tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35709724963522598962024-02-19T06:57:53.683-05:00Tuvia BrodieTuviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09258309790095578616noreply@blogger.comBlogger1353125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570972496352259896.post-3380333572409532532021-11-29T12:26:00.003-05:002021-11-29T12:26:47.873-05:00Why November 29 is a date to remember<p> </p><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Israelis should remember November 29<sup>th</sup>. This was
the date in 1947 when the United Nations officially <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>authorized the creation of modern Israel--the
world's first and only Jewish State. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This UN authorization was to go into effect some five-and-half
months later, as of 1159 PM on May 14, 1948. That was to be the <i>instant</i> the
28-year old British Palestine Mandate (essentially, British rule over the Jews
in what was then called ‘the Jewish Palestine’) officially ended. One minute
later—at midnight--the Jews of Israel declared themselves as a sovereign territory,
a <i>state</i> they called, Israel. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The man who made that public declaration, over a nationwide radio
broadcast, was David Ben Gurion. The date was May 15, 1948, just after midnight.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">It might be fair to say that, at that moment, most Jews in
the newly declared Israel were not asleep. They were glued to their radios,
listening to Ben Gurion name their new state. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">They were delirious with joy. They cheered. They celebrated.
They danced and sang in the streets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">After nearly 2,000 years of exile and persecution, after the
horrors of the recent Nazi Holocaust against Jews, the ancient Jewish ancestral
homeland had been returned to them! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Everyone in Israel should remember this November date, for three
reasons. The first reason is obvious: this date marks the rebirth of our
ancient Jewish national homeland as a modern, sovereign State. This rebirth was
truly a precious--and public--gift given by the United Nations in a formal
Resolution called, plainly enough, UN Resolution 181. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The second reason we should remember November 29, 1947 is
that this is the one day each year we should remember the <i>meaning</i> of
Resolution 181. The meaning of Resolution 181 was simple: It gave—and continues
to give--Israel <i>legal legitimacy.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The third reason we should remember this date is to remind
the UN it has <b>failed repeatedly</b> to fulfill its promises to the Jewish
state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Israel should hold the UN's
collective 'feet' to the fire of truth--that the UN Charter clearly states that
the UN exists to “maintain international peace and security” (Preamble to the
UN Charter). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">But: since its creation, anti-Israel advocates have questioned
Israel's right to exist. They question Israel's legitimacy. They deny Israel
its “peace and security”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The UN ignores
all this aggression against Israel. The UN fails Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">For this reason, Israel should perform a <b>public reading</b>
of 181 on November 29<sup>th</sup>, so it can validate that 181 was not a
conditional document. It was not temporary. It was final. It made Israel a
completely sovereign Member of the United Nations. It made Israel no different
from any other state. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The UN needs to be reminded that Resolution 181 didn't make
Israel a partial Member of the UN. It didn't make Israel a Part-Time Member of
the UN family of nations. It made the Jewish state (whatever its name would be)
a <b>permanent</b> Member of the family of nations. That November 29, 1947 vote
gave Israel an unquestioned, legal legitimacy. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Therefore, Israel should remind the UN of that meaning.
Israel should remind the UN that 181 means that Israel has <i>every</i> right
to exist.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Every November 29<sup>th</sup>, Israel should demand that its
legal legitimacy be recognized by the UN. Israel should demand that the UN reject
as illegitimate all calls for Israel’s destruction. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">When you read Resolution 181 (below), consider how Israel's
Arab enemies violated 181 even before the proverbial ink had dried. You
should also consider how the UN did nothing to protect Israel or to force those
Arabs to become compliant with the Resolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Here's how both Arabs and the UN violated Res. 181:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">1. 181 promises that, regarding the creation of two states,
if there should arise a threat to peace, a breach of peace or acts of
aggression during the transition period to two states for two peoples, the UN
would take whatever measures were necessary to stop those threats and
aggression (according to the UN Charter's Articles 39-42). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">However, once 181 passed, Arabs immediately resorted to acts
of aggression against the new Jewish state. Since the passage of 181, Arabs
have violated its terms consistently, repeatedly, and with violence. Much to
its shame, the UN has taken no active action to reverse Arab aggression,
address Arab violations of 181 or stop Arab violence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">2. In 181, both sides were called upon to implement the
Resolution. The Arabs refused to do this. They took no steps to implement 181.
The UN did nothing to make certain the Arabs did implement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">3. The two peoples most affected by this Resolution were
told by 181 to take no action that would hamper its implementation. The Arabs
violated that call. The UN did not act against that violation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">4. 181 required that neither side—the Jews or the Arabs--were
to use force against the other concerning this matter. The Arabs violated this
provision. The UN did nothing to stop that violation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">5. Both sides were required to offer equal rights in civil,
political, economic and religious matters. The Arabs violated this requirement.
The UN did nothing to correct those violations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">6. Both sides were to agree to create economic cooperation
mechanisms with each other. The Arabs violated that provision. The UN did
nothing to persuade the Arabs to abandon such violations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">7. Access to Holy Places and religious building in the Holy
Land were to be maintained and repaired as needed. The Arabs violated this
provision. The UN did nothing to correct those violations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">8. Freedom of worship for all--especially in Jerusalem--was
to be granted. The Arabs violated this provision. The UN did nothing to make
certain this freedom was guaranteed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">9. Both Arab and Jew were to offer adequate primary and
secondary education to all within their respective entities, particularly for minority
populations within their jurisdiction. The Arabs violated this provision. The
UN did nothing to enforce this violation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">10. The city of Jerusalem was to remain an open,
international city, with freedom of religion, worship and access to Holy sites for
all. The Arabs violated this provision. The UN did nothing to force the Arabs
to abide by this provision.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In sum, neither the Arab enemies of Israel nor the United
Nations followed the dictates of Resolution 181. Each November 29th, Israel
should tell the UN that Israel will not accept any rulings by the UN as binding
until all the violations of 181 be addressed, including the imposition of
appropriate penalties for violations—and compensation to Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Here, now, is UN Resolution 181, in its entirety. It is a
long document. But it needs to be read. We need to read that the UN aimed to
create two separate states for two people, an Arab state and a Jewish state. We
need to understand how thoroughly Arab violated virtually every aspect of 181.
We need to understand that the UN did nothing about those violations—never.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If reading the entire Resolution proves burdensome, please page down to the POST SCRIPT at the bottom for some of my final thoughts on 181.</span></p>
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</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">UN RESOLUTION 181:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The General Assembly,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Having met in special session at the request of the
mandatory Power to constitute and instruct a Special Committee to prepare for
the consideration of the question of the future Government of Palestine at the
second regular session; <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Having constituted a Special Committee and instructed it to
investigate all questions and issues relevant to the problem of Palestine, and
to prepare proposals for the solution of the problem, and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Having received and examined the report of the Special
Committee (document A/364)(1) including a number of unanimous recommendations
and a plan of partition with economic union approved by the majority of the
Special Committee,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Considers that the present situation in Palestine is one
which is likely to impair the general welfare and friendly relations among
nations;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Takes note of the declaration by the mandatory Power that it
plans to complete its evacuation of Palestine by l August 1948;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Recommends to the United Kingdom, as the mandatory Power for
Palestine, and to all other Members of the United Nations the adoption and
implementation, with regard to the future Government of Palestine, of the Plan
of Partition with Economic Union set out below;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Requests that:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">-The Security Council take the necessary measures as
provided for in the plan for its implementation;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">-The Security Council consider, if circumstances during the
transitional period require such consideration, whether the situation in
Palestine constitutes a threat to the peace. If it decides that such a threat
exists, and in order to maintain international peace and security, the Security
Council should supplement the authorization of the General Assembly by taking
measures, under Articles 39 and 41 of the Charter, to empower the United
Nations Commission, as provided in this resolution, to exercise in Palestine
the functions which are assigned to it by this resolution;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">-The Security Council determine as a threat to the peace,
breach of the peace or act of aggression, in accordance with Article 39 of the
Charter, any attempt to alter by force the settlement envisaged by this
resolution;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">-The Trusteeship Council be informed of the responsibilities
envisaged for it in this plan;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">-Calls upon the inhabitants of Palestine to take such steps
as may be necessary on their part to put this plan into effect;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">-Appeals to all Governments and all peoples to refrain from
taking any action which might hamper or delay the carrying out of these
recommendations, and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">-Authorizes the Secretary-General to reimburse travel and
subsistence expenses of the members of the Commission referred to in Part 1,
Section B, Paragraph I below, on such basis and in such form as he may
determine most appropriate in the circumstances, and to provide the Commission
with the necessary staff to assist in carrying out the functions assigned to
the Commission by the General Assembly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The General Assembly,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">-Authorizes the Secretary-General to draw from the Working
Capital Fund a sum not to exceed 2,000,000 dollars for the purposes set forth
in the last paragraph of the resolution on the future government of Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">PLAN OF PARTITION WITH ECONOMIC UNION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Part I. - Future Constitution and Government of Palestine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">A. TERMINATION OF MANDATE, PARTITION AND INDEPENDENCE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Mandate for Palestine shall terminate as soon as
possible but in any case not later than 1 August 1948.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The armed forces of the mandatory Power shall be
progressively withdrawn from Palestine, the withdrawal to be completed as soon
as possible but in any case not later than 1 August 1948.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The mandatory Power shall advise the Commission, as far in
advance as possible, of its intention to terminate the mandate and to evacuate
each area. The mandatory Power shall use its best endeavours to ensure that an
area situated in the territory of the Jewish State, including a seaport and
hinterland adequate to provide facilities for a substantial immigration, shall
be evacuated at the earliest possible date and in any event not later than 1
February 1948.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Independent Arab and Jewish States and the Special
International Regime for the City of Jerusalem, set forth in Part III of this
Plan, shall come into existence in Palestine two months after the evacuation of
the armed forces of the mandatory Power has been completed but in any case not
later than 1 October 1948. The boundaries of the Arab State, the Jewish State,
and the City of Jerusalem shall be as described in Parts II and III below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The period between the adoption by the General Assembly of
its recommendation on the question of Palestine and the establishment of the
independence of the Arab and Jewish States shall be a transitional period.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">B. STEPS PREPARATORY TO INDEPENDENCE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">A Commission shall be set up consisting of one
representative of each of five Member States. The Members represented on the
Commission shall be elected by the General Assembly on as broad a basis,
geographically and otherwise, as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The administration of Palestine shall, as the mandatory
Power withdraws its armed forces, be progressively turned over to the
Commission, which shall act in conformity with the recommendations of the
General Assembly, under the guidance of the Security Council. The mandatory
Power shall to the fullest possible extent coordinate its plans for withdrawal
with the plans of the Commission to take over and administer areas which have
been evacuated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In the discharge of this administrative responsibility the
Commission shall have authority to issue necessary regulations and take other
measures as required.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The mandatory Power shall not take any action to prevent,
obstruct or delay the implementation by the Commission of the measures
recommended by the General Assembly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">On its arrival in Palestine the Commission shall proceed to
carry out measures for the establishment of the frontiers of the Arab and
Jewish States and the City of Jerusalem in accordance with the general lines of
the recommendations of the General Assembly on the partition of Palestine.
Nevertheless, the boundaries as described in Part II of this Plan are to be
modified in such a way that village areas as a rule will not be divided by
state boundaries unless pressing reasons make that necessary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Commission, after consultation with the democratic
parties and other public organizations of the Arab and Jewish States, shall
select and establish in each State as rapidly as possible a Provisional Council
of Government. The activities of both the Arab and Jewish Provisional Councils
of Government shall be carried out under the general direction of the
Commission.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If by 1 April 1948 a Provisional Council of Government
cannot be selected for either of the States, or, if selected, cannot carry out
its functions, the Commission shall communicate that fact to the Security
Council for such action with respect to that State as the Security Council may
deem proper, and to the Secretary-General for communication to the Members of
the United Nations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Subject to the provisions of these recommendations, during
the transitional period the Provisional Councils of Government, acting under
the Commission, shall have full authority in the areas under their control
including authority over matters of immigration and land regulation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Provisional Council of Government of each State, acting
under the Commission, shall progressively receive from the Commission full
responsibility for the administration of that State in the period between the
termination of the Mandate and the establishment of the State's independence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Commission shall instruct the Provisional Councils of
Government of both the Arab and Jewish States, after their formation, to
proceed to the establishment of administrative organs of government, central
and local.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Provisional Council of Government of each State shall,
within the shortest time possible, recruit an armed militia from the residents
of that State, sufficient in number to maintain internal order and to prevent
frontier clashes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This armed militia in each State shall, for operational
purposes, be under the command of Jewish or Arab officers resident in that
State, but general political and military control, including the choice of the
militia's High Command, shall be exercised by the Commission.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Provisional Council of Government of each State shall,
not later than two months after the withdrawal of the armed forces of the
mandatory Power, hold elections to the Constituent Assembly which shall be
conducted on democratic lines.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The election regulations in each State shall be drawn up by
the Provisional Council of Government and approved by the Commission. Qualified
voters for each State for this election shall be persons over eighteen years of
age who are (a) Palestinian citizens residing in that State; and (b) Arabs and
Jews residing in the State, although not Palestinian citizens, who, before
voting, have signed a notice of intention to become citizens of such State.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Arabs and Jews residing in the City of Jerusalem who have
signed a notice of intention to become citizens, the Arabs of the Arab State
and the Jews of the Jewish State, shall be entitled to vote in the Arab and
Jewish States respectively.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Women may vote and be elected to the Constituent Assemblies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">During the transitional period no Jew shall be permitted to
establish residence in the area of the proposed Arab State, and no Arab shall
be permitted to establish residence in the area of the proposed Jewish State,
except by special leave of the Commission.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Constituent Assembly of each State shall draft a
democratic constitution for its State and choose a provisional government to
succeed the Provisional Council of Government appointed by the Commission. The
Constitutions of the States shall embody Chapters 1 and 2 of the Declaration
provided for in section C below and include, inter alia, provisions for:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Establishing in each State a legislative body elected by
universal suffrage and by secret ballot on the basis of proportional
representation, and an executive body responsible to the legislature;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Settling all international disputes in which the State may be
involved by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and
security, and justice, are not endangered;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Accepting the obligation of the State to refrain in its
international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial
integrity or political independence of any State, or in any other manner
inconsistent with the purpose of the United Nations;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Guaranteeing to all persons equal and non-discriminatory
rights in civil, political, economic and religious matters and the enjoyment of
human rights and fundamental freedoms, including freedom of religion, language,
speech and publication, education, assembly and association;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Preserving freedom of transit and visit for all residents
and citizens of the other State in Palestine and the City of Jerusalem, subject
to considerations of national security, provided that each State shall control
residence within its borders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Commission shall appoint a preparatory economic
commission of three members to make whatever arrangements are possible for
economic co-operation, with a view to establishing, as soon as practicable, the
Economic Union and the Joint Economic Board, as provided in section D below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">During the period between the adoption of the
recommendations on the question of Palestine by the General Assembly and the
termination of the Mandate, the mandatory Power in Palestine shall maintain
full responsibility for administration in areas from which it has not withdrawn
its armed forces. The Commission shall assist the mandatory Power in the
carrying out of these functions. Similarly the mandatory Power shall co-operate
with the Commission in the execution of its functions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">With a view to ensuring that there shall be continuity in
the functioning of administrative services and that, on the withdrawal of the
armed forces of the mandatory Power, the whole administration shall be in the
charge of the Provisional Councils and the Joint Economic Board, respectively,
acting under the Commission, there shall be a progressive transfer, from the
mandatory Power to the Commission, of responsibility for all the functions of
government, including that of maintaining law and order in the areas from which
the forces of the mandatory Power have been withdrawn.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Commission shall be guided in its activities by the
recommendations of the General Assembly and by such instructions as the
Security Council may consider necessary to issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The measures taken by the Commission, within the
recommendations of the General Assembly, shall become immediately effective
unless the Commission has previously received contrary instructions from the
Security Council.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Commission shall render periodic monthly progress
reports, or more frequently if desirable, to the Security Council.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Commission shall make its final report to the next
regular session of the General Assembly and to the Security Council
simultaneously.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">C. DECLARATION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">A declaration shall be made to the United Nations by the
Provisional Government of each proposed State before independence. It shall contain,
inter alia, the following clauses:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">General Provision:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The stipulations contained in the Declaration are recognized
as fundamental laws of the State and no law, regulation or official action
shall conflict or interfere with these stipulations, nor shall any law,
regulation or official action prevail over them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Chapter I: Holy Places, Religious Buildings and Sites<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Existing rights in respect of Holy Places and religious
buildings or sites shall not be denied or impaired.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In so far as Holy Places are concerned, the liberty of
access, visit, and transit shall be guaranteed, in conformity with existing
rights, to all residents and citizen of the other State and of the City of
Jerusalem, as well as to aliens, without distinction as to nationality, subject
to requirements of national security, public order and decorum.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Similarly, freedom of worship shall be guaranteed in
conformity with existing rights, subject to the maintenance of public order and
decorum.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Holy Places and religious buildings or sites shall be
preserved. No act shall be permitted which may in an way impair their sacred
character. If at any time it appears to the Government that any particular Holy
Place, religious, building or site is in need of urgent repair, the Government
may call upon the community or communities concerned to carry out such repair.
The Government may carry it out itself at the expense of the community or
community concerned if no action is taken within a reasonable time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">No taxation shall be levied in respect of any Holy Place,
religious building or site which was exempt from taxation on the date of the
creation of the State.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">No change in the incidence of such taxation shall be made
which would either discriminate between the owners or occupiers of Holy Places,
religious buildings or sites, or would place such owners or occupiers in a
position less favourable in relation to the general incidence of taxation than
existed at the time of the adoption of the Assembly's recommendations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Governor of the City of Jerusalem shall have the right
to determine whether the provisions of the Constitution of the State in
relation to Holy Places, religious buildings and sites within the borders of
the State and the religious rights appertaining thereto, are being properly
applied and respected, and to make decisions on the basis of existing rights in
cases of disputes which may arise between the different religious communities
or the rites of a religious community with respect to such places, buildings
and sites. He shall receive full co-operation and such privileges and
immunities as are necessary for the exercise of his functions in the State.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Chapter 2: Religious and Minority Rights<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Freedom of conscience and the free exercise of all forms of
worship, subject only to the maintenance of public order and morals, shall be
ensured to all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">No discrimination of any kind shall be made between the
inhabitants on the ground of race, religion, language or sex.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">All persons within the jurisdiction of the State shall be
entitled to equal protection of the laws.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The family law and personal status of the various minorities
and their religious interests, including endowments, shall be respected.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Except as may be required for the maintenance of public order
and good government, no measure shall be taken to obstruct or interfere with
the enterprise of religious or charitable bodies of all faiths or to
discriminate against any representative or member of these bodies on the ground
of his religion or nationality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The State shall ensure adequate primary and secondary
education for the Arab and Jewish minority, respectively, in its own language
and its cultural traditions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The right of each community to maintain its own schools for
the education of its own members in its own language, while conforming to such
educational requirements of a general nature as the State may impose, shall not
be denied or impaired. Foreign educational establishments shall continue their
activity on the basis of their existing rights.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">No restriction shall be imposed on the free use by any
citizen of the State of any language in private intercourse, in commerce, in
religion, in the Press or in publications of any kind, or at public
meetings.(3)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">No expropriation of land owned by an Arab in the Jewish
State (by a Jew in the Arab State)(4) shall be allowed except for public
purposes. In all cases of expropriation full compensation as fixed by the
Supreme Court shall be said previous to dispossession.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Chapter 3: Citizenship, International Conventions and
Financial Obligations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">1. Citizenship<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Palestinian citizens residing in Palestine outside the City
of Jerusalem, as well as Arabs and Jews who, not holding Palestinian
citizenship, reside in Palestine outside the City of Jerusalem shall, upon the
recognition of independence, become citizens of the State in which they are
resident and enjoy full civil and political rights. Persons over the age of
eighteen years may opt, within one year from the date of recognition of
independence of the State in which they reside, for citizenship of the other
State, providing that no Arab residing in the area of the proposed Arab State
shall have the right to opt for citizenship in the proposed Jewish State and no
Jew residing in the proposed Jewish State shall have the right to opt for
citizenship in the proposed Arab State. The exercise of this right of option
will be taken to include the wives and children under eighteen years of age of
persons so opting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Arabs residing in the area of the proposed Jewish State and
Jews residing in the area of the proposed Arab State who have signed a notice
of intention to opt for citizenship of the other State shall be eligible to
vote in the elections to the Constituent Assembly of that State, but not in the
elections to the Constituent Assembly of the State in which they reside.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">2. International conventions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The State shall be bound by all the international agreements
and conventions, both general and special, to which Palestine has become a
party. Subject to any right of denunciation provided for therein, such
agreements and conventions shall be respected by the State throughout the
period for which they were concluded.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Any dispute about the applicability and continued validity
of international conventions or treaties signed or adhered to by the mandatory
Power on behalf of Palestine shall be referred to the International Court of
Justice in accordance with the provisions of the Statute of the Court.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">3. Financial obligations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The State shall respect and fulfil all financial obligations
of whatever nature assumed on behalf of Palestine by the mandatory Power during
the exercise of the Mandate and recognized by the State. This provision
includes the right of public servants to pensions, compensation or gratuities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">These obligations shall be fulfilled through participation
in the Joint Economic Board in respect of those obligations applicable to
Palestine as a whole, and individually in respect of those applicable to, and
fairly apportionable between, the States.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">A Court of Claims, affiliated with the Joint Economic Board,
and composed of one member appointed by the United Nations, one representative
of the United Kingdom and one representative of the State concerned, should be
established. Any dispute between the United Kingdom and the State respecting
claims not recognized by the latter should be referred to that Court.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Commercial concessions granted in respect of any part of
Palestine prior to the adoption of the resolution by the General Assembly shall
continue to be valid according to their terms, unless modified by agreement
between the concession-holders and the State.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Chapter 4: Miscellaneous Provisions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The provisions of chapters 1 and 2 of the declaration shall
be under the guarantee of the United Nations, and no modifications shall be
made in them without the assent of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Any Member of the United Nations shall have the right to bring to the attention
of the General Assembly any infraction or danger of infraction of any of these
stipulations, and the General Assembly may thereupon make such recommendations
as it may deem proper in the circumstances.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Any dispute relating to the application or interpretation of
this declaration shall be referred, at the request of either party, to the
International Court of Justice, unless the parties agree to another mode of
settlement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">D. ECONOMIC UNION AND TRANSIT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Provisional Council of Government of each State shall
enter into an undertaking with respect to Economic Union and Transit. This
undertaking shall be drafted by the Commission provided for in section B,
paragraph 1, utilizing to the greatest possible extent the advice <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">and cooperation of representative organizations and bodies
from each of the proposed States. It shall contain provisions to establish the
Economic Union of Palestine and provide for other matters of common interest.
