Monday, February 18. 2013Good News From Israel -Feb 17
Good News From Israel -Feb 17
by Michael Ordman In the 17th Feb 2013 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include: · Israeli scientists have developed a cure for a disease causing millions of genetic deformities. · Israel’s new parliament will have a larger proportion of women than those of the USA or UK. · Israeli surfers saved 8 children from drowning in Hawaii. · Israeli 3D printers can now print your false teeth. · An Israeli company won the top award at the Munich CleanTech Conference. · Israel exported 60 million flowers to Europe for Valentine’s Day. · The UN heard first hand about the fruits of Israeli technology. ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS A cure for genetic deformities. A team including researchers from Israel’s Technion has developed an innovative technique that they believe will cure deformities and blindness caused by ectodermal dysplasia, which affects seven out of every 10,000 babies born in the world. Via in-vitro experiments, damaged cells caused by mutant p63 genes can be greatly improved using a chemical substance called PRIMA-APR246. http://www.jpost.com/Health/ Article.aspx?id=302834 Israeli stem cells slow down blood cancer. Israel’s Gamida Cell Ltd. reported success in the Phase III clinical trial of its StemEx treatment for leukemia and lymphoma. Compared to a control group, far more patients receiving StemEx survived 100 days or more following transplantation. http://www.gamida-cell.com/ press_item.asp?ID=53 Saving life in Armageddon. Emek Medical Center in Afula, is near Megiddo, the fabled site of Armageddon. The hospital treats 50% Jews and 50% Arabs. In 2012, the head of Emek’s intensive care unit traveled with two nurses, to the Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, to open a new trauma center and train local staff. http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/ IsraelExperience/Coexistence- 24-Jan-2013.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=8DSH476DUrw&noredirect=1 Continue reading "Good News From Israel -Feb 17 " Sunday, January 27. 2013JEWISH SURVIVAL IN THE WORLD TODAY
JEWISH SURVIVAL IN THE WORLD TODAY
A Saga of 4000 Years by Bernard J. Shapiro January 27, 2013 FREEMAN CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES P.O. Box 35661 Houston, Texas 77235-5661 E-mail: bernards@sbcglobal.net OUR WEB SITE < www.freeman.org > http://www.freeman.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/482-JEWISH-SURVIVAL-IN-THE-WORLD.html The article, Christians Are Guilty of the Holocaust, by Giulio Meotti in Arutz Sheva yesterday is both painful and necessary for all Jews and Christians to read: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/12784 While I have studied this history over many years, his article was tough for even a scholar to fathom. The Catholic Church was as bad as Jews believed possible, but Lutheranism was worse. Please read his article at the end of my commentary. As I have written many times before, I fear a Second Holocaust. The reasons for this fear are many and well substantiated. The level of anti-Semitism is rising rapidly and have now reached the level of the 1930's. There are four kinds of anti-Semitism that today are mixing in today’s world into a toxic formula for Jews. They are: 1. Traditional European Nationalist anti-Semitism. Jews are seen as a foreign race affecting the purity of the various nations. 2. The Christian religion, evolving between Catholic and protestant Jew haters. Various sects believe in the false accusations of deicide, blood libel and devil worship. Some just simply "replacement theology" (G-d’s Israel is replaced by Christians). 3. The Islamic religious traditions based on the Koran. The Islamist philosophy ranks all nations servants of the true religion founded by Muhammad. It is a cruel and cold faith where murderers of Jews, Christians, Hindus and other non-Moslems are insured a place in paradise. 4. Once Jews became sovereign in their own land as the Holy Scriptures predicted, many non Jews began to fear retribution for the evil they meted out to the Jews over the last 3500 years. Continue reading "JEWISH SURVIVAL IN THE WORLD TODAY" Thursday, November 29. 2012NOTES OF A FRUSTRATED ZIONIST- Not a Nice Jewish Boy
Notes From A Frustrated Zionist
Not a Nice Jewish Boy by Bernard J. Shapiro, Chairman and Editor of Publications Freeeman Cednter For Strategic Studies Like just about every Zionist, I am in terrible pain because of the continued diplomatic and strategic imbecility of the Israeli government. That doesn't mean that all members are equally bad, only that as a group they continue doing stupid things together. Examples: 1. Since Oslo (1993) they have chosen to empower our enemies. 2. The policy of retreat and appeasements which never worked with any nation in the history of the world, became an Israel strategic policy. 3. The minimize the importance of the PA bid for UN recognition as if the fact that they have already lost the battle for unbiased history. Nowhere in their thinking is the concept of fighting back. 4. Israeli's raised since the founding of the State of Israel to be Lions of Judah are led into battlefields, like lambs to the slaughter. Israeli civilians, woman, children and the elderly are forced to run for cover during missile barrages. Terrorists rip their bodies apart as if they were not even human. It all makes me think of the Holocaust. Never Again??? 5. Since 1982 (Lebanon) the leftist establishment has used every Dirty Non-Democratic Trick in the book to destroy Zionism and the morale of true Israeli Patriots. 6. Israel's Attorney General, the Police, Border Patrol, Supreme Court, News Media, Shin Bet (Israel's Secret Service) and all the leftist pro Arab political parties (plus Arab terrorist political parties) all conspire to crush the democratic Zionist will of 95% of Israel's Jewish population. 7. To me, this is not Kosher. Only a change in the electoral system can force a change. Only a change in all branches of Israel's government from the Justice Department through the IDF Officer Corp and especially the powers of the Prime Minister. A quick look at Israeli shows that each minister and the very powerful PM have the ability to do the opposite of what they are elected to do. 8. This sickens and revolts me. I have written about it many time in the past. Unfortunately the left has emasculated the Zionists, dating back to the Altalena. And before that Jabotinsky was silenced in Europe, as he warned about the coming Holocaust. [My grandfather, Harry W. Freeman was also waning Jews all over Texas about the dangers of Nazism in the 30's.] Continue reading "NOTES OF A FRUSTRATED ZIONIST- Not a Nice Jewish Boy" Wednesday, November 21. 2012Bernard J. Shapiro Comments on "Ceasefire"
NO CEASEFIRE - REPEAL OSLO
