What did YOU do for Israel today?

This is an open letter to American Jews everywhere.  It's time to draw a line in the sand and say you will either spend every waking moment defending Israel or you will make the same mistake of silence the American Jews of the 1920's, 1930's and the 1940's made.

You know, I believed, because my mother believed, that Jews were silent once and the result was catastrophic, but the same mistake will never be repeated.  Events of the last ten years proved her, and therefore me, wrong. 

We here in Israel can continue to write and talk and sermonize to Jews in the US and very other place on the planet, but it is a waste of breath.

Here ladies and gentlemen is the face of our neighbors:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T64JIgs5C6k

Out of the mouth of a 92 year old woman "Palestinians Should Massacre Jews Like We Massacred Them in Hebron".

The 92 year old is happily reminiscing about the 1929 massacre of Jews in Hebron.  For the benefit of the innocent, for those who did not get the memo or read it on facebook: we did not have a country in 1929.  Please learn more about this massacre:

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/hebron29.html 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre

The truth is real simple and you should learn to repeat it to everyone you know:

·         This is our land.

·         There are no 'palestinians'.

·        The Arabs massacred us in Hebron in 1929 when we were only a small minority in our country, before we declared our STATEHOOD in 1948.

·         Since then the Arabs (all our Arab "neighbors") have never stopped denying our right to this land.

·         Since then the Arabs (all our Arab "neighbors") have never stopped threatening to annihilate us.

You know, a wise, wise Rabbi once said "if someone says they are going to kill you, believe them."

·         The Arabs are not interested in this tiny strip of land we call home, this claim is only an excuse to kill us. 

Now, what are YOU going to do?

Glenn Beck Got It Right

As has been the case, many times in the past, Glenn Beck got it right again!  What was and still is obscene is the fact that the Arabs celebrated in Aza!  They gave out candies for crying out loud. 

That's the message!  (Thanks Batsheva for sending me the link!)  Send it out to your friends.  Get the message out there!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjK8M4uxcjM

Thanks Glenn!

So tell me, how many houses is a 3-month old baby's life worth?

Ah, how cheap is Jewish blood?  So now we build houses and neighborhoods in Israel only when we are slaughtered. So tell me the life of the 3-month old baby is worth how many houses? And the life of an 11-year old - how many houses is it worth?


What is our problem? We feel better in the role of the victim than the victor. We feel more comfortable seeing rows of Jewish graves than rows of Jewish soldiers marching and rows of Jews houses with trees and gardens surrounding them.


The long years of exile have changed our DNA. We understand the role of victim. We are supremely comfortable in this role. We even believe it suits us. What's more, victims, especially dead ones make great photo opportunities. Making a shiva call is an even better photo op, especially if you are a politician. Crying to the world when we are harmed is such a good feeling, because it is a feeling we are used to.


Showing strength is scary. Being proud is scary. After over sixty years as an independent country, we are still not comfortable with these feelings, because sixty years is not long enough to change our DNA.


We are so comfortable with death, loss and pain that we enjoy using terms like "painful concessions", when talking about giving up our country. I got news for you, it's only painful if you DO NOT believe this is our country. It is outrageous and obscene if you believe this is our country and we don't have to prove anything to anyone!


Netanyahu told the grieving Fogel family at his Shiva call that "… we are not stupid, we know who we are dealing with…". He was no doubt talking about himself and the terrorists - yimach shmum v'zichrum and in that order. But he was only partly right; we know who are dealing with – an Israeli government that blindly follows US policy. Unfortunately we are stupid; the world, like a child with learning disabilities, needs short, catchy messages repeated again and again and again and again ad nauseam, until the message and the lesson is learned and internalized. We, Israel, the Jews (take your pick) only stand up and scream when something happens and then we brush ourselves off and get on with our lives. This pattern of dealing with our tragedies is both our strength and our weakness.


Just ask yourself this: why is it that we continue to hammer the lessons of the holocaust (I prefer the word 'Shoah') again and again and again TO THE ENTIRE WORLD? [There's even a theory that states that eventually every conversation will contain some kind of mention of the Shoah.] Why are there national and international Shoah Days? Why is the Shoah considered a 'worthy' topic for nearly all Jews to discuss; create and invest in movies, films and mini-series; raise funds and contribute millions to commemorate? Well, why? Because it has to do with dead Jews. While Israel is no longer part of the "consensus", the Shoah is 'our' rallying cry. Why? Because we feel good in the role of the victim.


