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Monday, January 23, 2006
The Game Goes On
THE GREAT GAME GOES ON
By Rachel and Moshe Saperstein. Neve Dekalim / Jerusalem Gold Hotel
A little over a week ago Moshe received a call from the lady who
tripped over the protruding water pipe at our new "home" in Nitzan.
"It's all done" she said brightly. "Come and get your keys."
"All?" asked Moshe with the skepticism of bitter experience.
"Almost all, inside the apartment" she replied.
"And what about outside the apartment?" he asked, already knowing the
answer: a neighbor had informed us that nothing had been done.
"Well…. You'll move in first. Then maybe it will get done. And maybe
it won't get done."
"Let me remind you" Moshe said, "that you tripped over the pipe, and
you said `they must be crazy' to put a sprinkler next to the
air-conditioner. We can't move in until these things are fixed."
"I'll call you in a few days" she said.
Three days later Moshe called her and was told "Everything is going to
be fixed. Just wait for my call."
The call came today, only it wasn't from her. Our lawyer called and
told me that the Expulsion Authority called him and said that though
they had already agreed we were entitled to compensation, and were
even preparing an advance, they had changed their minds.
Their new position is that we are not entitled to any compensation –
zero, nada, zilch – and certainly no advance. This means we are likely
to be expelled from the hotel at any time. But the Expulsion
Authority, merciful as they are, may take pity on our age and
condition and allow us a shanty in old Nitzan shantytown.
An American friend visiting us was apoplectic with outrage. "This
couldn't happen in a country ruled by laws, like the United States."
Moshe answered that the US is less ruled by laws than by lawyers, and
in any case Israel is a country ruled by brute force and they are the
brutes who have the force.
Serious as this all is we aren't going to let it get us down. After
being ejected from our homes and seeing them turned to rubble, this is
relatively small potatoes.
A court hearing is scheduled for Tuesday. We'll let you know if we
have joined the Wandering Jews.
#####################################
OPERATION DIGNITY, now an amuta [a non-profit organization], is the
umbrella organization to which "The Band Aid Fund" belongs. We are
continuing to give money to each family from Neve Dekalim. "The Simcha
Fund" helps families with brits, bar- and bat-mitzvahs and weddings.
"The Seed Fund" helps families settle into Nitzan and other
communities. Send a contribution to:
Central Fund for Israel
Marcus Textiles Inc.
980 6th Avenue
New York, NY 10018
Attn: Operation Band Aid
By Rachel and Moshe Saperstein. Neve Dekalim / Jerusalem Gold Hotel
A little over a week ago Moshe received a call from the lady who
tripped over the protruding water pipe at our new "home" in Nitzan.
"It's all done" she said brightly. "Come and get your keys."
"All?" asked Moshe with the skepticism of bitter experience.
"Almost all, inside the apartment" she replied.
"And what about outside the apartment?" he asked, already knowing the
answer: a neighbor had informed us that nothing had been done.
"Well…. You'll move in first. Then maybe it will get done. And maybe
it won't get done."
"Let me remind you" Moshe said, "that you tripped over the pipe, and
you said `they must be crazy' to put a sprinkler next to the
air-conditioner. We can't move in until these things are fixed."
"I'll call you in a few days" she said.
Three days later Moshe called her and was told "Everything is going to
be fixed. Just wait for my call."
The call came today, only it wasn't from her. Our lawyer called and
told me that the Expulsion Authority called him and said that though
they had already agreed we were entitled to compensation, and were
even preparing an advance, they had changed their minds.
Their new position is that we are not entitled to any compensation –
zero, nada, zilch – and certainly no advance. This means we are likely
to be expelled from the hotel at any time. But the Expulsion
Authority, merciful as they are, may take pity on our age and
condition and allow us a shanty in old Nitzan shantytown.
An American friend visiting us was apoplectic with outrage. "This
couldn't happen in a country ruled by laws, like the United States."
Moshe answered that the US is less ruled by laws than by lawyers, and
in any case Israel is a country ruled by brute force and they are the
brutes who have the force.
Serious as this all is we aren't going to let it get us down. After
being ejected from our homes and seeing them turned to rubble, this is
relatively small potatoes.
A court hearing is scheduled for Tuesday. We'll let you know if we
have joined the Wandering Jews.
#####################################
OPERATION DIGNITY, now an amuta [a non-profit organization], is the
umbrella organization to which "The Band Aid Fund" belongs. We are
continuing to give money to each family from Neve Dekalim. "The Simcha
Fund" helps families with brits, bar- and bat-mitzvahs and weddings.
"The Seed Fund" helps families settle into Nitzan and other
communities. Send a contribution to:
Central Fund for Israel
Marcus Textiles Inc.
