Israel News Round Up-July 2010
Israel Round Up-July 2010
By Laura Rosen Cohen
Dear HillBuzz,
I know it has been a while since I wrote up a round up – my life has been pretty busy lately, but I know how important Israel is to you and to your readers so I knew that I had to catch you up. I’m going to try to give you a picture of some of the things that I have been thinking about lately with respect to Israel and the Western world-I think they all relate. As always, please feel free to leave any questions in the comments and I will try to address them in an upcoming post.
This story is about the attempts by European Muslims to make Sweden Judenrein – and they have almost succeeded (if you want to see what happens when Muslim “youths” take over a city, just google “Malmo/rape/infidel women”). I wonder if Europeans are really actually happy with the way in which their Jews were killed and then after the way, their elites imported vast numbers of poor, religious Muslims from various sharia-based nations, with little intention of absorbing into the larger culture. Are they happy to see these new immigrants attack Holocaust survivors and physically threaten and assault local Jews? I guess so.
Did you all read about how President Obama suggested that Israelis distrust him because of his “funny”middle name – Hussein? I’m sure you did. A friend of mine said “isn’t it time we get over the funny name stuff?”. She rightly pointed out that sometimes you are allowed to talk about it (i.e in Cairo) and sometimes you are not (in America for example). That’s the thing about Lefty. Lefty always wants to make up and change the rules. Like how the Persian Madman denies the Holocaust, but wants the new and improved nuclear one that he is planning to be much, much more effective. They want it both ways. I thought that Jennifer Rubin, from Commentary, put it best. She writes “President Obama: Israelis are racists and some of my best political hacks are Jews.”
Anyway between you and me, I think Ahmedinejad has waaaaay too much time on his hands if he is focusing on a new Haram Hair-Do Squad.
This is an important story that I think a lot of people missed. Remember that Britain is the land of the Magna Carta, and then read about how a British judge so sympathized with the Palestinians that a complete miscarriage of justice occurred. Jew hatred was more important than punishing criminals. If this had happened in America, the judge would possibly have been sacked (well, let’s hope so). Melanie Phillips has also written about this case.
The pathetic Turks continue to dig their heels in and whine about Israel. Turkey is really going down the tubes. Finally, at least Israelis have started to fight back with their wallets. How’s that anti-Israel stuff tasting nowadays, Turkey? How do you say “bite me” in Turkish?
In other news, your tax dollars, America, continue to be spent on fanatics in backward, Sharia-based countries who want to kill you.
But it’s not just Americans who have naïve, “good intentions”. Israel is chock full of idiotic utopians, too.
Anyway, I don’t want to leave you depressed. I still remain totally optimistic about America’s future and the future of the Jews and Israel. I’m optimistic about November, too. I think that despite the damage (and it is extensive) that the current administration has done to your incredible country, that the ship will right itself. I feel very honoured to be able to share my thoughts with you here and feel comforted by the fact that there are so many decent, hard-working, straight thinking people among you and look forward to hearing your thoughts on these and other items.
Here’s a last link that I really loved. I have a soft spot for people with disabilities, and the people who take care of them. I believe that the way we treat disabled and vulnerable people speaks to our own humanity. Lefty hates disabled people – that’s always been obvious to me.
I thought this video was pretty inspiring. It’s the story of the SHALVA organization in Israel that helps kids with special needs. To me it shows how one person can make a difference in the lives of so many others, by just making the decision to do something-and to ‘repay’ a kindness. I was very moved by the founder’s words – it’s an incredible picture of ‘people who can’t take care of themselves still trying to take care of the defenders of the Jews and the Land of Israel’. If people who can’t take care of themselves are doing something for Israel, what should the rest of us be doing? Are we doing anything? What are you doing? Something about that idea gives me chills.
Sincerely,
Laura Rosen Cohen
Toronto, Canada.