You know the word consensus comes from the Latin, meaning 'feel together'. Well we Jews would rather FEEL TOGETHER in sadness, than in pride and happiness.


You know we also commemorate the destruction of our two Batei Mikdash every year on Tisha Bi'Av, but there is no longer a consensus surrounding their memories. We can't count how many Jews were murdered by the Babylonians (First Beit Mikdash) and the Romans (Second Beit Mikdash). We can't count the number of children or women massacred. And let's be honest, today the magnitude of the loss of both Batei Mikdash is really only felt and remembered for the most part by Orthodox Jewry and in some gospel songs (remember "By the rivers of Bablyon, we laid down and wept…"?)


And we are comfortable in counting our dead. We count our dead, add up the numbers, divide by the number of maimed and multiply by the number of widows and orphans. When we count our dead we take control of a situation that, until some 60 years ago, was out of our control. So why do we still continue to count?


I guess it's because of the same DNA makeup that allows us to create a mathematical equation from massacred infants and the building of houses.


We are just days away from Purim. For the Fogel and Ben-Yishai families, Purim time will never be the same. Perhaps we can finally take a lesson from Megilat Esther and unite as one people, trusting only ourselves to take our own destiny in our hands and change this time of grief and sorrow to happiness and joy.

Don't forget what happened TEN years ago

With so much going on in our country, it's easy to forget the outrages we have survived throughout the years.  This happended TEN years ago, click the link and please don't forget this lesson of how the international press treats Israelis.

http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/new/EXCLUSIVE_VIDEO_Dramatic_Reunion_Ten_Years_After_The_Photo_That_Started_It_All.asp

The real truth about Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders)

This was probably my last frontier of innocence: Doctors without Borders. Now read about the "real truth about Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders), written by George Greenberg of Melbourne Australia who published this in our FiveTowns list and asked that it be disseminated.

If you think Médecins Sans Frontières are doing a wonderful job, please read this.

The Chief Operational Officer

Médecins Sans Frontières

Sent to the Australian Office and New York Office

Subject: Dismay

Dear Sir/Madam

When my daughter wed in July 2006, in lieu of gifts she asked for donations to be made to Doctors without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières as our family had always supported the Group.

Well, I have a regret. I've just read a presentation by Alan Dershowitz

http://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/dershowitz/entry/moonbats_against_israel_posted_by

which you too should read and think about.

"Doctors Without Borders erected borders when it comes to Israeli doctors who flew to the Congo to treat 50 local villagers who had been severely burned.

The Israeli volunteers worked around the clock, treated the burn victims and trained local doctors to perform skin grafts, and donated tons of medical equipment.

But Doctors Without Borders refused to work with the Israeli medics and para medics and treated them "as though we were occupiers." - quoted one Israeli medic.

Dr. Marie Pierre Allie, President of the French branch of the organization, said that Israel's self defense actions in Gaza were actually worse than the Darfur genocide in the Sudan.

Only a blind moonbat could even make such a comparison! MSF has an apparent problem with one democratic Jewish State but is quite at ease with the existence and actions of 56 dysfunctional & corrupt Islamic states.

As one critic has put it well, "These are Doctors With Borders - but without scruples."

Google "Doctors without Borders Israel" and you will get more confirmation of the reactions around the world.

My family will no longer donate to Doctors without Borders until this cynical, hateful and bitter culture towards Israel - which obviously emanates from the top, ceases.



I shall disseminate this email as widely as I can and shall ask recipients to forward it on also.

George Greenberg

Melbourne Australia



cc-Dr Hilton Immerman OAM

Chief Executive Officer

The Shalom Institute and Shalom College

University of NSW Sydney NSW 2052 Australia

The Mondial and Gush Katif

I thought I taught my husband well. No sports. No sports shows. No discussing sports. And for over 30 years it worked and then something horrible happened. The Mondial or as I believe it is called in the rest of the world: the World Cup. Maybe someone should explain to me why we don’t use the same term as the rest of the world, but I guess I just answered my own question.


You see I believe men's sports is an excuse for men to spit on the ground, rub dirt on their clothes, run amok, curse, kiss and hug each other and well, basically act like little boys again. I also believe that nice Jewish boys have better things to do with their time.


