He Ru Follow us: Make a7 your Homepage
      Free Daily Israel Report

      Arutz 7 Most Read Stories

      The Tamar Yonah Show
      by Tamar Yonah
      A biting & sometimes humorous analysis of current events, Israeli politics & the Jewish World.
      Email Me
      Subscribe to this blog’s RSS feed



      NEW LIVE SHOW HOURS! 

      (Eastern / New York time)

      Sundays:        8am

      Tuesdays:      12 noon

      Wednesdays: 12 noon


      Tamar Yonah is one of Israel's most popular English-speaking radio show hosts. She made Aliyah from Southern California and after serving in the Israeli army began a prolific career in radio, including production, news and program development. She was the original creator and producer of 'The Aliyah Show' and still works whenever she can in that field. Tamar is a political activist, wife and mother residing in Judea and Samaria and currently hosts the top-rated shows of The Weekend Edition & The Tamar Yonah Show. Her award winning blog covers current events, religion, politics and anything else that's on her mind.

      Join Tamar on TWITTER !


      Kislev 8, 5771, 11/15/2010

      The Only Peace Plan That Will Work

      by Tamar Yonah


      Peace is not a product. It's not something that you 'make'. It's a result, an outcome, of proper behavior and actions.
      Say goodbye to the failure of the 'Land for Peace' formula which has never, ever worked.  Say goodbye to the school of 'appeasement'.  These actions are harmful to the safety and well being of the world.

      Peace is not a product.  It's not something that you 'make'.  It's a result, an outcome, of proper behavior and actions.
       
      So how does one enable a more peaceful and safer world?  'Righteousness and justice' must be pursued in this world.  It's contained in the basic 7 laws of Noah.  And in instilling these efforts to practice justice and righteousness, the fruits of these actions will result in peace.  If we open our Tanach (the Bible) we will see that our prophet Isaiah tells us how to usher in peace. 

      Therefore, in an attempt to help our leaders with a real working peace plan, I am going to take excerpts from a blog I wrote over three years ago, and give the proper solution for ending the violence and ushering in a real honest to goodness peace.  It is called, "The Isaiah Plan". 

      This plan will not only stop terrorism from spreading, but will enable a real peace in Israel as well as the whole world.  However, before I present the Isaiah Plan, let me first show you all the past plans that have not worked, so you will understand that beating the same formula of 'land for peace' onto Israel, is not the path to continue taking.  We must get off this route, and change highways.  No more 'road maps' formulated by entities that are hositle to Israel.

      Each peace plan that has been shoved down the throats of the Israeli people in the last 30 years by the West and the Arab states has failed, and they have all been based on the 'land for peace' formula ...to weaken Israel.  Here are some of the latest.  All have utterly failed and literally 'bled' Israel.

      The Camp David Accords (1978)
      The Reagan Peace Plan (September 1, 1982)

       
      The Madrid Conference of 1991

      The Oslo Accords (1993)
      The Wye River Memorandum (October 23, 1998)
      The Clinton Peace Plan (December 23, 2000)
      The Mitchell Commission (Plan) ( October 17, 2000 )
      The Tenet Plan (June 10, 2001)
      The Camp David 2000 Summit (2000)
      The Taba summit (January, 2001)
      The Zinni Plan (March 26, 2002)
      The Elon Peace Plan (2002)
      The Arab Peace Initiative (March 28, 2002)
      The 2002 Nusseibeh-Ayalon Principles
      The People's Voice (July 27, 2002)
      The March 2002 Saudi Peace Initiative


      The Geneva Accords (October 20, 2003)
      The Sharm el-Sheikh Summit of 2005 (February 8, 2005)
      The 2006 Franco-Italian-Spanish Middle East Peace Plan
      The Binational solution
      Two-state solution
      The Saudi peace proposal
      The Red Sea Summit
      The Road map....

      Did you skip over reading all those peace plans and summits? No fair. Read them each, and concentrate on them. We bled and paid a high price for each one of those 'solutions for peace'.

      What Do We Do Now?
      Isaiah 32:17: "The product of righteousness shall bring peace; and the effect of righteousness, quiet and security forever."


      What we should be saying to the world is that we appreciate them wanting to make peace in the region, but they've gotten nowhere, except for weakening Israel and emboldening the Moslem Arab countries and terrorists. Thanks, but no thanks. We'll handle it from here on out.

