The question of peace in the Middle East is a question of the Arabs

The ninth plague-darkness – has struck Egypt with a vengeance and Pharaoh breaks. Step by step he has retreated and after the eighth plague – locusts – he was prepared to allow the Jews to leave except for their children. Now he surrenders almost entirely as he agrees that all the Jews can leave. He only asks one thing, one compromise, one small victory for himself, that the Jewish cattle remain behind.

Consider; the Jews have been slaves for 210 years. They have lived in misery and persecution. They suffered decrees such as the one casting their male children into the sea. They cried out unto the L-rd for freedom and salvation. Now, apparently the great moment has arrived! Pharaoh agrees that they shall go free! What does it matter that he asks for their cattle? Give it to him! The main thing is peace and salvation and we are willing to give up cattle for peace!

But Moses knows that this is not the purpose of the freedom of the Jewish people and of the story of the slavery and exodus. He is not prepared to compromise one inch because he knows what the purpose of G-d is. When Moses first entered the presence of Pharaoh and said: “The L-rd, G-d of the Hebrews, has said: Let my people go!” Pharaoh contemptuously answered: “Who is the L-rd? I know not the L-rd and will not let Israel go!” Here is where the battle was joined. Here is the purpose and aim of creation – to have the world recognize the dominion and kingship of the L-rd being challenged. Pharaoh must be made to recognize and totally acknowledge the sovereignty of the L-rd over him and his people. He cannot make compromises; he cannot strike bargains. He must submit totally!

“And I shall be glorified through (the defeat of) Pharaoh and his army and Egypt shall know that I am the L-rd.” Only the total defeat of the wicked can raise and honor the name of the L-rd, says the Biblical commentator Rashi. This is why there will be no compromise with Pharaoh. He must totally submit, he must totally surrender.

And even when he apparently does this, after the plague of the first born, when he runs to Moses and says: “Get out, take your flocks with you, just leave and ask the L-rd to bless me!” Moses refuses and in the words of the Mechilta; “And he called unto Moses and Aaron in the middle of the night and said: get up and leave! Said Moses unto him: No, we have been ordered not to leave our houses until morning. What are we, thieves that we should slink out in the night? No, we will leave only in the morning with an upraised arm before the eyes of all the Egyptians!”

Not one inch of retreat here. The lesson of the L-rd being the Omnipotent, King of the universe must be seen and acknowledged.

The lesson is an eternal one and must be learned in our time, too. The question of peace in the Middle East is a question of the Arabs and the world acknowledging the total sovereignty of the All Mighty. There can be no compromise on this. It is only a peace that comes with Arabs submitting to the yoke of the heavenly kingdom that will be a permanent one and the Jew who gives up part of his land as a compromise, violates the entire purpose of the rise of the Jewish State and the demand of the All Mighty that the nations acknowledge Him as King. There can be no retreat from land because that is in essence a retreat also from the Kingship of the L-rd. 


