Bitterness, — that is the word of the day: bitterness; yet an opportunity is here if only Jews will listen, learn and act before it is too late.Â

Do we not know what it is when it is too late? We do not want to drink that cup again.Â

There is NO way that the Olmert – Peretz group will wage a genuine war against Israel’s primary enemies, Syria and Iran and their clients Hamas and Hezbollah -Lebanon. Lebanon is not sovereign however much Olmert may try to sustain that gone and buried fiction.

Similarly, he may issue statements that Israel is “at war” and will crush the enemy, but so long as he, his implausible party and Labor are in power there will be no declaration of war. Should there be massive escalation of hostilities against Israeli land and Jews, the Knesset might declare war but experience teaches that it will not fully waged: not even the 1967 war was fought all out, especially in Judea and Samaria…Â

Let us resist for now sketching plausible scenarios of tepid Israeli reactions to escalating Jihad and of the catastrophe that might be required for a significant Israeli military strike to ensue. Let us rather focus on the surprising tandem of truth tellers that emerged in the past twenty-four hours to reveal the particulars of the grave Israel’s anti-Jewish client regime in the Knesset and courts have dug for it.Â

Former Deputy Chief of Staff for Israeli Military Intelligence, Major-General Yaakov Amidror emphasized on Israel National Radio on July 12 that the Iranian-Syrian attack on northern Israel via their Hezbollah division was no surprise. Indeed it was no surprise to anyone that has followed events in Israel since former PM Ehud Barak began pushing for and eventually implemented the total withdrawal of the IDF from the buffer zone. Since May 2000 observers have watched and listened to the taunting and threats of Hezbollah and Iranian chieftains as Syria and Iran thickly garnished Israel’s northern border with missiles.Â

As General Amidror noted, “we were able to see, hear, and detect what Hezbollah was preparing but we could not take the initiative against them. Because of political arrangements with the international community it was decided to let them shoot first…â€?Â

Pause here and consider their implications of those sentences, a subject I have written and spoken about many times. “Because of political arrangements with the international community it was decided to let them shoot first…â€?Â

Who makes these arrangements? Israeli politicians and the politicized officer corps that goes along to get along; politicians who are the bought-and-owned clients of foreign regimes for whom Israel is a useful target and tester not only of counter-terror measures of various kinds but of how a population can be made used to living under assault while its leaders feed it “security” rhetoric.Â

The Jewish people, especially but not only in Israel have been sold out by their faithless, preening politicians and their appointees. And the foreign masters of these betrayers have decreed that Israel be shot first, that it bleed, that it become weakened, and ever more pliable as happened in 1973, the precoursor to the fatal Camp David agreements.Â

Clearly the upper echelons of the IDF, although they may read Sun Tzu do not take his strictures to heart, certainly not his warnings that civilian leaders not try to direct a war, not tell its generals how to fight the enemy. And, as Professor Eidelberg has explained, Sun Tzu instructs Generals to ignore politicians who hinder it from pursuing and repeatedly striking an enemy until its ability and desire to wage war is destroyed.Â

“Because of political arrangements with the international community it was decided to let them shoot first…â€? The discrediting of the entire political echelon and the need for regime change could not be more succinctly illustrated. Yet now that the enemy has been shooting first, the puppet politicians continue to restrict the IDF to carefully limited ‘surgical strikes’ rather than an hammer strike to bring victory against Syria and its Lebanese colony. And if this means preemption of Iran, that is gravely overdue and more dangerously belated every day.Â

Major-General Amidror did not explain what prevented his own views (probably shared by many officers) from prevailing and being made vigorously public for the six years that the Iranian-Syrian missile build-up continued. Perhaps it was more “political arrangements.â€? He did add, however, the basic truth that “if you don’t take the initiative, and you allow the enemy to shoot whenever and wherever he wants than even if he fails twenty times in the end he succeeds.â€?Â

“If you fail to take the initiative…â€? Our Rabbis often remind us of the Torah teaching that Israel is to be “a head and not a tail,â€? a teacher, a leader and initiator in all matters, war included. Ariel Sharon won his first term as PM by reiterating that he would “initiate, initiate, and again initiateâ€? against terror; that “we will not just react, we will win…â€? That’s the key, too bad that he didn’t mean it and didn’t do it. Instead he uprooted the Jews of Gush Katif and set the stage for the current crisis behind whose cloud victory waits…

No, Major-General Amidror, no more than C.O.S. Dan Halutz (who also journeyed to Washington to cement political arrangements) have bound themselves to the critical dicta of Sun Tzu regarding the duty of all soldiers, including top Generals to the nation rather than to the ruler of the day. As Amidror said, “the IDF is unable to fulfill its obligation to stop terrorism if it does not receive orders to do so, no matter what.â€?Â

Consider the implications of that “no matter what.� While his consensus platitude may suffice for a radio interview (and for a secure place in a power structure rapidly conducing to the destruction of Israel) it emphasizes that Israel’s survival depends on regime change. If this does not come from the IDF than from where? With power comes responsibility.

