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סיפורו האישי-לאומי של ראש הממשלה בנימין נתניהו Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s personal-national story

14February2015 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/191334#.VOlt3mP1G1E

“Many people around the world ask me, ‘how does such a young country, such a small country, who is attacked by enemies at every turn – how does such a country reach such great achievements?” Netanyahu begins.

Netanyahu then related to a personal story, about his grandfather, Natan Netanyahu Mileikowsky.

“He stood at a train station in the heart of Europe at the end of the 19th century, along with his younger brother Yehuda – two yeshiva [Torah academy – ed.] students,” he recounted. “Suddenly, they saw many anti-Semitic thugs waving batons, screaming, ‘Death to Jews.”

“My grandfather turned to his brother and told him, ‘Run, Yehuda, run!'” he continued. “He tried to chase after the thugs to save his brother. They beat him until he lost consciousness.”

“They left him to die.”

“Before he lost consciousness, lying in his own blood, he thought to himself: ‘What a shame. The descendants of the Maccabees are lying here in mud, unable to defend themselves,” he continued. “He promised himself that if he would survive the night, he would bring his family to the Land of Israel and help build a new future for the Jewish people in Israel.”

Netanyahu then brought the scene back to the present-day.

“I am sitting here now as the Prime Minister of Israel because my grandfather kept his promise,” he said. “Here in the Land of Israel we have returned to what the Jewish nation did not have for thousands of years: security.”

“Security to stand up for ourselves and secure ourselves under our own sovereignty, to protect ourselves with our own power – security not just to survive, but to alloy one of the most advanced countries in the world,” he continued.

“We are a nation that aspires to peace – our hands are extended in peace to all who choose to grasp them,” he added.

“But to our enemies, I say: there is no baton, there is no rocket, there is nothing that can defeat us – because we are united in our faith and in our right to our land – the Land of Israel.”

“The coming into being of a Jewish state in Palestine is an event in world history to be viewed in the perspective, not of a generation or a century, but in the perspective of a thousand, two thousand, or even three thousand years.”
(Winston Churchill)

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Examples of Israel taking action to rescue and protect Jews:

#OnThisDay 40 yrs ago, the IDF rescued 102 hostages in the historic Operation Entebbe rescue mission. pic.twitter.com/w8ijwY82Jv

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) July 4, 2016

IDF-tweet-4July2016-Entebbe-Rescue 40 yrs ago, the IDF rescued 102 hostages in the historic Operation Entebbe rescue mission

Hamas terror organization is planning more violent riots tomorrow. For many Israeli families the Gaza Strip is a short walk from their backyard. IDF soldiers don’t just protect a border but what lies behind it – our families, our homes, and our children. WATCH pic.twitter.com/9Zuh4V8HQa

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) April 12, 2018

IDF-tweet-12April2018 Hamas terror organization is planning more violent riots tomorrow. For many Israeli families the Gaza Strip is a short walk from their backyard. IDF soldiers don’t just protect a border but what lies behind it – our families, our homes, and our children. WATCH

Hamas terror organization more violent riots on Gaza Border.

Since we did not have a strong Jewish state during the Holocaust, where Jews could come home for protection and to fulfill their destiny to serve HaShem:

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Some people are still torn as a result of what they had to cope with, Rabbi Krieger says. Auschwitz (Photo: EPA)

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When do we leave?

Lori Palatnik of the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project thinks it is time for Jews to send their kids to live in Israel.

You have seen the news of anti semitic attacks in Europe, Canada, the US and Australia.

It’s time to pack up and come home before you are a statistic.

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2. Using Symbols and Images Associated with Historical Anti-Semitism
3. Comparing Jews to Nazis
4. Accusing Jews and Israel of Inventing or Exaggerating the Holocaust
5. Demonizing Israel
6. Delegitimizing Israel
7. Holding Israel to a Double Standard
8. Promoting Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Against Israel
9. Condoning Terrorism Against Jews, Supporting Terrorist Organizations
10. Targeting Jewish Students for Discrimination, Harassment, or Intimidation

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Grand Rabbi – Rabbi Chaim Elazar Wassertheil – the Riminover Rebbe

From Rabbi Lazer Brody 29March2015 http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/lazer_beams/2015/03/brothers-and-sisters-come-home.html

Brothers and Sisters, Come Home!

