הימין האחראי? / Israel's "Responsible Right"

ערב שבת קודש פר׳ משפטים / שקלים תשפ״ג

English follows the Hebrew.

אמש אני קיבלתי מסרון שבו כתוב "הימין האחראי יוצא להפגין". ההודעה כוללת קישור למודעה הזאת:

עשר אגורות (2¢):
הימין האחראי? מי כאן ברשימה הזו ימיני בכלל?

אין לד"ר יועז הנדל שום זכות להזדהות כימין אחרי הוא הצטרף ליוזמה של נפתלי בנט.

ירום כהן? ללחוץ כאן כדי לקרוא למה לדעתי ראש השב"כ לא יכול להיות ימיני.

אמילי עמרוסי הייתה דוברת מועצת יהודה, שומרון ועזה [יש״ע], לפני, במהלך ואחרי תכנית ההתנתקות גירוש של ראש הממשלה אריאל שרון של כמעט 10,000 יהודים מעזה וצפון השומרון בשנת תשס״ה / 2005. לא לתת להם לעבוד עליכם. מועצת יש"ע שיתפה פעולה עם ממשלת שרון בגירוש. אם אתם עוד לא ראיתם את הסרטון "מרגלים", אז ממש כדאי לכם כדי להבין עד הסוף מה זאת אומרת להיות דוברת מועצת יש"ע.

פנחס ולרשטיין גם היה יו״ר מועצת מטה בנימין. ולרשטיין הוא דוגמא מושלם למי שגורם פילוג בין קהילות המתנחלים. אם אתם לא אחד מהסוג שלו "מתנהג יפה", אליטיסטי, מתנחל ממלכתי (נאמן המדינה ללא שאלה), אז דעותכם לא חשובות ולא נחשבות לו. בשנת תשס״ח/2008 ולרשטיין הואשם בתקיפת שלושה קטינים גם פיזית, וגם חופש הדיבור שלהם.

הרב אהד טהרלב הוא מבית הלל. בתיאור והחזון באנגלית של בית הלל כוללים מילות מפתח כמו "משכיל" ומילות סיסמא כמו "כוללני". העברית מציעה שבתוך עולם הדמוקרטיות, "...השקפות השוויוניות הפכו לאידיאל". הגרסה באנגלית ממשיכה "...אנו מאמינים שזה הכרחי לכלול נשים בתפקידי מנהיגות ציבורית."

על הרב ירמי סטביסקי אני שמעתי עליו רק דברים כאיש חינוך. למרות שאני לא יודע הרבה על דעותיו המסימות, שהוא למד בישיבת הר עציון וקורא לרב יהודה עמיטל ״רבי ומורי״ אני חושד שהוא יכול להיול ממלכתי כמו כל האחרים הרשומים ברשימת המשתתפים בהפגנה הזו. רב יהודה עמיטל היה ח״כ מתנועת ״מימד״ שהיתה בסיעת מפלגת העבודה של רה״מ שמעון פרס.

ניר אורבך הוא פשוט עוד אחד שהצטף לנפתלי בנט הוא היה במפלגת בית היהודי ואז מפלגת [מה שנקרא] מפלגות ימין חדש.

אף אחד מהם לא מעוניין לנהל דיון כלשהו. בשבילם הפרושים של ״אחדות״ ו״הסכמות״ הם שווים ל״כולם מסכימים איתנו״. אף אחד מהם לא ימני בכלל.

ה׳ ישמור!

I received a text message last night from SAVEISRAEL, and stating that the "responsible right" were going out to demonstrate. The link in the message lead to the announcement pictured above.

Translation of the above announcement:

Right-wing demonstration
We are brothers. Let's have a discussion now!

Right-wingers say no to civil war.
February 18,  after Shabbat, 7:30 PM
The Bell Garden*, Jerusalem
*The stairs in front of the Inbal Hotel

Among the participants in the demonstration:
Dr. Yoaz Handel - former Minister of Communications
Yoram Cohen - former head of the Shin Bet
Emily Amrusi - media personality
Pinchas Wallerstein - one of the leaders of Gush Amunim
Rabbi Ahed Taharlev - head of the Lindbaum midrash
Rabbi Yerami Stavisky - educator, former principal of Himmelfarb High School
Nir Orbach - former MK

Esser Agaroth (2¢):

Dr. Yoaz Handel has no business identifying himself as "right-wing," ever since joining Naftali Bennett in his government.

Yoram Cohen former head of the Shin Bet (Shabbak). Do I really have to elaborate here on the Shabbak? Yes. I suppose that I do. Click here for and elaboration.

Emily Amrusi was the spokesperson for the Judea, Samaria, and Gaza [Yesha] Council, before, during, and after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's expulsion of almost 10,000 Jews from Gaza in תשס״ה/2005. Do not be fooled. The Yesha Council collaborated with the Sharon Government in the expulsion. If you have not yet seen the video "Meraglim" (Spies), then you really need to, in order to understand fully what it must have meant to be the Yesha Council's spokesperson.

Pinchas Wallerstein is the ultimate example of divisiveness among the settler community. If you are not one of his kind of "well-behaved," elitist, mamlakhti (diehard State loyalist) settler, then you don't count. In 2008, he was accused of attacking three minors physically, with the apparent intention of quashing the assertion of their free speech, which the State claims to foster. 

Rabbi Ahed Taharlev is from Beit Hillel, and organization I really should have written about ages ago. No matter. In short, Beit Hillel's description and vision include buzz words like "enlightened" and code words such as "inclusive." The Hebrew suggests that within the world of democracies, "...egalitarian views became the ideal." The English continues "...we believe it imperative to include women in public leadership roles." We'll have to leave it at that for now.

Rabbi Yerami Stavisky, I have to be fair, and must say that I have heard only positive things about him as an educator. Although I do not know much about his specific views, Har Etzion Rabbi Yehudah Amital

Nir Orbach is just another one of Naftali Bennett's former lackeys from the Jewish Home and so-called New Right Parties.

None of them are in the least bit interested in having any discussion. Their idea of unity on consensus is when everyone else agrees with them.

None of them are in the least bit right-wing. 

להתעלם מהפיל הנוצרי בחדר / The Christian Elephant in the Room

כ״א לחודש העשירי תשע״ז

English follows the Hebrew.

בזמן שאנשי הסברה בוכים, צועקים, זועקים, ומנסים להסביר על מה שקרה בכנס בפריז, המתנחלים חוגגים על מה שאמור להתקיים ביום שישי הזה בארה״ב. ביום שישי הזה ב-20 לחודש ינואר למניינם (התאריך הקבוע של השבעות של נשיאי ארה״ב) ההשבעה של הנשיא החדש של ארה״ב דונלד טראמפ תתקיים.

NRG תקדים: בכירים ביש"ע הוזמנו להשבעת טראמפ
עודד רביבי, המנהל את אגף קשרי החוץ של ההתיישבות, וראש עיריית מעלה אדומים, בני כשריאל, ייסעו לטקס שיתקיים בשבוע הבא. אישים נוספים מיו"ש הוזמנו להשבעה אך הם שומרים את הדבר בסוד

מקור ראשון | אריאל כהנא | 13/1/2017

תגיות: דונלד טראמפ, השבעת הנשיא, עודד רביבי, יהודה ושומרון, התנחלויות, בני כשריאל ראשי מועצת יש"ע קיבלו ממקורביו של הנשיא האמריקני הנבחר דונלד טראמפ הזמנה להשתתף בטקס ההשבעה שלו, שיתקיים ביום שישי הבא בוושינגטון, בשעות שלאחר כניסת השבת.

