3.Insane Muslim Terrorists by Daniel Greenfield

Posted: 13 May 2016 12:01 PM PDT

A Muslim terrorist stabbed four people at a train station near Munich while screaming, “Allahu Akbar”. In between proclaiming the glory of Allah, he also shouted that his victims were all “unbelievers”. A woman heard him say, “Infidel, you must die”.
The German authorities came to the inescapable conclusion that the attack had nothing to do with Islam. Instead the stabber had been “mentally ill” and was probably not even fit to stand trial. The Koran wasn’t to blame. It was the fault of his psychological problems.
This isn’t surprising. It’s a well known fact that there is no such thing as Islamic terrorism. Instead there are just a lot of people out there, of Muslim origin, suffering from a unique set of psychological problems that cause them to shout Allahu Akbar while trying to kill people who aren’t Muslims.
This should not however be attributed to the notoriously peaceful religion of peace.
Just last week the FBI busted James Muhammad who had been plotting to shoot up a Florida synagogue for the “glory of Allah”. Muhammad explained that he wanted to murder the men, women and children praying at the synagogue because, “I have a lot of love for Allah”.
Not only did this minor story receive only a fraction of the attention devoted to the truly important news that a Muslim teenage girl had Isis written in her High School yearbook, but Muhammad’s lawyer insisted at a bail hearing that he isn’t a terrorist, just suffering from mental problems.
Much like Ahmed Ferhani, who plotted to bomb a New York synagogue a few years ago to, in his own words, “send a message of intimidation and coercion to the Jewish population of New York City.” Ferhani however wasn’t just a racist terrorist, he’s also a cause célèbre for The Nation which five years later continues to advocate on behalf of an aspiring anti-Semitic mass murderer. The latest report from the left-wing magazine breathlessly informs readers that prison guards are being mean to poor Ahmed and that he never really meant to kill any Jews, but was entrapped due to his “psychiatric problems”.
Muhammad and Ferhani join Shahawar Matin Siraj who was convicted of plotting to bomb the Herald Square subway station in New York. Siraj was an illegal alien who worked at a Muslim bookstore and boasted, “I want at least 1,000 to 2,000 to die in one day.” His family and defenders claimed he had a low IQ. His co-defendant, James Elshafay, suffered from, you guessed it, psychological problems.
Matthew Aaron Llaneza converted to Islam and tried to blow up a bank in Oakland. His defenders blamed mental problems. Muslim ISIS supporter Emanuel Lutchman plotted a machete attack in Rochester last year. Despite his contacts with ISIS, the culprit once again was mental illness.
Sami Osmakac plotted to bomb Florida nightclubs. He recorded a “martyrdom” video issuing a call to “Muslims worldwide” to carry out terrorist attacks and avenge Osama bin Laden. He declared that the toenail of a sinning Muslim is worth more than all the non-Muslims in the world put together.
You’ll probably be surprised to hear that his lawyer blamed “mental illness” and claimed that his client had been “entrapped”. As has every Muslim terrorist ever for 1,400 years since Mohammed.
Mansour Arbabsiar was dispatched by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington. His defense claimed that he was bipolar. His lawyer insisted that the fact that he had confessed to everything proved that he was mentally ill because his illness, “led him to believe that he could convince the agents to see things his way”. Him and every other criminal out there.
Even when Muslim terrorists don’t claim mental illness, the media is happy to plead it for them.
When Nidal Malik Hasan murdered 13 Americans in the Fort Hood Massacre, Time and the New York Times suggested that he had somehow contracted PTSD from treating soldiers. In fact Hasan was a Muslim terrorist. No media outlet would stop claiming that he had PTSD long enough to read his letters in which he explained that he was a Jihadist, supported ISIS and killed American soldiers “for the greater cause of helping my Muslim brothers” and defending the “Islamic Empire”.
The defense for the surviving Tsarnaev terrorist who had carried out the Boston Marathon bombing went one better by blaming the “severe psychiatric disorders” of his parents. The Boston Globe, had interviewed psychologists to determine what possible “mental health conditions” he might have had.
Any mental condition will do when it comes to Muslim terrorists.
And the media never leaves any exculpatory stone unturned when it comes to finding a crazy excuse for a Muslim terrorist. The Los Angeles Times tried to find excuses for Syed Rizwan Farook, the San Bernardino Muslim killer, by claiming that he had grown up in a home “racked by mental illness”.
If a Muslim terrorist isn’t actually mentally ill, maybe one of his relatives was mentally ill. Or maybe, like Hasan, he once met someone who was mentally ill and got PTSD all over himself.
Internationally all Muslim terrorists are also mentally ill. Zehaf-Bibeau opened fire at the Canadian Parliament. Terror apologists claimed that he was mentally ill. In the UK, Muhaydin Mire tried to behead a man while shouting, “This is for Syria”. He had ISIS material on his phone and pictures of the Paris and San Bernardino shootings. His brother claimed that smoking pot had given him a “mental problem”. Sydney hostage taker Sheikh Man Haron Monis, who had become infamous for sending threats to the families of dead Australian soldiers, had his actions blamed on “mental instability.”
Michael Adebowale, one of the Jihadists who brutally beheaded British soldier Lee Rigby on a London street, also went the mental illness route.
In Russia, Muslim monster Gyulchekhra Bobokulova beheaded a 4-year-old girl and displayed her head in the street while shouting, “Allahu Akbar. I hate democracy. I am a terrorist. I want you dead.” Faced with these bafflingly inscrutable statements, the authorities blamed mental illness.
It was the safe thing to do. It always is.
Mental illness requires nothing of us except horror. Islamic terrorism demands that we do something about it. And that’s the last thing that the authorities who helped make this mess want.
German authorities, like their American, Russian, Europe and Australian counterparts, don’t want to take on Muslim immigration. It’s much easier to shove some more money at mental health clinics.
And what is mental illness anyway?
In the West, the conviction that you must kill people in order to receive 72 virgins in paradise would be considered a mental illness. In Islam, it’s a mainstream belief. 89% of Pakistanis believe in genies. But then again genies are present in Islamic scripture. 89% of Tunisians believe in witchcraft. 72% of Iraqis believe in the “evil eye”. 1 in 5 Afghanis have witnessed an exorcism. Half of Pakistanis believe in fairies.
Saudi religious police have a special Anti-Witchcraft Unit and there are actual witch trials. Majorities of Muslims don’t believe that Muslims carried out the 9/11 attacks. 40% of Pakistanis believe that fathers have a right to kill their daughters if they engage in premarital sex. Half of British Muslims think that the Jews are in league with the Freemasons. A third believes that Princess Diana was murdered to stop her from marrying a Muslim.
Ideas and behaviors associated with mental illness in the West are mainstream in parts of the Muslim world which exist in a pre-rational medieval universe brimming with conspiracy theories, paranoid delusions, lack of personal responsibility, erratic emotions & an inability to apply reason to reality.
Western psychiatric benchmarks don’t mean much in the Muslim world where witchcraft is a major problem, Jewish conspiracy theories abound and genies are responsible for psychiatric problems. Killing your daughter or just non-Muslims in general is socially approved behavior. The Muslim world has fundamentally different social norms than we do. And that means very different concepts of sanity.
Misattributing Muslim terrorism to madness is convenient, but meaningless. It’s a way for us to avoid dealing with the difficult questions posed by Islam. And that avoidance is also a form of insanity.