If by 1 April 1948 the Provisional Councils of Government have not entered into
the undertaking, the undertaking shall be put into force by the Commission.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Economic Union of Palestine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The objectives of the Economic Union of Palestine shall be:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">A customs union;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">A joint currency system providing for a single foreign
exchange rate;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Operation in the common interest on a non-discriminatory
basis of railways inter-State highways; postal, telephone and telegraphic
services and ports and airports involved in international trade and commerce;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Joint economic development, especially in respect of
irrigation, land reclamation and soil conservation;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Access for both States and for the City of Jerusalem on a
non-discriminatory basis to water and power facilities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">There shall be established a Joint Economic Board, which
shall consist of three representatives of each of the two States and three
foreign members appointed by the Economic and Social Council of the United
Nations. The foreign members shall be appointed in the first instance for a
term of three years; they shall serve as individuals and not as representatives
of States.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The functions of the Joint Economic Board shall be to
implement either directly or by delegation the measures necessary to realize
the objectives of the Economic Union. It shall have all powers of organization
and administration necessary to fulfil its functions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The States shall bind themselves to put into effect the
decisions of the Joint Economic Board. The Board's decisions shall be taken by
a majority vote.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In the event of failure of a State to take the necessary action
the Board may, by a vote of six members, decide to withhold an appropriate
portion of the part of the customs revenue to which the State in question is
entitled under the Economic Union. Should the State persist in its failure to
cooperate, the Board may decide by a simple majority vote upon such further
sanctions, including disposition of funds which it has withheld, as it may deem
appropriate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In relation to economic development, the functions of the
Board shall be planning, investigation and encouragement of joint development
projects, but it shall not undertake such projects except with the assent of
both States and the City of Jerusalem, in the event that Jerusalem is directly
involved in the development project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In regard to the joint currency system, the currencies
circulating in the two States and the City of Jerusalem shall be issued under
the authority of the Joint Economic Board, which shall be the sole issuing
authority and which shall determine the reserves to be held against such
currencies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">So far as is consistent with paragraph 2(b) above, each
State may operate its own central bank, control its own fiscal and credit
policy, its foreign exchange receipts and expenditures, the grant of import
licences, and may conduct international financial operations on its own faith
and credit. During the first two years after the termination of the Mandate,
the Joint Economic Board shall have the authority to take such measures as may
be necessary to ensure that - to the extent that the total foreign exchange
revenues of the two States from the export of goods and services permit, and
provided that each State takes appropriate measures to conserve its own foreign
exchange resources - each State shall have available, in any twelve months'
period, foreign exchange sufficient to assure the supply of quantities of
imported goods and services for consumption in its territory equivalent to the
quantities of such goods and services consumed in that territory in the twelve
months' period ending 31 December 1947.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">All economic authority not specifically vested in the Joint
Economic Board is reserved to each State.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">There shall be a common customs tariff with complete freedom
of trade between the States, and between the States and the City of Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The tariff schedules shall be drawn up by a Tariff
Commission, consisting of representatives of each of the States in equal
numbers, and shall be submitted to the Joint Economic Board for approval by a
majority vote. In case of disagreement in the Tariff Commission, the Joint
Economic Board shall arbitrate the points of difference. In the event that the
Tariff Commission fails to draw up any schedule by a date to be fixed, the
Joint Economic Board shall determine the tariff schedule.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The following items shall be a first charge on the customs
and other common revenue of the Joint Economic Board:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The expenses of the customs service and of the operation of
the joint services;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The administrative expenses of the Joint Economic Board;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The financial obligations of the Administration of
Palestine, consisting of:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The service of the outstanding public debt;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The cost of superannuation benefits, now being paid or
falling due in the future, in accordance with the rules and to the extent
established by paragraph 3 of chapter 3 above.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">After these obligations have been met in full, the surplus
revenue from the customs and other common services shall be divided in the
following manner: not less than 5 per cent and not more than 10 per cent to the
City of Jerusalem; the residue shall be allocated to each State by the Joint
Economic Board equitably, with the objective of maintaining a sufficient and
suitable level of government and social services in each State, except that the
share of either State shall not exceed the amount of that State's contribution
to the revenues of the Economic Union by more than approximately four million
pounds in any year. The amount granted may be adjusted by the Board according
to the price level in relation to the prices prevailing at the time of the
establishment of the Union. After five years, the principles of the
distribution of the joint revenue may be revised by the Joint Economic Board on
a basis of equity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">All international conventions and treaties affecting customs
tariff rates, and those communications services under the jurisdiction of the
Joint Economic Board, shall be entered into by both States. In these matters,
the two States shall be bound to act in accordance with the majority of the
Joint Economic Board.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Joint Economic Board shall endeavour to secure for
Palestine's exports fair and equal access to world markets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">All enterprises operated by the Joint Economic Board shall
pay fair wages on a uniform basis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Freedom of Transit and Visit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The undertaking shall contain provisions preserving freedom
of transit and visit for all residents or citizens of both States and of the
City of Jerusalem, subject to security considerations; provided that each State
and the City shall control residence within its borders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Termination, Modification and Interpretation of the
Undertaking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The undertaking and any treaty issuing therefrom shall
remain in force for a period of ten years. It shall continue in force until
notice of termination, to take effect two years thereafter, is given by either
of the parties.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">During the initial ten-year period, the undertaking and any
treaty issuing therefrom may not be modified except by consent of both parties
and with the approval of the General Assembly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Any dispute relating to the application or the
interpretation of the undertaking and any treaty issuing therefrom shall be
referred, at the request of either party, to the International Court Of
Justice, unless the parties agree to another mode of settlement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">E. ASSETS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The movable assets of the Administration of Palestine shall
be allocated to the Arab and Jewish States and the City of Jerusalem on an
equitable basis. Allocations should be made by the United Nations Commission
referred to iii section B, paragraph 1, above. Immovable assets shall become
the property of the government of the territory in which they are situated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">During the period between the appointment of the United
Nations Commission and the termination of the Mandate, the mandatory Power
shall, except in respect of ordinary operations, consult with the Commission on
any measure which it may contemplate involving the liquidation, disposal or
encumbering of the assets of the Palestine Government, such as the accumulated
treasury surplus, the proceeds of Government bond issues, State lands or any
other asset.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">F. ADMISSION TO MEMBERSHIP IN THE UNITED NATIONS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">When the independence of either the Arab or the Jewish State
as envisaged in this plan has become effective and the declaration and
undertaking, as envisaged in this plan, have been signed by either of them,
sympathetic consideration should be given to its application for admission to
membership in the United Nations in accordance with article 4 of the Charter of
the United Nations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Part II. - Boundaries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">A. THE ARAB STATE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The area of the Arab State in Western Galilee is bounded on
the west by the Mediterranean and on the north by the frontier of the Lebanon
from Ras en Naqura to a point north of Saliha. From there the boundary proceeds
southwards, leaving the built-up area of Saliha in the Arab State, to join the
southernmost point of this village. There it follows the western boundary line
of the villages of 'Alma, Rihaniya and Teitaba, thence following the northern
boundary line of Meirun village to join the Acre-Safad Sub-District boundary
line. It follows this line to a point west of Es Sammu'i village and joins it
again at the northernmost point of Farradiya. Thence it follows the
sub-district boundary line to the Acre-Safad main road. From here it follows
the western boundary of Kafr-I'nan village until it reaches the Tiberias-Acre
Sub-District boundary line, passing to the west of the junction of the
Acre-Safad and Lubiya-Kafr-I'nan roads. From the south-west corner of
Kafr-I'nan village the boundary line follows the western boundary of the
Tiberias Sub-District to a point close to the boundary line between the
villages of Maghar and 'Eilabun, thence bulging out to the west to include as
much of the eastern part of the plain of Battuf as is necessary for the
reservoir proposed by the Jewish Agency for the irrigation of lands to the
south and east.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The boundary rejoins the Tiberias Sub-District boundary at a
point on the Nazareth-Tiberias road south-east of the built-up area of Tur'an;
thence it runs southwards, at first following the sub-district boundary and
then passing between the Kadoorie Agricultural School and Mount Tabor, to a
point due south at the base of Mount Tabor. From here it runs due west,
parallel to the horizontal grid line 230, to the north-east corner of the
village lands of Tel Adashim. It then runs to the northwest corner of these
lands, whence it turns south and west so as to include in the Arab State the
sources of the Nazareth water supply in Yafa village. On reaching Ginneiger it
follows the eastern, northern and western boundaries of the lands of this
village to their south-west comer, whence it proceeds in a straight line to a
point on the Haifa-Afula railway on the boundary between the villages of Sarid
and El-Mujeidil. This is the point of intersection. The south-western boundary
of the area of the Arab State in Galilee takes a line from this point, passing
northwards along the eastern boundaries of Sarid and Gevat to the north-eastern
corner of Nahalal, proceeding thence across the land of Kefar ha Horesh to a
central point on the southern boundary of the village of 'Ilut, thence
westwards along that village boundary to the eastern boundary of Beit Lahm,
thence northwards and north-eastwards along its western boundary to the north-eastern
corner of Waldheim and thence north-westwards across the village lands of Shafa
'Amr to the southeastern corner of Ramat Yohanan. From here it runs due
north-north-east to a point on the Shafa 'Amr-Haifa road, west of its junction
with the road of I'billin. From there it proceeds north-east to a point on the
southern boundary of I'billin situated to the west of the I'billin-Birwa road.
Thence along that boundary to its westernmost point, whence it turns to the
north, follows across the village land of Tamra to the north-westernmost corner
and along the western boundary of Julis until it reaches the Acre-Safad road.
It then runs westwards along the southern side of the Safad-Acre road to the
Galilee-Haifa District boundary, from which point it follows that boundary to
the sea.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The boundary of the hill country of Samaria and Judea starts
on the Jordan River at the Wadi Malih south-east of Beisan and runs due west to
meet the Beisan-Jericho road and then follows the western side of that road in
a north-westerly direction to the junction of the boundaries of the
Sub-Districts of Beisan, Nablus, and Jenin. From that point it follows the
Nablus-Jenin sub-District boundary westwards for a distance of about three
kilometres and then turns north-westwards, passing to the east of the built-up
areas of the villages of Jalbun and Faqqu'a, to the boundary of the
Sub-Districts of Jenin and Beisan at a point northeast of Nuris. Thence it
proceeds first northwestwards to a point due north of the built-up area of
Zie'in and then westwards to the Afula-Jenin railway, thence north-westwards
along the District boundary line to the point of intersection on the Hejaz
railway. From here the boundary runs southwestwards, including the built-up
area and some of the land of the village of Kh. Lid in the Arab State to cross
the Haifa-Jenin road at a point on the district boundary between Haifa and
Samaria west of El- Mansi. It follows this boundary to the southernmost point
of the village of El-Buteimat. From here it follows the northern and eastern
boundaries of the village of Ar'ara rejoining the Haifa-Samaria district
boundary at Wadi 'Ara, and thence proceeding south-south-westwards in an
approximately straight line joining up with the western boundary of Qaqun to a
point east of the railway line on the eastern boundary of Qaqun village. From
here it runs along the railway line some distance to the east of it to a point
just east of the Tulkarm railway station. Thence the boundary follows a line
half-way between the railway and the Tulkarm-Qalqiliya-Jaljuliya and Ras El-Ein
road to a point just east of Ras El-Ein station, whence it proceeds along the
railway some distance to the east of it to the point on the railway line south
of the junction of the Haifa-Lydda and Beit Nabala lines, whence it proceeds along
the southern border of Lydda airport to its south-west corner, thence in a
south-westerly direction to a point just west of the built-up area of Sarafand
El 'Amar, whence it turns south, passing just to the west of the built-up area
of Abu El-Fadil to the north-east corner of the lands of Beer Ya'aqov. (The
boundary line should be so demarcated as to allow direct access from the Arab
State to the airport.) Thence the boundary line follows the western and
southern boundaries of Ramle village, to the north-east corner of El Na'ana
village, thence in a straight line to the southernmost point of El Barriya,
along the eastern boundary of that village and the southern boundary of 'Innaba
village. Thence it turns north to follow the southern side of the Jaffa-Jerusalem
road until El-Qubab, whence it follows the road to the boundary of Abu-Shusha.
It runs along the eastern boundaries of Abu Shusha, Seidun, Hulda to the
southernmost point of Hulda, thence westwards in a straight line to the
north-eastern corner of Umm Kalkha, thence following the northern boundaries of
Umm Kalkha, Qazaza and the northern and western boundaries of Mukhezin to the
Gaza District boundary and thence runs across the village lands of El-Mismiya
El-Kabira, and Yasur to the southern point of intersection, which is midway
between the built-up areas of Yasur and Batani Sharqi.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">From the southern point of intersection the boundary lines
run north-westwards between the villages of Gan Yavne and Barqa to the sea at a
point half way between Nabi Yunis and Minat El-Qila, and south-eastwards to a
point west of Qastina, whence it turns in a south-westerly direction, passing
to the east of the built-up areas of Es Sawafir Esh Sharqiya and 'Ibdis. From
the south-east corner of 'Ibdis village it runs to a point southwest of the
built-up area of Beit 'Affa, crossing the Hebron-El-Majdal road just to the
west of the built-up area of 'Iraq Suweidan. Thence it proceeds southward along
the western village boundary of El-Faluja to the Beersheba Sub-District boundary.
It then runs across the tribal lands of 'Arab El-Jubarat to a point on the
boundary between the Sub-Districts of Beersheba and Hebron north of Kh.
Khuweilifa, whence it proceeds in a south-westerly direction to a point on the
Beersheba-Gaza main road two kilometres to the north-west of the town. It then
turns south-eastwards to reach Wadi Sab' at a point situated one kilometer to
the west of it. From here it turns north-eastwards and proceeds along Wadi Sab'
and along the Beersheba-Hebron road for a distance of one kilometer, whence it
turns eastwards and runs in a straight line to Kh. Kuseifa to join the
Beersheba-Hebron Sub-District boundary. It then follows the Beersheba-Hebron
boundary eastwards to a point north of Ras Ez-Zuweira, only departing from it
so as to cut across the base of the indentation between vertical grid lines 150
and 160.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">About five kilometres north-east of Ras Ez-Zuweira it turns
north, excluding from the Arab State a strip along the coast of the Dead Sea
not more than seven kilometres in depth, as far as 'Ein Geddi, whence it turns
due east to join the Transjordan frontier in the Dead Sea.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The northern boundary of the Arab section of the coastal
plain runs from a point between Minat El-Qila and Nabi Yunis, passing between
the built-up areas of Gan Yavne and Barqa to the point of intersection. From
here it turns south-westwards, running across the lands of Batani Sharqi, along
the eastern boundary of the lands of Beit Daras and across the lands of Julis,
leaving the built-up areas of Batani Sharqi and Julis to the westwards, as far
as the north-west corner of the lands of Beit-Tima. Thence it runs east of
El-Jiya across the village lands of El-Barbara along the eastern boundaries of
the villages of Beit Jirja, Deir Suneid and Dimra. From the south-east corner
of Dimra the boundary passes across the lands of Beit Hanun, leaving the Jewish
lands of Nir-Am to the eastwards. From the south-east corner of Beit Hanun the
line runs south-west to a point south of the parallel grid line 100, then turns
north-west for two kilometres, turning again in a southwesterly direction and
continuing in an almost straight line to the north-west corner of the village
lands of Kirbet Ikhza'a. From there it follows the boundary line of this
village to its southernmost point. It then runs in a southerly direction along
the vertical grid line 90 to its junction with the horizontal grid line 70. It
then turns south-eastwards to Kh. El-Ruheiba and then proceeds in a southerly
direction to a point known as El-Baha, beyond which it crosses the Beersheba-EI
'Auja main road to the west of Kh. El-Mushrifa. From there it joins Wadi
El-Zaiyatin just to the west of El-Subeita. From there it turns to the
north-east and then to the south-east following this Wadi and passes to the
east of 'Abda to join Wadi Nafkh. It then bulges to the south-west along Wadi
Nafkh, Wadi 'Ajrim and Wadi Lassan to the point where Wadi Lassan crosses the
Egyptian frontier.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The area of the Arab enclave of Jaffa consists of that part
of the town-planning area of Jaffa which lies to the west of the Jewish
quarters lying south of Tel-Aviv, to the west of the continuation of Herzl
street up to its junction with the Jaffa-Jerusalem road, to the south-west of
the section of the Jaffa-Jerusalem road lying south-east of that junction, to
the west of Miqve Yisrael lands, to the northwest of Holon local council area,
to the north of the line linking up the north-west corner of Holon with the
northeast corner of Bat Yam local council area and to the north of Bat Yam
local council area. The question of Karton quarter will be decided by the
Boundary Commission, bearing in mind among other considerations the
desirability of including the smallest possible number of its Arab inhabitants
and the largest possible number of its Jewish inhabitants in the Jewish State.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">B. THE JEWISH STATE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The north-eastern sector of the Jewish State (Eastern
Galilee) is bounded on the north and west by the Lebanese frontier and on the
east by the frontiers of Syria and Trans-jordan. It includes the whole of the
Huleh Basin, Lake Tiberias, the whole of the Beisan Sub-District, the boundary
line being extended to the crest of the Gilboa mountains and the Wadi Malih.
From there the Jewish State extends north-west, following the boundary described
in respect of the Arab State. The Jewish section of the coastal plain extends
from a point between Minat El-Qila and Nabi Yunis in the Gaza Sub-District and
includes the towns of Haifa and Tel-Aviv, leaving Jaffa as an enclave of the
Arab State. The eastern frontier of the Jewish State follows the boundary
described in respect of the Arab State.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Beersheba area comprises the whole of the Beersheba
Sub-District, including the Negeb and the eastern part of the Gaza
Sub-District, but excluding the town of Beersheba and those areas described in
respect of the Arab State. It includes also a strip of land along the Dead Sea
stretching from the Beersheba-Hebron Sub-District boundary line to 'Ein Geddi,
as described in respect of the Arab State.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">C. THE CITY OF JERUSALEM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The boundaries of the City of Jerusalem are as defined in
the recommendations on the City of Jerusalem. (See Part III, section B, below).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Part III. - City of Jerusalem<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">A. SPECIAL REGIME<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The City of Jerusalem shall be established as a corpus
separatum under a special international regime and shall be administered by the
United Nations. The Trusteeship Council shall be designated to discharge the
responsibilities of the Administering Authority on behalf of the United
Nations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">B. BOUNDARIES OF THE CITY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The City of Jerusalem shall include the present municipality
of Jerusalem plus the surrounding villages and towns, the most eastern of which
shall be Abu Dis; the most southern, Bethlehem; the most western, 'Ein Karim
(including also the built-up area of Motsa); and the most northern Shu'fat, as
indicated on the attached sketch-map (annex B).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">C. STATUTE OF THE CITY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Trusteeship Council shall, within five months of the
approval of the present plan, elaborate and approve a detailed statute of the
City which shall contain, inter alia, the substance of the following
provisions:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Government machinery; special objectives. The Administering
Authority in discharging its administrative obligations shall pursue the
following special objectives:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">To protect and to preserve the unique spiritual and
religious interests located in the city of the three great monotheistic faiths
throughout the world, Christian, Jewish and Moslem; to this end to ensure that
order and peace, and especially religious peace, reign in Jerusalem;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">To foster cooperation among all the inhabitants of the city
in their own interests as well as in order to encourage and support the
peaceful development of the mutual relations between the two Palestinian
peoples throughout the Holy Land; to promote the security, well-being and any
constructive measures of development of the residents having regard to the
special circumstances and customs of the various peoples and communities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Governor and Administrative staff. A Governor of the City of
Jerusalem shall be appointed by the Trusteeship Council and shall be
responsible to it. He shall be selected on the basis of special qualifications
and without regard to nationality. He shall not, however, be a citizen of
either State in Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Governor shall represent the United Nations in the City
and shall exercise on their behalf all powers of administration, including the
conduct of external affairs. He shall be assisted by an administrative staff
classed as international officers in the meaning of Article 100 of the Charter
and chosen whenever practicable from the residents of the city and of the rest
of Palestine on a non-discriminatory basis. A detailed plan for the
organization of the administration of the city shall be submitted by the Governor
to the Trusteeship Council and duly approved by it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">3. Local autonomy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The existing local autonomous units in the territory of the
city (villages, townships and municipalities) shall enjoy wide powers of local
government and administration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Governor shall study and submit for the consideration
and decision of the Trusteeship Council a plan for the establishment of special
town units consisting, respectively, of the Jewish and Arab sections of new
Jerusalem. The new town units shall continue to form part the present
municipality of Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Security measures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The City of Jerusalem shall be demilitarized; neutrality
shall be declared and preserved, and no para-military formations, exercises or
activities shall be permitted within its borders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Should the administration of the City of Jerusalem be
seriously obstructed or prevented by the non-cooperation or interference of one
or more sections of the population the Governor shall have authority to take
such measures as may be necessary to restore the effective functioning of
administration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">To assist in the maintenance of internal law and order,
especially for the protection of the Holy Places and religious buildings and
sites in the city, the Governor shall organize a special police force of
adequate strength, the members of which shall be recruited outside of
Palestine. The Governor shall be empowered to direct such budgetary provision
as may be necessary for the maintenance of this force.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Legislative Organization.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">A Legislative Council, elected by adult residents of the
city irrespective of nationality on the basis of universal and secret suffrage
and proportional representation, shall have powers of legislation and taxation.
No legislative measures shall, however, conflict or interfere with the
provisions which will be set forth in the Statute of the City, nor shall any
law, regulation, or official action prevail over them. The Statute shall grant
to the Governor a right of vetoing bills inconsistent with the provisions
referred to in the preceding sentence. It shall also empower him to promulgate
temporary ordinances in case the Council fails to adopt in time a bill deemed
essential to the normal functioning of the administration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Administration of Justice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Statute shall provide for the establishment of an
independent judiciary system, including a court of appeal. All the inhabitants
of the city shall be subject to it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Economic Union and Economic Regime.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The City of Jerusalem shall be included in the Economic
Union of Palestine and be bound by all stipulations of the undertaking and of
any treaties issued therefrom, as well as by the decisions of the Joint
Economic Board. The headquarters of the Economic Board shall be established in
the territory City. The Statute shall provide for the regulation of economic
matters not falling within the regime of the Economic Union, on the basis of
equal treatment and non-discrimination for all members of thc United Nations
and their nationals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Freedom of Transit and Visit: Control of residents.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Subject to considerations of security, and of economic
welfare as determined by the Governor under the directions of the Trusteeship
Council, freedom of entry into, and residence within the borders of the City
shall be guaranteed for the residents or citizens of the Arab and Jewish
States. Immigration into, and residence within, the borders of the city for
nationals of other States shall be controlled by the Governor under the
directions of the Trusteeship Council.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Relations with Arab and Jewish States. Representatives of
the Arab and Jewish States shall be accredited to the Governor of the City and
charged with the protection of the interests of their States and nationals in
connection with the international administration of thc City.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Official languages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Arabic and Hebrew shall be the official languages of the
city. This will not preclude the adoption of one or more additional working
languages, as may be required.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Citizenship.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">All the residents shall become ipso facto citizens of the
City of Jerusalem unless they opt for citizenship of the State of which they
have been citizens or, if Arabs or Jews, have filed notice of intention to
become citizens of the Arab or Jewish State respectively, according to Part 1,
section B, paragraph 9, of this Plan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Trusteeship Council shall make arrangements for consular
protection of the citizens of the City outside its territory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Freedoms of citizens<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Subject only to the requirements of public order and morals,
the inhabitants of the City shall be ensured the enjoyment of human rights and
fundamental freedoms, including freedom of conscience, religion and worship,
language, education, speech and press, assembly and association, and petition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">No discrimination of any kind shall be made between the
inhabitants on the grounds of race, religion, language or sex.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">All persons within the City shall be entitled to equal
protection of the laws.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The family law and personal status of the various persons
and communities and their religious interests, including endowments, shall be
respected.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Except as may be required for the maintenance of public
order and good government, no measure shall be taken to obstruct or interfere
with the enterprise of religious or charitable bodies of all faiths or to
discriminate against any representative or member of these bodies on the ground
of his religion or nationality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The City shall ensure adequate primary and secondary
education for the Arab and Jewish communities respectively, in their own
languages and in accordance with their cultural traditions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The right of each community to maintain its own schools for
the education of its own members in its own language, while conforming to such
educational requirements of a general nature as the City may impose, shall not
be denied or impaired. Foreign educational establishments shall continue their
activity on the basis of their existing rights.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">No restriction shall be imposed on the free use by any
inhabitant of the City of any language in private intercourse, in commerce, in
religion, in the Press or in publications of any kind, or at public meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Holy Places<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Existing rights in respect of Holy Places and religious
buildings or sites shall not be denied or impaired.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Free access to the Holy Places and religious buildings or
sites and the free exercise of worship shall be secured in conformity with
existing rights and subject to the requirements of public order and decorum.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Holy Places and religious buildings or sites shall be
preserved. No act shall be permitted which may in any way impair their sacred
character. If at any time it appears to the Governor that any particular Holy
Place, religious building or site is in need of urgent repair, the Governor may
call upon the community or communities concerned to carry out such repair. The
Governor may carry it out himself at the expense of the community or
communities concerned if no action is taken within a reasonable time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">No taxation shall be levied in respect of any Holy Place,
religious building or site which was exempt from taxation on the date of the
creation of the City. No change in the incidence of such taxation shall be made
which would either discriminate between the owners or occupiers of Holy Places,
religious buildings or sites or would place such owners or occupiers in a
position less favourable in relation to the general incidence of taxation than
existed at the time of the adoption of the Assembly's recommendations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Special powers of the Governor in respect of the Holy
Places, religious buildings and sites in the City and in any part of Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The protection of the Holy Places, religious buildings and
sites located in the City of Jerusalem shall be a special concern of the
Governor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">With relation to such places, buildings and sites in
Palestine outside the city, the Governor shall determine, on the ground of
powers granted to him by the Constitution of both States, whether the
provisions of the Constitution of the Arab and Jewish States in Palestine
dealing therewith and the religious rights appertaining thereto are being
properly applied and respected.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Governor shall also be empowered to make decisions on
the basis of existing rights in cases of disputes which may arise between the
different religious communities or the rites of a religious community in
respect of the Holy Places, religious buildings and sites in any part of
Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In this task he may be assisted by a consultative council of
representatives of different denominations acting in an advisory capacity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">D. DURATION OF THE SPECIAL REGIME<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Statute elaborated by the Trusteeship Council the
aforementioned principles shall come into force not later than 1 October 1948.
