We have an opportunity to show how serious we are about our existence...take it now.

21 Tishrei 5787 | כ"א תשרי ה'תשפ"ז

 Erev Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah | ערב שמיני אצרת/שמחת תורה

 

Here are several sides to what could have been a prelude to even more disaster for Israel and Jews. Thank God for making the multi-miracle to make sure it didn't happen!!! Here's a lovely article about the miracle from R' Yair Hoffman on VIN. I'm borrowing his picture because...this is really the main thing we should be thinking about, regarding the event that just happened.

 In other news: Channel 14 reports: Saudis back Israel terror assessment in midair stabbing attack

Two stories from Israel Unwired: Micha Gefen: Terror in the Cockpit: Israel's New Aviation Nightmare; Fiamma Nirenstein: Heroic Israelis Avert a Tragedy.

There are many more if you want to go there. Today, I want to go to the next step, if we're serious about our survival as a nation, not just a religion.

I suggest: Take Judea (pronounced "Jew-DAY-ah") and Samaria and make them permanently part of Israel, no matter what it takes. Don't stay in denial of the fact that there is plenty of silent testimony on the part of the land itself, that it belongs to the Jews. 

If we want to survive without so much interference, the first step is to take the land bordering on the "green line" and erase that line. Take the Jordan Valley along with it. 

Being so small — that the word Israel is too large for it on a map, as the comedian "Dr." Yohai Sponder says, in his heavily-accented Israeli English — is a huge temptation to the nations around us and beyond, to wipe us out, no matter how much technology we have.

Only HaQadosh Baruch Hu can keep us alive and well in our homeland, no matter how small or how large it is. 

 And, just below, we have a map, and we can't make up our mind whether to keep, or distance ourselves from, Judea and Samaria. But I'll tell you — if we take them out of the map, it looks like we have a huge wound where they were. Think about it! 

Below was what I had in mind for Yom Kippur, but it was too late before I could post. 

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Source: Mapsland.com 

Since my last post, HERE, I managed to get some things straight regarding the issue of land laws in Israel. For one thing, apparently a number of years after the declaration of the state, the government actually did get rid of the Ottoman land laws within Israel as the world knows it. 

What they haven't done is the same thing for the lands "next door" — we know them as Judea and Samaria, the rest of the world knows them as the "West Bank" — they are also actually mentioned in the Torah, and I need to be very clear here — the nation needs to do teshuva for not having accepted them (that is, declared sovereignty) as part of the state right after we won them back in 1967!

But we can also refer to them as Shomron (Samaria) and Yehuda (Judea), and also Aza, which the world calls Gaza. I've deliberately mixed up how people usually refer to them. They are not exactly one and the same; these "territories" are like states, shires or provinces in English-speaking countries. They are united only in one context, as of now: They share the same status: Not-exactly-accepted as part of Israel. 

The most obvious thing, at least for me: They're on our maps as though they are part of the state — I looked them up online again, and they are attached as though they are, even though they are labeled as not-exactly-Israel. Doesn't that seem strange to you, dear reader?

Can't we make up our mind?!?!

If there were maps of Israel only of what is accepted by the world, I'm pretty certain that there would be a lot of panicked Israeli citizens out there, who would then realize how vulnerable we've been all these years — as though it hasn't been that way all along.

For that matter, any Jew who has something negative to say about this situation may have to think more than twice about how they haven't taken responsibility for doing their part to make things better for all of us.

The fact that they are not accepted as part of the state, governance-wise, tells me (I don't know about you, dear reader...) that there is some divisiveness and indecisiveness involved. One of the changes made on online versions of the map is that WEST BANK is clearly marked in Judea and Samaria; GAZA and most recently, GOLAN HEIGHTS are marked similarly in the areas designated for them (even though the Golan was accepted as part of Israel a long time ago, some of those maps even exclude the GOLAN HEIGHTS. How dare they!).

Really, we should be thankful for the Jews who have been daring enough to settle more and more of that land, especially those who are called Hilltop Youth, many of whom aren't teenagers anymore, even without wide support from the government. (There are some members of the Knesset who support them, but the rest of the system does not, notably the judicial system, the upper echelons of the army, and many others who don't depend on citizen votes to keep their jobs.).

At least you, dear reader, whether you are a Jew or a sympathizer with us, should have this to think about along with all the other things we all have to think about.

And thank God many times again for the multi-miracle of the airplane rescue!

We must all remember that God never runs out of miracles, especially for those who love Him!!!

Speaking of which, I want to learn this song; Tomer Devorah had it first: We Live by Miracles by Yehuda Meitav. He wrote it the day after the miracle, so I can't blame him for using AI to get it out there.





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I hope I have not hurt or offended my readers in any way, knowingly or unknowingly, unless they have bad intentions against Jews or the Jewish People (since I don't know who my readers really are.). I sincerely ask those who mean well for me and my people for your mechila, selicha and kapara. May the pitka tava (good note) we received be for life, goodness and redemption for this year, 5787.

From Miracle to Miracle by Yehuda Meitav
I want to learn this song, so badly! Tomer Devorah posted it first, HERE.

The author wrote it the day after the miracle occurred. I can't blame him for using AI to get it out there.

