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Ya’alon: No Negotiations with this PA Leadership-Vice Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon in a Rosh Hashanah interview: Facing this PA leadership there are no prospects for peace.By Elad Benari, Canada First Publish: 9/29/2011, 12:04 AM
Israel’s Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Strategic Affairs, Moshe Ya’alon, gave a special interview to Arutz Sheva on Wednesday for Rosh Hashanah. During the interview Ya’alon summed up last week’s events in the United Nations and said that Israel should not conduct negotiations with the Palestinian Authority as long as its current leadership remains the same.Arutz Sheva: One can summarize the events at the UN and say that you are quite satisfied with Netanyahu’s speech.Ya’alon: We’re satisfied not just with Netanyahu’s speech but also by the Palestinians’ failure to make their unilateral move. The Palestinians have been consistently avoiding negotiations since the dawn of Zionism. It was seen in Arafat’s response to Barak’s offer in 2000, it was seen when Abbas avoided Olmert’s offer in 2008, and now Abbas is avoiding negotiations by going to the United Nations unilaterally. We are also satisfied by the fact that all these threats and scenarios of a tsunami, international isolation and an intifada did not come true, and the move appears to be a failure.Is it indeed a failure? They are going to the Security Council and promoting it there. We’re relying on an American veto. It’s not exactly a failure.
Unfortunately in the United Nations, with us being the only Jewish state alongside 22 Arab countries and more than 50 Muslim countries, there is no place to look for justice, and yet the Palestinians have no majority in the Security Council to pass their application. There is an important American stance here which is going to veto, a stance which, by the way, was changed due to Israel’s actions, and now the U.S. is in the same position as us, that the unilateral move is unacceptable and will bring about a second Hamastan. We need to see Obama’s speech as a significant process of change since he took office.How much will we have to pay politically for this embrace? We already heard Netanyahu saying in the United States that he is willing to talk about freezing construction.We talk about entering negotiations without preconditions and say that we are ready to talk about everything, but the fundamental questions we raised were answered with a resounding no, for example of a future consent, not a condition for beginning negotiations, to recognize Israel as a Jewish nation, and we were told that it will never happen. So what can we talk about? Abbas is asking what will happen with the Arabs of 1948 and what will happen with the right of return. Barak revealed the face of Arafat, Olmert revealed the face of Abbas even though he and Livni claim that the process was stopped because of the elections, which is a lie. With our demand for recognition we exposed Abbas’ true face and we did it without it even costing us a political price.As someone who knows the PA’s internal dialogue very well, do you believe that there is one PA leader who could accept this demand and stay alive?
If that’s the situation then we would be better off not to ignore it or sweep it under the rug. It has been my contention ever since I was head of Military Intelligence in 1995, when I realized that even in Oslo they did not recognize Israel’s right to exist within borders of any kind, and that the entire move was meant to be a Trojan horse that will allow them to enter Palestine. It is good that the people of Israel know this and not fool themselves. One of the worst things that happened to us is that we adopted their narrative and we covered up the fact that never have they had a leadership that was willing to recognize Israel’s right to exist.So this demand for recognition is only to expose their faces? It’s not a real requirement for negotiations? This is a genuine and basic demand, because without it any agreement we sign would be just another stage in the conflict. People ask why we did not demand this from the Egyptians and the Jordanians and the answer is simple: because they have no claim on Sheikh Munis, Haifa, Akko and Ashkelon. In contrast, the Palestinians view Israeli Arabs as being part of them so they are not prepared to see a return to 1949 armistice lines as an end to the conflict.Do you believe that there is some sort of outline of an agreement that ensures the Palestinian state will be demilitarized and that Hamas would not take over it the next day? We’re not there yet, because of their lack of willingness to recognize us. After all, in his speech Abbas denied the connection of the Jews to their land. He spoke only of the Muslim and Christian connection to Israel. He argues that there is no Jewish nation. Does anyone think we can sign an agreement with them when their young generation is brought up according to such perceptions? It appears from what you are saying that you do not really believe there are any prospects to these negotiations.
In this situation facing this leadership there definitely are no prospects, and it’s better that all of us know this. It’s important that an Israeli majority that recognizes reality take shape, without illusions of peace now or disengagement. When we are united, the world opinion will be with us.The left and the world say that the Netanyahu government has a credibility problem. Maybe they’re right, because here you are proving how little chance such negotiations have and yet you’re still talking about the vision of two states.We say that we do not want to rule over them. They have political independence and we are ready to strengthen it in those areas for which they are responsible, but if they do not respect our right to exist, why should we start talking with them about territory? We are ready to have them conduct their lives in their area of autonomy.And given all this, when will the Likud government fulfill its nationalist platform and finally build after so many years in Judea and Samaria? Because of the sensitivity of the situation which we received, of political processes that previous governments conducted, we have been cautious. We had to accept commitments of previous governments, including a commitment not to establish new Jewish communities, but insisted on continuing construction. So there are periods of sensitivity but construction continues and the number of residents in Judea and Samaria is growing.Before the events at the UN there was talk of the possibility of annexing Judea and Samaria as a response to the PA’s move. Is it feasible? There is no doubt that the Palestinians going to the UN is a gross violation of the Oslo Accords. We held discussions about the possibilities that lie in our hands in response to this move. We are considering our options. We will hold discussions with the Prime Minister about both the Quartet’s offer as well as the Palestinian move on and make our decisions.As a member of the ministerial team on Migron, do you know what exactly happened that night of the destruction, and why?
It was clear that the three homes were built without permits. Minister Begin and I were in talks with the residents of the community about some ways to deal with the problem. Unfortunately, we were surprised with a move that was decided by the defense minister. The issue is being clarified among the ministers and the prime minister and the defense minister. I hope that lessons can be learned from that incident, too.Thank you very much.Thank you, and I wish to take this opportunity to wish you and all the people of Israel a Shana Tova, a good new year.(Arutz Sheva’s North American Desk is keeping you updated until the start of Rosh Hashanah in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
PA Statehood Bid Submitted to UN Sub-committee-The PA's unilateral statehood bid has been submitted to a 15-member Security Council sub-committee for further debate. By Elad Benari, Canada First Publish: 9/28/2011, 9:14 PM
The Palestinian Authority’s request for statehood at the United Nations moved to the next level on Wednesday, after the UN Security Council unanimously approved to transfer the request to a sub-committee for further examination.According to a report on Israel’s Channel 10 News, the sub-committee will be made up of representatives from the 15 members of the Security Council. It will review the request and submit conclusions in a few weeks’ time.The report noted that the sub-committee will first meet to discuss the bid on Friday, adding that such requests usually take a period of up to 35 days to discuss but that in this case it will likely take longer.Meanwhile, the PLO’s Observer in the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, welcomed the move and expressed hope that the process will be expedited.
We are grateful to the Security Council for promoting our request, Mansour was quoted as saying after the meeting at the UN headquarters in New York.The process is advancing step by step and we hope that the Security Council will bear the responsibilities it faces and approve our request.In contrast, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor, said that Israel is once again calling on the PA’s leadership to return to direct negotiations which will discuss all core issues.A real and lasting Palestinian state will not be achieved by the force of external factors, but only through direct negotiations, stressed Prosor.Prosor added that the Israeli government has not yet arrived at a final decision on whether to agree to the timetable for negotiations presented last week by the Middle East Quartet. Earlier on Wednesday it was reported that the Israeli Cabinet is likely to accept the timetable.In any case, Prosor stressed that the plan to build 1,100 new housing units in the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem should not be an obstacle to negotiations.Everything on the table, everything is negotiable, but the Palestinians use every excuse to avoid negotiations, he was quoted as saying.(Arutz Sheva’s North American Desk is keeping you updated until the start of Rosh Hashanah in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
Friday, September 30, 2011
Thursday, September 29, 2011
DAY 2 OF ROSH HASHANA TONIGHT AT 6PM EST-!!AM EST BY ISRAEL TIME
Rosh Hashanah Torah Readings
Genesis 21:1–34; Genesis 22:1–24
Reading for Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
The Binding of Isaac
And it came to pass after these things, that G-d did test Abraham. And He said to him: Abraham!And he said: Here I am! And He said: Please, take your son, your only son, the one whom you love, Isaac; and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and broke up the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which G-d had told him.Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. And Abraham said to his young men: Stay here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and the knife; and they went both of them together.And Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said,My father! and he said, Here I am, my son.And he said:Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said: G-d will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering, my son.And they went both of them together.And they came to the place which G-d had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
And Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.And an angel of G-d called to him out of heaven, and said: Abraham! Abraham! And he said, Here I am!And he said: Lay not your hand upon the lad, neither do anything to him: for now I know that you do fear G-d, seeing that you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked; and behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in place of his son.And Abraham called the name of that place Adonai-Yireh (G-d will be revealed); as it is said to this day: On the mount G-d will appear.The reading concludes with report of a granddaughter born to Abraham's brother, Nachor, named Rebecca (destined to become Isaac's wife).
Rosh Hashanah, The Jewish New Year, Begins Wednesday Night-The two day New Year Holiday begins tonight and Shabbat Shuva makes it a three day continuum. Arutz Sheva wishes you a good and sweet year.By Arutz Sheva Staff First Publish: 9/28/2011, 12:49 PM
The Jewish People begin the High Holydays on Wednesday evening, ushering in the year 5772 by starting nearly a month of special days: Two days of Rosh Hashanah on Thursday and Friday are this year followed immediately by Shabbat Shuva, the Sabbath of Repentance, and on Sunday by the Fast of Gedaliah.Rosh Hashanah is also the start of the Ten Days of Repentance which culminate with the solemn Fast of Yom Kippur on the tenth day of Tishrei. Special verses about repentance are added to the silent Amidah prayer said three times daily during these ten days.This is Judaism's time for introspection, when Jews look back and examine their actions in the year that has just ended, seeking to improve their observance of the Torah’s commandments directed towards G-d and towards their fellow man. They are expected to ask forgiveness from those they may have offended or hurt during the past year.On the Sabbath of Repentance this Saturday, a special chapter is read from the book of the prophet Hosea, calling the Jewish people to repent and return to G-d. Rabbis traditionally deliver a sermon, drasha, on repentance in the afternoon.The Fast of Gedaliah commemorates the end of Jewish rule in the Land of Israel following the destruction of the First Holy Temple some 2,500 years ago, prompting the sages to say that the end of Jewish independence is comparable in solemnity to Yom Kippur.
The Jewish New Year has several names, among them the Day of Judgment. It is a time for careful stock-taking of one's relationship with G-d, and the longer Rosh Hashanah morning prayers filled with emotion, responsive readings and songs, are therefore intense and inspirational – usually led by a carefully chosen cantor or member of the congregation - concentrating on G-d's Kingship, eternal presence and His judgment of all creatures. Repentance, prayer and charity avert the evil decree is a central line from the Machzor, the special holiday prayer book, listing the course of action that it is hoped will lead to meriting a good year.Upon returning home after the evening prayers, symbolic foods – simanim - are served, whose names allow a play on words that ask for our merits to be numerous, for our enemies to be destroyed, that we lead rather than follow. There are especially sweet ones, such as apples dipped in honey, to symbolize a sweet year.Fruits that require a special Shehecheyanu blessing, said for something new, because they are being eaten for the first time since the previous season, are served on the second night. Pomegranates are often used for this purpose. Traditionally, children wear a new garment for the first time the second night and can say the blessing. Candles are lit both nights, but it is forbidden to light a match on the holiday, so an existing flame is used to kindle them.Based on the commandment in Numbers 29:1, 100 shofar blasts are dramatically sounded throughout the prayers, awakening us to improve our ways. The congregation refrains from speech from the first shofar blasts until the last ones at the end of the service..The Tashlikh prayer is recited on the first afternoon, preferably near a live stream of water in which we ask G-d to throw away our sins.
Many religious Israeli youth spend the holiday at secular kibbutzim to lead the services, volunteer to lead services in the IDF and in hospitals. Breslover Hassidim and others have begun a custom of going to Uman, Ukraine, to pray at the gravesite synagogues of their spiritual leader, Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, who passed away in Tishrei of 1810. Prominent rabbis, however, oppose the idea of leaving the Holy Land to spend Rosh Hashanah in the Diaspora.Five days after Yom Kippur the holiday of Sukkot begins, which in Israel, is seven days long, but is two days longer in the Diaspora, culminating the month of holidays.Arutz Sheva wishes all its readers and the entire Jewish people a sweet and good new year. May we be inscribed in the Book of Life for health and happiness, love of the Land of Israel and true peace.For articles on the meaning of Rosh Hashana, preparing spiritually for the New Year , the three types of shofar blasts and the shofar's symbolism, see Arutz Sheva's Judasim section.News reporting will continue with Arutz Sheva’s reporter writing from Canada until the start of holiday NY time and then resume on Saturday night Israel time with our Israeli reporters.
Judaism: The Shmuz for Rosh Hashana
Published: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 12:56 PM
All of the issues of the coming year are reviewed, assessed, and arbitrated. The entire globe is one multi-dimensional chess game, and the Master maps out the moves.
Rabbi BenZion Shafier
Rosh Hashanah 32b) – Rebbe Abahu taught: The angels asked HASHEM, Why is it that the Jewish nation doesn’t sing Hallel on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur? HASHEM answered them, Is it possible that a king sits on the throne of judgment, with the books of life and death open in front of Him, and the Jewish Nation should sing?
The Molochim’s [angels] position
Molochim have no physical limitations or impediments, and therefore, they see with a brilliant, piercing clarity. They know and understand reality to an extent that we mortals can only dream about. The question then is, why did the Molochim think that the Jewish People should say Hallel on Rosh Hashanah? Isn’t obvious that the solemnity of the day makes it inappropriate to sing? What was the Molochim’s perspective, and what did HASHEM made clear to them?
Issues of the day
The answer to this is based on a different understanding of Rosh Hashanah. The Mishnah tells us that on Rosh Hashanah, Every occupant of the planet stands in front of HASHEM and is judged. Small or great, young or old, from the most prestigious to the most simple, every human being is examined, and his fate for the coming year is decided.But it isn’t just individual lives that are examined. Global issues are also weighed, measured, and determined. Which nation will go to war? Which will enjoy peace? Which lands will enjoy great prosperity and success? Which will suffer? Which new technologies will be brought to the marketplace? Which cures will be discovered? Which diseases will suddenly appear? Which epidemics will spread? Which dictator will refuse arm inspections, even though he doesn’t have weapons of mass destruction? And which will play the game, speaking words of hatred from the United Nations floor? All of the issues of the coming year are reviewed, assessed, and arbitrated. The entire globe is one multi-dimensional chess game, and the Master maps out the moves.The headlines of the New York Times are written on Rosh Hashana and sealed on Yom Kippur. But it isn’t only the headlines of the coming year that are written; every article, feature, and news scoop from the global down to the local is considered, appraised, and deliberated.
Recently, the New York Times reported that it employs 350 full-time reporters and a string of hundreds of freelance contributors spread amongst 53 distinct news bureaus that are divided by local, national, and foreign territories. A single issue of the Times has far more words in it that the entire Tanach. If a person were to read it aloud, it would take him more than 20 hours from front page to back.The reason for this is that there are many, many issues that affect the over six and half billion occupants of this planet. And every one of those issues is judged by HASHEM on Rosh Hashanah. Hurricanes, typhoons, earthquakes, and famine, economic expanse and collapse — even issues as grave as old baseball stadiums being torn down — are judged and decided. The issues of the day are awesome, their magnitude encompassing the breadth of the human experience.We, the Jewish People, are servants of HASHEM, and we are also fans of HASHEM. We are his Chosen Nation, and He is our Master. During the course of the year, we suffer through the insolence and audacity of arrogant people who deny HASHEM’s rule and control over the world, and during this time of year, we revel in the fact that HASHEM sits as the true Judge, meting out the fate of mankind.As such, we should feel a tremendous sense of joy , an outpouring of emotion, as we contemplate the magnificence of the Din. As Rav Dovid Khronglass, ZTL, mashgiach of Ner Israel once commented, On Yom Kippur, if it weren’t for the fear of the Din, I would dance a rikud.That is the natural outpouring of happiness that a person experiences when the Creator is shown in His glory.
Ha’Melech Ha’Kadosh
During these days, we refer to HASHEM in the Shemoneh Esreh as Ha’Melech Ha’Kadosh – the Holy King. The name of HASHEM refers to the way that He manifests Himself in the world. The Mishnah Berurah explains that during this time, HASHEM shows His rule and dominion, so it would be incorrect to refer to HASHEM as HaKel HaKadosh – the Holy G-d, as we normally do. Now it is the holy King.It is also easier to feel HASHEM’s presence, to literally feel like I am standing in front of my Creator and begging, imploring, and beseeching because HASHEM is more accessible now during this time than in the rest of the year.That is the Molochim’s position. From their shining, lucid perspective, they see that there is something missing from the Yom Tov of Rosh Hashanah. We wear Yom Tov clothing, we eat a festive meal, and we bathe and shave in honor of the day. By all rights, Hallel should be a part of the davening, too, yet it is noticeably absent.Why? If we understand the magnitude of the issues being decided on that day, and we are able to envision HASHEM sitting on the throne of justice, meting out exactly what is proper, we should be overcome with a sense of jubilation and wish to sing out with Hallel.
HASHEM’s answer
However, HASHEM answers the Molochim, On a global level it is magnificent, but the judgment is on a personal level as well, Each person must recognize that, My fate for the coming year is being decided. Will I live or die? Will I be healthy or sick? Will I enjoy great prosperity or not? The fate of family, my community, those that I love, and those that depend upon me is being decided. The human race is judged and I too am a human, so it is inappropriate to sing on such a day.
The balanced perspective
Both emotions should be present. I should feel great simcha during these days as I experience HASHEM’s closeness and contemplate the awesomeness of the day. Yet that emotion must be tempered with the understanding that my future, the future of my spouse, the future of my children, my parents, my extended family, and my community is being decided.This balanced perspective allows us to experience great simcha during this time period mixed with the awe and solemnity appropriate for this time.
May HASHEM grant us a sweet, good year with health, happiness and success in all of our endeavors
Judaism: Video Series: Preparing for the New Year
Published: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 11:22 AM
Lessons for the New Year: To say sorry to those we've harmed; to forgive those who have harmed; to avoid anger --and more.Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks
The sound of selichot. Of saying sorry. The special prayers we say at this time of the year as we come close to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the Jewish new year and the day of atonement. And there's something so powerful about the ability to say sorry.Out there in secular society we live in a non penitential culture. When was the last time you heard a politician say, I'm sorry. Or a rabbi, say, I got it wrong. Or a pundit say, I made a mistake.Yet we're always getting things wrong. That's what it is to be human. So to be able to say, I'm sorry, I was wrong, forgive me, is important. It's a moment of honesty in a lifetime of keeping up appearances; of trying to look infallible. And I can say sorry to God because I know he forgives me. I know that because that's the kind of God he is. That's why he gave us Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. So try saying sorry to God. It might just help you, as it's helped me, say sorry to the people I've hurt. Saying sorry is the superglue of interpersonal life. It mends relationships that would otherwise be broken beyond repair. You won't be sorry that you said, I'm sorry.Think of what could happen in some of the most intractable conflicts of the world if both sides could acknowledge the pain they’ve caused one another; if they could accept responsibility instead of saying, it was your fault; if they could truly face and forgive one another. Improbable, yes. But impossible? No.