Rabbi Meir Kahane

Amman and Jerusalem November 22, 1968 - Kahane

There is great agitation and indignation within the United Nations today.  It all centers around demands for return by Israel of the land won from Jordan last year. What land?  The area that is commonly known as the West Bank of the Jordan. There is really more than a little irony in this demand. Indeed, it approaches the heights of chutzpah. It is not only that a state which attempted to destroy another one and lost has the gall to demand terms more properly suited to a victor. It is not even the fact that the land Jordan demands was never legally and rightfully annexed by it in the first place. It is really the fact that the state that calls itself Jordan is an entity that is illegal, per se. As the great holy war swung into its full gear, the little king of the little Kingdom called Jordan began to rain his shells into Jewish Jerusalem.  His troops crossed the armistice line and seized territory in the no-man’s land in the city.  His words and acts were thrown into the battle to wipe out Israel and decimate its inhabitants. Alas, Allah was unkind to Russia and the king’s legion, and uniforms flung aside, aircraft burning, shoes cast away – the Jordanians fled east.  From the plunderer came forth plunder and the Israelis swept to the Jordan to put an end to the insanity of a border that, in one place, was only fifteen miles from the Arab devil to the blue Mediterranean Sea. The land that was taken, however, was not “Jordanian.”  It was part of pre-1948 Palestine; it was part or Eretz Yisroel, it was Jewish soil from the time of Abraham. Here was the Old City of Jerusalem where Abraham brought his son Isaac for the Akeda; here was the city where David and his dynasty ruled; here was the sacred Temple Mount with its Western Wall waiting to be redeemed. Here was Bethlehem where Rachel wept for her children on the way to Efrat. Here was Hebron where the Patriarchs impatiently lay in anticipation of a speedy redemption.  Here was Jericho where the walls crashed down to herald the inheritance of the Holy Land by the Egyptian exodees.  Here was Judea and Samaria and all the places and sites that have become familiar to a Jewish and non-Jewish Biblical world. Here was Jewish Eretz Yisroel, a land that had been reluctantly left outside the borders of a Jewish state in 1948 as the Jews of Palestine sorrowfully agreed to temporarily accept partition of their land in their desperate need of some land to house the displaced of Europe and the oppressed of greater Arabia. But the agreement was conditional and the Arabs, predictably, relieved the Jewish state of any need to adhere to that condition.  The Arabs in psychopathic consistency refused any idea of compromise and rejected partition.  Their armies rushed in to battle the Yehudi, and the U.N. sat in an impotence that was destined to become its favorite pose. It was Jewish blood that won and secured a Jewish state, and the plan that was rejected by the Arabs was buried, un-mourned and unlamented.  And the West Bank of the Jordan? Under the U.N. plan it was to be given to an Arab Palestine state; under the Arab plan it to be given to an Arab Palestine state; under no circumstances did anyone foresee a usurper Jordan annexing it. And yet, that is exactly what happened.  Possessed of a British-trained and run Arab Legion, King Abdullah proved to be the only foe that Israel could not overcome.  His army seized the West Bank and Old Jerusalem and decided that Israel would not have it and neither would an Arab Palestine be created. From now on, it was to be part of Jordan. No one accepted this.  The U.N. denied the legality of the move; the Israelis refused to recognize it and the Arab states themselves fumed at the annexation. On December 13, 1948, Egypt’s King Farouk served notice that he did not recognize Jordan’s right to the West Bank. The Arab League threatened expulsion of Jordan from the body (Abdullah yawned and welcomed the move). Faced with a fait accompli, the Arab League never did recognize the grab but adopted a resolution on May 13, 1949 “to treat the Arab part of Palestine annexed by Jordan as a trust in its hands until the Palestine case is fully solved in the interests of its inhabitants.” So much for the Jordanian claim to the West Bank.  The land it claims is Jewish land, sorrowfully given up in return for a peace and friendship the Arabs never gave.  Their rejection of the latter doomed the former, and the land returned to its true owners. What is more important, however, is the need to examine the very basis of the travesty that calls itself Jordan.  In itself it is an illegality, a travesty of justice, a robbery of Jewish possessions. There never was Jordan until perfidious Albion – the British Colonial Ministry – decided to invent one. When the Balfour Declaration backed the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine, there was never any country that was known as Jordan. The historic boundaries of ancient Israel included the east bank of the Jordan, and Balfour himself made this clear in a memorandum dated August 11, 1919:  “Palestine should extend into the lands lying east of the Jordan?” What happened? A desert chieftain named Abdullah ibn-Hussein and his brother Feisal, fleeing the Arabian wrath of Ibn Saud, were offered in 1920 the thrones of Iraq and Syria, respectively.  Unfortunately for the Arabs, the French, who were given mandatory powers in Syria by the League of Nations, informed Feisal that he was most unwelcome in Damascus.  The Arab took the Gallic hint and departed Since both brothers were British pawns in the struggle by the Colonial Office to make the Middle East British, Feisal was given the throne of Iraq by the British Foreign Office, while Abdullah was left holding an empty kingdom-bag. Faced with this, Abdullah began to make all manner of bellicose sounds about marching on Syria and ousting the French.  While Paris hardly lost sleep, the British did not relish the idea of a confrontation between their puppet and the French and so, in 1921, Winston Churchill met with Abdullah and offered him an annual subsidy and established a new country to be known as “Transjordan” for Abdullah to rule. It little mattered that such a step was illegal and that it robbed Jewish Palestine of a major share of its land.  Whitehall proposed and Whitehall disposed. Transjordan came into being, a comic-opera illegality, ruled in theory by Abdullah but in practice by London. This was the state that on May 31, 1967 signed a defense agreement with Nasser to destroy Israel; this was the state that declared through its king, on that same day: “With the help of G-d and the solidarity of the Arabs we will see the victory of truth over the lie-s of the enemy”; this is the state whose radio declared during the terrible days of June 1967. “How long did we wait and prepare for these hours of honor and for the day the Arabs would advance . . . Be ready to meet on the soil of eternal Falastin [Palestine].” (June 1, 1967) “Free citizens, heroic sons of Jordan.  The hoped-for moment has arrived.  Forward to arms, to battle, to new pages of glory.  To regain our rights, to smash the aggressor, to revenge.”                                                            (June 5, 1967, 0915 hours) “We are living through the most sacred hours of life . . . Long did we wait for this battle in order to erase our shame.”          (The Premier, June 5) “Today the soldiers of Hussein have brought doom to the Jewish strongholds in Jerusalem . . . They destroyed the Knesset and have liberated the holy soil from the Zionists.  The heroic soldiers are marching forward towards Tel Aviv.”          (June 5, 1800 hours) “Forward toward your meeting with Rabin in Tel Aviv.”      (June 5, 1155 hours) Rabin was waiting, but the Jordanians never came.  They busily were heading in the opposite direction, where they sit today, and demand the return of a territory that was never theirs to a state that was illegal from its inception.

