tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150871892011-07-08T03:27:52.775+03:00The term "Amkha Yisrael" refers to the "common folk" of the nation of Israel. These posts are meant to inject a little common sense, with a lot of uncommon knowledge, into the debates surrounding Israel and the Middle East.NRKnoreply@blogger.comBlogger521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15087189.post-28076992198668230472009-07-30T15:50:00.003+03:002009-07-30T16:49:56.479+03:00

Kinana, Safiya, Rayhana, Kab, and thousands upon thousands more whose names were not recorded.... Al eileh ani bochiya - For these, too, I shed tears....Compiled by Nissan Ratzlav-KatzFrom Sahih Bukhari, a collection of Muslim oral teachings, Vol. 4, Book 53, hadith no. 392: Narrated Abu Huraira: While we were in the mosque, the Prophet came out and said, "Let us go to the Jews." We went out till

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The new Christian calendar year is as good an opportunity as any to review the history of Palestine from the civil calendar year 1 through the end of 2008 CE.From 1 to 136 CE the people of Judea - called "Jews" in modern English - struggled on and off against imperial rule of their nation by the Romans. Jewish sovereignty in what the Romans later renamed "Palaestina" was finally destroyed with

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Just a reminder of the clarity we need today.Years before the Balfour Declaration, a member of the House of Lords asked Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, "Why do you Jews insist on Palestine when there are so many undeveloped countries you could settle in more conveniently?"Weizmann replied: "That is like me asking you why you drove twenty miles to visit your mother last Sunday when there are so

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In a conversation with a European friend of mine recently, he commented about the apparent intense efforts made by the EU media to downplay the Mumbai Massacre, which took the lives of nearly 200 people. Yet, here in Israel there was extensive coverage (and still is).Even aside from the fact that Jews were specifically targeted in the Chabad House, there is another factor that draws our acute

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24 Sivan 5768 - Welcome, blogospheroids, to the Quotes and Notes Corner. I will be using this space to present interesting historical and current items for you to clip 'n save. I hope it will be valued by my fellow news junkies, by history buffs, or by intellectual warriors in search of deadly ammunition.For the first Quotes and Notes Corner in history, I'd like to quote from the official Fatah

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According to the latest lunacy out of academia, Jewish soldiers don't rape Arab women because we are racists and see them as sub-humans.Yeah. And if we truly respected the Arabs' common humanity, then we would treat them like their brothers do - like the Lebanese army indiscriminately bombed Nahr Al-Bard to crush a terrorist group headquartered there or like the Syrian army turned Hama into a

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Two terrorists who murdered 37 people last week in a double suicide bombing attack had been released from prison in a good will amnesty some time ago. Neither of the two men fell under the category of prisoners "with blood on their hands."Could the two men described above be from the Palestinian Authority? Could their victims be Israelis?Definitely.However, that particular news item about "

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This week saw at least three events that stood out for their level of inanity, insanity and portending calamity.Vatican City Must Abandon Its Christian CharacterThe first item that caught my eye this week - and knocked me off my chair for its sheer ridiculousness - was the statement by Roman Catholic Archbishop Michel Sabbah on Wednesday that a state defined as Jewish is unacceptable and should

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As written and designed by talented columnist and artist, Golan Heights pioneer and defender of the faith, Ellen Horowitz.

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In psychology, "projection" is defined as assigning to others one's own thoughts and feelings, especially those thoughts and feelings perceived as socially unacceptable. Might a whole society suffer from a serious projection problem?The Plot to Take Over the WorldOn October 22, 2007, a Lebanese television station carried a report on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. No, it was not an expose -

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Anarchists, far-leftists, Palestinian Authority Arabs and associated supporters of terrorism blocked Route 443 this morning. The four-lane, two-way divided highway connects the city of Modiin and Jerusalem, as well as feeding into a major expressway taking travelers from Jerusalem all the way to Tel Aviv. 443 is also the only direct access route for residents of the Binyamin region wishing to

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A Saturday night entry by my fellow Arutz Sheva blogger Tzvi Fishman reminded me of the wisdom of children who receive an authentic Jewish education - and the idiocy of the adults who have taken leave of their own education and common sense.In his latest blog entry, Fishman describes a meeting he had with the late Torah giant Rabbi Avraham Elkana Kahane Shapira. He asked Rabbi Shapira if it was

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Jews living in foreign countries are often subject to (or at least think they are subject to) suspicions of dual loyalty. Yet, brandishing a charge of "dual loyalty" as a weapon actually makes no sense. Everyone has multiple loyalties - to God, family, country, coreligionists, baseball team, AA group... whatever. But if an anti-Semite speaks of "dual loyalty" in reference to Jews, then what he

