Gov. Mike Huckabee receives Gush Katif Museum award with American Zionist leaders in March 2013
Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks at press conference and banquet, along with Zionists who experienced Israel's Gush Katif communities, including Mrs. Rivka Goldschmidt, who Israel resettled out of Gaza expecting peace from the Palestinians.
(Advance through video playlist through lower center buttons).
Co-organizer of the Gush Katif Museum event , Dr. Joseph Frager, discusses the legacy of Palestinian aggression which followed Israel's withdrawing all Jewish communities and police from Gaza in 2005.
Dr. Frager and colleagues Dr. Paul and Mrs. Drora Brody will be making the case to keep Jerusalem united at their 20th annual, Concert with a Message, the Israel Day Concert in Central Park on Sunday June 2nd, 2013. Rabbi David Algaze explained from there how Palestine's incited Islamism will pose threats against, not peace for, Israel
Israeli Knesset Member Danny Danon comments on Pres. Obama's rush to force Israel to split Jerusalem among the territories to create a state of Palestine: "Mr. Obama, keep your hands off of (united) Jerusalem!"
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20130512
20121130
UN lets Palestinians circumvent peace-talks on 65th anniv of UN resolution they rejected. Palestinian and Israeli nationalists- what are each side's intents?
David Bedein of Center for Near East Policy Research
Prof. Judea Pearl: What's the difference between the U.N. empowering Palestine vs Israel 65-years earlier?
(accompanied by Ruth Pearl and Father Alexei Smith following a staging Judea championed about "The Vote" which partitioned Palestine to create Israel- at American Jewish University, 29 Nov 2012).
Robert Spencer: Will Israel's Muslim neighbors ever stop fighting a Jewish state?
Rabbi Moshe Parry at pro-Israeli defense against Hamas rockets rally in L.A.
Bonfire of Dogmas- Pro-Palestine rally in L.A. reveals Muslim existential threats to Jewish Israel
Prof. Judea Pearl: What's the difference between the U.N. empowering Palestine vs Israel 65-years earlier?
(accompanied by Ruth Pearl and Father Alexei Smith following a staging Judea championed about "The Vote" which partitioned Palestine to create Israel- at American Jewish University, 29 Nov 2012).
Robert Spencer: Will Israel's Muslim neighbors ever stop fighting a Jewish state?
Rabbi Moshe Parry at pro-Israeli defense against Hamas rockets rally in L.A.
Bonfire of Dogmas- Pro-Palestine rally in L.A. reveals Muslim existential threats to Jewish Israel
20121101
Observers of Obama's 1st term vs Israel caution a reprise- documentary series, "Israel Under Obama" broadcasts nationwide tonight at 10 ET and Sunday, Nov 4th at 4:30 ET
"Israel under Obama" - Obama's enabling Islamism against Israel & its affect on our world. (Part 1 of 3)
Obama's role in the Arab-Israeli conflict & its global ramifications. (Part 2)
Winning freedom's victory against the ascension of Islamism (Part 3)
The documentary will be broadcast on LegacyTV (now The Walk TV) throughout America - at 10pm ET, 9pm CT Nov 1st, 2012. Check for your for local listings.
The conclusion of "Israel Under Obama" will be telecast on Sunday, November 4th at 4:30pm ET/ 3:30pm CT.
If LegacyTV isn't available in your area, stream it here:
Please support future airings of the "Israel under Obama" series on The Walk and other channels by clicking the "Donate" link in the right-hand column.
Obama's role in the Arab-Israeli conflict & its global ramifications. (Part 2)
Winning freedom's victory against the ascension of Islamism (Part 3)
The documentary will be broadcast on LegacyTV (now The Walk TV) throughout America - at 10pm ET, 9pm CT Nov 1st, 2012. Check for your for local listings.
The conclusion of "Israel Under Obama" will be telecast on Sunday, November 4th at 4:30pm ET/ 3:30pm CT.
If LegacyTV isn't available in your area, stream it here:
Please support future airings of the "Israel under Obama" series on The Walk and other channels by clicking the "Donate" link in the right-hand column.
20120927
Benjamin Netanyahu to the United Nations: The Iranian Red Line (in One Chart)
Alana Goodman in Commentary Contentions 27 September '12:
At the United Nations this afternoon, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu sought to clarify an issue that has confounded President Obama for months — where to place “red lines” on Iran’s nuclear program — by using one simple, easy-to-read chart:
As you can see, that is a drawing of a bomb. It is divided into three stages. Iran has completed the first stage (amassing enough 70 percent-enriched uranium for a bomb), and, according to Netanyahu, can complete the second stage (amassing enough 90 percent-enriched uranium) as soon as next summer. The key here — and this is important — is to stop Iran before it enters the final stage, i.e. the completion of the bomb. Let’s hope the White House was paying attention.
Of course, the bomb drawing got its share of criticism on Twitter, as BuzzFeed reports:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu punctuated his attempt to rally the international community against Iran’s nuclear program with a crude illustration of a bomb in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York today — a move that drew him an immediate wave of mockery, but also reflected an astute grasp of the changing media climate.
The chart wasn’t unserious, it was simple. And it’s precisely what the public needs to see at this point. The White House has been able to drag their feet on the debate, in part, because they’ve portrayed it as murky and complicated. It isn’t. There will be debates, if and when the time comes, over whether Iran has actually reached the red line, and whether the intelligence is accurate or complete. But there’s no question that a clear and firm line needs to be drawn.