Moshe Feiglin v. Netanyahu: Last Exit to Jerusalem

January 23, 2012...

The following article, which discusses the global  importance of next week's election for Likud Chairman between Moshe Feiglin and Benjamin Netanyahu, was written by Bernie Quigley, and originally appeared on The Hill's Pundits Blog on January 19, 2012. 

Mr. Netanyahu stands for giving away Judea and Samaria - the biblical heartland of the Jewish People (a/k/a the 'West Bank') - to PLO/PA Arab terrorists who have direct ties to the Iranians and whose ancestors worked hand-in-hand with Adolf Hitler. The state he wishes to create will leave Israel with what famed Israeli diplomat Abba Eban called "Auschwitz Borders", as Israel will be reduced to being 9 miles wide and militarily indefensible. (For documentation of the PLO/PA's links as specified above, please visit www.HIRhome.com ) 

Moshe Feiglin stands for Israel annexing and settling all lands liberated during the war of 1967, for ending the taking of all foreign aid, and for Israeli leaders making their decisions by taking into account that Israel should be run according to Jewish values as opposed to by secular, globalist or humanist values.

Why must I, a cold-country New Englander and a solitary mountain dweller with a broken foot, be the only American to write about the upcoming election in Israel for leadership in the Likud, as critical to Israel’s destiny and to American interests in Israel as the fateful primary in South Carolina?

The Israeli paper Arutz Sheva reports that Moshe Feiglin, who is challenging Benjamin Netanyahu for leadership of Likud in the party's primaries two weeks from now, cited a favorable poll Tuesday morning as evidence that his chances of seriously embarrassing Netanyahu are high, and that a victory by Netanyahu is not a complete certainty: “In a poll conducted by polling company Ma’agar Mochot, about 26 percent of Likud members not affiliated with Feiglin's faction agreed that ‘it is important to vote for Moshe Feiglin in the upcoming primaries, even though it is clear that Binyamin Netanyahu will win, just so that the right wing inside Likud will gain strength.’ "

As Feiglin has written not long ago, this year for the first time there are more Jews living inside Israel than outside: "The exile is over."

European Jews have been returning to the source in Jerusalem since 1492. It has been a journey homeward, like a parallel event; a shadow journey of European Jewry joining in with the gentile world on the way here to New York City. But the last 500 yards of the journey, up the steps to Temple Mount, where Jews are arrested today and sometimes beaten by police for praying, is proving to be one of the most treacherous links of the journey.

The changes we face today in the United States are generational: Bush, Clinton generations moving out of the scene and carrying with them their generation gods, demons and furniture. Israel faces a similar generational change which portends Netanyahu and the American-dominated Israelis leaving the scene now or in the near future. That is why this race is critical.

These upcoming races move toward an auspicious future where Israel and the United States, alone or together in a different way than they are now, both enter light and air. Europe faces a different trajectory and different destiny; a journey that recedes from Yalta inauspiciously as capital flees to Asia. Bret Stephens, columnist of the Wall Street Journal, calls Europe’s state a “slow suicide.” But Israel and Europe have different destinies.

Ten years hence Americans will have new friends in Israel and Israel will have new American friends. There is no telling with Europe; moral descent of the world geist since Yalta can be seen not only in the collapsing economy but descending as well from the clarity and density of Hannah Arendt writing to the one-world voices today of Lady Gaga, Bono and Bob Geldof of the Boomtown Rats. Where can they possibly go from here?

As Stephens suggests in a recent column, the sinking of the cruise ship suggests Europe’s trajectory. Should be noted that the first harbinger of a plague in Europe in the 14th century came when a trade ship entered the port at Constantinople and everyone on board was found to be dead.

But that is not our fate and it will not be Israel’s. The generations will shift and rise in the upcoming election in Israel and in the races here in the coming year.

