Tonight & Today it is Time to pray fiercely to HaShem to fill our Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu with the stirring words necessary to defeat the very bad agreement with Iran’s nuclear goals.

Please pray that HaShem opens the ears of all the American Congressmen & women to hear truth be told regarding the risks to America (who the Muslims call “The Great Satan”) & to Israel (who the Muslims call “The Little Satan”).

Then extend your fervent prayers to our own people, who are at great risk – not only from Iran’s nukes but from conventional weapons all around us. Help us be smarter & braver than we already are because:

Our risk in Israel is greater because we are a bit smaller than America & not protected on 2 sides by great oceans as well as top & bottom by friendly countries. We in Israel are protected by G-d, of course, but we need our earthly, military efforts by our valiant IDF & our brave civilians (men, women & children) who withstand constant barrages of missiles from Hamas & Terror for the PLO Terrorists (of different names).

Kick back at those short-sighted Congressmen & women who won’t bother to listen to true intelligence information from the one man in the world who probably knows it best & carries it all the time. Respectfully, write them & your local plus national news media to reject their cowardice & stupidity. In our American democracy, we are supposed to tell our Congress-people when they are wrong, misguided, arrogant, block-headed….you pick the adjective.

Much will be written by many about this week’s flow of vital information. Do yourselves a favor & read as much of it as you can. Read, Learn, React, Respond, Be Pro-Active, Fight back against the dangerous, cowardly, arrogant positions taken by the Obama Administration.

Have a restorative night, learning-ful day, All the very best, Gail/Savta/Savta Raba/Mom

1.Transcript of Netanyahu’s AIPAC Speech

2.Netanyahu’s Speech to Congress on Iran to Bring ‘Substance, Not Politics’ Former Israel Ambassador to the UN Dore Gold

3.The President’s First Insult by Sha’i ben-Tekoa

4.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Address the Iranian Nuclear Threat in Joint Congressional Session Tues. Mar. 3, 2015 Editorial by Esther Levens

5.ABCD: Applaud Bibi’s Congress Decision by: Shmuel Sackett

6.Netanyahu speaks for us all By Michael Freund

7.UN nuclear watchdog says Iran still withholding key information on atomic program

8.Rabin to Netanyahu: The US, Israel & the Iranian bomb By Gerald M. Steinberg

9.V’nahafoch Hu! Jeffrey Goldberg Reverses Himself on Bibi, Obama and the Iran Deal

10.Bayit Yehudi Wants Edmond Levy Report Adopted by Govt

11.Court Rules: Police Must Allow Jewish Prayer on Temple Mount

12.Kerry Warns Abbas Not to Break Security Ties with Israel

13.Europe Without Jews? by Guy Millière

14.Rest in Space By: Asher Schwartz

15.Dry Bones by Ya’acov Kirschen:“Two Holidays”

16.What’s a giant replica of an Iranian Shihab missile doing in Tel Aviv?

17.Book: Mossad deciphering ISIS, al-Qaida messages encoded in porn

18.Sara Netanyahu tells JPost: My husband is a hero of the Jewish people and the free world

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1.Transcript of Netanyahu’s AIPAC Speech

Netanyahu: ‘For 2000 years, my people, the Jewish people, were stateless, defenseless, voiceless and powerless. But no more, no more’

By: Jewish Press Staff Published: March 2nd, 2015

Photo Credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the AIPAC Policy Conference, Washington DC, on March 2, 2015.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the AIPAC Policy Conference Delivered on March 2, 2015

“Thank you. Wow, 16,000 people. Anyone here from California? Florida? New York?

Well, these are the easy ones. How about Colorado? Indiana? I think I got it. Montana? Texas?

You’re here in record numbers. You’re here from coast to coast, from every part of this great land. And you’re here at a critical time. You’re here to tell the world that reports of the demise of the Israeli-U.S. relations are not only premature, they’re just wrong.

You’re here to tell the world that our alliance is stronger than ever.

And because of you, and millions like you, across this great country, it’s going to get even stronger in the coming years.

Thank you Bob Cohen, Michael Kassen, Howard Kohr and all the leadership of AIPAC. Thank you for your tireless, dedicated work to strengthen the partnership between Israel and the United States.

I want to thank, most especially, Members of Congress, Democrats and Republicans. I deeply appreciate your steadfast support for Israel, year in, year out. You have our boundless gratitude.

I want to welcome President Zeman of the Czech Republic. Mr. President, Israel never forgets its friends. And the Czech people have always been steadfast friends of Israel, the Jewish people, from the days of Thomas Masaryk at the inception of Zionism.

You know, Mr. President, when I entered the Israeli army in 1967, I received a Czech rifle. That was one of the rifles that was given to us by your people in our time of need in 1948. So thank you for being here today.

Also here are two great friends of Israel, former Prime Minister of Spain Jose Maria Aznar and as of last month, former Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird. Thank you both for your unwavering support. You are true champions of Israel, and you are, too, champions of the truth.

I also want to recognize the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, for your genuine friendship, Dan, and for the great job you’re doing representing the United States and the State of Israel.

And I want to recognize the two Rons. I want to thank Ambassador Ron Prosor for the exemplary job he’s doing at the U.N. in a very difficult forum.

And I want to recognize the other Ron, a man who knows how to take the heat, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer. Ron, I couldn’t be prouder to have you representing Israel in Washington.

And finally, I want to recognize my wife, Sara, whose courage in the face of adversity is an inspiration to me. Sara divides her time as a child psychologist, as a loving mother, and her public duties as the wife of the prime minister. Sara, I’m so proud to have you here with me today, to have you with me at my side always.

My friends, I bring greetings to you from Jerusalem, our eternal undivided capital.

And I also bring to you news that you may not have heard. You see, I’ll be speaking in Congress tomorrow.

You know, never has so much been written about a speech that hasn’t been given. And I’m not going to speak today about the content of that speech, but I do want to say a few words about the purpose of that speech.

First, let me clarify what is not the purpose of that speech. My speech is not intended to show any disrespect to President Obama or the esteemed office that he holds. I have great respect for both.

I deeply appreciate all that President Obama has done for Israel, security cooperation, intelligence sharing, support at the U.N., and much more, some things that I, as prime minister of Israel, cannot even divulge to you because it remains in the realm of the confidences that are kept between an American president and an Israeli prime minister. I am deeply grateful for this support, and so should you be.

My speech is also not intended to inject Israel into the American partisan debate. An important reason why our alliance has grown stronger decade after decade is that it has been championed by both parties and so it must remain.

Both Democratic and Republican presidents have worked together with friends from both sides of the aisle in Congress to strengthen Israel and our alliance between our two countries, and working together, they have provided Israel with generous military assistance and missile defense spending. We’ve seen how important that is just last summer.

Working together, they’ve made Israel the first free trade partner of America 30 years ago and its first official strategic partner last year.

They’ve backed Israel in defending itself at war and in our efforts to achieve a durable peace with our neighbors. Working together has made Israel stronger; working together has made our alliance stronger.

And that’s why the last thing that anyone who cares about Israel, the last thing that I would want is for Israel to become a partisan issue. And I regret that some people have misperceived my visit here this week as doing that. Israel has always been a bipartisan issue.

Israel should always remain a bipartisan issue.

Ladies and gentlemen, the purpose of my address to Congress tomorrow is to speak up about a potential deal with Iran that could threaten the survival of Israel. Iran is the foremost state sponsor of terrorism in the world. Look at that graph. Look at that map. And you see on the wall, it shows Iran training, arming, dispatching terrorists on five continents. Iran envelopes the entire world with its tentacles of terror. This is what Iran is doing now without nuclear weapons. Imagine what Iran would do with nuclear weapons.

