גירוש היהודים מתפוח מערב / The Expulsion of Jews from Tapu'ah West

ו' לחודש הרביעי תשע"ח

English follows the Hebrew. The video of the events of early yesterday morning was filmed by Binyamin Lehava.

מאת יקותיאל בן-יעקב, ד' תמוז תשע"ח/17.06.18:
הלן קישור חי לגירוש האלים שמתרחש עכשיו בתפוח מערב- להפיץ. אין תקשורת והשוטרים מנצלים את שה להרביץ למשפחות ולנוער שבאו להפגין.

הסרטון צולם ע״י בנימין להבה ביום א׳ מוקדם בבוקר.



עשר אגורות (2¢):
הבנייה על הגבעה הזאת אושר לפני כ-20 שנה, בממשך כהונתו של ראש הממשלה אהוד ברק. שכונת "האולפנה" בישוב בית אל נהרסה 13 שנים לאחר שהקימו את זה. כלומר, כל שנה מדינת ישראל נראת יותר מוכנה לבטל את התחייבות שלה לעם ישראל להגן עליו , להגן על הבתים שלו, ולהגן על הארץ המובטחת לו על ידי הקב"ה. פתאום איזה ערבי בא שנתיים, או 13 שנים, או 20 שנה, וטוען בעלות על שטח שהמדינה כבר כבשה ובנתה עליו. וכמעט כל פעם שערבי כזה מגיע, הוא נלחץ לעשות כך על ידי שמאלנים בעלי שנאה עצמית.

בסרטון אפשר לראות שיש תושבים ותומכים שומרי תורה שאינם מוכנים לקבל את הגירוש וחורבן השכונה שלהם ללא תגובה. עדיין יש כמה תלמידים מובהקים של הרב מאיר כהנא הי"ד המתגוררים בכפר תפוח, כולל האלה שהיו מאוד קרובים לבנו הרב בנימין הי"ד. אבל הם במיעוט של תושבי הישוב, ומכירים את חומרת המצב. ממשלת מדינת ישראל כל הזמן מוכנה לגרש יהודים מבתיהם בהרף עין, לוותר על שטחי ארץ ישראל ולמסור אותם לערבים הרוצים להשמיד אותנו. וגם נראה לי שאכפת לאנשי הממשלה על מה שהגויים חושבים ממש יותר ממה שאזרחי המדינה רוצים. זאת אומרת, יותר ממה שהמצביעים בבחירות רוצים. ואין צריך לומר איך הם מתיחסים לרצון הקדוש ברוך הוא.

אבל, היהודים, ובמיוחד היהודים המתגוררים בגולה, עדיין חושבים שכפר תפוח הוא ישוב מלא תושבים ימינים קיצונים המסוגלים למנוע פינוים על ידי חיילי צה"ל הצבא או שוטרי משטרה. היודים האלה גם לא מבינים את האופי של חברי מועצת הישוב.

מאז שנת תשס״א/2000 לפחות, אחרי הרב בנימין וטליה כהנא הי"ד נרצחו על ידי מחבלים ערבים, כפר תפוח נהפך להיות יותר ממלכתי כל יום. שכונת הגבעה תפוח מערבי הוקמה בזכרם, ונקראה בשם טל בנימין.

הנה המכתב הפתוח שנכתב על ידי מועצת כפר תפוח (ללחוץ כאן). ומהמכתב הזה אפשר להבין את היהודים הממלכתים, ואת ההסכמם ביהים לממשלה.

בשנת תשס"ה/2005, כוחות הממשלה גירשו את כמעט 10,000 יהודים מבתיהם בעזה ובצפון השומרון. הביתים עצמם נהרסו על ידי הערבים. והאמת היא תושבי רוב הישובים האלה היו נאמנים ממלכתיים עד הסוֹף. וכן, אתם קוראים נכון. הערבים העדיפו להרוס אתה בתים של היהודים האלה, מלהכנס להם לגור בם.

ארץ ישראל היא שלנו או לא שלנו? השאלה הזאת לא מעניינת את אנשי ממשלה. אלא, מעניינים אותם להמשיך את המדינה הדמוקרטית (כאילו דמוקרטית) בדיוק כמו רוב המדינות של הגויים, עם תוספת קצפת של סוכר וחומר משמר וטיפה של יהדות ודובדבן של כאילו-ציונות על הקצפת. הם לא מעוניינים בכלל בבניית מדינת יהודית אמיתית. זאת אומרת מדינה מבוססת על התורה. קל וחומר הם לא מעוניינים בהקמת מלכות ישראל מחודשת. אלא הם רוצים את ההפך. יש היהודים המאמינים שחוקי התורה קודמין לחוקי האדם. וכוחות השלטון מאמינים שהיהודים האלה מאיימים אותם יותר מהערבים. כוחות השלטון החליטו מזמן כבר על הגבולות הסופיות, פחות או יותר, של ארץ מדינת ישראל. ועם ישראל חייב להתעורר ולקבל את הזה.

לקרוא את ״אם זה נראה כמו מעבר הגבול...״ (באנגלית) כדי ללמוד את הפרטים.

From Yekutiel Ben-Yaakov, June 17, 2018:
The cops and troops are beating the youth badly without provocation on the side of the families and the young people that came to protest the violent expulsion. Please forward the link anywhere you can. They closed the area to the media so this is the only outlet to publish the desecration.

Esser Agaroth (2¢):
This hilltop was approved almost 20 years ago, during Prime Minister Ehud Baraq's government. The Beth-El Ulpanah neighborhood was destroyed 13 years after it had been constructed, and the first residents had moved in. In other words, the Israeli Government is becoming increasingly bold when it comes to reneging on its commitments to the Jewish People to protect it, to its homes, and to protect its Divinely promised Land. An Arab pops up after 2 years, 13 years, and now 20 years, claiming ownership of almost always goaded into it by self-hating Leftist.

