Contents:
Jerusalem News nos 451-480
Jerusalem News-451
Contents:
1. Sweden Relents on Israeli Wine Ban
2. Longevity in Newfoundland
3. World Double Standard Against Israel
4. Rabbi Lapin: The Real War, Bible Values
5. Baron Rothschild: Anti-semitism in France exaggerated?
6. France and Europe not so negative?
1. Sweden Relents on Israeli Wine Ban
From: Orjan <o_svensson@yahoo.com>
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20:09 , 06.16.06
Policy Change
[] Israeli wines. Political decision?
Sweden backs down on 'occupied territory' labeling
Sweden's state-run alcohol monopoly backtracks on a controversial policy to label some Israeli wines as coming from 'Syrian occupied territory'
EJP
Sweden's state-run wines and spirits monopoly Systembolaget has backtracked on a controversial policy to label some Israeli wines as coming from 'occupied territory'
Initial Policy
Sweden: Israeli wine made in occupied territory / Itamar Eichner
State alcohol retail monopoly labels Golan Heights wines as produced in 'Syrian occupied territory,' due to customer complaints. Winery CEO enraged, says: 'We're not selling politics'
Full Story
For a short period Israeli wines bearing the Golan and Yarden labels were being branded "Produce of Israeli-occupied Syrian territory" in the company's catalogues.
Systembolaget spokesperson, Bjorn Rydberg, said that the decision was taken following customer complaints about the label under which the wines were previously sold, which stated the wine was produced in Israel. He added that the decision to alter the labeling was taken following consultations with the Swedish Foreign Ministry.
However on June 9 the company announced it reversed the decision as it was "perceived as 'political' and negative by the customer group that can be assumed to be interested in buying such wines".
The Systembolaget is the only store in Sweden which is allowed to sell drinks with alcohol content higher than 3.5 percent.
Political campaign
Before the cancellation, the labeling decision garnered opposition amongst a number of Swedish politicians.
Christian Democrat MP Annelie Enochsson, said she believed it was a result of a highly focused and political campaign by pro-Palestinian activists to force all Israeli products off the Swedish market.
These include the website palestinagrupperna.se which appealed to activists to "Write letters! Write to your local shop, to Systembolaget ? or anyone else who sells or markets Israeli products."
Rydberg maintained that the company was not trying to make a political statement, emphasizing "we have no foreign policy ambitions."
Systembolaget MD, Anitra Steen claimed that when the subject of labelling the wines came up, the company "turned to the Foreign Office to ask what text the catalogue should carry."
Peter Tejler, director of the Foreign Office's Middle East and North Africa Unit, explained that the initiative for marking the wine from Israel originated from Systembolaget.
"They asked us how we view the legal status of the Golan Heights, and we gave Sweden's view. We have no opinion whatsoever regarding the wording of their presentation," said Tejler, adding that this was the first time he had ever encountered a query from Systembolaget regarding labeling of drinks produced in the Middle East.
2. Longevity in Newfoundland
From: mary
If you were to consider Newfoundland a country in itself rather than a part of Canada (which in many respects it is) they have the highest life expectancy. Last time I checked it was 87.
3. World Double Standard Against Israel
From: Gary S <ahavat@telkomsa.net>
Subject: From Jerusalem Post
From The Jerusalem Post
15 June 2006
Extracts Only
Last Friday, an explosion on a beach in the Gaza Strip killed seven Palestinian civilians. While it was not immediately clear what caused the incident, and while Israel said it would investigate, that didn't prevent an immediate chorus of condemnation from around the world in which Israel was unanimously blamed for the deaths.
The US State Department, for example, expressed its regret for "the killing and wounding of innocent Palestinians as a result of artillery fire by the IDF." The UK Foreign Office stated its deep concern for "the deaths from Israeli shelling of civilians." Not to be outdone, the French Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying it "deplores the Israeli bombing on a beach in the Gaza Strip...," while India and Japan made sure to blame Israel as well.
Perhaps most notable was the reaction of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who demanded an investigation into the incident and then reportedly called Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Saturday night and asked that Israel respond proportionately to the fire from Gaza.
Olmert is said to have responded: "Why didn't you phone me after 30 rockets were fired at Israel and say you wanted this investigated?" Astonishingly, Annan reportedly replied that he was not aware of the extent of the Kassam attacks.
Then, hours before Annan and the world got the results of the IDF investigation - which concluded the IDF was not responsible for Friday's blast - the situation became even more complicated on Tuesday when Israel struck an Islamic Jihad terror cell on its way to launch long-range Katyusha-type (Grad) rockets. Three terrorists were killed, but so were eight Palestinian bystanders.
Annan subsequently announced he doubted the results of the IDF investigation into Friday's explosion and said he would send a representative to investigate the beach blast on his behalf. He also called on Israel to "respect international law and human life."
4. Rabbi Lapin: The Real War, Bible Values
From: Rabbi Daniel Lapin <mail@towardtradition.org>
Subject: A Message from Rabbi Lapin: This war is for Real
A message from Toward Tradition...
This War is For Real!
Rabbi Daniel Lapin
This week, Major General Dr. Vernon Chong, command surgeon, U.S. European Command Headquarters, Stuttgart, Germany wrote an impassioned piece about the war against terror. He claims that our country is facing the most serious threat to its existence in the last seventy-five years.
He writes that Islam has been consistently attacking us since the Iranians seized our Teheran embassy in 1979. He explains that since we have done absolutely nothing to provoke them, Moslems must hate us because they envy our position, our success, and our freedoms. Though he is not alone in his views, I am not sure that the General is correct on why they hate us.
No sooner had the dust settled on September 11th, 2001, than we saw America divided into two camps. Camp One comprised those who began an anguished search for whatever it was that we did to provoke them. Then there was Camp Two, those of us quite indifferent to what made them do it. All that concerned us was that we do whatever it took to deprive them of the ability to ever do it again.
In nearly every instance in which America is divided, one can easily identify the two camps as the Judeo Christian camp and the secular camp. One camp, that in which I am proud to play a modest role, insists that Biblical values (not necessarily Biblical lawsbut that is for another column) are vital for our nations survival. The other camp regards Judeo-Christian values as primitive taboos obstructing our progress towards utopia. Many of our national debates do seem to come down to Biblical faith.
For instance, in Americas twenty-five-year debate on abortion, America is clearly divided into the two camps I describe. The same can be said for the debates on same-gender marriage and euthanasia. Many major American debates turn out to hinge on this religious-secular chasm that cuts through our culture.
Could the debate on Islamic terror be yet another example of being able to predict a citizens viewpoint on the basis of his feelings toward faith? I suspect that most who probe for our provocation are viewing the conflict through the lens of secularism.
The American poet, T. S. Eliot who won the Nobel literature prize in 1948 put it this way during a speech at Oxford University in 1939.
As political philosophy derives its sanction from ethics, and ethics from the truth of religion, it is only by returning to the eternal source of truth that we can hope for any social organization which will not, to its ultimate destruction, ignore some essential aspect of reality.
Eliot was saying that secularism ignores an essential aspect of reality. However, secularists often dont realize that they are secularists. For those of you unsure, here is a way to clarify whether you best fit in the Judeo-Christian Camp or whether you are intuitively drawn to the Camp of Secularism:
If you cherish the belief (even to the point of mistaking it as a provable fact) that humans arrived on the planet by a totally unaided process of utterly materialistic evolution, you are a secularist. It follows that you must regard humans as nothing but sophisticated animals. In other words, to you, humans are only evolved chimpanzees.
If, on the other hand, you make important life decisions on the presumption that God created us in His image then you belong in the Judeo-Christian Camp. You view humans as quite unique, the only species touched by the finger of the Divine and endowed with a soul.
Regardless of which camp you belong in, it doesnt mean that you agree with all others in your camp on all matters. It just means that on one basic question you agree with most others in your camp more than you do with most of the members in the opposing camp.
The one basic question is whether we humans are closer to the angels or to the apes. Since politics is nothing more than the practical application of our most deeply held beliefs, it follows that spiritual beliefs do have real-world consequences.
If we are closer to the angels, then knowing why we misbehave is not nearly as important as acknowledging that we did. We know that we are not only capable of evil but also drawn to it. We recognize that we must exert discipline to escape evil and its consequences. The next steps are atonement and ensuring a change in our behavior. For instance, if my young son regularly pushes over playmates in the park, I am not very interested in what psychological motives provoke his cruelty.
tead, I am determined to stamp out his behavior and will impart a rather practical lesson on the permanent principles of punishment. If necessary, I will be prepared to inflict the pain King Solomon had in mind when he said He who spares his rod hates his son; but he who loves him disciplines him early. (Proverbs 13:24). I dont care what it takes, but my son will stop assaulting other kids.
If, however, we are closer to the apes, then knowing what made someone misbehave is the only way to proceed toward solving the problem. We cannot substantively change the behavior of animals other than for the few domesticated species. If our interaction with an animal turns out badly, we accept that it was probably our own fault. We must have provoked the animal.
Apes, along with all other animals, possess no soul and no ability to distinguish between good and evil. Thus when animals commit some act we find inconvenient, we say that they are merely reacting to us and doing whatever they do. For instance, when we hear that a zoo lion mauled a tourist we always assume the visitor somehow molested the creature and put himself in harms way.
When a secularists young son knocks over a little girl in the park it makes perfect sense for me when I see the father earnestly engaging the tiny thug in a discussion along these lines: Can you explain to daddy what made you do that? Naturally, the hooligan-in-training quickly catches on to a world in which there is always something or someone that made him do it. He is never any more responsible for his actions than a raccoon would be.
With this in mind, I offer yet another simple, try-it-at-home quiz to help you determine whether you tend toward a Biblical lens on reality or prefer a secular prism through which to gaze at the world.
If you responded to the attacks of 9-11 by wondering what we did to make them do it, you are probably more comfortable in the Camp of Secularism. Spurred by your commitment to secularism, you sought out our provocation. Perhaps we are too supportive of Israel. Maybe we are just too affluent and successful thus making them jealous. Oh, I know, it is our freedom that really irritates them. Like the zoo lion, Moslem terrorists can not be blamed for their attacks. We must have molested them.
If, however, you reacted to 9-11 with indignation at the horribly evil interpretation of a faith that encourages murder and suicide, your worldview is Biblically sculpted. If you intuitively know that some people perform indescribably evil acts and the best response is not to try and understand them, but to punish them severely, you belong in the Camp of Judeo-Christian enthusiasts.
