B"H
I read some pretty upsetting things today and this article was one them. Luckily this journalist repeatedly shoots himself in the foot several times. His article is very negative about the community and it's inhabitants / citizens. They are NOT settlers. They are citizens of the state of Israel.
Here is the link to the article.
http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/06/n-evacuating-migron-israels-leaders-were-motivated-by-politics/
That this journalist does not have much sympathy for the people of Migron is shockingly obvious. I found his tone offensive and his attention to detail and fact lacking. For example he states that:
No doubt relocating Migron’s residents involves inconveniences — packing, moving, living in temporary quarters. And leaving a place in which one has invested heart and soul is painful. But Migron was always an unauthorized outpost, as its residents well knew when they moved in.
REALLY!
Migron was settled and it's inhabitants supported and assisted by the Israeli government at the time. It was not unauthorised. The "unauthorised comes from the left wing myth making machine as they seek to justify what they have done to these people. Then this latte slurping cafe lay about downplays the whole movement of the families, the actual efforts involved in moving households etc as something simple and almost fun,like it is some macabre game. I can assure you that for these families, this is not the case it would be traumatic and highly emotional.
He then states "the settlers loss is no great loss." Maybe not for him. He would probably be no great loss to the world of journalism.
I find his back handed comments with regard to the settler citizens extremely biased. While he could not lie about the dignified way the families left the site and he had to give the another jab. He acknowledged that the people of Migron are in the majority law abiding citizens while implying that they were somehow not politically correct but misguided. It seems there is one rule for some, and another rule for others. When will we stop this hypocrisy?
The fact that he down played their plight and had absolutely no sympathy for those families beggars belief and I had to pull myself together and think this is what happens when people are brought up with a
G-D less outlook on life. They see everything through some flawed logic lens. I had someone tell me once that people are responsible for their own misfortunes. Not so, my next post is about a holocaust survivor called Esther. It is not her real name but when I think of what this holy woman went through in Australia of all places, I cry to G-D. I cry and ask how can human beings be so heartless to each other and how could this happen?
Please pray for the people of Migron, offer them any assistance you can. Thank G-D for Moshe and Nora Elkman who have been wonderful support for these people and worked tirelessly to bring attention to their plight. Not like some as this G-Dless journalist who even seems to lack a heart. I know I will never buy Ha'aretz again.
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Forgiveness and Elul Book keeping
B'H
It is the month of Elul and many changes take place. It is a month of accounting for all of us. Coming up to Rosh Hashannah we reflect on the year past and try to eradicate the faults and aveirot that we have fallen into through out the year. We need to balance the books. we need to tidy up. Halfway through the year we have Pesach which is about a yearly spiritual spring clean. It is a time of liberation. By contrast, Rosh Hashannah is reconnecting to our Master and Creator of All. It is called the Yom Norim, days of fear and awe. We confront ourselves however hard that may be.We go through the books and tidy them up.
We look at the blessings that we have in our lives despite what aveirot we have committed and how we have done things that were not in keeping with kedusha and we we fall on the floor before our Master and beg for forgiveness and to reconnect with Him.
The nations have a very different view of New Year. They often herald it with wild revelry and act in very licentious ways, uncontrolled and destructive acts are treated as good fun. I remember when I was taxi driving many years ago. I refused to drive on that night past a certain time because of the way people behaved on the last night of the old Gregorian calender year. Taxi drivers who drove into the city did so at their own risk and chanced having their cabs turned on their roofs with resulting damage to property and their livelihood. Young girls get drunk and seduced by youths or men acting in uncontrolled and savage ways. People are abused and treated shabbily because it is "New Year." Happy New Year all! One wonders what could be happy about such a destructive and ugly way to celebrate a new year in such a way.
By contrast, the Jewish New Year is very different. It is a serious time of reflection, deep soul searching and we need to reach into ourselves and to look at how we have spent the year past. What did we do that was good and what was not good and how could we make this better? Have we been honest or have we cheated people both emotionally, physically and financially? We need to book keep and be honest in our dealings with ourselves and others.
The Jewish New Year is all about constructing and building. Yes, there is some inner renovating to do. We do have to subjugate ourselves and make amends. Kill our pride and arrogance and own up to our habits and try to destroy them and replace them with good traits. By the same token it is not good to be totally without some self esteem or self confidence. One needs to be balanced and that is what the Yom Norim are about balance. Rosh Hashannah is the head of the year, and the beginning of a new year in our service to the King of Kings.
http://www.chabad.org/multimedia/media_cdo/aid/312331/jewish/Avinu-Malkeinu-Medley.htm
As we balance the books with our year and our Creator, we realise what we need to come up with and more what we need to do in order to be balanced in our life towards others and our King. We need trust in Hashem that we will be helped to do what we need to do to make our life better and to be better people. On Yom Kippur when we are finally sealed for a good year, there is still a window of opportunity until Hoshanna Rabba. Hashem so loves us that we are given another chance to make amends. We have to try not to blow our chances. We are human however and we err. Hashem knows that and also knows when we try to take advantage of the fact that we are mere human beings. We can always strive to do better. That is the beauty of it all.
