"WE PROTEST": Open protest letter from Jewish bloggers against the abomination parade planned for today in the holy city of Jerusalem by a shameless populace.

WE PROTEST

We, the undersigned Jewish bloggers, hereby protest – in the strongest terms possible – the parading and glorification of an “alternative lifestyle”, one that is classified in the Holy Torah as an abomination, especially through the streets of the holy city of Jerusalem.

The Torah demands that we live by a certain code of sexual morality, and as such, we are forbidden from certain relationships that a moral society cannot tolerate.  These include incest, adultery, bestiality, and homosexuality.  All these are considered grave sins in Judaism and incur the punishment of Karet, or excision from the Jewish people.  An act performed with witnesses during the time of the Sanhedrin would incur an even worse consequence – namely, capital punishment.

And this is only on an individual level.  When the sin is committed on a societal level, it is much worse.  The Torah and our sages record how these acts were catalysts for both the Great Flood during Noah’s lifetime and the destruction of the Five Cities of the Plain.

As such, we consider any attempt to glorify acts that the Torah vehemently forbids by parading any such lifestyle through the streets with horror and utter disdain.  Such parades in New York and San Francisco would be bad enough, but through the streets of the Holy Land of Israel is a thousand-fold worse.  The Torah specifically warns us not to act in sexually abominable ways lest we be vomited out of the land.  One can only imagine how it is viewed in Heaven when people brazenly display to G-d how abominable one can be.  And if the Land of Israel cannot tolerate such acts of utter gall, all the more so in the holy city of Jerusalem, a city that is overwhelmingly religious.

We in no way wish to minimize the struggles in temptation some may have in this area and view with positivity those who have such inclinations and bravely overcome them.  But those are not the people irreverently parading through the streets with rainbow flags, who show utter contempt for the Holy Torah and all we hold dear.

We therefore vehemently protest the “Pride” Parade in Jerusalem and everywhere else in the world where they may occur.  We hope and pray that those who take part in such parades do a complete Teshuva for their actions, and may we see a rebuilt Jerusalem, speedily in our days, Amen.

Signed,
(in alphabetical order)

CDG from Hava HaAharona

Cosmic X from Cosmic X in Jerusalem

Dassie from Myrtle Rising

Devash from Tomer Devorah

Dov Bar Leib from End of Days

DS from Israel Truth Times

Goldie ZP from Geula613

Rabbi Lazer Brody from Lazer Beams

Yaak from Yeranen Yaakov

Yechezkel Hirshman from Achas L'Maala V'Sheva L'Matta



COMMENT:

Oh, and by the way, if you read, by accessing the various labels below,  some of the articles I wrote in past years about the manipulations and shenanigans of the New Israel Fund, which is actually a front for the Ford Foundation, Yemach Shemam, you will see how involved they are in subverting Israel, our Divine mission and religion. Just today an article appeared on A7, which reveals the NIF's sneaky tactics, how they use the LGBT for their own means.... and to think our People falls for their dirty tricks?.... This is all so sickening! Great that at least there is now some small push back against this disgrace. Let the ball roll!

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/249892

HOW TO COUNTER THE TYPICAL "ISRAELI OCCUPATION"CANARD IN A FEW SHORT WORDS

Whenever you see or hear the phrase “Occupied Territories” you know that the writer/speaker is either totally ignorant of the reality of Israel, or – more likely – a pro-Arab-muslim propagandist (even if he/she is a noted journalist or a government or UN official!)

Here’s a summary of the legal situation involved. A more comprehensive treatment of the subject is available at the link below.

You should really understand the legalities involved to discuss the subject intelligently with anyone – especially with those (Jews, senators, presidents, editors, journalists, and others) who have an anti-Israel or Jew-hating bias. -- Allan





Why Is Israel's Presence in the Territories Still Called "Occupation"?

Avinoam Sharon - 16 JULY 2009 - JERUSALEM CENTER FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS

The full article is on our website: http://www.jcpa.org/


Executive Summary

* When an armed force holds territory beyond its own national borders, the term "occupation" readily comes to mind. However, not all the factual situations that we commonly think of as "occupation" fall within the limited scope of the term "occupation" as defined in international law. Not every situation we refer to as "occupation" is subject to the international legal regime that regulates occupation and imposes obligations upon the occupier.


