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Jerusalem News-814
Jerusalem News-814
27 Tishrei 5768, 26th October 2008
Contents:
1. Edward
Bradbrooke:
US Election Doubts
2. Swedes relocate West Bank firm to within Green Line
3. The shocking video Barack
Obama
does not want you to see!!
4. New York Times on Jewish visit to Joseph's tomb
5. Thomas Gray: Sarah Palin
Not so Clear
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1. Edward
Bradbrooke:
US Election Doubts
re Jerusalem News 813
http://britam.org/jerusalem/jerusalem813.html#David
#3. David Tempelhoff: Sarah Palin May Yet Become President!
From: Edward Bradbrooke <rabbikimchi@hotmail.com>
About the comments of Sarah Palin becoming the U.S. President if John McCain
gets in, well, that is a possibility. I know that I was emailed yesterday
concerning whether or not Barack Obama has any legitimate Right to be a
Candidate in that he failed to answer the Courts as to his Birth Place being in
the U.S. or in Kenya.
If Obama was born in Kenya, then he is ineligible automatically to become U.S.
President due to what is written in the United States Constitution.
You have to born in any one of the several States to be eligible. You cannot be
naturalized as an immigrant.
It is also going to be interesting to see if there will be vote rigging with the
Diebold Machines. They have been manipulated, and there has been testimony
before Congress about this. They can be manipulated, regardless of how the
electorate vote.
2. Swedes relocate West Bank firm to
within Green Line
From: imra@netvision.net.il
Swedes relocate West Bank firm to within Green Line
Tovah Lazaroff , THE JERUSALEM POST Oct. 23, 2008
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1222017612406&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
In an unusual situation for the West Bank's Barkan Industrial Park, which so
far has largely escaped the pressure of international boycotts, a
Swedish-based locksmith company that operates a factory there announced this
week that it was relocating to within the Green Line for political reasons.
"We're leaving because [the industrial park] is in the West Bank," Ann
Holmberg, spokeswoman for the Assa Abloy company, told The Jerusalem Post by
phone from Sweden on Thursday.
Assa Abloy, which acquired the Yavneh-based firm Mul-T-Lock in 2000, also
purchased a subsidiary plant at that time in the Barkan Industrial Park,
which is located more than 10 kilometers over the Green Line, near Ariel.
The company, Holmberg said, was remiss in not understanding the significance
of the location until last month, when the point was hammered home by a
report issued jointly by the Church of Sweden, aid group Diakonia, and
SwedWatch, a nonprofit group that monitors the conduct of Swedish
businesses.
The report, Holmberg said, accused the company of acting in an "unethical"
manner and of "violating international law" by having a subsidiary in the
West Bank.
The report itself listed a number of international laws it believed the
company had broken.
It stated that "businessmen and -women may either be found directly liable
for the commission of crimes against international law, or they may be found
to have assisted others in the commission of a crime."
A contrite Holmberg said, "We are very sorry that we did not notice it
before, but we did not understand that we might be violating international
law."
In a statement Tuesday, the company said, "Assa Abloy can only in this
context regret that the inappropriateness has not been noted internally,
during the eight years of ownership, of having a production unit on the West
Bank."
Representatives of Diakonia in Israel did not want to comment on the issue.
But Adam Keller of the Israeli left-wing group Gush Shalom said he believed
other companies in Barkan were considering leaving. International pressure
makes it hard for these companies to conduct business outside of Israel, he
said.
Just a few months ago, he added, Barkan Wineries left as well.
Still, Assa Abloy remains one of the few to do so based on such a public
statement of ethical consideration. The factory, which was first opened
there in 1984, employs 100 people.
Gershon Mesika, head of the Samaria Regional Council, which operates the
Barkan industrial site, said that the move did not concern him, because
demand to conduct business in the park - which is located on 1,400 dunams
and is home to 120 businesses - was so high that there was a waiting list of
30 companies that wanted to move in.
His spokesman David Ha'ivri said the park itself was in the process of
rezoning so it could expand by another 100 dunams.
The businesses themselves are an important source of employment for both
Israelis and Palestinians in the area, Ha'ivri said, noting that out of the
6,000 workers in the park, some 3,500 are Palestinians - many of whom live
nearby and who could not attain work permits for businesses over the Green
Line.
"If the settlements and the factories were not here, these 3,500
Palestinians would not have a place to work," said Ha'ivri.
