Get ready for the Jewish New Year and High Holidays with this great video from Aish. See the lyrics below the video.
Song Lyrics:
Synagogue, Rabbi's talk, going on for a while, can you check the clock, huh
Cantor's opera, lost my spot, do you know the place, choir in the slot
Wine we drink, with family now, good deeds you do, good for your soul
Fish head, ram's horn, shofar blow, give some money, appeal for dough
Yo, I'm returnin' to the fold can you explain mo'
Got this desire to know Torah scroll, say hello
Our prayers rock, yeah, we're the Jews and we question
Got the pride, just cant stop, our lives are changin'
Rosh Hashanah's in the house tonight
All the world is passing through the light
Let's all get written in the book of Life
Shana Tova -- It's High Holiday time
Taking stock is what we do tonight
Shana Tova -- it's High Holiday time
Let's all get written in the book of Life
Blow the shofar and -- Shuckle!
Three times a day I'm shucklin'
shucklin', shucklin'
Shofar blast, all across the world we will do this task
Apples and honey, feelin' glad -- now stop, never get mad
Fill the Kiddush cup, my friends around
Books are opened up, the challah's round
All our history, we see it now
Now please hear our plea, we're prayin' now
Stand up, sit down, pass the prayer books around
Stand up, sit down, pass the prayer books around
Stand up, sit down, pass the prayer books around
Pass the prayer books around, pass the prayer books around
Rosh Hashanah's in the house tonight
All the world is passing through the light
Let's all get written in the book of Life
Shana Tova -- it's High Holiday time
Taking stock is what we do tonight
Shana Tova -- it's High Holiday time
Let's all get written in the book of Life
Blow the shofar and -- Shuckle!
The following are videos from interviews with Muhammad Galaa Idris, head of the Hebrew Studies Department at Tanta University, Egypt, which aired on Al-Rahma TV on July 16, 2011 and also from a discussion on Freemasonry and Judaism, which aired on Al-Fareen TV on July 18, 2011.
I have added an additional video by Faraeen TV Owner and Egyptian Presidential Candidate Tawfiq Okasha: "The Jews Plan to Rule the World through Schemes, Intrigues, and Civil Strife - Like They Are Doing in Egypt"
The use of the so-called "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is of course a continuation of anti-Semitic incitement.
Egyptian Prof. Muhammad Galaa Idris Reviews 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion': "The Jews Are Trying to Take Over the World"
Egyptian Scholars: "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is the Constitution of Freemasonry, Whose Goal Is Jewish Domination of the World
Egyptian Presidential Candidate: The Jews Plan to Rule the World
The following videos are excerpts from an Egyptian TV sitcom about a Jewish family, in which family members are portrayed through stereotypical antisemitic characters. This aired on Egyptian Nile Life TV on July 14, 2011.
The name of the series is 'Rub Mashkal,' and it was initially aired during Ramadan 2010. Since then, the series has re-run multiple times including this week on Mehwar TV and Nile Life TV. The series was produced by "Global Production."
Portrayal of Jews on Egyptian TV as Organ Traffickers
During Yom Hashoah this year I managed to watch the latest documentary on the
Nazis titled "A Film Unfinished", it inspired me to write this article. It is about a 60 minute reel of raw
footage that was discovered in an East German archive labeled "Das Ghetto" and
which portrays the life of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto of 1942. The film not only
shows the life of Jews within the ghetto, but it deliberately intends to show
the extreme differences between rich and poor Jews. The differences, however,
had all been staged to service the needs of the Nazi propaganda machine.
To quote parts from the documentary trailer: "In 1942, one of the only known
films of the Warsaw Ghetto was shot. Scenes of Jewish life were documented. For
decades after World War II, this footage was presented as truth. Until 40 years
later, when a missing reel was discovered..."
"This is the story of a film that was never completed. A film designed to
service propaganda for the third Reich, that empire that knew so well to
document its own evil."
"Let the world see what a paradise the Jews lived in."
