HONESTY AMONG EVOLUTIONISTS
compiled by Daniel Mann
Some evolutionists will
admit that evolution is a religion committed to defending naturalism – the
totally unproven idea that everything came about without design:
· The core of the humanistic philosophy is naturalism—the
proposition that the natural world proceeds according to its own internal
dynamics, without divine or supernatural control or guidance, and that we human
beings are creations of that process. It is instructive to recall that the philosophers
of the early humanistic movement debated as to which term more adequately
described their position: humanism or naturalism. The two concepts are
complementary and inseparable. (Ericson, Edward L., "Reclaiming the Higher
Ground," The Humanist (vol. 60, September/October 2000), p. 30.)
God is resisted at all
costs:
· We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of
some of its constructs, ... in spite of the tolerance of the scientific
community for unsubstantiated commitment to materialism... we are forced by our
a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation
and set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counterintuitive,
no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute,
for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door. (Lewontin, Richard, Review of
The Demon-Haunted World, by Carl Sagan. In New York Review of Books,
January 9, 1997.)
· Even if all the data point to an intelligent designer, such a
hypothesis is excluded from science because it is not naturalistic. (Todd, Scott C., "A View from Kansas on
the Evolution Debates," Nature
(vol. 401. September 30, 1999), p. 423.)
Many evolutionists will
also admit that evolution is far from proven:
· We cannot identify ancestors or "missing links," and we
cannot devise testable theories to explain how particular episodes of evolution
came about. Gee is adamant that all the popular stories about how the first
amphibians conquered the dry land, how the birds developed wings and feathers
for flying, how the dinosaurs went extinct, and how humans evolved from apes
are just products of our imagination, driven by prejudices and preconceptions.
(Bowler, Peter J., Review of In Search of Deep Time by Henry Gee (Free
Press, 1999), American Scientist (vol. 88, March/April 2000), p. 169.)
Why then is it presented
as a fact? Because many think that it is more important to indoctrinate than to
liberate:
And
I use that trust to effectively brainwash them.... our teaching methods are primarily
those of propaganda. We appeal—without demonstration—to evidence that supports
our position. We only introduce arguments and evidence that supports the
currently accepted theories and omit or gloss over any evidence to the
contrary. (Singham, Mark, "Teaching and Propaganda," Physics Today
(vol. 53, June 2000), p. 54.)
Why is God resisted? As
Aldous Huxley explained, God is an unwanted interference:
· I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning [and
moral absolutes]; consequently assumed that it had none… We don’t know because
we don’t want to know. It is our will that decides how and upon what subjects
we shall use our intelligence. Those who detect no meaning in the world generally
do so because, for one reason or another, it suits their books that the world
should be meaningless. (Ends and Means)
Some prefer a meaningless world. They perceive that it gives them freedom. Some freedom! www.mannsword.blogspot.com
Eli
E. Hertz (Myths and Facts)
Rather than condemn Palestinian Arab terrorist tactics, the U.S. State
Department condemned Israel's "excessive use of force" when it
retaliates against the terror attacks. How did the British deal with
Palestinian Arab violence under the British Mandate during the Arab Revolt of
1936 to 1939? According to Oxford historian Glen Rangwala, the British killed
5,032 Palestinians, wounded 14,760, detained 50,000, hanged 146, sentenced
2,000 to life prison terms, and demolished 5,000 houses in reprisals.
Facebook to Launch Israeli Satellite to Bring Africa Online
Viva
Sarah Press (Israel21c)
Facebook, in collaboration with France's Eutelsat
Communications, will launch the Israeli-made AMOS-6 satellite in 2016 to
deliver internet from space, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced.
Facebook and Eutelsat will lease the AMOS-6 satellite from
Israeli global satellite services provider Spacecom, the operator of the AMOS
satellite fleet. The satellite, built by Israel Aerospace Industries, will be
used to increase the number of African citizens online.
Increase
in Arab Students
Attending University in
Israel
Yarden
Skop (Ha'aretz)
In the 2015/2016 academic year, 14.4% of bachelor's
degree students in Israel will be Arabs, compared with 9.8% in 1999/2000. In
the same period, Arab master's degree candidates rose from 3.6% to 10.5%, while
Arab Ph.D. candidates doubled from 2.8% to 5.9%.
ISRAEL TO UNSC: ABBAS ‘BRAINWASHING CHILDREN WITH HATRED’: Terrorists have posted videos
and manuals on social media to teach Palestinian supporters - even children - “how
to stab a Jew.” Israel’s UN ambassador, Danny Danon, displayed a how-to manual
at a meeting of the UN Security Council on Friday, 16 October 2015. “You can
see with this picture what incitement looks like,” he said while showing a
page. The guides give instruction on how to inflict the maximum bodily damage
with a knife. They include an anatomical chart with images of knives indicating
vulnerable areas. The posts have contained such headings as “Third Intifada,”
“The Knife Intifada,” “Poison the Knife before you Stab” and “Slaughtering the
Jews.” Danon make clear that Israeli “babies, children, men and women are being
targeted every day. Israelis are being stabbed, bombed, run-over and stoned,
yet this council remains silent.” He then dropped his bombshell of truth on the
UN Security Council:
"On Monday
[12 October 2015], a Palestinian boy attacked an Israeli boy who was riding his
bike, stabbing him no less than 15 times. Let me repeat: 15 times! The victim
is still hospitalized in critical condition. Ask yourselves, why would a
13-year-old boy decide to go on a stabbing spree and try to take another boy’s
life? The answer is that such acts of terror do not occur in a vacuum. When a
Palestinian child turns on a TV, he doesn’t see Barney or Donald Duck, he sees
murderers portrayed as heroes. When he opens a textbook, he doesn’t learn about
math and science, he’s being taught to hate.” In short, Danon’s message to the
United Nations was: “I want to say to the international community and to the Security
Council: 'if you are serious about promoting peace; if you are truly committed
to advancing co-existence in our region – make a clear statement against the
incitement that fuels terror.” (NY Post) Intercede that Israel’s voice will be
heard in high places as spokespersons for the Jewish state present the truth of
Palestinian incitement and violence against Jewish Israelis with pictures,
videos of terrorist attacks.
