Israel Needing New Leaders with New Validating Justifications

Israeli leadership are finally realizing that the old arguments and the old reasoning for supporting Israel have been corrupted and turned on their heads as a result of decades of propaganda. The spreading of half-truths, utter falsehoods, and other fronts of agitprop has turned Israel from the underdog facing overwhelming odds defending against the entire Arab World into an oppressor which uses means and oppressions against the nearly defenseless Palestinians which are reminiscent of the Nazi crimes against humanity thus corrupted the memory of the Holocaust turning it into a liability instead of an event of horror that must be remembered if it is to be avoided in the future. With the Palestinians stealing the Jewish history and claiming it as their own, Israel needs to reestablish their legitimacy and disprove the Palestinian house of lies which the world has eagerly adopted in order to facilitate and validate their hatreds of Israel and Jews in general. The spreading of anti-Semitism, which has broken out attaining unprecedented heights with the promise that the steep increase is just the beginning, is simply the tip of the iceberg of cold hatreds and calculated threats to eradicate Israel and the Jews.

So, what is required for Israel to turn the tides of abrogation of the Jewish State by supplanting it with a Palestinian binational state or a two state solution which will render Israel indefensible? Some of the initial steps would be to state in simple but firm language the positions which Israel is prepared to defend and not bend or surrender their positions any further. The sacrifices of territories Israel has made from the agreement by the early Zionists, who ceded all of the Mandate Lands east of the Jordan River in return for a promise by the British and the countries of the League of Nations that all of the remaining Mandate Lands west of the Jordan River would remain as the Jewish State in perpetuity free of any future partitions, was a huge gift of seventy-eight percent of the promised Mandate lands for the purpose of establishing a Palestinian Arab state to guarantee a peaceful future. Display the White Paper treaties which frame this guarantee which established what is owed Israel under International Laws. Remind the world that Israel liberated Judea and Samaria in a defensive war which would allow the Israeli retention of all or parts of the lands gained from the hostilities in 1967 and 1973 under International Law and the Geneva Conventions in particular. Israel needs to remind the world which claims Israel has made no concessions for peace and demands that Israel surrender land for peace in order to establish yet another state for the Arab population which mostly immigrated subsequent to the initial return of Jews from the Diaspora during the Nineteenth Century. One such claim was the surrender of the entirety of the Sinai Peninsula back to Egyptian control in exchange for a peace with Egypt and in that treaty the Egyptians ceded any claims to the Gaza Strip. Point out that the treaty made with Jordan that the areas west of the Jordan River which had been illegally occupied by Jordan was returned to the previous owners of these lands under numerous treaties and conventions back to Israel fulfilling the obligations made by the League of Nations and acknowledged in Article 80 of the United Nations Carter.

But Israeli and Jewish leadership must go beyond the dry facts of treaties, conferences, proclamations, and edicts of governments and men and reassert the expressions of the inspirations, dreams and aspirations of the Zionists and their love and desire to reestablish and rebuild their historic homeland. The Zionists and Israelis must reclaim the emotional front and thus personalize their claims to their Biblical homelands and the establishment of the dream of an Israel that would be a light unto the nations through exemplary conduct, establishing a just state, and leading development in all fields dedicated to the betterment of the human existence. Israel must proclaim the good they have presented to the world and the potentials of future miracles, scientific developments, agricultural inventiveness, medical discoveries, and general improvements in countless fields of human endeavors complimenting and furthering knowledge and accomplishments. Above all of these arguments must be accompanied by the human emotions and inspirations which tie Eretz Yisroel and the Children of Israel and attach the modern return to the first return out from Egypt and away from Pharaoh. The Biblical establishment of the claim to the land must become a driving force and validation just as it drove the Zionists to expend their energies in reestablishing the State of Israel with the blessings and cooperation of not solely Europe and the United States but also with the blessings of King Faisal bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashemi who signed numerous treaties, conventions, and conference agreements as the reigning Arab leadership in setting aside lands for the establishment of a Jewish State. The real histories which prove that the initial investments of the world towards the establishing of Israel were committed beginning at the end of World War I and had nothing to do with the Holocaust. The agreements to found a Jewish State in the Middle East was an idea that has its roots in the mid to late Eighteen-Hundreds and the returning of the Jews to the area which would become Israel began even earlier. It must be expressed and displayed that there has been a Jewish presence in the areas which now constitute Israel with an emphasis on the facts that a Jewish presence and historical relationship has existed for over three-thousand years with large presence of Jewish communities in cities such as Jerusalem, Hevron, Tiberius, Shechem (Ramallah), and among many other towns and villages throughout the lands.

