by
Lynn Sharon
Many countries and world leaders have
accused Israel of responding disproportionately to aggression from Hezbollah in
Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza. Reluctantly the world's media started to make note
of another disproportionate response from Israel.
Let's look at Haiti and the disastrous
earthquake in Haiti that has generated responses from many nations:
The US has sent supplies and personnel,
Britain sent 64 firemen and 8 volunteers, France sent troops for Search and
Rescue. Many large and wealthy nations of the world sent money.
The Arab and Moslem world -- nothing.
Israel, a nation of 7.5 million people
has sent a team of 220 people that include Medical personnel and
has established the largest field hospital in Haiti, treating up to 5000
people a day, along with an experienced Search and Rescue team and medical
supplies.
As in previous earthquake disasters,
such as in Gujarat India in 2001 and in Turkey, in the bombings in Kenya,
Israel has been one of the most generous givers of aid and assistance Turkey
seems to have forgotten this help…
It is about time for some
soul-searching and honesty. It is about time for the world
to acknowledge Israel's disproportionate response to those who face
despair - Israel's disproportionate compassion to those in dire need of succour
in the face of disaster?
It is also about time for the world to
admit the disproportionate hatred spewed out by the United Nations - by those
very nations whose hands are soaked in the blood of the innocent.
Food for Thought. by
Steven Shamrak
Osama bin Laden claimed credit for the Christmas day attempt to
blow up an airliner bound for Detroit and vowed there would be more attacks.
Have you heard any condemnation from traditional anti-Semites and Israel haters
and Muslim allies of the United States?
Time for Israel’s self-Defence is Now.
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, wrote that "Surely, the day
will come when the nations of the region will witness the destruction of the
Zionist regime." Western Intelligence agency’s now believe Iran will
be able to produce a large nuclear bomb within a year and Iranian President
Ahmadinejad has often said that Israel is "doomed to be wiped off the
map".
Obama Using
Blame to Cove up his Failed Polices. President Barack Obama blamed the Israeli right for the diplomatic
freeze with the Palestinian Authority: "the difficulty of Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu to progress beyond what the right-wing coalition
allows." (The
Israeli self-hating left will push Israel to self-destruction. Is the
unwillingness of Arabs, including Abbas, to have peace with Israel nothing to
do with lack of progress?)
The Traitor has
Spoken Again. President of Israel,
Shimon Peres said on Wednesday that Israel is ready to surrender more land:
"Israel supports the principle of the 'two state solution'… today we are
prepared to relinquish territories to achieve peace with the Palestinians and
to enable them to establish an independent, prosperous and peaceful state.” (When will this delusional man retire and stop
undermining Israel’s policy?)
Another
Idiot has Opened his Mouth. In order to promote his
party (Labor) position and undermined the view of his Prime Minister, Benjamin
Netanyahu, Defence Minister Ehud Barak says the conflict with Palestinians
poses a greater threat to Israel than Iran's nuclear program.
IDF
Trains International Commandos. The IDF’s
Foreign Training Branch trains international commandos from around the world in
urban warfare and 2010 is overbooked already.
Quote of the
Week: "A mere
six decades after the Holocaust, you give legitimacy to a man who denies the
murder of six million Jews while promising to wipe out the State of Israel, the
State of the Jews. What a disgrace. What a mockery of the charter of the United
Nations." - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at
U.N. summit, after Ahmadinejad's speech.
What War on
Terror? The Obama administration has lifted a ban placed on the radical Muslim
intellectual and theologian Tariq Ramadan, based in Switzerland, because he had
contributed several hundred dollars to a Palestinian aid association. Tariq
Ramadan is the grandson of Hassan el Banna, the founder of the Muslim
Brotherhood in Cairo in 1928.
Response to UN’s anti-Israel Smear. IDF prosecutor
Avichai Mandelblitt said the Goldstone Report charges Israel with intentionally
damaging civilian infrastructure, which he called ''totally false'': 1)
Destruction of a flour mill did not come from an Israeli F-16, but was caused
by a rocket launching by the Hamas that went bad. 2) The much discussed
destruction of a waste water treatment center was not by Israel but rather by
Hamas explosions. (Has Hamas bothered investigate
its war crimes and respond to the UN? As usual, no one is complaining!)