It shall remain in force in the first instance for a period of ten years,
unless the Trusteeship Council finds it necessary to undertake a re-examination
of these provisions at an earlier date. After the expiration of this period the
whole scheme shall be subject to examination by the Trusteeship Council in the
light of experience acquired with its functioning. The residents the City shall
be then free to express by means of a referendum their wishes as to possible
modifications of regime of the City.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Part IV. Capitulations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">States whose nationals have in the past enjoyed in Palestine
the privileges and immunities of foreigners, including the benefits of consular
jurisdiction and protection, as formerly enjoyed by capitulation or usage in
the Ottoman Empire, are invited to renounce any right pertaining to them to the
re-establishment of such privileges and immunities in the proposed Arab and
Jewish States and the City of Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
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meeting:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>POST SCRIPT</b>: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This UN Resolution is a very, very long document. Its length
suggests it is thorough. Clearly, care was put into designing this Resolution. It certainly appears serious enough. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">One would think that such a long and detailed document meant
something. One might even assume that the reason for such thoroughness and
detail was <i>to make sure</i> these two states could survive. It certainly seemed
at the time (1947) reasonable to believe that the UN, through the mandates laid
down in its Charter, was (through Resolution 181) leaving no stone unturned in
order to create two states for two peoples. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">But such reasonable thinking proved to be false. Post-Resolution
181, Israel received nothing. Nothing was enforced. No aid was given. Nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Therefore, on November 29th of each year, Israel should remind
the UN of its gross failure to support and protect Israel. Israel should remind
the UN of its perfidy towards Israel—then, and today. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This perfidy began in 1948 with the UN implicitly promising peace and
security for all--and then doing nothing for Israel as Arab armies intent upon
Israel’s destruction attacked the new Jewish state <b>with impunity</b>. Indeed,
each November 29<sup>th</sup>, it might be a good idea for Israel to describe in
detail the UN’s hypocrisy and criminal neglect which has come to characterize the
UN’s behavior towards Israel ever since.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><br /><p></p>Tuviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09258309790095578616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570972496352259896.post-54606940068462052082021-11-25T12:40:00.007-05:002021-11-26T07:30:59.427-05:00The Chanukah war, circa 2021<p>(I apologize for the paragraph and punctuation problems in this essay. I have a problem with the blog "program" that I cannot seem to fix.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Chanukah is a holiday of joy. It celebrates miracles that took place in Israel when Jew were under duress. That first Chanukah story unfolded more than 2100 years ago. Now, we celebrate those miracles every year.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This year's Chanukah begins soon--on Sunday night, November 28, 2021. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">It is an eight-day holiday. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">On each of the eight nights of Chanukah, every Jewish family lights one additional candle, until all 8 candles are lighted. That is, we light one candle the first night to mark the first day, two candles the second night to mark the second, and so on, until we light all eight candles to mark the eighth and final day. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">During Chauukah, our homes fill ever-more each night with the light of those candles. Both children and adults appear to love watching that light grow stronger each evening. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Two Chanukah miracles stand out for us to celebrate. First, the Jews of Israel rebelled against an oppressive Greek-Syrian ruler, Antichous IV. The Jewish goal was to free the Jews of Israel from their Greek-Syrian oppressors--or die trying. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The miracle was, the Jews won. T</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">hey threw off the yoke of anti-Jewish </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Greek-imposed rules. They also vanquished all the assimilationist Jews who had joined with the Greek-Syrians to oppress the religious among them. </span></p><p style="direction: rtl;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">These Hellenist oppressors, led by the king Antiochus IV, had attempted to wipe out Judaism in Israel by outlawing two of the most fundamental practices of Jews: Torah study, and the observance of Shabbat. Israel's Greek-Syrian rulers didn't attempt to stamp out Judaism by themselves. They had help. Their assimilationist Jewish allies eagerly joined them. Together, their goal was to replace Judaism with a Greek-pagan non-Jewish cultur </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">They failed. Judaism survived.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The second miracle (or, perhaps more accurately, the single most important miracle of that moment in time) had to do with the Holy Temple--which still stood. In fact, one might argue that the spark that set off the Jewish rebellion was a successful attempt by a Greek General to bring a pig (literally) into the Holy Temple, and sacrifice it on the Temple altar.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">For religious Jews, this was indeed an abomination of the highest order. It was a complete desecration of everything Holy the Temple represented. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">After the Jewish victory, Priests returned to the Temple Mount to clean and repair the Temple--and to prepare the Temple for a rededication service. But they ran into a problem</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Their preparations required a supply of oil properly qualified to use for the Temple Menorah each day. But when the Priests returned to the Temple Mount, they could not find sufficient oil for more than one day. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The miracle at that time was, while messengers were sent out to hunt for proper oil, that one-day supply of oil miraculously replenished the Menorah each day. That miraculous replenishment lasted for eight days, until a new supply of oil finally arrived. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Chanukah is called, the Festival of Light. We call it that in order to commemorate the miracle of that single container of oil providing light for the Temple Menorah for a full eight days. </span></p><p style="direction: rtl;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Today, some 2100+ years later, Judaism in Israel faces its own existential threat. This threat comes not from Greek, Syrian or Greek-Syrian conquerors, but from anti-Jewish Progressive-Liberal assimilationst Israelis. These modern assimilationists want to be "like everyone else"</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">.</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">They choose secularism, not Judaism</span></p><p style="direction: rtl;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">They do not want a <i>Jewish</i> state. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">They are little different from their counterparts 2100 years ago. They prefer to harass religious Jews, not </span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">help them</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Religious Jews in Israel are under duress. For many politicians, culture leaders, social 'influencers' and media types in Israel, religion is definitely "out". Being like everyone else (some call this "being goyishe") is definitely "in".</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">It's the Chanukah back-story all over again. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Anti-Judaism politicians incite against Israel's most religious group, the Haredi. Politicians and media types advocate for laws that will restrict and even punish Israel's Haredi population because, as we in Israel are told repeatedly, the Haredi are something akin to useless insects and\or parasites. The Haredi object to these characterizations; they call laws that appear to punish particularly them, "Antiochus-like". It is a term that recalls the oppression of the original Chanukah story (<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/317425">here</a>) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">While the Haredi are despised and scorned as no better than lazy rabbits, Religious Zionists in Israel are demonized as "dangerous". These supposed "outcasts from polite society" are referred to by that dirty word, "Settlers". Their very existence in Israel seems to cause Progressive-Liberals in Israel endless frustration. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The problem with these Religious Zionist "Settlers" is that they will not follow the dreams of Israeli assimilationists. Religious Zionist Israelis refuse to accept a Palestinian State in Judea-Samaria. They say that Judea-Samaria is not a bargaining chip. It is ancient Jewish homeland, as described in the Jewish <i>Tanach</i>. That land is <i>Jewish</i>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Therefore, to the modern asssimilationist, these "Settlers" must be separated, culled form the Jewish 'community'. It's the only solution. Settlers must be removed from their Judea-Samaria homes. They must be driven off the land. Then, we will supposedly have peace.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Israel's Religious Zionists are different from our assimilationist Jews. Settlers insist upon standing up to low-level anti-Jew Arab terror. <i>They</i> fight back. Assimilationists won't.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Religious Zionist "Settlers" also cause endless troubles for what some say are Israel's "anti-Settler" police. These Zionists are labelled by some as being no better than Jewish terrorists. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In Israel, we see anti-Religious stories about Haredi and Religious Zionist 'troubles' every month--sometimes, every week, occasionally, every day (including the day this story was published <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/317590">here</a>). The inference is clear: just as some 2100 years ago, assimilationist influencers rejected their heritage, their ancient land and their religion, so too do our own modern assimilationists. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The modern Chanukah miracle in Israel today is, these two "outcast" religious groups (Haredi and Religious Zionists) have not been stamped out. To the contrary, they both <i>grow</i>. They do not shrink. Their influence spreads. Neither retreats. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Israel's assimilationists, however, loose power and numbers over time. That drives them to distraction. They hate losing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Well, here's a news flash: Jews have <i>never </i>survived by embracing the 'not-Jewish'. We do not survive by assimilating. We </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">survive only because of what our Jewish anti-Jew population calls 'being an extremist"--that is, by being religious. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Too bad for those assimilationists. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The modern Chanukah miracle is, Judaism survives <i>only</i> because of these so-called "extremists". We survive <i>because</i> of our religion, not in spite of it.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Happy Chanukah. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p> </p><p>T</p>Tuviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09258309790095578616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570972496352259896.post-64287393202387408702021-11-18T12:54:00.007-05:002021-11-19T03:41:17.608-05:00Apartheid, Humanitarians and Israel: A photo album<p> </p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Last month, the Labour Party of the UK announced that Israel is an "Apartheid state" (<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/314353">here</a>). This is no surprise because England's Labour Party supports human rights (<a href="https://www.policyforum.labour.org.uk/commissions/commissions/international/human-rights-should-underpin-foreign-policy">here</a>).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">It's true: there is a direct connection between supporting human rights, being a Humanitarian and demonizing Israel. Labour understands this connection if you don't.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Labour understands what it means to oppose racism and oppression. After all, that's what Humanitarianism is all about, right?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ask the United Nations. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The United Nations is the Temple of Humanitarianism. It dedicates itself to saving lives, fighting racism and alleviating suffering. That's exactly what Labour wants. It probably sings the Humanitarianism anthem, whatever that is. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Apparently, Humanitarians believe that, to save all from racism and oppression, Israel must be demonized, at the very least. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The UN sits at the top of the Humanitarian pyramid. It leads the way to a utopia called, 'world peace'. It works in its own way to save the world--and it has determined (through resolution after resolution) that Israel is perhaps <i>the</i> major road block for anyone seeking to save us. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">We know this is how the UN feels about Israel because the UN has condemned Israel for supposed rights violations more than any other country in the world--more than China, North Korea, Iran and Saudi Arabia <i>combined</i>. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Think about Israel from a Humanitarian point of view. What can the world do with such a supposed "rights" violator? The answer is simple. The world must fight to stamp out this <br />Great Satan of rights violations. It's the only way to peace.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">That's why Labour calls Israel Apartheid. It's why there is an Apartheid Week all across the West, set up annually to demonize the world's only Jewish state under the name of Humanitarianism. Hating Israel is the world's most popular armchair sport.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Humanitarian's complaint seems to be this: you Jews are G-d's chosen? How can Jews be G-d's Chosen </span><span style="font-family: arial;">when the one state Jews create is so racist and so oppressive with its </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Apartheid</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> ways?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Based upon its use, it appears that "Apartheid" must be the dirtiest word in the world. You know that's true because so many Humanitarians use it to demonize Israel so often. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Humanitarianism and anti-Israelism are connected, to use a phrase, at the hip. One doesn't move without the other. They both obsess over "Israel-is-Apartheid!"</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Here's a question: have you ever seen a picture of Israel's Apartheid? For example, have you ever seen in Israel a picture of a road sign that says, in essence, "Road splits ahead: Jewish drivers stay to the right; Non-Jewish drivers stay to the left"?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">No, you have never seen such a picture about Israel. Yes, those signs could be "Apartheid", depending upon the context of that sign. But they do not exist in Israel. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As you will see in a moment, they <b>do</b> exist in the Arab world</span><span style="font-family: arial;">. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Suggestion: before you think about calling Israel an "Apartheid state", perhaps it would be wise first to look at a picture album I have collected. I call it my "Israel-is-Apartheid" album. It illustrates what Israel thinks about "Apartheid" as a state policy (</span><span style="font-family: arial;">I originally published some of these pictures </span><a href="https://tuviainil.blogspot.com/2016/02/an-israeli-apartheid-photo-album.html" style="font-family: arial;"> here</a><span style="font-family: arial;">, in February, 2016, and others </span><a href="https://tuviainil.blogspot.com/2014/10/what-apartheid-looks-like-in-israel.html" style="font-family: arial;">here</a><span style="font-family: arial;">, in October, 2014). </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">But before you look at the album, consider some random thoughts about Apartheid. Most important, do you actually know what Apartheid looks like? </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Apartheid is a state-mandated public policy that is designed to keep a specific population trapped. With state-issued Apartheid rules, a state can make it nearly impossible for that targeted population to contribute to or participate in [its] society. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The targeted population is excluded. It is locked out. It is trapped.</span></p><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0px 25px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8867449226539500992" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Put another way, Apartheid means <i>institutionalized</i> discrimination. Apartheid requires that an identified population is, <i>by law</i>, sealed off from adequate medical care, professional careers, the right to vote, the right to serve in important positions and the right to receive a decent education.</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8867449226539500992" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8867449226539500992" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It means few if any from that targeted population can pursue careers in a country's mainstream economic life. It often means none can become lawyers. It means no army service in a country's mainstream military. It means separate classes in separate-but-inferior schools, it means separated into very <i>un</i>equal hospitals. It means separate seating on buses and trains. </span><br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">According to those who call Israel 'Apartheid', the excluded class in Israel is the Arab. The Jew-hate industry (the Humanitarians among us) claim Arabs under Israeli law are crushed. They are excluded. They are humiliated. They are locked out of good jobs. They are forbidden from holding significant public offices. Arabs, Israel's enemies say, suffer terribly in Israel as second-class, disenfranchised citizens.</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8867449226539500992" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8867449226539500992" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In an Apartheid state, individuals in the excluded class have no way to become judges in mainstream courts. They have no way to become Professors in mainstream universities. They have no way to serve as national diplomats. They have no way to become famous researchers or heads of major mainstream hospitals. they are all trapped in poverty and ignorance with no way out or up. </span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8867449226539500992" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Keep these restrictions in mind when you thumb through this "Israel Apartheid album". This album will show you exactly </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">how Israel <i>really</i> treats its Arabs.</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8867449226539500992" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Page down to view the photo album: </span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8867449226539500992" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span><i style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><br /><br /></i><i style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></i><i style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></i><i style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; 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border-image: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; font-size: 13.2px;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8nFlMjYhY43T8Csh2TSI5_5XwwU-rqvSBA0w2qpcrMIq97frSS4YkTRM0O9tzXjEjntLLGuwExdfdQrp6l13NMo8Oq3iqmAtYermQ7cc-9pBnRU9MoLd29jfGE6eQAlPjvC0fx-8ZccI/s640/lebapart%5B1%5D.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(231, 231, 231); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px;" /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; font-size: 13.2px;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8DgzIXkYGc84Ffh4wC3hNYxUG84qLn-bk13Bkzgji0GRaVZBKLh0GRXqMrHFGPMRWDIkGuZVyWv62ix0GYDlToQZQ29d5nXjvpS_3wLwH1TQjHH85ImBVAOUBbou7kuFL_xhyIQJIw2FM/s640/as-abbas2.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(231, 231, 231); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px;" /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; font-size: 13.2px;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOj9miw4WKuprNWJgCd0ZqEuWAnxaMCNcG2uFH_V4TpOouoNgWiKaghAPwKBQLm4tYG1Bb9aTMumzJfsdyFCs_kJW4ueyGDH2zv_t4_gm76QZXFuP8H0rniu9RhyphenhyphenC-Y9sR2ZTjfUdQ5vzr/s640/as-abbas1.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(231, 231, 231); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px;" /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; font-size: 13.2px;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDU8jVYAdzAaXJvSXp_1exYfyuP5URvUVNwbuUPggm0YQrm-4BX5oxL5E54Jg6DyRN86JSn_2ujczpZmDz3p1w4WWDcGCm3Tu_YBaIA3z1itty1m6Hh7ryl4N6DLjC_JV7CGFmzJ1z7mVP/s640/as-lebanon.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(231, 231, 231); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px;" /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span>The shocking truth about Apartheid in the Middle East is that it is <i>not</i> an <i>Israeli </i>problem. It's an <i>Arab</i> problem. </span><br /><span><br /></span><span>Wherever possible, Arabs discriminate against Jews. They create laws to lock out or harm Jews. </span><span>But worse than that (for the world's 'Humanitarians' who so hate Jews they will ignore humanitarian outrages against Arabs in order to demonize Jews), wherever possible, it is <i>Arabs--</i>not Jews<i>--</i>who use racist laws to discriminate against 'Palestinians'. In some Arab countries 'Palestinians' are treated the way South Africa once treated blacks: Palestinians cannot vote, cannot get quality jobs, cannot live in proper housing, cannot get equal medical care and cannot enter the economy's main stream.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8867449226539500992" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8867449226539500992" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The picture album above highlights what apartheid looks like in <i>Arab</i> countries which, unlike Israel, offer no similar opportunities to match what Israel offers to Palestinians. Nevertheless, Humanitarians everywhere today determine that the fictitious and slanderous accusation of "Apartheid" in Israel must be opposed. Israel itself must be opposed because of these supposed humanitarian sins. The supposed Israeli Apartheid <b>must</b> end, Israel's enemies say. </span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8867449226539500992" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">But what about the <i>real </i>Apartheid against Arabs in Muslim countries? </span><span class="__web-inspector-hide-shortcut__" style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">That is ok? It can continue uncondemned?</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8867449226539500992" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Yes, it can continue. It can be ignored.</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8867449226539500992" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">To understand the nature of Humanitarian Israel-hate, answer two questions: (1) name two other nations you have seen universally demonized by Humanitarians as "Apartheid"; and (2) name another democracy you have seen so universally condemned by the UN as "Apartheid".</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8867449226539500992" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">You cannot. </span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8867449226539500992" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The face of today's Humanitarianism is a face of lies, slander, Jew-hate and hypocrisy.</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8867449226539500992" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span>Humanitarians deliberately ignore the real Apartheid in the Middle East--committed by Arabs against Arabs. They have time only for hating and demonizing Israel. But while Humanitarians seek to harm the Jewish state, they <i>do nothing</i> to solve real racist policies--in Arab countries, in Iran, China, North Korea and in more than a dozen African and Muslim countries.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8867449226539500992" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">For all their fancy talk about freedom, human rights and alleviating suffering, Humanitarians simply do not care to see real justice in this world. They work instead to slander G-d's Chosen. They obsess over this slander. They can't heap enough of it onto Israel. The result is, Humanitarians leave hundreds of millions of oppressed, poor people to suffer from the effects of dictatorship and religious oppression.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8867449226539500992" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8867449226539500992" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Today's Humanitarianism isn't about love, peace <i>or</i> </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> justice. Instead, it seem mostly to be about</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> a kind of hate one can only call, Jew-hate.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8867449226539500992" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span> </span><span>In Israel, Palestinian Arabs have more rights and opportunities than found in any Arab country. In Israel, Palestinians find the only democracy in the Middle East. In Israel, Palestinians live with freedoms found nowhere in the Arab world. For this, Israel is demonized?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8867449226539500992" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8867449226539500992" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">When is Apartheid week for Lebanon? </span><span style="font-family: arial;">When is the Apartheid Week for Jordan? </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Will you hypocritical, lying Humanitarians <i>ever</i> start to speak out against the </span><i style="font-family: arial;">real</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> Apartheid?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8867449226539500992" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span><br /></span><br /></span><br /><div style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"></div></div><div class="post-footer" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(231, 231, 231); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10.8px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 20px -2px 0px; padding: 5px 10px;"><div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><br /></div></div></div><div class="comments" id="comments" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 10px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="comments-content" style="margin-bottom: 16px;"><div id="comment-holder"><div class="comment-thread toplevel-thread" style="margin: 8px 0px;"><ol id="top-ra" style="list-style-type: none; padding: 0px;"><li class="comment" id="c4123715098334212985" style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 16px 0px 8px;"></li></ol></div></div></div></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Tuviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09258309790095578616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570972496352259896.post-89529775274898210282021-11-12T06:56:00.011-05:002021-11-15T02:27:54.881-05:00In Israel, pro-Palestinian Leftists join with the Muslim Brotherhood. What could go wrong?<p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In August, 2021, an Arab Member of Knesset (MK) representing the Israeli (Leftist) political</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> party, Meretz, seemed to threaten Israel's new Bennett-led coalition. She suggested that her Party (Meretz), along with the Arab Party, Ra'am, have the power together to stop Israel from taking military action (<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/311353">here</a>) against Israel's (Islamic) enemies. She further suggested that this is what the coalition agreement was all about--giving to Meretz and Ra'am the power to limit Israel's response to military threat </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/311353" style="font-family: arial;">here</a><span style="font-family: arial;">.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Back in August, that might have seemed to have been just one MK's assumption. But it was fact--because a Ra'am MK had already said as much (</span><a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/309629" style="font-family: arial;">here</a><span style="font-family: arial;">). </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Is this what Israelis had voted for in the March, 2021 election? Did Israelis really want to be held hostage by a far-Left Party (Meretz) joining with an Arab-Islamist (and Muslim Brotherhood) Party (Ra'am)? Are Israelis happy that their country might not be able to defend itself in case of a hostile attack?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">We know what Israelis wanted in that March election. They wanted a strong Israel willing to protect itself. That's why the election result was overwhelmingly Right-leaning--it is Israel's <i>Right</i> which most assertively promotes Israel's defending itself. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Israelis are tired of fighting wars Israel never wins because it always stops fighting before the job is done. A majority of Israelis voted for Right-wing and Center-right politicians, all of whom claimed to stand for a strong Israel. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Israelis also <i>rejected</i> any form of Leftism and anti-Israelism. But that is <i>exactly</i> what Israel ended up with--a government where Leftists and an anti-Jewish Israel Arab Party have inordinate power--the ability to collapse the government at any time they please. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The inference here is that two political Parties, rejected by a majority of voters, have acquired the power to act as kingmakers. Both Meretz and Ra'am hamstring Israel's government. In theory, Israel's government can only do what Meretz and Ra'am allow. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Israel's election system should never have allowed this to happen. But Israel's election system is broken (<a href="https://tuviainil.blogspot.com/2021/04/israel-just-elected-netanyahu-to-lead.html">here</a>, <a href="https://tuviainil.blogspot.com/2021/03/aniother-israel-election-march-23-2020.html">here</a>)--and this is what a broken election system will do to a country--hamstring its government.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Recently, Israelis have learned what it means to be "hamstrung" by Meretz and Ra'am. First, the Leftist (and pro-Palestinian) Meretz said it will <i>never</i> support Jewish construction </span><i style="font-family: arial;">anywhere</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> in the Jordan River Valley. This assertion is devastating to Israel's political Right because it ends one of Israel Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's <i>prime</i> campaign promises--sovereignty in, and more Jewish homes for--the Jordan River Valley. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The second glimpse at Israel's new status as "hamstrung" came when Ra'am's political leader, Mansour Abbas, gave a speech in Arabic which, when translated, revealed that, like any other Muslim Brotherhood member in good standing, he, too, believes in jihad against Israel. The only difference between <i>his</i> idea of jihad and Hamas' idea of jihad (Hamas is also a Muslim Brotherhood member) is that Hamas' jihad is military. Ra'am's jihad is </span><i style="font-family: arial;">civil </i><span style="font-family: arial;">(</span><a href="http://abuyehuda.com/2021/11/the-camels-nose/" style="font-family: arial;">here</a><span style="font-family: arial;">)</span><span style="font-family: arial;">.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In case you did not know, jihad against Israel is a symbol of the Muslim Brotherhood's "unshakeable ideological commitment" to destroy Israel (ibid). Jihad is jihad: it does not matter if it is military or civil, despite any attempt to soft-pedal <i>civil</i> jihad.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The concept of Jihad against Israel has only one goal--the complete Muslimization of Israel. It does not matter if that jihad is civil or military. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Few in Israel seem to understand Ra'am has connections to Hamas (<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/316124">here</a>). They should know about those connections--and they should care about those connections because Hamas is part of the Muslim Brotherhood, and for the Muslim Brotherhood, the goal is to wipe Israel-as-a-Jewish-state off the map. Jihad is its path to that goal. Period. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Ra'am and Hamas share that end result. Put another way, in terms of its ultimate goal, Ra'am is no different from Hamas.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Both Hamas and Ra'am share the Brotherhood's ideological commitment to destroy Israel</span><span style="font-family: arial;">. Each simply chooses a different path to that 'victory'. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Indeed, perhaps the presence of such a purely anti-Israel ideology embedded so deeply in Israel's government--inside the nation's ruling coalition--is why Iran's proxy Hezbollah has already declared (<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/311320">here</a>), "Israel is afraid to attack in Lebanon <b>due to the internal consequences war has for them</b>" [emphasis mine]. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Is this true? Will Israel limit its military response to an attack because it will fear what Meretz and Ra'am will do? Could be.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">How will that work out for Israel? More important, how will that work out for Israel's citizens targeted by incoming missiles? Care to guess?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Stay tuned. The Muslim Brotherhood-Leftist axis operating in Israel's government hasn't yet fully flexed its political muscle to stymie and hamstring either Israel's military options--or Israel's Jewish control over the land. But you can bet that the Muslim Brotherhood, along with its co-conspirators in Ra'am and Meretz, have nothing but trouble in store for Israel. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Yes, neither Party has the power to destroy Israel outright. But together, they will surely attempt to stab Israel in the back. That, they have the power to do.</span></p><p><br /></p>Tuviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09258309790095578616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570972496352259896.post-21828242898011853152021-11-01T11:50:00.005-04:002021-11-02T02:39:36.160-04:00How formal are Israelis?