At the United Nations this afternoon, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu sought to clarify an issue that has confounded President Obama for months — where to place “red lines” on Iran’s nuclear program — by using one simple, easy-to-read chart:
As you can see, that is a drawing of a bomb. It is divided into three stages. Iran has completed the first stage (amassing enough 70 percent-enriched uranium for a bomb), and, according to Netanyahu, can complete the second stage (amassing enough 90 percent-enriched uranium) as soon as next summer. The key here — and this is important — is to stop Iran before it enters the final stage, i.e. the completion of the bomb. Let’s hope the White House was paying attention.
Of course, the bomb drawing got its share of criticism on Twitter, as BuzzFeed reports:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu punctuated his attempt to rally the international community against Iran’s nuclear program with a crude illustration of a bomb in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York today — a move that drew him an immediate wave of mockery, but also reflected an astute grasp of the changing media climate.
The chart wasn’t unserious, it was simple. And it’s precisely what the public needs to see at this point. The White House has been able to drag their feet on the debate, in part, because they’ve portrayed it as murky and complicated. It isn’t. There will be debates, if and when the time comes, over whether Iran has actually reached the red line, and whether the intelligence is accurate or complete. But there’s no question that a clear and firm line needs to be drawn.
20120822
Leftist Jewish pensioners disrupt Republican vs Democrat debate at Jewish Community Center in South Florida- again
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| Liberal hecklers shut-down the debate between (left to right) Rabbi Barry Silver & Palm Beach activist for Obama Mark Alan Silver; and arguing for Mitt Romney- Tom Trento and Alan Bergstein |
An early "uh-oh" sign popped up in our heads when, just one hour before the doors were opened, the JCC informed us that all videotaping and cameras were banned from the room. Just the day before, a JCC official carefully planned where the best locations for the cameras would be. Why was the recording of the event canceled? We found out during the meeting. Obviously, with the disruptions so well-planned, the Democrats wanted no record of this behavior to reach the public. They succeeded. An early band of about 50 elderly women, brandishing professionally designed "Women Will Remember in November" signs, occupied the front of the auditorium. Some had Obama stickers glued to their foreheads. The table occupied by Tom and me had a contingent of these seniors in the standing-room-only area right by us. During the event, until it was closed down because of their disruptive antics, they sauntered over to us, uttering denunciations and comments.
| Debater Tom Trento was stifled by leftist Jewish seniors |
During the debate, this raucous, rude, disrespectful, well-trained squad heckled, jeered and disrupted Tom and me so often that I announced to the time keeper that my speaking time had to be extended in order to compensate for the disorder in the room. The final straw came when a woman, adorned with an Obama sticker, was hauled away from the microphone while shouting indecipherable epithets. Armed security personnel roamed the hall to threaten anyone with an exposed camera that they were to be expelled for having them in view.
Just recall the Democrats' attempts to prevent their members from hearing the issues as explained by Republicans. Debbie Wasserman Schultz in Miami, or the threat of Republicans being arrested at B'nai Torah in Boca Raton. Then there was the debate between Democrats and Republicans that was canceled by the sponsor, Hadassah, apparently at Wasserman Schultz's request.
It's clear that the Democratic Party in South Florida is fearful of its loyal members hearing anything that contradicts the tales told them by party leaders. "Keep them ignorant" is the mantra of the left. The media is already complicit with this group. Taking away open, clean, clear dialogue that leads to one making his/her own decisions on such matters as Israel, abortion, taxation or even education is as dangerous to Democrats as kryptonite is to Superman. "Keep free speech at arm's length from the sheep" is their motto.
20120706
Assessing our resistance to jihad on the 10th memorial of the Independence Day Islamic terror attack on L.A.X.
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| Islamic-terror victim Vicky Hen's July 4 memorial |
From "Los Angeles Airport- top target of terror attacks, lax security, TSA agent arrested" by Julia Davis in Examiner.com
LAX has direct flights to North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East – more direct flights than any other airport in the world.As well as being America's second most populous metropolis, the metro- Los Angeles area (which includes Orange County) is also a center for Muslim activity. The Shura Council claims that there are several hundred thousand Muslims in all four counties of Southern California - Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernadino. Orange County is also a hub of Muslim activism. There resides the influential and powerful Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi- chairman of the The Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, and Director of the Islamic Society of Orange County (and until 2001, President of I.S.N.A.- the Islamic Society of North America). The Council for American-Islamic Relations (C.A.I.R.) has base of operations in SoCal, as does the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC).
This has made LAX a prime target for terror attacks. Three of the four planes involved in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were originally headed for Los Angeles. American Airlines Flight 11, and United Airlines Flight 175, were from Logan International Airport, in Boston, Massachusetts, and American Airlines Flight 77 was from Washington Dulles International Airport, in Dulles, Virginia.
There is a strong Muslim influence at the University of California at Irvine (U.C.I.) in Orange County, which manifests in a strong Muslim Students Association - a movement which was established by the Muslim Brotherhood in 1963. Some MSA / MSU leaders were arrested and found guilty in conspiring to interfere with an invited on-campus address by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren- which resulted in the disbanding of the association for a semester). There is a strong anti-Israel attitude in Orange County's Muslim culture - typified by the anti-Zionist climate on the campus- which presents an annual, Israel-Apartheid Week of public demonstrations, lectures, and exhibits vilifying the Jewish state.
| Hesham Mohamed Hadayet (photo courtesy BBC) |
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| (Photo courtesy: Paul Parkus via BareNakedIslam) |
El Al Station Chief, Klaus Hackel, retraces the July 4, 2002 Islamic terror attack at LAX's Bradley International Terminal.
Mr. Hackel relates that only for the shooting not commencing until the end of the check-in for El Al's Flight 106 to Toronto and Tel Aviv were more potential victims spared.
