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[b][color=red]Zionism is the belief in a Jewish homeland for the Jewish people, in Israel.
Zionism is the Jewish people's instantiation of the human right of self determination.
No more, no less. [/color][/b]
[color=indigo]Some people do not believe that Jews deserve human rights - we call them antisemities. Anti-Zionism, i.e. being against the existance of the homeland for the Jewish people and spreading hate about Israel is considered to be antisemitism under the European Union definition of antisemitism.[/color]
[b]Inspiration for Zionism[/b]
Before Zionism there was a Kingdom of Jewish people where Israel now stands. In it's center stood Mount Zion, Jerusalem, The Temple. In 586 BCE the Babylonians invaded and the Jews were sent into exile for the first time. It is here that Zionism, the longing to return to Zion begins.
[i]"By the waters of Babylon there we sat and wept, when we remembered Zion. On the willows there we hung up our lyres... How can we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land ?"[/i] (Psalm 137)
The desire to return was both to Israel in general and to the temple in particular: [i]"If I forget you O Jerusalem , may my right hand forget its skills" [/i](Psalm 137:5)
The Jews returned and life continued until the Romans invade. In 70 CE Rome destroyed The Temple. The Jews revolt against Roman rule. In the Bar Kochba revolt of 132-135CE Roman forces killed an estimated half a million Jews. In 136CE an atempt to erase Judaism from the globe was made. A Pagen temple was erected where The Temple has stood, the Jews were exhiled from their homeland (becoming refugees), and part of the land was renamed Palaestina to ensure people forgot about the Country of the Jews.
[b]Zionism continues[/b]
Zionism, the Jewish longing both to return to their homeland and for self determination i.e. to be a nation like any other, continued. Jews maintained a connection with Israel, a few lived there and many went to the Holy Land when they though they were reaching the end of their life. Zionism continued as a dream of the Jewish people until the modern State of Israel was established in 1948. Zionism today is about strengthening the connection between Israel and the Jewish people, and protecting and promoting Jewish cultural. Zionism today continues the tradition of supporting Israel by providing aid for those who need it and to improve the environment.
[b]Attacks on Zionism and the need for Zionism[/b]
Some try and make Zionism out to be something different, usually borrowing from such classic antisemitic texts as "the Protocols of the Elders of Zion" (a Russian forgery used to inspire pogroms, and then reused by the Nazis and more recently by Arab states to spread hate of the Jews). Unfortunatly these people are still intent on destroying Jewish culture and the Jewish people. People have been doing this through out history. The Jews usually moved to escape persecution. In todays global world this is no longer possible. The only defense is education so the public know the facts and are not yet again incited to hate of the Jews. The final safety net is the existance of Israel - a country that has since it's foundation been a safe haven for Jews being persecuted around the world. From Ethiopia to Russia, from the expulsion of Jews from Arab states in 1948 to the extraction of the last few Jews in Iraq today... Israel has consistantly welcomed the Jews home in times of crisis.
[url=http://zionismontheweb.org/zionism_history.htm] Zionism History[/url] [b][color=blue]- A detailed history [/color][/b]
Self Determination for the Jewish and Palestinian peoples
Israel's thoughts on self determination for the Jewish an Palestinian peoples, as express in the debate on Self-Determination of the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations.
YAAKOV LEVY (Israel) said the story of the modern State of Israel was to a large extent the story of defending the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in their homeland, and the right to live in peace and security. Israel respected the right of her neighbours, the Arab States and the Palestinians, to self-determination. Israel expected equal and mutual recognition, not only of the de facto existence of the State of Israel but of her right to self-determination. Israel recognized more than 20 years ago, in the framework of the Camp David Accords negotiated in 1978, the Palestinians’ right to self-determination. The Oslo Peace Process was in fact both a recognition and a realization of the Palestinian's right to self-determination. It was only through such a process that both Israelis and Palestinians could hope to realize their legitimate rights to live side by side in peace and security.
At Camp David in July 2000, these issues had been discussed and an agreement with Israel's Palestinian brothers had been so close. An agreement would have given genuine expression to the aspiration of both peoples to live peacefully side-by-side. Unfortunately, as the record clearly showed, it was the Palestinian Authority's leadership's choice not to consummate these negotiations, neither at Camp David nor later at Taba in January 2001, but instead to resort to a course of continuous violence in order to force Israel's hand to make further concessions, contrary to every agreement negotiated and signed between Israelis and Palestinians. Agenda item No.5 on self-determination must not be a cause within the Commission for continuous attacks on Israel and its policy. Israel’s position remained that self-determination must be achieved through direct, peaceful negotiations between two sides.