 

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/international-affairs/205103-moshe-feiglin-v-netanyahu-last-exit-to-jerusalem

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Moshe Feiglin is the president of Manhigut Yehudit and a candidate for Chairman of the Likud party. He led the Zo Artzeinu non-violent civil disobedience struggle against the Oslo Accords. Moshe graduated from Or Etzion yeshiva, served as a captain in an IDF combat unit, and is the author of the books Where There Are No Men and War of Dreams. Moshe and his family live in Karnei Shomron, Israel.

Bolton: Iran May Be Closer To A Bomb Than We Think

A report that Iran is about a year away from having the capability to build a nuclear bomb may be too optimistic, contended John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
“I worry the publicly available information is giving only a very small picture and that Iran is actually even much further along,” Bolton said in a radio interview.
Bolton was on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” on New York’s WABC Radio. The former ambassador was asked about a statement from a former head of UN nuclear inspections claiming Iran is now just a year or so away from having enough enriched uranium to assemble a nuclear bomb.....


Iran Closer to Bomb...

United We Stand: By Moshe Feiglin

If the pictures of last week's destroyed outposts had been of Bedouin villages or illegal houses in the Galilee, the whole country would have been up in arms. Leftist author Amos Oz would have run to build the destroyed homes with his own two hands, the media would have incessantly interviewed the children who were thrown out of their beds in the middle of the night and enraged Arabs would have ignited all the mixed Jewish/Arab towns throughout Israel.

But Jewish children in their pajamas standing in the freezing cold outside their destroyed houses; Torah scrolls crumpled in the mud amidst the ruins of synagogues – none of that is 'news'.

There is no dearth of rivalry within the Left; both personal and ideological. But when they face off against the settlers and the Right, they present a united front. There are no 'extremists' in the Left. You can be funded by foreign governments to directly undermine your country and aid its declared enemies; you can organize violent demonstrations weekly, stoning IDF soldiers, injuring over 700 (!) soldiers and Border Police; you can refuse to serve in the army; you can break the law and riot as much as you want. If you are a leftist, fighting the Left's battle of disintegration and retreat – you are in the consensus; you have a reserved seat at the round tables, in the universities, on television and ironically – even at meetings with the settlers.

On the other hand, if you settle the Land of Israel with dedication, but not exactly according to the ideological nuances of one yeshiva or another – you are alone. On the morning after the destruction, no Amos Oz or other spiritual leaders will be there for you. The rabbi of one sub-group will be afraid to come to encourage and lend legitimacy to the outpost of the other sub-group. And vice versa.

When the home of Nati Ozeri was destroyed along with all the belongings inside and his widow and small orphans were thrown out into the frozen Hebron night, I came with just a few people to help. No settler leader or spiritual guide was there. In my eyes, this is the underlying reason that those thousands who considered themselves firmly ensconced within the consensus and the law suffered the same hell just a few years later.

The fear of supporting the basic rights of the person whom we perceive as more extreme than we are paralyzes us all. One does not have to agree with the controversial book, Torat Hamelech or the 'price-tag' operations in order to stand with the families whose husbands were expelled from their homes by army orders originally reserved for terrorists – and were then charged with spying.

As a resident of Samaria, I feel humiliated by the way we treat ourselves. Is it a surprise that we get the same treatment from the pogromchicks and Israeli society? The way that society relates to the settlers is simply a reflection of how we relate to ourselves. If the heads and rabbis of the settlement movement do not pick the Torah scroll out from the rubble and mud and rebuild Mitzpeh Avichai with their own hands their message is clear: Those people in the outposts are 'extremists', so the abomination that was perpetrated against them is legitimate. Why should the rest of the Israeli public think otherwise?
In the meantime, the evil winds are blowing and every week the militias in black show up in the middle of the night, biting off another house and another family.

When Ehud Barak sent the security forces to destroy Ramat Gilad, I came there to be with the residents of the outpost. Speaking before the large group that had assembled there, my assessment was that Netanyahu would not let it happen. "He has primaries in another month," I said. "He will not campaign for me. But as to the outposts that are not supported by the settler mainstream, Bibi calculates – unfortunately correctly – that he can destroy them now without causing himself any damage. So until January 31st you can all sleep soundly. Nobody will come to destroy your homes." It turns out that Barak had attempted to destroy Ramat Gilad without Netanyahu's knowledge; my assessment was correct.

