Another Winning Moment For The JNF

The JNF has a history of doing stupid things. Granted they know how to plant trees. But they understand nothing about ecology. Here's an example: the JNF has the astounding chutzpah of taking credit for both the dredging (ruining) of the Hula Valley, as well as their subsequent pathetic attempts at partial rehabilitation (when the foolishness of their decision became apparent years later.) They have no interest in preserving Israel's ecosystems. They'd rather plant 100 pistachio forests and name it after Sol Greenberg.

Their position vis-a-vis the the Negev is right out of Ben-Gurion's play book. "Kill the desert before it kills us." Of course they can't say it outright or they'll alienate the tree-worshipers of Sde Boker who like to believe that Ben-Gurion was the John Muir of the Negev. These days, the primary JNF project is the deliberate destruction of Israel's last frontier. All in the name of environmentalism. You can say goodbye to the remaining leopards. The wolves and hyenas will be the next indigenous species of fauna that will disappear.

So they are incompetent at doing what they should be doing. Protecting and enhancing Israel's ecology. Unfortunately, environmental incompetence and irresponsibility are the least of their faults. The JNF is a left wing organization. Read their statement on "working with the Bedouin community." The typical liberal obsession with taming the natives. Another winning moment for the JNF. Several years ago the JNF wanted to plant a papal forest in honor of the previous pope's visit. For all I know somewhere out there in the Galilee is the Pope John Paul II Pistachio Wilderness.

That was just the appetizer. Now we hear that the JNF wants to plant 3000 trees for the butchers of the PLO, or the "PA" as the left likes to call that organization of Jew-killing barbarians. This is an all-time low from a supposedly non-political organization. This is where your coins are going. Thirty years ago even the most die-hard leftist would've called you crazy if you painted this picture.

First the leftists give the PLO legitimacy by accepting the lie of a "palestinian (myths don't get capitalized ) people". Then the judenrats in government gave them autonomy followed by the autonomy of having guns to shoot at Jewish heads. And now the JNF is giving them forests and gardens. Green infrastructure, if you will, to change the facts on the ground.

Jews are nursed on nonsense and nostalgic myths. For the older generations, the JNF conjures up images of the fledgling state and the excitement of their youthful activism. Some Jews may find this latest JNF project (if indeed it goes through) a bit perplexing. Many leftists will applaud this insanity. This is merely an extension of a secular and vapid Zionism. When the benighted leftist no longer believe in his own claim to the land, he plants forests for the enemy.

The Yasser Arafat Forest. How's that for nauseating irony? Do you still feel like putting a shekel in the little blue pushka?

Shimon Peres: Israel's High Priest of Hellenism (audio post)

Reflections on Israel's most infamous quisling. Shimon Peres assures the Arab/Islamic world that Israel has no intention of building the third Temple on Har Habayit. Shimon has it all wrong. The Hellenists in our midst may not have such aspirations, but all true religious Jews anxiously await the coming of the Messiah and the eventual rebuilding of the Temple in our times.

Yahadut maintains that the coming of the messiah is the only vehicle for true peace on earth. Peres's version of peace is a recipe for another Holocaust.

Those Damn Turks!

Another example of the loathsome Turks showing their Jew-hatred. Click to read this piece from Jihad Watch. No surprises here. Just another example of "moderate Islam" at work.

Off The Beaten Path: Israel's Wild Places

A stroll at this late hour reminded me why I love the desert. The mystery and serenity of the desert night is like nothing else in nature. I spotted my first striped hyena tonight. I don't even know if it saw me. It was just wandering about on the periphery of town for awhile, until it finally headed out into the desert night and was gone. An incredible sighting. I still have it's distinctive black and white pattern in my mind's eye. That classical hump standing out against the desert night. Somewhere out there, the wild things with fur and teeth still roam about.

Fortunately, Israel still has some wild places left that haven't been raped beyond recognition by the land plowers. Places where Bedouins haven't set up their filthy illegal shanty towns. Thank G-d. We need such places to reflect and think, to get lost, and to try to find ourselves. To test ourselves against the elements and become men, or else die trying. Places where the risk of falling off a cliff (due to wind or personal carelessness) collapsing from dehydration, or stepping on a viper, is very real. Hidden haunts where we can go to sleep under the stars and reflect on the natural beauty of the Holy Land.