Hadayat Belonged to Egyptian Jihad, al Qaeda’s Operational Arm
According to DEBKAfile's Counter-Terror Sources:
"Hashem Mohamed Hadayat, 41, who gunned down Yakov Aminov, 46, and Vicky Hen, 25 – both from Los Angeles - on the 4th of July at the El Al terminal of Los Angeles, and wounded 7 others, is revealed by DEBKAfile’s intelligence and counter-terror sources as a Muslim extremist. During his ten years in the United States, he was a secret operative of the Egyptian Jihad who maintained undercover links to the same Jihad cell in Brooklyn, New York, as the “blind sheikh” Omar Abdel-Rahman and Ramzi Yousef. Both are doing time for perpetrating the first attack on the New York World Trade Center in 1993.
Hadayat’s murderous attack on El Al flight 106 passengers points back to the Egyptair 990 disaster of 1999, reviving the many questions left open by that earlier, half stifled inquiry, which carefully stepped round any suggestion of terrorism. It also raises the question of how many sleeper cells the Egyptian Jihad, al Qaeda’s primary operational arm, maintains in American cities.
Hadayat struck the El Al ticket line on his 42nd birthday. The initial FBI inquiry found through records of his fingerprints at the Department of Motor Vehicles, which issued him with a limousine license, that he was married with at least one child, and had lived in Irvine for the last two years, working on a green card.
Since the attack, the possibility that he arrived in America as a sleeper terrorist must be seriously addressed. US investigators realize he was not a lone operative and are seeking his accomplices in such matters as setting up the hit, providing the guns he carried and intelligence on the security situation at the Tom Bradley terminal.
After the 4th of July attack, in order not to clash directly with the US authorities which refused to identify it as a terrorist assault, El Al and Israeli security spokesmen said that even if the Egyptian gunman was not a proven member of a terrorist group, his crime ranked as an act of terror.
However, Sunday, July 7 the influential Arabic London-based Al Hayat followed the original DEBKAfile disclosure of July 5 - that Hadayat was a member of the Egyptian Jihad Islami - and took it a step further. According to the Arabic paper, the Egyptian gunman met Dr. Ayman Zuwahri, the Jihad Islami chief who is Osama bin Laden’s deputy, twice in California – once in 1995 and again in 1998.
According to DEBKAfile’s sources, it was at that second encounter that Hadayat was told to leave his job with Mercury and given capital to set up his small limousine firm, so as to take advantage of his access to airport facilities and airline personnel contacts, while at the same time shaking off any watchers.
The Al Hayat report places Dr. Zuwahri in California unobserved less than three years before the 9/11 hijacking attacks in America and a year and a half before the Egyptair disaster.
The Hadayat family lives in Cairo. His father, a retired Egyptian army general, and his uncle, a former minister of science, admit that Hesham was a fervent Muslim who did what he could to encourage everyone to read the Koran. They say he was happy in Irvine, California. His neighbors in that Los Angeles suburb tell a different story, that he hated Israelis and Jews and asked one of them to take down the American and US Marine flags put up after 9/11.
From all the foregoing, our counter-terror experts cite Hesham Hadayat as a classical al-Qaeda plant. He was positioned at Los Angeles airport in the early 1990s to bide his time for the right moment to carry out a terrorist attack against an El Al flight. When Hayat’s handlers saw he was under observation, they made him lower profile. His assignment was revised to fit his role as a limousine driver familiar to the Tom Bradley terminal staff and free to move around - namely to shoot down a line of passengers waiting to board an El Al flight.
Although from 1994 or 1995 at the latest, Hadayat was brought to the notice of American security, was under the eye of El Al security, and the Egyptian authorities must have known about him, he was never investigated - even after 9/11. The FBI has admitted he figured on no watch list for terrorists. This left him perfectly free to carry out his mission on behalf of the extremist Islamic organization – all of which raises some hard questions about the way in which the war against terror is carried out in the United States."
| Vicky Hen's boyfriend Yaron Cohen had planned to propose the next day |
Revisiting 1st Islamic terror in LA at LAX El Al, July 4 '02 - 10 years later
At the 10th annual, memorial gathering to remember the victims and their survivors at LAX, Klaus (Ben-Ami) Hackel, the German-raised, El Al Station Chief at the time of the massacre, remembers Vicky Hen in glowing terms - and with tears.
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| Retired El Al LAX manager Klaus Hackel eulogized Vicky Hen former Muslima, Amani Mustafa, exposed Jew-hatred in Islam |
Ms. Amani Mustafa, a Muslima for the first part her life, told the crowd of several dozen, that Islam inculcates hate and violence against Christians, Jews, and non-Muslim culture through Islamic verses, dogma, and culture, which probably inspired Mr. Hadayet to commit this slaughter. Investigators seeking clues to the motives and methods of the intended massacre at El Al reported that Hadayet had posted a notice on the front-door of his home, "Read the Quran."
Speeches at the memorial from Israeli Consul Danny Gadot, Klaus Hackel- El Al's LAX station manager; Ms. Amani Mustafa- a brave, apostate from Islam, speaking about the Koranic imperatives against Jews and Christians.