Source: UN HRC document: [url=http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/0/537aa546245d923285256cf00077cd12?OpenDocument]HR/CN/1003[/url], 21 March 2003
[url=http://zionismontheweb.org/zionism_commentary.htm]Zionism and Israel Commentary[/url] [b][color=blue]- In depth opinion [/color][/b]
[url=http://zionismontheweb.org/zionism_definitions.htm]Zionism definitions[/url] [b][color=blue]- Lots of definitions on Zionism [/color][/b]
[color=blue]Zionism is not a monstrous plot. It is not Nazism or Fascism or Communism or Colonialism. It is just the national movement of the Jewish people. It has been vilified by anti-Semitic and Marxist ideologues as well as by Islamist extremists. You owe it to yourself to find out the truth. We present articles and historical resources, discussion of the issues and maps that help you understand what it is about.[/color]
Palestinians are renown for cowardice even among the notoriously unwarlike Arabs. Palestinian attempt at civil war amounts to saber rattling. Despite the large expenditure of ammunition, casualties remained minor. Hamas – Fatah clashes look like a show.
During the riots and the War of Independence, Palestinians avoided battles and concentrated on robbery. Beyond cheering from rooftops, they did not help the Arabs who fought Israel in several wars. Dispersing them into Jordan and Lebanon is a slam-dunk job: Jordan succumbed to influx of 700,000 Iraqi refugees. Consequences? Jews should have grown used to them during the two millennia.
Not much time is available. Nationalism is engulfing the Arab world, and previously cynical inhabitants could become ideologically charged, willing to wage total wars.
Palestinians are no-nation. They cannot build a state. No country genuinely supports them; Palestinian issue is just another anti-Semitic canard. Why does the Israeli government shower them with concessions?
King Hussein of Jordan drove the fedayeen Palestinians from his state, killing 8,000 of them in a few days. Jordan is a key American ally in the Middle East, respected by international community, and at peace with Israel. Learn from your friends that massively killing and expelling the Palestinians is ok.
It is mind-boggling that Israel welcomes the US, Egypt, and Jordan training, supplying, and financing the PLO-Fatah. They are building an army which would professionally oppose Israeli anti-terrorist operations in Palestinian settlements. The American hypocrisy is startling. The US pushed for democratic elections in Palestine which brought Hamas to power, and now finances Fatah’s coup against the legal Hamas government. Unwilling to stain its hands in Jewish blood directly, America relegates the supply of weapons and ammunition to Egypt and Jordan. Now the Arabs officially at peace with Israel could legally arm Israeli enemy.
Propping the Fatah is senseless. Abbas already has twenty times more troops than Hamas. He loses to Hamas politically, and America cannot help him on that. Fortunately for the Jewish idea, Palestinians do not want a state carved from Israel.
I took the liberty of posting a comment, probably to be moderated out of course:
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I know you're likely to delete this non Jewish Supremacist comment, but I figure its worth a try.
I firmly believe that the Jews have no right to incur upon the territories occupied by Arabs. Those lands were held by a peaceful people who got along quite well with Jews, and everyone else for that matter, until the secular state of Israel was formed and began building settlements on hilltops, building giant walls and driving out the people who had already been living there quite peacefully.
Actually, most of the people who claim to be real Jews, who are taking land in Israel and committing ever greater forms of genocide and crimes against humanity, are Khazars, who are not truly semitic people, they are actually converts to Judaism who are claiming land that did not ever belong to their ancestors.
It is truly hypocritical when you say "Palestinian issue is just another anti-Semitic canard," when most of you aren't even truly semitic people. The Arabs actually have more semitic blood than do you, so that makes you and your racist Jewish supremacist clan anti-semitic.
I don't think that you Jews can ever justify the bulldozing of homes, mass murder of civilians and the countless injustices that you've wrought on the civilian population of Palestine and the Arab world in general.
There will be hell to pay for all of the crimes against humanity that you so vehemently endorse. If there is any divine justice in this universe, then I am certain that you will pay for your crimes against the Earth and its people.
Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:58 am
false flag VIP
Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 443 Location: melbourne, Australia
I noticed that the pigs on that site deleted your comment. As they say "the truth hurts". Yet all comments by hate filled jewish zionists were kept there. It's ok for them to talk about the palestianian people in the same light as we would discuss eradicating a population of rats. Yet you posted some valid comments which they could have commented on and discussed in a professional manner. Instead they did the usual israeli cowardice and just deleted it. To think these are the same people who shoot at palestinian children as well as shooting US soldiers in Iraq.
People condoning israel make me want to vomit.
Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), the founder of modern Zionism, recognized that anti-Semitism would further his cause, the creation of a separate state for Jews. To solve the Jewish Question, he maintained “we must, above all, make it an international political issue.”[1]Herzl wrote that Zionism offered the world a welcome “final solution of the Jewish question.”[2]In his “Diaries”, page 19, Herzl stated “Anti-Semites will become our surest friends, anti-Semitic countries our allies.”
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Zionist Collaboration
with the NazisZionism was supported by the German SS and Gestapo.[3] [4] [5] [6] Hitler himself personally supported Zionism.[7] [8] During the 1930’s, in cooperation with the German authorities, Zionist groups organized a network of some 40 camps throughout Germany where prospective settlers were trained for their new lives in Palestine. As late as 1942 Zionists operated at least one of these officially authorized “Kibbutz” training camps[9] over which flew the blue and white banner which would one day be adopted as the national flag of “Israel”.[10]
The Transfer Agreement (which promoted the emigration of German Jews to Palestine) implemented in 1933 and abandoned at the beginning of WWII is an important example of the cooperation between Hitler’s Germany and international Zionism. [11] Through this agreement, Hitler’s Third Reich did more than any other government during the 1930’s to support Jewish development in Palestine and further the Zionist goals.
Hitler and the Zionists had a common goal: to create a world Jewish Ghetto as a solution to the Jewish Question.
The Transfer AgreementThe Zionist so-called “World Jewish Congress” declared war on the country of Germany,[12] [13] knowing that it would affect their Jewish brothers residing in that country who would be left without protection. When others tried to help them escape to other countries, the Zionist movement took actions which caused those countries to lock their doors to Jewish immigration (read more in the books, “Perfidy” and “Min Hametzer”). As a result of the Zionist influence five ships of Jewish refugees from Germany arriving in the United States were turned back to the gas chambers.
The fundamental aim of the Zionist movement has been not to save Jewish lives but to create a “Jewish state” in Palestine.
On December 7, 1938, Ben Gurion, the first head of the Zionist ‘state of Israel’ declared “If I knew it was possible to save all the children in Germany by taking them to England, and only half of the children by taking them to Eretz Israel, I would choose the second solution. For we must take into account not only the lives of these children but also the history of the people of Israel.”[14]
On August 31, 1949, Ben Gurion stated: “Although we have realized our dream of creating a Jewish State, we are only at the beginning. There are still only 900,000 Jews in Israel, whereas the majority of the Jewish people still remains abroad. Our future task is to bring all the Jews to Israel.”
Of the two and a half million Jews seeking refuge from the Nazis between 1935 and 1943, less than 9% went to settle in Palestine. The vast majority, 75%, went to the Soviet Union. In the mid-70’s, more people emigrated out of ‘Israel’ than came in. The only surges of immigration to the Zionist state have occurred during anti-Semitic threats and persecution in foreign countries.[15]
It follows that for the Zionist state to achieve its goal of a Jewish world ghetto anti-Semitism must be promoted and encouraged, and as we have seen, by acts of violence if necessary.
“To attain its practical objectives, Zionism hopes it will be able to collaborate with a government that is fundamentally hostile to the Jews”.[16]
The use of anti-Semitism as a tool to coerce immigration to the Zionist state continues to the present day:
Prime Minister Sharon has stated that anti-Semitism is on the rise and that the only hope for the safety of Jews is to move to Israel under the protection of the Zionist state. “The best solution to anti-Semitism is immigration to Israel. It is the only place on Earth where Jews can live as Jews," he said.[17]
Those who continue to call the so-called “state of Israel” the “Jewish State” are not only promoting Zionism which is contrary to the beliefs of true Judaism, but also endorsing the promotion of worldwide anti-Semitism. In doing so they are endangering the lives of traditional Jews and denying their civil liberties and human rights.