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Two items that appeared in the Middle Eastern press this week are perfect specimens of the rampant and rabid paranoid anti-Jewish incitement, coupled with avoidance of responsibility, in the Muslim world. The more entertaining of the two items concerned the world-renowned Hogwarts student of magic, Harry Potter. Yes, that Harry Potter. What, Islamic fundamentalists are not allowed to cash in on

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Call me a cynic, or say that I am jumping the gun here, but now that Hamas has apparently fully taken control of Gaza - with Fatah men running for the borders with Egypt and Israel, or even fleeing into the Mediterranean Sea - I think we can all learn one critically important lesson.No, not that expelling Jews from parts of the Land of Israel will only make things worse in every respect for

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Recent reports from that bastion of Arab democracy, the pride of former US President Jimmy Carter, the Palestinian Authority, indicate that the race between the duly elected Hamas party and its rival, the moderate Fatah party, is heating up. The campaign trail, as many politicians know, can be murder.Why, just yesterday (Monday), Fatah candidates launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister

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In contrast to Ezra Halevi's article "Public Figures Express Regret For Disengagement," I would like to now finally come out of the closet and very strongly advocate "disengagement," the uprooting of settlements in Gaza.The arguments in favor of "disengagement" in Gaza are clear; they have been stated already many times by Israeli leaders and other left-wing thinkers.Announcing the "disengagement

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A caravan of cars set off from Modiin to Sderot on Tuesday. It took us a long time to get there, but the drive normally takes just a bit more than an hour (when you're not in a convoy....).One hour away from us, there are thousands of Jews under enemy rocket fire. And we worry about.... what?I experienced what it means to be in Sderot when a Kassam hits and I saw some of the destruction. I

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The IDF has publicly informed all Hamas terrorists how to activate an anti-IDF force field that is more powerful even than the one around the starship Enterprise. That force field would inevitably fail in every other episode of the Star Trek television show, only to be repaired in the nick of time by Chief Engineer Scott.But the force field that the IDF spokesperson granted to the Hamastanian

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According to Arutz Sheva's Gil Ronen, Defense Minister Amir Peretz told Israel Radio that responding to Palestinian Authority artillery attacks on Sderot and other Negev towns by cutting off fuel, water, electricity and communications in Gaza, "would cause the entire Palestinian population to unite around Hamas."I have four brief comments on this latest insane statement by our venerated and

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20 Iyar 5767 / May 8, 2007It is banal to say that Israel is facing a major crisis in leadership these days. Elections alone cannot resolve it. An investigative commission of our political and security leaders - no matter how thorough in its recommendations - cannot resolve it. Mass resignations cannot resolve it (although I'd personally settle for that as a temporary salve).To truly be a leader

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In a report by Ezra HaLevi today, a Hamas spokesman is reported to have delivered a sermon in which he called for genocide of the Jews. The sermon, by Dr. Ismail Radwan, was broadcast on Palestinian Authority-controlled television.As Ezra wrote, Radwan's call is indeed classic Hamas ideology. But they claim to be religious Muslims, so their spokespeople and their founding covenant, which includes

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In The Jewish State, the great Zionist leader and thinker Theodor Herzl made two qualified predictions that have proven utterly incorrect.Regarding the Jewish Diaspora, he wrote, "[The] absorption of Jews by means of their prosperity is unlikely to occur."Sadly, assimilation seems to be very advanced in the United States, where Jews are, as a group, arguably the most prosperous they have ever

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In 2004, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Chief Rabbi of Tzfat and son of former Israeli Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, advised against the sale or rent of an apartment in Israel to Arabs. Earlier, following a terrorist attack in the Tzfat region in which several Arab Israeli students were indirectly involved, he had called for barring Arabs from the Tzfat College.Rabbi Eliyahu was indicted for racist

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28 Adar 5767 / March 18, 2007Surprise! Israel's new Minister of Science, Culture and Sport, Raleb Majadele of the Labor party, refuses to sing our national anthem.You see, our national anthem, HaTikvah ("The Hope"), expresses the idea that a Jewish State in the Land of Israel is the fulfillment of a dream of 2,000 years. It is a most succinct encapsulation of what this Jewish, Zionist state of