* The term "occupation" is often employed politically, without regard for its general or legal meaning. The use of the term "occupation" in political rhetoric reduces complex situations of competing claims and rights to predefined categories of right and wrong. The term "occupation" is also employed in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to advance the argument that Israel bears ultimate responsibility for the welfare of the Palestinians, while limiting or denying Israel's right to defend itself against Palestinian terror, and relieving the Palestinian side of responsibility for its own actions and their consequences. The term is also employed as part of a general assault upon Israel's legitimacy, in the context of a geopolitical narrative that has little to do with Israel's status as an occupier under international law.

* Iraq was occupied by the Coalition forces from the spring of 2003 until June 28, 2004, at which time authority was handed over to the Iraqi Interim Government. At that point, Coalition forces remained in Iraq, but Iraq was no longer deemed occupied. If handing over authority to a Coalition-appointed interim government ended the occupation of Iraq, would the same not hold true for the establishment of the Palestinian Authority and Israel?

* Under the Interim Agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization of September 28, 1995, it would seem that at least those areas placed under the effective control of the Palestinian Authority, and from which Israel had actually withdrawn its military forces, could no longer be termed "occupied" by Israel. Moreover, since the continued presence of Israeli troops in the area was agreed to and regulated by the Agreement, that presence could no longer be viewed as an occupation.

* The withdrawal of all Israeli military personnel and any Israeli civilian presence in the Gaza Strip, and the subsequent ouster of the Palestinian Authority and the takeover of the area by a Hamas government, surely would constitute a clear end of the Israeli occupation of Gaza. Nevertheless, even though Gaza is no longer under the authority of a hostile army, and despite an absence of the effective control necessary for providing the governmental services required of an occupying power, it is nevertheless argued that Israel remains the occupying power in Gaza.

"For false words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

-- Plato, Phaedo

Sent by A.M.

Today's demonstration against the sick parade: UPDATE

UPDATE:

B"H

Hello everyone,

I don't remember when I have felt so bad....actually, yes, I do remember: last time I went to another one of these "GAY" parades, which to me, are the saddest thing in the world.
Every time I come back from one of those events, I am despondent, depressed, feel just terrible. I think other people who go there feel the same; I spoke to a friend of mine - she will recognize herself here, if she reads this - who reports that these parades make her weak and sick.

I understand this very well. It feels like a lost cause. You work, you work, you give your best.... and you see that the cancer is only growing, despite all your efforts. Of course we don't go there to participate but to oppose, to protest.

This time, the teeny tiny protest took place at Kikar Paris in Jerusalem. A tiny area, sort of cordoned off by a row of policemen, not too close this time. A few familiar faces - Baruch Marzel, Itamar Ben-Gvir ( Shifra had not informed me that those were the organizers, I am not sure I would have showed up if I had known in advance), a bunch of young boys with peyot, girls with Kahane shirts, a few older men... and SHIFRA. Besides myself, she was the only adult woman I saw there. It is really discouraging to think that Jews just stay home, and don't bother to physically show up, although I do understand to a certain degree: I think everybody feels the same way, that it is a lost cause.

But still, it is important to at least SHOW that we care. All the journalists whom I spoke with were discussing the parking lot issue on Shabbat, because that is the battle that the Haredim have decided to continue fighting. This battle they have abandoned.

I was interviewed by a number of journalists, AP, Reuters, Jerusalem Post.

The first journalist, a young woman from Reuters,- you can read a small portion of the interview below- kept asking me what I think of the Haredim not demonstrating this year, and what did I think of them creating a TENSION. I said that sometimes TENSION is necessary, justified, and therefore WELCOME; I gave as an example what is happening in Tehran. I think she understood the comparison just fine, and dropped the subject.

