COMMENTARY / OPINION
Dina Rubina
Here is the response that Dina Roubina, a Russian and Israeli writer, sent to the Pushkin House in London, inviting her to a conference but first asking her to clarify her position on Israel
Dear friends and colleagues,
Recently, the Pushkin House in London, in collaboration with the University of London, invited me to a literary debate broadcast on Zoom. The conversation was supposed to be about my books.
I just received this email from the moderator of this meeting.
I suggest you read it, as well as my response, which I invite you to share on social networks
By: Nataliya Rulyova
Hello, Dina!
The Pushkin House announced our upcoming conference on social media and immediately received critical messages regarding your position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They wanted to understand your position on this issue before responding. Could you formulate your position and send it to me as soon as possible?
Please accept, Madam, the expression of my distinguished greetings,
Natasha By: Dina Rubina
Here the reply
Dear Natalia!
You’ve written beautifully about my novels, and I’m so sorry for the time you’ve wasted, because apparently we have to cancel our meeting.
The universities of Warsaw and Torun have just canceled lectures by the wonderful Russian-speaking Israeli writer Yakov Shechter on the life of Galicia’s Jews in the 17th and 19th centuries – “to avoid making the situation worse.
I suspected that this would affect me too, since academia is now the main breeding ground for the most disgusting and virulent anti-Semitism, disguised as so-called “criticism of Israel.”
. I was expecting something like this, and I even decided to write you an email about it… but I put it aside. It’s time for me to publish it.
This is what I want to say to all those who expect from me a quick and obsequious report on my position regarding my beloved country, which currently lives (and always has) surrounded by ferocious enemies who seek to destroy it . My country which is waging a just war today against a rabid, ruthless, deceptive and cunning enemy.
The last time I apologized was in elementary school, in the principal’s office, I was 9 years old. Since then, I have been doing what I think is right, listening only to my conscience and expressing exclusively my understanding of the world order and human laws of justice.
Natalia, thank you for your efforts, and I personally ask you to send my answer to all those who are wondering:
“On October 7, Saturday, the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, the ruthless, well-trained, well-prepared and well-equipped Hamas terrorist regime of Iran, Hamas, which rules in the Gaza enclave (which Israel left around twenty years ago), attacked dozens of peaceful kibbutzim, and bombarded my country with tens of thousands of rockets.
Hamas has committed atrocities that even the Bible cannot describe, atrocities that rival the crimes of Sodom and Gomorrah. Atrocities filmed by the way, by GoPro cameras, the murderers having taken the horror to the point of sending the images to their families or on social networks in real time.
For hours, thousands of happy, blood-drunk beasts raped women, children and men, shooting their victims in the crotch and heads, cutting off the women’s breasts and playing football with them, cutting off the babies from the wombs of pregnant women and immediately decapitating them, tying up and burning the small children. There were so many charred bodies that, for many weeks, forensic pathologists could not cope with the enormous workload of identifying individuals.
A friend of mine, who worked in the emergency room of a New York hospital for 20 years, then in Israel for 15 years, was one of the first to arrive in the kibbutzim, as part of a team of rescuers and of doctors.
She still hasn’t been able to sleep since. While she is an emergency specialist, accustomed to dissected bodies and at the corpses, she fainted when she saw the macabre sight and vomited all the way back in the car.
Among the Hamas militants, Palestinian civilians rushed in, participating in pogroms of unprecedented scale, pillaging, killing, dragging everything they could get their hands on.
Among these “Palestinian civilians” were 450 members of this highly regarded organization UNRWA (United Nations Relief Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East).
Judging by the utter joy of the population (also captured by thousands of mobile cameras), Hamas is supported by almost the entire population of Gaza.
But the essential is there for us:
More than two hundred Israelis, including women, children, the elderly and foreign workers, were dragged into the beast’s den.
A hundred of them are still rotting and dying in Hamas dungeons. It goes without saying that these victims, who continue to be mocked, are of little concern to the “academic community”.
But that’s not what I’m talking about right now. I am not writing this so that anyone will sympathize with the tragedy of my people.
During all these years, while the international community has literally poured hundreds of millions of dollars into this piece of land (the Gaza Strip)l – and UNRWA’s annual budget alone is equivalent to a BILLION dollars! – During all these years, Hamas used this money to build an empire with a complex system of underground tunnels, stockpile weapons, teach schoolchildren from primary school to disassemble and assemble a Kalashnikov assault rifle, print textbooks in which hatred of Israel is indescribable, in which even math problems look like this: “There were ten Jews, the shahid killed four, how many are left?…”, calling for the murder of Jews with every word.