When the British foreign secretary, Arthur Balfour (sponsor of the 1905 Aliens Act to restrict Jewish immigration to the UK), wanted the British government to commit itself to a Jewish homeland in Palestine, his declaration was delayed - not by anti-Semites but by leading figures in the British Jewish community. They included a Jewish member of the cabinet who called Balfour's pro-Zionism "anti-Semitic in result". In contrast, a great statesman like Secretary of State Colin Powell, a supporter of traditional Judaism, has the courage to separate Judaism from Zionism and to acknowledge that speaking out against the actions of the Zionist state is not “anti-Semitism”.
We call upon our leaders in Washington to disassociate the actions of the Zionist state from traditional Judaism by no longer referring to “Israel” as the “Jewish State” but as “the Zionist State” and to speak out against the Zionist actions which promote anti-Semitism.
Tue May 15, 2007 2:57 pm
madthumbs
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8183 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
naturally i ask, does mossad take orders from rothschild?
or is it a pyramid of mind control? with masonry and judaism used to control the lower levels?
i too have a fluoridated brain and am losing my psy powers more and more each day.
night of the hawk! night of the ha-wk!
Agree on? Depends .. Who believes what? Some think it is just the Rothschilds and powerful friends.
Others believe it is a just a total global Jewish plot. I don't know? I've heard people say that they think is is both or one and the same. This would put the Rothschilds at the top. (The leaders for some form of Talmudic Judaism). Somehow, I feel it there is a connection between groups. I think the Rothschilds have control over money and thus are very, very powerful. They are Masons I think, but I don't know if this is a big deal or not? They did build the large Court building in Israel and have streets named after them and etc. Anyway, I think Free-masonry comes out of Judaism? Maybe the Mossad works for those who already work for the Rothschilds? Meaning - Working with some other well known group, but not for the Rothschilds directly. The family could not handle so much, there has to be those who handle or keep things organized and working for them. These are the other groups. I've heard much talk about the banks owning everything and Corporations are thrown in aswell. Also, I keep hearing International Bankers. Who do they mean - Who are they? If it is the Rothschilds, we must ask ourselves - Who is helping them, or who is in with them? Are some Governments puppets of the Family? Or are they just willing helpers? If it is the Rothschild's that are behind all this (global control,) then the power they control must be like an Octopus, that is capable of reaching across the World and into every Government and Nation. Perhaps, high up in the star chambers of power, it is believed that the Family are to powerful to defeat and thus are feared World wide? So, if that is the case, then perhaps more power and control is continually handed to them? (Give them what they want.) Can one family have that much power? So many questions .. So few "real" answers.
People give humans way to much credit for creations, ideas and inventions....the founder of Zionism(and all other 'ism's') is satan himself plain and simple and the Rothschilds(and all other Khazar Ashkenazi Jews who have no relation to the 12 tribes of Israel) are his puppets!
Tue Aug 07, 2007 3:55 pm
madthumbs
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8183 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
thirdeyeeagle wrote:
People give humans way to much credit for creations, ideas and inventions....the founder of Zionism(and all other 'ism's') is satan himself plain and simple and the Rothschilds(and all other Khazar Ashkenazi Jews who have no relation to the 12 tribes of Israel) are his puppets!
Take your religion induced ignorance elsewhere. We don't need this nonsense here.
U.S.-Funded Apartheid Zionist Regime of Ethnic Cleansing
Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:35 pm
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madthumbs
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8183 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
Israeli shooting
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Palestinians from the village of Bil'in, near Ramallah in the central West Bank, along with their international and Israeli supporters conducted their weekly protest against the Israeli Annexation Wall on Friday midday.
Shortly after the midday Friday prayers, villagers and their Israeli and international supporters marched towards the location of the illegal wall built on the village's land.
The Israeli army installed a barbed-wire roadblock to try and prevent the protesters reaching the construction site.
As soon as the demonstration reached the roadblock troops showered the protesters with tear gas and metal rubber coated bullets. Three protesters were injured by the rubber-coated bullets.
