We're now in that final ten day countdown to change our homes from chametz to Passover.  For thousands of years Jews all over the world perform what was probably the model for spring cleaning to celebrate yitzi'at mitzrayim, the exodus from Egypt and the beginning of the trek to the Promised Land.  If I don't get to blog here again, my holiday wishes to one and all. I have a writer from Netivot, southern Israel close to where the Arabs have been attacking with rockets. You can read her latest post here. And to remind you that I do blog more frequently and on a wider variety of topics on Shiloh Musings and me-ander, where I have started keeping a listing (on the left sidebar) of various book reviews I've written.

No "Moderates" Among The Moslem "Peace sic Partners"

Israel's existence and the western world as we know it are in danger.

There's more in this MEMRI report, IHH Head Bulent Yildirim: 'Our Problem Is Zionism – Which, Like a Virus, Has Infected All Humanity!'

At an event in the southern Turkish coastal town of Alanya, Bulent Yildirim, the head of the Islamic Human Rights and Freedom Organization (IHH), which organized the May 2010 Freedom Flotilla to Gaza, told an audience of over 1,000 about the organization's plans to send a second flotilla to Gaza, consisting of 15-20 vessels, as well as land convoys and an airplane...

These are the things said about the total anti-Israel policies and ideologies. The Arabs are being neither secretive nor discreet about it. Listen to the Glenn Beck show to the end.

There is plenty of crucially important information. Here's another article hat tip IMRA which shows that the PA considers taking over Jerusalem as a bedrock of their aims and goals.

Abbas: "We await the day when Jerusalem is liberated..."

Take a look at the big picture and you'll see that the whole world is in danger.

Why haven't there been great cries of anger and outrage at the Israeli school bus rocketed by Gazan Arab terrorists yesterday?  A 16 year old boy is critically injured.  Yes, those same Arabs with whom we're supposed to "make peace," and the world wines and dines with the guilty. 

The attack didn't happen in the Land Israel liberated during the 1967 Six Days War. It happened in Land that has been part of the State of Israel since 1948.  The Arabs don't want Jews any place here in the Land of Israel, the Middle-East.  They are just like Hitler and his Nazis.  The world wouldn't have had bothered with the Nazis if Hitler hadn't been taking over Europe.  Stalin first was Hitler's ally until Hitler's Germany attacked Russia.  Europe, Great Britain and the United States didn't care that the Nazis were discriminating against Jews, then rounding them up into ghettos and then exterminating them.  They only fought the Germans in self-defense when they were attacked.  The war, World War II was to roll back time, not to rescue the Jews of Europe.

So go back to the Glenn Beck show and listen carefully.

Have a Shabbat Shalom, a peaceful Sabbath.

I'm not all that excited about the results of that poll
Israel's Daylight Savings Time began last night, shrinking sleep time and giving us an "extra" hour before Shabbat.  That hour is at the expense of Friday night's sleep.  Win some, lose some.

This coming Tuesday is Rosh Chodesh Nisan, and the Passover Holiday two weeks after that.

Women's Prayers at Tel Shiloh

Rosh Chodesh Nisan

Tuesday, April 5, 2011 9:30am

Dvar Torah, Short Torah Lesson

Please come and invite family, friends and neighbors

 תפילת נשים ראש חודש ניסן בתל שילה

 יום ג' 5-4 9:30

 יהיה דבר תורה קצר

נא לבוא, לפרסם ולהזמין חברות, משפחה ושכנות

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Will Israel's Nationalist, Patriotic Right Capitalize on Its Great Electoral Potential?

Hat tip:IMRA

Not for the first time, Israeli political polls are showing that the people, ordinary citizens who are willing to participate in political polls, show a strong nationalist, patriotic Right ideology and voting potential.  Also, many of the election results in recent decades have shown the same.  But has Israel gotten governments that rule according to citizens' wishes?  NO!

Time after time, from 1977 when the legendary Menachem Begin's Likud was victorious, to (the now comatose) Ariel Sharon and more recently Binyamin Netanyahu became Prime Minister the voters have been sorely disappointed.  I can no longer say "shocked," because I'm not surprised.  It's as if after being elected our top politicians undergo some sort of "brain transplant" or hypnotic process reversing their ideologies, making their policies unrecognizable to their voters.  It was horrifying to many Likud voters who had voted Likud in 2001 and 2003 to discover that Arik Sharon was going against his promises in the announcement of his Disengagement Plan, which unilaterally handed Jewish Land-destroyed Jewish communities, businesses etc.- to the Arab terrorists of Gaza.  Remember that "unilaterally" means that we got absolutely nothing in return.