<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">(Last update: November 2, 2021) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I have just discovered a thought-provoking comment on the internet about Israelis. I share this comment with you because most of my American friends do not often have good things to say about Israelis. This comment appears to suggest a different view of Israeli behavior. Perhaps you will find it insightful.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">It seems that Americans visiting here are too often offended by Israelis. It's possible that this internet comment could help some to re-think the negative reactions they have had to Israelis. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The comment itself comes from a question posted on a website called, </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Quora. </i><span style="font-family: arial;">Personally</span><i style="font-family: arial;">, </i><span style="font-family: arial;">I would not call this particular</span><i style="font-family: arial;"> </i><span style="font-family: arial;">site</span><i style="font-family: arial;"> </i><span style="font-family: arial;">"high class". In fact, if you were to tell me this site is decidedly </span><i style="font-family: arial;">not</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> "high class"--or, alternatively, not particularly trustworthy--I would agree. Nevertheless</span><i style="font-family: arial;">, </i><span style="font-family: arial;">this</span><i style="font-family: arial;"> </i><span style="font-family: arial;">individual comment may be different. It might suggest that 'offensive' Israeli behavior might be explainable as something other than, 'offensive'. Maybe. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I present this comment to you for your considera</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>tion. </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">The comment appeared as a response to a reader question. The question was, "Are Israelis formal?" </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This was the response:</span> </span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">"<span color="inherit" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: inherit;">How formal are Israelis?</span></span></p><div class="q-relative spacing_log_answer_content puppeteer_test_answer_content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282829; position: relative;"><div class="q-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%;"><span class="CssComponent__CssInlineComponent-sc-1oskqb9-1 UserSelectableText___StyledCssInlineComponent-lsmoq4-0 kghFzc"><span class="q-box qu-userSelect--text" style="box-sizing: border-box; user-select: text;"><p class="q-text qu-display--block" style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Let me put it this way . . .</span></span></p><p class="q-text qu-display--block" style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As an American, many, many years ago, and new to Israel, I had lodged a complaint against an employer for something . . . can’t remember what . . . but when I arrived at the Labor Court wearing a suit and tie, ( in respect for the court ) the judge ignored me completely. Never asked me a question, and only addressed the employer’s attorney. It was as if I didn’t exist.</span></span></p><p class="q-text qu-display--block" style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hmmmmm . . . . ?</span></span></p><p class="q-text qu-display--block" style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I looked around the court at the other plaintiffs, with whom the judge did speak . . . and it dawned on me !</span></span></p><p class="q-text qu-display--block" style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After that, any time I had to go to court, I dressed in old jeans and t-shirt, didn’t shave and generally chewed gum.</span></span></p><p class="q-text qu-display--block" style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Never had a problem after that . . . . and won every decision.</span></span></p><p class="q-text qu-display--block" style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Formal ? Not on your life ! :-)"</span></span></p><p class="q-text qu-display--block" style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="q-text qu-display--block" style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="q-text qu-display--block" style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">My comments about this 'article' are brief:</span></span></p><p class="q-text qu-display--block" style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="q-text qu-display--block" style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">First, this comment is not the definitive description of how Israelis behave. Many Israelis are polite and friendly. But there does seem to be a lot of Israelis appearing to behave like <i>Arsim. </i><i>Arsim--</i>a derogatory word said to derive from an Arab word meaning, "pimp"--seem to be everywhere in Israel. They are almost never liked by Americans.</span></span></p><p class="q-text qu-display--block" style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="q-text qu-display--block" style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In general<i>, </i>Israeli<i> arsim </i>can be characterized as "uncouth+". Depending on whom you ask, <i>Arsim</i> can be defined as: they are inconsiderate; they do not care for even the most basic of social niceties; they litter everywhere; more so than other Israelis, they refuse to stand in line; they are sloppy; they often wear the most inappropriate clothes; they enjoy cursing other drivers on the road; they are known for inappropriate social aggressiveness; they are said to hate <i>anyone</i> not like them, particularly foreigners; they are insolent; they appear to act as if they have an IQ of 10. They generally </span></span><span style="background-color: initial; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">do not show up to court wearing a suit and tie. </span></span></p><p class="q-text qu-display--block" style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: initial; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="q-text qu-display--block" style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: initial; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Israel's social culture has evolved. While Israel has never been particularly 'formal', recent life here seems to have been heavily influenced by <i>arsim</i>. I do not know why. But I can say this: there are times when Israelis appears to become ruder and cruder by the <i>month</i>.</span></span></p><p class="q-text qu-display--block" style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: initial; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="q-text qu-display--block" style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: initial; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The US is no different. Since my birth, almost 79 years ago, I spent the better part of my life in the US watching social niceties deteriorate. Crudeness has set in. Rudeness has set in. Some form of Israel's <i>arsisim</i> seems now to be part of American behavior.</span></span></p><p class="q-text qu-display--block" style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="q-text qu-display--block" style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Perhaps one moral lesson of this internet comment is, American-born-and-raised Israelis should not walk into an Israeli court dressed like an American. It might <i>not </i>make a good impression. </span></span></p><p class="q-text qu-display--block" style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">An Israeli judge might ignore them. These Americans would look strange—and be treated accordingly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">But there is another, larger moral lesson here. It is the moral lesson that suggests that, as we draw closer to our Final Redemption, our children will become increasingly insolent. Well, from what I see almost daily, we must now be very, very close to that Redemption.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">What do you think?</span></p><br /><p></p></span></span></div></div>Tuviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09258309790095578616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570972496352259896.post-27962923188238042722021-10-28T12:56:00.004-04:002021-10-29T03:59:22.129-04:00Is this what the US now calls "diplomacy" with Israel?<p> (Last update: October 29, 2021)</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">On October 21, 2021, Israel Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced that Israel was declaring six Palestinian NGO's (Non-Governm</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">ent Organizations) as 'terrorist" (</span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/gantz-declares-six-palestinian-human-rights-groups-terrorist-organizations/" style="font-family: arial;">here</a><span style="font-family: arial;">). Within hours, the US was reported to "slam" Israel over this announcement (</span><a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/palestinian-ngos-declared-pflp-terrorist-arms-by-israeli-government-682826" style="font-family: arial;">here</a><span style="font-family: arial;">). The US, apparently, was angered because Israel </span><i style="font-family: arial;">had not given the US any 'advance' intelligence</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> information to explain this move (ibid). Shortly after that accusation by the US, Israel denied the accusation (</span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-disputes-us-claim-it-wasnt-told-of-plan-to-outlaw-rights-groups/" style="font-family: arial;">here</a><span style="font-family: arial;">), and declared it had already </span><span style="font-family: arial;">given the US that information (ibid).</span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The US was not amused by this pushback. It refused to budge from its accusation. It responded to Israel by 'doubling-down': it accused Israel <i>again</i> of not disclosing anything to the US in advance of this matter (ibid),</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">All of this transpired this past weekend, beginning Friday, October 21st. But now, a new week, the US digs its teeth yet again into Israel. A US State Department spokesman has now <i>insisted</i> that Israel did <i>not</i> provide the US with advance notice that these six Palestinian NGO's were to be classified by Israel as "terrorist" (<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/315702">here</a>).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Notice what this tempest-in-a-teapot is all about. First, it is <b>not</b> about the US catching Israel in a lie. In fact, the US does not even allege that Israel was exaggerating its claim of 'terrorist' against the six Palestinian organizations. Neither does the US assert that six NGO's have been unfairly defamed. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The US merely accuses Israel of a kind of 'bad faith'--a failure to give advance notice. Surely, this is an odd accusation. I cannot remember the US having used such an allegation against any other ally. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The accusation itself is strange. It makes the US sound as if it is simply whining, "you never told us!" This is important?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Such an accusation begs the question, is Israel supposed to tell the US in advance about every Defense Ministry decision it makes to secure Israel's safety? More important, does Israel, alone among US allies, have some kind of unique obligation to give to the US advance notice of such a move?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The US does not say. It refuses to address the question.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It appear clear that the Biden Administration uses here a vicious double standard it does not apply to others. That is to say, the The Biden Administration seems to expect from its </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Jewish</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> ally what it never expects from other allies: detailed explanations about Israel's internal national security issues.</span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">What is disturbing about this US whining is that it was done at all. T</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">his accusation came from the US State Department--the US's Diplomatic 'center'. After Israel responded to the US that it had in fact provided the US with a detailed report, in advance, on its decision to name these Organizations as terrorist, the US State Department did not respond diplomatically by saying, </span><span style="font-family: arial;">"we have no comment on this Israeli denial right now because we are looking into the matter, to see if we were in error'. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">That would have been a proper 'diplomatic' response. That would what been what Israel should have received from the US. But that is not what Israel got. Instead, it got a doubling-down of the original accusation--as if Israel was some kind of international social outlaw that needed--and deserved--both constant oversight <i>and</i> constant rebuke.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Is this how the US now defines its "diplomacy" with Israel? It will now play bully?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> If Israel has evidence that these six organizations are terrorist, it should stand firm: just as the US repeated its complaint to Israel, Israel should repeat its original decision--we <i>will</i> treat these organizations as terrorist-linked. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If Israel does decide to yield to this bullying, it will send a very bad (for Israel) signal to the world. Nothing good will happen for Israel if, suddenly, the world sees it can be so easily bullied. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Israel must stand firm on this issue. </span></p>Tuviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09258309790095578616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570972496352259896.post-49029364892832684462021-10-21T13:17:00.001-04:002021-10-21T13:17:21.904-04:00Does Israel collude with the US and the Palestinian Authority?<p> </p><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Yet again, we in Israel read about a US attempt to butt into
Israel’s business (<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/315442">here</a>). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This time, October,
2021, the meddling is about a US demand that Israel grant permission to the US so
that the US can open a formal Consulate, not for Israel, but for
'Palestine'--in Jewish Jerusalem. That is, the US position is that Israel should
allow the US to service a diplomatic presence inside sovereign Israel to service a not-yet existing State that is currently dedicated to the destruction of Israel.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If Palestinians want a Consulate, their chief administrative
city is Ramallah, not Jerusalem. Ramallah is where most Palestinian Authority
(PA) official business is done. Yes, we know that a Consulate does not have to
be in a state’s central administrative city. But in a city not even part of
that not-yet ‘state’? That’s unheard of. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">A US consulate for the PA belongs in a city controlled by
the PA. Jerusalem is not in PA territory. It is in Israeli territory. Jerusalem
is not located on Palestinian real estate. Jerusalem sits on <i>Israeli</i>
real estate. Jerusalem is not controlled by Palestinian authorities. It is
controlled by Jewish authorities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Why should the US put a US Consulate for the PA inside Israel?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The PA covets Jerusalem. If that’s the case,
the PA must win Jerusalem in war—or through a surrender-without-war by Israel. Neither
looks likely to happen anytime soon—unless, that is, the US butts in and makes
what amounts to anti-Israel demands on Israel that will help the PA win-by-Jewish-surrender.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The PA is persistent. It has been claiming that Jerusalem—and
<b>all of Israel</b>—is not Jewish, but is instead Islamic Palestinian territory.
The PA has been making this claim since before the 1992/3 Oslo Accords. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The PA wants <i>Jerusalem</i> for its US Consulate (not
Ramallah, or any other place actually controlled by the PA) because the PA doesn’t
want a Consulate on land it controls. It wants the Consulate on land Israel
controls. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The PA has a plan. That plan is very simple--and very clear:
the PA wants a complete conquest of Israel. It wants such a complete conquest so as to be able to rename the Jewish Israel as an Islamic-only 'Palestine'; and in
the short term, it will certainly attempt to put its own facts-on-the-ground in Jerusalem.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The PA has been working on taking over Jerusalem for some
time. Already, it has gotten the UN to change the name of the Temple Mount from
its Jewish name to a Muslim name. It has gotten the UN also to delete <i>all</i>
connection between the <i>Jewish </i>Temple Mount and its Jewish roots. Taken
literally, the PA could now claim that, because the Temple Mount is exclusively
a Muslim-only site, Jews should be banned from that site. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The PA cries aloud over the supposed sins of a Jewish
'Judaization' of <i>their</i> city Jerusalem. But at the same time, the PA
works day-and-night to Islamicize virtually every nook and cranny of Jerusalem.
It accuses Israel what they themselves attempt to do—take over Jerusalem
inch-by-inch. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The PA would love to see a US Consulate for the PA in <i>Jewish </i>Jerusalem. It could legitimize the PA claim of ownership over Jerusalem. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The US wants this Consulate. Therefore, it declares it
will form a joint "team" with Israel to explore the idea of opening a
US Consulate for ‘Palestine’ in Jewish Jerusalem. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This is maddening. I can think of no other sovereign state
that has to put up with such nonsense. What’s even more maddening is that Israel
should be pressured to discuss the possibility that it must accede to this
demand. But here we are, discussing that very possibility.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In theory, Israel has already said, ‘no’, to the US demand. But
is that correct? Did Israel really say no, or did Israel say something else,
leaving the door open to US-Israel discussions? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The US faces a problem: if it wants a new Consulate, <b>both</b>
the US and the sovereign State where that consulate will open must approve the
move. That is, before the US can open a <i>Palestinian</i> Consulate in the
State of Israel, the US needs <i>Israel</i>’s approval, not PA approval. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If I am correct about that, think what this
means. The US <i>has</i> <i>to </i>negotiate with <i>Israel</i>—not the PA—to open
this Consulate for the PA. This US need to negotiate with Israel proves that Israel’s
sovereignty over Jerusalem is real. The recognized need for the US to get
Israel’s approval in this case tells you something too many wish to forget: Jerusalem
belongs to Jews, not Palestinians--and the US understands this!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">According to rumor, Israel appears to be thinking
about giving its approval to allow a US bureaucracy that will exist to help a
foreign, hostile state-to-be (Palestine), to operate inside <i>Israeli</i>
territory. Why would Israel do that? Giving to the PA what it demands here compromises
Israel’s sovereign rights in Jerusalem, for it acknowledges implicitly that the PA has land
rights in Israel. Why would <i>any</i> State do this for an enemy who offers no
concessions but makes every demand? <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">At the moment, Israel Prime Minister Naftali
Bennett is silent about the matter. Does Israel actually prepare to collude
with both a potentially incompetent US Administration and a rabid, implacable
enemy to give that enemy an official foothold inside Israeli territory? It might be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Given PA lust for every inch of Jerusalem, where
do you think such a decision by Israel could lead? </span></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Stay tuned. This nonsense may
be just beginning.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p></p>Tuviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09258309790095578616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570972496352259896.post-71785902339481219922021-10-14T12:37:00.002-04:002021-10-14T12:37:37.437-04:00Why there is no two-state solution<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The original idea of a two-state solution for the Arab-Israel conflict was to create "two states for two peoples". Specifically, there would be Israel for Jews, and a new "Palestine" for Arabs. Today, more than a quarter-century later, only one of these two-state exists--Israel. "Palestine" has been stillborn.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Why?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">One reason--perhaps the main reason--could be an impediment few are willing to recognize or discuss or debate. That impediment has a name, one which has <i>never </i>been spoken. That impediment is called, the "eliminationist narrative".</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">An eliminationist narrative is a "story (or vision)" whose purpose is </span><span style="font-family: arial;">to help eliminate some person or group. The strategy of such a narrative is simple. First, the narrative demonizes the object to be eliminated. Next, it delegitimizes that object. Then, it calls for the object's elimination--or, more precisely, for its destruction or cancellation or removal.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">An eliminationist narrative weaponizes rumors and lies. That's the best way, it seems, to make an eliminationist narrative reality. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In the US, former US President Donald Trump was the object of an "elimination narrative". So was the 'Tea Party' of the early 2000s (<a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/10/democrats-media-deploy-same-eliminationist-narrative-against-school-parents-as-they-did-against-tea-party/">here</a>).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">With both Trump and the Tea Party, the chosen eliminationist strategy had its intended effect. Both lost their position on America's political stage. Both were effectively "cancelled". The eliminationist narrative used against them worked.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Israel is also a target of an eliminationist narrative. It, too, is targeted for elimination.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">You can see how the Palestinian eliminationist strategy works against Israel by following how the "Palestinian narrative" is implemented by both Palestinian Authority (PA) officials <i>and</i> by the Authority's 'friends' across the world. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">These individuals (and entities) energize the Palestinian narrative through anti-Israel speeches, public pronouncements and diplomatic strategies aimed against Israel. Each works to forward the ultimate goal of the Palestinian eliminationist narrative. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">To begin with, Palestinians work to eliminate Jews from Israel and from Israel's holy sites. They do this by proclaiming, for example, that the Temple Mount is Muslim only. They proclaim that Jews have no rights to the Temple Mount. They declare that the Temple Mount is for Muslims only. They pursue diplomatic strategies that have made the Temple Mount officially an Islamic site exclusively. The Jewish connection to the Temple Mount is severed. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Palestinians call for riots to defend the Temple Mount against Jews. They call for all-out war against Jews and/or Israel to "defend' the Temple Mount--against Jewish 'defilement'.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">These actions against Jews, the Temple Mount and the Jewish Jerusalem are only the tip of a very deep anti-Israel iceberg. The rest of that </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">iceberg focuses exclusively on Israel's very existence.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Palestinian Narrative is supposed to be the embodiment of what Palestinians call their Palestinian "national struggle". But this Palestinian "national struggle" is not a struggle <b>for</b> something (like statehood). It is the "struggle" <b>against</b> something (namely, Israel).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The "Palestinian Cause" is not a struggle to create a free and independent State. Yes--according to many pro-Palestinians--the "Cause" was <i>supposed </i>to have been about a 'national Palestinian liberation' in order to establish a State (<a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/what-is-the-palestinian-cause/">here</a>). But now, many believe that that goal had actually been abandoned years ago (ibid).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span>Some pro-Palestinian advocates now assume that the "Palestinian Cause" is specifically about the <i>struggle against Israel</i> </span><span>(</span><a href="https://www.economist.com/special-report/2021/08/24/the-palestinian-cause-no-longer-binds-the-arab-world">here</a><span>). The goal of</span><span> this struggle is simple: to <i>erase</i> Israel, and to <i>replace</i> Israel with an Arab-Muslim state. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The "Palestinian Cause" is now an eliminationist 'narrative'. It "struggles", yes. But only to eliminate the Jewish State--and all things Jewish about the Middle East.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We know this "eliminationist" approach to Israel is true </span><span style="font-family: arial;">because we have repeatedly seen maps of the to-be-created-Palestinian state. Those maps all present the same vision. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">You see, t</span><span style="font-family: arial;">he map of the new, wannabee 'Palestine' <b>exactly</b> matches the map of the existing State of Israel. This means that the wannabee 'Palestine' wants to replace Israel on the map.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This is no accident. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Don't take my word for it. Do a google search (as of October 14, 2021): first, search for "the official map of the state of Israel". Look at the map of Israel. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Then, second, do another search for "the official map of the state of Palestine". Look at the map of "Palestine". </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Compare the two maps. They are identical. Exactly the same. The meaning of this similarity is, the new Arab-Muslim Palestine will, when created, erase Israel from the map of the Middle East--and from the map of the world.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Palestinian eliminationist narrative is an "eliminationist <b>roadblock</b>". <i>No</i> desire for "two states" for Jew and Arab can <i>ever</i> get over or around this roadblock. It is permanent.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If you want a real two-state solution in the Middle East, you must first deal with this roadblock. But no one cares to do that. it's too complicated. It seems insurmountable. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This is the reason there is no two-state solution: the Palestinian narrative does not speak about peace with Israel--or about living side-by-side with Israel. Instead, it speaks repeatedly and exclusively about <i>replacing</i> Israel. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">That is why there is no two-state solution.</span></p>Tuviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09258309790095578616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570972496352259896.post-30892176507394689862021-10-07T12:43:00.011-04:002021-10-08T07:02:55.433-04:00A history lesson too many choose to ignore<p>Note: Please excuse the syntax, punctuation and organization problems in the second half of the essay. I have an unsolvable problem with the blog program)</p><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Six individual news stories recently appeared on my computer
screen--at the same time of day, on the same date and on the same online news
site. More important, these six stories may not appear to be related--but they
are. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">These six stories, while very different, nevertheless
suggest a chilling reality about Israel. The six stories are, in no real order,
about: (1) former Israel Prime Minister Golda Meir; (2) an Israeli official located
in what Jews call Judea-Samaria (and what gentiles and others call 'the West
Bank’); (3) an Israeli NGO (Non-Government Organization); (4) the World War Two
era Auschwitz death camp; (5) a statement about the Arab-Israel conflict; and (6)
another story about Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear bomb.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If you are wise, you’ll take note of these stories. They remind us that we cannot ignore history, particularly an ugly history. If we ignore that
ugliness, we will surely be doomed to repeat it. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">A look at recent modern history tells us a grim lesson. The world ignores Jew-hate. The world seems indeed ready to repeat an old, murderous story. History has taught us nothing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The six news stories above appeared during the morning hours of October 7, 2021. They all appeared on the online news site called, <i>arutzsheva</i>. These stories were all new to the day’s
news cycle. Nevertheless, the stories remind us of a modern 80+-year record of
Jew-hate, a record that continues to this day.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Holocaust was a period of history that ran from app
1939-April 1945, when World War Two engulfed the world. It was a period when Nazi Germany created a “Final
Solution” for the “problem” of Europe’s Jews. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">That Solution was simple. It would completely remove Jews from
Europe once-and-for-all-time. Nazi Germany’s war and industrial machinery would
work together to murder millions of Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The problem of what to do with the hated Jews of Europe
would finally be “solved”. Therefore, beginning in 1942, the already-existing
Auschwitz concentration camp became the largest of the Nazi’s <i>extermination</i>
camps <a href="http://auschwitz.org/en/history/">(here)</a>. By the time World War Two ended in 1945, perhaps 1.1 million Jews had been murdered there
(ibid). 1.1 million. In just one death camp alone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Altogether, some 6 million Jews were murdered by Nazis and their friends in the Holocaust. This Holocaust is what too many choose to ignore.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The hate that made the Holocaust possible is back. Actually, it never went away.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">That same Auschwitz of World War two was again in the news 76 years later--on October 7, 2021. Auschwitz was back in the news because Jew-hate still
exists. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">That hate has now reared its ugly head again inside
Auschwitz itself, in the form of anti-Semitic slogans—and Holocaust denial
epithets--painted on nine barracks in one of Auschwitz’s camps (<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/314522">here</a>). Jews in Europe
termed this statement, “an outrageous attack on the symbol of one of the great
tragedies in human history” (<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/314522">ibid</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Jew-hate is alive-and-well in Auschwitz--again. It is a cancer that has <i>never</i> disappeared. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The second story looked at another October day--October 6, 1973, when the Yom Kippur war broke out in Israel. Golda Meir was
Israel Prime Minister at the time. Because October 6, 2021 was the 48<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of that war, dozens of documents from Israel’s state archive were
released to the public (<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/314533">here</a>). They reveal that Mrs. Meir was “depressed” by pessimistic reports from the battlefield.
She is reported to have sent a message to US Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger “begging him to send planes and tanks” to Israel” (<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/314533">ibid</a>). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Later that same
day (October 6<sup>th</sup>), archive documents further suggest she also “seemed
pessimistic regarding the likelihood of obtaining financial and military
assistance from abroad. ‘We have very little help from other countries … In
general, people don’t like Jews, and especially not weak Jews. They’ve thrown
us to the dogs’ (ibid).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Ask yourself, would any country <i>today</i> wish to throw
Israel to the dogs? If you believe the
answer is, no, you live in a fool’s Paradise. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The third news story was about an Israeli
leader who is probably little known outside Israel. He is Yossi Dagan, the
Jewish leader of the Samaria Regional Council in what most outside Israel call,
“the West Bank”. He was angry. He revealed that he had written a scathing
letter to the UN Special coordinator for the Middle East (Tor Wennesland) (<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/314531">here</a>). <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">It seems that in an August, 2021 speech to
the UN Security Council, Wennesland had falsely accused Jews of Israel for having
attacked “a Palestinian Arab when it turned out that the Palestinian was
actually the one who had thrown stones at Jewish residents near the community
of Homesh in Samaria” (ibid). Angrily, Dagan had demanded an apology. So far,
there has been no apology (ibid).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">At the UN, Jew hate lives on. That hate has never
ended. The horrors of World War Two has had little impact on the UN's attitudes
towards Jews. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The fourth news story was about the
anti-Israel NGO, B’Tselem. This NGO receives money from Europe specifically, it
is charged, to find ways to delegitimize and to demonize Israel. B’Tselem is an
anti-Israel Israeli organization. It supports Palestinian Jew-hate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This B’Tselem story revealed that B’Tselem had
accused Israeli Jews of setting fire to a building which in fact had been set
ablaze by Palestinian Arabs (<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/314517">here</a>). A video confirms that B’Tselem had lied about
Jews,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">That Jews anywhere would work so openly with
Jewish enemies is disgusting. But it happens. It happened in the</span></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Holocaust. It happens
today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">he fifth story was a news video that had appeared
originally</span></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> on the pro-Israel site, MEMRI. It is a short video of a Palestinian
who is (<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/314513">here</a>) a member of the anti-Israel Palestinian Fatah Party. This Palestinian
states that the Arab-Israel conflict was actually about the Palestinian struggle
to remove the Jewish Israel “in its entirety” from all land between the
[Jordan] River and the [Mediterranean] Sea (<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/314513">ibid</a>). <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If you look at a map of Jewish Israel, you will
see that Israel currently sits on land that is between the “River and the Sea”.
