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PrintA blog dedicated to investigating events, as they occur in Judea and Samaria, and as they relate to the global powers and/or to the Israeli government, public figures ,etc. It is dedicated to uncovering the truth behind the headlines; and in so doing, it strives to do its part in saving Judea and Samaria, and by extension, all of Israel ,from utter destruction at the hands of its many external and internal enemies.

PrintDS, it's hard to shock me any more. "Shock" indicates a certain amount of surprise and I fairly well informed and not often surprised. This shocks me. Such a thing never even crossed my mind.
And Shmuel said:
DS,We seem to have a state that has erupted into something that has there own agenda. Much of the public views these actions as a protection of the themselves due to the constant rhetoric given them by the media.We had an incident here in Twin Falls, Idaho that has been on my mind for the last week with the police tazing the owner of a bar. The police come in with aggression and wonder why they get hit and in this case got locked out (obstructing justice). Anymore, assault is defined as, jerking your arm away from the officer. All too much of this reeks with the tone of control and all that seems to get notoriety is that, "we can trust the police".Just a note and my prayers are with Israel and the people.Shalom markI. The increasingly harsh, dictatorial attitudes of our local and state police forces toward the average American citizen was fully demonstrated this week.
An alert citizenry can see signs of an approaching dictatorship -- this paradigm shift in police attitudes toward the citizens they are supposed to serve is one of those signs.
NEWS BRIEF: "Cops Tase Barely Conscious Boy With Broken Back 19 Times For 'Non-Compliance' ", Prison Planet, July 29, 2008
"You couldn't make it up if you tried. Police in Ozark, Missouri repeatedly tased a critically injured sixteen year old boy after he 'refused to comply with the officers'. The cops were called to investigate reports of a boy walking along a busy overpass, but when they got there they found young Mace Hutchinson had fallen 30 ft to the ground below, breaking his back and and foot in the process. When he did not co-operate with the cops they pulled out their stun guns and fired them into his body, shocking him up to nineteen times with 50,000 volts."
There is only one word which can describe the attitude which produces such a monstrous act as police shocking a boy with a ruthless taser who has been immobilized with a broken back -- Sadistic!
Of course, this boy could not "comply" with the officer's demands because his back was broken! But, on the other hand, I bet he wasn't "resisting" them either!
Let us return to this story for more information.
"The idea that a boy with a broken back would need to be 'subdued' by a team of cops is not patently ludicrous but also smacks of a desperate attempt to cover up the true events in this case. This is a perfect example of how it has become the norm for cops to react with extreme physical force towards anyone who acts out of the ordinary in any way whatsoever."
Why would these officers hold such an awfully sadistic view of an average American boy? In the last four years of the Bill Clinton Administration, Cutting Edge began to warn that the policy toward state and local governments had changed by directives from the Oval Office. The Federal Government was slowly, but surely, "Federalizing" the police departments of state and local governments.
The Feds began pouring in military equipment, special uniforms for SWAT teams, and of course, specialized training. This training is most often more brutal than anything state and local policemen have ever seen, because it is patterned after military special forces training.
But, in the 12 years since this program developed, the Feds have carefully recruited men who fit a certain type of mental and emotional profile, the kind of men who can be sadistic and brutal to the very American citizen he is supposed to be protecting.
In the planned dictatorship, such brutality on the part of the police forces will be a requirement, as the Federal Government plans to dissolve our precious government, thereby eliminating the liberties and legal protections which our Constitution has always provided. This action will stimulate a reaction on the part of many citizens who will fight to preserve their freedoms.
Brutal measures are being counted upon by Federal authorities to keep this resistance under control. Therefore, the very fact that we are increasingly seeing this type of brutality on the part of our local and state police forces is a very sure sign that the planned dictatorship is closer than most of us would like to admit!
The next time you are stopped by a local or state trooper -- for whatever reason -- be very careful what you say and what you do. The attitude of the policeman facing you may not be the helpful attitude you are used to; in fact, if you say much of anything to him, you may find yourself on the way to jail, as the cop may be using a police-state law granted him by Patriot Acts One or Two, or by any of the hundreds of laws passed to support the Patriot Acts.
Very few American citizens are aware of the danger we are in, right now.
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PrintI've received numerous comments about BHMO's "private note to the Lord" at the Western Wall.
This appears to be the "last word" on the matter from a reputable Middle East News source.
PLEASE FORWARD to those who admire BHMO's phoney "humble sincerity."
(I wonder whether the fawning, pro-Obama, American Press will dare print this?) A.M.
IRIS.Org.Il -- 7/29/08
OBAMA'S "PRIVATE" NOTE to GODWAS ACTUALLY A MEDIA STUNT!On Sunday I detailed to one friend and newspapercolumnist how I was nearly certain that the private,humble, pious note of Barack Obama to God was a cynicalpublicity stunt. I didn't publish it here because I,too, am guilty of trying to appear "moderate" andmaintain my credibility. I also thought that furtherpublicizing the story would be counterproductive, byrepeating the chillul Hashem [blasphemous defamation]
that a Jewish student and an Israeli newspaper allegedlyviolated Obama's sacred privacy.My reasoning was simple: who leaves a private note toGod trailed by a phalanx of people, on King David Hotelstationery? That makes it identifiable as genuinely histo anyone skeptical of the note's authenticity.Here is the official statement to that effect by thenewspaper, Maariv:Obama's note was published in Maariv and otherinternational publications following his (Obama's)authorization to make the content of the note public.Obama submitted a copy of the note to media outletswhen he left his hotel in Jerusalem.What is despicable is that Obama allowed a "yeshivastudent" and an Israeli newspaper to be painted asvillains for days in the international media ratherthan admitting that he himself encouraged itspublication.For months there have been credible stories of howObama has thrown a parade of people close to him underthe bus, including his own grandmother ("a typicalwhite person" with fear of blacks).Now we see that Obama can't even have talk to Godwithout using Him for a publicity stunt.Here is the article about the incident prior to theconcrete confirmation from Maariv:What initially seemed to be a journalistic scoop ofdubious moral propriety now seems to be a case of anIsraeli paper being played by the Barack Obamacampaign. Maariv, the second most popular newspaperin Israel, was roundly criticized for publishing thenote Obama left in the Kotel. But now a Maarivspokesperson says that publication of the note waspre-approved for international publication by theObama campaign, leading to the conclusion that the"private" prayer was intentionally leaked for publicconsumption...If the Maariv statement about pre-approval ofpublication of the note is true, it would mean thatthe Obama campaign had managed the event brilliantly,if deceptively, getting the double benefit ofappearing to be victimized by the invasive Israelipress and prayer-thieving Jew while at the same timeleaking out his humble Christian plea to the Lord.Already by the weekend, a (relatively) slick videoappeared on YouTube that blended Obama's Western Wallprayer with various church scenes, crosses aplenty,a dove of peace, and a soundtrack based on AmazingGrace.The video closes with a "vote" button and aninvitation to visit the official campaign website.Revelation of this latest Obama collaboration withthe media might detract a bit from the perceivedsincerity of the prayer and strike some as anespecially cynical use of the Kotel [Western Wall]
and an obstensibly private prayer to the Deity as acampaign prop.Remember, the complete stories and much more can befound by visiting the IRIS blog at:
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(IsraelNN.com) President Shimon Peres, following Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Vice Prime Minister Chaim Ramon, has become the latest mainstream politician to intimate that Jerusalem must be divided.
Peres paid a condolence call this morning (Tuesday) to the family of David Shriki, a policeman who died of wounds he suffered in a Palestinian terrorist attack in Jerusalem earlier this month. Shriki, 20, lived with his family in Rishon LeTzion.
Peres said that there must be a separation between the Arabs of Jerusalem and the Jews, and that it must be in the form of a wall. Peres emphasized that the problem is also one of education. He said that Arab doctors are a common sight in Israel, yet Jews are not afraid to go under their knife. "This shows," Voice of Israel reported that Peres said, "that when we reach a certain level of education, the relations between the two sides change."
Teacher and Lawyer Murdered 41 Israelis Between Them
President Peres did not mention the suicide-slaughter of 21 Israelis aboard a #2 bus from the Western Wall in August 2003, which was perpetrated by a Moslem teacher and religious leader from Hevron. Nor did he mention the massacre of 20 Jews two months later in the Maxim Restaurant in Haifa commited by a female terrorist lawyer.
"Jerusalem has become a security problem of late," Peres said. "We have to make both a wall and a bridge in Jerusalem. We have to ensure separation and also let them live differently, otherwise it will be like a pressure cooker that is liable to explode. Without offering a carrot, there is no value to using a stick; sticks alone cannot educate. In the meanwhile, they are fortifying themselves, and Hamas is taking over the street, instilling fear on the Arab street in Jerusalem. It is not simple to solve this problem, and it can take time to find the right solution."
Olmert Sees Separation as the Way to Agreement With Fatah
Prime Minister Olmert told a Knesset committee the day before that living with such a large number of Arabs in the capital means more terrorist attacks - implying that the reduction of terrorism is dependent upon removing them from the city's borders. "Whoever thinks we can live with 270,000 Arabs in Jerusalem must take into account that there will be more bulldozers, more tractors, and more cars carrying out attacks," the Prime Minister said.
On Sunday of this week, Olmert's friend Vice Premier Chaim Ramon called for the detaching of eastern Jerusalem neighborhoods such as Tzur Baher and Jabel Mukaber - homes to the two tractor/bulldozer terrorists - from Jewish Jerusalem.
Arab construction in Jerusalem flourished under Olmert's tenure as Mayor of Jerusalem, charges WorldNetDaily's Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein. He writes that the police and the Jerusalem municipality generally hesitated to act against illegal Arab construction, and thus left a vacuum into which the PA's Fatah stepped (Peres said it was Hamas that reigns in Jerusalem). Given Olmert's desire to conclude a peace agreement as quickly as possible with Fatah, which demands parts of Jerusalem as its own, Klein charges that the recent attacks in Jerusalem serve Olmert's purposes in encouraging a public sense that Jerusalem must be divided.
