Regarding Eden Natan-Zada HY"D

Erev Shabbath Qodesh Parshath Mas'ei/Rosh Hodesh HaHamishi 5765


I wrote the following in response to an unfriendly e-mail directed toward the young soldier, Eden Natan-Zada hy"d, who was allegedly involved in a shooting incident in the northern Israeli town of Shfar'am.

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Conflicting reports are still coming in...

I was debating as to whether to write this just yet, or to wait for more information. I doubt we will EVER know the true story.

I write this now, taking the risk that the Shabba"k (General Security Service) will choose to pick on me next.

What I DO know about Eden Natan-Zada hy"d is that he can only be described as a Ssadiq.

I knew him personally, and just saw him yesterday. He was a very sweet young man who cared deeply for Eress Yisrael, Am Yisrael, and all things holy. He was helpful to his neighbors and friends, and was involved with the renewed Jewish interest in shepherding.

Eden, we already know, was a target of the Shabba"k. Eden did not want to go into the army because he did not want to go into an army which destroys synagogues. He told me once that he saw the destruction of the synagogue on the Tapu'ah West hill, and it affected him greatly. After that he came to visit Tapu'ah where he was very well liked by those who knew him.

Something was not kosher in Shfar'am. I believe it is possible that at the very least the Arab police officers were passive participants in the "lynch," by not protecting Eden sufficiently. At the worst, I believe that he may have been set up by Shabba"k, or God only knows by what other evil forces.

He was NOT on drugs (unless they injected into him by others), and he was NOT insane and NOT a provocateur. However, if you sense Shabba"k involvement of some kind,...like maybe the situation was manipulated somehow? I wouldn't put it passed them.

I doubt his body will be released without making sure that the physical evidence matches what the Israeli government and Shabba"k want you to believe happened.

I'm in shock over this. Even though I did not know Eden so well, I will certainly miss him when my state of shock finally dissipates.

In the mean time, I cannot fully express my outrage at the leftist media for giving so much coverage to a Jew who may have killed some Yishma'elim (Arabs), yet would never even come close to providing even reasonable coverage when so-called Israeli Arabs kill Jews. It's like it's brushed under the table. How many times can the leftist, Israeli media get away with saying about Israeli Arabs killing Jews that it was an "isolated incident?"

I am also outraged by the so-called "right-wing" YeSh"A leaders who give their spin on such events for the sole purpose of protecting their own personal interests.

"Oh, Merciful One may avenge the spilled blood of your servants." (Mahzor Yom Kippur)

In anger and sadness....

Response to "Israel: The Jewish Affirmative Action State"

Leil 29 of the Third Month 5765

The following is a response to an article by Ariel Natan Pasko found below.

There we go again. Trying to placate the goyim. My issue is not
with Ariel's presentation of the facts. To the best of my understanding,
they are correct.

I also cannot argue with Ariel's desire to correct any
disinformation put out by the Yishma'elim (AKA: Arabs).

My issue is with the unfortunate reality of which Ariel reminds us.
Jews are concerned more about placating the goyim, than with pleasing
HaShem (The Almighty).

So-called "Israeli Arabs" should not have inherent rights. Actively or passive they lay claim to our land, as Ariel suggests. If this does not change, they should prepare themselves to leave. They already have 22 some odd other countires in which to dwell, more if you count muslim countries. It's not our problem if the so-called "palestinians" are not welcomed in Kuwait, or discouraged from residing in Jordan. Perhaps in the future, those who agree to adhere to our laws set down for them, and accept the truth, that is Torah. Then, they would have the rights accorded to "B'nei No'ah."

When are we going to deal with our demographic problem anyway? If things continue the way they are, terrorism or not, "Yossi" the Abu-Ghosh Yishma'eli will have his dream come true. His patience will have paid off. There will eventually be more Yishma'elim in the Land of Israel than Jews, not even counting the "un-Jews" already here. What? Do people actually think that the Arab run Keneset won't vote to change the nature and goals of this state currently known as Israel?

Oh, and by the way, may we please stop using that word "palestinian?" They do not exist. How many time do I have to remind people that this a Roman distortion of the true nature of the Land of Israel.

And regarding Jews' belief in bringing other Jews back to the Jewish
Homeland. We have work to do in that area. We need to change the
Law Of Return to reflect the Hallacha (Jewish Law). In other words, only "real" Jews, not goyim from the Ukraine, and not pseudo-converts via the so-called "movements" claiming to have a basis in Torah.