In short, the documentary exposes the methods in which the Nazis intended to
show the general German population and the world how "well" Jews were living in
the Ghettos, even though the scenes were staged, and then to show how the Jews
that were living "well" did "not care" about the poor, starving or already dead
Jews at all... Other staged scenes included leaving dead bodies out in the
streets and then having "rich" Jews walk past the bodies and not even budge an
eyelid or show any concern, as though Jews do not care that the dead lay in
their streets... Next they would show scenes of the "rich" having a proper
Jewish burial as opposed to the poor who were just dumped into mass graves one
on top of the other, to "show" that Jews do not value the lives of the
poor...
It then moves to another level whereby they intended to show the world the
"barbaric" rituals of Jews with regards to circumcision, keeping in mind that
the Germans of the time and most non-Jews did not circumcise their babies, so
seeing this could easily disgust people and lead them to believe that Jews are
inhumane, primitive and barbaric in our practices...Furthermore, they showed
staged scenes of poor religious men in a
Mikve, naked, with "rich" women who were also naked, in an attempt to portray our
religious practices as though they involve orgies of some sort, of course men
and women do not go into a Mikve at the same time or place and there is no such
religious practice that involves orgies of any sort...
Once the Nazis had convinced the general German population that the Jews were
living "well" in the ghettos, this would ease the minds of the Germans to not
ask any further questions, moreover once they convinced the Germans that Jews
were "inhumane and barbaric", this would be a reason for them to exterminate the
Jews and therefore have the support of the country to do so...
Here are some short examples of the continued use of anti-Semitic propaganda, I
say short because I could literally write a thesis with the full amount of
propaganda that is currently out there...
Pallywood & The Paparazzi
The use of visual propaganda rose up again with the invention of "Pallywood" and other forms of visual propaganda which I will go into in a moment...
Pallywood is a coinage used to describe alleged cases of "media manipulation,
distortion and outright fraud by the Palestinians and other Arabs ... designed
to win the public relations war against Israel."
It was publicized by
Richard Landes
who produced a documentary titled "Pallywood: According to Palestinian Sources"...
The documentary exposes the staged scenes which the Palestinians were setting up
with the intention of misleading the media and the world into believing that a
situation was far worse than it actually was and/or also staging violent
situations that were entirely made up and acted from beginning till end... All
"media" coverage was done by freelance photographers and cameramen not official
news sources...
Examples of this included the "Muhammad al-Durrah incident" where a
staged scene
was set to make as though the IDF had deliberately fired upon and killed Jamal
al-Durrah and his 12 year old son Muhammad al-Durrah... This was filmed by a
France 2 freelance cameraman but France 2 deliberately left out a
very important part of the video
which was discovered and
debunked by "The 2nd Draft"
in
this video... The part that was left out was at a point where the boy was supposedly
already dead yet he quickly peeks to see what he needs to do next...
This well executed (no pun intended) plan made Israel look bad just as much as
Nazi Germany was fated to be successful, and even if the intention was later
discovered to be fake, false or misdirected, the initial image always sticks in
peoples’ minds especially one of disgust… and no matter how much proof we can
later offer that debunks the incident, it will never convince people who have
already been convinced enough by seeing the first video…. anything else becomes
a conspiracy theory or a cover-up to them…
This one incident became an icon of hatred towards Israel, all the Muslim
countries had postage stamps honoring al-Durrah,
Daniel Pearl
was killed to avenge his "death",
Osama Bin Laden used the incident
to incite before 9/11 and streets, squares & academies have been named after
him... Al-Durrah was even referred to as "a tiny sleeping Jesus" - [Al-Quds, May
25, 2001] - He became a poster child for the Intifada...
"Jesus was Palestinian", "the Palestinians are Jesus"
Palestinians have gone as far as claiming that Jesus & Moses were Muslim
Palestinians and that Abraham was the first Muslim Palestinian, the use of
self-propaganda became a powerful influence on the people to justify their own
existence, history and heritage and in turn to make Jews look bad once again for
supposedly "killing Jesus their Messiah" as well as making the claim that we are
all "fake Jews" except for the "Hebrews or Israelites"...
Attempts to fabricate their own history to
convince people
that they are descendants of "Jesus the Palestinian" have gone as far as calling
Jesus "the first Palestinian Shahid – Martyr for Allah," [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, January 17, 2005]... Now whether Jesus was technically
called a Palestinian or not, because this area was known as Palestine, the fact
is that they are
rewriting their own history
as a direct connection to the Jewish Jesus which is of course impossible...