"Things are reversible," Klein concludes. "Israeli forces can go into troubled eastern Jerusalem hotspots and wipe out the terrorist infrastructure there if they so desired. Israel can allow Jews to build communities in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhoods that were purchased for that very purpose. Jerusalem does not need to be divided."
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(IsraelNN.com) Some 200 youths and adults on a week-long "Land of Hilltops Trek" were attacked by Arabs with clubs and rocks. The police arrested Jews, including one who fired in the air.
The trek, which began on Sunday, is being led by veteran Yesha (Judea and Samaria) settlement pioneer Daniella Weiss, former Mayor of Kedumim. She told Arutz-7 what happened:
"This is the third day of our beautiful march through the hilltops of the Land of Israel, which we began in Sa-Nur [one of four Jewish communities in Samaria that were destroyed in Ariel Sharon's Disengagement plan - ed.], and are planning to end up in Asa'el in southern Judea. We have already been to Shvut Ami [adjacent to Kedumim], Kol Tzion near Adei Ad [just outside Shilo], and we are now at Maoz Esther, near Kokhav HaShachar."The plan is to continue to Migron, then Shaar HaMizrach (Gateway to the East) between Jerusalem and Maaleh Adumim, and then we will sleep in Shdemah (south-eastern Jerusalem, near Har Homa), and then to Maaleh Halhoul and Asa'el. Each of this places has important significance in terms of Jewish presence in the area.
Click here for map of Judea and Samaria, about 1/6 of the way down the page.
"Everything was going very well, until we arrived in Maoz Esther. A bunch of Arabs swooped down upon us with rocks and clubs, and three of our people were injured; they have just been evacuated by ambulance. At one point, one of our escorts tried to protect one of our boys, and he shot in the air. Right then, something amazing happened:
"From behind a little hill suddenly emerged some cars and policemen wearing civilian clothes, but with police hats - and they arrested the one who shot in the air, as well as some of our other escorts who were carrying weapons!
"Apparently, the police were waiting and watching the whole time, doing nothing until our boy shot in the air. They want to leave us without weapons, and thus cause us to call off our entire trek, because they see - and want to discourage - the wonderful and pioneering spirit that we bring."
"But we will of course not stop, though we are now trying to figure out the best course of action. I can tell you that there will be some sharp measures and protests against the security forces."
Other participants accused the police of outright cooperation with the Arabs in their ambush of the Jews.
When told of a report that two Arabs were also arrested, Daniella seemed surprised and skeptical. "We saw no such thing," she said.
MK Eldad: Police State in Service of Olmert Gov't
MK Prof. Aryeh Eldad (National Union) said in response, "This is just another step in the police agreeing to become a 'political police' in the service of the Olmert government."%ad%
Eldad noted the decisions this week to place three Shomron Jews under house arrest and restrict Jewish entry to certain areas of Samaria. "If the security forces do not revert immediately to protecting Jews instead of fighting against them alongside the Arabs, a catastrophe can be expected - and the responsibility will lie squarely with the Defense Minister [Ehud Barak] and the Public Security Minister [Avi Dichter]."
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(IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned Monday that the Israeli public must be prepared for more bulldozer attacks in Jerusalem.
"Whoever thinks the basic pattern of life in Jerusalem will continue as it is, with 270,000 Arabs living in Jerusalem, must take into account that there will be more bulldozers, trucks and private vehicles. There is no way to prevent such acts of terror. We must consider dealing with this issue in the future," said the PM in a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Committee, suggesting his support for the division of Jerusalem.
In two separate incidents in July, two Arab laborers working in the Jerusalem Municipality rolled their construction vehicles over cars and pedestrians, killing three and injuring dozens.
PrintThis is the inevitable result of a fat and complacent Jewish community that has fallen in love with their place of exile.G-D wants us to return to our homeland when the time is ripe, so he cranks up anti-Semitism when we become too assimilated.
Dear Jack,This reads terrifyingly all too much like a reprise of mid-1930's Germany.T.-
(IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Ehud Olmert maintained Monday that retaining Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel would lead to more terrorism. "Whoever thinks it is possible to live with 270,000 Arabs in Jerusalem must take into account that there will be more bulldozers, more tractors, and more cars carrying out attacks," he said.
Three eastern Jerusalem Arabs carried out terrorist attacks in the capital this year; two of them used a bulldozer and a tractor.
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(IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Ehud Olmert maintained Monday that retaining Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel would lead to more terrorism. "Whoever thinks it is possible to live with 270,000 Arabs in Jerusalem must take into account that there will be more bulldozers, more tractors, and more cars carrying out attacks," he said.
Three eastern Jerusalem Arabs carried out terrorist attacks in the capital this year; two of them used a bulldozer and a tractor.
PrintIn probing those matters we begin to understand that the Nation of Islam has been a critical component of Barack Obama's base of support. And, I am told, Louis Farrakhan has been careful to use Tony Rezko as the intermediary in his relationship with Barack. This is not guilt by association, this is guilt because of actual relationship. Farrakhan, Wright, and Pfleger are each on tape in various settings spewing the most vile racist garbage in the guise of preaching. Barack Obama, up to this point, has tried to pretend he had no idea that these men had these thoughts or said these things.
NONSENSE!! He knew and he knows. And the gig will be up when the Michelle tape hits the airwaves. If Republicans have their way the tape will remain on ice until October. But when it comes out, Barack will be permanently branded with the Nation of Islam. That's not a winning platform in November. And Barack's bundlers understand this threat. I also have learned some major financial backers are asking the Barack team about the tape and are being stonewalled. It is a wild card in the political campaign that has not yet played out.
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And now, listen to Obama's "team" talk when "whitey" ain't around! (Only about 3 minutes!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H11x6bMu4Y&eurl=http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/
Then read what Obama Hussein Muhammad Obama says in his own words!
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Obama's Writings - Please forward
I wouldn't recommend purchasing his books, but check them out from the public library and verifying the quotes. This is a dangerous individual who has not been truthful with very much he has uttered in public. Note particularly the last quote!
This guy wants to be our President and control our government. Pay close attention to the last comment!! They seem more appropriate for the president of a black muslim country! Don't you agree?
Below are a few lines from Obama's books in his own words:
From Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.'
From Dreams of My Father: 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.'
From Dreams of My Father: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'
From Dreams of My Father: ; 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'
From Dreams of My Father: 'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, Dubois and Mandela.' [If you don't know them, it's IMPERATIVE that you learn about his "heroes!"]
From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'
[I'm sure that he can rationalize this statement many times over, in many ways, BUT it means just what it says - ESPECIALLY WITH REGARD TO ISRAEL!]

(IsraelNN.com) Southern Hevron Hills Regional Director Tzviki Bar-Chai has warned area residents to keep their distance form leftists and anarchists who increasingly have incited violence. A security report Monday morning stated that extreme left-wing groups have provoked Jewish residents to defend themselves against violence and then face charges of brutality.
Leftists and Arabs earlier this month torched the fields of the hilltop community of Asa-el. The fire reached several feet from one of the homes, and residents caught and beat the arsonist. Leftists complained to police, who arrested all of the men in the community but did not charge the man who set the fire. The residents still are in administrative detention leaving their wives and children alone and unable to travel to work.
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(IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Ehud Olmert maintained Monday that retaining Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel would lead to more terrorism. "Whoever thinks it is possible to live with 270,000 Arabs in Jerusalem must take into account that there will be more bulldozers, more tractors, and more cars carrying out attacks," he said.
Three eastern Jerusalem Arabs carried out terrorist attacks in the capital this year; two of them used a bulldozer and a tractor.
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(IsraelNN.com) Vice Prime Minister Chaim Ramon said in Sunday's cabinet meeting that Israel should "part" with the eastern Jerusalem neighborhoods of Jabel Mukaber and Tzur Baher "which never were Jerusalem and which endanger the existence of the Israeli capital as a Jewish and Zionist city."
Ramon made his comments in the context of a discussion of the intent to demolish the tractor terrorists' homes.
"Whoever thinks the problem of terror in Jerusalem is a limited one and that destroying this house or another will help is planting his head in the sand," he added.

(IsraelNN.com) MK Aryeh Eldad (NU/NRP) blasted Vice Prime Minister Chaim Ramon for suggesting the division of Jerusalem Sunday. "He who was involved in criminal actions, failed as a member of the government during the Lebanon War and failed in implementing his commitments to attack Gaza in full force, continues to give Israel suicidal advice," Eldad said.
After putting up an NIS 1 billion separation fence around Jerusalem, Ramon decided that it is time to divide the city," Eldad added.
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(IsraelNN.com) Jews who are not residents of Samaria are not allowed to enter the area as of Sunday, according to an order issued by the new Shomeron Brigade Commander, Col. Itzik Bar.
Land of Israel pioneers said the new order was "an arbitrary and illegal order" and called it "apartheid against Jews."
The order reads: "No person shall pass the roadblock unless he has permission from me or from someone whom I have authorized. This is required for security purposes and for maintaining public order." The Jinsafoot roadblock was closed off Sunday morning and the Tapuach roadblock was closed in the same way in the afternoon.
PrintABC News: Obama Won't Answer Holocaust Question
By Debbie Schlussel July 24, 2008
<http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/07/abc_news_jake_t.html>
On the heels of John McCain's strong statement to Israel and the Jews that he would "not allow a second Holocaust" to happen, Barack Hussein Obama was asked whether he'd prevent a second Holocaust by reporters during his trip to Israel.
The setting for the question is notable. It was just before he made a photo op visit to "Yad VaShem," the Holocaust museum in Israel.
What is also notable was Obama's "response" and how it was "covered" by the Mainstream media. While the Wall Street Journal's Jay Solomon and Cam Simpson noted the question, they did not note the response. Why not?
Well, ABC News' Jake Tapper did, and it's telling and frightening (thanks to my friends Sean and Frank at WCBM for the tip):


Upon arrival at Yad Vashem, Obama was greeted by Avner Shalev, chairman of Yad Vashem.An Israeli journalist called out to Obama: "Can you ensure that there will be no second Holocaust?"
Obama walked into the museum's main building without responding. . . .