And now, when, finally shocked by the monstrous crime of these bastards, Israel is waging a war of annihilation against the Hamas terrorists, who so carefully prepared this war, who placed thousands of shells in all the hospitals, the schools, kindergartens… – this is where academia around the world is on the defensive, concerned about the “genocide of the Palestinian people” – based, of course, on data provided by… . Who ?
The academic community, which was not concerned about the massacres in Syria, nor the massacre in Somalia, nor the mistreatment inflicted on the Uighurs, nor the millions of Kurds persecuted by the Turkish regime for decades, this very worried community, which wears “arafatkas” – the trademark of murderers – around their necks and rallies under the slogan “Liberate Palestine from the river to the sea”, which means the total destruction of Israel (and Israelis). “academics”, as polls show, have no idea where this river is, what it is called, where certain borders are located. And it is this same public which asks me “to express a position clear on the issue.
Are you really serious?
As you know, I have been a professional writer for over fifty years. My novels have been translated into forty languages, including Albanian, Turkish, Chinese, Esperanto… and many more.
Now, with great pleasure, without choosing my expressions too much, I sincerely and with all the strength of my soul send to all the brainless “intellectuals” who are interested in my position to go fuck themselves.
In fact, you’ll all be going without me soon.
Dina Rubina
They Are Burning Jews By Alex Grobman
May 23, 2024
Part II
After World War II, the Vaad Hatzala sent Rabbi Nathan Baruch, a newly minted rabbi, to direct their relief and spiritual rehabilitation program for observant Jews in Germany. Previously, Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz had tried to print and distribute bibles and prayer books to displaced persons camps. However, his request was denied by General Lucius Clay of the U.S. Army in late 1947, citing an acute shortage of paper; only vital government documents could be published.
Rabbi Baruch refused to accept this excuse and began exploring ways to publish religious texts (sefarim) on his own. The need to print the Talmud, the oral tradition, became especially important for the students who were being taught in the yeshivas that were established in various DP camps. In addition, in 1947 the rabbinate of the Yishuv (the Jewish settlement in Palestine), led by Rabbi Dr. Isaac Herzog, and the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, and the rabbinate of England united to make the Daf Yomi (daily folio page of the Talmud) a universal part of observant Jewish life. The Jews of Germany responded with enthusiasm, but few had any copies of the Talmud.
At the Congress of the Agudath Israel in Europe in 1923, Rabbi Meir Shapira of Lublin had proposed that Jews all over the world study the same page of the Talmud simultaneously—as a sign of a unifying commitment to Judaism and Jewish learning. The proposal was accepted, and a special calendar was created.
When Rabbi Baruch approached the military authorities for authorization and assistance to publish religious material, they responded that the function of the Army was not to be the nursemaid to the DPs but to keep the order and to be a buffer against Russian encroachment. Rabbi Baruch was not deterred. He turned to those who had access to the Army warehouses. Since the military had an abundance of supplies—an assessment not shared by General Clay—Rabbi Baruch thought he might be able to “barter” for his supplies. Among his contacts was a Jewish girl working for the military and some non-Jewish quartermasters who were sympathetic and willing to provide paper and materials.
One of Rabbi Baruch’s contacts worked in the Army Post-Exchange (PX) and purchased whiskey for him. A number of officers who didn’t need their alcohol rations sold their rations to Rabbi Baruch at a fraction of their worth. The same was true of others who had coffee and cigarette rations. Thus, coffee, whiskey and cigarettes were traded for paper, ink, printing and binding. The rabbi and his associates found a photo-offset processing plant and went into the now financially viable business of publishing prayer books and other religious texts.
As soon as the books were printed and bound they were sent to the DP camps and to leading rabbis and scholars throughout the world. Some people in Europe came to the Vaad office in Germany to collect their copies. Pincus Schoen, executive director of the Vaad Hatzalah, asked that prominent donors and every Orthodox rabbi in the United States receive sets of these books to induce them to fund the project. Regrettably, there was no quid pro quo. Rabbi Baruch never recalled receiving any additional funds from the Vaad or anyone else who received copies of these special editions.
Germany’s Woke Government Wavers as Islamists Declare Holy War by Soeren Kern
May 19, 2024 National Review – More than a thousand Islamic extremists recently marched through the streets of Hamburg, Germany’s second-largest city, demanding that the European Union’s most populous and powerful country be reconstituted as an Islamic state governed by sharia. The demonstration, organized by a fast-growing Islamist group called Muslim Interaktiv, was allowed to proceed after left-wing parties in Hamburg’s legislature rejected a petition by right-wing parties to prohibit the event.
During the April 27 march in Hamburg’s multicultural Sankt Georg district, the Islamists — mostly young men, but also women in chadors, hijabs, niqabs, and jilbabs — complained about an alleged surge in “Islamophobia” in Germany since October 7, when Hamas terrorists slaughtered more than 1,000 Israelis.