Edward Abbey, the great American writer and "voice of the American wilderness" had a love affair with the deserts of the American West. Abbey noted that the desert's hidden charms are lost on most people, who are turned off by the nasty things one finds there. Crawling, creeping, and slithering things like snakes, spiders, and scorpions. (Sometimes bigger isn't better. In the case of scorpions though, the old cliche is true.) That's why deserts are easier to protect. Most people don't want to live there. And if they come to visit it's usually from the air-conditioned confines of an SUV or charter bus, that graciously leaves as fast as it arrived. I recommend his classic work, Desert Solitaire, which is a masterpiece of nature writing.

I believe it was Abbey who defined wilderness as 'any ecosystem that has at least one animal species that can eat you'. I agree. Hiking and camping isn't the same without the concern, (unlikely as it may be) that something with teeth and powerful jaws might clamp down on your neck or skull while you slumber. Here's to the striped hyena and the few remaining leopards that still haunt this country's wild deserts. Live long and prosper. And if you should stumble upon some Bedouin encampment, feel free to treat yourself to a little snack.

Religious Maccabees: Part II (audio)

Reflections on recent displays of "insubordination" from religious soldiers in the IDF.

Insubordination? Or Answering To A Higher Authority

Something is happening. A spark has been kindled in the hearts of certain young Jews. We keep reading about religious soldiers in combat units who have started to protest the expulsion of Jews. First there were the two men who made a provocative protest at their swearing-in-ceremony at the kotel. Recently, four soldiers unfurled a banner condemning expulsions from the roof of their military base. Not surprisingly, the Hellenists in government are terrified at what appears to be a growing phenomenon and they are responding harshly, throwing them out of their units permanently, and throwing them into the brig for a month.

Netanyahu has the gall to speak of "insubordination", and how such actions will be the downfall of the country. The nerve of this quisling! If anything, such individuals restore some sense of morality to an army that has become a demoralized pawn of the Left. Let me tell you about the kind of insanity that what will bring down the country:

• A Prime Minister who has committed treason during two separate terms in office.

• Quisling politicians who exploit the military for political purposes, and use the soldiers of the IDF to commit human rights violations against their own people.

Neyanyahu can trot out a thousand mamlachti Rabbis to condemn these young men. Neither he nor the disgraceful religious pawns of the mixed multitude will ever understand what drives those who answer to the highest authority. They may never serve in combat again, but these soldiers are the true Maccabees.

Am Yisroel Chai!

Dreams Of An Iranian Wasteland

Amalek's Call to "Wipe Israel Out of Existence"

True to form, Netanyahu remains a frightened man. A man who lacks the courage to make difficult decisions. A man who plays the part of a eunuch, when he grovels before the Jew hating bastard, Barack Obama (yemach sh'mo v'zichro), who will surely go down in history as the Neville Chamberlain of the 21st century. Every day that Bibi listens to Obama, Iran gets closer to obtaining the ultimate weaponry of mass destruction and actualizing their genocidal fantasies. Israel doesn't have a choice. Obama's calls for economic sanctions and international diplomacy are impotent tools. Only military intervention can stop Iran.

Unfortunately, if Israel attacks Iran, it will be a precise surgical strike that will leave the general populace of savages unharmed. While such an operation might end Iran's nuclear aspirations, the average citizen will go unpunished. Pity. Iran deserves to be turned into a wasteland of charred corpses. Don't let the PC types cloud the reality. Both the "fundamentalists" and the "reformists" of Iran hate us. The Israeli Air Force should give them a dazzling and deadly show of fire and blood, one which will make Hiroshima and Nagasaki look like a Fourth of July fireworks display.

One day soon, (please G-d) the Jewish people will recognize that they are insane. They will seek help for their collective sickness.

In this type of climate, the time will be ripe for true leaders who fear The Almighty to take the reigns. Havlagah will end. The IDF will be freed from it's tethers.

Instead of using the armed forces to beat up and harass good Jews, we will see the glorious manifestation of Kiddush Hashem (sanctification of G-d's name) in the form of true Jewish vengeance against our enemies. All of our enemies, not just the scurrying maggots of Iran.

Please G-d, may we see it in our times!

More P.C.B.S.- How Not To Offend Muslims

The moral relativist's guide to not offending Muslims:

Rule #1. Abandon your reason (all of it), and stop thinking about the perceived pandemic of Islamic terror that appears to be destroying the world.

Rule #2. If you're white, acknowledge that you're a racist. Once you accept the fact that you're the bad guy, everything changes. If you're aren't white, identify with Islam, otherwise you're a self-loathing "Sambo".

