Coping with terrorism through faith

Terrorism tries to sow panic and cause the public to give up. Israelis are finished with delusions of peace, so terrorism will not achieve its goal, but a rational, gradual, and realistic means of teaching the Torah view must be proposed.

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed

The writer is Head of Yeshivat Har Bracha and a prolific author on Jewish Law, whose works include the series on Jewish law "Pininei Halacha" and a popular weekly column "Revivim" in the Besheva newspaper. His books "The Laws of Prayer" "The Laws of Passover" and "Nation, Land, Army" are presently being translated into English. Other articles by Rabbi Melamed can be viewed at: www.yhb.org.il/1

The War on Arab Terror

People are very worried about the Arab terror raging in the streets. This is the goal of terrorism - attacking a few people and sowing panic among the public at large, causing them to surrender their assets and interests in hopes of gaining peace and quiet.

Even in the recent weeks in which terror has raised its evil head, more people were killed in traffic accidents, many of which could have been avoided. Despite this, the fear of terror is far greater than that of road accidents, because the terrible evil of acts of murder captures the mind and arouses fear and horror.

The Effect of Terrorism on the Left and Right

The goal of terrorism is to weaken our hold on the country; in practice however, its influence branches in different directions, according to the state of mind and moral fiber of those attacked.

There are some Jews who weren’t interested in living in Israel in the first place and fled here only because of the Holocaust and other troubles in the Diaspora. Terror petrifies and paralyzes many of them. They would be willing to accept any withdrawal or humiliation, just as long as the fear of terrorism is removed.

There are some Jews who go a step further – their hearts are drawn in a sick manner to the figure of the killer, striving to understand and justify the motives for his wickedness, hoping that perhaps in this way they will find a solution to the situation. In an effort to do so, they are forced to skew their moral viewpoint, as one can hear by listening to the Leftists.

And then there are Jews with a healthy moral consciousness for whom justice is imperative, those who are not willing or able to surrender to terrorism. The exact opposite – it spawns within them a reverse reaction, and a strong will to fight back.

The Division between Right and Left

In order to analyze the issue properly, it is important to first define the basic essentials. In practice, the dividing line between Jews for whom terrorism overpowers and compels them to concessions on land and rights, and those who terrorism triggers a desire to fight back is based on one’s attitude towards the Land of Israel.

Those Tending to the Left

Jews who tend to the Left never really wanted to immigrate to Israel in the first place, and only when the troubles in the Diaspora were about to drown them, did they decide to go. Some chose to immigrate to Israel and not move abroad to America or other foreign countries; some had no choice but to immigrate to Israel because no other country agreed to accept them. Consequently, the Holocaust for them is the supreme justification for the existence of the State of Israel. Their descendants live in Israel because they got used to the country and their friends and family are here as well. The majority of them have a certain connection to the Bible, the People and the Land, but they wouldn’t weep if fate somehow brought them to a Western country. For them, annual visits to Israel would suffice.

These are the Jews willing fall for any “peace” proposal. Even for the slightest chance of quiet they are willing to give up parts of the homeland. In exchange for a temporary lull in the international arena, they are willing to give up the basic fundamentals of sovereignty and Jewish identity.

Those Tending to the Right

Those tending to the right view immigration to Israel and the blossoming of its wilderness as a process of Redemption for the People and Land of Israel, based on the mitzvot of the Torah and Prophetic visions, or at very least, based on a national and historic mandate. True, most of them immigrated to Israel only after the troubles in the Diaspora increased dramatically. But after being forced to flee, they saw in the settling of the Land a phase of Redemption. The supreme justification of Israel's existence for them are the mitzvot of the Torah, or at very least, a national historic right.

These people are willing to sacrifice and pay the price in order to secure Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria. Only in a situation of absolute duress would they be prepared to withdraw; short of such circumstances, they would prefer suffering international condemnation and terrorism, and not retreat. Arab terror spurs them to fight back, and expand Jewish presence in the area.

Those in the Middle

The majority of the public is somewhere in the middle; they understand both the Right and the Left. Ideally, they prefer the approach of the Right, but for increased security would be inclined to lean to the Left. When such people are successfully deceived into thinking that withdrawals will bring peace, they are tempted to support the retreat. When they fail to be deceived, they will oppose withdrawals and violation of sovereignty.

A Cautious Assessment: Terrorism Will Fail

Presently, it appears that most of Israeli public leans to the Right - unfortunately, not thanks to a deepening of Jewish identity, but mainly because reality has refused to toe the line to the delusions of peace. Consequently, chances are the current wave of terror will not achieve its goal – on the contrary, it will strengthen Jewish identity and harm the Arabs who rise up against us.