Ariel, Thanks for reminding us of the sorry spiritual state we're in.
Only when we accept that we need to work on ourselves, can we expect
to grow and develop into the People which HaShem desires us to be:

Proud adherers to His Torah and Misswoth (Commandments).


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http://www.isralert.com/archives/2005/07/israel_the_jewi.php

B"H

Israel: The Jewish Affirmative Action State
By Ariel Natan Pasko

Isralert.com source: Women in Green http://www.womeningreen.org

Recently there's been a lot of talk about whether Israel should be a Jewish religious state, a Jewish and democratic state, a Jewish Zionist state, or a plain old everyday state for everyone who wants to be a citizen.

For example, Israeli Member of Knesset, Mohammed Barakeh (Hadash), said in the Knesset recently, that although he swore loyalty to Israel when he took his oath as an MK, he is not loyal to a Zionist Jewish state. "I admit here that I am not loyal to a state that is Zionist and Jewish. The state must serve all its citizens and not have its citizens worship this gold calf," Barakheh said.

What golden calf?

Israel as a Jewish State, was created by its founders (with UN and world-wide sanction after the Holocaust), for the purpose of righting the historical wrongs done to the Jewish people (occupation of Judea, followed by forced expulsion from their homeland by the Romans and Byzantines, and later the Arabs and Ottoman Turks), through affirmative action.

What Barakeh said isn't particularly new, he's just part of a long line of seditious Arab MKs, who have publicly admitted to being disloyal, while enjoying their personal freedom in Israel (unlike in Arab states). Barakeh, and others like him (such as Azmi Bishara, MK for the Balad Party, who gave succor to Hizbollah while visiting the enemy state of Syria, with whom Israel is still in a state of war), constantly flaunt their Knesset membership to undermine the Jewish State. Yet they have never been stripped of their position, tried for treason and executed.

According to a recent study conducted by Prof. Sami Smooha from the Jewish-Arab Center at the University of Haifa, most Israeli Arabs accept Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, but reject the description of it as a Zionist state. About 70 percent of the Arabs agreed with the statement that, "Israel, within the Green Line, has the right to exist as a Jewish and democratic state in which Jews and Arabs coexist." But the vast majority (72%) of Israeli Arabs believe that, "Israel as a Zionist state, in which Jews and Arabs live together, is racist," and reject all of the state's Zionist goals. Only 13.8 percent agree to the concept of Israel as a Zionist state.

And what is it that Israeli Arabs reject?

According to Prof. Smooha, Israeli Arabs differentiate between Israel's Jewish character and its Zionist goals. Israeli Arabs believe that a Jewish state is a state in which most of the citizens are Jewish, whereas a Zionist state is a state for the Jewish People from around the world.

"For Zionists, one of the goals Israel should set [for] itself is maintaining its Jewish majority at all costs," says Smooha. "That is a Zionist goal, and includes settlement in the Jewish sense [establishing new Jewish communities - ANP] and the ingathering of exiles [promoting Aliyah, Jewish immigration to Israel - ANP] by means of the Law of Return. But the Arabs are not willing to accept this situation in perpetuity."

That means Israeli Arabs want to close down the gates of Aliyah, so as to preclude Jews permanently being the majority in their own country. "But the Arabs are not willing to accept this situation in perpetuity." They aspire to become the majority (Arab birth rates are higher), and change Israel into an Arab state.

The Israeli Arabs' concept of a Jewish and democratic state means a state for all its citizens, rejecting Jewish affirmative action. They don't want Israel to be a homeland for the Jewish People, which is an outright denial of Jewish history.

The survey also found that most of Israel's Jewish population want its Arab citizens to accept Israel as a Zionist state, as it is accepted by the international community. According to the survey, 75 percent of the Jews agreed with the statement, "Israeli Arabs have the right to live here as equal citizens with full rights," as individuals.

According to Smooha, Jews in Israel believe that the Israeli Arabs' right to be full and equal citizens of Israel, are conditional on them renouncing any national aspirations of their own (for an Arab state - Palestine - to replace Israel). Israeli Arabs should recognize the Jewish People's exclusive national rights in Israel. Some 80 percent of the Jewish respondents in the study said that, "An Israeli Arab who defines himself as 'a Palestinian Arab in Israel' cannot be loyal to the state and its laws."

