Tikkun Olam

By now everyone knows: the three kidnapped boys,two aged 16 and one age 19, were found, murdered.  They were murdered because they were Jews. Does that remind you of anything? Remember the Holocaust? Remember the murders of the Jewish teacher and his children in France? How about the murders and suicide bombers of Jews in Israel. Here's a random sampling:  Sbarro Pizza and the Moment Cafe in Jerusalem, baby Shalhevet Pass murdered, shot in the head. A few of many. I haven't even mentioned the suicide bus bombings. The Cafe Hillel bombing memorial video is below. (Warning: graphic content.). Yes, Hamas is no different than ISIS : The murder of three teenagers should make the new Palestinian government a pariah, Israel's Intelligence Minister argues A senior Israeli government official likened Hamas to the brutal fighters sowing chaos in Iraq on Monday and said there can be no dealing with a Palestinian government that includes the group, just hours afte...

The United Nations, an antisemitic farce of an organization, is definitely united, in ignoring human rights violations by so-called Palestinians and instead, vociferously blaming Israel for--you name it: disproportionate force, apartheid, arresting Palestinians - whatever they can, while minimizing or ignoring the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers.  Watch and listen at 2:00 when it is said that the boys might have 'gone on holiday.' A plague on all their houses. But I want to end on a positive note, and that is, two suspects in the kidnapping have been named and their photos circulated . May they be caught quickly and dealt with severely, and may the three kidnapped boys be found safe and sound, and returned to their families. Shabbat shalom, and Chodesh Tammuz tov.                                  ...

This is a continuation of the previous post.  Gosh, I keep seeing my statements in other articles, my words and views repeated time and time again.  I talk about an Israeli identity crisis, I talk about the Jewish still-existing "ghetto mentality," the impossibility of a two-state solution, the fact that the Arabs don't really give a damn about having a state of their own--and there are all sorts of articles reiterating my points.  It's amazing.  No, I'm not copying theirs.  Look in the archives of this blog, which I started in 2006. Here's another one, on the American disgust with the farce that is called the 'peace process' and the Israeli release of murderers. American Jews Protest Release of Terrorists and Start of False Talks Buddy Macy - Israeli Consulate Press Conference/Protest Rally Speech,  July 30th, 2013 Yesterday I received an email from a fellow activist, in which he argued that releasing thugs and murderers was the least...

I am totally disillusioned with any so-called 'process' relating to Israel's future by anyone, including the United States' attempts to bring on "peace." Ad nauseum have I blogged about the world not caring or not understanding (I firmly believe it is the former) the Arabs' intentions and true feelings with regard to Israel and the Jews, and what they want for the future.  Nobody's listening.  Secretary of State John Kerry. is continuing on with his blather about Israeli settlements being unproductive towards peace , blah blah blah.  Not true. Not even relevant. More to the reality point is this article in Haaretz , about peace being contigent upon the Arabs' acceptance of the State of Israel--which they're NOT.  Ya can't make peace with someone who wants you DEAD.  Doesn't work that way. Barry Rubin states it outright in his article on his blog The Rubin Report , published on PJ Media ,  portions excerpted below. The Palestinians...

Do you remember the lone high school student "Daniel," who went into a pro-Palestinian demonstration carrying a huge Israeli flag after the Mavi Marmara incident in 2010?  I wrote about him and posted the video in 2010, here , and here . He is bravely continuing  his activism again: by videotaping a message, in Farsi, to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in support of Israel and the Jewish people.  Daniel is from Persian (Iranian) descent, and his message in the language of the Iranian people is very powerful.  (Thank you to A Soldier's Mother for alerting us to this). First, in case you haven't seen it, here is the video of the interview of Daniel's infiltration into that anti-Israel demonstration, and the pro-Israel rally which was held six days later. Below is his message to the Iranian people.  From what I know, the Iranian people do not have a hatred of Israel: just their government and religious leaders do, and have threatened to anni...

How many times have I written on this blog posts related to the so-called Two-State Solution subject,  "peace" talks, and about the lies the Arabs--so-called "Palestinians"--are telling the world, and what they really want?  'Let me count the ways.'  Try here , here and especially here , for starters. Well (yes, I am beginning a sentence with "well." What are you going to do about it?), a young Israeli journalist named Lital Shemesh has recently discovered what I--and everyone else who knew the truth--have been saying all along: The "Palestinians" don't want peace.  They want Israel-- all of Israel--to disappear.  Ms. Shemesh (which means "sun" in Hebrew) was an advocate for peace, and to achieve this, for coming to the table with the Arabs and discovering who they are, their aspirations and desires, and through talks arriving at a compromise which would benefit everyone. A noble cause, for certain.  In her video blo...