Rule #3. Read any book by John Esposito and Karen Armstrong. They know so much about Islam that they don't even have to do any research or cite their sources. Never question their findings.

The following guidelines will give you a better understanding of Islam. After all, a million left-wing, long-haired, tenured college professors can't be wrong. Muslims are our friends. Obama really seems to like them:

• Islam is a moderate religion of love and peace. Say it a hundred times. Then say it another hundred times. Tell it to your latte drinking, hackey-sack kicking, cannabis appreciating friends. Make them say it a hundred times. Stone them if they refuse.

• Five extremists have hijacked a beautiful religion. It only looks like billions of Muslims want to kill us. The silent majority is afraid of these five extremists. That's why they don't say anything.

• Jihad really means to love one's neighbor and to offer him gifts of exotic floral arrangements and fruit. Extremists have hijacked the term and distorted it beyond recognition. Calls to "slay the infidels" that are found throughout the Koran are only metaphorical. They refer to the Islamic requirement to slaughter the enemy within.

• Wife beating in Islam is an affectionate expression of "heavy-petting".

• Suicide bombers are frustrated. Try to understand them before condemning them. Calling them "self-igniting freedom-fighting militants" is a good way to restore the balance of fairness.

• Muslims are sensitive and gentle. Our coarse "non-Islamic"values offend them, particularly our manner of breathing (which is inherently racist) and our use of double ply toilet paper.

• Claiming that a Muslim-American Major in the U.S. army who slaughters thirteen of his fellow soldiers on an American military base is a terrorist, is catering to a racist mind-set. As any good liberal knows, only white skinheads can engage in terrorism. It's George Bush's fault that Major Hassan slowly and methodically snapped.

• Antisemitism in Islam is misunderstood. Jews were always tolerated as beloved donkeys in Islamic countries. Unfortunately, sometimes donkeys have to be beaten and "put down".

• Islam's obsession with denying the Holocaust is a myth. Muslims revere the Holocaust and would like to contribute to another one in the future.

• Female genital mutilation is a clever way of protecting woman from themselves. When you look at it that way, you'd be crazy not to mutilate them.

Ketzaleh: "Bring In The Thai Workers!" (audio)

Two "lady-boys" from Bangkok, catching some sun in Eilat.

While not a supporter of "Ketzaleh" (Yaakov Katz) or Ichud Leumi for that matter, I acknowledge that the MK has done a lot of good things for the Jewish people throughout his life. His contributions alone during the Yom Kippur War, when he was seriously wounded and nearly died, makes him a genuine hero. Nevertheless, as a G-d fearing Jew, the MK needs to be called out like the rest of them when he takes a position that is contrary to the Torah. These are my reflections on Ketzaleh's recent call for the government to grant more visas to Thai workers.

Memo to the MK: Avodah Ivrit!

Jewish Police? More Like Capos!

Police Fined a Total of $315 for Brutal Beating of 15-Year-Old

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Arutz Sheva)

(IsraelNN.com) A police disciplinary court ruled that two policemen were guilty of brutally beating a 15-year-old teenager from Samaria (Shomron) because he did not show an identification card, which he legally cannot obtain [sic] he is age 16. The policemen were fined 1,200 shekels ($315) and found guilty of unnecessary violence, but no criminal charges were filed.

The youth, Yaakov H., from the northern Samaria community of Kfar Tapuach, was standing at a hitchhiking station in 2005 when a passing police vehicle stopped and asked him for his identification card. The incident took place during the period that the government ordered authorities to clamp down on protestors against the plan to expel thousands of Jews from their homes in the Gaza region and parts of northern Samaria. More Israel news....

Jewish Fist Commentary: What an outrage. A measly 315 dollars? How the hell are these thugs not in prison? If the victim had been an Arab, or a leftist on his way to a "Peace Now" march, these policeman would be rotting in jail. But it's a different ballgame when it comes to Jews with kipot, particularly those waiting for rides on the side of the road in Judea and Samaria. Perhaps this young man has peyot (side-locks). This would have surely caused these savages to react with nausea and disgust and the urge to beat this poor fellow to a pulp.

