THE STATUS OF JERUSALM AND THE STATUS OF OBAMA

Once again, president Obama and his State Department speak with a deceptive tongue when it comes to the capital of Israel. Obama in his speech to AIPAC, American Israel Public Affairs Committee on June 4, 2008 made it very clear that the capital of Israel is Jerusalem. This is what Obama said:

“Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided.”

Here is what was said by Victoria Nuland on March 28, 2012 in a State Department press briefing, here is a partial text of what was said:

Q: Is it the view of the -- of the United States that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, notwithstanding the question about the embassy -- the location of the U.S. embassy? MS. NULAND: We are not going to prejudge the outcome of those negotiations, including the final status of Jerusalem. Q:  Does that -- does that mean that you do not regard Jerusalem as the capital of Israel? MS. NULAND:  Jerusalem is a permanent-status issue.  It's got to be resolved through negotiations. Q: That seems to suggest that you do not regard Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.  Is that correct or not? MS. NULAND:  I have just spoken to this issue--MS. NULAND:  -- and I have nothing further to say on it.

 Q: You've spoken to the issue --MS. NULAND:  Yeah. Q: but (haven't answered?) the question.  And I think there's a lot of people out there who are interested in hearing a real answer and not saying -- and not trying to duck and say that this has got to be resolved by negotiations between the two sides. MS. NULAND:  That is our

Q: What is the capital of Israel? MS. NULAND:  Our policy with regard to Jerusalem is that it has to be solved through negotiations.  That's all I have to say on this issue.

Q:  What is the capital of Israel according -- MS. NULAND:  Our embassy, as you know, is located in Tel Aviv. Q:  So does that mean you regard Tel Aviv as the capital of Israel? MS. NULAND:  The issue on Jerusalem has to be settled through negotiations. Q: I just want to go back to -- I want to clarify something, perhaps give you an "out" on your Jerusalem answer.  Is it your --is it your position that all of Jerusalem is a final-status issue, or do you think -- or is it just East Jerusalem?

 MS. NULAND:  Matt, I don't have anything further to what I've said 17 times on that subject. OK?  Q: All right.  So hold on.  So I just want to make sure.  You're saying that all of Jerusalem, not just East Jerusalem, is a final-status issue. MS. NULAND:  Matt, I don't have anything further on Jerusalem to what I've already said.[1]

The president of the United States cannot be trusted at all. He does not believe that the ancient capital of Jerusalem belongs historically to the Jewish people. Does he have Israel’s back? His speech was geared to get the Jewish and the evangelical Christian vote. He has neither, as a result of this recent State Department briefing. Obama has lost out with the refusal of press secretary Victoria Nuland to answer the question directly when asked about Jerusalem.

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[1] http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/state-dept-avoids-saying-whether-jerusalem-capital-israel_634793.html

DOES THE US MILITARY SUPPORT OBAMA?

                It is quickly becoming clear that Obama is losing respect on all levels, internationally and domestically. Steve Jobs prediction that Obama will only serve one term may come true. The continued escalation of bombardment by Syrian military forces on innocent civilians and Obama position of wait and see is a clear indication that Obama lacks leadership than any president before him. His refusal to side with the Green movement in Iran in 2009 is the reason why Iran sees the US as weak and has threaten the US and Israel in a war. It has become increasing clear that even the military sees Obama not as a strong leader, but rather as a man who would abandon his allies for political gain and appease his enemies. This is the view that most military personnel have of the president including the top brass. It is no surprise that there appears to be an exodus of top officers leaving the military simply because they cannot tolerate the president self-absorption and his lack of military experience.

