Oral History

There's a funny game going on in Washington.  It reminds me of the Mad Hatter Chase in May 1967 when, after Abba Eban reminded the Americans that as a result of the 1950 Tripartite Agreement they signed, Israel demanded assistance in opening up the blocked sea passages.  The State Department couldn't find a signed copy of the paper.

Now, Secretary of State Hillary (Kiss-Me-Souha) Clinton had this to say on ABC TV:

Well, that was an understanding that was entered into, so far as we are told, orally.

I'm sure you all realize there's quite an irony in there but be that as it may, there are quotations from Colin Powell and Daniel Kurtzer and a few other State Dept. officials attesting to actual negotiations and discussions the UAS and Israel were engaged in on the issue of the so-called 'settlement blocs' of Jewish communities, expansion, natural growth and freeze.

So what does Hillary think she's doing?  Has she no memory?  Or is it that she has no honor?

I Admit: It's All Unnatural

For anyone reading the reports in the media, in blogs and elsewhere on the issue of natural growth, the amount of material and its complexity is overwhelming.  Well, it certainly is for me.  It is also, sometimes, frustrating.  Take this New York Times graphic presentation, for example.

It appears quite impressive but what it is actually doing is imparting a sense of Jewish dominance, of something slithering along.  First of all, besides four Arab cities, where are the hundreds of Arab villages.  Second, if Arab population growth were placed on the same map, it would overrun the outlines and become a blob.

I am sure that if I had a real head for mathematics I could explain issues such as demographics, density, birth rates, etc.

I don't so just let me say: I admit it.  There really is no "natural growth".  It's all unnatural.

Jews have returned home.  They are revenants, coming back to their ancestral homes after centuries.

Despite difficulties, terror, opposition from within, pressure from without and many other obstacles, our growth is almost miraculous.

Maybe we do have God on our side.

Will The Riots Return?

If you have read this item here at INN, that Sheikh Salah Ra'ad is accusing none other than Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu of planning to rebuild the Temple, you might smile at the ridiculous attempt of the fanatic Islamic radical to stir up trouble.

But we've been there before.  His ranting recalls what happened exactly 80 years ago.

Between Yom Kippur of 1928 and the 18th of Av 1929, the Arabs, aided by the bumbling British, launched a campaign to do away with centuries old customs of Jews at the Western Wall as well as their historical, legal and religious rights there.  The Grand Mufti Haj Amin El-Husseini,

seeking to anchor any local inauthentic nationalist sentiment, cleverly exploited religious passions.  He would not be satisfied that the Western Wall was the object of fulmination and propaganda.  No.

He accused the Jews of seeking to rebuild the Temple.  Right then and there.  His proof?

The Zionist flag flying over the Haram A-Sharif which was the work of montage:

(see here)

If you read page 238 of this book, you'll get additional information and here, too.

After almost a year of this incitement and after taking advantage of the murder of a young Jewish boy, Avraham Mizrachi, the 1929 Riots broke out resulting in 133 Jewish dead, most of them in Hebron which forced the expulsion of its Jewish community.

Our left-wing, progressive and liberal Jews, who are always the first to jump up and point an accusing finger at nationalist Jews, accusing them of 'incitement' should do well for all mankind if they use the same energy going after Ra'ad.  It'll probably save more blood.