Palestine was only named Palestine 136 years after Jesus' death as part of
Rome's plan to cut the Jews' ties to their Land of Israel... Palestine was made
up of Palestinian Jews, Muslims and Christians. Palestinian is not a culture,
religion or race of people, at least not the same as the Palestinians that we
know of today...
Quotes such as the following are drummed into the minds of the Palestinians:
"We must not forget that (Jesus) Messiah, may peace be upon him, is
Palestinian, the son of Mary the Palestinian, who is sanctified by hundreds
of millions of believers in this world." [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, November
18, 2005]
"It was quite natural that the Palestinians rose to save their sanctuaries
[in Nazareth] without anyone thinking there is a difference between a
Christian and a Muslim… since in the Palestinian situation, the lord Messiah
[Jesus] and his mother [Mary] are both Galileans and Palestinians
…"[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 9, 2006]
"The Palestinian Galilee village of Kfar Kana takes pride in the fact that
in [the village] the Palestinian Messiah succeeded to turn water into
wine." [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, December 14, 2004]
"…And a child from the De’haisha refugeecamp will shout: "Yes, we have won,
just as the prophets and [Jesus’] Apostles won," and the shahids will cry,
‘We shook the palm trees alongside Lady Earth and the lady of the people,
the Virgin Mary, and with her son the first Palestinian
Shahid." [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, January 17, 2005]
Artist: "Our struggle today against the other side is an eternal one. It can
be said that it started 2,000 years ago and continues until today. I
demonstrate this through the figure of Jesus… The Israeli soldiers are
wearing army uniforms while Jesus has nothing except for the truth. When
they searched him at the entrance of Jerusalem, they found a stone, a piece
of bread and fish and he was cuffed. This is the Palestinian from the
beginning of the struggle until the end." [PA TV, July 21, 2000]
The mere belief that these people are of a heritage and descent that they are
not, becomes a major problem when they have convinced the rest of the world, who
actually believes them, that everything they say is true because they believe it
with such conviction... This then reassures the Pro-Palestinian mob that
"Palestinians" definitely have ancestral rights to this land and possibly
others, dating back to the times of Abraham, Moses and Jesus... this fuels the
support for the Palestinians "struggle" to get "their" land back...
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
"The Protocols of the Elders of Ziyon
is a fabricated document; its content is demonstrably fictional in its entirety.
It was originally produced in Russia between 1897 and 1903, possibly by
Pyotr Ivanovich Rachkovsky, head of the Paris office of the Russian Secret Police, and unknown others. It
is a fraudulent, anti-Semitic text purporting to describe a Jewish plan for
achieving global domination."
This famous piece of propaganda was used continuously to demonize the Jews and
is still in use today, the so called protocols have even been published online
by many anti-Semitic websites such as
JewWatch.com
and
BibleBelievers.org.au...
Youtube has its
fair share
of propaganda videos "exposing the truth" about Jews by using the Protocols as a
tool to convince people of the Jewish and Zionist "conspiracies" such as
world domination,
mass media control,
control of the banking systems
and more...
Facebook
is no different... It is sadly amusing what these people come up with... So far
only a few have put in the effort to
debunk
this
hoax...
Here is a list of some of the times this book has been used for propaganda
purposes:
1920: The Protocols were published in Poland, France, England,
and the United States. These editions blame the Russian Revolution on Jewish
conspirators and warn of
Bolshevism
spreading to the West.
1920: Automaker Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent
published The International Jew, an Americanized version of the Protocols to which he later apologized for
doing so. It is
available online
to read.
1933: Adolf
Hitler made "good" use
of it, he published 23 editions of it before World War II began.
1938: "Radio priest" Father
Charles E. Coughlin
serialized the Protocols in his newspaper, Social Justice.
1960: The Protocols were featured in an article published by
Salah Dasuqi, military governor of Cairo, in "al-Majallaaa", the official cultural journal.
1974: Idi Amin, the President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979, cited
the book as evidence of a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world, and as
justification for his self-proclaimed plans to destroy Israel. He
reveals this
in an interview during the documentary "Idi Amin Dada".
1985: An English-language edition of Protocols was published by
the Islamic Propagation Organization and
issued in Iran.