Source: JNN NEWS, P.O. Box 7411,
Jerusalem
91073, Israel
Mufti
Advised Hitler on Holocaust, Says Middle East Forum Scholar
www.meforum.org
October 21, 2015
Noted Middle
East Forum scholar Dr. Wolfgang G. Schwanitz responds to criticism of Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Schwanitz, a leading expert on ties between
Nazis and Islamists, says al-Hajj Amin al-Husaini was instrumental in the decision
to exterminate the Jews of Europe.
Philadelphia,
PA – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has drawn criticism
for comments about the role of al-Hajj Amin al-Husaini, the Grand Mufti of
Jerusalem, in conceiving and perpetrating the Holocaust. Indeed, leading Nazi
aides testified that al-Husaini was one of the instigators of the genocide. A
senior Nazi official admitted how he advised Hitler and other leading Nazis,
and that he acquired full knowledge of the ongoing mass murder.
Middle East Forum scholar, historian, and author
Wolfgang G. Schwanitz added, "It is a historical fact that the Grand Mufti
of Jerusalem al-Hajj Amin al-Husaini was an accomplice whose collaboration with
Adolf Hitler played an important
role in the Holocaust. He was the foremost extra-European adviser in the
process to destroy the Jews of Europe."
...According to the foremost expert on the
ties between Nazis and Islamists, there is much evidence that al-Husaini's
primary goal was blocking all of the ways out of Europe...
In their 2014 book Nazis, Islamists and
the Making of the Modern Middle East, published by Yale University Press,
Schwanitz and co-author Barry Rubin delve into the deep ties between Hitler and
the Grand Mufti:
At their meeting [on November 28, 1941,
Hitler and al-Husaini] concluded the pact of Jewish genocide in Europe and the
Middle East, and immediately afterward, Hitler gave the order to prepare for
the Holocaust. The next day invitations went out to thirteen Nazis for the Wannsee
Conference to begin organizing the logistics of this mass murder.
The highly acclaimed book also examined the
Grand Mufti's efforts to prevent Europe's Jews from finding refuge in the land
that would become Israel:
"And
since any European Jews let out of Europe might later go to Palestine,
al-Husaini made it clear that if Hitler wanted Muslims and Arabs as allies he must close Europe's exits
to Jews. At the same time, al-Husaini and Arab rulers also told Britain that if
it wanted to keep Arabs and Muslims from being enemies, it must close entrance
to Palestine to all Jews. By succeeding on both fronts, al-Husaini contributed
to the Holocaust doubly, directly, and from the start."
Israel's
New Public Diplomacy Asset
Renowned ex-porn star, converting to
Judaism, takes to Twitter to support
Israelis and to slam their opponents
Former adult film
star Jenna Jameson has become an ardent supporter of the Jewish state and is
constantly tweeting enthusiastic messages defending Israelis in these troubled
times, the Ynet web site reported Monday. The tweets
include messages such as "Stay strong people of Israel in this
dangerous time," "Imagine if you had to fear your children
being stabbed" and "I stand with Israel - Obama does not speak
for me."
Jameson has 652,000 followers on Twitter,
much more than Prime Minister Netanyahu, whose messages she has retweeted
several times. When one of her followers asked why she supported an
"apartheid regime which massacres women and children," she replied:
"Sorry, I don’t speak the complete brainwashed terrorist language."
Jameson, 41, participated in 125 porn
films. She retired from the industry in January 2008 after 17 years. In June,
she announced that she was going through a conversion process ahead of her
marriage to Israeli fiancé Lior Bitton, who works in the diamond business in
Los Angeles. She then began embracing her Jewish side by tweeting in Hebrew and
posting pictures of kosher Shabbat meals.
Pork
Taken Off Menus At Federal Prisons
(JTA) — Pork is officially off the menu at U.S. federal prisons. With the start of the new fiscal year on Oct. 1, the 206,000 inmates housed in 122 federal penitentiaries are no longer being served pork products.
Edmond Ross, a spokesman for the Bureau of
Prisons, told The Washington Post on
Friday that “pork has been the lowest-rated food by inmates for several years.”
It also became increasingly expensive for the government to purchase pork
products for the prisons, according to Ross, though specific numbers were not
provided.
The National Pork Producers Council is
working on a strategy to overturn the ruling. Pork products, including rinds
and precooked bacon, are still available to inmates via the prison commissary
provided they can pay.
Observant Muslims and Jews refrain from
eating pork. Vegetarian, kosher and halal[1] options are supposed to be
made available to inmates, though a number of lawsuits have cropped up over
dietary accommodations in prison.
In May, a federal judge ordered that Florida prisoners who request kosher meals must
receive them. The lawsuit was filed by the Justice Department against the
Florida Department of Corrections on behalf of 13 inmates. Florida had canceled
its kosher meal service in 2007, citing cost as the reason. Some 250
inmates, including many Muslims, had been receiving the kosher meals. Ross did not say whether there had
been an uptick in Muslim and Jewish prisoners that could have influenced the
decision.