And this same Iran vows to annihilate Israel. If it develops nuclear weapons, it would have the means to achieve that goal. We must not let that happen.

And as prime minister of Israel, I have a moral obligation to speak up in the face of these dangers while there’s still time to avert them. For 2000 years, my people, the Jewish people, were stateless, defenseless, voiceless. We were utterly powerless against our enemies who swore to destroy us. We suffered relentless persecution and horrific attacks. We could never speak on our own behalf, and we could not defend ourselves.

Well, no more, no more.

The days when the Jewish people are passive in the face of threats to annihilate us, those days are over. Today in our sovereign state of Israel, we defend ourselves. And being able to defend ourselves, we ally with others, most importantly, the United States of America, to defend our common civilization against common threats.

In our part of the world and increasingly, in every part of the world, no one makes alliances with the weak. You seek out those who have strength, those who have resolve, those who have the determination to fight for themselves. That’s how alliances are formed.

So we defend ourselves and in so doing, create the basis of a broader alliance.

And today, we are no longer silent; today, we have a voice. And tomorrow, as prime minister of the one and only Jewish state, I plan to use that voice.

I plan to speak about an Iranian regime that is threatening to destroy Israel, that’s devouring country after country in the Middle East, that’s exporting terror throughout the world and that is developing, as we speak, the capacity to make nuclear weapons, lots of them.

Ladies and gentlemen, Israel and the United States agree that Iran should not have nuclear weapons, but we disagree on the best way to prevent Iran from developing those weapons.

Now disagreements among allies are only natural from time to time, even among the closest of allies. Because they’re important differences between America and Israel.

The United States of America is a large country, one of the largest. Israel is a small country, one of the smallest.

America lives in one of the world’s safest neighborhoods. Israel lives in the world’s most dangerous neighborhood. America is the strongest power in the world. Israel is strong, but it’s much more vulnerable. American leaders worry about the security of their country. Israeli leaders worry about the survival of their country.

You know I think that encapsulates the difference. I’ve been prime minister of Israel for nine years. There’s not a single day, not one day that I didn’t think about the survival of my country and the actions that I take to ensure that survival, not one day.

And because of these differences, America and Israel have had some serious disagreements over the course of our nearly 70-year-old friendship.

Now, it started with the beginning. In 1948, Secretary of State Marshall opposed David Ben-Gurion’s intention to declare statehood. That’s an understatement. He vehemently opposed it. But Ben-Gurion, understanding what was at stake, went ahead and declared Israel’s independence.

In 1967, as an Arab noose was tightening around Israel’s neck, the United States warned Prime Minister Levi Eshkol that if Israel acted alone, it would be alone. But Israel did act — acted alone to defend itself.

In 1981, under the leadership of Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Israel destroyed the nuclear reactor at Osirak. The United States criticized Israel and suspended arms transfers for three months. And in 2002, after the worst wave of Palestinian terror attacks in Israel’s history, Prime Minister Sharon launched Operation Defensive Shield. The United States demanded that Israel withdraw its troops immediately, but Sharon continued until the operation was completed.

There’s a reason I mention all these. I mention them to make a point. Despite occasional disagreements, the friendship between America and Israel grew stronger and stronger, decade after decade.

And our friendship will weather the current disagreement, as well, to grow even stronger in the future. And I’ll tell you why; because we share the same dreams. Because we pray and hope and aspire for that same better world; because the values that unite us are much stronger than the differences that divide us – values like liberty, equality, justice, tolerance, compassion.

As our region descends into medieval barbarism, Israel is the one that upholds these values common to us and to you.

As Assad drops bell bombs on his own people, Israeli doctors treat his victims in our hospitals right across the fence in the Golan Heights.

As Christians in the Middle East are beheaded and their ancient communities are decimated, Israel’s Christian community is growing and thriving, the only one such community in the Middle East.

As women in the region are repressed, enslaved, and raped, women in Israel serve as chief justices, CEOs, fighter pilots, two women chief justices in a row. Well, not in a row, but in succession. That’s pretty good.

In a dark, and savage, and desperate Middle East, Israel is a beacon of humanity, of light, and of hope.

Ladies and gentlemen, Israel and the United States will continue to stand together because America and Israel are more than friends. We’re like a family. We’re practically mishpacha.

Now, disagreements in the family are always uncomfortable, but we must always remember that we are family.

Rooted in a common heritage, upholding common values, sharing a common destiny. And that’s the message I came to tell you today. Our alliance is sound. Our friendship is strong. And with your efforts it will get even stronger in the years to come.

Thank you, AIPAC. Thank you, America. God bless you all.”

2.Netanyahu’s Speech to Congress on Iran to Bring ‘Substance, Not Politics’ Former Israel Ambassador to the UN Dore Gold says PM Netanyahu’s speech to Congress “will have substance no one has heard before.” By: Hana Levi Julian The Jewish Press.com Published: March 2nd, 2015

Former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Dore Gold told CNN on Monday that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is intent on getting his message across about the danger facing Israel from Iran.

Basically, it’s the nuclear threat – not the Israeli elections or partisan issues or friction with America – that Netanyahu has come to the United States to talk about, media rumors and extraneous “other” comments notwithstanding.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power told participants at the packed AIPAC convention Monday the U.S. “will not let Iran have a nuclear weapon, period.”

But it’s really not that simple, as Gold pointed out to CNN. To date, no nation has had any real control over Iranian activities, as has been patently obvious to the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency, as reflected in its annual reports, regardless of international inspections and agreements and understandings signed or not signed.

Israel, perhaps more than any other nation, is exquisitely aware of this, since it is Israel’s existence Iran has threatened to snuff out.

“When the prime minister speaks to Congress tomorrow, his speech will have substance no one has heard before,” Gold said, “and he will put it on the table. The political systems in both countries will discuss it. In democracies, that is not odd.”

As for the current difficulties between the United States and Israel, Gold appeared unruffled.

“Differences with allies is not new,” he said. “It happens between the U.S. and Britain… and now with Israel and the U.S.”

Despite the tensions caused by the prime minister’s decision to go ahead with his speech to Congress on Tuesday, said Gold, “We have to do it. “Look for substance. Don’t look for politics. The substance is there.”

About the Author: 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.

President of the United States of America Barack Obama had not been president for more than ten minutes when he slapped American Jews in the face (and by extension Israel and all Jews). Though he did it so subtly — in plain sight and in front of the whole world — no one noticed.

On January 21, 2009, about three-quarters of the way through his first inaugural address, after paragraphs of bromides about American greatness, he alluded to the menace of militant Islam:

For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and non-believers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth…

It has become customary in our time to speak of America as a Judeo-Christian civilization because the facts of history show that, so “a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus” as a new formulation of the melting pot meme was a major departure.

In fact, although the settling of the original Thirteen Colonies was almost exclusively the handiwork of Christians from northern Europe, by the time of the American Revolution there were already six Jewish communities, one in each of the major colonial cities. Jews fought and died in the Revolution, and in 1802, when the military academy at West Point opened its doors, one of the first two volunteer cadets was a Jew.

Jews have been part of American culture ever since in the Military, Medicine, Science, Technology, Literature, Theater, Music, Movies, Television, Academe, Law, Journalism and Business.