Amid shouts of “Allahu Akbar” and “There is no God but Allah,” the protesters reminded German authorities of their constitutional obligation to ensure justice for everyone. They then described Germany as a “dictatorship of values” and called for replacing it with a caliphate, an Islamic dictatorship in which there is no separation between state and religion.
The audacious display of Islamist power on German streets cast light on a glaring double standard: On the one hand, the German government continues to trivialize and even express solidarity with the totalitarian challenge to democracy posed by radical Muslims, who openly seek to overturn Germany’s constitutional order; on the other, the government is obsessed with the threats it says are posed to democracy by the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD), the country’s second-largest political party, whose popularity is largely fueled by voters frustrated with the government’s refusal to crack down on those very same Islamists.
The German government’s laissez-faire approach to Islamism has moved the problem into a taboo zone that has strengthened the Islamists. Some observers argue that if the German government would only take the Islamist threat more seriously, it could instantly solve the populist problem by removing the main issue that makes the AfD so popular.
But alas, key members of Germany’s government — and, apparently, many German voters — are disciples of wokeism, which claims that Islamists are a disadvantaged minority group that must be empowered. At the same time, Germans seeking to preserve their culture against the encroachment of Islamism are branded as right-wing extremists who pose an existential danger to democracy.
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Who is Colonizing Whom? by Daniel Greenfield
Islam was colonizing the world long before the British. Now it’s at it again.
May 23, 2024 – College students being indoctrinated on campuses to take part in Muslim prayers are also taking part in a thousand-year-old process of Islamic colonialism that made Islam a worldwide religion. College students believe by embracing Islamic rituals, they are opposing colonialism when they’re actually practicing it.
The discovery of America and the apogee of European civilization which ushered in the modern world were based on resistance to Islamic colonialism. Since then, European nations withdrew from the Muslim world to avoid colonialism only to be colonized by millions of Muslims from their old colonies. Rather than ending colonialism, Europe went from the colonizers to the colonized, and European governments were called on to once again rule over millions of Muslims, no longer in the Middle East, Pakistan, North Africa or Asia, but in London, Paris, and across their own nations. With that the rulers swiftly became the ruled.
Where the old European governments had looked to pacify Muslims abroad, their EU descendants struggled to pacify them at home. And America soon followed. After 9/11, America had been primarily worried about Muslim terrorism coming from abroad. Now it mostly worries about Islamic terrorism coming from Muslim converts and immigrants within the United States.
A history of Islamic colonialism is repeating itself with the complicity of ignorant ideologues who describe the process by which the cruel imperialism that crippled most of the world made a comeback, subjugating women, cultural and racial minorities and all non-Muslims, as liberation.
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Mark Regev & Ruthie Blum: What Israel Must Do to Stop the ICC Arrest Warrants [31:50]
May 22, 2024 JNS TV – The International Criminal Court (ICC) is pushing to issue arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu along with Hamas terrorist mastermind Yaya Sinwar and other Hamas leaders. How should Israel respond to such obscene accusations? Can Israel work with the US and other powers to put a stop to this?
Watch Ruthie and Mark duke it out on the outrageous ICC accusations against Israel, European countries’ equally cynical recognition of Palestinian statehood, and the US push for Saudi normalization–before Hamas is even defeated.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to ICC Decision
01:06 Challenges Faced by the Jewish Community in the Diaspora since October 7th.
06:16 The Moral Corruption of the U.N. and the ICC
10:08 The Tendency of Jews to Vote Against Their Own Interests
13:59 The Importance of Working with Allies to solve international crises.
25:50 The Potential for a Breakthrough with Saudi Arabia
30:35 The Necessity of Removing Hamas from Power in Gaza
The Ugly Lessons of October 7 BY EUGENE KONTOROVICH
The bloodier the terror attacks, the more stark the eliminationist rhetoric, the more support for a Palestinian state
MAY 21, 2024 – Hamas’ grisly terror raid on Oct. 7 has proved to be the single most stunningly successful act in gaining support for the Palestinian cause—not among Israeli or American voters, of course, but among top Democratic policymakers, and their counterparts across the Western world. One might think that a campaign of unrepentant killing, torture, rape, and hostage-taking would be disqualifying for a national independence movement. But in Washington, Hamas’ ongoing crimes have resulted in much of the weight of the U.S. government being brought to bear on advancing the cause of Palestinian statehood, and its correlate, the punishment and demonization of the Jewish state.
Months of U.S. backing for the Palestinian national cause have produced glorious results for Palestinian diplomacy. Whereas less than two years ago, at a meeting with President Mahmoud Abbas, President Biden had declared that “the ground is not ripe” for renewing negotiations between Ramallah and Jerusalem, the Oct. 7 massacres made Biden change his mind—and make the establishment of a Palestinian state with all deliberate speed a central priority of U.S. Middle East policy. Since Oct. 7, four countries have recognized the “State of Palestine,” with three European states indicating their intent to do so in May. That is more recognition than the PA has won in the entire past decade (notably, only one country moved to recognize Palestinian statehood during the Trump administration).
