The new deadline

The Palestinians are doing it again.
Jordan on behalf of the Palestinians will put forward a resolution for a Palestinian state on all territory captured by Israel in the six-day war.
There will be a clear timetable for this, November 2016.
This is a mere 23 months away.
Where are all the Jews from Judea Samaria and east Jerusalem to go in 23 months?
There are about 650,000 Jews in those areas, does anyone care?
The truth is that those Jews are not going anywhere and everyone knows it.
It is a game that all are playing a very dangerous game indeed.
In the next 23 months there will be probably another 100,000 Jews in these areas.
Conventional wars have not had the desired effect so diplomatic wars are being tried.
It is difficult to gauge what might happen as this date gets closer.
Some possibilities.
The US will stop funding the Palestinian authority which will result in almost complete collapse.
They may get some Arab backing to shore them up for a bit but history has shown that these pledges are not consistent.
Israel will be ostracized by some of the world and have some economic stress.
This will dissipate as Jews around the world will rally for Israel as in other crisis.
By that time parts of Judea and Samaria will be officially annexed to Israel as Jerusalem was and the Golan Heights.
It's going to get very ugly indeed

It's been fiveyears

Hard to believe that I lost my father five years ago.
The pain is still there and the longing.
My father was a man who beat the odds, who survived where others did not.
His grit and tenacity to overcome was extrordinary
He was determined to take care of his family and provide what it needed.
He did not own many things as to many would have cluttered up his life.
he believed in Jewish destiny and the return of the Jewish people to the land of Israel was a gift from Hashem.
He loved Israeli soldiers and especially Yeshivah students who served in the army.
He loathed those that would hurt Jews and humiliate them.
He was above else a proud Jew with great love for the land and those who risked their lives to defend Jews.
I will forever be inspired for the gifts he gave me.
Its been five years.

Whats in store in the Middle East

Things are not looking to well I must say.
Iranian nuclear talks have become bogged down and are not close to a resolution.
The Iranians know that Obama will not attack at a time where the focus has become the Islamic state.
For Obama the absurdity of fighting two wars with mutual bitter enemies is not lost.
The Islamic state is the best thing to happen to the Iranian nuclear program, it is giving them breathing room.
The Islamic State is also making ground on a few fronts.
Notably near Jordan and near Israels border.
Jordans king is very worried and is more than hinting that American ground troops are needed to stem the tide.
Israel's northern border make come alive soon with the Islamic state taking over area adjacent to Israel in the Golan heights.
Everybody will be trying to kill everybody very soon.
Quite a mess indeed.
If the US decides to send ground troops to defend Jordan and Israel attacks the Islamic state in the Golan the world will be involved actively in a regional war that may turn into a world war.
Things are about to really get ugly.
The worst is yet to come.

Fear on the streets of Jerusalem and elsewhere

It is real.
People are scared and for good reason.
Arabs in all parts of the country have been attacking Jews and killing them.
Its that simple.
The racial profile here is very clear, 100% of the people behind the attacks are Arabs.
A democracy is mostly paralyzed when dealing with problems of this kind.
The mayor of Ashkelon has fired or is trying to fire all Arabs working near kindergartens in his city.
He has been met with extreme criticism and will probably be forced by law to change his mind or face prosecution.
This is not racism rather extreme measures in a very extreme situation.
Those who are against his intended policies would be very nervous to put there own children in dangers way.
They feel democracy is more important than the safety of children.
It is easy to see why a next target might be a kindergarten as these criminals seek to shake Israel up as much as possible.
If Jewish mothers are fearful for their children then some Arabs who truly want nothing to do with terror will suffer.
In war innocents suffer, that's just the way it is.
Very unfortunate.
When there can be a armed guard at every kindergarten who is trained to stop terror attacks then Arabs can work nearby.
Till then small children should not be put in danger

Pure evil

Those who wish to destroy the Jewish people have used many tactics.
The best and simplest one seems to be just finding vulnerable Jews and killing them.
The basic approach.
Though there has been numerous heinous terrorist attacks in the last one hundred years in Israel or then Palestine, the latest one is on a different level it seems.
The cold blooded murder and hacking off of body parts of worshipers seems to defy any basic norm of humanity.
It seems that the Islamic states influence has taken hold of local terrorists.
They entered the synagogue with meat cleavers and were acting out Islamic state practices.
Israel is not doing to much and is limited with what it can do to counter these cowardly acts.
The houses of these criminals will be destroyed but it is unlikely that this will slow down the attacks.
There are things that would help the situation but are complicated because of the democratic nature of Israel.
1. Destroying houses faster than now so there will be a direct cause and effect to actions of this kind.
2. deportation of immediate and not so immediate family of perpetrators of these crimes
3. A new settlement or building expansion for every terrorist attack
4. Stoppage of social security payments to immediate family members of the criminals
5. no returning of bodies for burial to next of kin
6. placement of bodies in pig skin
This problem will not go away and will worsen.
Israel will be forced to take drastic steps to survive.
The worst is yet to come.

Iran the bomb and all the rest

President Obama will soon be faced with a grim choice as Iranian nuclear talks predictibly have bogged down.
Using military force is the last thing he wants to do as he has committed to scaling down the use of the American military everywhere.
If he does not force Irans hand then Israel will be forced to do so.
Even the imminent threat of Israels military action complicates things while Obama attempts to strengthen his coalition against the Islamic state.
What makes matters even more Iran and the Islamic state are mortal enemies.
That would mean weakening Iran strengthens the Islamic state.
Obama understands that both are insane Islamic fundamentalists that would use the bomb on the US Israel and Europe.
While this is going on the Islamic State is still making headway and does not seem to be on the run due to American bombing raids.
The Islamic state wants very much that US troops engage them in the field of battle.
Everyone understands that US POWs would be publicly executed as the Islamic State has done to other Americans and British.
Obama also understands that without ground troops the Islamic State cannot be beaten but loathes as the thought of Americans being executed on Youtube video.
He will have little choice as US troops will need to be on the ground at some point.
He would rather be playing golf.
He may be unsure on what to do.
That is scary

A Jew has been stabbed in Antwerp

A Jew was stabbed in the neck Saturday morning in Belgium in the latest of anti-semitic incidents in Europe.
Jews have been told not to walk around Europe with skull caps or other clear Jewish markings.
There have been thousands of these type of incidents in the last few years and the trend is only increasing.
Its a bit pathetic to see Belgium police protecting a synagogue while Ultra-Orthodox Jews look on.
It is likely that many of these Jews would prefer to move to Israel ( not all ) but are stuck there for different reasons.
To see Jewish blood spilled on European soil once again is difficult to deal with.
The generation of holocaust survivors cringe at the thought of cowardly acts of this kind.
There really is only one solution to this problem and that is these Jews and others must come home.
They must make plans to move to Israel.
There is no other way.
May we merit to see those Belgium Jews coming back here.

They keep on trying

Since the first wave of Aliya to then Palestine the local Arabs and others have been trying every way to stop the return of Jews to their ancestral homeland.
This has taken many forms but the usual way was to try to just plain kill Jews.
The most famous of these pogroms happened in the city of Hebron in 1929 where 67 Jews were killed and many more wounded.
Interestingly enough the motive believed to be behind this violence was the rumor that the Jews were about to attack the Al- Aksa mosque.
Sound familiar?
Then there was little protection then as even the first Jewish militias were in their infancy.
After those failed attempts to scare Jews from arriving full out wars ensued.
!948 war of independence
1956 Sinai campaign
1967 Six day war
!973 Yom Kippur war
1982 Peace for Galilee war
2006 Lebanon war
2008 Gaza war
2014 Gaza war
There have been countless intifadas or armed insurrections.
It looks like we are in the midst of new insurrection.
There is nothing really new about what is going on now. The Jews are the Jews and the Arabs are Arabs and the sea is the same sea. Those who fear that the Arabs want to push the Jews into the sea are not paranoid.
This is the brutal reality.
It will only get worse.
What should be done?
There needs to be emergency measures taken immediately.
Any man woman or child who breaks the law by throwing a rock or worse needs to be deported with entire family .
This needs to be done swiftly after incident occurs.
Homes of terrorists need to be destroyed in greater numbers.
Massive building projects need to be implemented to increase the Jewish presence in Jerusalem. The temple mount needs to be closed until the queit returns. There has to be a system created for Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount. The more things change the more they stay the same.
The world looks to see how we handle this.
The violence of Islam is threatening the world.
It is time to deal with it head on.

Terror War

Call it intifada or terror war it does not matter.
Israel is now in a war on its citizens everywhere.
It does not matter where you are whether Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv or Judea and Samaria.
Being Jewish is reason enough to be targeted and killed.
There are those that blame Israel for not adhering to human rights in Israel and Judea and Samaria.
Some of these allegations have substance but no one asks why adherence endangers lives.
The only reason there are inconsistencies in this area is because of security concerns.
Life or death concerns.
Entire families of terrorists should be expelled, extreme measures are needed.
Alas a democratic free country has much difficulty dealing with terror.
This powder keg is ready to explode.

Here we go again

If it sounds like an intifada and it looks like a intifada and even smells like a intifada ( burning tires and molotov cocktails) then it must be a intifada!
Everyone is asking is this a new insurrection of the Arabs in greater Israel and Judea Samaria?
The truth is that we have been in a insurrection for about 100 years now with short intervals of some quiet.
So it basically meaningless how we define the present situation.
Many Arabs involved in these riots have not internalized that Israel is here to stay.
They believe that Israel is a passing fad that will disappear shortly to make way for the great state of Palestine.
This is what they are taught and what they hear.
It is just a matter of time before the spoiled Israelis will get tired of all the craziness here and just move to Berlin
Some have actually done so in fact!
They do understand that there still is a core ideological base of Jews who live here but think that is not enough to deal with the challenges that face Israel.
They are clearly right in the sense that many are tired of the constant trouble and would leave if they could.
But they are wrong in their conclusions.
There still is enough Jews here who will fight and sacrifice all to be part of the prophesy of the return of the Jewish people to the land of Israel.
Yes it is true that Israelis are moving to Berlin but many more Jews are making Aliyah and moving to Judea and Samaria.
We have come to stay and no power in the world can change that.
It cannot happen.

It happened again

Three Israeli soldiers were injured, one seriously in a terrorist hit and run attack yesterday near the Eztion bloc Judea, Israel.
Those who wish to see us leave the land of Israel have found a new method to injure kill and leave the scene of the crime quickly.
This hit and run terror is working and has turned Jerusalem into a war zone.
Extreme measures need to be taken that include roadblocks at the entrance to Arab neighborhoods and checking every single car that leaves a Arab area.
The immediate closure of the temple mount to all visitors until a proper system is devised to guarantee Jewish prayer.
There needs to built a structure that will house a "minyan" or quarom of Jews praying three times a day .
This of course needs to be done in accordance with Jewish law, but needs to be done.
Three times a day there should be at least ten Jews praying as representatives of the entire Jewish people.
The wailing wall is the wall of the temple and the temple mount is one step above in its holiness and significance.
The Arab world will not calm down whether Jews pray on the temple mount or not.
For Israel not to allow prayer on the Temple mount is terrorist extortion that no one should accept.
The worst is yet to come...

War in the streets of Jerusalem

Another terrorist attack has occurred in Jerusalem.
A van has deliberately run over pedestrians killing one and seriously injuring others
The new weapon of the terrorists is the moving automobile and it seems there is little to be done to thwart this type of attack.
The head of internal security has said that terror acts of this kind are impossible to stop.
Well that is terrific!
If he feels this way then he should resign and let someone else can try to address the problem.
This new war is on the streets of Jerusalem and aimed at anyone Jewish who lives there.
While Israel is being accused of disproportional use of force in the last war the world is witnessing Jewish blood being spilled.
The leaders of the PLO and Hamas have been fanning the flames of this latest war with statements supporting the "heroism" of these murderers.
The outside world should understand that all the terrorist tactics always started here in Israel and then when successful were exported to the rest of the world.
May the g-d of Israel avenge the blood of those who were killed in the sanctification of his name and may we see very soon the in gathering of the Jewish people to Jerusalem.

Obama in trouble

American voters have had it.
The lower income section of voters have called Obamas bluff.
Incredibly enough those opposed to Obamas reelection have done well in the past 2 years.
The stock market has soared making the rich even richer.
This has come because of fundamental deep problems in the American economy. One in five Americans are on food stamps, an unprecedented figure.
The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.
The poor decided Obamas policies are not working and have elected Republicans to control the senate and congress.
There are others clearly who also think that Obamas understanding of foreign affairs is lacking.
This has placed the United States in difficult positions around the world.
Clearly Obama would lose a presidential bid now.
Romney could win in two years from now.
Can he muster the character needed to try again?
Many hope so.