The need for an update of the arguments used to validate the Jewish presence in the Middle East may require an entire change of the leadership with a passing of the torch to a new generation. The old leadership which are still steeped in the old arguments and who dream of a return to the times when Israel was loved by most of the world believing that is possible to rekindle must be supplanted by those who are ready to establish new and uncorrupted by Arab propaganda arguments and validations of the correctness and promise of Israel as the Jewish State. New arguments which reveal the perfidy of the lies which the Arabs utilize to steal the legitimacy of Israel being established for the Jews and are making every effort to corrupt and adapt the Jewish history and rights into a falsified collection of arguments establishing a Jewish Israel to establish an Arab replacement must be revealed and the truth reestablished. They must no longer present the apologetic appearance which begs for favor and recognition all the time presenting a meekness which is unbecoming and undermines their arguments. This is the time for rekindling the fire of Zionism in the souls of the Israeli leadership. The Jewishness of Israel and the right of the Jews to their eternal homeland must be presented forcefully, beaming with pride and challenging any who might choose to deny these truths. The old ‘if I may’ attitude should be relegated to the scrapheap of history and a new, inspired, reinvented Zionism needs to be presented the world, the same Zionism which burned hot and bright resulting in the Balfour Declaration and the ensuing documents which laid the foundations for the current state of Israel. Inspired presentations of the truth in an unapologetic manner even to the point of arrogance rather than meekness is necessitated due to the surrender of the preeminent claims to the lands being perceived to stand with the invented entities of the invented peoples, the Palestinians, who are simply Arabs who before immigrating to what is today is Israel since the late nineteenth century were simply Syrians, Egyptians, Jordanians, Iraqis and other native Arabs from neighboring lands. The time for polite discourse passed decades ago and, as was predicted, the only arguments and reasoning that will be heard by the rest of the world are those presented with a forcefulness with which truths must be presented. The phrases which need be adopted by all the Jews of Israel and the Diaspora are those of the late Meir Kahane, “Never Again” and “Am Yisroel Chai.”

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What the Media is not Telling You About Israel and West Bank

The mainstream media in Europe, the United States, around the world, and even throughout Israel is keeping a dirty little secret under wraps as to admit to its existence would ruin the perfect image of the poor and downtrodden Palestinians being victimized by the big, bad, mean Israelis. The secret has numerous facets of which I will recount some of the most flagrant examples of the conspiracy to hide the truth. Every once in a while there will be a report that a few rockets or mortars were fired from Gaza into southern Israel. These reports are usually forced into the public eye due to injuries or the miracles which happen with regularity where the round hits a schoolyard or smashes into a classroom and either does not explode or explodes but the children had just been moved to another location in the school for other activities. The former is reported as when there are Israelis hospitalized or worse from these attacks the particular attack cannot be kept secret any longer. With the miracles which have occurred more times than I can count, are reported partially to prove that these attacks are harmless as nobody was injured despite a school or home or other structure being hit and partially destroyed. What is almost never reported unless you read <a href=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/ target=blank>Arutz Sheva</a> or live in Sederot or other community near the Gaza border is the affect the often daily rocket attacks and the sounding of the Code Red sirens has on the people who live under this constant threat, especially the older citizens and the children. There have been numerous reports made by healthcare officials and psychologists about the stress induced problems, especially on the children many of whom have developed sleep disorders among other problems.