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 More Viewing: 

Avi Abelow explains why the Litani River, at the very least, should be our northern border in Lebanon in a short video. | Miracle Over the Desert (short) - Mentour Pilot | Avi Abelow, Pulse of Israel: The plane plunged 17,000 feet — then miracle after miracle happened |


More Reading:

Myrtle Rising: A Series of Miracles in One Incident as a Loving Hint from HaShem | IL Channel 14: investigative reconstruction of the terror attack in English, published by the Italian publication Corriere della Sera | Think for Yourself: Rav Berland's words on the 'FlyDubai miracle' — the day before it happened | Shemittah Rediscovered: Chain of G-d's miracles. Will give you goosebumps... |

 

Declare Sovereignty NOW! Don't wait!

8 Elul 5785 | ח' אלול ה'תשפ"ה 

 

Does the USA know what it is to be Israel in the Middle East? 

I, for one, am not sure they do. This goes for the rest of the world as well. We're not the only ones who follow the United States of America.

A very important vote is coming up in the UN later this month (it turns out to be the beginning of the next month according to the Jewish calendar), which is probably going to result in Israel changing its behavior regarding the other nations for better or for worse, however you think of it. I was going to post the video below last month, but somehow I got sidetracked. Or, maybe HaQadosh Baruch Hu (God, the Holy One, blessed be He) planned it that way. 😉 

In any case, Israel is on the chopping block again for the umpteenth time, for no good reason. The way she changes her behavior may not be what everyone expects. If our government has any sense, it will know how to do this successfully, without all of us citizens having more problems than we already do.

The most important thing our government can do ahead of time is DECLARE SOVEREIGNTY OVER JUDEA, SAMARIA AND GAZA. NOW. BEFORE THE VOTE.

Don't wait until the UN meeting. This is not a punishment for the nations, but an affirmation of what has been true all along. People who read and understand their Bibles and Qurans should be for this action, whether Jews or not. It is part of our making teshuva, returning to our roots and who we are.

Above all, don't mess around with partial annexation (<<— links are examples). From what I can see, the country is behind Israel taking this decision. Gaza MUST be included.

Include it all, and be taken seriously!

Whether or not America (mostly meaning the Executive Branch of the American government, but also including the Legislative Branch) decides to continue to support Israel even if we take actions she doesn't like depends largely on what we can do for her. But if we find ourselves unable to do for ourselves some very important things because she won't allow us to, or support our moves, it will end badly for her as well as for us, and probably worse. If we aren't overwhelmed by what we face daily as it is, at some point we will be. Israel risks ending up not being able to do anything for itself, much less for the USA and other allies. And if this turns out to be true, then...use your imagination. 

We may have to do things that will make them regret that they betrayed us (of course, I don't know them all.).

Understand: This is not a threat. Rather, a sober assessment.

Let's watch this 6-minute video that explains a number of very important reasons why.

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More reading:

A7: Ariel rabbinical court becomes first permanent court in Judea and Samaria; R' Leo Dee detained on Temple Mount...and then, hours later, gets remarried. Mazal tov! | Myrtle Rising: How to shorten and sweeten the galut part 1, part 2 | Tomer Devorah: The Holy Land will not fall into the hands of Edom | VisionMag: Time to leave the Abraham Accords? | Ribonut (Sovereignty): Partial sovereignty — A Historic and Strategic Mistake | Murtadd to Human on A7: The Judgement of Doha: Genocide is not required | David Mark on Israel Unwired: Israel opens the gates of Hell on Gaza, is this the end of Qatar's jihad? | Jewish Policy Center: The Arabs' Century of Rejecting Palestine (It was passed down to me that the Arabs didn't like to be called Palestinians before 1964 because it applied only to JEWS! - HDG) | Myrtle Rising (v. long title; this is a short version): Why Jew-hatred for living in Yehuda & Shomron; why Left & HROs won't end conflicts | Tomer Devorah: The sell-out has arrived; Public Service Warning: Chr*stian tallits on offer to Jews (bold mine - HDG) |

 

More videos & audios:

 YT: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer (or is it Der Stürmer? Thanks, Dean Maughvet) mistakenly calls for 'return of the sausages' in major Labor conference speech (the comments: British humor strikes again! It even seems to me they're laughing at the PM and not the Israeli hostages! LMK what U think. -HDG) | H/T Israel Unwired (20 sec): The Green Prince: I don't want Palestine, I want to build bridges with Israel. (Close to 6 min. The site is in Hebrew; Mosab Hassan Yousef speaks English. Good for both language speakers. -HDG) | Mohammed's Jewish Grandson | Pulse of Israel: Israel strikes Hamas in Qatar - Was it a success?; Gaza is being taken back — This is only the start! | Article includes video: Israel Unwired: The last 4 seconds of this UN speech stunned the entire room | Tomer Devorah: Trump: "I will not allow..." Woops! | The Nation of Israel (Tzvi Lifshiz): Blessings and curses - America's turning point | 

Respect! Why doesn't Israel receive it?

17 Tammuz 5784 | י"ז תמוז ה'תשפ"ד

May we have an easy and productive fast!

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Click here to watch MK Dan Illouz on X.com speak in English to the international community about a Palestinian state.

I wrote most of this article on 15 Tammuz 5784, 21 July 2024. I believe it will be a day to remember, if the right things are done now.