בית הכנסת תפוח מערב נהרס (טל בנימין) באישור רבנות צה"ל
The destruction of the Tapu'ah West (Tal Binyamin) Synagogue,
carried out with IDF Rabbinate approval, 2003/תשס"ג

From the video, you can see that there are residents and Torah observant supporters who are not willing to take their expulsion and destruction of their neighborhood lying down. There are also still some prominent students of Rav Meir Kahane hy"d residing in Kfar Tapu'ah, including those who were very close with his son Rav Binyamin hy"d. However, they are very much in the minority, and recognize the gravity of the situation. And that situation is not simply that the government will throw Jews out of their homes at the blink of an eye, give up land to Arabs who want to annihilate us, kowtow to the non-Jewish nations instead of listening to their own constituents, let alone to the Holy One, Blessed Be He.

Yet, Jews, particularly those residing outside of Israel, still seem to think that Kfar Tapu'ah is some fantastical place where the residents have the power will be able to overcome not only the force of the army and/or the police, but also their own neighbors. That's right. Their neighbors.

Kfar Tapu'ah has been turning increasingly mamlakhti (diehard State-loyalist) since at least 2000 when leading residents Rav Binyamin and Talia Kahane hy"d , in whose memory the Tapu'ah West hilltop neighborhood was established, were murdered by Arab terrorists.

Here is the open letter (Hebrew) written by the Kfar Tapu'ah council describing their position on the matter, as well as their agreement with the government. This is who they are up against. 

The truth is that most of the towns in Azza (Gaza/Gush Qatif) and in the northern Shomron (Samaria) whose Jews were expelled and the towns themselves destroyed by Arabs, back in תשס״ה/2005, were diehard State loyalists till the end. And, yes, you read correctly. The Arabs destroyed their homes, instead of just moving into them.

Either Israel is ours or its not ours. The Israeli Government is simply not interested in answering this question. Rather, it interested in a democratic (deMOCKratic) state just like the goyim, with a few Jewish sprinkles and quasi-Zionist cherry on top. It is not in the least bit interested in building a truly Jewish (ie. Torah) nation. Quite the opposite in fact. Jews who hold Torah above the State are believed to be its greatest ear threat. Not the Arabs. The State of Israel already decided upon its borders ages ago, more or less. Jews finally need to wake up to this fact.

Read If it Looks like a Border Crossing for the details.

Israeli Police Attack Guard of a Jewish Town!

ו׳ לחודש האחד עשר תשע״ה

Arutz 7: Investigation into Police Officer Who Brutalized Security Guard
A guard in the town of Michmash says he was attacked by police - just because he was doing his job.

Moshe Cohen, January 25, 2015

Police officials have appointed a committee to investigate an incident in which a security guard was attacked at the gate to the town of Michmash, north of Jerusalem, over Shabbat. The guard claims that police brutally attacked him, injuring him and causing him psychological damage.

To add insult to injury, said a spokesperson for Michmash, police had not come to arrest anyone or conduct a search – but simply to pick up another officer who lived in the town.

The incident occurred at about 6 a.m. Saturday, with police arriving at the gate and demanding to be let into the town. The guard, a father of five who is the resident of the town, asked the officers what they wanted in the town – considering that it was a religious community, and the vast majority of people were likely to be sleeping. The officers said that they were there on “police business,” and words were exchanged with the officers, according to footage taken by another resident on his cellphone.



Boaz Arazi, a spokesperson for Michmash, said that police refused to answer the guard's questions, despite his telling the officers that he was not allowed to open the gate without knowing what their business in the town was. Eventually, the guard opened the gate – and was immediately arrested by the officers, who claimed that he had “interfered” with their work.

The guard was taken several kilometers up the road to the Binyamin police station and booked. He was released a few hours later – and began walking home from the station, towards Michmash. (cont.)

Esser Agaroth (2¢):
Both the incident itself and the shock the guard appeared to experience come as no surprise to me.

Who knows when the Jews in Yehudah and the Shomron (Judea and Samaria) will wake up to the fact that they are just pawns of the government? There are more than a few non-mamlakhtim in Mikhmas.

You would be surprised at the occasional anti-government sentiment I would hear even in traditionally mamlakhti town of Ofra, which lies just north of Mikhmas, when I lived there.

On the other hand, when I lived in K'far Tapu'ah, I witnessed the residents of the town gradually sell out over time, assimilating into the collective of diehard, "religious," State loyalists. Thanks to the mainstream, Israeli (Leftist) news media, many Jews still believe that K'far Tapu'ah is the home to "Jewish extremists." Yet, this could not be farther from the truth.

I have seen guns being taken away, licenses revoked, and licenses being made impossible to obtain. I have seen private guarding companies have been put into place in towns, even when residents, most all IDF veterans, would prefer to guard their town themselves. At least some of these private guarding companies do not allow their guards to work in the towns where they live, only in other towns.

This makes sense when you think about it. When (not if, but when) the government sends whomever it sends to expel Jews from their homes and lands, guards who are residents are less likely to cooperate, and more likely to resist, than those guards who are not residents.

Many of us are still blind and/or numbed out to the reality which surrounds us. Hopefully it will not take too many more incidents like this recent one in Makhmas to wake people up to the reality of our relationship with the Israeli Police, and to the exact nature of their role when it comes to Yehudah and the Shomron, not to mention Haredi neighborhoods, and the developing "no-go" zones of South Tel-Aviv and within the Negev.

We can take an example from Arazi's children:

Arazi said that the guard had suffered physical and mental injuries as a result of the incident, and that his children, whom the guard had raised to respect police, had become very cynical as a result of the incident.

Guest Post: Kidnapped Jewish Teens and Search and Rescue

כ' לחודש השלישי תשע"ד

Pray for the kidnapped teens....

Yekutiel Ben-Ya'akov

There is unprecedented unity in Israel as millions pray for the immediate release and safety of the three Jewish teens who were abducted by Arab terrorists from Gush Etzyon.

There are many lessons to learn from this incident. As long as we allow our enemies to live amongst us they will continue to plot against us. The IDF continues to blame police for their inexcusable late response, only many hours, after they received notice from one of the boys that he was kidnapped. The police actually received notification minutes after the abduction. However, the GSS (Shabba"k) and IDF were only tipped off by police many crucial hours later.

We warned the Knesset State Controller's Committee, 4 months ago, Feb. 18th when I was asked to testify before a special Committee convened to investigate police treatment of missing people searches. My first words to the Committee were about the extreme delay in police response to missing people reports and how the police commence searching far too late, losing vital and critical time that could translate into life or death for the missing subject.

See page 5 of that Knesset Committee transcript.