Along the same locations there is also the sniper fire and the placement of IEDs (improvised explosive devices) near the fence between Gaza and southern Israel where these are used to ambush IDF personnel and vehicles which monitor the border road. The threats which at one time only included those Israelis living within a few miles of Gaza have now been extended with the longer range and larger payload carrying rockets to now reach to all of Ashkelon, Beer-Sheba and now Eilat as similar rocket and mortar attack have begun to be launched out of the Sinai into even more of the south of Israel. As the terror groups within Gaza receive more and more of the stronger, larger and more accurate armaments the areas of Israel coming under threat and the ability to make more accurate selection of targets continues to increase. Soon we will see these attacks from within Gaza reaching all the way to Tel Aviv at which time the media will have no choice but to cover such attacks. But in the meantime, as long as the attacks are only targeting some of the poorest towns kibbutzim and developments, the news will willfully ignore them as they are not striking anything the elites find valuable. Soon they are going to get the rudest of awakenings and will be asking the question, “Where did this come from and why did we not know about this threat?” What will the media say then?

On to the other front which gets an even less respect and reporting from the press; the area they call the West Bank instead of using its real names of Judea and Samaria. The purpose of using the term West Bank in place of Judea and Samaria is to keep hidden the historical relevance these lands had as the heart of the ancient Jewish lands. I mean Judea, how can Judea be anything but Jewish, it is the root from which the term Judaism originates. Also, by changing the name they are able to blur the full meaning and intents of the myriad of papers, declarations, decrees, treaties, and inclusionary terms in founding documents all of which distinctly place all of Judea and Samaria as well as all of the rest of the lands between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea as the intended lands for the Jewish homeland. Truth be told, originally the Jewish homeland also included all of Jordan. But as that was signed off on in an agreement that the area today known as Jordan and originally Transjordan would be the Arab Palestine whiles the remaining lands west of the Jordan River were to be Jewish Palestine. The media avoids any reference to the original definition of who was a Palestinian. Before 1964 if a person was referred to as a Palestinian, they were Jewish. The Arabs were called Egyptian, Syrian, or simply Arabs. On rare occasions they were referred to as Arab Palestinian, but never as simply Palestinian. During the World War II the Palestinian Brigade consisted of Jewish soldiers fighting with the British. The Arab forces that entered World War II did entered on the side of the Axis powers, in particular with Germany.

In the lands of Judea and Samaria there have been escalating attacks made on Jewish motorists by rock and Molotov throwing, carjacking, and sniper fire. The rock and carjacking have become daily occurrences which the mainstream media chooses to ignore. Even when they have covered it, the coverage has only included the initial findings of the authorities which are most often that the vehicle was in a single vehicle accident. It is often later that the attack is reclassified as a terrorist attack but why change the story at such a late date. Even when one of these rock attacks murdered a father and infant son, Asher Palmer and his infant son Yonatan, the authorities listed this event as reckless driving. This determination was made despite the small amounts of evidence to the contrary such as the large rock in the back of the van, the large hole in the windshield just above the steering wheel about the same diameter as the rock and the smashed in face of the father with an indentation about the same size as the aforementioned rock. It took over a day and a half before the Police finally surrendered to the findings that a thrown rock may have caused the accident that tragically took these innocent Israeli lives. One such rock attack was filmed and despite the evidence that the car was swerving to avoid the attack, the driver was subsequently arrested and charged with attempted murder for striking an Arab youth who had run straight in front of the car and thrown a rock point-blank at the windshield. The charges were eventually dropped. But why is the press ignoring all these attacks? Whatever could be their purpose?

This is where the truth gets really sickening. Why does the media refuse to report there are daily occurrences of terrorist activities against Israelis, usually Jewish Israelis but not exclusively as some Arab Christian and even Arab Muslims have ended up on the receiving end of these rock attacks simply due to their having the wrong type of license plates (Israeli plates)? They avoid reporting this for two reasons, it would be too repetitive with reports saying the same basic thing just sometimes differing locations each day, and it would spoil the narrative. What narrative you ask? The narratives that the Palestinians are always the victims and on the receiving end of harsh and cruel Israeli oppression while the Jews live the high life with no regard for the Palestinians. The Palestinians have to be portrayed in the kindest and most flattering light while the Israeli “settlers” must be portrayed as interlopers stealing the land and the food out of the Palestinians’ mouths. It must be shown that the Arabs are having their land stolen by Jews while the IDF stands by with their rifles forcing the Palestinians off their native soil. It can never come to light that the vast majority of these people being referred to as the Palestinians are also recent emigrants who came to the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea seeking better employment which was available as the Zionists turned swamps and desolate wastelands into profitable farms and industry. The most common names of “Palestinian” families are also very common names of Egyptian and Syrian families and if you research the vast majority of the so-called Palestinians you would find they have numerous relatives back in the homeland from which their names indicate is their actual heritage.

