American Jewish Leaders Silent on Israel’s Crisis

June 20th, 2008

Since the Israeli government, pressed vigorously by the US State Department, expelled 9000 Jews from their homes, farms, schools and synagogues in Gush Katif and Northern Samaria in August 2005, jihadists have showered rockets and mortars on towns, cities and farmers within the 1949 borders of Israel. To this assault, the response by a corrupt and defeatist Israeli regime has been minimal. 

During this same time, the 9000 deported Jews have been dumped throughout Israel in trailer parks. The jobs, permanent residences, and compensation they were promised have been lacking. That the “world community” does not mention or care about these brutally displaced Jews is not unusual; but there also has been a failure of mainstream American Jewish leaders to speak publicly against the ethnic cleansing and its bitter aftermath. The highly touted “two-state solution” means more destruction of Jewish homes and more expulsions of Jews from the land of Israel. Read the rest of this entry »

Banners & Miracles Awaiting Our Deed

June 3rd, 2008

The State of Israel was established so Jews could determine their own fate, to fight and defeat their enemies, not to be human dust but to turn their enemies to dust. The State of Israel can fulfill this mission and therefore at least in this regard [can be] the realization of generations of dreams. But as long as its leaders are of the race of Flavius [rather than the race of Bar Kokhba], they may turn Israel over to the worst of its enemies…” – Dr. Arieh Eldad, “Israel at 2000 and 60” [emphasis added] *

In the Hebrew language and consciousness, a flag is a miracle (nais), a banner snapping against the sky to arouse to wonder and thus empower those who experience it. Read the rest of this entry »

The President’s Resonant & Dissonant Speech

May 22nd, 2008

There were several main goals of President Bush’s recent address to the Knesset in Jerusalem: to reinforce the perception that the government of America is a staunch friend of Israel; to shore up the expulsion regime of the American elite’s client regime headed by Ehud Olmert; to soften up the hearts and heads of Israeli Jews to accept more ‘painful sacrifices’ for ‘peace’; to distract attention from America’s arming and training of Fatah and to draw a facile distinction between Iran, Fatah and Hamas; and to roil the superficial debate between the GOP, ‘Team Red’ and the Donkeys, ‘Team Blue’ about which has done more to empower jihad and world disorder…a tough call. Read the rest of this entry »

Miracles Are Not Made in One Day

May 11th, 2008

Every year during the month of Iyar, sometime in May, debate resumes in Israel about whether those who love and seek the sovereignty and settlement of a Jewish state at least in all the land west of the Jordan should celebrate the official independence day Iyar 5 (this year, May 8) [1]. Given the failure of every government, increasingly obvious since 1967 and in place with ’official’ Zionist leaders by 1930, to fulfill this promise, some argue that to celebrate the existence of a State that works with the enemies of the Jewish people to frustrate redemption is confusion and self-contempt. Others still see the day, for all the failures of all the governments as a miracle, the beginnings of the truly sovereign Israel that the greatest sages say will mark the redemption [2].  Read the rest of this entry »

Cherished Books, Hopes and…

April 28th, 2008

This is a story of beautiful old books, photos, sentiments and of a missing picture that could tell how things went awry. It is a tale of freedom blunted, of hope stretched taut and of lasting possibility…  Read the rest of this entry »