Major General Chong is right; we are facing one of the most serious threat to our existence. This is a real war that was launched against us by really evil people. Our capacity to fight those evil people is dissipated by impotent examinations of motive. Even worse, our will to fight is eroded by the Camp of the Secularists which finds evil only in the fervent faiths of the Bible, Judaism and Christianity.
5. Baron Rothschild: Anti-semitism in France exagerrated?
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150191582833&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
6. France and Europe not so negative?
From: Guysen Israel News <webmaster@guysen.com>
Subject: Mailinfo Guysen Israel News - June 16, 2006
[] 2006-06-15 , 19 Sivan 5766
[]On the occasion of his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy reaffirmed his friendhsip towards Israel. "I am a friend of Israel, I was there when others were not and I shall continue to be", he said
According to a poll carried out by the American research institute Pew, Israel has a wide support base in Europe. In Germany, 37% of those interviewed were in favor of the Jewish State in the conflict with the Palestinians and 18% on the side of their enemies, whereas two years ago, 24% sided with Israel and a similar amount with the Palestinians. (Guysen.Isra l.News)
In France, 38% side with Israel against 38% who are pro-Palestinian. In 2002, only 19% were pro-Israel (and 36% pro-Palestinian). The poll was carried out with the participation of 17,000 people.
7. Entertainment
English show features Yekutiel Ben Yaakov and Daniel Pinner, with a
young talented singer "Eliyahu"
http://www.voiceofjudea.com/eng/tv.asp
Jerusalem News-452
Contents:
1. Another Palestinian False Report?
2. Brit-Am Version of Explorator 9:8 (an interesting week)
3. Dennis McGinlay: Judean Voice Video Amateurish
4. Guysen Israel News - June 19, 2006
5. Red Cross befriended War Criminals,
Red Cross Befriends Palestinians, Recognizes Red Crescent
but Refuses to recognize Magen David Adom
1. Another Palestinian False Report?
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3264158,00.html
2. Brit-Am Version of Explorator 9:8
From: david meadows <dmeadows@idirect.com>
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explorator 9.8 June 18, 2006
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Not often one reads in the news about anything about the Edomites:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/13/science/13edom.html
http://www.physorg.com/news69511439.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/14/healthscience/snedom.php
http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/18889
Trying to reassemble a manuscript of Maimonides:
http://tinyurl.com/g778r (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/z5zxo (Seattle PI)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13307224/
Tons of coverage of a tombarolo leading archaeologists to the
site of an Etruscan tomb dubbed 'the tomb of the roaring lions':
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/arts/17wall.html (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/rp4bu (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/p7xzf (AP via Yahoo ... photo)
http://tinyurl.com/mge76 (Boston Globe)
http://tinyurl.com/ntfp5 (CTV)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/3977603.html
http://tinyurl.com/q9qjh (LA Times)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200606/s1665374.htm
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=889242006
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2229278,00.html
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1800464,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/gw3kq (Bloomberg)
http://tinyurl.com/flba8 (Guardian)
http://tinyurl.com/rx7yu (La Tercera ... Spanish)
... actually, here's all the photos making the rounds:
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=etruscan&c=news_photos
A Roman coin hoard from Wales:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/5089504.stm
A Roman mosaic from Dorchester:
http://tinyurl.com/p4f8d (Echo)
The Bryn Celli Ddu [Anglesey, Wales] chamber appears to have been aligned to the
summer solstice:
http://tinyurl.com/glkjl (BBC)
More coverage of those Basque inscriptions:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3702437a12,00.html
A metal detectorist and some research have turned up a medieval
ring of importance:
http://tinyurl.com/hhwvx (Daily Mail)
A state-of-the research sort of thing on the Endeavour:
http://tinyurl.com/e73oh (SMH)
Excavating early Tucson:
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/15532.php
Pioneer burials in West Des Moines:
http://tinyurl.com/hde4h (WOI)
Native American remains found in a Bloomington (Ind.) house
are to be studied:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060616/ap_on_sc/skulls_found
Looking for James Madison's gate:
http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=4893
http://www.rocktownweekly.com/news_details.php?AID=4893
It appears William Davie's home was not put to the torch:
http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/19098
Rescuing/reusing church 'artifacts':
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/12/us/12church.html
Review of James Campbell, *Middle Passages: African American
Journeys to Africa":
http://tinyurl.com/n7h8a (NYT)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
An ancient (jade) trading network in the Caribbean?:
http://tinyurl.com/pck62 (NG)
Last week, Scotland 'reclaimed' the origins of golf ... this week
they're claiming to be the origin of 'the beautiful game' [football] based
on a 17th century Latin schoolmaster's book (my Sicilian
mother-in-law would argue otherwise):
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/64045.html
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=872362006
The folks who built Stonehenge might have had help from glaciers
(I can't believe this hasn't been suggested before):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/5072664.stm
http://tinyurl.com/flwfe (icWales)
.
Interesting item on the U.S. Institute of Heraldry:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/13/washington/13heraldry.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Kilmartin:
http://heritage.scotsman.com/places.cfm?id=848142006
Florence:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0601/p18s02-hfes.html?s=hns
Amsterdam:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/15/news/trremb.php
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:
http://archaeology.about.com/
Archaeoblog:
http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Moshe Dayan's collection of potentially-illicit antiquities is
in the news again for some reason:
http://tinyurl.com/q584m (Boston Globe)
http://tinyurl.com/j824x (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.cjp.org/content_display.html?ArticleID=185268
http://tinyurl.com/fvc9u (Seattle PI)
cf:
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/Articles/article_27.htm
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/Articles/article_27.pdf
... and the History Lost exhibition:
http://www.anemon.gr/history_lost.html
Ancient Coin Collecting:
http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Constantine the Great:
http://tinyurl.com/zrt7g
Some flags from the American Revolution reached a major price
at auction:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/15/nyregion/15flags.htm
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/15/flag.auction.ap/index.html
Rome in Egypt:
http://www.romeinegypt.unipi.it/
Leslie Alcock (Archaeologist):
http://tinyurl.com/gx2no (Telegraph)
James Cameron (Black Holocaust Museum Founder):
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/15/us/15cameron.html
3. Dennis McGinlay: Judean Voice Video Amateurish
Subject: Re: Jerusalem News-451
#7. Entertainment
English show features Yekutiel Ben Yaakov and Daniel Pinner, with a
young talented singer "Eliyahu"
http://www.voiceofjudea.com/eng/tv.asp
Dear Yair
I watched the video from Voice of Judea TV with growing amusement and a
little horror. OK, so they're on a tight budget, but the production in the
studio was very, very poor and amateurish.
I have been in 'show-business' for over forty years as a singer, musician,
recording studio owner and manager, artiste manager, music publisher, record
company owner and producer with TV and Radio work, record producer with
records played on radio television, music and song writer etc. etc. but I
have never seen anything quite as bad as this video.
This is not to criticize you or BRIT-AM but merely a comment on the video.
They really should do better than this.!
Shalom
Dennis McGinlay
Brit-Am Reply: As Dennis noted Brit-Am has nothing to do with the Voice of Judea.
We posted the reference to the Video-clip-URL
because we found the dialogue of some interest and thought the songs were
worth hearing even though they are in Hebrew.
4. Guysen Israel News - June 19, 2006
[] 2006-06-18 , 22 Sivan 5766
14:41 The 29th international Red Cross and Red Crescent conference has begun with the announcement that a vote is to be held in order to decide whether to accept Magen David Adom (Red Star of David) as part of their movement. The voting will take place on Tuesday. (Guysen.Isra l.News)
13:49 Whereas three major British newspapers have shone doubt over the weekend on the veracity of the IDF's investigation into the death of the Ghalia family on June 8th in Gaza, the German ''Sued Deutsche Zeitung'' is questioning the authenticity of the ''heartbreaking'' images of the little Palestinian girl crying over her dead family, filed by a Palestinian cameraman from the Ramattan agency. (Guysen.Isra l.News)
The German paper asks in particular how the little girl managed to come out from the sea completely dry and how a man, who in the first clip appeared standing up and armed, managed to later be lying on the ground, motionless.
08:46 The Australian Prime Minister John Howard, considered one of George Bush's most faithful partners, has announced that Australian soldiers deployed in the south of Iraq will stay in place after the transfer of power in the region to the Iraqis. (Guysen.Isra l.News)
5. Red Cross befriended War Criminals,
Red Cross Befriends Palestinians, Recognizes Red crescent but Refuses to recognize Magen David Adom
RED CROSS CALLS ITS PASSIVITY ON HOLOCAUST MORAL FAILURE
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1997/vp971008/10080475.htm
Did the Red Cross Co-Operate with the Nazis?
http://www.jewishaz.com/jewishnews/971010/redcross.shtml
As reports of extermination camps began to spread in 1944, the Red Cross visited the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia at the invitation of the Nazis. The Nazis cleaned up the ghetto by lessening overcrowded conditions by sending prisoners to Auschwitz and adding a bank, shops and schools.
The ruse worked. The Red Cross reported that allegations of extermination camps were unfounded. In the latter stages of the war, the Red Cross did work with Jewish organizations in rescuing Jews, according to Yehuda Bauer, the director of research at Yad Vashem.
Did the International Red Cross use its influence to help the Jews?
http://www.yahoodi.com/peace/holocaust.html#howman
* During the course of World <http://www.yahoodi.com/peace/war.html>War II, the International Red Cross (IRC) did very little to aid the <http://www.yahoodi.com/peace/jews.html>Jewish victims of Nazi <http://www.yahoodi.com/peace/oppression.html>persecution. Its activities can basically be divided into three periods:
* 1. September, 1939 - June 22, 1941: The IRC confined its activities to sending food packages to those in distress in Nazi-<http://www.yahoodi.com/peace/occupied.html>occupied Europe. Packages were distributed in accordance with the directives of the German Red Cross. Throughout this time, the IRC complied with the German contention that those in ghettos and camps constituted a threat to the <http://www.yahoodi.com/peace/security.html>security of the Reich and, therefore, were not allowed to receive aid from the IRC.