There you have it, a basic conflict of views.

Most Israeli Jews want Israel to be the National Homeland (i.e. state) for the Jewish People, and to work to help Jews move back home, build new communities (i.e. settle the land), and restore the Jewish People's historic national rights that were violently taken from them through occupation and exile.

Israel's Arab citizens reject these goals.

Whether you're a religious person and you see it as the G-D of Israel's unfolding redemptive process being implemented today, as promised in the Bible; or as the righting of a historical wrong done to a persecuted people; it's not racist, Israel is a Jewish Affirmative Action State.

Plan Of Destruction

14 of the Third Month 5765

It has been reported that Israelis and Arabs have agreed upon the ultimate fate of the Jewish homes in Azza after the expulsion of their owners (May God forbid).

Arab denials, and conditons placed upon the potential agreement aside, my question is this:

When is the destruction of homes supposed to begin?

Normal people would assume that the destruction of homes will begin after the proposed expulsion.

Unfortunately, we are not dealing with normal people here.

I believe that the answer to this question is well-worth exploring.

May God help us.

b'Ahavath Yisra'el

Jerusalem Day: Time To Get Our Priorities Straight

Yom Yerushalayim 5765

Well, today, Yom Yerushalayim, the day commemorating the reunification of the Holy City of Jerusalem 38 years ago, was marked by violence.

Jews attempted to go up onto the Temple Mount.

Yishmaelites* (AKA: Arabs) threw rocks and otherwise attacked them.

*"And he [Yishmael] shall be a wild ass of a man...." (Genesis 16:12)

Does this surprise anyone?

From Arutz 7:

"Jerusalem Day: Temple Mount Violence, Singing, Dancing
11:03 Jun 06, '05 / 28 Iyar 5765

As Jews await word as to whether they will be allowed to visit the Temple Mount today, the 38th anniversary of Jerusalem's reunification, Arabs mounted a stoning attack, marring the celebrations...."

(See http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=83387 for the complete story.)

After the incident, the Temple Mount was closed to Jews "until further notice." The Arabs had achieved their short-term goal, the prevention of Jews ascending the Temple Mount.

Still not surprised, are you? After all, it is quite a familiar cycle. We Jews never seem to do quite what is necessary to prevent further incidents of this kind from occurring.

"Why not kick the Arabs off? Why can't we kick them off even for one day, ...say, next Monday for Shavu'oth (Feast of Weeks)? It wouldn't be the first time we made such an agreement. A few measly days year, the Yishamites graciously let us pray in Isaac's Tomb in Hevron (sic)."

"No, no," a fellow Torah-observant Jew responds. "We can't provoke them. It'll just make things worse for us,...and for Jews around the world..."

Here it comes...

"After all, we have an agreement. The Wakf (a Muslim authority) controls the Temple Mount. Yeah, sure, Arabs break their agreements all the time. Sure, they desecrated (Read: "trashed") Joseph's Tomb. But, we're not like them. We're Jews. We don't break our agreements...."

The whining becomes unbearable. I can hardly prevent my eyes from rolling.

He does not actually say it this time, but there it is:

"What will the goyim think?"

His body resides in Israel, the homeland of the Jewish People. Yet his heart, mind, and, dare I say, soul seem to be living in some European ghetto somewhere.

Psychologists have a variety of words from which to choose to describe this Jew's state of mind: "denial," "repression," "low self-esteem," or even "self-hatred." I call it "spiritual numbness."

The Martyr-Heros of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising HY"D seemed to have less of a "ghetto mentality" than this Jew has.

Meanwhile in Washington, DC, the President of the U. S., motivated by oil and the influence of the anti-semitic State Department [as well as anti-Israel, at least since the Truman administration] is pushing Israel even further to give up more to the Yismaelites, land, money, employment and other economic opportunities.

U. S. Secretary of State Rice has even brought up the issue of giving away the Jordan Valley. Why, former Prime Minister Baraq and former President Clinton never even offered that in the end, even though they were willing to force Israel to give up around 90% of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza.

(And, by the way, Madame Secretary, the Land is not yours, nor even ours to give away.)

Back to my fellow Jew, he's worried about what the goyim think. From the above, we certainly already know what the goyim think.