Among the internationals who participated in this week's Bil'in anti wall protest were representative of the Norwegian Socialist Youth, a youth movement from the Socialist party in Norway. Most of the Norwegians were from the city of Turnham, which was the first city in the world that boycotted the South African Apartheid regime in the 1980s.
Pioneers of terrorism
Facts about the founding fathers of Israel
By Sam Kabbani
24 April 2004
Below are some rarely-mentioned facts about the relationship between Zionism and modern-day terrorism:
1. The first aircraft hijacking was carried out by Israel in 1954 against a Syrian civilian airliner.
2. Grenades in cafes: first used by Zionists against Palestinians in Jerusalem on 17 March 1937.
3. Delayed-action, electrically timed mines in crowded marketplaces: first used by Zionists against Palestinians in Haifa on 6 July 1938.
4. Blowing up a ship with its civilian passengers still on board: first carried out by Zionists in Haifa on 25 November 1940. The Zionists did not hesitate to blow up their own people in protest at the British policy of restricting Jewish immigration to Palestine. The ship, Patria, was carrying 1,700 Jewish immigrants.
5. Assassination of government officials: first carried out by the Zionists against the British in Cairo, when on 6 November 1944 Lord Moyne was assassinated by the Stern Gang. Yitzhak Shamir, a member of the Irgun and later leader of the Stern Gang and Israeli prime minister, was behind the plan.
6. Use of hostages as a means of putting pressure on a government: first used by the Zionists against the British in Tel Aviv on 18 June 1946.
7. Blowing up of government offices with their civilian employees and visitors: first carried out by the Zionists against the British in Jerusalem on 22 July 1946. The toll was 91 Britons killed and 46 wounded in the King David Hotel. Menachim Begin, who masterminded and carried out the attack and later became Israeli prime minister, admitted that the massacre was coordinated with and carried out under the instruction of the Haganah Zionist gang.
8. Booby-trapped suitcases: first used by the Zionists against the British Embassy in Rome on 13 October 1946.
9. Booby-trapped cars in civilian areas: first used by the Zionists against the British in Sarafand (east of Jaffa) on 5 December 1946.
10. Beating of hostages: first used by the Zionists against the British in Tel Aviv, Netanya and Rishon on 29 December 1946.
11. Letter bombs sent to politicians: first used by the Zionists against Britain when 20 letter bombs were sent from Italy to London between 4 and 6 June 1947.
12. Murder of hostages as a reprisal for government actions: first used by the Zionists against the British in the Netanya area on 29 July 1947.
13. Postal parcel bombs: first used by the Zionists against the British in London on 3 September 1947.
14. The massacre of Qibya, northwest of Jerusalem, was carried out by Unit 101, under the command of Ariel Sharon on Wednesday 14 October 1953. The attack was the bloodiest and most brutal Zionist crimes since the infamous Deir Yassin massacre. Forty-two houses as well as a school and a mosque were dynamited over their inhabitants. Seventy-five women, men and children were killed.
Remember those examples when you contemplate whether Israel might have been behind the 9/11 attacks, or when the zionist-run media tells you about another 'al qaeda' attack.
REFLECTIONS OF A FRUSTRATED ZIONIST - YEAR END (2007)
by Bernard J. Shapiro
Much has happened in the last year. It has not been a good year for Zionism and the Jewish People. One could be optimistic and try to find the bright side of what has been happening. I am forced by nature to tell the truth in a realistic way. I am condemned to discuss harsh realities.
Some of my reflections:
1. The growth of religious Zionism would save Israel, IF there were TIME for it to take power. I fear that time is running out.
When will the Nationalist Camp realize that we are "at war already" with a PLO supported government that rules Israel? At what point will Israelis realize that the CIVIL WAR they fear, IS ALREADY TAKING PLACE AND THEY ARE LOSING? Why don't members of the Nationalist Camp understand that FORCE is being used by only ONE side which is the extremist pro-Arab anti-Semitic government. The monopoly on power must be broken or there is NO hope.