Snatching Hamas from the jaws of defeat undermines US interest Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger
May 22, 2024 – *Secretary of State Antony Blinken is a true believer in the diplomatic option toward Iran’s Ayatollahs. He rules out regime-change and military options, irrespective of the Ayatollahs’ 45-year-old track record of anti-US terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering and proliferation of advanced military systems.
*Currently, Blinken is pressuring Israel to negotiate another ceasefire with Hamas, disregarding the litany of previous ceasefires, which bolstered Hamas’ terror capabilities. He leans on Israel to shift from the military option to the diplomatic option, snatching Hamas from the jaws of obliteration. Such a shift would be perceived by all Middle East entities as a dramatic victory for Hamas and a major defeat for Israel, fueling more terrorism and war against Israel and all pro-US Arab countries, which already have the machetes of Islamic terrorism at their throats. It will also reduce the Arab/Moslem interest to conclude additional peace treaties with Israel, and inspire Islamic terrorism on US soil, as stated by FBI Director, Chris Wray.
According to AP: “In a pair of TV interviews, Secretary Blinken underscored that the United States believes Israeli forces should ‘get out of Gaza…,’ reiterating the longstanding U.S. opposition to the growing Israeli offensive in Rafah.…” According to PBS: “US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Israeli leaders in his push for a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas…. ‘We are determined to get a ceasefire…. There is a proposal on the table, and as we have said: no delays, no excuses, the time is now….’ The proposal would put a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza up for discussion….”
*Secretary of State, Antony Blinken is genuinely determined to advance the cause of peace and stability in the Middle East, but he is driven by a speculative future scenario, which is a derivative of an alternate reality, detached from Middle East reality.
*Blinken underestimates the role of the larger context of Hamas’ and Hezbollah’s terrorism, which is critically financed, supplied and trained by Iran’s Ayatollahs, who support and collaborate with anti-US regimes in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, including Latin American drug cartels in Mexico, Columbia, Bolivia, Ecuador and Brazil.
*Irrespective of the systematically rogue anti-US track record of the Ayatollahs – since toppling the Shah of Iran in February 1979 – Blinken sticks to the diplomatic/negotiation option, which has been a bonanza for Iran’s anti-US strategy. He refuses to recognize that the Ayatollahs are not partners for peaceful coexistence and good-faith negotiation, but a target for regime-change, which would liberate the oppressed majority of Iran, eliminate the chief threat to the survival of every pro-US Arab regime, eradicate a major hurdle on the way of more Israel-Arab peace accords, and would deprive anti-US global Islamic terrorism of its leading epicenter. A regime change would generate a robust tailwind to regional and global stability and peaceful coexistence.
*Blinken takes lightly the 17-year-long track record of Israel-Hamas confrontations, which documents that ceasefire agreements are leveraged by Hamas to bolster its Moslem Brotherhood directed terror machine.
*Blinken underrates the fact that any policy toward the Israel-Hamas war should be a derivative of the 1,400-year-old intrinsic features of Middle East reality. For instance, the absence of intra-Moslem and intra-Arab peaceful coexistence; the violent intolerance towards “infidels,” “apostates” as well as “believers”; the absence of democracy, human rights and long term compliance with agreements; shifty and unpredictable policies and violence; the tenuous nature of all Arab regimes, which ascend to – and lose – power via the “bullet” (violence), and not via the ballot; the tenuous nature of these regimes’ policies and accords; the centrality of fanatic ideology, which transcends the Western notion of “money talks;” etc.
The Network Behind the Pro-Hamas Disruptions By Janet Levy
May 21, 2024 – How did anti-Israel protests erupt within a month of the Hamas-led October 7 massacre? How did university campuses in America turn into tent cities of keffiyeh-clad youth calling for the liberation of Palestine, the annihilation of Israel, and death to Jews? If you suspect these protests are well orchestrated and funded, you are right.
Behind them is a coalition of radical leftist and Islamist groups drawing sustenance from the vast dark money network of Neville Roy Singham, and linked through him to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This has been confirmed by a 34-page report from the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), an affiliate of Rutgers University.
Analyzing open-source data using proprietary software, the NCRI’s multidisciplinary teams identify emerging threats to civil society. The NCRI report describes Singham as a “known conduit for CCP geopolitical influence.” As early as 1974, when he was 20, Singham was the subject of an FBI investigation for links with groups inimical to U.S. interests.