They
Also Opposed Sanctions Against Nazi Germany! American
business groups, including the United States Chamber of Commerce, warned the
White House that congressional plans to expand sanctions against Iran threaten
to significantly undermine American economic and security interests. “The
proposed sanctions would incite economic, diplomatic and legal conflicts with
US allies and could frustrate joint action against Iran.” (Why
are those ‘US allies’ supporting Iran - the enemy of the United States?)
Stupidity of Feeding Enemies. As a goodwill
gesture (how many of them must Israel make to
realize that they do not work?), Defense Minister Ehud Barak has
authorized the annual transfer of NIS 25 million, about $6 million, to Gaza
Strip residents entitled to social security and pension payments from Israel. (The money could be better used for supporting Israeli
victims of Hamas and fighting terror!)
Hiding
Failure and Delusional Stupidity. In his first State of the
Union address on Wednesday night, U.S. President Barack Obama said that he
would not give up on his vision of affordable health care, and would work
harder to fix the U.S. economy. He did not mention U.S. involvement in
achieving a Mideast peace deal, nor did he mention Israel and the Palestinian
Authority. He did say that the U.S. war against Al Qaeda terrorists was
succeeding. (The fake Mideast peace process has
brought another failure. There is no progress in Iraq and Afghanistan either!)
Non-Zionist
Press does not Make Commercial Sense. Public radio station
Kol-Israel, which has a monopoly on national broadcasts, is losing listeners to
regional stations. Army Radio stations also lost listeners. Meanwhile
listenership of regional radio stations is rising. And the new TGI media survey shows that the three main leftwing newspapers
continue to lose readership. Haaretz Falls to Fifth Place.
Time for Rebirth of True Zionism.
by Lori Lowenthal Marcus
Israel is the
Jewish state. The UN recognized Israel that way in 1948. The idea of a safe
homeland for the Jewish people, in the land of Israel - that’s Zionism.
But that idea has been effectively stolen and delegitimized by people peddling
fashionable (anti-Semitic) politics.
And as the world
grows increasingly hostile to Israel, the Jews hostile to Israel play an
increasingly larger role in the public debate. Who are those Jews? You know:
the self-important intellectuals and the well-moneyed, honey-tongued groupies
currently whispering into the eager ears of the White House (seeking the praise of the masters). They label
themselves “pro-peace and pro-Israel.” But they don’t really care about
protecting Israel from the threats of terrorism and extinction.
They protect
themselves from being identified with the nationalistic Jews (but Palestinian nationalism is a virtue and a right,
according to them) by advocating a “peace process” that has never led
and will never lead to peace in the Middle East. The same holds true for the
non-Jews who call themselves pro-peace but are really just anti-Israel.
How will Z
STREET change the terms of the debate? First, ours is the proud, full-throated
advocacy of (true) Zionism (flexible ‘zionism’ does not work and is even more
dangerous than Arab terrorists). Second, our approach is devoted to
changing the terms of the public debate by firmly and unabashedly
asserting our “three No’s”: NO negotiations with, NO appeasement of and NO
concessions to terrorists. We refuse to use the vocabulary of those who have
delegitimized the Zionist idea. Words like “occupation”, “West Bank” and
“settlers” are weapons pointed at the heart of Zionism, not neutral instruments
(but do not spend too much time on useless rebuke).
The sooner people see that, the faster we’ll all attain clarity.
There was never
a Palestinian State (or people) and that Jews
have an irrefutable centuries-long religious and historical attachment to
Jerusalem (and all Palestine), while the Arab
(and other so-called) Palestinians have
none... What’s not nice - the language or the facts? Until the terms of the
debate and the strategy for changing those terms are employed, the world will
continue to abuse Israel. (But most importantly,
Jews must start to believe again that Jewish people have the right to live as a
sovereign nation on the land of our ancestors. We must stop looking for
approval from others and pursue what is rightfully ours!) It is time to
sweep aside years of mind control successfully practiced by the anti-Israel
crowd.