Life is a learning curve of deep proportions.I often feel like a sailor on the ocean in a small craft naivgating these big shipping channels and the open seas. We deal with the elements and also the other ships when we come across them. We interact and so many factors come into play. It is good to have Torah as our GPS. The trouble with a GPS though is that you must learn to use it correctly otherwise it is useless to you. You must take the time to study the instructions and to follow them correctly. Often you have to reread them and relearn how to do things. That is life. Constant and unrelenting revision. You can be creative and learn new ways or methods of teaching and doing the same thing, but be sure that the things you are doing are the right things for your sake and the sake of others.
Go hear the shofar and really listen to it.
It is the month of Elul and many changes take place. It is a month of accounting for all of us. Coming up to Rosh Hashannah we reflect on the year past and try to eradicate the faults and aveirot that we have fallen into through out the year. We need to balance the books. we need to tidy up. Halfway through the year we have Pesach which is about a yearly spiritual spring clean. It is a time of liberation. By contrast, Rosh Hashannah is reconnecting to our Master and Creator of All. It is called the Yom Norim, days of fear and awe. We confront ourselves however hard that may be.We go through the books and tidy them up.
We look at the blessings that we have in our lives despite what aveirot we have committed and how we have done things that were not in keeping with kedusha and we we fall on the floor before our Master and beg for forgiveness and to reconnect with Him.
The nations have a very different view of New Year. They often herald it with wild revelry and act in very licentious ways, uncontrolled and destructive acts are treated as good fun. I remember when I was taxi driving many years ago. I refused to drive on that night past a certain time because of the way people behaved on the last night of the old Gregorian calender year. Taxi drivers who drove into the city did so at their own risk and chanced having their cabs turned on their roofs with resulting damage to property and their livelihood. Young girls get drunk and seduced by youths or men acting in uncontrolled and savage ways. People are abused and treated shabbily because it is "New Year." Happy New Year all! One wonders what could be happy about such a destructive and ugly way to celebrate a new year in such a way.
By contrast, the Jewish New Year is very different. It is a serious time of reflection, deep soul searching and we need to reach into ourselves and to look at how we have spent the year past. What did we do that was good and what was not good and how could we make this better? Have we been honest or have we cheated people both emotionally, physically and financially? We need to book keep and be honest in our dealings with ourselves and others.
The Jewish New Year is all about constructing and building. Yes, there is some inner renovating to do. We do have to subjugate ourselves and make amends. Kill our pride and arrogance and own up to our habits and try to destroy them and replace them with good traits. By the same token it is not good to be totally without some self esteem or self confidence. One needs to be balanced and that is what the Yom Norim are about balance. Rosh Hashannah is the head of the year, and the beginning of a new year in our service to the King of Kings.
http://www.chabad.org/multimedia/media_cdo/aid/312331/jewish/Avinu-Malkeinu-Medley.htm
As we balance the books with our year and our Creator, we realise what we need to come up with and more what we need to do in order to be balanced in our life towards others and our King. We need trust in Hashem that we will be helped to do what we need to do to make our life better and to be better people. On Yom Kippur when we are finally sealed for a good year, there is still a window of opportunity until Hoshanna Rabba. Hashem so loves us that we are given another chance to make amends. We have to try not to blow our chances. We are human however and we err. Hashem knows that and also knows when we try to take advantage of the fact that we are mere human beings. We can always strive to do better. That is the beauty of it all.
Life is a learning curve of deep proportions.I often feel like a sailor on the ocean in a small craft naivgating these big shipping channels and the open seas. We deal with the elements and also the other ships when we come across them. We interact and so many factors come into play. It is good to have Torah as our GPS. The trouble with a GPS though is that you must learn to use it correctly otherwise it is useless to you. You must take the time to study the instructions and to follow them correctly. Often you have to reread them and relearn how to do things. That is life. Constant and unrelenting revision. You can be creative and learn new ways or methods of teaching and doing the same thing, but be sure that the things you are doing are the right things for your sake and the sake of others.
Go hear the shofar and really listen to it.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Reflections on being Homeless
B"H
There are many reasons why a person ends up homeless. I and my son are technically homeless and our situation will be even worse in a matter of days. The owners of the house and the two dogs we are looking after come back on the 14 th of September. At that time we will literally be on the streets sleeping in our car. We have at the present time no where else to go after the 14th of September except the streets.
I have for reasons undisclosed been refused service at Harcourts in Drouin and still am reeling in shock as to why and what have I done. I have not raised my voice to any of their personnel or been abusive or given them any trouble as far as I can see. Not one harsh word has passed between us and I am going to put it down to nastiness on the part of staff members at that office or even anti semitism. I found the Chairo Christian School to be openly anti semitic when I applied for CRT work there and maybe there is a connection. I am not about to toss off my religious beliefs and it is discrimination.
Why should I have to pretend to be someone or something different in order to get a job, to rent a house or just to be a respected member of a community? If I behave decently, dress modestly, speak with respect to others even frothy mouthed druggies like the silly whore with the broken blackened teeth screaming her head off in the Woolworth's supermarket in Drouin on Monday evening. She harassed my child who has just turned nine and leaned in close to the poor kid's face telling him 'I have three girls (heaven help them not to go the way of their mother) and I would never swear in front of them." I resisted the urge to say 'LIAR, LIAR pants on fire!' because of the stream of filthy language that had poured forth from her mouth just before was proof that she was totally strung out on drugs or she has taken so many drugs that she is totally unstable. Her teeth were blackened stumps and her eyes were blue with bloodshot lines through them. Her skin was awful. I get pimples sometimes when stressed because you body has to deal with the toxic wastes somehow. That is why stressed people can end up with the diarrhoea, sweats, dizziness and palpitations. Her skin had breakouts and I wondered how old she was probably mid to late twenties going on fifties or sixties. Druggies often look far older than they actually are.
