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Jerusalem News 921
28 September, 2010, 20 Tishrei, 5671
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"Today we view the ancient world's attitude to infanticide as barbaric and incomprehensible, but perhaps future generations will look at our attitudes to abortion in the same way",
Ed West, Daily Telegraph
Contents:
1. Latma Parody: How fanatic Churchill rejected peace with Hitler
2. Study Finds: Rise in Number of [Israeli] Religious Army Captains
3. Health: Coffee in Moderation May be Beneficial!
4. Richard Dawkins and Atheist Crimes by Rory Fitzgerald
5. Israeli Secular Elements Versus Jewish Faith and Ethnicity
What the Left is really after by CAROLINE B. GLICK
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1. Latma Parody: How fanatic Churchill rejected peace with Hitler
Program with English:
www.youtube.com/watch'v=u1v2mabkafM
2. Study Finds: Rise in Number of Religious Army Captains
by Maayana Miskin
http://www.israelnationalnews.
com/News/news.aspx/139645
Extracts:
A groundbreaking study has found that the percentage of IDF captains who were raised in religious homes has shot up dramatically over the past 20 years. While only 2.5% of IDF captains were from religious homes in 1990, by 2007 that number was up to 31.4%.
In the absence of data on individual soldiers' religious observance, the study looked at the high schools that IDF captains had attended to measure their religiosity. Those who attended religious high schools were marked as religious, while those who had not were not, regardless of current religious observance. The study actually shows the religious background of the soldiers as a motivating factor and not their present religious state, as it misses those who became religious after high school as well as those who are not observant despite attending a religious high school.
The study found that until 1992, there were very few IDF captains from religious homes. Between the years 1993 and 2000, the number of religious captains shot up from 2.5% to 15.5%. After 2000 the numbers increased dramatically, and from 2001, there was no year in which less than 22.5% of captains were from a religious background.
The highest number of religious captains was recorded in 2007, when 31.4% were from religious homes.
In the author's estimation, much of the credit for the sharp increase in the number of religious soldiers reaching the rank of captain goes to the pre-army preparatory programs (mechinot) established in the religious community beginning in the late 1980s. The programs aim to teach young men Torah, Zionist values, and the value of army service. In mechinot, students study Torah for a year after graduating high school and then go on to regular army service.
Among mechina graduates, 80% go on to serve as combat soldiers, compared to 40% among soldiers as a whole. 20-25% of mechina graduates eventually become captains, compared to 7-9% of all soldiers.
3. Health: Coffee in Moderation May be Beneficial!
http://www.worldhealth.net/news/coffee
-promotes-blood-vessel-health/
Coffee Promotes Blood Vessel Health.
Hypertension (high blood pressure) makes blood vessels less responsive to signals to expand, and the lower elasticity of the aorta serves as a significant predictor of cardiovascular events. Christina Chrysohoou, from the University of Athens (Greece), and colleagues analyzed coffee consumption patterns among 435 hypertensive individuals, ages 65 to 100 years, enrolled in a larger study involving the permanent inhabitants of Ikaria Island, where many residents reach 90 years and older. As compared to those who rarely drank coffee, moderate consumption of one or two cups a day associated with a lower prevalence of diabetes, lower prevalence of high cholesterol, lower body mass index, lower prevalence of cardiovascular disease, and higher values of aortic distensibility. Proposing that the presence of phenol compounds in coffee may be responsible for these effects, the researchers conclude that: 'Moderate coffee consumption has beneficial effects on the aortic distensibility in hypertensive elderly individuals.'
4. Richard Dawkins and Atheist Crimes
by Rory Fitzgerald
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rory-fitzgerald/richard-dawkins-should-be_b_541387.html
Extracts:
For many years now Richard Dawkins has been working like a demon, you might say, to discredit all belief in God.
Most atheists I know are great people, sticking to the truth as they see it. Most also remain open to new possibilities and acknowledge that they are not entirely omniscient, and are respectful to those who think differently to themselves.