4.The media as a weapon in the Israeli/Arab war by Dr. Alex Grobman

The West adopted communist semantics in discussing the conflict, as the Soviets hoped and planned they would. Arutz Sheva IsraelNationalNews.com Published: Monday, May 16, 2016 1:59 PM

Dr. Alex Grobman is a historian and author of The Palestinian Right To Israel (Balfour Books, 2010). He co-authored “Denying History: Who Says The Holocaust Never Happened And Why Do They Say It?” (University of California Press, 2000). His newest book is License to Murder: The Enduring Threat of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.…

“Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but [in 1936] in Spain for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie…. This kind of thing is frightening to me, because it often gives me the feeling that the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world.” [1] (See sources at end of article)

Israel is engaged in a war in which the media plays a fundamental role in influencing world public opinion and government attitudes and decisions. According to Colonel David Kilcullen, an Australian expert on counterinsurgency, “It’s now fundamentally an information fight.” And it is on this “information battlefield,” Steve Fondacaro, an American military expert believes, that the struggle between the Western democracy and Islamic fundamentalism will eventually be determined. “The new element of power that has emerged in the last thirty to forty years and has subsumed the rest is information,” he said. “A revolution happened without us knowing or paying attention. Perception truly now is reality, and our enemies know it.”[2]

The media is being used to erode support for Israel by promoting “disproportionate and unsubstantiated allegations of human rights violations, war crimes and racism,” asserts Gerald M. Steinberg, the founder and president of NGO Monitor, that documents questionable funding and actions of many NGO’s that support Israel-based reporters. This strategy, which helped defeat the South African apartheid government, was embraced in 2001 at the NGO Forum U.N.-sponsored Durban Conference on racism. Since the Conference, many human rights NGOs have adopted the political agenda of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), whose members dominate the U.N. Human Rights Council. The NGO association has frequently condemned of Israel “based on false or unverifiable allegations of human rights abuses and ‘war crimes’.” [3]

The NGO campaigns, led by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, are vital in this process. The problem is that journalists, academics, diplomats, political leaders, & Western officials frequently quote these usually uncorroborated accusations in condemning Israeli policies, “reflecting the ‘soft power’ of these NGOs acting to reinforce the Palestinian narrative & the objectives of the OIC.” [4]

