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      From the Hills of Efraim
      by Yisrael Medad
      This blog will be informative, highlight foibles, will be assertively contentious and funny and wryly satirical.
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      Yisrael Medad is a revenant resident of Shiloh, in the Hills of Efrayim north of Jerusalem.  He arrived in Israel with his wife, Batya, in 1970 and lived in the renewing Jewish Quarter, eventually moving to Shiloh in 1981. 

      Currently the Menachem Begin Center's Information Resource Director, he has previously been director of Israel's Media Watch, a Knesset aide to three Members of Knesset and a lecturer in Zionist History.  He assists the Yesha Council in it's contacts with the Foreign Media in a volunteer capacity, is active on behalf of Jewish rights on the Temple Mount and is involved in various Jewish and Zionist activist causes.  He contributes a Hebrew-language media column to Besheva and publishes op-eds in the Jerusalem Post and other periodicals.

      He also blogs at MyRightWord in English and, in Hebrew, at The Right Word.


      Nissan 1, 5768, 4/6/2008

      Doing Something, Reclaiming Our Land


      This morning, while leaving Shiloh, I spotted a poster announcing a "girls-only" group slated to help reclaim Jewish land.  I thought that odd and even suspected that it was one of these super moralistic styles.  Here's their poster:

                                

      Well, one never knows.

      At 7:30 PM, on my way home, I receive a phone call from Daniella Weiss and she invites me to speak to the girls who have settled in for the night "somewhere in Samaria".  I am picked up at 9 PM and a short while later, find myself talking to some 25 young ladies who proved themselves electricians by hooking themselves up to a nearby line to give themselves some light.

      I spoke for about 90 minutes on Shiloh's history, a bit of Gush Emunim reminisces and also my media monitoring work.  They then went off to eat spaghetti and I was driven home where Daniella filled bottles with water for the ladies.

      Here's the gang:-

                                         

       

       



      Adar Bet 26, 5768, 4/2/2008

      If Good Enough for Animals, What About Humans?


      Arutz 7 web site reported that an animal rights group is protesting a planned sacrifice of a goat in educational preparation for the Paschal Sacrifice.

      I guess we all have feelings one way of the other about animals and specifically I recall this group, "Let the Animal Live".  They were very worried about all the stray dogs and cats left behind in Gush Katif and even got special permission to go in after the expulsion to collect them.  People weren't their concern. 

      They should care about how our Muslim neighbors slaughter:

                                                  

      So, rereading the report I wondered: maybe someone should take an example from their activism and present a suit against Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barak, among others, who are experimenting not with the lives of animlas but with the lives of human beings by capitulating to Condi Rice's demands which are placing Israeli lives at stake.  Our personal security is being threateneded.



      Adar Bet 24, 5768, 3/31/2008

      Jewish Lives Saved


      Two Jewish lives, at least, were saved today.

      As Arutz 7 reported, an Arab attempted to stab two Jewish hitchhikers at the Shiloh junction.

      He didn't succeed.

      More here.

      Thank G-d for Jewish heroism, quick-thinking and being armed.



      Adar Bet 23, 5768, 3/30/2008

      Fitna




      Adar Bet 17, 5768, 3/24/2008

      Post-Shushan Purim Post


      Okay, we have Hamas and Fatah together again.  Was that a Purim "gifts to the poor"?

      We had Professor Yaron Ezrahi writing in Haaretz last Thursday that the "Israeli Right, similar to Hamas, extract great political profit from the cycle of terror attack and anti-terror attack, which unites the governments of Israel and the PA and silences the diplomatic process" (here, in Hebrew).

      We have Ehud Olmert

      What's left?

      The ultimate solution to the conflict: a pillow fight.



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