Well, enough about me.  It's a little late, but here Pat Condell wishes everyone a Happy New Year.  You think we'll still need this video next year?  G-d help us...

It happens over, and over again.  The world condemns Israel--for something, anything--settlements, a border crossing checkpoint--whatever.  And says nothing about what the Arabs are doing, either to themselves, such as so-called "honor" killings, or as in Syria, the regime murdering its citizens, nor does the world care what Arabs do to Israeli citizens, by shooting rockets and missiles at schools or throwing rocks--a lethal weapon--at civilians in cars. Did the world say much about Israel sending aid to Haiti after its devastating earthquake?  A couple of initial reports--then, silence.  It's not 'cool' to say something positive about Israel.  Quite the opposite. Here is an example of that hated little country , which does so much good for others, even for their enemies who are sworn to annihilate them. This video shows how Israeli medical personnel are helping a Palestinian child with severe leukemia, realize a dream. Bottom line: Israel brings Good to t...

I've written time and time again on this blog about the Arab, so-called "Palestinian" culture and mentality, and how they are focused on hatred of the Jews and Israel, on whom they blame all their troubles. From early on, young 'Palestinian' children are indoctrinated to hate Israel and to grow up to be "martyrs" and do "jihad."  Mitt Romney, on his visit to Israel, stated something similar when he remarked that Israel's economic success was due to its culture.  If the Arabs focused on bettering their lives, on extending rights to their women, on building infrastructure and creating jobs--not as they did in Gaza when they were handed functioning greenhouses on a silver platter by the Israelis when they withdrew, and trashed them--their economic situation would improve greatly. In addition to blaming all their problems on The Other : Israel, thus removing the responsibility from their own corrupt leadership, they are also an authoritarian,...

Mitt Romney made his much anticipated visit to Israel after his first stop, Great Britain, where he wowed the Brits with his public gaffes on the potential security problems which might ensue at the London 2012 Olympics.  I'm sure the "Palestinian" leaders feel he made some more gaffes, when he stated that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel--" absolutely unacceptable ," according to an Arab official.  Not only did he apparently snub P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas, but he had the gall to say what everyone-except the Arabs-know: that it is Jewish and consequently Israeli culture, and may I add faith and values, which helped create the modern, technological, innovative and creative Israel extant today. It is Jewish culture, and perseverance in the face of adversity and "difficult circumstances," to quote Mr. Romney--a mild euphemism for everybody and his uncle trying to wipe you off the face of the earth--which created a thriving, relatively powerful econ...

These are Pat Condell video from perhaps a year or so ago.  I must have missed it the first time around.  No better time than...now (you might say he's rather blunt).  Here is what the truth sounds like.  You know which truth: the one everybody is afraid to say, but secretly in their hearts, believe. 

Time to welcome Pat Condell again for slapping the world's face with the unmitigated truth as eruditely as always.

As we know--or more correctly, as some of us know and the rest of us should know--it is politically incorrect to say anything positive about Israel or defend Israel in almost anything it does, such as it's holding onto those "disputed territories" won fair and square in a defensive war, or keeping up a naval blockade against anyone who might try shipping weapons and materials to terrorists bent on Israel's destruction, or its treatment of the Arabs (so-called "Palestinians") who are either Israeli citizens, or in the aforementioned Judea and Samaria, treatment which is called by many who have no concept of the meaning of the word, "apartheid." So it is really refreshing (and a bit shocking--hard for me to believe he actually said this in public) to hear Glenn Beck fully support Israel, and not mince words at it, either: I want to leave you with his strong words this erev Shabbat.  Food for thought (enjoy your Shabbat se'udah ). Shabbat ...

Do the "Palestinians" want peace? Maybe.  Ok, let's say "sure." But not with a Jewish State.  'Cause there isn't anything like that.  Nor are there a "Jewish People."  There never has been. There's only something called "Israel."  And they don't want peace with it , either. Dennis Prager did a 'test' with a peace activist, to prove this (entire article here .).  I don't know whether she understood it... The Palestinians Want Peace -- Just Not With a Jewish State About five years ago, I was invited by the Hoover Institution to lecture at Stanford University over the course of a week. Coincidentally, Israel's Independence Day fell during that week, so I was invited to speak at the celebration held by pro-Israel students. In my talk, I noted that the crux of the problem in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was that most Palestinians wanted Israel to cease to exist. After my talk, a woman walked over t...