Lots of people love to blame the current government, wherever they are in the world, for anything that's going wrong. This might be true in most countries, but here in Israel it's not any one particular government. It's the governance system. The same mistakes occur over and over and over, no matter which party or group of parties is in power. 

Someone, or many someones, outside our political system — and outside our country — must have been giving, and still be giving today, the same orders to both sides. 

Hopefully, as of now, we will begin to see a shift in policy regarding the Jewish people's continued return home to Eretz Yisrael.

We need to get our eyes off of whether Labor (recently changed to the Hebrew equivalent of "The Democrats" and merged with Meretz), or Likud, wins.  The whole system is wrong, whether borrowed or imposed from polluted sources, and will never get us anywhere. 

Which implies, if not actually states, that our governments have been selling us, the people of Israel, "down the river" the whole time. 

That would be traitorous, wouldn't it? 

And the results are in. It happened on 19 July:

The declaration on the part of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that Judea and Samaria are off limits to the Jews and the State of Israel. (<<< download the PDF from the link)

How did one of the international courts attached to the United Nations suddenly get the message to publicly state, via an advisory opinion, that Judea and Samaria don't belong to the Jews at all?

That's aside from the fact that it's been called "the West Bank" for a long time, and not by its proper and legal name.

Was it pressure from the Arabs, from the United States, from the UN itself? This statement is not binding as law. However, it encourages agencies higher up to try to make it international law.

I say "try to" because there will be repercussions from any attempt to legally take away Jewish land from the Jews; I think that's why Britain, with impunity, unceremoniously lopped off what became Jordan from the Palestinian Mandate, which at that time referred ONLY TO LAND FOR THE JEWS. 

We haven't seen the open wrath of the All Mighty One in our favor in a very long time. Maybe now is the time?

It certainly wasn't from a recent study of the roots of the peoples of the Middle East in the Bible, where the answers are clearer and more proof of its truth shows up practically every day. And it wasn't from international law: See the Balfour Declaration and the San Remo Conference of 1920 (download PDF there, if you can). More about the San Remo Conference (search)

Now, to the point...

...is it possible that the governments of Israel, over decades, contributed to the impression that we were so subservient to "international bodies" that they felt they could just come and take away any recognition of Judea and Samaria as part of Israel? How did this signal get to them? 

Just perhaps, by our governments punishing and over-punishing Israel's own Jewish citizens just for living in these areas (this may be the only article to sympathize with Amiram Ben Uliel's plight, brought on by our courts accepting his confession under torture, online as I'm writing, from 2022, for example) more than those who live within the "Green Line," and all the ICJ did was put down the first step for higher courts to formalize?

(And this, just in on 17 Tammuz...our Supreme Court accepted an Palestinian Arab land claim near Hevron, where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are buried along with (most of) the mothers of our people. How can we expect world legal bodies to have the respect our nation deserves when our government and legal "representatives" can't be bothered to set the example? I'm shaking my head over this masochistic behavior!)

Back to the international court...

Apparently...The ICJ cannot define "occupied Palestinian territory" — but it tries very hard. And, the EU deplores Israeli democracy. Especially when we disagree with them on whether or not we should let people live among us who want us dead and do their best to make it so.

And back to our official response...

We see that, finally, on 15 Tammuz 5784, 21 July 2024, that our Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, submitted a declaration rejecting the ICJ's ruling on "occupation." Four days prior, the Knesset voted, and established its position against, a Palestinian state. 

Good for you! No Israeli leader or influencer, whether politician, jurist, or advisor (much less a blogger), has any mandate to bow, or advocate bowing, to even the most overwhelming international pressure to give away the land most of the Jewish Bible (called the Tana"ch here) refers to!

(We should note here that the responsibilities and decisions of the Knesset have been under attack from other branches of our government for years, especially our judiciary branch. Are we so ignorant of what a real democracy is that we would ignore this issue?)

 ...and how do we show that we mean it?

I hope the rest of the Israeli government listens up. I believe our upper-level leadership has been part of the problem all along. If they don't take heed, they can't be part of our future.

(By "upper level," I'm referring to those who give orders, even having the temerity to dictate to the prime minister or president, providing that these are of sound mind in the first place. Advising the leader of your country is one thing, dictating to him is something else.)

At least since 1969 if memory serves (sorry, no internet then, thus no accessible link from here), radio shows in the United States and other places were still criticizing Jews for walking around and feeling at home in Judea and Samaria two years after the 6-Day War. Our enemies lost, and until now our government has never learned its lessons from that war, or any of the others where we were saved by "deus ex machina" as they might call it. 

Dear readers, you and I know better: God is real, and it is He who really won the war for us in 1967, and many others as well. Even our enemies admitted it then, and get frustrated now when it's obvious to them that God acts in our favor, even when many of us don't follow His ways. But our governments have not only been ungrateful, they actually attributed our victory in 1967, and those afterwards as well, to the greatness of our army!

"Give credit where credit is due" is one of the maxims of common decency, which translates to derekh eretz here.

So, let's not respond to the decrees of the nations, but rely on HQB"H.