To say sorry to those we’ve harmed and to forgive those who’ve harmed us is the most difficult moral challenge in the world. But they alone have the power to heal the wounds of the past and build a better future together.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LqBxnBAQJXk
To be free...you have to learn to forgive -Have compassion on your works. Forgive. That's what we say on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and the days between. But it cuts both ways. We can't ask God to forgive us if we don't forgive others. We have to forgive those who've offended us, however hard it is, because life is too short to feel resentment. Lo tikom velo titor, says the Torah. Don't bear a grudge and don't take revenge. At the end of his life Moses said to the Israelites, Don't despise an Egyptian, because you were strangers in his land. Strangers in his land? They persecuted the Israelites, enslaved them, tried to kill half their children. Don't despise them? They were despicable. But what Moses was saying was: if you continue to hate, you will still be slaves: slaves to the past and your resentment. If you want to be free you have to let go of hate. And that's still true. Our energies are too precious to waste on a past we can't undo. No one can offend me without my permission, and I refuse to give bad people the victory of knowing I care about what they say or do. On these holy days, we have to let go of hate. We have to forgive. And we will then travel lighter through life, with less grief, more joy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FbFnxAeeCTc
Don't Get Angry
In wrath remember mercy. So we pray when we say selichot or tachanun. And what a line that is. Did you ever lose your temper with someone, say something in anger you shouldn't have said? Did you ever make someone cry? There's something about anger that makes it the most destructive of the emotions.Maimonides said: in most things follow the middle way but not in anger. Even a little bit of anger is bad news for you and those around you. They used to say about one of the Lubavitcher rebbes that whenever he felt as if he were about to be angry he'd get out several volumes of Talmud and jewish law and look up if it were permissible to be angry on such an occasion; and by the time he'd done all that research how could he be angry any more?
Berogez rachem tizkor. In the coming year, when you feel angry, that's the time to remember mercy. Kindness achieves what anger never can.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WrQb0Q9eOTg
Judaism: Shofar Sounds
Published: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 8:39 AM
Every commandment of the Torah is multi-faceted and we do ourselves and our faith a disservice if we deal with the Torah simply and naively.Rabbi Berel Wein
The sounds of the shofar as heard on Rosh Hashana are of three different types and qualities. These sounds are regulated by halachic standards though regarding the sound of the shevarim there are different customs that prevail as to how the three short blasts of the shofar should be sounded.But the basic sounds – a long straight sound which is the tekiah; a sound of three short wails that is the shevarim; and a staccato sound of nine very short blasts that is the teruah – are accepted throughout the Jewish world as being the accepted and correct notes of the shofar.
Over the centuries much has been written about the significance of these sounds of the shofar. Halakha defines what the sounds should be and how they should be sounded. However Jewish thought expands upon the basic halachic requirements giving meaning and depth to the halakhic requirements in terms of metaphor and guidance.
Thus every sound that emanates from the horn of the shofar conveys to us a further moral lesson as to our lives and behavior. We must always realize that every commandment of the Torah is multi-faceted and we do ourselves and our faith a disservice if we deal with the Torah simply and naively. A knowledgeable Jew is always a sophisticated person who is able to see things below the obvious reality of the surface words and appreciate the infinite wisdom and complexity of God’s Torah.
One can never assume that one understands Torah completely but neither can one absolve one’s self of the duty to pursue the meaning of Torah to its humanly possible ultimate.The tekiah with its long straight sound indicates the serenity in life that is so necessary for productive human and family life. It also indicates discipline and consistency. These are the items that constitute a successful and happy Jewish family and home. Children raised in a home of serenity, peace, discipline and consistency grow up to be people of self-worth and proud Jews. The presence of the Shabat day in our weekly lives introduces us to this supreme trait of serenity in a home. Shabat is one long twenty five hour tekiah.
That may also help explain why on Shabat the shofar is not sounded – Shabat itself, so to speak, becomes the shofar, certainly at least the tekiah part of the ceremonial sounding of the shofar. Its serenity and consistency sets the tone for the entire week and thus for all of our lives. It is not for naught that Jewish halacha views the observance of the Shabat as the basic identifying characteristic of a Jew’s relationship to the observance of Judaism and Jewish law and tradition.
The laws of halakha regarding the sounding of the shofar also demand that all of the other notes sounded must have a tekiah to proceed it and to succeed it. The tekiah – the serenity and consistency traits of human life – is the bookends of all Jewish life. It comes first and it comes last. Without it the other notes are relatively meaningless.The shevarim represents the times of trouble, the wails that emanate from us when failure, tragedy and seemingly insurmountable problems loom before us. The wail from the human heart is a sound that is heard in Heaven. Perhaps the reason that there are different customs allowed by halakhic practice regarding the shevarim sound is because no two human beings wail alike.Each tear in life is unique to the one who has shed it. The rabbis have taught us that our tears are stored, so to speak, in Heaven and counted by the Almighty. The Jewish people have shed an ocean of tears over our long history but those tears have congealed to become the foundation stone of our personal lives and our national existence. We cannot pass through this life without shevarim. But we can build upon those very sounds of wailing to construct a better future for all of us. The teruah is a call to action, to accomplishment, ingenuity and industry. It signals that passivity is unacceptable if the Jewish mission is to be realized. The short staccato sounds remind us that progress is often slow, step by step. The rabbis in Avot taught us that it is not for us to complete the work but we are not absolved from attempting to achieve the ultimate goal of holiness and goodness.Redemption and self-improvement are processes and not necessarily a miraculous and sudden epiphany. We sound the shevarim and teruah consecutively in part of the shofar service to indicate that after troubles and even tragedy, resilience and positive action is required. Thus the sounds of the shofar come to point our way towards a serene, disciplined and active year that will be filled only with wails of joy and happiness.
Judaism: The Dual Call of the Shofar
Published: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 11:23 AM
The shofar is the tool that helps us in seeking out God with the mind and calling to Him with the heart.HaRav Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook
The central mitzvah of Rosh Hashanah is to hear the blasts of the shofar. The ram's horn is blown twice during the holiday service: first, immediately before the Musaf prayer, and a second time during the Musaf prayer. Why do we need two sets of shofar blasts?
Teshuvah of the Mind and Heart
The prophet Isaiah taught those who wish to return to God:Seek out God when He is found. Call out to Him when He is near. (Isaiah 55:6)What is the difference between these two aspects of teshuvah - seeking out God and calling out to Him? First it is necessary to seek out God.We need to restore the soul's inner light, dimmed by character faults and misdeeds.Before losing our way, we felt a joy in serving God. We recognized God's greatness and were delighted with the opportunity to study His Torah and fulfill His mitzvot. Sin, however, darkens the mind and numbs the heart, causing us to lose the wonderful revelations from God's immanence.Therefore, the first stage of teshuvah is to "seek out God" - an intellectual striving to recover our former enlightenment and restore our joy in knowing God and His ways.The second area that must be repaired is in the realm of the emotions, to restore the lost feeling of God's closeness and protection, the perception of Divine favor in material and spiritual matters. To recover this loss, we must call out to God and reach out to Him in prayer. We need to overcome our emotional estrangement and restore our sense of God's intimacy.
Focus the Mind, Open the Heart
The shofar is the tool that helps us accomplish both of these goals, seeking out God with the mind and calling to Him with the heart.The first set of blasts is blown before praying the Rosh Hashanah Musaf prayer. They are called tekiyot demeyushav, blasts while sitting, as they correspond to the teshuvah of the mind: a composed and thoughtful introspection on our insignificance and God's infinite greatness. Demeyushav comes from the Hebrew word for sitting - yeshivah - which also means an academy of Torah learning. These blasts inspire us to contemplate God and His ways, to seek out God where He is found.The second set of shofar blasts takes place during the Musaf prayer. These blasts are called tekiyot deme'umad, blasts while standing. They are an integral part of the prayer service. Deme'umad comes from the Hebrew word for standing - amidah - which is also the name of the central prayer, recited while standing. These shofar blasts are like prayer; they are an emotional service of God that fills us with awe and humility. They remind us to reconnect to God with our hearts, to feel His closeness and protection, to call out to Him when He is near.
(Silver from the Land of Israel. Adapted from Midbar Shur, pp. 56-58. Sent to Arutz Sheva by Rabbi Chanan Morrison of Mitzpeh Yericho, author of "Gold From the Land of Israel". His website, ravkooktorah.org, is dedicated to presenting the Torah commentary of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook)
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Chief Rabbi to Diaspora Jews: Good and Sweet Year - Why Both?-Rabbi Yona Metzger greets Diaspora Jewry, asks why Jewish people wish each other both a good year and a sweet year on Rosh Hashanah.By Elad Benari & Uzi Baruch First Publish: 9/28/2011, 12:50 PM
In honor of the Jewish New Year, the Rosh Hashanah holiday, Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Yona Metzger, sent the traditional greeting of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel to Jews living in the Diaspora.In our tradition, we always take an apple, dip it in honey, and we say that we shall have a good year and a sweet year, Rabbi Metzger said.The question is why do we take the apple, that is sweet in and of itself, and dip it in another sweet thing – the honey? Wouldn’t it be better to take the maror (bitterherb) from Pesach or an onion and dip that in the honey?" Then the bitter or sharp taste would become sweeter.The answer to this question, explained Rabbi Metzger - in true Talmudic form, where one question always leads to another - is actually found in the answer to another question.Why do we say that we shall have a good year and a sweet year? he said. If you say good year,it’s the same as saying Mazal Tov (good luck) at a Bar Mitzvah or a wedding. We don’t wish people both good luck and sweet luck. So why is it necessary to add sweet to the wish for a good year?
The rabbi explained that the answer is that not everything that is good is also sweet, and vice versa. If one is told to have surgery, it may be a good thing to do, but it is not a sweet one. If one enjoys overeating or smoking, for example, that may seem sweet, but it is certainly not good.Therefore, the apple symbolizes the good year and the honey symbolizes the sweet year,he said.So I want to bless you with both - that G-d sends you and gives you a good as well as a sweet year.The people of Israel and the land of Israel are now surrounded by problems. We don’t know what G-d's intentions are and what will happen in all those [Arab] countries that had demonstrations, some of which succeeded, and what our relationship with them will be. We have to pray that everything that happens around us will be good for the people of Israel and the land of Israel.If we are strong here, and if G-d keeps us and protects us, you will be safe as well. Shana Tova U’Metuka - a sweet and good year - to all of you.
Former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Lau: First of All, Peace Among Us-Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau in a greeting for Rosh Hashanah: Before we make peace with our neighbors we need to make peace among ourselves.By A7 Staff First Publish: 9/28/2011, 12:50 PM
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Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, the Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv and formerly the Chief Rabbi of Israel, issued a personal blessing to readers and viewers of Arutz Sheva in honor of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.The rabbi expressed his appreciation of Arutz Sheva, which, he said, personifies the three ideals that the first Chief Rabbi of Israel, HaRav Avraham Yitschak Hacohen Kook, said were inherently intertwined: preservation of the Jewish people, their Torah and their Land, Israel.Rabbi Lau continued: We are at the doorstep of a new year, praying to the Lord Almighty for peace, for friendship, for love among ourselves.Before speaking about peace and understanding with our neighbors, the Arabs, we have to speak and to act about accomplishing peace and real understanding and brotherhood within ourselves,he added. Ourselves means not just people who live in Israel already, but Jews in the Diaspora as well.Rabbi Lau, who survived the WWII death camps as a child, is known for his emphasis on building connections to secular as well as religious Jews.Rabbi Lau told the Jews in the Diaspora, Please, join us. Come and fulfill the words Next year in rebuilt Jerusalem, to be a real part of the Jewish people in its old new homeland, the State of Israel.I wish for you to be inscribed in the heavens for a good year - from the depth of my heart, Ktiva Va’Hatima Tova, Shana Tova.
Genesis 21:1–34; Genesis 22:1–24
Reading for Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
The Binding of Isaac
And it came to pass after these things, that G-d did test Abraham. And He said to him: Abraham!And he said: Here I am! And He said: Please, take your son, your only son, the one whom you love, Isaac; and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and broke up the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which G-d had told him.Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. And Abraham said to his young men: Stay here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and the knife; and they went both of them together.And Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said,My father! and he said, Here I am, my son.And he said:Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said: G-d will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering, my son.And they went both of them together.And they came to the place which G-d had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
And Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.And an angel of G-d called to him out of heaven, and said: Abraham! Abraham! And he said, Here I am!And he said: Lay not your hand upon the lad, neither do anything to him: for now I know that you do fear G-d, seeing that you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked; and behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in place of his son.And Abraham called the name of that place Adonai-Yireh (G-d will be revealed); as it is said to this day: On the mount G-d will appear.The reading concludes with report of a granddaughter born to Abraham's brother, Nachor, named Rebecca (destined to become Isaac's wife).
Rosh Hashanah, The Jewish New Year, Begins Wednesday Night-The two day New Year Holiday begins tonight and Shabbat Shuva makes it a three day continuum. Arutz Sheva wishes you a good and sweet year.By Arutz Sheva Staff First Publish: 9/28/2011, 12:49 PM
The Jewish People begin the High Holydays on Wednesday evening, ushering in the year 5772 by starting nearly a month of special days: Two days of Rosh Hashanah on Thursday and Friday are this year followed immediately by Shabbat Shuva, the Sabbath of Repentance, and on Sunday by the Fast of Gedaliah.Rosh Hashanah is also the start of the Ten Days of Repentance which culminate with the solemn Fast of Yom Kippur on the tenth day of Tishrei. Special verses about repentance are added to the silent Amidah prayer said three times daily during these ten days.This is Judaism's time for introspection, when Jews look back and examine their actions in the year that has just ended, seeking to improve their observance of the Torah’s commandments directed towards G-d and towards their fellow man. They are expected to ask forgiveness from those they may have offended or hurt during the past year.On the Sabbath of Repentance this Saturday, a special chapter is read from the book of the prophet Hosea, calling the Jewish people to repent and return to G-d. Rabbis traditionally deliver a sermon, drasha, on repentance in the afternoon.The Fast of Gedaliah commemorates the end of Jewish rule in the Land of Israel following the destruction of the First Holy Temple some 2,500 years ago, prompting the sages to say that the end of Jewish independence is comparable in solemnity to Yom Kippur.
The Jewish New Year has several names, among them the Day of Judgment. It is a time for careful stock-taking of one's relationship with G-d, and the longer Rosh Hashanah morning prayers filled with emotion, responsive readings and songs, are therefore intense and inspirational – usually led by a carefully chosen cantor or member of the congregation - concentrating on G-d's Kingship, eternal presence and His judgment of all creatures. Repentance, prayer and charity avert the evil decree is a central line from the Machzor, the special holiday prayer book, listing the course of action that it is hoped will lead to meriting a good year.Upon returning home after the evening prayers, symbolic foods – simanim - are served, whose names allow a play on words that ask for our merits to be numerous, for our enemies to be destroyed, that we lead rather than follow. There are especially sweet ones, such as apples dipped in honey, to symbolize a sweet year.Fruits that require a special Shehecheyanu blessing, said for something new, because they are being eaten for the first time since the previous season, are served on the second night. Pomegranates are often used for this purpose. Traditionally, children wear a new garment for the first time the second night and can say the blessing. Candles are lit both nights, but it is forbidden to light a match on the holiday, so an existing flame is used to kindle them.Based on the commandment in Numbers 29:1, 100 shofar blasts are dramatically sounded throughout the prayers, awakening us to improve our ways. The congregation refrains from speech from the first shofar blasts until the last ones at the end of the service..The Tashlikh prayer is recited on the first afternoon, preferably near a live stream of water in which we ask G-d to throw away our sins.
Many religious Israeli youth spend the holiday at secular kibbutzim to lead the services, volunteer to lead services in the IDF and in hospitals. Breslover Hassidim and others have begun a custom of going to Uman, Ukraine, to pray at the gravesite synagogues of their spiritual leader, Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, who passed away in Tishrei of 1810. Prominent rabbis, however, oppose the idea of leaving the Holy Land to spend Rosh Hashanah in the Diaspora.Five days after Yom Kippur the holiday of Sukkot begins, which in Israel, is seven days long, but is two days longer in the Diaspora, culminating the month of holidays.Arutz Sheva wishes all its readers and the entire Jewish people a sweet and good new year. May we be inscribed in the Book of Life for health and happiness, love of the Land of Israel and true peace.For articles on the meaning of Rosh Hashana, preparing spiritually for the New Year , the three types of shofar blasts and the shofar's symbolism, see Arutz Sheva's Judasim section.News reporting will continue with Arutz Sheva’s reporter writing from Canada until the start of holiday NY time and then resume on Saturday night Israel time with our Israeli reporters.
Judaism: The Shmuz for Rosh Hashana
Published: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 12:56 PM
All of the issues of the coming year are reviewed, assessed, and arbitrated. The entire globe is one multi-dimensional chess game, and the Master maps out the moves.
Rabbi BenZion Shafier
Rosh Hashanah 32b) – Rebbe Abahu taught: The angels asked HASHEM, Why is it that the Jewish nation doesn’t sing Hallel on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur? HASHEM answered them, Is it possible that a king sits on the throne of judgment, with the books of life and death open in front of Him, and the Jewish Nation should sing?
The Molochim’s [angels] position
Molochim have no physical limitations or impediments, and therefore, they see with a brilliant, piercing clarity. They know and understand reality to an extent that we mortals can only dream about. The question then is, why did the Molochim think that the Jewish People should say Hallel on Rosh Hashanah? Isn’t obvious that the solemnity of the day makes it inappropriate to sing? What was the Molochim’s perspective, and what did HASHEM made clear to them?
Issues of the day
The answer to this is based on a different understanding of Rosh Hashanah. The Mishnah tells us that on Rosh Hashanah, Every occupant of the planet stands in front of HASHEM and is judged. Small or great, young or old, from the most prestigious to the most simple, every human being is examined, and his fate for the coming year is decided.But it isn’t just individual lives that are examined. Global issues are also weighed, measured, and determined. Which nation will go to war? Which will enjoy peace? Which lands will enjoy great prosperity and success? Which will suffer? Which new technologies will be brought to the marketplace? Which cures will be discovered? Which diseases will suddenly appear? Which epidemics will spread? Which dictator will refuse arm inspections, even though he doesn’t have weapons of mass destruction? And which will play the game, speaking words of hatred from the United Nations floor? All of the issues of the coming year are reviewed, assessed, and arbitrated. The entire globe is one multi-dimensional chess game, and the Master maps out the moves.The headlines of the New York Times are written on Rosh Hashana and sealed on Yom Kippur. But it isn’t only the headlines of the coming year that are written; every article, feature, and news scoop from the global down to the local is considered, appraised, and deliberated.