את ההזמנה העביר ארגון הקשור ליועצו המיוחד של הנשיא ג'ייסון דב גרינבלט. בכוונת ראשי המתנחלים להיענות להזמנה, ומי שככל הנראה ייצג אותם יהיה ראש מועצת אפרת, עודד רביבי, העומד בראש דסק החוץ של מועצת יש"ע. יצטרף אליו בני כשריאל, ראש עיריית מעלה־אדומים.

ל'מקור ראשון' נודע כי אישים נוספים מההתנחלויות הוזמנו להשבעה, אך לפי שעה הם מבקשים לשמור את הדבר בסוד. תהיה זו הפעם הראשונה שראשי ההתיישבות ביהודה ושומרון משתתפים באירוע של השבעת נשיא. בחצי השנה האחרונה חיזקה מועצת יש"ע את פעילות אגף קשרי החוץ שלה. רביבי נכנס לנעליו של דני דיין, שמונה לתפקיד קונסול ישראל בניו־יורק, כאחראי על הקשרים עם גורמים בינלאומיים. בין השאר נפגש עם חברי קונגרס אמריקנים ואירופים, שגרירים ונציגים זרים אחרים.

דובר מועצת יש"ע יגאל דילמוני בירך על ההזמנה ואמר כי היא "מבשרת על הרוח החדשה הנושבת מארה"ב, המלמדת על שינוי ביחס לישראל - ובפרט להתיישבות ביהודה, בשומרון ובבקעת הירדן. הרוח החדשה הזו באה לידי ביטוי גם בביקורו של המושל מייק האקבי בשבוע שעבר במעלה־אדומים, ואנו כבר נערכים אליה".

חרף שמועות שנפוצו בשבועות האחרונים, ראש הממשלה בנימין נתניהו לא אמור להשתתף בהשבעת טראמפ. מי שייצג את ישראל באירוע יהיה השגריר בארה"ב, רון דרמר. גם רותי ליברמן, העומדת בראש ארגון 'יס, ישראל', תשתתף בהשבעה.

עשר אגורות (2¢):

הורטון
Horton

הם לא רק חוגגים על ההשבעה של הנשיא החדש הזה שאמור להציל ולהושיע אותם ואת הביתים שלהם. אלא הם גם חוגגים על עוד משהו:

מנהיגי יהודה שומרון ועזה [יש״ע*] יהיו אורחים מיוחדים בהשבעת הנשיא החדש דונלד טראמפ.

המתנחלים חוגגים מפני שהם חושבים שסוף סוף מתקבלים כבני אדם ולא כרוצחי תינוקים ערביים. הם גם חושבים שהם מקבלים את הזכויות שלהם להמשיך לגור ביהודה ובשומרון. אבל, לדעתי המתנחלים האלה עוד מעט יקבלו הפתעה גדולה בכלל לא טעימה.

לא משנה. הם פשוט ימשיכו לעשות את אותה הטעות שוב פעם, בכל מקרה: לסמוך על כוחות הגוים, לסמוך על כוחות של בני אדם.

אבל איך ה״מנהיגים״ האלה קיבלו הזמנות להשבעה בכלל? התשובה לשאלה הזאת לא מופיעה בחדשות בעברית (לפחות אני לא מצליח למצוא את זה.)

הנוצרים.

הנוצרים שמגיעים לארץ ישראל ״להתנדב ולעזור״ למתנחלים בקטיף הענבים ובמסיקת הזיתים ועוד.

הנוצרים שטוענים שאין להם שום אינטרס לנסות לנצר יהודים, למרות כל המון הקשרים שלהם לאירגונים מיסיונריים ואנשי מיסיונריים.

ה״מתנדבים״ של הנוצרים האלה גרים בבתים שהיו של יהודים. היהודים שגרו שם ברחו מהנוצרים שנכנסו למאחז ומהמסים הגבוהים מאוד, ומשליטת רב הישוב הנמצא לידם.

מפלגת הרפובליקנים
Republican Party

הנוצרים שרוצים את ארצינו. הנוצרים שטוענים שארץ ישראל היא הארץ שלהם. ובזכות הזאת, הם מוכנים לקחת הפסקה [זמנית] נסיונות לנצר יהודים. הנוצרים האלה הם סבלנים כמו אב הקדמון שלהם עשו, אח התאום של יעקב.

ועכשיו צוות המעבר הנשיא טראמפ מבקשים עיצה מהנוצרים האלה. כמובן המתנחלים חושבים שזה דבר טוב מאוד, מפני שהנוצרים האלה יספרו בשבח שלנו. וכמובן המתנחלים האלה חושבים יותר השפעה מהנוצרים ויותר השפעה מממשלת ארה״ב בכלל הם גם דברים טובים מאוד.

וכל זה בגלל כל הכסף ו״עזרה״ שהם מקבלים? לא. אלא זה בגלל משהו יותר גרוע מזה. זה בגלל האהבה והתקבלות שהמתנחלים חושבים שסוף סוף הם מקבלים ושמגיעות להם. ולצערי, הדברים אלה נראים להיות יותר חשובים להם מהאהבה ומההתקבלות מהקב״ה.

ב״ה יש עדיין כמה מתנחלים שלא יכולים לראות את הפיל הנוצרי בחדר, כאילו בשטח.

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*למה עדיין מזהים אותם כמנהיגי יהודה שומרון ועזהֿ, ולא רק כמנהיגי יהודה ושומרון? חברי מועצת יש״ע עצמה שיתפו בפעולת גירוש היהודים מחבל עזה (כולל גוש קטיף) בשנת תשס״ה/2005, ואז איך אפשר להציר שהם עדיין שולטים על עזה?

Jewish Forward: Israeli Settler Leaders Will Flock to Trump Inauguration
Naomi Zeveloff, January 16, 2017

Israeli settlers and their American evangelical supporters are among the invitees to Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration on January 20.

Yehuda Glick, a Brooklyn-born rabbi and member of the Israeli parliament’s ruling Likud party confirmed that he will be attending the inauguration with fellow Likud lawmaker Sharren Haskel. They will be joined by Atlanta-born Israeli rabbi Jeremy Gimpel, who spoke about his intention to attend on a radio show on the Land of Israel Network. Gimpel is bringing his teenage son, a Trump fan, as a present for his bar mitzvah trip.

Glick is a well-known agitator for Jewish prayer at the Temple Mount who survived an assassination attempt by a Palestinian assailant for his activism in 2014. Israel’s security apparatus considers Glick’s project a threat to the fragile status quo at the Jewish and Muslim holy site.

Glick, who lives in the Otniel settlement in the Israeli occupied West Bank, told the Forward it was a “privilege” to attend Trump’s inauguration. He said that Trump and Vice President-elect Michael Pence have “definitely expressed a very warm relationship toward Israel,” though he had no predictions about the incoming administration’s policy toward Israel.

Gimpel, a onetime Knesset candidate on the Jewish Home list, has close ties to the American evangelical pro-Israel movement. He founded the Land of Israel Network, a TV and online network that advertises itself as “G-d’s PR agency.” The programming advocates for Jewish sovereignty in the West Bank, where Palestinians hope to establish a state. Gimpel came under fire in 2013 when a video surfaced of him advocating to “blow up” the Dome of the Rock Islamic holy site in a speech at Fellowship Church in Winter Springs, Florida.

Gimpel said that he is being “sent from god with a message from Zion” to the inauguration on the Land of Israel Network radio interview Jeremy Gimpel was caught on tape saying that the Islamic holy site the Dome of the Rock should be “blown up.”

Haskel and Gimpel did not respond to immediate requests for comment.