The man understands the military situation vividly: “if the [political] instructions are to ‘stop the terrorism but don’t hit Gaza streets,’ it can’t be done.â€? That’s right: the streets of Gaza must be hit hard, and the streets of Beirut, Damascus, Antioch, Hamath and Latakia. “The only way to stop terrorism is by going into the area and gaining control of the ground.â€?Â

Let us amend the General’s comments by insisting that this not be done by turning Israeli soldiers into cannon fodder to avoid harming enemy ‘civilians. Rather, the IAF should the leading edge of terror-suppression with a massive aerial assault, then occupation and then reclamation and re-settlement of the land by Jews. That’s what true peace-lovers want.Â

Here is the odd partner who on July 12 provided a complement to the good but incomplete assessment of General Amidror. We are referring to Abu Oudai, “rocket coordinatorâ€? for Abu Mazen’s Fatah and its self-styled “Al Aksa Brigades.â€?Â

Speaking with Aaron Klein of World Net Daily news service, Oudai emphasized that possession of Gaza had enabled Fatah groups to ship Kassams to Judea and Samaria where for upgrading and manufacture. He asserted repeatedly that all of central Israel, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and every Jewish area in Israel’s ‘waist’ would be targeted from “Palestinianâ€? cities like Tulkarm, Jenin and Kalkilye. “He hinted that Iran, Syria and the Lebanese Hezbollah would help in developing these rockets.â€?Â

Jenin is the main town in the northern Shomron that the “Disengagementâ€? of August 2005 turned into a virtual terror state cleansed of Jews. Jenin was where IDF soldiers were slaughtered in 2002 because the IAF was not allowed to strike with even a tiny fraction of its might. So now rockets will be shot from there and the other terror havens created by Oslo. Apocalypse and decision draw near.Â

“For if you do not drive them out, those who remain shall be pins in your eyes and thorns in your sides…â€? (Deuteronomy 32).Â

Klein asked Oudai about the threats of the Israeli government to take stern countermeasures alternating with their minimizing of the threat of Kassams, epitomized by Shimon Peres’s “kassams, shmassamsâ€? remark. “It is their own business that they deny and minimize,â€? he said astutely. “But in the coming days the proofs on the ground will be very clear to the average Israeli in the street.â€?Â

As I have often explained, and as is implied by Amidror’s comments above, Israel’s client politicians minimize these existential dangers because they are numbing their public to the fact of war that surrounds them. Even today, the “political arrangements they made with the international communityâ€? cause them to bind the IDF. After all, the Road Map must be saved. Hamas, Syria and Hezbollah must be taken down but only a little so as not to awaken the Israelis and thus endanger progress down the Road Map to Armageddon.Â

But perhaps Israel’s teacher Abu Oudai, if not General Amidror will wake up “the average Israeliâ€? before the iron gates are reached.Â

“The only unprecedented thingâ€? Oudai told Klein regarding the Israeli strikes against Hezbollah – Lebanon “is the frequency of the Israeli ‘empty threats.’ We are not afraid and we have nothing to fear.â€? Why should he and his cadres fear? As he notes, they have heard these empty threats thousands of times for fourteen years and still the Jews will not wage war. Moreover he knows what the grand game is and, as Arab mobs have been screaming since Britain made clear it would pervert the Mandate, that “the government is with us.â€?Â

Israel, you’ve been warned. “A time for war, — it’s not too late.â€?Â

Jihadists bombed train stations in Mumbai on the west-central coast of India. They murdered about 160 people. There were no demands from the UN that India begin ceding land to the murderers or again partition itself to create another Islamic state.Â

Note that a favorite geopolitical game of western powers in the past 85 years is creating Islamic states. Why would these ruling elites, bankers, secret services, diplomats, corporate chiefs and so on want to create all these instant crises? Might it be that in order to ’solve’ the crises, in the name of security (which recedes ever farther into the future’s haze) they want to consolidate ever more power in their own hands? The evidence, from super-taxation to eminent domain, to porous borders and aggressive “multiculturalismâ€? certainly suggests that this is the case…Â

Anyway, there are no official calls from the G-8 or “world community,” as yet, for India to partition itself again. Although it will be expected to absorb interminable attrition from global jihad, and it will for its own leading politicians, too are members of the club.Â