I think it is better not to respond to whatever the nations say at all regarding our government's response. Certainly, neither we nor our government should not take out our feelings about their statements on the people of Israel, even if we don't agree on where Israel begins and ends. We have to wonder why, all of a sudden, our government is actually sticking up for the legitimacy of Judea and Samaria due to the direct attack by the ICJ. But the best response is no response at all. We can carry on without letting everyone in the world, including the media, know what we're doing, day to day. Who knows, it might save many of our lives that might otherwise be lost. Loose lips sink ships, after all, as was said during WWII.

 Democracy may (or may not) work in other parts of the world, but definitely not here. 

A family that is living here right now somewhere in this country holds the distant descendant of King David's unbroken male line, who is the heir to his throne. If he passes away, another will arise from that line; that's how we can say that Mashiah has been available, and could have come to Am Yisrael, in every generation. That's who Mashiah is, and his government will be the only truly legitimate one, recognized by all, here.

May we live to see it, with the love and help of God; let us all acknowledge Him.

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More reading/viewing:

Israeli startup Wiz says NO to Google's $23B offer, will go public | Jerusalem College of Technology launches new options for North American students facing surges of antisemitism | Hague court invites 70 countries to object to Netanyahu, Gallant arrest warrants | Is Hamas ready to accept any deal? | Change Israel's approach to the ICJ | The UN's illegal occupation of Jerusalem | The Israeli defense establishment defies the government [to our detriment - HDG] | Big win for Israel | UNRWA was providing apartments for HAMAS to use and rent out | Did terrorist Hamas become a professional army under UNRWA's nose? | Atty. Jacques Gauthier to Israel: 'Never allow people to tell you you're trespassers' | 24/7/24: 102nd anniversary of the League of Nations' affirmation of Jewish self-determination (see article written in 2016) | Occupied Palestinian territory is reoccupied Jewish territory | The selling of Kamala Harris | What short memories Jews have! The state of French Jewry | EU foreign policy chief: 'Israel's legislation against UNRWA is nonsense' Above bolded articles are part of the evidence we found! | Netanyahu didn't lie on aid to Gaza. The "fact-checkers" did. | Our murdered children |

Do Jews exist as a separate group of human beings? And so what, if we are?

19 Sivan 5784 |  י"ט סיון ה'תשפ"ד

Blogger's notes: Inspired by the article Is there a 'Jewish People'? by Alex Grobman, Ph.D. His article can be found HERE. I saw the video first on Tomer Devorah, and found it so fitting that I am posting it here at the end of the article.

Toward the merit of a friend of mine who just passed away a few days ago from this writing, Chaya Hinda bath Avraham Shmuel haCohen v'Doba חיה הינדה בת אברהם שמואל הכהן ודובה. Among many other things, she, along with her husband, was quite connected to Rabbi Sprecher, ztz"l; this is how I met them.

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Summary of points:

• The core of the Jewish people is a family, bnei Ya'acov  בני יעקב (descendants of Jacob our father, the completer, aided by his four wives, of the source of the Jewish People). The source is your family Bible, provided that it is properly translated as needed for the reader's understanding.
  
• The rest converted to the religion, or are descendants of converts on some level, and they may marry into the family. A lot of them have done so.
• The world considers us different, whether our line is completely from the original family, not at all, or anything in between.
• Due to lack of understanding and incomplete research, many outsiders consider today's Jews to be a generation of impostors. It would be one thing if they could prove it; but generally they want to take the inheritance of the Land of Israel, as small a portion of it as we have today, away from us. A significant portion also want to rid the world of us, too.
  
• Having an ulterior motive is one reason for refusing to convert a candidate to Judaism (the religion that allows them to marry into the family); it is also a reason to disbelieve a Judenhasser, no matter where they come from, who accuse self-admitting Jews of being impostors without taking the time to prove their statement. To simplify, of claiming that the person in front of them is not a Jew/ess when s/he is.

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I assure you, dear Jew-hater, that, in an age when Jew-hate is farthest away from disappearing, not many people would want to identify as Jews, especially if they know they have no reason to do so. However, I have noticed over the time I have had this blog (since 2015) that when a confirmed, born-and-raised antisemite learns he is a Jew, he tends to turn to us suddenly, with more love than would be expected from someone who grew up hating us with a passionate hatred. The speed with which this occurs is nothing less than stunning. 

If I had written this post a few years ago, I would have had an excellent search link to give, and a number of really excellent profiles of such people. This has all been hidden or outright scrubbed, and replaced with stories of Jews who collaborated with the Nazis. 

Both sides are true, as far as I can tell. Just because SOME Jews collaborated, doesn't implicate ALL Jews. PLEASE DISCERN THE DIFFERENCE, as you have learned to do with other groups/nations/races. I object to the nations taking our prerogatives away from us, thinking they can do a better job. 

Maybe you should take a couple-and-a-half thousand years and be scattered all over the world, losing major portions of your history, self-esteem and language and much more along the way, before you even think about how you might criticize how we've been handling things upon our return to the world stage.

This brings another question: Could envy be involved in this ever-enduring hatred? (Please, don't mix this up with jealousy. I've started working on an article that distinguishes jealousy from envy, which is what most people today mean when they use the word jealousy.)

