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Thursday, July 18. 2013A ZIONIST REFLECTS ON ISRAEL
Expectations, Satisfactions and Frustrations by Bernard J. Shapiro My first excitement about Israel came in 1956 with the Sinai Campaign. My grandmother was a leading member of Misrachi and we talked about Israel some and there was always a blue and white Jewish National Fund box in her home. My grandfather Harry W. Freeman was one of the founders of the Zionist Organization of America in Houston. But it was not until Israel burst onto the front pages of The Houston Chronicle in 1956 that I really believed it was real. From that day on till today, I have read as much as possible about Israel. First books, magazines, faxes TV News. Now the Internet is a major source of news about Israel. In fact, my non-profit organization, the Freeman Center For Strategic Studies was a pioneer in Jewish advocacy with an early gopher before the World Wide Web was established. EXPECTATIONS Most of what I read and learned was from the David Ben-Gurion (Mapai - Labor Zionist) perspective. The other side of Israels story was mostly suppressed in Israeli history and literature. As a leader of both Hillel and founder of the Student Zionist Organization (UC Berkeley - 1960-64), I caught the attention of the Jewish Agency and was aided in my aliya to Israel (1964). Continue reading "A ZIONIST REFLECTS ON ISRAEL" Saturday, July 13. 2013Diskin: Israel nears point of no return on two-state solution -NOT
Diskin: Israel nears point of no return on two-state solution -NOT
by Bernard J. Shapiro, Freeman Center For Strategic Studies - July 13, 3013By YUVAL DISKIN, Jerusalem Post July 13 Despite his former Shin Bet military and intelligence service, this is the most stupid strategic analysis of Israel's policy I have ever read. Diskin, an extreme leftist can not even see the what is right before his eyes. He also learns nothing from history. He is still pushing the "peace hoax" with the "so called Palestinians" long after the hoax is 20 years old with tens of thousands of Israelis killed and maimed. He still blames Israel for lack of negotiations. I oppose negotiations, because one should never negotiate what is rightfully theirs. He cites false demographic data, ignoring the fine work of Yoram Ettinger. He also ignores the fact that birthrates change and Israel is subject to immigration. A strong Zionist approach to the Arab minority problem would cause voluntary emigration of unhappy Arabs from Israel. What would make them unhappy---not being able to kill Jews and convert Israel into Palestine. It does not bother me, if they are unhappy. Monday, February 18. 2013Good News From Israel -Feb 17
Good News From Israel -Feb 17
by Michael Ordman In the 17th Feb 2013 edition of Israels good news, the highlights include: · Israeli scientists have developed a cure for a disease causing millions of genetic deformities. · Israels new parliament will have a larger proportion of women than those of the USA or UK. · Israeli surfers saved 8 children from drowning in Hawaii. · Israeli 3D printers can now print your false teeth. · An Israeli company won the top award at the Munich CleanTech Conference. · Israel exported 60 million flowers to Europe for Valentines Day. · The UN heard first hand about the fruits of Israeli technology. ISRAELS MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS A cure for genetic deformities. A team including researchers from Israels Technion has developed an innovative technique that they believe will cure deformities and blindness caused by ectodermal dysplasia, which affects seven out of every 10,000 babies born in the world. Via in-vitro experiments, damaged cells caused by mutant p63 genes can be greatly improved using a chemical substance called PRIMA-APR246. http://www.jpost.com/Health/ Article.aspx?id=302834 Israeli stem cells slow down blood cancer. Israels Gamida Cell Ltd. reported success in the Phase III clinical trial of its StemEx treatment for leukemia and lymphoma. Compared to a control group, far more patients receiving StemEx survived 100 days or more following transplantation. http://www.gamida-cell.com/ press_item.asp?ID=53 Saving life in Armageddon. Emek Medical Center in Afula, is near Megiddo, the fabled site of Armageddon. The hospital treats 50% Jews and 50% Arabs. In 2012, the head of Emeks intensive care unit traveled with two nurses, to the Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, to open a new trauma center and train local staff. http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/ IsraelExperience/Coexistence- 24-Jan-2013.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=8DSH476DUrw&noredirect=1 Continue reading "Good News From Israel -Feb 17 " Sunday, January 27. 2013JEWISH SURVIVAL IN THE WORLD TODAY
A Saga of 4000 Years by Bernard J. Shapiro January 27, 2013 FREEMAN CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES P.O. Box 35661 Houston, Texas 77235-5661 E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com OUR WEB SITE < www.freeman.org > http://www.freeman.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/482-JEWISH-SURVIVAL-IN-THE-WORLD.html The article, Christians Are Guilty of the Holocaust, by Giulio Meotti in Arutz Sheva yesterday is both painful and necessary for all Jews and Christians to read: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/12784 While I have studied this history over many years, his article was tough for even a scholar to fathom. The Catholic Church was as bad as Jews believed possible, but Lutheranism was worse. Please read his article at the end of my commentary. As I have written many times before, I fear a Second Holocaust. The reasons for this fear are many and well substantiated. The level of anti-Semitism is rising rapidly and have now reached the level of the 1930's. There are four kinds of anti-Semitism that today are mixing in todays world into a toxic formula for Jews. They are: 1. Traditional European Nationalist anti-Semitism. Jews are seen as a foreign race affecting the purity of the various nations. 2. The Christian religion, evolving between Catholic and protestant Jew haters. Various sects believe in the false accusations of deicide, blood libel and devil worship. Some just simply "replacement theology" (G-ds Israel is replaced by Christians). 3. The Islamic religious traditions based on the Koran. The Islamist philosophy ranks all nations servants of the true religion founded by Muhammad. It is a cruel and cold faith where murderers of Jews, Christians, Hindus and other non-Moslems are insured a place in paradise. 4. Once Jews became sovereign in their own land as the Holy Scriptures predicted, many non Jews began to fear retribution for the evil they meted out to the Jews over the last 3500 years. Continue reading "JEWISH SURVIVAL IN THE WORLD TODAY" Thursday, November 29. 2012NOTES OF A FRUSTRATED ZIONIST- Not a Nice Jewish Boy
Notes From A Frustrated Zionist
Not a Nice Jewish Boy by Bernard J. Shapiro, Chairman and Editor of Publications Freeeman Cednter For Strategic Studies Like just about every Zionist, I am in terrible pain because of the continued diplomatic and strategic imbecility of the Israeli government. That doesn't mean that all members are equally bad, only that as a group they continue doing stupid things together. Examples: 1. Since Oslo (1993) they have chosen to empower our enemies. 2. The policy of retreat and appeasements which never worked with any nation in the history of the world, became an Israel strategic policy. 3. The minimize the importance of the PA bid for UN recognition as if the fact that they have already lost the battle for unbiased history. Nowhere in their thinking is the concept of fighting back. 4. Israeli's raised since the founding of the State of Israel to be Lions of Judah are led into battlefields, like lambs to the slaughter. Israeli civilians, woman, children and the elderly are forced to run for cover during missile barrages. Terrorists rip their bodies apart as if they were not even human. It all makes me think of the Holocaust. Never Again??? 5. Since 1982 (Lebanon) the leftist establishment has used every Dirty Non-Democratic Trick in the book to destroy Zionism and the morale of true Israeli Patriots. 6. Israel's Attorney General, the Police, Border Patrol, Supreme Court, News Media, Shin Bet (Israel's Secret Service) and all the leftist pro Arab political parties (plus Arab terrorist political parties) all conspire to crush the democratic Zionist will of 95% of Israel's Jewish population. 7. To me, this is not Kosher. Only a change in the electoral system can force a change. Only a change in all branches of Israel's government from the Justice Department through the IDF Officer Corp and especially the powers of the Prime Minister. A quick look at Israeli shows that each minister and the very powerful PM have the ability to do the opposite of what they are elected to do. 8. This sickens and revolts me. I have written about it many time in the past. Unfortunately the left has emasculated the Zionists, dating back to the Altalena. And before that Jabotinsky was silenced in Europe, as he warned about the coming Holocaust. [My grandfather, Harry W. Freeman was also waning Jews all over Texas about the dangers of Nazism in the 30's.] Continue reading "NOTES OF A FRUSTRATED ZIONIST- Not a Nice Jewish Boy" Wednesday, November 21. 2012Bernard J. Shapiro Comments on "Ceasefire"