In the "Hall of Remembrance," Obama put on a white yarmulke, lit the "eternal flame" and placed a white chrysanthemum wreath on a stone slab.
Obama then went to the museum's Janusz Korczak Plaza, where he signed the guest book.
Jake Tapper goes on to quote Obama's BS speech about how terrible he feels about the Holocaust. Blah, blah, blah. Then, this:
Once again an Israeli journalist asked the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee how he'd help prevent a second Holocaust. "Senator can you assure Israel that there will be no second Holocaust despite Iran's threat to wipe us off the map?" he asked.Obama demurred, saying that it wasn't appropriate to answer the question there.
"This is Yad Vashem!" the journalist responded.
Obama said he would answer the question at a later press availability.
And, of course, Obama never answered the question.
Disgusting. The question is a no-brainer. If you don't have an automatic, "I will assure that there won't be a second Holocaust," response, then you don't deserve to occupy a square foot of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
John McCain initiated the conversation about a second Holocaust, brining it up himself and saying he'll assure it won't happen. Barack Obama had to be asked, and he still couldn't bring himself to answer.
G-d help us.
Hey, Barack Obama, don't put on your phony white satin yarmulke again. Sadly, we know what's inside the head it covers.
-- Allan
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(IsraelNN.com) A group calling itself the Jewish Internet Defense Force (JIDF) hacked into a Facebook group called, "Israel" is not a country!... ... Delist it from Facebook as a country!" early Sunday morning, erasing thousands of members' names from the site. The JIDF was founded by an American Jew in response to a terrorist attack that took the lives of eight young yeshiva students in Jerusalem earlier this year.
"This is a major victory against Jew haters," proclaimed a JIDF source who spoke on condition of anonymity. The source said the group "goes after Jew-hating internet sites." More than 4,000 names were deleted from the anti-Semitic "Israel is not a country!" group's database by the hackers.
A JIDF statement posted on the hacked site announced, "This was one of the most vile, most antisemitic, most pro-Jihad and most disgusting, and most importantly, most ACTIVE hate groups on the internet. It actively promoted hatred, violence, murder, and genocide. Despite tens of thousands of complaints, Facebook wouldn't remove it, as they claimed that this incitement to murder was "legitimate political discourse" - Facebook's negligence and abdication of responsibility gave us no option but to take matters in our own hands....."
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(IsraelNN.com) Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Friday that "in the past few days we are again witnessing an attack upon the law enforcement authorities."
"I want to warn all of us that the prosecution, the police and the courts are vital systems for any democracy and our supreme responsibility is to preserve their independence and freedom of action," Barak told a gathering of female Labor activists.
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YOU…are the enemy!!!
Every American citizen will awaken today to the news that their governments 'terrorist' list has now grown to include
1 million names…and most of them are Americans!These Americans will also awaken to the news that more of their
banks are failing as depositors rush to withdraw their money and that gasoline prices in their country have hit a new record high.The government-corporate cabals aligned against YOU are opposed to you having this information as it threatens their power to enslave you…and even as these very words are being written, they are more determined than ever to make sure that when all is 'said and done' you will be nothing more than a penniless subject with no power at all to make the choices you now are able to make.
Never forget the words of George Orwell,
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In the latest of a series of violent incidents in the West Bank Thursday, a settler pulled out a knife and held it to a soldier's neck during violent clashes in the Gilad Farm illegal outpost, the IDF said.
A previous clash between security forces and settlers at Yitzhar.
Photo: AP [file]
The army said that the setter then grabbed the soldier's helmet and ran away. The soldier was unharmed.
The settlers denied a knife was held up to the soldier and said that although the soldier's helmet was taken, it was later returned to him.
In addition, police received a report of 10 Gilad Farm olive trees belonging to Palestinians being torched. Security forces dispatched to the scene reported seeing a group of masked men fleeing the area.
A chain reaction of disturbances and riots was set off by the evacuation of a bus being used by settlers in the unauthorized outpost of Adey-Ad, in Samaria. At one point, a soldier's gun was snatched by a settler who used it to fire in the air, Judea and Samaria police said.
On Thursday morning, security forces arrived at Adey-Ad to evacuate the bus. The clearance operation passed off without incident, said Danny Poleg, spokesman for Judea and Samaria Police.
Afterwards, however, police said they suspect settlers from Yitzhar who had manned the bus either split up into a number of groups or moved as one group from one location to another, sparking a series of disturbances wherever they went.
Around 20 settlers arrived at Shiloh junction and began burning tires and causing a disturbance. The settlers fled the scene after police forces arrived. Officers launched a search in the area.
At Yitzhar junction, the settlers also threw rocks, damaging a car driven by an Israeli.
Police received complaints of stones being thrown inside the nearby Palestinian village of Burin. Security forces carried out a sweep of the area there too, but did not report making any arrests.
Later, an Israeli driver pulled over his vehicle near an IDF jeep after being targeted by Palestinian stone throwers.
The driver reportedly got out of his car, and snatched a gun from a soldier standing nearby, firing a number of rounds in the air in order to deter the stone throwers. A second Israeli driver also fired in the air with his personal firearm. There were no casualties or damage to property reported during that incident and the two drivers were detained by police for questioning. Later they were released when police accepted that they acted out of self defense.
Thanks, Hazel, for this great and enlightening piece.
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this is from my dad (JS)...From a friend of a friend of this soldier...hard to believe, but this is the person the democrats and the mainstream media are swooning over-- JSHello everyone,
As you know I am not a very political person. I just wanted to pass along that Senator Obama came to Bagram Afghanistan for about an hour on his visit to "The War Zone". I wanted to share with you what happened. He got off the plane and got into a bullet proof vehicle, got to the area to meet with the Major General (2 Star) who is the commander here at Bagram. As the Soldiers where lined up to shake his hand he blew them off and didn't say a word as he went into the conference room to meet the General. As he finished, the vehicles took him to the ClamShell (pretty much a big top tent that military personnel can play basketball or work out in with weights) so he could take his publicity pictures playing basketball. He again shunned the opportunity to talk to Soldiers to thank them for their service. So really he was just here to make a showing for the American's back home that he is their candidate for President. I think that if you are going to make an effort to come all the way over here you would thank those that are providing the freedom that they are providing for you. I swear we got more thanks from the NBA Basketball Players or the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders than from one of the Senators, who wants to be the President of the United States. I just don't understand how anyone would want him to be our Commander-and-Chief. It was almost that he was scared to be around those that provide the freedom for him and our great country.
If this is blunt and to the point I am sorry but I wanted you all to know what kind of caliber of person he really is. What you see in the news is all fake.
In service,
CPT Jeffrey S. Porter
Battle Captain
TF Wasatch
American Soldier
"Dr. Hatter's report "did not explain how Israel taught the rats to tell the difference between Old City Arabs and Jews, so that they only chase away Arabs."No doubt we use the same techniques that kept us from getting the Plague when we poisoned the wells back in the 14th Century. It's amazing how people never seem to be embarrassed to spread such stupidities or to believe them. Their hatred overpowers their brains.Jack
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(IsraelNN.com) PA-Fatah newspapers have reported that Israel has developed a rat with supernatural powers, and is setting it loose among the Arab population in eastern Jerusalem in order to drive the Arabs away. According to Palestinian Media Watch, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida and Al-Ayam informed their readers that the rats are let loose by "settlers" who bring them to the Old City in large cages and release them in order to "make the Arabs' life hell and make them leave."
The accounts credit a Dr. Hassan Hatter with discovering the supposed plot and describe the rats as highly aggressive, abnormally large and unafraid of cats. The female "gives birth to 140 rats a year – four times the average in nature."
Dr. Hatter's report "did not explain how Israel taught the rats to tell the difference between Old City Arabs and Jews, so that they only chase way Arabs."
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(IsraelNN.com) Following Tuesday's bulldozer attack, the screening of prospective Arab construction workers will be intensified. Maj.-Gen. Aharon Franco, head of the Jerusalem Police district, ordered the screening, along with inspection of construction sites.
Franco also ordered an increase in police action against what he called "extreme right-wing activists" in eastern Jerusalem. No further clarification of this order or the reasons for it were available.
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(IsraelNN.com) Yuval Diskin, chief of Shin Bet (Israel's General Security agency), warned of the likelihood of another bulldozer attack three hours before the latest terror attack on Tuesday.
Diskin said in a meeting Tuesday morning that a repeat of the July 2 attack could be in the works as another Jerusalem Arab may try to imitate the earlier terrorist act, which claimed the lives of three people.
Meanwhile the Jerusalem Municipality has asked the city's Magistrate Court to expedite the demolition of the home of Tuesday's attack.
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ARABS' SELF-MADE NAKBA
by Emanuel A. Winston, a Middle East Analyst & CommentatorOn July 20th, FOX News broadcast England's Prime Minister Gordon Brown meeting with the President of the "Palestinian Authority" Mahmoud Abbas, with both castigating Israel for not contributing enough for peace. I was reminded of the long term history of both savaging the Jews.
Gee, I can hardly wait for England to join Atlantis at the bottom of the sea. As a prominent Jew-hating nation, hostility to the Jewish nation is to be expected. Sometimes we forget the history and roles certain nations have played in hounding the Jewish people and participating in their deaths.
On July 19th Barry Rubin posted an article which speaks of the Media's fashion to match the Palestinian "Nakba" (Catastrophe) with Israel's founding in 1948. The Arab Muslims fielded seven armies intended to savagely wipe out the new-born State of Israel in 1948. The Arab Muslims ignominiously lost that war which the Arab Muslims called their "Nakba" (Catastrophe). They were assisted in every way possible by the Jew-hating British.