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| Vicky's survivors Avi, Rachel and brother Udi Hen |
ABC 7's Miriam Hernandez did call Hadayet's attack an act of terror, but appeared to downplay the role of Islam and terrorism in her story. She mischaracterized that federal investigators only took 2 months to declare the attack "a terrorist attack" tempered his motivations with extenuating frustrations in Hadayet's personal life, never mentioning Muslim or Islam, and while she did mention "According to the FBI, Hedayet wanted to die as a martyr," Ms. Hernandez cut off the phrase as published by CNN's Charles Feldman on Sept 4, '02: "He wanted to be a martyr and take as many people with him as possible." How would attacking the check-in line of El Al civilian passengers earn Egyptian-national Hadayet martyrdom? Egypt has been at peace with Israel since March, 1979. The Second Palestinian Intifada against Israeli civilians was in effect in 2002- was this a domestic American Muslim branch of Palestinian nationalist militantism? The attack came 10-months after Radical Islam's destruction of New York's World Trade Center. No connection? To achieve martyrdom by "taking as many people with him as possible," couldn't he have struck a more densely populated counter in the International Terminal? Why could the NYC attackers achieve martyrdom by killing assorted American "infidels" in the WTC, but in L.A. to be a martyr, Hedayet had to strike El Al?
Ms. Hernandez' ambiguous characterization inferred that Hedayet's motivation to achieve martyrdom was to avenge Israel's military oppression of Palestinian Arabs. If Palestine was an incitement for Hedayet, it was probably moreso as a hub for Islamic dogma to kill Jews. Palestinian TV (both Fatah and Hamas, but also Egyptian religious TV programs) available on satellite and the internet- are rife with government-appointed, clerics damning Judaism and Jews, which encourage the killing of Jewish people to be not just mandated as "the duty" of a good Muslim, but to die in the act of killing a Jew grants the highest reward in heaven. See the many examples on Palestinian Media Watch's page, "Kill Jews for Allah."
Hadayet posted on his front door, "Read the Quran." He might have simply posted the Hamas website poster, "Kill a Jew- Go to Heaven!" teaching that killing a Jew is enough to grant the rewards of Heaven.
The text on Hamas' poster reads, "I will knock on Heaven's doors with the skulls of Jews" - with an axe crashing through the word "Jews."
20120301
Conservative activist, publisher Andrew Breitbart, dies on L.A. street at 43-years of age. Coverage from DemoCast
Andrew Breitbart, patriotic publisher of Big Journalism and Big Hollywood, died today of a reported heart attack in Los Angeles. He was 43-years old. Here are some of DemoCast's stories of and related to Mr. Breitbart, which include several original video reports.
Andrew Breitbart: 'Tea-Party raising Biden's ire indicates success, although GOP leaders undermined Tea Party in debt-ceiling-deal with Prez'
Andrew Breitbart: Israel's counter-jihad realpolitik frustrates Obama's leftist / Muslim, anti-Zionist realpolitik; When will liberals wake up?
Online "Troop-athon" aims to send the largest ever number of care packages to our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq
Hollywood's Influence on Society - L.A. Times Debate
Andrew Breitbart: 'Tea-Party raising Biden's ire indicates success, although GOP leaders undermined Tea Party in debt-ceiling-deal with Prez'
Andrew Breitbart: Israel's counter-jihad realpolitik frustrates Obama's leftist / Muslim, anti-Zionist realpolitik; When will liberals wake up?
Online "Troop-athon" aims to send the largest ever number of care packages to our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq
Hollywood's Influence on Society - L.A. Times Debate
20111231
Ice-sculpted from chainsaws and blow-torches, menorahs illuminate celebrations
| Chabad Rabbi Tzemach Cunin lights Chainsaw Chicks' ice-sculpted menorah for Chanukah 2011 in L.A. |
Rabbi Tzemach Cunin leads the ceremony which featured traditional oil-cooked foods, potato pancakes and jelly-donuts. The Chainsaw Chicks crew wowed the attendees with their custom designed, outdoor crafted, ice-menorah- which for safety reasons, they publicly demolished as the conclusion of the festivities. The event is captured here on video.
In related news, YNet News, Danny Adeno Abebe reports that an 'Ice City' is to be built in Jerusalem
Israel's capital to host its first ever ice festival in March-April 2012, including frozen sculptures of important sites.
Jerusalem will host the first ice festival in its history in March-April 2012. It will be held at the city's old train station plaza and will include an exhibition of Jerusalem's most famous sites, all carved in ice, and many attractions for visitors.
The sculpture exhibition will display Jerusalem's most unique sites, including the Tower of David, the Israel Museum and the Light Rail. Visitors will enter the complex through an icy "Jaffa Gate" and pass through a route including ice slides and other attractions linked to the different displays.
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20111228
Howard Stern comic icon, Melrose Larry Green, at the Menorah parade in liberal West Hollywood
At the completion of the Chabad L.A. Menorah parade, which aspires to spread light in the world, former L.A. mayoral candidate (and Howard Stern Show comic icon), Melrose Larry Green, taunts upper-middle class Hollywood liberals for insensitivity to Obama-era, lower-middle-class realities.
20111121
Sound the call against Obama Admin enabling Iran to nuclear-weaponize:Glenn Beck, Michelle Bachmann, and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen at Zionist Organization of America event
Rep. Michele Bachmann urged the Pentagon to develop a war plan “immediately” that would evaluate ways to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
The Zionist Organization of America annual banquet featured Republican congresswomen Florida’s Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Minnesota's Rep. Michelle Bachmann joining against the Obama Administration's Middle East policies in concert with keynote speaker, GBTV's Glenn Beck.
Six Congressmen attended, including Rep. Michelle Bachmann, who called on President Barack Obama “to accelerate covert operations and cyber operations in Iran and order the CIA Director to take all means necessary to stop Iran from getting the bomb before it is too late,” said Bachmann, a member of the House Intelligence Committee.
| Zionist Organization of America Director Morton Klein joined by Rep. Michelle Bachmann and honoree Glenn Beck |
Six Congressmen attended, including Rep. Michelle Bachmann, who called on President Barack Obama “to accelerate covert operations and cyber operations in Iran and order the CIA Director to take all means necessary to stop Iran from getting the bomb before it is too late,” said Bachmann, a member of the House Intelligence Committee.