My son started to feel sad for her and I told him feel sad for her state but never love a person like that. They can drag you into their personal ghenoim and you never get out. Be decent to them and respectful but never get involved with them. Unfortunately people like that are homeless for a very good reason. They want attention and are loud and uncomfortable to be near. They are very anti social and behave in anti social ways. They make you cringe but you have to see them as human beings despite the discomfort you feel being near such people. I used to be able to deal with such people more tolerantly but lately, I just cannot stand having them near me.
Back to our own situation, I am already making plans about what to do in the worst case scenario that we need to sleep in our car. Today I am going to organise my things and my son's so that we have one or two changes of clothes that I can wash at a sink in a public facility like a caravan park so we do not look dirty and unkempt and to store my things in a friend's garage. We have to keep life going in some areas as normal so my son can go to school as normal except for the holidays when I hope I can get a sponsor for him to play cricket and to do a soccer clinic over the holidays. I pray to Hashem that we are able to get a house to rent soon.
There are many reasons why a person ends up homeless. I and my son are technically homeless and our situation will be even worse in a matter of days. The owners of the house and the two dogs we are looking after come back on the 14 th of September. At that time we will literally be on the streets sleeping in our car. We have at the present time no where else to go after the 14th of September except the streets.
I have for reasons undisclosed been refused service at Harcourts in Drouin and still am reeling in shock as to why and what have I done. I have not raised my voice to any of their personnel or been abusive or given them any trouble as far as I can see. Not one harsh word has passed between us and I am going to put it down to nastiness on the part of staff members at that office or even anti semitism. I found the Chairo Christian School to be openly anti semitic when I applied for CRT work there and maybe there is a connection. I am not about to toss off my religious beliefs and it is discrimination.
Why should I have to pretend to be someone or something different in order to get a job, to rent a house or just to be a respected member of a community? If I behave decently, dress modestly, speak with respect to others even frothy mouthed druggies like the silly whore with the broken blackened teeth screaming her head off in the Woolworth's supermarket in Drouin on Monday evening. She harassed my child who has just turned nine and leaned in close to the poor kid's face telling him 'I have three girls (heaven help them not to go the way of their mother) and I would never swear in front of them." I resisted the urge to say 'LIAR, LIAR pants on fire!' because of the stream of filthy language that had poured forth from her mouth just before was proof that she was totally strung out on drugs or she has taken so many drugs that she is totally unstable. Her teeth were blackened stumps and her eyes were blue with bloodshot lines through them. Her skin was awful. I get pimples sometimes when stressed because you body has to deal with the toxic wastes somehow. That is why stressed people can end up with the diarrhoea, sweats, dizziness and palpitations. Her skin had breakouts and I wondered how old she was probably mid to late twenties going on fifties or sixties. Druggies often look far older than they actually are.
My son started to feel sad for her and I told him feel sad for her state but never love a person like that. They can drag you into their personal ghenoim and you never get out. Be decent to them and respectful but never get involved with them. Unfortunately people like that are homeless for a very good reason. They want attention and are loud and uncomfortable to be near. They are very anti social and behave in anti social ways. They make you cringe but you have to see them as human beings despite the discomfort you feel being near such people. I used to be able to deal with such people more tolerantly but lately, I just cannot stand having them near me.
Back to our own situation, I am already making plans about what to do in the worst case scenario that we need to sleep in our car. Today I am going to organise my things and my son's so that we have one or two changes of clothes that I can wash at a sink in a public facility like a caravan park so we do not look dirty and unkempt and to store my things in a friend's garage. We have to keep life going in some areas as normal so my son can go to school as normal except for the holidays when I hope I can get a sponsor for him to play cricket and to do a soccer clinic over the holidays. I pray to Hashem that we are able to get a house to rent soon.
Monday, September 3, 2012
Moshe Elkman in Migron The community being expelled from their homes by dishonest actions of Peace Now
B'H
This morning I received an email from Moshe Elkman an Australian business man who is in Migron to support this community undergoing a traumatic removal of their families - men, women and children from the place of their houses and homes for ten years plus to new site not far away. The new houses that have been hastily erected by the Israeli government to house the fifty families of Migron are not yet complete. Yes, it is summer, but winter and rains are coming and also the Yom Tovim are a bare fortnight away. Only faith in the ultimate divine plan of our Master and Creator keeps these people secure, for they have been horribly betrayed and to my mind unwittingly by the government of Israel who have had their hands forced against their own citizens by a rogue group of left wing nut cases called Peace Now. Peace Now activitists in their rush to show how even handed and compassionate they are to the Palestinians but ignore the damage they are causing to their own by their actions.