The three are part of a delegation from HaYovel, an American evangelical group that brings Christian volunteers to pick grapes and olives in Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

According to Caleb Waller of HaYovel, Trump’s advisers contacted his father Tommy Waller, the group’s founder, to hear his opinion on “what needs to happen in Judea and Samaria,” the biblical terms for the West Bank, and invited him to attend the inauguration with a delegation.

On the Land of Israel Network radio interview, Gimpel said he was invited separately by an unnamed politician and then joined HaYovel’s delegation.

Caleb Waller said that HaYovel’s presence at the inauguration is “part of one big effort on Israel’s part to make sure to start this administration on a very solid Israel foot.” Evangelicals, who are among Israel’s biggest American supporters, helped Trump to clinch the presidency in spite of predictions that they would be put off by his crude behavior in the campaign. Some 81% of white evangelicals voted for him. An email to Trump’s press office for this story was not immediately returned.

Also, it was reported on January 13 that a separate delegation of settlers was invited to Trump’s inauguration. According to the Times of Israel, Oded Revivi, the chairman of the Yesha settler’s council, will be attending along with Benny Kasriel, the mayor of Ma’aleh Adumim, a settlement outside Jerusalem. Yossi Dagan, a settler activist and head of the Shomron Regional Council will be joining them, the Jerusalem Post reported.

Revivi said he saw his invitation as a “clear indication” that the new administration understands the importance of the settler movement.

Trump’s pick for Israel envoy, David Friedman, has close ties to the settlers and is the head of American Friends of Beit El Institutions, which raises American money for Beit El, near Ramallah. He has advocated for Israel’s annexation of portions of the West Bank.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not invited to and will not be attending the inauguration, in spite of earlier reports that Trump’s advisers were courting Netanyahu to attend.

Esser Agaroth (2¢):

Babar
בבר הפיל

Settlers are not only celebrating the swearing-in of the new president, who they believe will help and save them and their homes. They are also celebrating something else:

Leaders from Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip [YeSh"A*] will be special guests at President Donald Trump's inauguration.

The settlers are celebrating because they think that they are finally accepted as human beings and not as murderers of Arab babies. They also think that their right to live in Judea and Samaria will be validated. But, personally, I think these settlers are soon going to get a big surprise, and a very rude one at that.

It doesn't matter, though. They are just going to continue repeating the same mistake over again, all the same, expecting that "this time, it will be different. And that mistake is over-reliance on leaders, even more so, non-Jewish nations and their leaders.

But how did these leaders receive invitations to the inauguration in the first place? The does not appear in Hebrew language news. At least, I have not been able to find it.

Christians.

Christians who come to Israel to "volunteer" and help the settlers during the grape and olive harvets, and in other things.

Christians who claim they have no interest in trying to convert Jews, despite their numerous connections to missionaries and missionary organizations.

The Christian "volunteers" live in houses where Jews used to live, until the Jews fled from the rising taxes, from their new Christian "neighbors," and from control of the neighboring town's rabbi.

Dumbo
דמבו הפיל

Christians who want our Land. Christians who claim [when no one else is around] that the land of Israel is theirs by right. And because of that, they are prepared to take a [temporary] break from their goal of missionaizing Jews. Christians can be patient, just like their forbear Esau, Ya'aqov's twin brother.

Now members of President Trump's transition team are now apparently seeking counsel from these Christians. Of course, the settlers think this is also a very good thing, because these Christians will sing our praises. And, of course, the settlers think that the increasing influences of the Trump Administration and Christians in general are very good things as well.

And this is because of all the money and other aid that they receive? No. It is because of something much worse than that. It is because of the love, validation, and acceptance the settlers believe they are finally getting that they deserve.

And unfortunately, these seem to be more important to them than love, validation, and acceptance from the Holy One, Blessed Be He.

Fortunately, there are still at least some settlers able to see the Christian Elephant in the room.

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* Why do they still identify as leaders of Judea, Samaria and Azza [YeSh"A], not just Judea and Samaria [Yo"Sh]? Members of the Yesha Council itself participated in the deportation of Jews from Gaza back in 5765 / 2005. So, how can they say that they still control Gaza?

Guest Post: Response to "National Religious Reject Hilltop Youth"

ט' לחודש השנים עשר תשע"ו

Arutz 7: Poll: National religious reject 'hilltop youth'
New poll reveals highly negative views of 'hilltop youth' of Judea-Samaria among national religious public. 

David Rosenberg, 2/15/2016

A new poll conducted by the Mesaker polling firm reveals that the "hilltop youth" are unpopular even within the generally right-leaning national religious camp.

The hilltop youth, a relatively new phenomenon within the Jewish community in Judea and Samaria, emerged in the late 1990s and early 2000s as a small, distinct, and tightly-knit group often residing in small outposts. (cont.)

The Kalashnikover Rebbe
ז' אדר א' תשע"ו/February 16, 2016

This once again shows the sickness and closed mindedness of the "National Religious" and "Settler" communities in Israel. While I don't expect them to embrace or even condone the at times violent anarchist nature of the "Hilltop Youth", to say that they are not at all helpful and entirely harmful to the "Settlement Enterprise" is an outright lie. THESE meshugayim are the only ones expanding and building settlements while the leaders whine about building freezes while doing NOTHING about it. These wild weeds are the ones who serve as the buffer zone between the hostile Arab population and THEIR houses and absorb the brunt of the attacks, vandalism and thefts. THESE Wayward Sons are the ones who are being expelled and dismantled by the government leaving the fat cats inside the fences of the settlements proper safe and secure. Most of the Settler agriculture takes place in these so called "outposts" by the so called "hilltop youth" or "graduates" of that movement when they grow up marry and start families.

It is the hilltop youth that are keeping the dream of Yishuv Haaretz alive, and are the "chalutzim" of our time. Much like their brothers in the Kibbutzim, the old guard has become fat and complacent in their red roofed villas and have forgotten the ideological basis for starting their communities in the first place. They no longer have the spark of self sacrifice, to go out and expand. To build, to conquer, and yes to Judaize as much of the land as they physically can while limiting the expansion of our "cousins". Their only interest is maintaining what they have, at all costs. Keeping the money flowing, and their kushy government patronage jobs. Even at the cost of throwing their brethren under the bus. We have reached the point of absurdity where what is good for the "Settlement Enterprise" is NOT good for for the Jewish People or the Land of Israel. Very much the opposite and thank G-d there are a few chutzpadik kids who are not embarrassed to openly say that the Emperor is Nekked.

And frankly they may not like these "hilltop youth" or their ideology, but where do they expect them to go? Most Yishuvim today still have fairly strict "acceptance boards" regulating who may and may not live in their towns. They desire to create a homogeneous monolithic demographic in their communities has come full circle and those who they rejected or rejected THEM are now a thorn in their sides. You basically threw them out of society, or at the very least did not make a place for them so don't go and complain when they are at odds with your values and way of life.

If anything it is the Yeshu Council and the Settler Leadership in general, and the Non Jewish Home party, not the "hilltop youth" that are "responsible for causing a great deal of damage while contributing very little". If not for them we would probably still be in Gush Katif and the Northern Shomron today and the population in Yehuda and Shomron would be significantly higher...

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Judea and Samaria Council Members: Talking Nonsense Again!

כ״ט לחודש השביעי תשע״ו

Judea-Samaria Council Heads: Take Down Protest Tent 
Heads of local councils in Judea and Samaria call to end protest against Prime Minister on Tuesday. 

Uzi Baruch, 10/10/2015

The heads of the Judea and Samaria local councils have called for taking down the protest tent in front of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's house, and instead to show support for the government's actions against terror.

The supporter for the move include Beit Aryeh Council Head Avi Naim, Jordan Valley Council Head David Elhiani, Ariel Mayor Eli Shviro, and Efrat Council Head Oded Raviv. They insist that the tent be removed by Tuesday.

