SH'MOT, A New King

æ åÌáÀðÅé éÄùÒÀøÈàÅì, ôÌÈøåÌ åÇéÌÄùÑÀøÀöåÌ åÇéÌÄøÀáÌåÌ åÇéÌÇòÇöÀîåÌ--áÌÄîÀàÉã îÀàÉã; åÇúÌÄîÌÈìÅà äÈàÈøÆõ, àÉúÈí. {ô}	7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them. {P}
ç åÇéÌÈ÷Èí îÆìÆêÀ-çÈãÈùÑ, òÇì-îÄöÀøÈéÄí, àÂùÑÆø ìÉà-éÈãÇò, àÆú-éåÉñÅó.	8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph.

è åÇéÌÉàîÆø, àÆì-òÇîÌåÉ: äÄðÌÅä, òÇí áÌÀðÅé éÄùÒÀøÈàÅì--øÇá åÀòÈöåÌí, îÄîÌÆðÌåÌ.	9 And he said unto his people: 'Behold, the people of the children of Israel are too many and too mighty for us;
é äÈáÈä ðÄúÀçÇëÌÀîÈä, ìåÉ: ôÌÆï-éÄøÀáÌÆä, åÀäÈéÈä ëÌÄé-úÄ÷ÀøÆàðÈä îÄìÀçÈîÈä åÀðåÉñÇó âÌÇí-äåÌà òÇì-ùÒÉðÀàÅéðåÌ, åÀðÄìÀçÇí-áÌÈðåÌ, åÀòÈìÈä îÄï-äÈàÈøÆõ.	10 come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there befalleth us any war, they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land.'
éà åÇéÌÈùÒÄéîåÌ òÈìÈéå ùÒÈøÅé îÄñÌÄéí, ìÀîÇòÇï òÇðÌÉúåÉ áÌÀñÄáÀìÉúÈí; åÇéÌÄáÆï òÈøÅé îÄñÀëÌÀðåÉú, ìÀôÇøÀòÉä--àÆú-ôÌÄúÉí, åÀàÆú-øÇòÇîÀñÅñ.	11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses.

Maybe the "king" isn't the newest pharaoh.  Maybe he's a Jew, like Joseph, working for the government.

Re-read verse 7.  The Jews were very successful, and gave the impression to those who didn't like them that they had taken over the country.

You know, like in the United States. People think that the Jews control everything, and the Jews in high positions try to "out pope the pope."

Back to the Bible, it was the Jewish/Hebrew People who forgot Joseph.  They became " òÂáÈãÄéí äÈéÄéðåÌ ìÀôÇøÀòÉä áÌÀîÄöÀøÈéÄí, 'We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt;" and G-d had to make them suffer more and more until they cried out to Him.

What are you waiting for? 

Come home!  We need you here!  We need you now!

Shabbat Shalom U'Mevorach! 

Peres-Self--Hating Jews Hall of Fame

"People tend to remember more and think less," Mr. Peres wrote in "The New Middle East," his 1993 manifesto defending the accords. "Our thoughts, which concentrate on the unfamiliar, are less welcome. However, we must focus on this new Middle East reality … and not wander among memories of victories in long-gone wars -- wars that will never be fought again." Critics of Oslo pointed to Arafat's unambiguous record of hostility to Israel, double-dealing, and ruthlessness. For Mr. Peres, however, history was not a source of wisdom, but a burden. Quoted from here

He doesn't want us to learn from it, or learn it at all, since it makes his hair-brained schemes look like they're endangering the viability of the State of Israel. It's Shimon Peres who preaches John Lennon's horrifically misguided "Imagine," the song that praises a world in which

"Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too."

According to this, there's nothing to live for either. No future, no past just today, "Imagine all the people, Living for today." Peres and Olmert and his coalition have no trouble offering our precious Land, and even our Jerusalem to the same Arab terrorists who want to destroy us, because they only care about today. They do not value tomorrow, our future, our children, grandchildren and the coming generations. What can be more self-hating than that?

Illegal Building and The Jerusalem Housing Crisis

Arabs are building willy nilly all over the place,

and nobody cares. 

They only get all up in arms

when Jews build.

No matter what.

There's definitely a housing crisis, especially in Jerusalem.  Old houses are being destroyed,

and a furturistic railway is being constructed,

but there's no housing for the ordinary working class Israeli.

The Israeli Housing Ministry must build public housing again in Jerusalem.  It should be exclusively for IDF Veterans, women who served a full two years in Sherut Le'umi, National Service and new immigrants.  The housing must be affordable, expandable, with efficient bus service, education, health, cultural and religious facilities built along with the neighborhoods.  Nothing like this has been constructed since Pisgat Zeev and Neve Yaakov, which combined public and private construction.  If I'm not mistaken Har Chomah was not "public housing."

If the Israeli Government doesn't see itself as fully sovereign, constantly checking and begging for international approval, then it must be forced to resign.

I didn't leave the United States to live in an American "puppet-state."

Arm Yourself With Tissues

What's Good for the Goose...

I always get a kick out of these great moralists who would never take their own medicine. The latest is that Catholic, Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah, the Holy Land's top Roman Catholic clergyman, who said:

"If there's a state of one religion, other religions are naturally discriminated against."

Is he dismantling the Vatican? One thing for sure is that he blames Israel and the Jews for everything and re-writes history by claiming that Christianity and Islam have equal footing with Judaism in the Holy Land. "Minor" historical facts, such as chronology and that his Jesus was actually Jewish, are conveniently ignored.

Another of my favorites is US President George Bush, who keeps lecturing and threatening Israel about how to react to terrorism. Israeli civilians are under a constant barrage of Arab missiles and threats of destruction, but we're instructed to "turn the other cheek" and suffer, while Bush and his Condeleezza Rice keep shtupping the terrorists with more money.

The very existence of the United States has never been threatened, and as horrific as "9-11" was, proportionally it wasn't as dangerous to that country's stability and public safety as the Arab terrorism we've been suffering from.

If there was moral honesty in this world, 9-11 would have made America more sympathetic to the plight of Israelis. Instead the opposite happened. We've been chastised for defending ourselves while the Americans killed thousands and thousands of innocent civilians who lived thousands of miles away from the United States. America and its allies took over Iraq by force, killing  thousands of civilians in order to give Saddam Hussein a fair trial. I'm sure you can add further examples of moral hypocrisy.