Recently, the New York Times reported that it employs 350 full-time reporters and a string of hundreds of freelance contributors spread amongst 53 distinct news bureaus that are divided by local, national, and foreign territories. A single issue of the Times has far more words in it that the entire Tanach. If a person were to read it aloud, it would take him more than 20 hours from front page to back.The reason for this is that there are many, many issues that affect the over six and half billion occupants of this planet. And every one of those issues is judged by HASHEM on Rosh Hashanah. Hurricanes, typhoons, earthquakes, and famine, economic expanse and collapse — even issues as grave as old baseball stadiums being torn down — are judged and decided. The issues of the day are awesome, their magnitude encompassing the breadth of the human experience.We, the Jewish People, are servants of HASHEM, and we are also fans of HASHEM. We are his Chosen Nation, and He is our Master. During the course of the year, we suffer through the insolence and audacity of arrogant people who deny HASHEM’s rule and control over the world, and during this time of year, we revel in the fact that HASHEM sits as the true Judge, meting out the fate of mankind.As such, we should feel a tremendous sense of joy , an outpouring of emotion, as we contemplate the magnificence of the Din. As Rav Dovid Khronglass, ZTL, mashgiach of Ner Israel once commented, On Yom Kippur, if it weren’t for the fear of the Din, I would dance a rikud.That is the natural outpouring of happiness that a person experiences when the Creator is shown in His glory.
Ha’Melech Ha’Kadosh
During these days, we refer to HASHEM in the Shemoneh Esreh as Ha’Melech Ha’Kadosh – the Holy King. The name of HASHEM refers to the way that He manifests Himself in the world. The Mishnah Berurah explains that during this time, HASHEM shows His rule and dominion, so it would be incorrect to refer to HASHEM as HaKel HaKadosh – the Holy G-d, as we normally do. Now it is the holy King.It is also easier to feel HASHEM’s presence, to literally feel like I am standing in front of my Creator and begging, imploring, and beseeching because HASHEM is more accessible now during this time than in the rest of the year.That is the Molochim’s position. From their shining, lucid perspective, they see that there is something missing from the Yom Tov of Rosh Hashanah. We wear Yom Tov clothing, we eat a festive meal, and we bathe and shave in honor of the day. By all rights, Hallel should be a part of the davening, too, yet it is noticeably absent.Why? If we understand the magnitude of the issues being decided on that day, and we are able to envision HASHEM sitting on the throne of justice, meting out exactly what is proper, we should be overcome with a sense of jubilation and wish to sing out with Hallel.
HASHEM’s answer
However, HASHEM answers the Molochim, On a global level it is magnificent, but the judgment is on a personal level as well, Each person must recognize that, My fate for the coming year is being decided. Will I live or die? Will I be healthy or sick? Will I enjoy great prosperity or not? The fate of family, my community, those that I love, and those that depend upon me is being decided. The human race is judged and I too am a human, so it is inappropriate to sing on such a day.
The balanced perspective
Both emotions should be present. I should feel great simcha during these days as I experience HASHEM’s closeness and contemplate the awesomeness of the day. Yet that emotion must be tempered with the understanding that my future, the future of my spouse, the future of my children, my parents, my extended family, and my community is being decided.This balanced perspective allows us to experience great simcha during this time period mixed with the awe and solemnity appropriate for this time.
May HASHEM grant us a sweet, good year with health, happiness and success in all of our endeavors
Judaism: Video Series: Preparing for the New Year
Published: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 11:22 AM
Lessons for the New Year: To say sorry to those we've harmed; to forgive those who have harmed; to avoid anger --and more.Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks
The sound of selichot. Of saying sorry. The special prayers we say at this time of the year as we come close to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the Jewish new year and the day of atonement. And there's something so powerful about the ability to say sorry.Out there in secular society we live in a non penitential culture. When was the last time you heard a politician say, I'm sorry. Or a rabbi, say, I got it wrong. Or a pundit say, I made a mistake.Yet we're always getting things wrong. That's what it is to be human. So to be able to say, I'm sorry, I was wrong, forgive me, is important. It's a moment of honesty in a lifetime of keeping up appearances; of trying to look infallible. And I can say sorry to God because I know he forgives me. I know that because that's the kind of God he is. That's why he gave us Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. So try saying sorry to God. It might just help you, as it's helped me, say sorry to the people I've hurt. Saying sorry is the superglue of interpersonal life. It mends relationships that would otherwise be broken beyond repair. You won't be sorry that you said, I'm sorry.Think of what could happen in some of the most intractable conflicts of the world if both sides could acknowledge the pain they’ve caused one another; if they could accept responsibility instead of saying, it was your fault; if they could truly face and forgive one another. Improbable, yes. But impossible? No.
To say sorry to those we’ve harmed and to forgive those who’ve harmed us is the most difficult moral challenge in the world. But they alone have the power to heal the wounds of the past and build a better future together.
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To be free...you have to learn to forgive -Have compassion on your works. Forgive. That's what we say on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and the days between. But it cuts both ways. We can't ask God to forgive us if we don't forgive others. We have to forgive those who've offended us, however hard it is, because life is too short to feel resentment. Lo tikom velo titor, says the Torah. Don't bear a grudge and don't take revenge. At the end of his life Moses said to the Israelites, Don't despise an Egyptian, because you were strangers in his land. Strangers in his land? They persecuted the Israelites, enslaved them, tried to kill half their children. Don't despise them? They were despicable. But what Moses was saying was: if you continue to hate, you will still be slaves: slaves to the past and your resentment. If you want to be free you have to let go of hate. And that's still true. Our energies are too precious to waste on a past we can't undo. No one can offend me without my permission, and I refuse to give bad people the victory of knowing I care about what they say or do. On these holy days, we have to let go of hate. We have to forgive. And we will then travel lighter through life, with less grief, more joy.
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Don't Get Angry
In wrath remember mercy. So we pray when we say selichot or tachanun. And what a line that is. Did you ever lose your temper with someone, say something in anger you shouldn't have said? Did you ever make someone cry? There's something about anger that makes it the most destructive of the emotions.Maimonides said: in most things follow the middle way but not in anger. Even a little bit of anger is bad news for you and those around you. They used to say about one of the Lubavitcher rebbes that whenever he felt as if he were about to be angry he'd get out several volumes of Talmud and jewish law and look up if it were permissible to be angry on such an occasion; and by the time he'd done all that research how could he be angry any more?
Berogez rachem tizkor. In the coming year, when you feel angry, that's the time to remember mercy. Kindness achieves what anger never can.
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Judaism: Shofar Sounds
Published: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 8:39 AM
Every commandment of the Torah is multi-faceted and we do ourselves and our faith a disservice if we deal with the Torah simply and naively.Rabbi Berel Wein
The sounds of the shofar as heard on Rosh Hashana are of three different types and qualities. These sounds are regulated by halachic standards though regarding the sound of the shevarim there are different customs that prevail as to how the three short blasts of the shofar should be sounded.But the basic sounds – a long straight sound which is the tekiah; a sound of three short wails that is the shevarim; and a staccato sound of nine very short blasts that is the teruah – are accepted throughout the Jewish world as being the accepted and correct notes of the shofar.
Over the centuries much has been written about the significance of these sounds of the shofar. Halakha defines what the sounds should be and how they should be sounded. However Jewish thought expands upon the basic halachic requirements giving meaning and depth to the halakhic requirements in terms of metaphor and guidance.
Thus every sound that emanates from the horn of the shofar conveys to us a further moral lesson as to our lives and behavior. We must always realize that every commandment of the Torah is multi-faceted and we do ourselves and our faith a disservice if we deal with the Torah simply and naively. A knowledgeable Jew is always a sophisticated person who is able to see things below the obvious reality of the surface words and appreciate the infinite wisdom and complexity of God’s Torah.
One can never assume that one understands Torah completely but neither can one absolve one’s self of the duty to pursue the meaning of Torah to its humanly possible ultimate.The tekiah with its long straight sound indicates the serenity in life that is so necessary for productive human and family life. It also indicates discipline and consistency. These are the items that constitute a successful and happy Jewish family and home. Children raised in a home of serenity, peace, discipline and consistency grow up to be people of self-worth and proud Jews. The presence of the Shabat day in our weekly lives introduces us to this supreme trait of serenity in a home. Shabat is one long twenty five hour tekiah.
That may also help explain why on Shabat the shofar is not sounded – Shabat itself, so to speak, becomes the shofar, certainly at least the tekiah part of the ceremonial sounding of the shofar. Its serenity and consistency sets the tone for the entire week and thus for all of our lives. It is not for naught that Jewish halacha views the observance of the Shabat as the basic identifying characteristic of a Jew’s relationship to the observance of Judaism and Jewish law and tradition.
The laws of halakha regarding the sounding of the shofar also demand that all of the other notes sounded must have a tekiah to proceed it and to succeed it. The tekiah – the serenity and consistency traits of human life – is the bookends of all Jewish life. It comes first and it comes last. Without it the other notes are relatively meaningless.The shevarim represents the times of trouble, the wails that emanate from us when failure, tragedy and seemingly insurmountable problems loom before us. The wail from the human heart is a sound that is heard in Heaven. Perhaps the reason that there are different customs allowed by halakhic practice regarding the shevarim sound is because no two human beings wail alike.Each tear in life is unique to the one who has shed it. The rabbis have taught us that our tears are stored, so to speak, in Heaven and counted by the Almighty. The Jewish people have shed an ocean of tears over our long history but those tears have congealed to become the foundation stone of our personal lives and our national existence. We cannot pass through this life without shevarim. But we can build upon those very sounds of wailing to construct a better future for all of us. The teruah is a call to action, to accomplishment, ingenuity and industry. It signals that passivity is unacceptable if the Jewish mission is to be realized. The short staccato sounds remind us that progress is often slow, step by step. The rabbis in Avot taught us that it is not for us to complete the work but we are not absolved from attempting to achieve the ultimate goal of holiness and goodness.Redemption and self-improvement are processes and not necessarily a miraculous and sudden epiphany. We sound the shevarim and teruah consecutively in part of the shofar service to indicate that after troubles and even tragedy, resilience and positive action is required. Thus the sounds of the shofar come to point our way towards a serene, disciplined and active year that will be filled only with wails of joy and happiness.
Judaism: The Dual Call of the Shofar
Published: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 11:23 AM
The shofar is the tool that helps us in seeking out God with the mind and calling to Him with the heart.HaRav Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook
The central mitzvah of Rosh Hashanah is to hear the blasts of the shofar. The ram's horn is blown twice during the holiday service: first, immediately before the Musaf prayer, and a second time during the Musaf prayer. Why do we need two sets of shofar blasts?
Teshuvah of the Mind and Heart
The prophet Isaiah taught those who wish to return to God:Seek out God when He is found. Call out to Him when He is near. (Isaiah 55:6)What is the difference between these two aspects of teshuvah - seeking out God and calling out to Him? First it is necessary to seek out God.We need to restore the soul's inner light, dimmed by character faults and misdeeds.Before losing our way, we felt a joy in serving God. We recognized God's greatness and were delighted with the opportunity to study His Torah and fulfill His mitzvot. Sin, however, darkens the mind and numbs the heart, causing us to lose the wonderful revelations from God's immanence.Therefore, the first stage of teshuvah is to "seek out God" - an intellectual striving to recover our former enlightenment and restore our joy in knowing God and His ways.The second area that must be repaired is in the realm of the emotions, to restore the lost feeling of God's closeness and protection, the perception of Divine favor in material and spiritual matters. To recover this loss, we must call out to God and reach out to Him in prayer. We need to overcome our emotional estrangement and restore our sense of God's intimacy.
Focus the Mind, Open the Heart
The shofar is the tool that helps us accomplish both of these goals, seeking out God with the mind and calling to Him with the heart.The first set of blasts is blown before praying the Rosh Hashanah Musaf prayer. They are called tekiyot demeyushav, blasts while sitting, as they correspond to the teshuvah of the mind: a composed and thoughtful introspection on our insignificance and God's infinite greatness. Demeyushav comes from the Hebrew word for sitting - yeshivah - which also means an academy of Torah learning. These blasts inspire us to contemplate God and His ways, to seek out God where He is found.The second set of shofar blasts takes place during the Musaf prayer. These blasts are called tekiyot deme'umad, blasts while standing. They are an integral part of the prayer service. Deme'umad comes from the Hebrew word for standing - amidah - which is also the name of the central prayer, recited while standing. These shofar blasts are like prayer; they are an emotional service of God that fills us with awe and humility. They remind us to reconnect to God with our hearts, to feel His closeness and protection, to call out to Him when He is near.
(Silver from the Land of Israel. Adapted from Midbar Shur, pp. 56-58. Sent to Arutz Sheva by Rabbi Chanan Morrison of Mitzpeh Yericho, author of "Gold From the Land of Israel". His website, ravkooktorah.org, is dedicated to presenting the Torah commentary of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook)
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Chief Rabbi to Diaspora Jews: Good and Sweet Year - Why Both?-Rabbi Yona Metzger greets Diaspora Jewry, asks why Jewish people wish each other both a good year and a sweet year on Rosh Hashanah.By Elad Benari & Uzi Baruch First Publish: 9/28/2011, 12:50 PM
In honor of the Jewish New Year, the Rosh Hashanah holiday, Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Yona Metzger, sent the traditional greeting of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel to Jews living in the Diaspora.In our tradition, we always take an apple, dip it in honey, and we say that we shall have a good year and a sweet year, Rabbi Metzger said.The question is why do we take the apple, that is sweet in and of itself, and dip it in another sweet thing – the honey? Wouldn’t it be better to take the maror (bitterherb) from Pesach or an onion and dip that in the honey?" Then the bitter or sharp taste would become sweeter.The answer to this question, explained Rabbi Metzger - in true Talmudic form, where one question always leads to another - is actually found in the answer to another question.Why do we say that we shall have a good year and a sweet year? he said. If you say good year,it’s the same as saying Mazal Tov (good luck) at a Bar Mitzvah or a wedding. We don’t wish people both good luck and sweet luck. So why is it necessary to add sweet to the wish for a good year?
The rabbi explained that the answer is that not everything that is good is also sweet, and vice versa. If one is told to have surgery, it may be a good thing to do, but it is not a sweet one. If one enjoys overeating or smoking, for example, that may seem sweet, but it is certainly not good.Therefore, the apple symbolizes the good year and the honey symbolizes the sweet year,he said.So I want to bless you with both - that G-d sends you and gives you a good as well as a sweet year.The people of Israel and the land of Israel are now surrounded by problems. We don’t know what G-d's intentions are and what will happen in all those [Arab] countries that had demonstrations, some of which succeeded, and what our relationship with them will be. We have to pray that everything that happens around us will be good for the people of Israel and the land of Israel.If we are strong here, and if G-d keeps us and protects us, you will be safe as well. Shana Tova U’Metuka - a sweet and good year - to all of you.
Former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Lau: First of All, Peace Among Us-Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau in a greeting for Rosh Hashanah: Before we make peace with our neighbors we need to make peace among ourselves.By A7 Staff First Publish: 9/28/2011, 12:50 PM
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Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, the Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv and formerly the Chief Rabbi of Israel, issued a personal blessing to readers and viewers of Arutz Sheva in honor of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.The rabbi expressed his appreciation of Arutz Sheva, which, he said, personifies the three ideals that the first Chief Rabbi of Israel, HaRav Avraham Yitschak Hacohen Kook, said were inherently intertwined: preservation of the Jewish people, their Torah and their Land, Israel.Rabbi Lau continued: We are at the doorstep of a new year, praying to the Lord Almighty for peace, for friendship, for love among ourselves.Before speaking about peace and understanding with our neighbors, the Arabs, we have to speak and to act about accomplishing peace and real understanding and brotherhood within ourselves,he added. Ourselves means not just people who live in Israel already, but Jews in the Diaspora as well.Rabbi Lau, who survived the WWII death camps as a child, is known for his emphasis on building connections to secular as well as religious Jews.Rabbi Lau told the Jews in the Diaspora, Please, join us. Come and fulfill the words Next year in rebuilt Jerusalem, to be a real part of the Jewish people in its old new homeland, the State of Israel.I wish for you to be inscribed in the heavens for a good year - from the depth of my heart, Ktiva Va’Hatima Tova, Shana Tova.
ISRAEL CAN BUILD ON THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND
ISRAEL
Whose Promised Land? Psalm 78:54-55 (ISRAELS)
54 And He brought them to His holy border, This mountain which His right hand had acquired.
55 He also drove out the nations before them,Allotted them an inheritance by survey, And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.
ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE
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DEUTERONOMY 7:7-8
7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people;(ISRAEL) for ye were the fewest of all people:
8 But because the LORD loved you,(ISRAEL) and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
ZECHARIAH 2:8
8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
JEREMIAH 3:14
14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you:(ISRAEL) and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
ISAIAH 42:1
1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect,(ISRAEL) in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
ISAIAH 45:4
4 For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
ISAIAH 65:9,22
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
ISAIAH 56:5
5 Even unto them (ISRAELIS) will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name,(ISRAEL) that shall not be cut off.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
2ND DAY OF ROSH HASHANA IN ISRAEL TODAY AT 6PM.
ISRAEL HAS A RIGHT TO BUILD ON THEIR OWN LAND.THIS AMAZES ME HOW THE WORLD DEMAND ISRAEL QUIT BUILDING ON THEIR OWN LAND.
Israel rejects criticism of new Jerusalem housing
APBy IAN DEITCH - Associated Press | AP – SEPT 28,11
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government on Wednesday rejected international criticism of its decision to build 1,100 new Jewish housing units in east Jerusalem, claiming the plans do not hinder peace efforts with the Palestinians.Israel announced Tuesday that it had given the green light for the new construction in the Jewish neighborhood of Gilo in southeast Jerusalem. The Palestinians condemned the plan, and the U.S., European Union and United Nations all swiftly expressed their disappointment over the settlements, which raised already heightened tensions after last week's Palestinian move to seek U.N. membership.In every peace plan that has been put on the table over the last 18 years, Gilo remains an integral part of Jewish Jerusalem, said Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. There is no contradiction between this planning decision and the government's desire to move forward in peace toward two states for two peoples.Gilo is not a settlement, nor is it an outpost, Gilo is a neighborhood in the very heart of Jerusalem, only about a 5 minute drive from the very center of town.The Palestinians have demanded that Israel halt all settlement construction in east Jerusalem, which the Palestinians claim as their future capital, and the adjacent West Bank — territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war — as a condition for resuming peace talks.
Since capturing east Jerusalem, Israel has annexed the area and ringed it with about 10 Jewish enclaves that are meant to solidify its control. Gilo, which is close to the Palestinian city of Bethlehem, is among the largest, with about 50,000 residents. Israel's annexation of east Jerusalem has not been internationally recognized.Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, said Tuesday after the Israeli housing announcement that the decision amounted to 1,100 no's to the resumption of peace talks.With peace negotiations stalled for the past three years, the Palestinians last week asked the U.N. Security Council to recognize an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza Strip.The U.S. has vowed to veto the Palestinian request in the Security Council. Both Israel and the U.S. say a Palestinian state can be established only through negotiations.
The fate of east Jerusalem is the most explosive issue in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The sector is home to Jerusalem's Old City, which houses sensitive Jewish, Muslim and Christian holy sites.Netanyahu says he will never relinquish east Jerusalem, which Israel considers an integral part of its capital. The Palestinian leadership has vowed it will not accept a state without key parts of east Jerusalem as its capital.In all, about 200,000 Jews live in east Jerusalem areas that Israel calls neighborhoods and the Palestinians call settlements. Squeezed between them are Arab neighborhoods that are home to some 250,000 Palestinians.Also Wednesday, Israeli authorities said that Palestinian assailants are to blame for a car crash that killed an Israeli father and his infant son in the West Bank last week on the eve of the Palestinian bid for recognition at the United Nations.Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the investigation found that the Israeli man lost control of his car after he was hit in the head by a stone. Palestinian youths regularly throw stones at Israeli cars in the West Bank.The crash was initially thought to have been an accident.