      So what then will actually, truly, bring peace to this region, as well as prevent terror attacks across the world? 
      Our great prophet, Isaiah told us in his book in chapter 32:17: "The product of righteousness shall bring peace; and the effect of righteousness, quiet and security forever." 

      Out of the mouth of a prophet.  Out there for all of us to read in black and white. THE peace plan we should be pursuing. 

      Israel must stop with all these Western/Arab peace plans that weaken her and encourage more terrorism. Israel should be confident that we, the people who are destined to be a light unto the nations, have our own vast plethora of knowledge to glean from.  G-d tells us through the Torah and our prophets, the right way to act. 

      Isaiah 32:17: "The product of righteousness shall bring peace; and the effect of righteousness, quiet and security forever."  

      Our leaders need to be strong and have faith and pursue, not 'peace', but our enemies.

      Israel must crush the terrorist infrastructure, not contain it.

      Israel must bring the Arab nations who conspire against her to their knees until THEY beg Israel for peace, and not the other way around.

      The only way to end this decades old war, is to finally WIN it, not tolerate it or 'contain' it.

      The corrupt Palestinian Authority has forfeited its right to exist. It has encouraged, born, fostered, and sponsored terrorism. It has violated it's commitments it made in every peace treaty signed.  It has refused to stop their violence and terror that they agreed to stop in the Oslo Accords.

      The Israeli government must mete out justice to those Arab terrorists and leaders who have spilled it's people's blood.  It must not tolerate the free movement of those Arab leaders who hold our soldiers captive, and to all the Arab and Moslem nations who conspire against us with threats of annihilation.

      The Importance of a 'Deterrent Factor'

      'Justice' must be pursued, for their crimes of violence, kidnapping, sky-jacking, and homicides. Any Arab supporting or belonging to a terrorist group should be rounded up and arrested, tried, and punished.  They should then be expelled from the Land. Those who took any part in kidnapping, bombing, or the intent to murder, should face the death penalty.  Swift and effective justice is a deterrent that will avoid the growth of others wanting to be recruited into terrorist groups.

      Terrorists with blood on their hands should not be incarcerated waiting for their terrorist groups to kidnap soldiers in hopes of a prisoner exchange.  The government should return the terrorists -if at all- in boxes, not boarding busses with the 'v' for victory sign on their hands and a triumphant smile on their faces that they beat justice.

      There MUST be a consequence, a swift and painful one, to those who choose to enter the terrorist ranks.  We need to instill a great fear into any little boy or youth that would even THINK of joining the terrorists.  The punishment of doing so must be serious and strong, not lenient and liberal.  Society's safety is at stake, and a de-stabilization of peace could occur, leading to more suffering for innocents.

      Isaiah 32:17: "The product of righteousness shall bring peace; and the effect of righteousness, quiet and security forever."


      The Head of the Snake Must Also Be Crushed.

      The security forces and police need to bring PA leader Mahmoud Abbas to justice for his terrorist past, his involvement in the terrorist massacre of our young athletes in the 1972 Munich Olympics, as well as Holocaust denial. Abbas wrote his Ph.D. dissertation, later published as a book, by denying the Holocaust.  That is a universal crime.  Why is this man walking down red carpets and being treated as a respected bona fide leader, when his Palestinian Authority can't even keep their own streets clean or provide proper services for their population?  Where are all the millions of dollars in donations by the West to help build this 'authority' to provide for these basic services? What happened to the money?  Why is there little or no accounting for it?   ...This is the corrupt entity that the West wants to grant a state to, at the detriment of Israel and the safety of the West itself?

      We need to also bring to justice any of our own leaders who have become corrupted, accepted bribes, armed our enemies, and released convicted terrorists. To these politicians who have sold themselves out, ...well, as an acquaintance of mine says, "They give 'working gals' a bad name".  It is sadly joked about that the Knesset today is 'the biggest brothel in Israel'.  By pursuing justice and righteousness, the world will be a better place, a safer place, and thus, a peaceful place.

      Isaiah 32:17: "The product of righteousness shall bring peace; and the effect of righteousness, quiet and security forever."

      The 'Isaiah Plan' is not the pursuit of appeasement, but of righteousness and justice. 

      Peace shall be the FRUIT of righteousness - FOREVER.  

      Got it?
      FOREVER.

      'The time for justice is always ...right NOW.'







      Cheshvan 26, 5771, 11/3/2010

      The 2 Year Old Terror(ist)

      by Tamar Yonah

      The Two Year Old Terror (ist)

      Ha ha, sorry for my snicker, but watch this video.  It is fun to watch for a couple of different reasons...

