Details on How To Contribute to Brit-Am
http://britam.org/contribute-Brit-Am.html
JN-925
Jerusalem News 925
22 November, 2010, 15 Kislev, 5771
Jews, News, and Views
A Service of Brit-Am, Movement of the Ten Tribes of Israel
Contents:
1. Jews, not Israel, are the Islamists' target by Winston Pickett
2. Racism the World does not Want to Know About! by Steven Plaut
3. Girls in IDF Army are Counter-Productive!
4. Poll; Most Palestinians Aim for destruction of Jewish Israel.
5. Jewish Participation in World War-2.
'Let the Jewish people know we fought' by JOANNA PARASZCZUK
|
Brit-Am Discussion Group 
|
Contents by Subject |
Research Recognition Reconciliation Contribute |
|
Site Map Contents in Alphabetical Order |
 This Site |
1. Jews, not Israel, are the Islamists' target
Winston Pickett
Jewish Chronicle, 5 November 2010
http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/
comment/40677/jews-not-israel
-are-islamists-target
Extracts:
Now that the latest terror threat has been neutralised - with a little help from the Saudis - we've entered the predictable post mortem phase. This is the political scrum in which government, security, intelligence and law enforcement authorities scramble to apportion blame and devise strategies to keep air travel safe.
For British Jews, there are important lessons to grab hold of before lurching reactively to the next security crisis.
The first is to take a long, cold look at just where the explosive devices aboard the UPS cargo planes were headed. While the prevailing intelligence concludes it to be an operation of al-Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), one detail looms large: they were addressed to two synagogues in Chicago.
Notwithstanding forensic evidence that they were rigged to explode before reaching their destination, the fact remains that those who masterminded the operation - not unlike the complex and sophisticated planning [1] that went into the terror attack on Mumbai - singled out a Jewish institution as the uncontested object of their animus.
This brings into focus the reality that it is Jews and Judaism - not Israel - that constitute the core hatred pulsating through the totalitarian ideology of modern Islamism, as espoused by Sayyid Qutb [2] and forged into a jihadist strategy by al-Qaeda.
It is... the Jews - their religion, their history, their beliefs, their national project but above all their embodiment as a living contradiction to Islamic supremacy - that are the real target, and that makes every country that accepts Jews under a multicultural umbrella a target for elimination.
It also is a reminder of how much more seriously we need to take such ideas and ideology in formulating a response.
With Jewish institutions so explicitly targeted, it is time to revisit the conclusion of the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism that it is the responsibility of the state, not the Jewish community, to guarantee our freedoms as British citizens.
2. Racism the World does not Want to Know About!
by Steven Plaut
http://stevenplaut.blogspot.com/
Allow us to introduce you to young Kochav Segal Halevi. The life of the Israeli 26 year old is in danger and he is receiving death threats. In fact he had to go into hiding. His offence' He purchased an apartment in the Arab town of Iblin not far from Haifa.
The Arabs of the town do not like the idea of their town being polluted by the presence of a Jew. I mean, one Jew and there goes the neighborhood. The left-leaning Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot (Nov. 7, 2010) described the threats he has been receiving and how he fears for his life. He is now in hiding. Arabs who sell property to Jews have similarly been threatened and attacked. And of course the moderates from the Palestinian Authority routinely torture and summarily execute Arabs who sell property to Jews.
Now I mention all this because the leftist media in Israel and in the world are - as usual - up in arms over supposed Israeli Jewish "racism" against Arabs. There are some Jewish closed communities in Israel, some of them religiously observant, in which one must be accepted as a member by an admissions committee in order to live there, and these tend to refuse membership to Arabs "to preserve the character of the community." (In religious communities, non-religious Jews get barred as well. Other communities, including kibbutzim, have age and marital status restrictions.) There have also been calls in recent days, including from some local public officials, in Carmiel and in Safed in the Galilee, to restrict the movement of Arabs into those towns. (Due to justifiable fear for the safety of Jewish residents!)