The pressure on the Prime Minister before the Likud primaries may force him to authorize the law to 'legalize' the outposts before voting day. If that happens, it will turn out ex post facto that the fact that I am running against Netanyahu in the primaries has temporarily saved Migron and Givat Asaf.

But even if that happens, it will be just a temporary respite in the losing battle that the settlements have been waging ever since the Oslo Accords were signed. Today, nobody even remembers that Neveh Dekalim was built by the Labor party and Yitzhar by the Likud. Netanyahu has declared his intention to establish a 'Palestinian' state, every week Jewish families are thrown out of their homes, the only city being built in Judea or Samaria is the Arab Wahabi, and on their way to work, the settlers must drive through international border crossings.

The inability of the leaders of the Right and the settlement movement to give their full backing to the different sub-groups within – and their inability to establish an ideological alternative to the direction in which Zionism is retreating – plays into the hands of the Left and perpetuates the Oslo Accords.

Peace Now did not petition the court against Gush Katif and no legal problems threatened it. The evil winds that threatened Gush Katif are still threatening Ofra and Beit El, Migron and Givat Asaf – with or without the law to legalize the outposts.

LIVE webcast in English - The Likud & The National Agenda - The Great Debate

Sunday Night in Bet Shemesh, Israel (Live Webcast)

January 19, 2012...

This Sunday night, January 22, 2012,  at 8:15 P.M. in Bet Shemesh, Shmuel Sackett, Manhigut Yehudit's International Director will be facing off in a debate of national importance to determine the proper path forward for those in Israel's "National Camp", and by extension, to discuss their vision for the future of the State of Israel. ('National Camp' being defined as the group that wishes for Israel to annex and settle instead of ceding to her enemies the lands liberated by Israel during the War of 1967.)

With the primary election for Chairman of the Likud - between Moshe Feiglin and Benjamin Netanyahu - set for January 31, the tension surrounding this debate is rising as the poll numbers show Mr. Feiglin - recently labeled 'the most important man in Israeli political discourse' by former Knesset speaker Avraham Burg (Labor) - gaining on the incumbent Prime Minister Netanyahu.

Mr. Sackett, who will be representing Mr. Feiglin (of the National Camp), will be facing off against Daniel Tauber, the Executive Director of Likud Anglos, and Emmanuel Navon, who will be a candidate for the Likud's next Knesset slate, in the sole English-only event of the campaign.

The debate will be moderated by Gil Hoffman, chief political analyst of the Jerusalem Post.

The three men will be discussing and debating, among other issues, the following:

-   What is the best path to move Israel's National Camp forward?

-   What is the significance of the January 31 primary election between Mr. Feiglin and Mr. Netanyahu?

-   Considering that Mr. Netanyahu destroys Jewish towns,  freezes Jewish construction, and states repeatedly that he wishes to create an Arab state in the Jewish biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria, how should the National Camp relate to him?

-   Where does the Likud stand on the Land of Israel, and how should the National Camp relate to the Likud?

All are invited to watch a live webcast of the two-hour event on the Moshe Feiglin Campaign website starting at 8:15 P.M. (1:15 P.M. New York time).

The webcast can be seen at the following website:  www.MFLikud.com/webcast/live1.html

The Moshe Feiglin Campaign website is at  www.MFLikud.com

 

The event will be held in Bet Shemesh at the Bet Knesset Nietzsche Menashe, located at Reho Reven 18, Ivat Share.

