Doc's Talk: Command-Order #8

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Command-Order #8

Nurit Greenger | June 10, 2014

In Israel Command-Order #8 is an immediate mobilization order of reservists to the IDF. The difference between this order and a reserve "standard" order is the alarm time before the draft. Command-order #8 is activating in exceptional cases such as the outbreak of war or when there is an immediate need of personnel necessary for action to preserve the state’s security.

We are living in the era of Command-Order #8, this time it must be applied worldwide and it is in regard to the rise and spread of anti-Semitism.

Anti-Semitism mutilates, it has taken many forms throughout world’s history. Contemporary anti-Semitism uses Israel as its collective target. We are now in a time of emergency again.

Personally I am very worried to see what is happening in this world. The rise of anti-Semitism unhinged me.

An opportunity arose to hear Dr. Charles Asher Small, the director of ISGAP (Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism and Policy). Ben Fahari, a member of ISGAP Executive Committee, invited Mr. Small, to speak during Sabbath Service at the Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel (http://sephardictemple.org/staff-directory/), in Los Angeles, headed by Senior Rabbi Dr. Tal Sessler. Mr. Small’s speech shook my core being.

As Elie Wiesel said in 2003,”We are living in a time of emergency.” But then he corrected himself and said, “No, in time of great emergency.” We, Jews, have entered emergency times.

Dr. Charles Asher Small

I therefore pursued the issue and have set up an appointment to interview Dr. Small, an expert on the subject of anti-Semitism. There is much to tell about Mr. Small, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_A._Small) who lives in the United States but was born in Montreal, Canada. He started his organization in 2004 and in 2006 he introduced the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary of anti-Semitism.

ISGAP is now operating in Columbia University, Harvard, McGill University, Miami University, Fordham University, Stanford and the latest in Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He speaks in front of congress, the UN, governments and bodies of influence.

ISGAP offers academic programs, seminar series, published books and research interdisciplinary with focus on contemporary demonization of the Jewish people and the State of Israel.

Dr. Charles Asher Small -- "Contemporary Antisemitism: Reflections of a Scholar" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icvqLDFJHfk&sns=em

I have managed to gather some information from Mr. Small in order to explain to the reader why we are living in times of emergency. Once again, Jews and Israel are the target of the entire world.

Only few weeks ago, on Holocaust Memorial Day, the headlines of that day were Israel and Apartheid. Alarming it is!

The headlines announced that John Kerry decided that Hamas is now kosher, no longer officially recognized as a genocidal terror group; NY Times editorial showed an amazing lack of understanding of Hamas’s intentions and motivations. (http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/ny-times-completely-misunderstands-hamas/2014/06/08/). The EU and the USA have vowed to continue funding the Arab-“Palestinians” no matter who they are and what their objective it.

So what is the drama all about? What is to understand?, one may possibly ask.

It appears that once again, when it comes to Israel the world is applying double standard. All of a sudden everyone has rushed to recognize and congratulate the “technocratic” government the Palestinian Authority, its president, Mahmoud Abbas, whose term expired years ago, has formed with the terrorist group Hamas. For the world, the new mask Hamas and Fatah have put on has deleted the fact that Hamas is a genocidal terrorist group sworn, in its constitution, on the elimination of the State of Israel and every Jews alive, kind of direct continuation of Hitler’s goal to rid the word of the vermin Jews.

In the United States:

The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, on which the United States is signed, Article 3 stipulates that any incitement by an individual, organization or state the signatory to the Convention has the legal obligation to pursue the people who violate Article 3, in this case it is Hamas. Now the US is cooperating with the violators, making it complicit to incitement to genocide. The Hamas Charter incorporates the anti-Semitic hoax the Protocol of the Elder of Zion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion) and in its constitution it calls for the killing of all Jews. “Hamas, deemed by USA law a terrorist organization,” said Mr. Small. “I find it astonishing and alarming that the USA State Department is willing to engage with a reactionary, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-democratic and genocidal anti-Semitic social movement,” he states. “The Feminists, the Human Rights community, people who believe in democratic principles and the organized Jewish community should be outraged,” he continues. “It is outrageous that those who parade themselves as Liberals are selling out their principles to a short term interests.”

“Hamas and radical Islam must be understood in the West to be as shock troopers for these western, postmodern, anti-Semitic hypocrites and they understand very well what these new policies, implemented by the West, are doing to their region.”

Our universities are constantly becoming hostile to Jews. ISGPA goal is to fight in the battle field of ideas. It offers a program for professors, teaching them how to deal with anti-Semitism, be able to analogize a map and decode contemporary anti-Semitism so they can teach it to students.

In Europe:

“January 27, 2014 was a very important day in France, where 18,000 people took to the street protesting the government limiting government programs and calling for austerity. The participants: extreme Left, extreme Right, Moslems and other disenfranchised groups, a diverse and diametrically opposed groups, all who called for the ‘Zionists out of France’, focusing on Israel and Jews, which is contemporary anti-Semitism,” Mr. Small reports what the US media does not or will not report. Once again the Jews are the scapegoat when society is unhappy with itself.

The European Union lack of action against anti-Semitism is a disease that begins with the Jews but will not end with the Jews. Eventually society will implode.

Israel:

“Tell the Jewish and the human rights community, we are fortunate to have the State of Israel, a democratic refuge for Jews. We know from our history how important Israel is, because Jews have now self-determination and can defend themselves. Israel is fast becoming a light to the nations, an island of stability in an increasingly hostile and unstable region,” Stated Mr. Small.

Every Jew alive is a miracle for if Hitler was successful in his endeavor he would have left the world empty of Jews. Therefore, Israel is a miracle and we, Jews, have the supreme obligation to preserve this miracle and never stop.

In light of the above we now need to strongly question the 2 state of 2 people “solution” so many are so addicted to establish.

My peeve takes me to write about the way Israel is treated, Jews being attacked and even killed, and anti-Semitism is no longer a forbidden practice.

Let us talk, in clear lexicon, about anti-Semitism that is now walking the earth tall.

Remember, only when we see our face in the face of others we become human…

The time has come to move heaven and earth.

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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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