DESTROY THE HAMAS AND FATAH TERRORISTS SETTLE ALL OF ERETZ YISRAEL - RECLAIM THE TEMPLE MOUNT ========================== Bernard J. Shapiro Comments on "Ceasefire" A ceasefire with barbarians is not a ceasefire. The war is just postponed while Hamas and other terrorists are free to re-arm and fight another day. The cost to Israel of constant war is immense. My advice to the "learned" generals and politicians of Israel is simply: 1. Fight to win 2. Fight to destroy the enemy 3. Maximize not minimise civilian causulities as per Americans in WWII (Hiroshima and Dresden) 4. Islam is a barbarian blood worship cult that must be destroyed for Western Civilization to survive. 5. Jews will never be popular no matter how hard they try to be "nice Jewish boys and girls." I say be Lions of Judah and Roar. 6. There is no such thing as International Law, since Power is the driving force in all disputes between nations. 7. International players including American should never be consulted or depended upon the protect the Jewish People. 8. Left to the mercies of the West, Israel would have been destroyed long ago. 9. The thrust for delusional Peace beginning after 82 has caused a major deterioration in Israel Strategic Planing and the morale of its population. 10. Freeman Center experts led by me would deem Opperation Pillar of Defense a FAILURE. It will need to be repeated again and again, until It is done corectly as described above. From my computer to G-d's ear. Happy Thanksgiving from a True Zionist, Bernard ============= FREEMAN CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES P.O. Box 35661 Houston, Texas 77235-5661 E-mail: bernards@sbcglobal.net OUR WEB SITE (URL): < www.freeman.org > THE MACCABEAN ONLINE: URL:http:// www.freeman. org/online. htm Freeman Center Blog http://www. freeman.org/ serendipity / ============ SUPPORT THE FREEMAN CENTER KEEP OUR VOICE STRONG --------------------- "If someone comes to kill you, kill him first.".. Midrash "If someone kills an Israeli or Jew, fault lies not with the killer but with those who allowed the killing. (Israeli government or Jewish 'leadership')"..Rav Meir Kahane X"L "It is normal for Arabs to kill Jews, always ways-always will be. The Jews must build a wall of Zionism and take what is rightfully theirs." ....... ...............Ze'ev Jabotinsky X"L "If you have five mercy to the wicked, then you will be wicked to the merciful"....Midrash "Yeh though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear not evil, because I am the most dangerous son of man who ever walked through this valley"... .....Bernard J. Shapiro ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For Zion's sake I will not hold my peace and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest." Isaiah 62. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ==================== Ignorance Is Weakness - Know The Truth Self-Inflicted Ignorance Is Suicide The Freeman Center Is A Defense Against Ignorance ---------------------------------- Thursday, September 6. 2012ISRAEL'S 'FUTILE GESTURES'
ISRAEL'S 'FUTILE GESTURES'
By Charles Bybelezer September 6, 2012 -Daily Mailer, FrontPage Recently, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to extend well-wishes on the occasion of Id al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday marking the end of Ramadan. He did so despite the fact that Abbas continues to shun negotiations with the Jewish state and again has threatened to pursue a unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood at the UN General Assembly in September. Netanyahu’s “goodwill gesture” reportedly was followed by similar phone calls to Abbas by Israeli envoy Yitzhak Molcho and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Molcho also called PA Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad. The calls came on the heels of other goodwill gestures made by Israel over the last few months aimed at coaxing the Palestinians back to the negotiating table; including, but not limited to: 1. The issuance of thousands of additional Israeli work permits to Palestinian laborers; 2. The advance to the PA on the eve of Ramadan of approximately NIS 200 million in levies collected by Israel on behalf of the Palestinians so that government salaries could be paid; 3. The signing of an economic accord with the PA in order to enhance trade; 4. The signing of a deal to end a hunger strike by Palestinians jailed in Israel, in which Israel even agreed to allow convicted terrorists to pursue academic studies; 5. The tabling of an offer, confirmed by PA Minister of Prisoner Affairs Issa Qaraqe, to release in four stages 125 Palestinian security prisoners, many of whom were convicted of murdering Israelis (the proposal was summarily rejected by Abbas, who demanded the prisoners be released simultaneously); 6. The transfer to the PA of the bodies of approximately 90 deceased terrorists, whose remains subsequently were glorified en masse in official ceremonies. Continue reading "ISRAEL'S 'FUTILE GESTURES' "
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Tuesday, September 4. 2012THE DAYS OF AWE (5773)
THE DAYS OF AWE (5773)
=== To all Freeman Center members and supporters and all Lovers of Zion We wish you a wonderful Shana Tova (Jewish New Year) filled with Joy, Health, Peace, Prosperity, Sweetness, Love and Security in the coming year. Please remember all our hard work with a tax deductible contribution toward our continued success in 5773. Please contribute to The Freeman Center's essential educational activities. Mail check to address above or by paypal: http://www.freeman.org/paypal.htm Thank you.....Bernard -------- THE DAYS OF AWE (5773) By Bernard J. Shapiro Chairman and Editor of all Publications As we approach the New Year 5773, I am reflecting over lifetime surpassing the biblical three score (20) and ten. I have seen a lot, learned a lot, suffered and been redeemed a lot. I am not a perfect Jew. I have many failings. The worst, I imagine, is my failure to understand Jewish ritual. Since I was very young, I never seemed to follow authority. It didn’t matter who it was: parent, political or religious leader. I was born a rebel and have been a rebel all my life. I was greatly influence by my grandfather, Harry W. Freeman, who had studied to be a Rabbi in the Russian-Polish Pale at the end of the 19th century. Like many young Jews of that period, he joined the Communist Party to overthrow the Czar. They believed that the Jews must be freed from the oppression and persecution that affected their daily life. The Czar’s secret police blessed him by driving him out of country and he escaped to America. This saved him from Nazi extermination and thus I live today by that Mazal. He landed in Galveston, became an attorney and founded the first chapter of ZOA in Houston as the real solution to the "Jewish Question." Continue reading "THE DAYS OF AWE (5773)" Monday, October 17. 2011YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE
YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE
by Jack Berger Member of the Board of Directors Freeman Center For Strategic Studies October 17, 2011 “You are standing today, all of you (all generations) before Hashem, your G-d, from the heads of your tribes, your elders… your children… from the (highest) in society… to the drawer of your water, for you to pass into the covenant Hashem, your G-d in order to establish you today as a people to Him and that He will be a G-d to you… I call on heaven and earth today to bear witness against you. I have placed life and death before you, a blessing and a curse, you shall choose life so that you will live… to dwell on the land that I swore to your forefathers (to your fathers and grandfathers) and to Abraham, Isaac and to Jacob.” (Deut. 29-30) Looking at the world today I think back to the words of Charles Dickens, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us…” When I first read those words in high school, I believed that they were far removed from the rest of my life. America was in a simpler place. My only serious question was why wouldn’t Sandy Koufax pitch the first game of the World Series … after all was Yom Kippur really that big a deal and it wasn’t like he wore a kippah and kept kosher. It was a time when questions hadn’t been asked yet and didn’t need to be answered. Today has caught up with yesterday. For me, years before my Bar Mitzvah, I remember the words on our Day of Atonement. Words when secular Jewish friends of mine only came to synagogue one day a year – would show up on Yom Kippur to hear– “who will live and who will die…” The profundity of that one line and its finite reality, its focus, its simple yet unambiguous statement… is a statement that few Jews can turn away from or forget. The gift we have been given is the gift of time – money comes, money goes, our days are moments as part of an eternity that we are only blessed to know for a very short time. Continue reading "YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE" Sunday, October 16. 2011ISRAEL'S CHARACTER FLAWED LEADERSHIP
ISRAEL'S CHARACTER FLAWED LEADERSHIP
by David Basch Freeman Center For Strategic Studies October 16, 20011 "The Arabs do indeed believe in a policy of decisive defeat of Israel. What is more, unlike Israel, the Arabs have the manpower and the religious ideology to weather the war of attrition that Boobi acquiesces in...." At every stage of the conflict -- except for times before election -- Boobi Netanyahu has shown in his important acts that he is a true believer in the Arabs as partners to Israel's ultimate peace. Note that before every election Israelis heard Boobi's silver tongue going on record as backing uncompromising, hard line programs to beat back the designs of the Arab enemy. Yet, when in office, he consistently betrayed these right wing preferments. Continue reading "ISRAEL'S CHARACTER FLAWED LEADERSHIP"
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Friday, June 10. 2011800 POUND GORILLA IN THE ROOM
800 POUND GORILLA IN THE ROOM
by David Basch Freeman Center For Strategic Studies June 10, 2011 "Unless Israel's people and government wake up immediately to the Arab knife being brought ever closer to the Israeli throat and develop effective tactics for Israel's survival ... through bringing the Arab war deep into enemy strongholds and denying him the means and the strategic position to defeat Israel, the dangerous possibilities of Israeli defeat forever linger. But the needed Israeli action can only be undertaken when Israel wakes up to the implacable nature of the enemy, ..." What supporter of Israel can have confidence in the Jewish State if up to this date the country refuses to recognize the reality of the 800 pound gorilla in the room, that the Arab goal is to destroy Israel? In that context, it is evident that the Arab enemy uses negotiations only as a means to further that deadly goal. That enemy tactic has worked splendidly for the Arabs, giving them a steady stream of step by step Israeli surrenders without the Arabs themselves having to make a single concession to Israel. It is not reassuring to contemplate that Israel remains in a perpetual strategic fog, unable to recognize the deadly aim of its Arab adversary. Failing to recognize this, Israel continually rejects decisive action against the enemy since it fears an angry Arab reaction that will foreclose what is the delusional possibility of a peace agreement. Continue reading "800 POUND GORILLA IN THE ROOM"
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Friday, May 13. 2011LEARNING FROM THE PAST
LEARNING FROM THE PAST
by David Bash Freeman Center For Strategic Studies May 13, 2011 "Has Israel at this point gone over the edge, beyond recouping the conditions of "secure and recognized borders" agreed to in UN Resolution 242,...?" Shimon Peres demonstrates that political views are more related to character than to facts. Given a personal character obsessed to be more righteous than any biblical divinity, the resulting views are correspondingly bizarre, going against necessities for defense and long term self preservation. That is the lesson we may learn from Peres's career. to prove this, just check out Peres's views as revealed in a recent interview in the Jerusalem Post. Continue reading "LEARNING FROM THE PAST" Monday, May 9. 2011ISRAEL INDEPENDENCE AFTER 63 YEARS
ISRAEL INDEPENDENCE AFTER 63 YEARS
by Bernard J. Shapiro Freeman Center For Strategic Studies May 9, 2011 No one should fool themselves into thinking that giving the Arabs of Judea and Samaria Jordanian citizenship would solve anything in the long run. Jordan is not as friendly (population wise) as we are led to believe. Though the government is helpful and friendly, that could change in the blink of an eye. Should American troops leave Iraq and it falls to Iran, the consequences would be severe for Israel. With Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza under Iranian control, it could easily extend its reach to Jordan and the Judean-Samarian ridge overlooking Israel's vulnerable coast. My Bottom Line (Conclusion) Israel's central problem is psychological and no amount of beautiful rhetoric and wonderful proposals can change that. When will the Nationalist Camp realize that we are "at war already" with the PLO/Hamas/Hezbollah supporting tyranny (the LEFT) that rules Israel? At what point will Israelis realize that the CIVIL WAR they fear, IS ALREADY TAKING PLACE AND THEY ARE LOSING? When will the true Zionists take over Israel and rid the country of the Arab and Jewish traitors. After 2000 years of homelessness, we are privaliged in this generation to see a new and productive Jewish State. Why do we let these evildoers threaten to take it from our hands. Continue reading "ISRAEL INDEPENDENCE AFTER 63 YEARS" Thursday, May 5. 2011FREEMAN CENTER DISGUSTED AT BIBI GROVELING BEFORE ANTI-SEMITES OF EUROPE
FREEMAN CENTER DISGUSTED AT BIBI GROVELING BEFORE ANTI-SEMITES OF EUROPE
by Bernard J. Shapiro Freeman Center For Strategic Studies May 5, 2011 When I founded the Freeman Center back in 1992, I gave a copy of Bibi's book, A PLACE AMONG THE NATIONS, everyone joining. I was very impressed at the clear understanding of history and the Jewish place in it. I especially appreciated the chapter on Czechoslovakia and how it related to the current Arab-Israeli issues. Now, we see the pitiful image of Israel's PM running after the princes of Europe hat in hand. Does he have no pride? Does he not know how powerful Israel is really? Has he not read the articles of Paul Eidelberg and Yoram Ettinger broadcast here for the world to see? Despite protestations of Israel's Supreme Court of the Arab People (and not Jews), there is NO SUCH THING AS INTERNATIONAL LAW!!! The only thing that has ever mattered in world history is POWER. Machiavelli knew it. So did Lao Tsu, Muhammed, Pol Pot, Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Mao, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. Power can be used for good or evil. The defense of Israel and the Jewish People is the most righteous use of power in the course of human history. Continue reading "FREEMAN CENTER DISGUSTED AT BIBI GROVELING BEFORE ANTI-SEMITES OF EUROPE" Wednesday, May 4. 2011THINGS TO COME? WILL ISRAEL SURVIVE?
THINGS TO COME? WILL ISRAEL SURVIVE?