"We must not incite the debate and allow political parties on both the right and the left to take advantage of the terror wave that has resulted from reckless Palestinian incitement," said Naim.

He added that "the task of the moment is to calm the situation and our job is to support the Prime Minister and his struggle against terror. I am calling for public and widespread expressions of support for the Prime Minister, including from those who set up the tent."

Esser Agaroth (2¢):
These are by far the most ridiculous statements to come out of the mouths of Yesha Council representatives and associates, since the lies and collaboration with the Sharon government in expelling Jews from their homes in Azza (Gaza), 10 years ago.

Of course, protests, especially any protests marginally related to the support of Torah observance, do not accomplish anything in Israel, except for perhaps giving the Israeli secret police an opportunity for surveillance.

It is important to note that these council heads all from towns within the so-called "security fence," and believe that they are safe from expulsion. The Jordan Valley is actually not within the fence, yet the government claims that it will never give up control over the border with [the made-up country of] Jordan.

Heads of the Binyamin Council, Shomron Council, Hevron Hills Council, those with the most lose I do not trust them anymore than those opposing the protest tent. They simply appear to be slightly more rational than their oppositional counterparts,...this time.

I guess all the other towns in Yehudah and Shomron (Judea and Samaria) can go to hell, for all they care.

The most important element of the report is the call to "show support for the government's actions against terror."

What actions against terror?

I guess the "Jewish Leaders" actually think that we are than blind and stupid. Unfortunately, I believe that many of us are.

This Summer's War in Gaza: What Did It Accomplish?

י׳ לחודש החמישי תשע״ד

On this anniversary of the destruction of both the First and Second Battei HaMiqdash (Temples), as well as many other tragedies incurred by the Jewish People, let us examine some of our more recent tragedies, including some current ones, taking place even as I write.

YNET: Netanyahu: There's no 100% guarantee, but we made the most of it

PM Netanyahu

IDF delivered a blow to the strategic infrastructure Hamas spent years in the making, prime minister says.
August 5, 2014

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday as troops left the Gaza Strip that while there's no 100% guarantee all tunnels have been destroy, "we did everything to make the most of it."

The prime minister said the IDF delivered a blow to the strategic infrastructure Hamas spent years in the making.

"The ability Hamas developed by digging these tunnels would've allowed it to kidnap and murder many citizens and IDF soldiers by attacking simultaneously from many tunnels that infiltrate our borders," Netanyahu said. (cont.)

Since when did his goal change from "return peace to the south for a long time" to "deliver a blow to the strategic infrastructure of Hamas?" Oh, I get it. He is trying to convince us that these are the same things.

Well, Mr. Prime Minister, these things are not at all interchangeable.

Are you as blind to the pattern as everyone else seems to be?

Are you as blind to the pattern, our cycle of self-destruction as most everyone else seems to be?

You did not “make the most it.” You did not do enough damage to them so that they will be not only be incapable, but disinterested in attacking us again. 

You simply repeated the pattern, which Hamas, and the rest of the Arab World looking on, expected you to repeat all along. 

The next time, and barring any Divine Intervention, there will most definitely be a next time, Hamas will have bigger and better missiles, have an even greater range, and will be filled with explosives.

And how do we know this? We’ve been there, and we’ve done it already,…many times. 

 

In the meantime, our soldiers, our children, were forced to risk their lives unnecessarily in ground operations, instead of continued bombing from the air, because of Israel’s “moral sense of duty” to the enemy’s women and children being used as human shields.

There was nothing in the least bit moral about it, just evidence of suicidal tendencies.

And just how much of it was based on “morality,” and not international pressure?

And, is it any coincidence that it was almost nine years ago to the day that the Israeli Government implemented its “Unilateral Disengagement Plan?” This plan included the expelling of almost 10,000 Jews and handing over their lands and homes to our Yishma’elite (Arab) enemies, which, by the way, they promptly burned and utterly destroyed. The Israeli Government handed over land to the enemies, and have the Judea, Samaria, and Gaza [Yesha] Council to thank for this, as it collaborated with the government in this endeavor, and betrayed its own pseudo-constituents.

Meanwhile, Hamas does not believe for a minute that Netanyahu fulfilled any of his goals. Rather, they believe that they have fulfilled several of their goals.

YNET: Hamas: We destroyed Israel's deterrence
Gazans begin leaving UN shelters and heading back to their homes; Palestinian health officials say a total of 1,834 have been killed during operation.
Elior Levy, Reuters, August 5, 2014

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said Tuesday that one of the main results of the operation was "the destruction of Israeli deterrence."

"The Palestinian people now have confidence in their ability to stand firm and fight," he added.

Meanwhile, Hamas officials told Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar on Tuesday that "despite the fact the al-Qassam Brigades are bound by the ceasefire, they won't be afraid to respond to any infiltration or ground operation, even if it requires operating beyond the border."

Hamas official Ismail Radwan said the Islamist movement agreed to a ceasefire "on the condition the other side fills all of its terms and stops all forms of aggression in the Gaza Strip."

"We agreed on a truce on the condition Israel withdraws its forces, stop its aerial attacks and open the border crossing to aid, as well as accepts our demands on an airport and seaport." (cont.)

The above speaks for itself:

The IDF's care, and surgical strikes, resulted in only 1,834 deaths. There should have been more. That's what the Yishma'elim understand -- force.

The deterrence power of Israel's military has been destroyed.

Hamas gets a brand new airport and new seaport, just perfect for the renewal of its smuggling operations!

I mean seriously, it does not take a psychologist to know that if you reward a child for tantruming, it will not only tantrum again, but put on an even bigger and better show the next time it does.

PA President Abbas's (left) vision of Palestine.

And, I thought that this was simply orchestrated to make Abbas and Fatah look like the "good Arabs!" How any Arab whose map of "Palestine" does not have any room for Israel, can be considered the "good Arab," I do not know.

Anyway, I was wrong that this was the only goal. This was actually just more of the Israeli Government's same old begging for the non-Jews to accept us and validate our existence (ie. co-dependence), even at the expense of the safety of its own constituents.

Furthermore, the disaster in Gaza seems to have opened up another door for preventing Israel from defeating our enemies once and for all....

YNET: Israel should engage international community to forge peaceful future
Current Gaza op gives Israel a chance to invest in long-term peace, but first the right must abandon the mindset of Israel vs. the world.

Brent Sasley, August 4, 2014

Israel is winning the Gaza war. Hamas’ military capabilities have been severely degraded, it has few credible regional allies, and there is some evidence that even the Gazan population is growing weary of Hamas’ mismanaged rule. Still, without a larger strategic agenda, Israel will only be putting off another round of violence for another time, with all the associated costs. This is a moment of opportunity—one for Israel to engage closely with the international community to advance its interests. Israel already missed a chance to do so while weakening Hamas further, at the moment of the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement. It should not miss another opportunity. (cont.)

From which hat, Sasley is able to dig up this suggestion “to engage closely with the international community,” I cannot even imagine.

The only thing Israel has ever received when having “engaged closely with the international community,” have been pressure from the “international community” to pursue the agenda of the
“international community.”

What nation in its right mind would enter into such an arrangement?

Sasley adds…

Relying on the international community runs counter to the deeply-held Israeli narrative that Israel, based on centuries of collective Jewish experience, is a nation that dwells alone.

We ARE a separate and distinct people, not to be assimilated into the Islamic nor Western, “progressive” worlds. We not to be “grafted onto” by Christians, who are waiting in the wings to take possession of our Land.

