they are needed. Think of "burning readiness" as driving until your gas is gone without a means of refilling the tank. That's what America is doing right now with our armed forces.

While many may argue that the cuts to the military budget are due to partisan congressional dysfunction, it is important to note that the sequester was the brilliant idea of our current commander-in-chief. Furthermore, it was recently reported that the administration cut the budget for domestic bomb prevention by 45%. This is the portion of the DHS budget that is allocated to prevent the exact type of terrorist attack that occurred in Boston last week. And over the past several years, programs that provided millions to schools for training, security, police, and mass tragedies were terminated.

Obama entered office promising to close Gitmo, treating the war on terror as an everyday criminal matter (despite the urging of lawmakers, the administration will not designate the Boston terrorist as an enemy combatantiv), and outlawing enhanced interrogation that leads to life-saving intelligence. While Obama is largely praised for drone attacks that have killed al-Qaeda terrorists, the inevitable result is a dearth of leads that could prevent future attacks. The premature pullout from Iraq and Afghanistan and resulting void in American influence and strength are resulting in newly emboldened Taliban, al-Qaeda, and Islamic jihadists across the entire region. Leading from behind has resulted in the weaponization of Islamists. And the administration has granted Global Entry Status to Saudi Arabian citizens (before those from Great Britain, France, and Israel) and now permits knives, baseball bats, and other potential weapons on airplanes.

Many analysts are now questioning whether the atrocity that befell the citizens of Boston will become the "new normal." It is clear that future attacks are inevitable as long as our government and the president in particular do not call a spade a spade and begin to take all necessary measures to protect American citizens from the evil deeds of Islamists.

Now is not a time to "stand with Muslims." It is a time to call for Muslims to leave behind centuries of violence and join the civilized race of the 21st century. And if they do not, they should know that we will fight the War on Terror until the evil is destroyed.

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i ore recently, a group of ICE agents sued the administration, claiming that it is dictating how immigration laws are or are not enforced. Quoting Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, Andrew Stiles reported that the administration appears "to be giving a lot of fee passes to people who are a public-safety problem, beyond the fact that they are here illegally."

ii ccording to The Religion of Peace website, there have been over 20,000 lethal Muslim terrorist attacks since, 9/11 with approximately 1,800 occurring annually, about 150 per month, and 5 each day.

iii A Wall Street Journal editorial reports that due, in part, to bureaucratic competition, FBI officials were major sources for the AP stories on the NYPD program. They also "wish the NYPD had been in charge" in the case of the Boston attack.

iv The importance in naming Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and others as enemy combatants cannot be stressed enough. This designation would permit extensive interrogation that could possibly lead to information that could prevent future attacks and vital intelligence on terror cells, weapons training, and related matters. Treating terrorists as common criminals shuts the door to obtaining critical intelligence much like a drone strike terminates any ability to learn from the subject.

The text has been corrected to remove an apocryphal direct quote that Obama would "stand with Muslims", when in fact he referenced "Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example," when he said "I will stand with them." We apologize for the error.

One Israel Fund: Safeguarding Jewish Lives in Judea, Samaria

President of One Israel Fund tells Arutz Sheva that organization raises money "to safeguard the lives of Jews living in Judea, Samaria."

By Eliran Aharon, New York

The One Israel Fund hosted its nineteenth annual dinner, dubbed “Our Eternal Bond with Israel,” on Monday night, April 22, in New York City.

Speaking to Arutz Sheva, Steven Orlow, the president of the organization, said that since its founding nineteen years ago, the organization has had “one purpose” and that purpose, he said, is “to do everything we can to improve and safeguard the lives of the Jews living today in Yehuda and Shomron (Judea and Samaria).”

The One Israel Fund raises money “to try to meet the needs” of the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria so that “their lives can not only be more livable and more pleasant but safer, so we can avoid the creation of victims of terrorism,” he told Arutz Sheva.

Helen Freedman of Americans For A Safe Israel organization also participated in the event, speaking of her activities on behalf of the Jewish homeland.

According to its website, the One Israel Fund “fills the gaps in medical, social, recreational and preventive security services which are conspicuously lacking in Judea and Samaria. Our goal is to undertake ongoing fundraising campaigns to help ensure the physical, emotional and moral well-being of the Jewish families living in each and every community in these areas.”

“One Israel Fund has invested nearly $30 million dollars to date for these projects, including surveillance camera and emergency lighting systems, communication gear, medical equipment, bulletproof ambulances, vans and vests and EMT facilities that spell the difference between life and death in scores of communities,” according to its website.

This originally appeared at: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/167406

From Helen Freedman - CALL FOR HONEST ID OF JIHAD IN AMERICA

Americans are in great danger from Islamic Jihad for obvious reasons, with a critically important one being the denial by the Obama administration regarding its existence here in America. Past attacks and murders have been labelled "workplace violence" and "drive-by shootings", when all evidence pointed to the fact that they were acts to "glorify Allah."

It's time to say openly, without being accused of Islamaphobia or racism, that radical Islam is dedicated to the destruction of infidels - which includes everyone who is not a Muslim.

Janet Napolitano, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, at a briefing given at 10:23 AM on Wednesday, April 16, two days after the horrific murderous attack at the Boston Marathon, without knowing who was responsible for the bombings, declared that "There is no current indication to suggest that the attack was part of a larger plot." How could she possibly know that, when nothing else was known? Now the bombers have been identified as two brothers from Chechnya with ties to radical Islam.

The Obama administration is still questioning if they were acting alone or if they were part of some larger group. Of course the Tsarnaev brothers are part of a larger Islamic Jihad group!

IF WE DO NOT DIAGNOSE THE DISEASE, IT CANNOT BE CURED!!!

The Islamic jihad groups are all over the world, concentrating on radicalizing everyone in their reach. This time the group emerges not from the Middle East, but from a new area called Khorasan. We pull out our maps and discover the following:

"The Khorasan is a region that encompasses large areas of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Iran. The Khorasan is considered by jihadis to be the place where they will inflict the first defeat against their enemies in the Muslim version of Armageddon. The final battle is to take place in the Levant - Israel, Syria, and Lebanon. Mentions of the Khorasan have begun to increase in al Qaeda's propaganda. After al Qaeda's defeat in Iraq, the group began shifting its rhetoric from promoting Iraq as the central front in their jihad and have placed the focus on the Khorasan.

Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/10/fighters_from_caucas.php#ixzz2QvtcrcaG

"We first greet you from Khorasan, and our Muslim brothers in the area from the Caucasus also greet you.""Praise be to Allah, we are thankful for our Emirate," Abdullah continues. "We have announced the enemy of the Muslims to be our enemy, and we fight for the word of Allah. We are setting our nation not for worldly purposes, but in the name of an Islamic Caliphateandan Islamicstate : http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/10/fighters_from_caucas.php#ixzz2QvtsM2uw

Steven Emerson, head of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, issued the following report. Please take time to click onto the many links. The information is powerful and terrifying. You might then want to call the DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: 202-282-8000 and President Obama's comment line: 202-456-1414; 1111 to ask for honesty in reporting on and dealing with Islamic Jihad in America.

Bombing Suspects Lauded Jihad

While police in and around Boston hunt for 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers, information gathered from various social media outlets indicate that he and his brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, harbored radical Islamic beliefs.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed overnight as police closed in on him and the hunt for Dzhokhar remains active. An MIT security officer was shot and killed in the fire fight.

This is believed to be Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Youtube page. Several of the posts feature radical Islamic rhetoric. In addition, a graphic video about Syria appears on Tsarnaev's page on a Russian version of Facebook.

The brothers came to the United States from Chechnya, a predominantly Muslim state which declared independence from Russia in 1991, resulting in years of violence and terrorist strikes. Another video Tsarnaev posted was simply called "Terrorists." But that video has been taken down. Yet another that was posted last summer, lauds "The promised emergence of the black flags from the promised land of Khorasan." It celebrates jihadis posing "with a flag of the Taliban's Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan," the Long War Journal reported. The video has an apocalyptic message anticipating a time when the forces of Islam, led by the Mahdi, the Guided One, will conquer the world prior to the Day of Judgment. Part of this battle will be the conquest of the Holy Land.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a boxer who told an interviewer in 2009 that he had no American friends. "I don't understand them," he said. An Amazon.com wish list believed to be Tamerlan's includes several books on forgery and the books The Lone Wolf And the Bear: Three Centuries of Chechen Defiance of Russian Rule and Allah's Mountains: The Battle for Chechnya, New Edition.

Eric Mercado, a former high school classmate of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, told CNN that he and his friends remember a conversation in which Tsarnaev said, "When justified, terrorism isn't necessarily a bad thing." The comment was dismissed as outlandish. "No one wants to believe that their friend from high school is a quote-unquote 'terrorist,'" Mercado said.

The bombs, reportedly packed inside pressure cookers, bear striking resemblances to instructions offered by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula's Inspire magazine. One article suggested that pressure cooker bombs should be "placed in crowded areas and left to blow up. More than one of these could be planted to explode at the same time. However, keep in mind that the range of the shrapnel in this operation is short range so the pressurized cooker or pipe should be placed close to the intended targets and should not be concealed from them by barriers such as walls."

From Helen Freedman -

As we mourn the deaths in the Boston Marathon Bombing, as well as pray for the hundreds of wounded, many of whom lost limbs, vision, and hearing, and have nails and ballbearings embedded in their bodies, we are glued to the TV reports, hoping that information will be forthcoming soon about the perpetrtors. President Obama has called the bombing a "heinous and cowardly act", and acknowledges that it is terror, because "any bombing would be a terrorist act." He warns against "jumping to conclusions", since "we don't know who? or why?" an "organization" or individuals are to blame. Steven Emerson, head of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, reported that an Al Queda magazine recently recommended an attack on a sporting event, and also gave instructions on how to create explosives in one's kitchen. Did our Homeland Security Department notice this, or think it merited attention? Steve also pointed out that nails and ballbearings packed into bombs are a signature of jihadist bombs, as is the targeting of innocent civilians going about their daily activities. Reports had been given out of two additional devices that were found and defused. Those reports are now being denied by government agencies.

It is our knowledge of the many denials of the Obama administration regarding Islamist terror attacks that now causes alarm. Nidal Hasan's murder of 13, with 32 wounded in his Fort Hood Nov. 5, 2009 attack is still being labelled "workplace violence," despite the massive evidence that Hasan's Islamic beliefs drove him to commit the terror attack. The June 1, 2009 murder of U.S. Army soldier Andy Long by Carlos Bledsoe in Little Rock, Arkansas, is still not recognized by the Department of Defense as an Islamist terrorist attack despite the fact that Carlos admitted to being a jihadist who had changed his name to Abdul Hakim Mohamed during his stint in Yemen.

The long list of denials continues. At 3:30 this Tuesday afternoon, April 16, Fox News reported that Homeland Security head Janet Napolitano announced that the Boston Bombing is "NOT PART OF A BROADER PLOT." How was that determined? Why was that announcement made, if not to stifle an investigation into Islamist terror connections?

Please see the material below regarding the denial by the Obama administration of Islam's role as a purveyor of terror, as well as Obama's support for the Muslim Brotherhood:

Obama Supporters Criticize Administration's Muslim Brotherhood Policy

by John Rossomando

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Discontent with the Obama administration's "abominable" policies toward Egypt among some of his leading supporters on Middle East issues took center stage Friday afternoon during a panel discussion sponsored by the Center for American Progress (CAP).

The program on "U.S. Engagement with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood" featured James Zogby, founder and president of the Arab-American Institute; John Esposito, head of the Prince Alaweed bin Talal Center for Christian-Muslim Understanding at Georgetown University; and Michael Hanna, senior fellow at the Century Foundation.

Each expressed concern with the Muslim Brotherhood's rejection of women's rights, hostility and violence toward Egypt's Coptic Christian population, and repression of dissent and "incompetence" since the party came to power last year. This criticism is noteworthy given that each speaker admitted having had high hopes for the Brotherhood a year or more ago.

Egyptian human rights abuses have been so grave that even Esposito, one of the Brotherhood's most redoubtable defenders in America, took issue with the Obama administration's Egypt policy.

"The answer here is obvious," Esposito said when asked about last Sunday's siege of the Coptic Church's holiest cathedral by Islamic extremists and Egyptian riot police that left two dead and over 80 injured. "The administration should be very strong in responding to that kind of incident because this is not an incident where we want to say that, 'Oh, we are not going to intervene in Egyptian politics,' where certain segments of the Egyptian population will say 'there goes the U.S. intervening.'" It should be met with very strong statements publicly, but also privately when talking about potential economic assistance."

Esposito's recommended course of action stood in opposition to the State Department's actual response at Monday's press briefing when acting spokesman Peter Ventrell called on "restraint from all sides" without acknowledging that the Islamists caused the siege.

CAP was founded by former Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta in 2003 as a left of center answer to the conservative Heritage Foundation. The group has been extremely influential with the Obama administration and with Democrats in Congress.

Zogby suggested restructuring foreign aid to Egypt to be more sensitive to the facts on the ground rather than the United States locking itself an agreement that is difficult to change over the long-term. Such a change would give policy makers flexibility so aid to Egypt isn't handled in all-or-nothing terms.

"Our credibility has been compromised," Zogby said. "I think the way we handled the constitutional issue itself was abominable." U.S. officials made clear what a constitution should include, yet did not follow through when the document failed to protect women and minorities.

"I can't believe that we did nothing with regard to the communities in Egypt that were going to be affected by that constitution and express that we were displeased by the direction."

The Brotherhood's rejection of equal status for women and the Copts, as well as its repression of opposition, have damaged its image, Zogby said.

"If they had pulled it off - if they had dialog after winning the parliamentary elections and not run for president and said, 'We are all in a deep crisis, and we've got to move forward in a collective manner to solve the problems facing our country,' I think 'Brand Brotherhood 'might be different," Zogby said. "But today 'Brand Brotherhood' is being tarnished."

Washington's hasty embrace of the Brotherhood in the wake of Mubarak's fall fit a long-standing reflex, Hanna said. For decades, "competent repression" has been the norm in the Middle East. That led many U.S. diplomats to view the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party the same way it had viewed Mubarak's National Democratic Party.

"We go to the Muslim Brotherhood because they are the guys who are in charge, and that sends out its own set of signals to opposition Egyptians," Hanna said. "That was an assumption of Egyptian politics that I think is flawed in the sense that the Muslim Brotherhood is going to win elections.

"We need to be cautious in thinking that the Muslim Brotherhood is the new political equilibrium because you see a lot of dynamism."

Michael Meunier, president of Egypt's al Haya Party that is part of the opposition National Salvation Front in Egypt, praised the panelists for having a change of heart on the Brotherhood.

"I think it validates what we have been saying," Meunier told the Investigative Project on Terrorism. "The fact that the left started saying this proves we have not been exaggerating ... what has been happening to us in Egypt from the Brotherhood rule."

The panelists' comments prove that the Obama administration has mishandled Egypt.

"It's very clear cut when it comes to our values," Meunier said. "We are giving up American values to support the Brotherhood."

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DENYING ISLAM'S ROLE IN TERROR

Editors' note: The Obama administration in large measure has ignored the threat of Islamism in its first term and is poised to do so again. Yet Islamism continues to penetrate the heart of America, and the Middle East has become even more Islamist through recent upheavals. Three articles in this issue focus on the ways the U.S. government endangers the country by turning a blind eye to these rising dangers. Daniel Pipes explains how officials deny the connection between Islam and terrorism; Teri Blumenfeld documents the denial in the FBI while David Rusin details the military's denial.

Daniel Pipes, Explaining the Denial

Acknowledging Islamism strengthens counterterror efforts

Teri Blumenfeld, Problems in the FBI

Fear compromises U.S. security

David J. Rusin, Problems in the U.S. Military

The armed forces refuse to name the Islamist enemy

The excerpt below is taken from David Rusin's article.

Unlearned Lessons of Fort Hood

It would not be the first time that political correctness put lives in danger. Case in point: the Fort Hood massacre by Army major Nidal Malik Hasan on November 5, 2009. The tragedy is worth reviewing because it perfectly encapsulates the see-no-evil mindset of U.S. military leaders.

Despite ample indicators of Hasan's Islamist outlook[26]-which included giving a talk sympathetic to violent jihad,[27] obsessing about Muslims with dual loyalties,[28] and telling colleagues that infidels should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats[29]-his superiors did nothing, other than promote him to the next rank.[30] The Associated Press noted days after the shooting that during his medical training, "fellow students complained to the faculty about Hasan's 'anti-American propaganda,' but said a fear of appearing discriminatory against a Muslim student kept officers from filing a formal written complaint."[31] A 2010 Senate report confirms this reluctance.[32]

So great was the Army's willful blindness that, in the words of Sen. Joseph Lieberman (Independent, Conn.), Hasan's commanders "outrageously suggested that the evidence of his radicalization showed a knowledge of Islam that could benefit our military and our country."[33] As such, Hasan's previous supervisors at Walter Reed "tried to turn his growing preoccupation with religion and war into something productive by ordering him to attend a university lecture series on Islam, the Middle East, and terrorism," according to a Washington Post article.[34] "You don't want to close him down just because it's different," one staffer explained. Even when Hasan's communication with al-Qaeda's Anwar al-Awlaki put him on the radar of terrorism task forces, it had little effect on the rose-colored narrative. "A Defense Department analyst on one of the task forces concluded that the chatter was innocent and in keeping with Hasan's research interests," The Post found.

Political correctness remained in full bloom long after the bloodshed. Gen. George Casey, then the Army's chief of staff, claimed that "as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that's worse."[35] The military proceeded to double down on recruiting Muslims.[36] Furthermore, Louay Safi-whose Islamist baggage includes being an unindicted co-conspirator in the prosecution of Palestinian Islamic Jihad bigwig Sami al-Arian, as well as serving in senior positions with the Islamic Society of North America, an unindicted co-conspirator in the successful trial of the Holy Land Foundation (convicted of funding Hamas)-was lecturing at Fort Hood soon after the attack.[37] Though he was later suspended,[38] why had he been instructing soldiers in the first place?

Official Defense Department reports also bear the stamp of political correctness. In January 2010, the department released Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood, based on an investigation chaired by former Army secretary Togo West and Adm. Vernon Clark.[39] The report is noteworthy for the striking absence of the words "Islam," "Muslim," or their variants.[40] This is despite overwhelming evidence of Hasan's religious motives, which culminated in his giving a neighbor a Qur'an and saying that he was "going to do good work for God"[41] just hours before he shouted the Islamic war cry and mowed down fellow troops.[42] The report does not even mention Hasan's name. Identical patterns are seen in an internal Army review[43] and a 2010 memo by then-defense secretary Robert Gates on implementing the recommendations.[44]

The problems continue to this day: Hasan's actions are classified as "workplace violence," a banal phrase used repeatedly in these documents, rather than as terrorism,[45] though survivors of the Fort Hood massacre are pushing to overturn this designation.[46] Justice for Hasan's victims also has been delayed by a dispute over his desire to wear a religiously inspired beard in military court.[47] To top it all off, Hasan is still drawing government paychecks.[48]

Today, April 15, is YOM HAZIKARON, the day when Israel remembers and mourns the thousands of soldiers, as well as the thousands of civilian victims of terror, who have given their lives in defense of our beloved Israel. In addition to the tragic deaths, there are also thousands of wounded, whose lives will never be the same because of their injuries. We salute them all. AFSI Chizuk members have been in Israel during this sad time. We have stood at attention while the siren sounded for the two minute silence. We saw traffic stop, people stop wherever they were, in order to pay homage to the sacrifice of Israel's citizens, which is ongoing. We then took part in the joyous celebrations of Israel's Independence. This year marks 65 years of remarkable growth. From a country where the swamps had to be drained to prevent malaria, and the digging of water wells determined whether or not a community would survive, Israel has become the Start-Up Nation, with too many accomplishments to mention here. At the same time, the country is struggling with the external and internal threats to its existence. We believe, with a full faith, that HaShem is keeping watch over his chosen people and his promised land. He will help to see that even though we falter, we shall prevail. We must be vigilant. The same is true for life in America. We have been writing to you about the efforts to suppress the speeches of Pamela Geller, an outspoken critic of radical Islam and the imposition of Sharia law in America. I'm pleased to say that many AFSI members attended her SRO talk at the Chabad of Great Neck on Sunday morning, April 14. AFSI Board Member Charlie Bernhaut and Executive Director of AFSI Helen Freedman, along with other AFSI members, joined Pamela Geller at her 1 PM Mineola demonstration in front of the office of Nassau Human Rights Commissioner Habeeb Ahmed. Ahmed was the one who protested against having Geller speak at the Great Neck Synagogue, threatening a disruptive march and demonstration that would endanger the Sunday School children. Speeches by Geller, "Jihad Watch" Chairman Robert Spencer, Coptic Christian Ashraf H. Ramelah, and Helen Freedman, were delivered against the background of the enthusiastic crowd carrying signs and banners and waving flags. We invite you to view some photos from the demonstration which can be found on the www.afsi.org website.

Distinguished journalist and speaker, Caroline Glick, has written another brilliant essay - this time on Jihad - the subject of Sunday's talk and demonstration. It is well worth your attention:

Moral relativism and jihad

Caroline Glick

April 12, 2013

Two events happened on Wednesday which should send a shiver down the spine of everyone concerned about the future of the American Jewish community. But to understand their importance it is important to consider the context in which they occurred.

On January 13, The New York Times reported on a series of virulently anti-Jewish comments Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi made in speeches given in 2010. Among other things, Morsi said, "We must never forget, brothers, to nurse our children and our grandchildren on hatred for them: for Zionists, for Jews." He said that Egyptian children "must feed on hatred; hatred must continue. The hatred must go on for God and as a form of worshiping him."

In another speech, he called Jews "bloodsuckers," and "the descendants of apes and pigs."

Two weeks after the Times ran the story, the Obama administration sent four F-16 fighter jets to Egypt as part of a military aid package announced in December 2012 entailing the provision of 20 F-16s and 200 M1-A1 Abrams tanks.

The Anti-Defamation League, AIPAC, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and other prominent American Jewish groups did not oppose the weapons transfer.

With the American Jewish leadership silent on the issue, Israel found its national security championed by Sen. Rand Paul. He attached an amendment to a budget bill that would bar the US from transferring the advanced weapons platforms to Egypt.

Paul explained, "Egypt is currently governed by a religious zealot... who said recently that Jews were bloodsuckers and descendants of apes and pigs. This doesn't sound like the kind of stable personality we [sh]ould be sending our most sophisticated weapons to."

Paul's amendment was overwhelmingly defeated, due in large part to the silence of the American Jewish leadership.

The Times noted that Morsi's castigation of Jews as "apes and pigs" was "a slur for Jews that is familiar across the Muslim world."

Significantly the Times failed to note that the reason it is familiar is because it comes from both the Koran and the hadith. The scripturally based denigration of Jews as apes and pigs is legion among leading clerics of both Sunni and Shi'ite Islam.

It was not a coincidence that the Times failed to mention why Morsi's castigation of Jews as apes and pigs was so familiar to Muslim audiences.

The Islamic sources of Muslim Brotherhood Jew hatred, and indeed, hatred of Jews by Islamic leaders from both the Sunni and Shi'ite worlds, is largely overlooked by the liberal ideological camp. And the overwhelming majority of the American Jewish leadership is associated with the liberal ideological camp.

If the Times acknowledged that the Jew hatred espoused by Morsi and his colleagues in the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as by their Shi'ite colleagues in the Iranian regime and Hezbollah is based on the Koran, they would have to acknowledge that Islamic Jew hatred and other bigotry is not necessarily antithetical to mainstream Islamic teaching. And that is something that the Times, like its fellow liberal institutions, is not capable of acknowledging.

They are incapable of acknowledging this possibility because considering it would implicitly require a critical study of jihadist doctrine. And a critical study of jihadist doctrine would show that the doctrine of jihad, or Islamic holy war, subscribed to by the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates, as well as by the Iranian regime and Hezbollah and their affiliates, is widely supported, violent, bigoted, evil and dangerous to the free world.

And that isn't even the biggest problem with studying the doctrine of jihad. The biggest problem is that a critical study of the doctrine of jihad would force liberal institutions like the New York Times and the institutional leadership of the American Jewish community alike to abandon the reigning dogma of the liberal ideological camp - moral relativism.

Moral relativism is based on a refusal to call evil evil and a concomitant willingness to denigrate truth if truth requires you to notice evil.

Since pointing out the reality of the danger the jihadist doctrines propagated by the likes of the Muslim Brotherhood involves the implicit demand that people make distinctions between good and evil and side with good against evil, moral relativists - that is most liberals - cannot contend with jihad.

This is why the American Jewish leadership refused to join Rand Paul and his conservative Republican colleagues in the Senate and demand an immediate cessation of US military aid to the Muslim Brotherhood-controlled Egyptian military even after the evidence of the Brotherhood's genocidal Jew hatred was splashed across the front page of the Times.

It is the dominance of moral relativism in liberal institutions like the New York Times that make even the most apologetic expose of the Muslim Brotherhood a major event. And it is the dominance of liberal orthodoxies in the mainstream Jewish community that makes it all but impossible for Jewish leaders to speak up against the Muslim Brotherhood, despite the manifest danger its genocidal hatred of Jews poses not only for Israel, but for Jews everywhere.

It is bad enough that liberal Jewish leaders won't speak out against the Koranic-inspired evil that characterizes the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood. What is worse is what their own morally relative blindness causes them to do.

On Wednesday, we saw two distressing examples of the consequences of this self-imposed embrace of ideological fantasies.

First, on Wednesday, Yeshiva University's Cardozo Law School's Journal of Conflict Resolution gave its annual International Advocate of Peace Award to former president Jimmy Carter.

Carter's long record of anti-Israel, and indeed anti-Semitic, actions and behavior made the decision to bestow him with the honor an affront not only to the cause of peace, but to the cause of Jewish legal rights. As an advocate of Hamas and a man who castigates Israel as an illegal "apartheid" state, Carter has a long record of outspoken opposition to both Jewish human rights and to viable peace between Israel and its neighbors.

For outsiders, the Orthodox Jewish university's law school's law journal's decision to honor Carter was shocking, but as it works out, the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution confers its prize almost exclusively on people active in pressuring Israel to make concessions to Palestinian terrorists who reject Israel's right to exist. Past winners include Dennis Ross, Bill Clinton, Richard Holbrooke, George Mitchell, John Wallach and Seeds of Peace and, perhaps most astoundingly, the outspoken Jew hater Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

In other words, Carter wasn't chosen for the honor despite his anti-Israel record. He was selected because of his anti-Israel record.

In a similar fashion, New York's 92nd Street Y invited virulent Israel hater Roger Waters to perform a concert on April 30. Given Waters's outspoken opposition to Israel, his call for total economic and cultural warfare against the Jewish state and his leading role in the BDS movement, it is not possible that the 92nd Street Y was unaware of his radical, anti-Semitic sentiments.

And so, the only reasonable explanation for his invitation to perform at the Jewish institution is that the Y wanted to invite this openly anti- Semitic musician to perform. A public outcry by pro-Israel activists forced the Y to cancel his performance.

The day that Carter was embraced by the Orthodox Jewish establishment, Jewish author and activist Pamela Geller was silenced. Geller is the nightmare of the liberal Jewish establishment.

She is a beautiful and articulate speaker and writer who has risen to prominence in the US for her steadfast commitment to exposing the deadly pathologies of Jew hatred, misogyny and other prejudices inherent to jihadist ideology.

Geller's website, Atlas Shrugs, is a clearinghouse for information on Islamic persecution of women, Christians and apostates and hatred of Jews. She also showcases the documented ties between mainstream American Islamic groups and the Muslim Brotherhood.

An indefatigable defender of Israel, Geller recently ran a highly controversial, and successful ad campaign in the New York and San Francisco public transportation systems in response to an anti-Israel ad campaign. Her billboards read, "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel, Defeat Jihad."

Geller was scheduled to speak on April 14 at the Great Neck Synagogue in Great Neck, New York. The topic of her talk was "The Imposition of Shari'a in America."

Last month, after learning of her talk, a consortium of Islamic and leftist activists in Nassau County led by Habeed Ahmed from the Islamic Center of Long Island launched a pressure campaign to coerce the synagogue into cancelling her speech. Members of the group telephoned the synagogue and castigated Geller as a bigot, and likened her to the Nazis in the 1930s.

In short order liberal rabbis Michael White and Jerome Davidson took over the opposition to Geller and launched a media campaign attacking her as a bigot and demanding that the Great Neck Synagogue cancel her speech.

Rejecting the distinction Geller makes between jihadists and their victims - Muslim and non- Muslim alike, White and Davidson claimed that she opposes all Muslims and so her speech must be canceled. By hosting her, they intoned, the Great Neck Synagogue would be guilty of propagating hate speech. Liberal Christian and Jewish activists and their Muslim associates threatened to protest the speech.

On Wednesday the synagogue caved in to their massive pressure. Citing "security concerns" the synagogue board released a statement saying that while "these important issues must be discussed, the synagogue is unable to bear the burden" of the pressure campaign surrounding Geller's planned speech. Her event was canceled.

Surveys of the American Jewish community taken in recent years by the American Jewish Committee demonstrate that the vast majority of American Jews are deeply supportive of Israel, and their views tend toward the Right side of the political spectrum in issues related to Israel, the Palestinians and the wider Islamic conflict with the Jewish state.

On the other hand, the AJC's surveys show that for the vast majority of American Jews, Israel is not a voting issue. This state of affairs was reflected by a comment that Yeshiva University student Ben Winter made to the media regarding the absence of student protest against Carter on Wednesday. In Winter's words, "While many students at YU feel strongly about their Zionism, few have the courage to publicly express their opinions."

The danger exposed by the cancellation of Geller's speech and the conferral of honors on the likes of Carter and Waters by mainstream Jewish institutions is daunting. If moral relativism remains the dominant dogma of the American Jewish establishment, the already weakly defended, but still strongly rooted, support for Israel among the rank and file of the American Jewish community will dissipate.

IT'S HAPPENING HERE!!!

Pam Geller, Charles Jacobs, Brigitte Gabriel, Steven Emerson, Robert Spencer, Frank Gaffney, and so many other prominent Americans have been warning for years about the dangers of rising Muslim influence in America. Now it has demonstrated its power right in our own backyards, in Great Neck, New York. Pam Geller, the heroine of Atlas Shrugs, has not been afraid to battle the Imams of the Ground Zero mosque, and has not been afraid to tell the truth about Sharia Law creeping into our American courts. She was recently applauded by her supporters and maligned by the Muslims for her subway ads which asked people whether they would support civilization or savagery, Israel or Jihad.

Geller was scheduled to be the guest speaker at a Men's Club breakfast at a Great Neck Synagogue this Sunday, May 14. A vigorous anti-Geller campaign was initiated by the Muslims, and the Synagogue caved in today, crying that it could not bear the pressure. This is a warning to all Americans. Appeasement and fear in the face of terror will only breed more terror. Those of us who understand the dangers inherent in this cowardice will work even harder with Pam Geller and the others sounding the alarm, in order to get their voices heard over the threats and shouts of our enemies. We will stand together at the next scheduled event to ensure that it will take place, and that courage and truth will prevail.

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PAMELA GELLER EVENT AT GREAT NECK SYNAGOGUE CANCELLED:

"THE SYNAGOGUE IS UNABLE TO BEAR THE BURDEN."

Due to relentless intimidation, bullying and threats, the Great Neck Synagogue is cancelling my talk at the Great Neck Synagogue on Sunday. It is a very sad day for freedom-loving peoples when fascist tactics trump free speech.

Leftist goons, pushed and prodded by Islamic supremacist Habeeb Ahmed and his co-conspirators, threatened a march on the shul (among other things) on Sunday (imagine how terrorized the Sunday school children would be).

They win. Again.

The synagogue board could not take the extraordinary pressures and issued the following statement that, as the board said, while "these important issues must be discussed, the synagogue is unable to bear the burden." The event is cancelled. "As the notoriety and media exposure of the planned program this Sunday have increased, so has the legal liability and potential security exposure of our institution and it's [sic] member families. In an era of heightened security concerns it is irresponsible to jeopardize the safety of those who call Great Neck Synagogue home, especially our children, even at the risk of diverting attention from a potentially important voice in the ongoing debate. Accordingly, the Great Neck Synagogue Men's Club will no longer be sponsoring the appearance of Pamela Geller this coming Sunday, and no event will be taking place in our facility."

Executive Board

Great Neck Synagogue

Sunday, April 7, was Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day. Many of us gathered at the Iranian Mission to the UN in NYC to remember the past and sound warnings about the future Shoah threatened by Iran. An amazing couple from Great Neck, Lynne Bursky-Tamman and her husband, Nessim, had put together an impressive presentation of speakers drawn from a long list of participating groups. Jeff Wiesenfeld served as MC and did his usual impressive job. Dr. Alan Mazurak took over for him and continued to introduce the speakers who mourned the six million dead, but also warned about preventing future disasters. The event concluded with a stirring singing of the Hatikvah. The Tammams are an inspiring example of what individuals can do to make a difference.