Migron was founded in 1999 with the full support of the Israeli government of the day. It was planned to build a further 500 units of housing there on this hilltop overlooking the Highway around 14 kilometres from Jerusalem in the hills of Benyamin. However both residents and unfortunately the government of Israel reckoned without the vicious and destructive bent of the so called Peace Now organisation who always on the lookout for a bit of media attention and incidents to create a bit of a feeding frenzy for foreign journalists who just love a bit of a war or an incident manipulated to make it look like the Israelis are being 'brutal' again to the poor little defenceless Palestinians who of course just want peace and no Jews anywhere in sight. Preferably we should all be underground in their vision of a future. Let's ignore the Fogel family massacre, bus bombings and things like Sbarro bombing. They are just nasty negative moments of mayhem because the Israelis, well it is just so impossible to live next to them. The poor Palestinians have to throw rockets continually over the border just to remind the Israelis to keep to their designated corner of the universe because Islam is spreading and needs space. Peace Now found some Palestinians who they could convince to claim ownership of the hilltop land. The real previous owners of the land that was bought by settlers and the Israeli government had to be moved overseas because the funny thing about Arabs or Palestinians who sell land to Israeli Jews or anyone Jewish or not, for that matter is that, they end up in a ditch somewhere horribly mutilated and with their throats slit or worst. So if you are an Arab who has land in Israel and he or she is not using and you want a life that is free of corruption and conflict and you want a chance at really living, you make a deal with an Israeli Jewish buyer and part of the deal is a safe passage out of the country to some safer location overseas. If the situation was reversed and you were a Jew living in Syria or Iran there would be no such safe option as the Iranian government or the Syrian government would just take your land and kill you or deport you or worst. It is only in DEMOCRATIC Israel that such idiocy as is happening at Migron could occur. Instead of compensation being paid to these Palestinian conmen being helped by Peace Now activists, they are actually evicting these families from their rightful homes.
The whole situation is absolutely disgusting and the human rights of these families are being violated again and again. Look at Gush Katif in 2005 for an example of how far the government of Israel has gone for peace and where has it gotten them??? Rocket attack after rocket attack after rocket attack!
There will be no peace until the Israeli government annexes Judea and Samaria and stops this sort of nonsense and puts the head of Peace Now Yariv Oppenheimer in a prison cell with Ahlam Tamimi and Aljad Awad and leave them together for the next twenty odd years. Yariv can listen to these pigs gloat about the deaths of innocent people day after day. It would be the most fitting punishment that I could think of.
Peace Now calls itself the 'leading voice of the Israeli public for peace'. I know that they are the leading ratbags in the middle east and where do they get their money from? A few very wealthy backers I suspect sit in Saudi Arabian villas, sipping tea and laughing behind their hands at these stupid left wing Jews who are destroying their own state. It is time to stop this nonsense and give back the homes of the people of Migron and bring other families to the Shomron to fill the nearly completed houses and give the new community a new name or Migron Beit and leave Migron Aleph people alone to build up their town.
Moshe Elkman and his wife Nora are wonderfully compassionate people. They have been working hard to support the people of Migron as they did the people of Gush Katif. Do not let this be a Gush Katif saga, please.
I do not blame Bibi Netanyahu or the government of Israel for this state of affairs. They have had their hand forced all along in this by external forces and players in this game. I blame Peace Now, the lack of foresight in the Israeli Supreme Court and the stupidity of the peace activitists who are not really activitists but people bored and looking for excitement and having nothing better to do they meddle in affairs that are not their business and create a mess for other people. The Israeli government should have annexed Judea and Samaria years ago. Why are they sitting on their hands now?
Here is Moshe Elkman's email and he should receive blessings and koah for the work that he and his wife have done in supporting the people of Migron in many ways.
THE BRAVE EXPELLEES OF MIGRON AND THEIR ABANDONMENT BY PM NETANYAHU:
Hi, below is a short summary of my visit to date with the brave expellees of Migron.
I arrived at Ben Gurion airport at 11.25 pm Sunday evening and was met by a true "tzaddik" Shai Yemini, son of former Gush Katif expellee Yosi Yemini.I asked Shai to drive me to Migron and as he was armed I felt quite safe as we drove close by to Ramallah and passed through several Arab villages around 1.30am.
We arrived at the new development site of Migron where we were told by a policeman that the Migron expellees had been sent to Medrashat Ofra, where we arrived just after 2am. The shomer , Nir Cohen, armed with a rifle allowed me to stay with him in the guard house till his shift finished and then told me that I could sleep at his house where I finally found a bed and grabbed around 2 hours sleep before being woken up @ 5.45am for shacharit. I dovened shacharit and after benching gomel (this gave my secret identity away) I was asked to talk about my involvement with Migron after which dozens of young Migron expellees (men ofcourse!!) came and either shook my hand or gave me a bear hug!!!!
I met Aviela Deitch's husband Shalom after dovening and then finally met Aviella. We had an amazing Israeli style banquet in the huge lunch room and loaded ourselves up with salad rolls for the day ahead. From about 12.30pm-1.15pm we went to the new development site so that Aviela and Shalom could inspect their new home which was supposed to already be prepared for them....but the homes are far from finished...as Aviela told reporters the site is just like a "Hollywood movie set!!!!"....there are many dangerous areas for children including an exposed cliff face where rocks can fall on the children, rock faces which when you touch crumble....unfinished bathrooms the list goes on.
Aviela was interviewed by a US magazine reporter from a publication called "The National" and then was filmed by a Japanese film crew filming for Japanese TV!!!!
I was really touched to see dozens of young girls not even from Migron who gave of their time to mop and clean the new residences....the degree of "achdut" (unity)was heart rendering.