1997: The Protocols become a
best-seller in Syria, it was exhibited and sold at the Damascus International Book Fair. It was
then reprinted in 2004 and 2005.
2002: Egyptian satellite television
broadcasts
a 41-part miniseries "Horseman Without a Horse", which is based largely on the Protocols.
2003: A 30-part television miniseries called "Al Shatat (The Diaspora)", produced in Syria, was
broadcasted
on Hizbullah's Al-Manar TV. The series depicts a “global Jewish government,”
as described in the Protocols.
2003: An exhibition of holy books of monotheistic religions at
the
Alexandria Library
in Egypt includes a copy of the
Protocols next to the Torah. UNESCO issues a public denunciation of the Alexandria Library exhibition.
2004: The Protocols are published in Okinawa,
Japan.
2005: A Spanish-language edition of the Protocols,
published in Mexico City, says that whether or not the Protocols are authentic, history shows that
Zionists intend to dominate the world.
2005: An edition of the Protocols was
authorized by the Syrian Ministry
of Information, claims that the Elders of Zion coordinated the September 11,
2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.
2006: Saudi Arabian schoolbooks contain explicit summaries of
the
Protocols as factual.
2011: The
Charter of Hamas
explicitly refers to the Protocols, accepting them as factual and makes
several references to Freemasons as one of the "secret societies" controlled
by "Zionists".
The list goes on and will continue to go on as a powerful propaganda tool
against Jews, Israel and Zionists!
Israeli "Apartheid"
Since the term "Israeli Apartheid" was invented, vast amounts of anti-Israel
campaigns increased in numbers with intent to directly compare the real
South African Apartheid
regime to the current Israeli regime... It was in fact
stated back in 2004 by UN agent
John Dugard that the Israeli "Apartheid regime in territories is worse than in
South Africa"....
"In a 2007 report, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Palestine John Dugard
stated that 'elements of the
Israeli occupation constitute forms of colonialism and of apartheid, which are contrary to international law' and suggested that the 'legal
consequences of a prolonged occupation with features of colonialism and
apartheid' be put to the International Court of Justice. South Africa's
statutory research agency the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) stated in a
2009 report that 'the State of Israel exercises control in the [Occupied
Palestinian Territories] with the purpose of
maintaining a system of domination by Jews over Palestinians
and that this system constitutes a breach of the prohibition of apartheid.' In
2010 United Nations Special Rapporteur for Palestine Richard A. Falk reported
that
criminal apartheid features of the Israeli occupation
had been entrenched in the three years since the report of his predecessor, John
Dugard." (source)
The so-called "Israeli Apartheid" libel has spawned campaigns such as:
Once again the list goes on a mile long... Prominent Palestinians,
Jewish anti-Zionists,
South Africans,
Americans
and Europeans have been at the forefront of these campaigns.
Yet no matter how many of us attempt to debunk this myth, the damage is
already done... The usual suspects,
Youtube
and
Facebook, are of course overwhelmed with propaganda footage and campaigns of how
Israel is supposedly an Apartheid regime, even
Enrique Iglesias agrees...
This has become the "latest and greatest" tactic to use in the fight to
delegitimize Israel by demonizing Jews who support Israel, Zionists, Israelis
and well truthfully any Jews in general too but many will argue that they
"love" Jews but hate Israelis or Zionists, which is true for some, but many
who are actually anti-Semitic, hide behind the "political correctness" of
being anti-Zionist rather than anti-Semitic...
Illogical arguments in support of Israel being an Apartheid state usually go
something like
"Jews are against Israel's occupation and against Israeli Apartheid"-
this to them translates into meaning that because
some Jews are against Israel
and do believe that Israel is an Apartheid regime that therefore the majority
of Jews and Israelis MUST be wrong... Many a time I have seen this line used
and it holds no weight when it is analyzed properly, it is a meaningless
argument like saying
"some Americans hate America because of the Iraq War therefore America is
wrong and should be put on trial"- As absurd as this sounds, people use these as arguments all the time in
defense of their belief that "Israel is evil"... This is a direct result of
the "Israeli Apartheid" propaganda that is out there...