“And the Pentagon should prepare a war plan immediately to tell us what to do to prevent Iran from gaining those nuclear weapons,” she continued.
In Prime Minister Netanyahu’s video message, he praised Z.O.A. Exec. Director Morton Klein for being a “passionate Zionist” and the ZOA for ”promoting the truth no matter what the consequences are."
Z.O.A. reception (Courtesy: Pamela Geller)
Netanyahu also lauded Beck, telling him, “You too have been fearless in defending Israel against the slanders that are hurled against [it]. You’ve done that with considerable personal cost, but you’ve never backed off, you’ve never flinched, you’ve never walked away. And I want to tell you how deeply we appreciate this stand of courage and integrity.”
Glenn Beck portrayed the challenges facing Israel and the Jewish people in apocalyptic terms -- as the ultimate showdown between good and evil. Beck was the only speaker at the dinner whose voice reached a pitch more feverish than Klein’s.(Full article from JTA)
Beck said he came to the ZOA as a brother. “It’s personal,” he said repeatedly.
And clearly he has not been chastened by the urgings of some Jewish groups to tread lightly with the Holocaust analogies. Again and again he invoked them, saying the world stood on a precipice like the one it faced in 1939 -- only this time it’s worse, as not only is the world ignoring rising evil, he said, it is actively helping it along.
20111104
'Palestinian liberation' actually a ruse for jihadist genocide against Jews- Lucid analyst, Pat Condell in new video
Pat Condell calls the "Palestinian Liberation" movement actually a front for Islamic Jew-hatred, aiming for a genocide against the Jews in Israel. Watch video:
Posted October 6, 2011
He follows-up with a counter-punch to the hate-mail he received after almost a quarter of a million views in a month - in this candid speech video, November 4, 2011.
Posted October 6, 2011
He follows-up with a counter-punch to the hate-mail he received after almost a quarter of a million views in a month - in this candid speech video, November 4, 2011.
20111020
Lessons of The Gilad Shalit Affair - collected analysis
Sober criticism from analysts around the world:
The Infernal Choice by Melanie Philips in the Daily Mail (UK)
An obscene moral equivalence has been established by this deal between the innocent and the guilty.
This equivalence is being played out in the coverage which describes the deal as a ‘prisoner swap’ or ‘prisoner exchange’ – more than 1000 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails for one Israeli prisoner held by Hamas. But Shalit was a hostage, kidnapped in an act of illegal aggression by an organisation whose aim is the destruction of Israel and which allowed him not one visit by the Red Cross during his five year incarceration.
By contrast, the released Palestinians have not just been tried and punished according to due process of law, but include among their number not just those who have committed some of the worst terrorist atrocities in Israel’s history – such as the blowing up of Sbarro’s pizza restaurant in Jerusalem, where 16 people were murdered including five members of the Schijveschuurder family -- but even worse, some of the masterminds behind such atrocities.
The equivalence being drawn in the coverage of this deal reflects in turn the morally bankrupt ‘tit-for-tat’ analysis of the Arab war against Israel employed by so many in Britain and the west. For whenever Israel points out that any military action against the Palestinians is only in response to Palestinian attacks, many in Britain claim that those Palestinian attacks were only in response to previous Israeli attacks. Thus Israel is always painted as the ultimate aggressor.
Gilad reunited with father Noam Shalit at Tel Nof Air Base
This is entirely false. From the moment Israel was re-established in 1948, it has only ever launched military operations against the Arabs in response to actual or imminent Arab attacks. Yet many in Britain refuse to acknowledge the difference between murderous aggression and the defence against it.
They refuse to acknowledge that Hamas sets out to murder as many young Israelis as possible, whereas Israel goes to great lengths (not always successfully) to avoid civilian casualties. They refuse to acknowledge that the aim of every single military operation by Israel in Gaza is to defend and protect itself against attack by a fanatically Jew-hating enemy pledged not only to destroy Israel but to wipe out every single Jew on earth.
The refusal to acknowledge this crucial moral difference has meant that many in Britain and the west view Israel as the aggressor in the conflict, and the victimisation of Israelis is largely glossed over. So just as the anguish of Israeli terror victims’ families over the Shalit deal has been minimised by the media coverage – particularly in Israel itself, which reflects the malign nature of its own left-wing media class -- so the anguish of Israel itself as a state under permanent existential siege is routinely ignored, and Israel instead grotesquely portrayed as the aggressor in the region. . . .
What too many in Britain and the west still don’t understand is that what Israel is up against is what Britain and the west are now up against – not a violent campaign by people fighting for a state of their own but an Islamist cult of death, in which the murder of innocents is a cause for exultation and mass killers are lionised as heroes and religious martyrs, not just by Hamas but by the Fatah leadership in the West Bank too.
The five-year Shalit drama and its disturbing resolution have therefore come to symbolise the toxic cocktail of ignorance, misunderstanding, naivety, malice, cowardice, cynicism, incompetence and moral muddle by the so-called civilised world – including Israel itself -- that has actually served to perpetuate the Middle East impasse.
No decent person can fail to be moved by the return of Gilad Shalit to Israel. Few eyes will have been dry at his reunion with his family. Yet it has to be said that ultimately, this deal represents a triumph of heart over head and sentimentality over realism. . . .