Then when it came time to discuss things with the Jerusalem Post, I decided to bypass the religious issue altogether, because I know that it is a BOUGHT NEWSPAPER - papal voice, so what's the point. So I focused on the MEDICAL aspect, the DEATH aspect, THE FORD FOUNDATION AND their $ 40 million grants to the New Israel Fund, which is behind this disgraceful circus. I explained to the journalists - and I think they were quite interested - that this is only one more aspect of the AGGRESSION of the Ford Foundation against Israel, that it leads to death, that we are foolishly cooperating with their evil scheme. A TIME magazine journalist was there too, who appeared gay himself. He questioned my remarks in an rejecting manner, and at first told me : let's NOT discuss the Ford Foundation. I retorted: oh YES, that is EXACTLY what we need to discuss. FOLLOW THE MONEY. If this money stopped coming, the whole thing would just dry out and die. He wanted actual proof of what I was saying, I referred him to this blog. I hope the blog doesn't FREEZE up on him too!

Then there was the issue of the SIGNS I was carrying, The one that made the most impression and right away drew attention to me, is the one I made as soon as I had arrived at Kikar Paris. The first thing that had caught my eye were the RAINBOW FLAGS ADORNING THE CITY. This is just such a shame: we placed the flag of ISRAEL when we conquered Har Habayit, and here the authorities are flying , honoring the colors of this ABOMINATION. This is a total disgrace.

So I composed a sign, which you can see here, held by a young man up high, which read: "NO FLAGS OF FAGS HERE" in red, surrounded by a black circle, with a black bar diagonally crossing it. It was done by hand and clumsy, but I felt it expressed my revulsion and outrage at this recurring parade of evil, right in the middle of Jerusalem.

I stayed there for a good 3 hours, until, as expected, trouble erupted between the police and the Marzel-Ben Gvir crowd. That is when I decided I had enough, and left. I read later that they had tried to bring two donkeys into Jerusalem streets, and the police didn't like it too much. ( By the way, I brought my signs from previous years; one year, I had focused heavily on bestiality, which is one of the things the Jerusalem Open House promotes, although they will not say so publicly. I know; I have PHYSICAL PROOF OF IT, and some people on this list have seen the proof with their own eyes.)

I did not want to go see the gays themselves, it was enough for me to stand far away and demonstrate. I had planned to go to the Kotel earlier as well , but traffic from Kiryat Arba was blocked, it was burning hot, and I also managed to have a car accident on the way there, with significant financial loss but no health consequence, thank G-d. BUT WHY? WHY TODAY? So I passed on that plan.

Before going to the demonstration, I was so grateful that today was also the Yahrzeit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. I felt that his Kedushah somehow counterbalanced this terrible Chillul Hashem being perpetrated in Jerusalem, in all our names.

What is going to become of us, tell me? We are going downhill so fast. People on the street, sweet faced girls, looking at my sign, said angrily, That's disgusting. THE NATION HAS BEEN COMPLETELY BRAINWASHED BY THESE PEOPLE. WHAT SHALL WE DO ?? I AM VERY, VERY DISCOURAGED AND DESPONDENT.

Just this week, an article appeared in one of the newspapers, describing how an Eli Raz , an archeologist, was SWALLOWED ALIVE BY THE EARTH IN EIN GEDI five years ago, rescued by miracle after being in a sinkhole for 14 hours. Ein Gedi, that is very close to Sodom... and just as we read PARSHAT KORACH.... I felt I had to stay clear of these people: what is going to happen to them? What is going to happen to us? At this point, there does not seem to be any answer from above; are WE wrong? Does Hashem really care one way or another?? I don't see any reaction, either way, not good, and not bad.

What do you say?

I am very troubled.

DS

PS:

Some media responses so far:

http://blogs.reuters.com/axismundi/2009/06/25/the-many-sides-of-jerusalems-gay-pride-parade/
.....

Across the street from the park, a small cluster of demonstrators gathered to protest the gay pride parade. Most offered rather extreme interpretations of the gravity of allowing the pride parade. Daisy Stern, [ OBVIOUSLY THE REPORTER DELIBERATELY OMITTED MY TITLE DOCTOR, WHICH I MENTIONED TO HER IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS. THAT IS AN INSULT ]holding a sign saying “No Flags of Fags Here”, said she was “protesting and fighting this horrible trend that persists in this city, which is funded and masterminded by our enemies who don’t want to see a Jewish land and this is a way to break our spirits”. One student, who joked he was protesting “to be a hardcore fundamentalist”, added: ” I’m not so much against the gay part , I’m protesting the pride part. The bible says homosexuality is an abomination. Only an abominable person would be proud about their homosexuality.” Some held up copies of the Torah, and signs offering help for homosexuals.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jzavXLpBsYW5F2lz_eBlh78Laa_w

One of my signs from earlier years:

Some held up banners that read: "Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve."