Haza"l (Our Sages, may their memories be for blessings) summed it quite simply: "Esaw soné eth Ya'aqov." (Esau hates Jacob.) Esaw is Rome (Bereshith Rabba, etc.), and modern day Rome is...?

Europe, the US, the UN perhaps...

And we already know what the Yishmaelites think, too. They want to kill Jews. It does not matter whether they want to blow us all up (God forbid), like the terrorists do, or are willing to wait patiently while they gradually outnumber us with their higher birthrate, like the mild-mannered businessman in Abu-Ghosh. They want to destroy us, all of us.

Perhaps, in the meantime, they have taken the Western tactic of "blaming the victim."

Again from Arutz 7:

"Abbas Accuses Israel of Causing Temple Mount Stoning
13:52 Jun 06, '05 / 28 Iyar 5765

(IsraelNN.com) PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas [YSh"W] has blamed Israel for Monday's attack by Arab worshippers on the Temple Mount. According to the Hebrew daily Ha'aretz, Abbas said Jews should not have been allowed into the mosque compound.

"The Israeli government and the international community must stop these unjustified and dangerous violations. They are to prevent any friction with bad results," he said during a tour of a Palestinian high school in Ramallah."

(http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=83404)

Yeah, right! It is all our fault. How dare we assert our right to ascend our Holiest site (sic).

The non-Jews of the world are not going to change their opinion of us anytime soon.

The message is clear:

We must stop repeating the same mistakes, expecting different results.

We must stop worrying about how our actions will affect the opinions of the goyim.

We must take responsibility for ourselves and for our country.

We must remove our faith in foreign powers, and place it only in HaQadosh Baruch Hu, The Holy One, Blessed Be He.

b'Ahavath Yisra'el

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A Response to the Israel Project and AIPAC's Invitation

17 of the Second Month 5765

The following is a response to an invitation to an Israel Project event, co-sponsored by the American Israel Public Action Commitee [AIPAC]:

Dear Israel Project,

Please refrain from sending me anymore Israel Project or AIPAC information, newsletters, or invitations.

I'm already doing my part.

I live here.

Life is difficult here, even though I could never go back to North America. So if you or your organization would like to send me a donation, let me know. I'll send you my "snail-mail" address.

Otherwise, information regarding the self-hating Jews of AIPAC leadership* (May God help them), who are more concerned about what the goyim think than what HaQadosh Baruch Hu (The Holy One, Blessed Be He) thinks, and who support expelling Jews from their rightful homes, violating several Torah prohibitions, is simply NOT welcome in my inbox.

(*emphasis on the word "leadership")

From the Israel Project website:

"The Israel Project is a new national non-profit, non-partisan educational organization devoted to ensuring an accurate portrayal of Israel - a democracy where all citizens have freedom of speech, press, religion and a right to vote.

The Israel Project was founded by three American mothers who were concerned that Israel's image in the media could cause an increase in anti-Semitism at home and abroad."

I can appreciate three mothers want to do something to support Israel.

But, if the above is what they stand for, then they certainly do not stand for my conceptualization of Israel, ideal or otherwise. Furthermore, Jews do not have those rights mentioned, so such a portrayal of Israel would be inaccurate, to say the least.

Freedom Of Speech: Jews do not have freedom of speech. A man was just convicted and sentenced by the Israeli court for printing and distributing a T-Shirt with the words: "No Arabs, No Terror." A T-Shirt, for goodness sakes! Prime Minister Sharon has decided that anyone who expresses opposition to his policy of expelling Jews from their homes in Gaza and the Northern Shomron [& other areas of Israel] will be dealt with. It is also beginning to be difficult to enter certain places wearing the color orange, as it is seen as the banner of the anti-disengagement camp.

Freedom Of The Press: Jews do not have freedom of the press. Just ask anyone who works for "Arutz 7." Their broadcasts are only available via Internet. The radio station was shut down, persecuted while broadcasting off-shore, "legalized" by the Knesset, and then delegalized anyway by the real power in this country: The courts.

Freedom Of Religion: Jews do not have freedom of religion. Well, actually, liberal Jews DO experience these freedoms. They can drive through religious neighvborhoods on Shabbat, traipse through religious, residential neighborhoods dressed in almost nothing, greatly offending the residents,...all in the name and interest of "demoncracy."