Israel is now trapped between Hamas, Fatah, Hezbollah, Iran, Syria, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea – and yet is blamed for preventing peace by building apartments in the suburbs of Jerusalem. The infernal choice it was forced to make over Gilad Shalit was thus but the latest and most dramatic example of how the West has abandoned Israel to swing in the wind. Read it all
The National Review Online published this analysis by Holocaust expert, Giulio Meotti
Since Israel allowed the PLO and its terror armies to move their bases from Tunis to Judea, Samaria, and Gaza in 1994, nearly 2,000 Israeli families have involuntarily paid the ultimate price in the “peace process.” The Shalit deal is a moral defeat- most especially for these families of the victims of terrorism: Israel just cancelled more than 900 life sentences to embrace again one soldier. Meir Schijveschuurder, who lost his parents and three of his siblings in the suicide bombing in the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem in 2001, yesterday declared against the deal: “We feel like a man who woke up in Germany a day after World War II.”
Israelis rallied to leaders to free kidnapped Gilad Shalit
(Photo courtesy: San Francisco Sentinel 12/21/09)
Terrorism is now sanctified throughout all the Palestinian areas. The streets are plastered with posters glorifying terrorists and suicide bombers. Children trade “martyr cards” the way Western children trade baseball cards. Necklaces with pictures of terrorists, many released today by Israel, are very popular. Signs on the walls of Palestinian kindergartens currently proclaim their pupils as “the martyrs of tomorrow.” Elementary-school principals commend their students for wanting to “tear their [Zionists’] bodies into little pieces and cause them more pain than they will ever know.” Unlike terrorists in other parts of the world, the Palestinian movement aspires to immortality and its violence is always “sacred.” That’s why the freed terrorists will return to kill the Jews.
(Photo: Salon.com)
The Almagor association revealed that 177 Israelis have been killed by prisoners released by Israel in previous deals. The Jews living in the settlements are afraid of a new round of killings. “Many terrorists have been allowed to return to live near our homes, it’s a shock and a disaster,” Hillel Weiss, professor of literature at Bar-Ilan University and a leader in the settlement community, tells me. The deal is a victory for terrorism, since Hamas can now justly demonstrate that killing Jews is infinitely more effective than negotiations in achieving their objectives. It will also be much easier to recruit terrorists when they are encouraged to believe that no matter how many Israelis they kill, there is every likelihood that, if apprehended, they will be released.
Releasing the terrorists meant saving Gilad’s life, but it also means that more Jews will die and more soldiers will be kidnapped. Now many Israelis ask: How many more lives are to be sacrificed before the rest of the released men — and those to be released in future exchanges — are put behind bars again? Appeasement breeds only death and destruction. Capitulating will culminate in greater disasters.
Marketing Gilad Schalit
by Caroline B. Glick 10/21/2011
Gilad Schalit is home. And that is wonderful. The terrorists Israel released in exchange for the IDF soldier held hostage by Hamas for more than five years are running around Judea, Samaria and Gaza promising to return to terror. And that is a nightmare.
. . . Given the media’s unchecked power to repeatedly manipulate public opinion to adhere to its radical ideological agenda, it is essential that the government and Knesset step in and reform the media market. Broadcast licensing procedures for television and radio must be deregulated. Television and radio must be open to competition. Broadcasters should be allowed to broadcast whatever they want whenever they want, and the market should dictate who rises and who falls. This is the only way to protect the public against manipulation, and the government from blackmail.
20111006
"Palestinian cause' is jihadists' blood libel and an exploitation of liberal sympathies,' sober insight from Pat Condell
British online commentator, Pat Condell, shatters popular shibboleths about "Palestine nationalism" and Israeli intransigence- in this bold, new video:
"Is it racist to criticize the Palestinians as the world's most tiresome cry-babies with a bogus cause, and a plight that's entirely self-inflicted? I bet it is. I wouldn't be surprised if it weren't against the law in certain European countries. But I'm going to do it anyway, because somebody has to. I realize I'll probably lose a few friends with this video. But that's okay, friends like that I can do without.
All any of us can do is tell the truth as we see it. I mean as we actually see it, and not as we think we're supposed to see it. The worst thing you can do is to see the truth and to tell a lie- and I see the Palestinian cause as a lie. A lie designed to exploit Western liberal guilt, like the lie of Islamophobia, and the lie of the mythical "religion of peace" that nobody has ever seen in action.
I used to be a lot more critical of Israel, and I used to believe there was a fairly simple, two-state solution, because I used to believe the Arabs were acting in good faith. I still want to believe that, but the evidence tells me I'd be a fool to believe it.
Because I've seen that every concession that Israel makes is met with more demands and more excuses not to negotiate. They (Palestinians) could have had peace ten-times over if they wanted it, but they don't want peace- they want victory - and they won't be happy 'til Israel is wiped from the map.
A member of Fatah's Central Committee said as much on television recently, but as he said, they keep that to themselves and tell the rest of the world a different story. And as part of that story, the bogus claim for Palestinian statehood is currently passing through the United Nations, and we're all waiting to see what plops out the other end.
Not that it really matters, because despite what the Palestinian public-relations industry, i.e., the Western media might tell you- this is not about territory - and it certainly isn't about justice or human-rights, because Arab societies don't know the meaning of those words.
It's about Jew-hatred - as mandated by the Quran - and as preached by the mosques and taught to the children in Arab countries, day in and day out, generation after poisoned generation.
The Arabs don't hate Jews because of Israel, they hate Israel because of Jews.
The situation in the West Bank and Gaza exists because 45-years ago, several Arab countries attacked Israel, unprovoked, with overwhelming odds, because it was the Jewish state. If it hadn't been a Jewish state, they wouldn't have attacked it. And they attacked with the intention of wiping it from the map and of committing genocide.