Dawkins, however, often seems to have only contempt for the majority of human kind who, unlike him, do believe in the spiritual. His selective campaigning about political issues makes me wonder: is he really an objective seeker of truth, or is he someone who just hates and wants to undermine Judaeo-Christian principles'
Dawkins has many times tried to say that Einstein was not spiritual in the way most people understand it. Yet Einstein said this:
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
Here is perhaps the most important scientist of all time, with an incredibly profound mind, but with the humility to acknowledge how feeble and frail the human mind really is. Our universe is far from explained and the more our scientific knowledge increases, the more mysterious our reality seems to be. It is untrue to say that the settled explanation of our universe is that it is a meaningless accident that functions solely on mechanistic principles.
Richard Dawkins has become a sort of Messiah for some atheists. He is an evolutionary biologist. I'm not sure why he feels that expertise in such an arcane field gives him authority to pronounce on spiritual questions. But, if biologists hold the keys to heaven, people may wish to consider the thoughts of Nobel Prize winning microbiologist Werner Arber, or eminent geneticist, Francis S. Collins, who led the Human Genome Project. Both are believers in God, and both find evidence for the divine in science itself. The debate about the reality of the spiritual is fascinating and is of profound importance to human kind, but Dawkins increasingly only brings to it noise and hatred.
Dawkins is right to be angry about the awful cover up of child abuse in the Catholic Church, but he seems to have a tendency himself to be very selective in the issues he shouts about, and those he remains silent about. In that sense, he can be seen to hush up the many horrendous crimes committed by atheist ideologues in the 20th century.
Many earlier atheistic ideologies despised Jewish and Christian thinking, and were often obsessed by natural selection. The Nazi ideology, for example, was inspired in part by philosophers like Nietzsche who proclaimed that "God is dead" and that Christian morality was a "slave morality", not befitting an "uebermench". Atheistic communism, as manifested in the Soviet Union, hated religion, "the opium of the masses" and it brought about the murder of millions more in Gulags and purges.
As recently as 1979, the Cambodian genocide killed 1.7 million people. These were murdered by communist atheists. ... The Tibetan people continue to be persecuted by an atheistic tyranny... I don't see Dawkins loudly decrying the actions of atheists in Cambodia or Tibet. Why'...
Atheism is not new: the ancient Greeks knew it well, and in the 1600s Bacon said "a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, But depth in philosophy bringeth men's mind about to religion." What is new about atheism's current incarnation is its increasing virulence and disrespect for other ways of thinking.
Ed West of the Daily Telegraph in the UK, recently noted that: ...
"Today we view the ancient world's attitude to infanticide as barbaric and incomprehensible, but perhaps future generations will look at our attitudes to abortion in the same way - that's not because pro-lifers would have won the argument, simply that (in addition to the effect of the Pill) abortion is killing the atheists of tomorrow."
5. Israeli Secular Elements Versus Jewish Faith and Ethnicity
What the Left is really after
By CAROLINE B. GLICK, The Jerusalem Post
September 24, 2010
Extracts Only:
Following the example of its counterparts in the West, for decades the Israeli Left has carefully cultivated its image as the fun side of the political divide.
In a thousand different ways, the public was told that the Left is on the side of tomorrow. It is the home of optimism. If you want a cheery future, if you want to party all night long and never get a hangover, the image-makers told us the Left is the place to be.
From the Left's perspective, the peace process between Israel and the PLO was the fulfillment of its promise. It was also its key to a permanent cultural monopoly and control of government.
Israelis who objected to handing control over the country's heartland and capital city to the PLO were nothing more than gloom and doom preaching, messianic extremists. The Right was angry. The Left was happy. The Right was the party of war. The Left was the party of peace. The Right was suspicious and tribal. The Left was optimistic and international.
The first blows to the Left's otherwise perfect narrative were cast just seven months after the moment of its greatest triumph. Just seven months after the epic handshake between Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn on September 13, 1993, the first Palestinian suicide bomber made his appearance. On April 6, 1994, the bomber murdered eight Israelis on a bus in Afula.
