Happy Memorial Day!

This Memorial Day let us remember our heroes in uniform who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.  Every moment that we are able to live our lives as we please our service members are putting themselves in harm’s way, risking their lives, missing their families, and living in conditions many of us couldn’t imagine, fighting for everything that makes America great.  Many of us are celebrating this day as the beginning of summer, with pools and cook-outs.  Let us not forget our fallen heroes, who will never come home, never kiss their loved ones, or hug their children, but they never have to wonder whether they’ve made a difference.

Socialism or Anti-Semitism?

On Friday, May 20 2011, President Barack Hussein Obama made his long awaited speech about the current situation in the Middle East.  In his speech, he called on Israel to cede much of its land to Palestinian terrorists and make itself a sitting duck for even more attacks.  Furthermore, he blatantly withdrew American support for Israel, our truest ally in the Middle East, when he stated that Israel must “defend itself-by itself…”  It is quite interesting, that not so long ago in 2008 then-candidate Obama, while courting the Jewish vote at AIPAC, claimed a completely different perspective on Israel.  In order to get 80% of American Jews to vote for him, Barack Hussein Obama made the following statements to his constituents in 2008:

And I know–and I know that when I visit AIPAC I’m among friends–good friends, friends who share my strong commitment to make sure that the bond between the United States and Israel is unbreakable today, unbreakable tomorrow–unbreakable forever.

We know that the establishment of Israel was just and necessary, rooted in centuries of struggle and decades of patient work, but 60 years later we know that we cannot relent, we cannot yield, and as President I will never compromise when it comes to Israel’s security.

Our alliance is based on shared interests and shared values. Those who threaten Israel threaten us; Israel has always faced these threats on the frontlines and I will bring to the White House an unshakable commitment to Israel’s security. That starts with insuring Israel’s qualitative military advantage. I will insure that Israel can defend itself from any threat from Gaza to Tehran.

Any agreement with the Palestinian people must preserve Israel’s identity as a Jewish State with secure, recognized, defensible borders. And Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided.

Finally, let there be no doubt, I will always keep the threat of military action on the table to defend our security and our ally, Israel.

After he got elected, thanks in no small part to the American Jewish community, both in money and votes, Obama has continuously broken every single one of his promises regarding Israel and displayed his true anti-Semitic colors.  He had snubbed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, encouraged the overthrow of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak by the Muslim Brotherhood, a sworn enemy to Israel, and now he is calling for Israel to divide Jerusalem, its holiest city which has never belonged to its Arab neighbors and relinquish much of its land, returning to 1967 borders.  Lest we forget that the land Obama is referring to was won by Israel after it was attacked by five Arab countries with long established armies.  Through bravery, courage, and G-d’s help Israel emerged victorious in the wars launched by its enemies and has given back much of the land it has won in exchange for peace.
I wonder if Obama feels that he has solidly secured the Jewish vote and therefore, can continue to further his anti-Israel agenda.  Maybe he realizes that American Jews will turn a blind eye on his anti-Semitism and keep voting democrat until it is too late because they value socialism above Israel? The socialism of Obama and the Democrats, as they coddle Islamists in their “workers of the world, unite” meme, is destroying Israel.  Just like the Jews that allied with the communists in the Soviet Union in the name of “equality” only to face further discrimination and subjugation.  As much as we tried to assimilate ourselves into the “equality” that communism promised it was always understood that we were second class citizens.  The one time in Soviet school when the Holocaust was mentioned my history teacher stated that the “real tragedy of the Holocaust was when ethnic Russians and Ukrainians were mistaken for being Jewish and killed while the actual Jews were able to escape.”  How disturbing it is to see that we have now come full circle with American Jews self-destructing all in the name of socialism.

Think You Know Israeli History?

16 Important Facts About Jews, Arabs and Israel

1. Israel became a state circa 1030 B.C., more than two millennia before Islam.

2. Arabs from Israel first began to be called “Palestinians” in 1967 by Yasser Arafat and other Arab leaders, two decades after modern Israeli statehood.

3. After conquering the land in about 1250 B.C., Jews ruled it for more than 1,300 years and have maintained a continuous presence there for 3,300 years.

4. For over 3,000 years, Jerusalem was the Jewish capital. It was never the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even under Jordanian rule, (East) Jerusalem was not made the capital, and no Arab leader came to visit it.

5. Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in the Bible, but not once is it mentioned in the Qur’an.

6. King David founded Jerusalem; Mohammed never set foot in it.

7. Jews pray facing Jerusalem; Muslims face Mecca. If they are between the two cities, Muslims pray facing Mecca, with their backs to Jerusalem.

8. In 1948, Arab leaders urged their people to leave, promising to cleanse the land of Jewish presence some 70% of them fled without ever being ordered by Israel to leave, most of those without ever having seen an Israeli soldier.