Several weeks ago it was reported that Hamas and Hezbollah had systematized operational liaisons to strengthen their war on Israel and the Jewish people. The center of their command and control axis is in Damascus which also is the center for the German Secret Service’s longtime links to the Islamic world (through Damascus they complement and enhance Berlin’s ties to Teheran). German banks powered the economic union (1862) that prefigured the unification of Germany by Prussia (1870) and the pattern was repeated in the EEU (the original six) a century later, since expanded to the EU and a regional Europe / Edom. Counter-intelligence counselor, Michael Shrimpton has discussed how German banks were instrumental in establishing the Federal Reserve in 1913 and worked to finance WW II as well. The Bush family has multi-generational connections to American banks connected to these financial – military initiatives.Â

So toxic German influence on events in the Middle East and around the world, events in which targeting Jews plays a central role is not limited to placing top-level holocaust engineers like Alois Brunner in Damascus to direct Syria’s chemical weapons programs.Â

 Not coincidentally, and also in mid June, Syria and Iran signed a military cooperation agreement to establish “a joint front against Israel.” The Syrian Defense Minister stated that “Iran regards Syria’s security as its own” (#1204, www.memri.org). Middle East Media Research Institute (memri) also reminds us that July 12 as the date by which Iran was supposed “to respond to the ultimatum” of the UN about its uranium enrichment activities. Apparently they have responded with Hezbollah’s attack that morning upon Israel.Â

This attack is war. Numerous jihadist groups and their spokesmen, as Arafat did, frequently declare and practice war against Israel but the client regimes in Jerusalem, in place to carry out the Road Map, respond with minimal reactive raids: they will neither fight nor declare a war occasional stump rhetoric to the contrary. After all they need to save face to stay in power. Their game is attrition for Israel per orders of the State Department their primary controller.

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And if now, after the Hezbollah attacks added to and in concert with Hamas, there are indeed Israeli paratroopers landing near Beirut, serious (not for-show) shelling of southern Lebanon by the Israeli navy, and serious tank and air attacks of Hezbollah bases there, well and good. But the pattern to date has been just enough response to save the regime’s face.Â

Memri also notes that Iran’s National Security Minister, Ali Larijani visited Damascus on July 11 after meeting with EU secretary General, the ubiquitous and very dangerous Javier Solana. After the meeting, the Syrian VP said that “Hezbollah and Palestinian resistance movements” would “make their own decisions” (hah!) about how to direct their affairs regarding Israel. Their invasion of northern Israel followed.Â

How interesting to note the convergence (can we spell hitkansut in Arabic?) of Teheran, Damascus, Berlin, Brussels and Madrid with Hezbollah’s assault on northern Israel to assist the Hamas assault on southern Israel. The interest is deepened by noting the series of “no you can’t do that” decrees that the puppet-Olmert regime has imposed on the IDF such that the bombing of empty offices even of top-ranking global terrorists continues to be par for the course, and the use of IAF fighter bombers strictly off-limits (Debka-file 6-23-06).Â

Remember, the IDF counter-missions are just for show so everyone will understand that Israel is a paper tiger…. This means more terror, more Jihad (war), more murders, kidnapping and killing. The war of attrition must go on; the “war on terrorâ€? must never end, it’s the justification as well as the modus operandi of the global security state.Â

Not only do banking cartels continue to pump money from Berlin, Beijing, and the West into the Arab world via Teheran and Damascus, but through Teheran they finance Hezbollah and, since June Hamas whose relationship in global jihad has been formalized as only the west can arrange. “Iran has agreed to finance Syrian military deals with Russia, China and Ukraine…” (memri op cit). This is called the shoah at arm’s length; it’s much more effective than the Inquisition and a little bit more difficult to trace.Â

Apropos the above, remember that “Iran” is the Persian word for “Aryan” because the Shah in the 1930s felt a deep connection for Nazi ideology and wanted to highlight Persia’s credentials therein. None of its leaders (except, briefly, Shah Pahlevi in the 1970s before the State Department and the French used Khomeini to take him down) has shown an inclination to restore the nation’s ancient name, Persia.Â

Another familiar incongruity of the day, the kind of glaring fact that the mainstream media will never invite inquiry about is that jihadist groups demand the release of thousands of murderers in exchange for the release of one Israeli soldier. Note: a soldier guarding his nation’s borders is not a terrorist, criminal or murderer, nor is he equivalent to one. If Israel could find a single imprisoned terrorist who was not a murderer or attempted murderer, if there was a single genuine jihadist soldier in their jails, then there could be a one-for-one prisoner swap and enough fuss. Don’t the jihadists believe that one of their ‘soldiers’ is equal to one Jew? Are not the lives of their ‘soldiers’ worth the thousandth part of a Jewish life? If we could simply examine the incongruities and fog in these matters Israel could proceed to accept and return the jihadist declarations of war, fight a war truly and after a week or so there would be peace. The greater the Israeli victory, the longer and truer would be the peace.Â