Richard Allen, leader of JCC Watch, is another inspiration. Working with a group of dedicated concerned citizens and organizations, including AFSI, he was able to stop the 92nd St. Y from sponsoring an evening with Roger Waters, a rabid anti-Semite and anti-Israel entertainer.

Fresh from that success, we are now facing the decision by Cardozo Law School to honor former President Jimmy Carter with the International Advocate for Peace Award. Knowing Carter's disgraceful betrayal of Israel, it defies understanding that this Jewish law school, affiliated with Yeshiva U., would honor this man. See the phone numbers and emails below to contact leaders at Cardozo and Yeshiva U. Alumni should join the list of those protesting the award, and condition any support on the cancellation of this event. See below:

On Wednesday, April 10, 2013, Jimmy Carter will be honored at the Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School, part of Yeshiva University, to receive the International Advocate for Peace Award from the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution.

Jimmy Carter has an ignominious history of anti-Israel bigotry. He is responsible for helping to mainstream the antisemitic notion that Israel is an apartheid state with his provocatively titled book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid", the publication of which prompted mass resignations from the Carter Center. He has met numerous times with leaders of the terror group Hamas whitewashing their genocidal goals and undermining US efforts to isolate Hamas. And Carter's record of slandering Israel is so voluminous that both CAMERA and Alan Dershowitz have written books refuting his lies.

While Carter may be credited for the role he played in the Camp David Accords as President of the United States and the resultant cold peace between Israel and Egypt that ensued, that event took place close to 30 years ago. Since the end of his presidency, Jimmy Carter has exhibited extreme antipathy towards Israel - and by extension the Jewish people - that places him firmly in the camp of the likes of Walt and Mearsheimer.

It is simply unconscionable for a Jewish affiliated school to honor someone who has played such a high profile role in demonizing the Jewish state.

We therefore urge you to condition any continued support of Cardozo, be it financial or otherwise, on the cancellation of this event.

Please also take 2 minutes out of your busy schedules to contact the Dean of Cardozo and President of Yeshiva University to express your outrage. Contact details are below.

Professor Matthew Diller, Dean of Cardozo: Tel - 212-790-0310; Email - mdiller@yu.edu

Professor Richard Joel, President of Yeshiva University: Tel - 212 960 5300; Email president@yu.edu

Silence is complicity.

The Coalition of Concerned Cardozo Alumni *

* For media inquiries and other questions, please email us at shameoncardozo@gmail.com

Judea and Samaria are Our Iron Dome

MK Shaked made the analogy. Why is she correct?

From Mark Langfan

Since 1962, the altogether too unreal world of the cinema has bestowed upon us the unflappable, ever-calm, ultra-smart, super handsome, single, dashing, always victorious, British Secret Agent named James Bond. CMR James Bond has had a super simple answer whenever a bartender asked how he wants his martini. CMR Bond's answer is simple, "Shaken, not stirred."

Since 2013, the altogether too real world of the State of Israel has bestowed upon us the unflappable, ever-calm, ultra-smart, attractive, unassuming, hopeful, always victorious, Israeli mother and Knesset member Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home). MK Ayelet Shaked had a super simple answer to US President Obama's comment that "settlement activity is counterproductive to peace." MK Shaked's simple answer was, "Judea and Samaria are our Iron Dome."

Or put another way, MK Shaked said: I am Israeli MK Shaked, and I will be neither shaken, nor stirred from proudly building Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria, which are productive to peace and which enable the IDF to protect the Jews of Israel from a Holocaust 2.0 at the hands of yet another fascist Muslim genocidal terrorist state that wants to call itself "Palestine".

Why is MK Shaked exactly correct, and why is Judea and Samaria, aka "The West Bank," Israel's "Iron Dome" which protects Tel Aviv from becoming another Sderot? Simple. A "demilitarized" Palestinian state "solution" is, and was always, a hoax. Without Judea and Samaria under pure Israeli military and internal security control, the Palestinian Arabs will easily smuggle katyusha rocket parts into the area just like they smuggled katyushas into Gaza after Israel surrendered Gaza to the Palestinian terrorists.

A "demilitarized" Palestinian state "solution" is, and was always, a hoax.

However, the difference between rockets from Gaza and rockets from the "West Bank" is Gaza is (with few exceptions) surrounded by almost empty Israeli farmland, while Judea and Samaria abut Tel Aviv - the heart of Israel's population. So a "demilitarized" Palestinian Arab state in Judea and Samaria is within easy terrorist katyusha rocket range of over 70% of Israel's population and 80% of her industrial base.

In American terms, and for Americans to "put on the shoes of the Israelis," if you fire 100 katyusha rockets into North Dakota you might hit some cow dung. But, if you fire one katyusha rocket from Brooklyn into Manhattan, you'll kill a dozen people. So, surrendering Judea and Samaria to a "demilitarized" Palestinian Arab state (which would be swept into Hamas hands the next business day) is equivalent to giving al Qaeda territory contiguous to the United States, from which they could fire small unstoppable chemical-war-headed rockets that could hit 200,000,000 American citizens.

No American President would allow al Qaeda to get close enough to the continental United States to be able to fire a rocket into a barren Texas ravine, let alone into Manhattan, without first blowing them into smithereens.....MK Shaked has spoken "truth to power," and the truth to the national suicide of the "Two-state solution" hoax. The only protection of the 4,000,000 Jews of the Tel Aviv-Netanya corridor and the 6,000,000 Jews of Israel is to keep Judea and Samaria as Israel's real Iron Dome in perpetuity.

For without MK Shaked's Iron Dome of Judea and Samaria, Tel Aviv is toast, and Netanyahu, Obama and the Palestinians all know it.

Bravo, MK Shaked. And the best of blessings for you, and for your new government.

For the complete article: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/130781

For more information visit http://www.marklangfan.com

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REMINDER - THIS SUNDAY, YOM HASHOAH - APRIL 7- 12 NOON - Join with AFSI and many concerned groups which make up the Yom Hashoah Mobilization Committee, in a vigil at the Iranian Embassy, 622 Third Avenue @ 40th Street. While we remember the victims of the HOLOCAUST, we must speak out against the threatened holocaust from Iran against Israel and the western world. Remember - Those who refuse to learn from history are condemned to repeat it!!!Alert friends, family, neighbors. Everyone is needed to sound the alarm. Bring your signs, flags, banners. We need your support!!!!! For further information, contact Lynne Bursky Tammam at: hashoah.mail@gmail.com; 516-521-9333 or contact AFSI.

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MARK YOUR CALENDARS - SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 10 AM - Two events at the same time!!

Helen Freedman speaking on behalf of the Israel Independence Fund at the Yom HaAtzmaut celebration at Mahane Chodosh, 67-29 108th Street, Forest Hills, NY -

Pamela Geller speaking for the Men's Club at the Great Neck Synagogue on Mill Rd., Great Neck NY. Pam's subject is the dangers of Shariah Law in the U.S. Her talk has raised objections in the Muslim community. She needs our support at the meeting.

Bibi's Apology to Erdogan: Back-Stabbing by Bibi and Obama

By: Helen Freedman

We told you so. PM Netanyahu's embarrassing and debasing apology to PM Erdogan of Turkey for the Marvi Marmara incident three years ago, has opened a Pandora's box of Arab demands and insufferable denunciations of Israel. In addition to betraying Israel's fighting men, who are the "light unto the nations" in terms of conduct in wartime situations, the "boosha v'chleema," shame and humiliation such unwarranted apologies reflect, is an insult to all Israelis.

We are so proud of our Board member, Dr. Jonathan Gold, who quickly reacted to the severely mistaken apology, by trying to alert the media. His letter to the editor appeared in a modified version in this week's JEWISH WEEK. Please see below for the original letter:

King Bibi Still with the Perception of Grasshoppers

By: Dr. Jonathan Gold

Most Jews, both in Israel and oversees love the Israel Defense Forces - the IDF. We donate to it, we go to dinners in support of it, we say special prayers regularly for the well being of the soldiers, we feel grief when soldiers are injured and R"L killed, and we rejoice when they return safely from their missions. It is therefore so incredibly demoralizing that Bibi Netanyahu, Israel's commander in chief, took the unfortunate action of apologizing to Turkey this week regarding the Mavi Marmara flotilla that entered Israel's waters.

In my opinion, Bibi was wrong on two accounts. First, by taking this action he undermined the brave soldiers who took part in that mission. The IDF has a reputation for being one of the world's most just armies. The soldiers adhere to a strict code of engagement. They are "permitted" to respond with lethal force only when their lives are in mortal danger. Who did not see the video clip of the soldiers being attacked with clubs and knives. As ex navy chief Maj. Gen Marom said to The Jerusalem Post 3-24-13, "the soldiers did not resort to live fire until they were brutally attacked. It's very important for soldiers to receive backing before, during and after operations." Even an UN inquiry, not normally sympathetic to Israel, exonerated the soldiers.

Secondly, by apologizing for something, to correct an injustice when in fact none existed, is demoralizing. Israel is subjected to a barrage of actions by her enemies who constantly seek to undermine her, to delegitimize her like Apartheid week or Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions programs. The Prime Minister should be our biggest cheerleader, encouraging Israelis to stand strong for our moral right to exist and to defend ourselves against attacks by enemies. He of all people is now the one offering an apology when none is deserved?

In the Torah, when Moses sent the spies to spy out the land of Israel, they came back with a biased report. One of the things they said and were faulted for it was, Numbers 13:33, "we were like grasshoppers in our eyes." Failure to have a modicum of self- respect can lead to tragic consequences. Bibi has not yet learned that lesson.

Jonathan Gold, MD

Clifton, NJ

To read Caroline Glick's analysis of the Erdogan situation, please open the following link:

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/caroline-glick/the-meaning-and-consequences-of-israels-apology-to-turkey/

Bibi's Apology to Erdogan: Back-Stabbing by Bibi and Obama

By: Helen Freedman

Cited as a great diplomatic victory for President Obama, as he returns from his trip to Israel, Ramallah and Jordan, is the apology that PM Netanyahu proffered to PM Erdogan of Turkey for the May 31, 2010 killing of nine Turkish terrorists on the Mavi Marmara. The ship was part of a Gaza-bound flotilla attempting to break the naval blockade on Gaza. Linked to the apology is an agreement to compensate the families of those who were killed, and to cancel the legal proceedings against IDF officials who were deemed culpable in the situation. Immediately after the apology, Erdogan announced his intentions to visit Hamas's PM in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal. How Israel can have diplomatic relations with Turkey, while Erdogan is courting recognized terrorists, is hard to understand.

Perhaps the greatest tragedy coming out of this apology to Turkey was expressed by MK Yoni Chetboun of the Balyit Yehudi party. While recognizing the importance of Turkey in the region, MK Chetboun, a Major in the reserves, who served as an officer in the Golani Brigade's elite Egoz reconnaissance unit, was clear in his recognition that the apology was a "knife in soldiers' backs." Chetboun said, "Israel does not have the privilege to apologize for its soldiers actions, when they acted in accordance with the principles of the IDF's ethical code and its definition of "the purity of arms.' The apology amounts to a knife-stab in the back of the IDF's combat soldiers and commanders. it sends a grave message to our soldiers, ' we don't have your backs.' As a soldier and commander in all sectors of warfare I can testify that the government backing is critical for the soldier at the front." MK Chetboun continued, "It constitutes a dangerous precedent that will encourage anti-Zionist organizations to continue operating the mechanism of delegitimizing Israel in general and the IDF in particular."

Proof that this dhimmi posture of Israel's will only lead to more demands of humiliation and degradation is the latest reports regarding new U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's vision of breaking the impasse between the PA and Israel. It would involve Israel releasing terrorists and transferring land in Area B, under joint Israeli/PA control, to Area A, which is totally Arab controlled. In addition, Obama and Netanyahu might have agreed on a "silent construction freeze," one that is unannounced but is the reality.

AFSI joins Prof. Steve Plaut in his denunciation of the Netanyahu APOLOGY. Read this and weep:

An open letter to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Prime Minister of Turkey

Dear Mister Prime Minister:

On behalf of all of the people of Israel, I would like to apologize to you for the cowardice and fathomless idiocy of the Prime Minister of Israel. As you know, this weekend Benjamin Netanyahu sent you an “apology” for Israel having defended itself against the genocidal terrorists who attacked Israeli soldiers armed only with paintguns when they boarded the terrorist “flotilla” ship that you sent out to challenge Israel’s naval blockade of the Hamas enclave in Gaza. Netanyahu spoke only for himself when he apologized to you for Israel’s defending itself and its people, this two generations after the Holocaust. He does not represent anyone at all in the country when it comes to this “apology.” No one else in the country, except for some anti-Israel radical leftists with tenure at the universities, agrees that Israel owes you an apology for defending its people.

Actually, on behalf of all REAL Israelis, I would like to apologize to you for the fact that ONLY nine terrorists were killed by Israeli troops on the flotilla ship when Israeli soldiers were savagely attacked by Turkish and other terrorists. I would like to apologize for the fact that Israeli did NOT torpedo and sink the terrorist ships trying to break the blockade and bring in aid to the Hamas Nazis. I would like to apologize for the fact that Israel has a Prime Minister who is so clueless, insensitive, and divorced from Jewish history that he would consider buying a few moments of diplomat calm with a Moslem aggressor by shaming his entire country with an “apology” to Turkey, exhibiting one of the most disgraceful acts by a Jew in all of history, and all this just hours before the Jewish holiday of national liberation, Passover.

Beyond that, I really do think that Israel owes an apology for NOT having done much more to draw the world’s attention to the illegal occupation and destruction by Turkey of the jewel of Cyprus, the city of Famagusta. Israel sat by while Turkey conquered 40% of Cyprus and transferred tens of thousands of its own people as illegal settlers to the island. And for that I apologize. And since you have spent so much time in recent years denouncing Israel as an occupier, I think Israel owes an apology to the world for not helping to end the illegal Turkish occupation of the great ancient Greek capital of Constantinople, now under an illegal Saracen occupation that has continued for far too long. It is high time that Constantinople be returned to its true heritage and its legal owners, the Greek people. It is less than a hundred years since the city, along with Smyrna and other Greek homelands, was almost liberated by the Greeks, who were only to be blocked by the Turkish military aggressors, the mass murderers of the Armenians.

So Mister Prime Minister, as you see, I am afraid that Israelis DO owe the world quite a few apologies.

On behalf of the non-pusillanimous citizens of Israel, I remain

Most sincerely yours,

Prof. Steven Plaut

As President Obama was giving his speeches of "solidarity" with Israel on the second day of his visit to that country, five rockets slammed into Sderot from Hamas in Gaza. B'ezrat HaShem, nobody was killed, but much damage was done, and the trauma of living under fear of rocket attacks was revived. This was a message from Hamas, some suggest, that Mahmoud Abbas is NOT the "partner for peace" for the idyllic "two-state solution", but that indeed, the terrorist organization of Hamas is that partner. The absurdity of this picture simply underscores the absurdity of the ongoing talk about the absolute necessity for an "independent and viable Palestine" within Israel. Anyone understanding the geography of Israel understands that rockets launched from Judea and Samaria into Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and all of Israel, can be done within spitting range once the unidentifiable "Palestinians" have their independent state.

It was undoubtedly nice for Obama to have his campaign style speech at the huge convention center in Jerusalem, where Arab and Jewish students from Ariel University were excluded. That University is "over the green line." So he bathed in the warmth of his charm offensive on the youngsters gathered at the center. Would his remarks and greeting have been as warm if he had done the proper thing and addressed the newly formed Knesset with all of Israel's dignitaries? How cowardly can one person be?

Governor Huckabee, in addressing the issue of Obama's ME visit, stressed that the "Palestinians have zero interest in negotiations." Will Obama address the threat of Egypt's Morsi, or will there be more money, planes and tanks supplied to that Muslim Brotherhood government? Will Syria's Assad and the "red line" he crossed by using chemical weapons on his own people go unanswered by Obama, thereby revealing the U.S. as the "toothless tiger that talks big but doesn't back it up"? Huckabee raises these questions as we see Iran threatening imminent destruction of Israel and continuing on to America.

Helen Freedman

Below is the report from Arutz Sheva on the bombing in Sderot today. Please read the last paragraph carefully:

Rocket Victim: We're 'Victims of Obama,' And Nobody Cares

by David Lev

Hamas on Thursday denied that it or any other Gaza terror group had fired rockets at Israeli targets in the midst of U.S. President Barack H. Obama's visit to Israel. "Israel has fabricated these reports in order to mar the reputation of the resistance forces," a spokesperson for Hamas said.

A rocket fired at Israel from Gaza caused heavy damage to a house in Sderot Thursday morning. A second rocket hit an open area near the Gaza border, and two other rockets aimed at Israel fell on the Gaza side of the border fence. There were no injuries, but two residents of the house were treated for shock.

Israel, for its part, said that the attack would not go unanswered, and that Israel would "choose the time and place for its response." Israeli officials said that it was possible that Hamas was trying to elicit an Israeli response to the attack while Obama was in the region, creating a diplomatic crisis when the President visits Palestinian Authority-controlled areas Thursday and Friday. If that is indeed their intent, the officials said, then Israel could expect more rocket attacks during Obama's visit.

Israeli officials added that they were interested in seeing if PA chief Mahmoud Abbas condemned the attacks when he spoke with Obama Thursday afternoon, something he had not done at all during the period leading up to Operation Pillar of Defense, when Hamas and other Gaza terror groups fired thousands of rockets at Israel.

In an interview on Israel Radio, Yossi Haziza, whose house was damaged in Thursday's attack, said that while physical damage - to houses and people - could be repaired, the real damage by attacks like these was to the psyche of the victims. Haziza's wife and child were sleeping at the time of the attack, and the shock of the attack caused them a great deal of fear that he was unsure they would ever be able to ovecome.

"I don't know how we are going to deal with this," he said. "The terrorists fire whenever they want and however they want and we seem unable to stop them. Apparently we did not do a proper job in stopping them in Operation Pillar of Defense.

"It could be that Hamas is doing this in 'honor' of Obama, sending him a message before he goes to Ramallah that he had better not forget about them," Haziza continued. "But so what? Because they want to send a message to the president we have to suffer? Are our children supposed to be sitting ducks for diplomatic reasons? Now they have to grow up with these negative experiences. Who knows what the damage will be later on? We need to be properly defended, regardless of diplomatic issues."

Amidst the love fest that characterized the meetings today in Israel, between American President Barack Obama, Israeli President Shimon Peres, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, there was the realization that Jewish liberals would probably be gushing over the wonderful assurances of American support for Israel - including the promises of talks on another ten years of military assistance for Israel by the U.S.

Behind all the usual platitudes, one could pick out some of the tried, true and trite comments: the two-state solution would be built on a "strong, secure Israel, and a sovereign, independent PA state" that would exude trust and confidence. How likely is that? On the subject of Syria, Obama promised that Assad would be "held accountable" for using chemical weapons, but careful studies would be necessary to confirm that such weapons had actually been used. What does "accountability" mean here? As far as Iran is concerned, America would "do what is necessary" to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon. What would those necessaries be? And while Bibi was exulting in Obama's recognition that Israel had the "right to independently defend itself against the Iranian threat," and that Israelis could be "Masters of their own fate," things that all sovereign nations take for granted, President Obama was cloaking everything in the need to go to the "international community" for consultation on subjects like Syria and Iran. What exactly is different after all this pomp and circumstance? Nothing. Now we'll hear what promises Obama will make to Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah and King Abdullah in Jordan. Will he be doing the same old soft shoe, or getting the shoes thrown at him? More tomorrow.

Helen Freedman

See below for an analysis of Jews who see themselves as pro-Israel, but others see them differently.

Pro Israel, or Useful Idiots?

Published: Arutz Sheva - Wednesday, March 20, 2013 1:04 AM

What it takes to be a "pro Israel" liberal and what will make you politically incorrect.

Giulio Meotti

"I want to see the end of most of the settlements. I want to see land swaps", declared Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz at the Project Nuremberg Lawyer's Luncheon at Temple Beth El of Boca Raton.

The "pro Israel" mainstream, to which Mr. Dershowitz belongs, is a useful idiot, as Lenin used to call those gullible liberals who excused totalitarian enormities in the name of goodwill. Dershowitz, a very decent person and writer who goes all over giving speeches, including some new effort that one of the "Stand With Israel" groups has to train university students, has embraced the racist project of a new freeze of the "settlers".

Recognizing the "settlers", Judea and Samaria's Jewish residents, for what they really are - heroes - is the most difficult endeavor for any observer of the Middle East conflict. And Dershowitz is a total failure on that.

These "pro Israel" useful idiots, with their talents and writing skills and their impeccable credentials, are seduced by how their influence is regarded. They literally fabricate the illusion that Israel can reach "peace" and conquer the international consensus by adopting their defeatist agenda. They want to be the nice and better Jews, they angelize Israel's history, they want to be accepted by the chattering classes. Abraham Foxman has put it in this way: "How to support Israel while being critical". Lenin could not have said it better.

It is amazing to list all the journalists, academics and writers who rhetorically stand with Israel, but always and only inside a trite set of values.

This is the catalogue of sophistry and sycophancy for belonging to this pro-Israel mainstream: no to the Jewishness of the state, it is a "democracy"; no to the "settlements", and if some settlements should be maintained, only behind an international consensus of ghettos; no to Israel's calling to Europe's Jews to emigrate, life in the diaspora is so enriching; no to a "disproportionate" use of force, the Jews are morally superior human beings; no to the Torah in public life, that is the "start up nation"; no to a preemptive strike against Iran; no to Israel's boycott of the United Nations' anti-Semitic forums; debate with Jewish traitors like Peter Beinart and don't bar Gunther Grass from Israel.

There is a saying in Italian: "Having the barrel full and the wife drunk". These useful idiots want to be accepted by the Western racist milieu that demonizes Israel, but they also want to avoid problems of conscience over their being Jewish.

There is another way of being a friend of the Jewish State and its people. Here is the alternate catalogue: the Jews have the right to build everywhere in Judea and Samaria; the Palestinian State is the greatest existential threat for the Jewish people after the Holocaust; the Jews have more rights to buy a house in Hevron than in Paris' rive gauche; Jonathan Pollard is like Captain Dreyfus and he must be immediately freed; Israel has the right and duty to boycott the NGOs which campaign against the Jewish State; Iran's diabolical nuclear program must be stopped by any means, including a military strike, with or without the United States; Barack Obama is the most anti-Israel US president ever; house demolitions, roadblocks, fences, targeted assassinations and checkpoints are existential tools to protect Israeli citizens; Israeli soldiers have the right to refuse immoral orders like demolishing Jewish homes or evicting Jewish mothers in the middle of the night; the ultra-orthodox Jews are not "parasites" to be conscripted into the army like the Czar did, but they are the basis of Judaism; Israel must not release genocidal terrorists, but condemn them to the gallows; Israel must allow the Jews to pray on the Temple Mount without fearing Arab riots; Israel must bury the rules of Oslo, which has been the self imposed most hallucinating political project in modern history; Israeli diplomacy should boycott, not certainly fund, anti-Semitic idiocies such as "The Gatekeepers".

Under this set of rules, how many friends can the State of Israel really count these days in the press?

On the road between Jerusalem and Ramallah, Barack Obama will pass near the Adam "settlement" without even noticing it. If a so-called "pro Israel" friend doesn't understand why that Jewish village has the right to be in Binjiamin or why it has to be fenced while the Arab villages around it are not, it means that he is not a friend of Israel, but a naive ignoramus. Or worse, an opportunist.

The writer, an Italian journalist with Il Foglio, writes a twice-weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the book "A New Shoah", that researched the personal stories of Israel's terror victims, published by Encounter. His writing has appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Frontpage and Commentary. He is at work on a book about the Vatican and Israel.

HUGE CROWD EXPECTED AT GUSH KATIF MUSEUM EVENT:

SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 8 P.M.

TO PROTEST FURTHER EXPULSION PLANS DEMANDED BY PRES. OBAMA

Americans for a Safe Israel/AFSI, along with the International Committee for the Land of Israel, are strongly committed to the principles of Rabbi Sholom Dov Wolpo, President of the Gush Katif Museum. The dinner, being held this Saturday night at the Razag Ballroom, 739 East New York Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, and featuring keynote speaker Governor Mike Huckabee, as well as Rivka Goldschmidt, former resident of Gush Katif, will serve a double purpose this year.

Word has just been received that "unilateral" expulsions, such as what occurred in August, 2005, to the 10,000 Jews of the flourishing 21 Gush Katif communities, may be repeated. According to the two Baracks - President Barack Obama, and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, a "timetable for the withdrawal of Jews from Judea and Samaria" is demanded. Minister Barak threatens "unilateral steps" taken once again by the Israeli government. President Barack Obama demands the creation of a PA state, "and if Israel won't give him something he can work with, then he'll act on his own." This imperial President has no understanding of Israeli sovereignty and there are Israelis who seem to be confused about their identity.

The Gush Katif Museum dinner will be an opportunity for all those enraged by the possibility of a give-away of Jewish holy land, and the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Jews from their homes and communities, to show solidarity on behalf of a whole Israel - Yisrael Shlayma.

Reservations can be made at Dinner@GushKatifMuseum.org, or by calling 718-208-1770. AFSI members are entitled to a discounted price. Call 212-828-2424 or email afsi@rcn.com.

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Anyone who needs confirmation of what is entailed in the horrors of demolition and expulsion must read this email from Israel Danziger, head of Mishmeret Yesha. Israel has led us countless times to Maale Rehavaam where the AFSI Chizuk mission has planted trees and lent our support. The recent destruction there has caused great hardship.

Friend,

You are correct in asking ,concerning the outlying communities in Judea and Samaria, what guarantee do we have that they will not be destroyed again ?

The truth is we do not have any such thing. There is no guarantee about any of the communities in YESHA or for that matter, anywhere in Israel!

What we have here is a extremely rare commodity. A group of young ideological couples and single people willing to live in difficult conditions.

What makes them unique is that they are willing to sacrifice what little money they have and take loans to help establish their homes and an outlying community, without any "assistance" from the government.

That means no roads,water, electricity, sewage, public buildings of any type or services. This has been their lot for the last two years until last Wednesday when the government came and destroyed half the homes built. Because they have chosen to remain independent and not attach themselves to strings attached govt. aid, like many other communities wishing to"develop, "they are isolated and left to fend on their own. The govt. and its willing lackies are counting on good people like yourself losing faith and feeling hopeless so as to not do anything to help. Ma'aleh Rechavam is part and parcel of eastern Gush Etzion which is first in line on the chopping block once Netanyahu forms the coalition he is looking for.

This why we at Mishmeret Yesha have been working, physically, since last March to help this community establish roots. We have brought tractors to cut the roads, carve out lots, pour concrete slabs, dig sewage pits and in the last weeks put up electric poles and string cables.

Of course the root of the problem is a complete lack of a true ideological leadership, that has no vision, direction or will to do anything. That is not something that will be rectified shortly. Therefore we need to pull together all the positive forces helping share the burden and struggle to win. Anyone who is willing to devote, volunteer time and effort should contact me by cellphone-054-300-2272.

This is a local address for those who wish to help locally

.Tikun Haklal- Rebuilding Fund c/o Atty. Ben-Yosef 25 King George Blvd. Jerusalem Israel 94261 B'rachot

YZD (Yisrael Danziger)

Is it possible that almost eight years since the expulsion of 10,000 Jews from Gush Katif, and the demolition of homes in Migron, Bet-El, Givat Aryeh, Ma'aleh Rahavaam, and hilltop communities, and the expulsion of Jews from legally purchased homes in Hebron, that the Likud party is considering more evictions of Jews? We see that PM Netanyahu is still unable to form his coalition and has requested an additional two weeks to do so. Is it possible that he might be wooing Yesh Atid, a left-wing party, to join with him in exchange for promises to destroy Jewish homes? And what could it possibly mean that he has appointed Tzipi Livni to be his Justice Minister? She, who is ready to give away all of Judea and Samaria, will be making judgments about the "two state dissolution"? Will she be the one we will turn to for implementation of the Edmond Levy report? Will she be the one to help decide on the application of Israeli Sovereignty to Judea and Samaria? If so, we know what the fate of those efforts will be. Likud, under Sharon, betrayed the Israeli people in 2005 when it reversed its promises and destroyed Gush Katif. Now, Likud, under Netanyahu, may be planning to do the same, but on a larger scale. We must not allow this to happen.

The dinner for the GUSH KATIF MUSEUM in Jerusalem is scheduled for Saturday night, March 9, 8 PM, at the Razag Ballroom, 739 East New York Avenue - dinner@GushKatifMuseum.org . The purpose of the Museum is to preserve the story of the horrors of the expulsion from Gush Katif for the specific purpose of declaring NEVER AGAIN. But the demolitions have happened since, and threaten to continue. We must protest against any such actions. One way to start is to strengthen the efforts of the Museum and the Gush Katif refugees. A strong showing will send a strong message to PM Netanyahu that diaspora Jews and Christians will fight demolition decrees.

Likud Denies It Offered Yesh Atid Evictions of Jews

Sources in Yesh Atid told Maariv Likud promised to tear down Jewish communities in coalition deal.

By Gil Ronen

Sources in Yesh Atid told Maariv'sThe Disengagement from Gaza Ze'ev Kam that Likud promised the party's representatives to tear down Jewish communities in Israel's Biblical heartland if Yesh Atid joins its coalition independently of Bayit Yehudi.

The Likud negotiators reportedly gave "a promise that the next government would act forcefully to tear down isolated communities in Judea and Samaria." However, they said, Yesh Atid would have to abandon its pact with Bayit Yehudi and join the government without the religious Zionist party.

Likud denied the report.

"It's a complete lie," Likud sources were quoted as telling Maariv. "It never happened. No excuse can explain why the Bayit Yehudi has refrained thus far from joining a government with a majority for the nationalist camp. This contradicts what they promised their voters - that they would strengthen Likud from the right."

If the report is true, it would confirm Bayit Yehudi's contention, that Likud wants a coalition with leftists and hareidim, and only the agreement between Yesh Atid and Bayit Yehudi not to enter a coalition independently is preventing that from happening.

The report is also carried by Yediot Aharonot, which quotes "elements involved in the negotiations" as saying that the deal was placed on the table in Thursday's meeting between the ruling Likud and Yesh Atid, a leftist-centrist party headed by Yair Lapid, a former television anchorman and columnist for Yediot.

"You need to give up Bennett, because otherwise we will not be able to advance a diplomatic process and evict communities," the negotiators reportedly said.

Eight years ago, then PM Sharon ordered the destruction of 21 thriving Jewish communities in Gush Katif/Gaza, and the expulsion of 10,000 Jews from their homes and communities. Many of them are still living in the Nitzan refugee camp, from which they are threatened with another expulsion.

The story of this tragedy is told in the most meaningful way in the GUSH KATIF MUSEUM IN JERUSALEM. By exposing the horrors of expelling Jews from their homes and communities in the Jewish homeland, the Museum Committee hopes to prevent further such tragedies. The Edmond Levy report, and the efforts to apply Jewish sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, are themes that will be prevalent at the Museum's 2nd Annual Dinner on Saturday night, March 9, at the Razag Ballroom, 739 East New York Avenue, Brooklyn, NY.

Your attendance there will convey the message that there must be an end to demolition of Jewish homes. The suffering that results is intolerable and the rebuilding is too slow and too costly. PLEASE, be there with us. AFSI members may attend at a reduced rate of $150pp. Call the AFSI office: 212-828-2424 to make your reservation, afsi@rcn.com, or contact the Gush Katif Museum Committee: 718-208-1770; dinner@gushkatifmuseum.org. No one will be turned away because of inability to pay. Your presence makes an important statement.

Newly elected Member of Knesset Moshe Feiglin wonders whether Likud will be asked to join the Netanyahu coalition, now that the Prime Minister has invited MK Tzipi Livni from Kadima to join with him and be his Justice Minister. Of course, since Bibi is head of Likud, this is a sarcastic comment, but it smacks of great truth. Swearing before the election that he would NOT include Livni in any government positions, Netanyahu has violated his promises. Livni voted for the expulsion of the Jews from Gush Katif in 2005. She worked with PM Olmert to give away Jerusalem and 94% of Judea and Samaria to the Arabs. It was only the refusal of Abbas that saved us from that disaster. Arlene Kushner, a constant commentator from Israel, has a few choice words about Livni which are copied below. MK Moshe Feiglin writes a sad story about the Arab sense of entitlement which has been nourished by Israelis who don't know who they are. Members call me to find answers to these inexplicable occurrences. I have no answers. Purim is coming this weekend. In celebrating our victory over Haman so many centuries ago, perhaps we will find some answers as to how to defeat our modern day enemies.

It's a Good Thing She is in the Knesset

Published: Arutz Sheva - Thursday, February 21, 2013 8:45 AM

The MK who sarcastically expressed the hope that the PM was leaving room for the LIkud in his Livni- Bibi coalition, has the following to say about Arab MK Zoabi.

MK Moshe Feiglin

Moshe Feiglin is head of the Manhigut Yehudit [Jewish Leadership] faction in the Likud party and a new member of Knesset.

Translated from the Hebrew Makor Rishon newspaper.