DESTROY THE HAMAS AND FATAH TERRORISTS SETTLE ALL OF ERETZ YISRAEL - RECLAIM THE TEMPLE MOUNT ========================== Bernard J. Shapiro Comments on "Ceasefire" A ceasefire with barbarians is not a ceasefire. The war is just postponed while Hamas and other terrorists are free to re-arm and fight another day. The cost to Israel of constant war is immense. My advice to the "learned" generals and politicians of Israel is simply: 1. Fight to win 2. Fight to destroy the enemy 3. Maximize not minimise civilian causulities as per Americans in WWII (Hiroshima and Dresden) 4. Islam is a barbarian blood worship cult that must be destroyed for Western Civilization to survive. 5. Jews will never be popular no matter how hard they try to be "nice Jewish boys and girls." I say be Lions of Judah and Roar. 6. There is no such thing as International Law, since Power is the driving force in all disputes between nations. 7. International players including American should never be consulted or depended upon the protect the Jewish People. 8. Left to the mercies of the West, Israel would have been destroyed long ago. 9. The thrust for delusional Peace beginning after 82 has caused a major deterioration in Israel Strategic Planing and the morale of its population. 10. Freeman Center experts led by me would deem Opperation Pillar of Defense a FAILURE. It will need to be repeated again and again, until It is done corectly as described above. From my computer to G-d's ear. Happy Thanksgiving from a True Zionist, Bernard ============= FREEMAN CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES P.O. Box 35661 Houston, Texas 77235-5661 E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com OUR WEB SITE (URL): < www.freeman.org > THE MACCABEAN ONLINE: URL:http:// www.freeman. org/online. htm Freeman Center Blog http://www. freeman.org/ serendipity / ============ SUPPORT THE FREEMAN CENTER KEEP OUR VOICE STRONG --------------------- "If someone comes to kill you, kill him first.".. Midrash "If someone kills an Israeli or Jew, fault lies not with the killer but with those who allowed the killing. (Israeli government or Jewish 'leadership')"..Rav Meir Kahane X"L "It is normal for Arabs to kill Jews, always ways-always will be. The Jews must build a wall of Zionism and take what is rightfully theirs." ....... ...............Ze'ev Jabotinsky X"L "If you have five mercy to the wicked, then you will be wicked to the merciful"....Midrash "Yeh though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear not evil, because I am the most dangerous son of man who ever walked through this valley"... .....Bernard J. Shapiro ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For Zion's sake I will not hold my peace and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest." Isaiah 62. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ==================== Ignorance Is Weakness - Know The Truth Self-Inflicted Ignorance Is Suicide The Freeman Center Is A Defense Against Ignorance ---------------------------------- Thursday, September 6. 2012ISRAEL'S 'FUTILE GESTURES'
By Charles Bybelezer September 6, 2012 -Daily Mailer, FrontPage Recently, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to extend well-wishes on the occasion of Id al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday marking the end of Ramadan. He did so despite the fact that Abbas continues to shun negotiations with the Jewish state and again has threatened to pursue a unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood at the UN General Assembly in September. Netanyahus goodwill gesture reportedly was followed by similar phone calls to Abbas by Israeli envoy Yitzhak Molcho and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Molcho also called PA Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad. The calls came on the heels of other goodwill gestures made by Israel over the last few months aimed at coaxing the Palestinians back to the negotiating table; including, but not limited to: 1. The issuance of thousands of additional Israeli work permits to Palestinian laborers; 2. The advance to the PA on the eve of Ramadan of approximately NIS 200 million in levies collected by Israel on behalf of the Palestinians so that government salaries could be paid; 3. The signing of an economic accord with the PA in order to enhance trade; 4. The signing of a deal to end a hunger strike by Palestinians jailed in Israel, in which Israel even agreed to allow convicted terrorists to pursue academic studies; 5. The tabling of an offer, confirmed by PA Minister of Prisoner Affairs Issa Qaraqe, to release in four stages 125 Palestinian security prisoners, many of whom were convicted of murdering Israelis (the proposal was summarily rejected by Abbas, who demanded the prisoners be released simultaneously); 6. The transfer to the PA of the bodies of approximately 90 deceased terrorists, whose remains subsequently were glorified en masse in official ceremonies. Continue reading "ISRAEL'S 'FUTILE GESTURES' "
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Tuesday, September 4. 2012THE DAYS OF AWE (5773)
=== To all Freeman Center members and supporters and all Lovers of Zion We wish you a wonderful Shana Tova (Jewish New Year) filled with Joy, Health, Peace, Prosperity, Sweetness, Love and Security in the coming year. Please remember all our hard work with a tax deductible contribution toward our continued success in 5773. Please contribute to The Freeman Center's essential educational activities. Mail check to address above or by paypal: http://www.freeman.org/paypal.htm Thank you.....Bernard -------- THE DAYS OF AWE (5773) By Bernard J. Shapiro Chairman and Editor of all Publications As we approach the New Year 5773, I am reflecting over lifetime surpassing the biblical three score (20) and ten. I have seen a lot, learned a lot, suffered and been redeemed a lot. I am not a perfect Jew. I have many failings. The worst, I imagine, is my failure to understand Jewish ritual. Since I was very young, I never seemed to follow authority. It didnt matter who it was: parent, political or religious leader. I was born a rebel and have been a rebel all my life. I was greatly influence by my grandfather, Harry W. Freeman, who had studied to be a Rabbi in the Russian-Polish Pale at the end of the 19th century. Like many young Jews of that period, he joined the Communist Party to overthrow the Czar. They believed that the Jews must be freed from the oppression and persecution that affected their daily life. The Czars secret police blessed him by driving him out of country and he escaped to America. This saved him from Nazi extermination and thus I live today by that Mazal. He landed in Galveston, became an attorney and founded the first chapter of ZOA in Houston as the real solution to the "Jewish Question." Continue reading "THE DAYS OF AWE (5773)" Monday, October 17. 2011YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE
by Jack Berger Member of the Board of Directors Freeman Center For Strategic Studies October 17, 2011 You are standing today, all of you (all generations) before Hashem, your G-d, from the heads of your tribes, your elders your children from the (highest) in society to the drawer of your water, for you to pass into the covenant Hashem, your G-d in order to establish you today as a people to Him and that He will be a G-d to you I call on heaven and earth today to bear witness against you. I have placed life and death before you, a blessing and a curse, you shall choose life so that you will live to dwell on the land that I swore to your forefathers (to your fathers and grandfathers) and to Abraham, Isaac and to Jacob. (Deut. 29-30) Looking at the world today I think back to the words of Charles Dickens, It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us When I first read those words in high school, I believed that they were far removed from the rest of my life. America was in a simpler place. My only serious question was why wouldnt Sandy Koufax pitch the first game of the World Series after all was Yom Kippur really that big a deal and it wasnt like he wore a kippah and kept kosher. It was a time when questions hadnt been asked yet and didnt need to be answered. Today has caught up with yesterday. For me, years before my Bar Mitzvah, I remember the words on our Day of Atonement. Words when secular Jewish friends of mine only came to synagogue one day a year would show up on Yom Kippur to hear who will live and who will die The profundity of that one line and its finite reality, its focus, its simple yet unambiguous statement is a statement that few Jews can turn away from or forget. The gift we have been given is the gift of time money comes, money goes, our days are moments as part of an eternity that we are only blessed to know for a very short time. Continue reading "YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE" Sunday, October 16. 2011ISRAEL'S CHARACTER FLAWED LEADERSHIP
by David Basch Freeman Center For Strategic Studies October 16, 20011 "The Arabs do indeed believe in a policy of decisive defeat of Israel. What is more, unlike Israel, the Arabs have the manpower and the religious ideology to weather the war of attrition that Boobi acquiesces in...." At every stage of the conflict -- except for times before election -- Boobi Netanyahu has shown in his important acts that he is a true believer in the Arabs as partners to Israel's ultimate peace. Note that before every election Israelis heard Boobi's silver tongue going on record as backing uncompromising, hard line programs to beat back the designs of the Arab enemy. Yet, when in office, he consistently betrayed these right wing preferments. Continue reading "ISRAEL'S CHARACTER FLAWED LEADERSHIP"
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Monday, September 26. 2011ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION ORDERS AGAINS JEWISH NATIONALISTS
by ADINA KUTNICKI Freeman Center For Strategic Studies September 26, 2011 (Editors Note: The author variously uses the terms GSS [General Security Services], Shin Bet, Shabak, ISA [Israel Security Agency]. They are all names for Israels internal security service.] In western democracies, a persons home is considered his castle. Therefore, if a government banishes a citizen from his home, the act must be based on a judicious interpretation of the law. The detainee must present a clear and present danger. Chief Justice Aharon Barak, previous president of the Supreme Court, underscored his belief in this principle, albeit not from a perspective which protects the rights of Jewish nationalists. On July 15, 2002, Justice Barak ruled in the Ajuri case: Our point of departure is that in principle removing a person from his dwelling place and forcibly moving him someplace else causes serious harm to his self respect, his freedom, and his possessions. A persons home is not only a roof over his head, it is the means for establishing his physical and social relationships. A number of a persons basic human rights are harmed when he is forcibly removed to another place , even if such a move does not involve an international crossing. Tragically, his legal opinion was rendered in relation to the protection of the civil and human rights of terrorists! The security services recommended their expulsion from Nablus to Gaza, and the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the terrorists. Even the pro-Arab Btselem human rights organization is unhappy about administrative detention/expulsion orders, stating: Undoubtedly the state should act determinedly against settlers who harm Palestinians and their property, but the way to achieve this is via criminal proceedings and not administrative orders that are based on confidential information. Continue reading "ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION ORDERS AGAINS JEWISH NATIONALISTS" Thursday, September 22. 2011NEW YEAR'S GREETING SHANA TOVA 5772
By Bernard J. Shapiro Freeman Center For Strategic Studies September 22, 2011 My Dear Subscribers and Lovers of Zion, Another year has passed and we find Israel in a more perilous situation than any year since the War of Independence. The Israel Defense Forces are powerful and fully capable of destroying all enemies. But there is a mighty force that prevents the activation of this force to protect the People of Israel. That force is a polititical, media, judicial, secret service, border police and left wing military elite, who have chosen to permit Arab terrorist to gain dominance in our Holy Land. They deliberately prosecute, persecute and destroy the Builders of Zion and turn a blind eye to the pervasive theft of the Land of Israel by terrorists. When an Arab attacks a Jew, the Jew is prosecuted for defending himself. The Arab goes free to harass, steal and attack more Jews in the future. There is no deterrence. They laugh at the Jews, like the Nazis did during the Holocaust, as they striped them naked and marched them to their death. I will not be silent as the Israel, we prayed for over 2000 years, is destroyed by week and incompetent leadership. Leadership that has lost the Zionist passion of the Maccabees, Bar Kochba, Ben Gurion, Jabotinzky, Stern and Kahane. On this Rosh HaShona, may the Almighty give strength to his People Israel and courage to fight for survival, even if everyone in the World is against them. May the friends of the Freeman Center be blessed with Health, Love, Prosperity, Security and Peace.......Bernard PS. Attached are the Hardback and paper covers (also E-book) of my new book, due out on Amazon before Chanukah and Christmas. Friday, September 16. 2011LET'S VOTE FOR INDEPENDENCE!!
By Steven Plaut Freeman Center For Strategic Studies September 16, 2011 As you know, much of the world is getting ready to recognize a state for Palestinians in coming days. The US may veto the vote in the Security Council to set up Palestine in Israeli lands, and then again maybe it will not veto it. Other countries are going ahead with plans to vote for Palestine in the General Assembly, to grant Palestine embassy space, to grant it formal recognition, and so on. After years of paying lip service to the righteous need for granting Palestinians a state, Netanyahu and his cowardly crew are scratching their heads about what to do and how to stop all this. The best Bibi has come up with is a plan to give a speech in that building on the East River near 42nd street. Continue reading "LET'S VOTE FOR INDEPENDENCE!!" Thursday, August 18. 2011PAYING AN INSTALLMENT ON THE TERRORISM BILL
by David Basch Freeman Center For Strategic Studies August 18, 2011 "Tit for tat responses by Israel -- the standard Israeli response to attack -- is merely an encouragement of the enemy." Israel this morning is paying another installment on the bill she incurred when she surrendered Gaza to the enemy and enabled Gaza to become a dangerous Arab military base. This fact needs to be called loudly to the attention of Israelis, who are among the most liberal, ideologically obsessed persons on earth. They have all too often followed the rosy line of the leftists that have led the nation to blunder after blunder, surrendering land, diplomatic posture, and moral standing. Confidence in the leftist way should have already been scuttled by its dismal failures. Continue reading "PAYING AN INSTALLMENT ON THE TERRORISM BILL" Friday, June 10. 2011800 POUND GORILLA IN THE ROOM