          Obama continues to send mixed messages to American troops that US enemies are not Islamic jihadist. The prime example of this mindset is the administration attempt to force a politically correct agenda on all military personnel. It comes in all types of practices. The first thing that comes to mind, is the terrorist act committed by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasanin at Fort Hood in 2009 were he killed 12 people and wounded 31 others. This terrorist act was labeled not as a Islamic terrorist act, but rather as “work place violence”. The continued use of euphemism in order not to insult Islam is rampant in the Obama administration. Policy undertakings by the Obama administration like the Islamic burial procedure of Osama bin laden which now according to documents obtained by WikiLeaks says that his body was not buried at sea, but rather flown to the US is one example.[1]

         The recent accidental burning of the Koran by US troops and a groveling apology of the president to Muslims in general and the president of Afghanistan are disturbing. The most recent incident is of an American solider killing 16 civilians, this is a by-product of Obama’s Islamic policy of appeasement and his deference toward Islamic enemies.[2]

          A solider who swears to protect his country and the constitution against all enemies, cannot have a clear mind when the commander in chief refuses to acknowledge the enemy of the US as Islamic Jihadist. This was clearly brought forth by senator Lieberman.[3] The first rule of war is to know and idenitify your enemy and Obama has made it a point that America is not at war with Islamic extremist. He continues to whitewash anything that will put Islam in a negative light. This politically correct mind set has caused confusion in the military and is a by-product to some degree why a US solider committed this painful slaying of Afghan civilians this past week after the Koran burning.

          US soldiers are feeling that Obama is not pro American, but rather sees him as having a kinship to the Muslim world and sympathy toward them. Is America or US soldiers bound by sharia Islamic rules when it comes to the Koran?[4] Respect for other cultures and their faith is fine, but when Islam seeks to destroy and conquer the west, then you have a different story. Our worldview as a nation is bound by a western Judeo-Christian worldview which Islam jihadist wants to destroy. Will there be more acts of violence toward Islamist in the country where our military serve? Unless Obama articulates openly that the enemies of the US are Islamist radicals and stops kowtowing to Muslims special interest groups, here and abroad there may very well be sedition in the military.

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[1] http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/security-it/pentagon-bin-ladens-body-wasnt-flown-to-us-20120310-1ur0z.html

[2] http://www.nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/03/american-soldier-kills-16-afghan-civilians.html?imw=Y

[3] http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/11/lieberman-omitting-references-islamic-terrorism-dishonest-offensive/

[4] http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/03/american-thinker-huffington-posts-pro-jihad-propaganda.html

THE NEW CHALLENGE

                                          

Evangelicals Christians are watching closely as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu heads off a challenge for Likud party leadership with contender Moshe Feigler. Christians in the US have a deep respect and admiration for Prime Minister Netanyahu however, those who staunchly support him, Christians Zionist may very well support Moshe Feigler who holds the same basic conviction and core belief that all of Judea and Samaria belongs to and should be in control of Israel. Christian Zionist has consistently maintained that a Palestinian state inside Judea and Samaria is unacceptable and that all of the West Bank should be annexed and incorporated as part of Israel.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu once held this view, but has changed his position. The growing frustration among young Israeli families who want to claim vacant land and establish communities is a sore point in the Netanyahu government. “Settlers” are looked upon as extremist and hard-core nationalist, but are they? The growing movement among young families to settle in the land that G-d promised is nothing more but a commandment that they are fulfilling.

Moshe Feigler if he is wise, could appeal to Christian Zionist around the world and get their support. If this was to happen, it would create a large obstacle to Netanyahu leadership. As of now, Christian Zionist supports Prime Minister Netanyahu but with a bit of pessimism when it comes to giving up land for peace.  If Moshe Feigler wants to challenge Netanyahu leadership, he has to convince the voting public that the Oslo Peace Accord is over and that a new paradigm shift is needed.  

What would be the new paradigm shift? Perhaps the best answer to this is what was said by Yasser Arafat, King Hussein and Prince Hassan of Jordan[1] -Jordan is Palestine. Unless there is a fundamental shift in thinking that there is a country east of the Jordan River that is Palestine, there will be no peace between Palestinians and Israelis.

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[1] From Time Immemorial The Origin of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine, Joan Peters Pg. 240 JKAP Publications ©1984 Chicago, IL.

ARE WE SAFE ?