Jews invented the nuclear submarine providing the United States its greatest line of defense in the Cold War. A German Jew invented jeans, the quintessential American garment. Although always a tiny percentage of the population, they have always punched above their weight in contributions to America.

Christians and therefore Jews too built the country. In American cities every December, merchants decorate their shop windows with “Merry Christmas” & “Happy Hanukah” signs. The country has most definitely been a Judeo-Christian enterprise.

Muslims, by contrast, played no role in the making of America. There is no evidence of a Muslim presence before the 20th century. Yet here on that January day was the brand new American President orating that the U.S. was “a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus…”

In this formulation, the Jews have been bumped back to third place, elbowed, so to speak, aside by Muslims who take their place. This recalls what happened in the 7^th century when their Prophet Muhammad told his followers that they had replaced the Jews as Allah’s Chosen People.

Barack Obama during his campaign had vowed to “fundamentally change this country,” and, in retrospect, this formulation was part of that effort. The fundamental change would include the dispossession of the Jews of their second place in American culture and even downgrade them to the ranks of Hindus, whose tradition, like Islam, played no role in formative United States history.

Indeed, Obama’s next sentence continued, “To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect,” and this new formulation was surely part of that “new way forward” in the matter of Islam’s role in American life.

Another feature of Obama’s desired transformation was on display two and one-half months later — on April Fool’s Day no less — when he was videotaped obsequiously bowing down before the king of Saudi Arabia whose official title includes Guardian of the Two Mosques (alluding to the ones in Mecca and Medina). This was a gesture one cannot imagine Obama ever executing before any other national leader — let alone the prime minister of Israel.

And that bow was an offense against protocol and custom — the Revolution had been not only a war of national liberation but a rejection of the very institution of monarchy. American presidents do not bow down to kings and thus it was doubly an insult, for this was no ordinary monarch but the potentate of the country where fifteen of the nineteen skyjackers on September 11, 2001 were raised and shaped by this king’s religion, including 9-11’s evil mastermind Osama bin Laden.

What Obama might have done was demand that the king show “mutual respect” by bowing down to him to beg forgiveness that some of his subjects had engineered that eruption of Muslim Hell on earth perpetrated against his fellow Americans. In Israel in 1997, after a Jordanian soldier had murdered seven little Jewish girls, the king of Jordan crossed over the River to visit the grieving mothers and literally went down on his knees to express his sorrow and shame. Obama should have asked the Guardian of the Two Mosques to do that too. Instead, there on view for posterity on YouTube is the President’s protruding posterior.

Two months later, in June 2009, Mr. Obama made his first trip to the Middle East but snubbed Israel, America’s long-time and most faithful ally. He flew instead to Egypt where he delivered a speech at Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam’s oldest seminary, where Osama bin Laden, Haj Amin al-Husseini, Sheik Ahmad Yassin and many other Muslim priests who preach the virtue of terror studied Islam and wallowed in its classical, Muslim-style Jew-hatred.

In his speech, Obama praised this religion beyond the boundaries of historical truth:

As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam. It was Islam at places like Al-Azhar that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe’s Renaissance and E nlightenment…And throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.

I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story. The first nation to recognize my country was Morocco. In signing the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796, our second President John Adams wrote, “The United States has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims.”

And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States. They have fought in our wars, they have served in government, they have stood for civil rights, they have started businesses, they have taught at our Universities, they’ve excelled in our sports arenas, they’ve won Nobel Prizes, built our tallest building, and lit the Olympic Torch. And when the first Muslim-American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, kept in his personal library.

This was the vandalizing of history. In no way is it true that “…since our [America’s] founding, Muslims have enriched the United States…” As noted, their presence came quite late, and what enrichment could he have had in mind?

As for the early treaty with Tripoli (Libya): John Adams’s statement was made after the repeated hijacking of American merchant ships and the cruel enslavement of their passengers and crews by the misnamed “Barbary Pirates.” That was a colloquial nickname for them; in reality, they were not pirates but the official navies of recognized Muslim powers. Adams’s statement had been an attempt to appease them in the hope they would honor the treaty they had just signed and thenceforth cease and desist from attacking American merchant ships (which they did not).

Likewise, Obama’s reference to Thomas Jefferson was false. The principle author of the Declaration of Independence and first Secretary of State purchased his Koran when in Paris in order to study the intolerable aggression being perpetrated against fellow Americans by these so-called “pirates” who Jefferson learned were in reality observant Muslims who justified their hijacking and enslaving of infidels with the jihad.

Jefferson spent five years in France after the Revolution as a trade commissioner, then ambassador. That is when he bought his Koran, because almost every day of these years there were American hostages enslaved in North Africa that he struggled to but failed to liberate. In this period, he even met in London with an ambassador from the Bashaw (pasha) of Tripoli, a predecessor of Muammar Gaddafi who demanded $100,000 not to begin hijacking American ships and enslaving all the people aboard. Jefferson listened as the ambassador cited the jihad as the justification for this behavior. That was in 1786.

Fifteen years later, as America’s third president and still the country’s No. 1 hawk for war with Islam, Jefferson went to war against Tripoli because he had no doubt that these “pirates” were not independent freebooters but self-described holy warriors/mujahideen who could only be subdued via military force majeure. They were beyond reason.

By contrast, America’s forty-fourth president, early in his first term, ordered his administration never to use the words “Islam,” “Muslim” and “terrorism” in the same sentence.

Then in November of his first year in office, on the Ft. Hood, Texas army base, a Muslim shouting “Allahu Akbar!” massacred thirteen fellow soldiers, which carnage Obama insisted had nothing to do with Islam.

We have not even touched on his other, serial insults to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and by extension the people of the democratic State of Israel that elected him.

Barack Obama’s affection for Islam and his Islamic habit of trashing historical truth have been right there from his first inaugural speech when he mis-described American society by demoting the place of the Jews in it.

Finally, for any who doubt this critical portrait: remember, too, that the day after his first inaugural speech and that evening’s series of inaugural balls and festivities, when he entered the Oval Office the next morning to begin work as president — with the U.S. economy in a crisis not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s — he asked that his first phone call as president be put through not to some expert on economics but Mahmoud Abbas, the Holocaust Denier and international Muslim terrorist criminal.

President Obama has been aggressing against the Jews in America and Israel since his first minutes on the job. No wonder, then, in January 2015, he did not attend the mass demonstration in Paris after the massacres by Muslims of the Charlie Hebdo staff and four Jews buying food for the Holy Sabbath.

Sha’i ben-Tekoa’s “PHANTOM NATION: Inventing the “Palestinians” as the Obstacle to Peace” is available in Kindle or soft cover at Amazon.com.

4.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Address the Iranian Nuclear Threat in Joint Congressional Session Tues. Mar. 3, 2015 Editorial by Esther Levens, CEO – Unity Coalition for Israel

It is fortunate that Congress has an opportunity to hear Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu during his upcoming visit to the United States. Both Houses of Congress will learn what he has to say about the importance of concentrating on Iran. This one man holds the safety of the entire world in his hands. Everything else is a side issue.

The Unity Coalition for Israel has sent out Action Alerts and Press Releases to urge all Congressmen and Senators to attend the joint session Tuesday, March 3, 2015 to hear firsthand the PM’s perception of the dangers that threaten the very existence of the United States and Israel and all of Western Civilization.

Other headlines grab our attention. The Islamic State was recently created. We witness the horror of the beheading of 21 Coptic Christians and the burning of 45 Iraqi hostages alive and other monstrous acts that Radical Islamists are committing to demonstrate their savagery. In addition the threat of a walk-out of 70 Democratic representatives from the speech itself has captured headlines along with the boycott by President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry both of whom refuse to attend. But all of these are distractions from the central issue. That issue is Iran and their acquisition of nuclear weaponry.