One last little item which will be another example of the truth you have not been told. Most have heard that name which strikes the notes of oppression of the Palestinians. That word is “Naqba” which means catastrophe and is currently used to denote the Palestinian response to Israeli Independence Day. But this was not the original use of the word Naqba. It had a much earlier and vastly different meaning which had absolutely nothing to do with Israel, the Jews, and was used when Palestinian equaled a Jew living in the British Mandate Lands. Simply try a little experiment and search the terms, Naqba Syria France Britain 1920, and let the true and original meaning of the word Naqba be revealed. You will find that the Naqba was the division of greater Syria between France and Britain thus cutting the southern Syrians off from their beloved Damascus. The commonly thought of meaning it denotes today did not come into being until the earliest the late 1970s and mainstream usage in the 1990s. Like so many of the terms and presumed history and facts surrounding the “Palestinians”, it is all stolen from other times, peoples, and histories. The one thing that remains true and cannot be challenged is that the only country in all of recorded history to reside between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea with Jerusalem as its Capital has been the Jewish State whether it was known as Israel or Judea.

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It is Always Israel at Fault

Sources, as usual being referred to as anonymous high ranked officials, as if there is ever another kind leaking the information, have stated that the talks between the Palestinian Authority and Israel in Amman, Jordan have produced no tangible results. Well, color me surprised. Another surprise is that each side claims the other is at fault. Oddly, the reason the other is at fault is the one place of agreement. The Israeli claim is that the Palestinians are continuing to make their all-encompassing demands for Israel to agree to end all building in all areas past the Green Line, to use the pre-1967 War lines as the basis for a border, universal Palestinian Right of Return, and the rest of the litany of demands which leave nothing for negotiations. The Palestinians claim that Israel remains intransigent on meeting their reasonable pre-conditions in order to restart direct negotiations. Well, if one is simply looking for any agreement to claim progress, then we have progress. We have progressed from the old impasse to the new impasse which resembles the old impasse to a ‘T’.

Right on schedule, there was a politician from a country which has no direct interest or will suffer no damage nor reap any gain from the success or failure of the Palestinian-Israeli peace process. Truthfully, just about everybody from numerous different countries seem impelled to make comments and place the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on the front burner needing their two-cents worth every time there is a meeting, somebody builds a deck east of the Green Line, uproots a tree claimed by a Palestinian, or any complaint expressed by a Palestinian. You seldom hear from these same critics who claim to be deeply vested and seriously watching everything that occurs between the two sides when rockets are fired from Gaza into Israel; large rocks are thrown through Israeli licensed vehicles, even if they result in deaths; Israeli trees are uprooted unless the event turns violent and there is film of the Israeli Jews fighting with Arabs or the liberal Israelis who often force issues and instigate confrontations; Arabs are caught at a checkpoint with explosives, bombs, firearms etc., or anything that would cast the Palestinians in a negative light or make the Israelis appear as being victimized. This time the affronted politician was British Minister for the Middle East and North Africa Alistair Burt who said “Many will argue that now is not the time to make bold gestures. My advice is if you want stability, security and peace with your neighbors, and the best relations with the rest of the world, then making a deal with the Palestinians is urgent.” Could you imagine if a Knesset Minister had spoken in London and said that England needed to make bold and grand sacrifices as attaining a deal with Northern Ireland was urgent and necessary?

