Friday, January 16, 2015
Dear Family & Friends, I’ve been told, with kindness, that the title “Gaza War Diary” is too difficult to hear…that it sounds like “Gestapo” especially for those Jews who remember the Holocaust & may have lived through It.…and that the Gaza War is over.
Well, that is all true. But, IT is not over. What is happening all over the world is ALL “The Gaza War”. The murders in France got the world’s attention – for a while. Do people read the papers? Do they read who’s being murdered in countries that they don’t live in &, therefore, may not care about enough to really care what is happening in the world?
Do we call Terrorism today by its name? Here is a GAZA WAR DIARY excerpt from September to help us Remember.
REMEMBER!
GAIL WINSTON gail@winstonglobal.org Gaza War Diary Sep. 17 & 18, 2014 DAYS 72 & 73
Dear Family & Friends,
But, the world, our world turns on. Back to work. Reading, selecting, writing commentary & sending it all out to you is my current work. It’s often (usually) grim but necessary so I’m strictly motivated to do so.
Manny & I always had the inner drive to “save the Jewish people & the Jewish State of Israel”. We did ‘Hasbara’ since 1973 – before we knew what the word meant. Now it’s called “Public Diplomacy”. After Manny flew here to Israel during the Yom Kippur War, photographed the battle scenes in the Sinai Desert & the Golan Heights (& I followed), we came back to the suburbs of Chicago to begin our 40+ years of Israel Advocacy. The anti-Israel PR by the Muslim countries was increasingly virulent, affecting the minds of Western Civilization against Israel. What really raised our alarm bells were bumper stickers in California that (because of the artificial oil-crisis) said: “Burn Jews, Not Oil!”.
After the vote in the UN on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, November 10, 1975 that “Zionism is Racism”, I started M.E.I.R., Mid East Information Resource – a Jewish speakers’ bureau to counter Arab Propaganda. The author of “From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine” – Joan Peters gave me the 16 mm film: “Dhimmi: To Be A Jew in Arab Countries”.
I took that film to groups & conferences all over, showed it, taught what it had been like for Sephardic Jews to live for thousands of years under Arab Muslim totalitarianism, in the 57 Arab & Muslim countries – until they were exiled after the birth of the Jewish State of Israel.
I taught that history to Jews & Christians who had never seen or heard about it, because as “Dhimmis” (second class citizens with no rights) their history had never been written or taught to Westerners.
When 850,000 Jews were expelled from the countries they lived in for thousands of years, most of them came to Israel, were taken in (although the nascent State of Israel had no money, no housing, little food & constant Terror attacks plus major wars to defend against). They were housed, fed, educated – & became many of the very best people in Israel in all fields.
But, they had something the Ashkenazi Jews from Europe & the Russian Jews from the Soviet Union didn’t have. They had personal knowledge of what it was like to live in the Arab Muslim world. They knew we could not negotiate with them & expect them to keep their signed treaties. To NOT keep their agreements is actually taught in Islam. It’s called “Taqiyya” or Deception. They are supposed to follow the examples laid down in the life of their first leader, Mohammed.
Read “Why Pretend? Read the Hudabaiya Treaty” on our Website: WinstonIsraelInsight.com. Mohammed made that Treaty for 10 years when he was military weak – with the Jewish Qaraish Tribe in Mecca to pray at the Ka’aba Stone. But, when his military was stronger, he came back, killed 800 of the Jewish men of the Qaraish Tribe by decapitating them, captured & sold their women & children into slavery. Does that have a familiar ring?
One of my favorite Websites, the Freeman Center for Strategic Studies on Tuesday, September 16th sent: [Freemanlist2] “These photos show ISIS brutality in action -Not for the faint of heart”. You really don’t want to see these, unless you don’t believe what you are reading & seeing and/or – you really need to know. This is truth but, will it set you free?
Has this horror sprung upon us suddenly? We didn’t know? It was hidden/secret? Now, the ISIS, ISIL are deliberately showing off how they follow Mohammed’s example – including head-chopping, polygamy, child marriage, slavery of the Black Africans by Arab Muslims, stealing & murdering – with great cruelty. So, we can’t claim ignorance any more. Now we must really get our acts together, rise up & smite them down – lest they smite & murder us & our precious families.
Remember: As bad as ISIS is, Iran is worse. With nukes, Iran would become a hegemonic power in the Middle East with the power of their ICBMs (InterContinental Ballistic Missiles) to hit Europe & America. If you saw the Tom Clancy movie: “Sum of All Fears”, you’d never forget the way a ‘dirty’ nuclear bomb was transported by ship to Baltimore, brought in a vending machine case to a huge football game where the US President was attending, exploded with terrible casualties & fall-out.
Remember the technique of taking scholarly or technical information, maybe not very popular reading or viewing, then novelizing or turning into a movie – or both, in order to enter the Mind Space of the world’s populations in general & the influentials in particular who have to fight & defend against this evil.
Remember Shakespeare’s “Whether ’tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings & Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, & by opposing end them?”
REMEMBER: As of 1988 now 1/15/15
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of PanAm Flight 103, 12/21/88
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the Marine Barracks in Lebanon, 10/23/83
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of Khobar Towers, U.S. Barracks Saudi Arabia, 6/25/88
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the World Trade Center in 2/26/93
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of U.S. Embassies-Nairobi & Dar es Salaam, Africa, 8/10/98
REMEMBER the MUSLIM attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon & (probably intended for the White House or Congress, but crash-landed by the enraged passenger into an empty field in Pennsylvania – on 9/11/01
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombings of commuter trains in Madrid 3/11/04
REMEMBER the MUSLIM murders of at least 368, half were children in Beslan, Russia 9/1/2004
REMEMBER the Muslim bombings in London 7/7/2005 52 people killed on 3 subway trains & 1 double-decker bus.
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombings on the Boston Marathon 4/51/2013 5 Killed; 264 injured including 16 amputees.
REMEMBER the MUSLIM TERROR which I must research & insert into this Timeline ASAP.
REMEMBER the MUSLIMS who shot the cartoonists & editors in France.
REMEMBER the MUSLIMS who shot the 4 Jewish men shopping for Shabbos in France.
REMEMBER all the AMERICAN & other lives lost in those vicious MUSLIM attacks.
All the very best, Gail/Geula/Savta/Savta Raba/Mom
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