by Steven Shamrak.
Maybe because I was born and raised in dictatorial Communist country,
like the former Soviet Union, I feel a special admiration and respect
for the ideals of democracy that are practiced in the USA and, to a
degree, in Israel. I have the same respect for the executive offices of
the President and the PM. Unfortunately, the people who are elected to
these offices quite often do not reach the level of integrity these
positions demand!
Every
day of my life I used to live surrounded by political propaganda in a
country where brainwashing of the population was the principal survival
preoccupation of the government. Every member of Soviet society was an
active or silent participant of this dehumanisation machinery which
affected 270 million people.
Therefore, I am able to see and feel with heightened sensitivity the
abuse of the power, manipulation of the public and enormous level of
corruption that are being perpetrated by unscrupulous officials, who are
only serving the self- and special-interest groups which put them in
the office of power in the United States, Europe and Israel!
Fortunately, Muslim and Arab states have not reached a level of such
hideous sophistication.
It is my high level of respect for democracy that compels me to speak
out and expose corruption. Democracy demands free expression of opinion
and accountability of the leadership. It was practiced freely during the
early days of the French revolution and even during the Russian
revolution in 1917, but was lost because the public allowed self-serving
opportunists to take over their lives!
It is a moral duty of any self-respecting person, especially those
living in a democratic society and who cherish its values (where they
are not at the risk of losing their life and the right of freedom of
speech is supported, so far, by actionable laws) to speak out and defend
their rights and keep politicians accountable for their hypocrisy and
corruption. Capitulation to the abuse of power and corruption results in
a high level of apathy and feeling of personal insignificance among the
public. It ultimately destroys democracy!
True
democracy not only requires freedom of expression and accountability,
it needs them for self-preservation! Silence, apathy and false political
correctness are disrespectful and mortally dangerous to democracy!
Food for Thought by Steven Shamrak
Please compare two headlines:
Who killed an Israeli? The headlines were published by the same day
(11.10.2013), the same news provider (foxnews.com), but had distinctly
different headline descriptions (priming) of similar crimes. Most people
read headlines only! Media organizations are deliberately downplaying
the terror Jews endure from the hands of so-called Palestinians, but
viciously attack and smear Israel for trying to combat their
terror-infested enemy population!
The
official Czech news agency CTK quoted Czech president Milos Zeman as
saying that he might move the Czech embassy to Israel to Jerusalem from
Tel Aviv.
The Cairo-based Arab League has condemned remarks by the Czech president
about moving his country's embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, calling
them a violation of Palestinian (fictitious) rights and international
resolutions. (Enemies of Israel are prompt to squash any attempts, even rumors, of recognition of Israel's rights!)
Iraq has executed 42 prisoners convicted of terrorism-related charges in two days.
All 42 executed, including a woman, over the past two days were Iraqis
convicted of "terrorist crimes, killing dozens of innocents in addition
to other crimes aimed at destabilising the country, causing chaos and
spreading horror". The latest executions bring the number of people who have been put to death in
Iraq this year to at least 132, compared to 129 executions in all of 2012. (Israel
is still does not have a death penalty law for terrorism.)
President
Barack Obama has notified Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that the
partial and gradual lifting of sanctions against Iran will soon begin. (Negotiation
with Iran has not started yet and no agreement is reached, but Obama
and EU are in a rush to drop the sanctions already)
Iran
has more enriched uranium than it needs (for the creation of a nuclear
bomb) and plans to use that as a bargaining chip at nuclear talks in
Geneva
next week, said Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani. The 20
percent-enriched uranium is much closer to weapons-grade material than
the level needed for energy-producing nuclear reactors. He said
Iran produced the enriched uranium itself because the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency would not provide it.
Following the publication of the interview, the Iranian parliament's
public relations department denied the portion of Larijani's comments
related to an excess of uranium. (Does oil/gas rich Iran
need nuclear energy? Did Iran ask IAEA to supply uranium for
nuclear reactors? But threats to destroy Israel were made!)
Israeli politicians have condemned the recent murder of YaYa (Shraya) Opher by PA Arabs in the Jordan
Valley
community of Brosh, and have called on the Prime Minister to cease all
negotiations with the PA. "Unfortunately, it has been proven, again,
that negotiations only push quiet and tranquillity away and increase
terror. The government of Israel
should
not continue to close its eyes in the face of the wave of recent
attacks and against the deception of the Palestinian Authority's
incitement," said Avi Ro'eh, Yesha Council Chairman
.
