Doc's Talk: The Jewish Question

Saturday, April 19, 2014

The Jewish Question

Alex Markovsky
 
Winston Churchill called Jews, “..the most formidable and the most
remarkable race which has ever appeared in the world.” We are
remarkable all right. When you have a smart Jew he predominates with
his intellectual prowess over the rest of the human race, but when you
have a dumb Jew, he is an insult to human intelligence.
 
As a Jew, I was perplexed which of those remarkable Jewish-Americans
voted for Obama in 2008; to me, it was completely obvious that the
alternative choices for president in 2008 were clear and unambiguous.
On the Republican side was a war hero, a strong supporter of Israel,
an experienced politician with a strong track record and a commitment
to public service. On the other side, for the Democrats, was a young
man of Muslim background, an inexperienced politician with no track
record of accomplishment whose personal files were mysteriously
sealed. Moreover, this man had dubious connections with anti-Semites
and America-haters. I was even more baffled in 2012. This time, the
choice was between Obama and Romney, a friend of Benjamin Netanyahu,
supporter of Israel, and a man with impeccable business and civil
service credentials. What could Obama do for Jews that Romney
couldn’t or wouldn’t do? What was it in the Democratic Party
platform that was so appealing to the Jews? What was I missing?
 
(Read more…)
<http://www.israpundit.com/archives/63595539#more-63595539>
 
Muslim Brotherhood launches its own U.S. political party
<http://www.israpundit.com/archives/63595537>
 
By Robert Spencer Apr 7, 2014
 
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CAIR, MAS and their allied groups are so practiced in deception, and
so many American voters are so ignorant and indifferent, that this
group could gain real traction. Meanwhile, given that Muslims of
various sects vote as blocs in Iraq and elsewhere, it is not hard to
envision such a bloc emerging in the U.S., and ultimately transforming
American politics. “Muslim Brotherhood Launches Own U.S. Political
Party,” from Investor’s Business Daily
<http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/040114-695470-muslim-brotherhood-launches-own-american-political-party.htm>
, April 1 (thanks to Antony):
 
Islamofascism: With an eye toward the 2016 election, the radical
Muslim Brotherhood has built the framework for a political party in
America that seeks to turn Muslims into an Islamist voting bloc.
 
‘Muslim voters have the potential to be swing voters in 2016,”
said Nihad Awad in launching the benign-sounding U.S. Council of
Muslim Organizations, whose membership reads like a Who’s Who of
Brotherhood front groups.
 
“We are aiming to bring more participation from the Muslim
community.”
 
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<http://www.israpundit.com/archives/63595537#more-63595537>
 
Palestinian Deception and the Unwarranted Trust of the West: The Case
of Palestinian Accession to International Conventions
<http://www.israpundit.com/archives/63595535>
 
Amb. Alan Baker <http://jcpa.org/researcher/alan-baker/>
, April 17, 2014
 
Institute for Contemporary Affairs, founded jointly with the Wechsler
Family Foundation-Vol. 14, No. 10 
 
 On 1 April 2014, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas signed
letters requesting that “the State of Palestine” be granted
accession to 15 international conventions and treaties.
 
 This action by the Palestinian leadership, and the consequent,
hurried acceptance of the Palestinian applications by the UN and by
the Swiss government, raise serious questions both regarding the
flawed perception as to the very existence and legal status of a
sovereign state of “Palestine,” as well as to the potential
implications of what are serious violations of the Oslo Accords and of
the very integrity of the international law of treaties.
 
 If the UN and the governments of Switzerland and the Netherlands
acted in accordance with their legal and moral duties pursuant to
international treaty law and practice, they would have determined that
the requests by the Palestinian leadership for accession to the
conventions fail to meet the requirements of international law.
 
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<http://www.israpundit.com/archives/63595535#more-63595535>
 
Possible New Wave of Aliyah
<http://www.israpundit.com/archives/63595530>
 
Veteran demographer Yaakov Feitelson on recent trends in the Jewish
world. MOSAIC
<http://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/2014/04/aliyah-on-the-rise/?utm_source=Mosaic+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=51a071455a-2014_4_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0b0517b2ab-51a071455a-42404469>
 
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Is Israel about to experience a new wave of Aliyah? An examination of
the various factors affecting Jewish communities around the world
leads to just such a conclusion. On the one hand, there are the
deepening economic crisis and rising anti-Semitism. On the other hand,
Israel is enjoying great strides in economic growth and prosperity, as
well as providing a sense of personal security increasingly lacking in
Europe. These factors combined are leading many to choose Israel as
their new home.
 