Role of the Soviets

The Soviets played a critical role in facilitating the use of language as a weapon of demonization and delegitimization against Israel by creating a political language connecting the former Soviet-styled anti-Semitism to the present one. In defining the political vocabulary about Israel and the Jewish people, the Soviets established the cultural foundations for a new type of political anti-Semitism that has become part of mainstream culture.[5]

The communists viewed Zionism “as a utopian, reactionary, ‘petty-bourgeois’ movement. At best an unwanted diversion from the class struggle and proletarian revolution, it was also seen by leading German Marxist theorists like Karl Kautsky as being complicit in the rise of antisemitism. Kautsky even accused Zionism of putting a spoke in the wheel of historical progress.” [6]

Lenin: The phrasing must be calculated not to convince but to destroy, not to correct the adversary’s mistake, but to annihilate his organization and wipe it off the face of the earth.
Vladimir Lenin, the Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist and an expert on the art of writing hate propaganda, explained how to implement this disinformation. “The wording (of our press campaign against our foes),” he said, “is calculated to provoke in the reader, hatred, disgust, contempt. The phrasing must be calculated not to convince but to destroy, not to correct the adversary’s mistake, but to annihilate his organization and wipe it off the face of the earth. This wording must really be of such a kind as to provoke the worst notions, the worst suspicions about the adversary; it must sow discord and confusion in the ranks and be the opposite of phrasing which would convince and correct.”7

Lenin also understood the critical need to broaden the base of supporters. “There was no sector of society,” he believed, “that cannot be enlisted in the revolutionary movement by abrasive sloganeering and hate targeting.” Locating the “pressure points” & “visible and accessible hate targets,” became the responsibility of the revolutionary psychological warfare experts. [8]

The need for a scapegoat is crucial in this process. “Anger wants a personal victim, and wants it now,” observed Gordon Allport, an American psychologist. [9] “Violence is always an outgrowth of milder states of mind … And so long as the target of wrath remains vague and ill-defined specific prejudice cannot crystallize around it. To have enemies we need labels.”[10]

After the Six Day War in 1967, Zionism because a legitimate object of Soviet sanctioned hatred. A Permanent Commission under the Social Sciences Section of the USSR Academy of Sciences was created “to coordinate research dedicated to the exposure and criticism of the history, ideology, and practical activity of Zionism.”11

The strategy of branding Israel as the antagonist did not take long. Soon after the end of the Six Day War, Bernard Lewis, a professor of Near Eastern Studies, observed, “The vocabulary of Middle Eastern politics has been enriched with a new formula-‘the removal of the consequences of aggression.’” The Arab states identified Israel as the aggressor, and demanded restoration of Arab lands and the return of their Arab populations.12

Under certain circumstances, Lewis said, Israel might relinquish her conquests; it is even possible that the Arabs might return- “though this would make them unique among the countless millions in Europe, Asia and Africa who have fled or been driven from their homes in our brutal century. But far more has happened than the occupation of lands and the movement of peoples, important as these may be. In the world of reality, events cannot be unmade, and their effects persist, even when their results vanish.” 13

On October 4, 1967, Komsomolskaya Pravda, the official organ of the Central Committee of the Komsomol (All-Union Leninist Young Communist League) published an article declaring “Zionism is dedicated to ‘genocide, racism, treachery, aggression, and annexation…all characteristic attributes of fascists.'” [14]

Lewis reported that practically the same terms were used at the World Conference of the International Women’s Year held in Mexico City in late June and early July 1975. He noted that “the ‘Declaration on the Equality of Women’ issued on that occasion repeatedly stresses the share of women in the struggle against neocolonialism, foreign occupation, Zionism, racism, racial discrimination and apartheid.” [15]

On November 10, 1975, the Russians and their Arab allies successfully passed U.N. General Assembly Resolution 3379 equating Zionism with racism. The Z=R resolution drew international attention to Zionism as “a form of racism and racial discrimination,” guaranteeing that it would be recognized as a global concern.

On December 16, 1991, 85 countries, a little more than half of the 166 U.N. members co-sponsored the repeal resolution, including the Soviet Union and its former communist allies in Eastern Europe that had previously voted in favor. [16]

Yet the damage had been done. “Vilification of Zionism turned into a permanent feature of international life” asserted political scientist Yohanan Manor, a lecturer at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and coordinator of the campaign that resulted in the revocation of Z=R. “That Zionism was a metaphor for universal evil became part of ‘common knowledge,’ accepted or at least not contradicted by almost the entire international body politic.”[17]

For Chaim Herzog, Israeli Ambassador to the U.N., the “process of disinformation in the West,” was even “more sinister” than the resolution for having creating the environment “in which the more brutal and physical anti-Semitic attacks can be mounted with comparative impunity.” Because the West had adopted “the communist semantics or code words, the communists have won half the battle,” he feared.[19]