He is now based in Shanghai and, with his wife Jodie Evans, uses corporate entities and philanthropic hedge funds to channel money for fomenting unrest in free societies. His network “exploits regulatory loopholes in the U.S. nonprofit system” to fund a) media groups promoting anti-American narratives, and b) “seemingly grassroots activist movements,” such as those behind the pro-Hamas protests. The report says the network is a “significant concern to the internal stability” of the U.S.
Its alarming assessment:
While nominally focused on Israel, the current protests can be better understood as a well-funded initiative driving a revolutionary, anti-government, and anti-capitalist agenda, with the leading organizations serving as versatile tools for foreign entities hostile to the U.S.
The unrest is likely to continue through summer and until the presidential election.
How is this disruption being achieved? The funneling of funding is a devious game. Soon after October 7, a new entity — Shut it Down 4 Palestine (SID4P) — joined the mélange of radical left, Islamist, and Marxist groups raging against Israel’s so-called “occupation,” capitalism, and the West. Its website offers protest toolkits, graphics, etc. But nowhere does it name staff, advisors, or a board of directors. Instead, it lists seven organizations as “conveners” and about 100 “endorsers.”
The “conveners” are The People’s Forum (TPF); the ANSWER Coalition; the International People’s Assembly (IPA); the Palestinian Youth Movement; the National Students for Justice in Palestine; Al-Awda, New York; and the Palestinian American Community Center (PACC), New Jersey. The first three are far-left groups with significant financial, personnel, and operational overlap. The rest are pro-Palestinian activist groups, the last two having ties to U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs).
The “endorsers” include Samidoun, a front for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a terror group; the National Lawyers Guild, run by the Communist Party USA; the Global Exchange, a socialist anti-war group that views the U.S. and Israel as oppressors denying the world social, economic, and environmental justice; the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), an NGO that justifies terror against Israeli civilians and supports BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) campaigns; the Muslim Students Association, an affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood; and the Workers World Party, a hardcore Marxist-Leninist sect.
The report reveals an intricate funding and support network of nonprofits, sponsors, and alternative news sources, all linked to the CCP via the network machinated by Singham to provoke social unrest, polarize young people, and destabilize American institutions.
Will the Death of Raisi lead to downfall of Iranian Regime? [32:48] Josh Hasten and Alex Traiman
May 21, 2024 (JNS TV) – President Raisi is dead after a helicopter crash in the mountainous region of Iran. What does this mean for the future of the country? Will nothing change since Iran is actually run by the Ayatollahs or will it set in motion a series of events that will end up with the fall of the Islamic regime?
JNS CEO Alex Traiman and Middle East correspondent Josh Hasten discuss and other top stories such
– The ICC calling for an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Netanyahu
– Gantz’s ultimatum to Netanyahu
– Rafah, Egypt and 50 terror tunnels
– Iran watchdog warns of non-compliance
Israel Didn’t Miss GREAT Opportunity! F-35 Hit Pro-Iran Border Base! Leader Reisi Triggered Events! [8:15] Raptor News May 21, 2024
Peace Now’s stand on US military aid to Israel Moshe Phillips
It is a member of the Conference of Major Jewish American Organizations. What does that entail? Op-ed.
May 21, 2024, 11:00 AM (GMT+3) – The decision by Americans for Peace Now to publicly endorse suspending U.S. military aid to Israel directly violates the promises it made in order to gain admittance to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. It’s time for the Conference to reconsider Peace Now’s status.
When Americans for Peace Now (APN) applied for membership in the Conference of Presidents in 1993, some Jewish organizations were wary. They wondered whether the controversial group would be loyal to the pro-Israel consensus that the Conference represents.
Every member-organization in the Conference is entitled to its own opinions, on Israel and everything else. At the same time, the Conference stands for certain bedrock principles that all its members must support.
That’s why extreme anti-Israel groups have never been admitted. J Street’s application was rejected. The anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Peace would never be welcomed. Neither would the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta.
Three of the Conference’s core principles are rejection of all Arab violence against Israel; support for an undivided Jerusalem under Israel’s sole control; and complete, unequivocal support for U.S. aid to Israel.
In their appeals to be admitted to the Conference, APN spokespeople repeatedly pledged that they would adhere to those positions.
“We are revolted by terrorism,” APN executive committee chair Shifra Bronznick insisted in a widely-circulated op-ed in March 1993.
But four years later, the official spokesman for APN’s parent body, the Peace Now movement in Israel, Mossy Raz, asserted that Palestinian Arab rock-throwing was “peaceful” and “legal” (even though rock-throwers have killed 16 people, including four Americans). Asked in that March 26, 1997 interview (with the news agency IMRA) if he defended rock-throwing at civilians, Raz responded, “Settlers are not civilians.”