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<http://www.israpundit.com/archives/63595530#more-63595530>
 
Netanyahu accepted negotiations based on ’67 with swaps, without
saying so <http://www.israpundit.com/archives/63595526>
 
David Horowitz the Editor of Times of Israel told the PM “Lead,
Netanyahu, Lead” <http://www.timesofisrael.com/lead-netanyahu-lead/>
. He took him to severe task for releasing murderers and wrote:
 
It is frankly impossible to reconcile the clear thinking of Netanyahu
1995 with the muddled leadership of Netanyahu 2013 who, rather than
facilitate peace talks by the simple and reversible expedient of
freezing settlement expansion and acknowledging the indisputable fact
that Israel is negotiating on the basis of the pre-1967 lines, as
Mahmoud Abbas had demanded, chose to capitulate to the least palatable
of Abbas’s preconditions: releasing pre-Oslo era Palestinian terror
convicts. The four-phased deal to free some of the most evil killers
was a terrible mistake from the start — and not only with the
benefit of hindsight,
<http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-wrong-capitulation/>
 with the peace process in tatters because Israel balked at the final
hurdle, refusing to release Israeli-Arabs without at least Abbas’s
confirmation that he’d deign to keep on talking past April.
 
As I have written in the past, Netanyahu is negotiating without
preconditions, in name only, but in reality has accepted negotiations
based on ’67 with swaps.
 
Nice to see such a prominent journalist agree with me.
 
‘The Temple Mount Has Been Occupied By Hamas’
<http://www.israpundit.com/archives/63595523>
 
By Hezki Ezra, INN
 
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MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud) slammed the latest rioting incident on the
Temple Mount Wednesday, calling Israel’s control over Judaism’s
holiest site a “failure.”
 
“Over the last five days, the Temple Mount has not been occupied by
the Jordanian army
<http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/179679>
, but by a division of Hamas,” Feiglin said.
 
“The failure of the police to control events the Temple Mount is, in
fact, the failure of political leadership in keeping the heart of
Jerusalem .”
 
“Continuing to drag our feet  will result in history
remembering the Israeli government and its leader as having abandoned
the Temple Mount to the Hamas regime,” he added.
 
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<http://www.israpundit.com/archives/63595523#more-63595523>
 
European Jewry is Doing What Hitler Couldn’t
<http://www.israpundit.com/archives/63595521>
 
In Europe’s streets, fear and persecution are turning the Jews into
ghosts without yarmulkes and the sounds of Hebrew. In Europe’s
houses, Jews are opting for cultural and religious suicide.
 
Giulio Meotti, INN
<http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/14850#.U09e8FWSwrV>
 
The latest numbers on Europe’s Jews are Adolf Hitler’s dream
coming true.
 
According to a Rabbinical Center of Europe’s research, over 85% of
European Jews assimilate and intermarry with non-Jews, 80% do not
attend synagogues, 75% of Jewish children in Europe do not receive a
Jewish education, and over 90% of European Jewish students have no
connections with the Jewish community. A memory, a community, a
tradition, a liturgy, a history, a faith, a patrimony are all
perishing as a result.
 
This is a most impressive report on the status of Europe’s Jews.
Rabbi Shimon Elitov, a member of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate Council,
rightly said that “assimilation in the shocking numbers that we see
is worse that the physical Holocaust that we saw”.
 
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<http://www.israpundit.com/archives/63595521#more-63595521>
 
Donetsk leaflet: Jews must register or face deportation
<http://www.israpundit.com/archives/63595519>
 
Fear replaced communal atmosphere in Donetsk’s Jewish community as
armed men handed out a leaflet Passover eve calling on Jews register
their religion and property with the interim pro-Russian government or
face deportation and loss of citizenship.
 
Michal Margalit, YNET NEWS
<http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4510688,00.html>
 
A leaflet distributed in Donetsk, Ukraine calling for all Jews over 16
years old to register as Jews marred the Jewish community’s Passover
festivities Monday (Passover eve), replacing them with feelings of
concern.
 
The leaflet demanded the city’s Jews supply a detailed list of all
the property they own, or else have their citizenship revoked, face
deportation and see their assets confiscated.
 
Donetsk, a Ukraine province with 4.3 million people – 10 percent of
Ukraine’s population – and 17,000 Jews, is home to much of the
country’s heavy industry, and is thus the biggest prize of the
eastern regions where pro-Russian separatists have captured government
buildings in the past week.
 
(Read more…)
<http://www.israpundit.com/archives/63595519#more-63595519>
 
Ukrainian armed operation in the East founders with troop defections
to pro-Russian militias <http://www.israpundit.com/archives/63595517>
 
DEBKAfile Special Report
<http://debka.com/article/23849/Ukrainian-armed-operation-in-the-East-founders-with-troop-defections-to-pro-Russian-militias>
 
The US and Russia, while trading the blame for pushing Ukraine to the
brink of civil war, are nonetheless tugging at the leashes of the two
players in the field, each jockeying for advantage in the
quadrilateral meeting of senior US, Russian, European, Ukrainian and
UN officials scheduled to take place in Geneva Thursday, April 17,
DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report.
 