      1)  This 2 year old is pretty impressive that he can identify all the capitals of the middle east, and even some in Africa and in the West.
            (And it will be fun to test yourself at the same time and see if you can win the kid in naming capital cities.  I bet you never even heard of some of these Arabic/Muslim countries.)

      2)  This Arab father tries to show off his kid's knowledge ...and his training for hating Israel (you will see this in the video where he says what the capital of Palestine is (at 2:40 in) and at the end where he says what the capital of Israel is - surprise!!!.  Yet, at the same time that he wants to erase Israel as a country for the Jews, he also shows the rediculousness of legitimizing the need for yet another Arab Muslim state.  This we can see as his father has him recite the captials of over 20 Arab/Muslim countries.  
      Lebanon
      Egypt
      Jordan
      Syria
      Yemen
      Libya
      Sudan
      Morocco
      Tunisia
      Kuwait
      Algiers
      United Arab Emirates (UAE)
      Bahrain
      Qatar 
      Oman
      Mauritania (Islamic Republic of)
      Somalia
      Palestine  (Jeurslaem in Arabic is 'Al Quds')
      Djibouti 
      Comoros 
      Saudi (Arabia)
      Iran
      ...and Israel?
       
      Do the Arabs, and the world, really need another terror state?

      Bravo, Mr. Lebanese Jew-hating father... you have just proved that the Arabs who migrated to Israel [for jobs] have more than enough Arab & Muslim countries to return to.  
       
      Israel is the home of the Jewish People.  Jerusalem is a Jewish city, where OUR kings ruled.  You have never had one 'Palestinian' ruler here, not one king, not one president, not one prime minister.  There is no Palestine.  Or maybe we should state that in Arabic so your two year old can understand:  "Ma fish Falastin"  (there is no Palestine). 

      Surprisingly (or not) the Quran does not mention Jerusalem ONCE. Not even once!  
      Add to that the fact that the Muslims on the Temple Mount turn their backs to, and stick their tushies towards, their so called 'holy mosque' and face Mecca instead. 

      Even your own Quran states that the Holy Land belongs to the Jewish People: 
      Quran 5:21  God Gives the Holy Land to Israel

      "O my people, enter the holy land that GOD has decreed for you, and do not rebel, lest you become losers."


      I think this video is something that even a 2 year old terror (ist)? that you are raising, could understand.  Israel belongs to the Jews.  The Arabs here are usurpers, and if they don't want to live here in peace - they can go to several capitals in the world where their brothers speak their language and worship their same god. 
      'Ma fish Falastin' , There is no Palestine. 

       ... And by the way, southern Lebanon is Israel.  Lebanon only became an independent nation in 1943.  Lebanon's southern lands were given by the Creator to the tribes of Asher and Naftali.     ....We want them back.
       
       
       
       






      Cheshvan 23, 5771, 10/31/2010

      The End of His Career, or The Beginning?

      by Tamar Yonah

      Watch the video.  The Arabs accompanied by, or possibly instigated by left wing organizations come to make trouble with Jewish re-Settlers.  I write 're' settlers, because the Jewish People are 're' settling our land that we were thrown out of. I may add that even at the time of expulsion there remained a remnant of the Jewish people in Israel and there has always been a Jewish presence in the Land of Israel. Our kings ruled here, and there has never been an official Palestinian state here.  No Palestinian Kings, or Presidents or Prime Ministers ever ruled here.  The Jewish People were the only people who had a functioning and legal country here, and dare one say, long before Islam ever came to be created.

      The accompanying text to this video was as follows:

      "On 15 December 2009, settlers prevented Palestinian farmers from planting olive trees on the farmers land in Deir Nidham, north of Ramallah. Soldiers at the scene did nothing to prevent the harm to the Palestinians. Instead, they closed the area to all civilians, Palestinians and settlers."

      What 'harm' was done to the Arabs?  Do you think that Israelis would plan to 'davka' make trouble with the Arabs precisely when the Lefty organizations are there waiting?  Or perhaps, it was the other way around, that the left wing organizations went to instigate a planned confrontation with Israeli settlers?  Notice in the dialogue that the officer reminds the Arabs how just the other day they attacked Jews with molotov cocktails.

      I wonder if the Lefty organizations demanded this IDF officer's discharge?  Or will this young man have a future now in Politics like the newly famous brave young man named Daniel Pereg, the 16 year old boy from Los Angeles that faced off, alone, with an angry Arab crowd demonstrating in the streets and yelling "Free Palestine"?  