I'll some up Israel's so=called "democracy" by paraphrasing from George Orwell's Animal Farm: "All of us are equal, but some of us are more equal than others."

In addition, if policies here do not change...fast, in about 70 years, Arabs will out number Jews within the confines of wherever you choose to draw the borders. Soon after that, Arabs will outnumber Jews in the Knesset....

Do I really have to spell the rest out for you?

The children or foreign workers are being granted residency status, additional goyim continue to flow in from the Ukraine by invitation of the Israeli government, and the Israeli Supreme Court recently decided to accept pseudo conversions for the purposes of citizenship.

My ideal state of Israel is one based on Torah, not on what the goyim think.

Without addressing these, issues, there will not be any Israel left, so you will no longer be able to defend its public image!

Now, about that donation....

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P. S. I recommend you click on the links to the right, and study intently.

If your interested in "Israel's image," then I recommend that you see: .

Conspiracy Theory or Possibility?

Leil 25 of the Eleventh Month 5765

The following "theory" has been brought to my attention.

I want to acknowledge that yes, it does seem far fetched. But, is it truly outside the realm of possibility, given the craziness going on the world,...in the government????

The beginning seems more possible than the end.

So, apparently the was a classified ad in the New York Times, in Paris, in Moscow, and in other cities advertising the need for mercenaries. I have yet to see any such ad, and I have no idea how this was phrased.

The mercenaries are to aid in the [God forbid] evacuation of Jewish towns in Judea, Samaria, and Azza. They are to replace IDF soldiers who refuse to carry out such orders. According to the theory, non-Jews are specifically being sought, believing that many Jews would have less of an issue defending their homes against non-Jews. Once the process of this defense begins, the next stage of the plan begins.

Once such a conflict ensues, that will give the Israeli government justification to call upon the US for assistance.

A precedent has already been set for the US to go into a sovereign nation to assist in "ethnic conflict:" Serbia/Kososvo.

The residents of Yesh"A who are left (May God be merciful regarding Am Yisrael), will be around (God forbid) and tried as war criminals.

If even a drop of the above is true.......

Pretty sadistic, huh?

Yeah, I know it seems far fetched. Let us still be aware of the possibilities.

HaShem Yishmor Otanu (God watch over us).

The Codependence of a People

Rosh Hodesh of the First Month 5764

The following was written at the mention of "Black-Jewish Relations Week at Princeton." IMHO, it is important that the relationships between the Jewish People and other peoples be re-examined from time to time.

It is within the nature of the Jewish people to be concerned with justice,... with fairness.

The extent of the involvement of Jews in the civil rights movement in the US [& other countries], the anti-appartheid movement in South Africa, and for that matter in the so-called human rights movement world wide, is well-known.

After all, it is written: "Tzedeq, tzedeq, tirdof..." - Justice, justice, you shall pursue..." (Deut. 16:20)

This verse is as much a part of us as the entire Torah, whether Jews realize it or not.

I'm not saying that Jews should not have been involved. I'm not saying that we should not have been supportive. I am saying that we need to be honest with ourselves about where it's gotten us.

Many Black leaders have, and continue to rewrite history. It's the Jews' fault for their continued oppression.

When an African-American donates money or volunteers time to an African-American charity or institution, he's participating in "self-empowerment." When a Jew does the same fo a Jewish organization, he's considered to be elitist or even racist.

In an attempt to appease other such communities, the Jew donates money and time to them. This kind of people-pleasing behavior is a common symptom of what is known as "codependence." The "die-hards" make a point of neglecting their own community, after all they do not see themselves as being worthy. This low self-esteem and compliance are additional symptoms of codependence. Codependence can be roughly defined as 'the dependence on external sources for the fulfillment of emotional needs and self-validation and worth.'

The Jewish identity is the next casualty. Jews neglect learning about their own heritage, try to make it "easier" by re-inventing it (ie the so-called movement of Judaism), or forsaking it all together (G-d forbid).

The cycle continues. Parents are unable to answer their children's basic questions about their heritage. And when it come to why they should marry a Jew or why should they care about Israel, they are at a total loss.

Rav Meir Kahane HY"D provides us with an extensive history of Jewish assimilation, the ultimate codependent act, in his book Listen World, Listen Jew. Through this book and others, he has helped many Jews break out of their codependence; he has returned to them their self-esteem and pride in their heritage.