The five or six armored personnel carriers which rolled in the
embattled town of Slavyanks with Russian flags Wednesday, April 16,
turned out to be part of the Ukrainian military operation whose crews
instead of cracking down on the pro-Russian militias joined them.
According to some Western intelligence sources, a large number of
regular Russian soldiers have crossed the border into Ukraine and they
too are boosting the pro-Russian militias’ ranks. The Kiev
government’s “anti-terror” operation in East Ukraine is
accordingly breaking up.
 
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<http://www.israpundit.com/archives/63595517#more-63595517>
 
 
 
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The IDF’s Minorities in Numbers and Pictures

In honor of IDF Diversity Week, we present diversity through numbers and pictures. Each year, more and more Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouin and immigrants from around the world take on the responsibility of defending Israel.

MUSLIMS:

Muslim Arab Israelis are not required to draft in the IDF, but there are many who volunteer. In 2013, there were over 200 Muslims serving in the IDF and over 300 in the reserves.

Bedouins:

Bedouins are nomadic Muslims who were in Israel when modern borders were set in place and are now considered Israeli citizens. They are not required to draft but a growing number choose to enlist. In 2012, there were over 1,400 Bedouin Muslim soldiers doing regular IDF service and almost 1,500 in the reserves.

Read more:http://www.idfblog.com/2014/02/27/truth-idf-numbers-pictures/#more-34027

Are you aware that in 2013, Middle class taxes go up-significantly?

In January of next year, the federal income tax rate for middle-class taxpayers is scheduled to rise from 25 percent to 28 percent, and the payroll tax is scheduled to rise from 13.3 percent to 15.3 percent… This drives the marginal tax rate based on the aforementioned three taxes to 48.12 percent. Add in state and local property, corporate, excise, and other state and local taxes, and the percentage of each additional dollar that is taxed hovers around 50 percent… When half of each additional dollar earned is taxed away, taxpayers experience a disincentive to start businesses or expand existing ones. This leads to fewer jobs being created.

Why is HAMAS Inside Tampa Schools?

Clare Lopez

Kelly Miliziano, who teaches history classes at Steinbrenner High School in the Tampa, Florida area apparently thinks it’s perfectly OK to invite a senior official of a HAMAS-affiliated organization into her classroom to discuss Islam with her students. According to local media reports, not only has this been going on for years, but in spite of the civil and criminal proceedings that could result from such reckless negligence, the Hillsborough County school superintendent, Mary Ellen Elia, and the chairman of the school board, Candy Olson, also expressed approval for students under their responsibility to be exposed repeatedly to guest speaker, Hassan Shibly, who is the Executive Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the Tampa area.
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Did You Know... Ignoring the Call to Islam will Bring Jihad

‘Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa.’
-- Yousef al-Qaradawi , Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader The Arabic word ‘Da’wa’ means the “call to Islam.” But do not think that Da’wa is the same thing as an invitation to an optional holiday event. The classical Islamic doctrine of jihad mandates that enemies must be given the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax before it is permissible to attack them.
Clare M. Lopez

Who is being discriminated-facts tell the truth

Religious bias

Hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted for 1,409 offenses reported by law enforcement. A breakdown of the bias motivation of religious-bias offenses showed:

65.4 percent were anti-Jewish.
13.2 percent were anti-Islamic.
9.5 percent were anti-other religion, i.e., those not specified.
4.3 percent were anti-Catholic.
3.8 percent were anti-multiple religions, group.
3.3 percent were anti-Protestant.
0.5 percent were anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2010/narratives/hate-crime-2010-incidents-and-offenses.

On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview

with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a PLO executive, said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism."

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

The Arab Apartheid

Ben-Dror Yemini
In 1948, the Arab countries refused to accept the UN partition proposal and they launched a war of annihilation against the State of Israel which had barely been established. All precedents in this matter showed that the party that starts the war - and with a declaration of annihilation, yet - pays a price for it. Between 550,000 and 710,000 Arabs fled because of the war and a larger number of 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries (the "Jewish nakba").
Population exchanges and expulsions were the norm at that time, occurring in dozens of other conflict points and affecting about 52 million people. In all the population exchange precedents that occurred during or at the end of an armed conflict, there was no return of refugees to the previous region, which had turned into a new national state.
Only the Arab states acted completely differently from the rest of the world. Instead of assimilating the refugees, they crushed them despite the fact that they were their coreligionists and members of the Arab nation - instituting a regime of apartheid. So the "nakba" was not caused by the actual dispossession, which had also been experienced by tens of millions of others. The "nakba" is the story of the apartheid, oppression, abuse and denial of rights suffered by the Arab refugees at the hands of the Arab countries. (Maariv)

