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Jerusalem News 826
26 December 2008 29 Kislev 5769
Contents:
1. Syrian Jews in USA Denounce Hebron
Eviction
2. U.S. aviator who helped Israel in 1948 pardoned
3. Shoula
Horing:
Islamic indoctrination to hate at work in Mumbai,
Mideast
1. Syrian Jews in USA Denounce Hebron
Eviction
From: Hebron <hebron@hebron.com>
Syrian Jews Denounce Hebron Eviction
Michael Orbach - The Forward
December 25, 2008
Reclusive Syrian Jews Denounce Hebron Eviction
By Michael Orbach
Wed. Dec 24, 2008
http://www.forward.com/articles/14797/
The recent eviction of Israeli Jewish settlers from a contested building in
Hebron has provoked a loud and angry retort from the usually publicity-shy
Syrian Jewish community of Brooklyn.
In a December 17 gathering that attracted some 300 Syrian Jews, including the
community's leading rabbis, speakers rallied around one of their own: a local
women's shoe wholesaler named Morris Abraham, who has played an unlikely role in
the Hebron controversy.
"We have created a nation of suicide peacemakers," Abraham told the crowd
gathered at Congregation Ahaba Ve Ahva, off Ocean
Parkway, referring to the government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and its
supporters. Repeatedly, Abraham asserted his claim to have purchased the Hebron
building from a local Palestinian.
It is Abraham's claim that now lies at the center of the controversy. And the
government's treatment of his claim appears to have produced this rare public
outcry from his insular community - one of the quietest, most conservative and
wealthiest in New York.
"Morris is a very popular person in our community," explained Charles Dweck, a
Brooklyn Syrian Jew who, like Abraham, works as a wholesaler.
The Syrians' harsh reaction could have implications for elections scheduled in
Israel this February. The community is known as an important source of political
contributors for hawkish Israeli political parties, as well as to Shas, a
Sephardic Orthodox party.
Abraham, who is 40, says that together with his father, he bought the contested
property in Hebron, called the House of Peace by Israeli West Bank settler
supporters, through a middleman in 2004 for, he says, $1 million. Other reports
in the press cite a price of $700,000.
The deal was midwifed by the Hebron Fund, a Brooklyn-based group that provides
financial aid to Israeli settlers in Hebron. Its executive, Yossi Baumol, also
spoke at the rally.
With Israeli settlers in Hebron asserting a right of permanent Jewish rule over
the overwhelmingly Palestinian city, in part through land acquisitions,
Palestinians who sell properties to Jews face the possibility of execution by
other Palestinians. After settlers moved into the Hebron site in 2007, its
Palestinian owner went to court in Israel, claiming the alleged sale was
fraudulent. Abraham presents a video and documents that purport to confirm his
purchase.
Last month, Israel's Supreme Court gave the government custody of the property,
pending resolution of this suit. And on December 4, Israeli security forces
evicted the settlers and took control of it. The evicted settlers proceeded to
riot and commit arson against the town's Palestinian residents as the security
forces stood by, an event Olmert condemned as "a pogrom." Seventeen Palestinians
were reported injured.
Abraham, an unpretentious man with a black velvet kipa and mild Brooklyn accent,
told the audience at the synagogue, "Because there were young rioters doesn't
mean the government can take land away that was bought legally."
Abraham said he was motivated to purchase the Hebron property as a religious
Jew. According to the Hebrew Bible, the ancient city was King David's original
capital before he moved it to Jerusalem. Hebron is also home to the Cave of the
Patriarchs, a site holy to Jews and Muslims, where Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and
their wives are said to be buried.
Abraham claimed a personal connection to the city, as well. He said his
grandfather lived there and escaped a 1930 massacre by Arab residents that
killed 68 Jews, many of them members of Hebron's long-settled Sephardic
community. He said the alleged purchase was also a business investment; the
40,000-square-foot property was to be renovated to fit 30 apartments to be
rented for $300 to $500 per month each, he said.
In a community that reveres its rabbis' words as holy writ, close to 20
community rabbis and leaders attended the rally, most notably Syrian Chief Rabbi
Saul Kassin.
The atmosphere was rife with disgust for what speakers declared was the
anti-religious nature of the government. Parallels were drawn between the fight
for the Hebron property and the Soviet Jewry struggle.
"We are more into business than politics," said Abraham Dayan, a silver haired
gentleman with a heavy accent whose wife waited for him in a blue BMW as he
discussed the quiet nature of the Syrian community. "But we are very Zionistic,
one of the most in the world. [The community] has taken to heart what the
government did and considers it unjust vis- -vis religion and Judaism."
2. U.S. aviator who helped Israel in
1948 pardoned
From: shieldofdavid@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [shieldofdavid] Digest Number 935
U.S. aviator who helped Israel pardoned
Posted by: "mechel samberg" mechelsamberg2@yahoo.com mechelsamberg2
Wed Dec 24, 2008 1:05 pm (PST)
http://www.arcamax.com/newsheadlines/s-467331-737538
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- A U.S. aviator who helped fighters in their struggle for a
Jewish state in Palestine was posthumously pardoned by U.S. President George
Bush, officials said.
