The secret is out: the Civilised World aka United Nations proclaims to all and sundry that the bully in the playing field is the eternal cause of all bad things that happened since the start of civilisation, when the Creator came down from above and handed Moses tow tablets.
With these two tablets, another item - albeit intangible - came along, as the Gemorro tells us: "Why oh why is the mountain Choreb nicknamed Sinai? Because thereon an everlasting hatred (lit. "Sinah" in Hebrew) descend, pitting all nations against the chosen nation.
However, we Jews are in no small part to blame for fuelling the hatred. By sitting back and folding our arms saying "we are in the right and nobody in the world will be ordering us around" is not going to explain to the man on the street what we suffered up until this day, what we are going through now and most importantly, what the Arabs had in store for us on our upcoming Day of Judgement (Rosh HaShana 5775).
As a small example, take the fact that the only ones using the Hebrew word for Gaza "עזה" as a meta tag - are the Arabs. See for yourself: go to Google, click on News and then click on Search Tools, followed by the setting "Past Hour" in the second Search Tool option and "Sorted by date" in the third. All you will see is the Palestinian authored websites, in the English language.
Boy boy, is this a boycott?
This is the TxT message that was making the rounds in London this week (W4 of July 2014), which has now been adjusted to cater for the refutations by the companies mentioned in (brackets):
"Do not buy in Fress'n'Fruity,Waitrose, (Sainsbury's and Tesco)! Waitrose (and Tesco) took all their Kosher products off their shelves to boycott Israel. (Sainsbury's send some of their profits to Gaza!) So the least we could do now is NOT to buy in these shops! Please forward to as many people as you can. Don't support our enemies!"
Here are some links to help with Hasbarah:
The good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2BLHtDYhcY
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
imagination.
Almost 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 Savion.
Every 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 coming.
They'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 possible.
Of 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 joy.
The 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 area.
Soroka 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 wounded.
It 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 Ma'ariv 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 stuff.
We'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:
The funny:
The ugly:
Israel needs to destroy Hamas’ ability to terrorize This is from Korea, a country in the far east
WASHINGTON ― Though Israel should never carelessly ignore U.S. pressure, it nevertheless must resist current U.S. efforts to impose a cease-fire on the Israel-Hamas conflict while Israel remains besieged by rockets and tunnels.
To be sure, the United States has provided Israel with vital military, economic and diplomatic support since its founding after World War II and, without bedrock U.S. support, Israel could become dangerously isolated.
This time, however, Jerusalem must accept the growing friction in U.S.-Israeli relations of recent weeks, ignore Washington’s pressure to cease military operations and finish the job for three basic reasons.
First, Israel knows best how to protect itself from the dangers emanating from a terrorist entity on its border that no other nation would tolerate ― nor, frankly, be pressured by Washington to tolerate.
Hamas, which calls for murdering Jews and destroying Israel, has launched thousands of rockets across the Jewish state not just in recent weeks but for years, and its surprisingly sophisticated network of tunnels that Israel was fortunate to discover as part of Operation Protective Edge was designed to enable its operatives to cross the border to kill or capture scores, if not hundreds, of Israelis.
In fact, Israel learned from captured Hamas fighters during its current operation that Hamas planned a massive terror operation during the Jewish High Holidays in late September, with hundreds of fighters crossing into Israel at night and quickly positioning themselves to kill or capture as many Israeli civilians as possible.
No country can live under constant attack from the air or the threat of infiltration from numerous openings in the ground, and it is Israel, not the United States, that suffers directly when Hamas hits its targets.
Second, Hamas ― not Israel ― can bring peace immediately by halting its attacks, dismantling its rockets and filling its tunnels. As Israeli Ambassador Ron Prosor put it aptly, “When it is quiet in Israel, it will be quiet in Gaza.”
After all, Hamas is the aggressor, Israeli the responder. Hamas seeks to kill as many innocent Israelis as possible and, by hiding in schools, mosques and hospitals, force Israel to kill as many innocent Gazans as possible.
Even while battling a genocidal group under such circumstances, Israel seeks to limit death and destruction by warning Gazans of coming attacks, treating Gazans who are caught in the crossfire at Israeli hospitals and restoring power to Gaza after Hamas hits power lines.
Thus, in its efforts to end the current Israeli-Hamas conflict and promote long-term Israeli-Palestinian peace, the United States would be well-advised to shift its public pressure from Israel to Hamas.
Third, Jerusalem has legitimate concerns about whether Washington understands the essence of this conflict, the nature of its combatants, and the best way forward for Israel in its turbulent neighborhood.
Although the United States is Israel’s most important ally, only Jerusalem can decide how to protect its people from relentless terrorist attack in a global environment that unfairly targets the Jewish state and excuses its enemies.
By Lawrence J. Haas, A former communications director for Vice President Al Gore, Lawrence J. Haas is a senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council. ― Ed. (McClatchy-Tribune News Service) (MCT Information Services)
ע”פ פסק הרבנות הצבאית כשמוצאים מחבל יוצא ממנהרה
צריך לברך המוציא לוחם מן הארץ
ר' חיים נשאל: הרי החזון איש הבטיח שבבני ברק לא יפלו פצצות? ענה: הרסיסים לא היו בגודל של שיעור חזון איש.
הכריזו הפסקת אש, באנגלית Cease Fire אלא שהפקיד באו"ם מוצאו מליטא, אז אמר שיס פייער.