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And yet another question: Does a world that hates Jews almost without exception deserve to tell us that we have no right to our land? After all, 

"...in a debate with British historian Arnold Toynbee, [former Israeli ambassador] Yaacov Herzog asserted that the normal laws of history do not apply in this case, "so long as the world agrees that there is something unique about the Jews in the history of mankind, it cannot deny the right of the Jews to this land."  Grobman

I would add by way of clarification: Whether they hate us or love us, or anything in between. 

As a people, we are unique regardless; the worldwide Jew-hate at this time is positive proof, even though it doesn't implicate those who live among the haters who feel and live quite the opposite. Those who continue to stand by our side, despite all pressures, were also promised us by HQB"H (God, to the rest of the world). 

It's part of the Heavenly sorting process (which others before me have translated from the Hebrew בירור, and transliterated as birur) before the Great Redemption that will be witnessed by all the world.

I'm posting this video with the hope that it will help us with our own birur before that Great Day.

How to END THE EXILE

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More reading/watching:

Erdan blasts UN chief: He is an accomplice to terror and should resign today! | VIDEO: Pogrom in LA | VIDEO and article: After the LA Pogrom will American Jews finally come home? | Chesler: The world's lust for Jewish blood | VIDEO: Historical court ruling: "All Orthodox Jews to the IDF": What's the real story? | Shmuel Sackett: "Why do they look like that?" | They are NOT our cousins | Towards a more Jewish IDF | From the river to the sea — Israeli Sovereignty! | TabletMag: Israel's Two Big Lies | We are the people of the Book. Why do we not act like it? | Israel Unwired: Did Israel kill Hamas No. 2 Mohammed Deif? | Pulse of Israel Video: No disastrous ceasefire deals! | Forest Rain: How lavender saved Israel | Six things you need to know about the Balfour Declaration | In February 2024, Fiji refuted anti-Israel arguments at the ICJ video; written (PDF; this includes more info re: how the PLO was abusing the court) | The parsha and current events: The fine print of the Jews' right to Israel | Do no harm...unless! | The US is creating a framework that could make all Jewish "settlers" personae non gratae | (as they did to Elor Azaria and his family) |

"May I please come home?" — a simple question any Jew who wants to return home to Eretz Yisrael might ask...

15 Tammuz 5783 | ט"ו תמוז ה'תשפ"ג

 

Wikipedia. I learned Torah across the street from the building site for about two years before it was finished.

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For some who can’t make it right now, it may be as simple as “asking permission.”

It was, for me. We visited Israel for the first time in August 2005, right before the gerush from Gush Katif, and we were here for it. So I knew that we weren’t coming here for the political system — rather, in spite of it. (I did put "Eretz Yisrael" in the title, not Medinat Yisrael, for a reason.) 

My desire had been there since 1967. I was eleven then, and my family was not religious at all.

Back to 2005. When I returned to my then-work place, I looked around the office space I shared with another employee, looked up to God and uttered the request that, b”H, set the wheels in motion: “May I please come home?”

I felt I was asking on behalf of my husband as well because…marriage…makes us one. And asking permission is a middah! It acknowledges that Someone Else owns the place, and we have to go through Him first. 

And once you ask, you’d better mean it!

A warning: Expect a lot of dysfunction among our people. We have been C-PTSD'd to death and need time to heal. The Land is meant for our healing, but the system of governance blocks that, too much. However, thinking about returning to "hutz la-aretz" makes me shudder at how much more we're blocked there, than here. At least we can be ourselves here, to a large extent. A big step upward, in my humble opinion.

As I think of that, tears are coming to my eyes…we visited one more time, in 2006; it took two years to arrange our move, but I didn’t complain, unless you call my obsession with going there a complaint...

It wasn’t long after that request, after our first visit, when a young lady came to my synagogue to speak about aliyah. She was the first of a number of people who came to help us and others who wanted to come.

What’s even stronger is that I had two relatives who came on aliyah in the early 1980s, who passed away before completing even one year. I don’t know how that happened, so please don’t take this as boasting on my part. I thank God for the merit for my husband and me to be here almost 16 years now.

On natural terms, it is not a good time to move, especially when danger is obvious, rampant and neglected (or even encouraged?) by the authorities; however, if you and your family personally have the Owner's approval, you should be able to expect an easier time of getting here, and living here, than if you don't. And, He may well have an important assignment for you here, which you wouldn't have been able to accomplish over there!

If you've had the desire to make aliyah and couldn't, for whatever reason, even if you asked haShem and haven't been answered positively yet, please send me a note with your Hebrew name and your mother's Hebrew name, and I will pray for you, be"H, b"n. I'm on your side!

Whatever you do, don’t give up!

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Non-Belligerence is better than Peace

light of 23 Tevet 5781

עברית עוקבת אחר טקסט באנגלית

URGENT UPDATE BELOW

 

The recent peace treaties conceal the danger of an economic takeover of Israel by the Gulf states. This is no less dangerous than ceding territory.

 

By Atty. Doron Nir Zvi. Used by permission. Hebrew below.

http://ribonut.co.il/BlogPostID.aspx?BlogPostId=544&lang=2

The article was originally published in Hebrew in Makor Rishon on December 27th, 2020 and translated into English by the Sovereignty Movement.

The Arab countries have recently been signing a string of peace treaties with the State of Israel. Ostensibly, this is another step in the vision of the End of Days: “Wolf will reside with sheep and leopard with kid will lie” (Isaiah 11:6), “They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks” (Isaiah 2:4). However, unfortunately, this is a mixed blessing; a hug, but, perhaps a bear hug that is liable to strangle us.