For the last seven years, my beloved teacher Rabbi Shalom Arush and I have been pleading with Jews around the world to make Aliya and come home to the Land of Israel. Many of our brothers and sisters, especially in the USA, have been looking at us as if we’re from another planet. Does this remind you of the attitude of European Jews before the Holocaust?

We’re no longer the lone voice. A holy tzaddik in Brooklyn, Grand Rabbi Rabbi Chaim Elazar Wassertheil – the Riminover Rebbe (image, above) – is now calling for all of America’s Jews to leave and go to Israel. He warns of civil war in the USA.
Pesach is coming, and it’s time to leave Egypt. We await you here in the holy Land of Emuna.

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The Mitzvah to Live in Eretz Yisrael

One should always live in the Land of Israel, even in a city where the majority are idol worshippers, and not in chutz la Aretz, even in a city where the majority are Jews. (Kesubos 110); also included in the Rambam (Hilchos Melachim Chapter 5)

Said the Holy One Blessed be He: A small group in the Land of Israel is dearer to Me than a full Sanhedrin outside the Land. (Yerushalmi, Sanhedrin 86)

There are ten measures of Torah in the world. Nine are in Eretz Israel. and one in the rest of the world. (Esther Rabba)

Better is a dry piece of bread with tranquility in it than a house full of quarrelsome feasts (Mishle 17:1): Better is a dry piece of bread with tranquility in it: R. Yochanan said, “This refers to Eretz Israel, for even if a person eats (dry) bread and salt every day while dwelling in Eretz Israel, he is assured a portion in the World to Come…Than a house full of quarrelsome feasts: This refers to Chutz LaAretz, which is full of violence and robbery.” (Yalkut Shimoni 2:956)

Settling Eretz Israel is a Mitzvah that encompasses all the Torah, for all those who walk in it four Amot have a portion in the World to Come which is all life. (Or ha Chayim ha Kaddosh Devarim 30:20)

“It is preferable to dwell in the deserts of Eretz Israel than the palaces of Chutz LaAretz” (Bereshit Rabba 39:8).

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According to Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg zt”l, (Dean of Ner Yisrael Yeshiva), the message we are to learn from this is that even though “my body and clothes are mine no matter where I live, my house is not truly mine – unless it is in the Land of Israel.” A Jew must see himself as a vagabond and wanderer all over the face of the globe, except in the land of Israel. This is where we belong – the only place we can truly call Home.

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Reports in Israel on Friday indicated that the Jewish Agency received hundreds of calls from French Jews seeking to make aliya (immigrate) to Israel.

French Jews arriving at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel, November 2, 2016. (JTA/IFCJ)

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Biden Reveals American Jews Can Only Rely on Israel, Not US

By Ari Yashar, Tova Dvorin 3/30/2015 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/193387#.VRk3mc37tC0

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An incredible admission by US Vice President Joe Biden has been revealed, in which he told Jewish leaders that should the American Jewish community be in danger, it has only Israel to rely on – and not America.

Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg reveals in the April issue of The Atlantic how at a [official] Rosh Hashana event in Biden’s home last fall, the vice president told Jewish leaders and Jewish officials in US President Barack Obama’s administration how he met former Prime Minister Golda Meir when he was a young Senator.

“I’ll never forget talking to her in her office with her assistant – a guy named (Yitzhak) Rabin – about the Six-Day War,” he recalled. “The end of the meeting, we get up and walk out, the doors are open, and…the press is taking photos. …She looked straight ahead and said, ‘Senator, don’t look so sad…Don’t worry. We Jews have a secret weapon.'”

Biden states he asked Meir what the weapon was, noting “I thought she was going to tell me something about a nuclear program” – an ironic comment given the US’s recent declassification of documents revealing Israel’s nuclear program in a breach of understandings with the Jewish state.

But according to Biden, “she looked straight ahead and she said, ‘We have no place else to go.'” Addressing his guests at Rosh Hashana, Biden paused for effect and repeated, “we have no place else to go.”