2. Appeals for aliyah to Israel are a joke. Sounds harsh and non-Zionist. I understand that. Let me make something "perfectly clear" as US President Richard Nixon used to say. As long as Israel is ruled by anti-Semites, who are more interested in protecting the Arab "right" to kill Jews, don't expect huge waves of aliyah. As long as the police, courts, Shin Bet, media continue to defame and persecute TRUE ZIONISTS, don't expect huge waves of immigration. As long as Land in Israel is controlled by the government (and the pro-Arab JNF) to the neglect of Jewish couples wanting to build affordable housing, don't expect a huge wave of immigration. As long as the IDF is used as a political tool to suppress freedom of speech and the G-d given right of the Jewish People to settle Eretz Yisrael, don't expect a huge wave of aliyah. As long as the bureaucracy in the Israel government ministries discourages individual enterprise, there will be no massive wave of immigration.
3. Israel's military/strategic policy as been on a sharp decline since the days of Former Israeli Pm Ben Gurion and Menachem Begin. When Israel agreed to allow the PLO to escape Beirut after the First Lebanon War in 1982, the decline began in earnest. The Freeman Center strategy would have been to agree to let them leave on ships that would have an "accident" en route killing all aboard.
Israel has, without a doubt, the best military in world. The Israel Defense Forces are quite capable of achieving any objective the Israeli government puts before it. The soldiers of the IDF are brave, patriotic and exceptionally well trained and equipped. Unfortunately Israel's political leadership is confused, inept and lacking in Zionist motivation.
Israel has been unable to stop the War of Extermination against it, because it lacks the political will to do what is necessary. The current campaign to secure the release of Cpl. Gilad Shalit, the captured IDF soldier, illustrates this fact. The Israeli government has given the military very limited objectives, primarily the release of the soldier. Proper strategic planning would use the sad situation of Shalit's capture to achieve a number of far reaching and important objectives.
Already Olmert has done several things that prevent the accomplishment of these aims. He has stopped the offensive in Gaza to allow time for negotiations to release Shalit. He has allowed Israel's enemy, Egypt, to intervene, and given the terrorists time to re-group and make demands.
The Israeli objectives should be:
1. The release of the soldier.
2. Elimination of the terrorist leadership in the PA.
3. Item #2 means successfully destroying the newly elected Hamas government.
4. Immediate annexation of all territory in Judea and Samaria that has strategic and religious value (which means all).
5. Withdraw citizenship and voting rights from Israeli Arabs who support terrorism against the State of Israel(which means most).
6. Create municipal councils but not sovereignty for Arab cities in the newly annexed areas.
7. Encourage Arab emigration by strict enforcement of taxes, building permits, national service requirements, and by providing funds to aid in emigration.
8. Dramatically increase Jewish immigration to Israel by reducing taxes and regulations on business. Immigration will soar once the lands of Judea and Samaria are opened up for massive Jewish settlement.
9. The Zionist/Jewish character of Israel must be affirmed and the cost of Jewish blood must rise dramatically as the government develops a zero tolerance for terrorism.
All of the above objectives are achievable. It is my hope that the Olmert government will be replaced soon with a new Zionist government committed to the objectives I have listed above.
10. The policy of restraint may have been practical during the pre-state days and even during the! early years of Israeli independence. These periods were characterized by weakness and relative dependence on foreign goodwill. Following the Six Day War in 1967, the need for restraint (havlagah) decreased and the damage it caused began to become more evident. Israel became the preeminent power in the Middle East, yet failed to grasp the strategic opportunities that came with such dominance. Here are some of the historical highlights of the failed policy of restraint:
1. Following the Six Day War (1967) and the capture of Jerusalem, Moshe Dayan turned over control of Judaism's most sacred place, the Temple Mount, to Moslem authorities. He did it to appease their sensibilities to the Israeli capture of the city. Jewish rights were ignored to please the defeated Arabs, who had plotted our destruction. Dayan also prevented a mass exodus of Arabs from YESHA, which ultimately led to the problems we face today.
2. During the War of Attrition with Egypt (1969-70), the Israeli forces adopted primarily a defensive posture. They built a system of bunkers (The Bar Lev Line) along the Suez Canal. Israeli soldiers were heavily pounded daily by Egyptian artillery. Finally they began to use aircraft to strike targets deep into Egypt. The policy of restraint kept them from striking anything but military and minor economic targets. Israeli soldiers died because the government was inhibited from causing Egypt 'real' pain.
3. The Yom Kippur War of 1973 is a classic example of restraint run amok. Israeli military intelligence did not fail to recognize the approaching danger as has been the common account. In fact, Israel's leaders made the political decision not to utilize the great power of the IDF to crush the Egyptian and Syrian armies that they KNEW were planning to attack. Thousands of Israeli soldiers died needlessly.