The Security Question and Its Roots

It is interesting that when the two sides debate, they often gear themselves with security, economic, social and moral claims, without being aware of the roots of their arguments. When it comes down to it, those who are more firmly connected to the Torah, People, and Land of Israel find realistic arguments for settling the Land, while those who are not will find realistic claims for withdrawal.

The Path to Security

Invariably, over the long term, people who only worried about not dying faced greater harm than those who made an effort to live. For example, Jews in Europe were extremely worried for their lives. They felt the growing anti-Semitism, and tried to do anything to survive. However, since their main concern was how not to die, they feared making aliyah to Israel, because someone whose main desire is not to die is afraid to face reality and have the courage to do what it takes to increase his chances of survival. Therefore, when the Jews in Europe heard about Arab terrorism in Israel before WWII, they were afraid and remained in the Diaspora, and ultimately were harmed sevenfold.

In contrast, a person who wants to live and sees the meaning in his life dares to act even under risk and self-sacrifice to fulfill his life’s purpose. And if his actions are carried out within the framework of rational considerations, he is able to survive longer.

The same is true concerning illnesses: a person who is always worried about getting sick is usually more ill. In contrast, a person whose life is full of content is usually healthier.

When the primary desire of the Left is that the State of Israel not be harmed, it brings upon the country far more economic, social and securityproblems than the Right, who are not willing to give up on our national identity.

The Problem of the Faith-based Right

Recent years have proven that the Right was correct. Withdrawals did not increase security, rather, the exact opposite. The Arab world did not soften their views towards us, but instead became more radical. The Western world also stepped-up its delusional demands of us, despite all the concessions we already made.

Representatives of the faith-based Right foresaw all of this. So why is it that the public at large does not accept the positions of the faith-based Right? Why is the public still willing to listen to the nonsense of all the commentators and experts from academia and graduates of the intelligence community, chattering incessantly in the media? After all, it has been proven time and again how they embroiled governments in complicated and dangerous concessions, and have never been able to predict the future.

It appears the reason is that often, the faith-based Right proposes implausible suggestions based on wishful thinking and beliefs rather than on reality. The public fears that these irrational positions are liable to endanger their existence. Who knows? Faith-based leaders might suddenly decide to destroy the mosques on the Temple Mount and provoke a world war. Or maybe they’ll apply sovereignty over territories in Judea and Samaria while giving full citizenship to the Arabs living there. Or alternatively, maybe they will come out with a program of immediate deportation of most of the Arabs, causing the entire world to rise up against the State of Israel.

The various commentators indeed are always mistaken because they fail to understand the meaning of national identity and faith and therefore do not understand the motives of the enemy or the source of strength of the People of Israel. However, the information they provide is factual and solid, and their arguments are drawn from the here and now, without relying on miracles. Consequently, the public is willing to listen to them even though they do not trust their suggestions.

In such a situation, the public prefers the leadership of Prime Minister Netanyahu. Although he concerns himself mainly with survival, and only occasionally credits us with little flickers of faith, national achievements, and settling the land, nevertheless, his considerations are rational and based on solid reality, free of the grave errors of the failed commentators.

A Proposal for a Gradual, Faith-Based Approach

This situation can be improved if we present a comprehensive and idealistic vision as written in the Torah and the Prophets, while at the same time offering a gradual way of achieving it, taking into maximal consideration reality – including Israeli public opinion and that of the international community, and the powers they represent.

For example, concerning the Temple Mount, a suggestion can be made that from now on, every preacher who incites and speaks out against Israel or the Jews, and any Muslim who disturbs those ascending the Temple Mount by screaming or other actions will not be permitted to go up the Temple Mount. This is a proportionate measure whose reasoning can be understood by any normal person anywhere.

Similarly, with regard to the continuation of settlement in Judea and Samaria: It is possible to expand the existing communities on state-owned land without depriving any Arab who has property rights. In this way, friction will be reduced in all respects – settlement will be regulated by law without any complaints of discrimination and dispossession, and all the positive energy of the "settlers" will be directed to completely legal areas of the State of Israel, without an attempt to seize land that is not regulated or privately owned.

It is also possible to gradually apply Israeli sovereignty over Jewish communities and uninhabited areas in Judea and Samaria, while proposing regional autonomy to the local Arab leadership.

It is certainly possible to demand loyalty from Israeli Arab citizens.

This gradual process does not demand conceding any rights of the Jewish people, but only exercises our rights incrementally, in the sense of: "I will drive them out from before you gradually, until you have grown in number and can take possession of the land” (Exodus 23:30).

Learning Logic from Within the Torah

To be able to put across this kind of leadership and approach, Torah must be learned in a more complete and truthful way, so that its practical logic will shine forth "as the sun in the afternoon". Today, many people fulfill the mitzvot for mystical reasons, while declaring that although practical considerations indicate the opposite, faith trumps logic and nature. Many even take pride in this, because in their view, the absolute believer must ignore practical considerations.

