Yom HaZikaron - This video was made as a tribute to the 22,750 Jews who have fought and died to re-establish our independence and safety in our homeland, Israel.
(Produced by Steven Burg and Eliezer Jones of ARTzeinu - West Coast NCSY).
American Jewry's pre-suppostions about Israel-Palestine conflict examined in theatrical drama, "A Tiny Piece of Land"
Israeli diplomat, Gil Artzyeli, deputy Consul General of Israel, Los Angeles addresses a post-performance audience - alongside playwrights, Joni Browne-Walders and Mel Weiser, creators of the theatrical drama, "A Tiny Piece of Land." The play confronts media-fostered, liberal, pre-suppositions about Israel's ethics in defending themselves against Palestinian hostility and intransigence. The play runs at L.A.'s Pico Playhouse through Saturday, April 24th.
The Campaign against Israel (and how well are we overcoming this crisis)?
The greatest threat to Israel's survival may be her enemies' campaign to delegitimize the state in politics and media. Israel National News reports:
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu decided Thursday night to cancel his previously announced participation in the Nuclear Security summit scheduled to take place in the United States next week. Instead, the prime minister will send a delegation headed by Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy Dan Meridor.
The Prime Minister, still smarting from Obama's reception at the White House recently, did not entirely trust White House assurances that there would be situation at the conference - and the administration's adherence to a 1969 understanding with Washington that it agreed with Israel's ambiguity and would not pressure Israel on the subject.
The cancellation followed rumors that Arab and Muslim states planned to demand that Israel sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, as have 189 countries. Turkey and Egypt were among those countries allegedly planning to use the conference to pressure Israel.Chris Mitchell, the Jerusalem Bureau Chief of CBN News, reports. His video report includes statements from Caroline Glick, Dore Gold, US Gen. (ret.) Jerry Boykin, Philipe Karsenty, and Dan Diker.
Physician from Nigeria, embraced to study laproscopy in Israel; proof of Israel's humanitarian, multicultural culture; dispels "apartheid" myths
African doctor trained by Israel brings top, obstetrics techniques home to Nigeria. Calls Israel a place where doctors of every race and creed provide care to patients of every race and creed.
Dr. Gerry Nkwocha, a specialist in Ob/Gyn, affirms that Israel is a free country with equal opportunity for all races and religions. The valedictorian of Israel's Wolfson Medical Center's laproscopy training program denounces false allegations of apartheidism in Israel as lies. Watch his original testimony with Joo-Tube, filmed at the Aipac Policy Conference in Washington, DC.
Watch Dr. Nkwocha's participation in the live, "Israel Around the World" presentation the previous night.
Watch evidence of the professional and humane standards of the Wolfson Medical Center:
Dr. Gerry Nkwocha, a specialist in Ob/Gyn, affirms that Israel is a free country with equal opportunity for all races and religions. The valedictorian of Israel's Wolfson Medical Center's laproscopy training program denounces false allegations of apartheidism in Israel as lies. Watch his original testimony with Joo-Tube, filmed at the Aipac Policy Conference in Washington, DC.
Watch Dr. Nkwocha's participation in the live, "Israel Around the World" presentation the previous night.
Watch evidence of the professional and humane standards of the Wolfson Medical Center:
Pat Boone: 'It is in America's interest to ensure Israel's rights over their own historic homeland'
Watch this exclusive Joo-Tube video interview with Pat Boone filmed in Beverly Hills.
Published on Easter Monday in NewsMax: "Differing from virtually every previous U.S. president, Mr. Obama seems to accept the claims of the Palestinian leadership, even the violent Hamas, that the land given by God and settled by Israelites thousands of years ago now rightfully belongs, at least in large part, to settlers who moved into the area only in the last 200 years.
And though the Balfour Declaration and the United Nations — and most of civilized society the world over — have acknowledged and verified Israel’s claim to their historic homeland, this president is doing everything he can to pressure Israel’s leaders to cave in to the demands of the terrorists.
Just a few days ago, after months of directing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to put the screws to Israel’s leadership, and pointedly and publicly favoring Palestinian demands over the rights of Israel to make its own decisions, he humiliated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House. As the London Times headlined it, Barack Obama "Dumped Him For Dinner.”