A BRIEF HISTORY
Please remember that the British Lord Balfour had originally written the Balfour Declaration of 1917 to create a Jewish Homeland within their Palestinian Mandate. But, the British government reversed that policy quickly. In March 1921 Winston Churchill (then British Colonial Secretary) endorsed the arrangement that cut off 80% of the Jewish Homeland and gave "Transjordan" to the Hashemite Emir Abdullah bin Al-Hussein which was ratified by the League of Nations on September 11, 1922. His brother Faisal 1 briefly ruled over the newly created independent Arab Kingdom of Syria. (1)
In 1925 King Ali bin al-Hussein, eldest brother of Abdullah and Faisal, lost the throne of the Kingdom of the Hijaz to Abdel Aziz bin Saud. That loss was caused by a partnership between Ibn Saud and followers of the Wahhabi Islamic movement, leading to the establishment of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, bringing an end to over 1000 years of Hashemite rule in Mecca. (2)
From then until 1948 the British gave free permission for the Arabs to immigrate in from surrounding Arab countries who were attracted by the work and health opportunities available as the Jews developed the barren country. However, the British kept the Jewish immigration down to 5000 per year, especially during the worst of the Nazi Holocaust when the Jews were desperate to find safe haven.
Think about the British in their 'de facto' collaboration with the Nazi killing machine throughout WW2. The British broke the Nazis' secret code and learned of the daily Jewish genocide, both in the planning and body count but, the British kept silent.
Some defend their actions, claiming that revealing that information would have tipped off the Germans. The facts speak otherwise since there were other leaks of which would have obscured Britain as the source. If one knows the anti-Semitic elite in the British government and Intel Agencies, one would wonder if they were of the same mind-set as Herr Hitler.
Even after the war, the British stopped Jews coming out of the death camps from reaching Israel. They captured Jews at sea and put them into concentration camps on Cyprus.
Strangely, the Brits were seemingly pro-Arab but, that may be because they hated the Jews more. Historians recall about how when the Brits had the Palestinian Mandate and patrolled the area they called the Arabs "Wogs".
If one of the British patrols was shot, the nearest Arab village was leveled by the British as a "lesson". While the outward image of Britain is one of sophistication and a civilized attitude, their history is one of colonization and cruel treatment of anyone they can dominate.
Let's move on.
When the British were forced to leave Israel under pressure, they followed the same anti-Jewish behavior that has been their attitude for years. During their years in control of the area under their Palestinian Mandate, they spent their time harassing the Jewish settlers by attempting to strip them of their minimal arms stockpiles for defense against the marauding Arab Muslims. But they allowed the Arabs to arm without restriction.
Quoting Barry Rubin as follows:
BRIEFLY, THE BRITISH TRIED TO HELP THE ARABS WIN; the Americans to assist them in finding a last-minute way out, and the soon-to-be Israeli Jews were ready to have a Palestinian state alongside Israel if their neighbors had accepted it.
The British government provided money and arms to Arab states (for Egypt 40 warplanes and 300 troop carriers; for Iraq, planes as well as aircraft and antitank guns; for Saudi Arabia, a military training mission) while embargoing them to Israel, tipped off Arabs about the timing of its withdrawals (giving them a head start to seize abandoned installations), subsidized the Arab League, blocked Jewish immigration, and let British officers run Jordan's army in the war against Israel.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Said later said, "It became clear to us that Britain viewed with favor the Arab aims regarding Palestine ."
It's well-known that President Harry Truman supported partition and quickly recognized Israel . But in March 1948 the U.S. government offered the Arab states a serious plan to suspend partition, block a Jewish state, and create a new, long-term trusteeship. They considered but rejected it, even after Washington proposed an international peacekeeping force - including Egyptian troops - to maintain order." (3)
The fact is that neither the Arabs, the Palestinians, the Islamists, the Arabist State Department or the British have given up the idea of subverting and eliminating the Jewish State. While France has been long known as the prostitute of Europe, Britain can claim the crown of being the lead royal pimp.While we love the English accent and the glitz of the Royal Family, clearly, they have not always behaved as a noble people. They have been self-serving in mean and sneaky ways and not wholly trustworthy. They are bigoted, biased and prejudiced while pretending to be above such lowly behavior.
Their interest in the Arabs is in the oil that lies under the Muslim Arab kingdoms, plus the prospect of selling weapons but they still view the Arab Muslims as "Wogs" (a lowly culture, well beneath the vaunted self-perception of the Brits.)
The simple fact that Israel must recognize is that Britain at its elite leadership level has acted like an anti-Semitic nation, hostile to Israel's existence and pandering to the Arab Muslims for whatever they can get.
As I said in the beginning, I would have no problem in seeing Britain join Atlantis at the bottom of the sea. They are an unworthy people but, of course, they are not alone. Many nations are permanently hooked on the Arab nations for their oil and the cash to buy more Western weapons which they get for their oil treasure.
We already know about Europe as it proceeds in its transition into Eurabia. Now we are concerned that the "Shadow Government" that runs America has joined the British and the Arabs.
Addressing the Knesset in Jerusalem Monday, July 21, British prime minister George Brown said: Iran must ''suspend its nuclear program and accept our offer of negotiations or face growing isolation and the collective response not of one nation but of many nations.'' (4)
In closing, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has declared in a speech to the Israeli Knesset that Britain will always be Israel's friend. (5)
The disinformation poured forth, saying that Britain has been at Israel's side when the Jewish State was in danger. (He neglected to state the danger that comes from Britain and its alliance with Arab oil interests.) He will go on to speak of Israel's lack of jurisdiction to build in East Jerusalem which matched Condoleezza Rice's State Department effort to establish Jerusalem as being a combined capital with the Arab Muslim Palestinians. He also mentioned that training the Palestinian Authority Police will pave the way to peace. Does he mean "peace in our time" as Neville Chamberlain claimed?
As I recall, those PA Police, trained by the American CIA in Jordan, in fact were dedicated terrorists who had betrayed their roles and attacked Jewish soldiers and civilians.
Mr. Brown, you do seem to speak with a forked tongue.
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1. "Transjordan" Wikipedia
2. "Jordan: The Making of Transjordan" http://www.hinghussein.gov.jor/his_transjordan.html
3. "SELF-MADE NAKBA" by Barry Rubin July 19, 2008 EndtimesIsraelNews@topica.com
4. "US, UK, France launch sea exercise for naval blockade on Iran" DEBKAfile July 21, 2008
5. "British PM Brown To Claim He Will Always Be Israel's Friend" by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu July 21, 2008 IsraelNationalNews.com
| The Expert Says It's a Fake The Lekarev Report – July 21, 2008 Barack Obama may be on a world tour surrounded by a fawning media, but yesterday an expert in electronic document forensics released a detailed report on the purported birth certificate -- actually a "Certification of Live Birth" or COLB -- claimed as genuine by his campaign. The expert concludes with 100% certainty that it is a crudely forged fake: "a horribly forgery," according to the analysis published on the popular right-wing Atlas Shrugs blog. The purported birth certificate was published by the left wing Daily Kos blog on June 12 in response to unconfirmed reports that Obama was not in fact born in the United States (Canada and Kenya were suggested as the possible locations of his actual birth). Since he would in that case not be a natural born US citizen (his mother was not present in the US sufficiently long as an adult to pass American citizenship on to him automatically), he would not be eligible to be president. Israel Insider has followed the story and uncovered evidence, most recently, of admitted forgery among Daily Kos bloggers, tolerance of electronic forgeries on the blog site, as well as efforts by a blog administrator to conceal the admission of forgery. The latest examinaton of the purported documents is by far the most detailed and technically sophisticated to date. Atlas Shrugs publisher Pamela Geller reports that the expert analyst, who goes by the screen name "Techdude", is "an active member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, American College of Forensic Examiners, The International Society of Forensic Computer Examiners, International Information Systems Forensics Association -- the list goes on. He also a board certified as a forensic computer examiner, a certificated legal investigator, and a licensed private investigator. He has been performing computer-based forensic investigations since 1993 (although back then it did not even have a formal name yet) and he has performed countless investigations since then." The pseudonym was apparently inadequate to prevent Techdude's identity from being exposed. He reports that last week one or more persons "decided to track me down and vandalize my car and hang a dead mutilated rabbit from my front door in a lame attempt to intimidate me from proceeding with releasing any details of my analysis. They did succeed in delaying the report by a few days but instead of deterring him they really angered him. To their credit, he says, the extra days enabled him to locate the most damning piece of evidence, the remnants of the previous security border." Techdude's detailed report, which runs more than 3000 words and 20 pages with extensive magnified illustrations and comparisons, reaches the following conclusion about the documented that was first published on the Daily Kos extreme left-wing blog and subsequently publicly endorsed by the Obama campaign, both in statements by official spokesmen, and featured on its "Fight the Smears" website. Here are some of conclusions: "The (Daily) KOS image security border pattern does not match any known specimen from any known year. It does not match the pre-2006 nor does it match the post-2006 certificate patterns. The placement of the text in all of the pre-2006 and post-2006 certificates are almost identical pixel location matches while the image's text placement does not match any known specimen from any known year. The shape and kerning of the fonts used in the 2006 through 2008 certificates are identical while the shape and kerning of the fonts used in the image does not match any known specimen. The KOS image shows clear signs of tampering such as the mismatch in RGB and error levels, visible indications of the previous location of the erased security border, easily detectable patterns of repeating flaws around the new security border, EXIF data that says the image was last saved with Photoshop CS3 for Macintosh, and finally a technician from Hawaii who confirms it just looks wrong." The evidence, he says, allows for two possible scenarios by which the document was fabricated: "There are two obvious scenarios used to create the image that can be ascertained from evidence. Either a real COLB was scanned into Photoshop and digitally edited or a real COLB was first scanned to obtain the graphic layout then blanked by soaking the document in solvent to remove the toner. After rescanning the blank page to a separate image the graphics from the previously obtained scan could then be easily applied to the blank scan after some editing and rebuilding. It would also explain why date stamp bleeds through the paper and the various bits of toner located around the image as well as the remnants of the previous location of a security border." After more than a month of controversy and demands that the Obama campaign produce a paper birth certificate for analysis, this damning new evidence raises the stakes for the democratic party and its front-runner. Will Obama and his people continue to stonewall in the facing of the mounting evidence of forgery, and provide paper proof of an authentic, original birth certificate or even a genuine secondary Certificate of Live Birth? And will the mass media and mainstream pundits, which so far have hesitated to touch the hot potato, finally address the loaded issue of his possible unfitness to meet the basic Constitutional requirement for a President? Perhaps the outspoken Israeli press corps will be able to do what their American counterparts have failed to do so far. Obama's visit this week to Israel will be an opportunity to begin asking the tough questions, however unpolitically correct, about his apparently forged birth certificate and what that means for his citizenship status and Constitutional fitness to be the next leader of the free world. Dear DS - I hope you can use this data. I've become very alarmed by all that surrounds Obama. ..... I hope you can pass this information along. It is all referenced. It is all true. Obama supporters seem to be willing to look past his past, saying when he says, I made a mistake, Amen – I make mistakes too. How good of him to own up to his poor judgement. Then they increase their support for him.