The Prime Minister has captured it all when he recently said “the pursuit of nuclear weapons by Iran is the biggest security challenge facing the world. Everything we see in the region and in Europe will pale by comparison… When such a regime has nuclear weapons, the whole world will be in peril. States are collapsing and Iran is plunging forward. It’s already controlling four capitals. It’s trying to envelope Israel with three terrorist tentacles – Lebanon, Hezbollah, Hamas in Gaza, Yemen, and now it’s trying to build with its Hezbollah proxies a third front in the Golan. Such a regime with nuclear weapons would be infinitely more dangerous to everyone, not only Israel.”

This line of thinking was reinforced by Former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld less than a week before the Prime Minister is scheduled to address a joint session of Congress. He said that “the focus on Netanyahu’s visit rather than on his message is an “unfortunate distraction” from the important issue – the Iranian theat. “I find it stunning to see the comments out of the White House on this issue, “It is more than a distraction, it is unfortunate. It plays into the hands of those people who are not in favor of the relationship between Israel and the U.S. or who are in favor of Iran, and the idea that people are saying what they are saying I find most unfortunate.”…”the entire discussion on his visit, it seems to me, is a distraction from the important subject about Iran. Here is a country that is supporting terrorism, has a pattern of being hostile not only toward the United States and Israel but toward many of the countries throughout the Western World. They are on their way toward getting a weapon to destroy our entire civilization.”

It is important that our representatives in Congress learn firsthand from Prime Minister Netanyahu exactly what the realities are in Israel and throughout the Middle East. By walking out of the joint session they will fail to get key information to help them make important decisions with which Congress is charged. It is crucial at this time that Congress act against the growing threat of a nuclear Iran.

Secretary of State John Kerry continues diplomatic efforts with Iran, while Iranian leaders continue to swear to annihilate Israel and the United States. At the same time Tehran is being accused of running a secret uranium-enrichment site not far from its capital. Iran has been engaged in research that would violate ongoing talks.

We look to Prime Minister Netanyahu as a voice of experience and reason to help congress focus on this threat. Let’s hope that he is well-received and successful in this urgent endeavor.

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FREEMAN CENTER BROADCAST March 1, 2014

For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest.” Isaiah 62

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I have opposed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on many occasions but when he does something right, brave and very courageous, I am the first to commend him. His controversial decision to speak in front of the US Congress next week [March 3, 2015] is an example of such an act. In my opinion, it is the greatest thing the Prime Minister has done since taking office, close to seven years ago!

Many people, both in Israel and throughout the United States are worried about souring relations with President Obama and the US administration. These critics claim that this speech is arousing unnecessary tensions between our two countries and causing a rift between us. To them, I have a very simple answer; this act by Prime Minister Netanyahu will accomplish the complete opposite! It will bring respect to Israel — and not just from the USA — but from around the world. It will bring honor to the Jewish Nation and will invigorate our people with positive energy.

Allow me to explain why I feel this way. In September 1993 the Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzchak Rabin, signed the infamous “Oslo Accords” on the White House lawn with Yasser Arafat and US President Bill Clinton. Since that time, we did exactly what was requested of us from the world community; We brought the PLO back to Israel and made Arafat the President of the “Palestinian People”.

We threw 8,000 of our fellow Jews out of their homes in the beautiful Southwest coastal region of Israel and destroyed their homes, businesses, shuls, Yeshivot and even dug up their graves. We divided the Biblical heartland of Israel into sections and gave away holy cities such as Shechem and Betlechem and we forbid Jews from building in 80% of that land. We divided many parts of the holiest city of Jerusalem and forbade Jews from praying on the site where Abraham bound Isaac and where the Temples stood for over 800 years. Even though things are very tough financially in Israel, and many Jews go to sleep hungry at night, we spent over one trillion shekels since the beginning of that failed process just to try to make it work. In short; we did everything that was asked of us by the world community … and it got us nowhere.

In Israel, 2,000 Jews are dead since the handshake of September 1993 and 100,000 are wounded and nobody — but nobody — believes in this ridiculous peace dream any more.

Around the world Anti-Semitism is at a post WWII high. In many modern countries, such as France, Rabbis are actually instructing their male followers not to wear kippot in the street or look “too Jewish” for fear of being attacked. American universities have become dangerous places for Jews to study and every Chabad House around the world looks like Fort Knox.

This does not make any sense! Israel has done everything the world asked for yet the world responds with hate? Don’t they know about our heroic humanitarian efforts after the tragedies in Haiti and the Philippines ? Don’t they know how civilized our army is, even to the point of risking the lives of IDF [Israel Defense Force] soldiers in order to minimize civilian casualties when fighting Hamas and Hezb’Allah? Doesn’t the world see how hard we work to protect Moslems who wish to pray on the Temple Mount, even to the point of arresting our own Rabbis and Knesset Members?

Please excuse me but I have to stop for a minute. I am typing these words and actually laughing as they appear on my screen. This very serious article is looking like a Purim skit and if it weren’t 100% true — and tragic — it would indeed win awards for its humor. Of course the world sees everything I just listed above. The problem is that they see it and they interpret it — not as strength, faith, caring, compassion and sacrificing for peace — they see it as weakness, apologies, lack of justice and even atheism! They view Israel, and Jews worldwide, as feeble, guilt-ridden, unfortunate souls who will do anything for acceptance and love. Finally, when they see Israeli leaders on television, they laugh — yes, they laugh. They laugh at their cowardice and their naivety. They laugh at their foolishness and political correctness and they laugh because nobody believes a word they say!

Let’s get back to the speech before Congress. Prime Minister Netanyahu could have done what so many had done before. In the name of peace, he could have “folded his cards” and politely apologized to President Obama. He could have come out with a strong statement and read it, together with Secretary of State John Kerry. Finally, he could have made his speech — the exact one he will make in front of Congress — at the AIPAC Policy Conference , which will be held the same week as the Congressional speech! Had he made the speech to AIPAC, he would have created no controversy, no tension and been under no pressure from the US administration!

This is exactly why I am supporting Prime Minister Netanyahu in this endeavor. Yes, he could have done any or ALL of the suggestions above … but he chose not to!! The reason is clear — because had he gone “the easy way”, the way most Israeli leaders have chosen to act up until now, he would have caused damage to the Jewish nation by — once again — showing the world weak, apologetic and cowardly leadership.

By standing tall … and strong … and brave … and looking President Obama in the eye and not giving in, he awakens the sleeping giant of Jewish pride and independence. He teaches the world a very important lesson: that Israel will not fulfill every wish of theirs — because it has done nothing for us but strengthen the anti-Semite. He follows the heroic example of David Ben Gurion who declared the state of Israel against the wishes of US President Truman. He follows the heroic example of Levi Eshkol who attacked & freed the Old City of Jerusalem against the wishes of US President Johnson and he follows the heroic example of Menachem Begin who bombed Iraq’s nuclear reactor against the wishes of US President Reagan.

These acts — in 1948, 1967, and 1981 — brought respect to Israel. It reduced anti-Semitism around the world because when Israel stands strong and does what is best for her, the world responds with honor and dignity.

I humbly ask, that each and every one of you do the same. Support the Prime Minister of Israel in this brave and courageous act and send a message to him — and to the entire world — that Israeli leaders have started to return to the days of old, when strength, pride and faith in G-d were the most important factors. This is as simple as ABCD; Applaud Bibi’s Congress Decision! Do it now!!