They are, however, gravely mistaken and damage the cause of Torah, for even though the roots of Torah and the Jewish faith are in the Heavens,  the entire revelation of the Torah is logical and practical halakha (Jewish law).

This article appears in the ‘Besheva’ newspaper, and was translated from Hebrew. Other interesting and informative articles by Rabbi Melamed and his highly acclaimed series of Jewish law and thought “Peninei Halakha” can be found at: http://en.yhb.org.il/

Yisroel Dovid Weiss YM"S Speaking at PLO rally in Toronto

This bloody bastard, may G-d obliterate him and his honchos soon in our time, is wearing the cursed scarf of the Palestinians around his cursed neck. He comes from Zera Ameliek!

Jews are been stabbed in Yerushalyim and this savage teams up with the biggest anti-Semites and joins the Palestinian  animals in a united front against Jews living in Israel!
May he and the Palestinians that he loves so much, meet the virgins soon!

Obama, Kerry and the Stabbing of Jews

There is something very wrong with the Obama administration's "balanced approach".

What kind of person gets up in the morning, searches his kitchen for the longest and sharpest knife in the drawer, and then goes out looking to murder a Jew?

What kind of a person takes a knife and plunges it into the back or neck of an elderly Jewish woman or a Jewish child on a bicycle?

What kind of a person circulates instructions over the Internet on the most effective way to stab a Jew, making sure that either the heart or the jugular vein is targeted in the attack?

What kind of a person encourages teenagers to engage in stabbing Jews, justifies their conduct and celebrates their achievements? 

The answer to all four questions is two simple words: “evil” and “barbaric.”

Let’s assume, for the sake of discussion, that the Arabs of Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria have a legitimate grievance. Let’s ignore the fact that

• None of them is under any physical threat by the Israeli government and that the rare occurrence of Jewish violence against Arabs is strongly and publicly condemned by Israel and met with harsh criminal sanctions;
• They have freedom of speech, the right to free enterprise, the right to worship freely, the right to elect their leaders and the right to receive billions of dollars in Israeli and foreign aid;
• They live in the only country in the Middle East that would provide them such freedoms and funds; and
• Access to the Temple Mount – the holiest site in the Jewish religion – is available for prayer only to Muslims and not Jews!

Ignoring all that, and giving the Arabs the benefit of every doubt, the Arab grievance is, at most, political. It is not existential. And people simply don’t stab their adversaries in a political fight. They just don’t.

Throughout history, even people under immediate and horrific assault did not plan out attacks against old women and young children. 

When Jews were fighting the Nazis in the forests of Europe, with all their suffering and justifiable rage, never did they organize or even contemplate such assaults. 

Here, in the United States, the African-Americans kidnapped from their homeland and sold into slavery, with every reason to violently oppose their circumstances, never developed a campaign of stabbing attacks against old women and young children. 

Never. Because such conduct, no matter the grievance, is evil and barbaric. And people who are not evil by nature, or taught to be evil by cynical, immoral and corrupt teachers, simply don’t do these things.

Now, what does this have to do with Obama and Kerry? 

Unfortunately, everything. Their nuanced and “balanced” reaction to the stabbing of Jews is heard and felt around the world and is the antithesis of the cries of outrage and indignation that one would expect of the leaders of the free world to evil and barbarism.

When they express a lack of “clarity” as to Israel’s position regarding the Temple Mount even though Israel’s position is crystal clear, when they urge both sides to reduce their hostilities even though only one side is hostile, and when they suggest that Mahmoud Abbas is a peace-loving moderate even though he is inciting the worst kind of murder and mayhem, the world is listening.

 Other nations less “friendly” to Israel certainly see no reason to come to Israel’s defense, and the terrorists who are engaging in this barbarism consider themselves justified and protected.

British statesmen, Edmund Burke, made the famous statement, “Evil flourishes when good men do nothing.” 

Right now, the leadership of the United States is doing nothing and, as a result, evil and barbarism against innocent Jews flourishes in Israel and elsewhere around the world. 

Thanks to Rav Shmuel Kaminetzky's ruling that children not be Vaccinated, Whooping Cough Cases Spike In Frum Brooklyn Neighborhoods

Those following Rav Shmuel Kaminetzy's recommendation to refrain from administrating vaccinations to infants and children should immediately keep their children home and not have those children spread deadly diseases! 

A wave of whooping cough has hit the frum Brooklyn neighborhoods of Crown Heights, Williamsburg and Borough Park, city health officials said Monday.

A total of 109 cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, were reported over the past year in the three neighborhoods, with an increase in cases over the past four months, the Health Department said, according to a New York Post report.

Five infants were hospitalized and one came down with pneumonia.

Most years, there are 200 cases of whooping cough reported in the entire city.