This is not based on our “narrative,” often employed as an anti-Biblical euphemism, nor our “collective Jewish experience.” Rather, we are command to “dwell alone.”

We do not need to engage the “international community.” We need to engage The Almighty and His Holy Torah.

Operation Protective Edge was just another tragedy to be added to our litany of tragedies. Unfortunately, this has been one of the self-inflicted varieties.

Guest Post: Eliraz Fine: What Is Really Killing Our Soldiers?

ערב שבת קודש פר' בחוקותי תשע"ד

Eliraz Fine was arrested for allegedly inciting against soldiers during settlement expulsions. Here is her response:

What’s really killing our soldiers?
Eliraz Fine, May 16, 2014

(Translated from the original Hebrew, posted on Kol Yehudi, by Eliezer Ben-Avraham)

"Caricature of Eliraz Fine"
by Elhanan Ben-Ari

Imagine that you observe the following:

A man is sprawled out helpless on a table. On top of him is another man with determination in his eyes who is holding a knife covered with blood that is penetrating into the first man’s chest.

It takes no genius to recognize that this is a murder and it’s even clear who the murderer is.

Now imagine the same picture, just add the following details:

The situation is occurring in a sterile room filled with sophisticated machinery. The man with the knife is wearing light blue scrubs and his determined look occurs right as he attempts to make a precise incision.

Suddenly our suspected murderer has become a doctor trying to save a life…

The only thing missing in our original description was context. Similar to our doctor story, my now famous words were interpreted without a full understanding of the reasoning behind them, the context in which they were made and without any regard for the tone that was used.

This is exactly how the Israeli media manages to brainwash us citizens every day- and not just on this matter…

I could clear my name by telling of my dear uncle who was killed in the Yom Kippur War and about all my family and friends who were dedicated soldiers, but at the end of the day my love of soldiers is not the issue.

There is a gigantic lie that must be exposed and people should be aware of it!

Tzipi Livni made headlines by comparing Hamas to Yitzhar because she has an interest in hiding the fact that in practice it is her failed peace negotiations that led to the release of terrorists and strengthened the hand of Hamas. It is our soldiers who will have to fight against these freed terrorists and their hands will once again be tied in the name of the ridiculous “purity of arms” and false “morality” of the radical left.

Decision makers in the army watch the soldiers from a television screen, while the Central Commander Nitzan Alon remains concerned with signing administrative expulsion orders against Jews as our soldiers continue to be pelted with stones and Molotov cocktails. The media will not bother to inform you that Nitzan Alon’s wife is a member of “Machsom Watch”, an organization that harasses soldiers at checkpoints and prevents them from inspecting potential terrorists.

Writers, intellectuals, and professors call settlers “Neo-Nazis” and then go on to explain that the Israeli soldiers are even worse…

The media continue to publish distorted stories of violence in Yitzhar and other settlements directed against soldiers just to get people to write in the talkbacks, “Expel the extremists!” Yet in a few years when Netanya, Ra’anana and Kfar Saba are suddenly within range of terrorist rockets, the media will see to it that you fail to understand how it happened.

The mental preparation for the next expulsion began a long time ago and we have forgotten how similar words were written 8 years ago only about different settlements. Sadly, my friends here in the Yitzhar town council and Gershon Mesika, the head of the regional council have also fallen for this trick.

Don’t be deceived!

Remember who is really fighting against our soldiers! Who is it that slanders them in front of the world and prevents them from defending our people and our land?!!

Who is primarily concerned in the welfare of the enemy and who wants to give them a state that will be a base for launching attacks against our children and our soldiers?!!

In the end, one day it is the settlers being roasted by the media and the next day it’s the soldiers-everything according to the interests of the left-wing media establishment attempting to erase all forms of Jewish identity and Jewish unity from the Land of Israel.

After 7 days under house arrest at my parents, I have returned to Yitzhar.

From here, out of this little caravan we send a blessing to our beloved soldiers! Continue to protect Jews everywhere with pride and G-d will protect you from all those that wish to harm you! Both from the enemy on the battlefield and from the traitors who want to use you as a police force against your fellow Jews.

What's In A Name? Part 2: Places

כ"ג לחודש השנים עשר ב' תשע"ד

Ages ago, the Shiloh Muse encouraged me to write about this subject, the accuracy of place names in Israel. So, now, I finally am.

As far as names go, I wrote about the Jewish (and non-Jewish) names of people first. Now, it is time for places. Perhaps, I will write about the proper names of things as well, in the future. I have also written about the improper names of places, things, and actions in "Shomer Misnomer."

The borders of Eretz Yisra'el at the time of its conquest by Yehoshu'a Bin-Nun, only a portion of what was Divinely promised to Avraham Avinu for our future (Gen. 15:18-21)

Lebanon, or rather The Lebanon is certainly an accurate name from Tana"kh (The Bible). But what if we were to start calling Southern Lebanon Northern Asher and Northern Naftali instead? No doubt the word "provocation" would pop up, and more likely from self-hating Jews at first than Arabs.

I would sure like to see the face of King Abdullah II, of the completely made-up nation of Jordan, when we start referring to the eastern part of his make-believe kingdom as Reuven, Gad, and Mo'av.

This is why I do not have a problem with the term "West Bank." It is, after all, the west bank of the Jordan River,...and as can be seen quite clearly from the map, the "East Bank" belongs to us, too.

What message could be conveyed if we began referring to the Shomron, another name from Tana"kh, as Efraim and West Menashe? Actually, you will be pleasantly surprised to hear that the Israeli Postal Service already does this, to a degree, so it would not be anything terribly radical to re-introduce this approach to the people. This could only lead to the Golan, yet another accurate name, being referred to as East Menashe?

The Mateh Binyamin Council, a feeder and lackey of the greater YeSh"A Council takes this approach in a completely inaccurate direction, calling towns under its supposed autorité, as far north as Rechalim "Binyamin." Even though this territory is clearly Ephraim, which reaches south past Shiloh.

But, since when have the Mamlakhtim (die-hard State-loyalists) given a darn about anything about historical accuracy?

But, I digress...

And there should be no need to say that the Israeli Government is not helping the situation in the least, by pandering to the Arabs.

Look at the power the bastardized names Arabs have given to places. Shchem was so named thousands of years ago (Gen. 12:6), and was purchased by Ya'aqov Avinu (Gen. 33:18-19). Yet, Arabs call Shchem, Nablus. Nablus is a bastardization of Napolis or Neopolis. But, since the Arabs cannot pronounce the "P," Neopolis becomes Nablus, which half the world has probably been deluded into believing that it is some remnant of an ancient Palestinian civilization.

Whoops! I almost forgot! Palestine comes from the Roman labeling of Israel as Philistia, even though Philistia was located in the area in and around Azza (Gaza).

So much for an ancient Palestinian civilization.

So, the real name of Nablus is Shchem. Likewise the northern gate leading out of the Old City of Jerusalem is the Shchem Gate. True, this same road would eventually take you to Damascus, which will eventually be a part of Israel, too. Nevertheless, when the Jerusalem Light Rail announces its approach to the Shchem Gate Station, it really should say "Shchem Gate," and not "Damascus Gate," which it does in English and Arabic.

The bottom line is that this simple strategy may help to empower the Israeli Government with the backbone it needs to stand up and say,...

"Hey! This is the Land of Israel, and it belongs to us! All of it!"

Keeping Judea and Samaria will not be Determined by Israeli Public Opinion

כ"ו לחודש השנים עשר תשע"ד

Arutz 7: Public Opinion Key to Keeping Judea and Samaria, Experts Say

Gershon Mesika

Ahead of Thursday's academic conference on the Disengagement, and in light of peace talks, experts note the power of the public eye.