No one outside the UN or one of those self-styled ‘humanitarian’ NGO’s is so benighted as to believe that if Israel was utterly destroyed that jihad would leave the rest of the world in peace for even a week…Â

A last note on the incongruities of our terrible moment: the State Department, in whose toils George W. Bush no longer bothers to struggle, has succeeded beyond its wildest dreams in installing a pliable tool at the head of an Israeli government. But as in all tragedies, dramatic irony and nemesis step in to assert enduring truths. So limp a lickspittle, so incontinent a conduit for the Road Map is Olmert that he’s too good from a Foggy Bottom view: he is more compliant than they want. It’s like in October 1973 when State wanted to “bleed Israel a little bitâ€? but didn’t want it to bleed to death, at least not so fast and not quite yet. Just so now: under Olmert-Peres-Peretz, Israel is collapsing too fast; the grand-gamers have got to get some counter-terror mileage out of the Jews before the entire Middle Eastern part of their game gets badly out of joint.Â

After all, they can’t have Hamas take down Mubarak, Hezbollah take down Abdullah or al Qaeda take down the beloved House of Saud which they need to finish the subversion of America through the Democratic Party, the state and Federal prison systems, the Homeland ‘Security’ Department, the INS and our university campuses.Â

Gosh, it sure gets difficult to keep the bubble level at the end of the end game…. Hey: the Israelis might even take up the jihadists on their boast and declare war back on them. And then what might happen? regime change in Israel? victory and peace?Â

O, Happy Day…..Â

Having stopped for gasoline Saturday evening (after taking out another mortgage to finance the fuel and groceries), while forking over my ‘franklins’ I heard a female BBC newsperson battering an Israeli official about the deaths of some “Palestinians” in Gaza. The poor fellow was sputtering, backing up, straining for justifications which could not come because he stayed within the corral of leftist categories of thought and ‘peace process’ slogans which sandbag Israel every time. He painted himself into a corner much as the badly-led state has done for decades.Â

As I listened to the nasty and predictable exchange I thought, ‘rubbish and damnation! No need to apologize to anyone, least of all a Brit when discussing collateral damage during war,’ and war is what jihadists have been doing to Jews for six years, shooting rockets within the borders of pre-1967 Israel.Â

(Actually, the war – jihad– is approaching fourteen centuries but let’s stick to the narrow definition for now. And the simple answer to it is milchemet mitzvah, but in this piece we will limit ourselves to the language of the nations).Â

No need to review the evidence that the so-called ‘Palestinians” are a hostile population that plots to murder Jews in Israel (and elsewhere) and frequently asserts its intention of annihilating it. Indeed the replacement of Israel with an Islamic state is the published goal of both Fatah and Hamas. (Remember when Fatah was denoted the military wing of Arafat’s PLO? Now it’s been re-named as the moderate alternative). In any case, all these assertions of annihilating Israel are declarations of war and during war a hostile population is subject to attack; their death, whether unintended or targeted is part of the rules.Â

People who style themselves humanitarians may say that this is cruel: they tend to forget about those initially attacked, or targeted for attack in future, especially when they are Jews. The larger point is that if you don’t want to get killed, don’t war on other people. Don’t shoot rockets across the border into their towns; don’t kidnap and murder their children; don’t bomb seders on Pesach; don’t send homicide bombers into their eating places and busses. Even Jews eventually strike back and defend themselves, although the “world community,” cloistered in Manhattan frequently considers motions to withdraw from them this ‘right.’Â

If the world community and the jihadists and bankers that constitute and control it were a little less eager to exterminate Jews the regime in Jerusalem might help them make it a virtual reality: that after all is their job. But the bloodlust of both the jihadists and western diplomats makes them stumble over their shoes, repeatedly. So the grand game gets dragged out.Â

Given the restrictions under which the entire IDF operates when striking back against Arabs (thanks to eight decades of Labor ‘Zionism’ and their suicidal principle of havlaga, Jewish self-restraint), and given initial studies from the field, those much-ballyhooed deaths on July 08 were not the result of IAF weaponry. Too bad; and this is what anyone should tell the BBC or other regurgitators of the official ‘truth.’ Too bad, just consider…Â

DRESDEN: It’s March 1945 and Dresden is a scarcely fortified city in east-central Germany a few weeks before the end of the war in Europe. The British decided it was time for payback for the blitz of 1940 which was so helpful to Churchill in strengthening the British will to fight and win (it was not there before the war). So they fire-bombed Dresden and basically melted it, slaughtering about 200,000 civilians. Marshal of the RAF at that time, Sir Arthur T. ‘Bomber’ Harris was a tireless exponent of “strategic area bombingâ€? (including mass civilian deaths) to defeat an enemy. The British idea of an apology for this tactic was to build a statue to Harris in 1992 on the centenary of his birth. When German politicians voiced criticisms, the British told them to stuff it.Â

