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Millions of Jews all over the world will re-tell the story this week of the ancient exodus from Egypt of the Jewish people, and will repeat the centuries-old pledge: Next Year in Jerusalem.This is no empty platitude to be sacrificed at the altar of the catchy “Yes We Can” slogan.
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YES WE CAN
YES WE CAN – hold on to Cuban territory (Guantanamo Bay), and refuse the demands of the Cuban administration to return the area – yet at the same time demand that Israel transfer Abu Dis (a neighborhood in East Jerusalem) to Palestinian Authority control BEFORE negotiations are even begun
YES WE CAN – incarcerate Iraqi and Afghan POWs in inhuman conditions – stating that because Guantanamo is not on U.S. soil, the prisoners have no rights under the U.S. Constitution, and, at the same time, demand that Israel release Palestinian terrorists as a gesture of goodwill to Abu Mazen.
YES WE CAN – send U.S. military forces to fight against any regime deemed to endanger U.S. interests – Vietnam, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. – yet, in the same breath, demand that Israel relinquish Judea and Samaria without receiving any security guarantees.
YES WE CAN – treat the Israeli Prime Minister like the chieftain of an Indian reservation who has come to visit the White House.
YES … YOU … CAN – because you are a Great Power, for which everything is permitted and justified.
But let me point out what YOU CAN’T…
NO YOU CAN’T – understand the Middle East mentality. You are unable to understand this different culture; you cannot comprehend that as long as the Palestinian Arabs believe that the State of Israel can be destroyed, there is no reason for them to enter true negotiations on coexistence and a two-state solution.
NO YOU CAN’T – influence the Palestinian Authority to change its Charter, calling for the destruction of the State of Israel.
NO YOU CAN’T – influence the Palestinian Arabs to recognize that the people of Israel have the inalienable right to live within the 1967 borders.
NO YOU CAN’T – influence the Palestinian Arabs to accept the fact that the Jews have a centuries-old attachment to the Land of Israel.
NO YOU CAN’T – prevent the Palestinian education system from teaching hatred and jihad – holy war – against Israel.
Only if – and when – you are able to change the NO YOU CAN’Ts into YES WE CANs, will I believe in the U.S. commitment to the continued existence of the State of Israel.
Udi
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Again violence in Jerusalem, this time it was Muslim Arabs on the Temple Mount where the El Aqsa mosque stands, in the place of the former destroyed Jewish Holy Temple.
It’s a known fact that in many areas of the world where churches and places of prayer by other religions were destroyed, the Muslims have built mosques on these sites.
This time they took their rioting further than usual, by throwing stones and rocks from the Mount above, at the people below, who were praying by the Western Wall, the only remnant left of the Temple and the holiest place for Jews.
The police were called in and manged to disperse the rioters - many were wounded on both sides. Now, until things quieten down, only people wishing to pray above the age of 40 are allowed to enter the Temple Mount on their way to the mosque. I hope everything will return to normal soon
The massacre of Armenians by Turkey during World War I has come into the news again.
An American diplomatic source said that a resolution classifying the World War I killing of Armenians as genocide passed a House committee in Washington on Thursday.
It is a well-known fact that this genocide happened but for political reasons it has been kept quiet for these many years by most countries in the world, even I must regretfully admit by Israel.
The passage of the resolution in the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee has triggered a crisis in Turkish-US ties. The resolution will now go to the House floor for a vote.
A similar resolution passed the House Committee in 2007, but then-President George W. Bush urged Congressional leaders not to table the vote because of concern for US-Turkish relations.
If any of my readers are interested in details of this act of genocide, I suggest they read the book,The Forty Days of Musa Dagh” which is a historical novel depicting the heroic battle of Musa Dagh, which took place in 1915.
For months the ruthless Turks had waged a campaign of terror against the Armenians – massacring ,hanging, looting and raping. This great novel was written in 1933 by the Austrian writer France Werfel.
An Israeli film called “Ajami” was amongst five films nominated for the Oscar prize for foreign films this year.
Ajami depicts the brutal life involving drugs, violence and poverty in the Jewish-Arab neighborhood by this name in Jaffa and the film was directed by Scandar Copti, an Israeli Arab, and Yaron Shani, an Israeli Jew.
The movie used mainly nonprofessional actors, who were taught in special workshops before filming began.
Some of these actors are themselves residents of the Ajami district.
But this film is not typical of all Muslim-Christian-Jewish relationships in Israel, which are usually normally good.
It depicts only one small poor and unhappy area. Anyway, the film didn’t get any prize, an Argentinian film got the Oscar.
With this I close today. Shalom from Irene
Posted in Life in Israel, Observations, Palestinian conflict, State of Israel, anti-semitism | 
Tags: Auschwitz sign stolen, bad, Gilad Shalit, good, Prisoner swap, recent events, the ugly
Last week an explosion took place in a private house in southern Lebanon. At once all thought this was a so-called “work accident ”by the Hizbullah terrorist organization, but as they are not allowed to keep weapons south of the Litani river, they of course denied this at once, claiming that the explosion was caused by IDF (Israel defence Forces) leaving explosives behind during the Second Lebanon War in 2006. But we know this is not so, but that thousands of weapons caches have been placed in homes scattered in 160 villages in southern Lebanon,
The day after this stockpile exploded in the home of a Hizbullah operative in Tayr Filsay, near Tyre , Israeli senior defense officials said that the IDF had a video taken from an Israeli aircraft of the home, which belongs to Abdul Nasser Issa, a low-level Hizbullah operative. The blast took place at around 8 p.m. , and an hour later Hizbullah men were seen on the film carrying weapons out of the home and loading them onto a truck. In the footage, seven men are seen carrying a four-meter-long device, thought to be a Katyusha rocket or launcher. Hizbullah is thought to have more than 30,000 rockets of various ranges and sizes. The men took several hours to clear the home. For the first few hours, the area was sealed off by Hizbullah and the Lebanese army. The Israeli aircraft followed the truck as it drove about 4 km. to another village called Deir Qanoun al-Nahr. There, the truck pulled up at another home and the group of men unloaded the weapons. “Hizbullah uses civilian homes to hide its weaponry,” an IDF officer said. “This is a direct violation of UN [Security Council] Resolution 1701.
Posted in Israeli conflict, Life in Israel, Observations, anti-semitism |
Tags: explosion, Hizbullah, IDF, Lebanon, terrorists, Turkish-Israeli relationship, weapons explosion
During the last few days here, much of the news has been about our kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit. We have seen and heard him speak on the video film the Hamas organization which is holding him, have made. Evidently it is really him and his voice, but one can see that the words he was reading were not written by him, and although he appeared in clean clothes with a nice haircut, no one can tell under which conditions he has been kept till now, and if he will return to them.But one thing is certain - we are all so glad he is alive - many had feared the worst in that respect. Now hopefully negotiations for his release will go ahead faster, although we know the price for that is very high.
Although many of our armed forces and police were on alert because of possible dangers, the Yom Kippur festival passed peacefully and we can all get back to our usual routine.
Last week Ahmadinejad, the Iranian President gave a speech, a very violent, anti-Semitic and anti-Israel one, full of lies and inaccuracies in the assembly of the United Nations, and some member states left the assembly as a protest, a fact which Israel very much appreciated. The next day, Thursday, Israel’s Prime Minister, Benyamin Natanyahu gave a reply to this.
Posted in Observations, anti-semitism |
Tags: Ahmadinejad, Gaza War, Goldstone Report, Holocaust, Natanyahu, Yom Kippur