by David Basch Freeman Center For Strategic Studies May 4, 2011 "To the clear eyed, two states living peacefully side-by-side in what has been Israeli controlled Mandate of Palestine territories has been a figment of the imagination. The Arabs had wanted a new state only as a stop-gap on the way to the elimination of Israel...." "One must live in dread of the proposals that Netanyahu will be presenting to the US Congress in days ahead." What I think I see developing before my eyes is the birth of a new Arab state on Israel's lands. Israel's Leftists and their collaborators -- which include Netanyahu -- will at long last be achieving their dream. Once upon a time they had dreamed of a Jewish state living in safety and security on their ancestral lands, but, this in the last decades, this had given way to their powerful and exciting dream of a new Arab state. Continue reading "THINGS TO COME? WILL ISRAEL SURVIVE?" Thursday, April 28. 2011DANGEROUS MYTHS THAT REMAIN
DANGEROUS MYTHS THAT REMAIN
by David Basch Freeman Center For Strategic Studies April 27, 2011 "How anyone can conclude that carving out an Arab nation from the unalloted lands of the Mandate of Palestine that Israel today controls is a recipe for peace is every bit as nonsensical as the other theory that Palestine is the core problem of the Middle East region...." "Who in his right mind thinks that surrendering nationhood to the Palestinian Arabs would end the many decades of Arab strife? " "I do not know what Dr. Asa Kasher smokes but, if we analyze his view, he has no basis for concluding that the Arabs that Israel confronted in 1948 have a right to a state...." Continue reading "DANGEROUS MYTHS THAT REMAIN" Sunday, February 20. 2011SHAPIRO COMMENTS ON ETTINGER -Israel – America's Unique Ally
SHAPIRO COMMENTS ON ETTINGER -Israel – America's Unique Ally
by Bernard J. Shapiro Greeman Center For Strategic Studies February 20, 2011 As always Yoram Ettinger writes a clear and well researched article. No one can improve on what he does. My complaint is more political and strategic. Most of us know about how important Israel is to America. That will never change the 100 years of hostility to Jews and Israel by the US State Department, CIA, NSA, Justice Department and especially the current White House. 1. Given all the facts enumerated below, why doesn't Ettinger NOT DEMAND that America treat Israel as a strategic ally and NOT "banana repuplic." 2. And more important, why have Israeli and Jewish leaders groveled before the US like the weak ghetto Jews of the past. Back in pre WWll days Ze'ev Jabotinsky understood the strategic needs of the Jewish People both in Europe but also in Israel. His ideas harkened back to the great Israelite warriors who conquered Eretz Yisrael (Israel) during biblical times. Leaders like Joshua, David, The Maccabees, Shinshon, and Bar Kochba.He was silenced by the organized Jewish leadership. After his death in 1940 was maliciously barred from burial in Israel until Menachem Begin was elected in the late 1970's. During, days still fresh enough for me to remember, new warriors emerged to fight for Israel. Though they had many flaws (we all do), people like David Ben Gurion, Menachem Begin, Avraham Stern, Ariel Sharon and Moshe Dayan and Yoni Netanayhu led the country to many victories on the battlefield. Others like Moshe Arens, Rabbi Meir Kahane z”l and Herb Zweibon z”l (AFSI) and Moton Klien (ZOA), Emanuel A. Winston fought their battles for Israel on the political front. Caroline Glick, Prof. Paul Eidelberg, Steven Plaut, Helen Freedman (AFSI), Nadia and Ruth Matar (Women in Green) have fought both on the ground and politically. Continue reading "SHAPIRO COMMENTS ON ETTINGER -Israel – America's Unique Ally" Friday, January 21. 2011TRIBUTE TO HERB ZWEIBON z"l (of blessed memory)
TRIBUTE TO HERB ZWEIBON z"l (of blessed memory)
FREEMAN CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES Bernard J. Shapiro JEWISH COMMUNITY OF HEBRON David Wilder [Freeman Center Note]: I woke up at 3:AM CST feeling something was wrong. I went to my computer and was shocked to read the tribute below to Herb Zweibon z"l (of blessed memory) by David Wilder. Herb was a dear friend of mine and not just a perpetual inspiration. We first met in 1990 at an AFSI National meeting in New York. Though a long time Zionist, Herb presented me with a coherent serious Zionist ideology with out the wishy washy fuzziness of other Jewish Organizations. From that day forward, AFSI and I were in sync. I founded and AFSI chapter in Houston (1990) and then started the Freeman Center For Strategic Studies in 1993. Herb became a member of the Freeman Center's Board of Directors and I was on the Board of AFSI. We worked together for Eretz Yisrael. When upset or depressed at the foolish and dangerous events in the world and Israel, I would frequently call Herb. Herb always took the time to talk to me and keep me motivated. If we need money to keep operating, Herb always would send me a generous check. Jabotinsky and Shmuel Katz were his intellectual and ideological teachers, but Herb was mine. I loved him and will miss him more than words can say....... .......Bernard J. Shapiro, Chairman Freeman Center For Strategic Studies www.freeman.org Continue reading "TRIBUTE TO HERB ZWEIBON z"l (of blessed memory)" Wednesday, January 19. 2011STEPHENS VS. MAKOVSKY
STEPHENS VS. MAKOVSKY
by David Basch Freeman Center For Strategic Studies January 18, 2011 "Makovsky titillated the primarily religious, right wing OU audience with seeming insider, off-the-record, information that allegedly showed that currently unelected Arab leaders secretly want peace with Israel." "I gathered from the session that peace for Israel is difficult indeed since even Bret Stephens could not chart a safe and secure path to such a future ..." On Sunday, January 16, at the yearly OU convention, Bret Stephens, a senior editor at Wall Street Journal, faced off against kippah wearing David Makovsky, a former, journalist, now a member of some U.S. affiliated, foreign policy think tank, on US policy concerning Israel. (Makovsky would say his organization is independent but we know better -- more about that later.) Stephens was great. He presented in depth the why-s and wheres of mistaken Obama policy on Israel. In general, Stephens observed that the Arab side has over many prior decades shown no willingness to make peace and isn't turning over a new leaf today; Israel should be wary about letting its guard down since any tamping down of hostilities is the result of Israeli actions and policies, not Arab; Obama yet presses Israel to not build its communities on its lands beyond the unofficial, so-called "green line" as somehow against peace; this while the Arabs keep moving aggressively against Israel at every turn; etc, etc. Continue reading "STEPHENS VS. MAKOVSKY" Tuesday, December 21. 2010We hold these WikiTruths. . . ."
We hold these WikiTruths. . . ."