* 2. June 22, 1941 - Summer 1944: Despite numerous requests by <http://www.yahoodi.com/peace/jews.html>Jewish organizations, the IRC refused to publicly protest the mass <http://www.yahoodi.com/peace/genocide.html>annihilation of <http://www.yahoodi.com/peace/jews.html>Jews and non-<http://www.yahoodi.com/peace/jews.html>Jews in the camps, or to intervene on their behalf. It maintained that any public action on behalf of those under Nazi rule would ultimately prove detrimental to their welfare. At the same time, the IRC attempted to send food parcels to those individuals whose addresses it possessed.
* 3. Summer 1944 - May 1945: Following intervention by such prominent figures as President Franklin Roosevelt and the King of Sweden, the IRC appealed to Mikl?s Horthy, Regent of Hungary, to stop the deportation of Hungarian <http://www.yahoodi.com/peace/jews.html>Jews.
* The IRC did insist that it be allowed to visit concentration camps, and a delegation did visit the "model ghetto" of Terezin (Theresienstadt). The IRC request came following the receipt of information about the harsh living conditions in the camp. The IRC requested permission to investigate the situation, but the Germans only agreed to allow the visit nine months after submission of the request. This delay provided time for the Nazis to complete a "beautification" program, designed to fool the delegation into thinking that conditions at Terezin were quite good and that inmates were allowed to live out their lives in relative tranquility.
* The visit, which took place on July 23, 1944, was followed by a favorable report on Terezin to the members of the IRC which <http://www.yahoodi.com/peace/jews.html>Jewish organizations protested vigorously, demanding that another delegation visit the camp. Such a visit was not permitted until shortly before the end of the <http://www.yahoodi.com/peace/war.html>war. In <http://www.yahoodi.com/peace/edenism.html>reality, the majority were subsequently deported to Auschwitz where they were murdered.
* - <http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/resources/questions/#32>Simon Wiesenthal Center
Jerusalem News-453
Contents:
1. The Arab-Saudi Plot against New York
2. Appreciated Video
3. Arabs Plot Against Canada
4. Israelis to Transform Desert? Conversion to be Simplified?
5. Trouble with Brit-Am URL References?
6. Brit-Am Foresaw Arab Terrorism and Western Placation of the Arabs.
7. Home and Business Security in Canada and the USA
8. Arutz Sheva News Service -
FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS ARE KEY BACKERS OF PEACE NOW
9. South Amerindian-Asian Connections?
1. The Arab-Saudi Plot against New York
From: imra@netvision.net.il
NEW YORK, 19 June 2006 - US officials received intelligence that Al-Qaeda
operatives had been 45 days away from releasing a deadly gas into the city's
subways when the plan was called off by Osama Bin Laden's deputy in 2003,
according to a book excerpt released yesterday on Time magazine's website.
According to the investigative report by Ron Suskind, an informant close to
Al-Qaeda leaders told US officials that Ayman Al-Zawahiri had canceled the
plan in January 2003, despite the likelihood that the strike would have
killed as many people as the Sept. 11 attacks.
The informant said the operatives had planned to use a small, easily
concealed device to release hydrogen cyanide into multiple subway cars. US
officials had already discovered plans for the device on the hard drive of a
computer of a Bahraini jehadist arrested in February 2003, and they had been
able to construct a working model from the plans.
The easy-to-make device, called "the mubtakkar," meaning "invention" in
Arabic or "initiative" in Farsi, represented a breakthrough in weapons
technology that "was the equivalent of splitting the atom," Suskind writes
in his book. All previous attempts to use the deadly gas, similar to that
used in Holocaust-era gas chambers, in mass attacks had failed.
The FBI declined to confirm the details of Suskind's account. Spokesman Bill
Carter in Washington said Saturday the bureau would have no comment on the
excerpted material.
A New York Police Department spokesman said authorities had known of the
planned attack. "We were aware of the plot and took appropriate precaution,"
Paul Browne said.
New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesman Tom Kelly
declined comment.
According to the report, President George W. Bush was shown a model of the
weapon in March 2003 and ordered alerts sent through the US government. When
intelligence arrived that Al-Zawahiri had called off the attack, Bush
worried that something worse was in the works, Suskind writes.
At least two of Suskind's sources remembered Bush saying, "This is bad
enough. What does calling this off say about what else they're planning? ...
What could be the bigger operation Zawahiri didn't want to mess up?" the
author said.
"What has been concluded for the most part is this: Al-Qaeda's thinking is
that a second-wave attack should be more destructive and more disruptive
than 9/11," Suskind told the magazine in an interview.
The informant, who had become disgruntled with Al-Qaeda's leadership, linked
the organization's top operative on the Arabian Peninsula to the plot,
Suskind writes. The operative was later killed in a standoff with Saudi
authorities.
The excerpt of Suskind's book, "The One Percent Doctrine," was to appear in
Time's issue hitting newsstands today. Suskind is a former Pulitzer
Prize-winning reporter for The Wall Street Journal.
Website: www.imra.org.il
2. Appreciated Video
Subject: Re: Jerusalem News-452
#3. Dennis McGinlay: Judean Voice Video Amateurish
In a message dated 6/19/2006 12:48:32 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, britam@netvision.net.il writes:
Brit-Am Reply: As Dennis noted Brit-Am has nothing to do with the Voice of
Judea.
We posted the reference to the Video-clip-URL
because we found the dialogue of some interest and thought the songs were
worth hearing even though they are in Hebrew.
I was very happy to view the video clip from this site......I understand that they have no money to put into it but appreciated whatever they could do to inform me.
Pattie, in Spokane, Washington
3. Arabs Plot Against Canada
Why Strike Canada?
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=22892
4. Israelis to Transform Desert? Conversion to be Simplified?
Guysen Israel News - June 20, 2006
[] 2006-06-19 , 23 Sivan 5766
22:17 Israeli researchers are at the forefront of the struggle to transform the desert climate. Although this process troubles world scientists, the teams at the Hebrew University are among the global leaders of finding new solutions to dessalinate sea water and recycle used water. (Guysen.Isra l.News)
According to Eli Feinerman, Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, "a chronic shortage of water is a reality of life in Israel" .
18:55 The Ministry of Immigration wishes to simplify the conversion process in Israel. Zeev Boim requested aid from Chief Rabbi of Israel, Shlomo Amar in diminishing obstacles encountered by candidates for conversion. (Guysen.Isra l.News)
According to Zeev Boim, currently 3 000 people wish to convert in Israel.
5. Trouble with Brit-Am URL References?
None of your sites, by the way, that appear on your emails including frequent updates work, at least not at my end of the line. I can never simply click on a "blue" address and get it to come up.
Herman
Reply: I checked. It seems to work at my end. If anybody else has the same problem please let us know.
Better still, if anybody else knows of the problem and has a SOLUTION please tells us ASAP.
6. Brit-Am Foresaw Arab Terrorism and Western Placation of the Arabs.
We are not prophets and NEVER pretended to be.
We have been wrong on occasion in the past and may well be wrong again in
the future.
We are also often right and so deserve some recognition when we are.
Our book "Ephraim" was first published in 1994-1995.
This was a period when the Arabs appeared to be pro-Western
and Arab terrorism against the west appeared to be unlikely.
In "Ephraim" we warned that the Bible indicated that the west
(specifically "Ephraim") would attempt a closer rapport with the Muslims
and that this was likely to end in disaster.
An excerpt in full of the relevant section will be given
in the coming posting of
"Brit-Am Now"-726.
Our source was the simple implication of the Hebrew Bible
based on the following section of Hosea:
http://britam.org/hosea9.html
[Hos 9:5] What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?
[Hos 9:6] For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles. Read Hosea 9;6 as "For behold they are gone due to looting Egypt (Mitsrayim), Moph (Memphis) gathers them, Machmad [i.e. Mahomad] buries them, their silver ensnared, the thorn in their tents (tabernacles) inherits them (9;6).
[Hos 9:7] The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred. Read Hosea 9;7 as "The days of visitation have arrived, the days of payment have come, Israel shall know, the prophet is evil, mad*l [Hebrew: "Meshuga"] a man of spirit because of your transgression and of great hatred (9;7): The muslims are not rational. Anyone in the west who acted as islam seems to require its adherents to think and act would not be considered normal. On the other hand similar things could be said about the adherents of many religions in different contexes so it is perhaps best to concentrate upon our own duties. Nevertheless the verses are there and they did have a specific intention.
[Hos 9:8] The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God. Also translatable as: "Ephraim looked out with the god of the prophet, a hidden snare on all his paths, hatred in the house of his god (9;8):
7. Home and Business Security in Canada and the USA
Security, Safety, Consumer Electronic Products for Home and Business
http://mapleleafsecurity.ca/modules/content/?id=1
8. Arutz Sheva News Service -
http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com
Tuesday, June 20, 2006, 24 Sivan 5766
FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS ARE KEY BACKERS OF PEACE NOW
By Scott Shiloh
Peace Now, a far-left Israeli-based organization promoting Israeli
withdrawal to pre-1967 borders and removal of all Jewish communities
in Judea/Samaria, is largely funded by foreign governments.
The organization, which spends large sums of money finding and
detailing every new Israeli structure in Judea and Samaria, is
effectively on the payroll of at least three European governments,
according to Israeli investigative reporter David Bedein.
Those governments provide the financial support for the activities of
Dror Etkes, whose staff researches and publicizes data relating to
every aspect of the Israeli government's support for the
quarter-million Israelis living in Judea and Samaria.
Etkes, who is studying for an M.A. in history, draws a salary of NIS
150,000 ($34,000) per year for his anti-settlement activities for
Peace Now, a large sum by Israeli standards.
The foreign governments which fund Etkes and Peace Now, such as
Britain and Norway, are fundamentally opposed to the existence of all
Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria. The money Peace Now receives
to promote an Israeli withdrawal from those territories, therefore,
may invariably serve those governments' foreign policy interests.
Such an outcome would not be surprising, as Bedein claims Peace Now
has accepted funding directly from the British and Norwegian
Ministries of Foreign Affairs.
Bedein claims he has documents detailing the extent of Peace Now's
funding by foreign governments. In 2005, he says, Peace Now received
direct payments from three European governments, Britain, Norway, and
Finland, totaling nearly a half million dollars.
For its 2006, budget, the group has approached six foreign governments
- Britain, Norway, Canada, Germany, Holland, and Finland - and has
received commitments for larger budgets from Britain, Norway, and
Finland, according to Bedein.