Tell that to the BBC and Jack Straw: end of story.Â

Moreover, the British government and its institutions were major accomplices of the Germans in effecting the ‘final solution’ to the Jewish problem. From 1920 -48 the dominant groups in the British Foreign Office and eventually the media and military totally perverted their League of Nations Mandate to re-establish the Jewish national home and facilitate Jewish immigration into it. Instead, with the war looming and abundant testimony, inter alia, from the Peel Commission about the slaughter impending for the Jews by 1939 the British finished re-defining Jewish immigration to Eretz Israel as “illegalâ€? while facilitating immigration of the Arabs that by the 1960s began to be called the “Palestinians.â€? Yes, the British to this day can’t get their fill of creating new Islamic nations to stir the pot of global jihad. Their institutions including the BBC still want to ‘solve’ the new world order’s ‘Jewish problem’ and have enlisted America and the “peace processesâ€? to finish the job.Â

While the British were facilitating, in many ways the German mass murder of Jews of Europe, they also, in tandem with the USAF spent the last two – plus years of the War bombing Germany 24/7, nonstop. About the only sites they failed to bomb were extermination centers and crematoria like those at Auschwitz even though they bombed extensively in Silesia including within the boundaries of Auschwitz itself. So the British bombed civilian populations daily for years during WW II even though the Germans had no intentions of exterminating the British as the Muslims have for exterminating the Jews, — read it in their sermons, speeches or Koran.Â

So the British are on very thin ice when criticizing Israel for any attack, of any magnitude retaliating for Arab assaults on Jews. It’s calculated hypocrisy that distracts from the historical record of British complicity in the shoah… and distracts from what they’re trying to do to Jews in Israel now.Â

The best answer to all such criticism from the “world community” is to unleash the IAF, protect the lives of Jewish soldiers, and to obliterate the hostile population in Gaza and in their terror-haven cities in Judea and Samaria. This would bring peace, about the last thing the silk hats or jihadists want. After all, you can’t manage (and milk) a crisis unless you’ve got a crisis to manage.Â

And furthermore in regard to British hypocrisy about Israel’s response to hostile populations:Â

A check of the consensus mainstream opinions about the practice of strategic (not accidental) bombing of hostile populations and their infrastructure reveals that Israel indeed, after six years of absorbing rocket attacks north and south and suffering repeated mass murder of its civilians should change course and employ wide-ranging area bombing of hostile populations centers, utilities, etc. This would align it with mainstream views on area bombing.Â

Here is what Wikipedia, the generic internet reflection of received opinion has to say about RAF Commander, Marshal Sir Arthur Travers “Bomber” Harris, architect, advocate and commander in chief of the massive ‘carpet bombing’ of Germany during the last two years (two years!) of World War II:Â

“Harris’ preference for strategic area bombing over strategic precision bombing remains controversial during the last year of the war [presumably it was not controversial -- in the official view – during the first half of 1944, the peak production time of Auschwitz] because by this time most Allied commanders thought it less effective than precision bombing…”Â

So, the primary reason for criticism of “carpet bombing” of hostile cities was that, “by the last year of the war it was less effective,â€? not more cruel than “precision bombing.” To continue:Â

“Others were critical about the large number of [resulting] civilian casualtiesâ€? [but not so critical as to stop the tactic].Â

Here’s the clinching point for unleashing the IAF:Â

“Nevertheless, in a conflict where attacks on civilian targets had not only been initiated by the enemy but also a largely acceptable aspect of total war [interesting judgment], this strategy was coherent and certainly dealt great damage to the axis.”Â

So, despite qualms about the degree of effectiveness or pleasantness of carpet bombing it is a “coherent” strategy that “dealt great damage” to the enemy, the last but not least conclusion of the entry.Â

Israel and Israelis listen up: the jihadist enemy initiated slaughter of Jews almost fourteen centuries ago and has accelerated that practice in recent decades, adding ever more refined and damaging technology to the murder of Jewish civilians. Contemporary political rhetoric and apologetics are irrelevant and distractions for, as just noted, murders, both wholesale and local of Jews by Muslims long predated the founding of Israel. Therefore, in the course of this interminable war of annihilation (dwarfing the minuscule duration of WW II), carpet bombing of the hostile enemy population and everything it has is a “coherent” and “largely acceptable” practice that “certainly [will] deal great damage” to the jihadists. It could thus save the West from its own elites…Â

IAF, bombs away, and tell the British the strategy of Sir Arthur Harris is your inspiration, that and national survival which Britain could not plead from 1943 -45 when their survival was not in doubt. By the way, the British put up the statue to Harris in the Strand near St. Clement Dane’s Church, in 1992, the year the Manchurian, that is, the Oslo candidates were elected to finish off the Brits job…. It continues to this day.Â

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Also see David S. Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-45 with reference to the Anglo-American “Inter-governmental committeeâ€? that the British used, among other means to throttle each and every initiative to rescue Jews from Europe.Â

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by Prof. Eugene Narrett – copyright 2006

With Operation Summer Rains, the fabric-softener incursion, morphing into its less limp sibling, Operation Bashan Oaks something and someone are being forgotten who should not be forgotten at all: the death of Eliahu Asheri, the youth who was kidnapped at the Ofra hitch-hiking stand and then murdered by Arabs — one of them disguised as an orthodox Jew — in Bir Zeit just west of Ramallah.

