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THE SCHALIT DILEMMA by William Mehlman
FROM THE EDITOR: Rael Jean Isaac
KIRYAT ARBA COVER-UP by Jerold S. Auerbach
Seven Jews had been murdered there within three years, six while returning from Ma’arat haMachpelah to Beit Hadassah to celebrate Shabbat with the women and children who had reestablished a Jewish presence in Hebron for the first time since the Arab massacre in 1929. That morning three Arabs suddenly attacked Aharon Gross and slit his throat. Israeli soldiers nearby, who witnessed the brutal assault, were reluctant to intervene. Explaining their reticence, a local military commander told Levinger’s son-in-law: “Better one of your people than one of ours.”
I was reminded of this double tragedy–a murdered Jew and indifferent Israeli security forces– when it was repeated a week before Rosh HaShanah. Two residents of Kiryat Arba, the Jewish community overlooking Hebron, died in a car crash. Twenty-five-year old Asher Palmer and his infant son Yonatan were killed when a rock thrown from a passing vehicle smashed through the windshield, hitting Asher in the face. He lost control of his car, which tumbled over into a rock bed.
Drivers to and from Kiryat Arba and throughout Judea and Samaria are familiar with the hazard of frequent Palestinian stone-throwing attacks from the side of the road. Recently they have confronted a more severe danger: sizeable rocks, thrown from passing cars heading in the opposite direction. The increased velocity, of course, poses a lethal danger. So it was on September 23rd.
The car murders occurred on the day when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas would address the United Nations General Assembly to demand recognition of the State of Palestine. Israeli security forces were on high alert throughout Judea and Samaria in anticipation of Palestinian violence should they be frustrated in New York.
A MATTER OF HONOR by David Isaac
http://www.mideastoutpost.com/archives/a-matter-of-honor-by-david-isaac.html
October 31st marks the anniversary of the official end of the Sinai and Palestine Campaigns in the Middle Eastern Theatre during World War I. The British Egyptian Expeditionary Force was led by Field Marshal Edmund Allenby. He is rightly regarded as a hero of the British Empire. However, he is not a hero of the Jewish people. Far from it. Yet a major thoroughfare in Tel Aviv, Allenby Street, is named in his honor. This is an error long overdue for correction.
Field Marshal Allenby stood at the head of the British military administration that governed Palestine for roughly two years. Unfortunately, that first administration set the precedent and the tone for all subsequent administrations, which is why, in 1923, three years after Allenby had been replaced, Moshe Glickson, freshly minted editor of Ha’aretz, protested against “the insult and the deprivation of rights to which we are exposed in our historic homeland, against the crude contempt towards our vital interests, which have become the established system of the Palestine government.”
THE UNITED NATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE by Wafa Sultan
When I emigrated to the United States of America from Syria, another Arab country that today is undergoing a turbulent political earthquake, never did I imagine that one day I would stand outside the United Nations to oppose its perverted conference, to defend against its malicious attempt to single out Israel — a country that I was taught to hate.
But here I am today, proud to stand for light in the midst of darkness, darkness brought about by the multiple Muslim countries and their international enablers, who have dishonored the initial objective of the United Nations, only to vilify, and eventually to destroy Israel – the one and the only free democratic country in the entire Middle East.
For the last 1,400 years, since its inception, Islamic ideology has attempted to deprive the Jews of their three most cherished possessions — their Bible, their lives, and their Land of Israel.
During my school years, I heard my teachers, family members, neighbors, and the media all bombarding us daily, throughout the Arab world. We, as small kids and young adults, were indoctrinated to share the anti-Semitic vitriol — to despise and denigrate Jews.
•God condemned the Jews because they falsified the Torah. How did I know it? That is what I was taught.
•Since Jews forged the Bible, they were despised and depicted as pigs and apes. How did I know it? That is what I was taught.
•Jews killed our prophets and were the enemies of Allah. How did I know it? That is what I was taught.
•Therefore, the Jews represent an existential danger to all humanity, so their annihilation, as individuals and as a people, was and would be a legitimate service to God and mankind. How did I know it? That is what I was taught.
THE UN: ACCESSORY TO SLAVERY AND OTHER CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY by Simon Deng
Durban III will not help the victims of racism. It will only isolate and target the Jewish state. For over 50 years, 82% of the UN General Assembly emergency meetings have been about condemning one state – Israel. Hitler could not have been made happier.
Given all the good Israel does in the world, given its democracy and its striving to follow the highest standards of human rights, even in the face of the most brutal, the most fanatic enemies, the Durban Conference is an outrage. All decent people know that.
“PALESTINIANS”- A TACTICAL PLOY by Nurit Greenger
At the end of Israel’s War of Independence, Arabs who lived within the so-called “Green Line” (the armistice lines) acquired Israel citizenship. However, the Arabs in the territories controlled by Jordan (“the West Bank”) and Egypt (Gaza) remained without any citizenship. Egypt did not offer the Arabs living in the Gaza Strip citizenship, rather issued them All-Palestine passports. Egypt continued to occupy the Gaza Strip until 1967, except for four months of Israeli occupation following the 1956 Sinai campaign. Egypt never annexed the Gaza Strip, but instead treated it as a controlled territory and administered it through a military governor.
THE CALUMNISTS by Ruth King
With that in mind we call the professors, reporters, columnists and commentators who have vilified, libeled and slandered Israel “The Calumnists” and AFSI will have a periodic contest with awards for the worst of them. We have named the award the “Apate” after the spirit of deceit, guile, fraud and deception in Greek mythology.
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