UN Council buys time on Palestine membership bid
AFPAFP – SEPT 28,11
The UN Security Council on Wednesday pushed back a decision on the Palestinian bid to join the United Nations in a move that will give more time to international efforts to revive direct talks.But UN envoys for the two foes wrangled over who is to blame for the latest year-old negotiations deadlock, with diplomats warning both sides are hardening their positions.The 15-member Security Council sent the bid made by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas last Friday to a special membershp committee to give its verdict.A full session of the council met for barely two minutes in the first public discussion of the bid that the United States has vowed to veto when it comes to a vote.Unless I hear a proposal to the contrary I shall send the application of Palestine to the committee on new members, said Lebanon's UN ambassador Nawaf Salam, president of the council for September. No comments were made and Salam hurriedly brought the gavel down to get the meeting over.The membership committee, made up of all 15 council nations, will hold its first meeting on Friday.Abbas was given a standing ovation in the UN General Assembly last Friday after making the historic application.The United States and Israel, strongly opposing the bid, say only direct Israel-Palestinian talks can create a Palestinian state.The diplomatic Quartet on the Middle East -- the United States, Russia, European Union and United Nations -- has since launched a new campaign to get the two sides back into talks with a set timetable.Palestinians ended US-brokered talks one year ago when Israel ended a moratorium on settlement construction in the occupied territories. Israel's approval of another 1,100 homes in East Jerusalem has further infuriated the Palestinian leadership.
Palestinian envoy to the UN, Riyad Mansour, called the construction offensive, provocative and illegal and 1,100 answers to thwart the efforts to revive talks.He said it was a clear answer by the Israeli government to the Quartet, to negotiation and to the refusal to abide by the global consensus on the fact that settlements are an illegal obstacle to peace.Ron Prosor, Israel's UN ambassador, said the Palestinians are using every pretext in order not to find a reason not to go into negotiations.Is it easy, the answer is no. Is it frustrating -- yes. Do we have sleepless nights, yes. But at the end of the day that is the only way forward,he said of the talks process.When asked about the approval of new settlements, Prosor said Israel was ready to negotiate on Jerusalem with other final status topics.
Israeli officials have signalled a hardline on East Jerusalem however and Prosor told reporters: Jerusalem, I would like to stress, that is the capital of the Jewish people. This is our heart. Jerusalem, if I may say so, was the capital of the Jewish people when London was still a swamp.The ambassador acknowledged that Israel is working with the United States to get Security Council members to oppose or abstain in any vote on Palestinian membership.Yes we are both working, and truthfully, on both sides to have a bloc of countries that basically would say ladies and gentlemen go back to direct negotiations, sit down and talk this thing with each other,the ambassador told reporters.The Palestinians are also sending high level delegations to council members such as Gabon, Bosnia and Nigeria.
Ashton shows pro-Palestinian side at EU parliament
Today SEPT 28,11 @ 09:16 By Andrew Rettman
EU foreign relations chief Catherine Ashton showed her pro-Palestinian sympathies at the European Parliament on Tuesday (27 September) as MEPs get set to back the UN upgrade.She began the meeting in Strasbourg with a formal statement against Israel's new decision to build 1,100 Jewish housing units on Palestinian land at its Gilo settlement.This plan should be reversed. Settlement activity threatens the viability of an agreed two-state solution and runs contrary to the Israeli stated commitment to resume negotiations, she said.She later added on a personal note: I have condemned settlement activity every time it was announced - I have made six statements this year, plus one Quartet [a joint EU, Russia, UN and US body] statement plus the comment today ... Each time I have met him [Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu] I have told him settlements are illegal under international law.
She also praised Palestinian leaders Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad: They are people who hold the values we hold dear in their hearts. They believe in the values we hold ... I believe Israel could do no better than negotiate with them.Pro-Israeli countries such as the Netherlands have said Ashton is not a neutral broker in talks on whether the EU should back Palestine's bid to join the UN. Her own officials say she was deeply affected by Palestinian hardships on recent visits to Gaza and the West Bank.MEPs will on Thursday vote on a draft resolution which says the EU assembly: Supports and calls on member states to be united in addressing the legitimate demand of the Palestinian people to be represented as a state at the United Nations.The text already has the backing of the socialist, liberal, green and far-left groups. The language is designed to accommodate various opinions - socialists say Palestine should get full UN membership, while liberals say they should become a non-member state.The biggest group, the centre-right EPP, is still making up its mind. But senior EPP figures, such as German deputy Hans-Gert Poettering and Dutch member Ria Oomen-Ruijten, spoke up for Palestine in the plenary debate.Meanwhile, EU countries have voiced clear divisions at the UN in New York over the past week. Ten (Belgium, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Spain and Sweden) are on the pro-upgrade side. Five (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Italy, Romania and the UK) have indicated they would vote No. The rest are keeping quiet.Provocative of Israel to announce new settlements in East Jerusalem now. Clearly contrary to Middle East peace Quartet demand, Swedish foreign minister Carl Bldt tweeted on Tuesday.For his part, Netanyahu in an interview with the Jerusalem Post the same day showed little interest in what the EU thinks. We plan in Jerusalem. We build in Jerusalem. Period. The same way Israeli governments have been doing for years - since the end of the 1967 war,he said.
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD REGIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
Parliament approves economic governance six-pack
Today SEPT 28,11 @ 17:43 By Leigh Phillips
After almost a year since the European Commission first proposed a package of laws radically centralising economic decision-making in the European Union, the legislative process approving the so-called ‘six-pack’ of bills has finally come to an end with the European Parliament giving its assent on Wednesday (28 September).
Aiming to prevent future sovereign debt crises, the six-pack gives the European Commission new powers to slap fines on countries that flout rules on racking up high public debts and deficits.The parliament emerged largely victorious in its battle with the member states, and in particular France, to give the EU executive the power to impose sanctions that can only be blocked by a majority of votes amongst eurozone states.A majority of MEPs in the conservative-dominated chamber worried that requiring approval by the Council before warnings could be issued to a country would lead to back-room deals in which countries needing to reform their budgetary policies would be let off the hook.In the end, a country warning will be issued if a vote in the Council is not taken within 10 days of a commission notice. If the Council decides to overturn the commission’s decision, they will now have to appear before the European Parliament and defend their rejection in public.The chamber also won the right to request the presence of finance ministers from countries that have received a warning to a dressing down in the parliament.The vote in the full sitting of the chamber however was close, as parties on the left voted against or abstained on some aspects of the package, believing there to be insufficient balance between market requirements and social needs.The left however did win a victory via the parliament’s insistence that the commission consider not merely countries with high trade deficits, but also those running current-account surpluses.Germany and the Netherlands have crowed that such imbalances result from their successful economic management and should not need investigation. However, some economists argue that the core of Europe has engaged in mercantilist policies that are the flip-side of heavy debts in the eurozone periphery and are every bit as dangerous.
The president of the parliament, conservative Polish MEP Jerzy Buzek cheered the result, declaring: We have developed a powerful and resistant armour against any future crisis,Liberal MEP Sylvie Goulard, one of the deputies to shepherd the legislation through the house, said that the bloc needed to go further still in terms of economic integration.This is not the end of the story. We will need to take further steps. But we have built a new system with this package today which will allow the EU institutions to work better together and will increase transparency, she said.The Socialists spokesman for economic affairs, Udo Bullmann, said that the vote today would have drastic consequences for European citizens.We think there exists another path out of the crisis. The reform is an austerity pact ... that leaves no margin of manoeuvre for EU states for intelligent spending and targeted investment. Some 78 civil society organisations including anti-poverty NGOs and trade unions issued an open letter on Wednesday denouncing the moves as anti-democratic.The proposals will enable EU institutions to make decisions on member states' budgets, economic policy priorities as well as on labour and social rights with little democratic debate, or accountability, the signatories, including France’s CGT union, UK-based Tax Justice Network and Attac Denmark, to the letter said.
EU hushes talk of multi-trillion bail-out ahead of German vote Today SEPT 28,11 @ 09:29 By Leigh Phillips
European politicians are trying to avoid too much talk of a multi-trillion-euro revamp of the eurozone’s crisis strategy ahead of a crunch vote in the German parliament, with the German finance minister denying plans for such an increase to the bail-out fund and French ministers saying it is necessary to stay quiet until after the vote.On Tuesday, German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told N-TV: We do not intend to increase it, and separately called such moves stupid.I don't understand how anyone in the European Commission can have such a stupid idea. The result would be to endanger the AAA sovereign debt ratings of other member states. It makes no sense, he said.It is understood that European leaders are considering a plan to leverage the European Financial Stability Fund via the European Central Bank. The sums mentioned are in the range of €2 trillion, although sources have told EUobserver, the figures are still in flux and that more than one option is on the table.Meanwhile, changes strengthening the EFSF agreed by eurozone leaders in July have yet to be approved by the Bundestag. A vote is scheduled for Thursday.
French finance minister Francois Baroin for his part said that a public discussion of the issue could not happen before Germany votes
It is out of the question to put forward, three days from the Bundestag (lower house) vote, the issue of whether we should increase the fund, he said.Let's not open Pandora's box on something that is a red flag for Germany.Meanwhile, Prime Minister Francois Fillon told the French parliament that plans to tackle speculative attacks would be unveiled after the German vote.A straw poll amongst MPs from German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU and sister party in the CSU group in the chamber showed how tight the vote could be.Some 11 MPs voted against moves to alter the EFSF’s rules, according to a report from Reuters, while two abstained. The news agency quoted unnamed sources that predicted between two and five nays from the coalition’s Free Democrat junior partner and a further six abstentions. If 19 deputies vote against or abstain, Merkel will have to depend on opposition Social Democrat and Green votes, a development that could fatally wound the Merkel administration.Separately, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou travelled to Berlin to meet with his German counterpart and delivered a rousing speech to German industrial leaders in an attempt to rally spirits in the key European economy.I promise you, we Greeks will soon fight our way back to growth and prosperity after this period of pain,he told the Federation of German Industries.The eurozone must now take bold steps toward fiscal integration to stabilise the monetary union. Let's not allow those who are betting against the euro to succeed,he said.Merkel for her part stressed that Berlin will not abandon Athens: We will provide all the help desired from the German side so that Greece regains trust.If the stability of the euro is at stake - and the experience of the last few years shows that the difficulties of one country endanger our common currency – then that obliges us to show solidarity within the common currency.We want a strong Greece in the eurozone… Germany is ready to give all the help that is required.
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
WW3 COMPLETE HAPPENINGS
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NUKES WILL BE USED IN WW3
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AMOS 9:10
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
Iran plans to send ships close to US waters: report
AFPAFP – Tue, Sep 27, 2011
Iran's navy is going to deploy ships close to US territorial waters, its commander in chief was quoted as saying on Tuesday.As the global oppression (the US) is present not far from our maritime border ... our navy is going to have a strong presence not far from US territorial waters, the Irna news agency quoted Admiral Habibollah Sayyari as saying.On July 19 Sayyari also said that Iran was going to send a flotilla into the Atlantic.The remarks come as another high-ranking Iranian appeared to reject a recent US request to establish a red phone link between the countries to avoid unwanted confrontation between their armed forces in the Gulf region.When we are in the Gulf of Mexico, we will establish direct contact with the United States, Ali Fadavi, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, was quoted in press reports as saying.In the view of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the presence of the US in the Persian Gulf is illegitimate and makes no sense.The Iranian navy has been developing its presence in international waters since last year, regularly launching vessels in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden to protect Iranian ships from Somali pirates operating in the area.Iran also sent two ships into the Mediterranean for the first time in February, via the Suez Canal, to the annoyance of Israel and the United States.And in July, leaders announced that a Kilo class submarine had completed an inaugural mission in the southern Indian Ocean and the Red Sea.
Iran says it delivers new cruise missiles to navy
APBy ALI AKBAR DAREINI - Associated Press | AP – SEPT 28,11
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran said Wednesday it has begun large-scale production of a domestically-developed cruise missile designed for sea-based targets and capable of destroying warships.Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi said an unspecified number of the missiles, called Ghader, or Capable in Farsi, were delivered to the Iranian military and the powerful Revolutionary Guard's naval division, which is assigned to protect Iran's sea borders.Vahidi said the missile, which has a range of 124 miles (200 kilometers), can travel at low altitudes and "can sink giant warships. The comments appeared to suggest that the new missile could potentially counter the U.S. naval presence in the Persian Gulf.The West is already concerned about Iran's military capabilities, especially the implications of the country's disputed nuclear program. The U.S. and some of its allies, and as the U.N. nuclear agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency, fear that Iran is trying to produce a nuclear weapon. Tehran denies the charges.Iran's growing arsenal includes short and medium range ballistic missiles that are capable of hitting targets in the region such as Israel and U.S. military bases in the Gulf.Iran frequently makes announcements about new advances in military technology that cannot be independently verified.Iran began a military self-sufficiency program in 1992, under which it produces a large range of weapons, including tanks, missiles, jet fighters, unmanned drone aircraft and torpedoes.
EU pushes for global financial trading tax
APBy PAN PYLAS - AP Business Writer | AP – SEPT 28,11
LONDON (AP) — Taxing financial trades has been touted as a panacea for all kinds of global ills, a cash source to fight poverty and global warming. But the latest European attempt to introduce a worldwide standard 40 years after it was first conceived is facing stiff opposition from the U.S. and Britain.Jose Manuel Barroso, the president of the EU's executive arm, on Wednesday threw his weight behind the tax that his office estimated could raise euro57 billion ($77 billion) a year in Europe to help combat a debt crisis that is threatening the euro currency.In the last three years, member states have granted aid and provided guarantees of euro4.6 trillion to the financial sector,Barroso said.It is time for the financial sector to make a contribution back to society.The tax would be a tiny percentage of the value of a trade in assets like stocks and bonds. Although some countries already have a minimal duty on share trading, the new proposal would not only increase the scope and size of the tax but also siphon off some revenue to Brussels.The European Commission has formally backed the tax to take effect from January 2014.As a result of the financial crisis in 2008 and the ensuing recession, debt levels across Europe, and not just in the bailed out countries of Greece, Ireland and Portugal, have risen sharply. Across the 27-nation EU, debt as a percentage of national income has spiked from below 60 percent in 2007 to 80 percent this year.
Though the tax could dent growth and employment, it has won a fair degree of support across the 17-country eurozone, including France and Germany, the EU's two biggest economies.Britain, however, has been adamantly against it unless it is used on a global basis. Its opinion carries weight in the debate because London is the continent's biggest financial center.The argument made by the likes of George Osborne, Britain's finance chief, and echoed last week by his counterpart in the U.S. Timothy Geithner is that the tax just won't work if it's not introduced globally. If it's not, investors can move money quickly to where the tax doesn't need to be paid, saving themselves potentially large sums of money in financial trades.Howard Wheeldon, a senior strategist at BGC Partners, said it's a bad idea to have a trades tax now, especially since many banks are still trying to meet new requirements to beef up capital buffers.The timing is inappropriate; it's something to look at in a few years time, Wheeldon said.Even if Britain and the U.S. decide to opt out, it is possible that the eurozone countries, or at least some of them, may go it alone.I think the eurozone or number of member states would go ahead and do it, and would start it at a low enough level to answer political objections,said Sony Kapoor, managing director of Re-Define, an economic think tank.Some activists campaigning for the tax worry the money may be used solely to fix the world's financial difficulties. They say a large chunk of the revenues should be used for other important issues, such as reducing poverty or fighting global warming.Oxfam International, a long-time proponent of the tax, lauded the European Commission's support ahead of the October 17-18 summit of EU leaders and the Group of 20 meeting of the leaders from the top industrial and developing nations.
The financial transaction tax is moving from rhetoric to reality but a significant part of the revenues should be used as Bill Gates suggested, to help poor countries facing chilling reductions in aid, trade, and investment — not just shore up the EU budget,said Nicolas Mombrial, Oxfam International's EU policy advisor. The multibillionaire Microsoft founder has been commissioned by the G-20 to produce a report on development financing and is considering the potential of the tax.Oxfam's Mombrial also argues that the rate of the tax should be higher than the 0.1 percent levy on shares and bonds proposed by the EU.It's clear that higher rates are perfectly feasible and would raise more money to tackle poverty, Mombrial said, noting that a 0.5 percent tax already applies to share trades in the U.K.The motivations behind the tax are a long way from the designs of Nobel Prize laureate James Tobin, who first made his proposal for the flat tax on currency transactions in the early 1970s when U.S. President Richard Nixon ended the dollar's convertibility to gold and effectively brought an end to the global currency system that had prevailed since World War II.Tobin said at the time that the tax would help limit instability arising from a world of floating exchange rates.Financial transaction taxes, appropriately designed, can not only raise substantial revenue but also enhance stability by discouraging destabilizing trading that serves little economic purpose,Re-Define's Kapoor said.
Whose Promised Land? Psalm 78:54-55 (ISRAELS)
54 And He brought them to His holy border, This mountain which His right hand had acquired.
55 He also drove out the nations before them,Allotted them an inheritance by survey, And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.
ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0&feature=player_embedded
DEUTERONOMY 7:7-8
7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people;(ISRAEL) for ye were the fewest of all people:
8 But because the LORD loved you,(ISRAEL) and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
ZECHARIAH 2:8
8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
JEREMIAH 3:14
14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you:(ISRAEL) and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
ISAIAH 42:1
1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect,(ISRAEL) in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
ISAIAH 45:4
4 For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
ISAIAH 65:9,22
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
ISAIAH 56:5
5 Even unto them (ISRAELIS) will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name,(ISRAEL) that shall not be cut off.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
2ND DAY OF ROSH HASHANA IN ISRAEL TODAY AT 6PM.
ISRAEL HAS A RIGHT TO BUILD ON THEIR OWN LAND.THIS AMAZES ME HOW THE WORLD DEMAND ISRAEL QUIT BUILDING ON THEIR OWN LAND.
Israel rejects criticism of new Jerusalem housing
APBy IAN DEITCH - Associated Press | AP – SEPT 28,11
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government on Wednesday rejected international criticism of its decision to build 1,100 new Jewish housing units in east Jerusalem, claiming the plans do not hinder peace efforts with the Palestinians.Israel announced Tuesday that it had given the green light for the new construction in the Jewish neighborhood of Gilo in southeast Jerusalem. The Palestinians condemned the plan, and the U.S., European Union and United Nations all swiftly expressed their disappointment over the settlements, which raised already heightened tensions after last week's Palestinian move to seek U.N. membership.In every peace plan that has been put on the table over the last 18 years, Gilo remains an integral part of Jewish Jerusalem, said Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. There is no contradiction between this planning decision and the government's desire to move forward in peace toward two states for two peoples.Gilo is not a settlement, nor is it an outpost, Gilo is a neighborhood in the very heart of Jerusalem, only about a 5 minute drive from the very center of town.The Palestinians have demanded that Israel halt all settlement construction in east Jerusalem, which the Palestinians claim as their future capital, and the adjacent West Bank — territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war — as a condition for resuming peace talks.