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Laura:
Thank you for posting the video. It says volumes. I reminds me of a documentary about Palestinians in the US. One was an extremely vocal anti-semite. He sponsored his wife from Gaza. She came to the US, and the only place she could get a job was working in a Jewish pre-school, where she admitted, she was treated
kindly and with respect. It was also very telling.
I would appreciate any commentary you may be able to provide about what I have been told is expanding extremism on the part of some of the Mosques in Toronto. I would be very disheartened to hear that they have been allowed to vent their hatred and venom in the way the infamous Finsbury mosque in London was allowed to, or the Saudi school here in VA.
Thanks for your posts, they are always thought provoking.
Link to the docu?
“Fearing for his family’s safety after repeated anti-Semitic incidents, Eilenberg reluctantly uprooted himself and his wife and two children, and moved to Israel in May.”
This sort of stuff is why, however much people may argue the fine points of a one-state or two-state solution and whatnot from the comfort of an armchair, there just plain old needs to be an Israel. If the past 800 years of history has proven nothing, it’s that there really needs to be an Israel. Where else would this family have gone?
We can talk the fine details, we can talk about solving the problem of a dispossessed people without creating another dispossessed people, we can talk about who builds houses where, and all that. But the starting point absolutely has to be that Israel exists. Israel’s existence and safety has to be an absolute given. Several centuries of history have already shown us what happens when there isn’t one. No need to learn those lessons again.
I feel EXACTLY the same way about it.
To deny the existence of Israel is criminal and insane. There HAS to be an Israel always and forever. I bless every penny of aid the U.S. gives.
Tom Friedman who irks me for other reasons (Obot) had an interesting doc on the Discovery Channel a while back looking into the I/P probelm.
He toured the wall that split families and farms, watched people slipping through cracks, or just climbing over. He visited with a man who had to drive his daughter some 20 miles so she could go to a mixed school with both Israelis and Palestinians. Everyone who had to deal with the wall complained about it, but still the reduction in numbers of suicide bombers was a point that Freidman kept coming back to.
Anyway, he made an excellent point about a one state solution which some might only view as racist. But still an important fact for Israelis, that the Palestinians are having more children. And in short time if there was only a one state solution, Israelis would be a minority and lose the vote.
It is an interesting doc called ‘Straddling the Fence’ and shows that both sides are held captive by the small percentage of terrorists.
I think it can be viewed here.
http://www.cableready.net/245/thomas-l-friedman-reporting-straddling-the-fence/
That sort of stuff scares me — the “palestinians are having more kids” thing. You know why? Because it turns both Palestinian and Israeli women into cannon fodder producers for the state. In ALL cases in ALL countries, women’s lives are better when they can choose for themselves when they get pregnant and have kids, when their fertility is their business. This turns US into competitive babymakers for someone else’s purposes. That sort of garbage is no good for women EVER, on either side of the fence. The only reason Palestinian women are having more babies is because they have fewer choices when to have them; I’m sorry if this pisses people here off, but average birth rates fall when women aren’t kept down. Even Palin’s freely chosen five kids is a step WAY DOWN from the birth rates in some places where women have NO rights to refuse their husbands anything.
Obviously, there are a lot reasons for women around the world not having control of their reproductive future. Making targets for the enemy is probably low on that list.
The point that Friedman was getting to was that if Israel pursued the one state solution they would then be faced with denying the vote to Palestinians and probably start losing American support in the future. It would be hard to say Israel is a democracy that must be protected when one man one vote is denied.
He really didn’t go into babies being ‘cannon fodder’ because clearly that situation already exists.
As far as reproductive freedom, yes I have seen the reports as well. And yes, I have seen the documentaries that show third world countries and the various plights of women and babies. It is hard to imagine the choices, or lack of, many women around the world face. Hillary’s famous speech in China as First Lady made the point very clearly. Women’s rights are human rights. The fight has barely begun on that front.
However, I can’t draw the same conclusion that Palin having five kids is a step down. She and Todd clearly can provide love and security for them, as well as an extended family who loves them dearly. Who am I to judge what their bliss is?