Yesterday, representatives of Peace Now met with a ministerial
committee headed by Justice Minister Chaim Ramon (Kadima) in an effort
to convince the committee to dismantle a number of Israeli communities
in Judea and Samaria.
The legal status of those communities has been repeatedly challenged
by Peace Now. Such challenges often have direct impact on government
policy and on the country's fragile social and political fabric. The
government's decision to dismantle nine homes in the town of Amona,
for example, followed a Supreme Court petition filed by Peace Now,
claiming the homes were built illegally. The homes were destroyed in
a violent police action, in which hundreds were injured.
The violence and sharp polarization of Israeli society ensuing from
the Amona tragedy may be playing into the hands of the same foreign
governments which fund Peace Now. This is so to the extent that
divisions within Israel's political communitiy weaken the
government's ability to maintain Israeli control of Judea and Samaria
in the face of world criticism.
Regarding Finland's contribution to Peace Now, Bedein said a member of
the Finnish Parliament told him the money was forwarded to Finland by
the U.S. government.
Bedein said another source of financing for Peace Now is the Economic
Cooperation Foundation, a group funded directly by the European Union.
The EFC was the subject of controversy last year when the Israeli
media revealed that the organization was funding the activities of
left-wing MK Yossi Beilin (Meretz).
Despite the funding Peace Now receives from foreign governments, the
organization is not required under Israeli law to register as a
foreign agent. In contrast, if the organization were operating in the
United States, it would have to register as a foreign agent with the
U.S. Justice Department, Bedein explained.
Bedein said Peace Now was not just a foreign agent operating in Israel
but was "in effect spying on Israel for foreign governments." He said
the organization not only engages in surveillance activities relating
to Israeli settlements and their security, but "reports on and
photographs military installations" belonging to the IDF.
Bedein said Peace Now's association with foreign governments also
calls into question the financial support the organization receives
from American Friends for Peace Now, a group based in the United
States. He said the U.S. group's affiliation with Peace Now may
require the American group to register as a foreign agent in the U.S.
9. South Amerindian-Asian Connections?
<http://www.ramsdale.org/dna10.htm>http://www.ramsdale.org/dna10.htm
There is the study involving the Olmec [Mexican] "celt" inscriptions versus the Chinese Shang writing, which in many cases is very close.
Researchers studied Native Americans from the Navajo, Chamorro and Flathead tribes. They then determined that all three groups possess a unique type of retrovirus gene, JCV, found only in China and Japan (National Academy of Sciences, 1197). Would seem to suggest travel by boat.
DNA from bone marrow of 1,500 year old mummies found in northern Chile was analyzed. The results show that a virus associated with adult T-cell leukemia was prevalent in native Andeans and in a small section of people from southwest Japan.
Jerusalem News-454
Contents:
1. URL solution in sight.
2. The Brit-Am version of explorator 9.9
3. Concessions: Cause and effect
4. Arutz Sheva News Service -
2 SOLDIERS DEAD IN HAMAS AUTHORITY ATTACK; ANOTHER KIDNAPPED
EITAM: FIND THE KIDNAPPED SOLDIER, DEAD OR ALIVE
5. Jews in Danger Everywhere?
1. URL solution in sight.
re Jerusalem News-453
#5. Trouble with Brit-Am URL References?
Sometimes the hyperlinks work and sometimes they do not.
We hope within a few days to find a solution.
This will probably involve acquiring a new e-mail processing program
unless someone has an alternative solution.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
It is good that someone brought the problem to our attention.
2. The Brit-Am version of explorator 9.9
In the Brit-Am version of explorator 9.9 you may find the URLs not working.
If you wish to view the articles in question you may need to copy and paste
them to your surfing program.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5098748.stm
The Brit-Am version of explorator 9.9
Note: They who are interested in archaeology in general
and wish to be updated with ALL the latest discoveries
will find the complete version of explorator of interest.
A good portion of our subscribers HOWEVER are not in this category.
The Brit-Am version is an adaptation wherein those items of potential special
interest to Brit-Am studies are emphasized along with some items of interest
to the understanding of Brit-Am Israelite national history in general.
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
Subject: [Explorator] explorator 9.9
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explorator 9.9 June 25, 2006
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Hittite burials from Adana:
www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=46064
A Second Temple neighbourhood in the City of David:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=105646
More historic "hills" (mounds?) have been found near the
Burnt City [Iran]:
http://www.payvand.com/news/06/jun/1172.html
Recent finds from Hormozgan [Iran]:
http://www.payvand.com/news/06/jun/1215.html
Plans are afoot to excavate the salt mine where those 'salt
men' were recently found [Iran]:
http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_16283.shtml
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
An Italian article in which it is claimed that Jean-Yves
Empereur is close to finding the location of the tomb of
Alexander the Great:
http://tinyurl.com/ls3ys (Il Sole)
Caistor Roman Town will be the focus of a major research
project [Norfolk, England]:
http://tinyurl.com/l8t9e (EDP24)
A Roman road to nowhere [Norfolk, England]?:
http://tinyurl.com/pvgds (EDP 24)
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Mesolithic finds from Denmark:
http://www.news.wisc.edu/12670.html
More coverage of (and solstice activities associated with) that
Bryn Celli Ddu [Wales] tomb:
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/06/22/tomb_arc.html
http://tinyurl.com/lc4ft
Nice feature on Castlelaw Hillfort [Scotland]:
http://heritage.scotsman.com/places.cfm?id=880992006
A recently (re)discovered 7th century sword has a unique
construction:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/5097510.stm
http://tinyurl.com/rrrgw (Telegraph)
Archaeologists have found remains of what they're claiming
is Robin Hood's house:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1883640.html
http://tinyurl.com/pu2db (Mirror)
Searching for the Bonhomme Richard:
http://tinyurl.com/zmw54 (BBC)
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Oh oh ... archaeologists have found some 3000 b.p. tombs in
China shaped like 'pyramids':
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-06/21/content_4727356.htm
... and double oh oh ... a 'pyramid' at the bottom of a Chinese
lake:
http://english.people.com.cn/200606/23/eng20060623_276708.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-06/22/content_4732485.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Surveying sites in southern Utah:
http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/183015/
Excavating a 19th century Chinese community in Oregon:
http://tinyurl.com/eqsgt (Oregonian)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Interesting new method for dating prints and maps:
http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/0,71215-0.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13450604/
Recent research suggests bog bodies were members of their
society's elite:
http://tinyurl.com/mxgnk (Daily Mail)
http://www.online.ie/News/News.aspx?newsId=385385
A Kabbalist refrigerator repair man:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/20/nyregion/20plumber.html
Followup on dna and Genghis' kin ... whoops:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13467247/
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Genghis-Kin.htm
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Athens:
http://tinyurl.com/edl6r (USA Today)
St. Petersburg:
http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/06/18/travel/18culture.html
Amsterdam:
http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/06/18/travel/18next.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Folks should be made aware of a new online publication ... the
New Archaeology Review (hmmm):
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/6/prweb402628.htm
About.com Archaeology:
http://archaeology.about.com/
Archaeoblog:
http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
3. Concessions: Cause and effect
From: Gary S <ahavat@telkomsa.net>
Extracts Only
Concessions: Cause and effect
June 15, 2006
Israel's international standing is at an all-time low. Academics and journalists are questioning whether Israel even has a right to exist; it is increasingly described as an "apartheid state"; and campaigns to boycott and/or divest from it are gaining momentum. And, contrary to the prevailing wisdom, which holds that Israel's standing is bolstered by concessions to the Palestinians, these developments occurred not while Israel was still refusing to recognize the PLO or evacuate settlements, but after a string of major Israeli concessions.
EVER SINCE it signed the Oslo Accord in 1993, Israel has been ditching its former "red lines" with increasing rapidity. No negotiations with a terrorist organization; no Palestinian state; no concessions on Jerusalem; no negotiations under fire; no unilateral withdrawals; no withdrawals under fire - all these positions enjoyed a massive Israeli consensus before Oslo, but have been abandoned since.
Moreover, these concessions were made in response to pressure, and in exchange for constantly decreasing diplomatic and security returns - thereby undermining the once widespread belief that Israeli concessions could best be obtained by offering meaningful compensation.
When Israel agreed to return Sinai to Egypt in 1978, for instance, it did so following a five-year cease-fire, and in exchange for a full-fledged peace treaty backed by international guarantees, including a multinational force in Sinai.
By contrast, when Israel gave Gaza and Jericho to the PLO in 1994, it did so following six years of terrorist violence (the first intifada) and unprecedented diplomatic pressure: America's conditioning of loan guarantees for immigrant absorption on a settlement freeze. And in exchange, it received only an interim agreement, with no international guarantees.
The Palestinians proceeded to massively violate their main obligation under this accord, which was to end terror: In the 30 months after Oslo, Palestinian terrorists killed more Israelis than during the entire preceding decade. Yet in 1995-97, Israel transferred six other West Bank cities to Palestinian control - again partly due to American pressure, and in exchange for nothing more than a Palestinian reiteration of their previously disregarded no-violence pledge.
Then, in July 2000, Israel offered the Palestinians some 88 percent of the territories, including part of east Jerusalem. The Palestinians refused and launched the second intifada, the worst terrorist violence Israel has ever known. But the violence, instead of generating international support for Israel, generated pressure for additional concessions. And Israel responded by upping its offer at the subsequent Washington and Taba talks, to about 95 percent of the territories, plus the Temple Mount.
Not only did the Palestinians still refuse, but over the next five years, Palestinian terror claimed over 1,000 Israeli lives - more than during the entire preceding 52 years. Yet much of the world continued to demand more Israeli concessions. And Israel's response? In summer 2005, it evacuated every last settler and soldier from Gaza - something it had previously refused to do without a final-status accord - without receiving anything, even an interim agreement, in exchange.
THE PALESTINIAN response was twofold: daily rocket fire on southern Israel from evacuated Gaza, and a landslide electoral victory for Hamas, which does not even pay lip service to peace with Israel. Yet Israel responded by proposing a much larger unilateral withdrawal, from about 90 percent of the West Bank, which will entail evacuating some 80,000 settlers - 10 times the number evacuated from Gaza. And while initially, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that he would demand international recognition of the new lines as Israel's border in exchange, he is now declaring that the withdrawal will take place no matter what - even for no diplomatic return at all.