We are all living in a period where our economy is weak, unemployment is at an all-time high, our infrastructure is crumbling and our debt is the highest in US history.  We have a president whose antagonism toward Israel is clear. Are we in a second Weimar Republic the prelude to more horrors?  I say this because it appears that we are. George Bernard Shaw said the following, if history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

I say this because of the recent article written by distinguished Professor Dr. Alan Dershowitz in which he comments on the book “The Wondering Who” which describes Jews in the typical anti-Semitic fashion endorsed by prominent academics.[1] There is an undercurrent of anti-Jewish sentiment not only in universities, but also by people who believe that Jews control the world. A case in point is the people movement of OWS that blamed Jews for our financial trouble.

A record of anti-Semitic behavior in the US, Europe and elsewhere would be too long a list to mention. Nevertheless, the fact is, we are entering an era where Jews are not safe in the place they call home. If Jews think, they can live in Europe, the Americas and not be traumatized by blatant anti –Jewish threats and assaults then we are truly incapable of learning from our past.

This brings me to the main point and has to do with Israel. Israel was primarily founded to be a haven for Jews from all over the world escaping centuries of Jewish hatred. With  changes taking place in this geo-political world and the increase of anti-Zionist sentiment (Jew hatred), it behooves us to seriously consider making alyiah to Israel. Here is the big question, can the government of Israel absorb thousands of Jews into Israel and provide places to live and jobs without raising the specter of land grab by the Palestinians?

If the government of Israel would say to the Palestinians that they are not partners for peace and that the whole concept of land for peace is a hoax, thousands of Jews would arrive in Israel in droves.[2]

The government of Israel must have the courage to say NO to a Palestinian state especially as Ismail Haniya the leader of Hamas partakes in his six-country tour of raising money for Hamas.[3] Jews would come and make alyiah if certain conditions in Israel where met, simply because there is more opportunity in Israel to advance and the economy in Israel is much better than the US. Israel’s economy is growing while most nations are seeing a decline in their economy, even more reason to live in the land and help see it grow. Jews are better off living in their ancient homeland then living in the diaspora. Perhaps now is the time to come home, if not now when?

If we do not understand our historical past and act on it, we will truly repeat another looming disaster. Anti-Semitism will not go away and it is growing. Discussions groups on this subject and debates will not change the hearts of people who believe that Jews are the problem.[4] Now is the time for us to begin a new year and make a commitment to visit and live in the land given to us.

Esther 4:14

For if, you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?"

(Holy Bible New International Version)

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[1] http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2725/mainstream-anti-semitism

[2] http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2012/01/the-land-for-peace-hoax.php#comments

[3] http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/31269/World/Region/Gaza-leader-promises-difficult-days-for-Israel.aspx

[4] http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/looming_destruction_will_jews_ever_learn.html

The land-for-peace hoax

The land-for-peace hoax

ARE MUSLIMS CRISTOPHOBIC?

We all know that Muslims are extremely fearful and hateful of Jews. This Judeophobia is noticeably seen in the Koran and the many statements and actions against Jews as a whole and especially the state of Israel. Their hatred and fear of Jews and the state of Israel is compounded by Israel’s success and prosperity in the region.[1] Muslims will continue to hate Jews because of their success and their religious worldview that all “unbelievers” are inferior to Islam.

It can be said conclusively, that Muslims are Judeophobic and this term should be used more than it is. In regards to Christians, Muslims are Christphobic for almost the same reasons. Wherever Christianity spreads, it usually elevates the standard of living, by building institutions and promoting the welfare of the people. It is a constructive influence on communities.

The recent escalation of Islamic violence against Christians worldwide is a case in point. The Islamic mindset that all non-Muslims are inferior and should be subdued is in keeping of their Islamic ideological worldview.[2] Christians do not pose a threat to Islam and neither does Judaism or the state of Israel, yet to the Muslim it does. The very essence of having infidels in their mist is abhorrent and repugnant to Muslims. This connection with the G-d of Israel that Bible believing Christians have infuriates the religious Muslim. It amount to a simple antecedent in the G-d of Israel verses the god of Islam that has no bearing to the true G-d if one reads the Koran and compares it with the Bible.