It is time for the "Palestinians" to GO. Now, after this horrific bestial attack by Palestinians who slaughtered almost an entire Jewish, religious family on the Jewish Sabbath, including parents and children from age 11 down to a three month old baby, by stabbing and slashing throats while most of them were sleeping.     It is time we took the stand we needed to take in 1967 and annex all the land captured from these animals, and expel them all. I don't give a damn where they go. Libya or Somalia.  Or drive them into the sea. This is not a people with whom to create a state, for G-d's sake.  This is not an entity with which to negotiate.  It is a vicious dog to put out of it's misery .  Our misery. Just kill it. My post of March 8th stands.  Annex all "territories" into Greater Israel.  Expel the enemy within. Do you have the guts to see what these animals did? These photos were released by the family, in order that the world should...

I have written previously many times about Israel being the world's punching bag.  Whereas other countries committing atrocities are more or less ignored, Israel is publicly and vociferously blamed for everything evil and the fact that there is no "peace" in the Middle East. There is currently no peace between Israel and her neighbors, and the reason is because her neighbors want to annihilate her.  The Arabs (so-called "Palestinians") don't really want 'peace,' they want Israel gone forever .  David Solway gets it , in his article entitled " Is Peace Possible in the Middle East " on Pajamas Media . Basically, everything is wrong there.  The Arabs speak out of both sides of their mouths; they say to the world they want peace with Israel, and to their people and in their schools they promote murdering Jews and destroying the Jewish Nation--which they refuse to recognize as such.  The same tactics and 'peace negotiations' are trie...

For some reason, I keep posting stuff ("stuff" is such a pithy word, isn't it?) a week after it's first published.  Must be because I live in space, not time.  Just like my mother (a'h). This Latma TV video, among other things, illustrates beautifully what the situation would be like if Israel continued the construction freeze, and shows how respectful and ecumenical these peaceniks are to the 'noble' Palestinians and their values. (Let's face it. Geert Wilder was right: our culture is better.)

In an article on YNet Magazine, Daniel Friedmann writes a sobering report on how Israel itself, through indecisiveness or bad decisions, prepared the ground which strengthened the concept of a "Palestinian" state.  Even though, after the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel officially declared "no" to a Palestinian state with full consensus of the Israeli population, it's actions since then have actually contributed to the opposite. Immediately following the Six Day War, the Arab League convened in Khartoum and passed the famous three No's resolution: No to peace, no to recognition and no to negotiations with Israel. Meanwhile, Israel also had No's of its own: No to pulling back to the '67 borders and no to a Palestinian state. There were some weighty considerations behind the decision to oppose the establishment of a Palestinian state that are still relevant today. It was a national consensus that only the radical Left contested. However, despit...

How many of you remember that ubiquitous photo of "an Israeli policeman and a Palestinian on the Temple Mount" published by the New York Times, AP and other news media in the year 2000? The headlines implied that an Israeli policeman beat up a Palestinian at the Temple Mount.  The identities, as well as the place--were wrong. The true story and correct identity of the bloodied victim were brought to light after the victim's father, Dr. Aaron Grossman, sent a letter to the New York Times stating that the young injured man was a Jew, his son Tuvia, who was, along with two friends, dragged from a taxicab on a street in Jerusalem and brutally attacked by Arabs while on the way to the Kotel (Western Wall). This was the incident that launched the Web site Honest Reporting, and it is they who searched for the young man and the Israeli soldier in order to reunite them.  Now, ten years after this incident, Tuvia Grossman, the young man who was stabbed and almost beaten ...

The Dept. of Redundancy Dept. (see sidebar) strikes again ! It is my view that since The Big Lie is being shouted from the rooftops daily--you can never repeat a TRUTH too often. Here's one; actually, two (which I've posted about before, several times): 1) The Palestinians are not really interested in a state of their own. 2) The Palestinians are not really interested in. . . PEACE! The reason for the truth in #1 should be obvious just by looking at history, especially recent history, and facing those facts without any political correctness: the Palestinians have had ample time to begin setting up an infrastructure for a state, but instead they have continued to pursue their ultimate goal of destroying Israel through their education, politics and incitement of their people against her. Arlene Kushner wrote an excellent article explaining this back in April 2009, showing that the Palestinians have concentrated on blaming Israel for their situation and praising martyrdom f...