Proposed
International Supervision of Jerusalem's Holy Sites
Has
a History of Failure
Lenny Ben-David
France is calling for international
observers on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. But the absolute failure of UN
international supervisors tasked with overseeing Jerusalem's Jewish holy sites
between 1949 and 1967 should serve as a warning. The UN Truce Supervision
Organization (UNTSO) was established by the Security Council to be responsible
for maintaining the Armistices after the 1948-49 fighting. The Armistice
Agreements between Jordan and Israel, signed on April 3, 1949, called for
"free access to the Holy Places and cultural institutions and use
of the cemetery on the Mount of Olives."
But there was no access to Jewish Holy Sites, particularly the Western Wall.
Ancient Jewish synagogues in the Jewish Quarter were razed. The Jewish cemetery
on the Mount of Olives was not only off limits to Jews, but the ancient
cemetery was desecrated, with tombstones used as paving stones. The writer
served as Deputy Chief of Mission at Israel's embassy in Washington. (Jerusalem
Center for Public Affairs)
Christians Ordered to “Convert or Die” by ISIS Jihadis as they Declare a
European Caliphate October 16, 2015
The Assyrian
community in Gothenburg, Sweden are being tormented by the threats and police
have now launched a probe. Markus Samuelsson was shocked after radicals covered
his restaurant in the city with graffiti this week. They daubed the terror
group’s logo alongside the disturbing phrases “convert and die” and “the
caliphate is here” over the walls on Tuesday. The Arabic letter for ’N’ – which
has been used to identify Christians and drive them out of their homes by ISIS
fighters – was also painted on the restaurant. —
The Guardian
Time for Us Palestinians to Stop Pretending We Can
Destroy Israel
Bassem Eid www.dailyalert.org
I am a proud Palestinian who grew up in a refugee camp. I want peace and prosperity for my people. I want an end to the misery and destruction. It is time we Palestinians stopped pretending that we can destroy Israel or drive the Jews into the sea. It is time that we stopped listening to Muslim radicals or Arab regimes that use us to continue a pointless, destructive, and immoral war with Israel.
In the West Bank, the only good jobs are with Israeli companies, and the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) movement is doing its best to take those jobs away from us. Abbas runs a corrupt dictatorship that uses international funds to consolidate its own administration rather than to develop the Palestinian economy.
Despite what we tell ourselves, Israel is here to stay. What's more, it has a right to exist. It is the nation of the Jews but also a nation for Israeli Arabs who have better lives than Arabs anywhere in Arab countries. We must accept these facts and move on.
We know that Israelis want to live in peace, and that the vast majority of Israelis are friendly and neighborly. We know that Egypt was able to secure a very favorable peace deal with Israel because Egypt agreed to accept Israel and to give up on violence. The writer is the founder and former director of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group. (Times of Israel)
Germany: Asylum Seekers
Make Demands Soeren Kern
gatestoneinstitute.org, October 23, 2015
·
"Human
traffickers and the media in their home countries are making promises that do
not correspond to reality." — Hans-Joachim Ulrich, regional refugee coordinator.
·
The migrants said
they were angry they were being asked to sleep in a huge warehouse rather than
in private apartments. Hamburg officials say there are no more vacant
apartments in the city. "The city lied to us. We were shocked when we
arrived here," said Syrian refugee Awad Arbaakeat.
·
Aline Kern, a
female real estate agent, said, "One of the men, who spoke broken German,
said they [a family of asylum seekers from Syria] were not interested in
viewing the property because I am a woman... I was taken aback. You want to
help and then are sent away, unwanted in your own country."
·
"I man. You
woman. I go first." — Muslim male with a shopping cart at the supermarket.
·
An asylum seeker
from Somalia successfully sued the German Agency for Migration and Refugees for
taking too long to process his application -- 16 months. The agency said it
currently has a backlog of 250,000 unprocessed applications.
·
Seventy percent of
migrants from Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria who were offered apprenticeships fail
to complete them. According to the director of the Munich Chamber of Trade,
many young migrants believe apprenticeships are beneath them....
ISIS SENDING TRAINED ASSASSINS INTO UNITED NATIONS REFUGEE CAMPS TO MURDER CHRISTIANS: Europe and the USA are both set to bring in hundreds of thousands of refugees over the next two years. Meanwhile, fanatical jihadis are sending teams of trained killers into camps disguised as refugees to kidnap and kill vulnerable Christians. Fellow refugees are terrified to report many of the killings in case they are targeted next, according to aid workers. The horrifying tactic emerged after one terrorist got cold feet and renounced jihad after witnessing Christians helping others within the camp. He then revealed that he had been sent with an Islamist hit squad to eliminate Christians as part of the hate group’s ideological drive to wipe the religion off the map. (Jihad Watch)
The
jihadi squads are also kidnapping Christian girls and selling them into sex slavery.
"The last time I went inside a camp, I had a policeman with me,' said the
aid worker. "The camps are dangerous because they have IS, Iraqi militias
and Syrian militias. It's another place for gangs. They're killing inside the
camps, and they're buying and selling ladies and even girls."...
Witnesses
to the murders are afraid to speak out for fear they will be targeted next. One
aid worker, quoted by the Sunday Express, said, "They're like a mafia.
People are even killed inside the camps, and the refugees are afraid to say if
they saw somebody get killed. If you ask them, they'll say, 'I don't know, I
was asleep'."
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'The Mufti Planned to
Build a
Crematorium in Dotan
Valley'
Daniel Siryoti, Erez Linn
israelhayom.com, October 23, 2015
The
controversy over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks on Jerusalem Grand
Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini's role in the extermination of European Jewry has
promoted veteran journalist Haviv Kanaan to recall the malicious plan the mufti
devised.
Grand
Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini with Adolf Hitler in Berlin (Photo credit: AFP)
Kanaan published an article in Haaretz in 1970 in which he
reviewed the senior Muslim clergyman's actions in 1942, when the Jewish
community in then-British Mandate Palestine was preparing for the possibility
of a Nazi invasion. Kanaan said that in 1968, while researching his article, he
met with Faiz Bay Idrisi, a senior Arab officer in the Mandate Police, who
spoke of al-Husseini's intention to build a crematorium in the northwest
Samarian hills.