The able and much respected Netanyahu and his aides had flown to Washington to bolster the Israel/American accord and to explain in person why new dwellings have been planned in Jerusalem, Israel’s ancient capital. Obama and his aides have been all but ordering Israel to stop all building (on their own land) that offends the Palestinian leadership.
This, the same Palestinian leadership that continues to rain rockets and missiles and other forms of terror on the Israelis. When the meeting seemed be going nowhere, the president walked out to have dinner with his wife — leaving the startled prime minister and his aides, saying “Let me know if there’s anything new.” And he never came back.
In 1948, President Harry Truman was also in the middle of a historic conflict over the Jews and their claim to their ancient homeland. His advisers were all urging him to ignore that claim and side with the much larger Arab contingents who were denying that claim and threatening to “drive them into the sea.” Politically, the Arab side was the expedient one.
But Truman knew his Bible, and he was agonizing over the decision.
On March 13, his old friend and former haberdashery partner Eddie Jacobson flew in to Washington from Kansas City. The two old friends spent an hour behind closed doors in the Oval Office, during which time Eddie reminded Harry of what they both knew of God’s promises to the Jews. And when the doors opened, President Truman had decided the United States would be the first nation to grant diplomatic recognition to the new state of Israel on May 14, 1948.
Long after he left the White House, Harry Truman declared that decision was the most important of his presidency.
I want America to blessed, don’t you? Israel deserves the eternal right over their own historic homeland.
What we need is another Harry Truman in the White House."
Meet Michelle Obama's cousin - Hebrew Israelite congregational Rabbi Capers Funnye - in his own words
Another Joo-Tube exclusive, filmed live at AIPAC Policy Conference 2010, Washington, DC
See also N.Y. Times articles: Black Rabbi Reaches Out to Mainstream of His Faith and Obama’s Rabbi (N.Y. Times photo pictures Shabbat services at Beth Shalom B’nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation in Chicago, which has more than 200 members). WTTW-TV's Chicago Tonight profiles Cong. Beth Shalom in 2007 in this video segment.
Commentary about the White House Seder
Jonathan Tobin writes in 2 articles (redacted here by Joo-Tube) the Jewish World Review "New World's Record for Chutzpah: Obama's Seder": "This year, along with the conventional four questions of the Passover Seder, some Americans are starting ask themselves "Why is this president different from all other presidents?"
The answer is that Barack Obama has now established opposition to Israel's hold on its capital as a cornerstone of American Middle East policy in a way that is completely new as well as dangerous. Those wondering whether or not this development ought to cause them to re-evaluate their political loyalties might want to remember the closing refrain of Passover Seders down through the centuries: "Next year in Jerusalem."
There will, no doubt, be many American Jews who are still so insecure in their place in American society that they will feel flattered that even a president who has proved himself the most hostile chief executive to Israel in a generation will pay lip service to Judaism in this way. No doubt the planting of this sympathetic story on the front page of the Sunday New York Times is calculated to soften the blow of his Jerusalem policy and his disdain for Israel in the eyes of many of Obama's loyal Jewish supporters.
Can any Jew with a smidgeon of self-respect or affection for Israel think that having a president say "Next year in Jerusalem!" while sitting at a table with matzo and macaroons makes up for policies that treat the 200,000 Jews living in the post-1967 Jewish neighborhoods of their own ancient capital as illegal settlers on stolen land?
Despite that fact that his diplomatic offensive has virtually no chance of success, Obama has still done something that will permanently alter Middle Eastern diplomacy. By treating the Jewish presence in eastern Jerusalem as a vast illegal settlement, the continued growth of which is an alleged impediment to peace, Obama has made it impossible for any Arab leader to ever accept Israel's possession of this part of the city. This not only makes the already near-impossible task of forging peace that much harder, it is a crushing blow to decades of Israeli and American Jewish efforts to force international recognition of a unified Jerusalem.
Perhaps Obama and his coterie of Jewish advisers think they are entitled to expropriate the symbols of Judaism to lend legitimacy to their anti-Israel policies. Of course, if Obama had any real sympathy for the people of Israel or the Jewish people, he might instead spend Monday night reevaluating a policy that appears to concede nuclear weapons to the rabid Jew-haters of Islamist Iran and reinforces the intransigence of the supposedly moderate Palestinian Authority and its allies across the Muslim world."