I must say that I thought my visit was to give "chizuk" (strength) to the Migron expellees but they have been the ones who have gaven me the chizuk...their smiles, warmth, determination,bitcahon (faith and trust in Hashem) and understanding that even though this was not what "they" wanted they knew it was part of a "bigger" picture in fact Aviela kept saying that " we have two Migrons...the new Migron and the old Migron to which her children will return!!!!"
During the afternoon at Medrashat Ofra there was entertainment for the hundreds of children- blown up play equipment, lots of lollies and games given away plus an "enthralling magician" who enertained both the children as well as the older chidren (the ones with the white beards). I sat on the bench and was just so moved at the sight of hundreds of laughing children...young mothers sitting on the grass with their toddlers and a number of grandparents who had driven from Yerushalayim to support their expelled children.
Now I asked a few people who sponsored all the food and children's entertainment during the expellees time at Medrashat Ofra, expecting the answer to be Netanyahu's govt but lo and behold it was NOT Netanyahu it was the Binyamin Council who paid for the accommodation, food, children's entertainment with the knowledge that the promised housing would not be ready for at least another 1-2 weeks.
Any media receiving this email should write in big headlines " SCANDAL:PM Netanyahu expels & abandons Migron community"
This needless expulsion should never have happened and we should all doven for the welfare of out brothers and sisters in Migron and that there should not be any more examples of Jew expelling another Jew. We should ask why all the silence by our leaders...the rabbis and communal leaders???
Kind wishes from Medrashat Ofra,
Your friend,
Moshe
This morning I received an email from Moshe Elkman an Australian business man who is in Migron to support this community undergoing a traumatic removal of their families - men, women and children from the place of their houses and homes for ten years plus to new site not far away. The new houses that have been hastily erected by the Israeli government to house the fifty families of Migron are not yet complete. Yes, it is summer, but winter and rains are coming and also the Yom Tovim are a bare fortnight away. Only faith in the ultimate divine plan of our Master and Creator keeps these people secure, for they have been horribly betrayed and to my mind unwittingly by the government of Israel who have had their hands forced against their own citizens by a rogue group of left wing nut cases called Peace Now. Peace Now activitists in their rush to show how even handed and compassionate they are to the Palestinians but ignore the damage they are causing to their own by their actions.
Migron was founded in 1999 with the full support of the Israeli government of the day. It was planned to build a further 500 units of housing there on this hilltop overlooking the Highway around 14 kilometres from Jerusalem in the hills of Benyamin. However both residents and unfortunately the government of Israel reckoned without the vicious and destructive bent of the so called Peace Now organisation who always on the lookout for a bit of media attention and incidents to create a bit of a feeding frenzy for foreign journalists who just love a bit of a war or an incident manipulated to make it look like the Israelis are being 'brutal' again to the poor little defenceless Palestinians who of course just want peace and no Jews anywhere in sight. Preferably we should all be underground in their vision of a future. Let's ignore the Fogel family massacre, bus bombings and things like Sbarro bombing. They are just nasty negative moments of mayhem because the Israelis, well it is just so impossible to live next to them. The poor Palestinians have to throw rockets continually over the border just to remind the Israelis to keep to their designated corner of the universe because Islam is spreading and needs space. Peace Now found some Palestinians who they could convince to claim ownership of the hilltop land. The real previous owners of the land that was bought by settlers and the Israeli government had to be moved overseas because the funny thing about Arabs or Palestinians who sell land to Israeli Jews or anyone Jewish or not, for that matter is that, they end up in a ditch somewhere horribly mutilated and with their throats slit or worst. So if you are an Arab who has land in Israel and he or she is not using and you want a life that is free of corruption and conflict and you want a chance at really living, you make a deal with an Israeli Jewish buyer and part of the deal is a safe passage out of the country to some safer location overseas. If the situation was reversed and you were a Jew living in Syria or Iran there would be no such safe option as the Iranian government or the Syrian government would just take your land and kill you or deport you or worst. It is only in DEMOCRATIC Israel that such idiocy as is happening at Migron could occur. Instead of compensation being paid to these Palestinian conmen being helped by Peace Now activists, they are actually evicting these families from their rightful homes.
The whole situation is absolutely disgusting and the human rights of these families are being violated again and again. Look at Gush Katif in 2005 for an example of how far the government of Israel has gone for peace and where has it gotten them??? Rocket attack after rocket attack after rocket attack!
There will be no peace until the Israeli government annexes Judea and Samaria and stops this sort of nonsense and puts the head of Peace Now Yariv Oppenheimer in a prison cell with Ahlam Tamimi and Aljad Awad and leave them together for the next twenty odd years. Yariv can listen to these pigs gloat about the deaths of innocent people day after day. It would be the most fitting punishment that I could think of.
Peace Now calls itself the 'leading voice of the Israeli public for peace'. I know that they are the leading ratbags in the middle east and where do they get their money from? A few very wealthy backers I suspect sit in Saudi Arabian villas, sipping tea and laughing behind their hands at these stupid left wing Jews who are destroying their own state. It is time to stop this nonsense and give back the homes of the people of Migron and bring other families to the Shomron to fill the nearly completed houses and give the new community a new name or Migron Beit and leave Migron Aleph people alone to build up their town.
Moshe Elkman and his wife Nora are wonderfully compassionate people. They have been working hard to support the people of Migron as they did the people of Gush Katif. Do not let this be a Gush Katif saga, please.