Tova Dvorin, February 25, 2014

The first-ever academic conference studying Israel's Disengagement from Gush Katif will commence Thursday. In light of the historic event, Arutz Sheva spoke to prominent political strategist Eyal Arad and Samaria (Shomron) Regional Council Chairman, Gershon Mesika.

Arad, who will be one of the main speakers at the conference, noted that the main lesson from the horrors of the Disengagement is how a bad idea can be "sold" to the public so easily (cont.)

Esser Agaroth (2¢):
Sold to the public?

Whoever said that the expulsion of Jews from Azza (Gaza/Gush Qatif) was successfully sold to the Israeli public?

The prime minister at the time, who might not even have been Jewish, held a referendum of his only Likud Party members. 63% voted against his plan. So, he broke off from the Likud, and formed the Kadima Party with arrogant, power-hungry Likud and Labor Party MK's, such as current Israeli President Shimon Peres and current Justice Minister Tzippy Livni (HaTenu'ah). The prime minister then did what he wanted anyway.

Mesika with Enoch Adeboye, nicknamed "The African Pope."
Mesika's Assistant David HaIvri and Likud MK Ayoub Kara
accompany them, August, 2011

In 1993, the vote on the illegal, Oslo [Death] Accords was bought for only two, brand new cars.

The public opinion regarding the forced expulsion of Jews from Azza was stolen. The opposition, including its representative rabbis, was never allowed the forum to express itself, as if that even mattered. The vote took place long ago,...on Mt. Sinai.

If anything, it was the Israeli public's learned helplessness which clinched the deal.

To think that Israeli public opinion has ever had any influence over the agenda of the Erev Rav-controlled, Israeli Government is insane.

Repeating the same mistakes over again, expecting different results." - the definition of insanity, attributed to Albert Einstein.

Whether Gershon Mesika was speaking out of gross naivete, control by the YeSh"A Council of Collaborators, or someplace in between, only time will tell.

Israeli Leftist MK Zahava Gal-On Is Right Again!

כ"ה לחודש השנים עשר תשע"ד

Previously, I reported at least once occurance of Meretz Party Leader Zahava Gal-On being right. Well, it appears that she is right again. But, will she simply be brushed off by the RWINO's [Right-wingers In Name Only]?

I hope that they do not.

This is a perfect example the truth being propagated through un-Jews used as vessels.

Yeshiva World News [YWN]: Voluntary Expulsion from Yehuda and Shomron in Exchange for Another Home
(Monday, February 24th, 2014)

The Knesset Law Committee on Sunday 23 Adar I discussed a bill that seeks to provide another home for residents of Yehuda and Shomron who agree to voluntarily leave their home and community. The bill authored by Meretz leader MK Zahava Gal-On would give a resident agreeing to the terms another home inside Green Line Israel and in turn, the state would have total authority over the home that is evacuated.

Gal-On feels voluntary expulsion will save the nation billions of shekels. Many state that if the terms are fair, about half of the residents of yishuvim would agree to leave for a home inside Green Line Israel under a voluntary expulsion plan.

Based on the makeup of the current coalition, it is most unlikely for the bill to pass.

(Tip: Sun Lion)

Esser Agaroth (2¢):

Meretz

Sheretz*

Whether I like it or not, whether you like it or not, MK Gal-On (Meretz) is right.

She is right about her voluntary expulsion plan having the potential to save the State of Israel billions of sheqqels.

And, unfortunately, she is right about those supposedly ideologically minded Israeli "settlers," more prepared to leave Yehudah and Shomron (Judea and Samaria) than you, the rest of Israel, and the rest of the world really, might have thought.

Sheep + People = "Sheeple"

Look back at the expulsion of Jews from Azza (Gaza/Gush Qatif) in תשס"ה/2005. Most of the residents were  Mamlakhtim (undying State loyalists), naive, or both, led like sheep to slaughter, by their own government, with the collaboration of the Yehudah, Shomron, and Azza [YeSh"A] Council.

Only a handful fought; only a handful were spiritually awake enough to fight, seeing the gross conflicts between halakhah (Torah Law) and Israeli Law, and knowing which takes precedence over the other.

Only a handful of rabbis, such as Rabbi Avraham Shapira ztz"l, Rabbi Ya'aqov Yosef ztz"l, Rabbi Shmu'el Eliyahu, and Rabbi David Druckman spoke out about these conflicts, and taught that following the Torah over Israeli Law was a no-brainer. Rabbi Dov Lior and Rabbi Zalman Melamed were two of the last to be expelled, having led the last stand atop the K'far Darom Synagogue

There were other acts of heroism and Qedushoth HaShem (Sanctifications of His Name), often coming from outside of Azza, and often unwelcome by the not so permanent residents.

Likewise, I believe that if we get this far, resident of Yehudah and Shomron, will look back on those stories and images from the expulsion from Azza, make excuses, such as "it's going to happen anyway," and "let's save the IDF the trauma," and get up, leave, and gladly accept their compensation package, assuming the Israeli Government actually comes through with one.

For good measure, I still believe that the government will try to take down an ideologically-based town, like Yitzhar, for example, in order to strengthen their influence over the rest of the residents.

Then, of course, there is double-standards element, as Sun Lion adds:

I think this is an excellent idea. I would only like to add one small addition. So as not be seen as a racist, apartheid law, the same offer should be made to the Arabs. Any Arab willing to sell his home to the GOI [Government Of Israel] should be fairly compensated with a home in an Arab friendly country. 

He makes a good point about being fair, but I have no doubt that this kind of fairness will not happen any time soon.

Unfortunately, though, this goes beyond the double-standards we Jews have experience ad infinitum, even from our own,...especially from our own. This is nothing less than the expected actions taken by the Erev Rav to destroy the Land of Israel, with which they have never felt any connection. Fighting with Yishma'el (Arabs), who want the same thing, is only a distraction to make it look like they do not have much of a choice, and that they are doing it "for our own good."

Last but not least, as a side note, kudos to YWN for using the word "expulsion," as opposed to words like "disengagement." At least one member of the Jewish journalistic community strives for accuracy in reporting.

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Sheretz* - a more accurate name for the Meretz Party...

כֹּל שֶׁרֶץ הָעוֹף, הַהֹלֵךְ עַל-אַרְבַּע--שֶׁקֶץ הוּא, לָכֶם. (ויקרא יא,כ)

All winged swarming things that go upon all fours are a detestable thing unto you. (Leviticus 11:20)

HA! HA!The Samaria Settler Council Thinks It Had The Last Laugh!/חברי מעוצת השומרון חושבים שהם הצוחקים האחרונים

כ' לחודש השנים עשר תשע"ד

תקציר בעברית נמצא למטה.

The Shomron (Samaria) Council thinks it had the last laugh, paying a a court ordered fee to Arabs of 5,000 Sheqqels in 10 Agaroth coins. That means 50,000 10 Agaroth [Ag'] coins, brought in buckets.


(Tip: Life In Israel)

Pretty funny, huh?

But,...

I was recently informed that the Israeli Government was considering the phasing out of the 10 Ag' coin.

Why?

Well, apparently, the 10 Ag' is no longer worth it to make, as the metallic value alone is 12 Ag'.

So, instead of paying the Arabs in paper and plastic (The 20 Sheqqel note in now made from a synthetic material, ie. plastic.), which has value only because we allow it to have value, they ended up overpaying them a full 1,000 Sheqqels!

If the Arabs are too stupid to figure this out, then that's they're problem. But, if they do, then they'll be the ones having the last laugh.