The Soviets added another element in manipulating language– the “reversal of culpability,” which imposes a false historical analogy on the present. Thus, Goliath becomes David, and David becomes Goliath. The most prevalent use of this technique is the charge of “genocide,” which conveys the fallacious claim that “Israel is doing to the Palestinians what the Nazis did to the Jews.” Aside from being erroneous, this libel demeans the magnitude of the Holocaust and its uniqueness. [20]

The Nazi theme is intended to refute, nullify and substitute the formidable Zionist Holocaust theme. When directed toward Israeli soldiers, it is supposed to arouse guilt and reduce their efficiency. [21]

These criticisms ultimately obscure the distinctions between what is right and wrong and undermines the foundations of Judeo-Christian morality. “After nearly three decades, the cumulative effects of the Soviet campaign to defame Zionism and the more recent attempts to turn the clock back at Durban have created an environment of moral confusion which has made terror and violence acceptable & justifiable. The resulting condition, known as anomie (literally, lawlessness, in Greek), signifies “a social condition in which the hierarchy of values disintegrates & ‘all regulation is lacking.'” [22]

The question as to why the Israeli/Arab conflict receives such inordinate attention while other major disputes throughout the world do not will be discussed in the next article.

As Matti Friedman, a former reporter and editor in the Jerusalem bureau of the Associated Press (AP), one of largest news organizations in the world, asked “How have the doings in a country that constitutes 0.01 per cent of the world’s surface become the focus of angst, loathing, and condemnation more than any other?” [23]

When Friedman worked for the AP, there more AP news staffers covering Israel than were in India or China, and more than in all of the 50 countries of sub-Saharan Africa together. [24]

There were also more reporters in Israel than in the countries where the “Arab Spring” erupted. [25]

Footnotes

[1] Jonathan Beecher, George Orwell: War of Words, The Harvard Crimson (May 10, 1957.

[2]Marvin Kalb and Carol Saivetz, “The Israeli-Hezbollah War of 2006: The Media as a Weapon in Asymmetrical Conflict,” Shorenstein Center John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (February 18, 2007): 4, 5, 6; Mortimer B. Zuckerman, “Israel Has a Duty to Defend Its Citizens,” U.S. New Weekly (August 1, 2014); Shraga Simmons, David & Goliath: The explosive inside story of media bias in the Mideast conflict (New York: Emesphere Publication, 2012); David Bar-Ilan, Eye on the Media(Jerusalem: Gefen Books, 1993); for examples of general liberal media bias see, Sharyl Attkisson, Stonewalled: One Reporter’s Fight for Truth in Obama’s Washington (New York: HarperCollins, 2014); Bernard Goldberg, BIAS (New York: Perennial, 2003).

[3] Gerald M. Steinberg, “From Durban to the Goldstone Report: the centrality of human rights NGOs in the political dimension of the Arab–Israeli conflict,” Israel Affairs Volume 18, Issue 3, (2012); Charles Asher Small, Ed. Joël Kotek, “Israel and the Belgian Media: A Mirror of the Israel–Gaza Conflict (July–August 2014): Between Disinformation, Deformation, and Importing the Conflict,” ISGAP Occasional Paper Series Number 2 Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, (July 2015); Dexter Van Zile, “Head of British Non-Profit Engages in Propaganda War Against Israel,” CAMERA (August 21, 2015).

[4]Ibid; Dylan Byers, “DNC chairwoman: Media biased against Israel,” POLITICO (February 3, 2015); Yochanan Visser, “Respected Journalists Expose Media Bias Against Israel,” Western Journalism (December 8, 2014); Robert Laurie, “Israel’s U.S. Ambassador appears on CNN – destroys CNN’s biased reporting,”Canada Free Press (July 25, 2014); Earl Cox, “Forget the Facts. Blame Israel First … CNN does,” The Jerusalem Post (July 27, 2014); Manfred Gerstenfeld, interview with David Bar-Ilan, “The Loaded Dice of the Foreign Media Are There to Stay,” in Israel’s New Future: Interviews Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Rubin Mass, 1994), 109-119; Manfred Gerstenfeld,” Decades of European Media Bias Against Israel,” Canadian Institute for Jewish Research (August 3, 2015).

[5]Joel S. Fishman, “The Cold-War Origins of Contemporary Anti-Semitic Terminology,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Number 517 (May 2-16, 2004). The communists viewed Zionism “as a utopian, reactionary, ‘petty-bourgeois’ movement. At best an unwanted diversion from the class struggle and proletarian revolution, it was also seen by leading German Marxist theorists like Karl Kautsky as being complicit in the rise of antisemitism. Kautsky even accused Zionism of putting a spoke in the wheel of historical progress.”

[6]Robert S. Wistrich, “The Anti-Zionist Mythology of the Left,” Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs Volume 9 Issue 1 (July 13, 2015); Robert S. Wistrich, From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews, and Israel (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2012), 250–592.

[7]Fishman, op.cit; Eugene H. Methvin,The Riot Makers: The Technology of Social Demolition (New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1970), 130.