But they failed because the Jews had a bit more steel in their blood than the Arabs had bargained for. And who could be surprised after what they'd been through- and after seeing how the rest of the world had responded to their plight.
Large numbers of Jews could have escaped the Nazis if they had somewhere else to go, but other countries wouldn't let them in.
(Please contribute for the work which disseminates this life-saving resource for you, your loved ones, and your community).
"Is it racist to criticize the Palestinians as the world's most tiresome cry-babies with a bogus cause, and a plight that's entirely self-inflicted? I bet it is. I wouldn't be surprised if it weren't against the law in certain European countries. But I'm going to do it anyway, because somebody has to. I realize I'll probably lose a few friends with this video. But that's okay, friends like that I can do without.
All any of us can do is tell the truth as we see it. I mean as we actually see it, and not as we think we're supposed to see it. The worst thing you can do is to see the truth and to tell a lie- and I see the Palestinian cause as a lie. A lie designed to exploit Western liberal guilt, like the lie of Islamophobia, and the lie of the mythical "religion of peace" that nobody has ever seen in action.
I used to be a lot more critical of Israel, and I used to believe there was a fairly simple, two-state solution, because I used to believe the Arabs were acting in good faith. I still want to believe that, but the evidence tells me I'd be a fool to believe it.
Because I've seen that every concession that Israel makes is met with more demands and more excuses not to negotiate. They (Palestinians) could have had peace ten-times over if they wanted it, but they don't want peace- they want victory - and they won't be happy 'til Israel is wiped from the map.
A member of Fatah's Central Committee said as much on television recently, but as he said, they keep that to themselves and tell the rest of the world a different story. And as part of that story, the bogus claim for Palestinian statehood is currently passing through the United Nations, and we're all waiting to see what plops out the other end.
Not that it really matters, because despite what the Palestinian public-relations industry, i.e., the Western media might tell you- this is not about territory - and it certainly isn't about justice or human-rights, because Arab societies don't know the meaning of those words.
It's about Jew-hatred - as mandated by the Quran - and as preached by the mosques and taught to the children in Arab countries, day in and day out, generation after poisoned generation.
The Arabs don't hate Jews because of Israel, they hate Israel because of Jews.
The situation in the West Bank and Gaza exists because 45-years ago, several Arab countries attacked Israel, unprovoked, with overwhelming odds, because it was the Jewish state. If it hadn't been a Jewish state, they wouldn't have attacked it. And they attacked with the intention of wiping it from the map and of committing genocide.
But they failed because the Jews had a bit more steel in their blood than the Arabs had bargained for. And who could be surprised after what they'd been through- and after seeing how the rest of the world had responded to their plight.
Large numbers of Jews could have escaped the Nazis if they had somewhere else to go, but other countries wouldn't let them in.
(Please contribute for the work which disseminates this life-saving resource for you, your loved ones, and your community).
20111004
Law professor's factual history of Israel and Palestine challenges Islamist campaign to discredit Israel towards destruction
Professor Abraham Sion, head of Ariel University's Center for Law & Mass-Media in Samaria, reveals the true history of Palestine & Israel and debunks myths from the Muslim campaign to rewrite the Jewish nation's territorial rights to Judea / Israel.
Prof. Sion reveals what's behind Muslim leaders' aims to destroy Jewish Israel through diplomatic means of Palestinian Arab "nationhood," while inculcating Islamic anti-Semitism to assure continuation of the conflict.
20110919
Is it time for unilateral Palestinian statehood? Explore Jewish and Muslim history, rights and intentions for Palestine, with Prof. Abraham Sion
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| Mahmoud Abbas & Benjamin Netanyahu last year (AP) |
Abbas responded,"I will meet any Israeli official any time," said Abbas, though he added that “there is no use if there is nothing tangible." The Palestinian Authority's attempt to end-run the Palestinians' signed obligations to conduct direct negotiations with Israel (in accord with the 1993 Oslo Accords) and obtain "national" recognition by the Arab-dominated United Nations- warrants an re-examination of the history and legal status of Israel and the "Palestinian" nationalist movement- the West Bank and Gaza and their irredentist quest to reconquer Israel for the Muslim world.
Prof. Abraham Sion, who head the Center for Law and Mass-Media at the Ariel University Center of Samaria, delivered this address earlier this year at the request of the Zionist Organization of America, in Los Angeles, California. (Highlights are in the first 3 segments; the entire undivided speech is in the fourth segment).
20110906
Anniversary of '72 Munich Olympics marks 39-years of West's scapegoating of Israel over Palestine; Islamist terror is not a response, it is an historic, supremacist aggression; Stop the U.N. from supporting Palestine over Israel

This is an archived video of ABC News' coverage of the "bloody Olympics" atrocity (at which 17 people, including 11 Israelis, were killed), hosted by ABC News' anchorman, Howard K. Smith.
(Video courtesy: RobAtsea2009)
Islamist terrorism debuted to a global public at the Munich Olympics atrocity. But, like the Islamist attacks on NYC's World Trade Towers 29-years and 5-days later, the mass-media has framed (and the public has been led to believe) acts of Islamist terror as a response to some Western (including Israeli) affront against benign Muslims.
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| Courtesy BareNakedIslam |
The P.L.O.'s Black September terror killings of Jewish athletes in Munich are misunderstood to be a response of a nationalist Palestinian movement seeking for Israel to "de-military occupy" militant Gaza, Judea, and Samaria. On the contrary, Palestinian ambitions are to conquer all of Israel under the flag (and spiritual influence) of Islam (just as al-Qaeda's Islamic imperialism seeks to elevate Islam over Christian, democratic America, and all of the non-Muslim world).