It is worth noting: To date, no legislation has been enacted in the State of Israel restricting the business activity of the citizens of the Arab countries. Even were it to be legislated, the High Court of Justice is liable to nullify it based on their well-known activist-progressive reasons. So, we are liable to reveal that many private properties in the Jezreel Valley and in Jerusalem have been “redeemed” by Arabs from the Gulf.

We already received our first poke in the eye with the purchase of half-ownership of the Beitar Jerusalem football club. It is clear that this was not merely an economic transaction, but rather a symbolic and calculated one.

The finger will be followed by the fist, and who will prevent it? Just as Sadat understood that by means of a peace treaty he could receive three quarters of Israeli territory, which he had lost in four wars, so, we are liable to find ourselves now conquered by means of money from the Gulf, without a single shot fired.

Second, in their great benevolence, our government grants every new Arab friend access to the Temple Mount. For some reason, this is the ultimate gift for every new Arab friend. I have only to quote Jared Kushner: “The treaty with the Emirates resolved, to a great extent, the Temple Mount issue.” He meant that Moslems from the entire world will be able to make a pilgrimage to the Temple Mount, while a Jew who mumbles a passage of prayer will find himself under arrest. This is a religious-national-moral failure.

Third, in signing the peace treaties with these countries, we are whitewashing evil. Sudan is being removed from the list of countries supporting terrorism, the western Sahara is annexed to Morocco, and in our great enthusiasm, we refuse even to designate Dubai as a red Corona state, so that they will not, God forbid, be angry at us.

Because I do not want to be self-righteous or sanctimonious, I prefer not to detail the moral status of these countries, in which individual rights are virtually non-existent, and trafficking in women and prostitution, and other troubling phenomena exist in them.

Fourth, the armies of the countries entering into peace treaties with us are benefitting from an upgrade of Western military equipment, and the United States is opening before them the arsenal of the most sophisticated weapons in its possession. The ink on the treaty with the Emirates is not yet dry, and it is already equipped with F-35 fighter jets that would never have reached it without its signature on the treaty; just as the rusted Egyptian army was upgraded after it signed the peace treaty with modern American Abrams tanks, Apache helicopters, and F-16 fighter jets.

Fifth, it must be remembered that these are dictatorships, tyrannical regimes; therefore, the treaties were signed to limited effect. Persia was our greatest friend in the Middle East until the Islamic Revolution that transpired there in 1979, and Turkey replaced it as a loyal ally until Erduan assumed power.

Sixth, when one day we stop being nice and assert our interests, these countries will nullify the treaties. Morocco had good relations with us until the year 2000, when we were forced to defend ourselves against the Oslo Intifada.

Even now, during our honeymoon period, when Dr. Fakhrizadeh was assassinated in Iran, the Emirates leapt to condemn the assassination (even though in their heart of hearts they rejoiced, and in private, they were rubbing their hands in delight). The Egyptian and Jordanian ambassadors spend most of their time in their countries, in heated protest, instead of in the embassy in Israel.

This is true all the more so when it turns out that the treaties with Bahrain and the Emirates are, for all intents and purposes, land for peace, as Netanyahu promised them and the United States that he will not annex the territories of Judea and Samaria, even partially. Why give any return to the Gulf States when it is clear to any intelligent person that their interest in creating a broad, united front against the Iranian enemy, is no less than ours?

And if, as mentioned above, we are already signing peace treaties, why do we not, at the same time, resolve the matter of the infiltrators from Sudan? Why do we not include an agreement that prioritizes finding employment for Palestinians in the Emirates (88 per cent of the residents there are not citizens, but rather foreign workers), and thereby encourage emigration of Palestinian youth from Judea and Samaria to the Gulf. Netanyahu has the solutions.

In conclusion, it would have been possible to engage in extensive business transactions and tourism even in a state of non-belligerence, without encountering the complications arising from the shortcomings enumerated above that stem from signing peace treaties. Netanyahu proves that he is not the great strategist that he claims to be.

 

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בס"ד

אי-לוחמה עדיף משלום

עו"ד דורון ניר צבי

פורסם במקור ראשון י"א טבת תשפ"א

 

מדינות ערביות חותמות לאחרונה בשרשרת על הסכמי שלום עם מדינת ישראל. לכאורה, עוד צעד בחזון אחרית הימים: "וגר זאב עם כבש, ונמר עם גדי ירבץ", "וכיתתו חרבותם לאתים וחניתותיהם למזמרות". אך למרבה הצער זו אליה וקוץ בה; חיבוק, אבל אולי חיבוק דב שעלול לחנוק אותנו.

