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2008-08-21
Freeing 200 prisoners
The government of Israel recently freed 200 Arab prisoners without any explanation or peace agreement but simply as a gesture to PLO chief Abu Mazen.
The question is why our leaders are making gestures to Abu Mazen while on the same day the PLO were holding training exercises to practice kidnapping our soldiers. And the men who arrange these maneuvers proudly stated that the PLO terrorist chosen to play the role of the Israeli soldier in the simulation physically resembles Gilad Shalit.
Many of the prisoners being released have blood on their hands. Our government’s behavior is a spit in the face of the people that those terrorists that have killed and the Israeli forces who have put their lives in danger to capture them.
Olmert’s government has no mandate from the public to govern let alone release prisoners with blood on their hands. Not only will this sign of weakness not help bring home Gilad Shalit. It will hurt Shalit’s chances of ever coming home alive.
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2008-08-20
David Grossman at the checkpoints
Israeli Author David Grossman and other local celebrities have decided to join the Machsom Watch organization in harassing Israeli soldiers manning checkpoints.
Perhaps Grossman’s latest book has not been selling as well as he would like because its clear that after such a display of “sacrifice” from him, no leftist in Israel could resist buying his book.
Showing that he is ready to wake up early in the morning and supervise the supposed wrongdoings of his own soldiers against the local Arabs will certainly earn him points with certain fringe elements.
But perhaps we are wrong and Grossman came to the checkpoints to genuinely discover the truth and that the next book he writes will be about how no other army in the world upholds the fairness, sensitivity and respect for human dignity as does our Jewish army.
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2008-08-19
Boycott the British
The British embassy in Ramat Gan recently held a reception in which Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria were invited to attend. Crispin Blunt, a British parliamentarian known for anti-Israel views, then challenged the British Foreign Office by asking why these illegal settlers were invited to the embassy.
The foreign minister then instructed Tom Philips (the British ambassador to Israel) not to invite settlers in the future.
Herut chairman Michael Kleiner said on Israeli television that the British are apparently not aware that their mandate over Palestine is long over and the ambassador is not the high commissioner. Boycotting Israeli citizens just because they live in the Jewish heartland should be met by an Israeli boycott against receptions at the British embassy.
Kleiner further called on every decent Israeli to stop attending receptions at the British embassy until the British revoke this discriminatory policy. The only locals attending functions at the British embassy should be Arabs and Jews hostile to the Jewish state.
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2008-08-17
Russia learns from the West
It is very important for the West that they properly respond to recent Russian aggression against Georgia, which was orchestrated by Vladimir Putin for strategic reasons to cut the only oil supply not under Russian or Muslim control.
What makes it difficult for the West is that the Russians are using the pretext of self determination for the ethnic Russian majority in an area of Georgia as their excuse for invading a neighboring country. And now the West is paying for its support for a Palestinian state in Israel and a Kosovar state in Serbia because the Russians make the same claims for independent states of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Georgia.
The West’s support for independence for ethnic minorities in other people’s countries has now blown up in their faces. A new international policy must be established to keep countries whole and prevent minority groups from creating artificial states.
The West’s support for independence for ethnic minorities in other people’s countries has now blown up in their faces. A new international policy must be established to keep countries whole and prevent minority groups from creating artificial states.
Nevertheless, one must expose the deference between Kosovo on one hand and the Georgian enclaves on the other. The difference lies in the motive. Western intervention against Serbia was for moral reasons (mislead mistaken wrong unjustified - but undoubtly the westerners believed they save the Moslems from the bad guys...) Putin uses the locals as an excuse. He is only motivated by imperialistic belligerent motives
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2008-08-13
Building a PA Police Force
The government of Israel is getting ready to comply with an American request to allow PA policemen back into Israel from Jordan (where they have been receiving American military training) and pass armored cars and personal body shields to the PA police force. This is an act of stupidity on behalf of our leaders because experience should have taught us that any weapons we give to the PA will ultimately be used against us. Even the body shields will be used against us by preventing us from eliminating terrorists shooting at our soldiers.