His friends were politically chosen and bode badly for a democratic America. When he spoke, as he did in the opening address of the 2004 Democratic Convention, of his Muslim Brothers, few noticed.
When Rezko's loans and intervention enabled this US Senator operating on a Senate salary combined with an additional $300,000 salary from his wife, t buy a $14 million dollar home, one needs to look at those figures a little more closely.
When he travels to Israel and the Middle East with Sen Hagel, one of the few virulently anti-Israel Senators, we need to notice this. When he appoints to his staff advisors who believe that peace in the middle east can be achieved if Israel were to give up their nuclear capabilities.
When he creates a foreign advisory staff from a series of democrats who are decidedly outspoken on reducing the size of the US military expense, reducing our territorial rights in International waters, desireous of curtailing CIA operations etcc we must wonder why we ended up with such flawed intelligence today.
But his mistakes were not momentary lapses in judgment, they were considered and heartfelt positions. He has no experience in the Senate to point to – except the one bill I've attached on Global Poverty. His solution of what is a noble cause is the most frightening thing he has done to date – making the future of America subject to the dictates of the United Nations in legal and environmental areas, creating an uber-nation, the United Nations, a group controlled by the Muslim nations. This is no 'lapse' of judgment we can afford to risk. Once in place, on the march to globalization, all the free world would exist at the behest of the Muslims. This would not be another Obama lapse of judgment we could afford to shrug off. Obama is a very poor choice for President Janet
LISTENING TO OBAMA: Sometimes what we are looking for is right under our nose. Barack Hussein Obama laid out his manifesto four years ago. "If there's an Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties. It's that fundamental belief – I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper – that makes this country work. It's what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, yet still come together as a single American family. 'E pluribus unum.' Out of many, one." READING OBAMA: According to Obama's Dreams, when the Ivy Leaguer first met Wright, he interrogated the minister about whether Trinity wasn't too bourgeois for him. You have only to read and listen to Obama to know Obama. Wright has been saying anti-American and anti-white things to all and sundry at least since his 1984 trip to Libya with Black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan to meet arch-terrorist Col. Muammar Kaddafi. That's why Obama picked out Wright's church after one of the many black ministers he knew during his "community organizing" days told him he would be more politically effective if he belonged to a church. Wright's Trinity United megachurch represented for Obama the optimal combination of competitively successful and ideologically radical.
Do I like McCain. Not particularly, would I vote for McCain over Obama, definitely YES. Until a month ago when email problems prevented me from sending out my almost daily pro-Israel newsletter, I wrote daily about things that related to Israel. I've years of research on file dating back to the Washington March in 2002, when I first began my IsraelLives newsletter.
Attachments: >NY Sun: Obama's Redivided Jerusalem >WSJ: Hagel to Join Obama on Iraq Trip >Times of London: Timeline-British billionaire and Barack Obama The connection between Tony Rezko, Barack Obama, Odinga and Nadhmi Auchi> Obama's participation in Kenyan politics. Obama and Odinga's dependence on Quaddafi. Odinga pact to bring Sharia Law to Kenya Sources: CBS2 Chicago, BBC, LATimes Blog. 2007 Obama circles the globe on his, first and only until this time, world wide trip stopping only in Muslim countries.>June 4, 2008 Rezko convicted. Should Obama be under some kind of cloud or suspicion of illegal conduct for his association with Rezko. Of course. Has there been any press coverage of the conclusion of the Rezko case? Miniscule. At the very least, It does call his judgment into question, yet again. Obama said just 3 months ago when he sat down with the reporters at the Chicago Sun Times: Is Rezko still a friend? "Yes,'' Obama said, "with the caveat if it turns out the allegations are true, then he's not who I thought he was, and I'd be very disappointed with that.'' And it's that friendship, Obama said, that probably kept him from realizing it was a mistake to enter into a real estate deal with Rezko. "Probably because I'd known him for a long time, and he'd acted in an aboveboard manner with me," he said. "And I considered him a friend. ... It's further evidence that I'm not perfect.'' On the question of Obama's judgment regarding Rezko, regarding Rev Wright, regarding Wm Ayers, regarding his cousin Odinga, Edward Said, Rashid Kalidi etcetc, how much 'rope' are we to give this guy?>Obama – Early Chicago days. >Obama's advisors >Obama's 'Global Poverty' Bill s.2433. Far more than seeking a possible solution to world poverty, this bill will lead directly to the giving over to the UN of the individual powers of nations. As the UN is now composed, global rule would rest in the hands of the Muslim states. If this sound maniacal and over reaching, please read the law as proposed and how it automatically links to the UN system, carefully. >Sharia Law In a world where there are no truly neutral parties it is best to know what your enemy's goal are. From my many conversations with people here and in NYC I realize that not 1 in 100 knows what is really at stake should Muslims extend their power. There are already cities in the US and Europe where pressure is being exerted to apply Sharia law in disputes between parties. England is contemplating a law that would legalize a lending system structured in a way that Muslims could lend and borrow funds.
The political nature of nations, states and cities are constantly in flux – the most strident challenges come from the extremes. I believe Obama is the representative of extreme minds. Globalism/Internationalism is one extreme. Marxism/Islamism is another extreme. Democracy as set forth in our constitution is a middle ground which has served rather well balancing individual rights, states rights and federal rights – certainly better than Globalism/Internationalism, Marxism/Islamism.
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Israel and the Palestinians have disagreed over the final declaration of the Mediterranean summit held in Paris, France's foreign minister has said.
Bernard Kouchner said the wording of the founding text of the Union for the Mediterranean would have to be changed.
There were difficulties with the use of the term "national and democratic state" to describe Israel, he said.
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(IsraelNN.com) An Arab working in the Geulah branch of the famous Hevron Yeshiva has been arrested after threatening to carry out a terrorist attack in Jerusalem.
The Arab made the threat after he was fired from his job. Taking no chances, Jerusalem policemen arrested him on Sunday morning and are now questioning him.
After the murderous attack by a Jerusalem Arab in Yeshivat Merkaz HaRav Kook four months ago, leading Torah authority Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky of Bnei Brak issued a Jewish legal ruling banning the employment of Arab workers by Jews - and especially in yeshivas.
"After all, we are at war with them," the Rabbi explained. "Are there not Jews who can work and make a living?"
Hiring Jews is a Form of Charity
Some rabbis have ruled that given the disparity between the cost of an Arab worker and a Jewish one, one must hire the latter and pay the difference in salary out of the money that one would normally give to charity.
The management of the Hevron yeshiva, in line with other yeshivot, decided to follow Rabbi Kanievsky's ruling. It did not take steps to actually implement it, however, until the bulldozer terrorist attack in Jerusalem earlier this month. Three Jews were murdered in the attack, in which an eastern Jerusalem Arab driving a bulldozer plowed into cars and buses on crowded Jaffa Rd.
Worker Praises Terrorism
Following that attack, the yeshiva informed its Arab worker that his services were no longer required. The worker was later reported as having praised the bulldozer attack, and its perpetrator, in front of several students. He was also reported as threatening to carry out a similar attack.
Sunday morning, students noticed that the fired Arab worker had returned to the yeshiva, and the police were called to the scene. A Jerusalem Police official told the hareidi-religious news site ladaat.net that the man was arrested, but "as of now, it appears that the man made the threats merely out of anger."
PrintThree Men Arrested, One Remains in Outpost
In other news related to the struggle between Land of Israel loyalists and the authorities, the Supreme Court has decided to keep in prison three Jewish residents of the Asael outpost in southern Judea.
Asael is a small outpost near Susia. Of its four families, three of the men are now in prison.
The three are accused of attacking an Arab who burnt their fields. The Supreme Court thus accepted an appeal by the Prosecution, overturning an original decision to keep the three under house arrest outside Judea and Samaria.
The Supreme Court ordered the three back to prison until further notice, and also ordered the Prison Testing Service to submit arrest reports within ten days.
The court noted in its ruling that the three are "dangerous, even if we accept their claim that the series of events began with a provocation by the Palestinian residents." The Arab who was allegedly beaten attacked Asael a total of three times. Asael residents filed charges with the police two months ago against him regarding arson, but no action was taken.
Yet Another Incident
Seven soldiers were arrested over the weekend for involvement in a scuffle with two Bedouin families. The Bedouins entered a beach into which civilian entry is forbidden, as it is located alongside a Navy Commando base. The soldiers were guarding the area.
The incident occurred on Saturday morning at 3:30 AM near Atlit, on Israel's northwestern coast. The soldiers asked the Bedouin families to leave, the families refused, and a scuffle ensued - in which one of the Bedouin was injured. The Bedouin claimed that they were attacked for racist reasons, while the soldiers say they were trying to enforce the ban on civilian entry to the area.
The police arrested the seven, the Military Police has begun an investigation, and the IDF Spokesman released this somewhat mysterious announcement:(IsraelNN.com) A Magistrates Court judge has found a policeman guilty of goring a youth in Amona for no reason two and a half years ago.
The judge, Yechezkel Barclay, was shown a video of the incident [the incident occurs inside of a superimposed red circle at the 6:08 minute mark], in which the accused - policeman David Atiya of Petach Tikvah - is seen arguing with a youth and then suddenly goring him in the head with his helmet. The boy falls back, clearly in pain.![]()
Atiya had been charged with "attacking for no reason," in that "during the eviction in Amona, he gored with his helmet the youth David Ladvin, with no prior provocation from the youth."
