| Today is Yom Hevron - Hebron Liberation Daynoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 11 May 04:45 AM Yom Hevron is not as well known as Yom Yerushalayim, but p | | Yom Hevron is not as well known as Yom Yerushalayim, but perhaps it should be.
The Six Day War didn't only liberate the holiest city for Jews, but it also liberated the second holiest city - and the city that has the third holiest site as well.
Hebron has been sacred to Jews even longer than Jerusalem was, ever since Abraham buried Sarah there.
Judea and Samaria are filled with places that Jews (and some Christians) are familiar with from childhood. It has far more Biblical sites than Israel within the Green Line.
Bethlehem is where Rachel is buried. Shiloh is where the tabernacle (the portable proto-Temple) was kept for 369 years. Bet El is where Jacob had his famous dream.
All of these sites, which had been Judenfrei during the 19 years of Arab rule, became available for Jews to visit and live, all soon after Jerusalem was liberated. It is something to celebrate - especially since much of the world wants to take them all away again. * * * * * *
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From Ian: Natan Sharansky: A Hero for All Seasons Sharansky reasons that until there is a fundamental internal transformation of Palestinian Arab society that embraces democracy, there can be no realistic negotiations. He roundly condemns Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as a dictator and a terrorist. He views his successor Mahmoud Abbas as a pale and equally corrupt reflection of his predecessor. Sharansky is under no illusions about Palestinian leaders. He believes that they still are wedded to the goal of Israel's elimination. Sharansky underscores his point by quoting Soviet dissident and creator of the USSR's hydrogen bomb, Andrei Sakharov: "Never trust a government more than it trusts its own people." Sharansky comes down hard on the Iranian regime as ideologically the most dangerous of enemies, claiming that he is in agreement with prominent Iranian analysts such as, Uri Lubrani, the last Israeli unofficial ambassador to Iran; Dr. Bernard Lewis, the most accomplished western Islamic scholar, and Ron Dermer, the long-serving Israeli ambassador to the US. Sharansky has sharp words of condemnation for Barack Obama; he accuses the former US President of having abandoned Iran's dissidents by his refusal to offer even verbal support for anti-regime demonstrators during their nationwide protests in 2009. Sharansky... is a fierce critic of the "new" campus-based anti-Semitism, and catalogues several programs...Read More |
The official PA Wafa news agency claims at 7:22 PM: 20 civilians, including 9 children, were killed this evening, Monday, in an Israeli raid on Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip. Local sources told Wafa that the occupation planes held two bombing raids east of Beit Hanoun, and continued targeting our people in the Gaza Strip, which led to the death of 20 civilians, including 9 children, in addition to the injury of about 65 citizens, 3 of whom were seriously wounded, and were transferred to the Beit Hanoun and Indonesian Hospitals. In the northern Gaza Strip, some of them were transferred to Al-Shifa Hospital due to the seriousness of their injuries. Our correspondent reported that violent raids by the Israeli warplanes targeted homes and civilian properties in different areas of the Gaza Strip, during which dozens of rockets and missiles were fired. He confirmed that the raids targeted a group of citizens, a vehicle, a motorbike, and two homes in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, in addition to an Israeli missile strike in a yard behind the Al-Omari Mosque in the town of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, and a shell fell on a house for the Abdul Nabi family in the Al-Jarn area of the town, and the Al-Kashef land in its east was targeted. Wow - it sounds like the IAF is only hitting civilians and civilian targets! But then read...Read More |
This is from a Kohelet Policy Forum paper. It needs to be further publicized. ____________________ Understanding the Current Sheikh Jarrah (Jerusalem) Property Dispute Professor Avi Bell 1. A call for discrimination The current dispute in Sheikh Jarrah involves several properties with tenants whose leases have expired, and in a few cases squatters with no tenancy rights at all, against owner-landlords who have successfully won court orders evicting the squatters and overstaying tenants. The litigation has taken several years, and the owners have won at every step. The squatters and overstaying tenants have appealed against the eviction orders to the Supreme Court. The only decision that stands before the Israeli government is whether to honor the courts' decisions and enforce the eviction orders if affirmed by the Supreme Court, or whether to defy court orders and deny the property owners their legal rights. Critics claim that the Israeli government should (or even that international law requires the Israeli government to) deny the owners their property rights, but these claims are not based on any credible legal argument. Rather, the critics focus on the fact that the owners in the disputed cases are Jews while the squatters and overstaying tenants are Palestinian Arabs. The critics demand that Israel discriminate against and disregard the property owners' lawful property rights due...Read More |