I used to live in Apartheid South Africa, I grew up there and witnessed many
incidents of real Apartheid on a daily basis. I now live in Israel for many
years and I can assure you that there is no Israeli Apartheid, there never has
been and never will be! During the Apartheid we, as Jews, were not allowed to
go to certain places such as country clubs where they had signs stating "No
Blacks, No Dogs, No Jews", you will never see a sign in Israel preventing an
Arab whether Muslim or Christian from entering, not even at the Western Wall
(Kotel). Perhaps I am hallucinating when I go to the shopping mall and see
well dressed happy Arabs
in the
same shopping malls
that I go to or when I visit the Tel Aviv University and see many Arab
students &
professors
walking around the campus without being hassled by anyone... Yet people
will then argue that it is the Palestinians who are suffering from the
"Apartheid" due to the wall but this too makes no logical sense because
Palestinians are not a part of Israel AT ALL, they have their own governing
body, laws, rules and regulations to follow that have nothing to do with
Israel in the least... they are no different to Jordanians or Egyptians in
that they are not a part of Israel so therefore have to pass through border
control points anyway if they wish to enter & exit Israel, what is the
difference? Every border has a fence, this particular one has a wall, where is
the difference besides cosmetically? Even
Egypt has a wall
on the border of Gaza but that is "apparently" acceptable...
"The Satanic Talmud & The Synagogue Of Satan & The Zionist
Illuminati"
Another new, or maybe not so new, form of anti-Semitic propaganda is the
comparison between the
Talmud, Kaballah
and Satanism / Devil Worship as well as a continued belief (Protocols) that
the Jews are actually the
Illuminati
who hide behind the world and seek to control it or who have been controlling
it for thousands of years like puppet masters... It has gone viral!
While no one is really sure who first came up with this preposterous idea that
Jews are Satanic or members of the so called Illuminati, but the conspiracy
theorists out there have really got the hang of this one and have managed to
"convert" many an ignorant person into believing this total nonsense....
An example of one such person is "Brother Nathanael" who is an Orthodox Christian street evangelist that warns people of the
dangers of the Jews being in control of the world... He started the "Brother Nathanael Foundation" and also runs the notorious "Real Zionist News" blog and interestingly enough was supposedly born a Jew but converted to
Christianity to escape from the "evil claws" of Judaism... His Youtube videos,
of which he
has many, show him explaining
why he left Judaism
and how to
break the Zionist power... His followers have been led to believe that all Jews, except ones that
convert to Christianity, are evil Satan worshipers and must be stopped... As
candid as he looks, speaks and acts is as dangerous as this man actually
is...
I won't go too much into these 2 deranged people but I will say that they have
both influenced the minds of ignorant people in many ways... For one Texe Marrs, the author, was inspired by Andrew Carrington's Synagogue of Satan as
well as Youtube, once again, is full of "proof" that "Jews are evil Satan worshippers"...
These 2 people have opened the door to many Christian fundamentalists who
believe that the Jews killed Jesus as well as white supremists, to enhance
their belief that Jews are, yes I said it again "evil Satan worshipers"... I
cannot begin to tell you how many arguments I have had with these people
online to try get them to see the ridiculousness of this belief of us being
what they claim we are...
I am sure you get the point of all of this by now but I did feel the need to
go into as much detail as I did above so that the people out there who may not
be aware of all of these things, as much as I am aware, can at least get a
taste of the very real "Unfinished and continued" use of anti-Semitic
propaganda that the world has to offer on a daily basis, at the click of a
mouse and also
for entertainment...
All of the above examples are propaganda tricks and fabrications of the truth
that are used only to re-assure people’s anti-Semitic approach or to convince
"new recruits" in the same way that the Nazis used false films and other
methods to convince their own people that killing the Jews was the right
solution... Today it is no different, whether it means killing the Jews or
destroying Israel, there is no difference whatsoever... Israel is a Jewish
homeland, always was and always will be and the need that these people have to
destroy Israel is directly connected to the reality that Israel is Jewish, no
other reason whatsoever can excuse the need for all of the above, even Yunis
al Astal, a member of the Palestinian Authority parliament
agrees...
The film unfinished continues today....
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The history of Jerusalem did not start in 1967. Thousands of years of Jewish history took place in what is now called "Arab East Jerusalem."
Only when the Jewish residents were driven from their homes in 1948 was the city divided between East and West.