By Mark Langfan, December 12, 2010 Freeman Center For Strategic Studies "We hold these WikiTruths to be self-evident, that all countries (except for the Islamic Republic of Turkey) fear, even, a non-nuclear Iran, that they are all endowed by the United States of America with the right to survive . . .well, maybe at least until next week." There has been "shock and awe" that the Sunni Arab states of Saudi Arabia and Egypt are absolutely convinced, and actually "obsessively" fear that the Iranian/Persian Shiites intend to wipe these Sunni arab states out of existence as completely as Iran intends to wipe out the Israel. The reality and practical consequences of this simple WikiTruth axiom has far from settled into the rarified airs of Western policy elites. In fact, some ersatz journalists and pundits still write articles as if we still live in a pre-Wikileaks "reality." To all the Sunni Arab States, Russia, and the entire West, the reality is that there really is a grave waxing Iranian threat. For the United States not to immediately recalculate all its foreign and order of battle security policy from this inescapable WikiTruth in 2010 is as "delusional" and fatal to world peace as was the belief that somehow Hitler wasn’t a grave and imminent threat to world peace in 1939. This WikiTruth of the Iranian/Persian Eastern threat has two immediate consequences that explain two otherwise unexplainable events: Firstly, Abbas’ "pre-condition" of a total Israeli settlement freeze, and secondly, Obama’s euthanization, and proper burial of the "Peace Process." Two years ago, both were inconceivable, but today both are the undeniable reality. Continue reading "We hold these WikiTruths. . . ."" Tuesday, October 19. 2010SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT Reflections of a Frustrated Zionist
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT
Reflections of a Frustrated Zionist by Bernard J. Shapiro Freeman Center For Strategic Studies October 19, 2010 I am getting increasingly frustrated with the constant repetition of the same mistakes in Israel, year after year. Is there no learning curve for Israeli leaders, politicians, and let’s face the Leftist public? Why do we debate the obvious, like does the Land of Israel belong to us. Some other important questions: 1. Why do we negotiate with Abbas, Obama, the UN, the Eu, Egypt, Jordan or any other anti Israel nations, leader, or institutions. JUST SAY NO! They are all short change artists as I wrote about many years ago. Please read. DON’T PLAY WITH THE SHORT CHANGE ARTIST Or Why One Shouldn’t Make Redeployment MapsBy Bernard J. Shapiro From an editorial in the January 1998 issue of THE MACCABEAN ONLINE During my 23 years as owner of House of Books in Houston, I learned many valuable lessons. One in particular seems to have an application to the current situation in Israel. Let me explain: In 1978, the store was victimized by a short change artist. One of my clerks was at the register when a well dressed gentleman approached with a paperback book costing $2.95. He gave her a $20 bill and then began a back and forth exchange of money. In the end, the bookstore lost about $60. I called the Houston police department and requested that an officer come to the store and brief my employees on how to prevent this crime from happening again. The officer came and told us a little story. It seems that Johnny Carson once asked a short change artist to come to his show and try to fool him while he was fully alert to what was going down. The criminal had no problem and his skill marveled the audience. Continue reading "SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT Reflections of a Frustrated Zionist" Monday, October 18. 2010GAZA INVASION ARMADA
GAZA INVASION ARMADA
by Emanuel A. Winston Freeman Center Analyst & Commentator Freeman Center For Strategic Studies October 18, 2010 Reports indicate that another sea armada of perhaps more than 10 ships will sail from the Syrian port of Latakia where it has been docked for the last 12 days. The main ship in (what they call) the "Viva Palestina" convoy has 380 ‘activists’ from 42 countries, 147 vehicles and $5 million in medical aid. Their declared mission is to break Israel’s arms blockade of Hamas in Gaza. [Latest news: One ship has already docked in Egypt as of Sunday October 17th.] These so-called ‘activists’ are what Vladimir Lenin called “useful idiots” who were carrying the Communist Manifesto. Today’s “useful idiots” are the Islamic sympathizers who are ready to be used by Hamas and Hezb’Allah. To view their "real" purposes, look at their own ‘diary’ (listed below - footnote #1) of the propaganda parade through 3000 miles by land, and the rallies held at each stop. If you can tolerate the full onslaught of their propaganda, their own diary is quite damning. The propaganda campaign that Gaza Muslim Arab Palestinians under Hamas rule have been deprived of food and medicine has been disproved by foreign eye-witnesses, still and video photographs of the Gaza markets full of food, the water parks, the villas and other luxurious living of the "poor Palestinians". The only purpose of Israel’s legal blockade of Gaza to incoming foreign ships is to deny Hamas the free-flow of major weaponry. However, weapons coming from Syria and Iran continue to be smuggled in through hundreds of tunnels starting in Egypt’s Sinai Desert. Continue reading "GAZA INVASION ARMADA" Tuesday, October 12. 2010MUSLIMS ATTACK JEWS; JEWS NOT ALLOWED TO ACT IN SELF-DEFENSE
MUSLIMS ATTACK JEWS; JEWS NOT ALLOWED TO ACT IN SELF-DEFENSE
by Gail Winslow Freeman Center Analyst & Commentator Freeman Center For Strategic Studies Freeman Center Broadcast - October 12, 2010 The Muslim Arab Palestinians in Jerusalem grow bolder in their attacks on Jewish civilian drivers, men, pregnant women – even children and those who are simply strolling. However, the Police, under the orders of Israel’s current Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, arrest the first Jewish victim they see at the scene. The Arab Muslims accept this encouragement as permission to attack Jews whenever they wish, knowing that Barak, Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Leftist Courts as well as the Leftist Media will side with them. Perhaps a time will come when the Quislings in the Israeli government will be kicked out and a Peoples’ Court will be established to try them for their crimes against their own people. I recall an old saying during the years of the Muslim Ottoman Turks’ rule who treated the Jews cruelly. The saying of that time goes: “Kill a Turk and take a rest.” The message, I suppose, was: “Don’t harm me and I won’t harass you.” But, those evil times are returning as the Arab Muslims take the place of the Turkish Muslims. Regrettably, although the Jews have returned to the Land of their Patriarchs and Matriarchs, many of our own leaders plead for mercy from the very Arab Muslims whom they had to fight and beat in seven wars and continual, ongoing Terrorism. Granted, not all Jewish leaders sniveled, whined and apologized for living and daring to live and fight back. Now, too many of these Jewish leaders play the role models of a beaten people, instead of standing tall as honest victors in a sea of Jew-hating Muslim Arabs. They instruct the Police to harass Jews – especially if they are forced to defend themselves – even against Muslim Arab lynch mobs. Israel’s soldiers have been made fearful of defending themselves with lethal force lest the corrupt and biased Leftist Courts put them on trial for acting in self-defense and defense of their countrymen, women and children who are endangered. Continue reading "MUSLIMS ATTACK JEWS; JEWS NOT ALLOWED TO ACT IN SELF-DEFENSE"
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Monday, September 6. 2010MY PRAYER FOR ISRAEL ROSH HASHONA 5771
An editorial form the October 2003 issue of THE MACCABEAN ONLINE. Re-issued every year I need to.