Since capturing east Jerusalem, Israel has annexed the area and ringed it with about 10 Jewish enclaves that are meant to solidify its control. Gilo, which is close to the Palestinian city of Bethlehem, is among the largest, with about 50,000 residents. Israel's annexation of east Jerusalem has not been internationally recognized.Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, said Tuesday after the Israeli housing announcement that the decision amounted to 1,100 no's to the resumption of peace talks.With peace negotiations stalled for the past three years, the Palestinians last week asked the U.N. Security Council to recognize an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza Strip.The U.S. has vowed to veto the Palestinian request in the Security Council. Both Israel and the U.S. say a Palestinian state can be established only through negotiations.
The fate of east Jerusalem is the most explosive issue in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The sector is home to Jerusalem's Old City, which houses sensitive Jewish, Muslim and Christian holy sites.Netanyahu says he will never relinquish east Jerusalem, which Israel considers an integral part of its capital. The Palestinian leadership has vowed it will not accept a state without key parts of east Jerusalem as its capital.In all, about 200,000 Jews live in east Jerusalem areas that Israel calls neighborhoods and the Palestinians call settlements. Squeezed between them are Arab neighborhoods that are home to some 250,000 Palestinians.Also Wednesday, Israeli authorities said that Palestinian assailants are to blame for a car crash that killed an Israeli father and his infant son in the West Bank last week on the eve of the Palestinian bid for recognition at the United Nations.Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the investigation found that the Israeli man lost control of his car after he was hit in the head by a stone. Palestinian youths regularly throw stones at Israeli cars in the West Bank.The crash was initially thought to have been an accident.
UN Council buys time on Palestine membership bid
AFPAFP – SEPT 28,11
The UN Security Council on Wednesday pushed back a decision on the Palestinian bid to join the United Nations in a move that will give more time to international efforts to revive direct talks.But UN envoys for the two foes wrangled over who is to blame for the latest year-old negotiations deadlock, with diplomats warning both sides are hardening their positions.The 15-member Security Council sent the bid made by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas last Friday to a special membershp committee to give its verdict.A full session of the council met for barely two minutes in the first public discussion of the bid that the United States has vowed to veto when it comes to a vote.Unless I hear a proposal to the contrary I shall send the application of Palestine to the committee on new members, said Lebanon's UN ambassador Nawaf Salam, president of the council for September. No comments were made and Salam hurriedly brought the gavel down to get the meeting over.The membership committee, made up of all 15 council nations, will hold its first meeting on Friday.Abbas was given a standing ovation in the UN General Assembly last Friday after making the historic application.The United States and Israel, strongly opposing the bid, say only direct Israel-Palestinian talks can create a Palestinian state.The diplomatic Quartet on the Middle East -- the United States, Russia, European Union and United Nations -- has since launched a new campaign to get the two sides back into talks with a set timetable.Palestinians ended US-brokered talks one year ago when Israel ended a moratorium on settlement construction in the occupied territories. Israel's approval of another 1,100 homes in East Jerusalem has further infuriated the Palestinian leadership.
Palestinian envoy to the UN, Riyad Mansour, called the construction offensive, provocative and illegal and 1,100 answers to thwart the efforts to revive talks.He said it was a clear answer by the Israeli government to the Quartet, to negotiation and to the refusal to abide by the global consensus on the fact that settlements are an illegal obstacle to peace.Ron Prosor, Israel's UN ambassador, said the Palestinians are using every pretext in order not to find a reason not to go into negotiations.Is it easy, the answer is no. Is it frustrating -- yes. Do we have sleepless nights, yes. But at the end of the day that is the only way forward,he said of the talks process.When asked about the approval of new settlements, Prosor said Israel was ready to negotiate on Jerusalem with other final status topics.
Israeli officials have signalled a hardline on East Jerusalem however and Prosor told reporters: Jerusalem, I would like to stress, that is the capital of the Jewish people. This is our heart. Jerusalem, if I may say so, was the capital of the Jewish people when London was still a swamp.The ambassador acknowledged that Israel is working with the United States to get Security Council members to oppose or abstain in any vote on Palestinian membership.Yes we are both working, and truthfully, on both sides to have a bloc of countries that basically would say ladies and gentlemen go back to direct negotiations, sit down and talk this thing with each other,the ambassador told reporters.The Palestinians are also sending high level delegations to council members such as Gabon, Bosnia and Nigeria.
Ashton shows pro-Palestinian side at EU parliament
Today SEPT 28,11 @ 09:16 By Andrew Rettman
EU foreign relations chief Catherine Ashton showed her pro-Palestinian sympathies at the European Parliament on Tuesday (27 September) as MEPs get set to back the UN upgrade.She began the meeting in Strasbourg with a formal statement against Israel's new decision to build 1,100 Jewish housing units on Palestinian land at its Gilo settlement.This plan should be reversed. Settlement activity threatens the viability of an agreed two-state solution and runs contrary to the Israeli stated commitment to resume negotiations, she said.She later added on a personal note: I have condemned settlement activity every time it was announced - I have made six statements this year, plus one Quartet [a joint EU, Russia, UN and US body] statement plus the comment today ... Each time I have met him [Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu] I have told him settlements are illegal under international law.
She also praised Palestinian leaders Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad: They are people who hold the values we hold dear in their hearts. They believe in the values we hold ... I believe Israel could do no better than negotiate with them.Pro-Israeli countries such as the Netherlands have said Ashton is not a neutral broker in talks on whether the EU should back Palestine's bid to join the UN. Her own officials say she was deeply affected by Palestinian hardships on recent visits to Gaza and the West Bank.MEPs will on Thursday vote on a draft resolution which says the EU assembly: Supports and calls on member states to be united in addressing the legitimate demand of the Palestinian people to be represented as a state at the United Nations.The text already has the backing of the socialist, liberal, green and far-left groups. The language is designed to accommodate various opinions - socialists say Palestine should get full UN membership, while liberals say they should become a non-member state.The biggest group, the centre-right EPP, is still making up its mind. But senior EPP figures, such as German deputy Hans-Gert Poettering and Dutch member Ria Oomen-Ruijten, spoke up for Palestine in the plenary debate.Meanwhile, EU countries have voiced clear divisions at the UN in New York over the past week. Ten (Belgium, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Spain and Sweden) are on the pro-upgrade side. Five (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Italy, Romania and the UK) have indicated they would vote No. The rest are keeping quiet.Provocative of Israel to announce new settlements in East Jerusalem now. Clearly contrary to Middle East peace Quartet demand, Swedish foreign minister Carl Bldt tweeted on Tuesday.For his part, Netanyahu in an interview with the Jerusalem Post the same day showed little interest in what the EU thinks. We plan in Jerusalem. We build in Jerusalem. Period. The same way Israeli governments have been doing for years - since the end of the 1967 war,he said.
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD REGIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
Parliament approves economic governance six-pack
Today SEPT 28,11 @ 17:43 By Leigh Phillips
After almost a year since the European Commission first proposed a package of laws radically centralising economic decision-making in the European Union, the legislative process approving the so-called ‘six-pack’ of bills has finally come to an end with the European Parliament giving its assent on Wednesday (28 September).
Aiming to prevent future sovereign debt crises, the six-pack gives the European Commission new powers to slap fines on countries that flout rules on racking up high public debts and deficits.The parliament emerged largely victorious in its battle with the member states, and in particular France, to give the EU executive the power to impose sanctions that can only be blocked by a majority of votes amongst eurozone states.A majority of MEPs in the conservative-dominated chamber worried that requiring approval by the Council before warnings could be issued to a country would lead to back-room deals in which countries needing to reform their budgetary policies would be let off the hook.In the end, a country warning will be issued if a vote in the Council is not taken within 10 days of a commission notice. If the Council decides to overturn the commission’s decision, they will now have to appear before the European Parliament and defend their rejection in public.The chamber also won the right to request the presence of finance ministers from countries that have received a warning to a dressing down in the parliament.The vote in the full sitting of the chamber however was close, as parties on the left voted against or abstained on some aspects of the package, believing there to be insufficient balance between market requirements and social needs.The left however did win a victory via the parliament’s insistence that the commission consider not merely countries with high trade deficits, but also those running current-account surpluses.Germany and the Netherlands have crowed that such imbalances result from their successful economic management and should not need investigation. However, some economists argue that the core of Europe has engaged in mercantilist policies that are the flip-side of heavy debts in the eurozone periphery and are every bit as dangerous.
The president of the parliament, conservative Polish MEP Jerzy Buzek cheered the result, declaring: We have developed a powerful and resistant armour against any future crisis,Liberal MEP Sylvie Goulard, one of the deputies to shepherd the legislation through the house, said that the bloc needed to go further still in terms of economic integration.This is not the end of the story. We will need to take further steps. But we have built a new system with this package today which will allow the EU institutions to work better together and will increase transparency, she said.The Socialists spokesman for economic affairs, Udo Bullmann, said that the vote today would have drastic consequences for European citizens.We think there exists another path out of the crisis. The reform is an austerity pact ... that leaves no margin of manoeuvre for EU states for intelligent spending and targeted investment. Some 78 civil society organisations including anti-poverty NGOs and trade unions issued an open letter on Wednesday denouncing the moves as anti-democratic.The proposals will enable EU institutions to make decisions on member states' budgets, economic policy priorities as well as on labour and social rights with little democratic debate, or accountability, the signatories, including France’s CGT union, UK-based Tax Justice Network and Attac Denmark, to the letter said.
EU hushes talk of multi-trillion bail-out ahead of German vote Today SEPT 28,11 @ 09:29 By Leigh Phillips
European politicians are trying to avoid too much talk of a multi-trillion-euro revamp of the eurozone’s crisis strategy ahead of a crunch vote in the German parliament, with the German finance minister denying plans for such an increase to the bail-out fund and French ministers saying it is necessary to stay quiet until after the vote.On Tuesday, German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told N-TV: We do not intend to increase it, and separately called such moves stupid.I don't understand how anyone in the European Commission can have such a stupid idea. The result would be to endanger the AAA sovereign debt ratings of other member states. It makes no sense, he said.It is understood that European leaders are considering a plan to leverage the European Financial Stability Fund via the European Central Bank. The sums mentioned are in the range of €2 trillion, although sources have told EUobserver, the figures are still in flux and that more than one option is on the table.Meanwhile, changes strengthening the EFSF agreed by eurozone leaders in July have yet to be approved by the Bundestag. A vote is scheduled for Thursday.
French finance minister Francois Baroin for his part said that a public discussion of the issue could not happen before Germany votes
It is out of the question to put forward, three days from the Bundestag (lower house) vote, the issue of whether we should increase the fund, he said.Let's not open Pandora's box on something that is a red flag for Germany.Meanwhile, Prime Minister Francois Fillon told the French parliament that plans to tackle speculative attacks would be unveiled after the German vote.A straw poll amongst MPs from German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU and sister party in the CSU group in the chamber showed how tight the vote could be.Some 11 MPs voted against moves to alter the EFSF’s rules, according to a report from Reuters, while two abstained. The news agency quoted unnamed sources that predicted between two and five nays from the coalition’s Free Democrat junior partner and a further six abstentions. If 19 deputies vote against or abstain, Merkel will have to depend on opposition Social Democrat and Green votes, a development that could fatally wound the Merkel administration.Separately, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou travelled to Berlin to meet with his German counterpart and delivered a rousing speech to German industrial leaders in an attempt to rally spirits in the key European economy.I promise you, we Greeks will soon fight our way back to growth and prosperity after this period of pain,he told the Federation of German Industries.The eurozone must now take bold steps toward fiscal integration to stabilise the monetary union. Let's not allow those who are betting against the euro to succeed,he said.Merkel for her part stressed that Berlin will not abandon Athens: We will provide all the help desired from the German side so that Greece regains trust.If the stability of the euro is at stake - and the experience of the last few years shows that the difficulties of one country endanger our common currency – then that obliges us to show solidarity within the common currency.We want a strong Greece in the eurozone… Germany is ready to give all the help that is required.
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
WW3 COMPLETE HAPPENINGS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2005/11/questions-ww3-whats-coming.html
NUKES WILL BE USED IN WW3
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2011/09/ww3-will-be-fought-with-nuclear-weapons.html
AMOS 9:10
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
Iran plans to send ships close to US waters: report
AFPAFP – Tue, Sep 27, 2011
Iran's navy is going to deploy ships close to US territorial waters, its commander in chief was quoted as saying on Tuesday.As the global oppression (the US) is present not far from our maritime border ... our navy is going to have a strong presence not far from US territorial waters, the Irna news agency quoted Admiral Habibollah Sayyari as saying.On July 19 Sayyari also said that Iran was going to send a flotilla into the Atlantic.The remarks come as another high-ranking Iranian appeared to reject a recent US request to establish a red phone link between the countries to avoid unwanted confrontation between their armed forces in the Gulf region.When we are in the Gulf of Mexico, we will establish direct contact with the United States, Ali Fadavi, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, was quoted in press reports as saying.In the view of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the presence of the US in the Persian Gulf is illegitimate and makes no sense.The Iranian navy has been developing its presence in international waters since last year, regularly launching vessels in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden to protect Iranian ships from Somali pirates operating in the area.Iran also sent two ships into the Mediterranean for the first time in February, via the Suez Canal, to the annoyance of Israel and the United States.And in July, leaders announced that a Kilo class submarine had completed an inaugural mission in the southern Indian Ocean and the Red Sea.
Iran says it delivers new cruise missiles to navy
APBy ALI AKBAR DAREINI - Associated Press | AP – SEPT 28,11
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran said Wednesday it has begun large-scale production of a domestically-developed cruise missile designed for sea-based targets and capable of destroying warships.Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi said an unspecified number of the missiles, called Ghader, or Capable in Farsi, were delivered to the Iranian military and the powerful Revolutionary Guard's naval division, which is assigned to protect Iran's sea borders.Vahidi said the missile, which has a range of 124 miles (200 kilometers), can travel at low altitudes and "can sink giant warships. The comments appeared to suggest that the new missile could potentially counter the U.S. naval presence in the Persian Gulf.The West is already concerned about Iran's military capabilities, especially the implications of the country's disputed nuclear program. The U.S. and some of its allies, and as the U.N. nuclear agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency, fear that Iran is trying to produce a nuclear weapon. Tehran denies the charges.Iran's growing arsenal includes short and medium range ballistic missiles that are capable of hitting targets in the region such as Israel and U.S. military bases in the Gulf.Iran frequently makes announcements about new advances in military technology that cannot be independently verified.Iran began a military self-sufficiency program in 1992, under which it produces a large range of weapons, including tanks, missiles, jet fighters, unmanned drone aircraft and torpedoes.
EU pushes for global financial trading tax
APBy PAN PYLAS - AP Business Writer | AP – SEPT 28,11
LONDON (AP) — Taxing financial trades has been touted as a panacea for all kinds of global ills, a cash source to fight poverty and global warming. But the latest European attempt to introduce a worldwide standard 40 years after it was first conceived is facing stiff opposition from the U.S. and Britain.Jose Manuel Barroso, the president of the EU's executive arm, on Wednesday threw his weight behind the tax that his office estimated could raise euro57 billion ($77 billion) a year in Europe to help combat a debt crisis that is threatening the euro currency.In the last three years, member states have granted aid and provided guarantees of euro4.6 trillion to the financial sector,Barroso said.It is time for the financial sector to make a contribution back to society.The tax would be a tiny percentage of the value of a trade in assets like stocks and bonds. Although some countries already have a minimal duty on share trading, the new proposal would not only increase the scope and size of the tax but also siphon off some revenue to Brussels.The European Commission has formally backed the tax to take effect from January 2014.As a result of the financial crisis in 2008 and the ensuing recession, debt levels across Europe, and not just in the bailed out countries of Greece, Ireland and Portugal, have risen sharply. Across the 27-nation EU, debt as a percentage of national income has spiked from below 60 percent in 2007 to 80 percent this year.
Though the tax could dent growth and employment, it has won a fair degree of support across the 17-country eurozone, including France and Germany, the EU's two biggest economies.Britain, however, has been adamantly against it unless it is used on a global basis. Its opinion carries weight in the debate because London is the continent's biggest financial center.The argument made by the likes of George Osborne, Britain's finance chief, and echoed last week by his counterpart in the U.S. Timothy Geithner is that the tax just won't work if it's not introduced globally. If it's not, investors can move money quickly to where the tax doesn't need to be paid, saving themselves potentially large sums of money in financial trades.Howard Wheeldon, a senior strategist at BGC Partners, said it's a bad idea to have a trades tax now, especially since many banks are still trying to meet new requirements to beef up capital buffers.The timing is inappropriate; it's something to look at in a few years time, Wheeldon said.Even if Britain and the U.S. decide to opt out, it is possible that the eurozone countries, or at least some of them, may go it alone.I think the eurozone or number of member states would go ahead and do it, and would start it at a low enough level to answer political objections,said Sony Kapoor, managing director of Re-Define, an economic think tank.Some activists campaigning for the tax worry the money may be used solely to fix the world's financial difficulties. They say a large chunk of the revenues should be used for other important issues, such as reducing poverty or fighting global warming.Oxfam International, a long-time proponent of the tax, lauded the European Commission's support ahead of the October 17-18 summit of EU leaders and the Group of 20 meeting of the leaders from the top industrial and developing nations.
The financial transaction tax is moving from rhetoric to reality but a significant part of the revenues should be used as Bill Gates suggested, to help poor countries facing chilling reductions in aid, trade, and investment — not just shore up the EU budget,said Nicolas Mombrial, Oxfam International's EU policy advisor. The multibillionaire Microsoft founder has been commissioned by the G-20 to produce a report on development financing and is considering the potential of the tax.Oxfam's Mombrial also argues that the rate of the tax should be higher than the 0.1 percent levy on shares and bonds proposed by the EU.It's clear that higher rates are perfectly feasible and would raise more money to tackle poverty, Mombrial said, noting that a 0.5 percent tax already applies to share trades in the U.K.The motivations behind the tax are a long way from the designs of Nobel Prize laureate James Tobin, who first made his proposal for the flat tax on currency transactions in the early 1970s when U.S. President Richard Nixon ended the dollar's convertibility to gold and effectively brought an end to the global currency system that had prevailed since World War II.Tobin said at the time that the tax would help limit instability arising from a world of floating exchange rates.Financial transaction taxes, appropriately designed, can not only raise substantial revenue but also enhance stability by discouraging destabilizing trading that serves little economic purpose,Re-Define's Kapoor said.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
HAPPY NEW YEAR ISRAEL-ROSH HASHANAH 2011
WITH THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY WANTING TO STEAL ISRAELS GOD GIVIN LAND,IT WOULD NOT SURPRISE ME IF BETWEEN TONIGHT AFTER 6PM THE BEGGINING OF ROSH HASHANA IN ISRAEL ON SEPTEMBER 28-30.THAT A GIGANTIC EARTH QUAKE WOULD BE IN SOME MUSLIM NATION AS A RESULT OF ABBAS' NUMBHEADEDNESS OF WANTING TO STEAL GODS (KING JESUS')AND ISRAELS LAND.AND ALSO IN THE FUTURE THIS WILL BE THE DAY THAT THE EUROPEAN UNION GUARENTEES ISRAELS SECURITY BY SIGNING A 7 YEAR PEACE TREATY WITH THE ARABS AND MANY OF DANIEL 9:27 IS MY BELIEF BY PROPHECY SCRIPTURES.