Toddlers and infants make up the majority of cases. About half were not vaccinated at all or didn’t get the full set of shots, authorities said in an alert to medical providers.

Only 3 percent of the 37 mothers of infants with whooping cough received the recommended tetanus-diptheria-acellularr pertussis vaccination during pregnancy, the alert said.

Health officials are urging doctors to recall patients who are not up to date with vaccines so they can provide prompt antibiotic treatment to affected patients.

“Delays in on-time initiation and completion of the pertussis-containing vaccines series remain problematic in the affected communities, facilitating ongoing transmission,” said Jennifer Rosen, director of the Health Department’s Bureau of Immunization Surveillance.

Children receiving treatment must stay home and not attend school or day care until they have received at least five days of antibiotics.

Family members of patients should also receive antibiotics to prevent spreading the contagious respiratory disease.

Source: New York Post

Rabbi Auerbach the Fanatic Rosh Yeshivah requests that Chareidi Sodiers Not be stationed in Chareidie Neighborhoods!

Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach, who has been single for 25 years, is the fanatical Rosh Yeshivah of Maalot Hatorah. 
He now insists that Chareidi Soldiers who are ready to give their lives for Klall Yisroel, not be stationed in Yerushalyim or any other Chareidie Neighborhood.
His crazed message was given by his assistant Mr. Chaim Epstein who is Yerusalyim's deputy mayor. Someone should send him to a funny farm!
The reason for this Meshugana request, is that the stationing of Chareidie Soldiers in Chareidei neighborhoods will destroy the city's spirituality!
Crazy stuff!

Don't wonder why moshiach is taking his time!

'בני תורה': לא רוצים חיילים חרדים בשכונה לא ייאמן: צה"ל מבקש להגן על תושבים בשכונות כגון גאולה ומאה שערים, אבל סגן ראש העיר מסיעת בני תורה מאיים להפריע לכוחות הביטחון בעבודתם אם אלו יהיו חיילים מהמגזר החרדי. הסיבה: קלקול רוחני בסיעת בני תורה דורשים שלא להציב חיילים חרדים בשכונות החרדיות מחשש לקלקול רוחני. האיום: הפרעה לכוחות הביטחון והתנכלות לחיילים חרדים. סגן ראש העיר חיים אפשטיין: "במסגרת חופש הביטוי רשאי ומחויב כל יהודי חרדי להביע מחאתו נגד פורצי גדר מסוג זה המבקשים לשנות את האטמוספרה הטהורה של שכונותינו" גל הטרור הנוכחי המאופיין במפגעים בודדים שמתפרצים בדקירות בריכוזים חרדים ונגד חובשי כיפה הביא לקונפליקט בקרב פלגים במגזר החרדי שמתנגדים לגיוס חרדים לצה"ל ואף לכל קשר בין המגזר החרדי לחיילים. בוועד הסוחרים בשכונת גאולה ביקשו לתגבר סיורי ביטחון ולהערכתם בשל גל טרור חלה התקרבות בין המגזר החרדי לצה"ל והתנכלות הקיצוניים לחיילי צה"ל תיפסק. אלא שמנגד בפלגים הקיצוניים דורשים דווקא שלא להציב חיילים חרדים בריכוזים חרדים כשהם מזהירים מהפגנות מחאה והפרעה לכוחות הביטחון. ההתנגדות הפומבית למהלך, שנועד לכאורה להעדיף חיילים מהמגזר בשל היכרותם, הגיעה מסגן ראש העיר חיים אפשטיין (בני תורה) שביקש להרחיק בעלי חזות חרדית המשרתים בצה"ל מהשכונות החרדיות לשם הוזרמו כוחות ביטחון בשל גל הפיגועים.אפשטיין שטוען כי גורמים בצבא מנצלים את המצב הביטחוני להחדרת מסרים המעודדים גיוס לצה"ל ולמשטרה ופוגעים בחינוך החרדי, אף הזהיר מההשלכות שעלול לגרור הצקות לחיילים ולהביא להעסקת כוחות שיטור נוספים שייאלצו להגן על החיילים. "הרי מקבלי ההחלטות מצהירים כי לנגד עיניהם עומדת המטרה המרכזית של הרגעת הרוחות והחזרת החיים לשגרה. מה הטעם איפה בניסיונות הזויים לעורר מדנים בצורה כזו ובשעות קשות אלו? האם אותם חיילים יוצבו בצורה פרובוקטיבית רק כדי שתוך זמן קצר יהיה צורך בהזרמת כוחות שיטור נוספים לצורך טיפול בסערת הרוחות, הזעם הציבורי והעימותים הקולניים שיתפתחו במקום ודי להגן עליהם מפני המוחים נגד תופעת לובשי המדים בחזות חרדית?", כך לדבריו. מנגד, בסיעות ש"ס ויהדות התורה מתנגדים לדרישה וחלקם אף זעמו על ההצעה אותה הגדירו "הזויה" ו"חצופה". "מי אנחנו שנתערב בשיקולי ביטחון בגלל מחלוקות פנים חרדיות" הסבירו ביהדות התורה.