We have offered our services to the Commander of the Missing Persons Unit in the army and we may yet be called in to help in the search with the use of our specially trained dogs.

Canine training this week tomorrow in Beth Shemesh at 3 PM, Tapuach at 6 PM, Leshem at 9.30 PM (Call for days)

Thursday special SAR training on rubble sight at 7 PM

Our Israeli Dog Unit is in need of more volunteers and in need of finding to maintain our canine units.

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Esser Agaroth (2¢):
I was recently informed that it was the Israeli Police which delayed passing the information onto to the IDF and to the GSS. Apparently, the police actually received a call from one of the abducted boys saying that they were being kidnapped.

And, by the way, did anyone think that the kidnappers had to have stolen an orange, Israeli license plate to replace their green, "P" license plate, in order to disguise their car??

Curiouser and curiouser...

It would be very interesting, indeed, if the Shabba"k came up as the heroes of the hour, successfully rescuing these boys, the same Shabba"k, albeit a different "Jewish" department, feared by so many settlers. Perhaps they will then be convinced that they need the Shabba"k in their lives.

Guest Post: Moriah Goldberg: Why Did I Choose to Go to Jail? למה בחרתי להיכנס לבית הסוהר? ע"י מוריה גלדברג

כ"א לחודש השני תשע"ד

English follows the Hebrew, along with some Esser Agaroth (2¢) personal comments about Moriah, who was a neighbor of mine, when I lived in K'far Tapu'ah in the Shomron (Samaria).

הקול היהודי: למה בחרתי להיכנס לבית הסוהר?

מוריה גולדברג, ע"ה אייר תשע"ד

משפחה יקרה, עם ישראל

לאחרונה נגזרו עלי שלשה חודשי עבודות-שרות ע"י בית-המשפט המחוזי בלוד. החלטתי להתעלם מהחלטת בית המשפט, גם במחיר של ישיבה בכלא, מהסיבות שאנסה להסביר במכתב זה.

אני מואשמת ב"סיכון חיי אדם בנתיב תחבורה", בכך שהשלכתי אבנים על ערבים, כתגובה לטרור האבנים הערבי העובר בשתיקה.

כהצדקה למעשי, אינני מתכוונת להאשים את הממסד באזלת יד מחפירה ובהפקרת דם יהודי, לפרט על הטרור הערבי הרצחני, לפרוש עובדות מוצקות המוכיחות התדרדרות כללית שמובילה המדינה, להצביע על אשמים "מרכזיים" וכו'. כל זה נכון, אך הדברים גלויים וידועים, ואין טעם להוסיף ולהתבכיין. כל עם החפץ בחיים אינו יכול לשבת בחיבוק ידים במציאות כזו.

אך אני רוצה לגעת בקצרה בשרשי הבעיה, היישר מהראש והלב היהודי שלי (מבלי להאריך כאן בהסברים ודוגמאות):

כיהודים, איננו יכולים להזדהות עם מערכת המשפט במדינת ישראל, המתכחשת להבדלה בין ישראל לעמים – הבדלה שרק על-גבה ניתן להגיע להשפעה מתוקנת. כך למשל בית המשפט מדבר על "סיכון חיי אדם" גם כאשר מדובר בפראי-אדם הנלחמים בעם ישראל (כפי שהתורה קוראת לישמעאל "פרא אדם" – 'פרא' כשם העצם ו'אדם' כשם התואר). (ללחוץ לקרוא טת ההמשך)

נא להתפלל לשיחרור מוריה בת יעל מבית הכלא במהרה! וששיחרורה תבוא עם תקופה מחודשת של יהדודות אמיתית דביקות מחודשת לקדוש ברוך הוא ולתורתו הקדושה וגאולה שלימה וסופית!

The Jewish Voice: Why Did I Choose to Go to Jail
Moriah Goldberg, May 4, 2014

Translated by Eliezer Ben Avraham, and posted on The Torah Revolution as In Honor of Moriah Goldberg, the Moriah Goldberg Tzomet!.

To my dear family, the Nation of Israel,

I was recently sentenced to three months of community service by the Israeli court in Lod. I have defied this court order and as a result am sitting in jail. In this letter I will attempt to explain my rationale. I was found guilty of “endangering human life on the roads”, specifically by throwing stones at Arabs. This was done in response to Arab stone-throwing which continues to this day without a word from the government or police. I don’t plan on detailing all the instances of Arab terror in the past few years including murders, Molotov cocktails, stone throwing, and many other incidents. All of these events are well-known to anyone who follows the news and there is no need to enumerate them. Any nation that wishes to survive cannot accept such a situation.

Therefore, I would like to explain, directly from my Jewish head and Jewish heart, what I think is the root of the problem: As Jews, we cannot abide by the rulings of the Courts of the State of Israel because they refuse to differentiate between Jews and non-Jews – a differentiation which is required in order to reach proper decisions. For example, the courts discuss “endangering human life” even when dealing with savages who murder Jews (the Torah specifically calls Yishmael a “human savage”, ‘savage’ is the main noun and ‘human' is merely an adjective).

The problem with the Israeli Court is reflective of a general problem with the entire establishment. After carefully pondering our current situation, with the help of the words of Rav Binyamin Kahane HY”D and Rav Yitzchak Ginzburg Shlit”a, even someone as small as me can understand that there is only one option: the Hellenistic and confused establishment in the State of Israel must be replaced. We don’t need just a new coalition or a new Prime Minister; rather we need to replace the entire system. We should view this shift as a change from the kingdom of Shaul to the kingdom of David. The Zionist Movement, which established the State and its institutions, can be likened to the Jewish Nation that requested a king. Their motive was flawed, for they demanded “to be like all the nations”, a demand which the Holy One Blessed be He compared to idol worship. Similarly, the current State of Israel developed from a desire “to be like all the nations.” It is a state, which just like the first Kingdom does not recognize its faults and needs to be replaced.

Towards the end of his days, Shaul became obsessive and insane. He knew that his kingdom was crumbling and lost. Nonetheless he continued to chase David, the new, true and eternal king, just as the government here continues to harass and fight against Jews who represent Torah truth. Given this situation, it is clear that we must strive to establish the kingdom of David. Some say this can be achieved by “influencing from within”, but history has shown otherwise. David was the next in line to be king and could have waited to become king after Shaul’s death, instead he realized that he had to establish his kingdom himself and that he had to do so during Shaul’s reign. When he started he was isolated; he ruled only in Hevron, but after several years he eventually came to rule over all of Israel.