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Rosh Hashanah Torah Readings
Genesis 21:1–34; Genesis 22:1–24
Reading for First Day Rosh Hashanah
The Birth of Isaac
Exactly a year after the three angels visited Abraham and Sarah and delivered G-d's promise that a son shall be born to them (as related in Genesis 18),G-d remembered Sarah as He had said, and G-d did to Sarah as He had spoken.Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which G-d had spoken to him.
The boy is named Yitzchak (will laugh), because, as Sarah declared, G-d has made laughter for me, so that all that hear will laugh with me.Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as G-d had commanded him. Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born to him.The Torah then tells of a great feast that Abraham made "on the day that Isaac was weaned.
The Banishment of Hagar and Ishmael(ARAB-PALESTIANIANS OF TODAY)
Abraham already had a son, Ishmael, born 14 years earlier to Hagar, the Egyptian maid whom Sarah urged him to marry in her barren years. As had been predicted, Ishmael grows to become a wild man, his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him. Sarah, fearing Ishmael's negative influence upon her son, urges Abraham to Banish this maidservant and her son: for the son of this maidservant shall not be heir with my son, with Isaac.Abraham is reluctant to do so until G-d intervenes, telling him: In all that Sarah says to you, hearken to her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Be'er-Sheva.
Their water, however, runs out quickly in the desert heat, and soon Ishmael is faint with heat and thirst; Hagar
cast the child under one of the shrubs. And she went off...the distance of a bowshot; for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.And G-d heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of G-d called to Hagar out of heaven, and said to her What ails you, Hagar? Fear not, for G-d has heard the voice of the lad where he is...And G-d opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.And G-d was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
The Covenant with Avimelech(THIS 7 YEAR DEAL BACK IN BIBLE TIME IS WERE I GET THE IDEA THAT THE FUTURE 7 YEAR PEACE TREATY WILL BE SIGNED ON DAY 1 OF ROSH HASHANAH IN THE FUTURE)OF DANIEL 9:27.
Avimelech the king of the Philistines, who had earlier driven Abraham from his country, now comes seeking a covenant of peace with the Hebrew. G-d is with you in all that you do, says the king,let us swear to each other that neither of us will show hostility to the other or the other's offspring.Abraham agrees, and gives Avimelech seven sheep as a testimony to the resolution of a past controversy between them over a well that Abraham had dug. The place is thus named Be'er Sheva (Well of the Oath and Well of the Seven).Abraham establishes an eshel (wayside inn) at Be'er Sheva, where he called the name of G-d, G-d of the world.
Spain Undermines Attempts to Flood Israel with Arabs-Spain, a consistent backer of the Palestinian Authority, has dealt it a blow by declaring that Israel should remain a Jewish State.By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu First Publish: 9/26/2011, 11:42 AM
Spain, a consistent backer of the Palestinian Authority, has dealt it a blow by declaring that Israel should remain a Jewish State, undermining the Arab world’s attempt to flood Israel with several million foreign Arabs.Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez’s speech in the United Nations Saturday declared Israel the embodiment of the project to create a homeland for the Jewish people.She backed the Quartet’s pro-PA position that a new Arab state should be created on all of the land restored to Israel in the Six-Day War in 1967 but rejected the demand by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas for the mass immigration of Arabs to Israel in a way that would reduce Jews to a minority.The issue refers to the Arabs claim of the right of return, a phrase copied from Israel, which allows for Jews around the world to live in Israel as citizens of the country. The Arab world adapted the term for approximately five million Arabs born to 600,000 Arabs who fled Israel in the wars in 1948 and 1967, most of them at the behest of Arab countries who promised they would return quickly after the expected annihilation of the Jewish state.
Their host Arab countries have refused to grant them full citizenship, leaving them under the care of the United Nations and in villages, or camps, that have left the residents as political tools.Jimenez, in her speech in the General Assembly, cited the painful drama of the Palestinian refugees but added that that they should not change the Jewish majority in Israel.PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has refused to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, a statement that would preclude the mass immigration of Arabs. Israel has argued that the Arad world demand for the right of return is a tactic aimed at fulfilling Palestinian Authority’s hopes to take sovereignty over all of Israel, as depicted on its official maps.
Shofar From Temple Mount Liberation Exhibited in Jerusalem-Unique exhibition at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem presents the Shofar as a witness to the history of the Jewish people By Gavriel Queenann & Yoni K.First Publish: 9/27/2011, 2:08 AM
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On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, Arutz Sheva visited the Sound of the Shofar exhibition at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem.Throughout Jewish history the Shofar has played a significant role, not just on Rosh Hashanah, the Day of Judgment, but in calling men to war, announcing the onset of Shabbat and the Holidays, and in the Temple service.It is actually that understanding, that the Shofar was used for a call to arms, that is one of the main reasons for its role on Rosh Hashanah, as the Shofar blasts are meant to awaken a Jew to repent and return to G-d.Today, the Shofar has symbolic meaning in official state events, where it is blown at the swearing in of the President of Israel, among other occasions.The most famous Shofar in the exhibition is that of the late Chief Rabbi of Israel and of the IDF, Rabbi Shlomo Goren, blown at the Western Wall at the moment of the re-unification and liberation of Jerusalem after 28 years under Jordanian occupation. Other historic shofars, including shofars redeemed from the Holocaust are in the exhibit as well.
Israel's Righteous Gentiles Gather to Celebrate Jewish New Year
A group of rescuers living in Israel, with those they saved during the Holocaust -- plans to gather to celebrate the Jewish New Year.By Chana Ya'ar First Publish: 9/26/2011, 11:38 PM
A group of rescuers living in Israel -- known to the rest of the world as righteous gentiles -- will also gather to celebrate the Jewish New Year, albeit after the holiday, on October 4. The Atzum organization has organized the gathering, an annual event, to enable the rescuers, many of whom are now elderly, to socialize with each other and with their adoptive Israeli grandchildren says Atzum founding executive director, Rabbi Levi Lauer.The NGO, which focuses its efforts on promoting social activism, will hold the gathering at Jerusalem's Nagish Cafe, run entirely by disabled individuals. The restaurant was founded by Esther Greenwald, -- herself honored by Yad Vashem as one of Israel's Righteous Among the Nations.Our group's continued support sends a clear message to the rescuers that their heroism and sacrifice has not gone unnoticed and that they will never be forgotten,Lauer added.
Among those who are invited to the celebration, and who today lives in Israel is Jaroslawa Lewicka (Levitsky). Together with her grandfather Aleksander and her mother Katarzyna, she courageously helped the Jews in Zloczow, Ukraine from 1941 to 1944.Lewicka acted as a young courier and helped supply food and medicine to Jews until the town's Jewish community was liquidated in 1943.Among the handful of survivors were two Jewish girls whom Lewicka and her family helped shelter and care for until July 1944, when the area was liberated. Her family also cared for a group of 25 Jews hiding in a nearby basement, two kilometers away, despite the clear risk to themselves.
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Rosh Hashanah Torah Readings
Genesis 21:1–34; Genesis 22:1–24
Reading for First Day Rosh Hashanah
The Birth of Isaac
Exactly a year after the three angels visited Abraham and Sarah and delivered G-d's promise that a son shall be born to them (as related in Genesis 18),G-d remembered Sarah as He had said, and G-d did to Sarah as He had spoken.Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which G-d had spoken to him.
The boy is named Yitzchak (will laugh), because, as Sarah declared, G-d has made laughter for me, so that all that hear will laugh with me.Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as G-d had commanded him. Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born to him.The Torah then tells of a great feast that Abraham made "on the day that Isaac was weaned.
The Banishment of Hagar and Ishmael(ARAB-PALESTIANIANS OF TODAY)
Abraham already had a son, Ishmael, born 14 years earlier to Hagar, the Egyptian maid whom Sarah urged him to marry in her barren years. As had been predicted, Ishmael grows to become a wild man, his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him. Sarah, fearing Ishmael's negative influence upon her son, urges Abraham to Banish this maidservant and her son: for the son of this maidservant shall not be heir with my son, with Isaac.Abraham is reluctant to do so until G-d intervenes, telling him: In all that Sarah says to you, hearken to her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Be'er-Sheva.
Their water, however, runs out quickly in the desert heat, and soon Ishmael is faint with heat and thirst; Hagar
cast the child under one of the shrubs. And she went off...the distance of a bowshot; for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.And G-d heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of G-d called to Hagar out of heaven, and said to her What ails you, Hagar? Fear not, for G-d has heard the voice of the lad where he is...And G-d opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.And G-d was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
The Covenant with Avimelech(THIS 7 YEAR DEAL BACK IN BIBLE TIME IS WERE I GET THE IDEA THAT THE FUTURE 7 YEAR PEACE TREATY WILL BE SIGNED ON DAY 1 OF ROSH HASHANAH IN THE FUTURE)OF DANIEL 9:27.
Avimelech the king of the Philistines, who had earlier driven Abraham from his country, now comes seeking a covenant of peace with the Hebrew. G-d is with you in all that you do, says the king,let us swear to each other that neither of us will show hostility to the other or the other's offspring.Abraham agrees, and gives Avimelech seven sheep as a testimony to the resolution of a past controversy between them over a well that Abraham had dug. The place is thus named Be'er Sheva (Well of the Oath and Well of the Seven).Abraham establishes an eshel (wayside inn) at Be'er Sheva, where he called the name of G-d, G-d of the world.
Spain Undermines Attempts to Flood Israel with Arabs-Spain, a consistent backer of the Palestinian Authority, has dealt it a blow by declaring that Israel should remain a Jewish State.By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu First Publish: 9/26/2011, 11:42 AM
Spain, a consistent backer of the Palestinian Authority, has dealt it a blow by declaring that Israel should remain a Jewish State, undermining the Arab world’s attempt to flood Israel with several million foreign Arabs.Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez’s speech in the United Nations Saturday declared Israel the embodiment of the project to create a homeland for the Jewish people.She backed the Quartet’s pro-PA position that a new Arab state should be created on all of the land restored to Israel in the Six-Day War in 1967 but rejected the demand by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas for the mass immigration of Arabs to Israel in a way that would reduce Jews to a minority.The issue refers to the Arabs claim of the right of return, a phrase copied from Israel, which allows for Jews around the world to live in Israel as citizens of the country. The Arab world adapted the term for approximately five million Arabs born to 600,000 Arabs who fled Israel in the wars in 1948 and 1967, most of them at the behest of Arab countries who promised they would return quickly after the expected annihilation of the Jewish state.
Their host Arab countries have refused to grant them full citizenship, leaving them under the care of the United Nations and in villages, or camps, that have left the residents as political tools.Jimenez, in her speech in the General Assembly, cited the painful drama of the Palestinian refugees but added that that they should not change the Jewish majority in Israel.PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has refused to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, a statement that would preclude the mass immigration of Arabs. Israel has argued that the Arad world demand for the right of return is a tactic aimed at fulfilling Palestinian Authority’s hopes to take sovereignty over all of Israel, as depicted on its official maps.
Shofar From Temple Mount Liberation Exhibited in Jerusalem-Unique exhibition at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem presents the Shofar as a witness to the history of the Jewish people By Gavriel Queenann & Yoni K.First Publish: 9/27/2011, 2:08 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl0D2_pk3d0&feature=player_embedded
On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, Arutz Sheva visited the Sound of the Shofar exhibition at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem.Throughout Jewish history the Shofar has played a significant role, not just on Rosh Hashanah, the Day of Judgment, but in calling men to war, announcing the onset of Shabbat and the Holidays, and in the Temple service.It is actually that understanding, that the Shofar was used for a call to arms, that is one of the main reasons for its role on Rosh Hashanah, as the Shofar blasts are meant to awaken a Jew to repent and return to G-d.Today, the Shofar has symbolic meaning in official state events, where it is blown at the swearing in of the President of Israel, among other occasions.The most famous Shofar in the exhibition is that of the late Chief Rabbi of Israel and of the IDF, Rabbi Shlomo Goren, blown at the Western Wall at the moment of the re-unification and liberation of Jerusalem after 28 years under Jordanian occupation. Other historic shofars, including shofars redeemed from the Holocaust are in the exhibit as well.
Israel's Righteous Gentiles Gather to Celebrate Jewish New Year
A group of rescuers living in Israel, with those they saved during the Holocaust -- plans to gather to celebrate the Jewish New Year.By Chana Ya'ar First Publish: 9/26/2011, 11:38 PM
A group of rescuers living in Israel -- known to the rest of the world as righteous gentiles -- will also gather to celebrate the Jewish New Year, albeit after the holiday, on October 4. The Atzum organization has organized the gathering, an annual event, to enable the rescuers, many of whom are now elderly, to socialize with each other and with their adoptive Israeli grandchildren says Atzum founding executive director, Rabbi Levi Lauer.The NGO, which focuses its efforts on promoting social activism, will hold the gathering at Jerusalem's Nagish Cafe, run entirely by disabled individuals. The restaurant was founded by Esther Greenwald, -- herself honored by Yad Vashem as one of Israel's Righteous Among the Nations.Our group's continued support sends a clear message to the rescuers that their heroism and sacrifice has not gone unnoticed and that they will never be forgotten,Lauer added.
Among those who are invited to the celebration, and who today lives in Israel is Jaroslawa Lewicka (Levitsky). Together with her grandfather Aleksander and her mother Katarzyna, she courageously helped the Jews in Zloczow, Ukraine from 1941 to 1944.Lewicka acted as a young courier and helped supply food and medicine to Jews until the town's Jewish community was liquidated in 1943.Among the handful of survivors were two Jewish girls whom Lewicka and her family helped shelter and care for until July 1944, when the area was liberated. Her family also cared for a group of 25 Jews hiding in a nearby basement, two kilometers away, despite the clear risk to themselves.
GANTZ-ISRAEL WILL STAND STRONG
PM Netanyahu's Greetings for Rosh Hashana 5772-Prime Minister Netanyahu wished the world Shana Tova saying the true place under the sun for Jews is the Land of Israel.By A7 Staff First Publish: 9/27/2011, 9:42 PM
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took the opportunity of his annual Rosh Hashanah greeting to address Israel's identity as a Jewish state - and moribund talks with Palestinian Authority officials in Ramallah.Noting his office had received an overwhelming flood of prayers and well-wishes for peace in the coming year, Netanyahu said peace was dependent on Israel's strength and understanding its essential character as a Jewish state.For there to be peace Israel has to be strong, Netanyahu said. People make peace with the strong. They don't make peace with the weak. They push the weak aside.For that peace to take shape the Palestinians have to finally recognize what you all recognize, that Israel is the Jewish state... that the Jewish people after all their travails, after all their agonized odysseys through ought the centuries, deserve their one and only true place under the sun - in the Land of Israel, Netanyahu explained.Netanyahyu said he believed the outcome of future talks would hinge on officials in Ramallah being able to accept Israel's fundamental character, fairness, and the truth, and the common sense that must accompany peace - the Palestinians finally have to do what they have refused to do throughout the decades - recognize the one and only Jewish state,And if they do, I think we'll have a very, very good year, Netanyahu said. Shana Tova to all of you.
Gantz: We'll Continue to Stand Strong-IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz extends his best wishes for Rosh Hashanah to the Jewish people and their families.By A7 Staff First Publish: 9/28/2011, 12:14 AM
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IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz prayed the Jewish people would have peace in the coming year in his Rosh Hashanah greeting, invoking the Prophet Isaiah.In the year ahead we will continue to stand strong against all those who seek our demise and to be the shield of the Jewish people worldwide, Gantz said.We do so even as we pray for security and peace, and while the IDF must be prepared for every possible scenario, we seek peace with all who will live with us in harmony.We eagerly await the fulfillment of the prophet Isaiah's vision nation shall not lift up sword against nation, nor shall they learn war anymore,Gantz added.Gantz also prayed for the return of IDF soldiers who are missing or held captive, and recalled the sacrifice soldiers who have fallen in battle.We must recall the IDF soldiers who are missing in action, held captive, and cannot rejoice at their holiday table,Gantz said. We all join in prayer and share in the hope that this coming year we will see their release. The IDF will continue operations to bring them home.We also mourn the loss of those who are no longer with us. We hold their brave families close standing with them side by side,Gantz said.To the people of Israel, and all Jews around the world Happy New Year – Shana Tova.
US, EU Slam Gilo Construction Project-Western officials criticized Israel's decision to build 1,100 new housing units in the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem.By Gavriel Queenann First Publish: 9/27/2011, 9:08 PM
US officials on Tuesday decried Israel's approval of 1,100 new housing units Jerusalem's Gilo neighborhood saying the move was deeply disappointing and counterproductive.President Barack Obama has repeatedly called for Israel to halt building ahead of direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian Authority officials saying it isn't necessary for Israel's security.But Israeli officials, who froze construction in the so-called disputed territories' for ten months in a failed bid to bring PA officials to the table see little point in additional freezes.Top EU diplomat, Baroness Katherine Ashton, said the Quartet had called for parties to refrain from provocative actions.It is with deep regret that I learned today about the decision to advance in the plans for settlement expansion in east Jerusalem, she said in a statement.This plan should be reversed. Settlement activity threatens the viability of an agreed two-state solution and runs contrary to the Israeli-stated commitment to resume negotiations.But Israeli construction does not run counter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's commitment to direct negotiations without preconditions.On Tuesday Netanyahu said officials in Ramallah had cherry-picked a key final status issue to use as a precondition to forestall talks.Criticism of Israeli construction projects in 'disputed territories’ has become de rigueur fashion for US and EU diplomats in recent years.Commensurate criticism of PA construction in disputed territories' by the US and EU, however, has not been forthcoming.
Nigeria to Back PA Statehood Bid at Security Council-Nigeria has reversed course and said it will vote in favor of full membership for the Palestinian Liberation Organization at the UNSC.By Gavriel Queenann First Publish: 9/27/2011, 8:08 PM
The Palestinian Authority on Tuesday announced Nigeria will vote in favor of PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas' bid for full membership as a sovereign member of in the United Nations.The PA office for foreign affairs released a statement quoting top PA diplomatic Dr Riyad Al Malki, who stressed he was officially informed by the his Nigerian counterpart Gbenga Ashiru that Nigeria will vote in favor of Abbas' petition in the 15-member security council. Nigeria had previously said it would abstain in the vote.Officials in Ramallah have repeatedly claimed that the Palestinian Liberation Organization had secured the nine votes necessary to secure the vote, but without Nigeria's support the assertion was considered dubious.Even with Nigeria's support, for Abbas' application to be passed from the Security Council to the 193-member General Assembly it must not only obtain the support of 9 Security Council members, but an affirmative recommendation from all five permanent members of the Security Council as well.
The United States, a permanent member, has vowed to give a negative recommendation for Abbas' application rendering the issue moot.While there has been talk of using a Peace Resolution in the General Assembly to override US opposition, experts say such a move would be procedurally unsound.Peace Resolutions were used to override persistent vetoes by the Soviet Union to UN action in the war between North and South Korea in the 1950's, where vetoes based on binding security decisions were in play.But the US issuing a negative recommendation on a procedural matter is not the same as exercising a veto on a binding resolution – meaning such Peace Resolution would not apply.The Security Council is slated to begin discussing Abbas' application on Wednesday as Israel brings in the Holiday of Rosh Hashanah - the Day of Judgment.