“Folks, there is no place else to go, and you understand that in your bones,” Biden said. “You understand in your bones that no matter how hospitable, no matter how consequential, no matter how engaged, no matter how deeply involved you are in the United States…there’s only one guarantee.”

“There is really only one absolute guarantee, and that’s the state of Israel,” he stated.

Responding to the statement, Corey Robin of Salon wrote how disturbing the statement is, given that it consists of “a sitting vice president telling a portion of the American citizenry that they cannot count on the United States government as the ultimate guarantor of their freedom and safety.”

“The occupant of the second-highest office in the land believes that American Jews should look to a foreign government as the foundation of their rights and security,” she added. “A country that once offered itself as a haven to persecuted Jews across the world now tells its Jews that in the event of some terrible outbreak of anti-Semitism they should…what? Plan on boarding the next plane to Tel Aviv?”

Brothers and sisters, it’s time to contact Nefesh B’Nefesh. Don’t waste any time, for this is the time to leave your Egypt and start a new life in the Land of Emuna.

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Could Hashem be talking to us through the American Vice President? This message was given to the leaders of the American Jewish Community on ROSH HASHANA. It was made public for everybody to hear on 10 Nissan — the anniversary of the day we entered the Land of Israel.

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Wesley Clark advocates interning “disloyal” Americans in camps proposed during the notorious Nine Days

20July2015 http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-20/general-wesley-clark-suggests-putting-disloyal-americans-internment-camps

Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp established in March 1933 and located about 10 miles northwest of Munich, didn’t start out as a camp for Jews; it started out as an internment camp for “disloyal” individuals, or what Heinrich Himmler called “political prisoners.”

Those early “disloyal” prisoners, according to historian Lucy Dawidowicz, were “social Democrats, Communists, members of other opposition parties, journalists and writers (especially Jews), and various other ‘unpopular’ categories.” It wasn’t until after Kristallnacht in November 1938 that Jews started to get rounded up and sent to Dachau and other camps in Germany because eventually there was no other group in Germany’s eyes more “disloyal” than the Jews.

But could this really happen again today? Could there one day be internment camps for Jews on American soil?

As US Army General Wesley Clark(Ret.) advocates interning “disloyal” Americans in camps, US Army Regulation 210-35 reveals there are already American civilian prison and labor camps on US Army installations. This regulation states that these camps are “currently limited to” inmates from US prisons, but there are “a few exceptions” that could easily include Americans deemed disloyal for political reasons. Couple this with the historical pattern of host countries eventually turning against the Jews no matter how successful, influential, productive and economically beneficial the Jews may have been. After decades and even centuries of relative peace and prosperity, every Golden Age of Jewish life ended in ruins. And with today’s skyrocketing anti-Semitism and a current administration perpetually angry at the Jewish State of Israel, it wouldn’t take much to suspend one’s disbelief that an economic catastrophe (which many economists predict) or a national emergency could be the spark to ignite the dark side of Jewish history on American soil.

To make matters possibly worse is Article 10 in the 159-page Iran nuclear deal. According to Israel National News, Article 10 (which was buried toward the end of the agreement), says the US and the other P5+1 powers will help Iran through “training and workshops to strengthen Iran’s ability to protect against, and respond to, nuclear security threats, including sabotage, as well as to enable effective and sustainable nuclear security and physical protection systems.”

Translation: The US becomes allies with Iran in the event of an attack on an Iranian nuclear facility. When asked if the USA would defend Iran during an attack by Israel, John Kerry replied, “Yes, but that would never happen!” If and when it does happen, Jews who send money to Israel could be accused of “aiding a terrorist state/enemy”, and interned under the Homeland Security Act.

Alarmingly, this would potentially place the US on the same side as Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who recently outlined his strategy to annihilate the Jews and Israel in a new book called “Palestine”. If this were to happen, Wesley Clark’s “disloyal” could take on a frightening new dimension for Jews in America.

Perhaps just as significant as what Clark said during his MSNBC interview was when he said it. His proposal to place “disloyal” Americans in camps occurred during the notorious Nine Days, the Jewish calendar’s most mournful period culminating with Tisha B’Av — the day when both Temples in Jerusalem were destroyed, when Spain expelled its large Jewish population in 1492, when World War I began (which led to World War II and the Holocaust) and when countless other tragedies occurred.

