Terror Victims' Group: Why Did We Go to
War?
When Israel attacked in Lebanon 2006, Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert said the main objective was to rescue the abducted
soldiers. Almagor group, which represents terror victims, said that the
government's decision regarding the deal with Hizbullah means that the Second
Lebanon War has ended in a fiasco and "all of the government's promises
and bravado faded with a whimper." Almagor chairman, Lieut-Col. (res.)
Meir Indor said: "The governments' duty now is to explain to 117 families
of the fallen soldiers in the Second Lebanon War, and to the families of
civilian victims who died during the war, why did Israel go to war when it
could have surrendered to the Hizbullah's demands from the outset?"
Bassam Kuntar, brother of child-murderer Samir
Kuntar who will be released in the deal approved by the Israeli government,
told Hizbullah's radio station "the one who released the prisoners was not
the Israeli Prime Minister or the Israeli government, but Hizbullah, with its
abduction operation two years ago." (Olmert’s
government has allowed its enemies to feel triumphant. This will only lead to
an escalation of terror against Israel and more victims!)
Fatah vs Hamas – Identical Terrorist Dirt Bags: "The cease-fire is gone and the Al Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades will make the enemy pay a high price for its crimes against the truce
Hamas gave for free to the enemy. We emphasize our right to act at any time and
place of our choosing," quote from a pamphlet released last week by the Al
Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. Since the cease-fire was signed last month, Fatah's Al
Aqsa Martyrs Brigades have fired more than a dozen rockets and mortars into
Israel.
Food for Thought. by Steven Shamrak
Many Muslim leaders,
including heads of states, gave the West an ultimatum: “Convert to Islam or
die!” For the sake of self-preservation, people in Israel and the Western
countries must end this stupid policy of political correctness and say to
Muslims: “Leave us alone. Move out to Iran or the Wahabistic pariah Saudi
Arabia and live happily or kill each other over there.” They will have no one
else to blame any more!
Hizbullah: We’ll Attack Once Deal is
Done. Hizbullah’s commander
in southern Lebanon, Sheikh Nabil Kawuk, announced that the terrorist
organization will renew its attacks on Israeli civilians once the ransom deal
is done. “We will soon achieve a great victory due to the deal to release our
prisoners in Israel,” he said,” and then we will reach a new level to free the
Shebaa Farms (Hizbullah’s term for Har Dov).” (Must
Israel wait and just react to the enemy’s attacks? Only by setting objectives
and national goals and acting toward achieving them can Israel end terror and
teach its enemies how to live in peace!)
River
of Money.
The international community has paid out nearly a billion
dollars in direct aid to the Palestinians in six months. (Refugees
from Darfur do not get such international generosity! Aid in support of a
terror system designed to destroy Israel is not a problem for anti-Semites, but
aid to Israel in order to fight global Islamic terror and defend the world from
it is a ‘great’ problem for those bigots!)
Living
In Fear of the ‘Brotherly Love’. Many
of the Persian Gulf States, including Saudi Arabia, are concerned about Iran’s
expanding influence, especially amongst Shiite communities in the area and most
likely would not be opposed to an Israeli strike against Iran or even quietly
welcome it as they did when Israel bombed Iraqi nuclear reactor. The Saudi
economy is especially vulnerable to Iranian threats to close the Straits of
Hormuz and block world oil production.
Quote of the
Week:
“Unlike puppets we have the
possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the
machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first steps towards
freedom.” - Peter Berger, Sociologist.
Israel
Helps Africa Combat AIDS. Inon Schenker, an AIDS prevention
specialist, is working to marry the experience accumulated in Israel with the
urgent need in Africa for effective programs to fight the AIDS epidemic. A link
between circumcision and AIDS prevention was shown in three studies conducted
between 2004 and 2006, which found that the risk of contracting AIDS in
heterosexual sex is 50 percent to 60 percent less among men who are circumcised.
Ironic
Twist of ‘Withdrawal’. Gazan Arabs who were employed by Israeli
farmers in Gush Katif are seeking ways to sue their former employers for
"wrongful dismissal." (Immediately after 8,500 Jews were
forcefully transferred from Gaza, greenhouses were destroyed, ransacked and
transformed into the terror training camps. Transfer of Arabs from Jewish land
is not even considered!)
Old
World Game: Robbing and Killing Jews!
by
Steven Shamrak
Every four years, the world waits with great
anticipation for the start of the next Olympic Games. Meanwhile, another world
game has been going on for almost two millennia. It all started with the
traditional attitude of the Church toward Jews as the “killers of the Saviour”
which provided a pretext for traditional anti-Semitism in Europe and America.