[8]Methvin, op.cit. 281, 283.

[9]Gordon Allport, The Nature of Prejudice (New York: Perseus Books, L.L.C., 1954), 258.

[10] Ibid. 57; Methvin, op.cit. 453.

[11] Fishman, op.cit; Zionism also became a legitimate object of hatred in Europe, Robert S. Wistrich, A Lethal Obsession: Antisemitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad (New York: Random House, 2010), 279–81; see also Pew Research Center, February 26, 2015, “Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and Hostilities,” 5, 16 28; Bret Stephens, “Packing Time for France’s Jews,” The Wall Street Journal(January 19, 2015); Jeffrey Goldberg, “Is It Time for the Jews to Leave Europe?” The Atlantic (April 2015).

[12[]Bernard Lewis, “The Arab-Israeli War,” Foreign Affairs (January 1968).

[13]ibid.

[14]Ibid.

[15]Ibid; Bernard Lewis, “The Anti-Zionist Resolution,” Foreign Affairs(October 1976).

[16]Paul Lewis, “U.N. Repeals Its ’75 Resolution Equating Zionism With Racism,” The New York Times(December 17, 1991).

[17]Yohanan Manor, “The 1975 “Zionism Is Racism” Resolution: The Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of a Libel,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, (May 2, 2010). Hebrew University political scientist Ehud Sprinzak worried that “a qualitative change ushered in the anti-Zionism of the 70’s, a change arising from the fact that Zionism had ceased being an object of delegitimization and had become an object of dehumanization.”

[18]Yohanan Manor, To Right A Wrong: The Revocation of the UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 Defaming Zionism (New York: Shengold Publishers, Inc., 1996), 128.

[19]Ibid. 133.

[20] Fishman, op.cit; for an example of how Jews used the Holocaust to promote their own anti-Israel agenda, see Irwin Graulich, “Op-Ed: Blood Libels in the New York Times,” Israel National News (September 1, 2014).

[21] Ron Schleifer, Psychological Warfare in the Intifada: Israeli and Palestinian Media Politics and Military Strategy (Portland, Oregon: Sussex Academic Press, 2006), 82.

[22] Joel S. Fishman, “The Cold-War Origins of Contemporary Anti-Semitic Terminology,” (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Number 517 (May 2-16, 2004); Sheri Oz, “How to Defame Israel Without Really Trying: Deceitfully Seek Entry Into the Country,” The Times of Israel (July 31, 2015); Elder of Ziyon, “How to Defame Israel – NPR edition,” (December 30, 2010).

[23] Matti Friedman, “The ideological roots of media bias against Israel,”fathom (January 26, 2015); Kalb and Saivetz, op.cit. 11-14; Russ Braley, Bad News: The Foreign Policy of The New York Times (Chicago, Illinois: Regnery Gateway, 1984).

[24] Ibid.

[25]Matti Friedman, “An Insider’s Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth,”Tablet (August 26, 2014).

The media as a weapon in the Israeli/Arab war by Dr. Alex Grobman

5.’Saving Amona will save thousands of other Jewish homes’

MK Muallem pays a visit to Samaria town facing destruction due to a Supreme Court order, and promises to help find a solution. By Ido Ben-Porat Arutz Sheva IsraelNationalNews.com 5/16/16

Shuli Muallem visits Amona Spokesperson

MK Shuli Muallem, chairperson of the Jewish Home faction, arrived on Sunday to Amona in the Binyamin district of Samaria to meet with leaders of the struggle to save the town.

Muallem’s visit was intended to form a plan of action in the Knesset to legalize Amona’s status and prevent the residents from being expelled from their homes.

Amona, which was built on land purchased from Arab residents, has been deemed illegal by the Supreme Court, which has rejected the validity of the deeds to the land provided by the town’s founders. Last week it was reported that a deal was being worked on to evacuate the town in return for the building of a new town in the region, but residents have rejected the idea.

Radical leftist organizations petitioned the Supreme Court to get Amona declared illegal, and the court has ordered the state to completely demolish the town by December 2016.

Attorney Avichai Boaron, a resident of the town, said, “the solution that will save the homes of Amona will save thousands of additional homes in Judea and Samaria that are in an identical legal status to that of Amona. That is one of the central reasons that we oppose the proposal to move the town to another location. There is a matter of principles here.”

Boaron added that he expects the Jewish Home party to step up and use its position in the government to stop the eviction.

“You don’t destroy or expel a Jewish town, particularly when it’s a town that was established dozens of years ago under the patronage of the state, and people established their families there.”

He noted that residents “live in uncertainty because the state itself is not acting to find the legal solution,” in a criticism of the government for its inaction on Amona that comes in addition to its covert general building freeze in Judea and Samaria since 2013.

“We need creativity”

During the visit Muallem said that the government understands that Amona needs to have its status legalized, and that moving the community is not the right solution.