The Israeli media and world media frequently mentions Cpl Gilad Shalit, the kidnapped soldier who is the ostensible reason for the IDF incursion into the Gaza Strip; the Asheri youth, living in Itamar since he was a toddler is nearly forgotten except for blaming him for being where the media says he shouldn’t have been, in Ofra heading home. To those who determine the offical truths of our day, neither he nor any Jews should be in Yehuda or the Shomron at all.

The youth was a “settler” one of those Jews responsible, we’ve been told, for jihadist violence (don’t mention the homicidal treacheries, financial gifts to terror states and deals of West powers, Russia or China), and therefore he more or less invited his own murder, is the official story. So they forget him. His murder raises issues they don’t intend to discuss.

This is horrible but not new: for thirty-five years the Israeli establishment has joined or led the world in blaming Jewish settlers for Arab violence and for most of the miseries of the world. This is very convenient for the dysfunctional, theft and murder-based autocracies that control nearly all the peoples of the global ‘community.’ The more dysfunctional the culture, the more openly and frequently its rulers and/or population blame the Jews, especially the Jews of the Jewish heartland for all the world’s problems.

How interesting that our super-tolerant days and culture thus have effectively banned Judaism which requires Jews to settle the entire Promised Land, and make it flourish. And although they have made flourish all parts of it to which they have returned, the world seems hell-bent on insuring that Jews are to live in a ghettoized Israel or in the exile, — or not at all.

If only the Jewish problem could be solved, they imply or assert, then there would be peace and security and prosperity… It’s an old, stupid and vicious story.

Many reports state that Eliahu Asheri was a youth of intense prayer. And many say that his legacy is even more Jewish prayer and focus on prayer as the essence of Judaism and answer to the world’s problems. This is genuine and sweet, very unlike the previously summarized solutions to the world’s problems but it is tragically misdirected. It reflects distortions ground into Judaism during the long centuries of exile.

The Eternal One gives human beings free will. He does not micro-manage their affairs. Our dignity and task is to know that our deeds, words and thoughts have consequences and they therefore must be considered and interpreted carefully. There are several lessons in the murder of that youth, but Hashem’s wanting his prayers ‘closer’ to him is not one of them. Sincere prayer is always singularly ‘close’ to and beloved of Hashem.

Judaism is a derech, way of acting in and moving through the world that unites deeds and faith. Since Israel’s existence as a nation, at Sinai, this defining mixture has emphasized deeds first and later understanding. Not prayers first, deeds first (“we will do and [then] we will understand”). So it was at the Sea of Reeds when the Eternal One told Moshe and all Israel to stop crying out to Him but instead to jump into the sea and start walking. Deeds come first, they demonstrate faith.

Active faith led (and leads) to victory. So it was with the first great national victory still commemorated every day when Jews recite the “Song of the Sea” (Exodus 15) which demonstrates the Eternal One’s view of the appropriate Jewish response to the destruction of the enemies of the Jewish people.

It was not long after that defining event of the nation that a similar crisis occurred: Amalek attacked the people, a sneak attack, from the rear upon the weak and unprepared. The response: deeds by the national host, everyone 20 – 60 years of age led into battle by Joshua, and prayer by the leading elders, principally Moshe assisted by Aaron and Hur. The result: victory for the Jews (decimation of Amalek) and the positive commandment that every Jew must REMEMBER the hostility of Amalek, the enemy of the Jews because Hashem demands in every generation that we blot them out from under heaven: “remember, don’t forget!â€?

The Jewish response to the kidnapping and murder of the beautiful youth is to destroy Amalek beginning with Ramallah and Bir Zeit. The presence of these plague sores in the Land of Israel disgraces the Eternal One, mocks His word and plan, and is a source of constant mortal peril and distress for His people. Anyone who genuinely wants peace knows that the home bases of those who preach and practice murdering Jews must be obliterated.