      There is a new generation of proud and brave Jews coming into the fray.

       
      What do you think of this young IDF officer?

        







      Cheshvan 11, 5771, 10/19/2010

      King Solomon vs. Christopher Columbus

      by Tamar Yonah

      Did King Solomon Discover America Way Before Columbus?
      Could it be that Jews were in the 'New World' long before the European settlers?  
      Historians and Biblical scholars say that Jews were indeed in the 'Americas' in Biblical times. 
      Biblical scripture records that King Solomon had a sophisticated navy which voyaged the world in exploration, looking for iron, gold and other materials to build Jerusalem and the Holy Temple.
        
      1Kings 9:26-28  "And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. 27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. 28 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon."  

      These naval fleets of King Solomon embarked on voyages that sometimes took 3 years before they returned to Israel, bringing back riches and exotic plants and wildlife. 
      Naval fleets of King Solomon embarked on voyages that sometimes took 3 years before they returned to Israel.

      1 Kings: 10:22 "For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram; once every three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks."
           
       
      Many ports, settlements and colonies were established in places all over the Mediterranean, North Africa, as well as Europe  -and the Americas!  Ancient Hebrew inscriptions of the Ten Commandments on the Los Lunas rock, and coins from ancient Israel that were found in the Ohio river basin lead some experts to believe that the first settlers to America were not the Pilgrims, but the Jews and Phoenicians.  The Ohio river was used as a trade line within the continent, which could explain the coins from the time of Bar Kochba, found there.

        
      Knowing this well traveled route to the 'new world', did some of the 10 tribes of the Northern Kingdom escape on ships to these distant lands to escape the Assyrian onslaught and subsequent exile? Did other Jews fleeing the Roman Empire escape to the New World as well?  Are ancient Jewish people the ancestors of some native American tribes like the Cherokee?

      "The story has been kept alive among our Cherokee people that the Sicarii who escaped from Masada, are some of our ancestors who managed to cross the water to this land, and later became known as Cherokees."
      There are many similarities to Judaism in some Native American tribes, specifically the Cherokee nation.  The Cherokees were monotheistic, believing in one G-d, as opposed to other Indian tribes who believed in several gods/spirits. Some of the words in the Cherokee's language are similar to Hebrew words of the same meaning, and the name of their G-d was similar to the Hebrew name of G-d.  The Cherokee Indians also celebrated their holidays akin to some Jewish holidays.  They also had one day a week of rest from work, and observed fasts.  They reportedly practiced circumcision, had a city of refuge for man-slayers, and they didn't eat the meat of the hollow of the thigh of an animal.  In addition, their appearance also hints of a possible Jewish ancestry; their 2 braids at the side of their head resembling long sidelocks (payot), the fringes on their clothes resembling TzitTzit (the 'ritual fringes' a Jewish man wears on his 4 cornered garment), and some Cherokees clearly had semitic facial features.
       
      Hebrew inscriptions on Los Lunas rock, the Bat Creek stone, ancient Jewish coins found in Ohio along the river basin, the Cherokee Indians, ....all point to some type of Jewish presence and influence, and that needs to be researched  more.
       
      Listen to this re-broadcast from 2007, as I interview author and historian, Steve Collins. Hear about the fascinating historical facts that few know, and explore the possibility that Jews arrived and settled in the New World, long before Columbus discovered America.







      Cheshvan 6, 5771, 10/14/2010

      GTA: Arab Style

      by Tamar Yonah

      While this isn't grand theft auto, it is 'Grand Theft Arabs'...
      If these Arab criminal youth aren't stealing cars, they're stoning them. Where are their parents?
      (More stoning of Arabs on Israeli cars here.)
      Notice the twisted (ouch!) leg on the youth by the headlight, and I think the kid upside down above the hood should do his break-dancing somewhere else.
      (I don't know who to credit for the picture, if anyone knows, please email me so I can credit him/her.)


      Comments are open to answer my question above:  Where are their parents?  I will start, you can finish....
      a) Their parents were at a Hamas meeting.
      b) Their parents were strapping a bomb vest onto their younger brother.
      c) Their parents were pulling out olive trees at a nearby Jewish settlment and blaming it on the Jews. 
      d) Their parents were setting a forest fire somewhere in Israel.
      e) All of the above
      f)  _____________   (Your turn, let's see some creativity here! Post your answers below.)