Americans For a Safe Israel 1751 Second Avenue (91st Street) New York, NY 10128 Tel: 212-828-2424; 800-235-3658; Fax: 212-828-4538 www.afsi.org; afsi@rcn.com Contact: Helen Freedman, Executive Director January 19, 2012 AMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL has consistently opposed the expulsion and destruction by the Israeli government of Jewish homes, synagogues, schools, community centers, and all the components of a community. We protested long and hard against the expulsion from Gush Katif in 2005, from which the former residents are still suffering. Now we see that many of the communities which we have visited on our recent Chizuk missions to Israel are experiencing the same brutal treatment that the Gush Katif communities suffered. We were in Mitzpe Yericho, Givat Assaf and Migron. We saw the desperate efforts of the people to prevent the destruction of their homes, and we saw the brave actions taken by those who rushed to the assistance of the newly homeless. At the same time that we read about IDF medics assisting an ailing Palestinian Arab, displaying humanitarian values above all else, we learn about the incredibly inhumane treatment of Jews by their fellow Jews. How and why is this possible? Please, everyone reading this email, and the many others put out by other organizations, PLEASE take the power that you have as a caring individual and write those emails and make those calls. We cannot sit idly by with folded hands. When the final accounting comes, and our children ask what we did to prevent these abominations, at least we can say we tried. Police Brutally Evict 5 Families from Yissa Beracha Outpost David Lev Police early Thursday morning evicted five families from the new community ("outpost") of Yissa Beracha, a new neighborhood of the town of Mitspe Yericho, located between Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley. Police violently removed the families and beat protesters who had come to demonstrate against the eviction. Nine protesters were injured in the police violence. The operation, for all practical purposes, constituted a classic "invasion" of the neighborhood, with police sealing off the neighborhood for three hours before the eviction, while others blocked off access roads, preventing protesters from reaching the site, and beating them with clubs and sticks when they tried to reach the site. Police said that three officers were injured, after they fell off a roof they had climbed on in order to remove a resident. Three of the protesters sustained injuries to the head, and were taken to Hadassah Ein-Kerem Hospital for treatment. Protesters said that one woman was injured when she was run down by a security vehicle; another protester who was hit on the head by police was refused medical treatment, witnesses said, with police preventing doctors from treating him until the evictions and demolition of the structures in the neighborhood were finished. Protesters said that, as has been the case in recent outpost demolitions, police used Arab contractors who gleefully ripped down the structures, cursing and laughing at the Jews while they did their work. MK Michael Ben-Ari said that "the time has come for the national religious public to understand that the government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is bad for the Jews. The obsessive and ongoing demolition of Jewish homes has reached the levels of the eviction of Jews from their homes in Gush Katif and northern Samaria. Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are persecuting residents, evicting children from their homes, and injuring protesters - and afterwards they wonder why there are 'price tag' actions." Along with the demolition and eviction of five families in the new community of Yissa Beracha, a new neighborhood of the town of Mitspe Yericho, police and border guards also evicted the Slonim family in the Oz Tzion neighborhood of Givat Assaf. Police tore down the building, with police waving guns and rifles at residents during the eviction. Police deny the report

AMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL has consistently opposed the expulsion and
destruction by the Israeli government of Jewish homes, synagogues,
schools, community centers, and all the components of a community. We
protested long and hard against the expulsion from Gush Katif in 2005,
from which the former residents are still suffering.

Now we see that many of the communities which we have visited on our
recent Chizuk missions to Israel are experiencing the same brutal
treatment that the Gush Katif communities suffered. We were in Mitzpe
Yericho, Givat Assaf and Migron.

We saw the desperate efforts of the people to prevent the destruction
of their homes, and we saw the brave actions taken by those who rushed
to the assistance of the newly homeless.

At the same time that we read about IDF medics assisting an ailing
Palestinian Arab, displaying humanitarian values above all else, we
learn about the incredibly inhumane treatment of Jews by their fellow
Jews. How and why is this possible?

Please, everyone reading this email, and the many others put out by
other organizations, PLEASE take the power that you have as a caring
individual and write those emails and make those calls. We cannot sit
idly by with folded hands. When the final accounting comes, and our
children ask what we did to prevent these abominations, at least we
can say we tried.



Police Brutally Evict 5 Families from Yissa Beracha Outpost
David Lev


Police early Thursday morning evicted five families from the new
community ("outpost") of Yissa Beracha, a new neighborhood of the town
of Mitspe Yericho, located between Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley.
Police violently removed the families and beat protesters who had come
to demonstrate against the eviction. Nine protesters were injured in
the police violence.


The operation, for all practical purposes, constituted a classic
"invasion" of the neighborhood, with police sealing off the
neighborhood for three hours before the eviction, while others blocked
off access roads, preventing protesters from reaching the site, and
beating them with clubs and sticks when they tried to reach the site.
Police said that three officers were injured, after they fell off a
roof they had climbed on in order to remove a resident.
Three of the protesters sustained injuries to the head, and were taken
to Hadassah Ein-Kerem Hospital for treatment. Protesters said that one
woman was injured when she was run down by a security vehicle; another
protester who was hit on the head by police was refused medical
treatment, witnesses said, with police preventing doctors from
treating him until the evictions and demolition of the structures in
the neighborhood were finished. Protesters said that, as has been the
case in recent outpost demolitions, police used Arab contractors who
gleefully ripped down the structures, cursing and laughing at the Jews
while they did their work.


MK Michael Ben-Ari said that "the time has come for the national
religious public to understand that the government of Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu is bad for the Jews. The obsessive and ongoing
demolition of Jewish homes has reached the levels of the eviction of
Jews from their homes in Gush Katif and northern Samaria. Netanyahu
and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are persecuting residents, evicting
children from their homes, and injuring protesters - and afterwards
they wonder why there are 'price tag' actions."