The god of Islam fails the litmus test when you compare it with the G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Jews and Bible believing Christians worship the true G-d and Islam does not. Contrary to popular belief that all three faith believe in the same G-d is not true. That is why an attack on the state of Israel is an attack on biblical Christianity and an attack against Jews, is an attack on believing Christians.

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[1] The Israel Test, George Glider- page 4 Richard Vigilante Books Copyright 2009

[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/8998421/20-killed-as-Nigerian-gunmen-attack-Christian-mourners.

DESTROY, OCCUPY AND RULE

Caroline Glick in her blog wrote about the appointment of IDF Brig- Gen Nitzan Alon to serve as the next commander of Central Command.[1] Alon like Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon and others have a worldview that negotiating, giving up land and appeasing the enemy can bring peace and stability.

The policies behind this thinking are flawed concepts. The first error is the notion that is often said in Israeli circles: “We don’t want to rule over another people”. [2] This position is completely unsound and a paradigm shift is needed. Ruling over a people or ethnic group is not instinctively evil. Most countries of the world rule over their ethnic, racial or religious minorities with very little opposition and in peace.

The second erroneous belief is the concept of neutralizing the enemy. Israel does not believe in destroying her enemies who seeks to destroy her. Destroying roads, buildings, lines of communications and military apparatus does not in itself win a battle. In order to win a war against terrorism on the home front you cannot neutralize the enemy you must eradicate the enemy. When an enemy seeks your life, your family and country you do not neutralize the enemy, you destroy them completely so they will never again re-group and try to kill you.

Lastly, you recover what you lost by occupying the land. The government of Israel made a grave mistake in 2005 by pulling out of Gaza and that has made Hamas and Israel’s enemies more brazen in the belief that all of the land from the river to the sea is theirs. Here is where the problem lies; Israel is not willing to take back that which she lost simply because it would create turbulence at home and abroad.

"Israel needed to respond differently to the violence coming from the Strip," said Mofaz. "Not to occupy Gaza, but to act in a way that would cause terrorist organizations to think twice before firing long-range missiles." [3]

If Israel wants to live in peace without fear of missile attacks, coming into towns and killing innocent civilians, Israel must deal ruthlessly with her enemies, with the stated goal of complete victory over her dead enemies.

“For the LORD your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory." [4]

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[1] CAROLINEGLICK.COM December 26,2011- Netanyahu's misleading lessons in governance

[2] Deuteronomy 15:6

[3] http://www.israeltoday.co.il/News December 28,2011-Ryan Jones

[4] Deuteronomy 20:4

IS OBAMA CREATING MIDDLE EAST TENSION?

President Obama and his administration is the first in US history that has contributed more tension and hate in the Middle East than any president before him. His policy on the Middle East and his betrayal of longtime allies truly shows what he believes in private.

It is a long-standing fact that Obama is extremely hostile to the state of Israel and will do everything he can to destabilize the Middle East and fashion it according to his image. Not only has he been hostile to the state of Israel, but also anything pertaining to Jewish historical claims and sites like Jerusalem or communities being built in Judea and Samaria. Obama believes that his personal knowledge of the Middle East history is factual based on works by Noam Chomsky, Rashid Khalidi, George Bisharat and others.

His lack of leadership clearly is a burden on the American people and the international community as a whole. What is more troubling is his disdain of the men and women who serve our country in the military. This is clearly seen in his attempt to whitewash the Islamist terrorist attack on Fort Hood.

The recent escapade by the Department of Defense is typical of what Obama and his administration is trying to do in order to win favor among radical Jihadist.

Sen. Susan Collins on Wednesday blasted the Defense Department for classifying the
Fort Hood massacre as “workplace violence” and suggested political correctness is being placed above the security of the nation's Armed Forces at home.