“The solution that will be found in Amona requires creativity by the governmental sources, it will solve not only the problem in Amona but will also influence other homes that are in the sights of the radical leftist organizations that took as their goal to harm the communities in Judea and Samaria,” she said.

Also taking part in the meeting was Yesha Council chairperson Avi Roeh, who warned that leftists are using the judicial system in order to destroy existing communities.

“This is a strategy that they are trying to implement also in additional places,” he said. “The issue is that harm to Amona will have serious repercussions on other buildings because from a legal standpoint there is no serious different between hundreds of homes in the settlements and what’s happening here, and therefore we must struggle for this place.”

Amona’s Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Yair Frank, thanked Muallem for her visit and for efforts to save the town.

“We expect from all those (in the Knesset) who identify with the nationalist camp to come and make an ethical, spiritual and moral statement, that the town of Amona must be legalized – both for the land of Israel and also for Zionism and the settlements, and of course for the families that live here.”

“It is true that the solution of moving the town could give us the opportunity of having nicer buildings and a nicer environment, but we refuse to accept this solution, not only because we have connected to this place, but because we are aware of the future ramifications of its implementation,” said the rabbi.

The struggle for Amona dates back, as the High Court in 2006 ordered the demolition of nine houses which it claimed were built on privately-owned Arab land. Thousands of Israeli police and soldiers were called in to remove demonstrators.

Hundreds of civilians were wounded in the course of the evacuation, including several Knesset members. Witnesses accused security forces of using excessive force & in some cases, outright brutality.

‘Saving Amona will save thousands of other Jewish homes’

6.Independence or dependence? Israel faces a dilemma by Shifra Hoffman

Is Israel truly independent? Arutz Sheva IsraelNatinalNews.com Published: Monday, May 16, 2016 1:49 PM

Shifra Hoffman is a journalist, Founder of the VICTIMS of ARAB TERROR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION (VAT) and Executive Director of SHUVA(Return)

In today’s world, the search to end global conflicts and violent confrontations between nations has, ostensibly, become an urgent priority. Ironically, Israel the Jewish homeland that was reborn with G-D’s help after the unspeakable Holocaust and which for more than six decades has endeavored to negotiate a peaceful solution to the Arab Israeli conflict…is now being singled out as the “obstacle to peace”.

With every passing day, ugly invective emerges from the mouths of leaders of so called ‘cultured and civilized ‘countries as well as from the ‘bright lights in academic universities, condemning Israel as a ‘racist apartheid state’ and declaring it has no right to exist!

No matter! Despite their vile efforts to boycott, to isolate, and to destroy Medinat Yisrael which is the aim of the accelerating Arab terrorist attacks, Israel is celebrating its 68th year of independence as a strong and sovereign Jewish State!

By relying on the ‘peace plans’ of nations that are at best indifferent to of our fate, and at worst, want to see Israel altogether eliminated, the Jewish State is courting unparalled disaster!
Still, the question arises “Is Israel truly independent?’ More often than not, the decisions made by successive Israeli governments that affect the Jewish State, are based on the premise “ma yomru hagoyim” (What will the nations say”?)

This craven capitulation to the dictates of leaders of foreign governments such as U.S. President Obama has often proved detrimental and caused more pressure to be exerted on Israel to make additional dangerous concessions to implacable Arab enemies.

Among other self-flagellating rituals in which Israel regularly engages that tend to belie her claim to independence, is the seemingly chronic need to explain every action that is undertaken by the IDF to defend and protect the Jewish homeland. (Perhaps what is needed is a “Minister of Explanation)”.

These futile attempts to ‘explain’ Israel’s justified defensive actions only succeed in eliciting condemnations by that bastion of “morality” (sic),the United Nations, which continues to turn a “blind eye” to the multitude of Arab atrocities that are being perpetrated upon innocent Jewish men, women and children – and their own fellow-Arabs and Muslims.

Despite the fact that Israel is reported to be the main superpower in the Middle East, I believe the obtuse policy of its leaders in allowing those Arabs who display hostility to the existence of the state, to remain in the country for fear of negative world opinion, is yet another glaring example of Israel’s non independence.

By relying on the ‘peace plans’ of nations that are at best indifferent to of our fate, and at worst, want to see Israel altogether eliminated, the Jewish State is courting unparalled disaster!

In the final analysis, as the prophecies of our Holy Torah clearly record, Israel was reborn when G-D, Blessed is His Name, mercifully ended the millennia long and painful exile to return the Jewish people to our ancient homeland, Eretz Yisrael.

Therefore , Israel should cease its foolish and non-productive attempts to curry favor with the world that for generations has persecuted Jews in pogroms, Crusades, Inquisitions and ‘the final solution” of Nazi, Germany.] To be truly independent, Israel can only depend on our one Eternal ally, and begin to do whatever must be done for the survival of Medinat Yisrael.