Along with the demolition and eviction of five families in the new
community of  Yissa Beracha, a new neighborhood of the town of Mitspe
Yericho, police and border guards also evicted the Slonim family in
the Oz Tzion neighborhood of Givat Assaf. Police tore down the
building, with police waving guns and rifles at residents during the
eviction. Police deny the report



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Contact: Helen Freedman, Executive Director
January 19, 2012

Statement by Ben-Ari - Destruction of Yissa Beracha outpost - town Mitzpe Yericho

Police Brutally Evict 5 Families from Yissa Beracha Outpost

By David Lev

Police early Thursday morning evicted five families from the new community (“outpost”) of Yissa Beracha, a new neighborhood of the town of Mitspe Yericho, located between Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley. Police violently removed the families and beat protesters who had come to demonstrate against the eviction. Nine protesters were injured in the police violence.
The operation, for all practical purposes, constituted a classic “invasion” of the neighborhood, with police sealing off the neighborhood for three hours before the eviction, while others blocked off access roads, preventing protesters from reaching the site, and beating with with clubs and sticks when they tried to reach the site. Police said that three officers were injured, after they fell off a roof they had climbed on in order to remove a resident.
Three of the protesters sustained injuries to the head, and were taken to Hadassah Ein-Kerem Hospital for treatment. Protesters said that one woman was injured when she was run down by a security vehicle; another protester who was hit on the head by police was refused medical treatment, witnesses said, with police preventing doctors from treating him until the evictions and demolition of the structures in the neighborhood were finished. Protesters said that, as has been the case in recent outpost demolitions, police used Arab contractors who gleefully ripped down the structures, cursing and laughing at the Jews while they did their work.
MK Michael Ben-Ari said that “the time has come for the national religious public to understand that the government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is bad for the Jews. The obsessive and ongoing demolition of Jewish homes has reached the levels of the eviction of Jews from their homes in Gush Katif and northern Samaria. Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are persecuting residents, evicting children from their homes, and injuring protesters – and afterwards they wonder why there are 'price tag' actions.”
Along with the demolition and eviction of five families in the new community of  Yissa Beracha, a new neighborhood of the town of Mitspe Yericho, police and border guards also evicted the Slonim family in the Oz Tzion neighborhood of Givat Assaf. Police tore down the building, with police waving guns and rifles at residents during the eviction. Police deny the report

LIkud Primaries Present a Real Choice

The writer draws the distinct line he sees dividing the candidates.

From Dr. Tuvia Brodie

The Likud primary election of January 31, 2012 is not about who will be the next head-of-Likud. This primary is not about a politician. It is not about politics. It is about us. It is about how we see ourselves—and how we define our future: are we a nation that is so afraid of others that we should back-pedal and bow silently before those who hate us? Or, are we a nation on the threshold of our destiny, confident in our faith, our G-d and our right to our land?
This year’s primary is crucial for our future because we are a nation at war. This might be a minority opinion, but 2012-2014 will bring a war (diplomatic or actual or both) that will seek to delegitimize us, destroy us or haul us before a United Nations that seems to believe we have no right to exist.
It is a war against those who would destroy us joining with those who would facilitate that destruction-- a scenario built by our enemies that was actually written into the Bible more than 2,200 years ago.
There is no way to avoid this war. It is reasonable to believe that, given the stature of Likud in Israel, the winner of this month’s primary could well be Israel’s next leader. But because we are at war, no matter who gets selected, we will fight some kind of war.
Even if we elect a leftist on a platform of appeasement and surrender—we will still be at war: the enemy is implacable. Indeed, our history in the Middle East clearly demonstrates that the more Israel offers to surrender, the more aggressive (not peaceful) our enemy becomes. The question voters in Israel will face in the next national election will not be, who will help us avoid war. Rather, the question will be, who will be more steadfast defending us in that war?
On January 31, 2012, Likud has to choose that man: Benjamin Netanyahu or Moshe Feiglin.
Benjamin Netanyahu, while Likud, has chosen to go leftward, not the Likud way. His administration harasses Jews in Judea and Samaria, allows anti-religious secularists in the IDF to pressure and coerce religious soldiers, defends a leftist High Court, and more.  Israel’s left, like the Hellenists of  yore, rejects the Jewish religion and dedicates itself to a desire to become non-Jewish. Its passion to de-Judaize is the passion of the zealot. The left would give everything holy to those who hate us. Jewish values and Jewish survival are non-starters.
And they refuse to prepare for the consequences of their own peace plan: they offer no plan to re-house up to hundreds of thousands of displaced Jews when the new ‘Palestine’ they promote demands to be Judenrein (Jew-free); they have no plan to pay for securing the new (vulnerable) borders they propose; and they offer no explanation to us how we can expect peace when Arab media, politicians and education feed the Arab public a steady stream of Jew-hatred. They don’t care. They appear so tired of their Jewishness they just want to surrender, to get it over with: why else would they have no interest in planning for the consequences of their ‘peace’ with such people? They are too exhausted to care.
While Mr Netanyahu is not an outright leftist, theirs is the message he appears to have embraced. He rejects Likud. Before the nations of the world, he back-pedals, delays and says yes-then-no-then-yes to their demands. By inches, he surrenders. He bows, moves backwards and bows again.
Moshe Feiglin gives Israel an alternative. He will not rush to surrender. He will not appease. He does not fear Israel’s destiny. He will not bow or shuffle backwards. But he will also not be brazen or rash because he understands the Bible, theTanach. He understands Likud’s platform—and he understands Arab hatred.
A July, 2011 survey found that 58 per cent of Israelis call themselves mildly-strongly religious. That is why so many Israelis identify with Moshe Feiglin. He understands Jewish consciousness. He understands Jewish values.
The Jewish religion does not speak of surrender or bowing to the nations; neither does Moshe Feiglin.  Instead, the Jewish religion speaks of the G-d of Israel. So does Moshe Feiglin.  Israelis understand this. They want a leader who reflects their values. They want to see a leader who believes in G-d. They want to see Jewish courage, not Jews bowing and back-pedaling.
Likud voters have a choice: proud Judaism or universal secularism, courage or fear, steadfastness or appeasement. As I see it, the choice between Moshe Feiglin and Benjamin Netanyahu could not be more distinct.