We all look forward to the redemption and the Messiah’s vengeance against the nations. We want to build the Temple, bask in its glory and be a light unto the nations. To this end, we must immediately begin creating an infrastructure for the perfected state which we desire. We must build institutions, bodies and establishments for this new state. Further, we must separate ourselves from the current state. It is crucial that we only separate from the State of Israel, not from the nation of Israel. The first step is to separate ourselves in our minds and eventually we will be able to separate in practice (see “Derech Chaim Movement”).

We need a revolution. To do so, actions have to be taken, words have to be spoken. This subject must be put on the agenda and a whole new atmosphere must be created so that God willing, the nation will slowly flow towards the new alternative. As Rav Binyamin Kahane HY”D, urged shortly before he was murdered, “Let us take our destiny into our own hands.” To successfully achieve this goal, according to Rav Ginsburgh, we must be candid and even brazen about our opposition and separation from the establishment.

Those stones which came from my hand came from the strength and for the sake of the Torah. They were thrown as “an eye for an eye.” They were in response to the stones that theYishamelites throw every day. They were thrown in response to the shameful silence that follows every attack.

My actions did not come from despair, fear or helplessness, G-d forbid - rather as a Jewish act, vengeful and proud. “Just as they did to me, so too I did to them” (Samson The Mighty, Judges 14:11). Ignoring the court order of doing community service and subsequently sitting in jail was my way of cutting myself off from the system. May it be His will that those small stones I threw be like the five smooth stones of David who stood against Goliath; stones that eventually helped establish his kingdom.

The clock is ticking….. the Messiah is eager. I do not regret even for a moment what I did to those savages, nor my decision to ignore the verdict of the court. If I regret anything, it is that some things could have been done wiser (but it is all from the One Above, and is for the best!), but again I reiterate, not for the acts themselves. I am stating here that I chose to ignore the decision of the court, because as we know there is a time for everything -"...a time to build and a time to bring down…" (Eccl. 3:3) perhaps for this government, the time has come… to bring it down.

With Love of Israel,
Moriah Goldberg

Esser Agaroth (2¢):
You may recall that Moriah, Haiki Belogoradsky, and Penina Ashkenazy, teen-aged girls from K'far Tapu'ah, were jailed in 2005 for protesting the impending expulsion of Jews from Azza (Gaza-Gush Qatif). While dangerous criminals, even suspected murderers, were receiving house arrest, these girls were not accorded the same option, and they were certainly not granted release on bail.

For months the girls incurred horrid conditions in prison, conditions which I will not elaborate here, conditions which were more likely than not, brought about due to political motivations. After months of fighting, the court agreed to release them into the custody of kibbutz, while they awaited trial.

But, the girls refused their offer of release, on the basis that the kibbutz was not "religious" enough. They were familiar with this kibbutz, and stated that its standards of kashruth (dietary laws), as well as it standards of tzni'uth (modesty), were insufficient to meat their observance of Torah.

The dumbfounded judge eventually released them into the custody of Moriah's grandparents in Petah Tiqwah. "Her Honor" believed that it to be too dangerous to let them go back to K'far Tapu'ah, because, "they might talk with the other residents, and have influence over them."

Well, I hate to hazard a guess as to what the Israeli Justice System, not to mention members of the K'nesseth think of how dangerous Moriah is now.

Moriah wrote what many frustrated Jews have been thinking. Yet, she was the one with the courage to say it, and to write it!

אֵשֶׁת-חַיִל, מִי יִמְצָא; וְרָחֹק מִפְּנִינִים מִכְרָהּ. (משלי לא,י)

"A woman of valor who can find? for her price is far above rubies". (Prov. 31:10)

חָדְלוּ פְרָזוֹן בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל, חָדֵלּוּ-- עַד שַׁקַּמְתִּי דְּבוֹרָה, שַׁקַּמְתִּי אֵם בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל. (שופטים ה,ז)

"The rulers ceased in Israel, they ceased, until you arose, Deborah, that arose a mother in Israel." (Judges 5:7)

Please pray for the speedy release of Moriah bat Ya'el. May her example and her release herald a new era in Authentic Jewish thought, loyalty to The Almighty and His Holy Torah, and our complete and final Redemption!

A Lesson in Arab Culture

י"ח לחודש השנים עשר תשע"ד

Yesterday morning, I got on the bus to work as usual, albeit a little later than usual, as I had to run some errands first. The seat available was next to an Arab.

OK. Big deal.

However, my seat mate next to the window was taking up much more than his allotted half of the space.

No big deal. I'll just politely ask him to scoot over, right?

Wrong.

After waiting a couple of minutes, to make sure that he would not withdrawn, not out of anger, but simply and quite nonchalantly I conquered the half to which I was entitled to, the part which was mine, and not his. I pushed into him with my body, as if he wasn't even there. After all shouldn't have been there, on my half, on my territory. He was not obese, so he could not use that as an excuse. He simply would not move.

As Arabs tend to have much less of an issue with personal space between men, than Americans or British, I just sat there with the left side of my body firmly embedded in the right side of his. Eventually, he relented, and brought his knees slightly closer to one another, and scooted in a tad. But, his person was still encroaching on my territory.

I decided to leave it alone. After all, I need to take under consideration the "reality on the ground," and "to choose my shots." You know, I really feel like I am going to scream, if I ever hear those clichés again,...even when I say them!

Nonetheless, this is what I did. I left it alone.

I did not get in his face, and tell him to be thankful that I even allowed him to continue sitting next to me.

I did not threaten to throw him on the ground, if he did not immediately move his tuchus.

But, maybe I should have. Years ago, a friend of mine was working in a store in Jerusalem. He was having difficulties dealing with the rude and disruptive behavior of the Arab workers in the neighborhood who would come in during their lunch hour. That included gawking at Jewish women, a definite red line, if there ever was one.

Then one day, there happened to be a native Israeli shopping in the store, who saw how the Arabs were behaving. He threatened them with throwing them down on the ground. The Arabs ceased, and took several days before returning to their default behaviors of disruption and tuchus-gawking.