"I pledge my allegiance,". Arab MK Hanin Zoabi scornfully spit out the words at the Knesset inauguration ceremony last week, gathered her belongings and demonstratively exited the plenum.

At that moment, I was reminded of another Arab woman. That woman sat next to me, not in the Knesset, but in the Schneider Children's Hospital in Petach Tikva. I sat in the hospital room, next to my unconscious son. She entered at night, in traditional dress; perhaps she was from Gaza. She was accompanied by a fifty-ish Israeli woman, from the "white tribe", the Israeli equivalent of WASPS. She looked like she had just come to the hospital from an ivory tower. I watched from my corner of the room. The Israeli woman ran to and fro for the Arab, serving her as best she could. She filled out forms, made sure she was comfortable, brought her a chair, a cup of water. The other patients did not even merit a glance from her. All of her kindness was focused on the Arab woman.

This went on and on, into the night.

Not once did I hear the Arab say 'thank you' or anything similar. On the contrary; she projected hostility. I do not know if she recognized me or not. But one thing is clear: the more the Israeli served her, the more the Arab hated her. In the morning, I concluded that she was right.

"What do you think?" the Arab woman accuses the Israeli in her heart. "That you can steal my land and afterwards bring me a cup of water and everything will be fine? You are on my land, Mrs. Wealthy. This is my land, this is my place, this is my hospital. You occupied me and now you expect me to thank you for helping me to fill out forms in your language?" The educated white woman is intelligent and very moral. She is bursting with guilt feelings. The Arab doesn't have to say a thing. The white woman already knows. She is meek. She understands. She knows that she is nothing more than a guest here; that the salt of the earth, the bedrock foundation of this land is the Arab. She tries to appease her; to merit just a drop of legitimacy from the owner of the stolen house. Somebody made a mistake one or two generations ago. Instead of assimilating into Europe, this group of Jews were enchanted by a foolish idea and came here for a complicated adventure of identity exchange. They came to find a place for the Jews under the sun in the Land of their forefathers - under a new identity. That Diaspora Jew fled here - justifiably - from the religion of the exile. He tried to establish a new nation instead of the Jewish nation. He attempted to establish the Zionist nation; Israeli instead of Jewish.

Now this woman is stuck here with a family and children and a career and she can't run away. So she tries to rectify the mistake; maybe the Arab woman will forgive her. But the Arab hates her even more and the white woman is sure that it is because of the "occupation" and the settlers. She is convinced that if only we would give the Arab her cup of water and what we "stole" from her in 1967, she would forgive us for what we "stole" in 1948. It took time for the Zoabis to understand that they held a diamond in their pockets; complete immunity from the law and the last remnants of Israeli pride. When the Prime Minister of Israel shook the hand of the head of the Organization for the Liberation of the Land of Israel from the Jews (the PLO); when we adopted the justice of their cause, we brought the Zoabis into the world. For if this is not our Land, it is their Land. There is no such thing as betrothing a woman to oneself and to one's neighbor. The new Jew needs the Arab to adopt the Israeli identity that he invented. For if only a Jew can be an Israeli - then we have accomplished nothing at all and still remain alone with our Jewish identity. We have not found a place among the nations, but a place separated from the nations; precisely the exile condition from which we attempted to flee. Zoabi understood that the Israeli needs the Arab to help him forget that he is a Jew. "True, I broke the law," Zoabi intimated at the High Court. "Let's see you stop me from running for the Knesset. My entire party will drop out of the race and we won't be there to hide your Jewish identity for you." I thought of Pollard, whose life is slipping away from him in an American prison. I thought of him and his Jewish judges. I thought of the American Jews who bent over backwards to prove their loyalty to America. There, the Jews are hostages of their hosts. Here, the Israelis are hostages of their guests. It all depends, of course, upon whom this Land belongs to. Those who feel like guests live on borrowed time; they always have to please their hosts. The Zoabis are not the only ones who understood this. The Bedouins in the Negev understood it as well. Begin (the son) wants to give them 62% of their demands, to annul existing court decisions and to turn the rule of law into a laughingstock. And the Bedouins, just like the Arab woman in the hospital, refuse to say thank you. They demand 100% and like Zoabi - they will get it. What did we think? That in exchange for a Knesset seat Zoabi would surrender her identity and solve our identity crisis?

It's a good thing that Hanin Zoabi is in the Knesset. Her colleagues still suffer from a limited correctness toward the "occupiers". They wait for the National Anthem to be sung before leaving the plenum. As if all we have to do is let them skip the anthem and bring them a cup of water and the problem will be solved. But Hanin isn't playing around. She doesn't allow us to flee ourselves.

She holds an intelligent, scathing and vital mirror to our faces. A mirror that constantly reminds us that we cannot exist here for long without our Jewish identity.

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From Arlene Kushner on the inclusion of Tzipi Livni in the Coalition:

As to Livni herself, I will say that I consider her to be a disaster as a politician/diplomat. She has repeatedly been involved in decisions that have proved detrimental to Israel. Many remember her for her role in promoting the "disengagement" -- the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza.

I always associate her with Resolution 1701: the Security Council resolution of 2006, which brought a stop to our war with Hezbollah in Lebanon and called for a UN force in Lebanon, UNIFIL, to prevent the re-arming of Hezbollah. She called this a "diplomatic victory." Yea, right. Israel trusting the UN for protection. Hezbollah has huge quantities of weapons today, brought in from Syria under the watchful eyes of UNIFIL.

Once, when she gave a talk as foreign minister, I walked out. I could not bear her explanation that we, in essence, had to give away part of our land because it was important that the world like us.

http://www.arlenefromisrael.info

Amidst the news that President of Israel, Shimon Peres, is planning to give an award to President Obama when he visits Israel this March, 2013, we must realize that this does not reflect the true relationship between Israel and Obama. Mark Langfan writes about this in his op ed in Arutz Sheva. Please read this and understand the sober truth:

Beware: Obama's Iran War Talk is Israel's Suicide Walk

Published: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 7:08 AM

Obama has created for himself a perfect PR stunt to blame Israel for Iran getting nukes.

Mark Langfan

The Sunday Times recently, I believe, likely correctly framed Obama's general plan for his upcoming Israel visit, when it wrote: "[US President] Barack Obama will visit Israel next month for the first time as US president armed with the outline of a deal balancing the promise of tougher American action against Iran with fresh Israeli overtures to the Palestinians." But unfortunately, Obama's March 2013 game is exactly Obama's May 2009 game when the new President Obama stated:

"[I]f there is a linkage between Iran and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, I personally believe it actually runs the other way. To the extent that we can make peace with the Palestinians - between the Palestinians and the Israelis - then I actually think it strengthens our hand in the international community in dealing with a potential Iranian threat." In essence, Obama wants to trade Obama's empty "Iranian 'war' talk" for Israel's "suicide 'peace' walk." Obama will only making explicit what has been his implicit policy since 2009. Obama's 'West Bank for a US Iran attack' "trade" is insane on its face, and should be rejected outright. Further, Obama's very "linkage" of the Iran's nukes with Israel coughing up a Palestinian State only means Obama intends to allow Iran to get nukes, and wants Israel to be the his "scapegoat" cover for the failure of Obama's own catastrophic Iranian nuclear appeasement.

Obama's Iran nuclear policy can be summed up as "Speak softly, and carry no stick."

First, why is Obama's ""talk" for "walk"" scam insane for Israel?

Simple, been there done that! The exact reason Bibi caved in 2009 to Obama and agreed to a settlement freeze on November 25, 2009 was that Bibi had, very likely, under-the-table agreed to Obama's Iran-West Bank linkage. And where did that get Israel? Iran exponentially accelerated its U235 enrichment and Abbas infinitely escalated the Palestinian's demands. So, Obama is doubling down on a lose-lose policy for Israel and a win-win for him.

Obama is doubling down on a lose-lose policy for Israel and a win-win for him.

In 2009, Obama made Bibi look like a 'Booby' and enabled Iran to enrich 1000s of kilograms of UF6 gas containing enriched U235 Uranium. In 2013, Bibi's caving to Obama will give Iran just the window it needs to breakout with a nuke. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, Iran gets a nuke. Next, in short, Israel will be forced to immediately give up the concrete 'West Bank Palestinian Arab State', so Obama can jabber on with Iran for another 4 years with Iran. Great! So now, Iran only has to have Hamas lob chemical-tipped katyushas from Judea and Samaria into Tel Aviv in order to annihilate Israel, in addition to Iran having and delivering a nuke! Net-net, Obama is really offering Israel "immediate suicide for bupkis." ("Bupkis" mean "absolutely nothing" in Yiddish.) For even if Obama actually physically attacked Iran in return for a "Palestinian Arab West Bank state", that state would still steal all of Israel's water, and would still fire ball-bearing war-headed rockets into Ben Gurion airport. So, it's still Israeli suicide.

Third, Iran is the world's problem, not Israel's. Everyone in the Middle East but Middle East pundits knows that Iran's nukes represent a greater immediate totally existential threat to Saudi Arabia. So, Obama's deal is a super lose-lose for Israel. Israel will get blamed by everybody for any deaths of American soldiers or pilots who "got killed for saving Israel's butt." Even though a US attack on Iran saved Saudi Arabia and the world. The pundits will scream, "Israel pushed America into an Iranian war it didn't need." And for what, hasn't US defense secretary and Chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff for years told us and sworn under oath to the US Congress that "at best a US attack on Iran will only delay, NOT eliminate Iran's nukes." So, Israel will get hysterically blamed in the American media, for American body bags from an American attack on Iran and get, at best, a two year delay. And for a two year delay, Israel gives Iran an immediate "West Bank" beachhead from which it can easily genocidally murder 70 percent of Israel's population, and lay waste to 80 percent of her industrial base. Finally, by Obama's suggestion of US -Iran-attack-for-Palestinian-Arab-state deal, he knows no Israel Prime Minister can be that totally stupid, and take it. Consequently, Obama has created for himself a perfect PR stunt to blame Israel for Iran getting nukes. What's more, Obama gets a perfect shield to dodge Israel's demands for an attack on Iran. Just imagine Obama complaining to his American Jewish donors (who will eat it up like the liberal sycophants they are), "I tried my best to help Israel with Iran, but I needed their help with the Arabs, and Israel outright rejected my help. So, my hands were tied. Israel didn't know what's best for itself." To the world-at-large Obama's blame will be a harsher, "Israel's rejection of Peace caused the Iranian nuclear bomb." So, Obama will lie and claim Israel caused an Iran's bomb, not his insane nuclear appeasement of a new Islamo-Nazi world threatening menace.

In conclusion, Israel must publicly, but politely, expose Obama's Orwellian linkage of a Palestinian Arab state in Judea and Samaria for a US Iranian war talk or even for a US Iranian attack for the perverse scam it truly is.

The Iran Nuke/PA state linkage must be publicly denuded as a policy hoax before President Obama lands on the Ben Gurion Tarmac. In fact, the more such nuke linkage Obama creates, the more Iran has an actual incentive, and cover, to accelerate its nuclear bomb program. Iran will have the perfect "Obama-approved" excuse for building a nuclear bomb: "Israel made me do it." The Europeans and Obama's left-wing Jewish donors will swallow it whole.

The writer has created an original educational 3d Topographic Map System of Israel to facilitate clear understanding of the dangers facing Israel and its water supply. It has been studied by US lawmakers and can be seen at www.marklangfan.com.

ATTENTION MUST BE PAID

Helen Freedman

AFSI has been advocating for the residents of the 21 Jewish communities that made up Gush Katif in Gaza, for many years. Before the expulsion of August 2005, the AFSI Chizuk missions regularly visited the communities, led by Dror Vanunu. Dror introduced us to Anita Tucker, Moshe & Rachel Saperstein, Rivka Goldschmidt, Laurence Beziz, and a long list of people who became very dear to us. Before the expulsion, our tour bus was greeted by Anita, boarding the bus with a bushel full of tomatoes or other wonderful vegetables from her hot houses. Moshe would always entertain us with some amazing stories told in his inimitable style. We knew that the residents were enduring frequent rocket attacks from Gaza, but they were dealing with them in the most pragmatic way, and going on with their almost idyllic lives along the Mediterranean beach.

Once the expulsion took place, and I was with Dror and Karen and the children in Nevei Dekalim during that time, the nightmare began. As efficient and meticulous were the military plans for the expulsion, so totally inadequate and impossible was the lack of planning for the aftermath. People found themselves crammed into hotel rooms, in tiny kibbutz rooms, in tent cities, and finally the large refugee camp of caravans, or trailers, set up in Nitzan, not far from Ashkelon.

It's been almost eight years, and many of the transplanted people are still in the temporary homes. Below is an article by Josh Hasten describing his interview with our dear, dear friend, Rachel Saperstein. Our hearts break over and over again as we hear their stories and witness their distress on our semi-annual visits to Nitzan. We will visit with them again on May 6, when the AFSI Chizuk mission will once again be in Israel to celebrate Yom Yerushalayim, the reunification of the ancient capital of Israel in 1967. Along with our celebrations, we must also suffer in solidarity with our beleaguered brothers and sisters in Israel.

Tragically, the lessons that should have been learned from this expulsion of 10,000 Jews have fallen on blind eyes and deaf ears. The expulsions continue, as we saw yesterday with Maaleh Rehavaam, and more threats follow. Jews like Akiva HaCohen, who try to warn their fellow Jews about pending demolitions, are considered enemies of the state and sentenced to house arrest and prison. All of this defies explanation when we look at the other side of the slate and see the remarkable achievements of the 65 year old state. We pray that sanity will prevail and the suffering of good Jews who love and protect the land of Israel will cease.

Helen Freedman

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YOU CAN HELP THE GUSH KATIF REFUGEES:

You are invited to attend the Gala DINNER to benefit THE GUSH KATIF MUSEUM in Jerusalem. SATURDAY NIGHT, MARCH 9, 8 P.M., the RAZAG BALLROOM, 739 East New York Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. GOVERNOR MIKE HUCKABEE is the keynote speakers. Rivka Goldschmidt from Gush Katif and Rabbi Yosef Jacobson from the Crown Heights Synagogues will also speak. Meaningful multimedia displays will be featured. Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, President of the Gush Katif Museum will address the guests. Honorees include Rabbi Sholom Ber Drizin, Rabbi David Algaze, Assemblyman Dov Hikind and Helen Freedman. Dr. Joseph Frager is Chairman of the evening. A long list of devoted workers for Israel are on the dinner committee. To make your reservation, call 718-208-1770 or email: dinner@GushKatifMuseum.org

For the special AFSI members' price for the dinner, call 212-828-2424 or email: afsi@rcn.com. All contributions are tax deductible. PLEASE, make every effort to attend and support this important evening. Encourage friends, neighbors and family to join you.

No end in sight for Gush Katif expellees

By JOSH HASTEN

12/02/2013

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=303063

It's been far too long without a remedy, and still there is no end in sight.

Sitting in her tiny caravan and looking up at the water stains and cracks in the ceiling from the winter rain, Gush Katif expellee and current Nitzan resident Rachel Saperstein has had enough. Referring to her community as a "refugee camp" Saperstein tells me with obvious frustration in her voice during a recent interview that "it's time to leave." The 72-year-old mother and grandmother, a New York native, along with her husband Moshe - who lost an arm while serving in the IDF during the Yom Kippur War, and was then severely wounded again in a terror attack near their Neve Dekalim home in 2002 - are among the over 60 percent of former Gush Katif residents who, seven-and-a-halfyears after the expulsion, are still not living in permanent homes. This normally bubbly, always cheerful, laughing and optimistic Gush Katif pioneer is not smiling anymore.

"I'm angry, I'm depressed, I'm frustrated, I want to get going and build my house, but I can't do it. I keep hearing from them [the Tenufa Authority, formerly known as the Sela Authority, which is responsible for assisting Gush Katif families with resettlement] - 'next month, next month,' but nothing is moving." According to Saperstein, she and her husband have already acquired a parcel of land in the Lachish area, home to many other former Gush Katif families, have architectural plans and have picked a builder. The only thing holding them back is the lack of a permit for their new home.

"We're not the only ones," she says. "Many of our neighbors are also still waiting for permits."

Saperstein says she has no explanation as to why her building permit has been delayed.

"I think the Tenufa are well-intentioned people, but they are at the bottom of the bureaucratic government pyramid, so nothing seems to be moving. But worse," she says, "many of the people here can't even move [into permanent housing] because they don't have the money to build. We all received a small amount of money from the government [in 2005], which amounts to about half of what it would cost to build a house. But you have people here who took huge loans and are still paying off mortgages on the houses which were destroyed in Gush Katif." She adds that "the government money was used for living expenses. People didn't have jobs - they lost their jobs as a result of the expulsion, so they had to use those funds from the government just to feed their children, for education, and just to get by." In total, according to Saperstein, "about 50 families in Nitzan do not have the financial resources necessary to allow them to move. They are desperate, and they have even come to me for help." Adding to the tension were press reports in Ma'ariv last month indicating that eviction orders were issued to 165 unsettled Nitzan families who were unable or refused to pay a newly issued rent fee on their caravans. According to Arutz 7 news Tenufa clarified those reports, indicating that Nitzan residents who had rented rather than owned homes in Gush Katif will now be asked to pay rent on their caravans. Exceptions would be given, said the Arutz 7 report, to those who have started construction on their permanent homes, but families who have not started building - which would include the Sapersteins - will have to settle rent issues with Amigur, the company which manages the Nitzan site. "I have been getting phone calls from all over the world asking what's going on [with regard to the possible evictions]," says Saperstein. "It's frightening, and it's sad. We were trying to keep our moods together as we were being bombed [during the recent war in Gaza], and now comes the second boom - being told that you are going to be thrown out of your caravilla [caravan] if you don't find a way to build a house - so fine, [if that's the case] give me a permit [to build]!" Throughout the years of turmoil Saperstein has done what she can to help those around her suffering as a result of the expulsion. She founded a small amuta (charity), originally called the "Band Aid Fund," to help cash starved families. Now known as Operation Dignity, Saperstein's organization is involved with various projects to help former Gush Katif families including raising funds for educational scholarships, self-help work programs, and providing food subsidies to needy families, among other important endeavors. She is also grateful for the work being done by the Friends of Gush Katif organization in funding community projects, and by the JobKatif organization that helps get people back on their feet through job placements and a slew of other employment services and trainings. But Saperstein says enough is enough.

"Meanwhile, we're 72 years old, and we want to build our home. We can't keep waiting until we're 73, 74, or 75. We're getting very nice prospectim [brochures] from old-age homes around the country saying 'welcome, come to us and you'll have an apartment and you'll dance and you'll sing,' but that's not what we want, we want to build our home in Lachish." For Saperstein, and all of the other Gush Katif families who were told that there would be a "solution for everyone," it's been far too long without a remedy, and still there is no end in sight.

CONTRADICTIONS THAT AMAZE & DISMAY

Helen Freedman

I just completed reading START-UP NATION by Dan Senor and Saul Singer which left me smiling, proud, and in awe of the amazing progress Israel has made as a country on the cutting edge of research and development in so many fields. Its start-up and venture capitalism record has attracted giant companies to move their business centers to Israel. Yoram Ettinger writes about that in the article below.

At the same time, I read about the nine homes belonging to Jews, destroyed by order of the Jewish government in Israel. Ma'ale Rehavam is a community in Gush Etzion which the AFSI Chizuk group has visited many times. Guided by Israel Danziger, head of Mishmeret Yesha, we have been there to plant trees and visit with the members of the community. How shocking and unbelievable it was to read about yet another demolition. Just last year the communities of Migron and the Ulpana neighborhood in Beit El, which we have also visited, were destroyed by order of the army.

All of this is senseless and meaningless in terms of justice. The president of the High Court of Justice issued a temporary injunction on Wednesday to halt the demolition, but nine buildings were destroyed, while the question of their legality is still being debated, before the injunction was issued.

Our queston is, how can a country so remarkable, so flourishing, so distinctive, which welcomes Jews from all over the world and creates a home for them, then proceed to cruelly destroy some of the homes? What is the rationale behind this? Who is being appeased by such action?

PLEASE - Encourage the implementation of the Edmund Levy report and the application of Israeli sovereignty to Judea and Samaria so such cruel demolitions will cease forever.

Helen Freedman

Nine-months pregnant Miryam Tager describes surprise house demolition by IDF, Border Police.

By Tovah Lazaroff

Security forces gave Miryam Tager 15 minutes to pack up her small home when they knocked on her door in the Ma'aleh Rehavam outpost around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.

Hours later she and her husband, Meir Tager, sat on the sofa in their neighbor's living room and described the surprise raid the IDF, Border Police and civil administration made on their small hilltop community in the Gush Etzion region of the West Bank.

As she spoke, Tager, who is nine-months pregnant, often held her hands on her stomach.

Her two small daughters, ages three and one, ran around the room. From the window, they could see the rubble of the small 36-meter, two-room structure that had been their home for the last year.

The sunny day had an ordinary start, said Meir Tager, who left home on his motorcycle for Jerusalem where he studies technology.

"I sat with the girls and made them breakfast," Miryam Tager said.

She paused for a moment, and added, "As I am describing this to you, I feel almost as if it happened to someone else, not to me."

Suddenly, Tager said, she heard a dog barking incessantly. She looked outside, and was surprised to see that security forces and workers had surrounded her home. One of them tried to restrain the dog.

Confused and still in her pajamas, she walked out to ask them what was happening. "We have come to destroy your house," she recalled them saying.

What struck her as terribly ironic, she said, was that they added, "We are doing this for your security, as if it was a favor they were doing for me." Unsure of what to do next, Tager walked back into her home and closed the door.

But that did little, because within seconds, they knocked on it and asked to come in. She bought a few seconds reprieve by noting that she needed to get dressed.

"But I was so unnerved, that I pulled a skirt on over my pajamas," she said, as she looked at the long black cloth.

"They knocked again, and I opened the door," she said.

The officer said, "You have 15 minutes to pack. Take what is important and leave," Tager recalled.

She said she wanted to call her husband, but the officer instructed her to pack first. Tager ignored him, and tried to call her husband and her mother.

She said that she was so rattled she couldn't think of what to pack.

"Take what is important to you," Tager recalled them saying. "But I thought, everything is dear to me."

The officers advised her to take small items, such as laptops. She filled a small bag, but did not think of grabbing jewelry or hair clips for the girls.

The workers came in with boxes and removed things from the shelves, Tager said. She placed the girls on the sofa with books and toys.

"I tried to stay calm, so they wouldn't be upset," she said.

"They asked me, 'Why are all these people here? Why are they taking our things?' I told them, 'They are just placing them outside,'" she said.

She pleaded with the workers to leave, but they ignored her. Still, she kept talking to them, because she did not know what else to do. One of them filmed the other workers as they took apart her house. Another worker found her jewelry and gave it to her.

Meir Tager said he had just arrived in Jerusalem when his cell phone rang. He recognized his wife's number, but no one was on the other end.

Instead he could hear a lot of noise and screams, and someone saying, "Take your things."

He said, "I understood that something was happening, but I did not know what."

Finally, a neighbor called to tell him the security forces were in the outpost and were taking down nine structures, four of which, including theirs, had families living in them.

Meir Tager raced home, but security forces stopped him near Kfar Eldad and explained that the area was now a closed military zone.

So he drove his motorcycle on a back road through a neighboring Palestinian village. He parked the motorcycle a short distance away and walked to his home, as workers were bringing everything outside.

"We stood there in the bright sun, with no shade," Miryam Tager said. A nursery school teacher tried to walk to the house to pick up the girls, but security forces stopped her.

"Then the tractor came, and tore the house apart as we watched," she said.

Both she and her husband said they had understood that the outpost was unauthorized when they moved there, but had been led to believe that this was a technicality that would be legally resolved.

"People told us there was no chance that anything would happen," he said. "This is the first time something like this has happened here."

Now, he said, the question is, "To build again, or not."

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Cisco acquired its 11th Israeli company

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, "Second Thought"

Straight from the Jerusalem Boardroom #175, February 14, 2013

http://bit.ly/VhxQPG

1. "Israeli defense exports for 2012 are expected to show an increase, despite the global economic crisis.... Israeli defense exports for 2012 may cross the $7 billion line.... 10% to 15% higher than 2011 exports, though it will not match the peak of more than $7.5 billion recorded in 2010.... A substantial effort is currently under way to increase sales mainly in countries such as India and several other countries in Eastern Asia, South American countries, Australia, Africa and Canada, where Israeli defense exports have recorded a growth trend (IsraelDefense, Dec. 31, 2012)." Israel is ranked between fourth and sixth in the world for weapons sales. The US and Europe are Israel's leading markets.

2. "Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that even though there is only one Silicon Valley, 'Israel is among the second tier of innovative places' - akin to Microsoft's hometown, Seattle.... Ballmer said that "the range of innovative things that Israel is doing is remarkable. There is such a wide scope of exciting things going on there. Israel is a start-up center, and there is always something to challenge us here, or one that we can acquire.' A number of MS technologies are 'Made in Israel,' Weisfeld explained in a previous interview: These include Microsoft gateway VPN technology; Microsoft Security Essentials anti-virus suite; and the newest product, the recommendation system for Xbox systems.... Israel was the first Microsoft R&D center outside the US, which opened in 1991. Today, the company has centers around the world, but... there are only four places in the world where the R&D centers get involved in general and innovative projects: the US, China, India, and Israel (Time of Israel, Nov. 5, 2012)."

3. The Swiss-based Institute for Management Development (IMD) has ranked the Bank of Israel in the top five among central banks for its efficient functioning in its 2012 World Competitiveness Yearbook for the third year in a row. The report also ranked Israel's economy 9th highest for its durability in the face of the global financial crisis (http://bit.ly/Xf6Cr9).

4. The $110BN Cisco acquired Israel's IntuCell for $475MN, Cisco's 11th Israeli acquisition, including NDS which was acquired in March, 2012 for $5BN (Globes, January 24). Israel's Keryx BioPharmaceuticals raised - on NASDAQ - $70MN, its 4th IPO (Globes, Feb. 4). Israel's MedGenics raised $29MN on NASDAQ (Globes, Feb. 11). DKPartners hedge fund joined York Private Equity, investing $55MN in Elbit Imaging bonds (January 24).

5. In 2012, 575 Israeli high-tech companies raised $1.92 billion from local and foreign investors, a 10 percent decrease from $2.14 billion raised by 545 companies in 2011 (Israel Venture Capital Research Center). The Georgia-based EndoChoice merged with Israel's Peer Medical, raising $43MN in a round of private placement led by Sequoia Capital (MarketWire, January 4). Benchmark Capital, Battery Ventures and HPV Investment invested $16MN in Israel's Panaya (Globes, Jan. 9). Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners and Norwest Venture Partners invested $15NM in a round of private placement by Israel's Ravello (Globes, Feb. 7). The NYC-based Millennium Technology Value Partners invested $12MN in Israel's WatchDox (Globes, 31). Orbimed invested $8MN in Israel's Medigus (Globes, Jan. 7). $5.5MN invested in Jonathan Medved's OurCrowd (Globes, Feb. 7).

6. Israel's natural gas potential. Jonathan Baron and Dr. David Wurmser, (Forbes, September 27, 2012): "With in excess of 25 trillion cubic feet of natural gas discovered since 2009, Israel now enjoys historic opportunities to produce domestic, affordable, and secure energy.... Under any realistic scenario, Israel possesses ample supplies to ensure energy security in the power sector for a generation.... The well-established pattern of such development suggests that the natural gas discoveries to date represent only a fraction of the total recoverable resource. Based on other basins, current discoveries in the Israeli Levant Basin likely are only a fraction of the total technically recoverable resources.... "

7. Kinetic Energies - Alternative Electrical Energies, owned by Isaac Sutton, leads a 250MN Euro investment in the construction of 120 megawatt 50 wind-turbines in the Golan Heights (Globes, January 24).

It comes as no surprise to AFSI members that the infiltration and recruitment of Muslim adherents in the Whitehouse is going full speed ahead, as per the article below. In light of this close association between Obama and Jihadists, what is one to expect when Obama visits Israel this spring? Will it be the Jerusalem spring turning into winter, as did the Arab spring? AFSI predicts unprecedented pressure on Israel. Updates will follow.

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State Dept. Recruits Jihadists to Join Foreign Service

posted on February 2, 2013 by Tad Cronn

In what can only be described as a mind-boggling policy move, the State Department recruited Muslim participants at a conference sponsored by groups with ties to radical Islamists to become members of its foreign service.

Foreign Service officers represent the United States at its embassies and consulates around the globe. The recruitment drive is part of the Obama Administration's larger Muslim outreach policy.

Mark Ward, the Deputy Special Coordinator in the Office of Middle East Transition, gave a 90-minute seminar on career opportunities for Muslim youths during a recent conference held in Chicago by the Muslim American Society and the Islamic Circle of North America.

Other speakers at the conference included a fundraiser for the Holy Land Foundation convicted of funneling millions of dollars to Hamas, and a founder of the MAS who praised Palestinian terrorists in a presentation on jihad and "martyrdom."

Joining Ward in presenting the jobs seminar was a man named Oussama Jammal, president of the Mosque Foundation, which raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Holy Land Foundation.

As part of its Muslim outreach efforts, the State Department has also reportedly been meeting in secret with Islamist groups, has sent a known anti-American cleric on a Mideast outreach tour, and has dumbed down federal anti-terrorism training to eliminate "negative references" to Muslims. Hillary Clinton even used her authority to allow two banned Islamic scholars to enter the United States.

Much has been written, outside the mainstream media, about the infiltration of the Obama Administration by the Muslim Brotherhood, particularly at the State Department, where Clinton's top aide had undisputed family ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Radio host and author Mark Levin takes it further, though, calling President Obama a "sympathizer" who has deliberately armed the "Islamonazi" regime in Egypt and nominated "Israel hater" Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense.

"So why would a president nominate somebody like Chuck Hagel?" Levin asked rhetorically. "Because the president is Chuck Hagel. He's a sympathizer with the most radical elements in the Middle East and he's an Israel hater. That's why he nominated Hagel."

This Administration's blind trust of radical Islamists has led to the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere. It is driving the war in Syria and blocking action against Iran's nuclear weapons program.

With the White House delivering F-16s to the radicals in charge of Egypt even as it tries to disarm Americans, it's clear the wolves are in charge of the hen house.

Below is the link to the video summary , with English subtitles, of the 3rd Annual Conference for the application of Israeli Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria which was held on January 1st 2013 on the eve of the elections for the 19th Knesset.

The results of the elections show us that the people in Israel prefer to focus on social and economic issues.This has not taken the matter of applying Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria off the table. On the contrary! In order to advance a social-economic agenda, there is a need for land on which to build affordable housing near the center of the country, there is a need for working hands,there is a need for better residential dispersion of our population.

All this is achievable - if we apply sovereignty over Judea and Samaria.

Dear partners, we urge you to forward this movie far and wide to all your mailing lists and facebook friends. The pressure on Israel to cave in and give away our Biblical heartland has not stopped for a moment.The application of Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria is the answer. Passing on this movie to thousands of others will help spread the message that there IS a sane alternative to capitulations, an alternative that should have been implemented 46 years ago. . Thank you,

Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar

http://www.womeningreen.org

It is a sad commentary on our times that Anti-Semitism is so strongly on the rise, that even my alma mater, Brooklyn College, which I remember so fondly, and to which I am so grateful for the excellent education I received there, is sponsoring a hate fest against Israel. The Political Science Department, Chaired by Prof. Paisley Currah (pcurrach@brooklyn.cuny.edu) and Deputy Undergraduate Chair, Prof. Caroline Arnold (carnold@brooklyn.cuny.edu);and Director of Religious Studies, Ken Estey (Kestey@brooklyn.cuny.edu) , along with a lengthy list of staff members which can be read on the Brooklyn College website, has put out a statement explaining why they are co-sponsoring the BDS day against Israel on Thursday, Feb. 7. That shameful statement is copied below. I urge all concerned parties to write to the above emails expressing their disgust and dismay about this promotion of lies, bigotry, and hate on the college campus.

For those able to get to Brooklyn, NY, on Thursday morning, Jan. 31, 11 AM, Assemblyman Dov Hikind is calling a press conference to expose the nefarious event. The meeting place is on Bedford Avenue between Campus Rd. and Avenue I.