The Civil Rights Organization of Yesha [Judea and Samaria], headed by Orit Strook of Hevron, filed the original complaint with the Police Department's Unit for Complaints Against Policemen. Strook's organization has filed several other similar complaints regarding violent behavior of policemen during the events at Amona.
The original complaint was submitted without the name of the gored victim, as his identity could not be ascertained. The police claimed that a complaint could not be filed under such circumstances, but Attorney Chaim Cohen, the coordinator of the Amona Project for the Yesha Civil Rights Organization, argued otherwise: "The lack of information regarding the identity of the victim need not be an obstacle in the way of the holding of an investigation, and there are precedents to this effect."
In the end, however, after the video clip was screened on Arutz-7, the victim was located and identified within hours, and his name was added to the indictment. Ladvin testified that he saw Atiya push a girl, and that he then challenged him, "Aren't you ashamed?" In response, Ladvin said, Atiya gored him with his helmet. Two other witnesses corroborated Ladvin's version.
The Prosecutor said that the accused could have used other means to detain Ladvin if it was necessary, but "he chose to use the painful, humiliating and dangerous option of goring the youth with his helmet. Even if the accused had just undergone several difficult hours in Amona, he still was not permitted to take his rage out on the complainant and to take the law into his own hands."
Judge Barclay ruled that there was no justification for Atiya's action.
Atiya Sued for Still More Violence
On his way out of the courtroom following his conviction, Atiya was handed papers informing him of a damages suit against him for another violent act that he committed in Amona - his alleged attack of two persons who were filming police violence during the events.

(IsraelNN.com) Israeli billionaire Yitzchak Tshuva envisions three million Jews living in the Negev by 2050 following huge investments in industry and tourism and the completion of the proposed Red Sea-Dead Sea canal, bitterly opposed by environmentalists. Tshuva wants to bring his plan, including government funding, to the Knesset for approval, according to the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz.
The plan is based on cooperation with Jordan and a large desalination plant that would run on natural gas from Saudi Arabia or Egypt and would provide water to Jordan and Israel. Tshuva foresees man-made lakes in the Negev while preserving natural wildlife areas.

(IsraelNN.com) The government decided Sunday to create an inter-ministerial committee for advancing the creation of a new Arab city in the Galilee.
The committee will be headed by Interior Ministry Director Aryeh Bar and will include directors of other government ministries, including the Defense Ministry and the Finance Ministry.
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Not only is it cost plus, but also no bid contracts. Insider featherbedding all the way. Support the troops. Right. I'm voting Libertarian.

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Mossad Op said ready to go. Rumors say Barak Obama will not make it home alive from his present 6 day trip overseas.
Then Carl added:
If "something" should happen to Obama on this trip, and they blame it on the "orthodox Jews", then Israel is in for BIG TIME trouble. This no doubt would be the Jesuits' blueprint for both problems in Israel and RACE WAR here in the US. And I fear the American Jews would feel the black and Islamic hands of persecution on a big scale.
This may just be rumor. Anyway, be praying for your's and others' protection in your homeland.

(IsraelNN.com) The Education Ministry has decided to reconsider implementing the Lev Leviev Foundation's Zman Masa (Journey Time) curriculum for the upcoming school year. However, the state has set two conditions - chopping out most of the program's Orthodox Jewish faith-based references and making sure that only teachers within the secular state system are allowed to teach it.
The program is intended to strengthen Jewish identity. The foundation picks up the cost of the program, which includes two instruction hours per week, as well as all course materials.
The state's main objection, as expressed by pedagogic secretariat director Professor Anat Zohar in April, was that "the program is written from the viewpoint of faith, observing the commandments and accepting G-d's sovereignty." The pedagogic secretariat is responsible for approving external programs.
According to Zman Masa, the program was approved by the previous director-general at the Education Ministry, Shmuel Abuav. It has operated for the past two years without the ministry's pedagogic secretariat's authorization.
Last year the program was taught by 160 adjunct teachers in 66 public elementary schools in Rishon LeTzion, Netanya, Petah Tikva and Beit Shemesh. All the teachers were Orthodox Jews who actively practice the concepts taught in the curriculum.
But this year an Education Ministry official told Haaretz, "The program will be taught exclusively by teachers from the state school system." Zman Masa program director Shai Rinsky commented that it has been difficult to find secular teachers who are able to do so.
The program, which was designed to bolster Jewish identity, will apparently have to have large pieces rewritten, such as those subjects that refer to Jewish ritual hand-washing, how to tell the difference between kosher and non-kosher animals and information on the Holy Temple and its ritual vessels. References to the Leviev Foundation -- which created and funded the program -- will be deleted from title pages as well.
Changes that are currently being made in the curriculum are expected to be completed by mid-August, and are expected to comply with the parameters delineated in the Shenhar Report, which stipulated that Judaic studies at state schools must remain pluralistic.
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Subject: HOW TERRORIST LEADERS THINK: THE REAL EMES!The one thing the terrorists don't like," says author Aaron Klein, "is being called terrorists."![]()
Aaron Klein.
Photo: Ariel JerozolimskiThis is why, says Klein - the Jerusalem bureau chief for the right-wing news Web site WorldNetDaily.com, and a columnist for the equally conservative Jewish Press - the subjects of his best-selling book, Schmoozing with Terrorists (published by World Ahead Media), are unhappy with its title.
"They prefer to be called 'jihadists,'" explains Klein, noting the apparent nuance that is a clear-cut distinction in the eyes of those who believe it is their religious duty to spread Islam throughout the world, by any means at their disposal.
"My response was to tell those who complained to me about my use of the word that when someone violently targets civilians, that's what he is."
That members and leaders of every major Palestinian terrorist organization ever agreed to talk (via translators) to Klein - a 28-year-old "nice Jewish boy" from Philadelphia - let alone continue to contact him after reading what he writes, seems surprising, if not unlikely. Klein disagrees. Not only does he insist that any journalist who wishes to interview terrorist leaders "can simply phone them up," but, he asserts, "they are proud of their goals and achievements, and glad to have a platform for promotion."
Which begs the question: Why provide such a platform? Because, argues Klein, the West in general, and Western media in particular, tend to play down or ignore the realities of radical Islam. Klein believes it's necessary, therefore, "to educate people on what the war on terrorism is really about," by giving a genuine glimpse into the psyche of suicide bombers and their recruiters.
In an hour-long interview in Jerusalem last month, Klein tried to do just that.
What makes terrorists tick?
That's a good question. A lot of people think that terrorism is about pieces of territory - that Hizbullah just wants to get the Shaba Farms back, for example. Others think that Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the whole rest of the alphabet of Palestinian terrorists simply want to destroy Israel or that al-Qaida wants America out of the Middle East. But one thing that has really been driven home to me in all my talks with terrorists - which is the thesis of all of my work - is that they are looking to serve Allah by spreading Islam around the world. That's what makes them tick.
It is often said of terrorists that desperation and poverty - sometimes mental illness - is at the root of their actions. Is there truth to that?
It's true that if you watch CNN or read The New York Times, you would get that impression. Because whenever there's a suicide bombing in Israel, right away they present human interest stories about how the bomber is poor and living under Israeli occupation. And this is in spite of the fact that in the history of modern civilization, there's no other instance of people under occupation blowing themselves up.
But, about a year and a half ago, I met with a 22-year-old Palestinian who had been recruited to become a suicide bomber for Islamic Jihad and his recruiter in Jenin, and I specifically asked them whether they were carrying out their operations because of poverty and desperation. Their response was to get offended and call it Zionist propaganda. They explained that suicide is forbidden in Islam, and that blowing oneself up in the midst of innocent men, women and children does not constitute suicide, but rather jihad for Allah - that therefore it is not only allowed, but it is the creed.
Do the bombers actually believe they're going to paradise?

(IsraelNN.com) An Israeli charitable organization founded to assist victims of Arab terrorism has condemned the Israeli government's decision to approve the prisoner exchange with Hizbullah.
The Victims of Arab Terror International (VAT) organization "strongly condemns the government of Israel for agreeing to release Samir Kuntar, the bestial child killer and other Arab terrorists with 'blood on their hands.' This obscene exchange with Hizbullah, has, in effect, murdered the Jewish victims twice, and has opened the door for future terrorist attacks by Arab killers, who see that they have nothing to fear in perpetrating these horrendous acts on innocent Israeli men, woman and children," said Shifra Hoffman, founder of VAT.
Hoffman noted that VAT was the only organization that, in the early stages of the abduction ordeal, demanded that the Red Cross locate and visit the captured soldiers to ascertain their condition.
Hoffman added in an interview with INN that in its decision to release the Hizbullah murderers, the Israeli government is acting against the express opposition of military and security experts.
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May the sentencing Judge and all those involved in this bestial behavior be sentenced one day to 10 years in prison at hard labor. They are the "Fifth Column" undercutting the morale of the Jewish nation in the Land of Israel.
COMMENTS BY EMANUEL WINSTON
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| Monday, July 14, 2008 |
| YEARS LATER JEWISH ANTI-EXPULSION PROTESTER RE-IMPRISONED OLMERT GOVERNMENT SURRENDERS TO HAMAS AND HIZBULLAH DON'T EXPECT CEASEFIRE TO LAST ========= |
| BEERSHEBA -- Almost three years later, a Jewish anti-expulsion protester has been re-imprisoned following an unusually harsh ruling by Israel's Supreme Court.
Several Jews and Israeli soldiers were injured in the clash. Mujaida, who was also seen throwing rocks, was struck in the melee, and the video taken by television news crews showed him bleeding from the forehead. The video then showed Cytryn leaping toward a stone barrier and throwing something toward Mujaida. No Palestinian was arrested or charged in the melee, but four other Israelis were arrested and charged with crimes ranging from aggravated assault to disorderly conduct. On June 3, Cytryn was acquitted of the attempted murder charge but was convicted of two counts of aggravated assault with intent to cause grievous harm, disorderly conduct, threats and remaining in a closed area after a trial that spanned two years, seven months of which Cytryn spent in prison and more than a year under house arrest.