In 1948, and again in 1967, Israel claimed defending Eretz Yisra'el (the Land of Israel), in the face of possible annihilation of the Jewish People. After "throwing the Arabs on the ground," the Arabs got up, and their applications for jobs at Jewish owed companies increased dramatically overnight. The Jews were here to stay, and the Arabs received that message, loud and clear.

Once when I was standing in line at Jerusalem City Hall, an Arab woman seemed to be cutting in front of me. In Hebrew, I asked her what the heck she thought she was doing. She said something in Arabic. I quickly raised my hand, as if to threaten her with a good ol' fashioned New York smack. We don't "smack" in California. We smile at you, and then when you're not expecting it, we stab you in the back,...just proverbially, of course.

But, I digress...

This Arab woman did not even flinch, probably because she has gotten used to this gesture being flaunted at her by men, Arab men. She just kept saying the same word in Arabic, she had been saying before, which I later learned was the word for "first." I figured out that, mostly due to her lack of Hebrew, that she was in line for the Arabic speaking clerk. I did not apologize. I turned back around, looking only slightly perturbed. Why should she go before me? If it's my turn, and the Arabic speaking clerk happens to be available, why can't I take my turn with him, knowing that he speaks Hebrew?

Doesn't sound fair, you say? No, perhaps it doesn't, not in a Western culture that is. Let her go to the only clerk who speaks her language, and wait for one of the eight others to become available. But, wait, there weren't any Russian speakers pushing to the front of the line to speak with the Russian speaking clerk. I should know, because I had to come back again with my Russian speaking roommate, and we waited for the Russian speaking clerk, so that he could speak with her in Russian, and I could speak to her in Hebrew. My roommate did not get any special dispensation.

While living in the Shomron (Samaria), in K'far Tapu'ah, to be specific, I learned even more about Arab culture. Originally founded by Yemenites, K'far Tapu'ah was not the so-called, right-wing "extremist" town you might have thought it was, and hasn't been for years. In my opinion, that is unfortunate. Regardless of the hashqafah (perspective), I was able to learn quite a bit about how to interact with Arabs. These included not being the first to break eye-contact, not moving out of the way of an Arab's path, whether there was plenty of room to pass or not, and the elaborate interactions between the older Yemenites who spoke Arabic and the Arabs from the neighboring villages. Smiling, hugging, and kissing were involved, and then my Yemenite neighbor would turn to tell me how they handled those "lying crooks" in a business deal or simple trade.

Sure, I would not want to do anything to support an Arab and his family financially, by doing business with them. But, it has been my experience that gathering information is never a mistake. For example, when the Israeli Government finally follows through on abandoning the "settlers" to fend for themselves under increased Arab, and possibly American, occupation, it would be good to know whom I will have to fight with over the springs, the closest sources of water.

But, I digress...

Back to the bus, I was more effective at dealing with that Arab than most Israelis, and most all American-Israelis. Although some of those "hot-headed" yeshiva bochurim, considered at risk for going "off the derech," and thus sent to special, Israeli yeshivas to "get fixed," should not be discounted. These young men are highly underestimated, and their passion often misinterpreted. All they need are their questions on Torah and spirituality answered to their satisfaction, with some additional guidance thrown in for good measure.

But, again, I digress...

As effective as I was in the short-term, perhaps all I really accomplished with this Arab for the long-term was just like the same sort of half-ass intervention of the Israeli Defense Forces [IDF] in Lebanon or Azza. When the international community tells us to pull out, we pull out, and the Arabs go back to doing push-ups, and smuggling in arms for the next encounter with Israel, which lately has always begun with missiles from the north of from the south, Arab missiles, not Israeli ones.

Jewish lives are sacrificed for the sake of Arab lives; Jewish lives are sacrificed for the sake of "what will the non-Jewish neighbors say?!" (ie. the international community)

משנה אבות ב,יט [טז] הוא [רבי טרפון] היה אומר, לא עליך כל המלאכה לגמור, ולא אתה בן חורין ליבטל.

Mishnah Avoth 2:19 He [Rabbi Tarfon] used to say, you are not obligated to finish a task, but you are not free to quit in the middle...

For those of you who will insist that Rabbi Tarfon was referring only to Torah study, I will recommend that you do just that, study what the Torah, including HaZa"L, has to say about Arabs.

Meanwhile, in the "progressive," Caucasian, West, they are blind, desperately trying to force an Arab "square peg" into the "circular slot" of Western culture, all the while denying it, and calling those of who truly understand Arab culture, and even respecting the Arabs' unique roles on this earth, are called none other than "racist."

Arabs In Tapu'ah: What Happened?

כ"ח לחודש השלישי תשע"ג

Kol Yehudi: [K'far] Tapu'ah: 5 Residents were Arrested Who Tried to Prevent Arab Workers from Entering

Elhanan Gruner, June 2, 2013

The decision to allow the entrance of Arab workers into the town boundaries of [K'far] Tapu'ah this morning led to a confrontation between residents opposed to the move and the Arab workers' employers. Five of the town's residents who tried to prevent the Arabs from entering were arrested. (Translated by Esser Agaroth)

Arab worker in K'far Tapu'ah

Esser Agaroth (2¢): 
As a former resident K'far Tapu'ah, I am embarrassed by the actions of the town council, yet not in the least bit surprised.

Few Jews in and outside of Israel, and few non-Jews are aware that Arabs coming into Jews towns in Yehudah and the Shomron is not at all uncommon. K'far Tapu'ah, however, had been one of the few towns to stand behind its "no Arab" policy.

A similar situation occurred in the even more Mamlakhti (undying State-loyalist) town of Ofrah, to the south of K'far Tapu'ah. The Ofrah town council had decided to prevent an "Israeli" Arab contractor from doing work in the town. When the Ofrah resident, a Jew, who had hired the Arab threatened to sue the town, the council backed down. However, it did insist upon armed security escorts to keep an eye on the Arabs.


What I gather from Gruner's report, from one of those arrest residents, since released, and from another reliable source, the project has been funded with money from the Israeli government, and must follow Israeli governmental policy, which happens to include assurances of [suicidal] "equality." The Arab workers (all of them?) in question apparently have State of Israel identification cards, and thus can be allowed into Jewish towns.