Palestinians evidence their aspiration to conquer all of Israel prima facie of the logos and seals bearing the geographic image of the actual state they seek - the map of all of Israel.
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| Palestinian Hamas's logo depicts all of Israel as goal |
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| Fatah Party logo depicts Palestine as Israel proper |
20110822
Jews avoid opposing leftists' and Muslims' Nazi-esque, "Destroy Israel" rally in Trafalgar Square, to concentrate on objecting to Glenn Beck assuming Zionist leadership void- from Israel
As Muslims and leftists proclaim a narrative of Zionist villainy in Central London's historic Trafalgar Square, diaspora Jews organize no resistance, distracting themselves in opposing Glenn Beck's "Restoring Courage" rallying of thousands of moral gentiles to pilgrimage to Israel's defense against Islamist anti-Semitism.
Read 2 liberal Jews' positions on the Jewish reticence over "Restoring Courage" in Israel- Wendy Kaminer's piece in The Atlantic: "How 400 Rabbis are Wrong about Glenn Beck" and
Alan Dershowitz "Should Israel Welcome Glenn Beck's Support?"
Meanwhile, in the aftermath of Hamas rocket attacks driving tens of thousands of Israelis to sleep in bunkers to avoid the fate of 9 of their slain countrymen, Richard Millet reports from London about the horrifying al-Quds Day terror rally in these 2 articles: As Israelis bury their dead, scenes from London….. Lauren Booth: “Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt must liberate Jerusalem”.
Read 2 liberal Jews' positions on the Jewish reticence over "Restoring Courage" in Israel- Wendy Kaminer's piece in The Atlantic: "How 400 Rabbis are Wrong about Glenn Beck" and
Alan Dershowitz "Should Israel Welcome Glenn Beck's Support?"
Meanwhile, in the aftermath of Hamas rocket attacks driving tens of thousands of Israelis to sleep in bunkers to avoid the fate of 9 of their slain countrymen, Richard Millet reports from London about the horrifying al-Quds Day terror rally in these 2 articles: As Israelis bury their dead, scenes from London….. Lauren Booth: “Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt must liberate Jerusalem”.
"Yellow Hezbollah flags were everywhere with the flag’s usual gun emblem, which is especially menacing considering that the head of Hizbollah has said that Jews are descended from pigs and apes and that if all the Jews in the world gathered in Israel it would save Hizbollah the trouble of going after them elsewhere. I felt that the rhetoric and placards were nothing short of incitement to racial hatred and violence, not just against Israel and its citizens, but against the many Israeli tourists and residents in the UK as well as British Jews, and non-Jews, who wish to express support for Israel. Had similar threats been made against Britain the police would have acted. They can still act as they were recording footage."
20110510
Reaffirming the independence of the democratic, Jewish state of Israel
Israel's 63 Independence Day was celebrated with a pageant on television - which featured an IDF choreographed marching team which conveyed concepts and icons of cultural significance.
(Video courtesy Gechch2007 on YouTube)
At Israel's Herzliya Policy Conference '09, economist Daniel Doron spoke with us to convey the history of the establishment of the modern states of the Middle East, both Arab and Jewish, with details of Israel's legitimate founding and legal rights of the territory on which Jews reside.
Daniel Doron explains his concern for the safety of Jews in Judea and Samaria, and for the threat which a Palestinian state would pose at this time to the safety of Israel's citizens.
Finally, the orthodox Jewish movement, Aish, produced this music video of Zionist pride, "Israel, Wave Your Flag!" (Video courtesy of WeJew)
(Video courtesy Gechch2007 on YouTube)
At Israel's Herzliya Policy Conference '09, economist Daniel Doron spoke with us to convey the history of the establishment of the modern states of the Middle East, both Arab and Jewish, with details of Israel's legitimate founding and legal rights of the territory on which Jews reside.Daniel Doron explains his concern for the safety of Jews in Judea and Samaria, and for the threat which a Palestinian state would pose at this time to the safety of Israel's citizens.
Finally, the orthodox Jewish movement, Aish, produced this music video of Zionist pride, "Israel, Wave Your Flag!" (Video courtesy of WeJew)
20110316
Media & political elites remiss in misunderstanding the truths about Islamism & anti-Semitism
Why They Celebrate Murdering Children. Islam is as Islam does.
by Andrew McCarthy in National Review Online March 16, 2011
by Andrew McCarthy in National Review Online March 16, 2011
Muslims are frequently found carrying out the Koranic directive to “strike terror into the hearts of the unbelievers.” Actually, make that the Koranic theme, so often is it reiterated in the scriptures devout Muslims take to be the verbatim commands of Allah. (See, e.g., Suras 3:151, 8:12–13, 8:60, 9:5, 33:25–27, 59:2–4, 59:13.) And that is beside the hadith, scriptures in which Mohammed, taken to be the perfect Muslim role model, boasts, “I have been made victorious with terror.” (Bukhari 4.52.220 — just scroll down from here, through the glories promised to Muslims who wage jihad against the infidels.
Palestinians welcome news of slain family of Jews
Muslims, in fact, are more often exhorted by their scriptures to brutalize non-Muslims than Christians are urged by the gospels to love their enemies and turn the other cheek. Yet, though we assume the latter are meant to take the message to heart, we are somehow sure Islam doesn’t really mean what it says — that when Muslims strike terror into the hearts of the unbelievers, it must be Israel’s fault, or America’s, or something, anything, other than Islam, the only common denominator in these attacks. . . .
Rep. Peter King is to be applauded for forcing Congress to notice the phenomenon we so gingerly call Muslim “radicalization.” The question that really begs for hearings, though, is why we continue pretending not to know what causes it.
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