4. Arutz Sheva News Service -
http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com
------------------------------------------------
Sunday, June 25, 2006, 29 Sivan 5766
2 SOLDIERS DEAD IN HAMAS AUTHORITY ATTACK; ANOTHER KIDNAPPED
By Hillel Fendel
Before dawn: An 8-man force crawled through an underground tunnel into
Israel and killed two IDF soldiers. Hamas, which endorsed the
well-planned attack, abducted another soldier. IDF: He's alive.
The enemy force entered Israel through a deep tunnel they had built
for the occasion, and then, at 5:30 AM, attacked on different fronts.
One group attacked and blew up an empty IDF armed personnel carrier.
Brig.-Gen. Aviv Kokhavi, head of the Gaza Formation, said that the
vehicle "had been placed there for that very purpose" - diverting a
terrorist force and drawing fire.
At the same time, another group of terrorists opened fire at soldiers,
who returned fire and killed two Hamas men. A third group attacked an
IDF tank, killing an officer and a soldier, seriously wounding another
soldier, and kidnapping a fourth. The group escaped back towards Gaza
by blowing open a hole in the border fence.
IDF forces followed the terrorists and the abducted soldier into Gaza
soon afterwards, but did not find them. The search continues for the
soldier - Gilad [ben Aviva] Shalit, 19, of Hila in the Galilee, just
five miles from the Lebanese border.
Two other soldiers were lightly wounded in the multi-pronged attack,
though the condition of one of them has since deteriorated, and he is
now listed in "moderate" condition.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz said at a press conference
today that the abducted soldier is alive, and then added, "as far as
we know." His announcement did not put an end to hours of
speculation, beginning immediately after the incident, as to whether
the soldier had been taken alive or dead. The Shalit family has been
informed that the army believes him to be alive.
On Oct. 7, 2000, at the beginning of the Oslo War, three IDF soldiers
were killed and abducted by Hizbullah on the Israeli-Lebanese border.
For over a year, they were believed to be alive - but they were in
fact killed within hours of their encounter with the terrorists. In
early 2004, Israel released hundreds of terrorists in exchange for
Elchanan Tenenbaum and the bodies of the three soldiers.
The Red Cross has asked to see the abducted soldier. The kidnappers
say they will not release any information on the soldier unless Israel
pays for it in some form or other.
The dead soldiers in today's attack: Lt. Chanan Barak, 20, of Arad,
and Sgt. Pavel Slotzker, 20, of Dimona.
Between two and four terrorists were reported killed in the incident,
and the others returned to Gaza. Not all of them were accounted for
at first, however, and the residents of the nearby communities - Kerem
Shalom (adjacent to the border fence), Sufa, and others - were told to
remain in their homes.
Shortly before 10 AM, the residents were told they could begin their
regular daily routine, even as IDF gunfire and helicopter fire
continued to be heard. At around the same time, the Palestinian
Authority reported that the terrorists had returned to Gaza via the
same tunnel, and would soon appear in a press conference with "good
news for the Palestinian people."
The Rafah and Kerem Shalom crossings into and out of southern Gaza
were not opened this morning. Rafah was closed last week for a day
and a half because of Israeli intelligence warnings of an attack of
this nature, but was reopened because of Arab pressure on the European
Union monitors at the crossing.
A Kassam rocket was fired at Sderot this morning, causing no
casualties or damage.
EITAM: FIND THE KIDNAPPED SOLDIER, DEAD OR ALIVE
By Hillel Fendel
MK Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Effie Eitam says the IDF must carry out a major
ground offensive in Gaza, kill dozens or hundreds of terrorists,
including Hamas leaders, and find the abducted soldier.
MK Eitam (National Union/NRP), speaking on Voice of Israel Radio, said
that the IDF's ground offensive in Gaza must have three objectives:
toppling the Hamas government, killing terrorists all over Gaza, and
finding the abducted soldier.
Asked how the Hamas government could be toppled, Eitam - who headed
the Galilee Formation in the IDF - said, "We have to kill or capture
its leaders, and cause the rest of them to run for their lives out to
sea on small boats. The PA public must know that this will be the
fate of any government that declares war on Israel."
Eitam further explained that Israel must restore its power of
deterrence, "by killing dozens or hundreds of terrorists, those who
attack us, those who dispatch the killers - wherever they are. It
must be similar to Operation Defensive Shield that we did in Jenin and
Yesha four years ago, which the Palestinians still well remember..."
The third objective, Eitam explained, is "to turn over every stone and
every house in order to find the kidnapped soldier, dead or alive. We
must not let the story of Ron Arad repeat itself, and must not enter
into weary negotiations with Hamas."
Reminded that the number of Israeli casualties is still much lower
than when Israel controlled and was present in Gaza, Eitam said, "It's
not a question of number of casualties, but rather sovereignty. It's
not Russian roulette, where we see how many people are killed or not
killed by a Kassam. No country can tolerate attacks on its civilian
population or on its military, and such attacks are cause for war."
5. Jews in Danger Everywhere?
Jews Are Under Siege: A Call For Action
Charles Jacobs and Seth A. Klarman
A rush of shocking events is creating a "tipping point" in Jewish consciousness. Increasingly, Jews feel their situation has substantially changed, and for the worse. The recent events include Iran's nuclear threats and Holocaust denial, Hamas' electoral victory, the torture and murder of Ilan Halimi in Paris by a Muslim gang, the "discovery" by a Harvard dean that Jews actually do conspire to control Congress and American foreign policy in the service of Israel and to the detriment of U.S. interests, and the British academic boycott.
All of these demonstrate for many that there is a new assault on the world's Jews. The hostility is based on a unique and intense hatred of Israel and deep resentment of its supporters, accompanied by a growing willingness to use violence.
As though in a "perfect storm," two global ideologies, rooted in different radical critiques of the West, have suddenly aligned against us.
Islamic anti-Semitism. Fueled by Saudi petro-dollars and Iranian revolutionary zeal, a global campaign in mosques and madrassas (Islamic schools) teaches hundreds of millions of Muslims that Jews are the sons of monkeys and pigs, and that killing them is a holy deed. The Internet and television embellish the message. Docudramas in Iran, Egypt and Jordan depict Jews harvesting the organs of Muslim children, killing non-Jews to make matzah, and plotting to rule the world.
This poison reaches Muslims in the West. Europe's Jews are besieged and violently assaulted both on the streets and in the rhetoric of polite society. In America, Freedom House told Congress it found Saudi-produced hate literature aimed at Americans and Christians, but mostly Jews in mosques across the U.S.
In the West, "Palestinianism," the notion that an innocent, indigenous people suffers a senseless, cruel oppression by the Jews of Israel (who ought to know better), threatens to become the standard view. It is the basis for an attack by Western radicals on Zionism, Jewish national self-determination, and by extension on Jews everywhere. The "oppression" of an Arab people by Westerners is, for the far left, morally and politically more consequential than the massacres, enslavements, beheadings, bombings, and ethnic cleansings committed by Arabs and Muslims from London to Sudan, from Spain to Indonesia.
Islam and the radical left, rooted in separate critiques of the West, are now allied in Europe and increasingly in segments of America's academics, media, human rights community, and the leadership of certain Protestant churches.
In America, Jews fret as a vicious anti-Israel movement has taken root on American campuses. Jewish organizations reeled last summer when five mainline Protestant denominations passed anti-Israel resolutions. Most Jews don't yet know the extent to which public high school texts and teachers are de-legitimizing Israel.
Anti-Semitism is a virus that morphs. In the West now, hostility to Jews has little to do with the familiar hatreds of Judaism and the Jewish "race." Today's antipathy makes Israel "the Jew" and its "crimes" the old "Jewish crimes," including killing of the innocent, theft (this time of land), arrogance, and the control of business, finance, government and the media by international cabals. As before, "Jewish crimes" stand out as uniquely, even cosmically evil. And as such, they call for correction.
We are unprepared and confused. Arab and Muslim Jew-hatred was misread as mere "street talk" that would dissipate when Oslo brought peace. Instead, Jew-hate is an engine of the global jihad. We are flummoxed by the new breed of Western adversaries. After centuries of attack by brutes, illiterates, right wing lunatics, and Christian anti-Semites, antagonism to the Jewish collective is now generated by soft-spoken moralists with high ideals and by "anti-racists," some of the most articulate of whom are Jews. Set to defend against thugs yelling "kike," we are attacked instead by college professors, today a far more insidious enemy, who berate us for supporting "immorality."
No one wants to think that 60 years after the Holocaust, a new evil threatens Jews everywhere. But reality cannot be avoided or minimized. Jews need to consider the profound impact of losing an ideological battle that could destroy the Jewish state. Such a threat requires courageous and talented leaders to grasp these new realities and create strategies to defeat the latest defamations based on a libelous portrayal of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
A leadership correctly prioritizing the threat would convince us to lay aside our furious left-right debates, and teach us instead to make Israel's basic case from the left as well as from the right. It would gather the support of non-Jews and distinguish clearly friends from enemies. Most important, a new leadership would bravely and tirelessly tell us the truth about our new situation and apply our talent and resources to the task.
If the Jewish leadership in this country, which has been so good to the Jewish people, can't or won't do these things, then this small but enormously talented people will have to get new leaders. For in this, the Jewish community cannot and must not fail.
Jerusalem News-455
Contents:
1. Thomas Gray: Appeasement - A Repeated Mistake
2. DNA traces criminals in the family
3. Conspiracy Theories - The Curse of Arab Thinking
(a) Arabian Nightmares
(b) Daniel Pipes: How Muslims Think
4. Conspiracy Theories - The Curse of Israelite Realization
5. Israel seizes Hamas leaders
6. Ultra-Orthodox threaten protest against GayPride
7. WMDs in Iraq
1. Thomas Gray: Appeasement - A Repeated Mistake
From: Thomas Gray
Subject: Re: Jerusalem News-454
We are really seeing a repeat of the mistakes of Chamberlain Britain before
WW II of thinking that there must be some way to peace. When we are dealing
with a Hitler who openly states that he will not tolerate peace, or a HAMAS
that openly states that Israel must be destroyed, the only recourse is to
hold firm and prepare to fight as a nation. Unfortunately, the leadership
of Israel are unbelievers in spite of the victories of the Independence War,
the Six-day War and the Yom Kippur War against "impossible odds", and can't
seem to understand that the Lord will give victory to all who trust Him, and
that it sometmes is impossible to have peace. To the people of Israel, the
words of Winston Churchill should be echoing in your ears: "They had to
choose between dishonor or war. They chose dishonor. They will have war."