Hamas Calls for Strategic Dialogue With Fatah-Hamas has called for a strategic dialogue with Fatah aimed as returning the cause to liberation without recognition.By Gavriel Queenann First Publish: 9/27/2011, 5:52 PM
Ismail Haniyeh, who serves as the prime minister in Hamas-run Gaza, called on Monday for an 'inter-Palestinian' strategic dialogue to decide on a joint strategy for establishing an independent state, the semi-official Palestinian Authority Ma'an news agency reported.We are in favor of a strategic dialogue that will lead to a joint strategy regarding Palestine and activating the reconciliation we signed, he told reporters, referring to an as-of-yet unimplemented unity deal between Fatah and Hamas.Haniyeh's remarks come mere days after PA chairman and Fatah-leader Mahmoud Abbas went to the United Nations to formally request full membership for a Palestinian state.Hamas leaders have maintained Abbas' bid has no substance and harms rather than helps their aim of destroying Israel.The Islamist movement banned rallies in support of the UN initiative, although dozens of women defied the ban and held a demonstration on Friday.We are not against a state but we disagree with this political activity and this initiative, Haniyeh said.The Palestinian cause is a cause of a nation and Palestinian officials should not be alone facing American and Zionist policies. We should invest in the revival of the nation to toughen our positions, he added.We want to uproot the Palestinian cause from American and Zionist circles and bring it back to the Palestinian, Arab and Islamic ones, he added, reiterating Hamas' mantra of liberation without recognition of Israel.
We say liberation first then the state, because states can't be created through UN decisions or through maneuvers and compromises, but through steadfastness and resistance.But Haniyeh's call for a strategic dialogue with Fatah may be moot as senior Hamas leaders, including co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar, have declared the Fatah-Hamas unity deal dead.
Abbas’ Advisor: PA to Expand Anti-Israel Boycott-The PA will seek to expand its anti-Israel boycott by pushing the Western world to cut ties with Israeli schools, official says.By Maayana Miskin First Publish: 9/27/2011, 1:59 PM
The Palestinian Authority plans to expand its boycott of Israel to include an international boycott on Israeli academic institutions, a top official said Tuesday in an interview with the PA-based Ma'an news.Sabri Saydam, an advisor to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, said PA Arabs would adopt qualitative projects to end occupation using modern technology. In addition to pushing an international boycott of Israeli schools, the PA will seek to use social networks to expand an existing boycott on products produced by Israelis in Judea and Samaria, he said.Saydam suggested enlisting foreign support in other areas as well, such as by creating stronger ties with foreign solidarity groups whose activists join Judea and Samaria Arabs in protesting Israel.The PA announced a boycott of Judea and Samaria products in 2010. The boycott was strongly backed by leaders including Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, who took part in the public burning of Israeli goods and ran ads urging Arabs to avoid all Israeli products.The PA has also attempted a boycott of Israeli employers in Judea and Samaria. However, with unemployment approaching 25%, PA Arabs’ desperation for work has so far overcome attempts to enforce a ban on employment by Israelis.Previous attempts to boycott Israeli goods overseas have often backfired, with Israeli goods enjoying higher sales. Companies in Judea and Samaria have noted a similar effect, with some saying that being designated as West Bank produce improved their profits.
Google Israel Loses Precedent-Setting Reputation Theft Case-An Israeli doctor has sued Google – and won – in a world-precedent setting case.By David Lev First Publish: 9/28/2011, 1:15 AM
An Israeli doctor has sued Google – and won – in a world-precedent setting case, after a Tel Aviv court agreed with his contention that the search engine giant had effectively allowed his competitors to hijack his reputation for their benefit. As a result, Dr. Dov Klein, an eminent Israeli plastic surgeon, has been awarded NIS 50,000, plus NIS 10,000 in court costs.Now, says Dr. Klein's attorney, Uri Savir, Google may be forced to make major changes to its successful Adwords program. This case has extensive ramifications, says Savir. Google has traditionally allowed the use of names as keywords for its search, and an advertiser is allowed to purchase the name of a competitor as an Adword. Thanks to this case, Google may find itself getting sued by many businesses because of what has been ruled illegal activity.
Adwords is the method Google uses to monetize everyday words and terms, with clients bidding for the rights to those terms; when users search for a specific term on the Google search engine, advertisers who purchased that term in an Adwords auction can have their text or display ad show up on the search results page. Google auctions off the search terms and phrases to the highest bidder, with more popular terms fetching more money.In this case, Klein discovered in 2007 that competitors of his – in particular, a large plastic surgery clinic – had purchased his name, Dr. Dov Klein,as an Adword, specifically in order to display their ads on result pages for searches for his name. Klein sued, claiming that the competitors were seeking to hijack, or at least latch onto, his hard-won reputation, and were illegally associating themselves with his success. Google Israel, for its part, tried to claim that they were not a party to the results, since the search engine was owned by Google Ireland, while the clinic claimed that even if they had bought Klein's name, they only received a few hundred clickthroughs – and a total of 15 customers – during the 15 month period they used Dr. Dov Klein as an Adword term.The court agreed with Klein, saying that Google and the competing clinic had indeed violated his rights, regardless of how many or few people clicked on the ads, and ordered Google and the competing clinic to compensate him. Google was not required to reveal any information on the inner workings of its search engine or Adwords during the trial, but it did emerge that legally, Google search engines around the world are equal – meaning that the decision in the Klein case could, and likely will, set a legal precedent for similar reputation theft cases around the world, Savir said.
Google's policy of allowing free use of by Adwords advertisers of any term they please including the name of an individual or brand by a competitor, is wrong, Savir said, and the decision means that Google is going to have to be more conscious of the rights of individuals to their names and reputations.
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took the opportunity of his annual Rosh Hashanah greeting to address Israel's identity as a Jewish state - and moribund talks with Palestinian Authority officials in Ramallah.Noting his office had received an overwhelming flood of prayers and well-wishes for peace in the coming year, Netanyahu said peace was dependent on Israel's strength and understanding its essential character as a Jewish state.For there to be peace Israel has to be strong, Netanyahu said. People make peace with the strong. They don't make peace with the weak. They push the weak aside.For that peace to take shape the Palestinians have to finally recognize what you all recognize, that Israel is the Jewish state... that the Jewish people after all their travails, after all their agonized odysseys through ought the centuries, deserve their one and only true place under the sun - in the Land of Israel, Netanyahu explained.Netanyahyu said he believed the outcome of future talks would hinge on officials in Ramallah being able to accept Israel's fundamental character, fairness, and the truth, and the common sense that must accompany peace - the Palestinians finally have to do what they have refused to do throughout the decades - recognize the one and only Jewish state,And if they do, I think we'll have a very, very good year, Netanyahu said. Shana Tova to all of you.
Gantz: We'll Continue to Stand Strong-IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz extends his best wishes for Rosh Hashanah to the Jewish people and their families.By A7 Staff First Publish: 9/28/2011, 12:14 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiCbsP4r_m4&feature=player_embedded
IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz prayed the Jewish people would have peace in the coming year in his Rosh Hashanah greeting, invoking the Prophet Isaiah.In the year ahead we will continue to stand strong against all those who seek our demise and to be the shield of the Jewish people worldwide, Gantz said.We do so even as we pray for security and peace, and while the IDF must be prepared for every possible scenario, we seek peace with all who will live with us in harmony.We eagerly await the fulfillment of the prophet Isaiah's vision nation shall not lift up sword against nation, nor shall they learn war anymore,Gantz added.Gantz also prayed for the return of IDF soldiers who are missing or held captive, and recalled the sacrifice soldiers who have fallen in battle.We must recall the IDF soldiers who are missing in action, held captive, and cannot rejoice at their holiday table,Gantz said. We all join in prayer and share in the hope that this coming year we will see their release. The IDF will continue operations to bring them home.We also mourn the loss of those who are no longer with us. We hold their brave families close standing with them side by side,Gantz said.To the people of Israel, and all Jews around the world Happy New Year – Shana Tova.
US, EU Slam Gilo Construction Project-Western officials criticized Israel's decision to build 1,100 new housing units in the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem.By Gavriel Queenann First Publish: 9/27/2011, 9:08 PM
US officials on Tuesday decried Israel's approval of 1,100 new housing units Jerusalem's Gilo neighborhood saying the move was deeply disappointing and counterproductive.President Barack Obama has repeatedly called for Israel to halt building ahead of direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian Authority officials saying it isn't necessary for Israel's security.But Israeli officials, who froze construction in the so-called disputed territories' for ten months in a failed bid to bring PA officials to the table see little point in additional freezes.Top EU diplomat, Baroness Katherine Ashton, said the Quartet had called for parties to refrain from provocative actions.It is with deep regret that I learned today about the decision to advance in the plans for settlement expansion in east Jerusalem, she said in a statement.This plan should be reversed. Settlement activity threatens the viability of an agreed two-state solution and runs contrary to the Israeli-stated commitment to resume negotiations.But Israeli construction does not run counter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's commitment to direct negotiations without preconditions.On Tuesday Netanyahu said officials in Ramallah had cherry-picked a key final status issue to use as a precondition to forestall talks.Criticism of Israeli construction projects in 'disputed territories’ has become de rigueur fashion for US and EU diplomats in recent years.Commensurate criticism of PA construction in disputed territories' by the US and EU, however, has not been forthcoming.
Nigeria to Back PA Statehood Bid at Security Council-Nigeria has reversed course and said it will vote in favor of full membership for the Palestinian Liberation Organization at the UNSC.By Gavriel Queenann First Publish: 9/27/2011, 8:08 PM
The Palestinian Authority on Tuesday announced Nigeria will vote in favor of PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas' bid for full membership as a sovereign member of in the United Nations.The PA office for foreign affairs released a statement quoting top PA diplomatic Dr Riyad Al Malki, who stressed he was officially informed by the his Nigerian counterpart Gbenga Ashiru that Nigeria will vote in favor of Abbas' petition in the 15-member security council. Nigeria had previously said it would abstain in the vote.Officials in Ramallah have repeatedly claimed that the Palestinian Liberation Organization had secured the nine votes necessary to secure the vote, but without Nigeria's support the assertion was considered dubious.Even with Nigeria's support, for Abbas' application to be passed from the Security Council to the 193-member General Assembly it must not only obtain the support of 9 Security Council members, but an affirmative recommendation from all five permanent members of the Security Council as well.
The United States, a permanent member, has vowed to give a negative recommendation for Abbas' application rendering the issue moot.While there has been talk of using a Peace Resolution in the General Assembly to override US opposition, experts say such a move would be procedurally unsound.Peace Resolutions were used to override persistent vetoes by the Soviet Union to UN action in the war between North and South Korea in the 1950's, where vetoes based on binding security decisions were in play.But the US issuing a negative recommendation on a procedural matter is not the same as exercising a veto on a binding resolution – meaning such Peace Resolution would not apply.The Security Council is slated to begin discussing Abbas' application on Wednesday as Israel brings in the Holiday of Rosh Hashanah - the Day of Judgment.
Hamas Calls for Strategic Dialogue With Fatah-Hamas has called for a strategic dialogue with Fatah aimed as returning the cause to liberation without recognition.By Gavriel Queenann First Publish: 9/27/2011, 5:52 PM
Ismail Haniyeh, who serves as the prime minister in Hamas-run Gaza, called on Monday for an 'inter-Palestinian' strategic dialogue to decide on a joint strategy for establishing an independent state, the semi-official Palestinian Authority Ma'an news agency reported.We are in favor of a strategic dialogue that will lead to a joint strategy regarding Palestine and activating the reconciliation we signed, he told reporters, referring to an as-of-yet unimplemented unity deal between Fatah and Hamas.Haniyeh's remarks come mere days after PA chairman and Fatah-leader Mahmoud Abbas went to the United Nations to formally request full membership for a Palestinian state.Hamas leaders have maintained Abbas' bid has no substance and harms rather than helps their aim of destroying Israel.The Islamist movement banned rallies in support of the UN initiative, although dozens of women defied the ban and held a demonstration on Friday.We are not against a state but we disagree with this political activity and this initiative, Haniyeh said.The Palestinian cause is a cause of a nation and Palestinian officials should not be alone facing American and Zionist policies. We should invest in the revival of the nation to toughen our positions, he added.We want to uproot the Palestinian cause from American and Zionist circles and bring it back to the Palestinian, Arab and Islamic ones, he added, reiterating Hamas' mantra of liberation without recognition of Israel.
We say liberation first then the state, because states can't be created through UN decisions or through maneuvers and compromises, but through steadfastness and resistance.But Haniyeh's call for a strategic dialogue with Fatah may be moot as senior Hamas leaders, including co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar, have declared the Fatah-Hamas unity deal dead.
Abbas’ Advisor: PA to Expand Anti-Israel Boycott-The PA will seek to expand its anti-Israel boycott by pushing the Western world to cut ties with Israeli schools, official says.By Maayana Miskin First Publish: 9/27/2011, 1:59 PM
The Palestinian Authority plans to expand its boycott of Israel to include an international boycott on Israeli academic institutions, a top official said Tuesday in an interview with the PA-based Ma'an news.Sabri Saydam, an advisor to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, said PA Arabs would adopt qualitative projects to end occupation using modern technology. In addition to pushing an international boycott of Israeli schools, the PA will seek to use social networks to expand an existing boycott on products produced by Israelis in Judea and Samaria, he said.Saydam suggested enlisting foreign support in other areas as well, such as by creating stronger ties with foreign solidarity groups whose activists join Judea and Samaria Arabs in protesting Israel.The PA announced a boycott of Judea and Samaria products in 2010. The boycott was strongly backed by leaders including Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, who took part in the public burning of Israeli goods and ran ads urging Arabs to avoid all Israeli products.The PA has also attempted a boycott of Israeli employers in Judea and Samaria. However, with unemployment approaching 25%, PA Arabs’ desperation for work has so far overcome attempts to enforce a ban on employment by Israelis.Previous attempts to boycott Israeli goods overseas have often backfired, with Israeli goods enjoying higher sales. Companies in Judea and Samaria have noted a similar effect, with some saying that being designated as West Bank produce improved their profits.
Google Israel Loses Precedent-Setting Reputation Theft Case-An Israeli doctor has sued Google – and won – in a world-precedent setting case.By David Lev First Publish: 9/28/2011, 1:15 AM
An Israeli doctor has sued Google – and won – in a world-precedent setting case, after a Tel Aviv court agreed with his contention that the search engine giant had effectively allowed his competitors to hijack his reputation for their benefit. As a result, Dr. Dov Klein, an eminent Israeli plastic surgeon, has been awarded NIS 50,000, plus NIS 10,000 in court costs.Now, says Dr. Klein's attorney, Uri Savir, Google may be forced to make major changes to its successful Adwords program. This case has extensive ramifications, says Savir. Google has traditionally allowed the use of names as keywords for its search, and an advertiser is allowed to purchase the name of a competitor as an Adword. Thanks to this case, Google may find itself getting sued by many businesses because of what has been ruled illegal activity.
Adwords is the method Google uses to monetize everyday words and terms, with clients bidding for the rights to those terms; when users search for a specific term on the Google search engine, advertisers who purchased that term in an Adwords auction can have their text or display ad show up on the search results page. Google auctions off the search terms and phrases to the highest bidder, with more popular terms fetching more money.In this case, Klein discovered in 2007 that competitors of his – in particular, a large plastic surgery clinic – had purchased his name, Dr. Dov Klein,as an Adword, specifically in order to display their ads on result pages for searches for his name. Klein sued, claiming that the competitors were seeking to hijack, or at least latch onto, his hard-won reputation, and were illegally associating themselves with his success. Google Israel, for its part, tried to claim that they were not a party to the results, since the search engine was owned by Google Ireland, while the clinic claimed that even if they had bought Klein's name, they only received a few hundred clickthroughs – and a total of 15 customers – during the 15 month period they used Dr. Dov Klein as an Adword term.The court agreed with Klein, saying that Google and the competing clinic had indeed violated his rights, regardless of how many or few people clicked on the ads, and ordered Google and the competing clinic to compensate him. Google was not required to reveal any information on the inner workings of its search engine or Adwords during the trial, but it did emerge that legally, Google search engines around the world are equal – meaning that the decision in the Klein case could, and likely will, set a legal precedent for similar reputation theft cases around the world, Savir said.
Google's policy of allowing free use of by Adwords advertisers of any term they please including the name of an individual or brand by a competitor, is wrong, Savir said, and the decision means that Google is going to have to be more conscious of the rights of individuals to their names and reputations.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
TEXT OF ABBAS' LETTER TO THE UN SEPT 23,11
LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Palestinian statehood: Text of Mahmoud Abbas's letter to the UN-This is the text of Palestinian letter of application to join the United Nations handed over to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday, as released by the United Nations: 11:09PM BST 23 Sep 2011
Excellency,
I have the profound honor, on behalf of the Palestinian people, to submit this application of the state of Palestine for admission to membership in the United Nations.This application for membership is being submitted on the Palestinian people's natural, legal and historic rights and based on United Nations General Assembly resolution 181 (II) of 29 November 1947 as well as the Declaration of Independence of the State of Palestine of 15 November 1988 and the acknowledgement by the General Assembly of this declaration in resolution 43/177 of 15 December 1988.
In this connection, the state of Palestine affirms its commitment to the achievement of a just, lasting and comprehensive resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on the vision of two states living side by side in peace and security, as endorsed by the United Nations Security Council and General Assembly and the international community as a whole and based on international law and all relevant United Nations resolutions.For the purpose of this application for admission, a declaration made pursuant to rule 58 of the Provisional Rules of Procedure of the Security Council and rule 134 of the Rules of Procedure of the General Assembly is appended to this letter.I shall be grateful if you would transmit this letter of application and the declaration to the presidents of the Security Council and the General Assembly as soon as possible,
Mahmoud Abbas-President of the State of Palestine-Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Not 1967, 1947
London's Daily Telegraph has the text of Moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen's letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon requesting statehood. Not only are the words 1967 borders not mentioned; it also doesn't mention the 1949 armistice lines. Instead, Abu Bluff wants to go back to the 1947 partition plan, which was rejected on the spot by the Arabs because it allowed a Jewish state at all.
Excellency,I have the profound honor, on behalf of the Palestinian people, to submit this application of the state of Palestine for admission to membership in the United Nations.This application for membership is being submitted on the Palestinian people's natural, legal and historic rights and based on United Nations General Assembly resolution 181 (II) of 29 November 1947 as well as the Declaration of Independence of the State of Palestine of 15 November 1988 and the acknowledgement by the General Assembly of this declaration in resolution 43/177 of 15 December 1988.
In this connection, the state of Palestine affirms its commitment to the achievement of a just, lasting and comprehensive resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on the vision of two states living side by side in peace and security, as endorsed by the United Nations Security Council and General Assembly and the international community as a whole and based on international law and all relevant United Nations resolutions.For the purpose of this application for admission, a declaration made pursuant to rule 58 of the Provisional Rules of Procedure of the Security Council and rule 134 of the Rules of Procedure of the General Assembly is appended to this letter.I shall be grateful if you would transmit this letter of application and the declaration to the presidents of the Security Council and the General Assembly as soon as possible,Mahmoud Abbas-President of the State of Palestine-Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
I warned back in July that this was where it was headed. Here's a map to give you an idea of what 1947 would mean (Israel liberated much more territory in the War of Independence).Israel would be the blue parts on the map. It would mean no Jerusalem and no airport. Even more indefensible borders than the 1949 armistice lines. The Palestinians ignore Security Council Resolution 242, which requires that Israel be left with defensible borders and says nothing about a Palestinian state.And Israel's mendacious opposition calls this a window of opportunity?