6.Netanyahu speaks for us all By Michael Freund

When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ascends the podium to warn Congress about the threat of a nuclear Iran, he will be bearing the weight of history and the course of destiny on his shoulder

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (photo credit:MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)

We are about to witness a seminal event, a moment that could prove fateful for the entire Jewish people and all of Western civilization.
The critics and naysayers can rant and rave all they wish, but when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ascends the podium today to warn Congress about the threat of a nuclear Iran, he will be bearing the weight of history and the course of destiny on his shoulders.
Seven decades after Germany sought to destroy the Jewish people, the would-be Hitlers of Persia are racing to construct an atomic Auschwitz designed to finish what the Nazis began. Indeed, less than 1,000 miles east of Tel Aviv, the mullahs are building the machinery of mass murder. Instead of gas chambers, they are installing centrifuges. In place of Zyklon-B gas, their agent of choice is now uranium.
All of us are in their crosshairs; all of us are potential victims of the ayatollahs and their fanatical, apocalyptic world-view.

It is therefore essential that the premier deliver his discourse, and with it a simple and unambiguous message to America and its leaders: Iran must be stopped now, before it is too late.
Don’t let the talking heads in the media fool you. This is a speech that Netanyahu should not have to give, and most certainly does not wish to deliver. After all, Israelis go to the ballot box in two weeks in a tightly- contested election, and there is plenty of hard campaigning still to do. And if Washington had not dallied and dithered for years in seeking to stymie Iran’s nuclear program, Israel

would not find itself in the position in which it now is.
But like his Democratic predecessor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, US President Barack Obama prefers to blithely ignore the warning signs, refusing to take the necessary steps to prevent the possible extermination of the Jewish people.
Consider the events of 1944, when various Jewish leaders began urging the US and its allies to intervene to stop the mass killing of Jews at Auschwitz.
Pleas were made to FDR and other officials to bomb the railway tracks over which hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were being sent to their deaths, or even to attack and bomb the gas chambers and crematoria themselves to slow the pace of the slaughter.
But as historian David S. Wyman noted in his 1984 book, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945, the Roosevelt administration refused to do so, even though massive American bombing raids were taking place within 50 miles of the death camp.
In retrospect, shouldn’t everything possible have been done to pressure FDR to act? Knowing what we do, would anyone now berate those who “violated protocol” or “insulted Roosevelt” by seeking to compel him to do something to save Jews? This is the situation in which Netanyahu now finds himself: under attack because he is putting Israel’s future ahead of Obama’s feelings.
Only someone ignorant of the threat that Iran poses could possibly hold it against the premier for choosing to buck the criticism and go to Congress.
Barely two weeks ago, the International Atomic Energy Agency issued a report which said that Tehran is not cooperating with nuclear inspectors and is hiding “nuclear-related activities involving military-related organizations, including activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile.”
And the Iranians continue to violate six United Nations Security Council resolutions passed since July 31, 2006, which require them to “suspend all enrichment- related and reprocessing activities, including research and development.”
Does anyone really believe that they can be trusted with anything less than the complete dismantling of their nuclear program? Is this something that you would be willing to risk the future of your family, your country and your people on? Hence, the drama surrounding the premier’s address is neither overblown nor exaggerated.
After years of diplomacy and delays, and countless inspections, the saga of Iran’s nuclear program is about to reach its climax, one which will result either in capitulation or containment.

In his speech, Netanyahu will be putting the world on notice, trying to shake it out of its slumber so people will realize the alarm bells are ringing and there is no time to lose. This is not just Israel’s battle, he will surely tell them, it is everyone’s war. And we will not allow Iran to perpetrate a second Holocaust.
Not now. Not ever.
So instead of criticizing the premier, we should all be lining up behind him and showing our support, trusting that he will be guided from Above with wisdom and acumen.
Like him or not, Netanyahu will be speaking in the name of the entire Jewish people. This isn’t a matter of his personal political future. It is about our collective fate. So let’s stand together, united, and pray that he succeeds.

· ‘How Iran duped the West’ – Israeli embassy produces mock NYT front page from the future.

Congress uninformed on Iran deal while Israel already knows a lot, official says.

Kerry to avoid Netanyahu speech by meeting with Iran in Geneva – defending Israel in the UN.

IAEA chief Amano says Iran yet to clarify issues relating to explosives tests and other measures that might have been used for bomb research.

VIENNA – The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said on Monday Iran had still not handed over key information to his staff, and his body’s investigation into Tehran’s atomic program could not continue indefinitely.
“Iran has yet to provide explanations that enable the agency to clarify two outstanding practical measures,” chief Yukiya Amano told the body’s Board of Governors in Vienna, echoing a report seen by Reuters last month.
The two measures relating to alleged explosives tests and other measures that might have been used for bomb research should have been addressed by Iran by last August.
“The Agency is not in a position to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran, and therefore to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities,” Amano said.
The West fears Iran wants to develop an atomic bomb. Tehran says its nuclear program is entirely peaceful.
The Agency remains ready to accelerate the resolution of all outstanding issues, he added, but “this process cannot continue indefinitely”.
The United States and five other powers are seeking to negotiate an agreement with Iran to curb its nuclear program in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.
They have set a March deadline for a framework deal and a June deadline for a final one.
The IAEA is likely to monitor any possible deal between Iran and the six powers in addition to its own investigation into Iran’s nuclear program. Amano said he proposed a 1.8-percent increase to the body’s 344-million-euro ($386 million) budget given increased demand for its services.
Amano added that he remained seriously concerned about the nuclear activities of North Korea which quit the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1993. The IAEA has not had inspectors on the ground there since they were expelled by North Korea in 2009.

Fourteen years after Rabin’s decision to rely first on the Americans to stop Iran, this strategy finally created significant pressure on Tehran to halt its illegal nuclear program.

Yitzhak Rabin. (photo credit:REUTERS)

In 1992, shortly after Yitzhak Rabin became prime minister, he addressed an academic workshop in Tel Aviv focusing on military strategy and arms control. The Iranian nuclear threat was the top priority on Rabin’s strategic agenda as prime minister, and he was beginning to develop the elements of his response.
For over two decades, Rabin’s policies on Iran were adopted, extended and adjusted by every successive Israeli leader. On this issue, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the US Congress again in Washington today, he will be reflecting this continuity. And while Israelis differ over the platform and timing, there is broad unity over the substance of Netanyahu’s message regarding the need to confront the reality of the Iranian threat.
For Rabin, the first line of defense on this as on many other strategic issues was through close cooperation with the United States government. From that first meeting, Rabin emphasized that the threat posed by the Islamic Republic, led by a supreme leader (a position still held by Ali Khamenei) spewing hate for Jews and Israel, along with Holocaust denial, was not limited to Israel or the Middle East. The Americans – as the world’s only superpower at the time following the collapse of the Soviet empire – understood what needed to be done, for their interest and to maintain global stability.
In 1996, after the assassination and then the election won by the Likud and Netanyahu, nothing changed in this central dimension of the US-Israel relationship. The strategic dialogues and close coordination between Washington and Jerusalem intensified as Iran repeatedly violated its commitments under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