כדאי לשים לב: עד עכשיו טרם נקבעה חקיקה להגבלת פעולותיהם העסקיות של אזרחי המדינות הערביות במדינת ישראל. גם אם תיחקק, בג"ץ עלול לבטלה מטעמיו האקטיביסטיים־פרוגרסיביים הידועים. כך אנו עלולים לגלות שאדמות פרטיות רבות בעמק יזרעאל ובירושלים "נגאלות" בידי ערבים מהמפרץ. את האצבע הראשונה בעין כבר קיבלנו ברכישת מחצית הבעלות במועדון הכדורגל של בית"ר ירושלים, שברור שאינה כלכלית גרידא אלא סמלית ומחושבת. אחרי האצבע יבוא האגרוף, ומי ימנע זאת? כשם שסאדאת הבין שבהסכם שלום הוא יכול לקבל שלושה רבעים משטח ישראל, שהוא איבד בארבע מלחמות, כך אנו עלולים למצוא עצמנו כעת נכבשים באמצעות הכסף מהמפרץ, ללא ירייה אחת.

שנית, בנחמדותה הרבה מעניקה ממשלתנו לכל ידידה ערבית חדשה דריסת רגל בהר הבית. משום מה, זו המתנה האולטימטיבית לכל חבר ערבי חדש. אין לי אלא לצטט את ג'ארד קושנר: "ההסכם עם האמירויות פתר במידה רבה את סוגיית הר הבית". הוא התכוון לכך שמוסלמים מכל העולם יוכלו לעלות לרגל להר הבית, בעוד שיהודי שימלמל פסוק תפילה ימצא עצמו במעצר. מדובר בכשל דתי־לאומי־מוסרי.

שלישית, בחתימת הסכמי שלום עם המדינות הללו אנו מכשירים שרצים. סודן יוצאת מרשימת המדינות התומכות בטרור, סהרה המערבית מסופחת למרוקו, ומרוב התלהבות אנחנו אפילו מסרבים להכריז על דובאי כמדינה אדומה מקורונה כדי שלא תכעס עלינו חלילה. ומפני שאיני רוצה להיות צדקן ומתחסד אני מעדיף לא לפרט בעניין רמתן המוסרית של המדינות האלה, שזכויות הפרט בהן שואפות לאפס, ויש בהן סחר בנשים וזנות ועוד מרעין בישין.

רביעית, צבאות המדינות שכורתות עימנו הסכמי שלום זוכים לשדרוג בציוד לחימה מערבי, וארה"ב פותחת בפניהן את ארסנל הנשק המתוחכם ביותר שבאמתחתה. עוד לא יבש הדיו על ההסכם עם האמירויות, והיא מצוידת במטוסי אף־35 שלא היו מגיעים אליה לעולם לולא חתימתה על ההסכם; כפי שצבאה החלוד של מצרים שודרג לאחר חתימתה על הסכם השלום, בטנקי אברמס אמריקניים ובמסוקי אפאצ'י ומטוסי אף־16 חדישים.

חמישית, יש לזכור שאלה דיקטטורות, משטרי רודנות, וממילא ההסכמים נחתמים בעירבון מוגבל. פרס הייתה ידידתנו הגדולה ביותר במזרח התיכון עד המהפכה האסלאמית שהתחוללה בה ב־1979, וטורקיה החליפה אותה כבת ברית נאמנה עד שארדואן עלה לשלטון.

שישית, כשנפסיק יום אחד להיות נחמדים ונעמוד על האינטרסים שלנו, המדינות הללו יבטלו את ההסכמים. מרוקו הייתה ביחסים טובים איתנו עד שנת 2000, עת נאלצנו להתגונן בפני אינתיפאדת אוסלו. אפילו כעת, בירח הדבש, כאשר חוסל ד"ר פאחריזדה באיראן, קפצו באמירויות לגנות את ההתנקשות (אף שבסתר ליבם שמחו ובחדרי חדרים חיככו ידיהם בהנאה). שגרירי מצרים וירדן מבלים את רוב זמנם בארצם, במחאה סוערת, במקום בשגרירות בארץ.

כל זה נכון ויפה בקל וחומר כאשר מסתבר שההסכמים עם בחריין והאמירויות הם בבחינת שטחים תמורת שלום, שכן נתניהו הבטיח להם ולארה"ב שלא יספח את שטחי יהודה ושומרון, אפילו חלקית. מדוע בכלל לתת תמורה למדינות המפרץ כאשר ברי לכל בר דעת שיש להן אינטרס גדול לא פחות משלנו ליצור חזית אחידה ורחבה מול האויב האיראני? ואם כבר חותמים על הסכמי שלום כאמור, מדוע לא פותרים על הדרך את סוגיית המסתננים מסודן? מדוע לא מכלילים הסכם שמתעדף העסקת פלסטינים באמירויות (88 אחוזים מהתושבים שם אינם אזרחים אלא עובדים זרים), ובכך מעודדים הגירת צעירים פלסטינים מיו"ש אל המפרץ? לנתניהו הפתרונים.

כללו של דבר, עסקים נרחבים וטיולים היה אפשר לעשות בכל המדינות הללו גם במצב של אי־לוחמה, ובלי להסתבך בחסרונות שמניתי לעיל שנובעים מהחתימה על הסכמי שלום. שוב, לצערי, נתניהו מוכיח שאינו אסטרטג גדול כפי שהוא טוען. 

 

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Atty. Doron Nir Tzvi is a real estate expert in Judea & Samaria. Used by permission.

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URGENT UPDATE: As a result of the crowding of the US White House and some rioting during the counting of the electors' votes, there is a threat to the rest of US President Trump's presidency. We MUST declare sovereignty in Judea and Samaria NOW if we intend to do it at all!