Syrian rebels allied with Sunni Muslim fighters killed at least 190
civilians and abducted more than 200 during an offensive against
pro-government villages. The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW)
described the August 4 killings as a "war crime", and said the attacks
against unarmed civilians in more than a dozen villages in the coastal
province of Latakia
were systematic.
Putin assigned Russia
's top nuclear expert, builder of Bushehr Sergei Kiriyenko, to negotiate and formulate a secret deal on Iran
's
nuclear program between the White House, the Kremlin and the office of
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He heads a team of Farsi-speaking Russian
nuclear experts set up in Bushehr as President Putin's forward staff in
Iran.
They were given the job of hammering out the draft for a nuclear
agreement, modelled on the US-Russian Syrian chemical accord.
(Is it time to worry or embrace it?)
A tunnel from Gaza
into Israel
was discovered by the Israeli military. The tunnel is roughly 18 meters
(59 feet) underground and stretches for some 1.7 kilometers (1.06
miles). It is the third such tunnel found along the Gaza-Israel security
fence in the past year. (Over
500 tons of concrete were used to build this tunnel!) Israel
's military has found and destroyed the second tunnel dug from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip into Israel
. Israel blocks construction materials from
Gaza after 'terror tunnel' discovery.
Easing up on Iran
is Mistake
Many US
politicians are open to suspending new sanctions, but only if Tehran
takes significant steps to slow its nuclear programme. At the same time, Tehran
says
it will not ship out uranium stockpiles as demanded by Western nations,
ahead of new round of nuclear talks. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu says easing pressure on Iran
over its nuclear programme is a "historic mistake".
Iran
's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini, appealed to Muslims around
the world to utilize the Muslim celebration of Eid al-Adha (Holiday
of the Sacrifice) to "unite against their enemies." "The riots that are
now going on in the Arab states are part of a plot by the Zionists and
the Americans," he said. (Unity, not appeasement, to fight Islamic terror is needed!)
Swiss experts confirmed that they had found traces of polonium on clothes (not tissues)
belonging to former Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat.
Polonium-210, the isotope found on Arafat's belongings, has a half-life
of 138 days, meaning that half of the substance decays roughly every
four-and-a-half months, leading many observers to express scepticism at
the possibility that Arafat was poisoned - the levels of the isotope on
Arafat's belongings are far higher than what scientists would expect
after nearly a decade of decay.
Despite the ongoing peace talks between Israel
and the Palestinian Authority (PA), the PA continues to teach its children that the entire land is "Palestine
,"
and that someday they will "return" to Israeli cities. At a rally under
the auspices of the PA Minister of Culture, girls sang a song which
presents various Israeli cities as part of "my country
Palestine."
Quotes of the Week:
"The
Europeans have for hundreds of years been telling Jews where we could
live. These areas used to be called Ghettos. Now that Jews have their
own state, they want to export this idea to Israel
. I guess they don't consider Israel a true state. They don't want Jews to feel at home in Europe
, and they don't want them to feel independent in Israel
. Yet they will do nothing about Muslims who kill and rape in European
countries. Instead, they don't want law-abiding Jews. And yet they claim
they are not anti-Semitic." - Steven B. Kovner - In
spite of the Islamic intense Islamic hate toward infidels, Europeans
actively assist enemies, Arab states and so-called Palestinians, to
destroy the Jewish state. Meanwhile,
Europe doesn't want its Jews to live as Jews, trying to ban circumcision and Kosher slaughter
by Joel Leyden, June 15, 2013
Prime
Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu made the following remarks on
Thursday at the dedication ceremony for the permanent pavilion at Block
27 at Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp.
"The leaders of the Allies (UK, US,
France)
knew about the Holocaust in real time. They understood exactly what was
happening in the death camps. They were asked to act, they could have
acted, and they did not. To Jews the lesson is clear. We must not be
complacent in the face of threats of annihilation. We must not bury our
heads in the sand or allow others to do the work for us.
From
here, the place that attests to the desire to destroy us, I, the Prime
Minister of Israel, the state of the Jewish People, say to all the
nations of the world: The State of Israel will do whatever is necessary
to prevent another Holocaust"...
Netanyahu
stated that the "so-called" Iranian presidential election will "change
nothing" in the Islamic republic's quest for nuclear weapons and that
the regime will continue to pursue a bomb aimed at destroying Israel
.
"This is a regime that is building nuclear weapons with the expressed purpose to annihilate Israel
's 6 million Jews," Netanyahu said, alluding to the number of Jews
killed by the Nazis during World War II. "We will not allow this to
happen. We will never allow another Holocaust"...
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