At that time, the central issues revolved around plans by Russia and China to export nuclear equipment and materials to Iran. Israel provided intelligence information and the Clinton administration applied the pressure that led to the cancellation or indefinite postponement of these export agreements. Although conflict dominated other issues on the Clinton-Netanyahu agenda – particularly regarding negotiations with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat – strategic cooperation on the Iranian threat was unaffected.
The same was largely true for the short period in which the Labor Party under Ehud Barak returned to power (July 1999-March 2001) and also when Ariel Sharon served as prime minister until his stroke in 2006.
During the administration of George W. Bush, after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the American invasion of Iraq, Europe – led by Germany, the UK and France – claimed responsibility for the Iranian nuclear file. They were going to demonstrate the efficacy of negotiations, based on what they were convinced was Iranian interest in receiving rewards for abandoning their nuclear weapons program.
The Iranian nuclear decision makers (led by current President Hassan Rouhani) played cat and mouse with inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, and made rapid progress in the time that they pretended to be interested in an agreement.
From the Israeli perspective, it was essential that the Americans be back in the lead in halting Tehran’s march toward nuclear weapons. Indeed, under US pressure, in early 2006, the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which includes Russia and China, found Iran in non-compliance with NPT safeguards requirements. This decision, and the American-led UN Security Council action that followed, marked the beginning of a gradually increasing international sanctions regime.
Fourteen years after Rabin’s decision to rely first on the Americans to stop Iran, this strategy finally created significant pressure on Tehran to halt its illegal nuclear program.
Although the number of centrifuges that produced the enriched uranium necessary for weapons continued to increase, as did their efficiency, the price that the Iranian leadership paid grew faster.
In 2009, Netanyahu returned to the position of prime minister, and, like Rabin, he again gave priority to the Iranian threat and the need to maintain sanctions. In public speeches, meetings with President Barack Obama and other top officials, Netanyahu argued that another temporary halt in the production of nuclear weapons materials was not enough. The opportunity had finally been created to roll back much of Iran’s illicit nuclear development program.
But it was at this point that the painstakingly implemented strategy, based on US leadership, fell apart. From the perspective of all Israeli decision makers, and not only Netanyahu, the secret talks between the Obama administration and Iran that resulted in a framework agreement in November 2013 warned of an impending monumental failure. This framework and the subsequent negotiations to fill in the details threaten to remove the sanctions, as the only source of international pressure on Iran, without a significant roll-back of decades of clandestine nuclear production.
Netanyahu’s speech before Congress has already proven to be very costly, before it even takes place. But as prime minister of Israel, he has the obligation to do everything possible to prevent the failure of three decades of coordination with America – beginning with Rabin in 1992 – in order to stop Iran.

10.V’nahafoch Hu! Jeffrey Goldberg Reverses Himself on Bibi, Obama and the Iran Deal by Ilan Shavit Goldberg might as well have been quoting from Netanyahu’s talking points sheet. By: JBN / Jewish Business News The Jewish Press.com Published: March 1st, 2015

Jeffrey Goldberg. Photo Credit: Screenshot

Published at Jewish Business News

Atlantic columnist Jeffrey Goldberg, who has spearheaded the White House’s campaign aimed at stopping Netanyahu’s speech before a joint session of Congress, has had a dramatic change of heart.

The left-leaning columnist, who chipped at the PM’s credibility in the recent past, most memorably with his quote from an anonymous White House official who told him: “The thing about Bibi is, he’s a chickens***,” on Sunday published a dramatically different account of how he sees the case against Iran.

While still criticizing Netanyahu for turning the Iran nuclear negotiations into “a stress test of the U.S.-Israel relationship,” Goldberg adamantly supports the essence of the PM’s message and is much more critical of what is beginning to appear to be a weak U.S. deal with the Islamic Revolution.

“Netanyahu has a credible case to make,” Goldberg writes. “The deal that seems to be taking shape right now does not fill me—or many others who support a diplomatic solution to this crisis—with confidence.”

Goldberg continues: “Reports suggest that the prospective agreement will legitimate Iran’s right to enrich uranium (a ‘right’ that doesn’t actually exist in international law); it will allow Iran to maintain many thousands of operating centrifuges; and it will lapse after 10 or 15 years, at which point Iran would theoretically be free to go nuclear.”

That’s a reversal fitting of the Purim story.

Goldberg might as well have been quoting from Netanyahu’s talking points sheet.

He continues, again, sounding more like a Likud pamphlet than the good old, left-leaning Goldberg of only a few weeks ago:

“This is a very dangerous moment for Obama and for the world. He has made many promises, and if he fails to keep them—if he inadvertently (or, God forbid, advertently) sets Iran on the path to the nuclear threshold, he will be forever remembered as the president who sparked a nuclear-arms race in the world’s most volatile region, and for breaking a decades-old promise to Israel that the United States would defend its existence and viability as the nation-state of the Jewish people.”

And he concludes:

“Netanyahu obviously believes that Obama doesn’t have his, or Israel’s, back. There will be no convincing Netanyahu that Obama is anything but a dangerous adversary. But if a consensus forms in high-level Israeli security circles (where there is a minimum of Obama-related hysterics) that the president has agreed to a weak deal, one that provides a glide path for Iran toward the nuclear threshold, then we will be able to say, fairly, that Obama’s promises to Israel were not kept.”

11.Bayit Yehudi Wants Edmond Levy Report Adopted by Govt

By: Jewish Press News Briefs Published: March 1st, 2015

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu receives the report confirming the legality of Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria from Justice Edmond Levi. July 9, 2012. Photo Credit: Flash90

Bayit Yehudi says it will be pushing for the adoption and implementation of the Edmond Levy report in the next government. The report, ordered but never implemented by PM Netanyahu, determined that Israeli settlements are legal according to international law. The report also recommended that outposts established on State land be officially recognized and made legal.

It’s not clear why Bayit Yehudi didn’t push harder to have the report adopted by the current government.

12.Court Rules: Police Must Allow Jewish Prayer on Temple Mount By: Jewish Press News Briefs Published: March 2nd, 2015

Yehudah Glick on the Temple Mount.

The police “must ensure that Jews can pray on the Temple Mount” – that was the ruling of Judge Malka Aviv in the case of Yehuda Glick vs. the Israeli Police.

On a number of occasion the police have banned Rabbi Yehuda Glick from ascending up to the Temple Mount.

Rabbi Glick told JewishPress.com that he regularly leads tour groups up to the Temple Mount, and not being allowed up prevented him from earning a living.

Rabbi Yehuda Glick took the police to court and sued for damages. On Sunday the court decided in Glick’s favor.

But the bigger victory was the court’s criticism of the police’s actions towards Jews on the Temple Mount and the explicit ruling that the police must ensure that Jews be able to pray on the Jewish people’s holiest site.

The police may choose to appeal both the financial award and the ruling, but the question remains, until the appeal, will the police respect the court’s ruling and ensure that Jews can pray on the Temple Mount?

In November, an Islamic terrorist shot Yehuda Glick 4 times at close range in Jerusalem in a failed attempt to assassinate him. The terrorist was killed the next morning at his Jerusalem home when security forces tried to arrest him.

Last week, US Congressman Dennis Ross when up to the Temple Mount and found himself harassed by the Islamic extremists on the Jewish holy site.

13.Kerry Warns Abbas Not to Break Security Ties with Israel Kerry called Abbas about “financial viability” of the Palestinian Authority and efforts “to prevent a crisis.” By: Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu The Jewish Press.com Published: February 28th, 2015

Abbas, the one who is short in size and common sense, with Kerry, the one who is tall in size but short on common sense.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry reportedly warned Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas in a phone call not to suspend security cooperation with Israel, according to Arab media.