Eventually, Jews who haven't learn any Torah before actually do. And in the process, they learn the rest of the verse:

"Justice, justice, you shall pursue, that you will live, and inherit the Land that G-d has given to you." (Deut. 16:20)

There is no justice unless we treat ourselves justly. We are worthy. HaShem has given us His Torah, and has given us our Land.

The only external validation we need comes from G-d, not from any other human community.

The Cycle of Abuse...Continues?

Rosh Hodesh of the First Month 5764

I was pleasantly surprised to hear of the death of a monster yesterday, a monster responsible for the deaths of a great number of Jews. May the monster's (Sheik Yassin YSh"W) name and memory be blotted out....

The response of Leftists was not surprising: “We just have to talk with ‘them’ some more.” Sounds to me like western elitists attempting to say that Arabs should abandon their culture and act like westerners. Hmm…I believe that’s called “intolerance to foreign cultures,” an accusation that leftists generally like to throw at their political opponents. Hmm…I believe that’s called hypocracy.

The response of the so-called “international community” was particularly appalling this time. How could anyone in his right mind not see the similarity between this monster and Bin-Laden (may the his name and memory also be blotted out)???

But what about the response of the Israeli government? My question is this: How long will it take for Sharon to apologize for the killing?

Nah! He probably won't...this time.

Picture this: A little kid is upset. He runs up to the big bully at school, kicks him in the knee, barely even bruising him, then runs away.

Sound familiar?

I just described Israeli governments, past and present, never seeming to "finish the job." Even though the bully has been viciously abusing us for hundreds of years, often collaborating with other bullies, Israel is too concerned with what Mommy (the UN/Europe) and Daddy (the US) will think. Mommy and Daddy always tell, “Don’t hit back! Just come tell Mommy and Daddy, and we’ll take care of it.”

But, they never do.

It does not matter to the little kid that Mommy and Daddy are incapable of seeing the truth, and incapable of caring for him. After all, they are far too involved in their addiction to the drugs of power and material wealth.

The little kid only has G-d on his side. All the little kid has to do is cry out to G-d, and to do what G-d wants (i.e. Torah & mitzvoth), but he’s too stubborn. Instead he continues in his pathological cycle of "learned helplessness" and remains the passive-aggressive victim.

Israel has only one choice: with HaShem’s help, tefillah (prayer), tzedaqah (charity), and tshuvah (repentance). And let us not forget that tshuvah includes taking responsibility for ourselves and stopping the cycle of making the same mistakes over and over again.

Note: It is most certainly not the intention of the above to put down nor to minimalize the pain of families who suffer from the pain of active drug addiction (G-d forbid). It is simply an analogy.

Victim On Trial

13 of the Seventh Month 5764

It has begun, yet again, for the umteenth time.

Jews and non-Jews, Israelis and other nationals have begun to cry an all too familiar cry:

"No, we cannot bomb a terrorist camp in Syria! It will only make things worse! They will hit us again!"

In other words, although it is not [supposed to be] acceptable for Arabs to shoot and to blow up Jews, it is also not acceptable for "we Jews to stoop to their level" by striking back.

This cry is no less ridiculous and offensive than accusing a rape victim of having been raped.

I do not make this statement lightly. Rape is a serious and violent crime, causing physical, psychological, and spiritual damage to the victim, as well as to those close to the victim. It is not at all the intention of this letter to minimalize the terror a rape victim is forced to undergo (G-d forbid).

Rather, it is to wake the Jewish People up from their denial and their repressed memories of history.

When someone has been raped, what is the general course of action?

The victim is provided with support, healing, and the empowerment to prevent this from happening again, both to this person and to others.

The victim is encouraged to testify in court, even to face a well-trained and clever defense attorney who
often tries to twist the story of what happened.

The victim is prepared for this in advance, reminded that the attorney will be manipulative and convincing.

The victim stands firm, knowing that testifying will help to bring the rapist to justice, and hopefully remind other would be rapists to think twice before perpetrating a similar act of violence.

The victim is the Jewish People. The defense attorneys are the UN and European Union. The judge on the bench is the United States. And finally the rapists, crying an "unhappy childhood made me do it" are the Arabs in Israel.