by David Basch Freeman Center For Strategic Studies June 10, 2011 "Unless Israel's people and government wake up immediately to the Arab knife being brought ever closer to the Israeli throat and develop effective tactics for Israel's survival ... through bringing the Arab war deep into enemy strongholds and denying him the means and the strategic position to defeat Israel, the dangerous possibilities of Israeli defeat forever linger. But the needed Israeli action can only be undertaken when Israel wakes up to the implacable nature of the enemy, ..." What supporter of Israel can have confidence in the Jewish State if up to this date the country refuses to recognize the reality of the 800 pound gorilla in the room, that the Arab goal is to destroy Israel? In that context, it is evident that the Arab enemy uses negotiations only as a means to further that deadly goal. That enemy tactic has worked splendidly for the Arabs, giving them a steady stream of step by step Israeli surrenders without the Arabs themselves having to make a single concession to Israel. It is not reassuring to contemplate that Israel remains in a perpetual strategic fog, unable to recognize the deadly aim of its Arab adversary. Failing to recognize this, Israel continually rejects decisive action against the enemy since it fears an angry Arab reaction that will foreclose what is the delusional possibility of a peace agreement. Continue reading "800 POUND GORILLA IN THE ROOM"
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Friday, May 13. 2011LEARNING FROM THE PAST
by David Bash Freeman Center For Strategic Studies May 13, 2011 "Has Israel at this point gone over the edge, beyond recouping the conditions of "secure and recognized borders" agreed to in UN Resolution 242,...?" Shimon Peres demonstrates that political views are more related to character than to facts. Given a personal character obsessed to be more righteous than any biblical divinity, the resulting views are correspondingly bizarre, going against necessities for defense and long term self preservation. That is the lesson we may learn from Peres's career. to prove this, just check out Peres's views as revealed in a recent interview in the Jerusalem Post. Continue reading "LEARNING FROM THE PAST" Monday, May 9. 2011ISRAEL INDEPENDENCE AFTER 63 YEARS
by Bernard J. Shapiro Freeman Center For Strategic Studies May 9, 2011 No one should fool themselves into thinking that giving the Arabs of Judea and Samaria Jordanian citizenship would solve anything in the long run. Jordan is not as friendly (population wise) as we are led to believe. Though the government is helpful and friendly, that could change in the blink of an eye. Should American troops leave Iraq and it falls to Iran, the consequences would be severe for Israel. With Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza under Iranian control, it could easily extend its reach to Jordan and the Judean-Samarian ridge overlooking Israel's vulnerable coast. My Bottom Line (Conclusion) Israel's central problem is psychological and no amount of beautiful rhetoric and wonderful proposals can change that. When will the Nationalist Camp realize that we are "at war already" with the PLO/Hamas/Hezbollah supporting tyranny (the LEFT) that rules Israel? At what point will Israelis realize that the CIVIL WAR they fear, IS ALREADY TAKING PLACE AND THEY ARE LOSING? When will the true Zionists take over Israel and rid the country of the Arab and Jewish traitors. After 2000 years of homelessness, we are privaliged in this generation to see a new and productive Jewish State. Why do we let these evildoers threaten to take it from our hands. Continue reading "ISRAEL INDEPENDENCE AFTER 63 YEARS" Thursday, May 5. 2011FREEMAN CENTER DISGUSTED AT BIBI GROVELING BEFORE ANTI-SEMITES OF EUROPE
by Bernard J. Shapiro Freeman Center For Strategic Studies May 5, 2011 When I founded the Freeman Center back in 1992, I gave a copy of Bibi's book, A PLACE AMONG THE NATIONS, everyone joining. I was very impressed at the clear understanding of history and the Jewish place in it. I especially appreciated the chapter on Czechoslovakia and how it related to the current Arab-Israeli issues. Now, we see the pitiful image of Israel's PM running after the princes of Europe hat in hand. Does he have no pride? Does he not know how powerful Israel is really? Has he not read the articles of Paul Eidelberg and Yoram Ettinger broadcast here for the world to see? Despite protestations of Israel's Supreme Court of the Arab People (and not Jews), there is NO SUCH THING AS INTERNATIONAL LAW!!! The only thing that has ever mattered in world history is POWER. Machiavelli knew it. So did Lao Tsu, Muhammed, Pol Pot, Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Mao, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. Power can be used for good or evil. The defense of Israel and the Jewish People is the most righteous use of power in the course of human history. Continue reading "FREEMAN CENTER DISGUSTED AT BIBI GROVELING BEFORE ANTI-SEMITES OF EUROPE" Wednesday, May 4. 2011THINGS TO COME? WILL ISRAEL SURVIVE?
by David Basch Freeman Center For Strategic Studies May 4, 2011 "To the clear eyed, two states living peacefully side-by-side in what has been Israeli controlled Mandate of Palestine territories has been a figment of the imagination. The Arabs had wanted a new state only as a stop-gap on the way to the elimination of Israel...." "One must live in dread of the proposals that Netanyahu will be presenting to the US Congress in days ahead." What I think I see developing before my eyes is the birth of a new Arab state on Israel's lands. Israel's Leftists and their collaborators -- which include Netanyahu -- will at long last be achieving their dream. Once upon a time they had dreamed of a Jewish state living in safety and security on their ancestral lands, but, this in the last decades, this had given way to their powerful and exciting dream of a new Arab state. Continue reading "THINGS TO COME? WILL ISRAEL SURVIVE?" Thursday, April 28. 2011DANGEROUS MYTHS THAT REMAIN
by David Basch Freeman Center For Strategic Studies April 27, 2011 "How anyone can conclude that carving out an Arab nation from the unalloted lands of the Mandate of Palestine that Israel today controls is a recipe for peace is every bit as nonsensical as the other theory that Palestine is the core problem of the Middle East region...." "Who in his right mind thinks that surrendering nationhood to the Palestinian Arabs would end the many decades of Arab strife? " "I do not know what Dr. Asa Kasher smokes but, if we analyze his view, he has no basis for concluding that the Arabs that Israel confronted in 1948 have a right to a state...." Continue reading "DANGEROUS MYTHS THAT REMAIN" SATIRE - PEACE AT LAST
by Steven Plaut Freeman Center For Strategic Studies April 28, 2011 It was in the year 2013. The Israelis at long last gave up their attempts to resist the pressures of the world. Their newly elected national unity government approved the plan. The Palestinians, led by a coalition of the PLO and the Hamas, had already earlier announced the creation of a Palestinian state. Israels Left had been holding weekly protests in support of Palestinian statehood. When the UN had officially and unanimously called for such a state, even the United States of Barack Obama voted in favor. The national unity government of Israel announced that Israel was willing to accept the unanimous UN proposal for peace, supported by every single country in the world. Israel would return to its pre-1967 borders, remove all Jewish settlements from the territories of the new state of Palestine, recognize Palestine, and grant Palestine all of East Jerusalem, that is, all of the city located east of a line running north-south through Zion Square, renamed Martyrs Square. Continue reading "SATIRE - PEACE AT LAST" Sunday, April 24. 2011FATEFUL DECISION COMING FOR ISRAEL