But here I am, my long suffering husband got the 'modial bug'. So during the mondial's six month period (I know the ,modial is only - well however long it really is - it just seems like six months) I have, on occasion, sat in the same room with my husband and (sort of)watched the little boys, I mean, the teams run around some kind of field, intently following a ball and trying to kick and hit it and, at the same time, listen to some other screaming guys give a blow-by-blow account of the efforts of said teams as they run around after each other or is it after the ball?


It is interesting (only to me) that they seem to fall down a lot, hold various parts of their anatomy and mouth out cries of pain. You can't really hear the yells of pain because of all that bloody blowing of horns, but I guess if you've heard one kid fall down and cry, you've heard them all.


Now here is the sad part. My husband, I am embarrassed to say this, is actually rooting for one of the teams. Don't be cute enough to ask me which team, do you honestly think I know which teams are playing and against whom? I had enough of a scare when I found out that there were also semi-final and final games. For crying out loud, if you want to decide which team won toss a coin or just fight to the death. Now that would be interesting.


In any case, I did find one thing very interesting: the color choices of their uniforms. I would not even insult my own intelligence and try to remember what team wore what colors. Firstly I do not know what teams are playing and secondly I would like to utilize the few brain cells I have left for more important tasks like remembering where I left the house keys. I did enjoy imaging what would happen if an entire teams' uniforms got ruined in the laundry and they walked out onto the field in that muddy pink-gray color white underwear eventually turns.


But then it happened. Right there in front of the whole world, a whole team in orange uniforms! And I thought, isn’t that nice after five years, the world is once again being reminded of Gush Katif with ORANGE shirts everywhere. I saw, what seemed like, hundreds of supporters wearing everything ORANGE, including face paint. And as far as I am concerned it's our orange and it's about Gush Katif. The gerush is a sad chapter, one of so many other sad chapters in the long ancient-modern history of our country. With the Nine Days upon us and Tisha B'Av just around the corner, we can only hope and pray that our fasting and praying brings us the redemption we don't reserve but are desperate for.


וכל המתאבל על ירושלים זוכה ורואה בשמחתה


May the mourners of Jerusalem be deserving and see Her rebuilt.

Reminder of Why Tisha B'Av

Five national tragedies occurred:
• During the time of Moshe, the sin of the ten spies who spread lies about the Land of Israel to the generation of Jews who just witnessed the exodus, creating a sense of fear in their hearts that would eventually prevent them from entering the Land.
• The First Temple was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar (Babylonians). 100,000 Jews were slaughtered and millions more exiled.
• The Second Temple was destroyed by Titus (Romans). Around two million Jews died, and another one million were exiled.
• The Bar Kochba revolt was crushed by Roman Emperor Hadrian. The city of Betar (last Jewish strong hold against the Romans) was destroyed. Over 100,000 Jews were slaughtered.
• The Temple area and its surroundings were plowed under by the Romans and Jerusalem was rebuilt as a pagan city (named Aelia Capitolina) and Jews were forbidden to enter the city.

Other tragedies occurred on Tisha B'Av including:

• The Spanish Inquisition; with the expulsion of Jews from Spain on Tisha B'Av in 1492.
• On the eve of Tisha B'Av 1942, the mass deportation began of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka.

I WANT TO BE AN ACTIVIST AND GET AWAY WITH MURDER (at least larceny)

I subscribe to Dry Bones and on the menu for today was a Golden Oldie: Crime Conference 1975. I have to admit I was a bit miffed that there was yet again another Golden Oldie; I was looking forward to some new material.


But as with anything connected to the Jews, there is 'nothing new under the sun': Same old anti-Semitism in the same old double-standard the world is so good at providing. Hey, why work hard at inventing new topics for anti-Semitism, when the old stuff has worked well for years? Just ask Suha Arafat and our friend in the White House, Hilary Clinton (for the innocent I am talking about how Suha claimed we poisoned the wells in Aza and that was before she ran off to France or wherever she is hiding out now with the millions in aid her husband stole).

In any case, the Golden Oldie has two links. For today's tidbit I bring you the story of – and I quote from the Jerusalem Post of all places: "A group of activists who broke into an arms factory near Brighton last year and caused damage costing around £180,000 ($275,000) were found not guilty last week of causing criminal damage."  [The BOLD is mine]


You can find the whole revolting article in this link:
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=180316


I'm sure the BBC had a field day with this little item.