 During a joint session of the Senate and House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday, the Maine Republican referenced a letter from the Defense Department depicting the Fort Hood shootings as workplace violence. She criticized the Obama administration for failing to identify the threat as radical Islam.[1]

This also brings us to the recent capture of a top-secret drone with all the high tech information it possesses. Iran having found the US top-secret drone on Iranian soil intact, the Obama government was not willing to either destroy or capture the multimillion drone even though it had time to do so. It shows conclusively, Obama’s lack of leadership and his disregard of US taxpayers in funding this high tech equipment. Again, it reflects his worldview that he wants to create a Middle East that reflects his belief how it should look like. Allowing such a sensitive piece of high tech equipment costing millions of dollars in the hands of an enemy state that wants to destroy US, West and Israel and not doing anything about it, clearly shows what he thinks and believes.

Israel being the only democracy in the Middle East, has told the Obama administration the existential threat Iran is to herself and the region. Even the Saudi king told the US repeatedly about Iran and that the “head of the snake must be cut off”.[2] Clearly even his allies in the Middle East let alone Israel cannot trust Obama.

Yet even today, the Obama administration continues to undermine Middle East stability by endorsing Turkey as a friend and partner, even though it is clearly leaning toward Islamist fundamentalism. It has encouraged dialog with the Muslim Brotherhood whose goal is to destabilize the region and commit itself to an Islamic homogeneity free of a Jewish state or western influence.

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[1] http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/12/lawmakers-blast-obamas-defense-dept-for-classifying-fort-hood-jihad-murders-as-workplace-violence.html

[2] http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/11/29/us-wikileaks-iran-saudis-idUSTRE6AS02B20101129

ANNEX JUDEA AND SAMARIA NOW

The Israeli government refusal to transfer money to the Palestinian Authority amounts to $100 million dollars. This move has become a great concern for the Palestinians.  The transfer tax and custom payment amounts to two thirds of its revenue.[1] The European Union (EU) has already promised money to the Palestinians despite the fact that Europe is in a financial crisis. Instead of helping underdeveloped countries, it chooses to invest money to the PA whose goal is to eliminate the Jewish state.

The European Parliament has agreed to increase aid to the occupied Palestinian territories in 2012, reports on the annual EU budget negotiations in Geneva said Saturday. The bloc’s budget for next year will increase by 129 billion euros, following more than 15 hours of talks, Reuters reported. The increase includes an extra 100 million euros for the Palestinian territories. As the largest single donor to the Palestinians, the European bloc of nations contributes some 500 million euros each year for Palestinian Authority salaries and to support future state institutions.[2]

Despite the fact that Israel has taken measures in castigating the PA, it is not dealing with the real issue of “land”. The most effective method in sending a message to the Palestinians is annexation. Cutting off funds is temporal, because the EU and the US is more than willing to subsidize the Palestinian dependent welfare mindset. Real transformation can only come about by the annexation of land.

When will this happen? The more Israel commits herself to peace with an enemy who seeks to destroy her, the more confusing it becomes to Israelis and the world at large. The Israelis know that Palestinian Arabs do not want peace. When will this annexation take place? Will it happen when Hamas starts sending more missiles into towns, and schools? Now is the time to annex all of Judea and Samaria this is only option for peace. If not now, when will it be done? Does Jewish blood have to be spilled before Israel annexes communities?

Here are Shimon Peres' own words: (in translation)

“If a separate Palestinian state is formed, it will be armed from top to bottom. It will be a base for the most extremist terror groups, who will have anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles, endangering not only passersby but every airplane or helicopter that uses Israeli air space, every vehicle on Israel’s major coastal highways.  It is doubtful whether territorial depth provides deterrence. But the absence of minimal territorial depth leaves a state without any deterrence. This option in itself makes attacking Israel on all fronts irresistibly tempting…demilitarization of the West Bank is a questionable antidote: the problem is not the agreement to demilitarize, but whether the agreement will be honored. The number of agreements broken by the Arabs is not less than the number they have kept.” (This Time Tomorrow, Jerusalem 1978, page 255.)

For decades, the consensus among those in Israel’s government and the population in general is no independent state inside Israel. This belief has now changed and it includes both right and left. If Israel is going to have peace, it must claim her historical homeland and not waver in her conviction. The historical narrative of the Palestinians is fictional and Israel must claim her rights to her land.[3]

The longer Israel waits to annex Judea and Samaria the more blood will flow. Now is the time to claim the land and continue building, not when Jewish blood is spilled. We all hope that the government of Israel will take action as soon as possible and reclaim her historic rights to the land of Israel.