This video shows the reality of Jerusalem today and includes interviews from survivors of the fall of Jerusalem. To discuss the issue of Jerusalem, join our Facebook Group "The History of Jerusalem Did Not Start in 1967."
It is hard to convey the sickening nature of this event, and not just because we lost. The sub-text of the motion was that the Jews are responsible for their own destruction; the real danger they are in comes not from Islamic terrorism, nor the attempt to ethnically cleanse the Jews from Israel, nor the rise in anti-Jewish feeling in Britain and Europe, but from the Jews themselves because the Israelis have turned into monsters. Thus the attacks on them, far from being deplored, are implicitly endorsed; and, to carry this thinking to its logical conclusion, the way to defend the Jews is to remove the source of the contagion — in other words, to destroy the state of Israel.
Up to one million Jews have been forced to flee from Arab countries and hundreds of Jewish communities have been ethnically cleansed throughout this century. Most of these refugees now live in Israel and their old homes are no more. In fact, Jews who immigrated to Israel from Arab and Muslim lands and their descendants constitute about 50% of Jewish Israelis.
In the history of the Arab-Israel conflict, the United Nations have made 687 resolutions about the conflict. 101 of these resolutions dealt with the issue of refugees. It is astonishing to know that NOT ONE SINGLE resolution deals with the issue of Jewish refugees from Arab countries.
All 101 resolutions are about Palestinian refugees only. This is the hypocrisy of the United Nations.
It is a film about the mass exodus of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa in the 20th century.
The Forgotten Refugees explores the history, culture, and forced exodus of Middle Eastern and North African Jewish communities in the second half of the 20th century. Using extensive testimony of refugees from Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Iraq, and Morocco the film recounts the stories - of joy and suffering - that nearly one million individuals have carried with them for so long.
The film weaves personal stories with dramatic archival footage of rescue missions, historic images of exodus and resettlement, and analyses by contemporary scholars to tell the story of how and why the Jewish population in the Middle East and North Africa declined from one million in 1945 to several thousand today.
"Yad Vashem says it has identified two-thirds of the Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
Israel’s Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority in the last decade has added about 1.4 million names to its central database of Shoah victims’ names, bringing the total number of names registered to about 4 million, according to a statement released Tuesday.
“One of Yad Vashem’s central missions since its foundation, the recovery of each and every victim’s name and personal story, has resulted in relentless efforts to restore the names and identities of as many of the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis and their accomplices as possible,” said Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev. “We will continue our efforts to recover the unknown names, and by harnessing technology in the service of memory, we are able to share their names with the world.”
In 2004, Yad Vashem launched the central database of Shoah victims’ names onto its website with 3 million names. Names are recovered via Pages of Testimony, special forms filled out in memory of the victims by those who remember them, and by combing archival lists and documentation for names.
Of the 4 million names now known, some 2.2 million come from Pages of Testimony and the remainder from various archival sources and postwar commemoration projects.
Israel Protests Gaza Rockets to U.N.
Israel has filed a complaint in the United Nations over rocket attacks from Gaza.
In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Security Council President Susan Rice, Meron Reuben, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, called on the body to “send a clear and resolute message that these attacks are unacceptable.”
The letter, dated Tuesday, was sent several hours after a rocket fired from Gaza landed several yards from a kindergarten in session in a western Negev kibbutz, wounding a 14-year-old girl on her way to school. Israel responded to the attack later in the day with an airstrike on what it called a Hamas terror center in Gaza.
At least 13 rockets from Gaza have been fired on southern Israel since Sunday.
“The incidents of the past several days are part of an escalation of terrorist attacks emanating from Gaza that target Israeli civilians, towns, and military personnel,” the letter said.
Later it said, “In response to such attacks, Israel has exercised and will continue to exercise its right to self-defense.”
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat on Wednesday told Israel Radio that the Palestinian Authority fears a full-blown Israeli attack on Gaza, saying that “Military solutions such as these won’t accomplish a thing and would only complicate the situation.”
Israeli Panel Approves Heritage Site Renovations
An Israeli government committee approved the $25 million renovation of 16 national heritage projects and sites.