"Even today, as I recall what I heard
from police officials and mufti supporters, chills go through my body,"
Idrisi told Kanaan at the time, recalling how in case of a German invasion
"Haj Amin Husseini was gearing to enter Jerusalem at the head of the
Muslim Arab Legion squadron he'd created for the Third Reich. The mufti's plan
was to build a huge Auschwitz-like crematorium in the Dotan Valley,
near Nablus (formerly called Shechem), to which Jews from Palestine, Iraq,
Egypt, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, and North Africa would be imprisoned and exterminated,
just like the Jews in the death camps in Europe."...
IMPORTANT! Palestinian Christian Speaks
Out on Wave of Terror
October
9, 2015 | "Matthew"
The
following is a brief response to the wave of anti-Jewish terror now engulfing
Israel and how Palestinian society is relating to it. This post is important
because of who wrote it. It was penned by “Matthew,” our Palestinian Christian
brother whose true identity must be concealed for obvious security reasons. The
original title of “Matthew’s” article as submitted to Israel Today was “When News Becomes Lies.”
Perhaps
you were unable to discern what I want to say from the title (“When News Becomes
Lies”). To understand my articles and my perspective, you need to know a
little about me and my background.
I am a young Palestinian man, living in the
Palestinian-controlled territories. Until recently, I hated Israel and the Jews
as much as anyone could. I used to rejoice every time I heard that Jews had
been killed.
But God changed my heart, and through the
love of Christ, I now love the Jewish people. I have written more extensively about
this transformation in previous articles (see the June 2015 issue of Israel Today, page 22).
Over the past week, more than nine terror attacks
have been carried out by Palestinian terrorists against Israelis. This wave of
terror began just after Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas delivered
his speech before the United Nations.
My heart bled when I heard the terrible
news of the first attack, in which Palestinian terrorists assaulted an Israeli
family and murdered the parents in front of their young children. My sorrow was
deep and real, but the thing that shocked me most was the lack of any condemnation
of this barbaric crime from the Palestinian side. In fact, most people here
rejoice in the murder of Jews, and celebrated this deadly attack.
But their reaction was much different when
Israel responded by killing the terrorist responsible. Suddenly, Palestinians
began demanding justice against the “racist” Israelis.
And then the news begins to lie to the people,
who are told that these terrorists who were shot by the Israelis weren’t really
trying to stab anyone. They are told that the Israelis invented stories about
the attacks, that the Palestinians who were shot weren’t really armed, and that
the Jews killed them simply for being Arabs.
The media’s publishing of these false accounts
sadly transforms them into a kind of pseudo truth. Please do not allow such
lies to influence your thinking. Use your brain and seek out true justice.
I know that my words are simple. I am just
one person who has for years been living under these chains of hatred and lies.
But God set me free, and I feel a calling to share the truth with the world. Source: Israel
Today, PO Box 7555
Jerusalem 91074, ISRAEL. Subscriptions to
this full-color monthly magazine cost only $45 per year, and supports Messianic
Jews in Israel.
If
You Love Israel, Don't Boycott It. - Elliott Abrams (Washington
Post)
We
love Israel. That's why we must do all we can to destroy its economy. That is
the message of the bizarre Oct. 25 column in the Washington Post by
professors Steven Levitsky and Glen Weyl.
l History reveals two recent attempts by Israeli
leaders to negotiate a comprehensive peace with the Palestinians - by prime
ministers Ehud Barak in 2000 and Ehud Olmert in 2008 - which were rejected by
Palestine Liberation Organization leaders Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas. Of
this, Levitsky and Weyl say nothing. They also do not mention Israel's
withdrawal from Gaza, seeming to regard it as "occupied" even though
not a single Israeli soldier or civilian lives there.
l The professors note that the "peace movement"
in Israel has been weakened. But the reason is the conduct of Palestinians. The
Palestinian refusal of negotiations is not mentioned. The waves of terror -
from Arafat's intifadas to today's stabbings - are barely mentioned.
l Sadly, Palestinian "violence," which
the professors scrupulously avoid calling terrorism, long predated the
"occupation." Decades of Palestinian terrorism was meant to stop Jews
from coming to Israel and from establishing their state, and then continued
from 1948 to 1967. The fundamental problem is the widespread Palestinian
rejection not of Israeli settlements but of the existence of the State of
Israel.
l Particularly striking is
what the professors demand of Palestinians: nothing. They do not demand that
the Palestinians negotiate. They do not even demand an end to terrorism, not
even during a month of terror by stabbing. To them, Palestinians are apparently
like small children, unable to reason or control their actions.
l While some people
boycott Israel out of hatred, the professors will do it out of "love for Israel
and the desire to save it." In taking this position, they reject the views
of the vast majority of "progressive" Israelis they claim to support
and align themselves with every enemy of the Jewish state.
The writer is a senior fellow for Middle Eastern
studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Palestinian Preacher
at Al-Aqsa Mosque Calls to Restore the Caliphate, Annihilate the Jews (MEMRI)
In a video posted on Oct. 24, Palestinian preacher Ali Abu Ahmad,
speaking at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, said: "Allah willing, the Caliphate will
be the one to liberate Jerusalem very soon...and it will annihilate the Jewish
entity."