Ezra Friedlander demands the City give Yeshivas $$$$$ with no oversight!

This Ezra Friedlander that stabbed Holocaust Survivors in the back, now wants Yeshivas to receive money even though  graduates of Yeshivah cannot read write or speak English  and cannot do simple arithmetic!

He admits that he himself cannot add, subtract and do simple division and never graduated High School. He admits that he cannot calculate a tip in a restaurant and claims that he functions in society.  
He seriously believes  that all Yeshivah graduates go into a field of "Tuchas Lekking" politicians, as he did with Fat Nadler who supported a bill to hand Nuclear weapons to Iran, a country that vowed to annihilate the State of Israel! 
 This business of "Tuches Lekking" requires minimal education and there is no need for arithmetic in that field!

My wife is a teacher in a boys school in Monsey and says teaching in Yeshivas is like walking into an active war zone. 
The kids have no respect for English teachers. 

WATCH: IDF Arrest Top Hamas Murderer Before Dawn

 Israel has arrested a top Hamas official in the Shomron region

The military says it arrested Hassan Yousef on Tuesday near Ramallah. It marks the most high-profile arrest since a wave of unrest swept through the region a month ago.

The military said Yousef had been “actively instigating and inciting terrorism” by encouraging attacks against Israelis. 

Military spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner says, “Hamas’ leaders cannot expect to propagate violence and terror from the comfort of their living rooms and pulpits of their mosques.”

Yousef is a co-founder of Hamas whose son, Mosab, later spied for Israel between 1997 and 2007.

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Some good news about Israel

UNESCO draft resolution: Western Wall is part of al-Aksa mosque

Israel is working to thwart a draft UNESCO resolution which declares that the Western Wall in Jerusalem — the most holy site in Judaism— belongs to the the Muslim al-Aksa Mosque compound.

The drat text to be voted on Wednesday in Paris states that UNESCO “affirms that the Buraq Plaza is an integral part of the Al-Aksa Mosque/Al-Haram Al-Sharif.” 

Israel’s Ambassador to UNESCO, Carmel Shama HaCohen, said that the resolution was “a total Islamization” of a site that is revered by both the Jewish and Muslim faiths.

The six page draft resolution submitted by Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates on behalf of the Palestinian Authority to the UNESCO Executive Board, broadly condemns Israeli actions in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza.

At no point does the resolution mention the Jewish historical connection to Jerusalem, which dates back to Biblical times. Nor does it reference the Temple Mount or the Western Wall, which was part of the Second Temple before it was destroyed 2,000 years ago.

It relies solely on Arabic names for the holy sites on and around the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City.

In the past, the United Nations Scientific, Cultural and Educational Organization has typically approved resolutions condemning Israeli actions in Jerusalem, but Israel is working to thwart none of those texts have so blatantly attempted to reclassify the Western Wall.

The Palestinians were expected to have an automatic majority of approval among the 58-member states of the UNESCO Executive Board for a broad based anti-Israel resolution on Jerusalem and the Temple Mount.

But that support doesn’t extend to reclassifying the Western Wall as part of a religious Muslim site, HaCohen said.

The resolution may fail unless the line about the Buraq Plaza is removed, he said.

“To disconnect the Jewish people from the Western Wall is one step to much, even for nations that are the most anti-Israel,” HaCohen said.

The timing is also problematic, he said. The issue of the Temple Mount has already sparked Palestinian violence against Jewish citizens of Israel, he said.

Aside from the issue of the Western Wall, this resolution, which solely condemn Israeli actions on the Temple Mount will only further inflame passions on this issue and lead to more bloodshed, he said.

It gives a “stamp of authenticity” to Palestinian violence against Israel, HaCohen said.

If UNESCO states that Israel is harming Muslim worshippers “it only adds more fuel to the fire,” said HaCohen as he warned that “both sides will pay in blood for that decision.”

Omri Levy, 19, from Moshav Sdei Chemed, is the soldier who was murdered in the terrorist attack in Be'er Sheva.

The name of the IDF soldier who was murdered in Sunday’s terrorist attack at the Be’er Sheva Central Bus Station is Omri Levy, 19, from Moshav Sdei Hemed in central Israel, near Kfar Saba.

Levy, a corporal, was promoted to the rank of sergeant after his death. His family has been notified, the IDF Spokesperson said in a statement.

Meanwhile, the Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva announced that a citizen of Eritrea, who was suspected of being a terrorist and was shot by security forces after the attack, died from his wounds at the hospital.