Charlie Winters, a Boston-born Protestant businessman who died in 1984, was
prosecuted in 1948 for selling decommissioned B-17 bombers to the paramilitary
Haganah Jewish resistance group in Palestine, earning him a conviction for
violating the Neutrality Act, The Washington Post reported.
Hailed as a hero in Israel since then, Winters was among the holiday list of 19
pardons issued Tuesday by Bush, the newspaper said.
"I'm elated," Winters's son, Jimmy, of Miami, told the Post. "This is an example
of a man who did something for his friends that he thought was the right thing
to do and it had nothing to do with race or religion or money."
Charlie Winters died at age 71 and is buried in a Christian cemetery in
Jerusalem. He and two other Americans were prosecuted for aiding the Jewish
resistance in its fight against Arab League nations following the withdrawal of
British forces from Palestine in 1948, the Post said.
He served 18 months in prison.
3.
Shoula
Horing:
Islamic indoctrination to hate at work in Mumbai,
Mideast
From: 1uzi@comcast.net
Islamic Indoctrination of Hate Fulfilled in Mjumbai, & Middle East
Forwarded by:
John Stembridge
Islamic indoctrination to hate at work
in Mumbai, Mideast
Shoula
Horing
- Dec 12, 2008
Kansas City Jewish Chronicle
Some of you still think that peace is possible for Israel in the Middle East.
Some of you still believe that if Israel would only engage with or negotiate
with its Arab enemies, there is chance of peace. Some of you argue that the
roots of the conflict and the anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish terrorism and hatred
are the so-called occupation, the settlements, the zealot settlers, the road
blocks, poverty and a sense of humiliation and hopelessness among the Arabs,
especially the Palestinians.
Some of you still believe that if Israel would only withdraw from the so-called
occupied territories to the 1967 borders, and a Palestinian state with Jerusalem
as a capital would be established, and the Golan Heights would be given away to
the Syrians, Israel would at last live in peace with its neighbors.
But the targeting in Mumbai of the Chabad House and the vicious torture and the
murder of the Jewish and Israeli hostages should remind us that the root of the
conflict is extreme Muslim indoctrination to jihad, violence and hate against
Jews.
There is no chance for any true peace in the Middle East for many years to come
when several generations of young Arabs and Muslims have already been lost
through daily brainwashing to the dark side of civilization, and nothing Israel
or the U.S. will do can bring them back. Similar to Nazism, the central theme of
their brainwashing is irrational and obsessive hatred of Jews.
Otherwise how can you explain the targeting of Jews in Mumbai, a community of
4,000 Jews in a city of 17 million Indians?
The lone Islamist Pakistani terrorist who was captured during the attack
reportedly told his Indian interrogators that the attack at the Chabad House and
the killing of the rabbi, his wife and any other Jews present were part of a
plan decided a year earlier. His group came largely from rural, southern
Pakistan, and therefore it is unlikely that any of them had even encountered a
Jew, or knew anyone else who had, before Nov. 26.
Why would a group of Islamist terrorists from Pakistan who hate India and want
it to give up control of Indian Kashmir send two of its 10 terrorists, 20
percent of its force, to kill the rabbi and any Jews with him?
Why would Pakistani terrorists expend so much effort to find the main Jewish
center in Mumbai? in a city and country that is essentially devoid of Jews?
instead of having a grand shootout in the city center? With all their hatred for
Hindus and Christians, why did they not attack a Hindu temple or a church and
probably kill many more?
Historic parallels
For the Islamists, as for the Nazis, the destruction of the Jews and the Jewish
state is central to their ideology and indoctrination of hate.
This brings to mind the historic discussion as to why Hitler weakened the Nazi
war machine by diverting so much time, money and manpower in order to murder
every Jewish man, woman and child in every country the Nazis occupied. Why, even
on the verge of defeat, was the Nazis? main concern hastening the extermination
of the Jews?
And, in a final, grisly parallel with the Nazis, for the Islamist terrorists in
Mumbai, killing Jews was not enough. They needed to torture them first. One
doctor told the Indian News Web site Rediff.com, ?It was so bad that I do not
want to go over the details even in my head again.?
So, many of you me often ask me, what is my solution to the conflict?
I have never understood why people believe that every conflict can be solved
diplomatically. Many attempts by Israel to find a diplomatic solution have
caused further violence and bloodshed. The 1993 Oslo agreement and the Camp
David accords of 2000 led to more than 5,000 fatalities and injuries to
Israelis. Sometimes, the only solution against evil is a military one, just as
it was the only solution against Nazism.
Making Israel and the United States stronger than ever militarily, and hunting
down and targeting the terrorists and their sponsors is the solution.
Cease-fires and negotiations are used by enemies as a delaying tactic and a
period for renewed military buildups and training.
In the Middle East, negotiations and territorial withdrawals are perceived as
appeasement and weakness and as a motivation to restart violence.
How much more bloodshed is necessary for people to understand that even if
Israel gave away all territory demanded and even went further and limited its
territory only to the city of Tel Aviv, there would still not be peace, but a
jumpstart and invitation for another war?
Shoula Romano Horing is an Israeli, an attorney, a public speaker and radio
host. E-mail her at: Shoula1@aol.com.
John Stembridge
545 N. E. 125 St.
North Miami, Fl. 33161
305-893-0800
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