4. The Camp David Accord with Egypt was another example of the failure to exert Israeli power. The oil fields of Sinai would have given Israel economic independence from America. The cost of redeployment from Sinai placed Israel in almost permanent debt to American diplomacy (increasingly pro-Arab). Did Israel achieve anything worthwhile at Camp David? I think not and I believe history will bear me out. Egypt has become one of the most ant-Semitic and hostile Arab countries in the world. As a result of Camp David, the Egyptian army now threatens Israel, having been equipped with the most modern American weapons.
5. During the War in Lebanon (1982), the IDF reached Beirut and then failed to complete the destruction of the PLO. Our enemies were allowed to escape and prepare to fight another day. Why didn't the Israeli Navy sink the ships loaded with PLO troops (including Arafat) as they fled Beirut? RESTRAINT!
6. In 1987 the intifada began and the Israeli forces showed great restraint and thus were incapable of crushing it. Of course, Israel received no credit in the Western media for such restraint. The failure to defeat this uprising began a process of demoralization among the Israeli population.
7. The Persian Gulf War (1991) and the SCUD attacks on Israel led to further demoralization. The failure to adequately respond to Iraq's aggression and the humiliating sealed rooms, led to a rapid decline in Israeli morale and desire to defend itself. More and more Israelis began to feel impotent, weak and fatigued with the continuous battle for survival. The Oslo Accords were the logical outcome of this depression and feeling that they could not sustain the struggle.
8. The Oslo Accords (1993) were the ultimate failure of the policy of restraint. Israel like America actually was very powerful. The IDF was unequaled in the Middle East while the US was the most powerful nation in the world. Yet despite this power, Israel's leaders, were ready to grant equal status to a band of murderers and ultimately create a state of "Palestine" which would challenge its right to the Land and its capital of Jerusalem.
9. Israeli forces in Lebanon should have been given a free hand to 'punish' all those who facilitate attacks on them including Syria, Lebanon, and Iran. There should be no more agreements that tie Israeli hands.
The damage caused by havlagah (restraint) has been immense and it far past time to reverse that policy. Americans have been viciously attacked in Africa, Yeman, and Saudi Arabia. The attempt to try to criminalize terrorism has been a dreadful mistake. Terrorism is sponsored by states who allow their territory and funds to help the organization of terrorist. The Oslo agreement allowed Arafat to set up terrorist headquarters in Israel's heartland. From there he sent terrorists to attack Israel. With plausible deniability he claims "he is not responsible."
12 THINGS I AM SICK AND TIRED OF:
1. I am sick and tired of the slowly escalating actions of the IDF to fight terrorism.
The slow escalation allows PA terrorism to become immune to Israel's strategy. It allows them to smuggle more guns, missiles, mortars and anti-aircraft missiles into PA territory. This is much the same as with bacterial infections. If the antibiotic is not strong enough to eliminate it, then the disease will return in a much more virulent form. I would suggest that the IDF launch a massive offensive against the terrorists until victory.
2. I am sick and tired of the Israeli government's fear of collateral damage to the enemy.
The Arabs have no such qualms. In fact they target civilians in bestial suicide and rocket attacks. PA weapons factories, weapons storage depots and bomb making facilities should be blasted off the face of earth even if it causes civilian casualties. Remember that "he who is merciful to the cruel, will end up being cruel to the merciful."
Also remember that the US Civil War, WWI and WWII were won by the massive inflection of casualties on the enemies's civilian populations.
3. I am sick and tired of Israeli PM Olmert's policy of restraint.
The adjustment to accepting the killing of Jews is an abomination. A Jew here or there murdered daily, pretty soon adds up to a lot of dead and maimed Jews. I remember when the Al Aksa terror on Israel began in September 2000, the IDF general staff opened a file called "Operation Thorns", a plan for the retaking of the PA areas. They estimated Israeli dead at 300. Since then there have been almost 1500 Jews killed, which is five times the estimated combat deaths (plus 10,000 wounded, many maimed for life), with no apparent consequences to the terrorists' ability to inflict casualties on Israel.