Therefore, whenever someone says –or more commonly, chants--‘From the River to
the sea, Palestine will be free”, they refer to the complete removal—and erasure—of Israel from that tract of land; it is the chant of Arab conquest.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Jew-hate is alive. Many are eager to see
Israel disappear. They incite Jew-hate to accomplish that goal. They sing for
Israel to be erased. They would gladly cheer for another “Final Solution”. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">For them, Hitler was a failure. He simply did
not do a good enough job on the Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The last of these six news stories was about
Iran (<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/314544">here</a>). Iran spends more time talking about erasing Israel from the world map
than anyone else. Iran obsesses over destroying the world’s only Jewish state.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">No one confronts Iran about this murderous
obsession. Instead, nations court Iran—the same way England’s Neville
Chamberlain courted Adolph Hitler—to appease. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">What was true during the Holocaust is still true
today. Preachers and academicians once again call to harm Jews.</span></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">What was true during the 6-Day
war is still true today: if Israel were seriously attacked, few nations would provide
Israel with military assistance</span></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-align: left;">Israel is alone. The reality of the Holocaust
was that, beginning 80+ years ago, there was a widespread bloodlust to see Jews killed. Now, these six
news stories—appearing at the same time on the same date in 2021—clearly remind
us that that bloodlust may be as strong as ever</span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR" style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span>If the world chooses to ignore how yesterday’s
Jew-hate revives, the world will be doomed to repeat</span> the consequences of that hate<span>. Only this time,
the world won’t get off so easily. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Tuviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09258309790095578616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570972496352259896.post-77129591170820285682021-09-30T05:34:00.010-04:002021-09-30T09:30:12.268-04:00The ugly hypocrisy of a UN that supports the destruction of a Member State<p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Last week, Iran's Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, traveled to New York City to attend an annual UN General Assembly gathering. There, he made what many would consider a truly humanitarian announcement: Iran, he said, is "<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111;">dedicated to the total elimination of all forms of racial discrimination" (<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-foreign-minister-vows-to-eliminate-zionism-at-un-anti-racism-conference">here</a>). </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">No doubt, for literally tens of millions of people--perhaps even hundreds of millions--this explicit dedication to fight racism must have been inspiring. It seemed a perfectly timed humanitarian statement to make at the Humanitarian capital of the world, the United Nations, just when the entire General Assembly was gathering.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Such a humanitarian declaration must have been especially heartwarming to amateur humanitarians everywhere because it specifically mentioned Zionism. The full statement the Iranian Foreign Minister made was this: Iran was "dedicated to the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination,<b> including apartheid and Zionism </b>[emphasis added]" (ibid). </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Ahh, yes, Zionism. Of course you realize that, </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial;">in the 21st Century, "Zionism" does not refer to Peru or Haiti or Puerto Rico. It refers exclusively to <b>one</b> country: Israel. That's a fact. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In this world, there is only one Zionist state--the Jewish State, Israel. Iran's Foreign Minister had made a very simple point. His country </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial;">was openly and willfully dedicated to "eliminating" both apartheid and Zionism. To make this perfectly clear: since Israel is the only nation identified with Zionism, when the Iranian Foreign Minister says his country wants to eliminate "racial discrimination [that is, racism], apartheid and <i>Zionism</i>", he is openly telling us that his country seeks to eliminate the Zionist Israel. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #111111; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">The inference is, Zionism is indeed racism (where have we heard that before?); Israel is Zionism itself; therefore, Israel is, by definition, both racist and apartheid; and to eliminate that racism and its stepchild, apartheid policies, Israel must be destroyed.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #111111; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">What a nice thought. Just after the Iranian Foreign Minister made this statement (September 24. 2021), the <i>Jerusalem Post Magazine</i> published a large front-page picture of a man holding up a poster containing just three words, all painted in large, bold letters saying, "ZIONISM IS RACISM".</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #111111; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">It's a catchy phrase, eh? It's so very simple. It's so easy to read. It's so easy to understand: Zionism--that is, Israel--is racism itself. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">To present such a horrid, hateful idea at the United Nations is astonishing. Think about it: Iran's Foreign Minister stood at the UN--the world's most significant "Temple of Peace and Humanitarianism"--and declared publicly that his nation was "dedicating" itself to eradicating another UN sovereign state? Really?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111;">The UN Charter is opposed to that. The UN Charter dedicates the UN to declarations of peace, not to declarations of annihilating another Member State. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111;">This isn't a new story. It's been going on for 20 years, since the infamous Durban I Conference. What's new is, the <i>ease </i>with which such bigotry is spoken in the hallway of the "Holy Humanitarian" United Nations.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111;">When Iran's Foreign Minister expresses his nation's desire to destroy another Member state, isn't </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">that an obvious declaration of war? From the House of Peace? Really?</span></p><p style="direction: rtl;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial;">There must have been quite an uproar of condemnations from</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial;"> other Member States of the UN, yes? Well, let me ask you: did you hear the outrage? Did you hear the anger directed at Iran for desecrating the Holy walls of the "Temple" of Peace </span></span></p><p style="direction: rtl;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Neither did I. In fact, no state said</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial;"> anything.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial;">Apparently, Iran has normalized "Death to the Jews!" Apparently, the world accepts that as reality. The UN--that "Holy </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">T</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">emple of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Peace"-</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">-</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">accepts it</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The ultimate irony here is, of course, that the only nation in the Middle East that does <b>not</b> embrace racist or apartheid policies is Israel. Despite this truth, </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial;">there still seems to be no doubt that perhaps hundreds of millions of people worldwide believe that Israel is the </span><b style="color: #111111; font-family: arial;">only</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial;"> apartheid state in the Middle East. No wonder Members of the UN have no complaint over the Iranian declaration. They agree with it!</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The truth is, Israel is not apartheid (<a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/BkwP4gGnO">here</a>). In fact, Israel is the only <i>Democracy</i> in the Middle East (<a href="https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/2021-08/FIW2020_book_JUMBO_PDF.pdf">here</a>, p. 1452); it is the only <i>Free</i> country in the Middle East (Apartheid countries are not, by definition, 'Free"). This is an important point because a nation cannot at the same time be a Democracy, Free <i>and</i> an apartheid state. It's impossible. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">It is astounding to see so many people, including so many Jews, believing the apartheid lie they hear every day about Israel. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The world certainly believes that Israel is evil, facts be damned. The world certainly makes up facts from misrepresented descriptions, the truth be damned. Clearly, the world damns Israel.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The UN is supposed to be the world's truest "Temple of Peace". It should stand up against such lies and damnations. But it doesn't. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">When it come to the subject of 'Israel', the UN will not support facts, truth <b>or</b> peace. Instead it supports the Irans of the world--those who hate the world's only Jewish state.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The ugly moral and legal hypocrisy of the UN is this: it proclaims itself to be the world's biggest "Temple of Peace-for-all". But in reality, every time the UN fully accepts a Member State declaring to eliminate Israel, the UN become a lying hypocrite, not a proponent of Peace. <br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In the long run, how do you think that's going to works out? The short answer is, the UN's silence in the face of such hate-filled assertions will not lead to more peace. Any fool can see that. Instead, the UN's silence in the face of such hate will ultimately lead to more war. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The UN supports the appearance of hate. It refuses to condemn ideas that certainly sound like warmongering against another Member State. Such <i>un</i>peaceful behavior in a "Temple of Peace" </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">is raw, ugly--and dangerous--hypocrisy. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The UN should know better. It doesn't. I believe the UN will pay dearly for its ignorance. </span></p>Tuviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09258309790095578616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570972496352259896.post-76856350366935507882021-09-23T14:06:00.001-04:002021-09-24T05:37:38.673-04:00Can a single Tel Aviv incident teach us something about how innovation is created?<p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Most everyone understands the need for innovation. The reason is simple. I</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">nnovation helps us to build a better tomorrow for ourselves. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I believe most of us realize there is a link between innovation and the future. But where does innovation come from? Do we know?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Personally, I think innovation comes from many sources. Some of these 'sources' might be called, 'triggering events'. These "triggering events" do not have to be dramatic or 'exciting'. Often, they are so mundane they are overlooked. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">For example, consider a not-so-recent incident that involved a horse and a luxury apartment building in Tel Aviv. T</span><span style="font-family: arial;">his particular Tel Aviv incident might seem silly, perhaps even stupid. For this reason, the incident's potential for innovation might easily be overlooked.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Nevertheless, despite appearances, this incident might nonetheless also be a "triggering event" for innovation. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Watch the video below. It is short, but instructive. The video is less than two minutes long.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Warning: there is no sound to this video; it is footage from a CCTV security camera. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Here is the video (video comes from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mioA1aOSSpM">here</a>; the news report comes from (</span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-horse-walks-into-an-elevator-of-luxury-tel-aviv-apt-building/"><span style="font-family: arial;">here</span></a>): </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mioA1aOSSpM" width="320" youtube-src-id="mioA1aOSSpM"></iframe></div><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Now, if you wonder what this video has to do with the process of innovation, start with a simple question: would </span><b style="font-family: arial;">you</b><span style="font-family: arial;"> have been creative enough to think to lead a horse into a luxury high-rise apartment building?</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Probably not. You might even think instead that this incident was closer to stupidity than 'creating a situation in order to trigger change'. You might be right.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">But then, you might be wrong. You see, silly--or perhaps even stupid--behavior such as you've just seen in this video often lead to innovation. That can happen if you can see beyond the obvious silliness or the stupidity of that situation. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">For example, w</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">hen this video was sent to the Tel Aviv police department by a building (no doubt irate) resident, the police promptly arrested the two men for, well,</span><i style="font-family: arial;"> something. </i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The news outlet which published this "tail" (</span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-horse-walks-into-an-elevator-of-luxury-tel-aviv-apt-building/" style="font-family: arial;">here</a><span style="font-family: arial;">), did not cite any ap</span><span style="font-family: arial;">artment-building or horse--or animal--laws as having been broken</span><i style="font-family: arial;">. In fact, t</i><span style="font-family: arial;">here may have been no law or ordinance on 'the books' to break. Indeed, one of the men arrested told the police he had brought the horse into the building because he had seen no notice in the building that doing so was forbidden. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">s it possible that this incident could provoke innovations for Tel Aviv's police? Of course that's possible: notices may now begin to appear in luxury apartment buildings to forbid horses--or any other large animal--from being brought onto the premises; and Tel Aviv's city fathers may pass a new 'no large animals in Tel Aviv high-rise' law--if only to give police the right to arrest someone for trying such a stunt--which could injure an animal</span><span style="font-family: arial;">.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Granted, this incident is small, perhaps even non-consequential. It may offer no proof whatsoever of a 'triggering event for innovation'. The incident may not lead to any real innovations or changes. It may only show how stupid people can be. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">But then, this horse incident might also serve to remind us </span><span style="font-family: arial;">of those life situations which, sometimes, have the power to change our lives. For example, could this incident provoke a start-up company--already in the app-development business--to design a new computer application that can sense the presence of large, oddly shaped (and/or heavy) objects (like a horse) as it enters into an elevator? Of course. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Could such a new computer app be designed to freeze an elevator door into the open position--until an oddly shaped, heavy object has been taken out of that elevator? Of course.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Could such an app make an elevator ride safer? Probably.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Innovation: it could change the laws by which we live. It could change how elevators are designed. It could make life safer. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Innovation comes in many forms. Often, innovation begins with a "triggering" event. Is this Tel Aviv horse incident one such example? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div></div></div>Tuviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09258309790095578616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570972496352259896.post-81240113602472863522021-09-13T13:48:00.001-04:002021-09-13T13:48:41.628-04:00Yom Kippur, 2021: Twenty years after 9/11, we watch a dangerous zero-sum game<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">With one shocking swoop, US President Joe Biden may have, at the end of August, 2021, instantly changed the nature of the ongoing conflict between civilization and the ruthless. He did this by </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">removing US troops from Afghanistan (1) before helping US citizens and Afghan US allies get out, and (2) far worse, before giving to US troops the time to remove (or destroy) some 80+ billion dollars' worth of US military hardware from Afghanistan. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Unbelievably, the US had, essentially, gifted billions of its own military hardware to Islamic extremists. If a Western country's leadership deliberately intended to aid a mortal enemy with a single, act of foolishness (or betrayal), there is no finer way to do that than to gift so much military hardware to an enemy which has spent the last 20 years (since 9/11) perfecting its ability to fight--successfully--against the world's strongest army--all the while fielding some of the most poorly equipped fighters in the world. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Biden had completely surrendered to this rag-tag lot. More important to America's future, he had left this anti-West terror organization far, far better equipped than it had ever been (</span><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/pauliddon/2021/08/21/taliban-now-stronger-than-ever-thanks-to-captured-us-armaments/?sh=f8b8bd2c58b5" style="font-family: arial;">here</a><span style="font-family: arial;">). Biden had given the Taliban some 80+ billion reasons to feel victoriously energized to continue its assault against the civilized.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If the Taliban has gotten this far--achieving total control of a country--with little sophisticated equipment, imagine what it can do now with 80+ billion dollars' worth of military gear. In the 20 years since 9/11, which we have just commemorated this week, the world has become increasingly vulnerable to Jihadi attack. The thought that Jihad has just gotten an almost miraculous (from Jihad's point of view) increase in firepower should give Islamic extremists everywhere cause for joyous celebration--and Westerners cause to fear. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Remember, "Islam" means 'submission' (<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/09/celebrating-our-enemies-twenty-years-after-911-bruce-bawer/">here</a>). Jihad is the war to achieve that submission. Indeed, Islamic extremists see themselves as catalytic agents in a coming apocalypse they will personally initiate. Their goal is to create their desired religious end: the complete control over everyone. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">What, exactly, do you imagine could happen to Western civilization when an unanticipated 83 billion dollars' worth of military hardware gets added to Jihad's war against that civilization?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The possible answers to this horrific question begin with the realization that the West could now, as a result of the Afghanistan debacle, see many more Islamic attacks against it. Somewhere down the road from such a start lies the realization that Islamic Jihad has good reason to believe it is now poised, prepared and equipped to take-over <i>more</i> countries. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Taliban "victory" in Afghanistan may still be fresh. But we have already seen warnings that <i>other</i> extremists have become "emboldened" by that victory (<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-spy-chief-warns-terrorists-emboldened-by-afghanistan-takeover/">here</a>). This does not bode well for the West. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The future of the West could be bloody. Little by little, Islam could try to eat away at the edges of civilization. In time, the heart of Western civilization could become exposed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Today, many Western nations are already ruled by an elite class which believes that Islam needs to be protected. Islam will make good use of that protection as it seeks to forward the spread of its control over others through the establishment of a universal Islamic Caliphate. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Is Islam's strict Sharia law destined to become the law of the West? Don't bet against it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The West clashes with an anti-West Jihad. Put another way, the descendants of Edom (Christian Westerners) are in conflict with the descendants of Ishmael (anti-West Islamists). Right now, Islamists seem to be ahead of the West. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Christianity weakens. Islam strengthens. With this Biden Afghan surrender, c</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">ivilization has reason to worry about a coming Darkness.</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Islamic extremism follows--and sometimes leads--the spread of Islam. It is an old story come to our modern world: Edom against Ishmael. Part of our Jewish tradition suggests that, just before our Redemption, Edom and Ishmael will turn on each other. Is this what is happening now? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">What we see in the early 21st century is the ascension of Islam at the West's expense. Or, as one observer has already put it, as America dives, Islam thrives. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This conflict between America and Islam looks like the prototypical zero-sum game: as Islam rises, America recedes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Islam's gain (as in Afghanistan) is America's loss (as in Afghanistan). This is precisely how the zero-sum game works; and today, i</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">t is a game that favors neither America nor the West.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Jewish High Holiday liturgy (for both Rosh Hashannah and Yom Kippur) says that HaShem, my G-d, </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Judges nations. Ultimately, He will </span><span style="font-family: arial;">repay nations that have brutalized, demonized and oppressed His Chosen--the Jews. He will hold nations </span><span style="font-family: arial;">accountable for their actions against the Jewish people.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">As it has been written, so it now unfolds. Yom Kippur, just ahead (September 15-16, 2021), is the Day when HaShem's Judgments are sealed. During the year following this year's Yom Kippur, will we see how the descendants of Edom and the descendants of Ishmael are to be Judged? </span></p><p style="direction: rtl;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">What will that mean to Edom (the Christianized West)? What will it mean to Ishmael (the followers of Islam) </span></p><p style="direction: rtl;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Stay tuned</span></p>Tuviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09258309790095578616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570972496352259896.post-78203844859468841902021-09-09T13:16:00.001-04:002021-09-09T13:17:35.408-04:00Rosh Hashannah and Jewish Destiny<p> </p><p><br /></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Growing up in America as an Orthodox Jew, I do not remember
hearing from <i>any</i> Rabbi the idea that a MAJOR theme of both Rosh
Hashannah and Yom Kippur was Redemption--the Destiny of the Jewish people. From
what I can remember, I wonder if the very mention of Redemption might have been
forbidden in certain American Orthodox settings. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">But the truth is, on Rosh Hashannah, when we pray for the moment
when the world will recognize the power of our G-d, HaShem, we are talking, in part, about the time of Redemption. the same thing is true when we acknowledge on Rosh Hashannah that HaShem will judge the nations: we re tlking in part about the moment of Redemption. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial; mso-spacerun: yes;">For example, o</span><span style="font-family: arial;">n Rosh Hashannah, we
read: which nation will experience famine, which will experience satiety, which
will experience the sword, which will see peace (in </span><i style="font-family: arial;">the Eidut Mizrach</i><span style="font-family: arial;">
liturgy). Yes, these statements describe how our G-d treats everyone—</span><i style="font-family: arial;">He</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> is the ultimate Judge. But they
also remind us of Redemption because this same kind of national Judgment will occur then, too.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">There is even one opinion in our Jewish Heritage, our <i>Talmud</i>,
that states that our Redemption will begin in the month (Tishrei) during which Rosh Hashannah occurs. That
would be appropriate, given the prayers we recite on Rosh Rashannah. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Rav Kook, Israel's first Chief Ashkenaz Rabbi, strongly
believed in Israel, the Jewish people—and in Redemption. He had this to say
about Redemption and Rosh Hashannah (I paraphrase very freely, but I think
you'll get the point) [I use the text of the speech from Rabbi Moshe Lichtman, <i>Eretz Yisroel in the Parsha</i>, Devora publishing, 2006, pp. 425ff]:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">There are three types of "shofar of Moshiach"
(Redemption).These three types of 'shofar of Moshiach" correspond to the
three types of shofar we learn about in Jewish law (“halacha”).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
first shofar of halacha, Rav Kook says, might be called a 'great' shofar. It is the preferred
shofar--a ram's horn, beautiful. It is not easy to find.</span></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">There is a second type of shofar one can use</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">on</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> Rosh
Hashannah. This type of shofar is not as exclusive as the first type. It is
certainly kosher, but not preferred. It is found everywher.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Then there is a third type of shofar. This is a non-kosher
shofar. It might come from a non-kosher animal. It might have been used
for idol worship. It is clearly not kosher. However, if a community is under
duress, and can find no kosher shofar anywhere, such a shofar can be used on
Rosh Hashannah. Halacha says the one sounding the shofar still
discharges his obligation—provided he does not recite a blessing over it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The great shofar referred to above, Rav Kook continued, can
be likened to the shofar of our ideal Redemption process. This means there is a
kind of Redemption that occurs as a three-part <i>holy </i>awakening. It is holy because, first of all, it is an
impulse based upon a strong belief in HaShem and His <i>Torah</i>. Second, it
is based on an understanding of the sanctity of Israel and its purpose.
Finally, it is an impulse based on a collective desire to fulfill G-d's will,
which is to bring about Israel's complete Redemption. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This great shofar represents a Redemption based upon the
Jewish nation's loftiest communal aspirations to be redeemed-- so that Israel can
fulfill its destiny. This Destiny cannot be achieved when the nation is
scattered, exiled and/or oppressed. The nation must be free—a freedom that begins with the
sounding of great shofar. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This is why, on Rosh Hashannah, we say in the Mussaf service:
"And it will be on that day a <b>great </b>shofar will be blown, and those
lost in the land of Assyria and those cast aside in the land of Egypt, will bow
to G-d on the Holy mountain in Jerusalem...Our G-d and G-d of our fathers, blow
the <b>great</b> shofar <i>for <b>our freedom</b></i>, and gather in our exiled
ones, and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>establish for us what you
promised in your <i>Torah</i> given to us by the hand Moshe your servant."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The second kind of shofar referred to above is also kosher.
But is not preferred, for any number of reasons. This ‘second type’ refers to a
second kind of Redemption process where [Jews are too comfortable to think about
Redemption; they like remaining in their exile]. For such Jews, the sacred
desire has deteriorated. There isn’t much collective enthusiasm for lofty or
sacred ideals. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Nevertheless, human nature being what is, what these Jews
might feel instead is a kind of simple, natural--or, secular--desire to become a sovereign
state—to be on one’s own land, to live freely governing oneself and to be like
any other nation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This kind of Jewish Redemptive process is similar to all of
the nationalist movements that spread across Europe that began in the nineteenth century and
which continued into the twentieth century. It is, Rav Kook suggests, like the second
shofar discussed by Jewish halacha. It is something that can be—and was--found
anywhere. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">But then, Rav Kook says, there is also a third kind of Redemptive
process. It is a process that is not holy. It is a process that may have begun with comfort,
but then leads to stress and duress. It can happen when there is no kosher
process available—exactly like the third type of shofar discussed by halacha;
it is not kosher; It is not preferable. But when a community is under duress, it
is still useable. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Like the third shofar, this third process is, on thea surface, not valid. But it can happen when there
is no holy impulse within the Jewish people. It can happen when there is no
strong Jewish nationalistic feelings within the Jewish people. In this third Redemptive
process, all holy and secular Jewish impulses are absent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This sermon was given on Rosh Hashannah. What may not be obvious,
however, is the year in which this particular Rosh Hashannah sermon was given: 1933.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">1933 was the year Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of the German
nation. By 1933, Hitler’s anti-Jew beliefs were well-known. He hated the Jew.
He had already spoken about cleansing the German people of Jews. In a matter
of just a few years, Hitler would begin his Holocaust against the Jew. He decimated
the Jewish population of Europe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His Germany murdered millions of innocent Jews simply because they were <i>Jews.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Rav Kook gave this sermon less than nine months after Hitler
became German Chancellor. In this sermon, was he predicting the Holocaust?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Speaking of the third, non-Kosher shofar as referring to a
third Redemptive process, Rav Kook went on to say that if it was impossible to
blow a kosher shofar for our Redemption—or, perhaps, if the Jewish people deafened
themselves to such a call--then our enemies will come and blow the shofar of Redemption
in our ears. They will force us to hear the shofar against our collective will.
They will shout and make noise. They will deny us our rest. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In such an instance, the shofar of an impure animal becomes the
shofar of Moshiach! If Jews refuse to awaken to the sound of the first shofar
of Moshiach, and if Jews do not want to listen to the sound of the second shofar
of Moshiach, they <b>will be forced </b>to listen to an invalid shofar of Moshiach.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Rosh Hashannah is linked to Redemption. During services for Rosh Hashannah (and Yom Kippur), please stay alert. On these Days, you're not just reading about Repentance or prayer or sin-and-forgiveness. You are reading as well about your Future--your Destiny. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The sound of the shofar reminds us. Rosh Hashannah is about Jewish Redemption. It is the sound that awakens us to our Destiny. </span></p><p></p>Tuviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09258309790095578616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570972496352259896.post-17067711947391150992021-09-02T13:40:00.002-04:002021-09-02T13:41:16.860-04:00Rosh Hashannah 2021 is the time when nations are Judged in the Heavenly Court. How will America fare?<p> </p><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">On the Jewish calendar, September 2, 2021 is the 25th day of
the Jewish month, Elul. For Jews across the world, Elul 25 means that R</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">osh Hashannah is today just 6 days away.</span><span style="font-family: arial; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">It is said that Rosh Hashannah celebrates the world's
Creation. But Rosh Hashannah is also the time for personal reflection--because on these two Holy days, Mankind is to be Judged. Personal reflection, therefore, is appropriate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Yes, Rosh Hashannah is indeed a Day of Awe (at the Creation
that G-d wrought) <i>and</i> a Day of Judgment. But it is also more than that.