תקציר בעברית:

חחחחחחח! חברי מעוצת השומרון חושבים שהם הצוחקים האחרונים, אבל זה לא נכון! עכשיו מטבע 10 אג' שווה ל-12 אג' בזכות כמות המתכת שלו. זאת אומרת שמועצת השומרון  שילמו על הקנס השה לערבים סה"כ 1000 ש"ח יותר מידי! חחחחח!

More Heroic, Israeli Settlers Expelled from their Homes

ה' לחודש השנים עשר תשע"ד

Arutz 7: Security Forces to Evict Two Jewish Families from Samaria Farm
Police forces, SWAT team converge on small Samaria farm. The crime: allowing two Jewish families to live in caravans there.

Tova Dvorin, February 4, 2014

Large police squads and a SWAT team have arrived at the Yishuv Ha'Da'at farm, just East of the Samaria community of Shilo.

The crime: allowing two new Jewish families in the communities to live in caravans there.

The eviction is due to take place within the next hour.

Area residents launched a protest at the nearby Adei-Ad intersection to block the security forces from entering the farm; they were successful for about 20 minutes before being disbanded.

One of the residents of the community stated to Arutz Sheva, "once again, the State of Israel invests enormous powers to destroy Jewish homes in Israel rather than invest in its settlement. To make matters worse, even the Binyamin Regional Council, which is supposed to build and develop communities, is partnering with the demolition and damage to the community."

"Nevertheless, it is encouraging to see that area residents early this morning managed to delay the hundreds of soldiers and police who came to evacuate the two buildings for several minutes," he added.

In addition, security teams are set to guard Palestinian Arab olive grove planting efforts near the Jewish community of Esh Kodesh later this afternoon. Teams have been dispatched in the area since early this morning.

The move is allegedly to protect the Jewish residents there, after 25 residents suffered an attempted lynching near the Palestinian Arab village of Kusra.

Esser Agaroth (2¢):

Apparently, the Israeli Government agrees. I would sure like for it to prove me wrong, though.

Of course, the government might simply be mindlessly kow-towing to the wishes of the so-called "international community" (non-Jews).

L-R: Catherine "Leather Mama" Ashton, Martin "In The Navy" Indyk, John "Ask me about Land for Peace" Kerry, Ban-Ki "Thumbs-Up Cowboy" Moon, Sergei "I'm bored. Give me something to hammer." Lavrov, and Tony "Always a cop around when don't need one" Blair.

I suppose this is just another example as to why MK Moshe Feiglin, along with other Jews who have awakened from their numbed-out state, believes that the YeSh"A (Judea, Samaria, and Gaza) Council, which is fed into by the Binyamin Council and others, would be better off, shall we say, not existing.

MK Moshe Feiglin is Even More Awesome than I Thought!

ד' לחודש השנים עשר תשע"ד

Feiglin: We Don't Need Judea and Samaria Council
MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud) said that the Council of Judea and Samaria was a “great danger” to the Land of Israel.

February 4, 2014

MK Moshe Feiglin
(Likud-Beiteinu)

In an interview Monday night, MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud) said that the Council of Judea and Samaria was a “great danger” to the Land of Israel. “It would be best for Israel if the body known as the Council of Judea and Samaria were to pass from the world,” he said on Galey Israel radio.

The problem, he said, was that the organization did absolutely nothing to defend and encourage Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria. “They put their hands into my pocket but do not consult with me,” he said, speaking as a resident of a town in Samaria. “In essence they are robbing me.”

The Council, he said, was acting “in an immoral manner. The Council says that since represents local authorities in Judea and Samaria, that I automatically support it and everything it does because I voted in a local election,” Feiglin said. “As far as I know, the Council has caused nothing but damage to the cause of settling Judea and Samaria.”

When asked if he would close down the Council, Feiglin answered “yes, it would be best for the Land of Israel if that group were to disappear.”

Esser Agaroth (2¢):
I have already praised MK Moshe Feiglin for his work on behalf of Jewish rights and claims to Har HaBayith (Temple Mount), continually exposing the truth about Arabs and their motivations, contributing to the re-building of a collective, Jewish backbone, and for various other reasons. In fact, Feiglin is really the only reason why I have not cancelled my membership in the Likud Party. Even though there are many reasons on the side of my doing so.

I am now happy to praise MK Feiglin again now.

 The only question I have is if MK Feiglin saying what everyone else in Yehudah and Shomron (Judea and Samaria) wants to say. Or is he still one of the only few in this region who is awake to see the Yesha Council's shenanigans?

I hope that the former is correct.

The YeSh"A (Judea, Samaria, and Gaza)Council, or as we preferred to call them, when I lived in the Shomron, the Pesha (crime) Council or the Resha (evil) Council, still has the hutzpah to keep the "A" for Azza (Gaza) in its name. Even though it is responsible for the expulsion of almost 10,000 Jews from their homes and lands there, back in 2005/תשס"ה.

The 40 minute, must-see, video Meraglim ("Spies") explains it all, including the YeSh"A Council's collusion with the government, and collaboration with the Shabba"k (General Security Service).

The YeSh"A Council's shenanigans did not stop there, collaborating with the government to remove so-called "trouble-making" hilltop communities, which is code for "too ideological for the YeSh"A Council to be able to control. In fact, I have it on high authority that the YeSh"A Council has even condoned, if not supported, violent intervention against the expression of free speech, when not getting its way.

Now, how deMOCKratic, or rather DEMONcratic is that?

Well, no one can say that MK Feiglin has not been working to eliminate government waste, which the YeSh"A Council most definitely is.

News Flash! Bulldozers on their Way to Bat Ayin! (Update)

ב' לחודש התשיעי תשע"ד

I just received a call from a friend from Bat Ayin, a town southwest of Jerusalem, after Efrat.

He was on the bus leaving the town, when he called. He said that bulldozers were on their way to the town, although he was not sure if they were on their way to Bat Ayin A' or Bath Ayin B'.

His understanding that home destruction is imminent, and/or is being expediated in retribution for an incident which took place yesterday.

Teens would allegedly involved in an incident with Arabs. The defended themselves with pepper spray, and some of that pepper spray made its way toward Israeli soldiers [IDF].

Many details are missing from this report.

I am asking for additional information to confirm or discount this report. Please leave your information in the comments section below.

And, if this is true, why doesn't the YeSh"A Council put out a call for assistance to protest this move on the part of the government?

Is Bat Ayin to be left hanging in a lurch because it is not considered one of those "undying State-loyalist" (mamlakhti) ie. "well-behaved" settlements?

Stay tuned.

Update:

דיוח כוחות גדולים פושטים על בת עין וחוסמים הכניסה זה כנראה תג מחיר של האירוא עם הגז מדמיע מקיפים בית בתפר בין א לב'. התושבים חסומים למעלה 2 אוטובוסים יס"מ ומספר שופלים.. הורסים התחלות בניה הרסו לפחות בית אחד בסיבוב לפני בת עין ב עדכון ממישהו בשטח: כ200 שוטרים ועשרים חברה. הרסו בית של מישהו מתקוע שעוד לא נכנס ומנסים להרוס את גבעת רחבעם שאחרי בת עין ב. אי אפשר להגיע עם טרקטור אז הורסים בידיים

It is reported that a great number of forces have raided Bat Ayin and have blocked the entrance. This is probably due to a "price tag" for what occurred with the tear gas attacked on a home between Bat Ayin A' and B'.

Residents blocked two buses filled with Yassamniks (riot police) and several power shovels. They have destroyed new building, and have destroyed at least one home outlaying Bat Ayin B'.

Update from someone in the area:

Around 200 police officers and 20 "hevreh" have destroyed one home of someone from Teqo'a, who had yet to move into it, and are trying to destroy Rechaboam Hill, which lies after Bat Ayin B'. It is impossible to get in with a tractor, so the destruction is by hand.