King Solomon says it best, “A wise man’s mind tends toward the right hand, a fool’s toward the left”. Ecclesiastes 10:2

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[1] www.nytimes.com/2011/11/24/world/middleeast/israel-halts-payments-to-palestinian-authority-adding-to-fiscal-woes.

[2] http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/11/21/european-union-funding-for-palestinian-authority/

[3] http://www.freeman.org/MOL/pages/march-2011/the-challenge-of-inclusion-annex-and-survive.php

A LACK OF COURAGE AMONG THE NATIONS

In his speech to Harvard University in June of 1978, Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn makes it clear what courage is:

“A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society. The decline in courage, at times attaining what could be termed a lack of manhood, is ironically emphasized by occasional outbursts and inflexibility on the part of those same functionaries when dealing with weak governments and with countries that lack support, or with doomed currents, which clearly cannot offer resistance. But they get tongue-tied and paralyzed when they deal with powerful governments and threatening forces, with aggressors and international terrorists”. 1

Today more than ever before, we are dealing with many countries that lack courage or as Solzhenitsyn commented, “manhood”. We see this in Obama’s foreign policy in the Middle East, in the Americas and Africa as good examples. A decline in courage is happening all over the world and it appears that it is growing like an unstoppable virus. A case in point is what happened in early August 1995; the Croatian army ethnically cleansed the Serbian village of Krajina, which became the worst refuge calamity of the Yugoslavian civil war since World War 2. The Clinton administration during that time played an important factor in that dreadful calamity. 2

The Obama administration and the UN are following the same policy as Clinton in seeking the removal of Israelis of their historical rights to their land that was recognized by the San Remo Resolution of 1920 and the UN in 1947, which paved the way for the birth of the state of Israel in 1948. Yet the UN ignores what was established by international law, encourages, and seeks to create an independent state of Palestine inside Israel and to physically remove Israelis from their historical homeland, with the blessing of the Obama administration. There is no doubt, that the endorsement by the UN of an independent state of Palestine will have far reaching repercussions not only for the Palestinians, but also for the whole region. An independent state alongside a Jewish State of Israel cannot co-exist side by side with a terrorist organization like the Palestine Authority who collaborates with Hamas and Fatah.

The only way for peace to exist is by annexing all of Judea and Samaria and to uphold what the international community already recognizes as binding and legal according to international law. The lack of courage to stand up for what is right and true is the hallmark of many nations. The most recent incident of this kind took place when former defense secretary Gates said the following:

“Netanyahu's government has offered the Obama administration "nothing in return" for its generous security aid, which includes access to top-quality weapons, assistance in developing missile-defense systems and high-level intelligence sharing”.3

What followed that remark from Gates was no resistance from other committee members. This lack of courage from other committee members is part of the problem. The words of Mark Twain are still true, Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Why was there no opposition to Gates remark? The world will continue to undermine the state of Israel, unless Israel takes action and not be allowed to be bullied by the US and the UN. Israel must take a stand based on international law, and her legal rights as a member of the United Nations.We all need courage and with courage, we must tell the truth. George Orwell said is it clearly, in a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

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1.       http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/SolzhenitsynHarvard.php

2.      http://de-construct.net/?p=3783

3.      http://mondoweiss.net/2011/09/robert-gates-israel-is-an-ungrateful-ally.html

OBAMA DISMISSES PRO-DEMOCRACY

The Hudson Institute, a leading consultant to the Defense Department, asserted that the administration has decided to work with Turkey and the Brotherhood in Syria for a post-Assad government. In a report by Herbert London, the institute said Obama has dismissed the pro-democracy opposition as an alternative.1

Knowing full well that democracy and Islam are incompatible the Obama administration has decided to endorse the radical Islamic Brotherhood as the spokesperson for the freedom seeking people of Syria. Why would the president of the United States endorse a radical Islamic organization that is anti-American, anti-Israel and anti-West?