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Thanks for the round up Laura! I always look forward to them.
Thanks Laura. I always enjoy your posts.
My day always ends with a prayer for Jerusalem and Israel.
Thank you Laura, it is always nice to hear from you.
Shalva! Shalva! I need Shalva! Laura, thank you for linking to the video. I sure needed to see an uplifting story involving the developmentally disabled, here, there, anywhere! I hope the good deeds of the Samuelses return to them a thousandfold.
Now I’ll go back and click on your other links. And might I say, your writing is particularly inspiring today.
“Alan Widman, who is a strapping 6-foot-tall member of parliament and a non-Jewish member of the Liberal Party who represents Malmo, said simply, ‘I have never been so afraid in my life.’”
Just dwell on the implications of that statement. Even a non-Jewish MP is frightened by the behavior of Muslims in this Swedish town.
There must always be an Israel, a safe and secure haven.
Imagine how the Jews felt in Nazi Germany, the horror, the terror they lived and died through. I feel Obama is “stirring up the pot” of anti-semitism and racism in the U.S. and around the world. Michelle Obama meets with the NAACP and the next thing you know they are calling out the Tea Party all as racists.
I don’t get why black people supposedly dislike Jews anyhow. Where did this come from? They should visit Arab countries and find out what they think of black people.
Not sure. Never could figure it out either. I heard Louis Farakkahan talk about Jews exploiting blacks for years. It’s called giving them jobs when no one else would. And going down to the South to register voters when no one else would. But then some people always have to have someone to hate and blame things on, or else they might have to try to live in peace with all mankind and that just doesn’t fit in with their agendas.
jews marched with the blacks way back in the 60s. the jews were the biggest supporters of civil rights. i don’t know what happened over the last 40/50 years it’s very strange, because the jews were quite the friends of all the black organizations with monetary support, as well as volunteer support, etc. perhaps because of the ‘race industry’ blacks don’t feel that they have come as far as they should have – and they blame the jews or something. or people like farrakhan/sharpton/jacksonblame the jews so that no one will shine to big a spotlight on them.
“Also under hardline scrutiny this summer is the growing fashion in Tehran’s wealthier northern suburbs to keep dogs – which are considered ‘unclean’ under Islamic tradition – as pets.
A senior cleric issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, against the practice last month.”
So what else is it that we need to know about fundamentalist Muslims? To me, this says it all.
I was wrong. Should have read this story first:
“Mother of baby saved by Israelis wants him to murder them.”
thanks… great piece.
Great to see your posts Laura. Thanks for the insight
Thanks Boys and Laura for your contributions. I appreciate your optimism. Regarding the “distrust” becuase of his middle name, all I can say is, isn’t it time to get over this, “I blame everything on everyone!” If he isn’t blaming GWB for the economy, he’s blaming big business. Because he can’t earn the trust of Israel, he doesn’t say that he hasn’t worked hard enough to earn their trust, but he blames them for their apparent narrow-mindedness! How infantile can a so-called leader get??? Lets look at his actions. Has he done anything to represent Israel’s best interests? Absolutely not when he sends $400 million to the Palestinians. He hasn’t when he consistently bashes the contributions of the Jews. I am appalled by this man and everything he stands for. Then they send up signals that they can’t figure out why Americans do not trust him. He’s either dense or brain-damaged.
and the truly disgusting part is that something like 90% of jews supported him. and probably many of them still do.
Thank you for the links and the time you used to type them and the post.
Appreciate your posts, Laura. Part of why I like Hillbuzz so much.
“One state” is a way of eliminating Israel. No one talks this way about other countries — do we hear that Pakistan and India should get back together?
I agree.
It was a blunt assessment by Friedman weighing the pro and cons. While coming at the probelm from a different perspective than most people. I hope you take the time to watch the doc and that my memory did it justice.
He also did another one about Europe hating us. It was a classic moment to see these students told their socialistic lifestyle was due to Americans footing their defense bill.