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23 Adar 5767, 3/12/2007The world continues in its upside-down and inside-out trajectory. You gotta love G-d's sense of humor.According to the Jerusalem Post, Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, head of the ZAKA emergency response organization - and a former spokesman for the Eida Chareidit, that ultra-Orthodox group that promotes a distinctly anti- or non-Zionist religious stance - beat up one of the Neturei

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My latest posting on the Israel National News "Back to Sanity" blog (11 Adar 5767, 3/1/2007): "...as when a man riseth against his neighbor, and slayeth him, even so is this matter." (Deuteronomy 22:26, in reference to rape)A six-member Arab Bedouin gang was recently arraigned on charges of systematically kidnapping and raping at least four Jewish girls in the Galilee. Three more suspects were

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My latest posting on the Israel National News "Back to Sanity" blog (4 Adar 5767): On Tuesday, Palestinian Authority terrorists attempted to blow up Jews in Tel Aviv's central bus station. When the would-be bombers were captured, the Islamic Jihad announced that it was to be their operation and it is part of a renewed bombing campaign they're calling "Winter Thaw". They threaten many more attacks

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My latest posting on the Israel National News "Back to Sanity" blog: 28 Shevat 5767, 2/16/2007Do I tell him or not? Will he hear about it from some other source or not? And if I do tell him, what do I say? Do we discuss his feelings?That was part of my internal debate when I heard about Arabs (and perhaps non-Arab supporters) uprooting thousands of trees planted by children from the B'nei Akiva

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Lebanese hope that Hezbollah will be completely wiped out.By Nissan Ratzlav-KatzIn an interview on July 19 with Israel National Radio’s Tovia Singer, Etienne Sakr (a.k.a. “Abu Arz”), a former south Lebanese army officer and leader of the Guardians of the Cedars militia, called on Israel to press ahead until it gains victory in its offensive against Hezbollah. He said that Israel must not allow

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From the pen of David Ashley, Israel: "When you go out to war against your enemies...." (Ki Tetzei, Deuteronomy 21:10) Upon which verse the Sifri comments (Shoftim 192): "Against your enemies and not your brothers.... Against your enemies you are going out, for if you fall into their hands, they will have no mercy on you." "He who is merciful to the cruel will end up being cruel to the merciful."

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by David Ashley Mamlachtiut is a difficult Hebrew word to translate. It can be understood as statism, but that has certain negative connotations that advocates of mamlachtiut certainly do not intend. Perhaps, statesmanship is closer, but that is a word to describe diplomats and national leaders, not the relationship between the citizen and the state. Mamlachtiut is a word current in religious

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It is an axiom I developed that states: "Anti-Semitism makes you stupid." I have seen it proven time and time again. Such as when a poll of Arabs in the Palestinian Authority showed that most respondents felt the terrorist war on Israel had made life worse for them, but the overwhelming majority of the respondents also replied that they supported continued terrorist attacks on the Jews. Most

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"It is not a foreign land we have taken, nor is it over strangers' property we have ruled; rather, it is our inheritance that was illegally conquered at one time, and when we were able to do so, we returned it to our possession." Thus replied Shimon the Hashmonai, one of the brothers leading the rebellion that became known as Chanukah, to an envoy of King Antiochus IV who had demanded that the

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In an important news report on Arutz Sheva - Israel National News, correspondent Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu reveals the latest lie our government - including its "military wing" - is trying to sell the public ahead of upcoming national elections. Excerpts from the report: IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz said Thursday terrorism has gone down since the expulsion and withdrawal from Gaza and northern Samaria,

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As if we needed it, evidence of the intentions of the Arabs in the Palestinian Authority - across the board - was presented in several recent news reports. Hamas Campaign Calls for Destroying Israel 18:47 Dec 12, '05 / 11 Kislev 5766(IsraelNN.com) According to the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) organization, a new Hamas campaign video declares that it will not give up its armed struggle until

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The "Israel and Occupied Territories" chapter in the US State Department's 2005 International Religious Freedom Report "expands its criticisms of Israel's treatment of non-Orthodox Jewish denominations, and places Israel on notice that the United States is monitoring its treatment of other minorities, including 'messianic Jews' and faiths practiced by guest workers," according to this report by

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In a report filed by Scott Shiloh for the Israel National News web site a description of the elimination of two major Arab terrorists in an Israeli air strike included the following few informative paragraphs: Two major Arab terrorists were killed Tuesday afternoon when Israeli Air Force planes fired a missile at a car in the town of Jebalia in Gaza.One of the terrorists, Hassan Al Madhun, was

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The Israeli High Court of Justice has forbidden IDF soldiers from asking Arab neighbors of terrorists to go into the house where a known terrorist is hiding in order to warn innocents that the soldiers are outside and to ask the terrorist to give up. The justices put forward some very interesting arguments in support of their determination in this case, which leads me to some follow-up questions

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Happy New Year to all my readers. G'mar Chatimah Tovah!May 5766 be a year of going from strength to strength for you, me, Israel and all the good people in the world. You know who you are.

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Today, for the most part, the Likud has all but ceased being a party and has become a personality cult. The party's Central Committee today voted to maintain in power a man who has acted contrary to every critical foreign policy decision of the Likud membership; a man who lost a referendum on his policies within his own party and went on to implement them anyway.Those who voted to leave Ariel

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The images of Islamist terrorists dancing on, burning down or praying in defiled synagogues in what was Gush Katif and northern Samaria cause feelings of rage in the hearts of most patriotic Jews. Personally, Islamist terrorists and their supporters celebrating the defeat (even if it was self-inflicted) of the Jews is enough to make me physically ill.Even before the latest humiliation in Gaza,

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Saw this on TV on September 18th, allegedly filmed unbeknownst to those involved: A protest against the security fence in a local Arab village. Arabs are inside a locked mosque courtyard. They call out to a Jewish soldier of Ethiopian origin through the gate: "Hey, nigger. Hey, nigger. What are you doing? You have no rights... This is a mosque!" Soldier: "Who are you calling nigger?!" Then,

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Which is more pro-Israel - Israel TV's Channel One, Israel's Yediot Acharonot newspaper or the Los Angeles Times?Hint: One of them had a long piece September 9th describing how footage from a Netzarim intersection five years ago, purporting to show the shooting death of a boy named Muhammad A-Dura at the hands of the Israelis, was faked. The other two media outlets carried interviews with

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"The evacuation of settlements in the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank, as well as recent Jewish terrorist attacks in Shfaram and the West Bank have left relations between Jews and Arabs particularly fragile." -- from Haaretz online newspaper, at the end of a story about a couple being sentenced for throwing a pig's head at a mosque.That's Haaretz's disgustingly obsequious, dhimmi, galut,

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The Gaza BetrayalBy Nissan Ratzlav-KatzFrontPageMagazine.com August 29, 2005In almost every news story or political commentary show aired of late, the same lie has been consistently repeated: that the majority of the Israeli people were in favor of the Disengagement Plan. In truth, every time the question of ceding to the Arabs those areas of Judea, Samaria and Gaza settled by Israelis was made a

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True story: A young soldier comes to throw a family out of its home in Gush Katif. The soldier, coming in contact with the family, begins to sob. The lady of the house, soon to be expelled, comforts the soldier: "Don't worry about me. I'll be alright. But what's going to become of our country?" 'Nuff said.

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In "Stripped", by Yossi Klein Halevi, appearing in The New Republic, there is this line: "...the untenability of maintaining 8,000 settlers in a war zone surrounded by a million Palestinians..." This is what drives me nuts. Gush Katif was one territorial unit, further from Gaza City than Sderot (in the Negev) is from Gaza City. The northern Gaza settlements had no Arabs between them and the

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How many times can a person be surprised? Really. I listened to the Israeli media reporting on the evacuation of the Jewish towns of Gaza and northern Samaria, and I noticed that every time they had finished describing the evacuation of one place, they began talking about the next target in apocalyptic terms. Along the lines of, 'Sure, we were surprised that there was no violence here, but the

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The state of Israeli democracy. Remember, no one banned Women in Black from their protests *against* Jewish residency in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. No one stopped them from wearing black articles of clothing......4 August 2005 Beit El Couple Arrested for Talking Disengagement29 July 2005 Azriel Shopping Center Bars Orange Clad Group Entry28 July 2005 Referendum Coordinator Arrested and Released20

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[This article appeared on Arutz Sheva-Israel National News at http://www.israelnn.com/article.php3?id=4809]A Lengthy RedemptionDavid AshleyInasmuch as current events in Israel are, indeed, confusing and bewildering, I sympathize with Rabbi Shlomo Crandall's "Confessions of a Confused Religious Zionist". I would like, however, to offer a different point of view on religious Zionism at this time of

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The Jewish world is now in a period known as "Bein HaMeitzarim" or the "Three Weeks", which lead into Tisha B'Av. Tisha B'Av, a fast day, commemorates the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem and the loss of Jewish sovereignty over the Land of Israel.So, what is it called when Jews voluntarily relinquish sovereignty over parts of the Land of Israel?Disengagement.And is that worse or better

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