MY PRAYER FOR ISRAEL ROSH HASHONA 5771 By Bernard J. Shapiro As I survey the fragile planet we call home, my mind makes note of the chaos, blood, and tears. The cries of a million lost souls shatter the night in a million corners of the earth. The sensitive, compassionate among them try to feed the hungry, heal the sick, clothe the naked. One by one their energies dissipate. They try to hold back the tide with a teaspoon and then see the impossibility of the task. The Jewish people are but a cosmic speck in this universe. To many Jews who feel deeply about their own people, that speck becomes the whole world. Other Jews are irrevocably tied to non-Jewish pursuits. May we as a people open our eyes and begin to see the world as it really is. Without becoming depressed and morose, we must realize that there are powerful forces in the world that wish us ill. May we mobilize our strength to fight our enemies until they are defeated. May we not succumb to false prophets of peace. We all want peace. We pray for peace in our Sabbath services every Friday night. After thousands of years, being victims of persecution, expulsion, extermination, and discrimination, it is natural that we yearn for peace with every ounce of our bodies and souls. It is because our hunger for peace is so strong that we must be doubly cautious not to fall for a pseudo-peace. Today none of us believe Chamberlain really negotiated "peace in our time" with Hitler. Why do some Jews believe that Peres and Rabin really negotiated "peace" with Arafat, one of today's Hitlers? The Jewish people must learn the value of unity in the face of so many enemies who wish them ill. Continue reading "MY PRAYER FOR ISRAEL ROSH HASHONA 5771" Wednesday, September 1. 2010BERNARD REFLECTS ON SERIOUS NEWS FROM ISRAEL
BERNARD REFLECTS ON SERIOUS NEWS FROM ISRAEL
Recently Drawn From Two Days Of Arutz Sheva August 31 & September 1, 2010 by Bernard J. Shapiro Chairman and Editor Freeman Center For Strategic Studies www.freeman.org 1. Barak meets Abbas in Jordan. Nothing to talk about. The only peace the Arabs can offer Israel is the Peace of the grave. 2. Lone Zionist at Anti-Israeli Rally. That is good, but would it have been wrong to take a few friends along. And go undercover and bash a few heads. The Midrash tells us that it is Kosher to kill those who come to kill us. I am not saying this, Jewish Law says this. 3. Two terror suspects nabbed on flight from US. The US, the World and Israel are responsible for terrorism by showing restraint in destroying it. Also by funding, fearing and appeasing terrorists. Late reports indicate the Dutch will release them. 4. Back Taxes May Stop Ground Zero Mosque. Jews, Christians, Hindus and 9-11 victims should knock down the doors and sit in that place, like the Civil Rights Movement (1959-1966). Why wait for the IRS which is controlled by a Muslim President? 5. PA Prime Minister’s Diplomatic War Against Israel. My dear Lovers of Zion, this is Israel’s fault. Israeli must stop whining and do something. For example: blow up or jam the anti-Semitic radio and TV Stations. Arrest the Moslem preachers of hate and close their hateful schools. Stop funding anti-Jewish hate education. Stop funding PA’s diplomatic hate campaign against Israel. 6. Shas Leader Rabbi Yosef: Build in All of Judea and Sameria. Good advice. My advice to Rabbi Yosef: If the Israeli coalition does not follow your advice-WITHDRAW YOUR PARTY FROM COALITION AND BRING THIS GOVERNMENT DOWN. Don’t fear for Israel, HaShem will be by your side. Continue reading "BERNARD REFLECTS ON SERIOUS NEWS FROM ISRAEL" Thursday, August 26. 2010SHAPIRO/ ETTINGER COMMENTS -Middle East Sandstorms and Tumbleweeds
SHAPIRO/ ETTINGER COMMENTS -
Middle East Sandstorms and Tumbleweeds FREEMAN CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES August 26, 2010 Freeman Note: This is abrilliant analysis by Ettinger. I have always appreciated his wonderful insight into Arab-Israel-US issues. I have ONE complaint, not just for Yoram, but for most pro-Israel writers. The Apocalypse is coming. Those of us who understand what is really going on in the world must cease being "nice Jewish boys and girls." 1. We must stop promoting or even using the word peace or just peace settlement. It is fight or die. Learn this. 2. We must cease all dependence on the USA or its Moslem President to save Israel. 3. We must stop whinning about anti-Semitism and train ourselves, including youth to defend themselves. 4. An Israeli government that won't defend its citizens against Arab attack is not a Zionist government. When proud Jews in Israel defend themselves from Arab attack, the Israeli police, government, and justice system put them through hell. These people should not rule a Jewish State. 5. I am sick and tired of Israeli diplomats trying to win favor with ant-Semites, who will never support us. 6. I am sick and tired of American Jews refusing to take a stand to protect their fellow Jews. But have some kind of wishy, washy Ghetto mentality. They don't have to please Moslems, Leftists, socialists, communists, white and black people who do not care about the best interests of the Jewish People. And I hate those Jewish ACLU lawyers who would call me a rascist because I speak truth to lies. 7. I am sick and tired of all the delay in destroying Iran's nuclear threat. I know how difficult it is. But I am also not stupid and I know that five years ago would it have been easier. I know that the Israeli government keeps making it harder for the military to accomplish its mission. My readers on the Freemanlist know why I say this. the proliferation of missiles from North Korea, Iran, Russia, and China to Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and back to Iran. 8. And by the way the terrorists on all Israel's borders must be annihilated. We, the Jewish People did not suffer for 2000 years SHOULD NOT lose our Eretz Yisrael, because we are nice Jewish boys and girls. 9. I am sick and tired of Barak and Peres still being involved in Israeli politics. They should have been retired long ago. 10. Ok I will stop my rant. My final word. I won't puplish articles any more on the Freemanlist that DON'T GO FOR THE JUGLER. NO PUNCHES HELD BACK. In case you want a few examples (certainly not comprehensive). Caroline Glick David Basch Herb Zweibon Paul Eidelberg Bernard J. Shapiro The Late Rabbi Meir Kahane Elyakim Ha'etzni Emanuel A Winston Yeddiya Atlas The Late Shmuel Katz Mark Langfan Ruth & Nadia Matar Dr. Steven Plaut David Wilder Continue reading "SHAPIRO/ ETTINGER COMMENTS -Middle East Sandstorms and Tumbleweeds" Sunday, August 22. 2010ROWENA FREEMAN GOLDFADEN DIES [HARRY W. FREEMAN DAUGHTER]
FREEMAN CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES
P.O. Box 35661 Houston, Texas 77235-5661 Phone or Fax: 713-723-6016 E-mail: bernards@sbcglobal.net OUR WEB SITE (URL): http://www.freeman.org THE MACCABEAN ONLINE: URL:http://www.freeman.org/online.htm Freeman Center Blog http://www.freeman.org/serendipity/ ================================= by Bernard J. Shapiro August 21, 2010 ======================= [Freeman Center Note: Considering the Jewish historical experience with weakness, ALL Jews (and, of course, Israelis) should be armed and able to defend themselves. Any attempt by the government to disarm Jews should be resisted by force. Better to die a free man than to live as a slave. Any attempt by the U.S, Europe or the UN to limit Israeli military freedom of action should be prevented!...Bernard] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "But what a change in life upon arriving in America - Free America. Here I suddenly found myself unbridled, the air free, no stifling, atmosphere - I could give free expression to the cravings of my soul! Life began to have a different meaning. What a blessing to have free assemblage, free speech free press! Can an American who has always enjoyed these blessings appreciate what it means to one who was deprived of them until manhood.?"............Harry W. Freeman (1907) *********************************************** HARRY W. FREEMAN'S DAUGHTER ROWENA FREEMAN GOLDFADEN DIES] SHE IS NOW IN HEAVEN WITH HASHEM Continue reading "ROWENA FREEMAN GOLDFADEN DIES [HARRY W. FREEMAN DAUGHTER]" Monday, July 12. 2010NOTES TO BIBI