by David Basch Freeman Center For Strategic Studies April 24, 2011 "The question is whether PM Netanyahu's next proposal will mark a new direction in negotiation -- one that walks Israel back from earlier surrender agreements that should be declared nul and void on grounds of the perfidious performance of the Arab enemy." It has been PM Netanyahu's unhappy lot that he has been the one called on to make fateful decisions for Israel and the Jewish people. Maybe that statment should be corrected that it is Israel and the Jewish people's unhappy lot that it is he that is called on to decide these issues for them. Reflecting on what has happened, he has not done well for them. One need only recall that in his first term as PM, elected to stand fast on behalf of Israel against the Oslo process that was delivering Israel into the hands of those that sought to destroy the nation, he failed to stop it in its tracks and even expanded it by contributing the early surrender of additional large portions of Hebron to the Arabs. A decade later, after running on another right wing program, he became the first Israeli leader to subscibe to a Palestinian State. Leading up to this, he was also for the surrender of Gaza, the very surrender that brought Israel's southern cities under Arab bombardment. Continue reading "FATEFUL DECISION COMING FOR ISRAEL" Sunday, April 3. 2011DEFENSE VS. OFFENSE - BARAK VS. SHAPIRO
They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth... ...Plato
"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see." ... Ayn Rand ====================== TWO ARTICLES: DEFENSE VS. OFFENSE DM EHUD BARAK VS. BERNARD J. SHAPIRO Barak has raised the idea of a separation between the PA and Israel. It is not a new idea and as far back as 1995 I explained why it won't work. Here is that article. Today in 2011 his big "idea" is missile shields. They won't work either. Anit-missiles systems are very expensive and the terrorists can keep producing thousands of cheap missiles to overwhelm them. SEPARATION & SECURITY FENCES The Primary Fallacy By Bernard J. Shapiro (1995) Freeman Center For Strategic Studies The Maccabean Online The idea of separation has much appeal to an Israeli population feeling threat0ened daily by hostile Arabs. The Israeli government recently advanced an elaborate plan to construct hi-tech fences and new military checkpoints between Israel and the Palestinian West Bank in an effort to reduce the risk of militant violence. Israeli security officials brought the plan before the Knesset a day after Islamic extremists opened fire on an Israeli bus near the West Bank town of Hebron, killing two Jewish settlers and wounding five. The separation plan involves building extensive fences, other barriers and restricting Palestinian access into Israel through eight to ten crossings points. The border would be heavily patrolled by Israeli soldiers and police. Cost estimates range from $300 million to $500 million. An economic report on the draft plan said the cost would be too high and separation would lead to political and economic instability in the PLO areas, perhaps intensifying the danger of attacks from opponents of the Israeli-PLO peace process. Analysts such as Dore Gold, Emanuel Winston and Ze'ev Schiff have discussed many of the reasons why it simply won't work. For another reason why it is the wrong approach to security, it is worth repeating a story I wrote, which appeared in an article entitled, DETERRENCE OR DHIMMIZATION (THE MACCABEAN, January 1995): Back in 1965, in a small meeting room in Tel Aviv, former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan gave a pep talk to a group of RAFI (Rishimat Poalai Israel) volunteers, myself included. At that time, RAFI, a breakaway faction of the Mapai Party, included such notables as former Prime Minister David Ben Gurion and former Defense Minister Shimon Peres. Peres and Dayan had been considered the "hawks" of Mapai and it was no accident that in the 1965 election they supported a strong defense and security policy. Continue reading "DEFENSE VS. OFFENSE - BARAK VS. SHAPIRO" Monday, February 21. 2011MORE COMMENTS OF A FRUSTRATED ZIONIST
By Bernard J. Shapiro Freeman Center For Strategic Studies www.freeman.org February 21, 2011 How Israel Should Respond to Recognition of PA The Israeli policy of expressing regret as country after country recognizes the terrorist PA as a legitimate country is foolish. [See article below:] Such a country, ripped from the heart of Israel is both an economic absurdity, but a serious and existential threat to Israel's survival. WHAT IS A PROPER RESPONSE FOR A SELF RESPECTING NATION: 1. Withdraw Israeli ambassador and expel that countries ambassador 2. Immediately renounce OSLO, re-occupy YESHA and launch a new military offensive to root out terrorists 3. And finally annex YESHA and make the whole recognition problem mute. HOW ISRAEL SHOULD RESPOND TO IRANIAN WARSHIPS OFF THE COAST 1. Very simple, sink them preemptively 2. No warnings, no threats, no words like "unfortunate, provocative" 3. Just sink them and let their ambassador to Israel complain to the FM and PM. Oh I forgot, they don't recognize Israel, so who cares. 4. If the UN takes up the issue then withdraw from the UN and expel all UN personel from Israeli territory.Who needs that anti-Semitic organization 5. If the US, EU, or Arab/Muslim Nations complain then respond by sending them a short not. It should say: This is the NEW ISRAEL. Wild and Crazy so you had better not MESS WITH US. It is a great slogan for Texas ("Don't Mess With Texas"), why not Israel. Watch our deterence level shoot up. In a rough neighborhood like the Middle East, it is always better to be feared than loved. ================================ Continue reading "MORE COMMENTS OF A FRUSTRATED ZIONIST" Sunday, February 20. 2011SHAPIRO COMMENTS ON ETTINGER -Israel America's Unique Ally
SHAPIRO COMMENTS ON ETTINGER -Israel America's Unique Ally
by Bernard J. Shapiro Greeman Center For Strategic Studies February 20, 2011 As always Yoram Ettinger writes a clear and well researched article. No one can improve on what he does. My complaint is more political and strategic. Most of us know about how important Israel is to America. That will never change the 100 years of hostility to Jews and Israel by the US State Department, CIA, NSA, Justice Department and especially the current White House. 1. Given all the facts enumerated below, why doesn't Ettinger NOT DEMAND that America treat Israel as a strategic ally and NOT "banana repuplic." 2. And more important, why have Israeli and Jewish leaders groveled before the US like the weak ghetto Jews of the past. Back in pre WWll days Ze'ev Jabotinsky understood the strategic needs of the Jewish People both in Europe but also in Israel. His ideas harkened back to the great Israelite warriors who conquered Eretz Yisrael (Israel) during biblical times. Leaders like Joshua, David, The Maccabees, Shinshon, and Bar Kochba.He was silenced by the organized Jewish leadership. After his death in 1940 was maliciously barred from burial in Israel until Menachem Begin was elected in the late 1970's. During, days still fresh enough for me to remember, new warriors emerged to fight for Israel. Though they had many flaws (we all do), people like David Ben Gurion, Menachem Begin, Avraham Stern, Ariel Sharon and Moshe Dayan and Yoni Netanayhu led the country to many victories on the battlefield. Others like Moshe Arens, Rabbi Meir Kahane zl and Herb Zweibon zl (AFSI) and Moton Klien (ZOA), Emanuel A. Winston fought their battles for Israel on the political front. Caroline Glick, Prof. Paul Eidelberg, Steven Plaut, Helen Freedman (AFSI), Nadia and Ruth Matar (Women in Green) have fought both on the ground and politically. Continue reading "SHAPIRO COMMENTS ON ETTINGER -Israel America's Unique Ally" Thursday, January 27. 2011ANOTHER ARAB RUSE IN THE MAKING?
by David Basch Freeman Center For Strategic Studies January 26, 2011 "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. But ..." Learning from reports that Israeli governments have been in communication with Arab leaders, who are reported as desiring peace -- now where have I heard that before? -- is not any report that I can be hopeful about. I certainly don't trust the Arabs and certainly not Israeli leaders who, time and again, are led on the basis of Arab promises to drop Israel's guard. After all, did not old Yassir promise the leftist negotiators and Rabin that he wanted peace? And what happened? On the basis of Yassir's encouraging words, Israel brought that terrorist and his whole terrorist Arab army back to Israel, set them up in control of enclaves and gave them all kinds of Israeli aid, so that they could strike against Israel, producing intifadas and dead and maimed Israelis galore. Continue reading "ANOTHER ARAB RUSE IN THE MAKING?"