In this park, he added, "Jews are Arabs are working together, and this is
the true meaning of coexistence." He blamed the European Union for the move
and said, "It is unfortunate that the policy of the European Union is
forcing successful factories out of the Barkan area. They are not able to
deter the popular demand for more factories."
Ariel Mayor Ran Nachman, who created the park 27 years ago, said it was
outrageous that a company, particularly a European-based one, was leaving
for political reasons.
When the Nazis herded Jews into the gas chambers, Nachman said, "Sweden was
neutral and did nothing. Sixty-five years later, nothing has changed. It is
the same Europe and the same anti-Semitism."
The Israeli left-wing groups that work with them, such as Gush Shalom, are
even worse, Nachman said, adding that if one goes back to ancient times, the
Bible doesn't speak of Palestinians, but it does state that this is the
"promised land of the Jewish people."
He declared that when "Gush Shalom dies and disappears," the Barkan Park
will still be here.
AP contributed to this report.
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IMRA - Independent Media Review and Analysis
Website: www.imra.org.il
3. The shocking video
Barack
Obama
does not want you to see!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prhnc2fxAzg&feature=related
Brit-Am Comment:
Some of the criticism against BO seems a little strained at times.
Nevertheless if a white candidate had associated with so many anti-black Racist
organizations and
individuals as Obama has with anti-white and anti-Jewish ones he would never
have had his candidacy even considered!
4. New York Times on Jewish visit to
Joseph's tomb
forwarded by David Ha'ivri
<haivri@gmail.com>
http://yeshuv.org/mailman/listinfo/update_yeshuv.org
New York Times October 24, 2008
Click here to see with photos
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/world/middleeast/24tomb.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Pilgrimage to Roots of Faith and Strife
By ISABEL KERSHNER
NABLUS, West Bank? They came in waves, ardent Jewish settlers, religious women
from central Israel, black-clad followers of Hasidic courts and groups of
teenage boys and girls, almost a thousand of them in all.
Crammed into a dozen buses and escorted by the Israeli military, the Jewish
pilgrims slid quietly along deserted streets throughout the early hours of a
recent morning while the residents of this Palestinian city, a militant
stronghold ruled until recently by armed gangs, slept in their beds.
The destination was the holy place known as Joseph's Tomb, a tiny half-derelict
stone compound in the heart of a residential district that many Jews believe is
the final burial place of the son of Jacob, the biblical patriarch.
The first group arrived around midnight. Rushing through the darkness into the
tomb, they crowded around the rough mound of the grave and started reciting
Psalms by the glow of their cellphones, not waiting for the portable generator
to power up a crude fluorescent light.
They were praying to be infused with some of the righteousness of Joseph, as
well as to be able to return. A gaping hole in the domed, charred roof of the
tomb left it partly open to the sky, a reminder of the turmoil of the recent
past.
The Palestinians seek Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and full control
over cities like this one. But these religious Jews, spurred on by mystical
fervor and the local Jewish settler leadership, are strengthening their bond.
To them this is not Nablus, one of the largest Palestinian cities, with a
population of more than 120,000, but the site of the ancient biblical city of
Shechem. The tomb, they believe, sits on the parcel of ground that Jacob bought
for a hundred pieces of silver, according to Joshua 24:32, an inheritance of the
children of Joseph, meaning that its ownership is not in doubt.
Here, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is boiled down to its very essence of
competing territorial, national and religious claims. The renewed focus on what
the Jewish devotees call the pull or power of Joseph appears to reflect a wider
trend: a move by the settler movement at large away from tired security
arguments and a return to its fundamental raison d' ?re ? the religious
conviction that this land is thee Jews' historical birthright and is not up for
grabs.
"We are as connected to this place as we are to our patriarchs in Hebron," said
Malachi Levinger, a son of Rabbi Moshe Levinger, who founded the first Jewish
settlement in that city after the 1967 war. The younger Mr. Levinger had come to
the tomb with his wife and three small daughters at 2 a.m.
By day, Nablus is the realm of the Palestinian police, who have largely managed
in recent months to restore law and order and to keep the gunmen off the
streets. By night the police melt away to avoid encounters with the Israeli
forces that still carry out frequent raids.
Under the Israeli-Palestinian agreements of the mid-1990s known as the Oslo
accords, Israel withdrew from the Palestinian cities but was assured free access
to Jewish holy sites. The army turned Joseph's Tomb into a fortified post, and a
small yeshiva continued to operate there.