Whenever you hear a politician being interviewed on the evening news, you can safely bet their comments on the Israeli-Palestinian situation will support the downtrodden Palestinians and chastise the evil and oppressive Israelis. Somewhere down the line the debate was reframed from Israel being set against the Muslim World where they were vastly outnumbered and their military vastly under-equipped compared to the arms available to their adversaries, to Israel being the oppressor of the poor, innocent, nonviolent, peace-seeking Palestinians. Of course the world’s media tends to overlook little events such as the Israeli interception of the arms ships the Karine-A, the Victoria, and the Antigua-flagged vessel, Francop; and these are just an example of various arms shipments by sea and land prevented, chosen simply because I actually could find non-Israeli sources. These made the news simply because tons of armaments are intercepted and they include serious upgrades in weapons capabilities. One deadly example of a serious upgraded weapon being used against Israeli civilians occurred when a terrorist from within Gaza fired a guided antitank missile into Israel aiming and destroying a large, bright yellow school bus. This was an intentional act, as in order to guide the missile the attacker had to have visual contact with the target, a school bus. The attack initially seriously injured the sole passenger, a 16 year old boy who subsequently died of his wounds, and moderately injured the bus driver. The bus had let out most of the students just moments before the attack which occurred as the bus climbed an incline and came into view. Had the bus been visible just a few moments earlier the attack’s results would have been horrific. You can read about this insidious attack in the New York Times, or the Huffington Post which spends most of the article making the Israeli response appear as brutal and unnecessarily extensive, or the Washington Post which also makes sure to include the Israeli response as being too large. If you search this particular incident and almost any other incident of terror against Israelis, the majority of the articles will also list in graphic and overt detail the Israeli response and stress to great lengths that Israel killed more terror suspects than Israeli civilians who were killed by the terror attack and will go to the greatest of pain in mentioning any unfortunate apparently innocent Palestinian who was an incidental casualty. When Israel responds to any of the near countless terror attacks which occur almost daily, when including the rocket and mortar fire out of Gaza into southern Israel, Israel is almost universally painted as using disproportionate force.

The real question that needs to be faced is exactly what forces are aligned against Israel, all of which use the Palestinians as one conduit for their war against the Jewish State. We know that Saddam Hussein used to pay the family of every Palestinian suicide killer $25,000 before he was removed from the scene. One wonders how long after before that practice is reinstated by the new Iraqi government. Iran is known to be directly arming Hezballah for a total war of annihilation against Israel and also arming both Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Egypt has opened up the flood gates for weapons of virtually any sort to pass into Gaza through the Rafah border terminal, though the Egyptians do monitor who and what is allowed to leave Gaza and enter Egypt. Syria is known to store many longer range missiles just across the border from Lebanon solely for the use of Hezballah. Turkey has attempted to break the legal and internationally recognized Gaza blockade. The rebels who now rule Libya have been caught and state they intend to continue shipping arms to Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Saudi Arabia has been unofficially underwriting the Palestinian Authority’s terror wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades. The Sudan has allowed its shipping terminals to be used for drop points from which arms are taken across Egypt and through the Sinai Peninsula and then into Gaza. The Arab League has made numerous calls for its member states to supply the Palestinians with monies and other supplies. And Europe, the United Nations, the United States and numerous other governments all give monetary support to the Palestinian Authority which in turn admits it pays the salaries of the Gaza government employees, numbers of which who are in the security forces are also part of Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror forces. Yet, the new truth continues to be that Israel is fighting just the poor, ill equipped and suffering Palestinians. These are the same Palestinians who have a higher standard of living than their Egyptian, Syrian, Libyan, Sudanese, Yemenis, Eritrean, Somali, and many other Arab brothers. And even more surprising, the Palestinians living in Gaza, with the exception of those in the Gaza City refugee camps who are kept imprisoned by the Hamas government, have the highest standard of living of any non-oil producing Arab country and rival those with smaller oil production. Gaza is even touting their new mall with luxury shopping and their new water park in attempts to attract tourists. You can read about the great vacation possibilities in Gaza here. If you should vacation in Gaza, please do us a favor and take lots of pictures and send us some prints and a story, I promise we will publish your story if you wish. Somebody needs to do it and I sure am not planning to take on that story.

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