This post has been re-written. I have been corresponding with Robert Katz. Please read this new version; it comes to different conclusions. Thank you

I didn't expect this.

A couple of minutes ago, after dinner and after washing the dishes, I returned to the computer to read the news. My husband had left the Ha'aretz English newspaper on the screen. And no, in this case Ha'aretz isn't the guilty party. I saw that there was an article saying that Rebbitzin Rivka Holtzberg, HaYa"D's parents are thinking of taking up their dead daughter's post in Mumbai.

Apparently the information was given by Rabbi Yitzchak David Grossman's fundraiser, Robert Katz. Rabbi Grossman was Rivka Holtzberg's uncle and he is the founder of the Migdal Ohr in Migdal Haemek.

Katz then said: "This couple wasn't living in the West Bank. They weren't settlers. They weren't occupying anyone's land. They were killed because they were Jews,  plain and simple."

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By now, we all know that Jews were murdered in in India, in Mumbai last week.  Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg,  and kashrus inspector Aryeh Leibish Teitelbaum and some not yet identified, Hashem Yinkom Damam.

Yes, in laid back peaceful India, the place Israelis and others go to escape the pressures of the real world.  Well, the real world is in India, too.

Since Thursday we had been praying for those Jewish hostages, and all others in danger, in the Chabad Nariman House in Mumbai.  Friday morning, Rosh Chodesh Kislev, we prayed for them at Tel Shiloh.  In my house, my husband and I had internet news coming out of India reporting anarchy, battles, attempts at rescue.  It was hard to cook and concentrate on anything.

Specially trained Israeli "emergency medics," from ZAKA arrived in India.  They were hoping to do first aid, but instead they protected the dead, the murdered Jews.

We didn't know any of the people, but our hearts are with their families and friends.

HaMakom Y'Nachem, May G-d Comfort the Mourners...

The Arabs' aim is to destroy Israel
We had some British Foreign Office people over this morning, and they weren't here to taste my cooking.
I'm a pragmatist
They weren't here to listen to me either, but.. I couldn't play Pat Nixon or Nancy Reagen if my life depended on it. I don't know how Michelle Obama's going to handle it. Hillary Clinton had a tough time.

I put out some teas and coffee and miss-matched cups and saucers. I couldn't decide if I should hide in the den, on this seat or be "sociable." So I got up and down, putting things away and trying not to show how bored I was. Finally in the choreography of the conversation I managed to get in a few words. I made it clear that nothing I said should reflect on my husband, since we don't agree on many issues. I also tend to "call a spade a spade" and don't let the fragence of the rose mask the truth.

"The Arabs' aim is to destroy Israel," I remeinded our visitors. "Nothing we give them or do for them will change their goal. It's important to listen to what they say and not to imagine, like John Lennon."

"Have you seen a map?" I asked them.  "Take a good look and tell me if Israel could survive with a terror state here.  I'm a pragmatist.  The only way Israel can survive is if we stop terrorism and cease encouraging the lie that there's another people in this area .

"You're a mother," I reminded the visitor from Great Britain.  "If a bully goes after your son, will you tell him to keep trying to buy the bully off, or will you make your son stronger and more confident?"

That's right.  I'm no dreamer.  I see things very clearly.  I'm a pragmatist.

I didn't have to write much to explain the pictures I found of signs.

How Do You Feel About All These?

And when I read about the discrimination here in Israel against Jews, whether being able to live where we wish or travel where we want, I truly wonder why the international civil rights activists don't rush out here to support us. Why do these sic liberals support the repression of Jewish rights?

The old National Religious Party, was never my political party.  And when their election slogan was "returning home," it didn't speak to me either.  I was in NCSY, SSSJ and Betar, not Bnai Akiva.

I think that the same public relations people who told Moetzet YESHA that by adding a few new board members it could convince the public that it wasn't to be blamed for the failure to prevent Disengagement is now  working for MK Zevulen Orlev, NRP.
Eretz Yisrael L'Am Yisrael!  The Land of Israel for Jews!

I'm not that dumb.  I didn't fall for the cosmetics, the face lift, nose job, botox and silicon then, and I won't fall for it this time.  Just changing the party's name and allowing a couple of people not officially dati on the list doesn't change things at all.  The same old NRP people are running it. 

There are people hoping to make a more unified and heterogenous pro-Jewish and Eretz Yisrael party by combining the NRP and Arieh Eldad and Baruch Merzel.  Now, that would be interesting.  If Chanan Porat and the Bayit Leumi leaders would join, too, it would be great.  I could vote for that.  It would compete with the Likud, and maybe Feiglin would then lobby within the Likud for a coalition with this new party, and then Bibi Netanyahu will realize that the people want a right wing leader and not a center one.

Eretz Yisrael L'Am Yisrael

The Land of Israel for Jews!