The Ministerial Committee on the National Heritage, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Tuesday approved the renovation of the sites—among the 150 sites and initiatives included in the “Plan for Renovating and Strengthening National Heritage Sites and Assets” approved in February—at a cost of $25 million. The plan caused some controversy when two West Bank biblical sites, Rachel’s Tomb and the Cave of the Patriarchs, were added to the list.
Included on the list of the approved renovations is Independence Hall in Tel Aviv.
The committee meeting Tuesday was held at the Ben Tzvi Institute in Jerusalem, home to the wooden cabin used by the second president of the State of Israel, Yitzhak Ben-Tzvi, another site on the list.
“The heritage project is one that we owe ourselves, our children and future generations,” Netanyahu said." (source)
Video below: "The victim of a Thanksgiving hate crime testified Friday his attackers screamed 'Jew, Jew!' as they beat him unconscious on a Brooklyn street.
'They ripped off my clothes, my hat and my yarmulke. They were punching my face,' said Joel Weinberger, 26, a Hasidic rabbi and father of four.
Weinberger ended up with numerous fractures and a broken eye socket. He had three steel implants in his cheek, he told the Daily News outside the courtroom.
'I was hit from the back; I lost consciousness,' Weinberger testified at an evidence hearing.
He came to, tried to run away, but was hit repeatedly until he blacked out again, he said.
Two 15-year-old boys were charged with assault as a hate crime for the attack on Harrison St. in Williamsburg.
Two NYPD detectives testified that the teens said they attacked 'the Jew' because 'it was something fun to do.'
Detective Nicole Carter said the boys claimed they 'were bored,' went to a park, bought a '$5 bag of weed, got high' and then decided to go to what they called 'Jew town.'
One of the teens is accused of later beating two other Orthodox Jews - one last Saturday and another on Monday as he left a Chanukah party.
Because the suspects were charged as juveniles, The News is not publishing their names.
Both are chronic truants and drug users who cannot be controlled by their parents, probation reports say.
One of the teens was laughing during the proceedings, prompting a warning from the judge to 'treat the process with dignity.'
The next hearing in the case is scheduled for Dec. 17." (source)
"Protestors in Hamadan warn 'Zionist leaders' they'll 'destroy lowly murderers' mausoleum if Al-Aqsa mosque assaulted in any way'
A group of extremist Iranian students threatened to destroy the mausoleum of Queen Esther and Mordechai should Israel cause damage to the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, Ynet reported Sunday.
According to tradition, the tomb is located in the western Iranian city of Hamadan."
"Wednesday, 17 more billionaires announced that they had taken the Giving Pledge, a statement that they intend to give away at least half of their wealth before they die.
The pledge, an initiative started by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffet, has drawn mixed reviews, with some hailing it as revolutionary and others panning it, as most of the first group of signatories, which was announced this summer, included mostly those who had after already making philanthropic commitments that far exceed 50 percent of their wealth.
This second group, which brings the total number of pledge takers to 57, includes at least one big name that is a philanthropic neophyte, facebook founder, Zuckerberg."
Please help by signing this petition and sharing with your friends to get as many signatures as possible.
The petition is to have the "Temple Mount" added to the list of Jewish heritage sites as it originally belonged to the Jews in the first place. This is where Abraham's faith was tested by God when he had to sacrifice his son (but of course didn't) and was also the place where both the Temples were located and where the 3rd Temple will be located.
The petition is in Hebrew but I have added instructions below for anyone who cannot read Hebrew. You do not have to be Jewish or Israeli to sign this, anyone can be involved. Thank you.
Click here to open the petition, see instructions below.
Instructions for non-Hebrew speaking people
1) Click the link above.
2) Scroll down the page till you see the form fields on the bottom right.
3) Where it says "שם מלא" insert your Full Name.
4) Where it says "גיל" insert your Age.
5) Where it says "יישוב / עיר" insert your City.
6) Where it says "דואר אלקטרוני" insert your email address.
7) Where it says "מספר טלפון" insert your phone number but you do not have to and is only for Israeli citizens if they want to.
8) Click the big Green button and you are done once the next page loads, you can then close the site.
Thats all :)
The owner of this petition is looking to get at least 10 000 signatures but ultimately wants 100 000 - but 10 000 is enough to make the news at least which will then increase the amount of people signing it far quicker...