Here is the Statement from Brooklyn College's Political Science Department:

Political Science

Statement, January 30, 2013

A student group [why no name?] at Brooklyn College has organized a panel discussion [ why no mention of the participants?] regarding the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, a non-violent response to the State of Israel's handling of the Palestinian conflict. On college campuses around the country and across the world, this issue is being discussed. Brooklyn College should be no different. The department of political science has thus decided to co-sponsor [at tax payer's expense] this event. We encourage students and members of the community to attend, pose their questions, and air their views

Contact Information :
Department Chairperson: Currah, Paisley
Undergraduate Deputy: Arnold, Caroline
Director of Religious Studies: Estey, Ken

Location: 3413 James Hall
Phone: 718.951.5306
Fax: 718.951.4833

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Jeff Wiesenfeld, a Trustee of CUNY, has come out strongly against the BDS event at Brooklyn College. Below is a letter referring to Jeff and to the tragedy unfolding:

New comment on your post "Taxpayer Funded BDS at CUNY Is Illegitimate, Racist and Anti-Semitic "
Author : Daniel Bilar E-mail : dbilar@acm.org

Dear Reader

Mr Wiesenfeld is right. He is also brave because he is one of the very few to speak up about this. I spent 16 years in these types of elite US universities both as a student and CS faculty member. I left academia because I could not stand it anymore. There is only one segment of American civic life where anti-semitism is acceptable, where these double standards against Jewish identity, Jewish behavior, Jewish nationalism is not only tolerated but actively furthered, Jewish students intimidated, viciously attacked (physically, psychologically and verbally) and that is American academia. If this sounds incredible to you, google "In an Academic Voice: Antisemitism and Academy Bias" by Lasson 2011 and see what happens today in US campuses to Jewish students. Absolutely disgusting, and utterly shameful that Jewish leaders do not speak up like Mr Wiesenfeld.

All of these silent US "leaders", some of which aid the persecutors, should remember one thing, at this moment in history: When European Jews were sent to the ovens, US Jews by and large did nothing. The apotheosis of this (not to mention NYT's Sulzberger denial and minimization of the destruction of European Jewry, together with NYT Moscow bureau chief Duranty's denial of the Holomodor in the 30s) can be found in the selfish haughty egomaniac Justice Felix Frankfurter, Harvard Prof of Law, heaved on the bench and then proceeded to remain silent. He could have used his influence to press on FDR who appointed him .. but he chose to put his career, his life and his well being before his fellow Jews.

No American Jew today wants his or her epitaph to read - as Frankfurter's must always read in Jewish history (This is from Auerbach, "Rabbis and Laywers":) "He could have helped but didn't. He could have believed but wouldn't. He placed his own interests before those of his fellow Jews. He concerned himself with affairs in India, Australia, and Vichy, France. Yet Frankfurter would not utilize his position and contacts, or his irrepressible energy, in the service of Jewish needs during the most desperate years of Jewish history.Among the varied causes that engaged his extrajudicial efforts, the rescue of Jews from the Holocaust was not among them [..]

Nothing was more characteristic of American Jews than their acquiescence in Roosevelt's 'abandonment of the Jews' of Europe. Proximity to power [..] all but silenced them to Jewish tragedy." Mr Wiesenfeld is absolutely right: Speak up, US Jewish "leaders", "professors", "liberals" who concern themselves with everything but their own: or you will have the blood of your Jewish brethren on your hands, again. Your silence will not save them, and it will not save you. It's never too late to repent.

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 Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind held a press conference at Brooklyn College today, Thursday morning, Jan. 31, 11 AM, to decry the co-sponsorhip by the Political Science Department of the College with a hate filled program of BDS against Israel. Assemblyman Hikind was accompanied by many of the city and state political figures. Every speaker addressed the tragedy of a moral, ethical, intellectual center like Brooklyn College, the alma mater of both Hikind and Freedman, being turned into a center for the promulgation of hate, lies, deceit, and delegitimization of the State of Israel. As Hikind stated, the "academic freedom" hailed by the President of the College, Karen Gould, and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, could be observed without interference, if only the College would withdraw its support. Taxpayer money should not be paying for the promotion of Jew-hatred.

Ari Briggs of Regavim (above)

The AFSI Chizuk group toured the Negev triangle of Beersheva, Arad and Dimona with Ari Briggs of Regavim this past Nov. 2012. Ari took us into the Bedouin communities to see for ourselves the spread of illegal housing that was taking over the Negev. The clan society of the Bedouins dominates the housing situation, and is controlled by a culture that has turned to thievery, drug smuggling, and a variety of illegal activities. This is the land which was acknowledged to be "Israeli" without any dispute, and as Michael Freund writes, and as Ari Briggs pleaded, the give-away plan passed by the government of Israel will make that land uninhabitable for Jews.

A farewell to the Negev?

by Michael Freund
The Jerusalem Post January 31, 2013

http://www.michaelfreund.org/12889/negev-beduin

This past Sunday, the largest act of organized theft in the Jewish state's history took place.

And the perpetrator was none other than the government of Israel.

At its first session since last week's elections, the outgoing cabinet convened to approve a plan ostensibly aimed at settling the long-standing issue of illegal Beduin settlements in the Negev.

As anyone who has driven through the desert east or south of Beersheba can attest, the landscape is overrun with illicit Beduin dwellings, many of which have mushroomed into full-fledged unlawful communities. Some even sit adjacent to the Nevatim Air Base, a strategically vital military site, hugging its outer perimeter on all four sides. Just take a quick tour of the area on Google Earth, and you will see the extent to which unauthorized Beduin housing dots the terrain.

Indeed, for decades, the Negev has been under assault, as Beduin have been plunking themselves down along the length and breadth of the area with no regard for such mundane matters as property rights or building permits. Nonetheless, rather than enforcing the rule of law and preventing encroachment on state-owned lands, the government shamefully capitulated to law-breakers.

In its decision, the cabinet approved a proposal put together by Minister Bennie Begin which would legalize the majority of the Beduin communities that have been set up over the years, in effect rewarding land-grabbers with most of the land they sought to grab.

As a result, over 100,000 precious dunams (10,000 hectares) of our collective patrimony will now be handed over to squatters. Vast expanses of the land of Israel are being stolen in broad daylight, and the government has now elected to become a willing accomplice to this act of land larceny.

Adding insult to injury, Begin's proposal also grants compensation to those Beduin who will be forced to move out of the illegal homes they built on state-owned land. Yes, you read that correctly.

The treasury will be reimbursing trespassers for having to vacate land they tried to steal from the state.

In an interview on Israel Radio, former MK Pini Badash, who heads the Omer Regional Council in the northern Negev, denounced the government's decision, saying, "Now people know that you can pressure the government and triumph, even if you broke the law."

Sadly, he is right on the mark.

And as investigative journalist Kalman Liebeskind of Ma'ariv, who broke the story last Friday, pointed out, the government decision "is not a small technical decision devoid of meaning. It is a decision that changes the face of the Negev. It establishes that the state's offer in the past to grant the Beduin hundreds of thousands of dunams is not enough for them, and therefore starting tomorrow we will offer them even more."

"The State of Israel," Liebeskind says, "is establishing dozens of new communities for the Beduin in dozens of locations in which they had settled illegally."

IF YOU are scratching your head and wondering why the government would do this, you are not alone. In fact, the entire manner in which the decision was brought to a vote raises serious questions about its propriety.

According to Ma'ariv, government ministers received Begin's 15-page proposal only on Thursday evening of last week, leaving them with little time to review it in advance of Sunday's vote, let alone delve into its long-term ramifications and consequences.

And the fact that a caretaker government in its final days in office would move expeditiously to pass such a far-reaching package also raised many eyebrows.

Regavim, an independent research institute which has been among the few to raise the alarm over the future of the Negev, appealed to the Supreme Court in an effort to block the government vote, but the court rejected their petition.

To be sure, the question of Beduin land claims is a complex subject which has gone unresolved for more than four decades. As a result, the government established the Goldberg Commission in 2007, followed later on by the Prawer Committee, with the aim of bringing some order to the chaos.

That is certainly an important and noble goal, and solutions must be found for the Beduin population of the Negev that will allow them to live in dignity.

But the decision approved by the cabinet is simply scandalous, and the devious manner in which it was passed is no less dubious.

TO RESPOND to lawlessness with impunity is bad enough. But to grant it a prize, and a valuable one at that, is simply an invitation to further coercion and extortion.

Not surprisingly, various Beduin spokesmen reacted angrily to the government decision, saying it was still not enough to satisfy their demands.

In any event, according to Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein, the plan will require additional legislation to be approved by the Knesset and the next government in order to take effect, so there is still a chance to stop this folly before it is too late.

Under no circumstances should tens of thousands of dunams of publicly-owned land be turned over to private individuals simply because they assert it is theirs without proof to substantiate their claims. No self-respecting law-abiding society can function in such a manner, and Israel should not yield to threats in this regard.

Political pressure must be brought to bear on the next government as soon as it is formed to block the implementation of this foolhardy scheme.

For if it is allowed to move forward, we might as well just raise a white flag and declare: Farewell to the Negev.

This weekend was a busy one, with the celebration of Tu B'Shevat, the holiday of the trees, and the reading of the parsha of the week describing the hardening of Pharoah's heart. One can draw parallels to modern day events, but also marvel at the miracles that seem to take place. Just as the waters of the Red Sea parted to allow the Jews to walk through on dry land, with the water closing in on the pursuing Egyptians, we received word of an amazing event. It was reported that the Fordo Nuclear Site in Iran suffered a severe explosion. The Iranians are denying that this happened, while WND and other sources are confirming it. There is no certain information about how this happened, but we would certainly have something to celebrate if indeed Iran's nuclear site at Fordow is destroyed. See the report below:

Iran Denies Reports of Explosion at Underground Nuclear Facility

Iran has denied reports about an explosion at its underground Fordow nuclear plant, saying they are "Western propaganda."

By Elad Benari

Iran has denied reports that surfaced over the weekend about an explosion at its underground Fordow nuclear plant.

According to a report in the Iranian IRNA news agency, the deputy head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, Seyyed Shamseddin Barbroudi, said on Sunday that that there has been no explosion whatsoever in the Fordow nuclear facility. The chairman of the Iranian parliament's Committee for Foreign Policy and National Security, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, said that the reports of the blast were nothing but "Western-made propaganda," according to IRNA. On Friday, the American WND website reported that an explosion had occurred deep within Fordow.

According to the report, the explosion which took place last Monday destroyed much of the installation and trapped about 240 personnel deep underground. The report of the blast was passed on to WND by Hamidreza Zakeri, formerly with the Islamic Republic's Ministry of Intelligence and National Security. Zakeri said that the blast shook facilities within a radius of three miles. Security forces enforced a no-traffic radius of 15 miles, and the Tehran-Qom highway was shut down for several hours after the blast, the source said. Iran admitted in the past it was moving more centrifuge machines for enriching uranium to the underground Fordow facility, which is carved into a mountain to protect it against possible attacks. The existence of the facility near Qom only came to light after it was identified by Western intelligence agencies in September 2009. The UN's nuclear watchdog has already confirmed that Iran begun enriching uranium at the plant. Israeli officials on Sunday said they did not know whether there was any truth to the reports on the explosion. The reports came after Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that the United States has plans for surgical strikes against Iran as a last-ditch measure if Tehran refuses to stop its development of a nuclear weapons capability. Barak, who spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, said, "The Pentagon prepared quite sophisticated, fine, extremely fine, scalpels. So it is not an issue of a major war or a failure to block Iran. You could under a certain situation, if worse comes to worst, end up with a surgical operation."

L-R: Helen Freedman, Judy Kadish, Mark Langfan, Hannah Cohen

We're pleased to report that Mark Langfan, our good friend, gave a fascinating lecture at a special event arranged by AFSI's eastern Long Island Chairs, Hanna Cohen and Rachel Kantro, this past Sunday, Jan. 27, 2:30 P.M. The venue was the Young Israel of East Northport, 7 Hooper Street, East Northport, NY.

Mark's topic was: WHAT EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ISRAEL. He used his famed topographical maps to illustrate Israel's Strategic Value to NATO and the U.S.,, the vital facts about the water aquifers in the Shomron mountains which feed into the heavily populated low-land areas, and the truth about the rockets that would attack Israel from a "demilitarized PA state."

Helen Freedman was also on the program, giving greetings from AFSI along with the natural conclusion from Langfan's presentation - that Israel must apply sovereignty over Judea and Samaria. A lengthy Q&A followed with the audience clearly impressed and informed by Mark's irrefutable facts.

Mark's next speaking engagement will be in Miami, Florida, this coming week at an event arranged by AFSI's Miami Chapter Chair, Carol Flatto. He will be back in NY on Friday night, Feb. 22, speaking for Manhattan Jewish Experience, 131 W. 86th Street, NYC, 7:30 PM. Register at: AFL-YL Shabbat dinner.

ACTION ALERT:

Brooklyn College will be hosting an anti-Israel hate fest on February 7. The forum is titled, "BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanction) Movement Against Israel. Virulent anti-Israel persons, Omar Barghouti and Judith Butler, will be the primary speakers. The truly abhorrent nature of this is that the Political Science Department of the College is co-sponsoring this event. Contact was made with Karen Gould, President of Brooklyn College: bcpresident@brooklyn.cuny.edu who pleaded "academic freedom." The same plea was heard in person from Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz: askmarty@brooklynbp.nyc.gov. A protest letter was also sent to Jeff Sigler, VP of the alumni association: jeffrey@mec.cuny.edu. Please send your letters of protest to the above emails, explaining that sponsorship of such an anti-Israel event by a Department of the College, is something that would not occur with any other country. Only Israel is subjected to such hatred, disguised as "academic freedom." This is unacceptable. Please copy your letters and forward your responses to afsi@rcn.com.

The next exciting event on the AFSI calendar is slated for Sunday, February 3, 2013, at the Edmond J. Safra Synagogue, 11 E. 63rd St., NYC. The Breakfast meeting is entitled:

WILL ISRAEL CHANGE FOLLOWING THE ELECTIONS? THE CONFLICT BETWEEN LAW AND GOVERNMENT.

Breakfast will start at 9:30 AM, following Shahrit at 8:30, and will give the attendees the opportunity to meet with Ambassador Alan Baker, former Israeli Ambassador to Canada, former Legal Advisor of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Member of the Judge Edmond Levy Commission. Rabbi Elie Abadie will introduce the event and Ambassador Baker will give his talk on the: Legal Status of Judea and Samaria According to International Law.

Following that, Mr. Moshe Eyal, Associate Director of the Legal Forum for the Land of Israel will give a talk on "Strengthening the Land of Israel - Saving the Jewish State." Questions and Answers will follow what will undoubtedly prove to be a fascinating morning. There is no charge. Please extend invitations to your friends and family. For additional information: 212-754-9555, ext. 11

SAVE THE DATE - GUSH KATIF MUSEUM DINNER - SATURDAY,, MARCH 9, 2013, 8:30 P.M. - GOVERNOR MIKE HUCKABEE, KEYNOTE SPEAKER RAZAG BALLROOM - 739 East New York Avenue, Bklyn.NY

The terrible tragedy of the expulsion of the 10,000 Jews from 21 flourishing Gush Katif communities is one that can never be rectified. Today we hear from many corners that it was a mistake, and those who voted for the expulsion, or advocated it in so many ways, now regret their actions.They must know that the expulsion itself was a nightmare, and set off a chain of events that is being felt to this day. The debate on the Edmond Levy report, and the Application of Israeli Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, is an outcome of the Gush Katif expulsion.

It is hoped that today's election in Israel, where PM Benjamin Netanyahu once again emerges as the leader of the largest party, Likud, with many of our strong right wing friends in the Likud, will form a coalition with HaBayit HaYehudi, Otzma L'Yisrael, and other right wing parties, putting an end to any further demolition of Jewish homes. Rather, we look forward to the announced Jewish construction in E1 and throughout Israel.

Thanks to the initiative of Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, the Gush Katif museum was built in Jerusalem in order to preserve the memory of Jewish entitlement and history in Gaza, the amazing growth and productivity of the 21 flowering communities in Gush Katif, and then the painful events of the expulsion and the aftermath, which continues to today.

Last year, 2012, the first annual dinner for the Museum was held, with keynote speakers, John Bolton and Glenn Beck. The Razag Ballroom was the venue then, as it will be again. The crowd was standing room only at the event, and it is hoped that the response will be the same this time. Please call AFSI: 212-828-2424; afsi@rcn.com, for further information.

AFSI has alerted its members and the general public for years to the extreme anti-Israel bias in the New York Times. This bias is apparent not only in the editorial section, where one expects to read opinions, but also in the reporting by its journalists. Years ago we prepared a batch of photos which had appeared in the Times over a period of time which concentrated solely on grieving Arab women, crying over their children "murdered" by the "brutal IDF." Often these were staged photos, with the same "victims" used again and again. There were no photos of grieving Jewish women crying over their murdered children and husbands, victims of suicide bombings and other terrorist attacks. Our package of photos was delivered to all the members of the Times editorial board with our request for a response to the blatant bias. Our efforts were met by silence.

It is hoped that CAMERA's monograph, INDICTING ISRAEL - NEW YORK TIMES Coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict - A July 1-December 31, 2011 Study- will attract broad attention and will succeed in alerting the public to this pervasive problem regarding the newspaper on which so many people rely for their facts and information. We stopped subscribing to the NY Times years ago. We recommend the same to our supporters. Even if the Times apologizes for its errors, as it did with its failure to cover the Holocaust of WWII, there is no certainty it will change its ways. It is losing subscribers every day. We encourage you to be among that group, and to alert advertisers to the problems that pollute the NY Times. Please see the notice below from CAMERA inviting you to an event in various venues in order to discuss these issues. We encourage your attendance.

Greetings Friends of CAMERA:

CAMERA's landmark new monograph on New York Times coverage of Israel, entitled Indicting Israel, details how the newspaper subjects Israel to a discriminatory standard, omits context, and shows a clear preference for the Palestinian narrative.

Monograph authors Ricki Hollander and Gilead Ini have also just published Op-Eds related to the analysis. Hollander's "Study Indicts New York Times for Anti-Israel Bias" appeared in PJ Media.

In The Jerusalem Post, Ini's "Why Egyptian hate speech, and 'NYT' reporting on it, matter" takes on the central issue of incitement to Jew-hatred by Arab and particularly Palestinian leaders and the power The Times could - and should - bring to bear to expose and, ultimately, diminish the propaganda assault on the Jewish state.

Feel free to post your own comments under the PJ Media and Jerusalem Post articles.

Both Hollander and Ini will be speaking about CAMERA's groundbreaking new publication across the country in the coming months. The events are interactive briefings with a focus on understanding the nature of the bias at The Times and the ways concerned readers can be involved in "Changing The Times"!

Learn about The New York Times' Israel problem and its ethical journalism problem - a problem that has damaging real-world impact.

Sign up today for an event in your area. Click here.

Dates of upcoming "Changing The Times?" programs:

Thursday, 1/24 - Newton, MA
Thursday, 1/31 - Rockville, MD
Wednesday, 2/13 - New York City
Thursday, 2/14 - Livingston, NJ
Tuesday, 2/26 - Skokie, IL

West coast stops and other locations nationwide to be announced.

For more information contact josh@camera.org.

Israelis went to the polls on January 22, 2013 to elect their Prime Minister and representatives. To no one's surprise, PM Benjamin Netanyahu should once again be at the helm of the country, although the party lost many more slots than was expected. For ourselves, we were delighted to see some new names in the ranks, such as Moshe Feiglin in Likud and Orit Strook in HaBayit HaYehudi. They are joining the ranks of many wonderful MK friends of AFSI, and we offer our support in helping them achieve the goals on behalf of a whole Israel to which we have always been dedicated.

We also express sincere regret that MK Dr. Aryeh Eldad and MK Michael Ben-Ari will not be returning to the Knesset because their Otzma L'Yisrael party did not meet the required threshhold of votes needed. We pray they will continue to be strong voices for good within the Israeli political and social system. We also regret that other good friends, Jeremy Gimpel, Baruch Marzel, MK Ayoob Kara, and Arieh King, will not be in the 19th Knesset. We trust that despite this, they will continue with their remarkable work.

Arlene Kushner, a good friend and remarkable observer of events in Israel, has written her personal assessment of the election results. Please find them below:

January 23, 2013

"Bibi Blew It"

Arlene Kushner

Oh, PM Netanyahu's joint Likud-Beitenu list secured by far the most votes in yesterday's election, and it is expected that he will form the next coalition and continue in his role as head of the government. But the election results could have been sooo much better.

The counting is not quite over (soldiers' votes are being counted), and so there may be a shift of a mandate (seat) or two, but right now this is the line-up:

Likud-Beitenu: 31
Yesh Atid (Yair Lapid): 19
Labor: 15
HaBayit Hayehudi (Naftali Bennett): 11 (reports say this may move to 12, meaning a reduction elsewhere)
Shas (Sephardi Haredi): 11
United Torah Judaism -- UTJ (Ashkenazi Haredi): 7
The Tzipi Livni Party: 6
Meretz: 6
Kadima: 2
Combined Arab parties: 12
 

This puts the right-religious wing in a dead heat with the centrist-left wing. Or so says the media, but since the Arab parties are never part of the coalition, the right-religious wing has greater numbers, and Likud-Beitenu remains at the top of the list, by far.

The big shockers are that Likud-Beitenu only got 31 and not the 42 that had been predicted when Likud and Yisrael Beitenu merged their lists some time ago, or even the more recent predictions of 35.

Similarly Habayit Hayehudi had been predicted to have 14 or more mandates, so the current number is low for this party, as well.

Although...on the other hand, this represents a huge gain over the three seats Habayit Hayehudi had last time around. Then it functioned as the "New National Religious Party" (modern, nationalist religious), but now Bennett, emphasizing unity and a home for all, has broadened its base, so that the party has become a player of consequence.

The left wing parties aren't happy. Their numbers are low.

Who's happy? Yair Lapid, whose party has now garnered far more votes than anyone ever thought possible. Yair Lapid today is something of a king-maker.

When I say that Bibi "blew it" -- in terms of what might have been possible -- I have several factors in mind:

First was his decision to merge Likud's list with that of Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu. Seems in the end that there were Likud voters disgruntled with Lieberman and Yisrael Beitenu voters disgruntled with Netanyahu. The net result of this was a loss of voters to other parties. In the last election, these two parties, running independently, garnered a total of 42 mandates.

And then there was the abysmal campaign that Likud ran. I have good information from inside the Likud organization that the planning for a grassroots campaign -- which was standard in the past -- never took place this time, much to the distress of activists who wanted to be involved. I can only assume that this was as a result of misplaced complacency.

But there's more, in terms of campaign errors. The most serious, in my mind, was Netanyahu's attack on Bennett, and the more general attack by Likud on Habayit Hayehudi. I criticized it, as it was happening; it was wrong. The campaign rhetoric should have been directed against opponents on the left, not against Likud's natural ally. What Netanyahu did was weaken Bennett -- which was clearly his intention. However, it is not at all clear that those he drove from voting for Habayit Hayehudi then reverted to Likud -- which would have been the culmination of what he sought.

MK Uri Orbach of Bayit Yehudi has a theory. He says that young voters, tired of the old political re-runs, were looking for a new face. The two possibilities that presented themselves were Bennett and Lapid. As Likud criticized Bennett as too radical, not supportive of women, and whatever other nonsense, the young voters moved over to Lapid. It is plausible.

Add to this the fact that Netanyahu did not campaign clearly on the issues, or even seriously explore the issues in the course of the campaign. He spoke about his experience, and presented himself as the only one equipped to lead the nation. But he did not talk in specifics about what he intended to do during a new term.

As is typical of him, he did a fair amount of vacillation, providing potential voters a mixed message that left them confused. On one day he took an admirable stand with regard to intention to build in E1, and he certainly saw to it that the illegal tents that Arabs erected there were removed promptly. He declared that there would be no mass movement of Jews out of Judea and Samaria during his next term, as well. But then he said that he would be governing on the basis of his Bar Ilan speech, which called for a "demilitarized Palestinian state." Methinks that sometimes an effort to please everyone pleases no one.

On learning of the election results, the prime minister seemed pleased, and declared himself grateful to be given the opportunity to lead the country for another four years. Of course he would say this, but I think at a very basic level it is his party that is hurting, more than he. (I have yet to take a careful look at the list to see which Likud candidates lost out.)

Netanyahu said, and I consider this admirable, that he would be focused on Iran in his next term. There are those who suggest that he didn't discuss this during his campaign because he sensed that people don't want to hear it. Thus was focus -- such as there was focus -- on matters such as less expensive housing.

He also said that he would be forming a broad coalition. This would be his style. He has no interest that I can discern in forming a right-religious coalition. The guessing now is that he will include Habayit Hayehudi, Shas, UTJ, and Yesh Atid. It seems unlikely that he will bring in Livni, for a host of reasons. But we should never say never, I suppose. Livni is angling for inclusion.

What a broader coalition does -- while it makes nationalist goals more difficult to achieve -- is to provide him with a fig leaf, cover before the world so that it's clear he is operating from a broad consensus. This would be a good and even necessary thing were he to decide to hit Iran, for example. It should never be said that the "right wing crazies" promoted a dangerous action. And similarly concerning our relationship with the Arabs.

I should mention here that the Likud list is more right wing than has been the case in the past. So there is hope that there will be some leverage on the prime minister from within his party. One would expect that there should be -- but Netanyahu tends to do his own thing, so it is not a certainty.

And what of Lapid in all of this? The left wing is urging him not to join a Likud coalition, but he wants a piece of the pie (why shouldn't he?) and is very unlikely to repel Netanyahu's advances. The prime minister is already reaching out to him.

What I saw as a major stumbling block with regard to a coalition that includes both Shas and Yesh Atid is the Yesh Atid platform regarding draft for yeshiva students, something that Shas opposes. But -- no surprise! -- both parties have already expressed a willingness to work out a modus vivendi here.

Lapid is listed as "left," but in fact is more centrist. He began his campaign in Ariel in Samaria, and has come out saying not only that major settlement blocs in Judea and Samaria should be retained in any final deal, but that such a deal would have to factor in security situations. No crazy "let's pull back to the '67 line and give them their state" statements from him.

David Rubin identifies Lapid as a "pragmatist" who has said, "I don't like the tendency to blame the Israeli side. Most of the blame belongs to the Palestinian side, and I am not sure that they as a people are ready to make peace with us."

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/12765

Bottom line is that Lapid, a well-known TV personality, is a political novice, who has yet to be tested. He is from Tel Aviv and it was noted yesterday that the voter turnout there was very heavy. He has his following. Let us hope that we will be pleasantly surprised with how he develops in his role in government.

I do consider it more likely that Netanyahu, with Lapid in a major position in the government, will agree to return to the negotiating table.

That Obama also thinks so is quite clear (this does not go down well). After the election results were in, US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro was visibly elated in the statement he made.

This will be a position only in principle, however, because Abbas is not about to join Netanyahu. His spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, has already made a statement that:

"What interests us in the next Israeli government, is for it to abide by the two-state solution, stop settlements and recognize the United Nations General Assembly November 29 resolution that talks about a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital. "We are ready to work with any government in Israel that accepts these terms of reference that are based on international resolutions."

For the record, let me make it clear here that 1) General Assembly resolutions are only recommendations and absolutely not binding in international law, and 2) that the UN cannot declare a state into existence and whatever was resolved applied only internally to the UN itself. But, hey, when did the Palestinian Arabs ever let facts get in the way of what they declare.

Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the PLO Executive Committee, elaborated on this position at a press conference in Ramallah, when she said that the Palestinians do not expect any change in the Israeli position. "We do not think that peace is on the horizon..." She recommended that Palestinians Arabs continue their "nonviolent resistance" and work on unity. http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/abbas-we-re-ready-to-talk-to-any-israeli-government-that-recognizes-palestine-1.495881

Before I leave this subject, let me note that a recent statement attributed to Obama with regard to the fact that Netanyahu's policies will isolate Israel in the world may also have cost Likud some votes.

Now we await the process of formulating a coalition, and then of assigning ministries. Key here is the position of minister of defense, which has inspired much speculation.

© Arlene Kushner. This material is produced by Arlene Kushner, functioning as an independent journalist. Permission is granted for it to be reproduced only with proper attribution.

See my website at http://www.arlenefromisrael.info Contact Arlene at akushner18@gmail.com

Dear Friends,

It is with a very heavy heart that I deliver the sad news of the passing of the Mayor of Ariel, Ron Nachman. Ron was a dear friend of AFSI's and our beloved Chairman, Herbert Zweibon, z"l. He was a featured speaker at an early AFSI Conference in New York, when Ariel was a nascent community in the Shomron, just beginning to grow. Ron always appreciated the fact that AFSI encouraged and applauded his efforts in pushing forward with every initiative to expand the community into a city, and to introduce the College of Judea and Samaria in Ariel, which has now been awarded University status. On our most recent Chizuk (strength) mission to Israel in Nov. 2012, we visited Ariel, as we always try to do, and Avi Zimmerman arranged for the group to attend a beautiful concert at the Ariel Performing Arts Center where we met with Mayor Nachman. At the time he looked vigorous and healthy, and we were so pleased to see him looking so well, knowing that he had been fighting his battle with cancer for many years. Below is a picture I took with him at the time. My heart breaks with the knowledge that he is no longer with us. We pray that Ariel will have a new champion who will persevere, as Ron did, in dedicating himself to the growth of this beautiful city. It has welcomed Russian immigrants, the refugees from the former Gush Katif communities, and students from throughout the country, Arabs and Jews alike. Ron succeeded in making Ariel a true symbol of a beautiful Israel. May it continue to thrive and be a credit to his memory.

We offer sincere condolences to the entire Nachman family, and to the Ariel family, as well as all who loved and admired Mayor Ron Nachman. May the family know no more sorrows, and may they be comforted among the mourners of Zion.

Helen Freedman,
on behalf of AFSI

Painful News for the City of Ariel,

the State of Israel

and the Jewish People

With great pain and sincere sorrow, Ariel Development Fund and American Friends of Ariel regret to inform you of the untimely passing of the founder, visionary and longstanding Mayor of the City of Ariel, Ron Nachman. Mayor Nachman passed away this afternoon at the Bellinson Hospital in Petakh Tikva, after an extended battle with cancer.

A strong, secure and thriving Ariel is Ron Nachman's eternal legacy.

May his memory be forever blessed,
Avi Zimmerman

Executive Director
Ariel Development Fund

PS - Details concerning the funeral will be provided at a later time.

comments from Helen Freedman

For those who are still reeling over the terrible trio nominations of President Obama - Brennan, Hagel & Kerry - just consider the absurd comment of former mayor of New York, Ed Koch. He maintains that he supported Obama because he "knew" he would win, but he also "knew" that O would renege on his support of Israel, but "just didn't know it would happen so soon." Also consider the spineless comments of some of the Jewish leadership, opining that Hagel really wouldn't be that bad, and might be acceptable. The situation is out of control. Any further doubts you might have should be put to rest by the enclosed article by the trustworthy Eli Hertz, who sent me a photo of the abomination - the PLO flag flying in America's capital city, Washington, DC.

What do we do? The answer lies in strengthening Israel. Destined to be a nation that stands alone, we must assist as much as possible those working to get recognition for the Edmond Levy report and to establish sovereignty over Judea and Samaria. A strong Israel is the only answer to the betrayals surrounding us. Am Yisrael Chai!!

State Department Legitimizes Terror

January 8, 2013 | Eli. E. Hertz update

To whom did the Obama administration grant permission to fly the Palestinian Liberation Organization [PLO] flag in Washington D.C.?

The answer: Palestinian Arabs - A society whose overwhelming majority nurtures a blind hatred of Israel, and has created a cultural milieu of vengeance, violence and death. This organization, which has been directly responsible for the murders of American civilian and security personnel, now has its recognition and flag waving in our capitol.

Here is just a subset of articles from the PLO Charter that the American administration has no shame to honor:

* Article 7: [Individual] must be prepared for the armed struggle and ready to sacrifice his wealth and his life in order to win back his homeland and bring about its liberation.

* Article 9: Armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine. This it is the overall strategy, not merely a tactical phase. The Palestinian Arab people assert their absolute determination and firm resolution to continue their armed struggle and to work for an armed popular revolution for the liberation of their country and their return to it. They also assert their right to normal life in Palestine and to exercise their right to self-determination and sovereignty over it.

* Article 10: Commando action constitutes the nucleus of the Palestinian popular liberation war.

* Article 19: The partition of Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of the state of Israel are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage of time, because they were contrary to the will of the Palestinian people and to their natural right in their homeland, and inconsistent with the principles embodied in the Charter of the United Nations, particularly the right to self-determination.

* Article 20: The Balfour Declaration, the Mandate for Palestine, and everything that has been based upon them, are deemed null and void. Claims of historical or religious ties of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with the facts of history and the true conception of what constitutes statehood. Judaism, being a religion, is not an independent nationality. Nor do Jews constitute a single nation with an identity of its own; they are citizens of the states to which they belong.

And if their charter was not convincing enough, the United States Congress, on numerous occasions, has reaffirmed the PLO's status as a terrorist organization.

Although past U.S. presidents have attempted to circumvent this law, its conclusions are concise and unequivocal: "Therefore, the Congress determines that the PLO and its affiliates are a terrorist organization and a threat to the interests of the United States, its allies, and to international law and should not benefit from operating in the United States." The violent and disturbing history of the PLO and its Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is one that has dreadfully affected the lives of countless Israelis, Americans, and many others.

The PLO is transparent in its criminal and malicious ways, whether it is via their charter, public statements, or incitement that one must question the State Department's wisdom of continual support of the PLO's DC office and the waving of its flag in our Capital. For Israel, the Palestinians and the rest of the world, the PLO must face reality and reject a culture of hatred; only then should the State Department legitimize the organization and its renewed culture.