From Ian: Caroline Glick: US has plunged its relations with Israel into crisis In light of the reactions from Washington to the Hamas and Fatah-inspired Arab violence in Jerusalem, it is hard to see how Israel will be able to maintain a constructive dialogue about its relations with the Palestinians with the Biden administration or more broadly, with the Democrat Party. Indeed, the reactions coming out of Washington to the Arab violence in Jerusalem indicate that Israel will be hard-pressed to conduct a constructive dialogue with Washington about anything, and this will be the case regardless of who forms the next Israeli government. Saturday, Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren published a shocking post on her Twitter account in response to the Arab riots in Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, which started in earnest last Thursday. The progressive powerhouse wrote, "The forced removal of long-time Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah is abhorrent and unacceptable. The Administration should make it clear to the Israeli government that these evictions are illegal and must stop immediately." Warren's statement isn't a demand for justice for Arabs. It is a demand for injustice for Jews. Warren has become the first senior US official to call for Jews to be barred from doing something specifically because they are Jewish since Ulysses Grant barred Jews from entering Tennessee...Read More |
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One of the constant accusations hurled at Israel for protecting the rights of Jewish land owners in Jerusalem is that evicting tenants who don't pay rent is "ethnic cleansing."
Wikipedia's Demographic History of Jerusalem page is quite illuminating on this topic.
Before the modern Zionist movement, there were never more than 45,000 residents in Jerusalem.
By 1944, that number had ballooned up to 157,000 - 97,000 Jews and the rest split equally of about 30,000 Muslims and 30,000 Christian Arabs.
Before Zionism, Jerusalem was a fairly small town.
In 1967, although Jews were banned from Jordanian controlled areas, the number of Jews doubled to 195,700. The number of Muslims climbed during those years as well, to 55,000. And under Jordanian rule, the number of Christians were slashed by more than half - to only 12,500.
After 50 years of Jewish rule and supposed ethnic cleansing, the number of Arab Muslims in Jerusalem has gone up nearly six times - to 320,000.
(The number of Christians - who live in predominantly Muslim areas - have stayed mostly the same. They don't like to talk about it, but Muslim persecution of Christians is alive and well, as Christians have been fleeing Palestinian areas in droves to the West.)
What kind of ethnic cleansing shows the oppressed people sextupling their size?
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Hamas is calling for Palestinians to behead Jews: Fatah is tweeting to increase violence with barely concealed code-words like "confront the occupation:" The Fatah movement calls on everyone in the coming days and hours to raise the pace of confrontation in the Palestinian territories, friction points and settler roads. The Fatah movement calls for Monday to be a day of unified activity and activities in the Palestinian territories that will start after breakfast hour to confront the occupation. Palestinian TV is showing this music video inciting violence: This is Jerusalem, calling to its residents And Jerusalem – we will redeem it with our lives O Prophet [Muhammad's] Ascent to Heaven, and birthplace of Jesus O most beautiful homeland in the entire world… This is Jerusalem, calling to its residents And Jerusalem – we will redeem it with our lives… O homeland, life is insignificant for your sake This is Palestine that is like Paradise O Almighty Master of Heaven – defend it… And the sun, we will cover it with our swords This is Jerusalem, calling to its residents And Jerusalem – we will redeem it with our lives… We will sacrifice for the sake of the Al-Aqsa Mosque until the last breath We will turn the world upside down for the sake of this homeland… Here's an example of what happens from such incitement.
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