More Proof that the Israeli Defense Forces [IDF] are Not a Jewish Army

כ"ו לחודש השביעי תשע"ד

כיפה: לראשונה: חיילת עלתה לתורה במניין בבית כנסת צבאי

פרסום ראשון: חיילת מחיל הים עלתה לתורה במסגרת מניין תפילה שהתקיים בשמחת תורה, בבסיס ההדרכה של חיל הים בחיפה. בני ישיבות ההסדר שנכחו במקום לא מחו כנגדה. דו"צ: התקיים בירור בנושא וחודדו הנהלים [לאירועים] לעתיד

נטעאל בנדל, כ"ה תשרי תשע"ד, 29/09/2013

Kippah: For the first time: Female Soldier went up to the Torah in a Minyan in an IDF Synagogue
A female sailor from the Israeli Navy went up (aliyah) to the Torah in a Simhath Torah minyan, on a naval training base in Haifa. The Hesder (yeshivah) soldiers who were present at the time did not put up any protest against this. IDF Spokesperson: An investigation into the matter is being made, and procedures will be clarified for [such events] in the future.

(Tip Credit: Rotter.net)

Esser Agaroth (2¢):
The only reasons I can think of, as to why the Hesder soldiers did not protest include:

1. Every man was already afforded an aliyah, as is the custom in most communities on Simhath Torah, Thus, this misswah was not taken away from any of the men.

2. These Hesder soldiers have decided to choose their shots, and this was not one that they chose.

3. These Hesder soldiers fell for the Erev Rav sneakiness of "graduality."

Aditional problems are exposed in this report. For now, I will focus on only one: The hypocrisy of the IDF.

I predict that this incident will be brushed under the carpet, then later revisited, and used as a precedent. Even though it is possible that this was simply a mishap. The gabbay was, after all, a civilian employee, and who knows what he was thinking at the time.

So called "democratic religious freedom," which incidentally has nothing to do with Torah, will selectively applied. Female soldiers will be included, if not encouraged and falsely educated to participate, in an "egalitarian" structure (Read: "un-Jewish"), while male soldiers will not be allowed to excercise their "democratic religious freedom," by choosing to refrain from listening to women sing, or watching them dance, among other activities which go against their Torah sensibilities.

I have already shown in previous posts, that the IDF is not a Jewish army.

Jewish armies do not violate the Torah.

Jewish armies do not force their soldiers to violate the Torah.

Jewish armies do not blindly follow an "un-Jewish" government,...if at all.

Jewish armies do not collaborate with enemies of the Jewish People.

Jewish armies do not care more the protecting the lives are our enemies than their own soldiers.

Jewish armies do not condone, nor remain silent on issues of, promiscuity.

Jewish armies do not give up, Jewish land, pieces of Eretz Ysra'el, which The Almighty has returned to us.

Jewish armies do not throw Jews out of their homes.

Jewish armies do not place goyim over Jews in their ranks.
*There is an interesting story I heard from the Kalashnikover Rebbe about a Druze commander at the Kotel who ordered his Jewish soldiers to put on tefillin. This interesting twist, not withstanding, Jewish armies do not place goyim over Jews in their ranks.

Jewish armies do not insist on burying Jews with non-Jews.

Tapu'ah West Synagogue
destroyed at the hands of the IDF

Jewish armies do not destroy synagogues.

Jewish armies do not destroy their own Torah-loyalist yeshivoth.

Jewish armies do not battle against the Torah, nor allow themselves to be used as tools of the Erev Rav.

Amona: The Latest Erev Rav Strategy

צום החמישי תשע"ג
Fast of the Fifth Month (Tisha b'Av) 5773

On July 12, in the goyshe calendar, not surprising used by the Israeli Government, the Binyamin town Amona was supposed to be "evacuated," the government's and the Leftist-control news media's euphenism for expulsion and destruction.

At the last minute, the Israeli "justice" system decided to give the town more time to prove that the the land was "legally" bought from the Arabs who supposedly owned it in the first place. The residents of Amona already were able to produce such documents for something like 70 percent of the land upon which the twon sits. Why this was not good enough for the courts, I have no idea.

Why the settlers are still demonized for following government procedure, I have no idea. The government messed up; it should take the wrap. Of course, the government's initial mistake in the process was not annexing the land in the first place, back in תשכ"ז/1967.when we successfully conquered it, as we were COMMANDED to do so.

Years after receiving approval form the Israeli government to build on a newly founded, Jewish stronghold, the left, pawns of the Erev Rav, Labor Zionists working from within the Israeli government itself initiate the following strategies in order to take down the very town:

1. Battle the legitimacy of the approval in the Israeli justice system.

2. Protest, demanding admittance to the town, and sometimes demanding admittance for Arabs into the town.

3. Bringing CNN and left-wing news agencies from Europe and elsewhere to provide a distorted report on the town.

4. Sabotage an Arab town or agriculture, and then blame the nearby Jewish town.

5. Encourage Arabs, who have been silence for 10 years or more, to come forward and claim ownership of the land, where the Jewish stronghold sits.

We have already seen this happen in Migron and in the Ulpana neighborhood of Beth-El.

Hasn't anyone figured out that that using the Israeli [In]Justice System to remove Jews is a heck of a lot easier that pulling out IDF troops, traumatizing them, and risking the bad publicity of soldiers and entire units refusing orders to expel Jews from their homes?

Doesn't anyone remember the last time we depended on the government and the YeSh"A Council to do the right thing?

Time to stop repeating the same mistakes over again, expecting different results. They just ain't gonna work!

The Israeli government has adapted continuously trying to to find just the right strategy to defeat us, those who hold Torah higher than human law. So, far they have won many battles but are still far away from wining the war.

We cannot be complacent. We cannot simply "stand idly by," accepting "help" from "reinvented" councils, from foreign countries, and from foreign religions.

We must finally wake up.

From Amona's Wikipedia page:

Former MK Effie Eitam
(Renewed Religious
 Zionism)

2006 evacuation
10,000 Israel Police, Israel Border Police, and Israel Defense Forces troops appeared in Amona to carry out the demolition and to secure the troops involved in the operation. They faced an estimated 4,000 Israeli protesters, one thousand actively protesting inside and around the houses, and another few thousand in the surrounding area. The protesters mostly consisted of youths from across the country, but especially from nearby settlements and schools, some of which had fortified themselves inside the homes and on the roofs in an effort to block, delay, or protest the order being carried out. The violent clashes that ensued surpassed any previous clashes between the security forces of the State of Israel and civilians, including the 2005 unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip and destruction of the Gush Katif settlements.

Nili: “You see me in the photograph, one against many, but that is only an illusion – behind the many stands one man – [Prime Minister Ehud] Olmert, but behind me stand the Lord and the people of Israel.”

Esser Agaroth (2¢):
Incidentally, Nili is not a nickname, like you might have thought. It is an acronym. When the prophet Shmu'el rebukes King Sha'ul for taking Amaleq's property, instead of destroying it like he destroyed the men, women, and children, and like The Almighty commanded, he says,...

שמואל טו,כט וְגַם נֵצַח יִשְׂרָאֵל, לֹא יְשַׁקֵּר וְלֹא יִנָּחֵם:  כִּי לֹא אָדָם הוּא, לְהִנָּחֵם.

(ניל"י)

Shmu'el 15:29 And also the Glory of Israel will not lie nor repent; for He is not a man, that He should repent.'

The Glory of Israel is, of course, The Almighty, Who never has to say that He's sorry. He only has what is best for us in mind, even when some would dare to call it "politically-incorrect."