9. Virtually the entire Jewish population of Muslim countries had to flee as the result of violence and pogroms.

10. Some 650,000 Arabs left Israel in 1948, while about 850,000 Jews were forced to leave Muslim countries.

11. In spite of the vast territories at their disposal, Arab refugees from Palestine were deliberately prevented from assimilating into their host countries. Of 100 million refugees following World War II, they are the only group to have never integrated with their coreligionists. Most of the Jewish refugees from Europe and Arab lands were settled in Israel, a country no larger than New Jersey.

12. There are 22 Arab countries (with 800 times the land mass of Israel), not counting the Palestinian territories. There is only one Jewish state. Arabs started all five wars against Israel, and lost every one of them.

13. The Fatah and Hamas constitutions still call for the destruction of Israel. Israel has agreed under several proposals to cede most of the West Bank and all of Gaza to the Palestinian Authority, and even supported the arming of its police force after the Oslo Accords in 1993.

14. During the Jordanian occupation, Jewish holy sites were vandalized and were off limits to Jews. Under Israeli rule, all Muslim and Christian holy sites are accessible to all faiths and maintained in good order at Israel’s expense.

15. Out of 175 United Nations Security Council resolutions up to 1990, 97 were against Israel; out of 690 General Assembly resolutions, 429 were against Israel;

16. The U.N. was silent when the Jordanians destroyed 58 synagogues in the old city of Jerusalem. It remained silent while Jordan systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives, and it remained silent when Jordan enforced apartheid laws preventing Jews from accessing the Temple Mount and Western Wall (Kotel).

Obama, President of Palestine

Today, the day before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to arrive in the US, President Obama has openly stated whose side he’s on, and it’s not Israel’s.  In his speech, he is attempting to back Israel into a corner, forcing it to make concessions to a so-called government, controlled by the HAMAS terrorists.  He is pressuring Israel to hand over more of its land its sworn enemies while the terrorists openly pursue their annihilation campaign.  It is quite interesting, that there were no “Palestinians” before Israel became a thriving nation.  Prior to 1948 they were Syrians and Jordanians.  Once they saw that Israel was succeeding as a sovereign country they suddenly started spreading propaganda of the Zionist “occupation” of their lands.  How disturbing it is that such slander can garner worldwide support and even more so, the President of the US can so blatantly disregard the truth in order to further his anti-Semitic principles.  Moreover, he is not so slowly, but absolutely surely withdrawing US support for our truest ally and only legitimate democracy in the Middle East by stating “Israel must be able to defend itself-by itself…” THAT MEANS ALONE! Obama is retracting US assistance. His leftist enablers cite all his good words for Israel. His ACTIONS show an entirely different path; one to the destruction of the Jewish homeland.
How any Jews can still support Obama is beyond my scope of comprehension.  He is aligning himself with foreign and domestic anti-Semites who persistently work towards destroying us.  How quickly have we managed to forget what it was like to be Jewish before we had a Jewish homeland of Israel.  Jews were the routine scapegoats for any misfortunes that befell the nations that gave them temporary refuge.  Subsequently, they would be driven from their homes and forced to settle in the next nation that extended enough mercy to accept them.  For the past 63 years we have been lucky enough to have Israel.  Now, as a patriotic supporter of Israel, Representative and retired Lt. Col. Allen West, said today: This could lead to the end of Israel.  Jews that support Obama are the shame of our ancestors.

Remarks by the President on the Middle East and North Africa

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/19/remarks-president-middle-east-and-north-africa

Americans Aiding Hamas

As most of the Western world celebrated delayed justice served to Osama Bin Laden by the American Navy Seals over the last week, the Islamist terrorist machine continued to chug along in Israel, publicly marked by a unification agreement between Hamas and Fatah.  Hamas is founded on the ideology of denouncing Israel’s right to exist and continues to work towards Israel’s destruction.  The world not only turns a blind eye to these hateful terrorists but persistently pressures Israel to make more concessions to those dedicated towards its destruction.  What’s worse, it is the American taxpayer that is inadvertently funding these terrorists who target innocent Israeli civilians in order to further their cause.

The US contributes around a billion dollars a year of taxpayer money to Palestine, which undoubtedly ends up in Hamas hands.  Twenty-seven US Senators have written to President Obama requesting that he halt monetary aid to a unified Fatah-Hamas government that refuses to so much as acknowledge Israel’s right to exist.  To date, Obama has done absolutely nothing even though US law prohibits aid from being provided to a Palestinian government that includes Hamas unless the government and all its members have publicly committed to the Quartet principles.

It is not surprising though, that the Obama administration yet again blatantly disregards an American law and hangs Israel out to dry.  Meanwhile, every day our hard earned tax dollars continue to fall into terrorists’ hands and help them fund more destructive activities towards Israel. With a rogue Department of Justice running guns to Mexican drug cartels and the Obama administration ignoring the mandates of Federal judges for Obamacare limits and a loosening of oil permits while gasoline skyrockets, it is not surprising that Obama continues to hurt Israel. All who aid him are aiding in the killing of Jews in Israel!

http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=219654

A Second Holocaust?