NOTES TO BIBI
by BERNARD J. SHAPIRO Freeman Cent For Stategic Studies July 12, 2010 Please stop telling the world that you want "PEACE" (a hoax). There is no possible peace with barbarians. NOTES TO BIBI AFTER HIS FIRST ELECTION - STILL IMPORTANT An Editorial from THE MACCABEAN June 1997 A CALL TO ACTION We Must Return To Zionism By Bernard J. Shapiro In 1897 in Basle, Switzerland, Theodore Herzl founded the World Zionist Organization. There were great accomplishments in the last 100 years. Much has happened to the Jewish people who found themselves on a roller coaster with many traumatic ups and downs. The Holocaust was the lowest point and the establishment of Israel was a high point. There was the great victory of 1967 and the trauma of 1973. Zionism flourished, Israel prospered, Judea, Samaria and Gaza were settled. The Ethiopian return to Zion brought tears to our eyes with pride. The great Russian migration to Israel literally changed the country for ever. And then a cataclysmic and horrific event took place. A small clique of charlatans, with anti-Zionist delusions, took over the Israeli government in 1992. They deceived the Israeli voters by placing ("Mr. Security") Yitzhak Rabin at the head of their ticket. They promised security and then proceeded to dismantle the Jewish State. 100 years of Zionism are being undone in a few years. The new Likud government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not seem to have the political will to undo the damage of Oslo. In the past few years, it seems that the main effort of Israeli governments was the creation of a Palestinian state. The word peace was perverted and distorted, coming to mean surrender and appeasement. Continue reading "NOTES TO BIBI" Friday, July 9. 20106 MILLION WHO CANNOT SPEAK
6 MILLION WHO CANNOT SPEAK
by Emanuel A. Winston, Freeman Center Middle East Analyst & Commentator Freeman Center For Strategic Studies July 9, 2010 Now there are only a few elderly survivors of the Holocaust still alive and most won’t/cannot speak out. They know from bitter experience that when government leaders become hostile to Jews, it’s dangerous to speak out in public. When some of us speak to elderly survivors and, if they trust you, you might hear something like this: “We know that, as in Germany in the 30s, the hate is growing in the nations as they need someone to blame for their money going bad and for the lack of jobs. We see clearly that President Barack Hussein Obama has a visceral dislike, even hatred, for the Jewish people. We know from experience and instinct that President Barack Hussein Obama has grown very close to the Muslim Arab nations and wishes to please them by acting hostile to Israel. Continue reading "6 MILLION WHO CANNOT SPEAK" Monday, June 28. 2010TRUST CAN KILL A SMALL NATION LIKE ISRAEL
TRUST CAN KILL A SMALL NATION LIKE ISRAEL
By Emanuel A. Winston, Freeman Center Middle East Analyst & Commentator Freeman Center For Strategic Studies June 28, 2010 It has been reported on TV and in U.S. DEFENSE NEWS that several U.S. Aircraft Carrier Task Forces have been sent to position themselves off the coast of Iran in the Gulf of Hormuz. I wondered: What was their mission? I also wondered about the practice take-off and landing sessions of U.S. and French aircraft on each other’s aircraft carriers. It sounds like a good idea if their likely targets are nuclear sites in Iran. BUT, what if it wasn’t? What if their alternate mission was to protect Iran from a pre-emptive or retaliatory strike by Israel on those Iranian nuclear sites? What if their plan is as Zbigniew Brzezinski counseled President Barack Hussein Obama – to shoot down Israeli aircraft in order to insure that Iran reaches full maturity in its nuclear capability? Continue reading "TRUST CAN KILL A SMALL NATION LIKE ISRAEL" Saturday, December 12. 2009Hanukkah, The Nation's National War
Hanukkah, The Nation's National War
by Nadia Matar Women For Israel's Tomorrow (Women in Green) POB 7352, Jerusalem 91072, Israel Tel: 972-2-624-9887 Fax: 972-2-624-5380 mailto:wfit2@womeningreen.org http://www.womeningreen.org Dear Friends, Yair Stern, the leader of Lehi (Lohamei Herut Yisrael), wrote an article on the holiday of Hanukkah entitled "The Miracle of Hanukkah." It was written on the eve of Hanukkah 1942, and was published in the Kislev 5702 issue of the organization's internal newspaper Bamahteret: "The miracle of Hanukkah [...] What is a miracle? A cruse of oil that seemed as if it would burn for only a single day, burned for eight days. The miracle of Hanukkah - like every miracle - was not what was visible, what could be measured, what could be calculated. A miracle is something that cannot be calculated by arithmetic, nor can it be perceived by the intellect, since it is elevated above the intellect and exalted above any comprehension. The miracle is [...] something that forcefully and daringly breaches the boundary of the reality. The miracle is the grandeur of majesty and the sublimity of holiness. There is nothing more sublime and holier than a national war. The nation's war for its honor, its freedom, and its life. The life of a nation without honor and without freedom is no life. Consequently, any nation worthy of respect, small or large, takes its life in its hands and goes forth to national war. The course of the war is determined by the degree of the nation's willingness and its steadfast resolve to fight to the end, whatever may be, to be killed rather than to surrender. Although these "immeasurable" values do not always determined the outcome of the war, it is these that determine its historical fate, that is: its value for the future of the nation. Continue reading "Hanukkah, The Nation's National War" WE NEED HEROES TODAY - Let Us Be Like Maccabees
WE NEED HEROES TODAY
Let Us Be Like Maccabees By Bernard J. Shapiro Freeman Center For Strategic Studies December 13, 2009 The year is 70 C.E. and a young Roman legionnaire stands on a hill overlooking Jerusalem. While he watches it burn, he says to his comrades in Latin, "Judea Capta Est" (Judea is conquered).Yet like the legendary phoenix, rising from the ashes of its own destruction, Israel burst onto the world's stage 2000 years later, with the cry of a lusty infant yearning to breathe free. Five Arab armies tried to destroy that new life before it could take hold. With blood and fire, including the sacrifice of one per cent of its population (6000 of its best young people), besieged Israel secured its independence. Just nine short years earlier, European Jewry faced its most devastating experience, the Holocaust. In the areas under Nazi occupation, the Jewish death rate was 90%. Despite revolts in dozens of camps, and heroic resistance with the partisans of free Europe, the Jews were unorganized, unarmed and ultimately became victims. During both the Holocaust and Israel's War of Independence, the world and its leaders were indifferent, if not hostile, to the fate of the Jews. Continue reading "WE NEED HEROES TODAY - Let Us Be Like Maccabees" Sunday, November 8. 2009The Significance of Allahu Akbar
The Significance of Allahu Akbar