Thomas Gray.
2. DNA traces criminals in the family
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12743184/
This article is interesting and shows that criminality tends to run
in families.
This may be true but should not be taken too far.
There are also outstanding exceptions in just the opposite direction
that sometimes are worth all those who fit the "general rule" put together.
3. Conspiracy Theories - The Curse of Arab Thinking
(a) Arabian Nightmares
[Extracts Only]
Mark Silverberg - Jun 24, 2006
"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."
J. Paul Getty (1892 - 1976) U.S. oil magnate
According to the UN Arab Human Development Reports of 2002, 2003 and 2004, written by an independent group of leading Arab scholars and intellectuals, oil has become a curse rather than a blessing for the Arab world. Unlike Japan, Taiwan, Israel, Singapore and many other countries who recognized early on that their scarce resources required them to turn their lack of material resources into technological strengths in order to become competitive in the world economy, the Arabs relied exclusively on the great sea of oil beneath their deserts as a substitute for intellect, creativity and entrepreneurship. It has now cost them their future and saddled the world with a parasitic and pathologically suicidal movement that has proven its capacity to destroy and its incapacity to create anything of substance to human civilization.
Arab societies, for the most part, are dysfunctional and have immersed themselves in a culture of denial. They emphasize struggle, negative competition and the rejection of alternate approaches or ways of thinking. Arab governments live in a state of internal fear that avoids investigating their failures or acquainting themselves with or opening their societies up to the cultures of others. [1] Their societies will never be able to hand down positive achievements to future generations unless they overcome their secretiveness, their isolation, and especially their need to blame others for their own failings. Several years ago, Abd Al-Munim Said, head of the Al-Ahram Research Center in Egypt, wrote: "We thought that by the end of the 20th century, the Arab mind would be open enough not to explain everything with a 'conspiracy theory'...the biggest problem with conspiracy theories is that they keep us not only from the truth, but also from confronting our faults and problems...This way of thinking relates any given problem to external elements, and thus does not [lead] to a rational policy to confront the problem." In Arab politics today, from Egypt to Tehran, opponents are not answered or rebutted. They are discredited, imprisoned or destroyed. [2] Each time Arab peoples are afflicted with disaster, defeats, or tragedies, it is always blamed on Zionists, colonialists, or American imperialist conspiracies. As a result, the obstacles the Arabs have erected for themselves have become enormous.
For all the oil revenues that have flowed into the wealthier Arab countries, the overall state of the Arab world is appalling. It does not produce a single manufactured product of sufficient quality to sell on world markets. Arab productivity is the lowest in the world. Nowhere in the Arab world is there a single world-class university. The once-great tradition of Arab scientific achievement that flowed from Andalusia has degenerated into a few research programs in the fields of chemical and biological warfare. There is not one true democracy in the Arab world. No Arab State genuinely respects human rights. No Arab State hosts a responsible media. No Arab society fully respects the rights of women or minorities, and no Arab government has ever-accepted public responsibility for its own shortcomings. Worse, the Arab Middle East has become the world's first entirely parasitical culture; (it) imitates poorly, consumes voraciously, spits hatred, exports death, and creates nothing Blame is the opium of the Arabs, and the sweetest blame for their failures is that directed at the United States (and, of course, Israel). It is our power itself, not its uses, that enrages Arabs trapped in their self-made weakness. [3]
Saudi Wahhabism teaches them that it is the infidel (Christian/Jewish) West that is the source of all evil in the Islamic world.
Barry Rubin, Director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center and Editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs has analyzed the manner in which anti-Americanism (as opposed to modernization) has been used in the Arab world as an excuse for corruption, repression and stagnation. He contends that anti-Americanism is not a response to actual U.S. policies, but the product of self-interested manipulation by various regimes and groups within Arab society, groups that use anti-Americanism as a foil to distract public attention from other, far more serious problems within their societies. According to Rubin: For years now, anti-Americanism has served as a means of last resort by which failed political systems and movements in the Middle East try to improve their standing. The United States is blamed for much that is bad in the Arab world, and it is used as an excuse for political and social oppression and economic stagnation. By assigning responsibility for their own shortcomings to Washington, Arab leaders distract their subjects' attention from the internal weaknesses that are their real problems. And thus, rather than pushing for greater privatization, equality for women, democracy, civil society, freedom of speech, due process of law, or other similar developments sorely needed in the Arab world, the public focuses instead on hating the United States. [7] Instead of responding to demands for democracy, human rights, higher living standards, less corruption and incompetence, reducing illiteracy or improving education and educational standards, Arab rulers blame America for their societies' ills and refocus popular anger against it.
A dark, long winter has descended upon Arab civilization. Despite hundreds of billions of dollars of income from oil, the Arabs have yet to create one single monument to human achievement. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Arab leaders blamed everything on Western Imperialism. From the 1970s on, the Islamists chose to cast the blame on the secular Arab Left and the corrupt, opulent monarchies of Arabia as well as the cultural influences of the Western world. In fact, at different times, the Arabs have pointed the finger of blame at colonialists, multinationals, missionaries, communists, liberals, religious and/or ethnic minorities, middle classes and even poor Orientalists. But the blame rests only in themselves. [12]
(b) Daniel Pipes: How Muslims Think
From: "D. Pipes Mailing List" <dplist@danielpipes.org>
Subject: #683 Pipes in NY Sun: "[Pew Poll on] How Muslims Think"
by Daniel Pipes
New York Sun
June 27, 2006
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3706
[NY Sun title: "Survey of World's Muslims Yields Dismaying Results"]
[Extracts Only]
How do Muslims worldwide think?
To find out, the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press carried out a large-scale attitudinal survey this spring. Titled "The Great Divide: How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other," it interviewed Muslims in two batches of countries: six of them with long-standing, majority-Muslim populations (Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Turkey) and four of them in Western Europe with new, minority Muslim populations (France, Germany, Britain, and Spain).
The survey, which also looks at Western views of Muslims, yielded some dismaying but not altogether surprising results. Its themes can be grouped under three rubrics.
A proclivity to conspiracy theories: In not one Muslim population polled does a majority believe that Arabs carried out the attacks of September 11, 2001, on America. The proportions range from a mere 15% in Pakistan holding Arabs responsible, to 48% among French Muslims. Confirming recent negative trends in Turkey, the number of Turks who point the finger at Arabs has declined to 16% today from 46% in 2002. In other words, in every one of these 10 Muslim communities, a majority views September 11 as a hoax perpetrated by the American government, Israel, or some other agency.
Likewise, Muslims are widely prejudiced against Jews, ranging from 28% unfavorable ratings among French Muslims to 98% in Jordan (which, despite the monarchy's moderation, has a majority Palestinian Arab population). Further, Muslims in certain countries (especially Egypt and Jordan) see Jews conspiratorially, as being responsible for bad relations between Muslims and Westerners.
Conspiracy theories also pertain to larger topics. Asked, "What is most responsible for Muslim nations' lack of prosperity?" between 14% (in Pakistan) and 43% (in Jordan) blame the policies of America and other Western states, as opposed to indigenous problems, such as a lack of democracy or education, or the presence of corruption or radical Islam.
This conspiracism points to a widespread unwillingness in the umma to deal with realities, preferring the safer bromides of plots, schemes, and intrigues. It also exposes major problems adjusting to modernity.
Support for terrorism: All the Muslim populations polled display a solid majority of support for Osama bin Laden. Asked whether they have confidence in him, Muslims replied positively, ranging between 8% (in Turkey) and 72% (in Nigeria). Likewise, suicide bombing is popular. Muslims who call it justified range from 13% (in Germany) to 69% (in Nigeria). These appalling numbers suggest that terrorism by Muslims has deep roots and will remain a danger for years to come.
4. Conspiracy Theories - The Curse of Israelite Realization
People who believe in the Bible, good people with family values
and honest ways want the best for their countries and their kin.
Instead of working to achieve what they want however more often than not
they let liberal fairy types take control.
After that they listen to scum who tell them about secret societies who allegedly
run a Conspiracy operation to steal everybody else's money and freedom.
This provides our good "Israelites" with another reason to keep doing nothing positive about
their society.
Conspiracy Freaks tell outright lies, make assertions without proof
and have a pagan mindset.
They work against both Judah and Israel.
5. Israel seizes Hamas leaders
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/israel-seizes-hamas-leaders/2006/06/29/1151174331939.html
The Age (Australia)
(Excepts)
Ed O'Loughlin, Gaza
June 30, 2006
ISRAELI troops have seized most of the political leadership of the Palestinian Authority as the crisis over a captured Israeli soldier yesterday escalated towards open war.
In a series of night-time raids across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, Israeli troops rounded up most of the ministers and members of parliament representing the non-Gaza wing of Hamas, the Palestinian ruling party.
Some ministers were blindfolded and handcuffed as they were seized, Israeli military sources said.
Hamas has described the blow as an act of "open war" against the elected Palestinian government and its people and said Israel would have to face the consequences.
Israeli spokesmen have denied that the Hamas leaders reported to number 64 [latest reports: ca 83] were seized as bargaining chips for the release of 19-year-old Corporal Gilad Shalit, captured by Palestinian fighters in a raid on the edge of Gaza on Sunday.
Israeli Foreign Ministry official Mark Regev said that Hamas was formally regarded as a terrorist organisation in Israel, the US, EU and Australia. Its leaders would be brought before an Israeli judge and charged with terrorist offences.
"If the Government of the Palestinian Authority says it's OK to send rockets into Israel, to kidnap Israelis, to behave like terrorists, then they will be treated like terrorists," he said.
Among those seized were the Hamas Finance Minister Omar Abdel Razeq, Religious Affairs Minister Nayef Rajoub, Planning Minister Samir Abu Aisheh and Jerusalem Affairs Minister Khaled Abu Arafeh.
Israel's move represents a major threat to the continuing existence of the Palestinian Authority, the last remnant of the failed Oslo peace accord. It is the most serious of a number of developments threatening to escalate a fraught situation into a humanitarian disaster.
On Wednesday, Israeli jets buzzed the summer palace of Syrian President Bashar Assad, driving home Israel's threat to assassinate Hamas leaders both in Gaza and in exile in Syria. Syria said it fired on the aircraft without hitting them.