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Friday, January 21. 2011TRIBUTE TO HERB ZWEIBON z"l (of blessed memory)
TRIBUTE TO HERB ZWEIBON z"l (of blessed memory)
FREEMAN CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES Bernard J. Shapiro JEWISH COMMUNITY OF HEBRON David Wilder [Freeman Center Note]: I woke up at 3:AM CST feeling something was wrong. I went to my computer and was shocked to read the tribute below to Herb Zweibon z"l (of blessed memory) by David Wilder. Herb was a dear friend of mine and not just a perpetual inspiration. We first met in 1990 at an AFSI National meeting in New York. Though a long time Zionist, Herb presented me with a coherent serious Zionist ideology with out the wishy washy fuzziness of other Jewish Organizations. From that day forward, AFSI and I were in sync. I founded and AFSI chapter in Houston (1990) and then started the Freeman Center For Strategic Studies in 1993. Herb became a member of the Freeman Center's Board of Directors and I was on the Board of AFSI. We worked together for Eretz Yisrael. When upset or depressed at the foolish and dangerous events in the world and Israel, I would frequently call Herb. Herb always took the time to talk to me and keep me motivated. If we need money to keep operating, Herb always would send me a generous check. Jabotinsky and Shmuel Katz were his intellectual and ideological teachers, but Herb was mine. I loved him and will miss him more than words can say....... .......Bernard J. Shapiro, Chairman Freeman Center For Strategic Studies www.freeman.org Continue reading "TRIBUTE TO HERB ZWEIBON z"l (of blessed memory)" Wednesday, January 19. 2011STEPHENS VS. MAKOVSKY
by David Basch Freeman Center For Strategic Studies January 18, 2011 "Makovsky titillated the primarily religious, right wing OU audience with seeming insider, off-the-record, information that allegedly showed that currently unelected Arab leaders secretly want peace with Israel." "I gathered from the session that peace for Israel is difficult indeed since even Bret Stephens could not chart a safe and secure path to such a future ..." On Sunday, January 16, at the yearly OU convention, Bret Stephens, a senior editor at Wall Street Journal, faced off against kippah wearing David Makovsky, a former, journalist, now a member of some U.S. affiliated, foreign policy think tank, on US policy concerning Israel. (Makovsky would say his organization is independent but we know better -- more about that later.) Stephens was great. He presented in depth the why-s and wheres of mistaken Obama policy on Israel. In general, Stephens observed that the Arab side has over many prior decades shown no willingness to make peace and isn't turning over a new leaf today; Israel should be wary about letting its guard down since any tamping down of hostilities is the result of Israeli actions and policies, not Arab; Obama yet presses Israel to not build its communities on its lands beyond the unofficial, so-called "green line" as somehow against peace; this while the Arabs keep moving aggressively against Israel at every turn; etc, etc. Continue reading "STEPHENS VS. MAKOVSKY" Sunday, January 2. 2011MORE ILLUSIONS: VICTORY THROUGH SURRENDER
by David Basch (December 30, 2010) Freeman Center For Strategic Studies "What is the road to Israel's survival? It is certainly not ceding her strategic territory to Arabs who want to destroy her. However, the dilemma seems to be that not ceding land locks in a growing and hostile Arab population within her boundaries...." "The ends of securing Israel and her people justify Israel's strong action, instead of jumping through the hoops of suicide that is advocated by others...." Paul Gross in his recent article, "If we don't act, they will," - JPost -12.28.10) advocates appeasing the Arab side in the hope of attaining peace for Israel. In this, he is continuing a policy that has moved Israel downhill for decades after the 1967 War -- all for the sake of the illusion that the Arabs want peace and are willing to accept an Israel that they think they can destroy. Gross imagines that these appeasements which have weakened Israel will win Israel friends when experience shows they do not. Continue reading "MORE ILLUSIONS: VICTORY THROUGH SURRENDER"
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Tuesday, December 21. 2010We hold these WikiTruths. . . ."
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By Mark Langfan, December 12, 2010 Freeman Center For Strategic Studies "We hold these WikiTruths to be self-evident, that all countries (except for the Islamic Republic of Turkey) fear, even, a non-nuclear Iran, that they are all endowed by the United States of America with the right to survive . . .well, maybe at least until next week." There has been "shock and awe" that the Sunni Arab states of Saudi Arabia and Egypt are absolutely convinced, and actually "obsessively" fear that the Iranian/Persian Shiites intend to wipe these Sunni arab states out of existence as completely as Iran intends to wipe out the Israel. The reality and practical consequences of this simple WikiTruth axiom has far from settled into the rarified airs of Western policy elites. In fact, some ersatz journalists and pundits still write articles as if we still live in a pre-Wikileaks "reality." To all the Sunni Arab States, Russia, and the entire West, the reality is that there really is a grave waxing Iranian threat. For the United States not to immediately recalculate all its foreign and order of battle security policy from this inescapable WikiTruth in 2010 is as "delusional" and fatal to world peace as was the belief that somehow Hitler wasnt a grave and imminent threat to world peace in 1939. This WikiTruth of the Iranian/Persian Eastern threat has two immediate consequences that explain two otherwise unexplainable events: Firstly, Abbas "pre-condition" of a total Israeli settlement freeze, and secondly, Obamas euthanization, and proper burial of the "Peace Process." Two years ago, both were inconceivable, but today both are the undeniable reality. Continue reading "We hold these WikiTruths. . . ."" Friday, December 17. 2010TO FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS OF THE FREEMAN CENTER
P.O. Box 35661 Houston, Texas 77235-5661 Phone or Fax: 713-723-6016 E-mail: email@example.com OUR WEB SITE (URL): < www.freeman.org> THE MACCABEAN ONLINE: URL:http:// www.freeman. org/online. htm Freeman Center Blog http://www. freeman.org/ serendipity / ============= Ignorance Is Weakness - Know The Truth Self-Inflicted Ignorance Is Suicide The Freeman Center Is A Defense Against Ignorance ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is the perfect time to make a gift of EDUCATION FOR JEWISH SURVIVAL The Freeman Center has been your source of 'pull no punches' discussion and education about the HARSH REALITIES facing Israel and the Jewish Peope for almost 20 years. PLEASE KEEP OUR VOICE STRONG It is a Mitzvah!! =============== TO FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS OF THE FREEMAN CENTER AND LOVERS OF ZION EVERYWHERE December 15, 2010 Since the emergence of Iran and its terrorist subcontractors like Hizbollah, Hamas, Fatah and Syria, Israel has faced serious military threats near and inside its borders. Irans development of nuclear weapons has created an existential threat to Israel. Meanwhile, another threat against Israel has emerged: the ongoing attempt to de-legitimize Israel in the international community and on universities campuses here and abroad. Continue reading "TO FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS OF THE FREEMAN CENTER" Monday, November 15. 2010PREEMPTION OR DESTRUCTION - Which Should Israel Choose?