980 6th Avenue
New York, NY 10018
Attn: Operation Band Aid
Saturday, January 21, 2006
New Element Discovered
NEW SCIENTIFIC ELEMENT DISCOVERED
A major research institution has recently announced the discovery of the
heaviest element yet known to science. The new element has been named
"Governmentium." Governmentium has one neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75
deputy neutrons, and 224 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic
mass of 312.
These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are
surrounded by vast quantities of particles called peons. Since
Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected,
because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A
minute amount of Governmentium causes one reaction to take over four days
to complete, when it would normally take less than a second.
Governmentium has a normal half-life of 4 years; it does not decay, but
instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant
neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, Governmentium's
mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will
cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.
This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe
that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in
concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as "Critical
Morass." When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium -
an element which radiates just as much energy as the Governmentium since
it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.
A major research institution has recently announced the discovery of the
heaviest element yet known to science. The new element has been named
"Governmentium." Governmentium has one neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75
deputy neutrons, and 224 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic
mass of 312.
These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are
surrounded by vast quantities of particles called peons. Since
Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected,
because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A
minute amount of Governmentium causes one reaction to take over four days
to complete, when it would normally take less than a second.
Governmentium has a normal half-life of 4 years; it does not decay, but
instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant
neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, Governmentium's
mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will
cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.
This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe
that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in
concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as "Critical
Morass." When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium -
an element which radiates just as much energy as the Governmentium since
it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.
Friday, January 20, 2006
Paradise ?
From: Yossi Zur, Haifa. E-Mail: yossi@blondi.co.il
Last night the Palestinian movie "Paradise Now" won the Golden Globe
award. The movie shows the route that two young Palestinians take in
becoming suicide murderers until the minute they board a bus in Tel Aviv.
The movie looks professional. The movie was done with great care for
details and is extremely dangerous not only to the middle east but to
the whole world.
My son Asaf, almost 17 years old, was a high school student in the
eleventh grade learning computer science. One day after school he
boarded a bus in Israel to get back to our home. On the way a suicide
murderer from Hebron, 21 years old, a computer science student in the
Hebron Polytechnic exploded on the bus.
17 people were killed, 9 of then school children aged 18 or less.
My son Asaf was killed on spot.
I looked at the movie trying to understand what is it trying to say,
what message does it carry?
That the murderer is human? He is not.
That he has doubts? He has none. After all he is willing to kill
himself with his victims.
That the Israelis are to blame for this brutal killing? Are the
Israelis to blame for the twin towers in New York, the night club in
Indonesia, the Hotel in Egypt, the shop in Turkey, the restaurant in
Morocco or in Tunis, The hotel in Jordan the underground in London the
train in Spain And the list goes on and on.
What makes this movie award worthy? Would the foreign reporters that
awarded this movie the golden globe do the same if the movie was about
young people from Saudi Arabia who learn how to fly in the USA and
then take Islamic ritual in preparations for their holy mission to
crash airplanes into the twin towers in New York? Would this movie get
an award then?
The movie is trying to say that suicide murderers are a legitimate way
when you feel you exhausted all other means. But a suicide murderer
who boards a bus kills 15 or 20 people, so how about a suicide
murderer who walks into a city with a biological bomb and kills 10,000
people or 100,000 people is that still a legitimate way? Where does
one put the line?
The world should put the line at one person, killing of even one
person is not legitimate. My son was almost 17 years old, he loved
surfing, he loved loud music. He is now gone because a suicide
murderer decided it's legitimate to blow himself up on a crowded bus.
Encouraging film makers to hide behind the award and say that the
world declared suicide bombing a legitimate way without looking at the
messages the movie carries and the implications makes the award
decision makers part of the evil chain of terror and co-participates
in the next suicide murders, whether those kill 17 people or 17,000
people.
Name: Yossi Zur
Address: 9 Enzo Sireni st. Haifa, 32972 Israel
Phone: +972-54-4248912
Email: Yossi@blondi.co.il . Web: www.Blondi.co.il
Last night the Palestinian movie "Paradise Now" won the Golden Globe
award. The movie shows the route that two young Palestinians take in
becoming suicide murderers until the minute they board a bus in Tel Aviv.
The movie looks professional. The movie was done with great care for
details and is extremely dangerous not only to the middle east but to
the whole world.
My son Asaf, almost 17 years old, was a high school student in the
eleventh grade learning computer science. One day after school he
boarded a bus in Israel to get back to our home. On the way a suicide
murderer from Hebron, 21 years old, a computer science student in the
Hebron Polytechnic exploded on the bus.
17 people were killed, 9 of then school children aged 18 or less.