Threat Assessment:

"A Helicopter Ride Over Israel and Her Neighboring States, Without the Helicopter"

and

"Snapshot of Iran's Nuclear Arsenal"

Featuring:

Mark Langfan

Rayburn House Office Building (D.C)
Room B-338

January 17th, 12 p.m-1:30 p.m

Lunch to be Served (Dietary Laws Observed)

Please RSVP to Info@emetonline.org

The Endowment for Middle East Truth invites you to join us for a deep-dive into the geopolitics of the Middle East and Israel's security, as Mark Langfan presents, "A Helicopter Ride Over Israel and Her Neighboring States, Without the Helicopter." Mark Langfan, an expert on Israeli security needs, will present his renowned 3D topographical map of Israel and the neighboring region, and discuss how the geography of the land, including elevation, location of water resources, population locations and density, and other crucial elements informs the reality of the Arab-Israel conflict.

Additionally, Mark will discuss the current status of Iran's drive for nuclear weapons, and the role played by Iran's hegemonic ambitions in a changing Middle East.

Mark Langfan is a noted security analyst who in 1991 created a 3 dimensional topographic raised-relief map system of Israel. Viewing the 3D Israel map one can easily and quickly be informed of many of the underlying resource and security issues involved in the Arab-Israeli conflict such as West Bank water resources and Israeli ‘defensible' borders. Over the past 20 years, Mark has briefed many Congressional and Senate offices, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Israel Desk, and the New York Times Editorial Board using his topographic map of Israel. Mark wrote and published seminal articles concerning the Israeli/Middle East region including the 1992 “Demilitarization Risks” warning of future Palestinian Katyusha rocket barrages from vacated Israeli territory, the 1995 “US Troops on Golan Quicksand” warning of the unique topographic dangers of deploying US Troops to the Golan Heights, and the 2006 “Iran: The 4th Reichastan” exposing the Iranian arming of Iraqi Insurgents against US forces, and of Iran's other regional and strategic goals.

This weekend we received the unpleasant news about the sale of Al Gore's Current TV, on Dec. 31, just under the tax deadline, for many millions of dollars, to the Al-Queda, Hamas news organ, Al-Jazeera. We have three Al's in a row here. Is anyone surprised? Dismayed, yes, but surprised? (By the way - we have a strong recommendation from an AFSI member who encourages viewers to watch JLTV and subscribe to: www.tin.tv.) If some are surprised, consider the invasion of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Obama White House. Does that surprise us? See Frank Gaffney, Steve Emerson, Brigitte Gabriel on this subject for graphic details. And now we have confirmed that the "in-your-face" nomination of Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense is going forward, as well as the John Kerry nomination for Secretary of State. Again, no surprises. Don't say we didn't warn you. See below and CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES ASAP REQUESTING THAT THEY SAY NO TO THE NOMINATIONS OF KERRY & HAGEL, BAD FOR BOTH AMERICA AND ISRAEL: 202-224-3121.

Where does U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), stand on foreign policy matters pertaining to Israel and the Middle East? Below are the highlights of 10 letters signed by large majorities of the U.S. Senate, noting whether Kerry signed or not. Letters and signatories obtained from the archives of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

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http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/12/31/john-kerrys-record-on-israel%E2%80%94in-letters/

DECEMBER 2012 Letter: Urging further pressure on Iran and asking President Obama to reiterate his readiness to exercise a military option if necessary Number of signatories: 74 Kerry: Did not sign

SEPTEMBER 2012 Letter: Urging the European Union to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization Number of signatories: 75 Kerry: Did not sign

JUNE 2012 Letter: Supporting Israel's right to self-defense and affirming that Israel's naval blockade is legal following the Gaza flotilla incident Number of signatories: 87 Kerry: Did not sign

APRIL 2010 Letter: Stressing the need for "direct, face-to-face negotiations without preconditions on either side" for Israelis and Palestinians and affirming the "unbreakable bonds that tie the United States and Israel together" Number of signatories: 87 Kerry: Did not sign

APRIL 2010 Letter: Calling for crippling sanctions against Iran Number of signatories: 81 Kerry: Did not sign

NOVEMBER 2009 Letter: Supporting a strong international affairs budget for fiscal year 2010, including security assistance for Israel Number of signatories: 58 Kerry: Signed and initiated

AUGUST 2009 Letter: Supporting President Obama's effort to encourage Arab states to normalize relations with Israel Signatories: 71 Kerry: Did not sign

MAY 2009 Letter: "Peace Principles" letter stating that "every effort should be made" to realize peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors, and insisting on "absolute Palestinian commitment to ending terrorist violence and to building the institutions necessary for a viable Palestinian state living side-by-side, in peace with the Jewish state of Israel" Number of signatories: 76 Kerry: Signed

JUNE 2008 Letter: Reiterating Israel's right to self-defense, calling on the U.S. to stand strongly with Israel at the UN, and urging pressure on Arab states to do more to support Israeli-Palestinian talks Number of signatories: 77 Kerry: Signed

MARCH 2007 Letter: Request for "no direct aid and no contacts with any members of a Palestinian Authority that does not explicitly and unequivocally recognize Israel's right to exist, renounce terror, and accept previous agreements" Number of signatories: 79 Kerry: Did not sign

JUNE 2005 Letter: Expressing support for Israel's disengagement plan from Gaza, calling disengagement a chance for Palestinian leadership "to prove to the world and, more importantly, its own people, that it is capable of governing" Number of signatories: 73 Kerry: Signed

DEC 2005 Not content to smear only the Commander-in-Chief, Senator Kerry also accused U.S. servicemen of "terrorizing" the Iraqi people. On December 4, 2005, he told Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation: "And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women ."

In recent years, as columnist Arnold Ahlert has so aptly written, Kerry "has been the federal government's highest-ranking apologist for Syrian President Bashar Assad." Indeed it was Kerry who repeatedly tried to undermine the Bush administration's efforts to isolate the dictator. Under Obama, Kerry has pursued with renewed vigor his impulse to engage Assad. During a January 2009 visit to Damascus, for instance, the Senatorlistened attentively to Assad's admonition that Washington must "move away from a policy based on dictating decisions" to Syria. Kerry, in turn, said: "Unlike the Bush administration that believed you could simply tell people what to do and walk away and wait for them to do it, we believe you have to engage in a discussion." In April 2010, Kerry again met with Assad and called Syria "an essential player in bringing peace and stability to the region." Forty-thousand dead bodies later, one tries vainly to reconcile John Kerry's track record with President Obama's glowing description of him as the "perfect choice" for Secretary of State. One can only ponder with trepidation what dark days lay ahead for America with this hate-America veteran taking the reins at the State Department.

KERRY'S VIETNAM DAYS

From sailors that served honorably on the coast and rivers of Nam with John Kerry who have no respect for him at all. They said John arrived at Cam Ranh Bay and told people he was going to follow in JFK's footsteps, his hero, and win the Navy Cross and be president someday. He only served on a Swift boat three months and put himself in for three Purple Hearts and never spent one day in a hospital. This is a disgrace to the men that were WIA and deserved the award. After being discharged from the Navy in early 1970, Kerry joined Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) and became a major figure in the so-called "peace" movement, whose hallmarks were a deep wellspring of hatred for the United States coupled with sympathy for America's Communist enemy.

In May 1970, Kerry, without government authorization, met personally with North Vietnamese and Viet Cong delegations in Paris to discuss a list of "peace" proposals enumerated by Nguyen Thi Madame Binh, the top Viet Cong delegate to the Paris Peace talks. In the aftermath of that illegal meeting, Kerry strongly advised the U.S. Senate to accept Binh's proposals. At that time, Kerry himself acknowledged that his visit to Paris was "on the borderline" of legality. Actually, it extended far beyond that "borderline." A federal law known as the Uniform Code of Military Justice prescribed severe punishment (including, in some cases, the death penalty) for any person who "without proper authority, knowingly harbors or protects or gives intelligence to or communicates or corresponds with or holds any intercourse with the enemy, either directly or indirectly." During the ensuing months, Kerry, with increasing stridency, continued to exhort the U.S. to accept the Viet Cong peace proposals. His radical VVAW comrades went so far as to sign a "People's Peace Treaty," whose nine points were all extracted from a list of Viet Cong conditions for ending the war. Kerry fully supportedthis treaty.

 On April 22, 1971, Kerry famously testified to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations that many U.S. servicemen in Vietnam had "personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war ." "We learned the meaning of free fire zones," added Kerry. "Shooting anything that moves, and we watched while America placed a cheapness on the lives of Orientals." Moreover, Kerry emphasized that America's "war crimes" in Southeast Asia were "not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command." Army reports that were unearthed decades later resoundingly discredited the claims of Kerry and his fellow VVAW members, proving those claims to be essentially a pack of lies.

When Kerry was running for U.S. President in 2004, the publication U.S. Veteran Dispatch noted that Kerry's 1971 Senate testimony had "occurred while some of his fellow Vietnam veterans were known by the world to be enduring terrible suffering as prisoners of war in North Vietnamese prisons." Similarly, retired General George S. Patton IIIcharged that Kerry's actions had given "aid and comfort to the enemy." And the organization Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry stated: "As a national leader of VVAW, Kerry campaigned against the effort of the United States to contain the spread of Communism. He used the blood of servicemen still in the field for his own political advancement by claiming that their blood was being shed unnecessarily or in vain.. Under Kerry's leadership, VVAW members mocked the uniform of United States soldiers by wearing tattered fatigues marked with pro-communist graffiti. They dishonored America by marching in demonstrations under the flag of the Viet Cong enemy." Yet today, this same John Kerry has been nominated to serve as Secretary of State for the same nation he trashed so relentlessly in the '70s. Only in America.

After graduating law school, working in a district attorney's office, and serving a brief stint as Massachusetts' lieutenant governor, Kerry was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984. Just a few months later-on April 18, 1985-Kerry and fellow Democratic Senator Tom Harkin traveled to Nicaragua to meet with President Daniel Ortega, whose Communist Sandinista government had strong ties to the Soviet Union and Cuba. Through Kerry and Harkin, President Ortega offered a cease-fire agreement on the condition that the Reagan Administration stop aiding the rebel Contras who were then at war with the Sandinistas. Reagan rejected the offer as a transparent "propaganda initiative" designed to influence an upcoming House vote on a $14 million Contra-aid package, but Kerry said: "I am willing to take the risk in the effort to put to test the good faith of the Sandinistas." The House of Representatives ultimately voted against the Contra aid. The following day, Ortega flew to Moscow to accept a $200 million loan from the Soviets. Presumably this was one of the many "major foreign policy debates" in which, by President Obama's reckoning, Kerry had so impressively distinguished himself.

Unchastened by the evidence of his own poor judgment, Kerry in 1986 supported a "fast for life" initiative by four U.S. military veterans protesting President Reagan's "illegal and extraordinarily vicious wars against the poor of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala." Also in the 1980s, Senator Kerry hired Gareth Porter, a former fellow of the consistently pro-Soviet Institute for Policy Studies, as a legislative aide. And in 2002, Kerry sent his warm greetings to a major gathering of the Democratic Socialists of America's Boston chapter. Kerry's next opportunity to distinguish himself as a man of exceedingly poor character was furnished by the conflict in Iraq. Initially, Kerry voted to authorize the use of military force against Saddam Hussein, a position the Senator based on his firm conviction-which he publicly articulated on numerous occasions-that Saddam was aggressively seeking to develop weapons of mass destruction. During the weeks and months leading up to the March 2003 U.S. invasion, for example, Kerry made the following statements:

• "It would be naive to the point of great danger not to believe that, left to his own devices, Saddam Hussein will misjudge, provoke and stumble into a future, more dangerous confrontation with the civilized world. He has as much as promised it."
• "If Saddam Hussein is unwilling to bend to the international community's already existing order, then he will have invited enforcement ."
• "Without question we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal and murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime. And we all know the litany of his offenses."
• "People have forgotten that for seven and a half years, we found weapons of mass destruction [in Iraq]. We were destroying weapons of mass destruction."

But as the political winds shifted, Kerry and his fellow congressional Democrats began to portray, with ever-growing frequency, the Iraq War as a foreign-policy debacle that had been launched hastily and without justifiable cause.

• Early 1970, Kerry joined Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW)
• May 1970, Kerry, without government authorization, met personally (illegally) with North Vietnamese and Viet Cong delegations in Paris to discuss a list of "peace" proposals; violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice
• April 22, 1971, Kerry famously testified to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations that many U.S. servicemen in Vietnam had "personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war ."
• As a national leader of VVAW, Kerry campaigned against the effort of the United States to contain the spread of Communism.
• 1984. Kerry was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984. Just a few months later-on April 18, 1985-Kerry and fellow Democratic Senator Tom Harkin traveled to Nicaragua to meet with President Daniel Ortega, whose Communist Sandinista government had strong ties to the Soviet Union and Cuba.
• 1986. supported a "fast for life" initiative by four U.S. military veterans protesting President Reagan's "illegal and extraordinarily vicious wars against the poor of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala."Also
• In the1980s. Senator Kerry hired Gareth Porter, a former fellow of the consistently pro-SovietInstitute for Policy Studies, as a legislative aide.
• 2002, Kerry sent his warm greetings to a major gathering of the Democratic Socialists of America's Boston chapter.
• pre-2003. Kerry said, Saddam was aggressively seeking to develop weapons of mass destruction.
• pre-2003 Kerry said, people have forgotten that for seven and a half years, we found weapons of mass destruction [in Iraq]. We were destroying weapons of mass destruction.
• 2004, Kerry charged that President Bush had not only "misled the American people" about the threat posed by Saddam, but also had "arbitrarily" decided that the "time for diplomacy is over" and "rushed our nation to war."
• December 4, 2005. Kerry told Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation: "And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women ."

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CHUCK HAGEL IS JUST AGAINST ISRAEL ON KEY FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES!!! Chuck Hagel is arguably the most hostile anti-Israel senator ever to serve in the U.S. Senate. His record features a laundry list of anti-Israel actions that include his failure to sign a bipartisan letter to the European Union to add Hezbollah to its list of terrorist organizations. He was one of only a handful of Senators who refused to sign the letter. Chuck Hagel currently serves as Chairman of the Atlantic Council, a foreign policy blog. On December 11, 2012 the Atlantic Council published a front page article titled "Israel's Apartheid Policy."

• Caroline Glick writes: "In Hagel, he chose someone even more outspoken in his animus towards the Jewish state than Obama.
• Nebraska Jews Recall Senator Chuck Hagel as "Unfriendly" and "Unmovable" on Israel, "Didn't Give a Damn About the Jewish Community"
• Hagel had recently appeared before an Arab group, where he'd boasted that his support for Israel wasn't "automatic."
• 2008, Mr. Hagel and John Kerry co
• authored an op
• ed in this newspaper titled "It's Time to Talk to Syria"
• In 2006, Mr. Hagel described Israel's war against Hezbollah as "the systematic destruction of an American friend, the country and people of Lebanon."
• "Hagel was one of only four senators who refused to sign a letter expressing support for Israel during the second Palestinian intifada"
• In 2002, a year in which 457 Israelis were killed in terrorist attacks (a figure proportionately equivalent to more than 20,000 fatalities in the U.S., or seven 9/11s), Mr. Hagel weighed in with the advice that "Israel must take steps to show its commitment to peace." This was two years after Yasser Arafat had been offered a state by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak at Camp David.
• Hagel was one of only two U.S. senators who voted against renewing the Iran
• Libya Sanctions Act
• Hagel didn't sign all of those nonbinding letters from the AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee), justifiably calling them "stupid."
• He voted for the Iran Nonproliferation Act
• Hagel wants a weaker stance than most other senators against the terrorists in Iran and Syria and the West Bank and Gaza and against those who help the terrorists."
• In 2001, when 87 members of the Senate sent President Bush a letter saying Yasser Arafat should not be invited to meet with high-level officials in Washington and faulting the Palestinian Arabs for using violence against Israel, Hagel were among those who failed to sign.
• Hagel had met at Damascus in 1998 "with the terror-sponsoring dictator, Hafez Al-Assad, and returned to tell a reporter about the meeting, "Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun."
• He co-sponsored resolutions opposing any unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state and praising Israel's efforts "in the face of terrorism, hostility and belligerence by many of her neighbors."
• He also co-sponsored legislation urging the international community "to avoid contact with and refrain from supporting the terrorist organization Hamas until it agrees to recognize Israel, renounce violence, disarm and accept prior agreements." What we're seeing as Obama floats the name of Senator Hagel for secretary of defense is a glimpse of his true views on the Jewish state.

"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."
Benjamin Franklin

Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, Rabbi of Congregation Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck, New Jersey, has written at length in the past on issues pertaining to the very heart of things in Israel. See below his article on the significance of the Obama election:

From Rabbi Steven Pruzansky

The most charitable way of explaining the election results of 2012 is that Americans voted for the status quo - for the incumbent President and for a divided Congress. They must enjoy gridlock, partisanship, incompetence, economic stagnation and avoidance of responsibility. And fewer people voted.

But as we awake from the nightmare, it is important to eschew the facile explanations for the Romney defeat that will prevail among the chattering classes. Romney did not lose because of the effects of Hurricane Sandy that devastated this area, nor did he lose because he ran a poor campaign, nor did he lose because the Republicans could have chosen better candidates, nor did he lose because Obama benefited from a slight uptick in the economy due to the business cycle.

Romney lost because he didn't get enough votes to win.

That might seem obvious, but not for the obvious reasons. Romney lost because the conservative virtues - the traditional American virtues - of liberty, hard work, free enterprise, private initiative and aspirations to moral greatness - no longer inspire or animate a majority of the electorate.

The simplest reason why Romney lost was because it is impossible to compete against free stuff.

Every businessman knows this; that is why the "loss leader" or the giveaway is such a powerful marketing tool. Obama's America is one in which free stuff is given away: the adults among the 47,000,000 on food stamps clearly recognized for whom they should vote, and so they did, by the tens of millions; those who - courtesy of Obama - receive two full years of unemployment benefits (which, of course, both disincentivizes looking for work and also motivates people to work off the books while collecting their windfall) surely know for whom to vote. The lure of free stuff is irresistible.

The defining moment of the whole campaign was the revelation of the secretly-recorded video in which Romney acknowledged the difficulty of winning an election in which "47% of the people" start off against him because they pay no taxes and just receive money - "free stuff" - from the government. Almost half of the population has no skin in the game - they don't care about high taxes, promoting business, or creating jobs, nor do they care that the money for their free stuff is being borrowed from their children and from the Chinese. They just want the free stuff that comes their way at someone else's expense. In the end, that 47% leaves very little margin for error for any Republican, and does not bode well for the future.

It is impossible to imagine a conservative candidate winning against such overwhelming odds. People do vote their pocketbooks. In essence, the people vote for a Congress who will not raise their taxes, and for a President who will give them free stuff, never mind who has to pay for it.

That engenders the second reason why Romney lost: the inescapable conclusion that the electorate is ignorant and uninformed. Indeed, it does not pay to be an informed voter, because most other voters - the clear majority - are unintelligent and easily swayed by emotion and raw populism. That is the indelicate way of saying that too many people vote with their hearts and not their heads. That is why Obama did not have to produce a second term agenda, or even defend his first-term record. He needed only to portray Mitt Romney as a rapacious capitalist who throws elderly women over a cliff, when he is not just snatching away their cancer medication, while starving the poor and cutting taxes for the rich.

During his 1956 presidential campaign, a woman called out to Adlai Stevenson: "Senator, you have the vote of every thinking person!" Stevenson called back: "That's not enough, madam, we need a majority!" Truer words were never spoken.

Obama could get away with saying that "Romney wants the rich to play by a different set of rules" - without ever defining what those different rules were; with saying that the "rich should pay their fair share" - without ever defining what a "fair share" is; with saying that Romney wants the poor, elderly and sick to "fend for themselves" - without even acknowledging that all these government programs are going bankrupt, their current insolvency only papered over by deficit spending.

Similarly, Obama (or his surrogates) could hint to blacks that a Romney victory would lead them back into chains and proclaim to women that their abortions and birth control would be taken away. He could appeal to Hispanics that Romney would have them all arrested and shipped to Mexico and unabashedly state that he will not enforce the current immigration laws. He could espouse the furtherance of the incestuous relationship between governments and unions - in which politicians ply the unions with public money, in exchange for which the unions provide the politicians with votes, in exchange for which the politicians provide more money and the unions provide more votes, etc., even though the money is gone.

Obama also knows that the electorate has changed - that whites will soon be a minority in America (they're already a minority in California) and that the new immigrants to the US are primarily from the Third World and do not share the traditional American values that attracted immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is a different world, and a different America. Obama is part of that different America, knows it, and knows how to tap into it. That is why he won.

Obama also proved again that negative advertising works, invective sells, and harsh personal attacks succeed. That Romney never engaged in such diatribes points to his essential goodness as a person; his "negative ads" were simple facts, never personal abuse - facts about high unemployment, lower take-home pay, a loss of American power and prestige abroad, a lack of leadership, etc. As a politician, though, Romney failed because he did not embrace the devil's bargain of making unsustainable promises.

It turned out that it was not possible for Romney and Ryan - people of substance, depth and ideas - to compete with the shallow populism and platitudes of their opponents. Obama mastered the politics of envy - of class warfare - never reaching out to Americans as such but to individual groups, and cobbling together a winning majority from these minority groups. If an Obama could not be defeated - with his record and his vision of America, in which free stuff seduces voters - it is hard to envision any change in the future. The road to Hillary Clinton in 2016 and to a European-socialist economy - those very economies that are collapsing today in Europe - is paved.

For Jews, mostly assimilated anyway and staunch Democrats, the results demonstrate again that liberalism is their Torah. Almost 70% voted for a president widely perceived by Israelis and most committed Jews as hostile to Israel. They voted to secure Obama's future at America's expense and at Israel's expense - in effect, preferring Obama to Netanyahu by a wide margin. A dangerous time is ahead. Under present circumstances, it is inconceivable that the US will take any aggressive action against Iran and will more likely thwart any Israeli initiative. The US will preach the importance of negotiations up until the production of the first Iranian nuclear weapon - and then state that the world must learn to live with this new reality.

But this election should be a wake-up call to Jews. There is no permanent empire, nor is there an enduring haven for Jews anywhere in the exile. The American empire began to decline in 2007, and the deterioration has been exacerbated in the last five years. This election only hastens that decline. Society is permeated with sloth, greed, envy and materialistic excess. It has lost its moorings and its moral foundations. The takers outnumber the givers, and that will only increase in years to come. The "Occupy" riots across this country in the last two years were mere dress rehearsals for what lies ahead - years of unrest sparked by the increasing discontent of the unsuccessful who want to seize the fruits and the bounty of the successful, and do not appreciate the slow pace of redistribution.

If this election proves one thing, it is that the Old America is gone. And, sad for the world, it is not coming back.

On a happy note, we are pleased to report again that the 3rd Annual Conference - proclaiming Sovereignty over Judea & Samaria, took place on Jan. 1. See the report:

Drive to Annex Judea and Samaria Full Steam Ahead

By: Hillel Fendel

Published: January 2nd, 2013

As of this week, it's no longer just another fringe campaign: the drive to apply Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria - all or parts thereof - is now a bona-fide, full-blown national drive, with the support of government ministers, Knesset Members and candidates, academics, and members of the media. This became abundantly clear on Tuesday night in Jerusalem, when more than 1000 people crowded into a Jerusalem hall - standing room only, even after the original location was abruptly changed to a bigger space - for the Third Annual Conference on the Application of Israeli Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria (Yesha).

Organized by Women in Green, and co-sponsored by the Jewish Press (JewishPress.com), the conference dealt with specific and practical methods by which to actually get the sovereignty ball moving and thus prevent the formation of a Palestinian state.

Talk of a two-state solution, while widely prevalent, is largely irrelevant. It was Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's speech at Bar Ilan University in 2009 that gave the concept new life, and it specifically emphasized that Israel would agree only to a demilitarized Arab state in parts of Judea and Samaria. This being an arrangement that both Fatah and Hamas have categorically turned down, an agreed-upon two-state solution can basically be dismissed.

What will take its place?

What will ensure that active and passive preparations on the ground for such an eventuality do not continue? The answer, according to an increasing portion of the Israeli public, is Israeli sovereignty -- at least in part of the areas in question. At the conference, Women in Green co-chair Yehudit Katzover presented the results of a new survey, in which 73.2% of right-wing voters (some 56% of the population)--not including residents of Yesha or hareidim--support sovereignty. The conference speakers essentially addressed three major issues: 1) How to bring about the desired sovereignty; 2) what will be the status of the Arabs living in Judea and Samaria; and 3) whether to push for full sovereignty over all of Yesha or to work gradually.

The Slow but Sure Approach

Three Likud members - Cabinet Minister Yuli Edelstein, MK Ze'ev Elkin, who is widely expected to be named a Cabinet minister following the upcoming elections, and MK Yariv Levine - supported what Elkin called the "salami approach." We must learn from the Palestinians, he said, "take what we can now, and discuss the rest later."

He said that we are "hopefully" now entering a new era in terms of Judea and Samaria: "For the first 25 years after the Six Day War, the 'status quo approach' reigned; beautiful Jewish communities were built, but the status of the areas did not change. Since 1993, we began a period of withdrawals - Oslo, then the Disengagement, etc. - and it is now clear to most that this has brought us less security, and increased demands from the PA... We must now begin to take proactive steps to improve our situation, and begin to apply sovereignty, or aspects thereof, on whatever areas we can at any given moment. It will not be easy, but it is necessary."

The "This Is our Land" Approach

Others demanded full sovereignty now; coincidentally or not, they are not currently in the governing coalition. MK Aryeh Eldad said that Israeli law must be immediately imposed on all of Yesha, and Likud Knesset candidate Moshe Feiglin called upon the Israeli public to internalize the idea that "This Is our Land" - the name of the grass-roots movement he founded 20 years ago - and that sovereignty is the only solution. Popular thinker Caroline Glick echoed her position of the last conference, saying then that sovereignty, whether complete or partial, will cost us the same in terms of international opposition, "so why pay full price for half a job?" Former MK Elyakim HaEtzni added that Arab autonomy leading to statehood is catastrophic, but that autonomy under the framework of full Israeli sovereignty in Yesha is the desirable way to go.

Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan, running for Knesset on the Jewish Home ticket, quoted the Y'hi khvodparagraph in the Morning Prayers, in which the verse citing God's choice of the Land of Israel precedes His choice of the people of Israel. And regarding the Arab minority living in our midst, he said that Yehoshua Bin Nun dealt with the same issue by simply insisting that they rid themselves of idol-worship and recognize Jewish control over the land. "This must be our clear red line," Rabbi Ben-Dahan emphasized: "the recognition that there can be no foreign rule in Eretz Yisrael."

Caroline Glick also cited Yehoshua Bin Nun, and said that his demand to forego all idol-worship has a parallel today: "They must agree to stop all terrorism."

Citizenship - or Expulsion?

The issue of Yesha Arabs under Israeli sovereignty was thoroughly explored in an hour-long panel discussion concluding the conference. Glick took the most extreme approach: "All of them should be offered the right to apply to the Interior Ministry for citizenship. Based on past experience in Jerusalem and the Golan [which have both been annexed - HF], we know that most of the Arabs will not apply. And even if they would all become citizens, the Jewish population in Israel would still retain a two-third majority, buttressed by growing birth and Aliyah rates. Nothing is simple, but we need not fear taking the bold steps that are necessary; we have come to inherit our land!"

Dr. Martin Sherman, founder of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies, former Tel Aviv University lecturer, and former ministerial adviser to Yitzhak Shamir's government - said there is no choice but to compensate the Arab residents and have them take up residence elsewhere. "Ultimately, there can be only one sovereignty between the Jordan and the Mediterranean - and we'd better make sure it's ours, not theirs." Dr. Sherman elaborated that Arab self-rule won't work, because they have no loyalty to the Israeli government overseeing the autonomy, and that granting full rights would also fail because "two peoples who do not share basic nationalist cultures can simply not live together over time." Therefore, he concluded, "the only option that remains is compensation/evacuation," a solution first proposed by the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, whose name was not mentioned at the conference.

Wanted: Israeli TV

Dr. Mordechai Kedar of Bar Ilan University, who was asked to speak on the expected Arab reaction to Israeli sovereignty, said, "They haven't accepted the results of the War of Independence, do we expect them to accept the results of the Six Day War?" Both the Arab world and the international community, Dr. Kedar predicted, can be expected to react moderately to strongly to a declaration of Israeli sovereignty. Part of the solution, he suggested, lies in launching an Israeli satellite TV channel for the general worldwide public. "It would not cost more than $15 million a year," he assessed.

Co-chairs Nadia Matar and Yehudit Katzover, as well as other speakers, emphasized that the recent report submitted by the Justice Edmond Levy committee, outlining the legal foundation for Jewish settlement in Yesha, must be adopted: "It must take its proper place in open governmental discourse, and action must be taken in accordance with it." MK Eldad, in a not-subtle dig at the Jewish Home party, demanded that all future coalition partners resign from the next Netanyahu government if the Levi Report is not legislated into law within three months.

The Day Will Come! All the speakers agreed on two things: a Palestinian state would be catastrophic for the State of Israel and must be avoided at all costs, and the very fact of the conference and its success is a great step forward towards applying Jewish sovereignty over all of Israel. In the inspiring words of an unusually uplifting Latma musical skit produced especially for the Conference, "The day will come - it must come - when only truth will be spoken, and all the world will say, without apology: This is Israel's land - Israel's!"

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AFSI has been deploring the expulsion of Jews from their homes in the Jewish homeland for many years now. The refugees from the 21 destroyed Gush Katif communities are still seeking to build their new homes and communities. Many are still condemned to taking shelter in sewer pipes when the red alert sounds, since their caravan, or trailer homes are too insubstantial to house a bomb proof shelter. Now that PM Netanyahu seems intent on removing even more Jews from Judea and Samaria, in some incomprehensible desire to please Hamas/Fatah/the EU, UN, US, we can only pray that understanding, compassion, and pride in being a Jewish Israeli will stop him from the tragic path being pursued.

See below an amazing op-ed by Giulio Meotti regarding the plight of the settlers. A critically important part of his piece is acknowledging the delegitimization campaign being waged against the "settlers" in an effort to portray them as deserving of their fate. The letter from Rena Cohen of Tsfat, a good friend of AFSI's, asks us to daven for one of the "settler" victims. And Robert Aumann's writing on the Edmond Levy report gives us the confirmation for our certainty that the whole land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people. The three items are below.

The hugely successful Third Annual Sovereignty Conference, held in Jerusalem on Jan. 1, 2013, organized by those amazing women, Nadia Matar and Yehudit Katzover, and featuring an impressive array of speakers, gives us the picture of what must be done to preserve Israel as a Jewish state. We offer a big Kol Hakovod to all who made this Conference possible and wish them continued success. Videos and tapes of the Conference are available through many sources. One is today's : Arutz Sheva - israelnationalnews.com.

Opinion Tevet 18, 5773, 31/12/12 11:13

Don't raise your hand against "the settlements" and outposts. Don't undermine their existence. You put us all in danger, Mr. Netanyahu.

From Giulio Meotti

I implore Netanyahu: don't harm the "settlers"

The borders that PM Netanyahu intends for "Palestine" are the same as every other Israeli PM has had in mind for the last twenty years with some variations.

From the Bar Ilan speech to the Herzl speech at the Knesset, Netanyahu talked many times about the removal of a group of "settlers", between 60.000 to 120.000 people.

The Prime Minister mentioned the need for "painful concessions" along with Israel's desire to keep the "settlement blocs", which clearly implied holding on to the second while giving up the first.

That's why the Israeli government just sent the army to "clear" the Oz Tzion outpost near Beit El over Sabbath. Again Israeli soldiers and policemen bashing Israeli children with batons and tear gas. Young children and babies forced out of their beds at 2 a.m., in the freezing cold while expelling families from their homes. Brave mothers treated criminally. An Israeli State which does that to its people doesn't deserve to be defended.

In a New York Times' report titled "Mapping Mideast Peace", there are three possible scenarios, in which 59.782, 79.805 and 94.226 Jewish "settlers" are abandoned to their fate, along with 77, 82 or 88 communities.

It would be the largest evacuation of Jews since the expulsion from Spain in 1492.

Twenty years ago, Ray Padilla, director of the Hispanic Research Center at Arizona State University, referred to the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 as a "cultural big bang," alluding to the Creation Theory. Another big bang would take place with the eviction of "the settlers" from their villages and homes. The only difference is that this time would be commanded not by Ferdinand and Isabella, but a Jewish government.

Many times Jews have been expelled: in 632 King Dagobert expelled all Jews from France; in 1012 Henry II of Germany expelled all Jews from Mainz; in 1121 Jews were driven out of Belgium until they repented of killing Christ; in 1182 King Philip of France expelled the Jews and turned synagogues into churches; in 1290 King Edward I banished Jews from England, forcing 16,000 to leave; in 1306 Philip the Tall expelled 100,000 Jews from France, which was officially without a Jewish population, and the list goes on.

But never in history has a Jewish person or body signed a document surrendering Jewish rights to the land of Israel.