Much more. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">According to Jewish tradition, the world was <i>not</i>
created on Rosh Hashannah. It was created 6 days earlier--on Elul 25. It was <i>Man</i>
who was created on Rosh Hashannah. That is important because Man has done much
damage to Creation; and some say he is about to do more damage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Also, while Mankind will be judged on Rosh Hashannah, Man is not the only subject of Judgment. The nations of the world will also be
Judged. This is important because the nations have also done damage to Creation--and some believe they are about to do more damage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">On history's very first Elul 25, Creation began. It was a process that transformed the world. Indeed, by Rosh Hashannah Day, after just 6 days of this
transformative Creation process, there literally began a New World Order. That is, the
old world of darkness gave way to Light. The old world of chaos gave way to
Order. The old way of primeval savagery gave way to Man, who appeared on the first Day of Rosh Hashannah</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Our Spiritual history began on Rosh Hashannah with the
appearance of Man. This history has been characterized by struggle—the struggle to inch
our way towards our true Spiritual potential. Every Rosh Hashannah, each of us gets
the opportunity to commit once again to that potential.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The history of this struggle has not been
easy. It has been marked by war, conquest, pestilence and slavery. It is a
history filled with Man’s attempt to cleave to G-d. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it is also a history of Man’s rebellion--and his wars--against G-d. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Man’s history has brought us brutality. It
has brought to us both the Stone Age and the Dark Age. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Modern man has been lucky. Some of us, particularly those of us in
the West, live lives characterized by the benefits of, relatively speaking,
great national wealth, extraordinary health care and a cornucopia of material
and physical comforts. For us Westerners, life has indeed been good. The Dark
Ages have been long forgotten.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Each Rosh Hashannah, we wonder what the new year will
bring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In our prayers, we ask: who will
die? Who will live? Who will prosper? Who will fail? Who will lose? Who will
triumph?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On </span><i style="font-family: arial;">this</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> Rosh Hashannah, I wonder what will the answers to these questions be for <i>America</i>? As America is Judged, will it prosper? Will it be at peace? I fear not.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some in America say that the year between September 2021-October 2022 could bring to
America terror attacks, gun battles in US cities and the very
real possibility that, on some as-yet unknown level, life in America could collapse.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Could this really happen? Could America be Judged harshly in the Heavenly Court?</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Stay tuned. In the months following Rosh Hashannah 2021, we will all found out if America will prosper or if it will suffer a new Dark Age--or worse.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p></p>Tuviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09258309790095578616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570972496352259896.post-52737098552985701322021-08-05T02:50:00.010-04:002021-08-05T04:20:56.028-04:00 Vacation?<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Typically, August is a vacation month for me. But the last year and a half has been anything but typical. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In fact, since about the middle of November, 2019, I have worked for the last 20 months without a formal vacation break from writing. The time has finally come for such a break.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I will <i>probably</i></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">start posting again near the end of the month--unless, that is, something happens that 'fires me up'. Perhaps you can check in once a week to see if that has occurred. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Otherwise, I look forward to 'seeing' you soon.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Tuviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09258309790095578616noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570972496352259896.post-47319993052870790712021-07-22T07:40:00.004-04:002021-07-22T07:42:56.279-04:00Did Naftali Bennet make a Faustian Pact with the Devil in order to become Israel's Prime Minister?<p> </p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Even before Naftali Bennet replaced Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel's Prime Minister, many in Israel wondered if Bennet's new "coalition' government was more a political 'oddity' than anything else. After all, the coalition's very existence was only possible because Bennet had convinced (or, bribed--see below) the Islamist-Arab Party, Ra'am,to bring its minuscule 4 Knesset seats to Bennet--in exchange for receiving an unprecedented seat at the governing table. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Typically, in Israel, Islamist Arabs are not invited to participate in running Israel's government. The reason for this is self-evident--and that reason is not, 'racism': "Islamists" today are openly hostile to Israel. They question Israel's right to exist. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Israel has the right to exclude such people from its halls of government. Why give <i>any</i> insider advantages to those who express such hatred of your very existence?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Bennet appears to have ignored this reality. He invited an Islamist Arab Party, Ra'am, to join with him to make his Premiership possible. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Was this a 'Faustian' Pact? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">A Faustian Pact is an agreement with the Devil. If the Devil will give the petitioner what that petitioner wants, then the Devil will get what <i>he</i> wants--the petitioner's soul.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">It is a dangerous Pact. In the end, the petitioner loses <i>everything</i>. </span></p><p style="direction: rtl;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Is this what Bennet has done? Will his Pact with</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> the Islamist Arab Party, Ra'am, destroy not only his ruling coalition government, but his entire political career </span></p><p style="direction: rtl;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Bennet's coalition isn't yet two months old. But, already, Ra'am doesn't look anything like the benign Party we were told it was</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">We were, essentially, led to believe that Ra'am had broken away from the anti-Israel Joint List Party because Ra'am's leader, Mansour Abbas, was far more moderate that the Joint List. We were led to believe that he wanted to work with Israel's government, not oppose it at every step.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Once Ra'am agreed to join the coalition, Bennet reached the minimum number of Knesset seats (61) he needed in order to be declared Prime Minister. Without Ra'am, Bennet would not be Prime Minister. With the Ra'am Party, he was sworn in as Israel first Prime Minister to follow Benjamin Netanyahu <a href="https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-naftali-bennett-sworn-in-as-israels-13th-prime-minister-1001374311">here</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Politically conservative Israelis were immediately concerned about Ra'am. Their questions about Ra'am were both simple and focused: would an Islamist Party inside the ruling coalition have access to such inside information about Israel's security arrangements that Israel's security would be negatively affected? What were Ra'am's attitudes towards Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon? Indeed, would Ra'am actually promote not just Israeli-Arab issues, but Palestinian (and potentially anti-Israel) issues also?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> Would Ra'am remain loyal to the coalition's political agenda? Most important, however, was how, exactly, would Ra'am react to another war with Hamas? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Ra'am and its Islamism inside Israel's government were a new and unknown factor for Israel's governance. It was a huge risk for Israel. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Did Bennet's decision to grant Ra'am 50+ billion shekel (the gift--or bribe--that convinced Ra'am to join the coalition) constitute a 'Pact with the Devil'? Would that Pact lead to disaster for both Bennet and Israel?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Bennet almost did not become PM--because one of Ra'am's MK's abstained in the vote that made Bennet PM. That abstention meant that Bennet became PM with just a razor-thin 60-59 vote. You couldn't make that vote any closer.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">That almost-loss happened because one MK from Ra'am refused to vote. If <i>another</i> Ra'am MK's had abstained, the Knesset vote would for the PM would have 59-59. Bennet would not be PM today. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ra'am is powerful. It is certainly far more powerful than its minuscule 4 Knesset seats might ordinarily suggest. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Why is it so powerful? It has the power </span><span style="font-family: arial;">to collapse this coalition--easily. It is a power it seems willing to use.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The original Deal (Devil's Pact?) with Ra'am committed Bennet to do at least two things for Ra'am. First, it committed Bennet to grant to Ra'am 50+ billion shekel--for "development" within Israel's Arab-Israeli community. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This was unprecedented. 50+ <i>billion</i>? </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">How, exactly, would that money would be used? Would there be any accountability for its use? Why that specific amount? For what was it to be allocated?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">No one had answers for these questions. Bennet didn't help. He revealed very little about this 50 billion. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So the question was, was the amount agreed to actually the result of a selfish but irresponsible decision, or not? </span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">No one knew. The details of the deal were not revealed. It was not a transparent decision. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The second commitment Bennet promised to Ra'am was, potentially, dangerous. It was the promise to grant to the Islamist Ra'am Party control over Bedouin affairs in Israel, including, most important, in the Negev. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Bedouin behavior in the Negev has been deteriorating for decades. Bad behavior by Negev Bedouin had become so bad that the IDF had been forced recently to cancel army training maneuvers in the Negev because of ongoing Bedouin lawlessness and brazenness. By teaming up with Ra'am, had Bennet abandoned Israeli control of the Negev to Islamists? Would Israeli security be compromised by such a decision? Would Ra'am ever attempt to ban the IDF from the Negrev?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">To illustrate the potential dangers of Bedouin behavior. A wealthy Bedouin has recently been arrested for sharing intelligence with Iran, especially intelligence regarding "the whereabouts of Defense Minister Gantz" (<a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hky00jhfpu">here</a>).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This was a serious security breach. Israel's security apparatus is believed to have already used targeted killings in Iran. Sharing real-time information about Israel's Defense Minister's whereabouts might entice Iran to try its own targeted killing--of Israel's Defense Minister. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">By the way, do you know why that one MK from the Ra'am Party did not vote for Bennet in the vote that made Bennet PM (see above)? That Ra'am MK, a Bedouin, was angry because Israel had scheduled to demolish some illegal Bedouin housing in the Negev. His abstention was a message: he would not vote at all in the Knesset (to help the coalition achieve its political agenda) until the new government stopped all demolitions of illegal Bedouin housing in the Negev. He even suggested he was willing to vote <i>against</i> the coalition until that happened.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">For a month after that declaration, the government did not act against that Bedouin housing problem. It simply stalled all decisions about Bedouin housing in the Negev. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">But now, a month later, that arrangement has ended. Now, Israel has stated publicly that there will be <i>no</i> new demolition of Bedouin housing in the Negev for one month, until negotiations with Bedouins could begin (<a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/GPG66NOVF">here</a>, <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-reportedly-freezes-building-enforcement-in-raam-stronghold/">here</a>). The goal, it was suggested, was to resolve Bedouin housing issues now.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span>To put even more pressure on the coalition government, a Ra'am MK has in the meantime declared that, <b>should Israel attack Gaza</b>, he will "collapse the government" (</span><a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/309629">here</a><span>).</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span>That would be fun to watch, right? Think about that scenario: Hamas again starts firing rockets into Israel, Israel orders the IDf to attack Gaza--and Ra'am pulls out of the coalition, thereby ending Bennet's coalition rule just when stability is desired (during war with Hamas)--and instantly creating the need for another election?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span>How do you think that would be received by Israel's voters? Not well, I assure you. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Just days ago, Ra'am has also declared that all of the Temple Mount--all 144 dunams of it--is called, the Al Aqsa Mosque (<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/raam-al-aqsa-mosque-is-solely-the-property-of-muslims/">here</a>). Then, echoing what Islamist Hamas has said many times, Ra'am stated that <b>all</b> of the Temple Mount "belongs only to Muslims" (ibid).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This is a dangerous statement because it suggests that both Hamas and Ra'am may in fact operate under the same ideological umbrella. Was this who Bennet had invited to Israel's governing table--Israel's sworn enemy? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">It is nearly impossible for a person who has made a Pact with the Devil to remain uncorrupted by the Devil. Will Bennet be corrupted by his Pact with Ra'am? Has he <i>already</i> been corrupted? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Stay tuned. Watch Israel's news. Perhaps one day you will find out who has determined the fate of Bennet's coalition.</span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div>Tuviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09258309790095578616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570972496352259896.post-78746903357576761072021-07-18T13:02:00.001-04:002021-07-18T13:02:38.859-04:00Israel's first Tisha B'Av was a day of historic tragedy; do American Jews see their own historic tragedy developing?<p> </p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Most readers of this blog, I would guess, know what Tisha B'Av represents: a commemoration of the destruction of Israel's two Holy Temples. These two Temples, while separated in time by more than 400 years, were nevertheless both destroyed on the same day--the ninth day of the Hebrew month, Av; or, to use the Hebrew term, on Tisha [the ninth] B'Av [of Av].</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Other calamities have appeared in Jewish histories on this same day. But the main calamity was the destruction of our two Temples. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Many, however, do not know about Israel's very first 'ninth of Av'. That day was indeed a true 'Day of Infamy' for Israel because it changed Israel's Destiny, forever. Do you know what that day was, and what happened on that day?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Israel's first Tisha B'Av, our Talmud tells us (in Tractate <i>Taanit</i>, p. 29a), is linked to the incident of 'the spies', in our <i>Torah </i>(in </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-family: arial;">Bamidbar</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> [</span><i style="font-family: arial;">Numbers]</i><span style="font-family: arial;">,</span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">chapters 13-14).</span><i style="font-family: arial;"> </i><span style="font-family: arial;">In this incident, the Jewish people (referred to here as 'Israel') were on the verge of entering </span><span style="font-family: arial;">the land of Israel for the first time. Moshe, their leader, had sent spies to reconnoiter the land. The spies returned to Moshe on the ninth of Av, and gave a report to him and to his brother Aaron before the entire assembly of Israel.</span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Twelve men had been chosen for this mission, one from each of the twelve tribes. These men weren't just any men. They were leaders. Each man was important to his tribe.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Their mission had taken 40 days. Now, the ninth of AV, they gave their report.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">They began with a positive message. They reported that the land "flows with milk and honey". To prove their point, they presented a heavy cluster of grapes they had picked.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Yes, their message was clear. This land was indeed good. It was fertile. It had much to offer. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">But it was what they said next that changed Israel's Destiny--forever. The tragedy on that first ninth of Av (literally, Tisha B'Av) began with a single, simple word. After giving a brief report on how good the land was, they said, "But". </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">They said, 'but' the people in this land are powerful. Their cities are fortified. The cities are great. The spies even reported that they had seen offspring of "the giant". </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Remember now, these men, along with all of Israel, had been promised this land by G-d. G-d had taken this people out of slavery. He had brought them to the very edge of this land. This is to say that G-d had made a Promise; and He had kept that Promise.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">But the people's faith in that Promise failed them. The spies were frightened. The people heard their fear and <i>they</i> became frightened. They cried out in anguish, essentially crying, 'what have you done to us?' </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">These people had seen G-d do the impossible--take them out of slavery and defeat what was arguable the best army in the world, at the Red Sea. They had even seen G-d split the Red Sea for them.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">G-d had protected them in their travels. He had done everything one could have imagined for them. But these people now lost their faith in Him--and that is what changed Israel's Destiny.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Many say that faith is powerful. It is. It can move mountains. The loss of faith is just as powerful. Perhaps even more powerful. A loss of faith can destroy. It can destroy everything: it can change the course of history.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik says that, if Israel had not lost its faith at this moment, everything in Jewish history would have been different: Moshe would have immediately led Israel into the land. Moshe would "in effect" have become the Jewish Moshiach (Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, <i>Chumash Mesoras HaRav, Sefer Devarim</i>, the Neuwirth Edition,the OU Press, p. 11). Plus, "Israel's possession of the land and the Temple would have been permanent, with no destruction and no subsequent exiles" (ibid).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Permanent Redemption: what a concept for the Jewish people! It meant permanent peace permanent good fortune and permanent security. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">It had all been theirs. This incredible gift from G-d was at their fingertips, proverbially close enough to touch. Israel was set to achieve its Destiny. All the people needed to do was to believe in HaShem--and enter the land. Period. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">But they had lost their faith. Fear had done them in. With that fear, they turned against G-d. Fear made them forget their faith.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In essence, their fear caused them to reject G-d--and His Promise. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Think about that loss. Think about all the destructions Jews have experienced--all the massacres, the pogroms, the anti-Semitism and all the raw Jew-hate we see even--or, especially--today. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">There would have been no Holocaust. If the Jews had gone into the land back then, there would today be no Arabs throwing stones at Jews on the Temple Mount (<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/310076">here</a>); no Arab accusations that Jews ascending to the Temple Mount on Tisha B'Av was a "dangerous escalation" and a "serious threat to security" (<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-pa-decries-jews-observing-tisha-b-av-on-temple-mount-as-dangerous-escalation-1.10009964">here</a>). There would be no Arab declarations that the entire Temple Mount area--all 35+ acres/144 dunams of it--belong to Muslims, and to no one else (<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/raam-al-aqsa-mosque-is-solely-the-property-of-muslims/">here</a>).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">None of these things would have happened. Jewish history would have been completely different.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The tragedy of this 'spy' incident is that it wasn't foisted upon the Jewish people by outsiders or by war. It was brought upon the Jewish people themselves. Worse, it had been created and led by Jewish leaders--because of their fear and their own loss of faith.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Jewish leaders (the spies were 'Jewish leaders') created that first Tisha B'AV tragedy. Do we now see another historic Jewish tragedy, one perhaps again led and fostered by Jewish leaders--in 2021 America? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Perhaps. In the week leading up to Tisha B'Av, 2021, we saw a new US survey revealing that 25% of American Jewish respondents believe that modern Israel is an Apartheid State (a hoax if ever there was one) (<a href="https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/survey-a-quarter-of-us-jews-agree-that-israel-is-an-apartheid-state-673761">here</a>). Among American Jews under 40, 20% agreed with the statement. "Israel doesn't have the right to exist" (ibid)--and one third of these under-40 Jews agree that Israel commits genocide (another hoax) (ibid).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Have America's Jews lost their faith? Are their Jewish leaders at fault?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Maybe. Right now in America, some 38% of Jews do not feel any emotional attachment at all to Israel (ibid). How did that happen? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Since a belief in Israel is fundamental to Judaism, these poll numbers suggest that a high percent of American Jews may in fact be removing themselves from Judaism. It</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">'s not an idle thought. Other American polls have already suggested that Jews in America increasingly raise their children with no faith at all. How did <i>that</i> happen? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">More important, where will that loss of faith lead? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">American Jews leave behind their religion because they choose to assimilate. Assimilation is a religious cancer. It will lead to the death of Judaism in America. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Kill off Judaism in America, and Jews disappear. It's that simple. That's the developing tragedy we see in America. Has the Jewish people's sojourn in America ended? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">On top of assimilation--but related to assimilation--almost 90% of American Jews are concerned about a growing antisemitism in America. Why is it that, as assimilation increases, antisemitism increases? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I do not know the answer to this question. But I do know this: as assimilation and antisemitism in America increase, Jewish fear increases; and as Jewish fear increases, the prospects in America for a thriving Jewish community decreases. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Do American Jews even care about what assimilation and antisemitism mean to them? I don't know if they care. But if they don't care, then they are done as 'Jews'. They will be lost.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Where are America's Jewish leaders? Do <i>they</i> care about the fear and the loss of faith among US Jews?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Tisha B'Av is all about Jewish tragedies. This Tisha B'Av, there is a clear American Jewish tragedy developing in America. Will America's Jews <i>see</i> this tragedy unfolding? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Chances are, no--they will not see it. </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Maybe it's time for US Jews to leave what looks increasingly like a sinking ship. Maybe it's time they make aliyah.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Will they? You tell me.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Have an easy fast.</span></p>Tuviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09258309790095578616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570972496352259896.post-33707323493796320912021-07-15T08:34:00.010-04:002021-07-16T07:47:20.395-04:00This is how those "evil Zionist Israelis" deal with the oppressed Palestinian people<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">oday, I present to you the contents of a short speech given
by a man who identifies himself as a Palestinian. I do not know when, exactly,
this man gave this speech. But it was uploaded to <i>youtube</i> in February,
2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This man speaks to a gathering of the EU Parliament. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He speaks about the oppression of the
Palestinian people. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This speech is short, only about 4 minutes long. It is a
speech you should hear. It is a speech you should remember. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">After a brief introduction, the speaker begins the main text
of his speech by declaring that “The Palestinian people are the <i>Chosen
People</i> of the European Parliament. People in the European Parliament love
the Palestinians. They care for them. They dream about us in their sleep. How
beautiful! They care about how we are oppressed by the evil Zionist Israelis”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Then, he changes direction. Unexpectedly, he says this…</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wWEhNixql98" width="320" youtube-src-id="wWEhNixql98"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In this speech, this Arab says, yes, "the people of the European Parliament care about how the Palestinians are oppressed by the evil Zionist Israelis, while, in fact, those evil Zionist Israelis are the ones giving us jobs, while Lebanon bans us from all forms of jobs....most of you are seeking to destroy the only source of income and stability that we have, which is the Israeli Jewish State". </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The words of this man represent the dirty, hidden truth about Palestinian life that Palestinians know. Palestinians are oppressed, all
right. But not by Israelis. Palestinians get good-paying jobs, all right, but mostly not from anyone in the Palestinian Authority. Rather, they get those kinds of jobs only from Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">But, worst of all, Palestinians are forced to live under an tyrannical regime called the Palestinian Authority.