Nine people were wounded in Sunday’s attack, which was carried out by a terrorist armed        with a handgun and knife.

The terrorist shot Levy and killed him, and then took his M-16 semiautomatic assault rifle and began firing it at a group of policemen, four of whom were injured.

Hamas earlier on Sunday welcomed the terrorist attack, saying it is “another heroic action against the occupation, which is on high alert. Our people will not be afraid of anything.”

Hamas spokes Husam Badran added that the attack was a response to the "cold-blooded executions of the military of the occupation."

Neturei Karta Mamzeirim Leading Huge Anti-Israel Rally In Times Square

May HKB"H eradicate these living bastards YM"S with Hamas and Hezbollah together!

What If Hamas built Auschwitz Ovens in Gaza?

MSNBC continues with the brazen lies !

MSNBC has faced criticism recently for its cover of the wave of terror attacks in Israel in the past month and their latest gaffe takes the prize.

The news station was most recently slammed following a segment featuring Martin Fletcher, MSNBC’s “Middle East expert,” who showed a map claiming to show the progression of Israeli "occupation," starting with the state's 1946 borders, to the 1967 borders and finally to present-day borders. 

“I must say it’s pretty shocking when you present it this way," Fletcher said. "What it clearly shows is that if there’s no peace agreement between the Palestinians and Israel, more of those green areas, more of that Palestinian land will be eaten up by Jewish settlements."

"Although right now there is a freeze on settlements by Israel because there’s so much international pressure, the Palestinians say 'If we don’t have peace soon we won’t have a Palestine left.'”  

So what was wrong with the map? It is a piece of inaccurate Palestinian propaganda. It claimed that in 1946, present-day Israel was under Palestinian rule, leaving out the fact that it was under British Mandatory rule until May 14, 1948, when the British Mandate came to an end.

Another mistake came in the 1947 map which the graphic referred to as the "UN plan." This was inaccurate for the fact that the supposed 1947 borders never existed, since the UN's partition plan was rejected by all Arab countries.

In the map showing the 1967 borders, a further mistake was made. Though MSNBC's graphic labeled the green area as "Palestinian land," in 1967, the West Bank belonged to Jordan, while the Gaza Strip was under Egyptian rule.

Luckily for Israel, however, the well informed quickly caught the mistake. Facebook users lambasted the segment as “absurdly stupid” and fictitious. One particular user named Daniel Laufer tagged both Fletcher and his co-host Kate Snow in a post expressing his disbelief that the two anchors didn’t know better than to realize that the map was blatant propaganda.

Fletcher saw the post and issued an apology in the comment section, writing “Daniel, you're right. I should have corrected the first map, which I didn't see until I was on air. No excuses."

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MSNBC right back at "reporting" MidEast fiction:
Kate Snow & Martin Fletcher air blatantly false map series produced by Palestinian propagandists. Martin, you should know better, just like you know that Israel bans Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount, your comments notwithstanding. Basic rebuttal here: http://t.co/UyG3Uvdnjs The Tower Magazine

Omri Ceren's tweet including transcripthttps://twitter.com/cerenomri/status/655141160520781824

MSNBC airs ABSURDLY STUPID map of Israel taking land from ‘Palestinian State’

MSNBC continues its perpetual march into ratings obsolescence with this patently stupid map…

MSNBC Lies on TV and Claims that the Terrorist had no weapon when the Video clearly shows the Terrorist with a knife!

Watch the lying bastard MSNBC reporter, Ayman Moyheldin, lie on live TV!

A Palestinian Arab savage, later identified as Basel Sider, 19, was observed acting suspiciously. The man was wearing a camouflage t-shirt and pants. When Israeli officers approached him, he lunged at them and broke through the Damascus Gate checkpoint line. 

Israeli police repeatedly shouted for him to halt. As the Arab continued running with what appeared and was later confirmed to be a knife blade in his right hand, he was shot dead by Israeli officers on the scene. 

 Had there been no video, the Israeli officers who shot the terrorist would have been labeled murderers and executioners. Acting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has been only the most prominent individual to have made such horrific claims, paying no heed to the facts, recently denouncing the shooting deaths of rampaging terrorists as “field executions.” 

 In Wednesday’s incident, the only thing that was immediately known was that a young Arab man was shot dead by Israelis. 

 An MSNBC journalist was on the scene when the incident took place. Of course, as with athletic referees before the time of videotape, eyewitnesses are not always accurate in their observations. That is surely particularly so when an eyewitness may have a particular bias. 

This journalist was removed from Gaza for sloppy reporting during the summer 2014 conflict in Gaza. 

 What that MSNBC reporter, Ayman Moyheldin, tweeted out on Wednesday was, “I just witnessed the shooting of man running down the stairs towards Damascus gate before being gunned down.” 