"Oh Allah, annihilate the Jews. Oh Allah, let us kill them. Oh Allah, make
the ground swallow them up, along with their homes....Oh Allah, bring the whip
of torment cracking down upon them." (This happens on the Temple Mount,
the holiest site in Judaism. That's incitement! RAC)
Anti-Semitism among Migrants a Concern for German Jews
- Sam Sokol
German
Jews are concerned over the potential for a rise in anti-Semitism due to
"widespread anti-Semitism among Muslim youth" who have made their way
to Germany, community leaders told Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Germany's security and intelligence agencies expressed alarm over the influx of
migrants who harbor radical Islamic views and hatred of Jews. According to a
security document obtained by Welt am Sonntag, Germany is "importing
Islamic extremism, Arab anti-Semitism, national and ethnic conflicts of other
peoples, as well as a different societal and legal understanding."
Security sources warn that "the integration of hundreds of thousands of
illegal migrants in Germany is no longer possible in light of the number and already
existing parallel societies." The term "parallel societies" is
frequently defined as insulated Muslim communities that have little or no
contact with mainstream society. (Jerusalem Post)
Europe's Refugee
Crisis: Jews Must Tread Carefully
-
Manfred Gerstenfeld - Jerusalem Post
In the current century all murders of Jews in Europe because they are
Jews, be they in the Paris area, Toulouse, Brussels or Copenhagen, have been
committed by Muslims.
Make EU Funds to Palestinians Conditional on an End to Incitement to Violence -
Lars Adaktusson
The
recent attacks are symptomatic of a malaise in Palestinian society that the
international partners, and Europe, in particular, have been trying to duck for
several decades: Hate speech and incitement to violence. The EU should stop tiptoeing
around this issue by continuing to make large wire transfers to the PA bank
account. We need to be assertive and condition all the EU funds for the territories
on an actual Palestinian renouncement of hate and incitement to violence.
Building a Palestinian society that will see cutting people's throats as abhorrent as
it is for any Western society is not a pro-Israel position. It falls into the
oft forgotten category of the right thing to do.
The
writer, a Swedish journalist and television news anchor, is a member of the European
Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs. (Ynet
News)
By Morton A. Klein
Fifty
years from now, the Jewish community will be thriving; Israel will be in the
midst of a golden age. Israel and the Jewish people will have prevailed over
threats experienced today and in the near future. Worsening anti-Semitism
during the next half-century's initial years will be followed by a stronger,
more united Jewish community.
|
by Morton Klein October 14, 2015 |
The Iranian nuclear threat will have been
dealt with. During the first few years of the next half-century, Iran will
continue moving toward nuclear-weapons capability and developing missile-delivery
systems. But Israel will destroy Iran's nuclear-weapons capability-something
that Israel has spent years training for. A new U.S. president may assist this
effort.
During the initial decades of this 50-year
period, competing radical Islamic groups will wage internecine warfare,
wreaking an enormous toll on the lives and economies of many of Israel's
neighbors, creating nightmarish conditions, and reducing these countries'
capacities to harm Israel. Arab nations and economies will collapse.
In Europe, the large influx of Muslim
migrants will continue to bring instability, increased anti-Semitism, and
economic weakness. These conditions will also cause a dramatic increase in
aliyah to Israel (and result in smaller, weaker Jewish communities in Europe).
Likewise, faced with growing anti-Semitism on U.S. college campuses and a
weakening American economy, more American students will attend college in
Israel, and more American families will make aliyah. The rise in aliyah will
greatly strengthen Israel by 2065.
Israel will emerge as one of the world's
strongest, most stable economies. The world's voracious appetite for Israel's
high-tech products will lead to greater reliance on Israeli inventions and
industries. Haredi communities will continue joining Israel's high-tech sector,
becoming a positive economic force.
Current Jewish population trends will hold,
significantly transforming the Jewish community's composition. Orthodox Jews
will continue having large families; by 2065, the Orthodox Jewish population
will be proportionately and numerically far larger than it is today. By contrast,
the numbers of secular and non-Orthodox Jews will decline, due to extremely low
birthrates, intermarriage, and "drop outs" from the community.
This shift toward Orthodox Jews will ensure
an increasing proportion of Jews who are highly committed to Israel. Orthodox
army officers-who today already are 40 percent of Israel's officers-will
predominate. In the United States, increased Orthodox Jewry will change Jewish voting
patterns. In 50 years, politically conservative and Republican Jews will have
grown to be approximately equal in number to their liberal brethren.
Israel and the Jewish community at large
will also have developed and enhanced important alliances by 2065. China will
become an even larger trading partner with Israel. Alliances with moderate
Muslim states that face common enemies will have continued to develop. Today's
small cadre of moderate, pro-Israel Muslim intellectuals, working to redefine
Islam in a nonviolent manner, will have expanded their work and enabled new
alliances to form.
And, in the wake of radical Islamic
terrorists' brutality toward Christians and others, Christians and others will
increasingly see Israel as their only true friend in the Middle East, a beacon
of tolerance, light, and stability in a barbaric world. After facing the
reality of radical Muslim onslaughts that seek to destroy the Western way of
life and impose Sharia on non-Muslim countries, non-Muslim nations will turn against
radical Muslims and their states and recognize Israel as an important ally. BDS
will collapse. The world's Christians and Jews will enjoy an unprecedentedly
strong alliance.
The Jewish people-and the world-will have
also realized that appeasement of radical Islamic terrorists only encourages
more terror. Israelis will better understand that concessions such as
evacuating Jewish communities from Gaza, empowering and bringing the PLO into
Judea/ Samaria under the Oslo accords, releasing from prison terrorists
convicted of murdering Jews, only led to more terror. Violence in Europe and
elsewhere will lead to an appreciation of Winston Churchill's warning: "Those
who appease the crocodile will simply be eaten last."
In every generation, as the Passover Haggadah
foresees, enemies will rise up against the Jewish people, but each time we will
overcome our enemies and prevail. We have always emerged to rebuild and become
stronger than before. Fifty years from now will be a time of regeneration,
hope, new opportunities, and stronger Jewish communities.