International Law and Military Operations in Practice - Col. Richard Kemp

"Islamist fighting groups study the international laws of armed conflict carefully and they understand it well. They know that a British or Israeli commander and his men are bound by international law and the rules of engagement that flow from it. They then do their utmost to exploit what they view as one of their enemy's main weaknesses. Their very modus operandi is built on the correct assumption that Western armies will normally abide by the rules, while these insurgents employ a deliberate policy of operating consistently outside international law. "

Lost Historical Moments

What Rabin’s last Knesset speech really said:repudiation of a Palestinian state

Rabin ruled out a fully sovereign Palestinian state :

“We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.”

Rabin ruled out a total withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and thus a return to the pre-June 1967 borders :

“The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”

Rabin ruled out withdrawing form the Jordan Valley:

“The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”

Rabin ruled out uprooting settlement blocs, like the Gush Katif bloc in Gaza (which was subsequently uprooted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon):

“The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.

AND

Rabin ruled out removing any settlement before coming to a full peace agreement with the Palestinians:

“I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”

Rabin insisted on Israel retaining full security control of the borders with Egypt and Jordan, contrary to Israel’s relinquishment of the Philadelphia Corridor on the border with Egypt:

“The responsibility for external security along the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as control over the airspace above all of the territories and Gaza Strip maritime zone, remains in our hands.”

Correcting Oslo Myths-Part 2

3) Kuttab laments that the post-1993 Oslo process resulted in a Palestinian Authority "whose ministers and legislators are not guaranteed passage between Gaza and the West Bank ...."

Before free passage or other perquisites, PA leaders were obligated, among other things, to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, end anti-Israeli, antisemitic incitement in schools, mosques, and communications media, and resolve all outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations. They met none of these commitments, sometimes bolstering terrorism and greatly increasing incitement.

4) Kuttab complains that under Oslo the PA got "lightly armed police ---- but no real sovereignty over the land or contiguity between our communities in Gaza and the West Bank."

Oslo agreements repeatedly were revised, regardless of Palestinian non-compliance, until the authorized number of police grew from 8,000 to 40,000. Though they were to be the only armed forces in the territories, Israeli estimates early in the second intifada put the number of gunmen - police, "security services," terrorists, and armed gangs - at 85,000. Their armament reportedly included not only heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but also anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Sovereignty was to be negotiated in the envisioned 1998 "final status" talks - after a five-year period of confidence-building. Palestinian leadership chronically undermined the process. Palestinian terrorism made the 1993 - 1998 Oslo period more deadly for Israelis than the 15 years preceding it.

The United States doesn't have contiguity between the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii; territorial contiguity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip - that is, through the 20 miles of Israeli territory between them - was never promised and would destroy Israeli contiguity.

5) "Palestinians have been made to endure hundreds of checkpoints in the West Bank, an eight-foot wall deep in our territories, and tight Israeli control over borders."

The security barrier is not "deep in Palestinian territories," but rather encompasses less than 8 percent of Judea and Samaria, and is mostly a fence, rarely a wall; the land in question is not "our [Palestinian] territories" but disputed territory to which, according to the authors of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, Jews as well as Arabs have claims; and there are no international borders, only the 1949 armistice lines with Jordan. Under 242, borders remain to be negotiated. As for checkpoints - like the security barrier and "tight Israeli control" - Palestinian Arabs precipitated these measures themselves. No terrorism and there would be no fence or tight Israeli control and few checkpoints - like before the first intifada.

Correcting Some Oslo Myths

1) In Oslo "Israeli, Palestinian and other world leaders promised that ... Palestinian sovereignty would be solidified."

No, they didn't. The 1993 Declaration of Principles and subsequent Oslo agreements outlined a process by which final status negotiations about the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be reached. The process required an end to anti-Israel terrorism and incitement and a commitment to peaceful negotiations. The PA, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other terrorist groups, sabotaged the process from the start.

2) "The reality is that, in defiance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which states that it is inadmissible to occupy land by force, Palestinian territories are still under foreign military occupation."
Wrong again. Resolution 242 (1967) does note "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." It also affirms the right of every state in the area "to live in peace with secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." There were no "Palestinian territories." Jordan occupied the West Bank, Egypt controlled Gaza. Israel did not have "secure and recognized boundaries," so retention of some of those territories was possible under 242. Israel is not a "foreign" military occupier in the West Bank but, pending final negotiations, the lawful military administrator as a result of a successful war of self-defense.

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