Quietly but relentlessly, the Left replaced hope for a better future with fear of a terrible future. Specifically, Leftist leaders like Haim Ramon began threatening their countrymen with national demographic destruction.
Ramon seized upon falsified Palestinian demographic forecasts. .... ... if we didn't retreat to the 1949 armistice lines anyway, Jews would become a minority in our country within 15 years.
But today, with even the leftist media admitting that Israeli Jews have the highest birthrates in the Western world and that Israeli and Palestinian birthrates are rapidly converging, it has become difficult to convince Israelis that surrender is necessary on demographic grounds. Indeed, a poll taken by the post-Zionist Geneva Initiative in 2008 showed that 71% of Israelis were not concerned about losing Israel's Jewish majority.
Beginning around 2006, the Left began threatening that if Israel does not remove itself from Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem, the US will abandon us....
Olmert claimed that if Israel does not retreat voluntarily to the indefensible 1949 armistice lines, the US will force it to retreat. Israel, he said, has no choice but to voluntarily partition Jerusalem and withdraw from Judea and Samaria. Left unsaid was the assumption that such a retreat will entail turning between 100,000 and a half million Israelis who live in the areas to be ceded into homeless internal refugees.
If Israel withdraws it will relinquish defensible borders and clear the way for the emergence of a terrorist-controlled area abutting all its major population centers.
At a minimum, this terror enclave will be in a state of de facto war with Israel as it cultivates warm ties with Syria, Hizbullah, Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood.
If Israel does not withdraw, its cities will remain secure and its population will not be in crisis. But Israel will have to contend with a hostile US government threatening to take unknown steps to force it to contract to within indefensible borders.
What will those US threats involve' Washington is already arming and training a Palestinian army. It is already selling the Arabs the most advanced weapons in the US arsenal. It is already providing military assistance to the Hizbullah-controlled Lebanese army. It is already permitting Iran to develop nuclear weapons.
....At least if we refuse to stick our neck in the noose, the US government will be forced to make the case for destroying Israel to the American people.
What do they really want?
The answer to this last question is as simple as it is insidious. What the Left truly seeks is not peace or even security.... they wish to destroy religious Zionism.
It is religious Zionism, which looks to Jerusalem rather than to Tel Aviv, that drives the Left to distraction. It is the hope of destroying religious Zionism by destroying the Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria and eastern Jerusalem ' the Jewish nerve center of the country ' that keeps the Left on its path. This truth was exposed in a Haaretz editorial published in July 2005, a month before 10,000 largely religious Israelis were expelled from their homes in Gaza and northern Samaria.
As the Left's mouthpiece explained, 'The disengagement of Israeli policy from its religious fuel is the real disengagement currently on the agenda. On the day after the disengagement, religious Zionism's status will be different.
The editorial concluded, 'The real question is not how many mortar shells will fall, or who will guard the Philadelphi route, or whether the Palestinians will dance on the roofs of Ganei Tal. The real question is who sets the national agenda.'
...a Maagar Mohot poll of Israeli Jews showed that 73% of Israeli Jews opposed further withdrawals. At no point has the majority of Israel's Jews ever asserted that it views religious Zionists as a threat or as the major obstacle to a better future.
Indeed, in a poll published earlier this month by Bar-Ilan University's Begin-Sadat Center, 79% of the public said they are 'not at all concerned' by the consistent rise in the proportion of religious Israelis in the IDF officer corps. Only 1% of the public said it was very concerned about the trend.
What the Left's move from hope to fear in the service of its plan to destroy its ideological rival shows is that in contrast to its carefully crafted image, the Left is fundamentally out of step with the public. They are not the optimistic side on the political divide. And they are not interested in making our lives better or more fun. They are motivated by hatred of their rivals, not love of country or devotion to peace.
Perhaps the only question then is how many more times they will be allowed to lead us astray before we stop letting them define the terms of our national debate?
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