Kerry’s spokeswoman Jen Psaki did not deny the report and sidestepped confirming it.

In Friday’s daily press briefing, she was asked specifically if “Kerry during his call warn President Abbas not to suspend security cooperation with Israel?”

Psaki said: He [Kerry] spoke to President Abbas on Wednesday. They discussed current dynamics between the Palestinian Authority and Israel and the importance of ensuring the financial viability of the Palestinian Authority. The Secretary also detailed his efforts with key stakeholders to prevent a crisis in the West Bank and the way ahead in the coming months.

PA media headlined reported, “Mr. Kerry threatening Abbas of U.S. sanctions if he even dared to stop the security cooperation with Israel.”

So did he or didn’t he?

Psaki did not deny it and simply said, “I just addressed the question of what they discussed, and I think that certainly isn’t consistent with what I just outlined in terms of their call.

That is ‘spokesmen’s talk’ for “yes, he did threaten Abbas but I won’t say that.”

The idea that Kerry and Obama are against Israel is only half-true. They also are against the Palestinian Authority. They are against anyone who does not cooperate with Obama’s attempts to fulfill the expectations of the Nobel Prize establishment, which bestowed the president with the Nobel Peace Prize before he had a chance to show he does not deserve it.

About the Author: Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu is a graduate in journalism and economics from The George Washington University. He has worked as a cub reporter in rural Virginia and as senior copy editor for major Canadian metropolitan dailies. Tzvi wrote for Arutz Sheva for several years before joining the Jewish Press.

14.Europe Without Jews? by Guy Millière http://www.gatestoneinstitute. org/5249/europe-without-jews February 28, 2015 at 5:00 am

Even if many Muslims came to Europe seeking economic opportunity, they are often defined as victims of racism and oppression. So, the thinking goes, if you are a victim of racism and oppression, how can you be racist yourself?

The Palestinians repeat almost daily that they would like to kill the Israelis, while the Israelis say they would like peace. What follows are usually bitter, politically-motivated denunciations of Israel by Europe, masquerading as human rights.

Despite the increasingly savage state of the world and an openly genocidal Iran — soon to be nuclear, if it is not already — Israeli leaders remain the ones Europeans love to accuse, hate and demonize.

The terrorist attacks are denounced by journalists and political leaders, but their denunciations always sound sanctimonious and thin, condemning the “anti-Semitism” they themselves have been encouraging.

In Europe today, slandering Israel is widely conveyed by European Muslims, and if a political leader or journalist does not agree with what they say, he must be a racist.

There are now 44 million Muslims in Europe.

In Europe, evoking the memory of Auschwitz has become difficult; tomorrow, it may be impossible.

The ceremony marking the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp was held on January 27 — and will likely be the last commemoration of its kind. The Nazis wanted a Europe without Jews. They killed six million, but in their ultimate goal, they failed.

Three hundred survivors were invited; all were more than eighty years old. Although filmed testimonies will remain, there may be no more direct witnesses.

While European political leaders speak of Auschwitz with the solemn formula of “never again,” it increasingly seems meaningless. Surveys show that in most European countries, including Germany, a growing number of people want to turn the page, and say they want forget about the Holocaust in a way they do not say they want to forget about, for instance, the Crucifixion.

When articles on the Holocaust are published in major European magazines, an increasing number of people leave comments to point out that the Holocaust was just one genocide among others, and there is no reason to insist on this one in particular.

When other genocides are evoked, the fate of the Palestinians also quickly takes center stage, even though the Palestinians repeat almost daily that they would like to kill the Israelis, while the Israelis say they would like peace. The Israelis have never said they would like to kill the Palestinians.

What follows are usually bitter, politically motivated denunciations of Israel by Europe, masquerading as human rights.

Despite the monstrous crimes committed by the Islamic State, Boko Haram or Iran; despite two hundred thousand dead in Syria; and despite the massacres of Christians and Yezidis in Iraq, for European journalists, the Jewish state remains, it seems, the favored prime target.

Where else in the Middle East but Israel can a journalist lead a comfortable life, file a story along the only lines his editor will like by noon, go to the beach, and have dinner with his family? Maybe if he bashes Israel enough, his story will even make the front page, and he will receive an award for courage in journalism. So, in the international media, Israeli Jews are often libelously described as criminals who simply are doing to other people what was done to the Jews seventy years ago.

Despite the increasingly savage state of the world, with an openly genocidal Iran — soon to be a nuclear, if it is not already — and with the squalid brutality of dictators such as Bashar al-Assad, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Kim Jong Un and Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, Israeli leaders remain the ones many Europeans love to accuse, hate and demonize.

The desire to forget the past, to hurl degrading charges against Israeli Jews, to slander the Jewish state, and to demonize Israeli leadership displays a growing animosity against Jews, in addition to encouraging renewed anti-Jewish violence on European soil.

Often anti-Israeli demonstrations are punctuated with explicit slogans targeting Jews. These demonstrations then lead to riots and physical attacks against synagogues and Jews.

The attacks are denounced by journalists and political leaders, but their denunciations always sound sanctimonious and thin, condemning the “anti-Semitism” they themselves have been encouraging. Most European journalists and political leaders claim to fight anti-Semitism. Most do not.[1] They almost never address the harsh words used about Israel, Israeli Jews or Israel’s leaders. They speak and act as if those words had no influence. Their denunciations therefore always sound devious and glossy.

The long, persistent, European hatred of Jews, which led to Auschwitz, was a crime so sickening that, for a few decades, Europeans were crushed with shame. Since then, they seem to have sought unceasingly to alleviate this burden.

One attempt, Holocaust denial, merely sparked outrage and horror for a while. Attempts to trivialize the Holocaust persist. The growing desire in many Europeans to forget about those events could even be making trivializing the Holocaust a success.

Another attempt is to slander Israel. If falsely accusing it of being a criminal state; and Israeli Jews of being unacceptable; and Israeli leaders of having dark plans, then Europeans can see themselves as less criminal and allow themselves to feel less guilt.[2]

Slandering Israel in Europe is also effective because, although it comes from both extremes, it mostly comes from the “left.”[3]

The “left” portrays itself as “anti-fascist”; anyone who does not agree with their views must therefore be a fascist.

They describe Palestinian Arabs as victims, which they are – but not because of Israel. No Palestinians are now governed by Israelis, only Arabs. Israel forcibly evacuated all the Jews from Gaza in 2005, so it could be, for the Palestinians, a “Singapore on the Mediterranean.” Israelis left greenhouses in perfect condition for them, so the Palestinians could start out with a solid economy. The Palestinians destroyed the greenhouses within hours. Hamas threw Fatah members off the tops of buildings until Fatah ran away. Hamas now rules Gaza in a unity government with Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority. Support for Abbas’s Fatah is support for Hamas.

But many Europeans – even now, faced with the same terror attacks Israel has faced for years — do not let such facts get in their way. Never mind that the Palestinians had built secret death-tunnels for surprise attacks to kidnap and murder Jewish civilians Never mind that the Palestinians continually call for the death — not just of Israelis — but of Jews. Never mind that Palestinians rejected every partition, land or peace offer, granting them 98% of what they asked, since 1947. Many Europeans still describe Israeli Jews as fascist torturers, sometimes comparable to the Nazis.[4]

Slandering Israel is effective in Europe today because there has been a shift in its population. Millions of Muslim migrants have come there. Now they are European citizens. Even if many originally came to Europe seeking economic opportunity, they are often defined by Europeans as victims of racism and oppression. So, the thinking goes, if you are a victim of racism and oppression, how can you be racist yourself?