Independence or dependence? Israel faces a dilemma by Shifra Hoffman

7.Scapegoating their own Jewish community by Larry Domnitch

Why do more and more American Jews who know better, join the far left Israel-bashers?

Arutz Sheva IsraelNatonalNews.com Published: Monday, May 16, 2016 1:32 PM

Larry Domnitch is an educator and the author of “The Cantonists: The Jewish Children´s Army of the Tsar”, released by Devora Publishing. He resides in Efrat.

The Jewish far Left has become a more frequent and increasingly louder voice in the growing chorus against Israel that is heard from within the snowballing extreme liberal camp.

The following illustrations hardly tell the whole story.

Last month’s protest two days before Passover by a Jewish anti-‘occupation’ group IfNotNow at the offices of the Anti Defamation League in New York and AIPAC in Boston netted 23 arrests. Protestors wore t-shirts which read “No liberation with occupation.”

In total, about five hundred Jews participated in “Liberation Seders” around the country.

Two Jewish members of the far left CODEPINK, unfurled a banner at the Western Wall reading “American Jews Support BDS.” In a statement, the two blamed the violence in the region on the “occupation.” There are Jewish professors and students who are joining in the attacks against Israel on college campuses. Some, although a smaller minority, have even aligned with the Palestinian advocacy group, Students for Justice in Palestine, which bears responsibility for much of the anti-Israel activity.

Another group, Jewish Voice for Peace which regards itself as the Jewish wing of the Palestine solidarity movement, supports BDS and the Palestinian claim of the “right” of return.

The New Israel Fund dispenses funds to fringe groups in Israel which defame the Jewish state. Some call for economic boycotts.

Leaders of the Reform movement call for the end to the “occupation.”

In a column in Ha’aretz, a former president of NFTY, the Reform Jewish Youth Movement, obviously wholly ignorant of the facts, compared opposition to the “occupation” with the fight against “segregation” in the 1960s.

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders recently inflated numbers of Palestinian casualties in the most recent Gaza war and accused Israel of a ‘disproportionate’ response.

Past chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, Seymour Reich, in an article highly critical of Israel entitled, “Israel’s Assault on Democracy: Time to Speak Out,” referenced Sander’s absurd comments and noted how they were “Greeted with enthusiastic approval by the mostly young audience, many of them Jewish.”

American Jewish author, Michael Chabon egregiously referred to the “occupation” as “The most grievous injustice I’ve ever seen.”

What is needed here is far more than a basic history and current events lesson.

Unlike so many American Jews who are simply distant from Israel because of decades of assimilation, this is beyond the usual detachment. The growing chorus of Israel’s Jewish American detractors not only represents the divide among American Jews and Israelis but also a trend in America among some young millennial away from Israel and towards the Palestinians.

Sixty-eight years after the birth of Israel, Jews on the far left along with fellow leftists are standing with Israel’s opposition.

Are they all blind?

Do they not see what is happening?

Who perpetrates the violence and who acts in response?

Do they not see the rejection of Israel by its detractors?

How does the Jew respond to the vilification of Israel?

What does the Jewish leftist see when he/she looks in the mirror?

Today’s Jewish leftist position towards Israel is a response to the collective Jewish experience of persecution and isolation over the millennia. Despite their denials, they sense the anti-Semitism from their camp. They want to impart to their fellow leftists that it is the others, those Zionists, who are contemptible, while they, the good guys, are worthy of admiration even though they are Jewish.

They believe that by joining the anti-Israel feeding frenzy by endorsing the views of the enemies of Zion they can walk the halls of the college campuses, the far left gatherings, and be impervious to the hate because they too stand with the BDSers. Then they can face their non-Jewish friends because they, too, harshly condemn Israel or even disavow the existential rights of the Jewish State.

Such abandonment is not a new phenomenon. There are many precedents.

After struggling for decades to achieve full emancipation in nineteenth century Prussia, multitudes of Jews took it to the next step instead of enjoying it and sought baptism as a bridge to society. Then, they would achieve the equality for which they had so fervently hoped. As Jewish poet & author Heinrich Heine put it, “The baptismal certificate is the ticket of admission to European culture.”

In Russia, Jewish thinkers of the enlightenment mocked and ridiculed the Rabbis, blaming them for the difficult circumstances of Russian Jewry within the Czarist Empire. If only the Jews modernized themselves, they wailed, they would be better respected! Such hopes however were followed by vicious Czarist pogroms and severe discriminatory policies.

By November 1917, when radical change came to Russia in the form of communism, the Jewish communist’s organization known as the Yevsekstzia, which saw Judaism as a barrier sought to unite with their fellow Soviets called for the complete dissolution of Jewish communal organizations. However, even that did not assuage the coming title wave of Soviet anti-Semitism.

Once again, history repeats itself. Today it is Israel and its policies that are blamed. Some cry: If only we changed! If only we accommodated! But such words have no meaning in the context of Jewish history, past or present. In today’s Middle East, it is the evil of others, not the behavior of the Jews, which causes mayhem.

