Friday, February 17

Some links to help with Hasbarah

The good:
http://www.rotten-core.com/hamas-uses-gazan-civilians-human-shields-july-2014/
http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/07/23/watch-the-iaf-destroys-gaza-hospital-after-determining-no-patients-were-inside/

From EdgwareK
General Publicity: News from soldiers in Israel
Anonymous Poster 24/July/14 05:43 PM
From Muquata
12:15pm From a Solider at the Front
Original in Hebrew....translated into English with a few comments from me. Having been down there a few times, I can personally vouch for the accuracy of this letter. On a personal note, before going down South last night for a pizza delivery to IDF soldiers, my daughter gave me a stack of letters and pictures from children in our community to distribute to the delivery. After giving the soldiers 60 pies, I said, "Wait, I have to give you the letters from the kids..." A soldier stopped everything and said -- "THOSE are the most important...much more than the pizza...and hugged a pile of letters that I gave him."Am Yisroel Chai!A soldier on the border writes:
What's happening here in the staging area [area where soldiers prepare to enter Gaza] is beyond comprehension, not rationally, not emotionally and beggars the imaginationAlmost every hour a car shows up overflowing with food, snacks, cold drinks, socks, underwear, undershirts, hygiene supplies, wipes, cigarettes, backgammon and more. They're coming from the North and the Centre, from manufacturers, from companies and private businesses, from prisons, Charedim and Settlers, from Tel Aviv and even SavionEvery intersection on the way down here we get stopped, not by the police, but by residents giving out food. What is amazing is that the entire situation wasn't organized and everyone is coming on their own without coordination between the folks comingThey're writing letters and blessings, how they're thinking of us all the time. There are those who spent hours making sandwiches, so they're as perfect and comforting as possibleOf course representatives of Chabad are here to help soldiers put on Tefillin and distributing Cha'Ta'Ts (Chumash, Tehillim, Tanya) for every troop transport and Breslov are showing up to the border and dancing with the soldiers with great joyThe Charedim are coming from their yeshivas to ask the names of the soldiers with their mothers' names so that the whole yeshiva can pray for them. It should be mentioned that all of this is done under the threat of the terrorist tunnels and rockets in the areaSoroka Hospital (in Be'er Sheva) today looks like a 5 star hotel. A wounded friend who was recently discharged told us how the MasterChef truck is parked outside and is preparing food for the woundedIt goes without saying the amount of prayer services that are going on. On the religious front as well, there are lectures and Torah classes, all the food is obviously Kosher. Shacharis, Mincha, and Makarov with Sifrei Torah. They're giving out tzitzit and Tehillim by the hundreds. It's become the new fashion! The Rabbi of Maglan [Special Forces unit] told me that almost the entire unit has started wearing them, because the Army Rabbinate has been giving out tzitzit that wick away sweat. They're gaining both a Mitzvah and a high quality undershirt. We've started calling them "Shachpatzitzit" (a portmanteau of the Hebrew term for body armour and tzitzit). We're having deep conversations late into the night without arguments, without fights and we find ourselves agreeing on most stuffWe're making lots of jokes at Hamas's expense and without politics. There's lots more to add but my battery is running low and the staff has been requesting someone give a class on Likutei MoharaN (Breslov(

How happy is the nation that is like this!
The bad:
Sourcehttp://english.alarabiya.net/en/media/print/2014/07/20/NYT-torn-between-accusations-on-Israeli-and-Palestinian-sides.html

The funny:
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/media/television-and-radio/2014/07/10/ABC-News-mistakes-bombed-Gaza-for-Israel-in-report.html
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2014/07/22/Veil-your-mannequins-ISIS-tells-Iraqi-shopkeepers.html
http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/07/24/one-of-our-amazing-fans-sent-us-a-pic-of-his-new-flag-a-british-loyalist-who-is-also-a-die-hard-supporter-of-israe/
http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/07/24/shocking-hamas-member-admits-there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-palestinian-people/

The ugly:
http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/07/24/frances-jews-flee-as-rioters-burn-paris-shops-attack-synagogue/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Barnabas
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/opinion/roger-cohen-zionism-and-israels-war-with-hamas-in-gaza.html?_r=0


First published on 21 August 2015, on Jewish P.O.S.T. - the Jewish Voice for the People Of South Tottenham (now defunct).

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