May 2013
42 posts
ארץ ישראל: Rachel's Tomb: 290 Firebombs and IEDs... →
girlactionfigure:
Knesset discusses security measures at holy site, will consider building a roof over the compound.
The Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee discussed the security situation at Rachel’s Tomb near Bethlehem in Monday. It appears that a roof may be built…
From al Durah to Badawi: Lethal journalism and...
eretzyisrael:
Philippe Assouline
Israeli lawyer, freelance journalist and activist
Posted: 03/05/2013 10:58 am
It was a defining image of the last conflagration in Gaza. Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh and Egyptian prime minister Hashim Kandil held up a Palestinian child’s corpse to the cameras, his face bloodied, his lifeless eyes a compelling entreaty to the world: “Will you not...
An Open Letter to the Arab League
The following article was written in Hebrew by Dr. Mordechai Kedar for the May 10, 2013 issue of the Makor Rishon newspaper, and translated to English by Sally Zahav.
An Open Letter to the Arab League by Mordechai Kedar
To the Honorable Leaders of the Arab States,
We in Israel received with great pleasure your agreement to normalize relations with Israel on condition that we agree to the...
Muhammad Al-Dura: The boy who was not really... →
Defense Minister Ya’alon formed a secret investigative committee that concluded Al-Dura had not been hurt and the video showing him shot at by IDF had been staged; findings to be made public in near future.
PA Official: If We Could, We’d Nuke Israel →
Our partners in “peace.”
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Carter Calls on EU to Label Products from 'Illegal...
Former US President Carter has called on EU to “introduce proper labeling of goods produced on illegal Israeli settlements.”
Here’s his idea put into action:
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Ketzele: Hebron Arabs meet with Jews to discuss... →
girlactionfigure:
YNet (Hebrew) reports on monthly meetings between yeshiva students in Efrat and Muslims from Hebron to discuss co-existence.
Ma’an translates:
“For a short hour, two completely different worlds would meet here. Young Palestinian men from Hebron and Jewish Yeshiva students from Efrat…
ארץ ישראל: Why are human rights organizations... →
eretzyisrael:
In 2003, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International issued a joint statement on antisemitism:
Recognizing anti-Semitism as a serious human rights violation, we also recognize our own responsibility to take on this issue as part of our work. It should not be left to Jewish groups alone to…
Happy Hebron Day!
eretzyisrael:
29 Iyyar 5773 Erev Rosh Chodesh Sivan Yom Kippur Katan Day 44 of the Omer “The city is most notable for containing the traditional burial site of the biblical Patriarchs and Matriarchs and is therefore considered the second-holiest city in Judaism after Jerusalem.” It was returned to Jewish hands the day after Jerusalem was liberated in 1967, until Bibi Netanyahu signed most of...
Pro-Israel professor harassed and defamed →
girlactionfigure:
Professors, academic departments and residential colleges at [The University of California, Santa Cruz] promote and encourage anti-Israel, anti-Zionist and anti-Jewish views and behavior, much of which is based on either misleading information or outright falsehoods. In addition, rhetoric heard in UCSC classrooms and at numerous events sponsored and funded by academic and...
Second Temple Era Key Exposed at New Highway Site →
Excavations are mandatory prior to the start of public works in Israel.
Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, who is pro-Palestinian,... →
Boycott Pink Floyd and Roger Waters.
ארץ ישראל: The Liberation of Temple Mount - 1967. →
eretzyisrael:
In the June, 1967 Six Day War, Rabbi Yisrael Ariel was a young soldier in the paratrooper brigade, led by Gen. Motta Gur, which liberated Jerusalem’s Old City. He was one of the first soldiers to reach the Temple Mount. The very first night that the Temple Mount returned to Israeli sovereignty,…
ארץ ישראל: Yom Yerushalayim: The Reunification of... →
eretzyisrael:
There has been a continuous Jewish presence in Jerusalem, and our connection to and passion for the city has been preserved as a memory by Jewish people around the world.
Though the modern state of Israel was born in 1948, for years Jews were cut off from the Old City of Jerusalem and the…
One of the smartest may perhaps be the dumbest.
Stephen Hawking joins academic boycott of Israel in solidarity with his Palestinian colleagues
Professor Stephen Hawking is backing the academic boycott of Israel by pulling out of a conference hosted by Israeli president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem as a protest at Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.
Hawking, 71, the world-renowned theoretical physicist and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the...
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Barkat: Let the Palestinians rename Ramallah as...
eretzyisrael:
Jerusalem’s mayor rules out any notion of Palestinian rule in the capital, slams Olmert’s peace offer as a ‘terrible mistake,’ and says it’s ‘ridiculous’ that Jews can’t pray on the Temple Mount.
Setting out a resolutely uncompromising vision of continued Israeli sovereignty throughout Jerusalem, the capital’s Mayor Nir Barkat rejected any notion of Palestinian rule in any part of...
Jerusalem: Heart of Our Heart - by Elie Wiesel
eretzyisrael:
Jerusalem is above politics.
Nobel Prize-winning author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel today took out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal, in the form an open letter to President Obama, with whom Wiesel visited the Buchenwald death camp last year. Here is the text of the letter.
For Jerusalem
It was inevitable: Jerusalem once again is at the center of political...
Ketzele: Why Did The Church of Scotland Deny The... →
girlactionfigure:
The following by David P. Goldman is reposted here with permission of the Middle East Forum:
Snaking the Scotch
by David P. Goldman Asia Times
Ethnocentrism is the snake in Christianity’s garden, and last week it slithered into the Church of Scotland. It took the form of a…
Akiva Society- The Art of Being Good: 20 Factors... →
akivasociety:
Parnassa? Everyone is always looking for ways to get it or enhance it. Parnassa is a complicated matter with many factors involved. Below a list of 20 factors affecting parnassa compiled from “Sefer HaMidos” by Rebbe Nachman of Breslov. If you are really interested in parnassa the list is worth…
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Women for the Wall →
Preserving the Traditional Sanctity of the Western Wall.
Orban Whitewashes Hungarian Anti-Semitism
eretzyisrael:
As I read Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s speech to the delegates of the World Jewish Congress, who assembled in Budapest this past weekend, I found myself visualizing the furrowed eyebrows and anxious seat shuffling going on in the audience. For not only was Orban’s speech a chain of platitudes from beginning to end, it was downright dishonest.
The WJC says it held its...
m-o-r-d-y asked: Could you explain Rav Kook's views on Zionism and the Zionist state.
thearcanetheory:
the people behind the eretzyisrael blog can’t speak Hebrew, and they don’t know halakha, they are extremely partisan and uber-right wing as all fuq, but they claim to speak for Jews and Judaism.
motherfuckers, read the Torah in it’s original Hebrew, then get back to me.
LOL - good to know the Internet is still a place for idiots and their blanket statements lacking any and...
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Ketzele: News and not-news →
girlactionfigure:
You know what’s news? The reaction of an Israeli town to one of their members being stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist.
You know what’s not news? The killing (by stabbing to death) of an Israeli “settler” by a Palestinian terrorist. No news agency chose to cover that story until the…
April 2013
37 posts
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ארץ ישראל: Rabbinate: Yom Ha'atzma'ut a Day to... →
eretzyisrael:
Yom Ha’atzma’ut (Independence Day) begins Monday night, as flags are raised to full staff in Israel. In honor of Yom Ha’atzma’ut, the Chief Rabbinate issued a special message Monday afternoon, providing instructions for special prayers for the day.
Not simply a day marking the State’s…