But of course the reality is that, by and large, Israeli Arabs may move into and live in just about any Jewish area in the country, while Jews cannot move into any Arab town or village or neighborhood. Jews cannot move into the Arab areas because they will be murdered if they move there.
Every single Israeli understands these unwritten "rules of the game." In fact, Jews often risk their lives just passing through Arab areas, as a group of four Hebrew University Jewish students discovered over the past weekend when they were almost lynched after making a wrong turn into an Arab neighborhood next to the campus. (I myself have made that same wrong turn, the signs being unclear at that intersection.) Jews are also attacked when holding political marches in Arab towns, in contrast with the anti-Jewish marches regularly conducted by Arabs in Tel Aviv and other Jewish areas&
3. Girls in IDF Army are Counter-Productive
Women & Security: Radical-Left Rules, But Possibly Not for Long
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/140724
by Hillel Fendel
Extracts:
A conference on radical-left feminism and pacifism in the Israel Defense Forces may have been more than talk: Nationalist groups may be given more of a say as a result.
The conference was held on Wednesday at Bar Ilan University's Begin-Saadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies, entitled, 'Women and Israeli National Security.'
The event featured three two-hour panel discussions, most of which centered around arguments in favor of and against radical-left feminism.
Anti-Israel Feminism
Prevalent in the background throughout the conference was the accusation that radical feminism is often aligned with anti-Israel elements, and that under the guise of feminism, leftists of the most pacifist, anti-Zionist nature are allowed to have a strong influence in the army and universities such as Bar Ilan.
Among the speakers were Dr. Udi Lebel of Sapir Academic College and Ariel University Center, whose talk was entitled, "Caution: People Die in the Army ' Mothers as Forgers of Security: Cultural, Societal and Strategic Implications.' He was followed by Dr. Mordechai Keidar, of the BESA Center, who spoke on 'The Role of Women in the Eyes of the Arab World.'
'Enemies understand this phenomenon of women taking over [the army] as a weakness on our part,' Keidar said. 'The Israeli nation is thus viewed by Arabs as spineless and hysterical, pushing peace further away because the Arabs are encouraged to think that they will soon be able to wipe us out.'
The second session was highlighted by a presentation by Col. (res.) Raz Sagi on the physical difficulties women face in combat duty and how this in turn weakens the army, and a rebuttal by Dr. Orna Sasson-Levy of Bar Ilan University.
Sagi spoke of the much higher rate of injuries such as stress fractures and sick days among female soldiers than among males; impediments to building a cohesive unit when women are present; the lowering of physical standards in the army; and more. 'The objective of an army is simply to produce violence,' Sagi said, 'and women are just not as good at doing that as men are.'
4. Poll; Most Palestinians Aim for destruction of Jewish Israel
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 22:23:00 +0000 (UTC)
From: imra@netvision.net.il
[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA:
A message from the Palestinian street to President Obama: So much for the "two state solution".
30% The best goal is for a two- state solution that keeps two states living side by side.
60% The real goal should be to start with two states but then move to it all being one Palestinian state.
And the Palestinians are hardly looking for peace:
58% This is a time for armed struggle.
36% This is the time for engagement with Israel. ]
Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research
For The Israel Project
Questionnaire West Bank and Gaza Strip October 4-15, 2010
854 Respondents, 1020 Unweighted
http://www.theisraelproject.org/atf/cf/
%7B84dc5887-741e-4056-8d91-a389164bc94e%7D/
NOV2010_PALESTINIANPOLL
TOPLINE.PDF
--------------------------------------------
IMRA - Independent Media Review and Analysis
Website: www.imra.org.il
5. Jewish Participation in World War-2
'Let the Jewish people know we fought'
By JOANNA PARASZCZUK
http://www.jpost.com/
JewishWorld/JewishFeatures/
Article.aspx'id=195920
Most Israelis are ignorant of the fact that 1.5 million Jews fought Hitler and Nazism during World War II.