Perhaps the answer to this is found in the remark made by Chief Intelligence Officer James Clapper on February 10 in which he reinforces the ignorance and naiveté of the Obama administration. During a House Intelligence Committee hearing Clapper called the Egypt’s branch of the Muslim Brotherhood movement “largely secular”.

In one of his recent weekly sermons, titled "How Islam Confronts the Oppression and Tyranny [against the Muslims]," Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Muhammad Badi' accused the Arab and Muslim regimes of employing tyranny against their peoples, of avoiding confrontation with the Muslims' real enemies – the Zionist entity and the U.S. – and of disregarding Allah's commandment to wage jihad against the infidels.

Muhammad Badi encourages his fellow Arabs and Muslims to unite in support of the resistance, for "resistance is the solution," and exhorted them to have faith in the Koranic promise that Allah would deliver the infidels into their hands, even if they are weak at the moment. 2

There is nothing secular about the goals of the Brotherhood and Obama knows this. Yet he is determined to work with the Brotherhood because they are a voice crying out in the wilderness, their voices are not being heard. That is why Netanyahu must annex not certain sectors of land like Danny Danon has suggested, but all of Judea and Samaria.

Furthermore, by asserting its sovereign rights to its heartland, for the first time since 1967, Israel would be adopting an unambiguous position around which its citizens and supporters could rally. Annexation would also finally free Israel's politicians and diplomats to tell the truth about the pathological nature of Palestinian nationalism and about the rank hypocrisy and anti-Semitism at the heart of much of the international Left's campaigns on behalf of the Palestinians.3

We can see clearly that the dismissal of pro-democracy advocates by Omama and his staff is a rejection of Israel as the only democracy in the Middle East. If anything, we should take to the street in protest and promote the annexation of Judea and Samaria the very heartland of Israel. Doing so would send a message to the world that the so called disputed areas from the “river to the sea “is ours.

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1.    August 17,2011 http.//worldtribune.com

2.    Memri.org October 2, 2010-report 3274

3.    Caroline Glick.com January 31, 2011

THE DEATH OF JEWISH PRIDE AND NATIONALISM

What has become of HADAR pride of oneself, self-respect and dignity? Why is it that present day Israeli’s have surrender to the will of the international community and the Obama administration policy? In an article in Israel Today by Ryan Jones August 3, 2011 he states the following:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to restart peace negotiations with the Palestinians using the pre-1967 borders as a baseline for a final status peace agreement, according to Israeli media. Officials in Netanyahu's office told various newspapers that the proposal is actually a package deal that also requires the Palestinians to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, something the Palestinian leadership has vehemently refused to do.

Will the capitulation of Judea and Samaria to the Palestinians, UN and the Omama administration lead to peace and an end to conflicts? NO it will not, and this is the problem. We have seen in the past that giving up land does not bring peace, but rather conflict and most of all contempt on the part of the Palestinians and the Obama administration.

The willingness on the part of the government of Israel to surrender to the demands of the Obama administration and Israel’s enemies is a case in point. It was once said by Zionist Dr. Max Nordau:
 Jews learn not from reason, but from catastrophes. Natanyahu willingness to surrender Judea and Samaria will end in one of the greatest disasters in the history of Israel simply because the leadership of Israel lacks self-respect in themselves.

Where is the protest, sit-ins and refusal to submit to the US in regard to this matter? There is none. It’s no wonder when Governor Sarah Palin came to Israel she simply asked a question, why are you apologizing all the time? Jews want the approval of non-Jews so the world will see that Jews believe in social justice, tolerance, and democracy. The non-Jewish world will never accept Jews and the more Jews capitulate to the demands of the Obama administration, international community and Palestinians, the more difficult it will be to have peace.

When Jews stand up for themselves first, their rights and their self-interest then and only then will the non-Jewish world take notice. Every time Jews are beaten, killed, and slandered and does nothing about it he adds more contempt to himself and to G-d. Now is the time to break the cycle of surrender and stand firm for Jewish rights and reaffirm Jewish HADAR.

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Abraham J. Santiago