Thus, in Peace Now’s view, it is legitimate for Arabs to try to stone, and therefore possibly murder, any Israeli who is a “settler,” that is, who lives beyond the old 1967 armistice line. That would include all Jewish residents of the Old City neighborhood of Jerusalem, as well as other sections of Israel’s capital, such as French Hill and Ramot.
Shifra Bronznick, in that same 1993 op-ed, wrote: “To assert that APN is at odds with the organized Jewish community on the issue of Jerusalem is false.” But in the years to follow, APN repeatedly took positions that were at odds with American Jewry on Jerusalem.
APN opposed the relocation of America’s embassy to Jerusalem. APN called U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital “a grenade.” APN’s co-chair wrote an article opposing what she called “total Israeli hegemony” in Jerusalem. APN denounced the Jewish National Fund for developing the Jewish community in Jerusalem’s Silwan neighborhood. APN used the term “Judaization” to describe Jews living in some sections of Jerusalem. APN directly defied a Conference of Presidents policy to refrain from meeting PLO officials in the Orient House building in Jerusalem.
In 1993, when APN was seeking admittance to the Conference, APN officials repeatedly insisted that they fully supported the Conference’s position backing full U.S. aid to Israel.
APN’s then-president, Gail Pressburg, told The Forward that her organization “supported [U.S.] foreign aid to Israel.” Pressburg told the interviewer that she “denies that she has ever supported a cut in annual U.S. military and economic aid to Israel.” Pressburg further claimed that she resigned from another organization’s advisory council when that group “began advocating a cut in aid to Israel.”
And in her aforementioned 1993 op-ed, Shifra Bronzick emphasized that APN completely and unequivocally supported “[U.S.] aid to Israel.”
Yet in its May 9, 2024, APN declared: “Americans for Peace Now supports President Biden’s decision to cease sending offensive weapons to Israel…”
APN gained admittance to the Conference of Presidents. Its admittance was predicated on its declared support for the Conference’s positions on terrorism, Jerusalem, and U.S. aid to Israel. APN has now broken all three of those pledges.
Perhaps it is time to reopen the question with APN of whether it is qualified to be a member-organization of the Conference of Presidents.
Moshe Phillips is a past board member of the American Zionist Movement and was a delegate to the most recent World Zionist Congress.
Bibi’s Plan for a Post-War Gaza by Jonathan Spyer
May 18, 2024 The Spectator – Sharp differences within Israel’s governing coalition have emerged into the open in recent days. On the face of it, the dispute centres on preferred post-war arrangements in Gaza. But the rival stances also reflect underlying, contrasting views concerning the conduct and aims of Israel’s now eight-month long military campaign in the Gaza Strip.
The divisions have begun to receive attention in recent days because of Defence Minister Yoav Gallant’s public statement criticising the government for ‘indecision’ regarding the ‘day after’ in Gaza. But the dispute is not new. Gallant has for months been advocating in cabinet for a plan his ministry has developed, concerning how Gaza will be governed after the war. Details of this plan were published in March. It envisages the establishment of a self-governing authority in Gaza, assembled with the involvement of five to seven thousand Gazans loyal to the Ramallah Palestinian Authority. Israel would maintain freedom of action in the area of security, as it does in the West Bank. The list of Gazans to be involved in the plan was assembled with the assistance of Majed Faraj, the PA’s intelligence chief. The plan was envisaged to be implemented in stages. Israel would establish safe zones in areas of Gaza that it conquered. The new authority would then begin to operate in these areas, which would gradually be expanded.
Israeli media reported in March that Netanyahu rejected this plan. For his part, the prime minister and his supporters dismiss the notion of establishing any post-war arrangement until Hamas’s military capacity is destroyed. National Security Adviser Tsachi Hanegbi, in a recent interview with Israel’s Channel 12 news, noted that the allies did not set up a post-war government in Germany in World War 2 until the Nazi regime’s army had been defeated in its entirety.
Gallant, in his public statement, expressed concern that the current ‘indecision’ was leading to a ‘dangerous’ course that could result in ‘Israeli military and civilian governance in Gaza.’ Netanyahu, in response, declared that he would not allow a role for the Palestinian Authority in a post Hamas Gaza. He would not, he said, replace ‘Hamastan’ with ‘Fatahstan.’ (Fatah is the ruling party in the Palestinian Authority).
An interesting point to note in this exchange is that both Gallant and Netanyahu appear to be attacking straw men.
Netanyahu accuses Gallant of seeking to return the Palestinian Authority to Gaza. But the Defence Minister’s plan appears designed precisely to avoid any direct governing role for the Ramallah authority.
Gallant, meanwhile, accuses Netanyahu of seeking to establish a new Israeli military administration in Gaza. The defence minister finds the notion of Israeli military governance in Gaza to be ‘dangerous.’ But it is difficult to see how his own plan could be implemented without at least a preliminary period in which Israeli forces become the de facto governing force in the Strip.