Extracts:
Red Army veteran Shalom Scopas defies his 85 years as he dashes about the mini-museum of World War II memorabilia he has created in the basement of his Holon home. His bright blue eyes sparking with pride, he points out rows of medals, sepia snapshots of himself as a dashing young man in his smart Soviet uniform, and letters of gratitude from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and former president Vladimir Putin.
Scopas is one of half a million Soviet Jews who joined the Red Army to fight against the Nazis. Forty percent of these Jewish recruits died in battle, the highest percentage of all the USSR's ethnic groups.
Soviet Jews were not the only ones to join the fight against the Nazis. One and a half million Jews from all over the world fought in World War II, including 150,000 women. A quarter million of these Jewish fighters fell in battle.
'Yet most Israelis, especially young people, don't know that so many Jews stood up and fought Hitler and Nazism,' says Scopas. 'It's very sad.'
By 1943, Panevezys's Jewish community had been obliterated. Scopas reached Russia and in 1942 joined the Red Army.
'I was Jewish. I wanted to fight the Nazis,' he says, switching from Hebrew to Russian as his memories take him back in time. Scopas was assigned to the razvedchiki, specially trained troops who went behind enemy lines to capture what the Russians dubbed yazyki ('tongues') ' German soldiers who were pumped for information about enemy plans.
On January 12, 1945, Scopas went behind enemy lines for what would be his last retrieval mission.
'When we went out, I carried a medal, 'For Courage', in my breast pocket. We attacked a line of Nazis in the forest. In the fighting, we lost three comrades. Then the enemy lobbed a grenade at me from close range. I woke up days later in hospital covered in wounds. The doctor said if it hadn't been for that medal over my heart, I'd have been a goner for sure.
'A piece of the medal was missing where shrapnel hit it! It saved my life.'
The Red Army's Jewish soldiers knew nothing about the death camps until the end of the war. 'When we found out, it was terrible. We were in shock. Horrified. We wept and wept,' Scopas remembers.
Scopas made aliya in 1959, fleeing rampant anti- Semitism in the USSR. Despite his many decorations and the honor he has received in Russia and Israel for his wartime bravery, the traumas of war have not left him.
Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Zvi Kan-Tor, who over the past decade has pushed forward plans for a dedicated museum to commemorate Jewish fighters like Scopas, describes the extent of the global Jewish contribution to the war as 'enormous.' Jews fought in the ranks of the Allied Forces, in underground movements, as partisans and in the ghettos themselves, in every single battle in Europe, North Africa and the Far East, on land, air and sea.
'THE BIGGEST army that fought against the Nazis was the Jews. No other nation on earth provided so many soldiers,' explains Kan-Tor. Yet the fact that so many Jewish soldiers enlisted to fight against Nazism, or fought as partisans has thus far been overlooked in Israeli and Jewish history.
'In Israel people are not aware of the extent of Jewish heroism in World War II,' stresses Kan-Tor. 'It's a historical injustice.'
THE DISINTEGRATION of the USSR in 1989 opened the gates for hundreds of thousands of Jews from former Soviet countries to make aliya. Now Israelis saw another side to the events of World War II.
'We saw Russian olim wearing medals,' remembers Kan-Tor. 'They brought with them new customs like Veterans' Days. We heard Russians talking about the Great Patriotic War. Here were Jews who fought against the Nazis.'
The Jewish soldiers had a unique role in the war, says Dr. Tamar Ketko, a World War II expert and curator of the new museum. 'They had a double identity. They were recruited as Soviet, American or British soldiers but they also fought as Jews.'
|
See Also: |
Pleased with what you read'
Click Here to make an offering. |
'It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God or the Bible.'
George Washington
Brit-Am is the "still small voice" that contains the truth.
[1-Kings 19:12] AND AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE A FIRE; BUT THE LORD WAS NOT IN THE FIRE: AND AFTER THE FIRE A STILL SMALL VOICE.
| PREVIOUS ISSUES |
 |
 |