They are ruled by a tinpot despot, Mahmoud Abbas—who serves, by the way, in the
16th year of what was supposed to have been a four-year term. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Abbas is a tyrant. He rules with an iron fist. He lies. His henchmen
kill his own people. His henchmen torture his own people. He steals from his own
people. He lies about the Jewish State in order to incite riots against Israel, so as to deflect riots against himself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">What can an Israeli Jew say about such a neighbor? Perhaps
it is best only to say, may it be G-d's will that Americans and Europeans hear
this man’s message, and begin to listen to his words. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Truly, may it be G-d’s will that Americans and Europeans actually
begin to act on this man’s call for a change that begins with helping Israel, not a tyrannical Palestinian Authority. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In time, more brave Palestinians will speak up. That is inevitable. Many who do
so will suffer. But, in time, that suffering won’t matter to them because they will
know that speaking up may be the only road to their own salvation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The only question is, will the West’s mainstream media (and
the elites who work for and support that media) print what these Palestinians will say? Will the West answer their calls for help?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Don‘t hold your breath. The West’s elites who control both
Western media and culture do not care about <i>anyone</i> in the Middle East,
Arab or Jew. These Western elites call themselves Liberal Humanitarians. Apparently, that means t</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">he only thing they care about is</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span><i style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">racism.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><br /><p></p>Tuviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09258309790095578616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570972496352259896.post-10507512358045224742021-07-09T06:40:00.006-04:002021-07-12T13:06:23.235-04:00Ilhan Omar, the "Squad" and one Palestinian named, Bassam Eid<p> </p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">On June 30, 2021, I published an essay for this blog to ask a question: who oppresses Palestinians, Israeli Jews or the world's "Progressives"? (<a href="https://tuviainil.blogspot.com/2020/09/palestinians-are-oppressed-who.html">here</a>). App 18 hours later, Palestinian-born Bassam Eid published his own version of this topic (<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/309061">here</a>). The title of his essay was, "It's time Illhan Omar and "the Squad" learned the truth about Israel and Hamas". </span></p><p style="direction: rtl;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mr Eid was born in a Palestinian refuge camp. He reads, writes and speaks Arabic, English and Hebrew. He knows how Palestinians live. He knows how--and why-they suffe </span></p><p style="direction: rtl;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> I want to tell you about his essay because,</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> while I feel I can comfortably write about the human rights violations--and lies--of the Palestinian Authority (PA), it is quite another thing to hear the same thing from a native-born Palestinian </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">After a brief introduction, Mr Eid turns his attention to his essay's real subject. He begins with,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"Politicians like Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spend a considerable amount of time attacking Israel for the supposed harm it inflicts on Palestinian Arabs. If they truly care about the wellbeing (sic) of Palestinians, they ought to focus their attention elsewhere. These days, the vast majority of suffering Palestinians experience is the direct result of the corruption of the Palestinian Authority and the influence of the terrorist group Hamas" (ibid).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">While this was my own focus in the June 30, essay, Mr Eid elaborates on it. He speaks of PA corruption as one who has seen it from the inside. It is quite a story.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Where does corruption reveal itself in the PA? In a word, everywhere. It affects every aspect of Palestinian life (ibid). It cripples the economy, mostly, he suggests, by keeping jobs within the control of PA bureaucrats: you cannot get a job without PA approval. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Jobs, you see, are hard to come by in the PA. The PA has no true modern 'economy'. Instead, most jobs are not created by the marketplace. Jobs are based on connections, not qualifications (or education).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Eid cites as one recent example of corruption in the PA the fact that corona vaccinations were cornered first by bureaucrats, not medical workers or the elderly. He asserts that the PA has finally admitted this to be the case. Who vaccinated these bureacrats? Unvaccinated medical workers. Nice. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Turning to human rights violations, he describes how Hamas uses child soldiers (<a href="https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/hamas-continues-recruiting-child-soldiers-so-where-is-the-condemnation-672163">here</a>). Hamas recruits and trains children in organized 'summer camps' to teach them how to kill and kidnap Israelis (ibid). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Teaching children these particular skills is a human rights crime. Doesn't matter. The world's "Progressive" news outlets apparently saw nothing wrong with this behavior. Not one of them condemned it (ibid).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Eid says that calling for <b>b</b>oycotts, <b>d</b>ivestment and <b>s</b>anctions (through the BDS movement) against Israel simply does <b>not</b> create positive change for Palestinians. It has the reverse effect. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The real anti-Palestinian culprits in the region, it would seem, is not Israel. Israel helps Palestinians. It hires some 100,000+ Palestinians each day. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Boycotting Israeli companies for political reasons does and has hurt Palestinian workers, not helped them (<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-sodastreams-move/">here</a>). </span><span style="font-family: arial;">For example, the company called, Sodastream, once had its main factory in what is called, the West Bank. It employed dozens, if not hundreds, of Palestinian workers--paying Israeli wages to them. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Compared to PA wages, these were excellent jobs for Palestinians. But the company was placed under intense pressure from the BDS movement --because the factory was located in the West Bank; an Israeli company in the West Bank is anathema to the Palestinian Cause. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">So pressured, Sodastream closed the factory. It moved to another, less controversial part of Israel. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The result? Dozens, perhaps hundreds of Palestinians, lost their jobs. No "Progressive" company anywhere in the world offered to open a similarly-paying factory for the displaced employees. Not one. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">These Palestinian employees were out of luck. They were hurt by their "Progressive" friends, not helped. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">To borrow a phrase from someone else (writing about another topic), I can confidently--if indiscreetly--suggest to you that PA leader Mahmoud Abbas has "a long history of incompetence, nepotism, mismanagement and corruption" (<a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/07/01/does-the-new-york-city-election-fiasco-prove-trump-right-n1458852">here</a>). <span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> In fact (in my opinion), Abbas's political behavior vis-a-vis Israel has for years demonstrated that he is nothing more than a diplomatic version of a (proverbial) bomb-throwing, feces-flinging, Jew-hating hysteric </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">(paraphrased and borrowed from </span><a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/07/01/aoc-claims-some-gop-members-were-in-on-the-capitol-riot-n1458786">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">This truth about Mahmoud Abbas is no secret. We even saw yet another example of this recently (<a href="https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17533/palestinian-leaders-inciting-violence">here</a>). </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial;">When things in the PA get too quiet, or when anti-Abbas sentiment rises too high, Abbas can be counted upon to stir </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial;">his Israel-hate 'pot'. He smears Israel--and expects the chatter he creates to change the political atmosphere in the PA from an anti-Abbas climate to an anti-Israel climate. His anti-Israelism seems at times such as these more cynical than real. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">For anyone in the West to support such a political monster suggests either a kind of willful political blindness that comes from an inbred Jew-hate--or, perhaps, from plain stupidity instead. I</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial;">n either case, any suggestion that Abbas is a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial;"> leader qualified to lead <i>anybody</i> to help his own people should be disregarded out-of-hand. Bassam Eid's essays simply opens the door a little wider to this horrific revelation. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">You can see more of Mr Eid's views on the truth about both the PA and Hamas <a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/abbas-dismantles-palestinian-democracy/">here</a>, <a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/this-has-nothing-to-do-with-sheikh-jarrah/">here</a>, <a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israel-is-not-an-apartheid-state-3/">here</a> and <a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/free-the-palestinians-from-hamas/">here</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Mahmoud Abbas receives billions of US dollars and Euros from donors in the EU and elsewhere, to do what? To line his own pockets as the PA itself turns into a living hell for his people (<a href="https://www.jpost.com/opinion/no-holds-barred-the-10-year-klepto-dictatorship-of-mahmoud-abbas-386752">here</a>)? Or, to buy his own 50-million dollar 737 (or equivalent) private jet while Palestinian children threaten to starve (</span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/amid-funding-cut-fears-pa-purchases-50-million-private-jet-for-abbas-report/">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">)? </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Abbas cries to the world about those "Apartheid Israelis", and attracts <i>billions</i> in annual donations so he can 'help' his people. But he uses these donations first to pay Jew-killers a life-time monthly income (his pay-to-slay program)--and then splurges on some 50 million-dollar private jet?</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Abbas validates the dirty, corrupt truth about himself each and every year with some outrageous action or other. How do the "Progressives" of the world react? They react by gathering at his door with smiles, cheers and accolades--while a neglected PA economy collapses into an economic sh**hole.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Bassam Eid is correct. People like Omar Illhan, Rashida Tlaib, et al ("Progressives" all) don't know a single thing about Palestinian life under Abbas. Here's a question: is calling out these "Progressives" for their ignorance the same thing as calling them 'cruel liars who hurt the very people they say they want to help'? </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I think so. What do you think?</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">More important, if these "Progressives" actually hurt the people they say they want to help, what do you think is their <b>real</b> purpose--to help Palestinians, or to destroy them? </span></p>Tuviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09258309790095578616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570972496352259896.post-57417621918399339042021-06-30T12:32:00.001-04:002021-07-04T09:09:32.851-04:00Palestinians are oppressed, right? Who oppresses them? The Jews--or Progressives?<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The anti-Israel drumbeat doesn't wane. If anything, it grows stronger. It pops up continuously like teenage acne. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">It's a scourge. It scars its advocates with hate.<br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">So far in 2021 alone, anti-Zionism, anti-Semitism and anti-Jew rhetoric appear to have risen to historic heights (see <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/05/17/europes-worrying-surge-antisemitism">here</a> and <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/fact-sheets/antisemitic-incidents-at-anti-israel-events-and-actions-around-the-world">here</a>). Even the anti-Israel Human Rights Watch has become concerned at the level of Jew-hate in the US (<a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/06/22/spate-antisemitic-attacks-us-during-recent-mideast-tensions">here</a>). The <i>jerusalempost</i> seems indeed correct to suggest that global anti-Semitism is expected to jump dramatically this year (<a href="https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/diaspora-affairs-ministry-increase-in-antisemitism-is-expected-for-2021-656508">here</a>).</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Just today, June 30, 2021, a report has surfaced that the UK now experiences the highest number of anti-Semitic incidents on record (<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/06/30/uk-jews-under-assault-highest-number-of-antisemitic-incidents-since-records-began/">here</a>). In the US, anti-Semitic attacks are considered to be persistent--and worsening (<a href="https://www.ajc.org/news/AntisemitismReport2020/the-state-of-antisemitism-in-america-2020-insights-and-analysis">here</a>). In Europe, a "<i>surging"</i> anti-Semitism provokes concern for many (<a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/05/17/europes-worrying-surge-antisemitism">here</a>).</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Make no mistake. Jews everywhere are under assault.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In many of the anti-Jew incidents reported in the media this year (<a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/fact-sheets/antisemitic-incidents-at-anti-israel-events-and-actions-around-the-world">here</a>), Israel has been the trigger for much of the anti-Jew rhetoric we see. It is <i>Israel</i> that triggers rally expressions of violence, not "Jews". </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">No longer is it the <i>Jew</i> who must be driven off in order for a community to feel safe or pure or wholesome. It is I<i>srael</i> that must be driven off to make the world safer or purer or more wholesome. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This idea is, of course, nonsense. If anything, Israeli high-tech advances have been one of the main reasons the world has become safer and healthier. Israel has become the fabled 'start-up' nation--the smallest nation in the world to enhance at such a high level our daily lives. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Though tiny, Israel has successfully developed new technologies for everything from cell phones to autos, medicine and even water resources for nations literally dying of thirst. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Israel is one of the world's leaders in high tech. In the world of high tech, Israel's "punch" is far, far greater than its tiny size. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Israel and the Palestinians play on the same geographic stage. They are neighbors. We know what Israel has done. It has become a science powerhouse. What have the Palestinians done? Nothing.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Curiously, according to a spreading international rage, it seems that the more Israel brings high tech miracles to the world, the more it is demonized by an evil intent--to destroy the Jewish state simply because it is <i>Jewish</i>. That is what we have seen this year. Israel is evil because it is <i>Je</i></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>wish</i>!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So far as much of the world is now concerned, the 'Jew-Israel'--despite its passing the tests to be named the only democracy in the Middle East--</span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">has become the world's worst human rights violator. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It is impossible to be termed a democracy and also at the same time to be called the world's worst human rights violator. Yet for many, Israel is both. Israel </span><i style="font-family: arial;">is</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> the new Nazi Germany. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><i style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">You</i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">might not know this epithet has been attached to Israel. But the world's "Progressives" know it. They believe it. They promote it. They teach it at almost all the West's colleges and universities. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"Progressives" don't just teach their anti-Israelism/anti-Jew beliefs. They <i>ind</i></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>octrina</i></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>te</i> their students with their anti-Jew/anti-Israel lies. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Today, this is easy to do. Better than 90% of today's college/universities are now staffed by "Progressives"--and by those now too afraid to stand up to "Progressives".</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> T</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">he "Progressive" anti-Jew/anti-Israel political agenda appears to have become academia's <i>education</i> agenda.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Therefore, some form of Jew-hate will now be taught to your children and grandchildren when they go to college. Today, learning Jew-hate is what it means to be called, 'educated'.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Here's a "Progressive's" poster that tells an interesting story. Take a look </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">(</span><a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/08/poster-look-how-progressive-palestine-is.html" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">from here</a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">): </span></div><div>
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<br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In this poster, you see what kind of lives Palestinians lead in the Palestinian Authority (PA) and in Gaza. They live under a dictator's thumb. They live in fear. They have few--if any--freedoms. Helping to improve the lives of Palestinians certainly should be a "Progressive" Cause.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">But it isn't. The plight of Palestinians will not be relieved precisely because "Progressives" control the narrative about Palestinians. "Progressives" do not work to alleviate Palestinian suffering. Instead,"Progressives" are not very progressive at all. They have a different goal: to proclaim that crimes against Palestinians are all Israel's fault because Palestinians do no wrong.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Naturally, you may not believe that it is <i>Palestinians</i> who are guilty of the crimes listed in this poster. You may well believe what "Progressives" say--that it is Israel who is guilty of these crimes. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Well, if you believe that, congratulations. Your anti-Jew/anti-Israel indoctrination training has been successful. Very successful.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">But it's not Israel which commits the crimes listed in this poster. It's the Palestinians themselves who commit these crimes--against their own people.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Want the truth? Just look at the Palestinian Authority's (PA) track record of offenses against its own people:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">--No real freedom of speech or freedom of the press (<a href="https://jij.org/news/lack-freedom-expression-press-palestinian-authority-hamas/">here</a>, <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/middle-east-and-north-africa/palestine-state-of/report-palestine-state-of/">here</a> and <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/BJMbAdPhd">here</a>). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">--Gay rights: the PA has outright banned gays (<a href="http://nytimes.com/2019/08/19/world/middleeast/palestinian-gay-tansgender-rights-group.html">here</a>). In both the PA and Gaza, gays are being arrested, jailed without trial and even executed (at least in Gaza, but possibly also in the PA) just because they are gay (see a 2-minute video by the Israeli NGO Shurat HaDin <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr5jYbMeEwQ">here</a>; and <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/.premium.MAGAZINE-what-it-s-like-to-be-a-gay-man-in-gaza-1.5843268">here</a>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">-While "Progressive" media has lots to say about allegations of Israelis torturing Palestinians in Israeli prisons (which may or not be true), no "Progressive" news outlet will tell you about Palestinians being tortured in the PA <i>by</i> PA Security forces. "Progressives" want you to believe only one thing: it is <i>Israel</i> that tortures Palestinians. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Nevertheless, i</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">n the PA and in Gaza, where rule is maintained by just two authorities (Fatah in the PA; Hamas in Gaza), there is only <i>one</i> way to speak or to think--and zero dissent allowed (<a href="https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/10/23/two-authorities-one-way-zero-dissent/arbitrary-arrest-and-torture-under">here</a>). Both Fatah and Hamas "</span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">have established machineries of repression to crush dissent, including through the use of torture" (<a href="https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/10/23/two-authorities-one-way-zero-dissent/arbitrary-arrest-and-torture-under">ibid</a>).</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">--Palestinian Christians are actively persecuted and harassed in the PA <i>by</i> the PA. Too often, when Christians are attacked in the PA, PA security forces will <i>not</i> intervene, leaving these Christians terrified--or worse (<a href="https://besacenter.org/persecution-christians-palestinian-authority/">here</a>);</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">-The PA offers little-to-no protection for women in the PA (<a href="https://www.fmreview.org/sites/fmr/files/FMRdownloads/en/sexualviolence/fmreditors.pdf">here</a>);</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">--Honor killings and the abuse of women in the PA has reached such a high level that Palestinians are outraged (<a href="https://www.dw.com/en/palestinian-honor-killing-sparks-outrage-calls-for-womens-protection/a-50265088">here</a>). But PA officials do little to address this issue. <br /><br /><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: arial;">Naturally, if you are yourself a Social Justice Warrior, such a poster should, in theory, speak to you. After all, it suggests how, in 'Palestine', Palestinians face oppression. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">That's what you fight against, right? It's what you want to fix, right? It's why you--or your children--go to anti-Israel rallies, right?</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Unfortunately, too many well-meaning Jews (and non-Jews) do not understand the first thing about the lies generated to demonize Israel--and to exonerate Palestinian crimes. Too many simply accept as gos</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">pel what "Progressives" tell them. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">By believing lies about Israel--and with those lies, protecting PA criminals--</span><span style="font-family: arial;">these well-meaning individuals who support the "Progressive" narrative against Israel actually end up</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> hurting Palestinians, not helping them. They end up protecting the abusers. They</span><b style="font-family: arial;"> </b><span style="font-family: arial;">shield the Palestinians who kill their own. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">They</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> hurt the innocents by supporting and honoring their Palestinian oppressors. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Eighty years ago, the silence heard across America about the evils of an unfolding European Holocaust helped Nazis to exterminate 6 million Jews. Few from America complained about what Hitler was doing to Europe's Jews, so of course Hitler felt perfectly comfortable he could proceed as he pleased with his 'Final Solution' program.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Today, America's (and Europe's) silence in the face of rabid Jew-hate only thinly disguised as 'anti-Zionism', does the same thing--it abets the PA's drive to exterminate Israel. It helps to bring the Palestinian dream of wiping Israel off the face of the earth closer to </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">reality. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Here's the dirtiest truth of all: the only people in the Middle East who actually care about Palestinians are the Jews.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Only the Jews give Palestinians jobs with decent benefits. Only the Jews take into their own hospitals Palestinians who need cutting edge medical assistance. Only Jews give Palestinians a chance to enter almost any field of endeavor. Only the Jews give Palestinians who commit to Israel a chance to vote far more often than once every fifteen+ years. Only the Jewish Israel gives Palestinians the right to sue other Palestinians in Israeli courts in order to seek justice for Palestinian crimes. Only the Jews allo</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">w Palestinian the right move freely within large Israeli cities.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> Few if any Israelis are granted these same rights within the PA. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Listen: the Palestinian people are oppressed, all right. But not by Israel. Until the world wakes up to this horror, Palestinians will continue to be condemned to suffer--and to die.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Is that the true goal "Progressives" are after? Is that <i>your</i> goal?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><br /></div></div>Tuviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09258309790095578616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570972496352259896.post-34751828610707396802021-06-21T14:11:00.005-04:002021-06-22T02:48:31.243-04:00What does Netanyahu-bashing say about Israel's political discourse?<p> (Last update: June 22, 2021)</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Within a single 19-hour news cycle this week, two attacks on former Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu splashed across Israel's news horizon. These attacks may be instructive. They may indicate that, as long as Netanyahu has any political life potential whatsoever, he will continue to be bashed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The first of these two attacks came from within Netanyahu's own Party, Likud. Currently, Netanyahu is head of Likud. But now, he has a serious challenger in Likud's Yuli Edelstein.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">On Sunday night, June 19, 2021, Edelstein, seeking to win an internal Likud vote to depose Netanyahu, accused Netanyahu of having made "every possible mistake" while losing the Premiership (<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/308419">here</a> and <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/gunning-for-netanyahu-edelstein-said-to-accuse-him-of-all-possible-mistakes/">here</a>). But this accusation was just that--an accusation. It seemed more overreach than precise.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Netanyahu did not lose his command of the Premiership because he made "<i>every possible</i> mistake". That is too big an accusation. Netanyahu lost because the entire nation was trying to survive an unprecedented four-elections-in-less-than-two years-nightmare to elect a new Prime Minister. The entire nation was in uncharted waters. No one in Israel knew the 'right' formula to win. No one. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I doubt that a fair assessment of Netanyahu's failure to create a coalition government can be made with the statement that Netanyahu made 'every' possible mistake in his loss. But certainly, a <i>biased </i>and <i>unfair </i>conclusion can be made.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Edelstein wants to lead Likud. By his own admission, he wants to 'win'. Clearly, he seems willing to do 'whatever it takes' to accomplish that goal. He will bash the boss (Netanyahu) to depose the boss.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Does Edelstein believe that the 'ends justify the means'? This saying suggests that, so long as an action accomplishes a desired goal, virtually <i>any</i> action that gets that job done will be termed, 'good'.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">For a Machiavellian politician, the achieving of a desired outcome--no matter how unethical--will <i>always</i> justify the means. But then, Machiavelli has never been known for his ethical behavior. He is instead known more for ruthlessness than morality. A politician who might use a 'Machiavellian' tactic will not win any awards for moral behavior. But he could win his political fight. That seems to be what Edelstein does.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Therefore, if an Israeli politician--Edelstein--wants to push out Netanyahu, and a Machiavellian approach would work, what else would he say to help dislodge Netanyahu? Would he tell Likud members how wonderful Netanyahu was? Of course not.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Instead, a ruthless Machiavellian politician--Edelstein?--might choose to employ an ethically slippery accusation (one that is possibly or probably false) to motivate Likud members to </span><span style="font-family: arial;">turn out Netanyahu. Is this what Edelstein has done?</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Some in Israel will say yes, this is exactly what Edelstein has done. They might even say Edelstein has used an ethically questionable argument. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Others, however, will disagree. They say, nothing wrong here; Edelstein is correct, for that is exactly what Netanyahu did when he lost. He made only mistakes; he made <i>every possible </i>mistake.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Still, is bashing your opponent the best way to win? For too many in Israel, it is.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The second attack against Netanyahu may have been more sophisticated than Edelstein's. This second attack came in the form of a comment that, shrewedly, <i>seemed</i> to attack Netanyahu, but only subtly. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">On June 20, 2021, newly appointed Foreign Minister Yair Lapid declared that, as the new government began the process of taking over different Ministries, "The destruction and damage we found in government ministries is inconceivable. We are not starting from scratch, but from minus" (<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/544448">here</a>). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Since Netanyahu was the Prime Minister over these Ministries, Lapid's implied allegation was, 'look at the havoc this man--Netanyahnu--brought to the government! He had created a mess so awful it will take a very long time to clean up.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There's just one problem with this accusation. It is too unfocused to be meaningful. You see, many of the Ministries during this last government were not controlled by Netanyahu's Likud Party. Yes, in the 16 (of the proposed 35) Ministries that were controlled by Likud (<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-34-ministers-of-israels-35th-government/">here</a>), such a claim by Lapid could be correct, depending upon the details of the 'mess' Lapid sa</span><span style="font-family: arial;">id had been found. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">But in the 19 Ministries <i>not</i> controlled by Likud (<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-34-ministers-of-israels-35th-government/">ibid</a>), Netanyahu had little-to-no control. That control had been granted to the political Party to whom those Ministries were given. Placing the blame on Netanyahu for any mess in <i>these</i> 19 Ministries might be construed as a lie.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In Israel, after an election, as in other democracies, the winning Party gets to take over government Ministries. But unlike some other democracies, in Israel, Ministries do not all go to the one winning Party. For in Israel, t</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">o form a 'government', a winning Party must recruit other, rival Parties to join the winner in a 'coalition'. T</span><span style="font-family: arial;">he winner must offer 'spoils' to these rival Parties--to entice then to work with (and not against) the newly elected PM. These 'spoils' typically come in the form of handing out control over one or more government Ministries. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Once a rival Party is assigned control of a Ministry, the Party that rules the Prime Minister's office can lose a greater or lesser amount of control over that specific </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Ministry. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">If the government Ministries referred to by Lapid were <i>not</i> controlled by Likud appointees, then Netanyahu cannot entirely be blamed for the mess created there. That blame should go more directly to the political Party that controlled that--or those--Ministries.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In the last government, 19 of the government's 35 Ministries had--by political agreement--to be filled by other Parties, including a second-best 12 Ministries to be controlled by Benny Gantz's Blue-White Party. Given how Israel's political system works, some of the failed Ministries might not have been controlled by the Prime Minister. Because Gantz controlled so many Ministries, some of the failed Ministries could have been his responsibility. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Therefore the question is, which Ministries was Lapid referring to--Ministries run by Likud, or by other Parties? Lapid's vagueness creates questions, not answers. His implied accusation becomes--because of vagueness--irrelevant. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I believe the purpose of Lapid's claim was not to accuse anyone. I think its intent was to suggest that the supposed 'great' Netanyahu not only turns out to have had feet of clay, but feet of an incompetent clod, as well. For Lapid, a vague, unspecified report or claim works to make this </span><i style="font-family: arial;">suggestion </i><span style="font-family: arial;">without being specific enough to run the risk of being branded a liar. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Right now, these two Netanyahu-bashing suggestions (by Edelstein and Lapid) that have appeared in the same 19-hour news cycle are important only because they reveal the low level of political discourse in Israel today. Unfortunately, that level is very low. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Netanyahu-bashing lives on even after his 'defeat'. For Israel, the dirty truth about the nation's political stage is that politicians here will bash the former PM for as long as the bashing gets headlines. As soon as those headlines stop, the bashing will stop. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This bashing hurts Israel. It sullies our reputation. It pushes political discourse into the gutter. The gutter seems too, too familiar to Israeli politicians. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Really, now, is this the <i>best</i> Israel can do on its political stage?</span></p>Tuviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09258309790095578616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570972496352259896.post-83646169834088624642021-06-18T07:04:00.002-04:002021-06-18T07:04:41.388-04:00Cracks in the new Bennett-Lapid coalition<p> </p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">After just four days of existence, the Bennett-Lapid coalition government has already developed some potentially serious disagreements. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">These disagreements represent cracks in the superstructure of the new coalition. These cracks could lead to the collapse of the coalition.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">As you will see in a moment, these cracks begin with a simple 'technical' issue. But these cracks are not limited to 'technical' issues; and that's the problem. These cracks are systemic.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The first 'crack' involves the size of the coalition. This 'unity' coalition controls (in theory) the bare minimum of Knesset seats to be called a 'government'. In practical terms, this means the coalition 'controls' just 61 seats of the 120-seat Knesset. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">61 is a 'majority' of 120.