To mobilize public opinion against "settlements", the Israeli authorities and press has undertaken to make them odious. They portray them not only as provocations but as hotbeds of lawlessness, breeders of violence revolting as anything perpetrated by the Arabs.

Today it's difficult for any "settler" not to feel he's entered a time warp that has thrown him back to tsarist Russia or some diaspora sinkhole.

"Only a political solution will end Palestinian terrorism," trumpeted the politicos, and IDF commanders, many of whom have lost the war on terrorism, echoed their slogan.

A friend living in a community overlooking Ramallah just told me how the situation in the roads has worsened. "There is no security, it's like that the army understood that it can't evacuate us, so they just let the situation degenerating so that we will might pack and leave voluntarily".

IDF strongholds are being abandoned, dismantled.

The image of the settler as an "alien" reinforces the Israeli governments' ability to make "security concessions" that endanger his safety. So, adopting tactics reminiscent of the way anti-Semitic regimes abroad handled their "Jewish problem", the Israeli authorities have targeted "settlers", as a group, as a dangerous "other."

Like Jews in the Diaspora, each "settler" is held accountable for the crimes, real or imagined, of all. This is the price tag conspiracy used to demonize an entire population which daily brave rocks, Molotov cocktails and a Palestinian terrorist army.

We have all seen pictures of surrender. Hands up, often bound. Injured or well, soldiers or officers, allies or enemies, the eyes are the same. Sad eyes, filled with pain and shame. No joy is visible in people who surrender.

Except for the governments in Jerusalem. Israel surrendered with joy.

Netanyahu knows that if the IDF abandons the "settlements", life will no longer be normal in Kfar Sava and Petah Tikva. And those who dare to evacuate the Jewish communities near Ramallah and Bethlehem shouldn't expect a day of tranquillity in Jerusalem.

I implore Netanyahu's government: Don't raise your hand against "the settlements". Don't undermine their existence. You put them all in danger.

I implore Netanyahu: don't do to Israel what Marshal Phillippe Petain did to France, who divided the country and throw to the Nazi wolves half of its people.

I implore the government: Don't say it's too late. Don't say nothing can be done. But answer to the only real question: what price will be exacted if this experiment with the nation's destiny fails?

From Rena Cohen in Tsfat:

Please daven for the well-being and safe release of GEDALIAH SHMUEL SIMCHA ben SARAH LEAH

In a violent clash Tuesday instigated by Arabs, leftist and anarchists, four people were arrested. Not one Arab was arrested, although they were rioting violently. (In fact the Arabs have been caught tearing up the olive trees and other plantings done by the folks who live on Aish Kodesh but nothing happens to them so they repeat the same things time after time knowing that they will not be arrested. )

Gedaliah the son-in-law of dear friends of mine was one of those arrested. He will be brought before a judge Wed. morning Israel time. The lawyer says that the pictures and video clips are proof positive of his complete innocence, but that the judge can still make his life miserable.

Please daven that the charges will be dropped tomorrow. That his innocence is made clear and that this terrible desecration of Hashem's name come to an end!

http://www.hakolhayehudi.co.il/?p=53200

Last night Channel two news showed Gedaliah being led away IN HANDCUFFS by police, when another policeman came up alongside and whacked Gedalia on the thigh with his baton. (They showed this TWICE!) The news reader said that there were reports that 'excessive unnecessary force' was used. So what else is new!!!!

ON THE FAILURE TO ADOPT THE EDMOND LEVY REPORT

By MOSHE AUMANN

(Moshe Aumann is an acclaimed journalist and the brother of Nobel Prize winner in Economics, Prof. Robert Aumann) In failing to adopt (and proclaim) the Edmond Levy Report on the status of Judea and Samaria, the Government of Israel is missing a golden opportunity to assert the case, loud and clear, regarding our rights in this land under international law. For decades now, we have swept this vital issue under the carpet, in keeping with "the spirit of Oslo" ("let bygones be bygones") and with the totally wrong-headed notion, constantly promoted by the world's "legal experts" and the governments they serve, that the area beyond the armistice line of 1949-67 is "occupied territory" and that therefore, under Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, the Jewish settlements established there are "illegal."

First of all, the term "occupied territory" can be applied only where there is a previous sovereign nation, which is not the case here, since Jordan's annexation of Judea-Samaria (the "West Bank") in 1950 was never recognized internationally, even by the Arab states! (The only two countries that did recognize that annexation were Britain and Pakistan). Besides, what the Geneva Convention prohibits is the transfer of populations into the occupied territory. The people who inhabit these settlements were not "transferred" there by the government; they settled there of their own free will.

As is stated in the Levy Report, Israel's rights in this land are anchored in the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, which, besides recognizing (Preamble) "the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine" and "its right to reconstitute its national homeland in that country," explicitly calls upon the Mandatory Power (Britain) to "encourage close settlement by Jews on the land" (Article 6)

Moreover, under Chapter 80 of the UN Charter, these provisions of the League of Nations Mandate continue to be valid to this day.

The Government of Israel has made it abundantly clear, both publicly and in negotiations with the Arabs,that it will be prepared ultimately to make certain territorial compromises in order to reach a peace agreement. But it must be clearly understood that, if we give up land in Judea-Samaria for this purpose, we will be giving up part of what is rightfully ours - not something that we have stolen from another people!

That is why it is so important that we assert our case in no uncertain terms in the international arena. And the Levy Israel's Report is eminently suited to serve as the legal tool to achieve this goal.

A Nightmare - Not a dream

Helen Freedman

It comes as no surprise to AFSI members that the New York Times continues to disseminate false and biased information against Israel. Long ago, I gave up my subscription to the NY Times, having decided that starting each day with angst was not a healthy thing to do. However, our members often bring items to my attention. Today, I was informed about the Times editorial: The Fading Mideast Peace Dream (Dec. 20). I was reminded of Franz Kafka's short story, the Metamorphosis, where Gregor Samsa awakens from a bad dream and discovers he is a cockroach. He then has to live his life as such. This "Peace Dream" is actually a nightmare and the lies, distortions, obfuscations, and deceptions that have been built around it have led to indescribable suffering for thousands of Israelis. It's time for the truth to be told.

I wrote a letter to the editor of the NY Times about the editorial, and also about an article describing the Jewish traitors who support our enemies. You might want to do the same thing. See the letter below:

Letter to the Editor
The New York Times
Re: The Fading Mideast Peace Dream

Gentlemen:

Your editorial (Dec. 20, 2012) regarding the "Fading Mideast Peace Dream" is so filled with misinformation that it begs for a complete overhaul. With your very first sentence about PM Netanyahu's "aggressive new push to expand settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem" you expose your strong anti-Israel bias. Homes and communities in Israel's 3000 year old capital city of Jerusalem are NOT settlements. They are just natural growth in Israel's holiest city. Also, the "West Bank", which is the ancient Judea and Samaria, read about in the first book of the Bible, Genesis, is Israel's promised land. The statement that the E1 project would "split the West Bank" is erroneous. The E1 corridor simply joins parts of Jerusalem. If one is concerned about "contiguity", shouldn't Israel's capital city have the right to be contiguous?

The condemnation by all members of the United Nations Security Council except for the U.S., of Israel's building plans, and Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's declaration that the building in the E1 area would be an "almost fatal blow" to a two-state solution, is no surprise. It is right in line with all the many condemnations of Israel on which the UN has concentrated over the years. What is distressing is that State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland criticized Israel on Tuesday, Dec. 18, for its "plans of new construction [which] run counter to the cause of peace." How does this jibe with your statement that "the Obama administration has resisted joining criticism of Israel"? Are the State Department and the White House not together on this issue?

Why is there no UN, EU, and Obama administration condemnation of the "provocations" against Israel which are life threatening, such as the thousands of rockets which landed on Israel just this past year? What is all this talk about a "Palestinian state" when Fatah and Hamas have now joined forces and neither terrorist group has changed its Charter calling for Israel's destruction? Where is the evidence that "Mr. Abbas has forsaken violence"? Aren't these Charters, bombings, and terror attacks sufficient "provocation" to prevent any peace pretense? Let's hear the Obama administration call for the removal of the inflammatory Arab "provocations" and then address Israel's role in the process.

It was also distressing to read Laurie Goodstein's brief article about the 500 American rabbis and cantors who released a letter expressing their concern about the building and the "final blow" to the two-state solution. The Rabbis for Human Rights, J-Street and Americans for Peace Now, who signed onto this letter, can join with the unique company of Israel's enemies who would see it self-destruct. They would then spend their time conducting memorials to the once existing state. Instead of siding with Israel's enemies, they should be supporting Israel's position, as stated by a spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington, that E1 would "in no way prevent the emergence of a territorially viable PA state." I would suggest that these people travel with Americans for a Safe Israel to Jerusalem to view the E1 area so that they will stop displaying their shameful and harmful ignorance. We're going in May to celebrate the unification of Jerusalem. Join us - www.afsi.org

Helen Freedman
Executive Director
Americans for a Safe Israel/AFSI
www.afsi.org

AFSI has been in the forefront in protesting against the demolition of Jewish homes in Israel. The rationale in appeasing Hamas and Fatah, whose charters openly call for Israel's destruction, defies understanding. The Israeli courts rule against Jewish rights, despite evidence of ownership, while supporting unsubstantiated Arab claims. In the holy city of Hebron, site of the Cave of the Matriarchs and Patriarchs, where King David had his kingdom, Jews have to battle for every inch of land. Following the 1997 give-away of 97% of Hebron to the Arabs, the remaining 3% is filled with Arabs asserting their "rights" on Jewish homes and land, stoning IDF soldiers, and committing endless terror attacks. The Jews of Hebron are heroes. Their insistence on a Jewish presence in Israel's 2nd holiest city is what makes it possible for Jews everywhere to visit and pray there.

Please read the following report from David Wilder, spokesman for the Hebron community, and then send your emails to the Likud MKs listed below who should be most sympathetic to our concerns. You may also wish to contact PM Netanyahu by email: memshala@pmo.gov.il; bnetanyahu@knesset.gov.il; pm_eng2@it.pmo.gov.il

Beit Ezra in Hebron

David Wilder
December 17, 2012

Following the Six-Day War in 1967, past residents of the Old City in Jerusalem who had been expelled during the War of Independence in 1948 asked for, and were granted a meeting with then Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. They requested permission to return to their homes and property in the Old City, confiscated and occupied by Jordan. Dayan consented, and, as a result, Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter today flourishes.

Simultaneously, past Hebron inhabitants, who had been expelled in 1929, and again in 1936, requested a similar meeting with Dayan, in order to return to their homes in the recently liberated city of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs. Dayan refused to meet them.

So I heard from Hebron residents, some of whom no longer alive, years ago.

The story of Hebron's Jewish property is a reason for heartache and chagrin. Hebron Jews lost most of their assets following expulsion by the British following the 1929 riots. As I was told by a survivor of those riots: "My father wrote to the British High Commissioner and asked why the victims had been punished - why the Jews were expelled after being slaughtered. His answer: 'I knew you couldn't continue living together and being that there were more Arabs than Jews it waseasier to expel the Jews.'"

The untainted authenticity of Jewish land ownership is Hebron is indisputable. The "Jewish Quarter," presently known as the Avraham Avinu neighborhood, was originally populated by Karites some 1,000 years ago. This land was purchased from them by Rabbi Malchiel Ashkenazi, himself exiled to Turkey from Spain in 1492. In 1540 he bought that area from the Karites and moved, with a smallcommunity, to Hebron. This neighborhood existed until the 1929 riots, massacre and exile.

Five dunam (5,000 sq. meters) of land adjacent to this place was purchased by Rabbi Chaim Bajaiyo for the community in 1807 from the Kashkol family in Hebron. This too remained under Jewish hands until 1929. In the early 1960s this property was taken over and occupied by Hebron merchants, who built a retail and wholesale market at the site.

Receipt for water paid by Yaakov Ezra

Yosef Ezra is a ninth generation Hebronite. He and his father, Ya'akov Ezra, were the last Jews to leave Hebron, following the Nov. 29, 1947 UN decision to partition Israel. His father, who worked closely with Arabs, produced cheese and other milk products. He worked in Hebron during the week and spent Shabbat with his family in Jerusalem. Until November, 1947, when Hebron's Arabs told him not to return to this holy city.

The Ezra property, within the boundaries of these two areas was stolen, according to Yossi Ezra by the Awawi family, who had worked with his father. Then fifteen, Yosef Ezra still remembers this family, who worked for his father, grazing sheep.

Yosef Ezra outside Beit Ezra

Presently, there is no doubt whatsoever that this is Jewish land, and that there are no real, justifiable, legal Arab claims to this property. However, the State Attorney General's office has decided that Arabs who lived on this land which they stolen from Jews have 'protected resident status' and refuse to allowHebron's Jewish community to utilize the property. This, despite a ruling by an Israeli military judicial panel of three judges which concluded that there is a firm legal basis to allow the Hebron Jewish Community to utilize this land.

Military panel visiting in Hebron

Today the State informed the Israeli Supreme Court of their decision to expel the two families living in Beit Ezra. The expulsion is due to occur towards the end of April. That is, following the elections. Bibi Netanyahu isn't interested in photos and videos of Jews expelled from their homes in Hebron before the elections. It wouldn't win him any mandates.

The decision also expressed a possibility that the property will be made available to Hebron's Jewish community, after the families have been expelled.

Mitzpe Shalhevet - before and after

We've been through this before. Back in Janurary, 2006 the Israeli government made a similar promise, whereby, following voluntary exit of homes in "Mitzpe Shalhevet," other families would be allowed back in, with full permission and government permits. This offer was made with the knowledge and consent of the defense and prime ministers. After all the families moved out, then Attorney General Manny Mazuz nixed the deal. We were left with nothing.

Shalhevet Pass HY"D

In January, 1997, when the Hebron Accords, which split Hebron, leaving most of the city in the hands of the Palestinian Authority, were signed and implemented by Bibi Netanyahu, another government decision was passed, calling for, and promising, the continued growth and wellbeing of Hebron's Jewish community. It's hard to understand how a Prime Minister, whose actions brought upon this community two and a half years of shooting attacks, murders, and other terroracts, who promised to ensure the expansion of Hebron's Jewish Community, can allow continued shrinkage of Hebron's housing and neighborhoods. Beit HaMachpela, Beit HaShalom, now Beit Ezra, not to mention refusal of any permits to plan or build new homes, are not examples of good will, growth, and well-being. To the contrary, they seem to be examples of how to bring about the deletion of Hebron's Jewish community from the map.

So, what is it with you, Bibi? Perhaps the time has arrived to come clean. Will the property really be returned to us, or is this another political spin, designed to prevent more votes from draining away from the Likud? Let the electorate know exactly where you stand concerning Hebron, before January 22, 2013. For a start, give us back Beit Ezra.

SAVE NETANYAHU FROM HIMSELF: Tomorrow (Monday), Arutz Sheva (Hebrew) reports that Netanyahu will be giving Israel's High Court of Justice a commitment that he will remove the Jews from Ezra House in Hebron. http://www.inn.co.il/News/News.aspx/248439. Please write to the Likud to protest this URGENTLY TODAY! Example letter:

Dear Likud candidates,

Email addresses: ylevin@KNESSET.GOV.IL; zhotovely@KNESSET.GOV.IL; yedelstein@knesset.gov.il; ddanon@KNESSET.GOV.IL; zelkin@knesset.gov.il; gsaar@knesset.gov.il; bbegin@knesset.gov.il; myaalon@knesset.gov.il; gerdan@knesset.gov.il; moshe@mflikud.co.il

re: more deportations of Jews - this time in Hebron?

About the commitment Netanyahu intends to give to deport more Jews from a Hebron (Jewish owned) home: It is my understanding that the legal opinion of the Ararim Committee on the issue, cited in previous court documents, does NOT support Netanyahu's strange decision. The Committee indicated (a) that the house was owned by the Ezra family (who want to rent the house to the Jewish Community of Hebron); (b) that "by all accounts" the house cannot be rented to Palestinians for security reasons; and (c) that the house cannot remain empty because this is not a reasonable way to treat property. The conclusion from (a), (b), (c) and also from simple common sense (that the house should be rented to the Jews who want to rent it and have permission to do so) is obvious to everyone - why not to Mr. Netanyahu? We need to see the Likud influencing Mr. Netanyahu here - otherwise no-one is going to want to vote Likud. Thanks for using YOUR influence TODAY! (SIGN YOUR FULL NAME)

Thank you very much for your assistance - public opinion is important.

Despite its noble ideals, the United Nations is too often a place of darkness, dictatorships and double standards.

This month, the U.N. General Assembly is adopting its annual country resolutions.

Yet there's no resolution on Saudi Arabia's subjugation of women; nothing on China's oppression of 1.3 billion citizens or its brutal occupation of Tibet; and nothing on genocidal Sudan, slave-holding Mauritania, or autocratic Russia, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.

Worse, the criminals are themselves the judges, elected to top U.N. human rights posts. Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad-mass murderer of 40,000 of his own people-still sits on UNESCO's human rights committee.

Instead, over the next week, the U.N. will be attacking Israel in 21 one-sided resolutions-and adopting only 4 on the rest of the world combined.

Helen, when the world's one Jewish state is singled out and demonized, we ignore the warnings of history at our peril.

Thankfully, one organization is standing up and speaking truth to power.

One group, representing your values, brings incredible speakers into the U.N. and dispels the darkness by lighting a candle of truth:

* When the U.N. held an emergency meeting to adopt the infamous "Goldstone Report," denying Israel its right to self-defence, we brought British military commander Col. Richard Kemp (above left) to testify. He said: "Mr. President, the Israeli Defence Forces did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare." The delegates were silenced. Click here to watch the incredible video

* When the U.N. made Libya chair of its Durban II Racism Conference, accusing Israel alone of racism, we gave the floor to the Qaddafi regime's most famous torture victim, shocking the Libyan chairwoman, and exposing the event's complete hypocrisy. Click here to watch the dramatic video

* When the U.N.'s "reformed" Human Rights Council spent its first year condemning only one country-Israel-we took the floor to call out the travesty of justice. The outraged U.N. chairman declared our speech "inadmissible," and ruled that it could never be delivered again. The video went viral and was reported worldwide. Click here to watch the banned speech

And UN Watch continues to bring famous victims of the world's worst dictators to testify at the U.N. about their crimes: heroes from China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, North Korea, Syria and Zimbabwe.

No one else in the world is doing this. UN Watch plays a unique and critical role.

And beyond the halls of the United Nations, our voice of truth is being heard around the globe:

UN Watch's truth-telling message was quoted 400 times last year, by CNN, The New York Times, Le Monde and many other major media organizations.

UN Watch has more than 2 million YouTube views, 23,000 Facebook fans and 6,000 Twitter followers, a growing base of support that spreads our information.

UN Watch advocacy campaigns led successfully to the firing of anti-Semitic U.N. official Jean Ziegler, and the unprecedented U.N. reprimand of pro-Hamas official Richard Falk.

In the words of the New Republic, "UN Watch is a truth-telling organization."

May you and your family enjoy a light-filled holiday and a peaceful new year.

Yours truly,

Hillel C. Neuer
Executive Director

U.S. Giving $1 Billion Taxpayer Aid to Egypt, Including 20 More Advanced F-16's

Yesterday, Dec. 11, we heard about the U.S. continuing with its plan to give, compliments of the U.S. taxpayer, 20 state-of-the-art advanced F-16 fighter jets to Egypt's Morsi, the self-proclaimed dictator leading Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. The U.S. acknowledges some discomfort in this sale because the only "enemy" Egypt would use the planes against is America's so-called ally, Israel. Perhaps President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton will send Ambassador Rice to the talk shows to explain this fiasco.

Americans should rise up in protest against such absurdities. Call the White House Comment Line: 202-456-1111; 1414; Secretary of State Clinton: 202-647-6575.

US sending 20 more F-16s to Egypt, despite turmoil in Cairo

By Maxim Lott

Published December 10, 2012

Instability in Egypt, where a newly-elected Islamic government teeters over an angry population, isn't enough to stop the U.S. from sending more than 20 F-16 fighter jets, as part of a $1 billion foreign aid package.

The first four jets are to be delivered to Egypt beginning Jan. 22, a source at the naval air base in Fort Worth, where the planes have been undergoing testing, told FoxNews.com. The North African nation already has a fleet of more than 200 of the planes and the latest shipment merely fulfills an order placed two years ago. But given the uncertainty in Cairo, some critics wonder if it is wise to be sending more top gun planes.

"Should an overreaction [by Egypt] spiral into a broader conflict between Egypt and Israel, such a scenario would put U.S. officials in an embarrassing position of having supplied massive amounts of military hardware ... to both belligerents," said Malou Innocent, a foreign policy analyst at the Cato Institute. "Given Washington's fiscal woes, American taxpayers should no longer be Egypt's major arms supplier."

The U.S. government ordered and paid for the fighter jets for Egypt's military as part of foreign aid for Egypt back in 2010, when Hosni Mubarak ruled. The fighter jets were supposed to be delivered in 2013, and delivery will go ahead as scheduled even though Hosni Mubarak has been removed from power and replaced by Mohamed Morsi, who led the Muslim Brotherhood before becoming Egypt's president.

Morsi was democratically elected, but last month attempted to seize dictatorial powers for himself. After widespread protests and violence in Egypt's capital of Cairo, Morsi backed off from his power grab. But he is pushing through a controversial new constitution for Egypt that would more strictly enforce Islamic Shariah law, and only recently said he reserves the right to have the military arrest protesters without charges.

"The Morsi-led Muslim Brotherhood government has not proven to be a partner for democracy as they had promised, given the recent attempted power grab," a senior Republican congressional aide told FoxNews.com.

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, (R-Fla.), who chairs the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, recently criticized U.S. military aid to Egypt:

"The Obama administration wants to simply throw money at an Egyptian government that the president cannot even clearly state is an ally of the United States," Rep. Ros-Lehtinen said.

The $213 million order, which is paid for by U.S. taxpayers and is part of Egypt's foreign aid package from America, had to be approved by lawmakers in Washington.While the basic F-16 has been a military workhorse for top air forces for more than 25 years, the cockpit electronics are constantly updated and the models Egypt is getting are the best defense contractor Lockheed Martin makes.

"This is a great day for Lockheed Martin and a testament to the enduring partnership and commitment we have made to the government of Egypt," said John Larson, vice president, Lockheed Martin F-16 programs. "We remain committed to providing our customer with a proven, advanced 4th Generation multirole fighter."

"In an air combat role, the F-16's maneuverability and combat radius exceed that of all potential threat fighter aircraft," the U.S. Air Force description of the plane reads.

"The F-16 can fly more than 500 miles, deliver its weapons with superior accuracy, defend itself against enemy aircraft, and return to its starting point. An all-weather capability allows it to accurately deliver ordnance during non-visual bombing conditions."

A Pentagon spokesman said the U.S. and Egypt have an important alliance that is furthered by the transfer.

"The U.S.-Egypt defense relationship has served as the cornerstone of our broader strategic partnership for over thirty years," said Lt. Col. Wesley Miller. "The delivery of the first set of F-16s in January 2013 reflects the U.S. commitment to supporting the Egyptian military's modernization efforts. Egyptian acquisition of F-16s will increase our militaries' interoperability, and enhance Egypt's capacity to contribute to regional mission sets."

The writer of this piece can be reached at maxim.lott@foxnews.com

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Pretense about the two state solution must end

How long will America, the UN, and even Israel continue to talk about a "Two-State Solution" that is a total mockery and has been since the idea was first proposed? The PLO/Fatah has never changed its charter calling for Israel's destruction. On November 29, the leader of the PA, Mahmoud Abbas, went to the General Assembly at the United Nations where he received overwhelming approval of an upgrade in the PA status. This will enable him to bring Israel before the International Court of Justice, accusing it of "crimes against humanity". This is all quite intolerable. To add insult to injury, Hamas and Fatah have now joined forces. Hamas also calls for Israel's destruction in its charter. Despite this, President Obama seeks to ignore Israel's sovereignty and declares that building in the E1 corridor in Jerusalem is an obstruction to "peace."

AFSI asks, "How long will it take for the Israelis and the world to admit that the "solution" is a "dissolution" of Israel, and that alternative possibilities must be found? AFSI supports the initiative to APPLY ISRAELI SOVEREIGNTY TO ALL OF JUDEA & SAMARIA.

Please see the enclosed excerpts from Rachel Hirshfeld's article quoting Michael Oren, Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu's article about the Axis of Evil, including Hamas and Fatah, both in today's Arutz Sheva report, Monday, Dec. 10, 2012:

From Michael Oren - by Rachel Hirshfeld

The Palestinians violated their agreements with us and with the United States by going unilaterally to the U.N. to declare a state," Oren said. "All of our agreements say there's no alternative to direct talks between us and the Palestinians."

"E1 is a preliminary stage that was announced, last week," he added. "It could take years to fulfill that. Let's see if the Palestinians come back to the negotiating table."

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced the approval to build new Jewish homes in the state-owned land between Jerusalem and Maaleh Adumim, known as E1, which Oren described as necessary in order to prevent Maaleh Adumim, home to 40,000 Israelis, from being cut off from Jerusalem.

The PA demands its planned state include a road from Ramallah, north of Jerusalem, to Bethlehem, south of the holy city, and insists that E1 be a contiguous part of that state. Israel has suggested other ways to build the road, he explained.

The timing of the long-discussed construction was in response to the unilateral efforts of the PA to secure statehood, thereby circumventing peace negotiations with Israel.

From Abbas Warms up to Axis of Evil by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

Abbas's unification with Hamas makes him a new ally in the "axis of evil" that links Iran, Syria, Hizbullah, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

The rapidly changing fortunes of Hamas, which suffered serious losses in Israel's brief Pillar of Defense counterterrorist campaign against missile attacks, and the success of Abbas to win de facto recognition in the UN have promoted the two rivals to join forces.

Abbas is expected to use the unity with Hamas as a basis for claims that the Palestinian Authority now is politically unified and can become an independent country.

However, the unity also makes Abbas a partner in Hamas's declared aim to destroy Israel, contrary to the Fatah leader's stated claims that he wants "negotiations" with Israel to establish borders and divide Jerusalem.

Riding high on its diplomatic success, the Palestinian Authority's senior negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Monday he will urge the international community to pressure Israel to resume talks, on the usual conditions that Israel stop building for Jews in Judea and Samaria and release all PA security prisoners from jail.

Abbas has stated that "negotiations" must be based on Israel's accepting his territorial and political demands.

CELEBRATE CHANUKAH WITH AFSI

LENNY GOLDBERG - Guest Speaker

25 year resident of the beautiful Shomron community of Kfar Tapuach,

MONDAY, DEC. 10, 2012, 7:30 P.M. -

WEST SIDE INSTITUTIONAL SYNAGOGUE,

120 W. 76th Street, between Columbus & Amsterdam Aves.

Robert Sidi, AFSI and WSIS member, is co-hosting the event. Candle-lighting, songs, doughnuts, and soft drinks will be part of the evening festivities. Lenny will be showing a video of life on the hilltops of Israel. Free admission. All invited. RSVP-212-828-2424.

The Jewish world is still reeling from the noxious UN General Assembly vote to upgrade the status of the PA. The response of the Jewish state to this unilateral action on the part of the PA was to announce the construction of 3000 additional housing units and the opening of the E1 corridor to the Jews.

The AFSI Chizuk missions have been to E1 many times with Arieh King, head of the Israel Land Fund, who fights furiously on behalf of Jewish entitlement to Jewish land. We have seen the "Judenrein" nature of E1 and are gratified that it will now be an open corridor to Maale Adumim in east Jerusalem.

We are also gratified by the announcement by Women in Green, led by Nadia Matar and Yehudit Katzover, regarding the Application of Israeli Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria. The call to annex all of Judea and Samaria is a welcome one and one which we hope will be acted upon quickly by the Israeli government. This makes the Levy report, legitimizing all of Judea & Samaria, a natural component of the call for annexation.

The strong showing of the supporters of these positions in the Likud primary allow one to conclude that the Israeli citizenry understands the importance of a Yisrael Shlayma, a whole Israel.

It is no surprise that the Obama administration disapproves of Israel's response and finds it "counter-productive." Hopefully, the Netanyahu government will continue to act in Israel's own best interests, without undue concern for the approval and/or disapproval of President Obama.

The United (Against Israel) Nations, over the years, has been largely supported by U.S. funding. U.S. law calls for an end of funding to the UN and to the PA for their latest action. We hope the Congress will abide by the law, although President Obama and the State Department would likely try to side-step it. Constant messages to our Congressional representatives should be sent. The Capitol switchboard number is: 202-224-3121.

Prof. Paul Eidelberg, a brilliant political scientist, has released the following important article:

To Hell With the United Nations (I)

Prof. Paul Eidelberg

It is of paramount importance to reveal the evil character of the United Nations.

On November 7, 1975, Kurt Waldheim, who had successfully concealed his former Nazi affiliation, was secretary-general of the UN.[1] On that momentous day the UN conferred on the Palestine Liberation Organization, a consortium of terrorists, observer status in the General Assembly ... Three days later, on November 10, 1975, the General Assembly adopted Resolution 3376, establishing a "Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People." On that same day, which was the 37th anniversary of Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass), the General Assembly adopted Resolution 3379 by a vote of 72 to 35 (with 32 abstentions), which states that "Zionism is Racism." The resolution also severely condemned Zionism as a threat to world peace and security and called upon all countries to oppose this "racist" and "imperialist" ideology. Thus commenced a worldwide campaign to delegitimize and even deJudaize Israel. In fact, the PLO had adopted the Arab line that the Jews do not constitute a nation but a religion and therefore are not entitled to statehood.

The resolution was adopted despite strong opposition by Israel's supporters, most notably the United States delegation under the leadership of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then U.S. Ambassador to the UN. Moynihan believed that the resolution would revive anti-Semitism: "A great evil has been loosed upon the world. The abomination of anti-Semitism ... has been given the appearance of international sanction."[2]

Professor Alex Grobman notes that one immediate result of Resolution 3379 "was that it helped enlist the support of the Third World against Israel, reminded the West of its silence during the Holocaust, and awakened 'guilt complexes [concerning the Palestinians] in Western Circles.'"[3] John Bolton, then Assistant U.S Secretary of State for International Operations, goes further: "In the UN, words take on a life of their own. To declare as 'racist' the historical and cultural underpinnings of a state is tantamount to branding that state an international criminal, for racism is a crime enumerated in the Genocide Convention and numerous other instruments accepted under international law."[4] Jeanne J. Kilpatrick, who succeeded Moynihan at the UN, fearfully observed that a racist state has "no rights at all, not even the right to defend itself."[5]

It was not until 1991 that the UN formally rescinded Resolution 3379, thanks very much to Mr. Bolton's tireless efforts. Bolton, a no-nonsense diplomat, urged every member of the UN to undo the General Assembly's notorious resolution, quoting from memory Senator Moynihan's avowal: "The United States declares that it does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act." But the damage had already been done, and could not be undone so long as the PLO exploited its status in the UN to undermine Israel....

Fred Fleitz, former senior adviser to ambassador Bolton, exposes UN waste and corruption and the resulting human costs. His book, Peacekeeping Fiascoes of the 1990s: Causes, Solutions, and U.S. Interests, provides a comprehensive and highly critical assessment of the UN. He shows how the failed UN mission in Bosnia led to unmitigated atrocities; how the UN debacle in Somalia emboldened terrorists the world over; how the UN operation in Cambodia enabled a ruthless dictator, Hun Sen, to consolidate and retain power in that country; how the UN peacekeeping operation in Haiti collapsed, with the billions of dollars squandered on it, principally benefiting Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide....

To all this, add the UN-sponsored Durban Conference, a vicious instrument of anti-Semitism and Israel-bashing. Caroline Glick excoriates the UN for its hostile record toward Israel. To paraphrase some of her remarks:

(1) The UN has passed resolution after resolution, in the Security Council, in the General Assembly, and in its Human Rights Council that deny Israel its legal right, under Article 51 of the UN Charter, to defend itself against aggression.

(2) The UN Conference on Racism effectively reinstated the General Assembly's definition of Zionism as racism and thus denied that Israel has the legal right to exist under international law. The UN Human Rights Council even passed a resolution endorsing Palestinian terrorism against Israel.

(3) Decade after decade the UN has followed a consistent and coherent policy regarding only one issue: to advance anti-Semitism by systematically and illegally discriminating against the Jewish state all the time and everywhere. In so doing, the UN has lost even the semblance of legitimacy as a world government. It cannot be regarded as a body responsible for enforcing international law, because in its systematic discrimination against Israel, it stands in breach of international law as embodied in its own charter's determination that all member states are to be treated equally."[6]

In 1975, when the UN General Assembly awarded permanent representative status to the PLO, it established, as mentioned, a "Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People" (hereafter called the "PLO Committee"). The committee became a propaganda apparatus, issuing stamps, organizing meetings, and preparing films and draft resolutions in support of Palestinian "rights."

Prompted by the PLO Committee, the General Assembly has passed annual resolutions that repeatedly condemn Israel. The following resolutions-a few of countless others-tell the story:[7]

? Resolution 58/18-Palestinain Rights: This resolution asks for full cooperation with the PLO Committee, which is needed in order to mobilize the international community and non-governmental organizations against Israel.