But the tomb became a frequent flash point. In 1996, six Israeli soldiers were
killed there in a wave of riots by the Palestinian police and militants
throughout the West Bank. The second Palestinian uprising broke out in September
2000, and the tomb was the scene of a battle in which 18 Palestinians and an
Israeli border policeman were killed; the policeman was left to bleed to death
inside. (The settlers note pointedly that the family name of the Israeli, a
Druse, was Yusef, Arabic for Joseph.)
To avoid further friction, the Israeli prime minister at the time, Ehud Barak,
ordered the army to vacate the tomb and hand it over to the protection of the
Palestinian police.
Some declared the tomb an Islamic holy site and painted the dome green; Joseph
is considered a prophet in Islam, and his story is related extensively in the
Koran. Others believe that the compound is actually the tomb of a Muslim sheik
also called Yusef.
Hours after the handover, however, a Palestinian mob ransacked the structure,
smashing the dome with pickaxes and setting the compound on fire.
Since then, according to the settlers, the Palestinians have continued to
desecrate the tomb, using it as a local garbage dump and sometimes burning tires
inside. Though the Palestinian authorities recently cleaned up the tomb, an
acrid smell hung in the air, and the walls and floor remained covered in soot.
Since Israel forfeited the site in 2000, Jewish pilgrims, particularly Breslov
Hasidim, have visited sporadically, sometimes stealing into Nablus alone in the
dark.
The local settlers say they are now working on establishing a routine. Since the
beginning of the year, Gershon Mesika, the newly elected mayor of the Samaria
Council, which represents settlers in the northern West Bank, has made the
resumption of regular visits a priority, coordinating with the army to organize
entries at least once a month.
"Our hold on Joseph's Tomb strengthens our hold on the whole country," said Eli
Rosenfeld, an employee of the council and a former administrator of the yeshiva
at the tomb.
Now their goal is to make the visits weekly, then to re-establish the kind of
permanent presence that existed before 2000 so that the pilgrims will no longer
have to come, as Mr. Mesika put it, "like thieves in the night."
The recent nighttime pilgrimage, during the Jewish festival of Sukkot, had been
organized with precision and was shrouded in secrecy until the last minute,
according to a Samaria Council spokesman, David Ha'ivri, not least to avoid
hundreds of would-be worshipers' just showing up.
The operation began just before midnight, as the leaders of the regional council
of Samaria, which takes the biblical name for the northern West Bank, gathered
at a nearby army base. Boarding a bulletproof minibus, they headed for Nablus.
The bus was whisked through a military checkpoint into the city, where the army
had secured the tomb in advance and military vehicles were stationed at every
junction along the route.
Over the course of the night the buses came and went in convoys according to a
tightly organized schedule, bearing pilgrims from the Hebron area, Jerusalem and
locations all over Israel. Some of them said they had been on a waiting list for
months.
A few of the women cradled babies and toddlers in their arms. Some of the
long-skirted teenage girls prayed so intensely that they wept; one rubbed ashes
into the palm of her hand.
Growing numbers of soldiers in battle gear joined the worshipers, swept up by
the spiritual aura as tea lights flickered on the grave.
As Karlin and Breslov Hasidim surged into the compound, many in fur hats and
black silk coats, they spoke excitedly in Yiddish and photographed one another
with their cellphones in the sunken courtyard where a mulberry tree once grew.
"I come to Joseph, and I feel new," said one of them, Moshe Tanzer, 22.
In a side chamber that used to house the yeshiva, a lone clarinetist played
klezmer music and men sang and danced in circles. Outside, in a hastily erected
sukkah, a temporary dwelling for the holiday, pilgrims feasted on sweet and
spicy kugel and orange squash.
For those present it was as if the tomb, like Joseph, betrayed by his jealous
brothers and sold into slavery in Egypt, had been temporarily redeemed.
5. Thomas Gray: Sarah
Palin
Not so Clear
From: Thomas Gray <todagray@gmail.com>
re Jerusalem News 813
http://britam.org/jerusalem/jerusalem813.html#David
With reference to Tempelhoff's comments: Isaiah 3:12 indicates that when
children or women rule Israel it is not good. I consider that to still be
valid.
Also, Sarah Palin might be fond of Israel, but she stated clearly and explicitly
in her debate that "The two-state solution is the solution " I said earlier
that we should never dare vote for anyone who is in favor of giving Israel's
land away, and that is what "two-state solution" means. It is a principal
reason why the U.S. is in the dire straits it is. I stick by my statement.
Don't vote for Palin, no matter who she is running against. We are not
responsible for how others vote, and who else they might be voting for, or who
might win. We will answer to God for what we approved.
Thomas Gray.
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