I do not blame Bibi Netanyahu or the government of Israel for this state of affairs. They have had their hand forced all along in this by external forces and players in this game. I blame Peace Now, the lack of foresight in the Israeli Supreme Court and the stupidity of the peace activitists who are not really activitists but people bored and looking for excitement and having nothing better to do they meddle in affairs that are not their business and create a mess for other people. The Israeli government should have annexed Judea and Samaria years ago. Why are they sitting on their hands now?
Here is Moshe Elkman's email and he should receive blessings and koah for the work that he and his wife have done in supporting the people of Migron in many ways.
THE BRAVE EXPELLEES OF MIGRON AND THEIR ABANDONMENT BY PM NETANYAHU:
Hi, below is a short summary of my visit to date with the brave expellees of Migron.
I arrived at Ben Gurion airport at 11.25 pm Sunday evening and was met by a true "tzaddik" Shai Yemini, son of former Gush Katif expellee Yosi Yemini.I asked Shai to drive me to Migron and as he was armed I felt quite safe as we drove close by to Ramallah and passed through several Arab villages around 1.30am.
We arrived at the new development site of Migron where we were told by a policeman that the Migron expellees had been sent to Medrashat Ofra, where we arrived just after 2am. The shomer , Nir Cohen, armed with a rifle allowed me to stay with him in the guard house till his shift finished and then told me that I could sleep at his house where I finally found a bed and grabbed around 2 hours sleep before being woken up @ 5.45am for shacharit. I dovened shacharit and after benching gomel (this gave my secret identity away) I was asked to talk about my involvement with Migron after which dozens of young Migron expellees (men ofcourse!!) came and either shook my hand or gave me a bear hug!!!!
I met Aviela Deitch's husband Shalom after dovening and then finally met Aviella. We had an amazing Israeli style banquet in the huge lunch room and loaded ourselves up with salad rolls for the day ahead. From about 12.30pm-1.15pm we went to the new development site so that Aviela and Shalom could inspect their new home which was supposed to already be prepared for them....but the homes are far from finished...as Aviela told reporters the site is just like a "Hollywood movie set!!!!"....there are many dangerous areas for children including an exposed cliff face where rocks can fall on the children, rock faces which when you touch crumble....unfinished bathrooms the list goes on.
Aviela was interviewed by a US magazine reporter from a publication called "The National" and then was filmed by a Japanese film crew filming for Japanese TV!!!!
I was really touched to see dozens of young girls not even from Migron who gave of their time to mop and clean the new residences....the degree of "achdut" (unity)was heart rendering.
I must say that I thought my visit was to give "chizuk" (strength) to the Migron expellees but they have been the ones who have gaven me the chizuk...their smiles, warmth, determination,bitcahon (faith and trust in Hashem) and understanding that even though this was not what "they" wanted they knew it was part of a "bigger" picture in fact Aviela kept saying that " we have two Migrons...the new Migron and the old Migron to which her children will return!!!!"
During the afternoon at Medrashat Ofra there was entertainment for the hundreds of children- blown up play equipment, lots of lollies and games given away plus an "enthralling magician" who enertained both the children as well as the older chidren (the ones with the white beards). I sat on the bench and was just so moved at the sight of hundreds of laughing children...young mothers sitting on the grass with their toddlers and a number of grandparents who had driven from Yerushalayim to support their expelled children.
Now I asked a few people who sponsored all the food and children's entertainment during the expellees time at Medrashat Ofra, expecting the answer to be Netanyahu's govt but lo and behold it was NOT Netanyahu it was the Binyamin Council who paid for the accommodation, food, children's entertainment with the knowledge that the promised housing would not be ready for at least another 1-2 weeks.
Any media receiving this email should write in big headlines " SCANDAL:PM Netanyahu expels & abandons Migron community"
This needless expulsion should never have happened and we should all doven for the welfare of out brothers and sisters in Migron and that there should not be any more examples of Jew expelling another Jew. We should ask why all the silence by our leaders...the rabbis and communal leaders???
Kind wishes from Medrashat Ofra,
Your friend,
Moshe
Juliar Gillard how do we love thee?
It is interesting to watch the changes being wrought by image people. Ms Gillard is becoming increasingly more manipulated as she strives to hold onto her position and assure the party faithful that she indeed has every thing under control in government. Her carefully crafted appearance last night on prime time TV with her 50's granny / movie star hair style, speaking with the utmost confidence about Labor's grand scheme for education which is probably like Labor's grand schemes to combat climate change, the Pink Batts disaster, the Carbon Tax and whatever else they can come with to rip money off the tax payer and deceive people into believing that they are doing a great job in government, is a prime example. I actually think they do not know what they are doing or where they are going.
She talks about the education system being overhauled and up with the top five by 2020 or was it 2025? Really Julia? I am so excited, I am sweating with anticipation or is it fear? 2020?????? You are kidding me, right? Oh, no you are not! It is now 2012. That is eight years away.
As a teacher and a parent with a child in primary school I am darn sure I want something in place before 2020.
She and her policy makers must think the general public is nuts or brain dead. The work on the education system needs to start now. More funding and more teachers with lower student teacher ratios and updating resources with In-services on technology for teachers who are leery of using it in classrooms. if you are a dinosaur who ensconced in the system and not able to or willing to update your skills continually you should get out of e profession retire and garden somewhere or take trips. There is too much protected dead wood in the profession who are all about protecting their positions and destroying those who threaten the status quo in any way.