My son Asaf was killed on spot.
I looked at the movie trying to understand what is it trying to say,
what message does it carry?
That the murderer is human? He is not.
That he has doubts? He has none. After all he is willing to kill
himself with his victims.
That the Israelis are to blame for this brutal killing? Are the
Israelis to blame for the twin towers in New York, the night club in
Indonesia, the Hotel in Egypt, the shop in Turkey, the restaurant in
Morocco or in Tunis, The hotel in Jordan the underground in London the
train in Spain And the list goes on and on.
What makes this movie award worthy? Would the foreign reporters that
awarded this movie the golden globe do the same if the movie was about
young people from Saudi Arabia who learn how to fly in the USA and
then take Islamic ritual in preparations for their holy mission to
crash airplanes into the twin towers in New York? Would this movie get
an award then?
The movie is trying to say that suicide murderers are a legitimate way
when you feel you exhausted all other means. But a suicide murderer
who boards a bus kills 15 or 20 people, so how about a suicide
murderer who walks into a city with a biological bomb and kills 10,000
people or 100,000 people is that still a legitimate way? Where does
one put the line?
The world should put the line at one person, killing of even one
person is not legitimate. My son was almost 17 years old, he loved
surfing, he loved loud music. He is now gone because a suicide
murderer decided it's legitimate to blow himself up on a crowded bus.
Encouraging film makers to hide behind the award and say that the
world declared suicide bombing a legitimate way without looking at the
messages the movie carries and the implications makes the award
decision makers part of the evil chain of terror and co-participates
in the next suicide murders, whether those kill 17 people or 17,000
people.
Name: Yossi Zur
Address: 9 Enzo Sireni st. Haifa, 32972 Israel
Phone: +972-54-4248912
Email: Yossi@blondi.co.il . Web: www.Blondi.co.il
Saturday, January 07, 2006
Restore the Trusteeship
RESTORE THE TRUSTEESHIP
by Moshe Saperstein, Neve Dekalim--Jerusalem Gold Hotel
Israel is awash in tourists, late model cars throng the roads, the
stock market is booming, and for many locals their major dilemma is
choosing an exotic venue for their next vacation. Yet time is running
out on the State of Israel. Its existence, long threatened from
without, is now threatened from within as well.
Israel's ruling elite, which according to all prognostications will
remain in power after the coming elections, is embarked on a retreat
to the 1967 borders. The "Auschwitz borders", in the words of the late
Aubrey "Abba" Eban. Why the elite is suicidal is not the subject of
this short letter, and in any case is the provenance of psychoanalysis
rather than political science. Suffice to say that despite
election-inspired obfuscation, the 1967 borders are the goal. As to
the three so-called settlement blocs in Judea and Samaria, note that
Gush Etzion is surreptitiously already being rendered untenable.
Those who believe a withdrawal to the 1967 borders will ensure peace,
or even a modicum of quiet, must ask themselves what will happen when
the Arabs living within these borders start their own intifadeh?
Surely their `just demands', supported by world opinion and those
myriad Israelis for whom Zionism is original sin, must be accommodated
as well.
Today Israel has the capacity to defend itself, but its leaders lack
the will to do so. In several years a beleaguered mini-Israel will
lack the capacity, even if the will is restored. Must Israel suffer
years of conflict and bloodshed to no purpose? How many brave young
men and women must give their lives in defense of that which our own
leaders have decided cannot be defended?
I believe the sole solution that will allow Jews to remain in the
Holy Land, with or even without a semblance of self-rule, is the
restoration of the United Nations trusteeship. Let the United Nations
determine what is Palestine and what is "the trusteeship". The Arabs
determined to annihilate us might think twice before attacking UN
officials. "Might" may not seem like much, but it is better than the
certainty of annihilation.
A new factor is emerging that reinforces the need for a UN
trusteeship a hundredfold. Iran will soon prove to the world that it
has deliverable nuclear weapons. Western nations have been craven in
appeasing an Iran that merely threatens to have atomic bombs. Imagine
how craven they will be when the threat becomes reality. Iran has
already declared the destruction of the State of Israel as a goal.
Should Iran state that it will be a signatory to solemn agreements to
abjure from using nuclear weapons if only the State of Israel is
dismantled, will a single Western nation stand up for Israel? Will
Israel stand up for Israel?
Many faith-based and faith-oriented readers, both Jewish and
Christian, will have reacted to the above lines with horror. "God will
not permit this to happen" they will declare with genuine conviction.
We ask only that they consult with refugees from Gush Katif regarding
the seeming certainty of Divine intervention.
If action is not taken now, the sole members of the Jewish faith
permitted to reside in the Holy Land will be the picturesquely attired
Ultra-Orthodox, and that only because of their value as a tourist
attraction.