A careful reading/listening to Binyamin Netanyahu shows that he never promised Israel a Right government.  Even though his vast knowledge of history so easily supports the Right, he has made a conscious (illogical) decision that to be Prime Minister, he must be in the "Center." 

So when many of my friends were overjoyed at the most recent election results, I knew that we wouldn't get the government we had voted for.  Bibi would fashion some sort of Center-Left government and continue courting the Kadima MK's promising them almost anything to join him.  That's a reason why Leftist Labor Ehud Barak rules as Minister of Defense.

So, that's why I'm not all that excited about the results of that poll.  I just don't trust the politicians to give us the government we've voted for.  And even worse, I don't know if the one truly reliable pro-Jews in Land of Israel pary, the Ichud Leumi (National Union) knows how to campaign competently, but that's for another post.

I write more frequently on Shiloh Musings and me-ander. You're invited to visit those blogs, too.

It's Getting More and More Embarrassing to Be Israeli

Never complain and never explain. Benjamin Disraeli

There's no need to apologize or "investigate" the injuring or even killing our enemies, even if they're "under age," civilians, human shields etc.  That is weakness and totally removes, deletes any remaining fear they may have of us.  The theory of military "deterrence" is a farce, when the enemy knows that you don't have the guts, confidence and determination to kill. 

Our wars, attacks, responses to missiles and weapons being fired on us (Israeli citizens) shouldn't be against empty buildings and deserted pieces of land.  Why waste our expensive weapons on shooting up some shrubs?  The IDF isn't defending Israeli citizens by attacking concrete.

What was the IDF attacking?

We're not moving. We're not cooperating with our destruction.
Shabbat Shalom and Chag Purim Sameach!

It must be extremely difficult for the extended Fogel family to get up from Shiva (7 day mourning) straight into Shabbat and Purim.  They'll be dealing with their new reality forever, like radiation that has entered post-earthquake Japan and beyond.

I write more frequently on Shiloh Musings and me-ander. You're invited to visit those blogs, too.

Disasters, Natural and Man-Made

Nobody asks the Japanese if they're leaving their country permanently because of the dangers there, the natural dangers.  I was facinated by an article in the New York Times by a Japanese novelist writing his first-person report of the earthquake.

It's definitely a perspective we don't usually hear.  It doesn't read like the TV news reports on BBC or CNN. Communities like my Village of Shiloh and Itamar, where the latest Arab terror attack, the barbaric murder of five members of the same family, took place are always asked how we can stay here.  Our dangers are man-made.  Arab terrorists and Israeli politicians conspire to keep us on our toes.  In a few months we'll be celebrating thirty years in Shiloh, and from the earliest days here, we've entertained journalists and answered the same questions.  They keep expecting us to be forcibly removed to make room for a new Arab terror state, Pseudostine aka Palestine sic. As we go on living peacefully, mourning our dead, healing our wounds, the world calls us "obstacles of peace." 

They want us to cooperate, go like sheeps to slaughter, like the Jews did in Germany and later other countries in Europe when German Nazis ruled. We've learned our lesson. 

We're not moving.  We're not cooperating with our destruction. Let the baby Yair, of Itamar, and his family bring light to the world.

Soon we celebrate Purim, the holiday that celebrates our power to reverse evil decrees.

Chag Purim Sameach! Have a Joyous Purim!

Sometimes it seems like there's nothing really new.  King Solomon was right when he wrote "Nothing's new."  The Muslims are trying to take over the world, not just destroy Israel. You can read more of my articles on me-ander and Shiloh Musings.

Tel Shiloh, Adar II, Blooming As It Should Be, B"H

Yesterday, I held the monthly Women's Rosh Chodesh Prayers at Tel Shiloh.  Women came from Eli and Shiloh.  The weather was pleasant for this outing, though we still need more rain.  Take a look at the pictures:

Rosh Chodesh Nissan will be Tuesday, April 4.  Please save the date!