The Torah promises that the Jewish people
will be an eternal people. Unlike politicians, G-d keeps his promises.
Morton A. Klein is national president of
the Zionist Organization of America. www.zoa.org
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Editor's Note:
This may be an excessively optimistic picture of Israel and the Jewish future.
However, we pray that it is more than just a pleasant fantasy. RAC
Saudi
Prince: I Side with Israel - Not the Palestinians
unitedwithisrael.org, October 28, 2015
Taking into account regional upheaval and
changes throughout the Middle East, billionaire Saudi prince al-Waleed bin
Talal says his country should work with Israel to contend with the Iranian
threat. Significantly, and rare for a Saudi to admit in public, he emphasized
that if the Palestinians launch another uprising, he will side with Israel.
Saudi prince al-Waleed bin Talal has stated that in the event of another
Palestinian Intifada (uprising) against Israel he would side with the Jewish
State, saying that “Saudi Arabia has reached a political maturity to constitute
a durable alliance with the Jewish nation.”
“I
will side with the Jewish nation and its democratic aspirations in case of
outbreak of a Palestinian Intifada and I shall exert all my influence to break
any o minous Arab initiatives set to condemn Tel Aviv, because I deem the
Arab-Israeli entente and future friendship necessary to impede the Iranian
dangerous encroachment,” Al Qabas quotes the Saudi media tycoon as saying.
Vatican
Marks Historic End of
Official
Anti-Semitism
In a private
meeting with WJC President Ambassador Ronald S. Lauder and a WJC delegation
this past Wednesday in Rome, Pope Francis made it clear: “To attack Jews is anti-Semitism, but
an outright attack on the State of Israel is also anti-Semitism.”
October 28, 2015 marks the 50TH anniversary of the Catholic church document " Nostra
Aetate" (Latin for "In Our Time"). This document ended centuries
of officially condoned anti-Semitism, and urged bridge-building with other
faiths. It was adopted on Oct. 28, 1965 by Pope Paul VI at the end of the
ground-breaking Second Vatican Council. It revolutionized relations between
Catholicism and Judaism. It would have been nice if such a document had been
adopted centuries earlier. Much Jewish suffering could have been prevented, but
better late than never. It would be nice to see other denominations, such as
the Presbyterian church, to produce a similar document. Instead, the
Presbyterians are demonizing Zionism, which is thinly disguised anti-Semitism.
Most modern Evangelical Christians, especially in the West, tend to be strong
supporters of Israel.
Nostra
Aetate stated, "The Jews should not be presented as rejected or accursed
by God," insisting that Christians should decry "hatred,
persecutions, and displays of anti-Semitism directed against Jews at anytime
and by anyone."
Pope Francis led a special audience to mark
the anniversary, stressing the document's importance. He said, "Mutual
respect is a condition of inter-religious dialogue and at the same time its
goal: respecting another's right to life, to physical integrity, to fundamental
freedoms - freedom of conscience, of thought, of expression, and religion."
This is a huge change from the behavior of the
Catholic Church, and is much appreciated. Today, relations between Catholicism
and Judaism are much improved. The Vatican also enjoys good relations with
Israel.
Critics, however, say that Nostra Aetate doesn't go far enough to apologize for past
persecution of the Jews, such as the charge of deicide, calling the Jews
"Christ-killers," a charge that fueled anti-Semitism for centuries.
Pope Francis has also urged Muslims to do more in countering terrorism. (Source: AFT)
Overdriveonline, a trucking industry
news site, blares the headline:
"EEOC awards Muslim
truckers $240k after being fired for refusing to haul alcohol."
The Obama administration's Equal Employment Opportunity Com-mission sued a
trucking company, at taxpayer expense, when two Somali Muslim truck drivers
were fired for refusing to haul alcohol. Doing so, the Islamists claimed, would
infringe on their religious beliefs under "Islamic law."
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Amil Imani & James Hyde American Thinker 11-2-2015 |
From the story:
"EEOC also alleged that Star Transport could have but failed to accom-modate
their religious beliefs." Stunning.
The
intervention by EEOC was hypocritical, discriminatory and insanely out of
equilibrium when the plight of Christians in the matrimonial business who
object to providing goods and services for gay weddings is contrasted.
Christian businesses are being fined; forced to take "diversity" propaganda
courses or closed down for refusing to "accommodate" gay weddings.
Are not their religious beliefs, duly protected under the Constitution's
First Amendment and 42 U.S. Code Chapter 21B - Religious Freedom
Restoration equal to the beliefs of Muslims?
Since when does
Islamic law trump the U.S. Constitution and U.S. federal law? For Obama, such
violations of his oath began with the first breath he took after he took his
inaugural oath. In fact, the scofflaw-in-chief gave us a glimpse of his
personal religious preferences when, during his "Apology Tour," he
proclaimed to the world that, "The United States is no longer a Christian
nation." Had he taken the time to apply his finger to the nation's pulse,
he would have learned that an ABCNews/Beliefnet poll found that, "83% of
Americans identify themselves as Christians."
Obama enforces
federal laws with such obvious capriciousness that the Congress, which has had
quite a number of its enumerated powers appropriated by Obama, should be cited
for articles of impeachment. In Article II, Section 3, the Constitution,
stipulates that the president "…shall take care that the Laws be faithfully executed…" Well, he's
executing laws the same way KFC kills chickens... Only Congress is permitted to
make or amend laws. Barack Hussein Obama is not.
That a commission
within the Obama administration would bring suit on behalf of Muslims at
taxpayer expense, but allow states to ignore the Constitution and the Religious
Restoration Act by fining Christian bakers in Washington State the absurd sum
of $135,000 for refusing to bake a gay wedding cake is heretical in the
extreme. And then there's the notorious attempt to force a Christian baker in
Colorado to bake wedding cakes for gay weddings after going through
"diversity" training. This adminis-tration's version of a re-education
camp: shades of Orwell's 1984.
The EEOC got the Muslims a hefty award of
$245,000, but businesses in the matrimonial industry who wish not to violate
their religious beliefs are losing their businesses, their homes and the shirts
off their backs via unconscionable fines handed down by a far-left, PC-drunk
commissioner who pushes the lesbians ahead by $135,000. It's time to say as a
nation, "No you can't."
DANON ON UNHRC ELECTION: U.N. ABSURDITY
KNOWS NO LIMITS: Ambassador to the UN Danny
Danon criticized the election of Venezuela as a member of the UN Human
Rights Council on Wednesday, 28 October 2015. “The absurdity at the UN
knows no limits – Venezuela is the biggest ally of Iran and North Korea,”
he said. A hundred and thirty-one states voted in favor of electing Venezuela
as a member. “We must remember this day the next time the UN condemns Israel,”
Danon said. “When a country like Venezuela, which suppresses its own people,
forbids freedom of the press and detains members of the opposition, becomes a
member of the Human Rights Council, it comes as no surprise that this council
condemns Israel more than any other country in the world.” The ambassador also
said that “the only connection between these countries and human rights is how
much they excel at violating them. We will continue to raise our voice, refute
every lie, and expose the real face of those who have the audacity to lecture
us at every opportunity at the UN,” Danon said. (Jerusalem Post)
ABBAS’ FATAH POSTS ANTI-SEMITIC NAZI
CHILDREN’S BOOK: Palestinian Authority
Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction saw fit on Thursday, 29 October 2015, to
hearken back to Nazi German antisemitism, and pay tribute to the genocidal Jew
hatred that PM Benjamin Netanyahu last week highlighted had Palestinian
influences. Fatah posted the cover of an anti-Semitic Nazi children's book from
1936 to its official Facebook page, as exposed by Palestinian Media Watch
(PMW). Together with the cover, replete with an anti-Semitic caricature of a
Jew, was written in Arabic: "the cover of one of the children's books in
Germany in 1936 whose title is: 'Trust no fox on his green heath, and trust no
Jew on his oath.'" (Arutz-7)
NATIONAL
INSURANCE CHIEF: NO BENEFITS FOR FAMILIES OF UNDER AGE ATTACKERS: The
head of Israel’s National Insurance Institute, Shlomo Mor-Yosef, warned Saturday,
31 October 2015, that the organization would suspend child benefits for the
families of minors who carry out attacks on Israelis. He added that “a
terrorist who is wounded is ineligible for disability benefits, and when a
terrorist is killed, his wife will not be eligible to receive a widow’s
pension.” Many of the attacks carried out against Israeli civilians and
security forces in recent weeks have been carried out by minors. (Times of
Israel)
Israel is the Worlds 6TH
Healthiest Country - Hezi Sternlicht (Israel Hayom)
Israel is the sixth healthiest country in the world,
according to recent world health rankings by Bloomberg.
The rankings, which compiled data from the UN, the World Bank and the World
Health Organization, placed Singapore in first place, followed by Italy,
Australia, Switzerland and Japan. The UK ranked 21 and the U.S. 33.
Abbas Speaks of
"Occupation" Since Israel's Creation in 1948, Not Just Since '67 War - Itamar Marcus
PA Chairman Abbas, speaking on Oct. 28 to the UN Human Rights Council
in Geneva, denounced what he called the Israeli "occupation" of
"67 years" - that is, since Israel's creation in 1948. "For how
long will this protracted Israeli occupation of our land last? After 67 years
(i.e., Israel's creation), how long?" He refers to "holy sites which
have been desecrated every other second again and again for seven decades
now." The PA routinely teaches its children that all of Israel is an
"occupation" that will end some day.
The PA presented on their Facebook page a description of Israeli cities
Ashkelon, Haifa and Acre as "occupied." Similarly, a post on the official
Fatah Facebook page showed a map of "Palestine" that includes all of
Israel. (Palestinian Media Watch)
Dept. of Education Orders Illinois School District
to Allow Boy to Shower With Girls
Illinois'
largest high school district violated federal law by barring a transgender
student from using the girls' locker room, authorities declared on November 2.
The student, who has identified as a girl for a number of years, filed a
complaint with the Office for Civil Rights in late 2013 after "she" was
denied unrestricted access to the girls' locker room. (Editor's Note: It is getting worse all the time. There is no
end to absurd demands.)
WOMAN
STONED TO DEATH IN AFGHANISTAN OVER ACCUSATION OF ADULTERY: The men surround the woman as
she stands in a hole dug into the stony ground, only her head pokes above the
surface. Then they begin to pick up rocks and hurl them at her again and again
from close range. Her agonized cries grow louder as the barrage of stones intensifies.
The barbaric killing took place in a Taliban-controlled village in central
Afghanistan days ago, according to the provincial governor. A video of it,
filmed on a cell phone, has circulated on social media. The 19-year-old woman,
identified as Rokhshana, had been forced to marry against her will and recently
fled with another man, said Seema Joyenda, the governor of Ghor province. The
couple were caught after two days, and the Taliban leader of the village
ordered that Rokhshana be stoned to death for adultery. The killing underlines
the widespread problem of violence against women in Afghanistan. Attacks on
women and disregard for their rights have been widely documented by
international organizations in Afghanistan. (WND)
WSJ's
Bret Stephens on Palestinians By Bret Stephens
In
the history of political clichés, has there ever been one quite so misjudged as
the line-some version of which is attributed either to Israel's martyred Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin or fabled Defense Minister Moshe Dayan - that "you
make peace with your enemies, not with your friends"?