Further reading: 

-- a summary of the secret clauses in the Oslo Accords (which apparently we were never told), contained in this post by Israel Truth Times a while ago. Hopefully we will learn not to listen to Lashon haRa about religious Jews! And, by the way, one of these clauses — put forward by the late Shimon Peres — is to have us give up our present borders including our most vital strategic positions, and join in an economic union with its Arab neighbors. Sound familiar? Victory without a shot fired???

Not that the following should matter to us so much because it's not up to anyone except HQB"H, but it's nice to hear...and we do need to move forward as far as we can go while the getting is good!

-- Pakistan: Top Cleric Says Israel Belongs to Jews

Hebrew birthday blessings, a 'bombshell calculation,' and more

3 Kislev 5781

 

This low-carb cake was made for Rosh haShana, but it's great for any occasion...someday I'll post the recipe, be"H, b"n

  in honor of the yom neshama of my mother's mother, whom I never got to meet (she passed after I had just turned two)...Nazira bat Sarah

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I wrote up these blessings on my recent Hebrew birthday, 29 Heshvan, to be passed along. I hope you like them. Here they are:

1. That your relationship with G-d, your health and your wealth will increase.

2. That your children and all generations after you will serve G-d, have a proper moral compass and prosper accordingly.

3. That we will all live to greet Mashiah together.

4. And that all the prisoners of Zion will be delivered out of jail and be with us.

They do not need to necessarily be in that order!

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And now for the great part.

Reb Dov Bear commented the following (very light editing, links and emphases by HDG) recently:

Rav [Alon] Anava gave us a bombshell calculation [discussion begins approximately 29m, 30s into the video -HDG]. Most people count the Midway point between Adam and Mashiach ben David to the BIRTH of David in the year 2854. So since אדם is from Adam to David to Mashiach ben David, with David exactly in the middle, most simply double 2854 to get 5708, which was the year of the Founding of the State of Israel. So they trace the Birth of David to the "Birth" of Mashiach, not the actual Rise of Mashiach and the beginning of the New Era. So Rav Anava rightly pointed out that David actually became king in Hevron at Age 30, and he correctly points out that at the time he was co-regent of Israel and Yehudah with Shaul's son Ish Boshet. David was the King of Yehudah, and Ish Boshet was the King of the Rest of Israel. What he does not point out is that in the third year of David's reign, Ish Boshet was assassinated, and the rest of the Tribes came to David so that in the third year of David's reign, he became King of all of Israel.

Although David moved the capital from Hevron to Yerushalayim in the 8th year of his reign, he actually became King of all Israel in the 3rd year of his reign in Hevron with the death/assassination of Ish Boshet. Yet, obviously all the tribes north of Yehudah, which were all the Tribes, were not happy with a situation where the King of Israel ruled from the Judean Provincial capital of Hevron. So David concluded that he could only keep his kingdom together by capturing Yerushalayim which was somewhat in "no man's land," at the actual border between Yehudah and Binyamin in the Jebusite city that had not yet been conquered. So from a practical perspective, the Davidic Dynasty was cemented when David was 37 years old and had conquered Yerushalayim from the Jebusites. So once again double that 37 year period to add 74 years or (ע"ד years) to 5708 to get the year of our Joy, 5782. So there you go, an additional calculation besides the ones that I have brought you on this blog such as the 1335 years since the setting up of the cornerstone of the Golden Dome (the Abomination that Makes Desolate) in 687 ce, leading to the exact same year 2022 (5782-early 5783)! Now since 5782 is the Shmittah year of destiny, Ben David sets up his Messianic kingdom in the immediate aftermath of 5782 in the Motzei Shmittah year 5783, but Chaza"l tell us that the Geulah is actually in force in the 7th year even if Ben David sets up his kingdom in year 8. It is why HaShem alone as Go'el Yisrael is the 7th brachah of Shmonah Esrei.

It seems to me that this has been revealed now because the n w o people have done such a good job in frightening large numbers of people into believing that the world has no choice but to submit and follow them, using the coronavirus as an opportunity...and until the Kadosh Baruch Hu reveals Himself, choice must continue to exist. 

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UPDATE this section: "Youth for Pollard" has designated today a SPECIAL DAY OF PRAYER for Jonathan Pollard. We can always pray that the p t b will be so busy for today & the next few days that they won't be able to do what they usually do in the case of "Israel's agent." See Alan Dershowitz: Cautious, optimistic that Pollard will go free.

Two things we can all do to bring our geula closer by helping America's longest-lived standing prisoner of Zion, as far as I know (he is currently at what we hope and pray is the end of a 5-year-long house- and neighborhood-arrest, and has not been able to work because of the conditions placed on him) are:

 1. Pray for Jonathan Pollard (Yehonatan ben Malka) and for his wife, Esther (Esther Yocheved bat Raizel Bracha, for her health), that he be released on time this Friday. Suggested prayers

2. Write to President Trump and ask him to commute Jonathan's sentence to time served.

I personally believe that millions of Israelis owe Jonathan their lives for what he did for their country — not against America, but for Israel — more than 35 years ago.

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May my readers have a joyous Kislev, the happiest of Hanukka celebrations, and a great next couple of years...until Mashiah is revealed. 

Don't worry, I have material I'll continue to develop and post in the meantime.😀