by Gamaliel Isaac Freeman Center For Strategic Studies November 8, 2009 Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army psychiatrist, while shouting Allahu Akbar (Allah is great) murdered twelve people and wounded twenty-one inside Fort Hood in Texas on Thursday, November 5, 2009. Fox News interviewed a “criminal profiler” who asserted definitively that this attack had nothing to do with religion. Some people suggested he had post traumatic stress syndrome, apparently they didn't know he had never served in combat. NPR and the Washington Post said his motive remains unclear. Muslims have a long history of committing atrocities to the cry of Allahu Akbar. When the Muslim Turks took children away from their infidel parents to make them into soldiers for Allah, their mothers and sisters would desperately follow the horsemen who would drive them away with whips with loud cries of Allah. When the PLO occupied Lebanon they massacred the Christians there. Bat Ye'or in her book Eurabia wrote about one of the massacres as follows: An eyewitness gave an account of the massacre of 582 Christians in Damur by the PLO and its Muslim allies on January 22, 1976: "The attack took place from the mountain behind. It was an apocalypse. They were coming, thousands and thousands, shouting 'Allahu Akbar! God is great! Let us attack them for the Arabs, let us offer a holocaust to Mohammad!' And they were slaughtering everyone in their path, men, women and children." When EgyptAir co-pilot Gamil Al Batuti was alone in the cockpit in Oct 31, 1999 of FLIGHT 990 he shut off the autopilot and the engines and put the aircraft into a steep dive, all the while intoning: Allahu Akbar. The Boeing 767 broke up in midair and crashed into the ocean off Nantucket Island, killing all 217 souls aboard (Allah is the Greatest worldnetdaily 7/31/04). Continue reading "The Significance of Allahu Akbar" Sunday, November 1. 2009ASSIMILATION OF AMERICAN JEWS CAN BE CURBED
ASSIMILATION OF AMERICAN JEWS CAN BE CURBED
by Michael Anbar PhD Freeman Center For Strategic Studies November 1, 2009 For centuries Jews have been subject to bigotry, i.e., misojudaic prejudice, often associated with violence that ranged from arson, molestation and pogroms to the Holocaust. Yet the Jewish nation survived in a grueling Diaspora. But later, once Jews were fully emancipated, many of them assimilated, and the Jewish nation lost many individuals. People born to Jewish parents have denied their heritage, joining subcultures that disregard ethnicity or religion but still hate Jews. This process is ongoing in American Jewry, especially among its younger, most productive members. The older generation, including Holocaust survivors, who are the majority of synagogue attendees, is not likely to abandon Judaism. However, their sons and daughters seem to assimilate in droves. Unlike in 19th Century Germany, assimilation of American Jews is not by conversion to Christianity but by joining transnational “progressive” political movements that despise Jewish nationalism. Giving up the national rights of Jews is not better than giving up the Jewish religion. A substantial number of the Jews who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 are assimilated transnationalists. Continue reading "ASSIMILATION OF AMERICAN JEWS CAN BE CURBED"
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Friday, October 30. 2009WHEN THE PAST IS THE PRESENT
WHEN THE PAST IS THE PRESENT
by Emanuel A. Winston, Freeman Center Middle East Analyst & Commentator October 29, 2009 Approximately 10 years ago I started writing what has become a series of articles entitled "THE GATHERING", 7 in all. These were intended as heads up alerts, forecasting that the Nations of the world were gathering to attack the Jewish State in deference to the Arab and Muslim oil States and the Church-taught hatred from its earliest beginnings. As today’s World writhes with Pain of its own making, they lash out at the minuscule Jewish State of Israel to relieve that pain. The fact that neither the Jews nor the Jewish State caused these Global problems made no difference to Christians, Muslims or - even Left Liberal Jews - looking to perversely take on a burden of guilt by blaming all other Jews for the ramping up of Global Hatred. I thought you might be interested in my forecast of August 4, 2001 (only 1 month before 9/22/01 brought America her Muslim Pearl Harbor). As the future continued to become more clear, I wrote 6 additional pieces, building on the mounting evidence, culminating so far with the appearance of President Barack Obama and his hostile Cabinet appointees and some 35 or more Czars and Czarinas who serve the President’s orders without being vetted by the FBI or approved of by Congress. Continue reading "WHEN THE PAST IS THE PRESENT" Thursday, October 29. 2009REDEEMING THE TEMPLE MOUNT
REDEEMING THE TEMPLE MOUNT
by Bernard J. Shapiro Freeman Center For Strategic Studies October 29, 2009 Back in 1993, I started inviting people to explain the significance of rebuilding the Temple Mount in Jewish history and its affect on the World. Rabbi Moishe Traxler was very helpful in explaining to me the Lubavitch position regarding the rebuilding of the Temple. They very clearly prohibit any activity on the Temple Mount until the coming of the Messiah. The Israeli Consul General (Houston) Meir Romem was quick to tell me about the horrible international consequences of attempting to rebuild the Temple. Others, including Rabbis of great note, told me the rebuilding of the Temple would require the introduction of animal sacrifices. A friend, a vegetarian and animal rights activist, was horrified by such a prospect. All the myths were refuted. Rambam explained that animal sacrifice is not necessary if the Temple is rebuilt. He talked about a process of REDEMPTION. First regain control of the Temple Mount. Continue reading "REDEEMING THE TEMPLE MOUNT" Tuesday, October 20. 2009LECTURE ON ISRAEL FUTURE SECURITY AND SURVIVAL
LECTURE ON ISRAEL FUTURE SECURITY AND SURVIVAL
by Bernard J. Shapiro Freeman Center For Strategic Studies www.freeman.org Labor Day - September 7, 2009 Thank you Dr. Frank and Alice Lanza for giving me the financial and moral support to make this evening possible. A special warm thanks to my old friends Rabbi Jack Segal and Dr. Richard H. Rolnick. Both of you mean more to me than words can explain. I have learned and grown over the years by being close to you. Through good and bad times your words of wisdom have motivated me to keep working for Israel. INTRODUCTION In 1934, Harry W. Freeman, my grandfather, was already lecturing about the dangers of Hitler and Nazism. Nobody listened. The Holocaust was not prevented. Today, in 2009 there are 1.9 billion Arab & Moslem people who plan a second Holocaust against the Jews of Israel and the world. The governments and people of Europe not only acquiesce but actively aid in this genocidal plan through diplomatic and material support. The American State Department encourages the Arabs by actively striving to weaken Israel’s strategic and military superiority. Their first stage is to use the so called “peace process” to weaken Israel and strip it of its strategic territories. They are being aided by the same hypocrites and accomplices in the West who failed to aid the Jews of Europe in their darkest hour. Unfortunately, even left-wing Israelis have fallen victims to the seductive lure of peace and have begun a policy of appeasement similar to that tried with Hitler. The results will be no different. The Arab propaganda full of slanders and libels; the media bias against Israel replete with double standards and the rewriting of history are all working to the same end: the de-legitimation of Israel. Israel is the only country considered by many to be GUILTY OF ORIGINAL SIN by virtue of its very existence. This process of de-legitimation has as its goal creating a world climate in which the DESTRUCTION of Israel is acceptable. Many in the Jewish community are either apathetic or fail to recognize this threat. Fortunately the Jews have new allies in the Evangelical Christian Community and in the Hindu community that has suffered Moslem depredations for about1400 years. Continue reading "LECTURE ON ISRAEL FUTURE SECURITY AND SURVIVAL"
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