Which Should Israel Choose? By Bernard J. Shapiro Freeman Center For Strategic Studies November 15, 2010 Israel has been swept with Arab violence and terrorism since the late 19th century. Israeli Prime Ministers have tried but failed to stem the tide. Ariel Sharon, well know for his tough tactics in quelling terrorism in Gaza in the 70's, has also failed. Back in 1965, in a small meeting room in Tel Aviv, former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan gave a pep talk to a group of RAFI (Rishimat Poalai Israel) volunteers, myself included. At that time, RAFI, a breakaway faction of the Mapai Party, included such notables as former Prime Minister David Ben Gurion and former Defense Minister Shimon Peres. Peres and Dayan had been considered the "hawks" of Mapai and it was no accident that in the 1965 election they supported a strong defense and security policy. Dayan was always interesting to listen to, but this talk was something special and we paid attention to every word. "The essence of Israel's security in this region (Middle East) is deterrence," he said. "When we formed the State in 1948-9, we were very weak. The Arab States had planes, tanks, heavy artillery and many more soldiers than us. We had very little heavy military equipment. In the period 1949-55, we absorbed almost a million immigrants. Tent cities sprung up all over the country. We were totally disorganized. Had the Arabs mounted another major invasion, we could have lost. We devised a solution to this problem. It was deterrence. Think about being lost in a forest and surrounded by hostile animals. If you light a torch, boldly approach them showing no fear -- they will retreat. But, if you show fear -- they will attack and you are lost. We used this principle to save Israel during those early years. Every time we were attacked, we retaliated ten fold. We showed daring and penetrated deep within their borders to attack our targets. We were fearless, brave, and even a bit bloodthirsty. You know the result. The Arabs were afraid and never attacked. Deterrence worked. By 1956 when we invaded Sinai, the Israel Defense Force was not just strong, it was invincible." Continue reading " PREEMPTION OR DESTRUCTION - Which Should Israel Choose?" Tuesday, October 19. 2010SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT Reflections of a Frustrated Zionist
Reflections of a Frustrated Zionist by Bernard J. Shapiro Freeman Center For Strategic Studies October 19, 2010 I am getting increasingly frustrated with the constant repetition of the same mistakes in Israel, year after year. Is there no learning curve for Israeli leaders, politicians, and lets face the Leftist public? Why do we debate the obvious, like does the Land of Israel belong to us. Some other important questions: 1. Why do we negotiate with Abbas, Obama, the UN, the Eu, Egypt, Jordan or any other anti Israel nations, leader, or institutions. JUST SAY NO! They are all short change artists as I wrote about many years ago. Please read. DONT PLAY WITH THE SHORT CHANGE ARTIST Or Why One Shouldnt Make Redeployment MapsBy Bernard J. Shapiro From an editorial in the January 1998 issue of THE MACCABEAN ONLINE During my 23 years as owner of House of Books in Houston, I learned many valuable lessons. One in particular seems to have an application to the current situation in Israel. Let me explain: In 1978, the store was victimized by a short change artist. One of my clerks was at the register when a well dressed gentleman approached with a paperback book costing $2.95. He gave her a $20 bill and then began a back and forth exchange of money. In the end, the bookstore lost about $60. I called the Houston police department and requested that an officer come to the store and brief my employees on how to prevent this crime from happening again. The officer came and told us a little story. It seems that Johnny Carson once asked a short change artist to come to his show and try to fool him while he was fully alert to what was going down. The criminal had no problem and his skill marveled the audience. Continue reading "SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT Reflections of a Frustrated Zionist" Monday, October 18. 2010GAZA INVASION ARMADA
by Emanuel A. Winston Freeman Center Analyst & Commentator Freeman Center For Strategic Studies October 18, 2010 Reports indicate that another sea armada of perhaps more than 10 ships will sail from the Syrian port of Latakia where it has been docked for the last 12 days. The main ship in (what they call) the "Viva Palestina" convoy has 380 activists from 42 countries, 147 vehicles and $5 million in medical aid. Their declared mission is to break Israels arms blockade of Hamas in Gaza. [Latest news: One ship has already docked in Egypt as of Sunday October 17th.] These so-called activists are what Vladimir Lenin called useful idiots who were carrying the Communist Manifesto. Todays useful idiots are the Islamic sympathizers who are ready to be used by Hamas and HezbAllah. To view their "real" purposes, look at their own diary (listed below - footnote #1) of the propaganda parade through 3000 miles by land, and the rallies held at each stop. If you can tolerate the full onslaught of their propaganda, their own diary is quite damning. The propaganda campaign that Gaza Muslim Arab Palestinians under Hamas rule have been deprived of food and medicine has been disproved by foreign eye-witnesses, still and video photographs of the Gaza markets full of food, the water parks, the villas and other luxurious living of the "poor Palestinians". The only purpose of Israels legal blockade of Gaza to incoming foreign ships is to deny Hamas the free-flow of major weaponry. However, weapons coming from Syria and Iran continue to be smuggled in through hundreds of tunnels starting in Egypts Sinai Desert. Continue reading "GAZA INVASION ARMADA" Tuesday, October 12. 2010MUSLIMS ATTACK JEWS; JEWS NOT ALLOWED TO ACT IN SELF-DEFENSE
by Gail Winslow Freeman Center Analyst & Commentator Freeman Center For Strategic Studies Freeman Center Broadcast - October 12, 2010 The Muslim Arab Palestinians in Jerusalem grow bolder in their attacks on Jewish civilian drivers, men, pregnant women even children and those who are simply strolling. However, the Police, under the orders of Israels current Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, arrest the first Jewish victim they see at the scene. The Arab Muslims accept this encouragement as permission to attack Jews whenever they wish, knowing that Barak, Israels Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Leftist Courts as well as the Leftist Media will side with them. Perhaps a time will come when the Quislings in the Israeli government will be kicked out and a Peoples Court will be established to try them for their crimes against their own people. I recall an old saying during the years of the Muslim Ottoman Turks rule who treated the Jews cruelly. The saying of that time goes: Kill a Turk and take a rest. The message, I suppose, was: Dont harm me and I wont harass you. But, those evil times are returning as the Arab Muslims take the place of the Turkish Muslims. Regrettably, although the Jews have returned to the Land of their Patriarchs and Matriarchs, many of our own leaders plead for mercy from the very Arab Muslims whom they had to fight and beat in seven wars and continual, ongoing Terrorism. Granted, not all Jewish leaders sniveled, whined and apologized for living and daring to live and fight back. Now, too many of these Jewish leaders play the role models of a beaten people, instead of standing tall as honest victors in a sea of Jew-hating Muslim Arabs. They instruct the Police to harass Jews especially if they are forced to defend themselves even against Muslim Arab lynch mobs. Israels soldiers have been made fearful of defending themselves with lethal force lest the corrupt and biased Leftist Courts put them on trial for acting in self-defense and defense of their countrymen, women and children who are endangered. Continue reading "MUSLIMS ATTACK JEWS; JEWS NOT ALLOWED TO ACT IN SELF-DEFENSE"
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I didn't really like the ending theme at first but then the more i listened, the more i grew to like it, especially when the fast music suddenly stops in the middle and changes into a beautiful slow tune sung by Faye Wong! Sadly though, the rest of the tunes and background music for the series isn't all that great. I was actually hoping to hear some fantastic piece for the "XAJH musical piece" I would say that out of all the ZJZ-JY adaptations, LOCH still has the best music.
I thought the first 10 episodes were alright but things started to really pick up after that, especially after RYY appears proper. Surprisingly, LYP was a pretty good LHC. He looked better and acted alot more natural as opposed to in LOCH, dont know what happened with GJ. Xu Qing was an excellent RYY (so beautiful, lovable and complex) and so was Wei Zi as the hypocritical Yue Buqun. In fact, Im really pleased with almost all the actors; this series had a really strong cast, probably the strongest, as opposed to ZJZ's later JY adaptations.
Trying to hunt for the DVD when i have time since i watched it online and the quality was pretty bad, which is a pity since the sceneries looked wonderful.
Last edited by sunnysnow; 08-29-07 at 10:39 AM.
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You finally got around to watching it
I hope you enjoyed it. This remains my favourite of ZJZ's productions. I'm sure i would have enjoyed ROCH if they had this kind of chemistry.
The only main character i remember not liking was the girl who played Yue Ling Shan. I thought she was a bit stiff.
Ren Ying Ying was the highlight of the series
I love the cast in here, though ultimately, i still find LOCH ZJZ's best JY-series with the exception of a couple of actors in there. Somehow, the editing, story-flow, music, cinematography, fighting, overall styling etc. in LOCH appealed more to me, though i might be biased since LOCH was the first ZJZ JY-adpatation i viewed. And possibly because i viewed LOCH on good quality DVDs while the quality of XAJH i watched online was rather crappy. I have a feeling I'll love XAJH even more if i get a chance to view it proper on DVD.