MK Tibi Praises Arab 'Martyrs'

MK Ahmed Tibi uses "Palestinian Martyrs Day" to praise Arab martyrs who committed terror attacks against Israelis.    By Elad Benari

MK Ahmed Tibi (Raam-Taal) praised the Palestinian Authority’s “martyrs” at a ceremony held last week on the occasion of "Palestinian Martyrs Day” and sponsored by PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

The ceremony, which was broadcast on official PA TV, was translated by the Palestinian Media Watch research organization, which presented the translated video on its website.
“In the history of the peoples and their battles, the Palestinian shahid (martyr) is the height of glory,” Tibi said. “There is no higher value than death for the sake of Allah. The martyr is the one who breaks through and with his blood draws the journey to freedom and liberation.”

“The shahid is a symbol of the homeland,” he added. “I want to offer my blessings to the thousands of martyrs in the homeland and in exile, and congratulations to our and your shahids inside the Green Line, those whom the occupier wants to refer to as terrorists while we say that there is nothing higher than those who die for the homeland. That occupier is the real terrorist and in Israel he is considered a hero or a cabinet minister.”
The term “shahid” in Islam is used for a person who died for Allah, and in the PA that term is used to describe the terrorists who committed suicide attacks against Israelis.
Tibi, a former gynecologist and a longtime aide to PLO founder Yasser Arafat, has a long history of statements against the State of Israel, despite the fact that he serves as an elected member of its parliament.

In September, he went to New York to be a part of the Palestinian Authority’s delegation to the United Nations when it presented its unilateral statehood bid.
He also recently proposed an amendment to Israel's Basic Laws that would proscribe Israeli residents in Judea and Samaria from serving on the Supreme Court.

A State Comptroller’s report recently revealed that Tibi’s Raam-Taal party used public taxpayer funding to pay for engraved plaques, which it awarded to six terrorists who took part in the assault on IDF soldiers on board the Mavi Marmara.
On Tuesday, the Knesset's Ethics Committee ruled that Tibi would be distanced from the Knesset plenum and committees for seven days.
The ban is Tibi's punishment for crude remarks he made regarding MK Anastassia Michaeli (Yisrael Beitenu) following the incident in which she intentionally spilled water on MK Raleb Majadle (Labor).

MK Tibi said in a one-minute speech to the plenum last week that MK Michaeli's "plumbing has gotten messed up,” adding that Michaeli "grew up in the manure rows of Yisrael Beitenu" and explaining that there was a logical progression from her so-called "Muezzin bill" that would limit the use of loudspeakers in minarets to the water incident, in which she "ran amok with a glass of water."

This was an excuse for him to play on the Hebrew word for "glass" and the word "amok" – which, uttered together, sound like a particularly vile Arabic curse.