All Arab towns, villages, and cities from which issue murderers or would-be murderers must be flattened. Recall how the prophet Samuel addressed King Saul and how he punished him for failing to destroy Amalek totally; consider how David addressed Goliath who dared to humiliate and threaten to roll back the inheritance of the children of Israel. Attack, pursue and destroy the enemy. In this, David, living and eternal king, remains our model: “I pursued my foes and overtook them and returned not till they were destroyed. I struck them down and they could not rise…I pulverized them like dust in a storm” (Psalm 18:38-43).

The best memorial and monument to Eliahu Asheri consists of complementary parts whose enactment will sanctify Hashem and begin to raise the fallen booth of David. Deeds show faith; the essential deed is to build the Land so Torah shleimah, the Torah of integrity and completion, not Torah galut can be practiced in it

First, destroy Ramallah and Bir Zeit because their denizens have destroyed so many Jewish lives. It is there that they teach and exalt murder including in their university which hosted an ‘art exhibit’ celebrating the bombing at the Sbarro restaurant. “Pour them out like mud in the street”; flatten them like the Jewish towns in Gush Katif were flattened and drive any survivors across the Jordan. Let the CIA’s man Abdullah (temporarily in Amman) deal with them, or let him go back to Mecca whence his family was plucked by the British.

Next, drive all the Arabs from the Gaza strip. Make amends for the omission of thirty-nine years ago, a failure of national will and integrity that has cost many lives and now threatens to take down the entire state. The Gaza strip, a relic of Egyptian imperialism and global Jew-hatred should be emptied of Arab savages raised to despise, humiliate and murder Jews. Drive them all out with fire and storm, remember Amalek, and then rebuild the entire area with fifty Jewish towns from Rafiach Yam to Netiv HaAssara, contiguous, beautiful, flourishing, productive and joyous, a blessing on the world.

Honor Eliahu by building up Itamar to a town of many thousands of Jews stretching from Tapuach to Elon Moreh, and assist them in establishing thousands of flocks and productive orchards, a model and precedent for the reclamation and flourishing of all of Judea and Samaria, a paradise of harvest plenty, bird song and joy. Jews will walk, hitchhike, sow, reap and picnic where ever they wish, and no one will make them afraid.

These are fitting memorials and monuments to Eliahu Asheri and the thousands before him who have had their precious lives needlessly cut short. “Neither the dead can praise G-d nor any who descend into silence, but we will praise…” (Psalm 115:17-18). The living will praise not mainly with words but with deeds whose fruits sing their own essential praises forever (psalm 104). His and our souls “will sing and not be stilled” when these living memorials to the fulfillment of the Promise are established.

Not xtian science or abstractions but active faith, Jewish faith put into deeds fulfills the promise and brings victory, the wholeness without which there never will be peace.

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by Prof. Eugene Narrett – copyright 2006

The Israeli army has been inching its way into the Gaza Strip for about eight days, ostensibly in response to the kidnapping of Corporal Gilad Shalit. Kidnapping is a misnomer and the tip-toe incursion is not mainly about rescuing him, as will be explained below. But the name of the Operation, “Summer Rains� is pure pr genius: soft, gentle, it sounds like a fabric softener which is basically its relation to the harsh reality of the war waged by global jihad. It’s named to please western spinners and consumers of news by conjuring up images of a moisturizing soap or other emollient.

Alas, the clever, only-too-apt name will not save Corporal Shalit, Sderot, Ashkelon or neighboring towns; it will not bring justice to Eliahu Asheri or the thousands of others like him. Rather, it will teach the jihadists even more contempt for Israel and Israelis thus resulting in more frequent and more horrible attacks. And then………

Summer Rains is meant to be an open-ended series of graduated phases because it is not meant to end or succeed in its ostensible mission. No; it is yet another part of the endless war of attrition which the American-Israeli diplomatic elites have long been deploying, through various means, against the Jewish people in their Land. Barring regime change, by or before a catastrophic terror strike, this is the future in store: more and more places in Israel (and throughout the world) are going to look and live like Sderot.

It’s not a pretty picture.

Here are the true purposes of Operation Summer Rains:

1): To save by saving the face of the elites that cripple Jewish settlement, viability, identity and pride; to save the Barak – Peres – Olmert regime that rules in accordance with the global vision of Foggy Bottom, Brussels and the Vatican.

This is the most immediate but not the main reason for the incursion into Gaza, so notable for the bombing of empty fields and empty offices. The main reason is, 2) to save the Road Map that the Israeli regime exists to execute. They are helped and held in place by the overt and covert maneuvers of the State Department and CIA and by various forms of economic blackmail and bribery.

Repeat: the main reason for the incursion in Gaza in to save the Road Map toward the expulsion of Jews from Judea and Samaria, for starters. We will come back to this main goal.

The third reason, 3) is to save the client regimes in Cairo and Amman, the regimes of President-for-life Mubarak and Prince Abdullah of trans-Jordan who are buttressed and programmed mainly by Washington (with assistance from the client regime in Jerusalem and from Europe) in order to keep the Road Map in place by insuring that jihadist pressure is channeled toward Israel and the Jews.