? Resolution 58/21-Palestinian Statehood: This resolution [purveys the myth] that a "peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine is the core of the Arab-Israeli conflict" and necessary for peace in the entire Middle East, and further, that Israel alone must take several measures to achieve peace with the Palestinians. It implies that Israel is fully to blame for the start of the conflict because of the "illegality of Israeli settlements in the territory occupied since 1967 and of Israeli actions aimed at changing the status of Jerusalem."

? Resolution 58/22-Jerusalem: This resolution reiterates the United Nations' contention that "all legislative and administrative measures and actions taken by Israel, the occupying Power, which have altered or purported to alter the character and status of the Holy City of Jerusalem, in particular the so-called 'Basic Law' on Jerusalem and the proclamation of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, were null and void and must be rescinded forthwith," and that any laws Israel imposes on Jerusalem are "illegal" and invalid....

? Resolution 58/92-This resolution endorses the Palestinian position on the so-called "Right of Return," where all Palestinian refugees and their descendants would have the right to settle in the place of their former homes in Israel before 1967. ... The General Assembly, however, has already decided the outcome. It knows full well that allowing four million hostile Arabs into Israel would terminate the Jewish state. (To be continued.)

[1] See Alex Grobman, Nations United: How the United Nations Undermines Israel and the West (Green Forest, AR: Balfour Books, 2006), 39: "Waldheim was an intelligence officer on the staff of General Alexander Lochr, the Supreme Commander of Wehrmacht forces in the Balkans, during brutal military campaigns against Yugoslav partisans and the deportation of more than 70,000 Greek Jews to Auschwitz. Many of his superior officers were convicted of war crimes." In April 1987, the U.S. Justice Department added Waldheim's name to the list of people prohibited from entering the United States because he was "morally complicit" and "assisted or otherwise participated in the persecution of persons because of race, religion, natural origin, or political opinion."

[2] Cited in Grobman, 144.

[3] Grobman, 40.

[4] Grobman, 40.

[5] Grobman, 41.

[6] Jerusalem Post, Oct. 4, 2002, 1.

[7] See "One-Sided: The Relentless Campaign Against Israel in the United Nations. A Report on 2003-2004 General Assembly Resolutions on the Arab-Israeli Conflict," The American Jewish Committee (Sept. 20

The 52 major Jewish organizations that comprise the Conference of Presidents should have called for a demonstration in support of Israel today, November 29, 2012, for two important reasons. One is to mark the sixty-five years since the UN partition plan was voted upon approving the creation of the Jewish state. The other is that it is this same day that was chosen by PA President Mahmoud Abbas to go to the United Nations requesting upgraded status for the PA in the UN. The General Assembly cannot grant statehood to the PA, but the non-member observer status, comparable to that enjoyed by the Vatican, gives rights and privileges that are being celebrated across the Arab world today. One such privilege would enable the PLO to bring charges against Israel before the International Criminal Court.

The press was out in full force, looking for supporters and protestors of the Abbas request, which was virtually assured of passage. The Jews were not there. My Israeli friend, Ari Briggs of Regavim, visiting from Israel, and scheduled to return there this evening, requested that I stand with him at the UN with the Israeli flag, and AFSI's re-cycled banner, NO "PALESTINIAN" STATE. See the photo above.

Two Palestinian goals at UN: Have all disputed land declared "occupied" and have terrorists declared legitimate freedom fighters

by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik

The Palestinian Authority wishes to achieve a number of political gains by having the UN vote today, recognizing "Palestine" as a non-member observer state. First, all lands that are disputed and whose future must be negotiated according to the Oslo Accords, the PA wants declared Palestinian "occupied territory." Second, they claim that UN recognition would change the status of Palestinian terrorists in Israeli prisons to legitimate freedom fighters and prisoners of war.

1- Changing the status of land under Israeli administration since 1967 to "occupied territory"

PA Foreign Minister Riad Al-Maliki: "If Palestine receives status of a non-member state in the General Assembly, there will be positive effects on all levels in the future... Israel will no longer be able to define the occupied territories as disputed lands. They will become lands of a separate, occupied state."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 24, 2012]

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas:

"During a speech at a meeting of the Arab League Ministerial Council, President Abbas said: ... 'We will hand in the application and request that it be voted on this November 29... We want to establish that the Palestinian territories that were [taken] in 1967 including Jerusalem [are occupied], since Israel has a different approach. It says that the territories occupied in 1967 are disputed territories. In other words, up for negotiations'"
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 13, 2012]

2- Changing the status of Palestinian terrorists who have targeted civilians into legitimate fighters and prisoners of war

"Minister of Prisoners, Issa Karake said that the [PA] leadership's application to the UN to wrest [from it] international recognition of a Palestinian state, which is not a member of the UN, will raise the legal status of the prisoners and will offer international protection of their rights and their honor... He said that the prisoners will become captives of a state (i.e., Palestine), hostages and detainees in another state (i.e., Israel). The state's (Palestine's) legal status will turn them into prisoners of war who are detained illegally in the prisons inside Israel."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 13, 2012]

Already last year, PA Minister of Prisoners Karake said that UN recognition would indicate that the international community retroactively legitimizes Palestinian violence:

"[PA Minister of Prisoners' Affairs, Issa] Karake... explained that the international recognition of the Palestinian State changes all the imprisoned Palestinians into prisoners of a state, prisoners of war held hostage in another state... He noted that the recognition of the state means recognition of the legitimacy of the Palestinian struggle that the Palestinian nation fought, in the search for freedom and independence. In addition, it [recognition of a state] indicates that the struggles (Arabic- Nidalat) of the prisoners are legitimized and legal according to UN Resolutions, international laws and the third and fourth Geneva Conventions."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 8, 2011]

Note: The Palestinian Authority uses the word nidal - literally 'struggle' - as a general term that includes all acts against Israel - including terror against civilians.

Earlier this year, Palestinian Media Watch released a bulletin explaining the Palestinian Authority strategy. Last year, the PA went to the UN requesting full statehood recognition. In the days following last year's request for statehood, official PA TV celebrated the request by playing clips that show maps of the future Palestinian state. As opposed to Abbas' declaration at the UN recognizing Israel, the maps on PA TV showed a Palestinian state replacing Israel.

The response to the Palestinian Vote in the United Nations: Israeli Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria

The Women in Green movement is initiating an extensive media and public campaign calling upon the Israeli government to respond to the Palestinian vote in the UN with the immediate application of Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria

"What's important is not what the Nations say, but what the Jews do!" David Ben Gurion

Following the expected vote in the United Nations on upgrading the status of the Palestinian Authority to that of non-member observer state, the Women in Green movement calls upon the Israeli government to respond with the immediate application of Israeli sovereignty over all Judea and Samaria.

The movement is supporting this request with a massive media and public campaign headlined by the declaration that the application of sovereignty over Judea and Samaria is a necessary step. Nothing can be more authentic, Zionist, justified, and Jewish than such a move.

Katsover and Matar call upon activists to exert direct pressure on the Prime Minister's Office with the demand to take steps to apply sovereignty as a response to the Palestinian move. "The historical sites of the Jewish people are in danger, and we must systematically exert pressure on the Prime Minister to act in response to the UN resolution with the application of Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria. contact information for the Prime Minister's Office: telephone: 972-2-6705518 fax: 972-2-5605000 or 972-2-5664838"

As to the results of the Palestinian move, Katsover and Matar quote the statement in the Jerusalem Post by the expert on international law Professor Louis Rene Beres that this would be illegal: "Creating a Palestinian state by launching an end-run around international law in the General Assembly would be illegitimate on its face. More importantly, however, it would also be destabilizing, and potentially catastrophic, for the entire region of states." (Jerusalem Post November 26th,2012)

for details: Yehudit Katsover - 050-7161818,

Nadia Matar - 050-5500834 www.womeningreen.org

The extensive media and public campaign for the application of Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria is costly.

It includes front page ads in the newspapers read by Israeli politicians and foreign diplomats and ad campaigns on internet sites.

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U.S. Must Withhold UN Funds if PA Status is Upgraded

This Thursday, Nov. 29, PA President, Mahmoud Abbas plans to present a resolution regarding the enhancement of the status of "Palestine" in the 67th Session of the UN General Assembly. The Resolution states that, "Recognizing that full membership is enjoyed by Palestine in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), The Economic and Social commission for Western Asia, and the Group of Asian States and is also a full member as in the League of Arab States, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Group of 77 and China", and "Recognizing that 132 States Members of the United Nations have accorded recognition to the State of Palestine;...Abbas will request that PA status be upgraded to "nonmember observer state."

The U.S. and Israel are opposed to this, and President Obama has asked Abbas NOT to put the request before the GA because of the belief that doing so would stop all negotiations between Israel and the PA. Abbas is intent on pursuing the matter. This is in direct defiance of American law which prohibits contributions to the UN and Affiliated Organizations "which grants full membership as a state to any organization or group that does not have the internationally recognized attributes of statehood, during any period in which such membership is effective." Furthermore: "No funds authorized to be appropriated by any Act shall be available for the United Nations or any specialized agency thereof which accords the Palestine Liberation Organization the same standing as member states."

U.S. law REQUIRES that funding to the UN should be discontinued if American law is violated in this instance. Despite this, Abbas will proceed with his request and the General Assembly will approve it. It is up to every American citizen to write to his Congressional representatives demanding that the law, passed in the 101st Congress, 2/16/90, be observed. The U.S. funding for the full amount that supports the General Assembly must be withdrawn. U.S. financial support for the PA and UNWRA must also come to an end. If Abbas understands that America is serious about removing this funding, he might reconsider. This is the most effective leverage America has. We must implement it.

The Capitol switchboard number is: 202-224-3121. You can reach your representatives this way. The comment line for the White House is: 202-456-1111;1414.

Read the following article which appeared in the Monday, Nov. 26, 2012 Wall Street Journal:

A Palestinian Flanking Maneuver

If the U.N. awards the status of 'non-member state' to the Palestinians, the Oslo Accords will be left in tatters..

By ROBERT P. BARNIDGE JR.

This week, the Palestinian faction that has been fighting Israel with rockets will likely yield to the one fighting it with lawyers at the United Nations. In the wake of Israel's operations against the Hamas terror group in Gaza, Mahmoud Abbas-president of the Palestinian Authority, based in the West Bank-will make his second trip to the U.N. in as many years hoping to upgrade the status of his people. Last year he applied to the Security Council for "member state" status but fell short of votes. He has signaled that he will now apply to the General Assembly for "non-member state" status. Such a designation, he wrote last year, would "pave the way for the internationalization of the conflict as a legal matter, not only a political one," tempting the International Criminal Court and other bodies to pursue legal action against Israelis.

.Mr. Abbas will likely secure majority support in the General Assembly, about which former Israeli diplomat Abba Eban once quipped: "If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the Earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions."

But the Abbas maneuver probably won't lead to an independent state of Palestine, which would require the practical cooperation and support of Israel. And it might well prompt Israel to take proportionate countermeasures against the Palestinian Authority for abdicating its international legal obligation, under the 1993 Oslo Accords, to seek a permanent settlement with Israel through negotiation.

More important: Why should Israel be expected to negotiate a "just and lasting peace in which every State in the area can live in security" (to use the language of Security Council resolution 242 of 1967) while its many neighbors in the Arab League and African Union openly equate Zionism to racism? Israelis should be secure in the knowledge that their right to self-determination is protected under international law. That is, after all, exactly what most Palestinians say that they want: their self-determination as an Arab people.

Such an idea was the defining recommendation of the U.N.'s Special Committee on Palestine, which in 1947 called for two independent and sovereign states-one Jewish, the other Arab-in what was then Mandatory Palestine. In other words, from an international-law perspective, the U.N. recognized the self-determination of both the Jewish and Arab peoples in Palestine as equally legitimate and worthy of protection.

Yet the Arab Charter on Human Rights, which the Arab League adopted in 2004, rejects Zionism in the same breath as it does racism, declaring that Zionism "constitute[s] a violation of human rights and pose[s] a threat to international peace and security." Article 2, Section 3 denounces Zionism as a "challenge to human dignity" and a "fundamental obstacle to the realization of the basic rights of peoples." The charter then calls on its members to "condemn and endeavour to eliminate" Zionism-not a terribly subtle call for the destruction of Israel.

The 1981 African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights also calls expressly for the elimination of Zionism-in its preamble, no less. Nearly all African states have signed and ratified the treaty, and only post-apartheid South Africa has expressed reservations about the preamble.

So these two organizations adopt treaties calling simultaneously for the advancement of human rights and the denial of them to a specific people. This hearkens back, of course, to the infamous General Assembly Resolution 3379, which in 1975 determined that "Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination."

In 1993 Yasser Arafat, then chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, committed the group to "recognize the right of the State of Israel to exist in peace and security." And yet the PLO is a party to the Arab Charter on Human Rights.

If Mr. Abbas pushes his case at the U.N., the United States and its European allies should call on the Arab League and African Union to amend their charters. Doing so would hardly end calls to eliminate Zionism, but it would mark a blow to the delegitimization campaign against Israel. In 1991, President George H.W. Bush did much the same, using his considerable political clout in the wake of the Gulf War (and the Madrid peace conference between Israel and the Arab states) to pressure the General Assembly into rescinding its "Zionism is racism" resolution.

President Obama and his European allies should do as Mr. Bush did, and compel those who support a Palestinian state irrespective of negotiations with Israel to prove that they don't seek Israel's elimination. The U.S. and others should make clear that they will oppose any action to grant Palestine the status of a non-member state unless the move takes place within the context of a permanent negotiated settlement with Israel.

In doing so, the allies would be upholding the long-standing policy they hashed out at the U.N. shortly after its inception nearly 70 years ago: Israel and Palestine as two self-determined states, living side by side in peace.

Mr. Barnidge is an adjunct fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Reading in Britain.

A version of this article appeared November 26, 2012, on page A17 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: A Palestinian Flanking Maneuver.

The AFSI Chizuk mission was in Hebron for Chaye Sarah, the weekend of Nov. 9, 10. Upon our arrival there, we met David Wilder, spokesman for the Hebron community, and quickly walked to the bulding housing the Herbert Zweibon z�l memorial. It was moving and meaningful to see the beautiful wall tribute that had been planned and erected by Uri Karzen, David Wilder, and Noam Arnon. Adding to the excitement of the beautiful photos and the dedication plaque, is the fact that the room is open to the main street in Hebron, visible to all passers-by, and will be the entry way to another residential enclave in Hebron. We felt that this was just what Herb would have wanted � continuing life in the city he loved. The photos show Noam Arnon, David Wilder, members of the AFSI team in Hebron, and also in Congress and at an AFSI conference with Herb. Heartwarming memories.

THE TALE OF TWO BETRAYALS - BENGHAZI & OSLO - WITH CONDOLENCES TO MOURNERS

By: Helen Freedman

Americans for a Safe Israel/AFSI extends sincere condolences to all those who were harmed in any way by what started as Hurricane Sandy and became "frankenstorm". Although many of us are blessed to have our families and homes safe, the destruction, devastation and loss which took place, and is still occurring as the storm moves westward, is painful to see. Our hearts go out to all who were and are sorely affected, and we grieve the loss of life. May you be comforted among the mourners of Zion, and may you know no more sorrows.

Along with the pain of suffering through the great losses from Sandy, the weekend was filled with new information about the betrayal by the Obama government of the four Americans at our consulate in Benghazi. My heart is filled with anger, bitterness and sorrow. What kind of man is this Obama, who would stoop to such depravity as to watch Ambassador Chris Stevens and his colleagues butchered by terrorists in Benghazi, and then fly off to a campaign party in Las Vegas?

While enlisting his Secretary of State, Ambassador to the UN, press secretary, and his personal diplomatic cadre, to cover for him with absurd apologies regarding an offensive video tape, Obama continued his campaigning with an appearance on the Letterman show and served as "arm candy" for the ladies of The View.

The ultra-liberal press is giving Obama a pass on this treasonous behavior, while the president piously promises he will apprehend the perpetrators, all the while leaving the parents of the dead and the American people with unanswered questions.

Beyond all the information about the drone that was transmitting photos of the Benghazi terror attack to the White House "in real time", and the fact that our forces were told to "stand down" when help could have arrived in time to save the four Americans, is something even more chilling.

According to the investigative work of Frank Gaffney Jr., Bret Baier, Catherine Herridge at Fox News, Aaron Klein at WND.com and Claire Lopez at RadicalIslam.org, there has been a "covert Obama effort to transfer weapons to our enemies that could make the Iran-Contra scandals, to say nothing of Operation Fast and Furious, pale by comparison." Gaffney concludes, "It seems President Obama has been engaged in gun-walking on a massive scale. The effect has been to equip America's enemies to wage jihad not only against regimes it once claimed were our friends, but inevitably against us and our allies, as well."

The Real Reason Behind Benghazigate? http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/p19129.xml?media=print How much longer will the American people tolerate such deliberate deceit? Perhaps next week we'll have the answer to that question.

Along with the above, we are approaching the anniversary of the assassination of PM Yitzchak Rabin on November 4, 1995. I recall visiting Israel with the AFSI Chizuk mission in 1994, after the signing of the Oslo Accords on the White House lawn in September, 1993. We at AFSI knew that this was not going to lead to "peace", but to "pieces." When we arrived in Israel in the spring of '94, there was a tent city set up at the Knesset. Israelis were pleading with the government to understand that while they had to ride in buses with shatter-proof windows, as protection against the rocks Arabs would throw at them, they would now require bullet-proof windows as a result of the fraudulent Oslo Accords.

We now know that the Left KNEW, as we knew, immediately after the signing, that Arafat was comparing this Accord to the Hudaybiya Pact, which Muhammad signed with the Quraish tribe, knowing that it would be broken. Pacts with "infidels" are not to be kept according to Koranic law, and certainly the Jews were "infidels." The politics that were in play prompting the Oslo signing were perfidious. The Left knew that Oslo would fail. Two thousand dead Jews later, with 18,000 injured and maimed in terrorist attacks, 10,000 Jews expelled from Gush Katif and four Shomron communities, and a constant barrage of mortars and rockets from Hamas in Gaza, there is acknowledgement that "mistakes" were made. The "mistakes" are still being made, with communities in Judea and Samaria still threatened with destruction to placate the pretense of a "two-state solution."

These are not MISTAKES. Benghazi is NOT A MISTAKE. OSLO IS NOT A MISTAKE. These are deliberate efforts on the part of cold hearted politicians to pursue their own goals, while allowing the blood of their citizens to flow freely.

There are some who would say that the wrath of G-d is at work today because of these evil deeds by man. Perhaps G-d didn't like being eliminated from the Democratic platform, along with Jerusalem. The last two sentences are conjecture. The previous information is fact.

Helen Freedman is Executive Director of Americans for a Safe Israel/AFSI.

Moshe Phillips, president of AFSI's Philadelphia Chapter, writes about Benghazi and the Clinton State Dept. Hugh de Payns discusses the abandonment of our soldiers on the We've been applauding the work of Pam Geller and her American Freedom Law Center especially for the anti-Jihad, pro-Israel ads she has placed in the NY subways. Now, our AFSI Chicago Chair, Cheryl Lewin, is championing the AFLC success in getting the "Defeat Jihad" ads on Chicago buses. Cheryl's also been fighting the Chicago Marriott hotel which is planning to sponsor an anti-Israel hate fest. We're glad Cheryl is on our side.

October 24, 2012

Where Was Hillary Clinton's State Dept. on the Eve of Benghazi?

Moshe Phillips

The question of what Hillary Clinton's State Department was busy with during the days and weeks before the September 11, 2012 terrorist strike in Benghazi, Libya needs to be asked insistently and often. What was happening at Foggy Bottom as Islamic terrorists planned the murder of United States Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens and other Americans?

We now have part of the answer.

At least some of the State Department's attention (and funds) were being spent on organizing international music tours. Clinton's staff was literally involved with fiddles (and guitars and drums) while Islamic terrorists where plotting to attack and burn the American consulate in Benghazi.

Two separate musical concert series were being planned by State at the exact same time when American diplomatic personnel in the Middle East were issuing requests for security to be upgraded at consulates and embassies in Islamic countries. There is now no doubt that their demands were dismissed far too quickly.

The State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has a program, called American Music Abroad, that is tasked with sending American musicians to perform overseas. This year's tour began its concerts in the Philippines on September 11, 2012. For weeks before the attacks, some at State were working on this program. How much time was spent on security analysis for the Philippines tour is unknown. Parts of the Philippines continue to be unsafe for Americans due to the stubborn insurgency there of al-Qaeda linked group Abu Sayyaf.

The other program the State Department was busy with before the 9/11/2012 Benghazi attack is called OneBeat (SM), started on September 10 in New York. It brings foreign music acts to the United States to tour.

OneBeat (SM) is also a project of the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. In 2012, State was scheduled to bring 32 rock musicians from 21 foreign nations to our shores.

One participant in this year's program is from Egypt. How much time is spent screening these foreigners for any ties to terrorist groups is also not known. In an era of high unemployment and record-setting debt, how much money did Mrs. Clinton's team spend on these music tours?

More importantly, why is State involved in such programs to begin with? What cost/benefit analysis was conducted on these concerts and by whom?

The first mission of the State Department must be to provide protection for Americans abroad. In that Foggy Bottom failed. How many other silly and unproductive efforts was State involved with when the murderers of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens were preparing their attack?

Moshe Phillips is the president of the Philadelphia Chapter of Americans For a Safe Israel (AFSI). The chapter's blog can be found at http://phillyafsi.blogtownhall.com, and Moshe tweets at http://twitter.com/MoshePhillips.

October 22, 2012

How to Abandon Our Bravest Citizens in a War Zone

Hugh de Payns

Watching a video of a consulate being overrun while a credible defensive response is almost immediately available is criminally negligent. Late last week, CBS News reported that several significant military options were available and very, very nearby.

CBS News has been told that, hours after the attack began, an unmanned Predator drone was sent over the U.S. mission in Benghazi, and that the drone and other reconnaissance aircraft apparently observed the final hours of the protracted battle...

The Pentagon says it did move a team of special operators from central Europe to the large Naval Air Station in Sigonella, Italy, but gave no other details. Sigonella is just an hour's flight from Libya. Other nearby bases include Aviano and Souda Bay. Military sources tell CBS News that resources at the three bases include fighter jets and Specter AC-130 gunships, which the sources say can be extremely effective in flying in and buzzing a crowd to disperse it.

To reiterate from the report, one choice was only an hour away: send one, two, or even three of the available AC 130 Spectre gunships overhead to lay down a murderous suppressive fire around the Benghazi consulate. Apparently these gunships are frightening things to behold and terrifying to face. According to several people who have firsthand experience with these aircraft, these planes are flying gun platforms bristling with multiple 20mm Gatling guns and rapid-fire recoilless 40mm and 105mm artillery. Sending a gunship over the consulate might even have ended this engagement immediately by convincing the attackers to head home. If two were cycled, then nearly continual coverage would have been possible until a contingent of U.S. forces arrived to deal with what remained.

Instead, the White House did nothing.

To be clear: if this information is correct, two U.S. Navy SEALs did not abandon their posts.

We abandoned them.

Correction: for several hours, the White House watched videos of our men fighting off these animals, while they abandoned our brave men -- men whose lives were of more value than everyone in the White House who decided to do nothing and go to bed that night.

Yes, we should understand that employing the Spectres would have involved risks, one of which is sending military forces into a sovereign nation. Yet from all appearances, Libya -- and Benghazi in particular -- is "Indian Country" and is completely lawless and largely ungoverned. This of course begs for another point of order: revelation of what our U.S. ambassador was doing in such a dangerous and uncontrolled area to begin with.

Taking advantage of the firepower we have -- again, to preserve and safeguard the lives of the brave men we send abroad -- would send a message: U.S. interests and the safety of our diplomatic staff will be protected, and sovereign U.S. property will be vigorously defended. Finally, our citizens in uniform must understand that they will not be abandoned.

No one gets left behind.

...Unless, that is, Mr. Obama is making the decisions. In that case, you are just another inconvenient person to be thrown under the bus. It's getting crowded under the Obama bus. How long until he throws America under the bus?

Shame on our government, and shame on the people in the White House.

CHICAGO TA CAVES TO AFDI'S LEGAL TEAM, AFLC "DEFEAT JIHAD" ADS TO RUN ON CHICAGO BUSES

October 23, 2012

AFDI submitted our "Defeat Jihad and Support Israel" campaign to Chicago Transit last month. Needless to say, they have been dragging their heels -- not answering, procrastinating and essentially not running our ads.

Who do these faceless, nameless gutless wonders think they are imposing sharia on our free society? These knaves are working for the Muslim Brotherhood and they don't even know it.

We submitted a multi-ad campaign. After several weeks of non-response our unrivaled legal team, the dynamic duo David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise fired off this billet doux. Chicago responded immediately, and the Chicago TA WILL be running our ads (scroll for the series that will hit Chicago bus tails in the next couple of weeks).

Dear Ms. Seimetz and Messrs. Goldsmith and Wolinsky:

My law firm represents Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and the American Freedom Defense Initiative. On September 29, 2012, Ms. Geller contacted Mr. Wolinsky of Titan360, the advertising agent for the Chicago Transit Authority, to place an advertisement on "bus tails" of the CTA's buses.

Mr. Wolinsky, as the account executive of Titan360 in charge of this account, has on several occasions indicated that Mr. Goldsmith would review the ad buy and respond directly to my clients. Mr. Goldsmith has not responded to my clients ad buy and Mr. Wolinsky has failed to approve the ad or explain why it has not been approved.

As you know, the advertising space on CTA buses is a designated public forum. Planned Parenthood Ass'n/Chicago Area v. Chicago Transit Auth., 767 F.2d 1225 (7th Cir. 1985) (concluding that the advertising space on a bus system became a public forum where the transit authority permitted advertising on "a wide variety of commercial, public-service, public-issue, and political ads"); see also Entm't Software Ass'n v. Chi. Transit Auth., 696 F. Supp. 2d 934 (N.D. Ill. 2010) (finding that CTA advertisement space retains its public forum designation). Indeed, not long ago CTA once again opened up its advertisement space to an overtly political message which many understood to be anti-Israel (http://mondoweiss.net/2010/11/end-military-aid-to-israel-message-reaches-thousands-of-chicago-commuters.html).

CTA's failure, through its advertising agent, to approve our clients' advertisement is a violation of our clients' right to free speech. This cannot and will not be tolerated.

As you no doubt know, we have successfully litigated this issue on behalf of our clients against the Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation in Detroit (SMART), against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of NY (MTA), and just recently against Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority of DC (WMATA).

If I do not receive a definitive and affirmative response to my clients' ad buy by close of business tomorrow (Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012), this firm will initiate federal litigation and we will, as we have in the past, seek temporary and preliminary injunctive relief, and upon the successful conclusion of the litigation, we will seek, and we will recover, as we have in the past, attorney's fees and costs. The choice is yours.

David Yerushalmi

American Freedom Law Center

Washington, D.C., Michigan, New York, California & Arizona

http://www.americanfreedomlawcenter.org

It's Monday, Oct. 22, 2012,and tonight at 9 PM EST in the U.S. , we will hear the final debate between President Obama and Governor Romney. The subject is foreign affairs. There should be no question in anyone's mind that the failure of President Obama and the State Department to address the issue of dangerously insufficient security at the Benghazi embassy in Libya had been going on at least since June, 2012. On 9/11/12 four precious Americans were butchered in Benghazi. Those deaths did not have to happen. Records show that there were so many alarms, attacks, diplomats fleeing from Libya, that countless red flags had to have gone up, alerting our president. He didn't seem to have time to address the issue. He was skipping his daily security briefings, preferring to make his appearances at campaign stops and TV comedy shows. Now, when the murders have taken place, there is no place to hide from his responsibility, try as his spin doctors might to confuse and deceive the public.

See the Investigative Project article below detailing the steady flow of radical Islamists to and from the White House and the red carpet treatment they receive.

A Red Carpet for Radicals at the White House

by Steve Emerson and John Rossomando

IPT News

October 21, 2012

A year-long investigation by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has found that scores of known radical Islamists made hundreds of visits to the Obama White House, meeting with top administration officials.

Court documents and other records have identified many of these visitors as belonging to groups serving as fronts for the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and other Islamic militant organizations.

The IPT made the discovery combing through millions of White House visitor log entries. IPT compared the visitors' names with lists of known radical Islamists. Among the visitors were officials representing groups which have:

Been designated by the Department of Justice as unindicted co-conspirators in terrorist trials; Extolled Islamic terrorist groups including Hamas and Hizballah; Obstructed terrorist investigations by instructing their followers not to cooperate with law enforcement;

Promoted the incendiary conspiratorial allegation that the United States is engaged in a "war against Islam"- a leading tool in recruiting Muslims to carry out acts of terror; Repeatedly claimed that many of the Islamic terrorists convicted since 9-11 were framed by the U.S government as part of an anti-Muslim profiling campaign.

Individuals from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) visited the White House at least 20 times starting in 2009. In 2008, CAIR was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorist money laundering case in U.S. history - the trial of the Holy Land Foundation in which five HLF officials were convicted of funneling money to Hamas.

U.S. District Court Judge Jorge Solis later ruled that, "The Government has produced ample evidence to establish the association" of CAIR to Hamas, upholding their designations as unindicted co-conspirators. In 2008, the FBI formally ended all contact with CAIR because of its ties to Hamas.

In January 2004, Hussam Ayloush, executive director of CAIR's Los Angeles office, publicly defended Palestinian terror attacks in comments before Muslim students at the University of California - Los Angeles, saying that terrorists were exercising their "legitimate right" to defend themselves against Israeli occupation.

Ayloush, who was a delegate to the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., casts the United States as controlled by Israeli interests. At a 2008 CAIR banquet in San Diego, he imagined "an America that respects and humanizes religion. It's an America that is free to act on its values and not on the interests of any foreign lobby." In 2004, he said that the war on terror had become a "war on Muslims." Ayloush attended at least two White House meetings.

The logs show Ayloush met with Paul Monteiro, associate director of the White House Office of Public Engagement on July 8, 2011 and Amanda Brown, assistant to the White House director of political affairs Patrick Gaspard, on June 6, 2009.

According to reliable sources, Monteiro was White House liaison for secret contacts with CAIR, especially with Ayloush. IPT has learned that the White House logs curiously have omitted Ayloush's three meetings with two other senior White House officials.

Louay Safi, formerly executive director of the Islamic Society of North America, visited the White House twice - meeting in intimate settings with Paul Monteiro on June 29, 2011 and July 8, 2011.

Law enforcement first noticed Safi in 1995 when his voice was captured in an FBI wiretap of now-convicted Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami Al-Arian. At the time of his conversation with Al-Arian, Safi served as executive director of the International Institute of Islamic Thought, an organization listed in law-enforcement and in internal Muslim Brotherhood documents as one of the movement's top front groups in North America.

Safi also wrote for the Middle East Affairs Journal, produced by the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR). That group was established by Hamas deputy political leader Mousa Abu Marzook and part of the Hamas-support network called the "Palestine Committee."

Safi has repeatedly expressed understanding for the underlying causes that provoke terrorism: "Terrorism cannot be fought by...ignoring its root causes. The first step...is to examine the conditions that give rise to the anger, frustration, and desperation that fuel all terrorist acts." He also called Palestinian terrorists "freedom" fighters. Esam Omeish, former head of the Muslim Brotherhood-created Muslim American Society, visited the White House three times.

In 2000, Omeish personally hired the late terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki to be the imam of Falls Church, VA, Dar al-Hijrah mosque. According to IPT analysis, more terrorists have been linked to Dar al-Hijrah since 9/11 than to any other mosque in America.

Omeish publicly mourned the Israeli airstrike that killed Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin at an April 10, 2004, MAS conference.

According to video captured by IPT, Omeish went a step further at the December 22, 2000, Jerusalem Day rally in Washington's Lafayette Park, praising Palestinian terror groups, saying they had learned "the jihad way" to "liberate" Palestine.

In a sermon at Dar al-Hijrah in 2009, Omeish called for "an American Islamic movement that transforms our status, that impacts our society, and that brings forth the change that we want to see.

Last month, Omeish attended a reception for Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi during Morsi's United Nations visit. Morsi is a longtime Egyptian Brotherhood leader. Omeish posted a picture of the event on his Facebook page and noted: "His Excellency provided great insights and we share important perspectives."

Mohamed Elibiary, appointed to the Homeland Security Advisory Council in October 2010, spoke at a December 2004 seminar in honor of Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, titled: "A Tribute to the Great Islamic Visionary."

Elibiary condemned the convictions of the defendants in the Hamas money-laundering trial as a "loss for America" and dismissed the prosecution as "a political trial trying to achieve a government policy." He also opposed the targeting of American-born al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, saying it wouldn't be "worth the ramifications of having to chase his ghost as a martyr for the next half century."