That Wesley Clark’s chilling proposal occurred during the Nine Days makes it pretty obvious this wake-up call is from Hashem. Knowing this and believing that Hashem is doing everything for our absolute best, that the only future we have is in the Land of Israel and that Mashiach is just around the corner is the emuna we need to help us be the ones to make it through.

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Tisha B’Av and the threat of a new Holocaust

24July2015 Elder of Ziyon http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.il/2015/07/tisha-bav-and-threat-of-new-holocaust.html#.VbPTULb7tTA
On Sunday we will mark Tisha B’Av (pushed off a day so as not to be on Shabbat.) It is the saddest day of the Jewish calendar, one that marks several tragedies that happened on that day. mostly the destruction of the Temples.

Usually I write a historical post on Tisha B’Av.

But this year it is hard to concentrate on anything but the danger of nuclear weapons being built for the purpose of destroying Israel.

The genocidal words from Iranian leaders indicate that destroying Israel is their top priority – not the economy, not the war in Iraq, but destroying Israel. They have dedicated an annual holiday just to call for Israel’s destruction. They have ensured that even during sanctions, their payments to Hezbollah remain sacred.

But Israel has a much larger problem.

The US allowed this situation to happen. It was not just naivete in negotiating skills, although that played a part. If the White House truly wanted to minimize the possibility of Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon, it would not have given up concessions the way it did. It would not have communicated its message that the military option is impossible. It would not have publicly defended Iran’s cheating on its existing promises.

No, the Obama administration has made a conscious decision that a nation that encourages chants of “Death to America” is a better strategic partner than Israel (and the Gulf states.)

That goal of a long-term alliance with a crazed Islamic theocracy was more important than the goal of erasing nuclear weapons capability. Demands from Iran during the negotiations were not treated with derision but with the respect of a would-be suitor. “Well, of course Iran cannot be expected to cave on demand X, Y and Z – it would not be fair!”

The situation is mind boggling. And now we are in a lose-lose situation, where the options have dwindled down to a nearly meaningless choice. Because President Obama chose the priorities, and those priorities do not include Israel.

Taking a long-term view, this is the direction that the US is going anyway. College students are being poisoned against Israel and they are the leaders of tomorrow. This blog and many others regularly point out the hypocrisy of the “liberals” who embrace Iran and Hamas but it does not make a dent – logic does not enter the picture. As mainstream media uncritically parrots the lies of the Arabs, we can expect the trend to be less and less sympathy to Israel in the coming decades – and more sympathy for those who want to destroy Israel. The US will act like Europe in the not-too-distant future. Israel will be alone, again.

Perhaps prayer on Tisha B’Av is the most logical response.

America Tomorrow

Howard Morton 17April2013 http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/society/current_affairs/america_tomorrow.aspx?id=24281&language=english

America Tomorrow– What the Kabbalist Foresaw

Shortly before his death in 2010, the Kabbalist Rav Yehuda Zev Leibowitz revealed to his student, Rav Shalom Arush, three historic events he foresaw would happen throughout the world.

Two of them have already materialized — namely, the “Arab Spring” uprisings and the fact that Netanyahu was unable to attack Iran when he wanted to.

The third prediction Rav Yehuda Zev revealed to Rav Shalom Arush has not yet occurred. Hopefully it never will.

That third prediction is especially alarming. When Rav Lazer Brody originally announced Rav Yehuda Zev’s three predictions in a January 2012 “Lazer Beams” posting, Rav Brody chose not to disclose the third prediction.

That was more than a year ago. With economies crumbling, anti-Semitism skyrocketing and North Korea and Iran notching up their nuclear threats, the world is seemingly about to erupt. Literally. So with Rav Brody’s permission, I’m relating here Rav Yehuda Zev Leibowitz’s third prediction — which is no longer a secret.

But before I do, it’s important to first get a brief glimpse of who Rav Yehuda Zev Leibowitz was.