PREPARING THE LIFEBOATS by Moshe Saperstein
Ah, the silence… the blessed silence… the embarrassed silence.
Responses to my letters, depending on the subject matter, range from
cascades to rivulets. This last letter didn't even draw a trickle.
Four responses, one for each of the fingers on my left hand. Four
responses. A drip?
And while most responses in the cascade-to-rivulet continuum are of
the "Gee, Moshe, you're alive. You hadn't written for so long I
thought you were dead" type, only one of the four to this last letter
fits that description. A second bemoaned my "lack of faith" while the
third suggested I was deranged from my experiences of the expulsion.
The fourth, from someone who has known me for years, posits that I
have always been deranged but recent events have brought me to a new
level of madness.
Granted that I am a few cards short of a full deck, this doesn't
negate my thesis that the State of Israel's days are numbered.
Lunatics often have a more incisive, unencumbered view of specific
situations than do normal people. Now, however you feel about my
thesis – whether the State's self-destruction is probable or
improbable – it is incumbent on you to act.
Even if you believe it more likely that spaceships carrying
couturiers from the planet Shmattes will arrive and revolutionize our
beachwear, rather than that the State of Israel will disappear, it is
incumbent on you to act. Act, not to save the State. That is already
too late. Act, to save the State's Jewish citizens. At this stage what
you can do is contingency planning. Jews dominate think tanks, so think.
I know you are all busy raising money and/or collecting clothes
and/or writing letters to the editor and/or saying Psalms. All are
worthy, even admirable activities. But to me these are akin to
improving the conditions of steerage passengers on the Titanic.
Necessary while the Titanic is afloat, but no excuse not to prepare
for the consequences of the iceberg. Whether you like it or not,
whether you see it or not, a human catastrophe of immense proportions
is bearing down on you.
The first wave of Jewish refugees seeking residence outside Israel
will come from those uprooted from Judea and Samaria as the State
returns to the 1967 borders. Substantial numbers of these emigrated
from Western countries, and will simply return. After all, they came –
as we did – to live in Eretz Yisroel, the Holy Land, and the secular,
progressive, enlightened, endemically corrupt, dissolute and rapidly
dissolving ersatz democratic State of Israel holds little attraction.
Even these refugees, many of whom have foreign as well as Israeli
passports, will need assistance in resettling. You can cut your teeth
on them, a warm-up for what's to come.
Once Israel is reduced to its 1967 dimensions, and hostilities
intensify both inside the State and along the borders, the number of
emigrants will increase geometrically. You, the Jews of the Diaspora,
will have to give your all. Your first task will be to ensure that
your respective countries will be willing to take in many new immigrants.
The choice of countries is not great. Palestine will no longer be an
option, nor will a Europe which is terrorized by its Moslem immigrants
and dare not risk antagonizing them. Asia? Africa? Latin America? Only
the last, and that in relatively small numbers under the rubric of
family reunification.
The world today is immeasurably more hostile to Jews than it has been
since the Holocaust. Even then, when it was clear who was oppressor
and who was victim, those who supposedly sympathized with us did
little to help. Today, when even Israeli schoolchildren are taught
that we are victimizing those who live to see us die, is it any wonder
we will be as welcome as lepers?
I don't have to hector you on jobs, schools, housing, health care,
social services for the refugees. We have millennia of experience on
how to help resettle our own. But none of these will be relevant if
the millions – there are five million Israeli Jews – have nowhere to
go. Do you want to see us slaughtered as we were in the recent past?
True, the Arabs don't have German method and efficiency. But they'll
slaughter us all the same.
Now, people, now is the time to get your respective governments to be
amenable to large scale immigration of Israel's Jews. I know this
seems totally off the wall to you. And I don't have the vaguest notion
of how you go about it. But if you haven't paved the way before the
crunch comes, many lives will be lost while you are getting your act
together.
I'll stop now – 5.1.2006, 10am – as everyone is glued to radios
waiting to hear if the Prime Minister, having `disengaged' us, is
about to `disengage' himself. May I add that I have not heard a single
word from my fellow refugees indicating pleasure or satisfaction at
his condition.
As to what's to come, keep in mind the principle that I have learned
thru living here: No matter how bad the situation seems, it's really
far worse.
Moshe
[Okay, Moshe, stop being so grim. At least finish this with something
they can enjoy:
TURKEY FOR THE LORD, FOR ALL IS FOR THE BEST
Early one morning about a week after we arrived at the hotel I was
sitting in the parking lot smoking a cigar and staring into space. It
was just after dawn and few people were about. Just the way I like it.