The brothers who taught them to rape are Al-Qaeda and other Islamic fumdamentalists. But, when the birth records are uncovered, it is revealed that they were actually born on the same day. They taught, helped, and encouraged each other to rape.

The liberal judge, for some reason unbeknownst to me, does not want to accept the evidence of this, and wants to treat this rapist differently. Thus, the repeat offender gets off every time.

It does not seem to matter how much evidence Israeli Intelligence produces to Judge Bush. He does believe or simply ignores the connection between all Arab terrorists, including Arafat.

In fact, the judge even admonishes the rape victim for having fought back. The rapist is now suing the victim for damages, and the UN and Europe have been manipulating and censoring information, so that the rapist will be able to buy new clothes and food and even new weapons to be an even more effective rapist the next time.

This miscarriage of justice is intensified by the fact that other rapists are convicted left and right by other judges.

When some rape victims fight back, even kill their rapists, there are juries which exonerate them from guilt without batting an eyelash.

Of course, history has shown that there are two standard in this world, one for the Jews, and one for everyone else. When an African-American raises money for African-Americans, it is called "self-empowerment." When Jews raise money for Jews and the Jewish Homeland, it is selfish and racist.

It is about time that Jews FINALLY stop being victims, stop letting the world rape us in each and every generation since the Destruction of the Holy Temple.

And in each generation, our excuse is the same: "But surely it will be different this time."

And it never is.

Nobody will rescue us. There is no district attorney to help us, no support group to show us the way.

There is only G-d and His Torah to empower us. But G-d and Torah are more than enough. But, first we must take responsibility for ourselves. Nobody else will.

We, and by ourselves alone, must stop being the rape victims always on trial.

Happy Birthday, Shimon Peres (or A Tree Grows in Ofra)

The Sixth Month 5763

This Sunday, after the long and grueling pilgrimage to the Holy Land, many celebrities made their way to a celebration of grand proportions to pay homage to Shimon Peres on the occasion of his 80th birthday. The Land of Israel was graced by the presence of such upstanding and righteous dignitaries as former US President Bill Clinton, the last Premier of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbechov, and, of course, superstar Barbra Streisand (May she find her way back to Torah).

Let me take the opportunity to congratulate him on some of his many accomplishments.

Shimon Peres, thank you for your role in encouraging Jews to settle the Sinai Peninsula while under Israeli control.

Thank you for your role in encouraging the founding of Kfar Daron and Netzarim, towns in Gaza.

Thank you for the building of Israel’s [secret?] nuclear power plant.

Hmm…I doubt that the above-mentioned sovereigns of justice knew anything about this, for they most certainly would not have approved.

At the girls’ religious high school in Ofra, a town on the border between Judea and Samaria (See Judges 6:11), students can find shade underneath a big tree. According to the adjacent sign, this tree was planted by former Prime Minister Shimon Peres.

Mr. Peres, thank you for the tree.

In all fairness to Mr. Peres, I doubt he did any of these things for ideological reasons, so the “western cultural elite" and other politically-correct minded individuals can rest easy; they need not be concerned. Mr. Peres was possibly just going with the flow, and implementing such projects for his own political gain. After all, he was eventually able to see Jews have to leave their homes in the Sinai, while Jewish residents of Gaza, on the other hand, continue to get blown up and shot on a regular basis. (May G-d protect them and avenge their blood of the fallen!)

Although Mr. Peres does not understand why the Jews have not left Gaza, perhaps he believes they have now become spiritually broken and they are now much easier to handle. After all, everything Shimon Peres has done has been with the Jewish People’s best interests at heart, hasn’t it? Well, the government does continue its attempts to chip away at the Torah. And the Arabs continue to be on their way to outnumbering Jews in 50 years (G-d forbid), within the UN recognized borders, that is.

Certainly Mr. Peres believes the Arabs will “come around,” and make peace with Israel. I suppose, he lives according to that expression, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.”

Meanwhile, the Jewish State continues on its path toward self-destruction, even without the bombs and bullets. Fifty years, remember?

It might be wise to consider some wisdom from 12-Step program literature:

“Repeating the same mistakes over again, expecting different results, is [nothing short of] insanity.”

Regarding that tree flourishing in Ofra, perhaps Mr. Peres expected that it would have died by now, or would be enjoyed by Arabs.

Well, such is not the case. The girls in Ofra still enjoy the benefit of your tree-planting, and for that I thank you.