BREAKING: Iran President Killed In Helicopter Crash; Hamas Tunnels UNCOVERED In Rafah [17:20] Yair Pinto
May 20, 2024 – TBN Israel’s Yair Pinto reports on the Israel-Hamas War. Pinto reports that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian have died in a weekend helicopter crash. In Gaza, Pinto reports that the IDF has uncovered 50 Hamas tunnels running between Egypt and Rafah, and on the completion of the U.S. humanitarian aid pier. In Stay up-to-date with the latest developments here on TBN Israel.
Jonathan Pollard: Biden, Weapons Embargoes, and the Jews [11:27] Jonathan Pollard
May 20, 2024 Machon Shilo – Discussion between former Prisoner of Zion, Jonathan Pollard and the head of Machon Shilo, Rabbi David Bar-Hayim
Gantz’s Impractical And Dangerous Ultimatum to Netanyahu [51:29] Caroline Glick
May 20, 2024 (JNS TV) – War Cabinet Member Benny Gantz delivers an ultimatum to Netanyahu that will lead to Hamas returning to the Gaza Strip, an unsolved crisis in the North and instability within Israel.
Chapters
00:00 – Benny Gantz’s Ultimatum and Its Demands
09:41 – The Biden Administration’s Involvement in Israeli Politics
37:14 – The Biden Administration’s Dealings with Iran
46:54 – Biden’s misunderstands the Israeli Public and Netanyahu’s Chances of Reelection
50:33 – The Prolonged War in Gaza and the Uncertain Situation in the North
Deception and misinformation are insidious weapons Dr. Shmuel Katz
Ongoing brainwashing by bad operatives may destroy the stability of society.
(May 19, 2024 / JNS) – It is more and more difficult to attend college or university without being exposed to malicious educators and others who are willing to advance their own agenda at the expense of their students.
The recent anti-Israel turmoil at multiple universities in the U.S. and elsewhere is only a symptom of many years of ongoing indoctrination that is being ignored. Recently, there were alarms sounded about the indoctrination of students in K-12 classrooms in multiple U.S. states.
However, having that many organizations means they are not delivering the same message nor addressing the same problems in systematic and repetitious ways. We know from the science of commercial marketing that if we want people to remember, identify and, ultimately, buy a product, they will have to hear messages multiple times and in different ways. Thus, sharing well-documented, similar, valuable, basic and relevant information from different sources significantly amplifies the effectiveness of these messages. It hopefully results in reaching and convincing more people to act in their own interest by exposing and marginalizing evil.
The Real Hand Controlling the White House is in a PANIC [4:41] Chanel Rion
April 22, 2024 (Chanel Rion OAN) – Obama’s Third Eye in the White House is THIS man. Jake Sullivan. He’s calling the shots… He is why Iran/Hamas attacked Israel. Now he’s panicking. And in Chanel Rion’s words, he should be investigated for treason.
Does anyone realize what a great miracle we saw today? by Alan Silver.
We have a young Jewish man sitting in jail, waiting to be executed. The whole Jewish world is in an uproar and doing what one can to save his life. May thousands of books of tehillim are being said in our plea for an answer from the Almighty that could save the young man’s life.
I heard of Jewish Iranian communities declaring a fast in the search for favour in Hashem’s ‘eyes’, that the judgment should be changed, and the life of this young Jewish man would be saved.
Every stone was turned to get a change of this death sentence hanging over his head.
His original date for execution was on Shabbos, but that was changed to Monday.
Sunday morning, the President of Iran Raisi and his foreign minister go to Azerbaijan for a ceremonial opening of a big new lake. They spend a few hours there and are treated like kings there.
Towards the late afternoon, they decided to return to Iran. The weather was changing fast, but they went ahead with returning as planned.
Three helicopters took off with the entourage to start their journey. The weather very quickly changed for the worse and before they knew what was happening, they found themselves in severe weather, with high winds, very heavy rains and zero visibility.
Two of the helicopters managed to get through and return to an Iranian airforce base, but Raisi’s helicopter became disoriented and tried go land in zero visibility. The plane crashed on landing and Raisi and the Foreign Minister and it seems that they were killed in the very heavy landing.
Now, what do we see from this story?
The whole Jewish world were praying that the young Jewish man would be saved from execution. And what do we see? That the person that would sign the death warrant for the young Jewish man would be President Raisi, and now he was mysteriously killed in a helicopter accident. There is right now, no-one to sign the death warrant.
We must still continue to pray with all our hearts until a final redemption happens and that he will be released to go home to his family.