However, the true reason for anti-Semitism has always been a financial one.
Even the early Christians, in spite of persecution by the Romans, wanted to
disassociate themselves from their Jewishness mainly in order to avoid paying
the humiliating additional tax that the Romans imposed on Jews after the
destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem.
Later, any local king, baron, knight or abbot
could kill, rob and displace Jews without fear of any retribution and with
feeling of moral superiority promoted by the Church. Many royals borrowed
heavily from the Jews in the past in order to maintain their lavish lifestyle
or conduct wars. In return, existence under royal protection was offered to
Jews, but often the debt was annulled and Jewish communities were forced to
leave their homes.
England expelled Jews long before the
Inquisition. In the beginning of the 14th century, the king of
France, Philippe Le Bel, cancelled his debt to the Jews. The expulsions of Jews
all over Europe were often accompanied by confiscation of their properties as
well. The Church found this enterprise quite profitable during the time of the
Inquisition.
At least in the middle ages Jews were allowed to
leave and face danger in foreign lands! The Nazis and their willing ‘dogs’ in
many countries were not satisfied by just making themselves rich with
confiscated Jewish properties; they needed Jewish blood!
During the 1930s the United State congress
unleashed anti-Communist propaganda, which coincided with the governmental
‘tolerance’ toward the rise of anti-Semitism and racism. Fascist and racist
organizations like the KKK flourished! Jews were branded as war-mongers for
their anti-Fascist position and were scared of governmental and mob reprisal.
The US denied shelter to Jewish refugees from Europe, even to those who had
entry visas. At the same time, the trade with fascist Germany and Italy thrived
and goods from American steel to IBM computers were sold to “defenders against
Communism”. Morality and decency were discarded and replaced by the corporate
bottom line!
Since the birth of the modern Zionist movement,
a new game has been invented: “It is all about money (actually oil), stupid!”
The British government promised support for the creation of the Jewish state in
Palestine during the WW1. In 1922, almost immediately after the League of
Nations gave control over the Palestinian mandate to Britain, in order to
facilitate the creation of the Jewish state, 77% of Jewish land was ceded to
Muslims in exchange for the control of oil in Kirkut. At the same time the
Sinai Peninsula was given to Egypt in order to gain lucrative control of Suez
Canal.
Some Jews still have a warm feeling about US
support for Jewish immigration from the Soviet Union. I am one who benefited
from this policy. Was it an altruistic gesture made by the United States on
behalf of Soviet Jewry or a well calculated and planned collusion by enemies?
Couldn’t it be that the ‘outrageous’ demands to allow Jews to be able to leave
the USSR permitted the continuation of the charade of the Cold war? This war,
which divided the world on spheres of economic and political influence and more
importantly arm trade! The USSR had been supplying arms to world
revolutionaries, to most Arab countries and India, and the US were in charge of
Israel and the rest of the ‘free world’. Every state of the world was paranoid
and paralysed by fear. All of them were buying weapons! During this game, for
almost 12 years, the Soviets ‘graciously’ allowed Jews to leave the Soviet
Union with nothing!
During the last few years, we can see Russia
under president Putin has been re-establishing the same ‘balance of power’ with
minimal (or even no) ‘resistance’ from the USA. As they say: “The game must go
on!”
Over two millennia Jews have become used to
enraged religious fanatics; to enrich local rulers by borrowing from or robbing
Jews; to divert public opinion and the anger of the mob from the failure of the
ruling class or government. What is absolutely amazing is that all religious
and political spectrums did it; Christians, Muslims, Capitalists, Fascists and
godless Communists have been quite skilfully playing this game of robbing and
killing Jews!
Contrary to the common misconception that “we
(Jews) can’t do anything about it”, it has only happened because throughout
history, after the trauma Jews suffered during the destruction of the Temple
and expulsion from Judea and Samaria, we have remained paralysed victims and,
after hundreds of years of indoctrination, many Jews started to believe to the
lies of our enemies that we are at fault. We did not organise our own defence
even when we had sufficient numbers to crush our enemies because we always were
made feel as strangers in the strangers’ land and feared the reprisal of our
enemies.
After 60 years of the independence of the Jewish
state, it is time to shake off this subservient mentality and not just ask but
demand the due respect from others and proudly obtain full ownership of the
land of our ancestors.