There is one extremely important variable. The PA (especially in Gaza) has used the last six years to build bunkers, firing positions, smuggle in heavy weapons and missiles, create an underground arms industry and organize an army of 100,000. The defeat of PA now would certainly be more costly. And it will grow with time. There is a very short window of time to defeat the PA terrorists with minimal losses. Many political analysts and military experts agree that Israel must take decisive action NOW.
4. I am sick and tired of the US State Department urging Israel to show "restraint."
Despite the fact that the CIA knows exactly WHO (PA) is attacking WHOM (Israel) the State Department continues call for a stop to the "cycle of violence." Whenever Israel is attacked viciously, there is rush to tell Israel "to turn the other cheek". Are we Christians or Jews? Does American follow the Christian policy expected of Israel?
5. I am sick and tired of Shimon Peres trying to arrange another appeasement for the PA.
He claims to be seeking a cease fire and a return to negotiations. Let me be honest with you. I don't want negotiations with either Hamas, Abbas or Assad. I want to crush them and their terrorist gangs.
6. I am sick and tired of the continued UN presence within the borders of Israel.
It's time to remove them and assert Israel's sovereignty. Israel should work to have the world withdraw its recognition of Arab refugee camps and refugees. It should condemn the hypocritical treatment of the Arab countries in exploiting these people for political purposes. Israel should declare in a strong voice that there are NO refugees. That status is not permanent and obviously should not apply to people living in the same place for 58 years.
7. I am sick and tired of the international boycott of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
Israel should unilaterally announce to the nations of the world that all embassies MUST be in Jerusalem. (Consulates may be in Tel Aviv or any other place they want). Israel will no longer permit its eternal capital to be disrespected.
8. I am sick and tired that under both Labor and Likud governments, Arutz Sheva, Israel National Radio, has not been fully legalized.
Whatever happened to freedom of speech? Arutz Sheva should not only be allowed to establish facilities on land but also a television channel. I am also sick and tired of government television being controlled and dominated by the extreme left that does not represent the Israeli public. A lot of the time they represent the Arabs and not Israelis.
9. I am sick and tired of Israel's trying to be 'Mister Nice Guy' to a hypocritical world.
Europeans are increasingly comparing Israel to the Nazis. Over half of all the resolutions of the UN since its founding have been directed against Israel. At the conference on how to condemn Israel in Durban, South Africa, UN head Kofi Anan condemned Israel for existing. In fact, at a recent meeting at the UN, there was a map of "Palestine", which included all of Israel. The Arab world openly plots the destruction of Israel. I am sick and tired of the vilification of "settlers".
10. I am sick and tired of Israel tolerating Moslem restrictions and desecrations on the Temple Mount.
The excuse that it would cause violence to exercise our rights there is absurd. Israel has the capability to enforce security. Virtually everything Israel wants do in the Land of Israel displeases the Arabs, who want us to leave. Jews should be allowed to pray on the Temple Mount and the destruction of Jewish antiquities by the Moslem waqf needs to be stopped immediately.
11. I am sick and tired of PA demonstrations of the fierceness of their terrorists and how they will destroy Israel.
Why not knock off a bunch of them during their demonstrations? Maybe they would be more circumspect.
12. And most important, the IDF and police should never be used for political purposes. Their purpose is to protect Israelis and not to expel them from their homes or persecute them.
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I DO believe that we will defeat our current adversaries. We will succeed and survive from three sources of our strength: Love of Tanach (Torah), Love of Eretz Israel (Land of Israel, and Love of Am Yisrael (People of Israel).
.......In blood and fire was Israel born, and on a hot anvil was she forged. Her youth understood that life in the new Jewish homeland would require sacrifice. With stories of the stench of burning flesh from the ovens of Auschwitz embedded deep in their psyches, the young Israeli soldiers fight with the firm conviction that there is still no alternative, "ein breira." (From personal diary1992).
To that I would like add something the American soldiers used to say during the heaviest fighting in Viet Nam. This is dedicated (slightly revised) to the brave IDF soldiers who face the enemy every day: Yea, though I walk through the Valley of Death, I will fear no evil because the Almighty fights with me for the Restoration of Zion and for love of HIS people, Israel.
.......And for the Jews of YESHA, I believe that He will NOT allow Olmert to expel them from the heartland of ERETZ YISRAEL. But remember, the Lor-d helps those who help themselves. Do not wait for a miracle -- BE THE MIRACLE!