AND LOOK AT THIS ABOMINATION I FOUND, which shatters everything that has ever been dear to Jews all over the world for millenia:

http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/19132/

The sun was just beginning to sink into the Mediterranean as the couples took their places under the fluttering wedding canopy: three sets of brides and two sets of grooms.

In a nod to Jewish wedding tradition, a member of each couple stepped on a glass to seal the deal. Except in this wedding, the centuries-old words that finalize the Jewish marriage contract were uttered with a twist: "If I forget thee, O Tel Aviv, let my right hand wither, let my tongue cleave to my palate if I do not remember you, if I do not set Tel Aviv above my highest joy."

Replacing the traditional "Jerusalem" with "Tel Aviv" was a pronounced statement in Israel's first municipal gay-wedding ceremony and reflected the fact that it only could have taken place in Tel Aviv -- the most open and liberal of Israel's cities.

The wedding, although just symbolic because the marriages are not recognized by the state, was seen as a sign of how far Israel's gay community has come since its coming-out as a tiny movement in 1974, when a handful of activists wearing masks marched in front of Tel Aviv City Hall demanding equal rights.


Some comments:

1. From Rabbi Dov:

Dear Daisy

I am full of respect and honor to your demonstration. As you know if a woman is raped by some one and she does not cry her husband has to divorce from her. But if she cry then it is a rape. We are G-D's woman. We are raped by CFR all the nations the Vatican and so on. The fact that there are Jews protesting shows to G-D that we were raped. It was not with our will. I planed to come to the demonstration but another national issue appeared that needed my attention.

Never the less YISHAR COACH

Dov


From bill:

EVERY GOOD EFFORT BEARS FRUIT AND IS REWARDED, SOONER OR LATER. (THE OLD REBBES OF GER)


From Zerach:

Whatever happens today will be overshadowed in history by the deaths of Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson.

From Bruce:


All things are for a blessing... even if we, with our myopic vision can't perceive how at this moment or from our vantage point. Just keep that in mind and don't fret. You're doing what you feel you must and just trust in the Grand Orchestrator: He has it all under control.
When are we going to Gemorrah for brimstone?
Now THAT would be a great response: BRIMSTONE FROM GEMORRAH.

Yah's best,
--bruce

DS: Since our enemies try to COVER UP THE TRUTH, literally - by covering up this post with CENSURING BLACK, the cowards, I have not choice but to POST the WHOLE THING, ONE MORE TIME. SO HERE IT IS:

B"H

Hello everyone,

I don't remember when I have felt so bad....actually, yes, I do remember: last time I went to another one of these "GAY" parades, which to me, are the saddest thing in the world.
Every time I come back from one of those events, I am despondent, depressed, feel just terrible. I think other people who go there feel the same; I spoke to a friend of mine - she will recognize herself here, if she reads this - who reports that these parades make her weak and sick.

I understand this very well. It feels like a lost cause. You work, you work, you give your best.... and you see that the cancer is only growing, despite all your efforts. Of course we don't go there to participate but to oppose, to protest.

This time, the teeny tiny protest - a few pictures taken, that you probably saw already - took place at Kikar Paris in Jerusalem. A tiny area, sort of cordoned off by a row of policemen, not too close this time. A few familiar faces - Baruch Marzel, Itamar Ben-Gvir ( Shifra had not informed me that those were the organizers, I am not sure I would have showed up if I had known in advance), a bunch of young boys with peyot, and girls with Kahane shirts, a few older men... and SHIFRA. Besides myself, she was the only adult woman I saw there. Really discouraging to think that Jews just stay home, and don't bother to physically show up, although I do understand to a certain degree: I think everybody feels the same way, that it is a lost cause.

But still, it is important to at least SHOW that we care. All the journalists who I spoke with were discussing the parking lot issue on Shabbat, because that is the battle that the haredim have decided to continue. This battle they have abandoned.

