Dear Friends, Adversaries and Disturbed
people.
by Steven Shamrak
You might be surprised, but I do like
receiving messages from people who disagree with ideas I express, as long as
they are able to support their views with facts and intelligibly present them.
It gives me an opportunity to revisit my own ‘pre-conceived’ ideas and analyse
them from an antagonist’s point of view. While doing so, I have been finding
more supporting facts and ideas for the main point I advocate – the right of
Jews to the land of Eretz-Israel – that I might not look for otherwise!
Unfortunately, intelligible opposition is
very rare and hard to find! Israel bashing has become a common substitute and
camouflage of ordinary anti-Semitism, which hardly bothers with facts and
common courtesy! At the same time, Jews and Jewish issues have become a magnet
for distorted people who thrive on and need attention from others. At least our
true adversaries have some political or religious convictions and sometimes,
although not often, they respond to common sense.
The necessity for attention is a very
common behaviour among people. Modern technology provides them with ‘wonderful’
tools like emailing, instant messaging, chat-rooms, blogs, YouTube etc. There
are people who, due to some personal problems, need external attention in order
to function and feel good about themselves. Some of them create this source of
attention using anti-Semitism as a provocative way of communication. It is a
classic case of Psychology101; “Even negative attention is better then none”.
They throw baseless, stupid, rude or outrageous ideas or accusations one after
another, just to get any response. They do not care about the content of an
answer or facts one gives. Often, they do not even mind if you are rude to
them. Just the fact that someone is replying to them makes them feel important.
This is the gratification they are seeking and need!
The best course of action we can take, for
their sake, is to end the pattern of instant gratification by breaking this
chain. We have to stop replying to them and starve them of the attention they
are seeking. It will, hopefully, help them to recognise the problem and seek
professional help! It is the best course of action anyone can take to help
another human being, regardless of their political standing.
Pogrom in
Israel. Six of the eight Jewish
families' homes in ancient village Peki'in were either burned or ransacked by
Druze rioters. A cellular transmitter that was installed in the village was
used as "just an excuse" for violence against Jews.
Hamas
terrorists fired on Wednesday evening mortars at Israel from inside a school
courtyard in Beit Hanoun, Gaza.
Food
for Thought. by Steven Shamrak
Any
agreement reached by Israel with Abbas, without the approval of a Hamas
government democratically elected by ‘Palestinian’ Arabs, renders it useless
and illegal! Israel and the US are pretending that it is not a problem in order
to keep alive a delusion of the Peace process. Arabs are silent, because it
will give them grounds to ignore and break this agreement with Israel at any
time, as they usually do!
Stop
the Meeting. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
(PFLP) last Monday urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to stop meetings
with Israeli leaders. The chief Palestinian peace negotiator (Fatah) raised the
stakes for a U.S.-sponsored peace conference, saying there will be no talks
with Israel unless it agrees to set a deadline for establishing a Palestinian
state. (There will be no deadline set to end
Arab terrorism during another useless ‘parlay’. The PFLP, Fatah and Hamas have
the same intention. They just rap it differently. Arabs do not offer peace or
any compromise to Israel, just terror! The end of Arab occupation of Jewish
land will end Arab terror!)
Freeing Terror Money. The American government is planning to transfer $410
million to the Palestinian Authority in an effort to strengthen its president,
Mahmoud Abbas and non-democratic prime minister, Salam Fayyad. (The more aid the PA
receives, the more funds Fatah and Hamas have to dig tunnels
and buy weapons, explosives and rockets!)
Why Only Israel is Looking for
Normalization? According to A-Sharq Al-Awsat, Palestinian Authority
Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has asked Arab nations not to recognize Israel until
Israel agrees to give away Judea, Samaria, and all of the Jerusalem
neighborhoods regained in the Six Day War. Abbas reportedly said that Arab
countries do not need to promote the normalization of relations with Israel.
IAEA –
Another International Israel-basher. Chief UN
nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei accused Israel of taking "the law into
their own hands" with a raid on Syria. ElBaradei said he had been told by
Syria that the site was a military facility and "has nothing to do with
nuclear." (If it was not a nuclear site, why would IAEA be
concerned about it! The organization has proved to be useless in Pakistan,
India, North Korea and Iran. By procrastination and inaction, it only
facilitates the proliferation of nuclear weapons.)
The Fifth Column. Israeli-Arab
leaders Ra’ad Salah and MK Jamal Zahalka held a rally Saturday threatening
Arabs who agree to take part in any national service. Israeli Arab MKs were
outraged at Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman's demands for a
population exchange with the PA in advance of the summit in Annapolis, however
they are calling for a full Israel withdrawal to the 1967 borders. "The
borders must be the 1967 lines, including east Jerusalem as the capital of
Palestine," MK Ahmad Tibi of UAL said. (Do
they represent Israel or the enemies of the State?)
Quote of the Week:
"The
Annapolis peace conference is not a scientific experiment and the Israeli
people are not guinea pigs." – Israeli
Public Security Minister Avi Dichter. – The best
course of action would be to end the charade of the ‘Peace process’ and pursue
our national goals.
'Olive Harvest' - Expression of self-Hate. Three Jewish
left-wing activists who claimed to be protecting Arab olive-pickers were
arrested after destroying a Jewish vineyard a week ago.
How Much Policing Do They Need? The PA to fire
30,000 policemen from West Bank security forces. The PA security forces have
some 80,000 men and women on their payroll. Agreements signed between the PA
and Israel in 1994 and 1995 limited the PA security forces to some 30,000. (PA
recruited terrorists to provide them with jobs. International hypocrites have
been paying their salary with no accountability. At the same time, the level of
terror has increased!)
Terrorists Bite the Hand that Feeds. Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said that
Israel had no choice in authorizing power cuts to Gaza in light of continued
terrorist attacks. "Should we tell them to continue firing rockets at the
same power station that provides them with electricity and continue to bomb the
water system that provides them with water?"
PA Arabs Torch Yad Yair Synagogue. Jews arrived at the Yad Yair synagogue for morning prayers
on Friday, week ago, to the horrific site of Torah scrolls and holy books
consumed in a blaze. They also destroyed a children’s playground. It was the
third time in the past 18 months that the synagogue, named in memory of terror
victim Yair Mendelson, was torched by Palestinian Arabs. (No international outcry or condemnation!
Self-hating Jews are also silent.)
Defiling Memory of Rabin by Omission.
zoa.org/2007/10/israeli_foreign_2.htm
The Israeli Foreign Ministry Website
omits a link to Rabin's last Knesset speech repudiating a Palestinian State,
which is in its Rabin Memorial Web-Page. In his last speech to the Knesset,
delivered on October 5, 1995, Rabin outlined in detail his peace vision and the
limits of concessions he was prepared to make:
ZOA National
President Morton A. Klein said, “…the policy of the Olmert government has
discarded each and every one of Rabin’s red lines in dealing with the
Palestinian Authority (PA) that he outlined in that major speech…” (The
current Israeli self-hating left lacks any morality. They even falsify and omit
the ideas and political stand of their own leaders, like Rabin and Ben Gurion!)