Early yesterday, Israeli troops found the body of an 18-year-old Jewish settler who was abducted and murdered by Palestinian militants in the West Bank.
6. Ultra-Orthodox threaten protest against GayPride
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/732571.html
By Shahar Ilan
"Conflagration" shouted the announcement published by the religious court of the Eda Haredit. "We heard a rumor that angered our souls ... because preparations are being made in the temple of the King of Jerusalem for a parade of sin and ugliness of the worst sort, and to bring hundreds of thousands of wicked people from all over the world to contaminate the Holy City and dishonor it."
The members of the ultra-Orthodox court called on "our brothers in Israel, wherever they may be" to prepare for a holy war and gather for a massive demonstration of unprecedented size." Jerusalem WorldPride 2006 is only a little more than a month away, kicking off on August 6 and culminating in the parade on the 10th. Yet the struggle in the religious community is just getting under way, and for good reason. The dilemma: Haredi newspapers do not write about homosexuals and of course the public debate in the ultra-Orthodox community does not take up the issue either.
If they must, they will speak about perverts, acts of abomination and the like. On the other hand, Haredim feel that they must protest against the parade. How can you fight something for which you have no vocabulary?
Beyond the discomfort involved, there is the important issue of education. Many ultra-Orthodox parents would rather let the parade circle the city three times than hear their children asking, "Daddy, what's a homosexual?"
The poster issued by the Haredi Council heralds an escalation of the conflict, but the council is an extreme and marginal part of the ultra-Orthodox community. The Haredi High Court was once nearly as important of the Torah Guardians of Agudat Yisrael, but no longer. The dilemma is further complicated by the biblical warning contained in Leviticus 18. God lists forbidden sexual relationships including, "Do not lie with a male as one lies with a woman" [Lev. 18:22], warning, "So let not the land spew you out for defiling it, as it spewed out the nation that came before you" [Lev. 18:28].
The editor-in-chief of the Haredi newspaper Hamishpacha, Moshe Grylak, meanwhile, who is usually a moderate man, warns against a new exile as a result of the parade.
Two weeks ago the head of Har Etzion Yeshiva, Rabbi Yaacov Medan, a particularly harsh opinion piece against the parade in the right-wing newspaper Makor Rishon, entitled "Stopping the parade of abomination." Medan heads one of the more moderate national-religious yeshivas. ...
In Makor Rishon Modan writes: "It is doubtful whether since the shrine of Tophet in the Ben-Hinnom Valley and the introduction of idol worship into the Temple at the end of the First Temple period has there been such blasphemy in Jerusalem ... [T]his disgrace can be stopped," Medan claims. He suggests holding a rally like the one against the Supreme Court in early 1999. "No police," Medan writes, "will succeed in dispersing such a crowd from the streets that we will block. We will not have to use any violence, God forbid. Our presence alone shall suffice. I am doubtful whether the Israel Police will risk the violence of teargas, rubber-tipped bullets and the like against such a huge crowd for such a trivial purpose as holding the parade of abomination."
Last year an ultra-Orthodox demonstrator, Yishai Schlissel, leaped into the parade and stabbed three participants.
The first letter written by rabbis against the parade was published early this month. Signatories included former chief rabbi Mordechai Eliahu, a leader in the national-religious sector and Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach of Degel Hatorah. They wrote: "We come to cry out from the bottom of our heart and to awaken the honor of rabbis everywhere to pray, protest and use all their connections and skills against the villainy that the wicked of Israel are planning, the men of 'Sodom and Gomorrah' who want to pollute the holy city of Jerusalem for a full week."
The rabbis noted that the sages prophesied a "great storm" as punishment for the grave sin of single-sex marriage, "just like the tsunami in Thailand that killed hundreds of thousands of men, women and children." They even sought, and found, a special verse for their battle: "For then I will remove the proud and exultant within you" [Tzephania 3.11] [The Hebrew words given here as "proud" and "exultant," aliz and ga'ava, are the Hebrew words adopted by Israeli homosexuals to describe themselves.]
500 will get AIDS
In every religious struggle, there are those who go between the rabbis and the politicians and stir things up. The "machers" in WorldPride are Ephraim Holtzberg and Yehuda Levine. Holtzberg's (toned-down) text is not recommended for the weak of heart. "It is impossible to take the city that is called the throne of God and turn it into San Francisco," says Holtzberg. "This is the Holy Land, not homo-land." He warns that "holding the parade will bring on a punishment that will not leave Jerusalem standing. God will throw us like a ballistic missile. It's 'to be or not to be.' Even the Haredi High Court will say that it's permitted. People will stand on the road, they will be hit and they won't allow it to take place. They won't beat anyone up, God forbid, but let's see them move a million people off the street."
Holtzberg says the argument that they don't want the children to know about homosexuality is "stupid, because in any event a child will ask about the man in the underpants near the Western Wall." He also warns of the possibility of pedophiles participating in the march, and also that "if 10,000 people with AIDS come and let's say 500 people contract AIDS, then the Health Ministry will collapse."
7. WMDs in Iraq
Did Germany sell Sarin to Iraq?
Liars
By FrontPage Magazine
FrontPageMagazine.com | June 22, 2006
The antiwar Lefts claim that Bush lied about Saddam Hussein possessing Weapons of Mass Destruction has itself been proven a lie.
Sen. Rick Santorum, R-PA, and Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-MI, released the declassified overview of a report produced by the National Ground Intelligence Center, the group that has searched Iraq for Saddam Husseins WMDs since 2004. Its stunning revelation: there were WMDs, after all.
Since 2003, Coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions, which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent. Despite many efforts to locate and destroy Iraq's pre-Gulf war chemical munitions, filled and unfilled pre-Gulf war chemical munitions are assessed to still exist. That means in addition to the 500, there are filled and unfilled munitions still believed to exist within the country. [emphasis mine]
Did Germany sell Iraq and other Nazi-Muslim nations such deadly material?
"During the 1970s, US codebreakers found dramatic evidence that West German companies were selling the Sarin secret to several Arab nations... [emphasis mine].
No one has ever examined the role of West German intelligence as a merchant of death for GRU clients such as Libya and Iraq. The greatest scandal may involve the German bankers...
Even more alarming are reports that West Germany is behind the secret proliferation of nuclear weapons. According to a former Argentine diplomat, a secret nuclear protocol was attached to a West German-Argentine Trade Treaty during the 1960s. The rationale was that West Germany was afraid that some day the Americans would pull out of NATO or withdraw their nuclear shield. Because of Soviet antipathy to German possession of the atomic bomb, it was decided to develop the nuclear weapons secretly by utilizing the large emigre communities of German scientists in Argentina and South Africa."
Unholy Trinity by Aarons & Loftus, pg. 273
Jerusalem News-456
Contents:
1. The Shawn Report
2. The Gaza Situation: Quotations
3. Gypsies
4. Brit-Am Version of Explorator 9:10
5. An Israeli Cure for Cancer?
1. The Shawn Report
(a) Super-Mensch
http://www.aish.com/societyWork/arts/SuperMensch.asp
(b) Free US flags
American Flags is giving away free flags ($5.99 for the shipping) in honor of our troops. Here's the link:
http://americanflags.com/featuredflag.htm
2. The Gaza Situation: Quotations
From: imra@netvision.net.il
Subject: Quote of the day:
Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 2 July 2006
"I wish 10 months ago they [AL: the Palestinians] had hit a strategic
facility in Ashkelon - then we would have taken action and we would not be
in this mess today."
Former commander of Israel's Southern Command, reserve Maj. Gen. Yom-Tov
Samia, commenting on the situation in the Gaza Strip today in a live
interview broadcast on Israel Radio this morning
3. Gypsies
An interesting and informative article
http://www.paulpolansky.nstemp.com/gypsies.htm
4. Brit-Am Version of Explorator 9:10
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
Subject: [Explorator] explorator 9.10
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explorator 9.10 July 2, 2006
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Opening a sarcophagus in KV 63 has revealed a bunch of flowers
and embalming stuff:
http://tinyurl.com/jqgdv (Discovery)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060629/ap_on_sc/egypt_new_tomb_10
http://tinyurl.com/ghm99 (SMH)
http://tinyurl.com/kvzme (ME Times)
http://tinyurl.com/ewk7w (NG)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/29/news/tomb.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5127918.stm
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,640190849,00.html
http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2006/06/28/egypt-tomb.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/29/world/africa/29tomb.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13597524/
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/28/world/middleeast/28cnd-tomb.html
More KV 63 coverage (with a different focus):
http://tinyurl.com/j8zvt (Discovery)
http://tinyurl.com/e9epb (Discovery)
http://tinyurl.com/zsdwm (Australian)
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/issues/2006/july/kv63.php
Excavating a Second Temple dump:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/732068.html
We'll probably hear more about this one ... they're going to
remove that Temple Mount ramp:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=733072
A Firefox extension of interest to those involved in
Mishna studies:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2820/
More coverage of the moving of that model of the Temple
to the Israel Museum:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=732574
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Good coverage of recent finds at an Etruscan site at Cetamura:
http://tinyurl.com/kcrc2 (EurekAlert)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060630095037.htm
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/521655/?sc=rsmn
http://www.fsu.edu/news/2006/06/29/etruscan.discovery/
Recreating Roman makeup:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/5129102.stm
A debate is raging in the UK over the 'difficulty' of Latin:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-2243519,00.html
... subsequent letters:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,59-2246063_2,00.html
... and Mary Beard:
http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2006/06/is_latin_too_ha.html
Robert Graves' house on Mallorca is now a museum:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/spain/article/0,,1810336,00.html
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A 400 000 b.p. elephant butcher site in Britain:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5128892.stm
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Some Paleolithic artifacts from China:
http://www.chinanews.cn/news/2005/2006-06-29/24520.html
This is interesting ... among the remains of the workers who
helped put together Qin's tomb are those of someone of European
extraction:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1808394,00.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-06/28/content_4762391.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Excavating a bison kill/processing site in North Dakota:
http://tinyurl.com/fxska (Tribune)
http://www.krtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5103553
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Mathematically, we're all related:
http://tinyurl.com/l6loy (Seattle PI)
http://tinyurl.com/hbf5p (ABC)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060701/ap_on_sc/brotherhood_of_man_1
On transliterating Hebrew:
http://tinyurl.com/hnguj (JPost)
Mycenean Presence in Sicily:
http://www.mycpres.com/
... while we now have a new claim that someone has found the
remains of Noah's Ark:
http://tinyurl.com/om8vk (AOL News)
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=nation_world&id=4319965
... but how to reconcile that with these claims:
http://tinyurl.com/eq7k6 (DB Journal)
http://www.tbo.com/news/metro/MGB1B1OAWOE.html
[puts the Garden of Eden in Florida]
5. An Israeli Cure for Cancer?
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:17:05 +0100
From: Guysen Israel News <webmaster@guysen.com>
Subject: Mailinfo Guysen Israel News - July 3, 2006
[] 2006-07-02 , 6 Tammuz 5766
23:33 Researchers at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem working on the improvement of the quality of fruit have discovered a way to stop the growth and spread of cancerous cells in humans and animals, without adverse affects on normal cells, such as result from traditional methods of treatment (chemotherapy). (Guysen.Isra l.News)
The method discovered involves isolating the malignant tumor from its nutritients and oxygen, stopping the metastase process (the spread of cancerous cells to other parts of the body). The researchers are using actibind, a protein, which is not poisonous for other (non-cancerous) cells, that stops the supply of blood to the tumor. They have published an article on their findings in the American Cancer Society periodical "Cancer" .