Rather than slowing down the project, by hiring only Jews, and obtaining alternative funding, it was decided to accept the government funding, and thus the government's conditions.

That's what appears to be the reasoning on the surface. However, if the "mayor" is still the same "mayor" when I was living there, I sincerely doubt those are all of the details of the story. My personal experience with this "mayor" caused me to run out of kaf zekhuth (benefit of the doubt) for him long before he was even elected "mayor."

From the side of those who tried to prevent the Arabs from entering, many of the Arab workers have been seen all over Tapu'ah, away from any of the building projects. What are they doing? Talking a stroll? Or mapping out the town. If the BBC can encourage it, then "Israeli" Arabs are certainly capable of carrying it out.

The women in Tapu'ah are reported to be particularly afraid of the Arab presence. And those "settler" women I remember from Tapu'ah are not scared so easily. Ironic that the women most frightened are probably from the Mamlakhti families who want the Arabs there in the first place!

When a mosque was burned down in the neighboring village Yassuf, everyone in Israel was in an uproar, including some rabbis, such as Israel's Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yonah Metzger and Chief Rabbi of the British Realm Jonathan Sacks.

If a Jewish "settler" woman or a child (God forbid!) were to be attacked by an Arab, who was invited into the town, would there be such an outrage? I am afraid to say that I doubt it. As the Arab is an "Israeli citizen," the case would no doubt. Yet, to prevent such an act from occurring, by doing the only reasonable thing, keeping the potential attacker from entering in the first place, is "racist."

So, maybe it is "racist," according to the lovely Western, progressive definitions we picked up in galuth, and most of my fellow Jews have failed to discard already.

However, HaZa"L (Our Sages, maybe their memories be for blessings) thought otherwise.

אין זנות כזנות ישמעאל.

There is no promiscuity like the promiscuity of Yishma'el.

That's just the animal sexual aspect. For the violence, just pick up a Tana"kh (Bible), and then a messekhta of Talmud. Better yet, get a CD-Rom with both, and read everything which comes up on a search for Yishma'el.

This stamps upon R' Binyamin Kahane's name.

Funny, how, to this day, K'far Tapu'ah is still known as a "Kahanist" town. To the dismay of the majority of the town council, and perhaps even most of the residents arriving over the past 10 or so years, K'far Tapu'ah is simply unable to rid itself of its Kahanist "stigma."

I guess we all know who is getting the last laugh here.

Let's just hope the town council wakes up, and takes a turn away from its path of self-destruction, and the destruction of K'far Tapu'ah and all of its residents.

Unfortunately, I am not so optimistic.

But, perhaps, "when going gets tough, the tough gets going," as they say. And the real Jewish settlers will be allowed to live Jewishly (ie. fully according to the Torah), and be allowed to defend their land and protect their families Jewishly, just what Rabbi Binyamin Kahane hy"d and his father Rabbi Meir David Kahane hy"d had always dreamed about.

Post Script:
I just heard from the man who was arrested and released later the same day. Both he and one of the men still in jail, I consider good friends. I do not know the details of this one's interrogation. However, I was able to gather that he took the lemons given to him and made lemonade.

He took the opportunity to do qiruv work, bringing Jews closer to Torah, at the police station. He even encouraged one police officer to make a berakhah (blessing) before drinking his glass of water.

Evyatar Borovsky HY"D: A picture is worth 1,000 words.

כ"ב לחודש השני תשע"ג

Before.

Evyatar Borovsky, HY"D
(Photo Credit: Ynet.co.il)

And after, encountering an Arab terrorist at Tapu'ah Junction int he Shomron (Samaria), not to far south from his home in Yitzhar.

Evyatar Borovsky's son hugs his father's body at his funeral.

Meanwhile, in the K'nesseth, the Israeli Parliament...

One leftist MK Michal Roisin (Meretz) didn't feel that Evyatar Borovsky's murder warranted even a mention, during a committee meeting.

One Yishma'elite (Arab) MK Jamal Zahalka (Balad) refused to condemn Evyatar Borovsky's murder, stating that "Settlers had no right to self-defense."

Let me tell you something, my Jewish brothers and sisters: Tel-Aviv residents are also "settlers."

PA "President" Mahmud Abbas's (Abu Mazen) vision of Palestine,...Tel-Aviv included.

Two K'nesseth Ministers, Tzippy Livni (HaT'nu'ah) and Yitzchak Aharonovitch (Likud-Yisra'el Beteinu) decided to form a discussion of how to deal with Tag Mahir ("price tag") a Jewish activist organization, kn ow for its aggressive tactics toward Arabs, and which may or may not even exist.

This, after a Jew gets killed by an Arab?

For this, I bothered to vote three months ago??

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then the three pictures above tell you everything you need to know about what is really taking place in Yehudah (Judea) and the Shomron.

MK Jamal Zahalka Is A Vampire!

כ"ב לחודש השני תשע"ג

MK Jamal Zahalka

Yishma'elite (Arab) MK Jamal Zahalka (Balad) "came out" as a vampire today in the K'nesseth.

While stating that it was time for him to "come out," he also emphasized that he was one of the "good vampires," as he only believed in sucking the blood out of Jews.

MK Zahalka compared himself to the Stephanie Meyer vampire character of Edward Cullen, since Cullen and his family only sucked the blood out of subhuman animals.

Although, the midrash on Esau's kiss of his brother Ya'aqov, really being a bite, is one possible source of the origins of vampires, Esau did marry daughters of Yishma'el. And so, MK Zahalka's claim seems to have some backing.

MK Zahalka previously made the headlines, when he refused to condemn the murder of Evyatar Borovsky by an Yishma'elite terrorist, stating that "Settlers had no right to self-defense."

When asked to elaborate, MK Zahalka replied with the following question:

"Where else are we 'good vampires' going to find something decent to suck the blood out of?"

And, then, of course, the now proverbial...

"Besides, Jewish Settler blood is cheap!"

MK Zahalka then proceeded to introduce proposal for the "Vampires Living A Democracy" [VLAD] legislation, which will include comprehension guarantees for the rights of vampires in Israel, such as the outlaw of garlic and wooden crosses, and automatic National Insurance subsidies for those vampires unable to gain employment during nighttime hours.