One thing is for sure, Juliar will pass from the political spectrum soon. Why should state governments fund a mickey mouse scheme to up grade education when they have been offered no substantial plan for what is to take place? Have the Labor policy makers talked to principals of schools, people in education like teachers and professional educators? Probably not. The thing is that if you want your car fixed you go to a mechanic, you don't ask a lawyer or dentist or a doctor or even receptionist unless their hobby is fixing cars. Hardly likely though. There are too many people with ideas on education and they are not there in the system or in a classroom. They are outside and poking their nose in for a few seconds and then they become experts on education. Too many certificate chefs and not enough chefs with real experience and know how.
She talks about the education system being overhauled and up with the top five by 2020 or was it 2025? Really Julia? I am so excited, I am sweating with anticipation or is it fear? 2020?????? You are kidding me, right? Oh, no you are not! It is now 2012. That is eight years away.
As a teacher and a parent with a child in primary school I am darn sure I want something in place before 2020.
She and her policy makers must think the general public is nuts or brain dead. The work on the education system needs to start now. More funding and more teachers with lower student teacher ratios and updating resources with In-services on technology for teachers who are leery of using it in classrooms. if you are a dinosaur who ensconced in the system and not able to or willing to update your skills continually you should get out of e profession retire and garden somewhere or take trips. There is too much protected dead wood in the profession who are all about protecting their positions and destroying those who threaten the status quo in any way.
One thing is for sure, Juliar will pass from the political spectrum soon. Why should state governments fund a mickey mouse scheme to up grade education when they have been offered no substantial plan for what is to take place? Have the Labor policy makers talked to principals of schools, people in education like teachers and professional educators? Probably not. The thing is that if you want your car fixed you go to a mechanic, you don't ask a lawyer or dentist or a doctor or even receptionist unless their hobby is fixing cars. Hardly likely though. There are too many people with ideas on education and they are not there in the system or in a classroom. They are outside and poking their nose in for a few seconds and then they become experts on education. Too many certificate chefs and not enough chefs with real experience and know how.
The criminal mentality of unrepentant murderers - Ahlam Tam
What do Ahlam Tamimi, Amjad Awad and some of the worst Nazi murderers (may they be erased) have in common? Ahlam was responsible for the deaths of 16 people and the wounding of over100 other people in the Sbarro restaurant bombing in Jerusalem in 2001. Amjad was one of two Palestinian teenagers who massacred five members of the Fogel family in their beds on a peaceful shabbat night in March 2011 at Itamar. Let's take Menegle for example who used Jews, especially twins as experimental subjects for his 'scientific research'. He must have been able to completely divorce himself from the pain of other human beings and had not one ounce of respect for life or the comfort and nurture of a child.
The former are worst than Menegle who tried to disguise his atrocities as research and scientific curiosity as if that somehow justified it, NOT.
You see they are unashamedly proud of their criminal acts. They try to present their murderous acts as somehow acts of 'heroism'. Is there anything heroic about slitting the throat of a three month old baby? Is there anything heroic about the murder of young and old civilians in a pizza restaurant, families and kids? I think not.
In this world today justice has become a nebulous quality that is defined by media outlets and propaganda. We make too many excuses for people who have acted badly or wrongly. I would rather we went back to a black and white view on some issues like those who are terrorists and commit murder, pedophilia and pedophiles and any act that endangers the lives of others or their quality of life. We are to kind to the cruel and heartless and cruel to the compassionate.
This piece of human drek Ahlam sits in a chair in a TV station Memri and boasts gloatingly of how she was so happy to hear of the death toll rising and overjoyed that they were children. She has a typical psychopathic personality. I tried to imagine feeling joy at the death of someone who I dislike and could not. I actually do not dislike anyone in this world, let alone imagine feeling joy at a person's demise. It just doesn't connect.
The Palestinians are in real trouble. They have bought up children to hate and love as well as compassion for others are devoid from their emotional lexicon. They are headed for destruction. We do not have follow them. We need to save Migron.
The former are worst than Menegle who tried to disguise his atrocities as research and scientific curiosity as if that somehow justified it, NOT.
You see they are unashamedly proud of their criminal acts. They try to present their murderous acts as somehow acts of 'heroism'. Is there anything heroic about slitting the throat of a three month old baby? Is there anything heroic about the murder of young and old civilians in a pizza restaurant, families and kids? I think not.
In this world today justice has become a nebulous quality that is defined by media outlets and propaganda. We make too many excuses for people who have acted badly or wrongly. I would rather we went back to a black and white view on some issues like those who are terrorists and commit murder, pedophilia and pedophiles and any act that endangers the lives of others or their quality of life. We are to kind to the cruel and heartless and cruel to the compassionate.
This piece of human drek Ahlam sits in a chair in a TV station Memri and boasts gloatingly of how she was so happy to hear of the death toll rising and overjoyed that they were children. She has a typical psychopathic personality. I tried to imagine feeling joy at the death of someone who I dislike and could not. I actually do not dislike anyone in this world, let alone imagine feeling joy at a person's demise. It just doesn't connect.
The Palestinians are in real trouble. They have bought up children to hate and love as well as compassion for others are devoid from their emotional lexicon. They are headed for destruction. We do not have follow them. We need to save Migron.