Jewlicious Blog's The Middle sees Obama's escalating the problem. An anonymous, administration leaker accused White House Middle East strategist, Dennis Ross, of taking Israel’s side over America’s side - thereby calling into question the loyalty of American Jews.
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not shocked to be reading this. I’ve read this before. ON ANTISEMITIC WEBSITES. Oh, okay, also on some partisan pro-Palestinian websites. But in this case, the dual loyalty charge being leveled at a Jew is coming from the White House. ...
I worry about what Obama is doing not just to Israel and the prospects of peace, which he is definitely undermining, but to those American Jews who support Israel. He is undermining the ties that bind us all. ...
But not to worry. Tomorrow, some White House person will come out and declare that Israel and America’s bonds are unshakable. Somewhere else, a White House representative – don’t worry, it won’t be Obama because he won’t be caught doing the dirty work – will let a newspaper, a blogger or a congressional committee know that Israel is the undoing of America in the Mid-East and the support of those Americans who advocate for Israel is partly responsible for this.
Mea culpa. I apologize deeply for my support of last election’s Democratic nominee for President. We have brought this horrible situation upon ourselves.
Alan Dershowitz: Israel's greatness, and her troubles
"Israel has saved more Moslem & Arab lives than all of the Moslem & Arab countries - combined!"
Does this Chassidic sect's publicity-quest endanger the safety of Jews?
(A new, Joo-Tube original production) Fundamentalist Jews delegitimizing Israel - are they a rationale for anti-Semites to endanger Zionistic Jews? Neturei Karta sect chief, Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, maximizes publicity by antagonizing supporters of Israel outside of the AIPAC Policy Conference 2009.
He believes that their visibility quells anti-Semites by embodying a distinction between Jews and zionistic Jews. But do they actually serve as a tool for haters of Israel to rationalize their antipathies? Does their overtly public displaying ultimately endanger the safety of Jews in Israel - and their diaspora brethren?
"Obama is planning to impose a solution on Israel" Israpundit's Ted Belman from Jerusalem
During the lead up to his election victory, he surrounded himself with a host of vehemently anti-Israel advisors including Lee Hamilton, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Samantha Power, Susan Rice and General Jim Jones, many of whom advocated imposing a solution on Israel.
He also made common cause with Jewish leftists represented by J Street and Israel Policy Forum who were urging him to increase the pressure on Israel and if that didn’t work, to impose a solution on Israel.
So it was no surprise that he started his term of office by attacking Israel, America’s best and most steadfast ally, declaring that all settlements were illegal and demanding a complete settlement construction freeze east of the greenline including in Jerusalem. He went so far as to repudiate the US commitment set out in the Bush letter ’04 to Sharon, declaring there was no agreement. Elliot Abrams and others involved in the negotiations which led to the letter, testified otherwise.
This letter also affirmed that “as part of a final peace settlement, Israel must have secure and recognized borders, which should emerge from negotiations between the parties in accordance with UNSC Resolutions 242 and 338.” Pres Bush had always supported a negotiated settlement and this letter did likewise. Noticeably absent was any reference to the Saudi Plan. The letter also contained a commitment, that “the United States will do its utmost to prevent any attempt by anyone to impose any other plan”.
By repudiating this letter as a U.S. commitment, Pres Obama opened the way for a settlement to be imposed according to the Saudi Plan rather than Res 242.
Read it all
Counter-protest haters of Israel demonstration in NYC
Atlas Shrugs invites all to this counter-protest against antagonists protesting the New York appearance of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces' banquet guest, IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazy.
Their particular focus this year is the "horrors" of Operation Cast Lead, of which Ashkenazy was the commanding officer.
They want to shame us? Let's demonstrate our PRIDE! WE WILL HAVE A GREAT COUNTER-PROTEST EVENT SHOWING SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL AND OUR IDF! TUESDAY, MARCH 9th from 5 - 7:00 PM ACROSS FROM THE WALDORK ASTORIA HOTEL. WE ARE GOING TO BE on PARK AVE at W. 50th - 51st ST, and the Haters will be at W. 48th - 49th.
In the past, the Haters have turned out in large numbers while those in support of Israel have mostly stayed home. Come, we will have flags, banners, information, and maybe a few surprises.Be a part of the groundswell in support of Israel - more than a dozen truly pro-Israel organizations and individuals will be there - add your voice, your body, and bring family and friends.
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