A gentleman approached me, middle-aged, suit and tie. "Do you speak
English?" he asked in a mittel-Europisch accent indicating English was
not his native tongue. I nodded, annoyed at being disturbed and
dreading having to make conversation. "Are you one of the Gush Katif
refugees?" he continued. I nodded again.
"Our hearts go out to you. But you must know this: turkey for the
Lord, for all is for the best."
Huh? I was about to laugh at this gibberish but he had spoken with
such sincerity and intensity that I controlled myself. I nodded, said
"thank you", and he departed.
Then it dawned on me. The Hebrew saying, Hodu l'Hashem, ki tov.
Praise the Lord, for all is for the best. This gentleman must have
taken a Hebrew-English dictionary and looked up `hodu'. Which has
three meanings: 1. praise; 2. India; 3. turkey, a fowl.
Why he chose `turkey' instead of `praise' will remain a mystery. But
I have no complaints as I had my first laugh since our expulsion.
So remember, dear friends, when all is bleak… "Turkey to the Lord,
for all is for the best."]
by Moshe Saperstein, Neve Dekalim--Jerusalem Gold Hotel
Israel is awash in tourists, late model cars throng the roads, the
stock market is booming, and for many locals their major dilemma is
choosing an exotic venue for their next vacation. Yet time is running
out on the State of Israel. Its existence, long threatened from
without, is now threatened from within as well.
Israel's ruling elite, which according to all prognostications will
remain in power after the coming elections, is embarked on a retreat
to the 1967 borders. The "Auschwitz borders", in the words of the late
Aubrey "Abba" Eban. Why the elite is suicidal is not the subject of
this short letter, and in any case is the provenance of psychoanalysis
rather than political science. Suffice to say that despite
election-inspired obfuscation, the 1967 borders are the goal. As to
the three so-called settlement blocs in Judea and Samaria, note that
Gush Etzion is surreptitiously already being rendered untenable.
Those who believe a withdrawal to the 1967 borders will ensure peace,
or even a modicum of quiet, must ask themselves what will happen when
the Arabs living within these borders start their own intifadeh?
Surely their `just demands', supported by world opinion and those
myriad Israelis for whom Zionism is original sin, must be accommodated
as well.
Today Israel has the capacity to defend itself, but its leaders lack
the will to do so. In several years a beleaguered mini-Israel will
lack the capacity, even if the will is restored. Must Israel suffer
years of conflict and bloodshed to no purpose? How many brave young
men and women must give their lives in defense of that which our own
leaders have decided cannot be defended?
I believe the sole solution that will allow Jews to remain in the
Holy Land, with or even without a semblance of self-rule, is the
restoration of the United Nations trusteeship. Let the United Nations
determine what is Palestine and what is "the trusteeship". The Arabs
determined to annihilate us might think twice before attacking UN
officials. "Might" may not seem like much, but it is better than the
certainty of annihilation.
A new factor is emerging that reinforces the need for a UN
trusteeship a hundredfold. Iran will soon prove to the world that it
has deliverable nuclear weapons. Western nations have been craven in
appeasing an Iran that merely threatens to have atomic bombs. Imagine
how craven they will be when the threat becomes reality. Iran has
already declared the destruction of the State of Israel as a goal.
Should Iran state that it will be a signatory to solemn agreements to
abjure from using nuclear weapons if only the State of Israel is
dismantled, will a single Western nation stand up for Israel? Will
Israel stand up for Israel?
Many faith-based and faith-oriented readers, both Jewish and
Christian, will have reacted to the above lines with horror. "God will
not permit this to happen" they will declare with genuine conviction.
We ask only that they consult with refugees from Gush Katif regarding
the seeming certainty of Divine intervention.
If action is not taken now, the sole members of the Jewish faith
permitted to reside in the Holy Land will be the picturesquely attired
Ultra-Orthodox, and that only because of their value as a tourist
attraction.
PREPARING THE LIFEBOATS by Moshe Saperstein
Ah, the silence… the blessed silence… the embarrassed silence.
Responses to my letters, depending on the subject matter, range from
cascades to rivulets. This last letter didn't even draw a trickle.
Four responses, one for each of the fingers on my left hand. Four
responses. A drip?
And while most responses in the cascade-to-rivulet continuum are of
the "Gee, Moshe, you're alive. You hadn't written for so long I
thought you were dead" type, only one of the four to this last letter
fits that description. A second bemoaned my "lack of faith" while the
third suggested I was deranged from my experiences of the expulsion.
The fourth, from someone who has known me for years, posits that I
have always been deranged but recent events have brought me to a new
level of madness.
Granted that I am a few cards short of a full deck, this doesn't
negate my thesis that the State of Israel's days are numbered.