Twenty-five minutes later, he tweeted again, this time writing that just at he was about to broadcast live “Israeli security opened fire on a Palestinian man dressed in camouflage. Killed instantly.” 

 The MSNBC eyewitness "journalist" filed a live report to his anchor. According to the report by Mohyeldin, the Arab man was not dressed in camouflage and he had no knife in his hands. 

The reporter also said that there were no injured Israelis on the scene, the Israelis removed the Arab’s clothes, probably in search of a bomb, and there was none on his body. 

Moyheldin assured his viewers that the Arab man “did not look to me to be particularly armed.” In other words, according to “eyewitness” Mohyeldin, Israelis had just shot to death an innocent man. 

 But Mohyeldin’s anchor in the studio had already seen the video taken by Mohyeldin’s cameramen. As Jeff Dunetz at The Lid explained, José Diaz Balart interrupted Mohyeldin on-air, and explained to the reporter and the audience that Mohyeldin’s version of events did not track the facts revealed on the videotape.  

Diaz Balart then showed a screen capture from the video, which clearly shows the Arab man wearing camouflage shirt and pants, and holding a knife in his right hand. Knife held by terrorist at Damascus Gate on Wed., Oct. 15, 2015. 

 Moyheldin attempted a few more times to rectify himself, but Diaz Balart stopped him cold. In fact, the news show host reprimanded the field reporter, explaining that it was always essential to provide a full context for any incident being reported. Yeah, what he said. 
 Watch the video of the on air exchange, as captured by The Lid:

Terrorism reached Queens in 2014: MuslimTerrorist hacked an NYPD Cop ... Why didn't We Blame both sides ?

Where were Kerry & Obama  when this cop got axed?
Why didn't the cops use restraint instead of killing him? Huh?

A hatchet-swinging man with Islamic militant leanings turned a busy Queens street corner into a scene of bloody chaos Thursday, chopping a rookie cop in the back of the head and slicing a second officer on the arm before two other officers shot him dead.

In opening fire on the madman, cops accidentally wounded a bystander, ­authorities said.

Officer Kenneth Healey, 25, had just four months on the job when Zale Thompson, 32, of Queens — a “scholarly” but “weird” ­recent convert to Islam — fractured the back of the cop’s skull with one swing of a blue-handled hatchet at about 2 p.m. in Jamaica.

A 29-year-old woman walking a half-block away was struck in the back by a stray police bullet and was in stable condition, according to police sources.

The NYPD is investigating whether Islamic extremism played a role in the attack, which left the rookie in serious but stable condition Thursday night.

“Helicopters, big military will be useless on their own soil,” Thompson raged in a private Facebook post, Fox News reported.

“They will not be able to defeat our people if we use guerilla warfare. Attack their weak flanks,” he added.

“There’s nothing we know at this time that would indicate that [Islamic terrorism] is the case,” Police Commissioner William Bratton said at a press conference at Jamaica Hospital.

“That’s what the investigation will attempt to determine,” Bratton said as Healey, the son of a 34-year Nassau County police detective, underwent surgery.

The second injured cop, Officer Joseph Meeker, also a four-month rookie, was “conscious and alert” at Jamaica Hospital, police said.

Video shows Thompson pulling the hatchet from a bag, then taking a running leap at Healey and his three companions as they stood ­together on the rainy sidewalk.

Holding the hatchet in two hands like a baseball bat, he swung three times, one source who saw the video told The Post.

The first swing broke the one cop’s arm. The second was a miss. The third struck Healey in the back of the head.

“The cops yelled, ‘Drop it!’ ” ­recalled eyewitness Larry ­Bethune, 44, who watched the ­violence unspool at Jamaica Avenue and 160th Street.

“He raised his arm up high and brought it straight down on the cop’s head,” the Hollis resident added.

“The cop went down to the ground face-first . . . The cop’s just lying there with blood pouring down his face. He didn’t move.”

Another witness, Kelli Reddica, 24, recalled hearing seven police bullets ring out as Thompson was taken down — and seeing the young cop’s horrible head injury.

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The ax used by the suspect to attack the NYPD officers

“He looked like he couldn’t move, and blood was gushing out of his head,” Reddica said of Healey. “Blood just drenched the side of his face,” she said.

Thompson is being investigated for broader terrorist connections, a law enforcement source said, adding, “There are suspected terror ties.”

Thompson’s Facebook page includes a passage from the Quran in Arabic script beseeching Allah’s guidance in finding “the straight path” and a black-and-white photograph of a black-scarved militant.

Thompson was a “very educated” proponent of “black power” and a graduate of the College of New Rochelle in Harlem, said a classmate who asked not to be identified by name.

13 year old "dead" terrorist very much alive See Video

"Dead' 13 Year Old Terrorist Who Stabbed Two Israelis Pictured Alive And Well In Hospital

Knesset Memeber Yoav Kish tells Kerry to Stay Home!