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> This should suggest that the coalition can, in theory at least, still get its legislative agenda passed--but only if all of the political 'stars' align exactly.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">For this coalition, that will be a tall order. A bare-minimum majority means that, again in theory, a <i>single</i> coalition MK (Member of the Knesset) who is a part of the coalition but who nonetheless refuses to vote in the Knesset with the coalition's dictates, could leave the coalition with just 60 seats for any given vote. A coalition with 60 seats does not have a Knesset majority--which in turn suggests that, in theory, the coalition lacks the power to fulfill its legislative agenda. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">That's the problem. Without a dependably compliant majority, the government could end up unable to pass any legislation. It would be a frozen government. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Now all of this is <i>theory</i> because the Knesset does not always meet with all its 120 seats occupied. Sometimes MKs are absent. Sometimes an MK abstains--is present but does not vote. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The impact of this practical reality is simple: if the coalition can muster only 59 votes for a bill but---because of absentees and/or abstainees--the opposition is able to muster only 58 votes, then the coalition will not need 61 votes to prevail. That is, in this scenario, the final vote could be 58 votes for the coalition and just 57 votes against. At least, that's what I understand from what I have read. The coalition's legislative agenda could be saved.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">These Knesset voting considerations might be doable for skilled leaders, if there are no other problems. But with this coalition, problems are everywhere.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">For example, during the coalition's <i>first four days</i> of existence, two coalition MKs threw a monkey wrench into the 'works'. They declared they will not necessarily vote according to the wishes of their Party leaders (<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307954">here</a> and <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/308245">here</a>). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Sure, such declarations of 'independence' happen in Israel's Knesset all the time. Mks do, sometimes, vote their conscience despite what their leaders want. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span>Nevertheless, here's the operational problem--and why these two MKS create a serious crack in the coalition. If a coalition had a total of, say, <i>66</i> seats (not 61), as many as five 'defections' on any particular vote could be meaningless because the coalition will still be able to bring 61 seats--a majority--to a Knesset vote (66-5=61). But if the coalition has only 61 seats, as is the case with this coalition, the coalition will lose its majority when only </span><i>one</i><span> Mk 'defects'. If two or more MK 'defect' or are absent, the coalition could fail to achieve any number of its goals on its legislative agenda.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Just days old, this coalition is in trouble. There is no cushion. The coalition majority margin really is razor thin. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">With two coalition MKs already asserting their 'independence' so early in the coalition's life, all of Israel now realizes that there is no wiggle room in this coalition to offset the impact of <i>any</i> non-supportive coalition MKs--on <i>any</i> vote. To succeed, the coalition has to make sure that e<i>veryone</i> in the coalition must vote according to the coalition's desires. For a country like Israel, which is so fractious, argumentative and stubborn, getting 100% obedience for any Knesset vote would be a challenge in any case. But with two MKs already showing 'independence,' are we to conclude that maintaining its 61-seat majority will be an impossibility for this coalition? That could happen.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This reality has practical consequences for the <br />Bennett-Lapid coalition because just days into its existence, the coalition has also begun to show <i>additional</i> signs of cracking. Yes, some of these additional cracks do not seem fatal. But they are still disturbing. Taken together, they threaten the coalition's very survival.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">These additional cracks are not technical or 'procedural'. They are more serious. They speak directly to irreconcilable ideological differences that exist between Parties in this politically ill-begotten coalition. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The three additional cracks are: (1) the issue of how to address what some Arabs in Israel call a 'historical injustice' against them; (2) the issue of legitimizing currently illegal Bedouin settlements in the Negev; and (3) the coalition desire to <i>extend</i> (that is, renew) a current law that prevents Arabs who are married, but currently separated by the de facto border between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), from 'reuniting' in Israel (see below). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">These three additional cracks first began to appear on June 15th, the second full day of the coalition. That was when coalition member Mansour Abbas (head of the Arab-Islamist Ra'am Party) announced that, during his tenure in the coalition, he will commit to fixing the "historical injustice" Arabs in Israel suffer (<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/308102">here</a>). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The phrase 'historical injustice' is not an Israel-friendly term. It is a kind of code-word for anti-Israel Islamists and their supporters. It is commonly used as a cudgel to demonize and/or agitate against Israel. It is not generally used in the frequently collegial corridors of an Israeli ruling coalition. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Indeed, at first, Mansour Abbas's use of the phrase did not cause much comment. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">But that changed two days later.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span>What changed was, after Abbas made his statement about those 'historical injustices', an Arab Imam in the Israeli city of Lod was arrested by Israeli police for inciting violence. </span><span>What did this Imam do to deserve getting arrested? He apparently 'clarified' for his internet followers what Mansour Abbas must have meant when he had spoken of "addressing" the 'historical injustice against Arabs'. The Imam had posted a video on the internet saying </span><i>this </i><span>is how to fix those injustices. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">What did his '<i>this</i>' refer to? It referred to what some Israeli Arabs feel is 'the right thing to do'. It referred to a video the Imam had himself posted showing the brutal murder of two Israeli police officers, with an accompanying caption that said, "Be with me. [this is] The best way to deal with injustice" (<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/308254">here</a>). He was arrested for inciting violence against the police.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This kind of anti-Israel outrage is not unusual for Israel. Too often, when an Arab politician calls to deal with some kind of 'injustice' committed--or allegedly committed--against the Israeli-Arab community, it is followed by words of a more radically anti-Jew Arab--who, typically, calls to kill or to attack Jews. Sometimes, such calls for violence have been suggested by the same Arab politician who made the accusation of 'injustice'. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Public calls by Islamists for violence against Jews in Israel happen. Such calls are part of Israel's democratic culture, one that grants to Arabs in Israel far more freedom than Arabs get in any Arab country in the Middle East. Too often, that freedom leads to violence.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In the Middle East, perception is everything, and the Islamist Mansour Abbas' presence in the coalition--and his use of the phrase 'historical injustices'--was immediately associated with the Imam's call to violence. That association could be, perhaps, just an unintended consequence of an Arab politician echoing Muslim attitudes towards Israel. But whatever its motivation, those words nonetheless left in many Israeli 'mouths' a bad taste for what the coalition might have done to Israel by including an Islamist in the coalition in the first place. That bad taste could threaten the coalition. It could destroy the public's confidence in the coalition. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The second of these three additional cracks showing up in the coalition's first week of existence involved the question of legitimizing currently illegal Bedouin settlements in the Negev. Over the course of Israel's 73-year history, Israelis have fought and died trying to defend literally every inch of Jewish land in Israel. They do not want those bloody battles to be forsworn. They do not want Jewish-owned land to be given away. Nor do they want to give a soapbox to Israel-hating Islamists who will encourage Arabs to take over Jewish land. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Of course, some call this Jewish reluctance to give up land 'Jewish racism'. But many Israelis beg to differ. They see such calls by Arabs instead as an example of <i>Arab</i> racism against Jews--for these Arab claims over Jewish land are usually followed by Arabs then claiming the disputed land as <i>their</i> land. Following <i>these</i> claims, Jews are called upon to get out!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">That is where the Arab racism shows up: get out, Jew!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> Israelis feel it. They feel the threat of it. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">With this coalition just days old, Mansour Abbas of the Arab-Islamist Ra'am Party stepped up to a microphone and did nothing to allay these Jewish land fears. Instead, he fed these fears by suggesting clearly that he will not support the Bennett-Lapid coalition, and <i>will </i>work against the coalition if Israel takes <i>no</i> steps to recognize and legitimize Arab Bedouin villages in the Negev. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This threat was not good news for coalition stability. This coalition could truly crack apart because Israelis are really sensitive about how believers in Islam use language in Israel's political sphere. They have good reason to believe that Islamists shape political language in Israel to smear Israel, to demonize Israel and to question Israel's existence and its national rights.Therefore, i</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">f this leader of the Ra'am Party makes what many perceive to be an anti-Israel demand regarding Bedouin land in the Negev, that demand doesn't just threaten to destabilize the coalition. It threatens to blow up the coalition. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The third additional crack (for a total of four for the coalition's first week) appeared when coalition member Meretz Party announced it would <i>not</i> support the coalition's call to renew an Israeli law that prevents married couples separated by the de facto border between Israel and the PA from reuniting in Israel (<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/308272">here</a>). This Party (Meretz) objected to the coalition's desire to extend this law. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span>By the way, the reason for this current law to exist in the first place has nothing to do with what some call, racism. The reason for the law is to prevent fictitious marriages. It is to prohibit the State from allowing anti-Israel Arab activists who live in the PA to </span><span>enter into a fraudulent marriage with an Arab-Israeli just to receive a free pass to enter Israel (as a wife reunifying with her husband--or a husband to reunify with his wife), no questions asked (</span><a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/308272">here</a><span>). </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Some in the coalition see this existing law as a security issue, to keep Israel safe (<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/308283">here</a>). Indeed, given the PA's open and public hostility to Israel's right to exist, to say nothing of the wars Israel must fight every few years against Palestinian Jew-hate, wanting to renew this law is certainly reasonable. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Others in the coalition--including Mansour Abbas of the Ra'am Party and now Meretz--oppose renewing this law. Apparently, they do not want to block PA Arabs from living in Israel. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Without the votes of Meretz and Ra'am, this part of the coalition political agenda will fail. Failure is never a good start for any coalition.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Goodness. When Bennett agreed to create a 'unity' government, he did so saying specifically he wanted to end the political 'chaos' in Israel. But Bennett did not end chaos. He has simply introduced into Israel a different kind of political chaos. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The ink on this government coalition isn't even dry yet. The coalition's first week hasn't even ended yet--and all we can see are these cracks showing up? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This does not bode well for Bennett. My guess is, this coalition is on very, very thin ice. Will it last?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span>Not at this rate, it won't.</span>.</span></p><p style="direction: rtl;"><br /></p>Tuviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09258309790095578616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570972496352259896.post-44200833967715763912021-06-10T13:36:00.007-04:002021-06-16T12:50:59.763-04:00In Israel, Democracy is out. The will of the elite class is in<p> </p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">As perhaps you already know, Israel's March 23, 2021 election has--in theory, at least--moved Israel further to the political Right. For example, in the still-current Gantz-Netanyahu 'unity' government, Israel's political Right holds 65 seats in the Knesset. But in the new-incoming Knesset, the political Right in Israel will hold 72 seats (of 120 total seats). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Since most Israeli voters already </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">lean to the political Right, such vote results as described above represent an accurate reflection of Israel's voter preferences: this nation not only leans to the political Right, it also wants a <i>government </i>that will lean<i> </i>more to the Right.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This seemingly perfect match of voter preference with election results suggests that if you supported Israel's Right in the last two elections, you'd expect to be happy today. After all, Israel's newly-<i>selected</i> (not elected) Prime Minister (Naftali Bennett) has already claimed he is more Right-leaning than Netanyahu. That's what voters voted for, right?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Ahh, democracy. This is exactly what democracy is about--giving the voter the power to select which direction the country should go. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Yes, Israelis went to the polls a little more than two-and-a-half months ago. They expressed their political preferences. They voted 'Right'--and that is what they got, right?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Not really. The voters certainly chose in which political direction they want the country to go. But a</span><span style="font-family: arial;">fter Israel's self-appointed elite class (that is, Israel's politicians and media leaders) rolled up its sleeves, the voters ended up choosing <i>nothing</i>.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> They will<i> get</i> nothing. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">You see, Israel's new government will <i>not</i> be Right-wing. Instead, if everything goes as planned between today and June 14th (the day the coalition is scheduled to 'go live'), Israel's new government will <i>say</i> it is Right but it will look, smell and act Leftist. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Specifically, here are the numbers. If you support the Right in Israel, you can read these numbers and weep. If you support the Left, you can read these numbers and cheer. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The political Parties within this new 'unity' government represent 61 seats (the minimum for a Knesset majority) made up of eight political Parties (plus one Arab-Islamist Party): Yesh Atid (17 seats); Blue and White (8 seats); Labor (7 seats); Meretz (6 seats); and the Arab-Islamist Ra'am Party (4 seats). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">These Center- and Left-leaning (or, purely Leftist) Parties add up to 42 of the coalition's 61 seats. They have a majority in the coalition. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In theory, there will also be four Right- or Right-leaning Parties: Yamina (6 seats); Israel Beiteinu (7 seats); and New Hope (6 seats). But on matters of settlements, sovereignty, the two-state solution, gay rights, how Israel handles the prospect of being placed on trial at the International Criminal court (ICC)--to say nothing about the question of religion in Israel--the Israel Beiteinu Party may in fact vote Left. This means that, for some of Israel's most important Jewish issues, the Right could really have only 12 of the coalition's 61 seats. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Note: for accuracy purposes, the Arab-Islamist Party is counted as part of the coalition. But it is--in theory, at least--not supposed to be part of coalition decision-making. It will no doubt be expected to vote <i>in the Knesset </i>with the Left side of the coalition.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">A political imbalance in the coalition that favors the Left does not portend well for Israel's political Right. In fact, t</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">his imbalance will spell disaster for Israel's political Right. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There will clearly be more than enough non-Right votes in the coalition to out-vote </span><i style="font-family: arial;">every</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> idea that is important to the political Right. The coalition will also have too many non-Right votes for the Right to control </span><i style="font-family: arial;">anything</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> in the coalition. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Yes, there is supposed to be a mechanism in place for the coalition to counter-balance such a Leftist overweighting, but it isn't entirely clear how exactly that would work. Worse, this counter-balance idea, while mentioned in the news, appears to have disappeared from public statements by coalition leaders--suggesting yet another unpleasant sign for the Right's prospects.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">So far, in public, Israel's elite has indeed proclaimed that Israel has 'unity'--you know, like these elite influencers did last year for the Gantz-Netanyahu fiasco. Really now, we have just seen the still-current Gantz-Netanyahu 'unity' coalition blow up. Why would a more fractured, politically irreconcilable and more non-Right version of 'unity' be better for Israel's voters?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">It won't be. Many in Israel give this coalition little more than six months before we head again to new elections. Is Israel's near-term future destined to fail, not succeed? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Apparently, Israel's elites do not care. They dismiss the voters' voice. They dismiss the supposed reality of the Knesset's make-up (more Right than Left). They ignore the real danger of a dysfunctional coalition actually provoking more Arab anti-Jew riots and attacks, just as similar kinds of Israeli hesitation or weakness has in the past. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Israel's elite class wants only two things; that Israel becomes less religious while Arabs become more influential. Despite what voters have voted for, Israel's elite want a more Progressive Israel, not a more politically Conservative Israel. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The 'unity' desired by Israel's elite does not promise to unify anything or anyone. It will <i>disconnect </i>voters<i> </i>from Israel's political and ideological identity. It will provoke such ruptures between Left and Right and Arab versus Jew as to threaten to tear Israel apart from the inside. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Insanely, Israel's elite really believes this new 'unity' government will heal the nation (<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-netanyahu-a-chance-for-a-government-of-national-healing/">here</a>). It will not. When </span><span style="font-family: arial;">the elite rule supreme over voters, Israel will always be harmed--and this 'unity' arrangement is no exception. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Like it or not, Israel is turning Left. Like it or not, this 'unity' coalition will mean that Israel will face </span><i style="font-family: arial;">enhanced </i><span style="font-family: arial;">existential threats, not enhanced prospects of peace or tranquility. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In fact, t</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">his 'unity' deal is so suspicious, none of the coalition's agreements have been revealed. This means that no one knows what promises Lapid and Bennett made to convince the political Parties in the coalition to join the coalition (</span><a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/netanyahus-final-days-last-weekend-at-balfour-or-last-minute-surprise-670667" style="font-family: arial;">here</a><span style="font-family: arial;">). If this 'unity' is going to be healing, why such secrecy around those promises? How many acts of corruption and political betrayal have been committed to secure this coalition? We do not know. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is not democracy in action. It is more like political suicide in the making. Secrecy is not a hallmark of democracy. It is, however, a hallmark of the betrayal of democracy.</span></span></p><p style="direction: rtl;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"> For Israel, democracy has been thrown out. Democracy has been replaced by the rule-of-the-elite </span></span></p><p style="direction: rtl;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Stay</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> tuned</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">. We have not seen the last of Israel's political madness </span></p>Tuviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09258309790095578616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570972496352259896.post-20983466444917083482021-06-03T13:25:00.006-04:002021-06-04T08:52:10.744-04:00Israel's media celebrates that Israel has a new government. But did you know this government could collapse before it is sworn in? <p> </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">After more than two years of confusion, anger and uncertainty, not to mention four elections, Israel believes it has finally found what it has been looking for--a new Prime Minister. Just minutes before the final deadline to do so, politicians Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid announced they were ready to create a new coalition government. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Under their arrangement, the Right-Wing Bennett will be PM for the government's first two years. The Center-Left Lapid will be Prime Minister for the government's last two years. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Following that announcement, there was singing and dancing in some of Israel's streets. Some happy Israelis were celebrating the apparent fact that the man they hated most--Benjamin Netanyahu--has finally been removed! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The celebrants were ecstatic that the "evil one"--that is, the one who was<b> the</b> hypocrite, <b>the</b> political traitor and <b>the</b> corrupt, immoral criminal ( the so-called 'Crime Minister' Netanyahu)--was really gone. Finally, the 'Crime Minister' would no longer darken Israel's proverbial political doorstep!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">They celebrated: three cheers for democracy! Three cheers for the triumph of Light over Darkness!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Hurray! Or, maybe not.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Despite all the media hoopla, all the dancing in the street and, most important, all the wishful thinking of Israel's Netanyahu-hating media, this 'new government' is not a done deal. Far from it. This deal will only become </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">real after it has been finalized by a vote of the Knesset sometime on or after June 7th--maybe. Until then, Netanyahu's political career remains alive. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Actually, until that vote, Netanyahu is still very much in the fight. Make no mistake. Israel's premier political infighter will fight to survive. The battle to replace him is not over.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This coalition has only 61 members, representing just 61 seats in the Knesset. It is the slimmest margin possible to create a ruling coalition in the 120-seat Knesset. One single defection from this 61-member coalition would kill the deal because a 60-seat coalition would have no majority in the 120-seat body. To control just 60 of 120 seats means you may not be able to pass any legislation. You won't have a 'majority'. In theory, the coalition deal would die before anyone would be sworn in.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Many in Israel soft-peddle the possibility that this new government could fail. Few in the media want to admit their dream of destroying Netanyahu might yet fail. They are desperate to see Netanyahu gone. They report what they wish to see happen, not what is really happening. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">That's not exactly professional reportage. Failure is surely a possibility here because this coalition is a monstrous creation. It will not be a stable government (<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307431">here</a>). It will be an incoherent government (ibid). Instead of unity, it brings together Parties so ideologically diverse that there's a real possibility nothing will ever be agreed upon--or get done. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If you thought the Netanyahu-Gantz unity government was a waste of time, think again. This new unity coalition could be ten times worse. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">There are little shared ideological beliefs within this coalition. Instead of creating a unified voice, it creates a confused mixture of Left, Center and Right ideologies. Indeed, the only shared belief is not even ideological. It is the belief that 'we all hate Netanyahu'. That's it. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">There is little else beyond that one belief. The ideologies of these Parties are simply too contrary, one to the other, to work together. The infighting within this coalition promises to be far worse than what was rumored to exist in the Netanyahu-Gantz coalition. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In addition, news outlets report that this will be the first coalition in nearly 50 years with real Arab representation in it. The Arab Party that is scheduled to enter the coalition will present real pressure from Israeli-Arabs to forward Arab beliefs and causes. Some of these beliefs and causes will not sit well with Israel's Right. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">But to survive, the coalition needs every one of those 61 members to agree on all agenda items. That will never happen.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Indeed, the Arabs themselves could collapse the coalition. They have already secured a promise from Yair Lapid that when they join the coalition there will </span><span style="font-family: arial;">be no movement to increase gay and lesbian rights in Israel. Now, reports arise to say that the Labor Party--a Leftist member of the coalition--will seek to promote one of its primary political agenda items: gay and lesbian rights. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">How is that going to work out? Well, right now, the Arabs in the coalition have received a promise that they will get more than 50 billion shekel for Arab-specific issues. That's a lot of money. 50 billion. Will they take that money and be silent about gay rights--or not? If not, the deal will be dead.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Certainly, Netanyahu is not finished fighting for his political career. He could prevail. Or, he could fail. The jury is still out. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Stay tuned. This drama has not ended.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div>Tuviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09258309790095578616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3570972496352259896.post-10432610483864013402021-05-27T06:32:00.006-04:002021-05-30T03:30:19.401-04:00The 2021 Gaza war: how an Israeli can earn the title of "useful idiot'<p>(Latest update: May 30, 2021) </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">On May 23, 2021, one of Israel's major news outlets,<i> timesofisrael, </i>published an op-ed piece by its Editor, David Horovitz. The first three words of this essay were, "Losing the war..." (</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/losing-the-war-the-rising-cost-of-israels-lapsed-support-for-2-state-solution/"><span style="font-size: large;">here</span></a></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">). </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Those three words tell us everything we need to know about Horovitz's opinion about the current status of the ongoing Arab-Israel conflict. Specifically, he believes that Israel will lose that war to the Palestinians--</span><span style="font-family: arial;">unless, that is, Israel makes some serious diplomatic and strategic 'accommodations'.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Horovitz's logic for this opinion is simple, as you'll see in a moment. But I will tell you, his logic appears both outrageously misguided and clearly wrong.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">He argues:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">-It simply doesn't matter that Hamas used its own civilian citizens in Gaza as human shields as it fired thousands of rockets indiscriminately at Israeli civilians;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">-it doesn't matter that Hamas doesn't seek<i> any</i> accommodation with Israel, but seeks instead Israel's complete destruction;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">-it doesn't matter that Israel had forced some 8,000 Israelis out of Gaza to give all of Gaza to Arabs as a 'gesture of peace' that has failed--because the Arabs who term themselves 'Palestinians" are not interested in any 'gestures of peace';</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">-it doesn't matter that, over the years, Israel has already offered to these 'Palestinians" almost all of Judea-Samaria, Israel's Biblical homeland--as a gesture of peace-because those offers have always been rejected by 'Palestinians';</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">-it doesn't matter that US President Bill Clinton "unerringly" identified Yasser Arafat as an "unreformed terrorist" who had <i>doomed</i> Israeli efforts to reach accommodation with these 'Palestinians';</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">-it doesn't matter that, in the wake of that failure, both Arafat and Hamas started a "onslaught of suicide bombings" against Israelis;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">-it doesn't matter that Mahmoud Abbas has [had the gall] to declare that Israel has nothing to do with Judaism;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">-it doesn't matter that Abbas says Jews have no connection whatsoever to the Temple Mount--Judaism's holiest spot on earth;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In sum, Horovitz believes that none of this matters because Israel <i>refuses</i> to attempt to reach accommodation with the 'Palestinians' on the question of a two-state solution. What matters to Horovitz is, because it is obvious that Israel no longer endorses a two-state concept, it is equally obvious that Israel will, in the end, lose everything.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">For Horovitz, the <i>only</i> thing that matters these days is that unless Israel comes up with a way to take care of its 'Gaza' problem, Israel will lose, big time because the world is losing its patience--with Israel. Horovitz says <i>Israel</i> needs to find a fix for this problem--fast. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This is utter hogwash. It isn't fit to be published in an outlet that claims to be pro-Israel. It is, however, completely suitable for <i>any</i> outlet that supports and advocates the Palestinian Cause--a Cause which, by the way, aims to destroy Israel. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If you want to know why Israel is right to ignore the supposed 'two-state' solution--and why it is not Israel that must make 'accommodations' for peace--listen to Mahmoud al-Zahar, the co-founder of Hamas (<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2021/05/24/watch-hamas-co-founder-boasts-of-attacking-crowded-civilian-areas-in-israel/">here</a>). </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4UFuohi-zDo" width="320" youtube-src-id="4UFuohi-zDo"></iframe></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In this video, al-Zahar is asked, point-blank, does Israel have the right to exist? He pauses, then answers, no.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">al-Zahar also does not believe in a two-state solution. He says, Palestinians have already tried this but it has<i> failed</i>. He asks, you are now asking me to practice a <i>failed</i> process? He then adds, if you want to know about a two-state solution, go ask Mahmoud Abbas if <i>he</i> is now addressing a two-state solution as viable or not, and he (Abbas) will say, no.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Perhaps to clarify what he meant, al-Zahar has also said the following in a very short (1:1 minutes) excerpt from a more recent interview dated May 25, 2021:</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VXyqJuCBv8M" width="320" youtube-src-id="VXyqJuCBv8M"></iframe></div><p><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">His clarification here is simple: "this land is not suitable for a two-state solution; it's either-or: either the occupation remains forever...or this occupation will be removed and each Israeli will go his own way--[back to his country of origin]. Palestine is an Arab and Islamic land....[Israel is] a cancer on our land". </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">With Arab attitudes such as these, how can Horovitz say it is <i>Israel'</i>s responsibility to 'take care of' a two state solution. Indeed, to create two states that "live side by side in peace and security"--the original two-state dream concocted by Western leaders for Israel--<i>both</i> parties to such an agreement have to believe the other has the right to exist, and <i>both</i> must declare that a peaceful two state solution is viable. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">But both Hamas and Fatah (led by Abbas) reject these ideas. They each refuse to accept that Israel has the right to exist, <i>and</i> they each reject a two-state concept. Indeed, as al-Zahar suggests in the second interview above, the best chance for peace will happen when Israelis leave the Middle East altogether and go back to their countries of origin, leaving 'Palestine' to remain Muslim and Arab. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The responsibility for peace requires both Hamas and Fatah to change, not just Israel. But Hamas and Fatah refuse to change. Why does the world accuse <i>Israel</i> of intransigence?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Every proposal for peace presented by Israel to these so-called 'Palestinians' has been rejected by both Hamas and Fatah out-of-hand. How is the fact there is no peace <i>Israel's</i> fault?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Hamas and Fatah want something else--something which, by the way, they both repeat incessantly. They want a <i>one-state</i> solution for this conflict, not two states. Specifically, they want a single Arab Muslim state on all the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea--the land now called, Israel. For them, "peace" means, 'no Israel'. Israel must disappear. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">A Palestinian peace will mean a Judenrein (Jew-free) state. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Those who support the anti-Israel Palestinian Cause are working hard after this latest war to demonize and harm the Jewish state. It is outrageous--and extraordinarily ignorant--to watch a savvy and <i>educated</i> Jew in Israel (Horovitz) to cower before these enemies and claim that the <i>only</i> way Israel will win peace is to "accommodate" the demands of Hamas and Fatah. Israeli citizens know this assertion is utter nonsense. The so-called two-state solution is dead because of Hamas and Fatah, not because of Israel. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Perhaps Horovitz can rethink what he writes about this topic. Certainly, if he continues along his chosen path--to blame<i> Israel</i> for 'no peace'--he could well get a reputation for being either a fool or a useful idiot of the anti-Israel Palestinian Cause.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Is that how he wants to be known?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Tuviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09258309790095578616noreply@blogger.com0