Lunatics often have a more incisive, unencumbered view of specific
situations than do normal people. Now, however you feel about my
thesis – whether the State's self-destruction is probable or
improbable – it is incumbent on you to act.
Even if you believe it more likely that spaceships carrying
couturiers from the planet Shmattes will arrive and revolutionize our
beachwear, rather than that the State of Israel will disappear, it is
incumbent on you to act. Act, not to save the State. That is already
too late. Act, to save the State's Jewish citizens. At this stage what
you can do is contingency planning. Jews dominate think tanks, so think.
I know you are all busy raising money and/or collecting clothes
and/or writing letters to the editor and/or saying Psalms. All are
worthy, even admirable activities. But to me these are akin to
improving the conditions of steerage passengers on the Titanic.
Necessary while the Titanic is afloat, but no excuse not to prepare
for the consequences of the iceberg. Whether you like it or not,
whether you see it or not, a human catastrophe of immense proportions
is bearing down on you.
The first wave of Jewish refugees seeking residence outside Israel
will come from those uprooted from Judea and Samaria as the State
returns to the 1967 borders. Substantial numbers of these emigrated
from Western countries, and will simply return. After all, they came –
as we did – to live in Eretz Yisroel, the Holy Land, and the secular,
progressive, enlightened, endemically corrupt, dissolute and rapidly
dissolving ersatz democratic State of Israel holds little attraction.
Even these refugees, many of whom have foreign as well as Israeli
passports, will need assistance in resettling. You can cut your teeth
on them, a warm-up for what's to come.
Once Israel is reduced to its 1967 dimensions, and hostilities
intensify both inside the State and along the borders, the number of
emigrants will increase geometrically. You, the Jews of the Diaspora,
will have to give your all. Your first task will be to ensure that
your respective countries will be willing to take in many new immigrants.
The choice of countries is not great. Palestine will no longer be an
option, nor will a Europe which is terrorized by its Moslem immigrants
and dare not risk antagonizing them. Asia? Africa? Latin America? Only
the last, and that in relatively small numbers under the rubric of
family reunification.
The world today is immeasurably more hostile to Jews than it has been
since the Holocaust. Even then, when it was clear who was oppressor
and who was victim, those who supposedly sympathized with us did
little to help. Today, when even Israeli schoolchildren are taught
that we are victimizing those who live to see us die, is it any wonder
we will be as welcome as lepers?
I don't have to hector you on jobs, schools, housing, health care,
social services for the refugees. We have millennia of experience on
how to help resettle our own. But none of these will be relevant if
the millions – there are five million Israeli Jews – have nowhere to
go. Do you want to see us slaughtered as we were in the recent past?
True, the Arabs don't have German method and efficiency. But they'll
slaughter us all the same.
Now, people, now is the time to get your respective governments to be
amenable to large scale immigration of Israel's Jews. I know this
seems totally off the wall to you. And I don't have the vaguest notion
of how you go about it. But if you haven't paved the way before the
crunch comes, many lives will be lost while you are getting your act
together.
I'll stop now – 5.1.2006, 10am – as everyone is glued to radios
waiting to hear if the Prime Minister, having `disengaged' us, is
about to `disengage' himself. May I add that I have not heard a single
word from my fellow refugees indicating pleasure or satisfaction at
his condition.
As to what's to come, keep in mind the principle that I have learned
thru living here: No matter how bad the situation seems, it's really
far worse.
Moshe
[Okay, Moshe, stop being so grim. At least finish this with something
they can enjoy:
TURKEY FOR THE LORD, FOR ALL IS FOR THE BEST
Early one morning about a week after we arrived at the hotel I was
sitting in the parking lot smoking a cigar and staring into space. It
was just after dawn and few people were about. Just the way I like it.
A gentleman approached me, middle-aged, suit and tie. "Do you speak
English?" he asked in a mittel-Europisch accent indicating English was
not his native tongue. I nodded, annoyed at being disturbed and
dreading having to make conversation. "Are you one of the Gush Katif
refugees?" he continued. I nodded again.
"Our hearts go out to you. But you must know this: turkey for the
Lord, for all is for the best."
Huh? I was about to laugh at this gibberish but he had spoken with
such sincerity and intensity that I controlled myself. I nodded, said
"thank you", and he departed.
Then it dawned on me. The Hebrew saying, Hodu l'Hashem, ki tov.
Praise the Lord, for all is for the best. This gentleman must have
taken a Hebrew-English dictionary and looked up `hodu'. Which has
three meanings: 1. praise; 2. India; 3. turkey, a fowl.
Why he chose `turkey' instead of `praise' will remain a mystery. But
I have no complaints as I had my first laugh since our expulsion.