The twisted morality of Sodom and Gomorrah remains the law of the land, a grotesque parody of justice perpetuated by the Leftist courts who have one law for leftists and Arabs, and another one for religious Jews. Anyone who maintains otherwise is either lying or he/she is a fool. The court ruled that the officers used "excessive violence", although there were no criminal charges. What the hell does that mean? Why did they have to use any force? There's no record of the boy resisting arrest. These two savages dragged him into the car like the gestapo and viciously beat him. This isn't an isolated incident, merely the latest, in a long and dark chapter of travesties of justice. The police are out of control. Thoroughly corrupt and inept like Tammany Hall. No moral society (Jewish or otherwise) allows sadists and sociopaths to wear a badge. And when the system fails, despite a thorough vetting of candidates, and a rogue officer exposes himself, the officer should be punished to the full extent of the law.

The problem is that this is the demographic the police force seems to be recruiting. I imagine the brochure goes something like this:

• Do you want to carry a gun and obtain a feeling of power you can only imagine in your wildest dreams?

• Do you want to play baseball with a baton using the heads of religious Jews for batting practice, and get away with it?

• Do you want to benefit from lucrative bribes from Bedouin businessman, who only ask that you look the other way as they smuggle guns and girls across the border?

• Are you emotionally unstable? Lazy? An alcoholic? Are you an idiot? Do you beat your wife and/or children?

If you answered yes to any of the above, chances are you'd be a great asset to our police force.

I'm sure there are a handful of decent folk on the force. I've just never met them. I apologize in advance for those who may exist, but who are obviously unwilling and/or unable to change the system. They probably eat themselves up each day, as they see what is going on around them. I'm not talking about them. I'm talking about the prototypical Israeli police officer you're likely to meet, if Heaven forbid , you should require the assistance of the Israeli police.

It also doesn't help that there are untold numbers of goyim on the force, to further erode any trace of morality that may still exist. Jew-haters who slipped through the cracks of the porous "Law of Return", and ironically, now have the unique opportunity to do to Jews on their own soil what his grandfather may have done to them in Russia.

If there were any justice, the court would have assigned someone to break every bone in these officers' bodies. Then they would be thrown into prison where they can sit and ponder about their crime until the next Jubilee year. The inherent corruption of the Israeli justice system and the arm of the law is a stain on the land that Heaven forbid, will contribute to the land vomiting us from the land. Do you still think that there is even a modicum of justice in this insane country? That no man is is above the law? These two sadists with badges just proved otherwise.

The Teital Case: What's Going On?

It appears that Yaakov Teital has become a convenient scapegoat for anything and everything the Shabak feels they can pin on him. Every "unsolved mystery" within the last 10 years is now being attributed to the "Jewish terrorist", as he has come to be known by the Left. (The Leftist media has already convicted him without a trial. If they could, they'd be fitting him for a noose.) Now we hear that the Shabak is trying to blame him for the recent murder of two Israeli policeman in the Jordan Valley, despite the fact that there isn't a shred of evidence tying him to the attack. It smells like a blood-libel.

Something isn't right. You can feel it in the air. Of course, something is always fishy in a country that denies a man a criminal lawyer and extracts "confessions" from him during secret interrogations. Something always seems terribly wrong when you're dealing with the Shabak, who are capable of anything when it comes to persecuting Jews whose ideological positions are diametrically opposed to their own. Listen to stories of Jews who have been harassed by these animals, and you will learn to believe the unbelievable.

Before I can comment on this whole affair and articulate the Jewish position as I see it, (and my comments will naturally differ significantly from the views of the accursed leftists of Ha'aretz or the respectable mamlachtim of Arutz 7), I'd like to know the facts beforehand. The problem is, the Bolsheviks are up to their old games again.

Another Perspective on Yakov Teitel

I've been wanting to write something about Yakov Teitel, after choking for several days on the expected garbage from the leftists and the right-wing frauds, which naturally includes the nauseating breast-beating of the idolatrous mamlachtim. There is so much to write and say about this story, but I think Yekutiel covered all the bases in this excellent piece. This is why I consider this man my mentor. It's an honor to post this on my blog. Am Yisroel Chai!

Another perspective on Yakov Teitel
by Yekutiel Ben Yaakov

After the arrest of American born Jewish “settler” Yaakov Teitel, the usual choir of right wing and nationalist leaders joined the leftist politicians and media commentators as they too began to raise their voices in a contest to see who could condemn Teitel in harsher language. Heaven forbid, the right wing camp should be insinuated in the action of a sole, random member of its political constituency. And the singing continues.