Nonetheless, XAJH'01 has the best cast ever. I thought everyone did fine jobs, Yue Lingshan was alright to me, never really bothered much about her character anyway (somewhat like Mu Nianci). Yilin was good as well but basically all the female characters, and possibly even the male ones, paled in comparison to Xu Qing's RYY. LYP was a total contrast in here (in a positive way) as opposed to in LOCH. I actually found his LHC likeable, though lacking somewhat in the playful/humourous department. But i thought the scenes in the middle where he disguises as the General Wu really good!
BTW, ROCH is no match for XAJH imo. Overdose of sickening love scenes btw the leads, over-decoration, too much drama, playing and messing about with supposedly "deep" metaphors/imagery, silly music and horrible editing made it one of the worse JY series for me. Didn't help that they did not make use of the strong supporting cast and decided to cut many of their scenes (esp that of LWS's!) so as to fill the series with more love scenes btw YG and XLN.
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HAH!! Sunnysnow finally watched XAJH. You should get the DVD version as I believe the vcd version had bad editing. I own 2 vcd sets and 1 DVD and I think the DVD is more complete.
This is my fav JY/ZJZ production and the music and songs are all original.
ROCH is, imo, the worse piece of crap ZJZ had ever produced.
The editing is rather bad at certain parts, especially several of the earlier episodes, which makes the story flow awkward at times. BTW, i think i mentioned this before but i've tried searching for XAJH'01 in s'pore stores since ages ago. Too bad none of the video stores i've come across carry the series, not even in VCD!! I've even tried some stores when i was in KL but no luck
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I ordered my vcd and DVD sets from YESASIA. Check http://chineseshows.blogspot.com/2007/07/xajh-2001.html for my review of XAJH and links to the DVD set at YESASIA. The DVD is smooth unlike the vcd.
SG only had it when the show was first released but only at pasar malam stalls.
Did you get the H-DVD edition which was just released this year? Am thinking of getting that one.
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Yeah i was confused by the comments regarding the cutting of scenes at first but i gather tt those comments were not for the HD-DVD edition but for some other edition (Yesasia carries a couple of different versions for this series) because before the list of comments, it's stated that there are no comments for this edition (the HD-DVD one) yet. Plus those comments were dated 2005 whereas this HD-DVD edition is stated to have been released only in Feb this year.
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It is really cheap, the US edition costs around twice the amt or more. This edition costs ard US$24 in total after shipping etc (just placed my order for the HD-DVD edition) which translates to about S$36 or $37, which is about the price of the usual mainland edition DVDs i get in stores here. Usually an old title like this will cost around S$29.90-S$39.90 in stores here.
Anyway, there are taiwanese editions in NTSC format for roughly the same price as well:
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Unfortunately it isn't available thru YesAsia US which is where us folks in North America have to order through.
There was even a great deal on the three volume Romance of the Three Kingdoms which also isn't available for us. The Global YesAsia site lets you get all the way thru the checkout procedure before you get the bad news.
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Have you tried Amazon.com, which you can probably find the releasing version of Knight Mediacom (http://www.knightmedia.com/). There they released the serie under the title "Laughing in the Wind" in four DVDs where there are 10 episodes on each DVD.
Haha my version as per my blog contains 6 discs and I do not experience any disjointed editing that I found in my vcd set.
i noticed on some uploaded subtitled videos, there's a caption underneath the title writing "the magic swords of ling"...there are just so many things wrong with that line!
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By Scott Springer•email@example.com Bethel-Tate In Division II regional track action at Dayton's Welcome Stadium, the big news was Bethel-Tate junior Matthew Small won the high jump with a 6'4″. Sophomore Lauren Stacy finished third in the competition in the discus and fourth in the shot put to qualify for the state meet also. Stacy threw […]
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By Scott Springer • email@example.com FELICITY – After sitting home an extra day because of the ever-present area precipitation, Felicity-Franklin's undefeated softball team took on Bluffton in a Division IV regional semifinal game in Tipp City on May 27 and responded with an 8-0 victory. As she typically does, junior pitcher Montana Wear was dominant, […]
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By Scott Springer•firstname.lastname@example.com Going into their tournament game against Cedarville, Felicity-Franklin softball coach Rob Wear's biggest concern wasn't so much about the game or the persistent precipitation. It was about scheduling. The original plan was if his Lady Cardinals beat Cedarville, they'd have to play Friday, May 20, the night of Felicity-Franklin's prom. Some interference […]
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Felicity-Franklin juniors Jacob Fry and Trevor Shouse's trip to the district tournament in Mason ended abruptly as the two were ousted in their opening match by the Kenton Ridge tandem of senior Ross Smith and freshman Sam Smith, 6-0, 6-0, on May 19. The Smiths proved to be a tough draw as they eventually advanced […]
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By Scott Springer • email@example.com The following Felicity-Franklin track athletes will move on to the regional meet in Troy as a result of their performances in the Division III district meet at New Richmond High School: 1) Junior Megan Obermeyer finished second in the discus with a throw of 88'2″ (first four in each event […]
Perfection is a state of 'Felicity'
05/10/11 at 11:09am by Scott Springer | Comments
By Scott Springer • firstname.lastname@example.com Felicity-Franklin junior Montana Wear pitched a perfect game May 9 against Blanchester winning 8-0. The win improved Wear's season record to 15-0. She then followed that up with a five-inning perfect game against Lockland winning 10-0 two days later. Going into tournament play, Wear was 16-0 and virtually untouchable. In […]
Felicity-Franklin battery ever ready
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By Scott Springer • firstname.lastname@example.com FELICITY – Felicity-Franklin's softball team has been running through the Southern Buckeye Conference and is poised to make another deep run in the tournament. Among Division II-IV teams, the Lady Cardinals are ranked No. 3 behind Clermont Northeastern and Mercy. While many have heard of the accomplishments of junior pitcher […]
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By Scott Springer • firstname.lastname@example.com Two of the best girls fast-pitch softball hurlers in the area are in Clermont County and both pitched no-hitters Friday, April 29. Against Milford, Kelley Benhase threw her seventh career no-hitter and whiffed 10 as the Lady Trojans won 1-0. Benhase also drove in the game's only run. It was […]
Blog of lists: Softball's diamonds on the mound
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The Community Press and Recorder sports reporters Nick Dudukovich, Tony Meale, Scott Springer and James Weber put together a list of pitchers and hitters they've covered in their beats who have stood out to them so far in softball. Be sure to add additional players of note in the comments section. The purpose of this […]
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The High School Mountain Biking League has seen initial participation numbers increase as the sport nears the beginning of its inaugural season. The league is part of the National Interscholastic Cycling Alliance (NCIA) and has over 300 students from 30 high schools inUtah, including Viewmont, Bountiful, Woods Cross and Davis High Schools.
"The beauty of the program is that no one rides the bench, everyone rides a bike," said Utah High School Cycling League Director Lori Harward. "We've seen so much enthusiasm from kids, coaches, teachers and parents it's amazing. And not only are these students getting on bikes, but other leagues have seen huge rates of fathers and mothers of these kids take up cycling."
With enough participation in south Davis County, the three high schools of Viewmont, Woods Cross and Bountiful are likely to team up athletes in order to make a single team. This is similar to the DCI hockey team, which has members from Woods Cross, Bountiful, Syracuse, Layton and Clearfield high schools participating on a single team.
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