K'nesseth sources say that they expect the new law to pass, and to hold up to judicial scrutiny, in not praised by Israeli Supreme Court Justices for the law's "democratic progress."

When pressed for further information regarding the senseless murder of Jews in Yehudah and the Shomron, MK Zahalka asked, "Where was that? When was he killed? Is he still fresh?" He then flew out the door,...literally, he flew.

Meanwhile...

Evyatar Borovsky's son hugs his body at his funeral.

 

MK Michal Roisin Is Not A Nice Person

כ"א לחודש השני תשע"ג

The following translation/summary of  is from the Life In Israel Blog's Headline Of The Day, April 30, 2013.

MK Roisin: Why relate to the terror attack?
Arutz 7 (Hebrew)

At the opening of the Knesset committee meeting today dealing with the Women of the Wall issue, Chairwoman MK Miri Regev (Likud) opened with an expression of shock and sorrow regarding the terror attack this morning in which one Jew was killed at the Tapuach Junction in the Shomron and expressed her condolences to the family.

MK Michal Roisin (Meretz) asked why she needs to relate to the terror attack that happened earlier in the day, as it seemingly has nothing to do with the topic under discussion.

Esser Agaroth (2¢):
Gee, I wonder if she would have said the same thing, if the murder victim had been an Arab, or a foreign worker, or a nun?

I sincerely doubt it.

"Shiksa"

MK Michal Roisin, I would like you to meet Shiksa. And, although Shiksa is female, no, I do not intend to call you the name you might think I would call you.

After all, it IS against Israeli law to call a government official a name. And, I wouldn't want to break Israeli law, would I?

As far as I know, this law has not been repealed, and is still on the books. However, it has been criticized by some Israeli judges. Of course, my guess is that if the "name-calling" found favor in the eyes of those truly in charge of what goes on in Israel, it would be allowed to slide. Of course, that is only speculation on my part.  Nevertheless, so much for "democratic free speech," huh?!

But, I digress....

Other than being female, I can think of at least one other attribute you have in common.

However, MK Roisin, I would never think of comparing you to Shiksa. You see, there is much too much that you and Shiksa do not have in common, in order to place the two of you on the same level.

Shiksa cares about Jews.

Shiksa cares about Jews, no matter where they live.

Shiksa's job is to protect Jews. Well, in theory, that is also the job of MK's, but...whatever.

Shika protected and cared about me, while I was helping to raise her, and living in K'far Tapu'ah, part of the Land of Israel. See Joshua, Chapters 12, 16, and 17 for starters, if you don't believe me.

Shiksa even barked at people, I didn't like. I kid you not. It was uncanny! Gee, I wonder if you she would bark at you, MK Roisin?

Let's see... What else? Oh, yes!

Shiksa continues to protect Jews (in an undisclosed location). Who do you continue to protect? Arabs who want to kill us, even you? The "democratic rights" of those who to have promiscuous sex with multiple partners? The children of foreign workers, perhaps, the next stage in Israel's "de-Jewification?" What about the "freedom of religious expression," for everyone, BUT Torah-observant Jews?

Do tell. Inquiring minds want to know what else you do NOT have in common with Shiksa?

As to that name, you thought I was going to call you, I would never want to call of Bath-Yisr'ael such a name. But, the more I think about it, the more I tend to believe that you might not be such a woman.

Incidentally, Shiksa is from the Hebrew word שקץ/sheqetz. Look it up, why don't you?

Yet, in Yiddish, it is used to indicate a non-Jewish woman. So, now, I am thinking that maybe you and Shiksa DO have something else in common, after all.

Now, before I let you go, MK Roisin, I want you to look into this man, this Jew's eyes.

Evyatar Borovsky, HY"D
Yitzhar, Israel

The murderer of this Jew, kill him for one reason, and one reason alone. He was Jewish.

The murderer of this Jew made his wife a widow, and his five children orphans.

However, I believe very strongly that the murderer of this Jew is not the only was responsible for the murder of this Jew

This Jew has a name. This Jew's name is Evyatar Borovsky.

MK ROISIN, DO NOT FORGET THIS JEW'S NAME, NOR HIS FACE, WHOSE MURDER YOU JUST BRUSHED ASIDE BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T FEEL IT WAS RELEVANT TO THE DISCUSSION!

"Jews" like you disgust me.

(*Shabba"k and Israeli Police, please note that not at ANY time did I call MK Roisin a nasty name. Thank-you.)

So, how does MK Roisin rate, using the new, Esser Agaroth (2¢) rating system?

MK Roisin doesn't get a rating. She is below ALL ratings, she is low. Sro, until I can come up with a system appropriate for the likes of her, I will give her the proverbial...

0

It works in English and in Hebrew.

MK Roisin, you are not a nice person,...and that insult being NICE about it.

With Christians, There Is No Blessing! (Updated!)

מוצש"ק פר' וארא תשע"ג

A week ago I saw this sticker around the Shomron (Samaria)...

"With Christians, there is no blessing!"

There is a double meaning to this sticker.

ברכה (b'rakhah) does not just signify the word "blessing." it also signifies the town of Har B'rakhah, where countless Christian "volunteers" are headquartered depending on the season. 

In other words, as long as Christians are around, not only is there no blessing, but the town of Har B'rakhah will cease to exist shortly, spiritually, physically, or both, if hasn't lost its soul already.

That is what happens when you associate with 'ovdei 'avodah zarah (practitioners of forbidden worship), or in this case, invite them into your town, and intimately into your lives.

There was an attempt to build a new headquarters in K'far Tapu'ah.  Fortunately, that attempt was blocked by the town's rabbi, when it was brought to his attention.

Christian"volunteers," working under the banners of various programs have operated in Har Berakhah, Itamar, Qedumim, and in the P'sagoth Winery at Mikhmas Junction in Binyamin, not to mention the christian radio station in Sha'ar Binyamin Industrial Park. Threats have also been made to the residents of some hilltop communities, if they do not allow these Christians into their communities.

Their beliefs and practices pollute the very Holy Land of Israel.

And yet (and I'm embarrassed to say),...

דברים ט"ז,יט ...וְלֹא-תִקַּח שֹׁחַד--כִּי הַשֹּׁחַד יְעַוֵּר עֵינֵי חֲכָמִים, וִיסַלֵּף דִּבְרֵי צַדִּיקִם

Deuteronomy 16:19 ...neither shall you take a gift; for a gift blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous. 