Cytryn said the Supreme Court admitted that Mujaida was involved in attacking Jews but did not relate to it in their sentencing. "They [the judges] said in their decision that the Arabs had attacked the Jews with stones," Cytryn said, "but this didn't matter at all." |
YEARS LATER JEWISH ANTI-EXPULSION PROTESTER RE-IMPRISONED
by Emanuel A. Winston, a Middle East Analyst & Commentator
May the sentencing Judge and all those involved in this bestial behavior be sentenced one day to 10 years in prison at hard labor. They are the "Fifth Column" undercutting the morale of the Jewish nation in the Land of Israel.
COMMENTS BY EMANUEL WINSTON
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| Monday, July 14, 2008 |
| YEARS LATER JEWISH ANTI-EXPULSION PROTESTER RE-IMPRISONED OLMERT GOVERNMENT SURRENDERS TO HAMAS AND HIZBULLAH DON'T EXPECT CEASEFIRE TO LAST ========= |
| BEERSHEBA -- Almost three years later, a Jewish anti-expulsion protester has been re-imprisoned following an unusually harsh ruling by Israel's Supreme Court.
Several Jews and Israeli soldiers were injured in the clash. Mujaida, who was also seen throwing rocks, was struck in the melee, and the video taken by television news crews showed him bleeding from the forehead. The video then showed Cytryn leaping toward a stone barrier and throwing something toward Mujaida. No Palestinian was arrested or charged in the melee, but four other Israelis were arrested and charged with crimes ranging from aggravated assault to disorderly conduct. On June 3, Cytryn was acquitted of the attempted murder charge but was convicted of two counts of aggravated assault with intent to cause grievous harm, disorderly conduct, threats and remaining in a closed area after a trial that spanned two years, seven months of which Cytryn spent in prison and more than a year under house arrest.
Cytryn said the Supreme Court admitted that Mujaida was involved in attacking Jews but did not relate to it in their sentencing. "They [the judges] said in their decision that the Arabs had attacked the Jews with stones," Cytryn said, "but this didn't matter at all." |

(IsraelNN.com) Over the last couple of years, the Zionist Freedom Alliance (www.zfa.org.il) has been slowly taking American college campuses by storm with a message of Jewish rights not heard for many decades. Led by veteran IDF soldiers and activists in Israel, the ZFA presents Zionism to the youth as a revolutionary struggle for national liberation.
Unlike most pro-Israel advocacy organizations that present Israel as a democracy or focus on the Jewish state's willingness to surrender territory, ZFA speaks of Israel as a Middle Eastern nation with a legitimate moral and historic right to its land. "We tell young people about the fight for freedom from British rule," says ZFA leader Yehuda HaKohen. "And we explain how we are still fighting against nearly the entire world for our right to live freely in the whole of our country. Educating young people to the history of our struggle creates a paradigm shift in how they view our situation today. If people know two basic facts – that this really is our country and that we fought the British Empire to free it – their understanding of the Middle East conflict is revolutionized. Suddenly the Jewish people are the natives in the story and international pressure to shrink our borders is an act of Western imperialism against an indigenous population."
HaKohen currently lives in Jerusalem but grew up in New York City and often travels to the United States to organize ZFA activities. While some mainstream Jewish groups focus on Israel's security needs, HaKohen's message to campuses is one of Jewish rights. "We must make the world understand that the Jewish nation, like any other nation on the planet, has a right to self-determination in our country. Not in half of our country, but in our whole country. We have nothing against any other peoples, but the world today has no shortage of Arab states. 77% of Palestine (the territory east of the Jordan River) was made into an Arab state, and we are at least entitled to the remaining 23% that was left us by international law to be a Jewish state. No power on earth has the moral authority to rob us of our land."
HaKohen is no stranger to bold declarations, having repeated the same simple message on campuses across the United States and Canada. While other pro-Israel organizations attempt to rationalize or depreciate the stridently nationalistic aspects of Zionism in order to court the favor of high-profile skeptics and to make their message palatable to wealthy and influential benefactors, HaKohen says that his group has learned out of necessity to work on a shoestring budget rather than alter their message. ZFA activists take no pains in concealing their belief in the unequivocal right of the Jewish nation to the entire Land of Israel. And the movement puts forward this message in a clear and simple yet powerful language that resonates with young people across North American campuses.
The movement includes an eclectic mix of activists from various backgrounds. When asked what stream of Zionism (Religious, Socialist, Revisionist) they belong to, HaKohen calls the ZFA "Revolutionary Zionism".
"History is full of great revolutions. And although many of these revolutions have succeeded in impacting the future course of world history, all of them pale in comparison to the Zionist revolution," HaKohen argues. "Only the Zionist revolution aspires to ingather a scattered nation from the four corners of the earth, to revive a dead language to everyday use, to liberate a homeland from under a mighty world empire and to create a moral society that will serve as an example to the human race. Zionism is the greatest revolution in the history of man, and the ZFA sees it as our mission to drive the revolution forward."
Politically Correct
Having been raised and educated in the West, many ZFA leaders are sensitive to the reality of the political culture that dominates American campuses. Therefore, the movement is careful not to align with "Right-wing" campus groups, and instead targets students active with the Left. HaKohen defends this position by arguing that "there is nothing 'Right-wing' or 'Conservative' about wanting to keep our homeland free from foreign rule. If we are truly the indigenous natives in the conflict, then our cause should really be championed by liberal students everywhere. Especially since the Bush administration that occupies Iraq and imposes a Patriot Act on the American people is the very same administration pushing to ethnically cleanse the Jewish people from portions of our homeland."
It is for this reason that ZFA avoids anti-Arab rhetoric and instead focuses its attacks on Western powers and global corporations who have special interests in forcing Israel to surrender land. The group defends this position by claiming that if the Arabs remained the security problem that they are but all international pressure would cease, Israel would immediately take the necessary measures to defend herself and ensure long term survival. But if the Arabs in Judea and Samaria would somehow disappear, the Western world would most likely find another excuse to shrink and weaken Israel. The true enemy of Zionism, according to the ZFA , is not radical Islam but globalization, which seeks to amalgamate continents into unified blocks and threatens Israel's existence as a small Jewish state situated in a mostly Arab region. ZFA activists argue this to be the true motivation behind international pressure on Israel to make concessions and that the eventual goal of Western governments is for Israel not to exist.
While this message has angered many American Jewish groups who tend to see Israel and America as allies in a global war against Islamic terrorism, it has actually earned the ZFA support from students who oppose globalization and America's War in Iraq. And it has neutralized anti-Israel voices who accuse "Zionists" of pushing America into a war that benefits Israel. In fact, most ZFA leaders oppose the Iraq War and see it as an aggressive act of neo-imperialism. And many of the students joining the ZFA today are young Jews who view themselves on the political Left. HaKohen attributes this support not only to his group's unique message, but also to their efforts to reach beyond the Jewish community.
Many ZFA programs, including the "Israel Liberation Week" event, is geared towards promoting Jewish rights on college campuses and educating the general student public to the justice of the Zionist struggle. "Israel Liberation Week" includes a hip hop concert (featuring Jewish and non-Jewish artists), speeches, information campaigns, historical films and an art exhibit honoring the Jewish underground fighters who were executed by the British administration during the struggle for Jewish statehood. By securing strong support from non-Jewish students on many campuses, the ZFA makes it socially acceptable and desirable for Jewish students to support the Zionist cause.
HaKohen believes that if young American liberals really understood the history and reality of events in the Middle East, they would naturally support Israel's rights to Judea and Samaria. The problem is that the anti-Israel propaganda and often even the pro-Israel propaganda have worked to present the Jewish state as a Western power occupying indigenous Arab natives. HaKohen argues that nothing can be further from the truth. "The Jewish nation is a Middle Eastern nation and the true native sons of our land. As a result of an injustice perpetrated against us by the Roman Empire, many of us suffered a long and difficult exile. But now we've come home. Israel is our country and like any other people we have a right to freedom in our country."
The ZFA's cutting edge message and methods have proven successful in taking the wind out of anti-Israel sails. But the movement is small and has been unsuccessful at persuading more established Jewish groups to follow their revolutionary lead. Therefore, says HaKohen, the movement works slowly, one campus at a time, to promote the Zionist revolution as a politically correct struggle for social justice.
For more information, visit the ZFA online at http://www.zfa.org.il
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by Emanuel A. Winston, a Middle East Analyst & CommentatorEhud Olmert.
For the string of betrayals you have placed on the back of our nation.
For the release of terrorists who will savage more Israelis.
For the crookedness that marks your life, may you be hounded until the day you die - by the Police and your victims.
On that day, may your remains be used as a bargaining chip for Jewish hostages you have created.
IF the radical Islamists chose to scatter your bones across the desert. You deserve no less! That is what the tyrant Herod was worried about. His tomb was raided and his bones were not found.
May the rest of your life be long and in pain.
Sharon is experiencing the rewards of his betrayal - a living death for what he has done to the valiant, pioneering Jewish people.
May you share his fate!
COMMENTS BY EMANUEL WINSTON
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Israel long knew its kidnapped troops were dead/ Olmert dropped bombshell just before vote on prisoner-swap deal
By Aaron Klein Posted: July 10, 2008 12:00 am Easternhttp://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69213
Our people should sign up and go with them, preferably native Hebrew speakers, to ask questions such as "when did Jewish settlement here become illegal? (Was it illegal in the 1930's? Did it become illegal when the Arabs massacred the Jews and drove them out of Hebron, Gush Etzion, etc.? Did it become illegal when the Arabs insisted that the 1949 Armistice lines NOT be seen as international borders? Or when the PLO first declared the existence of a "Palestinian people" that was previously unheard of? Or how do we know the Arabs want peace with us and not just to take territory for nothing and then make war from the reduced borders which are far more difficult for Israel to defend? What indication have they given us? Statements in English to the Israeli and international media (which are entirely different from those they make on Arab media in Arabic)?
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Is the Sistine Chapel the site for the greatest subversive act in the history of art?