Hamas currently enjoys popular support in Judea and Samaria and the only way that Israel can defend itself is with Israeli troops in these areas.
If the PA wants our help with their police force, we should at least be able to ensure that their police not be terrorists. As long as they say they are autonomous, they should purchase their own equipment and the Arabs who are already in Jordan should stay where they are – in the true Palestinian state.
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2008-07-15
Israeli Muslim schools
Once again, Arab institutions in Israel are demanding that the Israeli-Arab education system will be autonomous, like the National Religious system, and provide its own content. But the National Religious system is Zionist and the Arabs are not a religious minority.
If Muslims were to demand their own education system not on national but on religious grounds, this would be more legitimate. And Sheikh Abdul Hadi Palazzi of Italy would of course be the best Muslim leader to control and direct such a school system. Because rather than educate the Arab youth towards violence, he would teach them that their holy city is Mecca and that the city of Jerusalem (which only became important to Islam for political anti-Zionist reasons AND WAS NOT MENTIONED EVEN ONCE IN THE KORAAN) is the holy city of the Jews.
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2008-07-14
Whats in a handshake?
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met Syrian President Bashar Assad in Paris today. And to the delight of the Israeli media, Assad considered to shake Olmert’s hand. It did not happen. For those who intend to start mourning we must remind them that the handshake is not important and only a self- deprecating people so starved for approval from foreign nations can view a mere handshake as a diplomatic achievement.
Arch terrorist Yasser Arafat shook the hands of many Israeli leaders (and even hugged Ehud Barak at Camp David). And with the very same hand, Arafat signed the orders to commit countless acts of terror throughout the country.
It is unbelievable to those Israelis with national pride that many of our compatriots would even want our premier to shake Assad’s hand. If one day there will be an agreement of genuine peace in exchange for peace with Syria that stipulates Israel keeping the Golan Heights, perhaps then we would force ourselves to shake Assad’s hand but only after this hand signs away any Syrian claims to our beloved Golan.
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2008-07-07
In memory of Senator Jesse Helms/Michael Kleiner
It was appropriate that American Senator Jessie Helms die on the 4th of July. Senator Helms was a man who spent his entire life fighting for the good of his beloved country and I would imagine that if he had to choose a day on which to depart this world it would have been the birthday of American independence.
Jesse Helms was perhaps the last old fashioned patriot in the United States Senate. For him, America was an ideal and a dream that symbolized democracy, justice and liberty as the values that form the human spirit and represent all that is good in our world.
When I met Jesse Helms in 1984, he was regarded as an enemy of my country. He had strongly criticized the State of Israel for bombardments in Lebanon and viewed most Jews in America as hypocrites who on the one hand support and want to strengthen Israel with the most up-to-date weapons yet on the other hand oppose the military budgets necessary for America to provide such weaponry. Helms was a strong opponent of US foreign aid, believing it immoral to force American workers to give their hard earned tax dollars to a foreign country. He therefore criticized the Israel lobby in Washington as the locomotive that keeps foreign aid alive. He also opposed efforts by the United States Senate (under the leadership of New York Senator Daniel Moynihan) to force then President Ronald Reagan to relocate the United States embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
When I came, as a young member of Israel’s parliament, to see Senator Jesse Helms in 1984, Jewish leaders I had met in New York had regarded me as if I were going to meet a Ukrainian anti-Semite in the beginning of the 20th century. After a week of several meetings with Senator Helms and his colleagues, however, Helms issued a letter to President Reagan, urging him to preempt the unlawful congressional legislation and move the US embassy to Jerusalem (his main opposition to the Moynihan’s efforts on this matter were what he saw as the legislative branch of government usurping powers rightfully belonging to the executive branch). He also recommended that President Reagan not work towards the creation of a “Palestinian state in the heart of the holy land.” If this was not enough, Helms also declared that Israel should annex Judea and Samaria.