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Migron and the disgraceful capitulation that is taking place there
B"H
I have just checked the inbox of my email account. Apart from about three emails warning me that homocidal Mikeybear is again harassing MP's who espouse 'family values' to support same sex marriage in parliament, I have many many emails about Migron and the disgraceful capitulation taking place in Israel where fifty families are being moved from their homes to another location. One can only have the utmost empathy for these fifty families who went to a site sanctioned by the government of Israel at the time. They thought they were in a permanent place - a home. However they and the government reckoned without the meddlings and suicidal machinations of a group called Peace Now. You have a group of left wing Jews who need to feel important. They are also ashamed to be Jews or to be associated with Judaism for whatever reasons, that may point to an inherent lack in their own upbringing or simply the have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome which drives them to associate with anti-Semites and to try and blend in with them rather than Jews who are in the right. A shocking cruelty is being enacted here and it makes me feel like screaming in frustration but of course one cannot.
What is the connection to Mikeybear, you may well ask? Simple let me explain. It is about right and wrong and how society's values have been turned on their head. Here in the case of Migron you have a community that has been established for ten years or more. It was unclaimed land. No houses- nothing had been built there. However the ever so helpful Peace Now being the rampant champions of civil rights that they are, except if you are an Orthodox observant Jew, decided they needed to help the Hamas and other terror organisations to destroy Israel rather than help build Israel. They undertook to delegitimise the claim to the site and attack the very foundations of government in Israel. If they continue to be successful in these sorts of court actions there will be no state of Israel because it will have been destroyed by the fifth column from within.
We have a similar situation in Australia where you have a person who is leading a lifestyle that is against mainstream tried and true family values who wants to mentally bludgeon and bully elected members of a parliament into going against their own values and convictions to support a bill that may radically erode family life and values as we know it. The agenda of the Mikeybear and cohorts is purely to lend some legitimacy to their version of what they see as family. They do not care about the psychological effect on children or families,because what is uppermost in their minds is seeking to find legitimacy for their own perverted carnal desires for a member of their own gender. It is about ego and self justification.
Now, if you look at the situation in Israel these champions of civil rights Peace Now who do not give a damn (excuse my raw language but) about the rights of mothers and their children or families have also bullied the government through the high court and legal wranglings to permit the atrocity of the evacuation from Migron and other areas in Israel.
Social values and justice has been turned upside down to satisfy the egos and desires of a few warped individuals. What is going to happen in the future? I shudder to contemplate. We need to stand before G-D this Rosh Hashanna and BEG for mercy not just for ourselves, but every Jew both in Israel and outside Israel, because IF WE CANNOT GIVE MERCY AND SUCCOR TO OUR OWN why should we expect the goyim to treat our own any better than we do? Charity begins at home, we need to look at the truth of the situations and act accordingly.
I have just checked the inbox of my email account. Apart from about three emails warning me that homocidal Mikeybear is again harassing MP's who espouse 'family values' to support same sex marriage in parliament, I have many many emails about Migron and the disgraceful capitulation taking place in Israel where fifty families are being moved from their homes to another location. One can only have the utmost empathy for these fifty families who went to a site sanctioned by the government of Israel at the time. They thought they were in a permanent place - a home. However they and the government reckoned without the meddlings and suicidal machinations of a group called Peace Now. You have a group of left wing Jews who need to feel important. They are also ashamed to be Jews or to be associated with Judaism for whatever reasons, that may point to an inherent lack in their own upbringing or simply the have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome which drives them to associate with anti-Semites and to try and blend in with them rather than Jews who are in the right. A shocking cruelty is being enacted here and it makes me feel like screaming in frustration but of course one cannot.
What is the connection to Mikeybear, you may well ask? Simple let me explain. It is about right and wrong and how society's values have been turned on their head. Here in the case of Migron you have a community that has been established for ten years or more. It was unclaimed land. No houses- nothing had been built there. However the ever so helpful Peace Now being the rampant champions of civil rights that they are, except if you are an Orthodox observant Jew, decided they needed to help the Hamas and other terror organisations to destroy Israel rather than help build Israel. They undertook to delegitimise the claim to the site and attack the very foundations of government in Israel. If they continue to be successful in these sorts of court actions there will be no state of Israel because it will have been destroyed by the fifth column from within.
We have a similar situation in Australia where you have a person who is leading a lifestyle that is against mainstream tried and true family values who wants to mentally bludgeon and bully elected members of a parliament into going against their own values and convictions to support a bill that may radically erode family life and values as we know it. The agenda of the Mikeybear and cohorts is purely to lend some legitimacy to their version of what they see as family. They do not care about the psychological effect on children or families,because what is uppermost in their minds is seeking to find legitimacy for their own perverted carnal desires for a member of their own gender. It is about ego and self justification.
Now, if you look at the situation in Israel these champions of civil rights Peace Now who do not give a damn (excuse my raw language but) about the rights of mothers and their children or families have also bullied the government through the high court and legal wranglings to permit the atrocity of the evacuation from Migron and other areas in Israel.
Social values and justice has been turned upside down to satisfy the egos and desires of a few warped individuals. What is going to happen in the future? I shudder to contemplate. We need to stand before G-D this Rosh Hashanna and BEG for mercy not just for ourselves, but every Jew both in Israel and outside Israel, because IF WE CANNOT GIVE MERCY AND SUCCOR TO OUR OWN why should we expect the goyim to treat our own any better than we do? Charity begins at home, we need to look at the truth of the situations and act accordingly.
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