In the heart of the Vatican, the Sistine Chapel is the site of the conclave where every new pope is elected. It is without doubt the holiest chapel in the Christian world, and draws more than 4 million visitors per year. Most of the world knows it best for its magnificent frescoes painted by the great Renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarroti. What has remained a little-known secret, however, is that within this citadel of Christianity lies perhaps the greatest subversive act in the history of art.
Almost none of the visitors who enter the Sistine realize that they are gazing upon secret messages embedded by Michelangelo in his artistic masterpiece. They would certainly be surprised to learn that, in the pope's own chapel, Michelangelo employed these secret messages to advocate for a revolutionary change in Christianity's relationship to Judaism, and that the code itself was rooted in the Jewish tradition.
Michelangelo became fascinated with Midrash and Kabbalah as a teenager, studying with private tutors provided by his patron, Lorenzo de' Medici. Using his knowledge of Judaism and its mystical symbols, he later incorporated messages, via painted images, on the chapel's walls dangerously contrary to the teachings of the Church. In this way, he criticized the corrupt spiritual leadership of the time, and condemned the Church's failure to acknowledge its debt to Jewish origins.
Expressed 500 years before the more liberal contemporary theology of Pope John Paul II and "The Good Pope," John XXIII, discovery of his secret code and heretical views might have cost Michelangelo his life.
When I first heard these claims from Roy Doliner, a Jewish docent and scholar of the humanities who has been leading tours of the Sistine Chapel for close to a decade, I assumed they were too incredible to be true. Only after he shared with me his diligent research (after which I performed a great deal of scholarly sleuthing on my own) did I became thoroughly convinced of their legitimacy.I eventually co-authored a book with Roy, "The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican," which was released earlier this year. To our great delight, the book is already beginning to alter the way scholars interpret the work of Michelangelo, sparking vigorous, and sometimes heated, debate.
"Just as the work of Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel changed forever the world of art, so will this book change forever the way to view and, above all, to understand the work of Michelangelo," said Enrico Bruschini, official art historian for the U.S. Embassy in Rome and a leading expert on the art of Rome and the Vatican.
A true Renaissance man, Michelangelo was at home in philosophy as well as art; in Christian theology as well as Jewish mysticism. However, those who have studied his work in the past generally have not been conversant with the wide corpus of knowledge that forged him as an artist Most Sistine Chapel scholars were not well-versed in Judaism and Kabbalah; it was impossible for them to fully grasp the artist's allusions. By combining the scholarship of our respective fields, Roy and I, the docent and the Orthodox rabbi, were able to uncover secrets long buried in Michelangelo's frescos.
From the start, Michelangelo had a personal agenda different from that of his patron. In 1508, we know that Pope Julius II ordered Michelangelo to re-plaster and paint the crumbling ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, a demeaning job at that time for any great artist, and especially for Michelangelo, who detested painting and lived only to sculpt. The pope gave him a simple design, a very standard and banal layout of Jesus and Mary at the two ends of the ceiling, surrounded by the Apostles and a common design of geometric shapes in the center. The artist refused, and fought with the pope who, sick and distracted, finally let him develop his own plan.
Imagine the surprise of the pope and the viewers when the completed project was unveiled four and a half years later: Ninety-five percent of the Chapel was adorned with heroes and heroines of the Jewish Bible. The rest was filled with pagan sibyls and naked boys.
In the 12,000 square feet of the world's largest fresco, there was not a single Christian figure to be found. The only nod to the Gospels - and one of the ways Michelangelo managed to save both his life and the painting - was a barely-noticeable series of names of the Jewish ancestors of Jesus that do not even appear in chronological order. Why did Michelangelo disobey the pope in this way?
Michelangelo had a hidden agenda: to remind the Church that its roots were grounded in the Torah given to the Jewish people. This insight, which he inserted throughout his work, is only now beginning to receive attention in contemporary scholarship. It is also showing up in the popular media. Time magazine's March 24 cover story, "10 Ideas That Are Changing the World," singled out what scholars are now calling "Re-Judaizing Jesus" as the most powerful idea in the field of religion.
Michelangelo's frescos emphasize the universality of God and the kinship of all mankind by beginning the pictorial narrative with the Creation story of Genesis, not with the birth of Jesus. To a Church that preached exclusionism and stressed Divine love for only a limited number of His children, Michelangelo emphasized tolerance of all faiths, even the despised Jews of his time.
One fresco exemplifying this idea is the portrait of Aminadab, father of Nachshon, which appears above the elevated area where the pope sat on his throne. Hebrew scholars know that Aminadab's Hebrew name means, "from my people, a prince." But the Church interprets a "prince of the Jews" to refer directly to Jesus. Michelangelo positioned Aminadab, "Prince of the Jews," as surrogate for Jesus himself.
This is one of the extremely rare figures painted by Michelangelo sitting perfectly upright, looking forward, a signal by the artist that the figure is, indeed, noteworthy. Moreover, a bright yellow circle, a ring of cloth sewn onto a garment appears on Aminadab's upper left arm. (This detail was not revealed for modern audiences until the frescoes were restored in 2001.) This patch displays the badge of shame forced on the Jews of Europe by the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 and the Inquisition during the 15th Century. Here, directly over the head of the pope, the Vicar of Christ, Michelangelo was reminding the Church that Jesus was a Jew. He was condemning the Church for its shameful treatment of the Jews, from whom Jesus was born.
This was a courageous statement. His veiled messages were painted at a time when the Talmud and other Jewish sacred texts were being burned all over Europe, the Inquisition was operating at full strength and the Jewish people had just been expelled from Spain in 1492. Michelangelo had the courage to challenge the papal court, asking via the symbols of his painting, "Is this how you treat the very family of Our Lord?"
Michelangelo's contempt for the Church's treatment of Jews went further to insult the pope himself via an almost imperceptible gesture of Aminadab. Almost hidden in shadow, this surrogate for Jesus is subtly making "devil's horns" with his fingers, which point downward toward the very spot where Pope Julius' richly embroidered ceremonial canopy would have been, over the papal throne.
In somewhat similar manner, in another fresco placed over the original chapel portal through which Pope Julius entered, Michelangelo depicts the prophet Zechariah with the pope's own face. Over his shoulder one can see a little angel with his fingers curled in a way to make an obscene gesture known in Italy as "giving the fig."
In the symbolism of the Sistine Chapel frescoes, instead of shame and persecution, inclusiveness and acknowledgement of Divine Favor are the qualities Michelangelo advocates for the Church's treatment of the Jews. We have an even more powerful indication of Michelangelo's philo-Semitism in his later work, "The Last Judgment."
In it, a golden-haired angel robed in red poses directly over Jesus' head and points at two men within a group known as the "Righteous Souls," a collection of figures who represent those privileged to spend eternity in a state of bliss with Jesus as reward for their deeds on earth. Michelangelo portrays both of these men as Jews, a potentially blasphemous act. One wears the two-pointed cap that the Church forced Jewish males to wear to reinforce the medieval prejudice that Jews, being spawned of the Devil, had horns. This figure is shown speaking to the other older Jew as he points one finger upward, indicating the One-ness of God. The other figure wears a yellow cap of shame; during the 13th century, the Church ordered Jewish men in Italy to wear such caps in public. In front of the two figures, a woman, her hair modestly covered, whispers in the ear of a nude youth before her. The youth resembles Michelangelo's young tutor, Pico della Mirandola, who owned the largest Kabbalah library in the world at the time, and who taught the young artist secrets of Jewish mysticism as he infused within him a life-long respect for the Jewish people.
In granting Jews a place in heaven with Jesus, the 16th century Michelangelo took a then-blasphemous stand on an issue which still provokes heated debate among Christians in the 21st century. His depiction of those granted Divine Favor clearly contravened official Church doctrine, which maintained that Jews could never hope to have a Heavenly reward.
Michelangelo defined genius as "eternal patience." This year, the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo starting his work on the Sistine ceiling, we have finally "cracked" his "code," and his insights, ingeniously concealed in his work, can at last be heard.This article originally appeared in the World Jewish Digest.
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Author Biography:
Rabbi Benjamin Blech is the author of 12 highly acclaimed books, including Understanding Judaism: The basics of Deed and Creed. He is a professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University and the Rabbi Emeritus of Young Israel of Oceanside which he served for 37 years and from which he retired to pursue his interests in writing and lecturing around the globe. He is also the author of "If God is Good, Why is the World So Bad?"
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Obama replied: "You know, the truth is that this was an example where we had some poor phrasing in the speech. And we immediately tried to correct the interpretation that was given.
"The point we were simply making was, is that we don't want barbed wire running through Jerusalem, similar to the way it was prior to the '67 war, that it is possible for us to create a Jerusalem that is cohesive and coherent.
Sin of syntax
"I was not trying to predetermine what are essentially final status issues. I think the Clinton formulation provides a starting point for discussions between the parties.
"And it is an example of us making sure that we are careful in terms of our syntax. But the intention was never to move away from that basic, core idea that they -- that those parties are going to have to negotiate these issues on their own, with the strong engagement of the United States.
"And if you look at the overall tenor of that speech and what I've said historically about this issue, you know, Israel has an interest not just in bunkering down. [They've got to give in even more!] They've got to recognize that their long-term viability as a Jewish state is going to depend on their ability to create peace with their neighbors."
In the same speech to AIPAC, Obama said that he would never compromise on Israel's security and promised: "I will do everything in my power – everything – to ensure that Iran does not achieve a nuclear weapon." [How long before he decides to renege on this promise also? As soon as he's elected!]
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אתם תומכים בהתנחלויות? אתם מגדירים עצמכם כ"כתומים"? רוצים להתעמת עם "שלום עכשיו" ולהשפיע על יכולת ההסברה של ארגון השמאל הקיצוני?
אנא הצטרפו לסיורי "שלום עכשיו" באופן עצמאי. אנא השמיעו את דעותיכם למשתתפים האחרים. הפעילו דימיון בשעת ההרשמה, אל תפרטו יותר מדי מהיכן אתם, אל תפרטו את מניעיכם, פשוט "חסכו" במילים והצטרפו.
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