John Kerry announces that he’s coming to save the day as Israel grapples with escalating jihadist violence. Israel says Kerry can keep himself and his terror-supporting views back in America.

Speaking at Harvard University on Tuesday, Kerry suggested that “a massive increase in [Jewish] settlements over the course of the last years” was the cause of the current wave of Palestinian terrorist violence “because there’s a frustration that is growing.”

It needs to be noted that the various signed peace agreements do not prohibit Israel from building new homes inside the boundaries of existing settlements, which is all that has been happening.

Kerry went on to state that he would soon visit Israel to help put a stop to what he called a “revolving cycle” of provocation and violence.

Israeli Member of Knesset Yoav Kish (Likud) said Kerry can stay home if he is going to insist on such tremendous naivete.

“Unfortunately, we have again witnessed that the Secretary of State is disconnected and lacks a basic understanding of the situation in our region,” Kish told Israeli media. 

“This American government has made so many foreign policy mistakes in such a short time. Kerry ignores Palestinian Authority incitement and distorts Israel’s justified war on terror. If this is his worldview, it’s better he not come.”

Yoav Kish (Hebrew: יואב קיש‎; born 6 December 1968) is an Israeli pilot and politician.

Biography[edit]

Kish was born and raised in Tel Aviv, to a family of British-Jewish origin. His grandfather was Frederick Kisch, the highest-ranking Jew ever to serve in the British Army, and he held British citizenship until having to renounce it in 2015 as a condition of being allowed to take his Knesset seat.^[1] He holds an MBA from INSEAD. He was on the Likud Yisrael Beiteinu list for the 2013 Knesset elections, but failed to win a seat.

Prior to the 2015 elections he was placed 19th on the Likud list,^[2] a slot reserved for the Tel Aviv region.^[3] He was elected to the Knesset as Likud won 30 seats.^[4]

Kish is married with three children and lives in Ramat Gan.

Kerry coming to meet Netanyahu to demand a halt in settlement construction by Israel.

What this horse face refuses to understand is  that Arab violence has nothing to do with settlements,they just want to murder Jews!
The secretary of state ‎seems to believe that when Palestinians stab Israelis, the real culprits are people ‎who build new housing units.
Settlements are part of Israel ...
This is the same stupid bastard that pushed the disastrous Iran deal! 

Secretary of State John Kerry is reportedly pushing to convene a summit in Jordan with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in a bid to calm violence wracking Israel and the Palestinian territories in recent weeks

According to a Channel 10 report Wednesday, the Jordanians have apparently already agreed to host the gathering, in which Abbas and Netanyahu would each meet with the American diplomat separately. 

There was no indication of when the meeting would take place.

The White House and State Department said Wednesday that Kerry would head to the region “soon” but that details were not yet determined. Officials familiar with the planning said Kerry would like to meet Netanyahu and Abbas separately in the Jordanian capital of Amman. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the planning publicly.

The push by the American government came as violence between Israel and the Palestinians has spiked, with terrorist attacks, shootings and violent riots taking place daily in the past two weeks.

The Channel 10 report said that Washington was considering demanding a halt in settlement construction by Israel.

Sources close to Kerry claimed that he will tell Netanyahu that if he’s interested in renewing peace talks with the Palestinians — as he expressed in his UN General Assembly speech last month — that it would be a welcome move.

Peace talks broke down in March 2014 amid mutual recriminations by Israeli and Palestinian officials over failure to abide by commitments to the negotiations.

The Prime Minister’s Office wasn’t immediately available for comment. Sources in Jerusalem said they were unaware of the plan for the summit, but indicated a general willingness.

Earlier in the day, Netanyahu expressed willingness to return to talks with the Palestinians immediately.

“Israel wants peace. I want peace. I want to resume negotiations immediately and without any preconditions,” Netanyahu said at a special Knesset session.

State Department spokesman John Kirby could not confirm the timetable nor the venue of any talks — and played down the possibility of a revived peace process — but said Kerry hoped to talk to local leaders.

“He has every intention of traveling to the region soon and I don’t have anything to announce today with respect to travels,” Kirby said. “Travel to the region is as specific as it can be right now.”

Asked about media reports that Kerry hopes to host talks in Jordan, Kirby said he had “nothing to report on the press reports you have seen with respect to that.”

“He does remain deeply concerned by continued escalating violence. It’s something he has been focused on for a while now and he intends to travel to the region to continue those kind of discussions,” he said.

On Tuesday, Kerry linked the ongoing violence to settlement construction during a talk in Boston.

“There’s been a massive increase in settlements over the course of the last years,” Kerry said during a question-and-answer session, “and there’s an increase in the violence because there’s this frustration that’s growing.”