 ...is what is occurring in the Shomron.

This verse is speaking about the wise and the righteous, so even more so regarding those who are neither wise, nor righteous.

*Please copy and paste, post, print, and distribute this sticker! 

*********

Update:

ב' לחודש האחד עשר תשע"ג

 The sticker has been going around for few  months.

"Christians in- Jews out"

 

Do you know about the fact that Rav  E. Melamed gave permission to Christians (members of Hayovel Ministry) to live in Har Bracha? 

 

It started in the "HaGiv'ah HaMa'aravit" neighborhood.  A letter of protest was sent out by the young families living there. It did not help them. One by one those young, Jewish families left the place, most of them out of Har Bracha area.

 

So ere you have the actual meaning of the sticker.

 

Chodesh Tov,

Mina Fenton

(former Jerusalem City Council Member)

More Arab Land Theft

י"ט לחודש העשירי תשע"ג

Arutz 7: IDF Gives Arabs a Nod in Land Dispute at Kfar Tapuach
Jews in the Samarian village of Tapuach claimed, Sunday, that the army was helping area Arabs in a land grab around the strategic junction. The claim arose after Arab and Jewish farmers clashed at the site on Friday, and the army allowed the Arabs to work the land on Sunday.

The District Coordinating Office (DCO) for joint efforts by Israeli and Palestinian Authority security forces told Arutz Sheva that the Arab family had proven ownership. Yekutiel Ben-Ya'akov was emphatic that the land belonged to a Jew named Sa'adia who lives in Yehud, near Tel Aviv. Ben-Ya'akov said that the information provided by the DCO was false and that the case was under advisement by a court, but 45 days into the 60 the court gave before issuing its ruling, it appeared that the Arabs had some help from the army in effecting a land grab.

This seems to be the latest strategy of the Arabs over the past several years, making claims on the Land with "documentation" and "testimony."

It has happened with Havath Gil'ad, Migron, and lately with one or more of the hilltop communities next to Shiloh.

OK.  So, it's not exactly a "new" strategy, as the Arabs have already been employing the strategy of lying for quite sometime now.

Unfortunately, the collaboration of the Israeli Defense Forces [IDF] is a trend on the rise as well.

As a former resident of K'far Tapu'ah, I also wonder if this would have happened if certain, mamlakhti (undying state loyalist) families had been involved, or other families which may have made deals with the government.

But, this is all irrelevant. 

The bottom line is something we will never hear the Israeli government state:

ALL of the Land of Israel belongs to the People of Israel.

It is high time to stop being wishy-washy about this, to stop worrying about what the "International Community" will think, and to stop acting cowardly.

We have a misswah (commandment) to conquer the Land, and kick out ALL non-Jews unwilling to follow the rules involved with being a non-Jew in the Land.

What's the problem?

The Most Dangerous Wedding In The World

Erev Shabbath Qodesh Parashath Yithro 5772

Last Wednesday night I attended the most dangerous wedding the world.

The hathan (groom), a former student of mine, made the news last year when, before his enlistment into the Israeli Defense Forces [IDF], he declared in advanced that he would refuse to carry out any order to throw Jews out of their homes, or to aid in the destruction of Jewish strongholds and villages. In spite of the various threats thrown at him, he stood by his principles and held ground. In the end the IDF refused to enlist him, undoubtedly due to the "dangerous" influence such a soldier might have on his fellow recruits.

But, that was not why his was the most dangerous wedding in the world.

At one time, the hathan's father was a student of Rabbi Me'ir Kahane hy"d. It was no surprise to see several of his former students present. It was great to see two and three generations from the same families together, carrying on his tradition of Torah and Jewish Pride.

One of the "next generation" in attendance was one of the heroic, "Tapu'ah Three," three teenaged women, who for months were unjustly incarcerated, for the sake of the Land of Israel was there, a friend of the kallah (bride).

There were several of us at the wedding from K'far Tapu'ah. In fact, I was speaking with someone from Har Berakhah at a neighboring table. I happened to mention that the five of us at our table were from Tapu'ah. He said that he could tell. I asked him if it was due to how we looked, or how we behaved. He said, "Both."

I am not entirely sure how one could so easily be able to identify us as being from a particular town. Nonetheless, the presence of so many Jews from the town often referred to as a "thorn in the side of the Israeli government" was not why this was the most dangerous wedding in the world.

Women stood separately from the men at the huppah, and refrained from dancing while in the presence of the men. They did so, not because they were told to. They did so, because that was what they believed was proper, and according to the wishes of the families of the hathan and kallah.

Some, ignorance, assimilated Jews might call this course of action as result of "the internalized oppression and brainwashing by the hierarchical patriarchy." Even so, the presence of modest women was also not why this wedding was the most dangerous one in the world.

There were a few armed men, and possibly women at this wedding, but nothing usually for a wedding in Israel, and thus nothing to make it the most dangerous wedding in the world.

This wedding was the most dangerous wedding in the world for one, and only one, reason.

Each and every one of wedding guests themselves was personally responsible for creating foundation of the most dangerous wedding in the world.

The wedding guests included residents of various yishuvim (towns) in Yehudah and the Shomron (Judea & Samaria), so called "settlers" from the serious, non-suburban yishuvim, such as Hevron, K'far Tapu'ah, Itamar, Elon More, and Mitzpeh Yericho. That fact alone did not contribute to why this was the most dangerous wedding in the world.

The guests also included Haredim, Litvaks, as well as various strands of Hassiduth.

To cap it all off, they were many non-religious Jews in attendance.

Jews from across the spectrum were singing, dancing, and celebrating TOGETHER.

Not only do those who control the government find this to be dangerous, but so, too, do the leaders of various groups of Jews. Many religious leaders do not want theirs to be influenced by non-religious Jews, or even other religious Jews of the "wrong" variety. Anti-religious do not want their children coming home, and all of a sudden begin putting on tefillin.

None of them want to lose control over their masses.

Jewish unity is dangerous.

That is why this was the most dangerous wedding in the world.

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Note: Esser Agaroth is not a fan of using categories. If you have ideas for new and creative ways to describe Jews for the sake of emphasizing diversity, please let me know.