by Steven
Shamrak
Sometimes
I am criticised for using the description
"International anti-Semites" too often. I do
substitute it by the words "bigots" or
"idiots" from time to time. I shall continue to
call things by their true names. Regardless of the
terminology, there are many facts pertaining to unfair,
genocidal and prejudicial treatment of Jews even during
recent history that support my use of the term
"International
anti-Semites":
1.
In July 1922, the
League of
Nations entrusted
Great
Britain with
the Palestine Mandate, recognising "the historical connection of the
Jewish people with
Palestine".
Great
Britain was called upon to facilitate
the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine - Eretz
Israel ( Land of Israel). Three months later, in order to obtain full
control over the Suez Canal ,
Great
Britain made a deal with the
Hashemite
Kingdom,
Egypt
and France . Trans-Jordan (77% of the
Mandate) was given to the king's brother in exchange for the
Sinai, which was given to
Egypt . Golan
Heights
(5% of the Palestinian Mandate) was ceded to the French
controlled Syrian Mandate.
2.
Before WWII, knowing the genocidal intention of Nazi Germany
toward Jews, "International anti-Semites" signed an
agreement restricting Jewish immigration from
Europe.
3.
Nazis were facilitators of the
Holocaust, but they would not have been successful if not
for the
participation of local Poles, French, Lithuanians,
Ukrainians and others. In
Denmark,
Bulgaria and even fascist
Italy, where the local population
and governments did not co-operate with Nazi occupiers, many
Jews survived!
4.
Nazis were facilitators of the Holocaust, but they would not
be successful if not for enthusiastic and joyful
participation from local Polacks, French, Litanies,
Ukrainians and others. In
Denmark,
Bulgaria and even fascist
Italy , where local population and
governments did not co-operate with Nazi occupiers, many
Jews survived.
5.
On
29 Nov, 1947
the UN General Assembly adopted
resolution 181, which divided the remaining 18% of the
Jewish Land to
six unmanageable
triangles with
Jerusalem to
be controlled by a "special international regime",
inviting Arabs to attack and finish what Nazi Europe
started!
6.
When fully armed armies of seven Arab/Muslim states attacked
the newly created, disarmed Jewish state the "International
anti-Semites" imposed an arms embargo on the region to
prevent Jews from defending their right to exist as a
sovereign nation.
7. Since
the creation of the UN, over 50% of its resolutions have
been related and mainly critical of
Israel . Recent appointment of the PA
as a non-member state to the UN has opened the door to
additional anti-Israel bigotry by the "International
anti-Semites" involving ICC.
I have
been publishing my editorial letter for over eleven years.
Contrary to some opinions, I am not a right-winger or
extremist. I base my conclusions on facts be they religious
and long-forgotten or recent historical ones. The Zionist
dream of Jewish people has nothing to do with right or left
of the politics. It is the essential right of the people to
freedom of living on their ancestral land, as most nations
do!
The facts
remain unchanged.
The unhealthy international preoccupation with Jews
must be exposed and vigorously
confronted!
Food for Thought
by
Steven Shamrak
Since Hamas stopped firing
rockets at Israel there has been no Israeli
attacks against Gaza - so
much for 'Israeli aggression'! International media and
so-called human rights organisations have conveniently
forgotten the accusations they made against
Israel . The same anti-Semitic bigots
have been conspicuously quiet about atrocities and the human
rights violations committed by Muslims around the world - in
Pakistan ,
Afghanistan,
Syria,
Egypt,
Libya and
Mali . Obviously, they are keeping
the powder dry for the next anti-Israel assault!
President Barack Obama took nearly a week to
congratulate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for
narrowly winning the election. Martin Indyk told Army Radio that
Netanyahu should reach out to Obama to help repair relations
between the two. "President Obama is feeling quite
frustrated because he rightly feels that he has done the
right thing by Israel, but Israel is not responsive,"
Indyk said. (Common courtesy
does not apply to Israel! The US has never fully supported
the right of Israel to exist within all Jewish land. During
the War of independence, US actively participated in the
arms embargo when disarmed Jews were facing genocide from
the armies of seven Arabs
states!)
Egypt, Syria are Falling Apart
Israeli Air Force Commander Maj. Gen.
Amir Eshel warned that
Syria is falling apart and no one knows what the next day
may bring. If Hezbollah seize chemical weapons stores,
Israel will have to decide on the spot whether to attack
Syria or Lebanon. In Cairo,
Egypt
's army chief
Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, warned: "The state is on the
brink of collapse." Some 60 people have been killed in
protests in Egyptian towns against the Muslim Brotherhood
and President Mohamed Morsi.
Israel has
strongly criticised Argentina for its decision to work with
Iran to investigate a 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural
centre in Buenos Aires. Argentine prosecutors say the attack
was planned and financed by Iran, and carried out by the
Lebanese Shia Islamist movement, Hezbollah - 85 people were
killed.
Israel became the first nation to
skip a UN review of its human rights record without giving a
reason - and then won a precedent-setting deferral. US
diplomats have said the council is too focused on Israel.
Israel, meanwhile, said last year that it would stop
cooperating with the council. Israel
has gone through one review before in 2008, when many
delegations demanded it recognise and respect Palestinians'
right to self-determination and a homeland. (But the court and international
anti-Semites do not respect Israel and the right of the
Jewish state's existence!)
Fathi
Shihab-Eddim, claimed the Holocaust was a hoax invented by
American intelligence, and that the six million Jews who
were killed by the Nazis merely moved to the
US.