OK, "give peace a chance" and
"nation building at home" are worse. But the Rabin-Dayan line is an expression
of the higher mindlessness that passes for wisdom among people who think they
are smart. After the make-nice session between President Obama and Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, it's time for a reconsideration.
To wit: You do not make peace with enemies.
You make peace with former enemies-either
because you have defeated them, as we defeated the Axis Powers in World War II;
or because they collapse, as the Soviet Union did after the fall of the Berlin
Wall; or because they have defeated you and you're able to come to terms with
the outcome from a safe distance. Witness Vietnam.
On rare precious occasions, both sides
realize Palestinians agreed that "both Jews and Palestinians have rights
to the land." More than 80% felt "this is Palestinian land and Jews
have no rights to it." Most Palestinians also think Israel won't be around
in 30 or 40 years, either "because Arab or Muslim resistance will destroy
it" or on account of its "internal contradictions."
Where is the sense in agreeing to
relinquish through negotiations what is yours by right today and will be yours
in deed tomorrow?
None of this is helped by Palestinian
leaders who, when not inciting violence or alleging Israeli conspiracies,
are peddling the
lie that Israel is creating an apartheid state. The only person standing in the
way of Palestinian democracy is Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who hasn't
held an election in a decade. The only force standing in the way of a Palestinian
state are the Palestinian people, who think they can gain their rights by stabbing
their neighbors.
Which brings us back to Monday's Oval
Office meeting. Along with the forced bonhomie, the administration has been
sounding the usual two-minutes-to-midnight warnings about the supposed end of
the two-state solution. "For Israel, the more there is settlement construction,
the more it undermines the ability to achieve peace," says Ben Rhodes, the
deputy national security adviser, in an interview with
Haaretz.
How sweet it would be if all Israel had to
do to make peace was dismantle its settlements. How much sweeter if the
American president would find less to fault with an Israeli government's
housing policies than a Palestinian political culture still so intent on
killing Jews.
This
article was published by Wall Street Journal
SUDANESE
MAN TRIED TO KILL ISRAELI ON ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES FLIGHT: Ethiopian authorities arrested
a Sudanese traveler, Ahmed Mohamed, after he tried last week to murder an
Israeli passenger on an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Chad to Ethiopia, the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs said 3 November, 2015. Arik Zenouda, 54, told media
sources: "About 20 minutes before the plane started its descent the passenger
sitting behind me identified me as Israeli and Jewish. He came up behind my
seat and started to choke me with a lot of force. He hit me over the head with
a metal tray and shouted 'Allah akbar' and 'I will slaughter the Jew.'" A
Lebanese passenger was one of the few who came to Zenouda's rescue. "After
we landed the Lebanese guy told me that I'd been saved twice, because after
they'd overpowered my attacker he said to everyone: 'Let's finish him off.'"
(Ynet)
SECRET
OPERATION IN SYRIA TO RESCUE LAST REMAINING JEWISH FAMILY:
Israeli special forces recently carried out a daring operation to rescue the
last Jewish family in the Syrian city of Aleppo. The Jewish Chronicle reports
that preparation for the mission began months in advance. First an Israeli-American
businessman named Moti Kahana sent a message to the family, whose name has not
been released, that he wanted to get them out of the war-torn country.
Despite the constant dangers in Syria, though,
the family was too afraid to even take the chance on escaping. Kahana, who has
a number of connections with rebel forces, soon heard reports that ISIS was
closing in on the family and decided to get them out, whether they liked it or
not. Without revealing precisely how or with whom he coordinated his plans, Kahana
set the wheels in motion for the IDF to make another tally in its history of
saving stranded Jews, a list that already made its mark in Yemen and Ethiopia.
Once the time came, three soldiers knocked
on the family's front door. The 88-year-old matriarch answered, fearing that
Assad's soldiers had come to take them all away. Instead, the soldiers ordered
the seven people present that they could each take one bag and that they must
get into a waiting minibus. After the minibus began moving, the soldiers handed
out Syrian passports and said that they would soon be free. The vehicle was
stopped at an ISIS checkpoint, but the family was able to convince the guard
that they were refugees trying to escape from Assad. It took them 36 hours to
cross the hundred kilometers to the Turkish border. Once out of Syria, they
drove to a rented home in Istanbul, where Kahana was waiting. (Arutz-7)
Majority of Britons See Israel as Key Middle East Ally - Marcus Dysch (Jewish Chronicle-UK)
Israel
is seen as Britain's leading Middle East ally by more than half of the British
public, a poll by BICOM has found. The poll also revealed that only 12% back
the singling out of Israel for boycotts, with 43% objecting to such a move. 47%
believe a boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel would also
hurt Palestinians.
PALESTINIAN
CHARGED WITH DI-VERTING GAZA REHABILITATION MATERIALS TO HAMAS TERRORISTS:
A Palestinian from the
Gaza Strip has been indicted for diverting building materials meant for
reconstruction in the Strip directly to the Hamas armed wing, the Shin Bet
(Israel Security Agency) said on Wednesday, 4 November 2015. The suspect was
arrested trying to enter Israel at the Erez Crossing on the Gaza border on 31
August 2015. Shin Bet sources said they only cleared the arrest for publication
on Wednesday because there were additional “investigative steps” they had to
carry out for the case. The suspect managed to circumvent UN inspectors who
supervise imports to the Strip, allowing him to divert hundreds of tons of building
materials provided by foreign donors for rehabilitating civilian infrastructure
in the Strip damaged during Operation Protective Edge in the summer of 2014.
The Shin Bet said the case represents “further testimony of how Hamas exploits
donor funds meant for the rehabilitation and development of the civilian infrastructure
in the Strip for the purposes of terrorism.” (J. Post)