The following excerpt is from a recent article published on the Arutz Sheva website addressing the national ‘debate’ which continues in the headlines days after the news came public on Teitel:

“The arrest of Yaakov Teitel and his apparent confession to a series of ideological murders and attacks has aroused a lively public debate in Israel on the topic of apportioning blame. While most spokesmen in radio interviews, newspaper columns, and the like appear to agree in principle that entire population sectors should not be held responsible for the actions of lone individuals among their number, in practice the nationalist camp finds itself under attack.”

Once again the entire right-wing nationalist establishment cowers in fear and falls into the trap laid by the Israeli left. Does the right need to justify its right to live in Israel and does it need to go on the defensive because Teitel was arrested? What did the man do, after all? He confessed to attacking Arabs in retaliation for attacks against Jews. The fact that the Israeli media has turned Teitel into the most heinous terrorist since Brauch Goldstein and Yigal Amir does not mean we have to join the circus.

Let’s review how the left deals with their “terrorists”. Yitzhak Rabin openly confessed to partaking in the ideological murder of 16 Jews in commanding the attack of Menachem Begin’s Altalena – an overt attempt (and politically motivated, at that) to murder Begin and prevent the ship from reaching the Tel Aviv shoreline in 1948. He and his political bosses (Ben Gurion, et al.) undertook the action so that Begin’s Irgun wouldn’t pose a political threat to the Ben Gurion’s socialist Mapai party after the war.

The left also boasted unapologetically of its hunting “season” against young Irgun members. Former Prime Minister, now vegetable, Ariel Sharon also participated in attacks against right wing youth in his Haganah days.

The left also openly threatened to murder Rabbi Kahane should he ever achieve a position of power in Israel, and, indeed, physically assaulted him when he spoke in such leftist strongholds as Givatayim, where they bused in hundreds of kibbutznikim to do their dirty work. It was on Nov. 5, 1990 almost 19 years to the day when Rabbi Meir Kahane was assassinated. While it was the bullet of an Arab assassin that murdered the Rabbi, everyone knows the role Israeli leaders played in abandoning and cheapening his blood. A role that the Israeli left wears as a badge of honor to this day.

Yet we never saw the left pleading with the public not to judge them for the violent and homicidal crimes of the ideological extremists in their midst – including those who would later become prime ministers of Israel, or mayors of cities like Jerusalem, in the case of Teddy Kolleck, the man who led one of the Haganah’s most important departments in ‘the Season’, who ordered his charges to “beat and hand over Irgun operatives to the British police.”

Let’s put Teitel into perspective. He’s a lone Jew who, if he is guilty of the crimes he’s accused of, took arms to fight back against Arab terror – a terror, we hasten to add, that was aided and abetted by the Israeli left and successive Israeli governments, who actually gave thousands of assault rifle to PLO police who in many recorded incidents turned those weapons on Jewish men women and children in terrorist attacks. Teitel’s brother-in-law was a victim of one such recent terror attack. Occasionally, a Jew, fed up with the restraint policy of those governments and of the right wing establishment will stand up and fight back in the spirit of national heroes such as Shlomo Ben Yosef and David Raziel, who also carried out random attacks against the Arab population of pre-state Israel in retaliation for the ongoing terrorist attacks against Jews. Today, there are streets, kibbutzim and highways named after the Jewish heroes of those pre-state undergrounds. For Teitel there is a jail cell today, and on the outside, a choir of left and right wing moral crusaders who have nothing but words of condemnation, hatred and fear.

Me, I have no words of condemnation for Teitel. I condemn only the leaders of Israel, right wing, nationalist leaders included, who have brought about the murder of Jews and who ultimately bear full responsibility for Jews like Teitel taking the law into their own hands to defend themselves, their families and their communities. If the government and the right wing establishment would simply do what they are obligated to do, there would be no Teitels in jail.

If I were a Yesha official, my press release would sound a lot different from what’s been passing through the media these last few days. It would go something like this:

Teitel is innocent until proven otherwise. However, should he be found guilty of the acts alleged against him, he is still not the true or primary culprit. The government of Israel is the party to blame for arming Arab terrorists and permitting them to remain in Israel to murder innocent Jews. Until that same government is prepared to do its job, to safeguard unconditionally the Jewish citizens of this country, there may be many more Teitels rising up to take the law into their own hands. I am not condoning Jews taking the law into their own hands, however, in view of the one-sided anarchy that already exists, it is hard to join the choir that finds only words of condemnation for Teitel.

Short and simple.

Rabin's True Legacy (audio)

Dissecting the mythology that surrounds Yitzchak Rabin.