Jerusalem News-457
1. Entertainment
"It's the Conspiracy, Stupid!"
2. Inadvertently Deleted?
3. Qassam Rockets Kill - the Agony of Sderot
1. Entertainment
"It's the Conspiracy, Stupid!"
Chamish cronies accused by fellow Chamish mentor and
fellow traveller of
being communist agents:
http://www.noahide.com/newsletter/news64.htm
The same elements were also apparently behind the recent
slurs against Brit-Am
"Brit-Am Now"-686
#3. Attacks on Brit-Am from the Deranged
http://britam.org/now/686Now.html
2. Inadvertently Deleted?
Subject: Re: Jerusalem News-370: The Retreat and Expulsion
Shalom,
I seem to have been inadvertently removed from your mailings, as the below
is the last time I received a newsletter from you.
Would you please RE-add me to your list of newsletter recipients?
Thank you.
Brit-Am Comment: Every now and again we cull our list
of e-mail addresses that are not working.
In most cases the addresses do not work because they have become defunct.
It happens however that other explanations exists.
Sometimes the local server has decided it does not want mail
from Israel, or from bulk senders, or some other factor is responsible.
It could also be a fault at our end.
We want to send our postings to whomsoever wishes to receive them.
If you are in such a category and you suddenly cease to hear from us for
more than a week (at the most) then something is wrong.
3. Qassam Rockets Kill - the Agony of Sderot
http://www.zionism-israel.com/vic/sderot1.htm
Read especially about
Ella Abukasis:
Qassam Rocket Victim
http://www.zionism-israel.com/vic/abukasis.htm
Jerusalem News-458
Contents:
1. Chamish Mentor accused of fraud!
2. Remember What Happened Here, Time Magazine, Charles Krauthammer
3. A Lesson from History: The British in Palestine in 1938
1. Chamish Mentor accused of fraud!
MS Antelman (a notorious Conspiracy Freak) tries to sell cure for AIDS
said to be bogus
http://www.hivforum.com/topic.asp?id=950-1
Chamish considers Antelman a kind of personal guru but Antelman seems to
consider the major supporters of Chamish (and ?) in Israel to be Communist agents!
2. Remember What Happened Here, Time Magazine, Charles Krauthammer
http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/news/article.php?id=7225
3. A Lesson from History: The British in Palestine in 1938
Jewish News Letters
http://www.totallyjewish.com/news/jewish_news_letters/
History Lesson For Israel's Detractors
Dear Sir
I hear and see the BBC and the left wing press inevitably traducing Israel because of her justified retaliation in trying to ensure that the captured Israeli soldier is returned alive. These biased mediums will no doubt be joined by those hordes of self-styled peace activists emerging from the woodwork to their favourite pastime of demonising the 'brutal' Israelis.
While researching my books I found and filed much interesting data, such as the following:
Secret 1938 Whitehall files were belatedly declassified and released in 1989. They detailed atrocities committed by British forces in Jenin during the Mandate. In the summer of 1938 a British district commissioner was assassinated in that town.
The alleged murderer was caught, placed in custody and shot 'while trying to escape'. Then the British, on August 25, inflicted massive reprisals against the Arab residents of Jenin by blowing up a large part of the town.
The Colonial Office condoned this response with one senior official noting that the British were dealing not with a chivalrous opponent playing the game according to the rules but with gangsters and murderers.
Are they different today? Without doubt the Hamas leaders knew about the kidnapping. To dig the tunnel required tools and time. The weapons and vehicle to whisk away any capture was on tap. The hiding place for the captured soldier was waiting and so many Hamas leaders claimed to know where he was being held.
What for Hamas went wrong? Israel, rightly, did not capitulate to Hamas demands and retaliated and thus gave the hostage his best chance to live.
Morris Beckman
South Hampstead
Jerusalem News-459
Contents:
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of explorator 9.11
2. Yair Davidiy: Preliminary Remarks to "Remember Dresden"
3. Eugene Narrett: "Remember Dresden"
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of explorator 9.11
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
Subject: [Explorator] explorator 9.11
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... a quiet week
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Work on the Acre railway line is resuming:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=735657
Folks might be interested in the Ulu Burun shipwreck recreation:
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=47389
An Exodus documentary:
http://tinyurl.com/pvzkr (JPost)
More coverage of the Second Temple model thing:
http://tinyurl.com/qew89 (JPost)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3271211,00.html
More coverage of the imminent removal of the Kotel ramp:
http://tinyurl.com/os3yy (JPost)
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Reconstructing the ancient Greek chorus:
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1813964,00.html
Recreating Roman cosmetics:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/5129102.stm
There's going to be Latin news bulletins from the European
Union:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,,1812166,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/nxmzq (IOL)
Review of the Loeb Classical Library Reader:
http://tinyurl.com/znz9l (Weekly Standard)
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Archaeology in Europe Blog:
http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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What some Tang Dynasty porcelain drums are revealing:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-07/03/content_4788172.htm
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A mystery Bison 'bone bed' in Nebraska:
http://tinyurl.com/e6rj7 (RMN)
A 'mystery graveyard' is rediscovered in Boston:
http://tinyurl.com/j2sgo (Globe)
http://tinyurl.com/kkuzy (Telegram)
Interesting OpEd piece on Devil's Island:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/03/opinion/03burrows.html
... and one on Valley Forge:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/03/opinion/03dobrzynski.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Ancient medical stuff:
http://tinyurl.com/nfghz (Kathimerini)
Stephen Fry's speech on why folks should study history:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1815961,00.html
That big storm that hit Washington D.C. (and environs) claimed
as a casualty one of the trees depicted on the US twenty
dollar bill:
http://www.nbc10.com/news/9427842/detail.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Troy:
http://tinyurl.com/ljyc4 (SMH)
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Dogs in Art:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/arts/design/07dogs.html
A terracotta army may soon be in the UK:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5140414.stm
The American University in Beirut's museum is getting a facelift:
http://tinyurl.com/rhwqj (Daily Star)
Interesting book auction in Edinburgh:
http://living.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=976602006
[adapted with permission from the full-version of
explorator 9.11]
2. Yair Davidiy: Preliminary Remarks to "Remember Dresden"
by Eugene Narrett
The next item (no.3 below) is a worth-reading piece
by Prof. Eugene Narrett.
It brings out a very valid point: If any other nation was in the same situation as Israel they would most likely
react ten or a hundred times more strongly and take very very vigorous steps against the Arabs who wish to destroy them. Protests against Israel on this matter are hypocritical.
Nevertheless, the article also exhibits faults in Israeli and Jewish "right-wing" historical thinking
that are lamentable:
a. Germany in WW11 was a formidable and dangerous enemy. The Jews before everybody else should be aware of that.
Frederick Taylor In "Dresden" (2005) shows that the city of Dresden produced military and industrial goods used in the German war effort and had an infra-structure of potential importance to the Germans for use against advancing Russian armies from the east. Russia was an ally of Britain and the USA therefore the Allies were justified in bombing Dresden. The destruction of German civilians did produce military advantages and in light of the situation was justified.
It is bad enough that Jews cry over casualties amongst the Palestinians but for Germans in WW11??
b. Underestimating the German determination in WW11 and the attitude of most host populations in Eastern Europe
has led certain Jewish writers to imagine that significantly more Jews could have been saved than in fact were.
Read "The Myth of Rescue" by William D. Rubinstein (1997).
By exaggerating British "complicity" with the deaths of Jews in WW11 the guilt of they
who actually did the killing is "spread thinner".
c. The British White Paper of 1939 limited Jewish immigration to Palestine
to 75,000 for the first five years and would later be contingent on Arab consent.
It was a wicked piece of work deserving thorough excoriation.
Nevertheless under the circumstances one cannot be certain that any other authority would have acted much differently. The number of Jews who could have been saved if it was not for this piece of work
may (or may not) number in the thousands but one cannot say that their deaths were a deliberate
outcome of the adopted policy.
It was a wicked mistake but other mistakes were also made.
In my opinion the recent Oslo Peace "Agreement" (1993) was just as wicked.
d. The article below says, "the Germans had no intentions of exterminating the British".
This may not be exactly the case, read The Prologue in "The Tribes" by Yair Davidiy.
The Germans and their friends did indeed have intention of exterminating the Jews/
Elements existed in Britain that did not want to allow it and were prepared to do whatever it
took to prevent it which meant fighting a war including bombing places like Dresden.
Go lament for Dresden if you will. We will not.
3. Eugene Narrett: "Remember Dresden"
Arab Casualties? Remember Dresden: End of Story, , EN
by Prof. Eugene Narrett
9 July 2006
http://www.freeman.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/301-Arab-Casualties-Remember-Dresden-End-of-Story.html
Stopping for gasoline this evening (after taking out another mortgage to finance the trip to the grocery store, gas and food), while paying I heard a female BBC newsperson nattering an Israeli official of some sort about the deaths of some "Palestinians" in Gaza. The poor fellow was sputtering, straining for justifications without straying from the corral of leftist, 'peace process' categories of thought and word which send Israel to the incinerator every time.
Rubbish and damnation ! Especially when talking to a Brit about collateral damage during war (and that's wh