I was interviewed by a number of journalists, AP, Reuters, Jerusalem Post. I don't know if any of those interviews will see the light of day, I don't really care, I did what I had to do.

The first journalist, a young woman from Reuters, kept asking me what I think of the haredim not demonstrating this year, and what did I think of them creating a DISTURBANCE. I said that sometimes disturbances are necessary, justified, and therefore WELCOME; I gave as an example what is happening in Tehran. I think she understood the comparison just fine.

Then when it came time to discuss things with the Jerusalem Post, I decided to bypass the religious issue altogether, because I know that it is a BOUGHT NEWSPAPER - papal voice, so what's the point. So I focused on the MEDICAL aspect, the DEATH aspect, THE FORD FOUNDATION AND their 40 million $ grants to the New Israel Fund, which is behind this disgraceful circus. I explained to the journalists - and I think they were quite interested - that this is only one more aspect of the AGGRESSION of the Ford Foundation against Israel, that it leads to death, that we are foolishly cooperating with their evil scheme. A TIME magazine journalist was there too, who appeared gay himself. He questioned my remarks in an rejecting manner, and at first told me , let's NOT discuss the Ford Foundation. I retorted: oh YES, that is EXACTLY what we need to discuss. FOLLOW THE MONEY. If this money stopped coming, the whole thing would dry out and die. He wanted actual proof of what I was saying, I referred him to this blog. I hope the blog doesn't FREEZE on him too!

Then there was the issue of the SIGNS I was carrying, The one that made the most impression and right away drew attention to me, is the one I made as soon as I arrived at Kikar Paris. The first thing that had caught my eye was the RAINBOW FLAGS ADORNING THE CITY. This is just such a shame. We placed the flag of ISRAEL when we conquered Har Habayit, and here the authorities are flying , honoring the colors of this ABOMINATION. This is a total disgrace.

So I composed a sign, which hopefully you are able to see, which said: "NO FLAGS OF FAGS HERE" in red, surrounded by a black circle, with a black bar diagonally crossing it. It was done by hand and clumsy, but I felt it expressed my revulsion and outrage at this recurring parade of evil right in the middle of Jerusalem.

I stayed there for a good 3 hours, until, as expected, trouble erupted between the police and the Marzel-BenGvir crowd. That is when I decided I had enough, and left. I read later that they had tried to bring two donkeys into Jerusalem street, and the police didn't like it too much. ( By the way, I brought my signs from previous years; one year, I had focused heavily on bestiality, which is one of the things they promote, although they will not say so publicly. I know; I have PHYSICAL PROOF OF IT, and some people on this list have seen the proof with their own eyes.)

I did not want to go see the gays themselves, it was enough for me to stand far away and demonstrate. I had planned to go to the Kotel too earlier , but traffic from Kiryat Arba was blocked, it was burning hot, and I also managed to have a car accident on the way there, with significant financial loss but no health consequence, thank G-d. BUT WHY? WHY TODAY? So I passed on that plan.

Before going to the demonstration, I was so grateful that today was also the Yahrzeit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. I felt that his Kedusha somehow counterbalanced this terrible Chillul Hashem being perpetrated in Jerusalem, in all our names.

What is going to become of us, tell me? We are going downhill so fast. People on the street, sweet faced girls, looking at my sign, said angrily, That's disgusting. THE NATION HAS BEEN COMPLETELY BRAINWASHED BY THESE PEOPLE. WHAT SHALL WE DO ?? I AM VERY, VERY DISCOURAGED AND DESPONDENT.

Just this week, an article appeared in one of the newspapers, describing how Eli Raz , an archeologist, was SWALLOWED ALIVE BY THE EARTH IN EIN GEDI five years ago, rescued by miracle after being in a sink hole for 14 hours. Ein Gedi, that is very close to Sodom... and just as we read PARSHAT KORACH.... I felt I had to stay clear of these people: what is going to happen to them? What is going to happen to us? At this point, there does not seem to be any answer from above; are WE wrong? Does Hashem really care one way or another?? I don't see any reaction, either way, not good, and not bad.

What do you say?

I am very troubled.

DS