Jewish leftists: When you slam Israel, you do not act out of ideology because that is a logic which defies all reason. You act out of fear; Out of your yearning for acceptance in a world where the scourge of Jew hatred so often rears its head.

Know that Zionism is beautiful. It is the liberation movement of the Jewish people, and it has been an overwhelming success. Zionism has brought light into darkness. It has set the bar on what can be accomplished in the face of adversity.

Most importantly, know that “a Jew is a Jew” and there is always a path back home.

8.Revealed: Hamas using Gazan fishermen to smuggle weapons By Ari Soffer

Fisherman arrested by Israeli navy reveals Hamas’s efforts to circumvent military blockade, in latest Israeli intelligence coup. Arutz Sheva IsraelNationalNews.com First Publish: 5/16/2016, 3:55 PM

Fishermen off the coast of Gaza- Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90

A Gazan fisherman arrested by Israeli security services has revealed how Hamas regularly uses fishermen to smuggle weapons and other military equipment into Gaza.

The Shin Bet security service (Israel Security Agency), Israeli navy and Israel Police released for publication Monday afternoon the arrest of 39-year-old fisherman Salim Jamal Hasan Na’aman back in April.

Na’aman, a resident of the Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, was initially detained by Israeli naval forces after straying beyond the zone permitted for fishing, as part of the Israeli military’s blockade aimed at containing the Hamas terrorist group.

Under Shin Bet interrogation, the fisherman revealed how over a prolonged period he had personally helped smuggle weapons, ammunition, rocket-making equipment and other military equipment via sea into Gaza, on behalf of Hamas and other terrorist organizations.

The items he was tasked with smuggling ranged from live weapons and ammunition, to elements such as liquid fiberglass, which is a key ingredient in rocket production.

Na’aman also revealed to his interrogators a trove of valuable information about Hamas’s own naval activities, including how Hamas operatives aided in smuggling efforts, and worked hard to disguise such activities from Israeli intelligence.

He also provided detailed information on Hamas smuggling routes between Gaza and Egypt, such as the use of fishermen and other smugglers.

In a statement, the Shin Bet hailed the breakthrough in efforts to restrict the flow of weapons and ammunition to Hamas and other terrorist groups inside Gaza.

“The intelligence gained from this interrogation, as in the interrogation of other Hamas terror operatives arrested recently, exposes yet another way among many others in which Hamas is investing in preparations for further violent terrorist acts. In this case: taking advantage of concessions by Israel towards fisherman in Gaza,” the statement read, referring to Israel’s recent extension of the fishing zone.

As noted in the statement, this is only the latest in a series of arrests of Hamas terror operatives from Gaza.

The Shin Bet and IDF recently revealed the arrest of a senior Hamas tunnel builder, who yielded a wealth of intelligence on the jihadist group’s efforts to build attack tunnels into Israeli territory.

Another teenage terrorist was also recently captured, revealing yet more information on Hamas’s preparations for another war with Israel.

Revealed: Hamas using Gazan fishermen to smuggle weapons By Ari Soffer

9.Israeli Stabbed in Jerusalem Attack, Terrorist Captured

An Arab terrorist stabbed a young hareidi man in the heart of Jerusalem. The attacker was arrested, Israel Police said. By: Hana Levi Julian JewishPress.com Published: May 16th, 2016

Scene of terror attack on HaNeviim Street Photo Credit: MDA

A 26-year-old hareidi man was stabbed in Jerusalem by an Arab terrorist shortly after 9 am Monday morning near the Damascus Gate entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem. The attack took place on HaNevi’im Street, as the man was walking with his family. He was stabbed in the shoulder while fending off the terrorist.

United Hatzalah volunteer medic Dovid Shekler was first to arrive on the scene. “I saw a young man who was stabbed in his upper body and began treating him,” Shekler said. “I continued to treat him until an emergency services ambulance arrived at the scene and evacuated him to Shaare Zedek Medical Center. He was fully conscious at the time of transport.” The victim sustained minor wounds and was in good condition, according to Magen David Adom (MDA) medics who brought him to the hospital.

Jerusalem District Police and Border Guard Police forces heard shouting near the Damascus Gate and hurried to the scene, according to a spokesperson for Jerusalem Police. The attacker, who fled towards Ben Shadad Street, was seen tossing a knife to the side.

“Police pursued the suspect and arrested him,” said a spokesperson for Jerusalem District Police. The 20-year-old terrorist, an Arab from the Palestinian Authority, was transferred for questioning, according to Israel Police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld.

Hana Levi Julian is a Middle East news analyst with a degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from Southern Connecticut State University. A past columnist with The Jewish Press and senior editor at Arutz 7, Ms. Julian has written for Babble.com, Chabad.org and other media outlets, in addition to her years working in broadcast journalism