So remember, dear friends, when all is bleak… "Turkey to the Lord,
for all is for the best."]
Friday, January 06, 2006
Huge Media Coverup
With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story...
Thursday, Jan. 5, 2006 10:08 a.m. EST
Major Terror Plot Against U.S. Ignored
The mainstream U.S. media outlets have failed to report a major terrorist plot against the U.S. - because it would tend to support President Bush's use of NSA domestic surveillance, according to media watchdog groups.
News of a planned attack masterminded by three Algerians operating out of Italy was widely reported outside the U.S., but went virtually unreported in the American media.
Italian authorities recently announced that they had used wiretaps to uncover the conspiracy to conduct a series of major attacks inside the U.S.
Italian Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu said the planned attacks would have targeted stadiums, ships and railway stations, and the terrorists' goal, he said, was to exceed the devastation caused by 9/11.
Italian authorities stepped up their internal surveillance programs after July's terrorist bombings in London. Their domestic wiretaps picked up phone conversations by Algerian Yamine Bouhrama that discussed terrorist attacks in Italy and abroad.
Italian authorities arrested Bouhrama on November 15 and he remains in prison. Authorities later arrested two other men, Achour Rabah and Tartaq Sami, who are believed to be Bouhrama’s chief aides in planning the attacks.
The arrests were a major coup for Italian anti-terror forces, and the story was carried in most major newspapers from Europe to China.
"U.S. terror attacks foiled,” read the headline in England’s Sunday Times. In France, a headline from Agence France Presse proclaimed, "Three Algerians arrested in Italy over plot targeting U.S.”
Curiously, what was deemed worthy of a worldwide media blitz abroad was virtually ignored by the U.S. media, and conservative media watchdog groups are saying that is no accident.
"My impression is that the major media want to use the NSA story to try and impeach the president," says Cliff Kincaid, editor of the Accuracy in Media Report published by the grassroots Accuracy in Media organization.
"If you remind people that terrorists actually are planning to kill us, that tends to support the case made by President Bush. They will ignore any issue that shows that this kind of [wiretapping] tactic can work in the war on terror.”
"The mainstream media have framed the story as one of the nefarious President Bush ‘spying on U.S. citizens,’ where the average American is a victim not a beneficiary,” commented Brent Baker, vice president of the Media Research Center, a Washington, D.C.-based organization dedicated to encouraging balanced news coverage, "so journalists have little interest in any evidence that the program has helped save lives by uncovering terrorist plans."
The Associated Press version of the story did not disclose that the men planned to target the U.S. Nor did it report that the evidence against the suspects was gathered via a wiretapping surveillance operation.
Furthermore, only one American newspaper, the Philadelphia Inquirer, is known to have published the story that the AP distributed. It ran on page A-6 under the headline "Italy Charges 3 Algerians.” The Inquirer report also made no mention of the plot to target the U.S. - although foreign publications included this information in the headlines and lead sentences of their stories. Nor did it advise readers that domestic wiretaps played a key role in nabbing the suspected terrorists.
One obvious question media critics are now raising: Did the American media intentionally ignore an important story because it didn't fit into their agenda of attacking President George Bush for using wiretapping to spy on potential terrorists in the U.S.?
"It's clear to me," says AIM's Kincaid, "that they're trying their best to make this NSA program to be an impeachable offense, saying it is directed at ordinary Americans. That's why they keep referring to this as a 'program of spying on Americans' - whereas the president keeps pointing out it's a program designed to uncover al-Qaida operations on American soil."
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Algeria Daily
Italy Arrests Three Algerian Suspected Terrorists .. Nope, not there
Economist.com ADVANCED SEARCH Saturday December 24th 2005 denotes ...
Three Algerians arrested in Italy over plot targeting US (Geo Tv) Sat 04:27 GMT
Italy: Three Algerian Terror Suspects Arrested ...
www.economist.com/research/moreover.cfm?title=Algeria&file=algeria - 53k Nope, not there either
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http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,17656877-5001028,00.html
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Agence France Presse -- links to story in turkish press http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=93048
and australian press (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17656877-1702,00.html?from=rss)
ROME (AFP) - Three Algerians arrested in an anti-terrorist operation in southern Italy are suspected of being linked to a planned new series of attacks in the United States, Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu said Friday.
The attacks would have targeted ships, stadiums or railway stations in a bid to outdo the September 11, 2001 strikes by Al-Qaeda in New York and Washington which killed some 2,700 people, Pisanu said.
The Algerians, suspected of belonging to a cell established by an Al-Qaeda-linked Algerian extremist organisation, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), were named as Achour Rabah, Tartaq Sami and Yasmine Bouhrama.
The first two were arrested Friday in the Salerno area south of Naples, and in Curingia, in the southern Calabria region, respectively.