Rav Yehuda Zev was said to be one of the 36 hidden righteous people of the generation. Born in 1921, Rav Yehuda Zev studied in his youth under the famed Rav Yoel Teitelbaum in Satmar and was the only member of his family to survive the horrors of the Holocaust. After immigrating to Israel, he studied with leading Kabbalists and authored works on Kabbalah. Though he concealed his greatness and preserved his anonymity most of his life (his neighbors considered him a simple Jew), the heads of yeshivas knew him as an extraordinary holy and pure man. It was also known he could work wonders.

So what was this holy Kabbalist’s third prediction (the only one that has not yet taken place)?

That the Jews in America would be targeted and attacked.

Call it a holocaust. Call it state-sponsored pogroms with a 21st century, technological twist. Call it whatever you want; it’s one of the most worn-out plots in history: the Jews enjoy a “golden era” in whatever exile-land they happen to be living in and it turns horrifically sour. It’s happened too often before, and it takes a lot of suspension of disbelief that Jewish citizens of the U.S. are somehow immune to it.

Yet the obvious question remains: Would the United States government today actually kill its own citizens?

Shockingly, the answer appears to be yes.

In the beginning of this year, NBC News obtained a 16-page, confidential Justice Department white paper that justifies the killing of American citizens by targeted drone strikes. All without an arrest. All without trial. And all in the name of national security.

The white paper states that if an American poses an “imminent threat of violent attack against the United States,” he or she “does not require the United States to have clear evidence that a specific attack on U.S. persons and interests will take place in the immediate future.”

Not only that, but the white paper reveals that an “informed, high-level official of the U.S. government” can authorize the killing of that American.

Who is this “informed, high-level official”? A senator? A police chief? A Chicago alderman? The white paper doesn’t say. But what it does say is that the only thing this unnamed official has to do to knock off an American citizen is to “determine” that this citizen has “recently” been involved in “activities” threatening an attack on the U.S.

The Justice Department white paper calls this a “lawful killing in self-defense.”

Andrew P. Napolitano, author of seven books on the U.S. Constitution and a former judge of the New Jersey Superior Court, disagrees.

In a recent Fox News article, Napolitano wrote that under the Constitution, the only time the president (not to mention any “high official”) can order a lawful killing is by “using the military when the U.S. has been attacked,” “when an attack is so imminent that delay would cost innocent lives” or by “using the military in pursuit of a declaration of war enacted by Congress.”

What makes the targeted drone-killing of Americans especially dangerous is that it clearly opens the door to genocide. All it takes is for some “high officials” to decide one day that Jews in America pose a threat to the country.

And if the idea of singling out Jews in the 21st century sounds far-fetched, take a look at today’s Hungary. Lawmaker Marton Gyongyosi of Hungary’s third-largest political party, Jobbik, called on the Hungarian government to compile a “list of Jews” he believes “present a national security risk to Hungary.”

This implication that by merely being a Jew poses a security risk sounds like Nazi-era rhetoric. But it was uttered less than five months ago.

And much more recently than that, the Jews of Greece are also finding themselves at increasing risk. A headline from an April 2013 issue of The Times of Israel exclaims: “Greeks Find Cause of All Their Woes: The Jews.” The subhead continues: “As Greece’s economy teeters on the brink, virulent anti-Semitism is making an alarming comeback.”

Could that possibly happen here in the United States?

Many economists warn of a near-future financial collapse in the U.S., and historically Jews are always the first to be blamed. After all, who would be easier to blame for an economic disaster than the Treasury Secretary (Jacob Joseph Lew) and the Federal Reserve chairman (Ben Shalom Bernanke)?

Finally, there’s the concept of emunat chachamim (faith in the sages). If the Kabbalist Rav Yehuda Zev Leibowitz said there will be a catastrophe for the Jews in America (and he was right about his other two predictions), then it doesn’t seem prudent to ignore the warning.

So what should those of us in America do then?

Let me quote Rav Lazer Brody:

“If you don’t plan to make aliya in the near future, do two things:

1. Start praying every day that you and your family will be able to make aliya;

2. Do what you can to spread emuna — that way, you are Hashem’s shaliach (emissary) wherever you are.”