I hope that the world will learn and see, that to start up with the Jewish people unjustly, will be at a very high cost. We Jewish people are Hashem’s people and our Father that runs the world. If we children behave and do as He wants and expects us to do, there are no limits to his help for His people.
The more love and obey His Torah, the more we see just what the Almighty will do for us, His children.
[Ed.: The Irani People are celebrating in the streets saying “Happy Helicopter Day”!!]
If Raisi Is Dead: Implications for the Islamic Republic of Iran by Shay Khatiri
May 19, 2024 (Middle East Forum Observer) – State media report that a helicopter carrying Iran President Ebrahim Raisi had a “hard landing” amidst bad weather. Rescue teams reportedly are struggling to reach the mountainous and forested site. Raisi was returning from a visit to the Iran-Azerbaijan border. If Raisi is dead or incapacitated, there will need to be an emergency succession in Iran.
How Would Presidential Succession Occur?
Raisi’s demise, if confirmed, would not be the first death of a sitting Iranian president, In 1981, the Mojahedin-e Khalq of Iran assassinated President Mohammad-Ali Rajai. The Islamic Republic’s constitution simply states that when a president dies, a new president “would be chosen.” In 1981, authorities called a new election but, in 1989, an amended constitution gave the Supreme Leader, currently Ali Khamenei, further power to decide. Under the current constitution, there is no mandate for a new election. If the president is dead or unable to perform his duties for longer than two months, the first vice president, the speaker of the parliament, and the chief justice, with the consent of the Supreme Leader, form a council to choose the succession mechanism.
CHAPTER 19: From Sex Education to Sexuality Education by Linda Goudsmit
Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier—Reality Is (forthcoming release June 2024)
May 19, 2024 – Globalism is a replacement ideology that seeks to reorder the world into one singular, planetary Unistate, ruled by the globalist elite. The globalist war on nation-states cannot succeed without collapsing the United States of America. The long-term strategic attack plan moves America incrementally from constitutional republic to socialism to globalism to feudalism. The tactical attack plan uses asymmetric psychological and informational warfare to destabilize Americans and drive society out of objective reality into the madness of subjective reality. America’s children are the primary target of the globalist predators.
UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, is a specialized agency of the United Nations and a member of the United Nations Sustainable Development Group (UNSDG), a coalition of thirty-six UN funds, programs, specialized agencies, departments, and offices aimed at fulfilling UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The SDG is defined as “a collection of seventeen interlinked objectives designed to serve as a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future.”
Let’s look at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Sustainable Development website and examine the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the UN planetary 2030 Agenda. The UNSDG mission headline is Transforming our world: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.[i] The 17 Goals are item number 59 on the 91 listed items in the UNSDG Declaration.
- Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
- Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
- Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
- Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
- Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
- Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
- Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
- Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
- Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
- Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries
- Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
- Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
- Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*
- Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
- Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
- Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
- Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
* Acknowledging that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the primary international, intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change.
Item 91, the closing statement of the Declaration, confirms that the United Nations Sustainable Development Group 2030 Agenda is a planetary mission to fundamentally transform the entire world into its own vision of a better world. Agenda 2030 is a supremacist replacement ideology on a planetary scale:
We reaffirm our unwavering commitment to achieving this Agenda and utilizing it to the full to transform our world for the better by 2030.
Agenda 2030’s lofty language appeals to emotion, the desire to help people around the world. It is the bait. The next two items after the 17 Sustainable Goals, items 60 and 61, reveal the switch. Full implementation of Agenda 2030 requires “a revitalized and enhanced Global Partnership” and “the means required to realize our collective ambitions.” The price of full implementation is the surrender of individual agency and national sovereignty to the agencies and authority of the United Nations. Compliance is the universal objective of Agenda 2030.
INNER STRIFE: Is the Israeli Defense Minister Rebelling Against Netanyahu [36:52] Caroline Glick
May 16, 2024 – Defense Minister Gallant goes behind the Prime Minister’s back and joins forces with Biden to end the war. Netanyahu fires back. Is this just political bickering or is there something bigger taking place? Should the Netanyahu government fall, what is at stake?
[Ed.: Israel’s “Defense Minister” Gallant is a State Department lacky. He should have been arrested for treason six months ago! But now he’s parroting US threats and ultimatums. Why? Because he/they/them wants Netanyahu out. Isn’t that the cat’s meow!]
Dr. Phil & Yair Pinto Examine the Devastation on the Gaza Border After Oct. 7th [14:54] Yair Pinto
May 18, 2024 TBN – Israel’s Yair Pinto reports on the Israel-Hamas War. Dr. Phil joins Yair Pinto in Israel to survey the damage and destruction inflicted upon innocent civilians on Oct. 7th. Yair recounts the events of that morning, while speaking with survivors of the Hamas terror attacks. Stay up-to-date with the latest developments here on TBN Israel.