The New York Times then described all of this as a turnabout in Helms’s positions vis-à-vis the Jewish state. Since our meeting, he and his conservative colleagues have worked closely with the Americans for a Safe Israel (AFSI) and he had became recognized as Israel’s best friend in the senate. It must also be noted that the very Jesse Helms who opposed foreign aid to Israel also advocated the position that Israel is entitled to receive much more assistance than the foreign aid in terms of defense because the existence of Israel and its strong military presence in the Middle East saves America billions of dollars each year (he proved this by showing the annual expenses of defending Europe and Japan).
In his last years, Helms ceased to be politically active but stayed in touch with Herb Zweibon and Bobby Jacobs, the men who had facilitated our meeting in 1984. And Senator Helms remained a true friend to Israel and the Jewish people until his death. I only hope that Israel will know how to give him the tribute he deserves. On a personal note, Senator Helms once honored me by introducing me to all of his colleagues on the Senate floor and putting into the congressional records the story of my family and my visit to the United States, drawing a parallel between my parents being Holocaust survivors and our joint efforts to keep the State of Israel strong and safe. It takes a great man with endless courage and solid self-confidence to drastically change his opinion when faced with new arguments and facts. Jesse Helms was such a man.
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2008-07-02
How to best save Shalit/Yehuda Hakohen Weisbrod
The government of Israel has once again made our nation appear weak before the entire world. Trading arch-terrorist Samir Kuntar to Hezbollah in exchange for what most believe will be the bodies of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev only serves to humiliate the Jewish people and could possibly place Gilad Shalit in grave danger. If Hamas sees that Israel is willing to exchange Arab prisoners with blood on their hands even for the corpses of Israeli soldiers, the terrorists will have absolutely no reason to keep Shalit alive.
While we hope and pray that Goldwasser and Regev are unharmed, most evidence indicates that they are indeed dead. Our focus right now must be on saving Shalit. And the best way to ensure Shalit’s safe return to his family is to kill Kuntar and deliver his corpse to Hezbollah in exchange for the bodies of our soldiers. Israel must make it clear that our policy is to trade only corpses for corpses. This will force Hezbollah to pay a price for the lives of our boys. They would undoubtedly understand that had they not kidnapped our soldiers, Kuntar would at least be alive in an Israeli prison. And they would know that had they taken care to keep Goldwasser and Regev alive, they might have had a chance to free Kuntar.
This would also send a message to Hamas that if they spare Shalit’s life and deliver him unharmed, they could potentially free terrorists from our jails (while killing Shalit will only lead to Israel killing the jailed terrorists they most desire free). But Prime Minister Olmert does not appear ready to act in this fashion. Instead he is ready to trade a live Kuntar for what will most likely be two dead Israeli soldiers. And this will signal to Hamas that they have absolutely no incentive for keeping Shalit alive.
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2008-06-26
Mediterranean maneuvers
It has been reported by the foreign press that the State of Israel has been conducting air force maneuvers over the Mediterranean in preparation for a possible attack against Iran. Media outlets have accusingly asked why we did not hide these maneuvers as oppose to conducting them so publicly and as a result increasing tension in the region. But these accusers must understand that there really is nowhere Israel could have conducting this training in secret.
Although an Israeli spokesperson unofficially validated these claims, we do not really know if the maneuvers were real or even a threat against Iran. It could have also been done to pressure European nations so that they might stand strong against Iran. It must be clear that regarding the Iranian issue, Israel cannot afford to overlook any option.
Our government has an obligation to stop Iran at any cost and if conventional warfare will not suffice we must use every means at our disposal. And we must ensure that Israel strikes first because even our second strike capabilities cannot be relied upon as a deterrent with Iran’s political leadership. They are ready to sacrifice 80% of their citizens (and all of the Arabs of Judea and Samaria whose cause they so boldly champion) for their holy goal of destroying the Jewish state.
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