Today we mark Holocaust Remembrance Day.  We mourn the millions of Jewish men, women, and children who were brutally slaughtered by the nazis and their sympathizers.  After Germany lost the war, most survivors who attempted to return to their former homes found that they were no longer welcome.  Their former friends and neighbors had confiscated their property with no anticipation of ever having to give it back.  Even more disturbingly, quite a few survivors were murdered by their countrymen whose anti-Semitism never faded.  Israel was their only hope for a homeland where Jews can  be Jewish without any fear.  As Israel’s president Shimon Peres stated “There is no substitute for a homeland of our own.”

Today Israel and Jews worldwide face a new enemy that is trying to wipe us off the face of the Earth.  Not only did the Islamic world collaborate with the Nazis in WWII, today’s  Islamic extremists have steadily been working towards eliminating Israel and exterminating all Jews in the world.  Ever since becoming a country in 1948 Israel could count on the US as an unwavering ally.  Since Obama got elected, however, that has drastically changed.  Who of us still hear the call of the Holocaust dead? Instead of standing with Israel, our strongest ally and only true democracy in the Middle East, this president and his hand chosen cabinet have aligned themselves with Israel’s enemies.

President Obama turned his back on the peaceful protesters in Iran, thus giving Mahmoud Ahmedinejad (who has openly referred to Israel as a “stinking corpse” and repeatedly called for its annihilation) the power to impose his brutal tactics to crush the protesters and tighten the reigns on his rule of terror.  Soon after, he sided with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, an entity of Hamas whose primary mission is wiping Israel off the map, and called for the Egyptian president and Israel’s longest standing ally in the Middle East Hosni Mubarak to step down and hand the country over to the extremists.  Reform could have come to Egypt and Mubarak through political pressure but that was not really this administration’s goal. Now the new government of Egypt is calling for the nullification of the peace treaty and starting a war with Israel.

To say that Israel is on a precipice is a gross understatement. With Islamic migration spreading across the world and Sharia Law insinuating its way throughout Europe, and now making footholds in America, there is a dreaded potential for the long-sought 12th Imam being called to appear by the Islamic world. This so-called Caliphate will hinge on the destruction of Israel and America. It is no fantasy. It is no dream. It is a nightmare that began in great measure during the Holocaust. It went underground. Now it is too big to hide. Some leaders abet it, like Obama. Some are too blind to see it. Sadly, 80% of American Jews voted for Obama and most continue to express their support.

For Jews to aid in their own destruction feels reminiscent of European Jewish leaders who tried to make friends with the nazis thinking that their communities would be spared. Aligning with the American Left and Obama is suicide as was the futile and insane attempts of our ancestors to pacify Nazis. Continue supporting the American Leftists collaborating with Israel’s (and America’s) enemies at your peril, Jewish brothers and sisters! Or choose a path closer to the intellect manifest in our heritage, and seek your friends in America’s politically conservative Gentile majority. They await you with open arms and offer comfort and faith on this day of Holocaust Remembrance.

Anti-Semite in Chief

Yet again, those of us who care, are expressing our condolences to another Israeli family.  Ben Yosef Livnat, a 24 year old Israeli citizen was fatally shot by the Palestinian police while visiting Joseph’s Tomb.  As the US government attempts to cozy up to the Palestinian terrorists, they are only intensifying their campaign of murdering innocent Jews.  Meanwhile, President Obama, when making a speech about Passover, could not resist the opportunity for yet another spit in Israel’s face by comparing the Passover Exodus to the current Arab uprisings.  Could Obama make his anti-Semitic leanings any more obvious?  The story of Passover celebrates the Jewish people escaping their Egyptian oppressors to found a country of their own-Israel.  The Arab uprisings are based on the common principle of Israel’s destruction and yet, Obama has the nerve to correlate the two!
Having grown up in the former Soviet Union I have seen my share of anti-Semitism.  When my family immigrated to the United States we were optimistically looking forward to being free to be Jewish in this great country and not have to worry about government imposed anti-Semitic policies.  Those Jews who remember the horrors of government oppression cannot fathom how the majority of American Jews could have voted for Obama.  In return for their vote Obama has openly pursued his anti-Israel agenda.  He persistently degrades Israel and supports its enemies.  Just how long are we going to continue with our willful ignorance?!  It is hard to believe that the leader of the greatest country on Earth that was founded on principles of freedom for all can be so blatant in his contempt towards the American Jewish population, the majority of whom helped put him in the White House!  The reality is though, it is happening right before our eyes and if we don’t act now, we will lose Israel!

Obama’s Passover speech released by the White House

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/Passover_Message_2011.pdf