"Ferry boat captain calls police after spotting man described as wearing 'boxes' with 'wires taped to his leg and forehead.'
An Israeli tourist visiting New Zealand caused a minor panic on a New Zealand ferry on Sunday after the captain reported to police that a passenger was carrying a 'suspicious article,' NZTV reported.
Some media in New Zealand even reported a hostage situation aboard the ferry, even though the passenger was cooperative with police, according to the report."
"An 'oligarch' calls on Russia's richest and most powerful to help Israel recover from the Carmel forest fire, bring European MPs to Israel.
To mark the end of Hanukka, Russian 'oligarch' and Jewish philanthropist Alexander Mashkevich invited Moscow’s elite to the annual reception of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress at the city’s prestigious Safisa Palace banquet hall on Thursday night.
With some of the Russian capital’s richest and most powerful residents in attendance, Mashkevich called for an emergency fund-raising drive to aid Israel in recovering from the Carmel forest fire and announced a project to bring hundreds of European members of parliament to the Jewish state on a solidarity mission in February."
"'If they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern,' then-US sec. of state tells Nixon on 1973 tape.
Henry Kissinger is heard saying the genocide of Soviet Jews would not be an American problem on newly released tapes chronicling President Nixon’s obsession with disparaging Jews and other minorities.
Kissinger’s remarks come after a meeting between the two men and former prime minister Golda Meir on March 1, 1973, in which Meir pleads for US pressure on the Soviet Union to release its Jews."
"PM spokesman calls on Palestinian leadership to publicly distance itself, says 'this not sort of statement expected from peace partner.'
The Palestinian Authority on Tuesday officially endorsed a 'study' that claims that Jews have no claims to the Western Wall.
The PA's Ministry of Information posted the findings of the 'study' on its official Web site and the findings of the 'study' were first published in The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday."
Pics below: "Lebanon is a multi-faith country home to 17 Muslim and Christian groups as well as a large Jewish community older than the country itself. The latter has not had a place of worship for the past 30 years.
Beirut is still healing from the wounds inflicted by Lebanon's civil war. A large part of the city's architectural heritage was destroyed by years of fighting. Today, they have been replaced by modern buildings. Even places of worship have not been spared, as evidenced by the deplorable state in which restorers found the Maghen Abraham Synagogue. Located in the heart of the city, the building has been in the process of restoration for the past year and is due to re-open in the coming months.
SB, who wishes to remain anonymous, is the head of the Lebanese Jewish religious community. He has overseen the restoration works at the Maghen Abraham Synagogue.
The Lebanese Jewish community has 100 members within the country, mainly in Beirut, and 2000 in the world (of Lebanese nationality). There was a time when there were many more of us; there were about 20,000 at the end of the 1940s. But unfortunately, the Civil War ended that. In 1975, when the armed conflict broke out in the heart of the Jewish quarter, Wadi Abu Jamil, many were forced to leave the country, leaving everything behind. There was a haemorrhaging of all communities at that time.
Despite the mass exodus, we continued to celebrate prayers, weddings and religious festivals at Maghen Abraham, long recognised as the most prestigious synagogue in the Middle East. The construction of this synagogue started in 1920, on the initiative of an Indian Jew who had emigrated to Lebanon. The building officially opened its doors to followers in 1926, and the Selim Tarrab School just behind the synagogue ensured the education of the children of the community. But in 1982, the year of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, our synagogue was subjected to looting and vandalism. The building was devastated and the Talmudic school was completely destroyed by the war. Members of our community who stayed in the country were deprived of their place of worship.
It took a lot of time and effort for the restoration of Maghen Abraham to take shape. We had already collected the necessary funds for the restoration, mainly from members of our community (within and outside of the country), but also with the help of other religious communities. However, due to the precarious security situation, particularly with the Israeli War of 2006, we had to delay the project. Eventually, the restoration of the synagogue began a year ago, at the same time as the restoration of the Wadi Abu Jamil neighbourhood. The reopening is expected in six months' time. We are also planning to do the same for other Jewish places of worship in other parts of Lebanon which have been abandoned.
Many are surprised that we still live here, and believe that we ought to have crossed the border to where we belong; to Israel. It gets forgotten that we are the oldest religious community of the country. We belong here." (source)
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