Interestingly, the Obama administration's enthusiastic support for gay rights did not prevent it from inviting Islamists who support laws overseas giving gays the death penalty. In a June 21, 2001 article in The San Francisco Chronicle, Muzammil Siddiqi, the former head of Islamic Society of North America, said he "supported laws in countries where homosexuality is punishable by death." Siddiqi met with Monteiro on June 8, 2010.

Despite the President's public proclamations that he is standing strong against terrorism, the White House logs demonstrate that he has legitimized the very same groups that espouse radical Islamic terrorism.

MPAC's Influence on Policy

The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) has secured the closest working relationship with the Obama White House despite a record of anti-Semitism, whitewashing the terrorist threat and hostility toward law enforcement. Fifteen MPAC officials have been welcomed by the White House. Executive Director Salam al-Marayati enjoyed at least six White House visits between September 2009 and July 2011, mostly involving meetings with Monteiro. Alejandro Beutel, who was MPAC's government liaison until July 2012, had 10 White House visits between July 2010 and May 2012.

MPAC's Washington director Haris Tarin made 24 trips to the White House between December 2009 and March 2012. Those meetings often were intimate in nature, involving a handful of people at most.

Edina Lekovic, an MPAC spokeswoman, visited the White House twice in July 2010. As a UCLA student, Lekovic served as an editor of a Muslim magazine called Al-Talib, which in 1999 ran an editorial calling Osama bin Laden "a great mujahid" and saying when bin Laden is called a terrorist, "we should defend our brother and refer to him as a freedom fighter, someone who has forsaken wealth and power to fight in Allah's cause and speak out against oppressors. We take these stances only to please Allah." That issue identified Lekovic as a managing editor.

Like CAIR, MPAC also has pushed that "war on Islam" message. MPAC defended Hizballah's 1983 attack on a U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon which killed 241 Americans and questioned U.S.-terror designations for Palestinian terrorist groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

But the White House turned to MPAC officials as it prepared two papers on combatting what it calls violent extremism in America.

On July 18, 2011, White House Senior Director for Global Engagement QuintanWiktorowicz hosted four MPAC officials for a private meeting. Two weeks later, the White House issued "Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States," a counter-terrorism initiative which made no mention of radical Islam or jihad waged by its followers. Rather, it named only al-Qaida as the enemy and included a vow to counter al-Qaida's narrative that America is at war with Islam.

That focus fits neatly with MPAC's agenda. It has lobbied for years to strip references to Islam from national security dialogue, even though terrorists from al-Qaida to Hamas use Quranic doctrine to justify their bloody campaigns.

And it marks the culmination of a dream described by MPAC founder Salam al-Marayati in a 2005 speech: "Counter-terrorism and counter-violence should be defined by us," he said. "We should define how an effective counter-terrorism policy should be pursued in this country. So, number one, we reject any effort, notion, suggestion that Muslims should start spying on one another ... That is why we are saying have them [law enforcement] come in community forums, in open-dialogues, so they come through the front door and you prevent them having to come from the back door."

Wiktorowicz, a member of President Obama's National Security Council who authored a 2005 ebook on radical Islam, was a receptive host for MPAC government and policy analyst Alejandro Beutel, Washington, D.C. office director Haris Tarin, policy analyst Hoda Elshishtawy and Shammas Malik, an MPAC intern, White House logs show.

MPAC didn't tout the July 18 meeting publicly but quickly praised the White House initiative. It "echoes MPAC's long-standing position of emphasizing community-based solutions in addressing violent extremism," the organization said in an August 3, 2011 news release.

Days before the meeting, President Obama called Tarin personally to commend his work with the Muslim American community and the nation.

MPAC repaid the courtesy a month later by issuing a paper blasting the American opposition to a Palestinian scheme to get United Nations recognition of statehood without pursuing it through peace talks.

The MPAC report questions the Obama administration's integrity by suggesting that the "U.S. is so out of step with global public opinion" on this issue because it is unduly influenced by "domestic political consequences" and campaign concerns, an allusion to the perceived political power of the pro-Israel lobby in the U.S., which MPAC often invokes.

Despite MPAC's strident public opposition to U.S. policy, Wiktorowicz again hosted Beutel, Tarin, and Elshishtawy on November 4, 2011 - just a month before a follow-up counter-terrorism document was released.

Access Didn't Moderate MPAC

In March 2011, Beutel took to Press TV, an English-language broadcast outlet controlled by the Iranian government, to criticize congressional hearings on radicalization within the Muslim American community:

It spoke to a lot of the feelings that I think many Muslim Americans have with respect to their position here in America post-9/11. We are loyal citizens to this nation and we are trying to do everything we can to keep it safe and secure. And yet even when we're doing the right things and in many cases, laying our lives down on the line for our nation, we still get stigmatized sometimes.

Most recently, Beutel co-authored an op-ed with Tarin, in which the two MPAC officials criticized NYPD surveillance of Muslim student groups across the Northeast: "The NYPD's surveillance of an entire community based on their faith -- with no evidence of criminal activity -- is a blow [to] democracy and an ineffective and counterproductive offense to its mandate to 'protect and serve.'"

In September 2010, Beutel criticized FBI raids in Chicago and Minneapolis targeting supporters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), both U.S.-designated terrorist organizations. Beutel argued that "[t]he FBI cannot continue to tell the American people that harassing anti-war activists falls under the rubric of counterterrorism and a fight against al-Qaeda ... They have absolutely nothing to do with each other. The FBI is undermining the trust that has been built between communities and law enforcement."

Other Islamists Who Enjoyed Access

White House logs show Islamists visiting the White House who may have lower profiles, but who also defended terrorists and terrorist groups, and repeatedly castigated law enforcement, especially in counter-terror sting operations. Among them:

Farhana Khera- executive director of Muslim Advocates and the National Association of Muslim Lawyers (NAML). She casts FBI counter-terror stings as "entrapment." Following arrests in late 2010, she told USA Today, "But for the government's role in these cases the suspects may have been left with their own bravado. Law enforcement resources need to be focused on actual threats." Khera also has compromised FBI operations and coached mosque personnel on how to evade FBI surveillance. "In one case, the FBI even wanted to build a gym to attract young Muslims to work out and 'discuss jihad," Khera once wrote. In July 2010 Khera told delegates at an Islamic Society of North American convention: "Sometimes [Muslim] community members don't even think of themselves as a[n] [FBI] source. They might just think [to] themselves, 'Well, I have a good relationship with the head of the FBI office. He comes by my office from time to time and we have tea, or we go to lunch, and he just talks to me about the community.' But what may seem like an innocuous set of conversations in the FBI's mind they may be thinking of you as an informant, as a source. And the repercussions and the harm that that can cause can be pretty serious." Khera shows up three times in the White House visitor logs, most recently in August 2011.

Hisham al-Talib-A founder and current VP of Finance for Herndon, VA-based, International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), an organization the FBI believes has housed key Muslim Brotherhood leaders in the United States since the late 1980s. Al-Talib was among seven people to meet March 30, 2012 with Joshua DuBois, White House executive director of the Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. A 1987 FBI investigative report, obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request, cited a source whose name was redacted but who has private communication with IIIT leaders. Their conversations show the IIIT leaders "...are implementing Phase I of the overall six phase IKWAN [Brotherhood] plan to institute the Islamic Revolution in the United States." The source said that IIIT leaders were working "to peacefully get inside the United States Government and also American universities" ultimately to help overthrow non-Islamic governments. Just four years later, the IIIT acknowledged funding WISE, a Tampa think-tank that housed four members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad's governing board (Sami al-Arian, Ramadan Shallah, Basheer Nafi and Mazen al-Najjar). WISE had a cooperative agreement to work with University of South Florida faculty. In a November 1992 letter to al-Arian, IIIT President Taha Jaber al-Awani explained the intimate relationship between the Tampa and Virginia operations. "And I would like to affirm these feelings to you directly on my behalf and on the behalf of all my brothers [naming IIIT officials including al-Talib] ... "that when we make a commitment to you or try to offer, we do it for you as a group, regardless of the party or fa�ade you use the donation for ... [W]e consider you as a group ... a part of us and an extension of us. Also, we are part of you and an extension of you," al-Awani wrote. "[O]ur relationship, in addition to being a brotherhood of faith and Islam, is an ideological and cultural concordance with mutual objectives." The letter named the IIIT officials who shared this view, including al-Talib. Imam Talib El-Hajj Abdur Rashid-religious and spiritual leader of Harlem's Mosque of the Islamic Brotherhood. Rashid rationalized Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's stance on destroying Israel, saying it merely is a "sentiment born of the legitimate anger, frustration, and bitterness that is felt in many [parts of the Muslim World" because of Israel's "ongoing injustice toward the Palestinian people." He also serves on the National Committee to Free Imam Jamil Abdullah al-Amin. Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rapp Brown, was convicted of killing a Georgia police officer in 2002.White House logs place Rashid in two meetings during 2010 including a July 13 event with President Obama. Hatem Abudayyeh - executive director of the Chicago-based Arab American Action Network, founded by Rashid Khalidi, a friend of President Obama. Abudayyeh has been under criminal investigation at least since September 2010, when FBI agents raided his home and office in connection with a terror-support probe. In a 2006 interview, Abudayyeh blasted Israel's "military killing machine" after Israel retaliated for a cross-border Hizballah attack that killed five people and led to the kidnapping of two soldiers. "The U.S. and Israel will continue to describe Hamas, Hezbollah and the other Palestinian and Lebanese resistance organizations as 'terrorists,'" he said,"but the real terrorists are the governments and military forces of the U.S. and Israel." He visited the White House in April 2010.

Outreach to minority communities can foster a feeling of inclusiveness. However, President Obama opening the White House to radical Islamists compromises American security in at least two ways. First, it legitimizes groups and individuals whose track records beg skepticism and scrutiny. Second, White House visitor logs show that top U.S. policy-makers are soliciting and receiving advice from people who, at best, view the war on terrorism as an unchecked war on Muslims. These persons' perspectives and preferred policies handcuff law enforcement and weaken our resolve when it comes to confronting terrorism. Related Topics: Muslim American Society (MAS), Muzammil Siddiqi, Salam al-Marayati, Sami Al-Arian, The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) | Steve Emerson

For another interesting look at Obama's true allegiances, see the following link with a report by Walid Shoebat:

http://www.shoebat.com/2012/10/10/the-obamas-kenyan-branch-revealed-in-shocking-video-obama-family-member-spills-the-beans-about-baracks-wahhabi-connection

Arlene Kushner is a journalist living in Jerusalem who has constantly written about crucial issues facing Israel. This latest article asks that we join in requesting PM Benjamin Netanyahu to confirm the Justice Edmund Levy report stating that Jews living in Judea and Samaria have a right to live there.

Arlene Kushner also writes about her reactions to the Obama/Romney debate held last night at Hofstra U. from the Israeli point of view. This makes for interesting reading.

"The Levy Report"

Arlene Kushner

Back in January Prime Minister Netanyahu appointed a committee -- consisting of former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Edmund Levy, former deputy president of the Tel Aviv District Court Tchia Shapira, and former Foreign Ministry legal adviser and expert in international law Alan Baker -- to examine the status of Israeli building in Judea and Samaria.

That report was released on July 8. It offered both conclusions and recommendations.

What the committee concluded was that the decades-long presence of Israel in Judea and Samaria was sui generis -- that is, a unique situation. That presence does not constitute an "occupation," and, based on historical and legal evidence, is not illegal. From the perspective of international law, Israel has the right to build in Judea and Samaria.

The recommendations, which were predicated upon these conclusions, addressed adjustments in Israeli policies and practices in Judea and Samaria.

As matters stand, Israeli citizens find themselves at a severe disadvantage with regard to land ownership in Judea and Samaria:

At present, law-abiding, tax-paying Israeli citizens who bought their homes in Judea and Samaria in good faith and with the assistance of multiple government agencies can be summarily told that they are without rights to their homes because a signature was missing from their papers.

What is more, if ownership of the land on which their homes are located is challenged by local Arabs, they can be forces to abandon those homes, which will be demolished, before a court has examined the evidence and ruled on who actually owns the land.

These and a host of similar situations are outrages that cannot be permitted to continue. The Levy recommendations clearly address these situations.

What happened, however, is that the prime minister buried the report instead of adopting its conclusions and recommendations.

He sent it to his Ministerial Committee on Settlements for review, and that is where it sat. There is no question but that there were political implications to these delays. People on the left -- including many Jews in the US -- were saying that the world wouldn't like this position and it would cause problems for us in other contexts.

PM Netanyahu has been pressured to accept the report by the right flank of Likud -- including, notably by Minister Yuli Edelstein -- and by others in nationalist parties. Now it has been leaked that he intends to submit the report or part of it (not clear what "part") to the Cabinet for acceptance. While there has been no official statement from the prime minister's office, my assumption is that he has calculated that this is the right time, politically, to do this.

Already, Defense Minister Barak and other politicians to the left are close to having strokes over this report. The hysteria is breathtaking. For example, Meretz chair MK Zahav Gal-On accused Netanyahu of "serving the interests of the extreme right wing and of settlers in order to establish apartheid" and maintained that adopting the Levy report would result in "international sanctions." What nonsense, and how pathetic, to employ the libelous language of our enemies.

It falls to all of us who DO support the principles of the Levy Report to be certain that the prime minister knows how we feel:

• He must be thanked for his current position
• Urged to adopt ALL of the report
• And encouraged to stay strong in the face of the left wing opposition.

Please! without delay, write to PM Netanyahu. Keep your message short.

Avoid history lessons and speeches. Ask him to stand for the rights of Israel by adopting the Levy Report. Tell him you are with him.

E-mail: Memshala@pmo.gov.il and also pm_eng2@it.pmo.gov.il (underscore after pm) use both addresses.

Fax: 02-670-5369 (From the US: 011-972-2-670-5369)

If you are an Israeli citizen who votes, let him know this.

Share this with as many others as you can, and most especially with Israeli citizens.

MK Danny Danon (Likud), who has spent time in the States promoting the Levy Report, says that several Congresspersons have gone on record as supporting it.

For the record:
While I in no way whatsoever endorse the establishment of a Palestinian state, it's important to make clear that the Levy Report conclusions do not preclude the possibility of such a state. This fallacious argument will be used by those on the left as a reason to defeat the Levy Report. The Levy Report recognizes Jewish rights in the land. It does not recommend establishment of sovereignty over that land. Adopting the Report does NOT mean establishing sovereignty over Judea and Samaria.

One reason the declaration of Jewish rights in Judea and Samaria is critically import is because the Palestinian Arabs and all who support them, starting with President Obama, maintain that the Palestinian state must be established on the '67 line. This position presupposes that Jews have no rights beyond that line (which was an armistice line, even though it is referred to as a "border"). The Levy Report makes clear, based on both historical and legal evidence, that this is not the case.

Certainly accepting the conclusions of the Report requires no legislation. It is simply a matter of stating, "We have rights." As I understand it, many, if not all, of the recommendations can also be instituted without legislation. We're looking at policies, not law, in many instances. No law would be necessary, for example, for the government to decide that homes in which Jews live in Judea and Samaria would no longer be demolished before a court decision on ownership was made.

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About the presidential debate that took place last night - There is only one dramatic moment I want to refer to here. President Obama was asked why the US did not respond to the request for reinforcements made by security personnel in Benghazi, a request made some two months before the attack on the ambassador. The president didn't answer that question. No good answer exists. What he did was go off on a tangent intended to refute the charge that has been leveled against his government, that it spent a lot of time saying the cause of the attack was an anti-Muslim film. Declared Obama, in the Rose Garden the day after the attack, he called it terrorism.

At this point, Romney leaped up and said, What? What do I hear? You spent two weeks denying it was terrorism. Well, only one of these two individuals can be correct here, and it wasn't difficult to learn who it was.

I located a video of the statement made by the president in the Rose Garden on September 12.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nu6VZ9DeVc

He begins by speaking of "Americans killed in an attack." Not a terrorist attack.

Then he "condemns this outrageous and shocking attack." Not a terrorist attack.

He followed this with, "Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths. We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. But there is absolutely no justification to this type of senseless violence." Senseless violence, not terror. And here we have the introduction of the theme that he maintained thereafter: that a film that "denigrated the religious beliefs of others" was behind the attack. Not terror.

Then, after noting that the day previous was the infamous 9/11, and referring to those who made the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq and Afghanistan, only then did he say, "No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation..." The context was broad, he was not referring directly to the Benghazi attack.

One additional note: the debate moderator, Candy Crowley, intervened (inappropriately and incorrectly!), indicating that Obama did call it terrorism -- but then saying that Romney was also correct, that Obama had for two weeks blamed it on the anti-Muslim film. Let's hear it for a well-informed and unbiased moderator.

� Arlene Kushner. This material is produced by Arlene Kushner, functioning as an independent journalist. Permission is granted for it to be reproduced only with proper attribution. http://www.arlenefromisrael.info

We hear a great deal about the 'war on women', where American women have been warned that their rights as women will be removed if the Republicans come to power. The fact that Roe vs. Wade has remained intact, despite the Republican appointees to the Supreme Court, does not dampen the cries of alarm. We would suggest that American women look at the real war on women being waged by Islamic extremists and consider what women living under Taliban and Al Quaeda's Sharia Law must endure. Nonie Darwish's article below gives a chilling insight into what should be our concerns as the Islamic influence becomes ever stronger in America. Steve Emerson's article gives us cause to wonder why President Obama is so encouraging to Islamic extremists in our country. Americans should be alarmed and take action against the infilitration of Islamic extremists into high government positions.

Call the White House comment line: 202-456-1111; 1414. Ask your questions.

See the articles below and understand that there are so many serious issues to which attention must be paid. Sounding false alarms merely permits the real fires to go unattended.

Joys of Muslim Women

By Nonie Darwish

In the Muslim faith a Muslim man can marry a child as young as 1 year old and have sexual intimacy with this child. Consummating the marriage by 9. The dowry is given to the family in exchange for the woman (who becomes his slave) and for the purchase of the private parts of the woman, to use her as a toy. Even though a woman is abused she can not obtain a divorce.

To prove rape, the woman must have (4) male witnesses.

Often after a woman has been raped, she is returned to her family and the family must return the dowry. The family has the right to execute her (an honor killing) to restore the honor of the family. Husbands can beat their wives 'at will' and he does not have to say why he has beaten her.

The husband is permitted to have (4 wives) and a temporary wife for an hour (prostitute) at his discretion.

The Shariah Muslim law controls the private as well as the public life of the woman.

In the Western World (Canada, United States and Britain ) Muslim men are starting to demand Shariah Law so the wife can not obtain a divorce and he can have full and complete control of her. It is amazing and alarming how many of our sisters and daughters attending American, Canadian, Universities and British Universities are now marrying Muslim men and submitting themselves and their children unsuspectingly to the Shariah law.

By passing this on, enlightened Canadian, American and British women may avoid becoming a slave under Shariah Law. Ripping the West in Two.

Author and lecturer Nonie Darwish says the goal of radical Islamists is to impose Shariah law on the world, ripping Western law and liberty in two.

She recently authored the book, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law. Darwish was born in Cairo and spent her childhood in Egypt and Gaza before immigrating to America in 1978, when she was eight years old. Her father died while leading covert attacks on Israel . He was a high-ranking Egyptian military officer stationed with his family in Gaza ..

When he died, he was considered a "shahid," a martyr for jihad. His posthumous status earned Nonie and her family an elevated position in Muslim society. But Darwish developed a skeptical eye at an early age. She questioned her own Muslim culture and upbringing.. She converted to Christianity after hearing a Christian preacher on television.

In her latest book, Darwish warns about creeping shariah law - what it is, what it means, and how it is manifested in Islamic countries.

For the West, she says radical Islamists are working to impose sharia on the world. If that happens, Western civilization will be destroyed. Westerners generally assume all religions encourage a respect for the dignity of each individual. Islamic law (Sharia) teaches that non-Muslims should be subjugated or killed in this world.

Peace and prosperity for one's children is not as important as assuring that Islamic law rules everywhere in the Middle East and eventually in the world.

While Westerners tend to think that all religions encourage some form of the golden rule, Shariah teaches two systems of ethics - one for Muslims and another for non-Muslims. Building on tribal practices of the seventh century, Shariah encourages the side of humanity that wants to take from and subjugate others.

While Westerners tend to think in terms of religious people developing a personal understanding of and relationship with God,

It's hard to imagine, that in this day and age, Islamic scholars agree that those who criticize Islam or choose to stop being Muslim should be executed. Sadly, while talk of an Islamic reformation is common and even assumed by many in the West, such murmurings in the Middle East are silenced through intimidation.

While Westerners are accustomed to an increase in religious tolerance over time, Darwish explains how petro dollars are being used to grow an extremely intolerant form of political Islam in her native Egypt and elsewhere.

(In twenty years there will be enough Muslim voters in Canada, the U.S. And Britain To elect the President by themselves! Rest assured they will do so... You can look at how they have taken over several towns in the USA .. Dearborn Mich. Is one... And there are others....) ( Britain has several cities now totally controlled by Muslims) I think everyone in Canada. the U.S. And Great Britain Should be required to read this, but with the ACLU, there is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on!

It is too bad that so many are disillusioned with life and Christianity to accept Muslims as peaceful.. Some may be but they have an army that is willing to shed blood in the name of Islam.. The peaceful support the warriors with their finances and own kind of patriotism to their religion. While Canada, the U.S.A.and Britain are getting rid of Christianity from all public sites and erasing God from the lives of children the Muslims are planning a great jihad on North America and Britain .... This is your chance to make a difference...! Pass it on to your email list or at least those you think will listen.. Some of those I'm sending it to WILL NOT! Put your head back under the covers so you can't see the boogie man!

Al-Marayati's Dangerous "Diplomatic" Ideas

IPT News - Steve Emerson

October 11, 2012

http://www.investigativeproject.org/3768/al-marayati-dangerous-diplomatic-ideas

The State Department is vociferously defending its decision to send Muslim Public Affairs Council boss Salam al-Marayati to represent the United States at a recent 10-day human rights conference in Poland. He "has been involved in U.S. government initiatives for almost 10 years and has been a valued and highly credible interlocutor on issues affecting Muslim communities," a State Department spokesman told the Washington Free Beacon, adding that al-Marayati was invited to participate in the meeting "as a reflection of the wide diversity of backgrounds of the American people."

If the al-Marayati choice is any indication, that "diversity" apparently extends to anti-Israel ideologues who attack U.S. terrorism prosecutions, whitewash Hamas war crimes, and portray Iran as a victim of U.S. perfidy. And he runs an organization which opposes key elements of American counter-terror policies, including the drone strike which killed American-born al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, the closing of terror-supporting charities and sting operations against would-be homegrown terrorists.

A year ago, al-Marayati even threatened to sever ties with the U.S. government in a strongly-worded Los Angeles Times op-ed column. Expressing anger over the use of "anti-Muslim" training materials by the FBI and a U.S. Attorney's office, al-Marayati wrote: "If this matter is not immediately addressed, it will undermine the relationship between law enforcement and the Muslim American community-another example of the ineptitude and/or apathy undermining bridges built with care over decades."

In spite of MPAC's hostile view of government policies, administration officials routinely turn to MPAC for policy advice, including the training materials al-Marayati ranted about in the Times. In February, MPAC officials met with FBI Director Robert Mueller to discuss training materials about Islam. That same month, MPAC officials met with top Pentagon leaders to receive an apology over a recent incident involving Quran burnings in Afghanistan.

In 2010, the State Department sent al-Marayati to Paris and Geneva to speak to United Nations groups about religious freedom and free speech.

Don't take our word for it when it comes to al-Marayati's extreme views toward Israel, U.S. policy and law enforcement. Watch and listen to the following examples from al-Marayati's mouth:

In a January 2012 appearance on Russia TV's "Cross Talk," al-Marayati depicted Iran as the victim in the diplomatic crisis over its illicit nuclear program.

"The problem in the case of Iran is that it is singled out as the threat. We [the U.S.] don't want to deal with North Korea the same way we deal with Iran," he said. "With other countries, we utilize the IAEA, we use multilateral instruments to deal with the nuclear problem. In this case of Iran, there is no dialogue, there is (sic) no negotiations, it is all confrontational policies that is (sic) part of a war-mongering mentality here in the U.S. and they're just waiting for the tripwire and then the machinery of war will begin."

Al-Marayati also suggested that Israel is controlling U.S. foreign policy. "The other point here, which is very important historically, the United States has done a lot of dirty work that has served the interests of Israel," he said. "It destroyed Iraq. It supported the destruction and crippling of Egypt. It has crippled the Gulf. And now, it is looking to Iran as the next target for crippling and destroying. I think this is madness. Who is driving our foreign policy - President Obama or Prime Minister Netanyahu?" In July 2006 during the Israel-Hizballah war, al-Marayati declared that the Holocaust was no excuse for Israeli "dehumanization" of Arab peoples:

"We're against Holocaust denial, but we're also against people who exploit that as a way of shoving this kind of war propaganda and dehumanization of the Arab peoples and the Muslim peoples as if they have to pay the price for what Nazi Germany did to the Jews back in the 20th century."

Al-Marayati has harshly criticized U.S. terrorism prosecutions.

At a March 12, 2006 fundraising dinner for Sami Al-Arian, he likened the prosecution to the detention of innocent Japanese civilians in the U.S. during World War II. Al-Marayati suggested that "we are being dictated upon, not only on terminology, but dictated upon on who speaks for us, and our organizations, our charities, are shut down one by one. Therefore, brothers and sisters, there is a storm that it is coming. That storm is going to be worse than Japanese internment."

Al-Marayati called Al-Arian "the gentleman who defied the odds in a system that is unfair, and there is no way you can get a fair trial in view of any of these issues today. But regardless, he was able to defy the odds and he was acquitted of all the terrorism charges that were levied against him."

One month later, Al-Arian pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiring to provide services to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a designated terrorist organization, in violation of U.S. law.

"You laughed when you heard about the bombings" carried out by the PIJ, U.S. District Judge James Moody told Al-Arian in pronouncing sentence, calling him a "master manipulator."

Speaking to a Dallas audience in 2005, al-Marayati attacked law enforcement's use of informants in terrorism investigations. He blasted the government for using informants in the case against Umer and Hamid Hayat, a father and son living in Lodi, Calif. "The disaster of Lodi is that Muslims were reporting each other to the authorities, saying: 'Oh, this person is an extremist.' ... This is the model not to follow."

This disaster resulted in the convictions of the Hayats on charges of providing material support to al-Qaida and making false statements. Hamid Hayat was sentenced to 24 years in prison.

After federal authorities in May 2009 disrupted a plot to bomb synagogues and fire missiles at U.S. military aircraft, al-Marayati criticized the prosecution. "These were individuals who were either petty criminals or gullible people who were guilty of stupidity. They were not imminent threats to our country, as the FBI has stated," al-Marayati told Fox News.

The four men convicted in the plot were convicted and sentenced to 25-year prison terms.

At a minimum, Marayati's long record of whitewashing terrorism, trivializing the Holocaust, and denigrating law enforcement's work in protecting Americans from jihadist terror raises serious questions about the State Department's judgment in deciding who should represent the United States abroad. Making taxpayers foot the bill to send the likes of Marayati overseas is the height of folly and legitimizes an official and his organization that often works against the same government that legitimizes it with such significant access.

The AFSI Chizuk mission is leaving for Israel immediately after the Nov. 6 elections. We are so pleased to report that Beit HaShalom in Hebron, a home purchased by Jews for a million dollars, and then closed by court order, has now been returned to the Jews. We will have the special privilege of visiting the home when we are in Hebron for Shabbat Chaye Sarah. We are looking forward to celebrating with the Hebron Jews.

Please see the article below by David Wilder, spokesman for the Hebron community:

Victory at Beit HaShalom: A sweet way to begin the New Year

David Wilder

October 11, 2012

The new year is starting off on the right foot - and if you didn't notice, that's a double entendre. Over the past month and a half, over 150,000 Jews visited Hebron. About half of them arrived during the Succot holidays. That's a good way to begin a new year. But it's only the beginning.

A few weeks ago, an Israeli court ruled that Beit HaShalom, the huge 4,000 square meter building between Hebron and Kiryat Arba, was legally purchased by the Jewish community of Hebron and must be returned to us, the rightful owners of the building.

Beit HaShalom was purchased by Morris Abraham and his family, for over a million dollars. Hebron Jews moved into the building in 2007 and lived there for 22 months. Ehud Barak, then Defense Minister, ordered the families to be forcibly expelled in the winter of 2008.

The Arab who sold the building, Rajabi, then filed suit in a Jerusalem court, demanding that the structure be returned to him. In court he admitted that he had sold the building and received money for it - he had no choice, as the transaction was videoed. However, he claimed that he'd changed his mind and returned the money. His only problem was that he had no proof, receipts or documents showing that he'd actually returned the money.

A few weeks ago the court ruled against him, and ordered the government to return the building to the Jewish owners within 30 days. One final problem remained. According to Israeli law, properties purchased by Jews from Arabs in Judea and Samaria must be approved by the Defense Minister. Ehud Barak, a left-wing politician who only a few days ago announced his idea for a unilateral expulsion/withdrawal from Judea and Samaria, is not known to view favorably the Jewish presence in Hebron. Expectations that he might sign such a permit weren't high.

But, miracles do happen. As happened early tonight.

Hebron's Jewish community received written notification that Barak ordered the Defense ministry to grant the necessary permits allowing us to return home, to return to Beit HaShalom.

Shortly, the cement blocks surrounding the building will be removed. The big padlock sealing the doors will be removed. The keys will be returned to us. Beit HaShalom has been redeemed.

We are very very happy that the Israeli government has finally recognized the legitimacy of Jewish land purchase in Hebron. It's about time. After all, the first land purchase, some 4,000 years ago, didn't need any minister's signature. When Abraham bought the Caves of Machpela, he didn't need anyone's permission. He put money on the table and, in return, received the keys. That's the way is should be.

So too, we expect the Israeli government to continue to recognize legally owned Jewish properties in Hebron, such as Beit HaMachpela and Beit Ezra. And just in case anyone thought otherwise, yes, we will continue to buy property and buildings in Hebron, and yes, we will continue to grow and expand, and no, we have no plans to leave our holy city, not now, not ever.

Hebron is here to stay, an integral element of the land of Israel and of the State of Israel. As is the Jewish community of Hebron, keeping Hebron Jewish for the Jewish people, for eternity.

Actually, the timing is just right. This Shabbat we begin reading the Torah from the start - "In the Beginning..."

The greatest commentator on the Torah, Rashi, asks, why doesn't the Torah begin with laws and commandments? Why start with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? His answer is quite fitting for today's events. He answers: "Because of the thought expressed in the verse(Psalms 111:6) 'He declared to His People the strength of His works, in order that He might give them the heritage of the nations.'

For should the peoples of the word say, You are robbers, because you took by force the lands of the seven nations of Canaan, Israel may reply to them, "All the earth belongs to the Holy One blessed be He; He created it and gave it to whom He pleases; When He willed He gave it to them, and when He willed, He took it from the and gave it to us." It is imperative to note that Rashi stresses the verse, 'He declared to His People...' - In other words, the nations of the world might realize that our Land belongs to us - the problem isn't with them. Rather we have to ensure that all OUR PEOPLE know and understand that this land, Eretz Yisrael, belongs to Am Yisrael, the people of Israel. Rashi lived almost 1,000 years ago. He knew what he was talking about.

To all those who have helped, to all those whose faith and support, and hard work have brought us to this joyous day - thank you , thank you, thank you! May we be privileged to continue to witness such wonders as we have seen today!

Some announcements:

Helen Freedman is the featured speaker at the Zionism Museum and Education Center, Tuesday, Oct. 23, at 7:30 P.M., the Kingsway Jewish Center's Fein Lounge, 2810 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. The topic will be: THE IMPORTANCE OF JUDEA AND SAMARIA TO ISRAEL AND TO AMERICA. There is no charge and everyone is invited to attend to hear the talk and participate in a stimulating discussion.

On Tuesday evening, Oct. 16, the second debate between President Obama and Governor Romney will take place at Hofstra University in Uniondale, LI, NY. All are invited to gather outside the school at 7 P.M,. to join in greeting the participants. Ariella Rechthand, Program Coordinator for the NY Regional Office of the RJC, is the contact person: arechthand@rjchq.org; 212-922-0839.

Helen Freedman is one of four panelists appearing on Shalom TV as per the following schedule. Please try to view the programs - it is in two parts - and give us your feedback. Just click onto http://www.shalomtv.com:

Israel & DNC Platform, Part 1 The DNC's platform plank on Israel, and news of Israel are discussed by Steven Bayme (AJC), Helen Freedman (AFSI), columnist Micah Halpern, and Larry Stempler (NJDC) on a "L'Chayim" roundtable. Part 1 of 2. Ends 10/27

Israel & DNC Platform, Part 2 What the DNC's plank on Israel says to the Arab world, and US/Israel relations over Iran are discussed by Steven Bayme (AJC), Helen Freedman (AFSI), columnist Micah Halpern, and Larry Stempler (NJDC). Part 2 of 2 of a "L'Chayim" roundtable. Ends 11/03

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RJC PRESENTS "PERILOUS TIMES"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsvZLiwkMv8