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Chabad Rabbi Herbst Detained By Israeli Police
According to Honenu’s report, Hanan Herbst and his family spent the past six months operating a Chabad House – teaching and also running a kosher restaurant for the benefit of Jews traveling in the area, the city of Dharamsala, India, a spiritual and mystical center which attracts a large number of travelers from all over the world, among them many Jews.
On Thursday morning, the family landed at the Ben-Gurion airport where an unpleasant surprise awaited them. Airport police informed Harbest that the National Unit for Serious and International Crime Investigations had declared him “wanted for an interrogation” which is why he was being detained. After a short discussion, Herbst learned that the investigation concerned the publication of articles supposedly calling for violence, in “HaKol HaYehudi” (“The Jewish Voice”) more than a year ago.
“HaKol HaYehudi” is a right wing publication focusing on providing an alternative to Israel’s mainstream media for news and opinion. The publication has been under widespread investigation for about a year, including raids on its offices, confiscation of equipment and arrests of staff members.
Last week, two Yitzhar residents were summoned to the offices of the National Unit for Serious and International Crime Investigations for an interrogation concerning the publication of articles in “HaKol HaYehudi” which supposedly incited to violence.
In negotiations with Honenu attorney Adi Kedar the National Unit for Serious and International Crime Investigations agreed that Herbst would report of his own volition to an interrogation this coming Sunday and that he and his family would be free to return home.
Back in 2006, Hanan Herbst was among 19 Jews from various outposts in the Yitzhar area of Samaria who received administrative orders over the Sukkot holiday ordering them to leave their homes, and in some cases all of Judea and Samaria, for periods ranging from three months to a year.
Previous charges against the 19 were quite minor, ranging from blocking traffic in protest of government policy to preventing a police officer from carrying out his duty. But the GSS at the time was said to have provided secret information about the 19 harboring “secret, violent plans against Arabs or Arab property.”
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Shaliach Detained By Israeli Immigration Police For Protesting Disengagement
Shaliach Active In Shleimus Haaretz Harrassed By Police Chabad Emissary Held at Ben-Gurion; Police Crack Down on ‘Right Wing Publication' Rabbi Hanan Herbst, a Chabad emissary and resident of Ma’ale Levona in the Binyamin region who returned with his wife and children Thursday morning from half a year of outreach work in India, was arrested at Ben-Gurion airport in Lod. After negotiations between the police and a Honenu attorney the emissary was released. Honenu is a not-for-profit legal aid organization
According to Honenu’s report, Hanan Herbst and his family spent the past six months operating a Chabad House – teaching and also running a kosher restaurant for the benefit of Jews traveling in the area, the city of Dharamsala, India, a spiritual and mystical center which attracts a large number of travelers from all over the world, among them many Jews.
On Thursday morning, the family landed at the Ben-Gurion airport where an unpleasant surprise awaited them. Airport police informed Harbest that the National Unit for Serious and International Crime Investigations had declared him “wanted for an interrogation” which is why he was being detained. After a short discussion, Herbst learned that the investigation concerned the publication of articles supposedly calling for violence, in “HaKol HaYehudi” (“The Jewish Voice”) more than a year ago.
“HaKol HaYehudi” is a right wing publication focusing on providing an alternative to Israel’s mainstream media for news and opinion. The publication has been under widespread investigation for about a year, including raids on its offices, confiscation of equipment and arrests of staff members.
Last week, two Yitzhar residents were summoned to the offices of the National Unit for Serious and International Crime Investigations for an interrogation concerning the publication of articles in “HaKol HaYehudi” which supposedly incited to violence.
In negotiations with Honenu attorney Adi Kedar the National Unit for Serious and International Crime Investigations agreed that Herbst would report of his own volition to an interrogation this coming Sunday and that he and his family would be free to return home.
Back in 2006, Hanan Herbst was among 19 Jews from various outposts in the Yitzhar area of Samaria who received administrative orders over the Sukkot holiday ordering them to leave their homes, and in some cases all of Judea and Samaria, for periods ranging from three months to a year.
Previous charges against the 19 were quite minor, ranging from blocking traffic in protest of government policy to preventing a police officer from carrying out his duty. But the GSS at the time was said to have provided secret information about the 19 harboring “secret, violent plans against Arabs or Arab property.”
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Rabbi Yakov D. Cohen of Noahide.org
"Land For Rockets" - Peace Process Is A War Process
Interview with Director of AFSI Helen Freedman, Mark Langfan and Sara Krasner Helen Freedman, director of "Americans for a Safe Israel": The leadership is not talking about Biblical entitlement, this is the problem. Helen Friedman is a frequent commentator and protester of Israel's policies to give away land for peace. Attorney Mark Langfan is a frequent speaker and expert who is asked to provide documentation of the fraility of giving land for peace. Mark has developed a presentation on the subject and is asked to speak around the country, at one point even testifying before congress. Sara Krasner brought out the main points of Chabad experience in protesting Land for Peace. These are based on the Lubavitcher Rebbe's halachic viewpoint that Land for Peace is bad simply because it puts Jews in danger. A situation which Jewish Law forbids. Here she points out, each piece of land given only increased terror against Jews in Israel. Rabbi Yakov Cohen is a noted author and promoter of the Noahide legal system called: "The Noahide Laws" or "Seven Commandments of the sons of Noah". The Noahide laws are the original belief system that was established when Noah (called: "Noach" in Hebrew) came out of the Ark with his wife Na'amah and sons Shem, Yafes and Cham after the great flood. Rabbi Cohen and his organization use Noahide.org to educate the non-Jewish public in the original system of belief in G-d. Click Here To See Rabbi Cohen's Noahide Website "noahide.org". Rabbi Ben-Tzion Krasniansky - Chabad of Upper East Side
Ariel Sharon: "The Fate of Gush Katif is the fate of Tel Aviv"
It proves the power of propaganda--how people will parrot nonsense without realizing the foolishness of the argument. There are 20,000 Jews living in Berlin amongst 3.6 million Germans. No one would dare suggest that we should expel the Jews from Berlin because they may be a provocation to 3.6 million Germans. So let's get this straight. A Jew is allowed to live in Berlin, a Jew is allowed in Moscow, in Melbourne and in Shanghai. The only place in the world a Jew is not allowed to live, is in Israel! Why? Because Arabs living in Gaza hate Jews too much to tolerate the sight of a single Jew before their eyes. Accomodating The Hatred Of Jews?
It defies belief that the government of Israel is doing all this to accommodate the hatred of Jews Israel is planning to evacuate the dead as well as the living, because Arab savages torched the grave of the biblical Joseph in Shechem (Nablus) which was handed over to Palestinian control under the Oslo accords. So Israel doesn't trust that they will not desecrate the dead buried in Gaza. It defies belief that the government of Israel is doing all this to accommodate Arab hatred of Jews. The Rebbe's Idea: Peace through Strength
A wise man once quipped: It's easier to take the Jew out of exile than to take the exile out of the Jew. Click Here To Read Article
Ariel Sharon: "The Fate of Gush Katif is the fate of Tel Aviv"
Peace Through Strength
It proves the power of propaganda--how people will parrot nonsense without realizing the foolishness of the argument. There are 20,000 Jews living in Berlin amongst 3.6 million Germans. No one would dare suggest that we should expel the Jews from Berlin because they may be a provocation to 3.6 million Germans. So let's get this straight. A Jew is allowed to live in Berlin, a Jew is allowed in Moscow, in Melbourne and in Shanghai. The only place in the world a Jew is not allowed to live, is in Israel! Why? Because Arabs living in Gaza hate Jews too much to tolerate the sight of a single Jew before their eyes. Accomodating The Hatred Of Jews?
It defies belief that the government of Israel is doing all this to accommodate the hatred of Jews Israel is planning to evacuate the dead as well as the living, because Arab savages torched the grave of the biblical Joseph in Shechem (Nablus) which was handed over to Palestinian control under the Oslo accords. So Israel doesn't trust that they will not desecrate the dead buried in Gaza. It defies belief that the government of Israel is doing all this to accommodate Arab hatred of Jews. The Rebbe's Idea: Peace through Strength
A wise man once quipped: It's easier to take the Jew out of exile than to take the exile out of the Jew. Click Here To Read Article
Seven Years Ago - A Step Back In History
Beis Din Chabad Declares Half Day Fast
In 2005, a few months before Gush Katif happened, the Chabad Rabbinical Court in Israel proclaimed Thursday 6 Adar II (March 17) as Half-Day Fast in wake of the government's decree to expell Jews from their homes. Anash all over were requested to fast a half day or more on this day accepting the fast in the Mincha Services a day before (on Wednesday).
Chabad On Campus
Yale University's "Eliezer" - Excellent Forum For The Rebbe's Views On Israel
Yale is a serious place, though Shmully is nothing if not charismatic, a storyteller who makes Jewish religion come alive in that immediate, ecstatic Chabad manner. He said that he had also befriended Richard Goldstone since the incident at Yale's McMillan Center and he thought Goldstone was a fine man. Shmully loves to joke around about anything but the Jewish nation. 
Shmully said that I was wrong about the occupation. That land was bought by Jews. It belonged to us. Abraham had bought Hebron to bury Sarah. It’s in the Bible. All of Eretz Israel is the Jews’. He said that some people were afraid of the idea that Jews have guns now. We didn’t use to have guns. Now we do. Nothing would change if Jews left the West Bank. We had left Gaza and nothing had changed. There were just rockets.
Ben introduced me with a spiritual lesson. He said that there was a deep divide in the Jewish community and it shouldn’t be there. There were people like myself who felt righteous about being outcast. It reminded him of the urban renewal project in New Haven. It had cut a deep divide in the community.
Rebbitzin Toby Hecht was also tough on me. She leaned across the table to speak directly and familiarly. She used the word my mother has used with me to describe my website: “vile.” She had gone on it that day and been shocked by things she read. People there wanted to dismantle Israel. And then to see me talk about my Jewishness and Jewish history in a thoughtful way--she couldn’t believe this was the same person yukking it up with haters of Israel. Toby seemed to suggest I was masquerading.
A student asked me how could I be so sure that anti-Semitism was not going to return in a virulent form? It had been recurring throughout our history. Every 50 or 100 years there were major episodes. Of course it could happen again. And why did I not think that Israel could be struck by a nuclear warhead from Iran soon and it would be gone in the blink of an eye, she said.
There was a soup course and then a main course of chicken at 11 o’clock. The food was excellent. The wine was excellent. I know because I drank a lot of it. Shmully kept refilling my glass...
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Yale University's "Eliezer" - Excellent Forum For The Rebbe's Views On Israel
Campus Shaliach Sets Students Straight On Land For Peace
by Philip Weiss on April 26, 2012
Yale is a serious place, though Shmully is nothing if not charismatic, a storyteller who makes Jewish religion come alive in that immediate, ecstatic Chabad manner. He said that he had also befriended Richard Goldstone since the incident at Yale's McMillan Center and he thought Goldstone was a fine man. Shmully loves to joke around about anything but the Jewish nation.
Shmully said that I was wrong about the occupation. That land was bought by Jews. It belonged to us. Abraham had bought Hebron to bury Sarah. It’s in the Bible. All of Eretz Israel is the Jews’. He said that some people were afraid of the idea that Jews have guns now. We didn’t use to have guns. Now we do. Nothing would change if Jews left the West Bank. We had left Gaza and nothing had changed. There were just rockets.
Ben introduced me with a spiritual lesson. He said that there was a deep divide in the Jewish community and it shouldn’t be there. There were people like myself who felt righteous about being outcast. It reminded him of the urban renewal project in New Haven. It had cut a deep divide in the community.
Rebbitzin Toby Hecht was also tough on me. She leaned across the table to speak directly and familiarly. She used the word my mother has used with me to describe my website: “vile.” She had gone on it that day and been shocked by things she read. People there wanted to dismantle Israel. And then to see me talk about my Jewishness and Jewish history in a thoughtful way--she couldn’t believe this was the same person yukking it up with haters of Israel. Toby seemed to suggest I was masquerading.
A student asked me how could I be so sure that anti-Semitism was not going to return in a virulent form? It had been recurring throughout our history. Every 50 or 100 years there were major episodes. Of course it could happen again. And why did I not think that Israel could be struck by a nuclear warhead from Iran soon and it would be gone in the blink of an eye, she said.
There was a soup course and then a main course of chicken at 11 o’clock. The food was excellent. The wine was excellent. I know because I drank a lot of it. Shmully kept refilling my glass...
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District Attorney Quotes Rebbes Opinion On Israel
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Dov Hikind: "Never Again!"
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Chabad On Campus
CHABAD CAN REACT TO INCREASING ARAB INCITEMENT ON OUR TERMS AND WIN
We have a Rebbe and his directives are very clear, yet with all of this, there is a lot of confusion amongst Chabad Shluchim today about what to do against the flood of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish feeling that is sweeping America.
CHABAD CAN REACT TO INCREASING ARAB INCITEMENT ON OUR TERMS AND WIN
Chabad Is Not Confusion
We have a Rebbe and his directives are very clear, yet with all of this, there is a lot of confusion amongst Chabad Shluchim today about what to do against the flood of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish feeling that is sweeping America.
Should Chabad have rallies to bash “the radical Muslim menace”?
Should Chabad partner with AIPAC and support conditional peace*?
Should Lubavitchers join with others bashing the President & America which are cruelly forcing Israel into giving land?
The first thing a Shaliach should know is that the Rebbe has answers for ALL of these questions. Read Article Virtual Tour Of Gush Katif Museum
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Gush Katif Museum Jerusalem
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Rally To Save Town of Ulpana
This Sunday the 7th of Iyar, there will be a mass rally to protest the destruction of Ulpana at 9:30am by the Office of the Rosh HaMemshalah in Jerusalem. All are encouraged to attend. Prime Minister Feigns Sadness
Battle within the government to save Ulpana? Or PM pretending to resist? While the public battles to save the beautiful town of Ulpana and its 600 or so people from destruction, Israel's supreme court with Ehud Barak demands its razing and the moving of its Israeli Jews for relocation. Seeming to oppose him are Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Moshe Yaalon. But do they really? Mr. Netanyahu has spent the last few years hard at work to push forward peace initiatives leaving people to fear that the die is cast and that the Prime Minister is putting up a "false face" in appearing to oppose evacuation while in truth he is behind its destruction. In truth, if rumors were true, the PM could not possibly afford to look exalted at the prospect of more land giveaways based on how unpopular further withdrawl is and how this might affect his political prospects in the future. After the disaster of Camp David, no prime minister wants to go down in Israeli history as the leader who gave away Israel's land. Yediot News reports today, that a committee was appointed to give a recommendation on the issue and even Attorney General Weinstein is supposed to be looking into legal means of averting the evacuation. However other ministers are not hopeful. Based on the history of similar evacuations in the past and Mr. Netanyahu's posturing to feel badly about the evacuations and destructions, still nothing ever came of his apparant crocodile tears, as Mr. Netanyahu's pro-peace government moves full steam ahead to give away land as fast they can to satisfy their masters in Washington. "Relocation" Reminiscent of German Connotations
While Minister Mr. Ehud Barak demanded the government follow through on relocating the residents of Ulpana, others felt it to be too drastic a measure. The buildings and land were all legally bought. The government had been behind the establishment and building of Ulpana. Officials worried that relocations are getting too frequent and there are complaints about how "the Germans relocated Jews too". Plus, there is the question of where money is supposed to come from to create new real estate to replace the buildings that are going to be destroyed and who will pay for housing of the 600 people. Historically, whoever got "relocated" was never reimbursed. Their homes never replaced. In fact the move was so disturbing and unpopular that it is feared such a large move might create too much bad feeling. Already there is much bad feeling in the press about the idea. On Sunday it was reported that Attorney General Weinstein was exploring legal options in an effort to prevent an eviction. However, senior legal sources estimated that the State Prosecutor's Office will have a hard time finding a solution. "The State has pledged to evict the neighborhood in the past, on the basis that it is built on private (Palestinian) land," one source said. Earlier, the ministerial committee decided to legalize the West Bank outposts of Rechalim, Bruchin and Sansana.
"These communities were founded in the 1990s based on the decisions of past governments," the committee said in a statement. The committee's decision came just a day after the government authorized it to legalize the outposts. Panel member Eli Yishai, Israel's interior minister, called the decision "important and just.' He urged the government to legalize more Jewish communities in the West Bank.
A rally will be held this coming Sunday morning April at 9:30am next to the office of the Rosh HaMemshalah (by the rose garden)
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30 Families of 600 people threatened with destruction and relocation.
Battle Within The Government To "Legalize" UlpanaThis Sunday the 7th of Iyar, there will be a mass rally to protest the destruction of Ulpana at 9:30am by the Office of the Rosh HaMemshalah in Jerusalem. All are encouraged to attend. Prime Minister Feigns Sadness
Battle within the government to save Ulpana? Or PM pretending to resist? While the public battles to save the beautiful town of Ulpana and its 600 or so people from destruction, Israel's supreme court with Ehud Barak demands its razing and the moving of its Israeli Jews for relocation. Seeming to oppose him are Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Moshe Yaalon. But do they really? Mr. Netanyahu has spent the last few years hard at work to push forward peace initiatives leaving people to fear that the die is cast and that the Prime Minister is putting up a "false face" in appearing to oppose evacuation while in truth he is behind its destruction. In truth, if rumors were true, the PM could not possibly afford to look exalted at the prospect of more land giveaways based on how unpopular further withdrawl is and how this might affect his political prospects in the future. After the disaster of Camp David, no prime minister wants to go down in Israeli history as the leader who gave away Israel's land. Yediot News reports today, that a committee was appointed to give a recommendation on the issue and even Attorney General Weinstein is supposed to be looking into legal means of averting the evacuation. However other ministers are not hopeful. Based on the history of similar evacuations in the past and Mr. Netanyahu's posturing to feel badly about the evacuations and destructions, still nothing ever came of his apparant crocodile tears, as Mr. Netanyahu's pro-peace government moves full steam ahead to give away land as fast they can to satisfy their masters in Washington. "Relocation" Reminiscent of German Connotations
While Minister Mr. Ehud Barak demanded the government follow through on relocating the residents of Ulpana, others felt it to be too drastic a measure. The buildings and land were all legally bought. The government had been behind the establishment and building of Ulpana. Officials worried that relocations are getting too frequent and there are complaints about how "the Germans relocated Jews too". Plus, there is the question of where money is supposed to come from to create new real estate to replace the buildings that are going to be destroyed and who will pay for housing of the 600 people. Historically, whoever got "relocated" was never reimbursed. Their homes never replaced. In fact the move was so disturbing and unpopular that it is feared such a large move might create too much bad feeling. Already there is much bad feeling in the press about the idea. On Sunday it was reported that Attorney General Weinstein was exploring legal options in an effort to prevent an eviction. However, senior legal sources estimated that the State Prosecutor's Office will have a hard time finding a solution. "The State has pledged to evict the neighborhood in the past, on the basis that it is built on private (Palestinian) land," one source said. Earlier, the ministerial committee decided to legalize the West Bank outposts of Rechalim, Bruchin and Sansana.
"These communities were founded in the 1990s based on the decisions of past governments," the committee said in a statement. The committee's decision came just a day after the government authorized it to legalize the outposts. Panel member Eli Yishai, Israel's interior minister, called the decision "important and just.' He urged the government to legalize more Jewish communities in the West Bank.
A rally will be held this coming Sunday morning April at 9:30am next to the office of the Rosh HaMemshalah (by the rose garden)
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New Billboard
(Image courtesy of JC Watchman)
by Sean Osborne, Associate Director
29 June 2010: This is a billboard that went up in the southeastern part of the country just in time for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled July 6, 2010 visit to the United States. If any other churches or groups are intersted in using this ad or in putting up one of their own in their part of this still great American ally of Israel – contact me directly at sosborne@homelandsecurityus.com. The creator of this billboard will share it with you or your group free of charge.
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Sha’alu Shalom Yerushalayim – Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem!
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Christian Group Sponsors "Welcome" Billboard For PM
Concept Grabs People(Image courtesy of JC Watchman)
by Sean Osborne, Associate Director
29 June 2010: This is a billboard that went up in the southeastern part of the country just in time for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled July 6, 2010 visit to the United States. If any other churches or groups are intersted in using this ad or in putting up one of their own in their part of this still great American ally of Israel – contact me directly at sosborne@homelandsecurityus.com. The creator of this billboard will share it with you or your group free of charge.
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Sha’alu Shalom Yerushalayim – Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem!
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"Israeli democracy must be dismantled and in its place a halakhic state, based on Jewish law, should be established"
By Chaim Levinson - Israel (HaAretz) Israeli democracy must be dismantled and in its place a halakhic state, based on Jewish law, should be established, says settler leader Benny Katzover in an interview to a Chabad journal. Democracy Must Move Aside For A Halachic State
In an interview with Beis Moshiach, the journal of the Chabad Movement with ties to settlers, Katzover says that "the main role of Israeli democracy now is to disappear. Israeli democracy has finished its role, and it must disassemble and give way to Judaism. All leads toward recognition that there is no other way but to place Judaism at the center, above all else, and this is the answer to every situation."
Earlier in the interview Katzover commented on the campaign against the exclusion of women, saying that his group had information of the pending campaign.
"Our activists are linked to all the networks of the left, and we knew they were planning an incitement campaign. This is just another wave of incitement, targeting the hilltop youth and the Haredi community. The leftist activists prepare well-timed campaigns against anything which smells of holiness, and their aim is twofold: political, to undermine the government and score points among the public, and to strike at all the fundamentals of Jewish faith.
"In Jewish faith, the Land of Israel is central... The media campaigns over insignificant issues in order to undermine Jewish identity. I think there can be cooperation between the Haredim and the religious [national] communities. Incitement against us stems from the same anti-Jewish root which seeks to uproot everything," Katzover said in the interview.
Since 2008 Katzover has headed the Committee of Samaria Settlers, an NGO which has fought against the freeze of settlement construction and the razing of outposts. Katzover believes that Jews should stay in the territories even after they are evacuated. He is well respected among the hilltop youth because of his views. His ideological line has been gaining popularity among settlers since the evacuation of Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip.
Katzover was one of the first leaders of the settler movement, joining Gush Emunim, and then the nucleus of Elon Moreh, which was established in Samaria in 1979.
Democracy In Conflict With Jewish Identity
"I think that Israeli democracy, under its current structure, is in constant conflict with its Jewish identity, and in recent years, every time it bends its Jewish identity backwards. This structure of democracy has only one mission: to dismantle," he told Haaretz.
Jan 8, 2012 (HaAretz) To see original article click here
Benny Katzover - A Halachic State Must Be Established
Statements from interview with Chabad magazine cause uproar in IsraelBy Chaim Levinson - Israel (HaAretz) Israeli democracy must be dismantled and in its place a halakhic state, based on Jewish law, should be established, says settler leader Benny Katzover in an interview to a Chabad journal. Democracy Must Move Aside For A Halachic State
In an interview with Beis Moshiach, the journal of the Chabad Movement with ties to settlers, Katzover says that "the main role of Israeli democracy now is to disappear. Israeli democracy has finished its role, and it must disassemble and give way to Judaism. All leads toward recognition that there is no other way but to place Judaism at the center, above all else, and this is the answer to every situation."
Earlier in the interview Katzover commented on the campaign against the exclusion of women, saying that his group had information of the pending campaign.
"Our activists are linked to all the networks of the left, and we knew they were planning an incitement campaign. This is just another wave of incitement, targeting the hilltop youth and the Haredi community. The leftist activists prepare well-timed campaigns against anything which smells of holiness, and their aim is twofold: political, to undermine the government and score points among the public, and to strike at all the fundamentals of Jewish faith.
"In Jewish faith, the Land of Israel is central... The media campaigns over insignificant issues in order to undermine Jewish identity. I think there can be cooperation between the Haredim and the religious [national] communities. Incitement against us stems from the same anti-Jewish root which seeks to uproot everything," Katzover said in the interview.
Since 2008 Katzover has headed the Committee of Samaria Settlers, an NGO which has fought against the freeze of settlement construction and the razing of outposts. Katzover believes that Jews should stay in the territories even after they are evacuated. He is well respected among the hilltop youth because of his views. His ideological line has been gaining popularity among settlers since the evacuation of Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip.
Katzover was one of the first leaders of the settler movement, joining Gush Emunim, and then the nucleus of Elon Moreh, which was established in Samaria in 1979.
Democracy In Conflict With Jewish Identity
"I think that Israeli democracy, under its current structure, is in constant conflict with its Jewish identity, and in recent years, every time it bends its Jewish identity backwards. This structure of democracy has only one mission: to dismantle," he told Haaretz.
Jan 8, 2012 (HaAretz) To see original article click here
Chabad Rabbi: Disengage from state
Rabbi Wolpe: Lubavitcher Rebbe was right about rejecting ZionismBy Matthew Wagner
Shalom Dov Wolpe, a Chabad rabbi, argues in a new book that the disengagement is proof that religious Zionists should abandon their faith in the state of Israel as a vehicle for ultimate spiritual redemption.
In his book: "Between Light and Dark", Wolpe states, in an I-told-you-so way, that the disengagement proves Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the last Chabad-Lubavitch rebbe, was right about rejecting Zionism as a way of hastening the messianic era, as is believed by many religious Zionists. "Even after that terrible destruction took place people stubbornly believe that we have begun the process of redemption," said Wolpe in an interview with The Jerusalem Post.
Wolpe was instrumental in organizing anti-disengagement demonstrations before the Gaza pullout. Two weeks ago Wolpe organized a rally under the slogan 'We won't forgive, We won't forget!' that drew thousands to the Jerusalem Convention Center [Binyanei Haumah]. 
"If this is redemption how could something so horrible happen?" asked Wolpe rhetorically. "The disengagement is God's way of saying that only the messiah, not the state will bring redemption."
What Do Religious Zionists Believe That Is So Different?
Belief in the coming of the messiah is shared by all orthodox Jews. However, while religious Zionists believe the state of Israel is a means of bringing the messianic era, Chabad holds that only our good deeds [mitzvot] can hasten the coming of the messiah. Wolpe, despite having been in the forefront of Chabad anti-disengagement activities and director of Gush Katif Museum in Jerusalem, has no official position in Chabad's organizations and who is considered a rebel by mainstream Chabad leaders, said that the religious Zionist population was beginning to wake up to the reality that they have been living a lie. However, several right-wing religious Zionist rabbis, followers of Rabbi Avraham Yizhak Hacohen Kook and his son Tzvi Yehuda, rejected Wolpe's call. Religious Zionists Beginning To Wake Up To Idea That Israel's Govt Is Not Messianic?
Rabbi Yehoshua Magnus, a spokesman for Rabbi Avraham Shapira, one of religious Zionism's most senior and respected spiritual leaders, said that Shapira and his many followers have not budged in their belief that the state of Israel has inherent holiness. "Many things in this state are not like we would like them to be," said Magnus. "But no one disputes the idea that the establishment of the state marked the beginning of the process of redemption." Magnus said that although Shapira appeared on the same stage during a post-disengagement rally with Rabbi Yitzhak Ginzberg, another Chabad rabbi who rejects the religious Zionist idea that the state is a vehicle for redemption, he opposed Chabad's anti-Zionist theology. "For Rabbi Shapira the state is a religious entity." Arel Cohen, secretary for Rabbi Zalman Melamed, rabbi of Beit El and a staunch opponent of disengagement, said that Wolpe's and Ginzberg's ideas are rejected by even the most extreme religious Zionist settlers. "Rabbi Melamed always makes a clear differentiation between the state, which is a vessel that God, in His incredible loving kindness, gave us to bring the redemption, and the government, which is full of evil people. We don't thing we should be throwing the baby out with the bathwater," he said. Melamed agreed to appear with Ginzberg and Wolpe at demonstrations under the banner 'we won't forgive [perpetrators of the disengagement], we won't forget' because, explained Cohen "Rabbi Melamed thinks they have a healthy way of thinking. "They don't have the sickness some people have of hugging soldiers who come to kick you out of your house," said Cohen referring to more moderate religious Zionist rabbis such as Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, who have been attacked by Melamed for not encouraging religious soldiers to refuse IDF orders to evacuate Gaza. Cohen said the only religious Zionists that completely reject the state are people like Gad Ben-Zimra of Ma'ale Levona and certain individuals who live on Yitzhar, a settlement near Shechem. However, Yigal Amitai, a Yitzhar spokesman, said that while some residents on his settlement agree with some of Wolpe's and Ginzberg's conclusions, they disagree with how the two Chabad rabbis reached those conclusions. "For Chabadniks the rebbe's teachings are central to their entire world view," said Amitai. "But for people in Yitzhar, disenchantment with the state of Israel is a result the current moral bankruptcy of Israeli society. "A Chabadnik and a young man from Yitzhar might both decide not to serve in the Army," explained Amitai. "But the Yitzhar boy's decision is based on the sorrowful fact that the IDF has become a political instrument." Amitai explained that while Chabadniks believe that only the rebbe can bring redemption, religious Zionists believe that a Jewish state, perhaps not this one, will eventually help usher in the messianic era. Rabbi Chabad Shaliach In Shomron Comments
Yehuda Rubin, a Chabad emissary in Elon Moreh, a settlement, like Yizhar, that is located near Shechem, said that he read and agreed with Wolpe's book. "But I won't put it in my synagogue library. It would only make people angry." Rubin said that Chabad Hassidim oppose much of religious Zionism's theology. "The rebbe prohibited his emissaries and Hassidim from saying the part in the prayer for the state of Israel that talks about Israel being the 'beginning of the burgeoning redemption'. He said this was a dangerous belief because it fools people into thinking that we don't need a messiah. He likened it to believing that darkness is light." Still, for tactical reasons Rubin said he refrained from discussing the rebbe's views on these issues with residents of Elon Moreh unless he was specifically asked. New Book To Stay In Hebrew
Wolpe said he has not decided yet whether he would translate his book into English. "The rebbe told me twenty years ago that the time was not ripe to translate what he says against Zionism and the state of Israel into foreign languages. He did not want goyim to know that he talked badly against other Jews. "It gives strength to evil forces." Author Sponsors New Museum To Advertise Dangers Of Disengagement
In the meantime, while he decides whether to translate his new book, Wolpe is keeping busy. He is raising money for a museum modeled after the Yad VeShem Holocaust Memorial that would commemorate what he calls "Sharon's destruction of the Jewish communities in Gaza and the evil people who took part in that crime against humanity".
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Rights group: Prosecute Anti-Israel Campus Protesters
Chabad of University Of Davis
April 10, 2012 (Jerusalem Post)
By JOANNA PARASZCZUKLAST
A US civil rights legal group called on Tuesday for pro-Palestinian student protesters who interrupted a pro-Israel event hosted by Rabbi & Mrs. Brownstein of Chabad of the University of Davis at University last month to be prosecuted.
"Every person who, without authority of law, willfully disturbs or breaks up any assembly or meeting that is not unlawful in its character, other than an assembly or meeting referred to in Section 302 of the Penal Code or Section 18340 of the Elections Code, is guilty of a misdemeanor." Two Israelis - an IDF reservist and a Druze woman whose father and brother served in the IDF - were due to speak at the UC Davis event, organized by StandWithUs, Chabad of Davis and the Chai-Life Club. However, activists from campus-based pro-Palestinian and Islamic groups, including Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the Muslim Student Association became hostile and heckled the speakers, attorney Kenneth Leitner, GFJC's director said. According to GFJC's letter, one protester interrupted the speakers to ask "how many women have you raped? How many children have you raped?" When the speaker asked that protester if he wanted to talk, he replied that he wanted the Israelis to "shut up and get out", adding that "you’re going to have to kill me to shut me up [you] rapist, child molester, [and] murderer," GFJC allege in their letter to Reisig. (See Youtube video below) That protester also said he had come to the event to shut it down, because the speakers had "turned Palestine into a land of prostitutes, rapists and child molesters," the GFJC said. “It’s not simply offensive to the free speech and association rights of the speakers and their sponsors,” said Leitner. “It’s a crime and it should be prosecuted.” The GFJC note that while the protesters themselves also have a constitutional right to free speech, that "does not include a right to prevent others from speaking." In their letter to the district attorney, the GFJC refer to a previous case involving students at UC Irvine who disrupted a speech by Israel's Ambassador to the US, Michael Oren. According to the LA Times, in February last year, the Orange County district attorney's office charged 11 of those UC Irvine protesters with conspiring to disrupt a meeting and speech by the Israeli Ambassador. That case also used article 403 of the California Penal Code. "We encourage you to prosecute these protesters just as your colleagues did in Orange County," the GFJC's letter adds. "By doing so, you will be working to ensure that speech—even controversial speech—remains possible on college campuses such as UC Davis." The GFJC director described the California law against disrupting lawful events as "a good law" that "ensures the freedom of speech and association." Leitner added that the request to prosecute the students was made to "protect the marketplace of ideas on college campuses around the country." “Pro-Israel groups, just like pro-Palestinian groups and environmental groups and the chess club, need to be able to organize and communicate with their constituents without having to shout over someone whose only objective is to end discussion," he said. Rather than try to shut down the pro-Israel event, the protesters could have chosen to hold their own counter-lecture or even to sit-in on the Israeli lectures as a peaceful protest, without interrupting it, Leitner noted. GFJC attorney Meir Katz added that a similar problem is prevalent on other campuses. “Similar groups around the country have adopted similar illegal tactics, which makes it important that prosecutors take swift and clear action," Katz said. "The First Amendment protects the speech of protesters just like it protects the speech of the speakers and their sponsors," added Katz. "But freedom of speech doesn’t give you the right to stifle someone else’s speech. Just like you can’t yell ‘fire’ in a crowded theater, you can’t yell at all during someone’s speech if the reason you’re doing it is to get that person to stop speaking.” The GFJC have requested that the District Attorney respond to their request by the end of April.
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SOS-Israel Sponsors Chabad Mission To Shomron
Chabadniks Visit Victims Of Disengagement
April 11, 2012
The Event was graced by the presence of Minister Yuli Edelstein, MK's Mr. Danny Danon, Dr. Michael Ben-Ari and Dr. Aryeh Eldad. They spoke to the crowd about the great danger facing Israel today from it's own policies giving away vital land so desparately needed for the Jewish countries tenous security. While others in the government call Iran Israel's biggest problem, the visiting politicians instead placed the blame on the reckless foreign policy based on "Land for Peace". Speaking to the attendees, many of whom were displaced Israelis both non-religious and Orthodox, the speakers told of how Israel was built with the outlying kibbutzim and yishuvim as being the historical backbone of Israel's security.
Speakers called for governmental support for the refugees to return to their homes in the name of national security. Homes, land and valuable farms and businesses all given away as "Land for Peace". While peace may not have come from these areas, the Arabs who took over afterward found themselves armed with strategic launching areas for their missiles at Jewish targets. A problem that the government concedes is an issue but has no answer for.
Council head Gershon Mesika praised SOS-Israel as a most generous organization, that has for years befriended the disenfrancised refugee Israelis from the disengaged areas. Supporting them with protests and with money, manpower and afterwards not stopping their unceasing campaigns to advertise the folly of land for peace. 
How many thousands of travelers SOS-Israel has brought to Samaria to see the beauty of land and campaigned for Israel to keep it and its rich natural resources. Resources Israel now has to pay through the nose to have imported.
Rabbi Shai Gefen, Director of SOS-Israel, heartily thanked the SOS-Israel's Rabbi Motti Markowitz who coordinated all the organizations, the many busses and arranged for the details of this historical trip. They thanked the Vaad of Kfar Chabad and its committee headed by R. Yami Lifshitz, Deputy Mayor of Kiryat Malachi Haim Steiner,member of the Safed SOS committee Reb Moshe Ohayon and Beitar Illit council member Uri Holtzman, who generously helped to subsidize transportation for the many Lubavitch families who attended.
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Bolton, Beck speak at Gush Katif Museum dinner
“The message of Gush Katif will not be forgotten.”
Museum backers, from left, Robin Ticker of AFSI, Sarah Lehmann, Odeleya Jacobs Media Spokesperson, Assemblyman Philip Goldfeder, Dr. Paul Brody, Museum Founder and Director Rabbi Sholom Ber Wolpe, Rabbi David Algaze, Dr. Joseph Frager, Assemblyman Rory Lancman and Assemblyman Michael Simanowitz.By Malka Eisenberg
March 1, 2012 In that one sentence, Dr. Joseph Frager, chairman of the board of the World Committee for the Land of Israel, declared the mission statement of the Gush Katif Museum dinner. “We today are witness to the shattering of dreams. First they built the land of Israel, land that was considered never arable. We all want peace now, but not a false peace.” “The borders are in the Torah,” explained museum founder Rabbi Sholom Ber Wolpe. “Not one inch for somebody else. We gave 25 beautiful towns to the Arabs, murderers and terrorists, and we got more missiles, more getting killed.” “It was so horrible,” recalled New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, about the last days of Gush Katif, when he was there. “Don’t make concessions to our enemies; they are not interested in peace, we don’t have a partner.” Over 600 men and women gathered in a Crown Heights ballroom to show support for the Gush Katif Museum in Jerusalem and its director, Rabbi Sholom Ber Wolpe. The museum, at 5 Shaarei Tzedek Street, opened in 2008 to educate the public about the dire conditions of those expelled from the Jewish communities in Gaza and to thwart any future attempts at dismantling any other Jewish towns in Israel. Close to 10,000 people were dislocated from their homes and businesses in Gush Katif; even cemeteries were emptied of their dead. Synagogue structures left behind were ravaged and desecrated by Arab mobs. The museum has had over 100,000 visitors to date, including members of Knesset and congressmen. Keynote speaker Glenn Beck, conservative radio and TV host, author and political commentator, compared Israel’s land giveaways to the events prior to the Holocaust. “Compare it to 1938,” he noted. “When the world had a madman spell out exactly what he was going to do. And they ignored him. Here we are again. When madmen are spelling out exactly what they are going to do and no one listens and this time around, with the media aiding and abetting.” Fellow keynote speaker former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton spoke about Iran and its threat to the world. “While Israel faces many challenges,” pointed out New York State Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder, “Iran is the number one threat to the safety of Israel and its people. The administration has been given the tools by Congress and this administration has to use these tools to put the pressure on Iran. Tough economic sanctions are the only tool that will bring Iran to the table.” Much more money still needs to be made to support the Museum’s huge budget and Rabbi Wolpo’s fine work. You can become a partner with the Museum and Rabbi Wolpo.
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Gush Katif Museum Dinner
Making Holocaust Culturally Acceptable
Wednesday night February 22, over 600 people gathered in Crown Heights Brooklyn to give honor and support to the Gush Katif Museum Jerusalem and its director, Rabbi Sholom Dov Wolpo.
Born out of national tragedy
The museum’s story is a sad one. Born out of a national tragedy. A tragedy recently memorialized into Israel’s educational curriculum just like Holocaust education was not so many years ago. Today the Gush Katif Educational kit is taught in classrooms throughout Israel. Dubbed: “Gush Katif Commemoration Day” by minister of Education Mr. Gideon Sa’ar, the Gush Katif Educational kit teaches Israeli school children just what Gush Katif was. A garden of God destroyed by greedy men. The Gush Katif Museum reminds Jews that Israel should “never forget”. That Israel should strive to keep Jews safe, guarding over Jews and protecting them. A thought missing in the minds of those pursuing “peace at all costs”. The costs being borne out in Jewish life and limb. Treachery
The worst cruelty Jews experienced during the Holocaust at the hands of non-Jews was nothing compared to the treachery of Jews turning on their own. Ironically, it was the Israeli citizens of Gush Katif who were accused of being traitors by not giving up their homes for peace. Headlines implied that resistance to government efforts for peace was nothing less than seditious. Overnight, Zionists from birth were villanized in the Israeli press. Overnight, the system they helped build turned on them. It robbed them of their humanity. Their tenacity in simply wanting to live as others do, became a declaration of war on the state of Israel. The full weight of Shabak and security leaders was brought to bear as they solemnly told reporters that they had “secret information” of plans by Gush Katif residents to rebel. “Milchemet Achim”, the dreaded war of Jew against Jew became a national fear. While in Gush Katif itself, the peaceful farming residents went on with life as usual never thinking for a moment that their own government would so deceitfully turn on them. Today, it is clear who was the victim and who the criminal. Yet nothing was learned. The lessons of yesterday are forgotten, as Israel embarks on more talks to give away the crown of Israel, Jerusalem itself. Government Claims Jerusalem Not Being Given Away
While government leaders claim this is not the case, every map in the world testifies otherwise. Even the daunted CIA’s maps of Israel show Jerusalem as “occupied”. The West Bank and Golan Heights as foreign countries. There, in the world of maps, the hated Green line lives. Only in Israel is this claimed to be not a truth. Can it be that the whole world is crazy?
Gush Katif Museum – Life Borne Out Of The Ashes
Today, in the Land of Israel, this unusual museum celebrates a theme of life borne of death. It seeks to awaken and revive values that brought Jews to the land of Israel. Settling the barren wastes for hundreds of years. Brave men who fought marauding Bedouin and suffered hundreds of years of extortion from despotic Turkish rulers. Paying exorbitant prices to buy swamps and deserts from the locals and returning them back into arable land after centuries of neglect. Returning the land to the magical state promised in Novi. (Prophets) Gush Katif Labeled: “Embodiment Of Zionism”
Rabbi Wolpo and his Gush Katif Museum staff seek to revive that original thought that brought people to settle the Land of Israel after 2000 years. After much work their efforts are bearing fruit. This month the ministry of education called Gush Katif: “The embodiment of Zionism” and put into place the Gush Katif Educational Curricula. Despite a theme that doesn’t celebrate growth but rather bemoans Israel’s victims of its philosophical retreat from the land, it brings Gush refugees hope for life. They feel that at least their suffering will not be for nothing. “If it keeps another “Gush Katif” from happening, so perhaps it was worth it” says one. As one Gush dweller put it: “I live in Gush Katif so you can live in Tel Aviv”. Victims of the Jewish state fighting against Jewish ideals. Ideals that ironically, most former residents believed holy. Ideals that even after all they have gone through they still espouse as religious Jews. Others have different feelings. As an older man put it: “I survived the Nazis as a partisan to come here, to the Jewish homeland, and have my house taken away and destroyed by Jews.” Gathering To Honor A Great Man
People gathered at the Gush Katif Museum Dinner to honor Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo who with his many programs has succeeded in creating a national awareness of the need for a safe Israel with all of its borders. A need to re-annex all the land Israel has given away. Rabbi Wolpo’s Programs
What does he do that provokes such fierce loyalty to his cause? Perhaps it’s the reward money of $5000 he gives to soldiers who refuse orders to remove Jews from the land. Perhaps it’s his program that soldiers and police can ask forgiveness for being part of the expulsions. Perhaps it’s his group’s unceasing campaign of signs on busses across Israel that decries expulsion. Perhaps it’s his taking up the cause of the outcasts of the Zionist dream, the residents of Gush Katif. Vilified and harassed, their homes, livelihoods and belongings destroyed, they are even charged rent for their primitive huts that the government allows them to live in. They are even forced to pay mortgages for land and property given away over 5 years ago. Interrogated By Police
So in this spirit, Rabbi Wolpo's interrogation by Israeli police a week before the New York dinner and their anxiousness about anti-government feelings that might come out of the dinner in New York only fueled and further angered Israelis and New Yorkers alike. Israel has, in their eyes, taken an increasingly tyrannical stance towards its own. Especially Orthodox Jews, who are estimated at close to half if not more of Israelis today. Ironically, it is the religious Jew who is the main funder of Israel today. It is the Orthodox Jews who make up over 75% of Olim. Yet it is these very Jews whom the Israeli government sees as its worst enemy. Philosophically they are the only force capable of unifying to stand against “Land for Peace”, a grave crime in the eyes of Israel’s ivory tower theorists. Violation Of Citizens Trust To Serve And Protect Angry over Israel’s growing distance from its citizens. Angry over the unfeeling coldness and brutality shown to its own most loyal citizens, the Orthodox Jew. Angry at the violation of a trust, a creed, a pact shared by religious and not yet religious alike, to restore, preserve and treasure the Jewish nations most precious Jewel, its land. Violation by those entrusted to serve and protect who have instead proven themselves to be unworthy of this trust. Unwilling to lead and unbending to the needs of the people. Even basic respect for the values of their own God who gave them this land. As such, Rabbi Wolpo and his many supporters have created this memorial to bring home the awareness of the great danger Israel has put herself into by agreeing to disengagement. Mesirat Nefesh In The Blood
Rabbi Wolpo was in Yamit when it was dismantled many years ago. No stranger to mesirat nefesh, he says: “It’s in the blood”. He’s not wrong. Himself the grandson of a four year old child survivor of the infamous 1929 massacre in Hebron. Rabbi Wolpo traces his lineage back to the Alter Rebbe, the founder of Chabad philosophy. A philosophy based on Ahavat Yisrael as taught by the Baal Shem Tov. A standard ideal for Chabad Chassidim worldwide whose motto is: “For a Jew: 26 hours!” Rabbi Wolpo was first encharged with this task by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, who emphasized that the problem with Land for peace is one of safety. The theme is a common struggle for life and death. Agreements to give away even one inch of land put Jews in danger. Each agreement bringing missiles of terror ever closer. Last October over 60 Ketyusha’s and Grad rockets were fired on Israel from Gaza, reaching Ashkelon. Safety Of Jews Comes First
While other Orthodox groups emphasize the problem of Israel being the land of our fathers and who gives away what G-d gave to us? But for Chabad this is all secondary. The life of a fellow Jew “no matter where and no matter who” comes first. Jewish law, explains Rav Wolpo, allows one to break every law of Shabbat to save Jewish life! What greater love for a fellow Jew than to save his life? What greater honor can we give the King than to care for his son as it says: “Beni bechori Yisrael, banim atem le Hashem Elokaychem”. My first born, the Jewish people, sons of the lord your God. New York Community Opposition To Two State Solution
The dinner therefore was unique.
For the first time the Jewish community was heard to express opposition to Israel’s vaunted two state solution. Rabbis and politicians, Democrats and Republicans, even a Christian minister. Dr. David James Manning an avid supporter of the anti-disengagement movement joined the event over growing concern that Israel by giving away land is creating a terror state. As the Lubavitcher Rebbe put it so many times: “Each inch of land given away only brings more terror”. First to speak was Rabbi Yossi Jacobson who spoke very strongly about Israel’s need to remove itself from agreements that only bring death and destruction to Israel. Next spoke feature speaker Mr. Glenn Beck American conservative radio host, blogger, author, entrepreneur, political commentator and former television host. He hosts the Glenn Beck Program, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show that airs throughout the United States on Premiere Radio Networks. He formerly hosted the Glenn Beck television program on the Fox News Channel. Glenn Beck: “Compare It To 1938” – “Why are Jews quiet?”
Surprising the audience, Glenn went where Jews are afraid to tread, comparing land giveaways to the events that led up to the Holocaust: “Compare it to 1938, when the world had a madman spell out exactly what he was going to do. And they ignored him. Here we are again. When madmen are spelling out exactly what they are going to do and no one listens and this time around, with the media aiding and abetting. This is exactly what happened in 1938.” “Why is the Jewish world quiet? All the signs are in the air.” Referring to Israel’s ignoring Palestinian genocidal threats. Apparently, it takes a non Jew to point out truth that Jewish leaders ignore. Congressman Lee Terry introduced Ambassador John Bolton who spoke about Iran and dangers to the world posed by Iran at this time. Iran’s growing nuclear threat and America’s less than aggressive tone in dealing with Iran. The focus of the dinner was actually concern over Israel’s giving away its resources and defense to foreign entities at the expense of its own citizens who have and are becoming victims. Victims of this policy which Glenn so aptly brought home. The points about Iran and the war America should be fighting and seeks to put on Israel to fight, were not the points of the evening but it was interesting anyways. Hopefully it sold seats to pay for this very expensive event which organizers told us barely covered costs. Israel Using Issue of Iran To Hide Danger Of Disengagement?
There are those who feel that Israel has championed the issue of Iran in order to hide the far more disturbing problem of why Israel gives away valuable land and resources to Nazi trained genocidal murderers. While Israel harps non-stop about troubles with Iran, it does nothing within reach about its own “Iran” in Israel’s backyard. Nothing about rockets falling daily on Israel’s land from the PA areas Israel claims it made peace with. People wonder if Israel hasn’t lost sight of protecting its own people, in favor of currying favor with America. As such, the question of: “Should Israel attack Iran or not?”, pales in light of increasing military buildup in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon which was left with over 20,000 rockets when Israel retreated in the last war. A curious non-issue for a country so historically concerned with security. As Lt Dr. Mordechai Kedar of the Begin Sedat Peace institute put it recently at an engagement in Brooklyn: “Israel doesn’t know that Nazi’s fled to Egypt and Syria after the war and trained the Palestinian terror groups? Of course they know.” To most attending the Museums first dinner, the question is simply: “why does Israel ignore the dangers of Land for peace”? Every military expert acknowledges the mistakes of giving away Sinai and Gaza which are today launching pads for missiles fired on Israel and terror. So why does Israel continue with talks about West Bank, Golan and Jerusalem? Special Kudos go out to Helen Friedman, Director of AFSI – “Americans For A Safe Israel” and her amazing crew for really making this dinner a success. Special thanks to Robin Ticker. This would not have been as successful without the World Committee for the Land of Israel. Odelya Jacobs, Dr. Joseph Frager, and Dr. Paul Brody. Unsung thanks goes out to the numerous wonderful people who worked and slaved to make this dinner a success! Signing off from New York
Raanan Isseroff – rsisseroff@yahoo.com Much more money still needs to be made to support the Museum’s huge budget and Rabbi Wolpo’s fine work. You can become a partner with the Museum and Rabbi Wolpo.
Go to: www.sos-israel.com/en.html and contribute there. Checks can be made out to: “Friends of Gush Katif” and mailed to:
Gush Katif Museum Jerusalem
383 Kingston Avenue Suite 155
Brooklyn, NY 11213 Now more than ever, your generous dollars are needed