Many Muslims have been indoctrinated from childhood to hate Israel, hate the Jews and hate the West.[5] This view is helped along by genocidal Islamic texts; the Palestinian media, both Hamas and Fatah; the international media, who only accept articles that have an anti-Israeli angle, and European-funded, non-governmental organizations which pretend to defend “human rights” but instead are dedicated to the political agenda: trying to dismantle Israel.

European governments and the European Union each year spend hundreds of millions of euros– transparency and accountability rigorously kept hidden — for the political agenda of trying to bring Israel to its knees, diplomatically and economically. This international agenda is spurred on with the encouragement of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation [OIC], composed of 56 states plus “Palestine,” and which makes up the largest bloc at the deeply corrupt United Nations.

In Europe today, slandering Israel is widely conveyed by European Muslims, and if a political leader or journalist does not agree with what they say, he must be a racist.

Hatred of Israel so permeates the European atmosphere that almost no journalists or political leaders — with the exception of a courageous few, who are immediately and harshly punished — seem prepared to confront it in a way that might actually bear results.

A few years ago, attacks against Jews in Europe could be violent, but rarely led to assassinations. But all this started to change in 2006, when a group in Paris kidnapped and tortured a young Jew, Ilan Halimi, for three weeks before finally killing him. In 2012, the man who attacked the Jewish school in Toulouse also wanted to kill Jews, and did. The man who attacked the Brussels Jewish Museum in 2014 wanted to kill Jews, and did. He did. The man who entered kosher supermarket in Paris on January 9 wanted to kill Jews, and did. The man who attacked a synagogue in Copenhagen on February 14 wanted to kill Jews; perhaps to his disappointment, he killed only one.

In response to the attacks, 1,000 extremely praiseworthy Muslims in Norway, in solidarity with the Jews, formed a “ring of peace” around the main synagogue in Oslo. “We do not want individuals to define what Islam is for the rest of us,” said one of the demonstration’s organizers, Zeeshan Abdullah. But more attacks in Europe will follow.

European populations remain passive and inert. They reacted in Paris on January 11 mostly because famous cartoonists were killed two days earlier than the attack on the kosher store. Had it been only Jews that were killed, there probably would have been no crowd reaction at all. There were no crowds after the Toulouse or Brussels killings. There was also, before the Muslim ring in Copenhagen, a small crowd reaction after the murder there – most likely because the killer had also attacked a meeting on free speech.

World leaders link arms at the Paris anti-terror rally on January 11, 2014. Guy Millière writes that had it been only Jews that were been killed, there probably would have been no rally at all. (Image source: RT video screenshot)

Israeli leaders, deciphering the situation, have for years denounced the rising anti-Israel atmosphere in Europe, and accurately predicted what the violent consequences would be.

Israel’s Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has repeated that at least now there is a Jewish state where Jews can live freely.

More than 60,000 Jews have left Europe during the past decade, and thousands are still leaving.

While there were 9.8 million Jews in Europe in 1939, there are now 1.4 million: 0.2% of the population.

There are now 44 million Muslims in Europe. The number of those who are radicalized is on the rise, and the number who hate Israel and Jews is high.

Seventy years after Auschwitz, a Europe without Jews now seems a possibility.

[1] Manfred Gerstenfeld, Demonizing Israel and the Jews, RVP Publishers, 2013.

[2] Gabriel Schoenfeld, The Return of Anti-Semitism, Encounter Books, 2005

[3] Robert Wistrich, From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews, and Israel, University of Nebraska Press, 2012.

[4] Robert Wistrich, op.cit.

[5] Christopher Caldwell, Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West, Anchor Books, 2010.

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Anonymous campaign sparks curiosity in Tel Aviv.

Iranian missile in Tel-Aviv. (photo credit:AVIRAM ZINO)

A giant replica of an Iranian Shihab missile was seen on the back of an 18-wheeler truck in the streets of Tel Aviv on Monday.
The missile appeared to be part of an anonymous campaign entitled “The Agents of the Revolution.” The group, whose goal was unclear, also released a cryptic, corresponding YouTube clip.
A slogan on the side of the missile read “Look for us on Facebook – The agents of the Revolution (????? ??????).
In the YouTube clip, a spokeswoman for the anonymous group says, “We the agents of the revolution say to the Israeli public one simple thing, our missiles are really dangerous, but the real enemies of the citizens of Israel are the agents.” The clip, resembling a commercial for a fashion clothing outlet promises a next chapter with the words “To be continued,” written across the screen.

“The agents of the revolution are on their way to make a change,” the clip concludes.

· Watch: Mossad launches new site and recruitment campaign.

Israel source says leaked report of Netanyahu-Mossad rift on Iranian sanctions is Obama’s revenge.

Author Gordon Thomas claims that Israeli cyber warriors were tracking message boards online in search of specially encrypted messages from the likes of al-Qaida and Islamic State.

Cyber hackers [illustrative]. (photo credit:REUTERS)

Mossad has used specially trained cyber warfare agents to crack coded messages sent by terrorists to their operatives through popular web sites like Reddit and eBay, according to a revised edition of a book about the Israeli spy agency.
According to excerpts of the latest edition of Gideon’s Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad, author Gordon Thomas claims that Israeli cyber warriors were tracking message boards online in search of specially encrypted messages from the likes of al-Qaida and Islamic State.
The latest excerpts were published in Monday editions of The New York Post.
Thomas writes that these groups often use pornographic material “to conceal documents and orders for the next target.”
Mossad has enlisted the services of linguistic specialists in Arabic, Urdu and Pashto to help decipher online material published by jihadist groups. According to Thomas, once the Mossad uncovers a specific plan abroad, it alerts the relevant intelligence agencies who act on the information and thwart the plot.
Thomas writes that Mossad cyber spies specialize in ferreting out sites that do not appear on popular search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing.
The book also claims that it was Mossad that was behind Stuxnet, the devastating computer worm that caused severe damage to the software used by Iranian nuclear engineers.
In addition, the Iranian threat compelled Saudi officials to forge ties with Mossad, with Riyadh reportedly committing to allow Israel use of its airspace in attacking Iran.

· Lapid slams ‘ugly’ attacks against Sara Netanyahu.

After years of media vilification of the prime minister’s wife, Sara Netanyahu, international bestselling author and Jerusalem Post contributor, Naomi Ragen sits down for a one-on-one with the woman the press loves to hate, painting a very different picture than the one usually portrayed in the media.

Sara Netanyahu. (photo credit:ZIV KOREN)

In the interview, which will be published on jpost.com over the weekend, Ragen paints a very different picture than the one the media usually portrays, of a very human wife, mother and educational psychologist.

She counters claims that she influences her husband’s decisions, attributing it to: “this elitist, chauvinistic attitude that blames the woman, says everything must be the woman’s fault. It’s a very sexist attitude – a deliberate attempt to degrade the wife of the prime minister in her natural role as his partner and helpmate.”

As to the public image of her as a haughty, wasteful spendthrift, who abuses household help, is extravagant with public money and parsimonious with her own, she has no hesitation regarding its root: “There is one man behind it: Noni [Arnon] Mozes.”
Netanyahu also discusses what it’s like to be married to the Israeli prime minister: “He’s a hero not only of the Jewish people, but of people everywhere who feel themselves part of the free world, people who oppose the horrors that Islamic State is inflicting and Iran’s nuclear plans. I see my relationship with him as a great responsibility.”