Three weeks ago the Israeli navy, allegedly,
intercepted a ship containing advanced weaponry destined for
Lebanon. T he ship was registered to a Qatari
company and contained advanced weapons,
including anti-aircraft missiles.
Last week, Israeli fighter jets bombed
targets in Syria and Lebanon that included caches of weapons
and senior members of the Iranian Quds Force. France Press quoted security sources saying
that the Israeli air force bombed a weapons convoy just as
it was crossing from Syria into Lebanon. Although,
the Syrian government stated that the
Israel had struck a Jamaraya institute near Damascus, which
developed Syrian unconventional arms.
Quote(s) of the Week:
"...journalists must be public trustees with the
full measure of responsibility to the public. That accuracy
and fairness are fundamental to good journalism. A single
standard of truth must prevail for all." - Walter Williams, founder of
the Missouri School of Journalism - This was written over hundred years ago! How many
international journalists do we know that live by this code
of public service? Definitely not the media rejects who
cover the Arab-Israel conflict!
Despite its history of friendly
relations with Israel, the
US has been aiding Palestinian Authority
construction in areas where the work could tilt the outcome
of Mideast
negotiations in favour of the (so-called)
Palestinians.
By aiding PA construction of
infrastructure in the West Bank
and eastern
Jerusalem,
the US has effectively been helping the PA
create facts on the ground that could push disputed
neighbourhoods towards becoming part of a Palestinian state,
including areas where the land in question is wholly owned
by Jews.
While the Obama administration has been
demanding a complete halt to all Jewish construction in the
West
Bank and eastern
sections of Jerusalem, the US Agency for International
Development, or USAID, has been financing PA infrastructure
projects in those same territories. Some of the projects
include the construction of PA municipal buildings as well
as roads and other infrastructure.
Case and point are multiple towns in the
West
Bank in what is known as
Area C - neighbourhoods controlled by
Israel. Last month the State Department
inaugurated a USAID-funded Palestinian school in Beit Ijza,
a West
Bank neighbourhood
about five miles northwest of
Jerusalem. The
US has also been aiding multiple other
West
Bank areas with the
construction of roads and municipal facilities.
Some of the US-funded construction has
been carried out by a company owned by the son of PA
President Mahmoud Abbas.
While the
US assistance to the PA has been stepped
up in recent months, USAID has been helping the Palestinians
develop sections of Jerusalem for several years now, including on
property owned by Jews...
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RABBI DR. BERNHARD ROSENBERG will not attend and boycott if imam sits during hatikvah.
Organizers to vote on restoring ‘Hatikva’ to interfaith program
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Rabbi Bernhard Rosenberg says omitting the Israeli anthem from the Holocaust commemoration would be “giving in to the current atmosphere of anti-Semitism.”
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Rabbi Bernhard Rosenberg says omitting the Israeli anthem from the Holocaust commemoration would be “giving in to the current atmosphere of anti-Semitism.”
I have come to the conclusion that people like Rabbi Rosenberg threaten others because of the passion he brings to his message. My fantasy is that others would realize that his personal history is unique and while he functions as a rabbi in Edison, he also has worked for many years with the second generation community in the area, for no money, for no press, but because he identifed a need.
No one who was directly affected by the Holocaust and has spent years coping with that legacy, for many of us are in our forties, fifties and sixties now, want to take away anything from the mainstream Jewish community in this area, whose parents are not survivors of the death camps, etc. We accept that for the most part people, Jews, really don’t care to hear our stories and the incredible insight that our parents’ experiences have had on shedding light on our own lives, to permit us to push through challenges that others might find too daunting.
I think many of us 2-Gers watched our parents get up every day and function, and for me anyway, watching my mother walking to the farmers market with her basket every Saturday and then meeting me for lunch and filling my head with so many amazing stories, to take the bus home together, getting sick and laughing as we cosumed 2 pounds of beautiful sour cherries like there was no tomorrow. Those memories, just simple everyday connections where my mother was happy and engaged in life, Auschwitz number and all, filled me with a sense of awe and motivated me to go out in the world to try to make it a better place. And so many second generation individuals are just like me.
We know on a spritual level that Hatikvah and our survivor parents and Israel go hand in hand. We feel it everyday it is part of our DNA in a way that relates to my mother’s entire nuclear and most of her extended family being brutally murdered just because they were Jewish and that is the state of affairs for the Israelis at this very moment. They know that they could be hit by a rocket or have their children bombed into littele pieces coming home from school and this is not a movie, this is how it is for the Jewish people who live in Israel every day. My mother would not let me go to Israel during high school. She beleived that I would fall in love with the country and maybe with a person and decide to make aliyah. She said she lost too many people and that she needed me to live here.
The survivors and Israel and Hatikvah go together. That is a core belief in all of our families. The vast majority of the survivors went to Palestine and were there when Israel was made a state. My mother is one with Israel. Her only family to survive went to Palestine and Australia. And to this day, my mother says that there must be a G-d because after the Holocaust he gave me Israel. My mother and the other survivors need Israel, they needed Israel since the end of the Holocaust and the fact that they received in 1948 was the lifeblood that kept many survivors from committing suicide. When my mother attends Holocaust Memorial services with me and she hears Hatikvah she smiles, she cries very much with tears of joy, she looks proud, and she looks happy, and that makes me happy. So hopefully we can put Hatikvah back into all the Yom Hashoah services in the area. Because it is not about politics, these services are about the Holocaust which sadly is become lost withing the American Jewish community in its deep desire to fit in and not cause waves. Mirah
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