World Palestinians Want an Even Bigger State Than the 1967 Borders Posted on September 27, 2011 at 12:46am by Sharona Schwartz Sharona Schwartz
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/palestinians-want-an-even-bigger-state-than-the-1967-borders/
http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/09/14/from-gbtv-israel-maps/
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obama-endorses-palestinian-border-demands/
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2011/09/not-1967-1947.html#links
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4124030,00.html
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/palestinian-logo-suggests-elimination-israel_594027.html
When the Palestinians presented their bid for statehood at the UN Friday, most news outlets suggested Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was aiming for a state based on 1967 borders covering only the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.A closer look at the actual letter he presented to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon applying for UN membership reveals the Palestinians are aiming for far more territory.As reprinted in the Telegraph, Abbas’s letter reads:This application for membership is being submitted on the Palestinian people’s natural, legal and historic rights and based on United Nations General Assembly resolution 181 (II) of 29 November 1947 as well as the Declaration of Independence of the State of Palestine of 15 November 1988 and the acknowledgement by the General Assembly of this declaration in resolution 43/177 of 15 December 1988.Lots of dates are cited here. Let’s take a closer look. Abbas says his people’s rights are based on the 1947 UN Resolution. That year refers to the UN Partition Plan, the same plan all Arab states rejected and the Jews accepted for their homeland, after which those Arab neighbors declared war on Israel.
These maps from GBTV reveal the land allotted to the Jewish State under the 1947 Partition Plan was in fact much smaller than that afforded under 1967 borders.
Though President Obama has endorsed Palestinian demands — stated until now — that their future state be based on 1967 borders, Israel says borders should be based on the outcome of negotiations. If Abbas’s proposal is accepted by the UN Security Council, gone from Israel is Jerusalem its capital and home to the sites most sacred to Jews and Christians. Also gone: Ben Gurion Airport just outside Tel Aviv, the country’s only major international airport.The blog Israel Matzav explains the significance:It would mean no Jerusalem and no airport. Even more indefensible borders than the 1949 armistice lines. The Palestinians ignore Security Council Resolution 242, which requires that Israel be left with defensible borders and says nothing about a Palestinian state.There are other alarming suggestions the Palestinians are not being upfront in stating their intentions regarding the size of the state they aim for.One of the sticking points in restarting negotiations with Israel is the Palestinians’ continued opposition to recognizing Israel as a Jewish State. In fact, last week a round of talks aimed at restarting peace negotiations broke up over Abbas’ refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish State.Secondly, the Palestine Liberation Organization’s current logo on its UN Observer Mission website suggests it wants the entire state of Israel incorporated into its future state – not just the West Bank and Gaza. The map on the logo appears to suggest the goal is to wipe Israel completely off the map. The Weekly Standard posted this:
Here is the logo:Compare the green on this logo to the above maps and you’ll see Israel has vanished.But Mahmoud Abbas is the Palestinian Authority President, not the PLO’s. Not quite. Note how Abbas signed his letter to Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon: Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization.Looking at the moving borders raises the question: are Mideast agreements ever final, and how does Israel ensure its own security if they are not? One indication they are not came over the weekend, when Mahmoud Abbas said he wants to bust open part of the Oslo Agreements with the Israelis called the Paris Agreement and renegotiate. On his plane as he was traveling from New York back to Ramallah, Abbas told journalists:We want to reopen the Paris Agreement and make changes to it…The agreement is not fair and there are restrictions on Palestinians that prevent our economy from growing and prospering. The Paris Agreement does not give us the opportunity to develop our economy and our country.Right now the ball is in the court of UN Security Council (UNSC) members. It will be interesting to see how each votes. Since losing its capital city and main airport as well as other strategic assets would be a non-starter for Israel, the votes on these 1947 borders will reveal if UNSC members are sincere in their desire for peace in the Middle East, if they recognize Israel’s right to security (and honoring UNSC Resolution 242), or if they are paying lip service to the Palestinians.
Analysis - U.S., Palestinians race for votes at UN council ReutersBy Louis Charbonneau | Reuters – SEPT 26,11
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The Palestinians' initiative to seek U.N. recognition as a state, which goes to the Security Council on Monday, faces an uphill struggle to secure the nine votes needed for approval.Without those votes in the 15-member body, the United States will be spared the embarrassment of having to veto the application, which would be a further blow to its floundering efforts to secure Middle East peace.As the formal discussions start, diplomats say the Palestinians have only six certain votes on the council -- China, Russia, Brazil, Lebanon, India and South Africa.Those nations, except Lebanon, make up the BRICS bloc of emerging powers whose economic and diplomatic clout has grown as trade becomes more globalised and the United States and Europe fight prospects of another recession.
But diplomats say the BRICS countries seem to have made no attempt to use their considerable weight, often on show in financial and trade matters, to force the Palestinian issue. They have essentially taken the same approach as always.If a vote was held today, the Palestinians wouldn't have enough votes to carry the day and the Americans wouldn't even need to use their veto, a Western diplomat told Reuters.The Palestinian observer to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, told reporters nine council members are among the 131 U.N. member states that have recognized the state of Palestine and he hoped that they would vote positively.But he acknowledged that council members will face tremendous pressure in the coming weeks to vote against the Palestinian U.N. bid.Still, diplomats say Washington remains isolated on the council because of its staunch support for Israel, which the majority of U.N. member states believe has worked hard to sabotage peace talks with the Palestinians.In February, Washington vetoed what was widely seen as an anodyne resolution condemning Israeli settlement activity, even though its language was largely consistent with statements of the Obama administration, which has urged the Israelis to resume a moratorium on new settlements.When Israel ended the moratorium a year ago, the Palestinians withdrew from moribund peace talks.
ISOLATION
Highlighting its isolation on the Security Council, Washington cast the sole vote against the settlements resolution. The other 14 members -- including Washington's European allies such as Britain and France -- opposed the United States and Israel and voted for the resolution.The Europeans agree with Washington that the Palestinian U.N. bid is unwise and are inclined to oppose it. But the Europeans and Americans are far apart on the Middle East issue and diplomats say Washington remains as isolated as ever.Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas set the clock ticking on Friday when he delivered a U.N. membership application for a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The capital would be East Jerusalem, land Israel captured in the 1967 war that it launched out of fear Arabs were poised to attack.The council will take up the Palestinian membership application on Monday in closed-door consultations, but no immediate action is expected, diplomats say.Normally the council would take no more than 35 days to review and assess a membership application. In July, the application of South Sudan, the 193rd U.N. member and the most recent country to join the world body, was approved in a matter of days and given to the General Assembly, which confirmed it.Western diplomats on the Security Council say that will not be the case with the Palestinian application. The United States and Israel vehemently oppose the move and say it can only undermine efforts to relaunch stalled peace talks.
The 35-day limit can easily be waived, Western diplomats say. Slowing down the process, they say, would be helpful as it would buy time for the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations -- the Quartet -- to put pressure on both sides to get back to the negotiating table.But Abbas told reporters during the trip back to Ramallah that he expected the council to make a decision in weeks not months.Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki has acknowledged his delegation lacks sufficient support at the moment to get a resolution on Palestinian statehood and U.N. membership through the council.To pass, resolutions need nine votes in favour and no vetoes from the five permanent council members -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States.We're working towards it (securing nine votes) and I think we'll manage it,Malki said.Malki has named Gabon, Nigeria and Bosnia as key rotating council members he hopes to win over to the Palestinians' side. During last week's U.N. General Assembly session, the three swing states did not divulge whether they would vote in favour of Palestinian U.N. membership.Gabon President Ali Bongo told the assembly he supported the existence of a Palestinian state that lives peacefully side by side with Israel. Bosnian President Zeljko Komsic voiced similar views. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan did not mention the Palestinians in his speech.Mansour said the Palestinians would be sending high-level delegations to Bosnia, Gabon and Nigeria in the coming weeks.Portugal's prime minister, Pedro Passos Coelho, whose country is also on the council, indicated Lisbon would favour an option whereby the Palestinians would apply to the General Assembly for upgraded U.N. observer state status -- less than full membership but indirect recognition of statehood.(Editing by John O'Callaghan and Cynthia Osterman)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Palestinian statehood: Text of Mahmoud Abbas's letter to the UN-This is the text of Palestinian letter of application to join the United Nations handed over to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday, as released by the United Nations: 11:09PM BST 23 Sep 2011
Excellency,
I have the profound honor, on behalf of the Palestinian people, to submit this application of the state of Palestine for admission to membership in the United Nations.This application for membership is being submitted on the Palestinian people's natural, legal and historic rights and based on United Nations General Assembly resolution 181 (II) of 29 November 1947 as well as the Declaration of Independence of the State of Palestine of 15 November 1988 and the acknowledgement by the General Assembly of this declaration in resolution 43/177 of 15 December 1988.
In this connection, the state of Palestine affirms its commitment to the achievement of a just, lasting and comprehensive resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on the vision of two states living side by side in peace and security, as endorsed by the United Nations Security Council and General Assembly and the international community as a whole and based on international law and all relevant United Nations resolutions.For the purpose of this application for admission, a declaration made pursuant to rule 58 of the Provisional Rules of Procedure of the Security Council and rule 134 of the Rules of Procedure of the General Assembly is appended to this letter.I shall be grateful if you would transmit this letter of application and the declaration to the presidents of the Security Council and the General Assembly as soon as possible,
Mahmoud Abbas-President of the State of Palestine-Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Not 1967, 1947
London's Daily Telegraph has the text of Moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen's letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon requesting statehood. Not only are the words 1967 borders not mentioned; it also doesn't mention the 1949 armistice lines. Instead, Abu Bluff wants to go back to the 1947 partition plan, which was rejected on the spot by the Arabs because it allowed a Jewish state at all.
Excellency,I have the profound honor, on behalf of the Palestinian people, to submit this application of the state of Palestine for admission to membership in the United Nations.This application for membership is being submitted on the Palestinian people's natural, legal and historic rights and based on United Nations General Assembly resolution 181 (II) of 29 November 1947 as well as the Declaration of Independence of the State of Palestine of 15 November 1988 and the acknowledgement by the General Assembly of this declaration in resolution 43/177 of 15 December 1988.
In this connection, the state of Palestine affirms its commitment to the achievement of a just, lasting and comprehensive resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on the vision of two states living side by side in peace and security, as endorsed by the United Nations Security Council and General Assembly and the international community as a whole and based on international law and all relevant United Nations resolutions.For the purpose of this application for admission, a declaration made pursuant to rule 58 of the Provisional Rules of Procedure of the Security Council and rule 134 of the Rules of Procedure of the General Assembly is appended to this letter.I shall be grateful if you would transmit this letter of application and the declaration to the presidents of the Security Council and the General Assembly as soon as possible,Mahmoud Abbas-President of the State of Palestine-Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
I warned back in July that this was where it was headed. Here's a map to give you an idea of what 1947 would mean (Israel liberated much more territory in the War of Independence).Israel would be the blue parts on the map. It would mean no Jerusalem and no airport. Even more indefensible borders than the 1949 armistice lines. The Palestinians ignore Security Council Resolution 242, which requires that Israel be left with defensible borders and says nothing about a Palestinian state.And Israel's mendacious opposition calls this a window of opportunity?
World Palestinians Want an Even Bigger State Than the 1967 Borders Posted on September 27, 2011 at 12:46am by Sharona Schwartz Sharona Schwartz
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/palestinians-want-an-even-bigger-state-than-the-1967-borders/
http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/09/14/from-gbtv-israel-maps/
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obama-endorses-palestinian-border-demands/
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2011/09/not-1967-1947.html#links
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4124030,00.html
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/palestinian-logo-suggests-elimination-israel_594027.html
When the Palestinians presented their bid for statehood at the UN Friday, most news outlets suggested Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was aiming for a state based on 1967 borders covering only the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.A closer look at the actual letter he presented to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon applying for UN membership reveals the Palestinians are aiming for far more territory.As reprinted in the Telegraph, Abbas’s letter reads:This application for membership is being submitted on the Palestinian people’s natural, legal and historic rights and based on United Nations General Assembly resolution 181 (II) of 29 November 1947 as well as the Declaration of Independence of the State of Palestine of 15 November 1988 and the acknowledgement by the General Assembly of this declaration in resolution 43/177 of 15 December 1988.Lots of dates are cited here. Let’s take a closer look. Abbas says his people’s rights are based on the 1947 UN Resolution. That year refers to the UN Partition Plan, the same plan all Arab states rejected and the Jews accepted for their homeland, after which those Arab neighbors declared war on Israel.
These maps from GBTV reveal the land allotted to the Jewish State under the 1947 Partition Plan was in fact much smaller than that afforded under 1967 borders.
Though President Obama has endorsed Palestinian demands — stated until now — that their future state be based on 1967 borders, Israel says borders should be based on the outcome of negotiations. If Abbas’s proposal is accepted by the UN Security Council, gone from Israel is Jerusalem its capital and home to the sites most sacred to Jews and Christians. Also gone: Ben Gurion Airport just outside Tel Aviv, the country’s only major international airport.The blog Israel Matzav explains the significance:It would mean no Jerusalem and no airport. Even more indefensible borders than the 1949 armistice lines. The Palestinians ignore Security Council Resolution 242, which requires that Israel be left with defensible borders and says nothing about a Palestinian state.There are other alarming suggestions the Palestinians are not being upfront in stating their intentions regarding the size of the state they aim for.One of the sticking points in restarting negotiations with Israel is the Palestinians’ continued opposition to recognizing Israel as a Jewish State. In fact, last week a round of talks aimed at restarting peace negotiations broke up over Abbas’ refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish State.Secondly, the Palestine Liberation Organization’s current logo on its UN Observer Mission website suggests it wants the entire state of Israel incorporated into its future state – not just the West Bank and Gaza. The map on the logo appears to suggest the goal is to wipe Israel completely off the map. The Weekly Standard posted this:
Here is the logo:Compare the green on this logo to the above maps and you’ll see Israel has vanished.But Mahmoud Abbas is the Palestinian Authority President, not the PLO’s. Not quite. Note how Abbas signed his letter to Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon: Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization.Looking at the moving borders raises the question: are Mideast agreements ever final, and how does Israel ensure its own security if they are not? One indication they are not came over the weekend, when Mahmoud Abbas said he wants to bust open part of the Oslo Agreements with the Israelis called the Paris Agreement and renegotiate. On his plane as he was traveling from New York back to Ramallah, Abbas told journalists:We want to reopen the Paris Agreement and make changes to it…The agreement is not fair and there are restrictions on Palestinians that prevent our economy from growing and prospering. The Paris Agreement does not give us the opportunity to develop our economy and our country.Right now the ball is in the court of UN Security Council (UNSC) members. It will be interesting to see how each votes. Since losing its capital city and main airport as well as other strategic assets would be a non-starter for Israel, the votes on these 1947 borders will reveal if UNSC members are sincere in their desire for peace in the Middle East, if they recognize Israel’s right to security (and honoring UNSC Resolution 242), or if they are paying lip service to the Palestinians.
Analysis - U.S., Palestinians race for votes at UN council ReutersBy Louis Charbonneau | Reuters – SEPT 26,11
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The Palestinians' initiative to seek U.N. recognition as a state, which goes to the Security Council on Monday, faces an uphill struggle to secure the nine votes needed for approval.Without those votes in the 15-member body, the United States will be spared the embarrassment of having to veto the application, which would be a further blow to its floundering efforts to secure Middle East peace.As the formal discussions start, diplomats say the Palestinians have only six certain votes on the council -- China, Russia, Brazil, Lebanon, India and South Africa.Those nations, except Lebanon, make up the BRICS bloc of emerging powers whose economic and diplomatic clout has grown as trade becomes more globalised and the United States and Europe fight prospects of another recession.
But diplomats say the BRICS countries seem to have made no attempt to use their considerable weight, often on show in financial and trade matters, to force the Palestinian issue. They have essentially taken the same approach as always.If a vote was held today, the Palestinians wouldn't have enough votes to carry the day and the Americans wouldn't even need to use their veto, a Western diplomat told Reuters.The Palestinian observer to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, told reporters nine council members are among the 131 U.N. member states that have recognized the state of Palestine and he hoped that they would vote positively.But he acknowledged that council members will face tremendous pressure in the coming weeks to vote against the Palestinian U.N. bid.Still, diplomats say Washington remains isolated on the council because of its staunch support for Israel, which the majority of U.N. member states believe has worked hard to sabotage peace talks with the Palestinians.In February, Washington vetoed what was widely seen as an anodyne resolution condemning Israeli settlement activity, even though its language was largely consistent with statements of the Obama administration, which has urged the Israelis to resume a moratorium on new settlements.When Israel ended the moratorium a year ago, the Palestinians withdrew from moribund peace talks.
ISOLATION
Highlighting its isolation on the Security Council, Washington cast the sole vote against the settlements resolution. The other 14 members -- including Washington's European allies such as Britain and France -- opposed the United States and Israel and voted for the resolution.The Europeans agree with Washington that the Palestinian U.N. bid is unwise and are inclined to oppose it. But the Europeans and Americans are far apart on the Middle East issue and diplomats say Washington remains as isolated as ever.Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas set the clock ticking on Friday when he delivered a U.N. membership application for a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The capital would be East Jerusalem, land Israel captured in the 1967 war that it launched out of fear Arabs were poised to attack.The council will take up the Palestinian membership application on Monday in closed-door consultations, but no immediate action is expected, diplomats say.Normally the council would take no more than 35 days to review and assess a membership application. In July, the application of South Sudan, the 193rd U.N. member and the most recent country to join the world body, was approved in a matter of days and given to the General Assembly, which confirmed it.Western diplomats on the Security Council say that will not be the case with the Palestinian application. The United States and Israel vehemently oppose the move and say it can only undermine efforts to relaunch stalled peace talks.
The 35-day limit can easily be waived, Western diplomats say. Slowing down the process, they say, would be helpful as it would buy time for the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations -- the Quartet -- to put pressure on both sides to get back to the negotiating table.But Abbas told reporters during the trip back to Ramallah that he expected the council to make a decision in weeks not months.Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki has acknowledged his delegation lacks sufficient support at the moment to get a resolution on Palestinian statehood and U.N. membership through the council.To pass, resolutions need nine votes in favour and no vetoes from the five permanent council members -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States.We're working towards it (securing nine votes) and I think we'll manage it,Malki said.Malki has named Gabon, Nigeria and Bosnia as key rotating council members he hopes to win over to the Palestinians' side. During last week's U.N. General Assembly session, the three swing states did not divulge whether they would vote in favour of Palestinian U.N. membership.Gabon President Ali Bongo told the assembly he supported the existence of a Palestinian state that lives peacefully side by side with Israel. Bosnian President Zeljko Komsic voiced similar views. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan did not mention the Palestinians in his speech.Mansour said the Palestinians would be sending high-level delegations to Bosnia, Gabon and Nigeria in the coming weeks.Portugal's prime minister, Pedro Passos Coelho, whose country is also on the council, indicated Lisbon would favour an option whereby the Palestinians would apply to the General Assembly for upgraded U.N. observer state status -- less than full membership but indirect recognition of statehood.(Editing by John O'Callaghan and Cynthia Osterman)
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