If the forces of global jihad become too powerful too soon it could lead to the fall of these client regimes and complicate the clearly laid rails of the Road Map to ghettoizing and decimating Jews. We will come back to this too; its feasibility is intricately linked to that of the preceding two purposes…

4) The least important purpose by far, the ‘for public consumption’ pretext for the entire charade is to retrieve Corporal Shalit. If he is not retrieved the client regime in Jerusalem will lose a lot of face and, with it, its ability to maintain its chokehold on the Jewish people in Israel (and elsewhere). So they’d like to get him out although their slavish adherence to the Camp David – Oslo – Road Map to Israel’s constriction is what put him and all other Jews in Israel in daily risk of their lives in the first place.

Here’s one of those junctures where the internal contradictions and de facto impossibility of the Road Map and the new world order become apparent.

If the regime truly gave a hoot about Jewish life the Road Map (and Oslo) would have been rejected out of hand as the suicidal and treasonous games that they are. Eliahu Asheri and thousands of other Jews like him were murdered or maimed because of what Oslo did to Israel, fragmenting it into a congeries of terrorist havens and small terror states. Those who did it and still defend its full implementation are fully responsible for everything that has ensued.

The good and bad news is that these goals of Summer Rains, of the Barak –Peres clique and of the global grand-gamers in Foggy Bottom, White Hall and Brussels are mutually contradictory. The Operation is a paper tiger emollient because the terrorists must not be dispirited by a major counter blow. They must not be dispirited or decimated because their relentless murderous pressure is needed to provide the rationale for Israel’s ruling elite to continue expelling Jews from ever larger portions of the Promised Land per the Road Map.

Also, not dealing them a crushing blow in Gaza keeps them and the hostile population that harbors and largely supports them from fleeing to Egypt. This they in fact had begun to do when Israel’s tanks arrived, but they were halted in their flight by reassurances of the Israeli government and the familiar limpness of its ‘military response’ to terror.

After all, Washington’s puppet regime does not want the Jews of Gush Katif to go back and rebuild their beautiful communities; Washington and its clients do not want a flourishing and sovereign Jewish Israel established in its land. They can’t manage the crisis without a crisis to manage. Thus the bloody game continues.

However, by failing to significantly decimate the jihadists, the Israeli regime and its string-pullers in Washington have led the former to become more defiant and aggressive, increasing their threat not only to Jews in Israel but to the stability of the client regimes in Cairo and Amman. Mubarak and Abdullah are looking at the abyss and they know it, but the contradictions in Washington’s policy have created an irresolvable dilemma for all concerned.

As a result, as bitter a failure and a joke as Operation Summer Rains has been to date, the agenda of Washington and its main puppet has locked it into a context where unintended consequences will force Israel closer to regime change and, dare we say it, victory. The terrorists that are the West’s weapon of choice for bludgeoning Israel into abject servility (Olmert is the poster boy for this condition) grow ever more emboldened and increasingly a threat to the client states in Cairo, Jerusalem and Amman. The puppet governments in all places are in great jeopardy and a major change in Israel’ governance and orientation toward the world and its birthright grows closer with the catastrophic terror attack that successive administrations have all but insured.

The end game being played by the globalists is untenable and self-negating, and the above is an empirical explanation of how their scheme is doomed for attempting to trump the Divine plan for Israel. Their impressive and bloody magic trick, imposed by enormous and varied pressures is coming apart. Soon the emperor’s raw nakedness will be exposed so even most leftists will see it. What a bitter shame that it will take a tragedy of immense proportions to reveal the obvious and malicious facts.

Two potential bright spots: 1) recognition that Corporal Shalit is a P.O.W. and must be treated according to the Geneva Convention stipulations. If he is harmed in anyway the entire enemy apparatus, — jihadist leaders, cadres and hostile population becomes responsible and must pay the physical price. Applying this legal and moral standard would help expose what Islamic jihad means and seeks. 2) For reasons of personal and professional pride the General Staff of the IDF, increasingly disgusted by the indecision and limpness of the current government, and the danger into which it has put the IDF may decide it’s had enough of being a dishrag for the politicians and judges. With power comes responsibility and it is in this Israeli institution where a major change is possible and needed.

Perhaps the humiliated pride, if not a sense of brotherhood at the top echelons in the IDF will prompt them to act to save their honor and, thus, indirectly the Jewish people before a disaster strikes. To achieve this salvation, the enemy must be named, destroyed and victory achieved. Then Israel will settle in its place, proud and beyond doubts and critics. There is no peace without integrity and wholeness (shleimyut) and no wholeness without victory. It is in sight. Where is the will to choose honor and sovereignty?

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