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For the story behind the story...
Thursday, Jan. 5, 2006 10:08 a.m. EST
Major Terror Plot Against U.S. Ignored
The mainstream U.S. media outlets have failed to report a major terrorist plot against the U.S. - because it would tend to support President Bush's use of NSA domestic surveillance, according to media watchdog groups.
News of a planned attack masterminded by three Algerians operating out of Italy was widely reported outside the U.S., but went virtually unreported in the American media.
Italian authorities recently announced that they had used wiretaps to uncover the conspiracy to conduct a series of major attacks inside the U.S.
Italian Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu said the planned attacks would have targeted stadiums, ships and railway stations, and the terrorists' goal, he said, was to exceed the devastation caused by 9/11.
Italian authorities stepped up their internal surveillance programs after July's terrorist bombings in London. Their domestic wiretaps picked up phone conversations by Algerian Yamine Bouhrama that discussed terrorist attacks in Italy and abroad.
Italian authorities arrested Bouhrama on November 15 and he remains in prison. Authorities later arrested two other men, Achour Rabah and Tartaq Sami, who are believed to be Bouhrama’s chief aides in planning the attacks.
The arrests were a major coup for Italian anti-terror forces, and the story was carried in most major newspapers from Europe to China.
"U.S. terror attacks foiled,” read the headline in England’s Sunday Times. In France, a headline from Agence France Presse proclaimed, "Three Algerians arrested in Italy over plot targeting U.S.”
Curiously, what was deemed worthy of a worldwide media blitz abroad was virtually ignored by the U.S. media, and conservative media watchdog groups are saying that is no accident.
"My impression is that the major media want to use the NSA story to try and impeach the president," says Cliff Kincaid, editor of the Accuracy in Media Report published by the grassroots Accuracy in Media organization.
"If you remind people that terrorists actually are planning to kill us, that tends to support the case made by President Bush. They will ignore any issue that shows that this kind of [wiretapping] tactic can work in the war on terror.”
"The mainstream media have framed the story as one of the nefarious President Bush ‘spying on U.S. citizens,’ where the average American is a victim not a beneficiary,” commented Brent Baker, vice president of the Media Research Center, a Washington, D.C.-based organization dedicated to encouraging balanced news coverage, "so journalists have little interest in any evidence that the program has helped save lives by uncovering terrorist plans."
The Associated Press version of the story did not disclose that the men planned to target the U.S. Nor did it report that the evidence against the suspects was gathered via a wiretapping surveillance operation.
Furthermore, only one American newspaper, the Philadelphia Inquirer, is known to have published the story that the AP distributed. It ran on page A-6 under the headline "Italy Charges 3 Algerians.” The Inquirer report also made no mention of the plot to target the U.S. - although foreign publications included this information in the headlines and lead sentences of their stories. Nor did it advise readers that domestic wiretaps played a key role in nabbing the suspected terrorists.
One obvious question media critics are now raising: Did the American media intentionally ignore an important story because it didn't fit into their agenda of attacking President George Bush for using wiretapping to spy on potential terrorists in the U.S.?
"It's clear to me," says AIM's Kincaid, "that they're trying their best to make this NSA program to be an impeachable offense, saying it is directed at ordinary Americans. That's why they keep referring to this as a 'program of spying on Americans' - whereas the president keeps pointing out it's a program designed to uncover al-Qaida operations on American soil."
*******************************
Algeria Daily
Italy Arrests Three Algerian Suspected Terrorists .. Nope, not there
Economist.com ADVANCED SEARCH Saturday December 24th 2005 denotes ...
Three Algerians arrested in Italy over plot targeting US (Geo Tv) Sat 04:27 GMT
Italy: Three Algerian Terror Suspects Arrested ...
www.economist.com/research/moreover.cfm?title=Algeria&file=algeria - 53k Nope, not there either
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http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,17656877-5001028,00.html
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Agence France Presse -- links to story in turkish press http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=93048
and australian press (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17656877-1702,00.html?from=rss)
ROME (AFP) - Three Algerians arrested in an anti-terrorist operation in southern Italy are suspected of being linked to a planned new series of attacks in the United States, Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu said Friday.
The attacks would have targeted ships, stadiums or railway stations in a bid to outdo the September 11, 2001 strikes by Al-Qaeda in New York and Washington which killed some 2,700 people, Pisanu said.
The Algerians, suspected of belonging to a cell established by an Al-Qaeda-linked Algerian extremist organisation, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), were named as Achour Rabah, Tartaq Sami and Yasmine Bouhrama.
The first two were arrested Friday in the Salerno area south of Naples, and in Curingia, in the southern Calabria region, respectively.
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