Report: Palestinian Textbooks Claim Entirety
of Israel as Arab Land:
Palestinian
Authority textbooks encourage children to view the entirety of Israel as Arab
territory, and teach them to seek the land’s liberation even at the cost of
martyrdom, according to a new report by a Jerusalem-based research group.
Palestinian nationalist and Islamist ideologies that reject Israel’s basic
legitimacy saturate lessons for children as young as six, with various science,
math, and humanities exercises all reinforcing this overarching narrative, the
Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT)
found.
The group studied grade 1–11 textbooks published
for the 2017–18 academic year, and grade 12 textbooks that were inaugurated
this August. Israel is routinely referred to as the “Zionist Occupation” within
the curriculum, including in contexts before the 1967 Six-Day War, in which it
came to control Judea & Samaria, the Gaza Strip, and eastern portions of
Jerusalem. Various areas within Israel are described as Palestinian, with a
geography textbook for 12th graders stating that the “Negev Plateau is located
in southern Palestine,” while a textbook for the same grade claims that the
Israeli city of Nazareth is located in the “Palestinian North.”
A map in a grade 10 geography and history
textbook of “Palestine after the 1948 War” separates the territory into “Arab
lands” and “Lands seized by the Jews after the war.” The negative undertones
become more overt in a grade 12 Islamic studies textbook, which mentions a certain
Quranic verse that speaks of Jews as being “sinful and liars”. One learning
exercise, this time from a grade 5 Islamic studies textbook encourages children
to draw parallels between the death of an early Muslim warrior who was crucified
by enemies of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad and that of Palestinian “martyrs.”
After learning of the hero, children are instructed to “tell a story of a martyr
from my hometown, who rose in defense of his religion and his homeland
Palestine.” Among these Palestinian martyrs are figures such as Dalal Mughrabi, a Fatah terrorist
who participated in the massacre of 38 people, 13 of them children, on a bus
near Tel Aviv in March 1978. (Algemeiner)
Pray that the
Palestinian people will stop sacrificing their children upon the altars of hatred
and violence.
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The
Worst Massacres of the Holocaust
(Excerpt from the
article, "Remembering the Spiritual Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto" by
Rabbi Shalom Friedmann, printed in Jewish Action, magazine of the
Orthodox Union)
"The Nazis
made it very clear that any act of revolt would result in consequences for
others. So halachically,
what was one
allowed to do?"
On November 3,
1943, SS and Nazi police units implemented Action Erntefest (Operation Harvest
Festival), the murder of the Jewish laborers in concentration camp Lublin / Majdanek and the
forced-labor camps Trawniki and Poniatowa.
Jewish uprisings at the Treblinka and Sobibor killing
centers, and the Warsaw, Bialystok, and Vilna ghettos had led to increased
concerns about Jewish resistance. To prevent further resistance, SS Chief
Heinrich Himmler ordered the killing of the surviving Jews in the Lublin
District of German-occupied Poland.
Most of the remaining Jews were employed in
forced labor projects and were concentrated in the Trawniki
(at least 4000), Poniatowa (at least 11,000) and Majdanek (about 18,000) camps. They were killed. At Majdanek, near Lublin, the SS shot them in large prepared
ditches outside the camp fence near the crematorium. Jews from other camps in
the Lublin area were also taken to Majdanek and shot.
Music was played through loudspeakers to drown out the noise of the mass
shootings. The killing at Majdanek on November 3,
1943 was the largest single-day, single-location massacre during the Holocaust
(ushmm.org).
Editor's Note: The year 2018 marked the 75th anniversary of
the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. It began on April 19, 1943 and lasted until May 16,
1943. The Jews of the ghetto knew it would not end well. However, they didn't
want to go as lambs to the slaughter. They wanted to go down fighting against
the brutal Nazi barbarians. The nations did nothing to help the Jews in the
ghetto, such as airlifting food to be dropped down into the ghetto to help them
in their battle for survival. The nations also did nothing militarily to stop
the Nazi army from attacking the ghetto.
As soon as the Nazi invasion of Poland began
on September 1, 1939, the Nazis targeted the Jews for persecution. By the time
of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the Jews had suffered unbelievable suffering,
hunger, and impoverishment. But they fought heroically.
European Parliament Committee Votes to
Freeze €15m to Pa Over Inciting Textbooks:
"There was only a
vision of one state from the river to the sea, which is not EU policy,"
IMPACT-se CEO Marcus Sheff said. The European Parliament’s budgetary committee
voted to freeze more than 15 million euros from the Palestinian Authority if
they do not remove incitement from their textbooks. The European Union is the
largest single donor to the Palestinian Authority. “The textbooks published by
the PA in 2017, which are financed by the EU, contain, across all subjects,
numerous examples of violent depictions, hate speech – in particular against
Israel – and glorification of jihad and martyrdom,” the bill states. “As has
already been pointed out by Parliament in its resolution on the 2016 budget,
European Union-financed teaching and training programs should reflect common values.”
(J.Post) www.VisionForIsrael.com
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Germany’s Best-Selling Paper Calls For End of Iran Trade to
Protect Israel: In a commentary this week, Germany's
top-selling paper Bild urged businesses to stop trade with the Islamic Republic
of Iran because of its terrorism and the mullah regime's goal to obliterate the
Jewish state. "Iran cannot at this time be an ally," Bild's foreign
policy editor Julian Röpcke wrote. "Neither in
the fight against terrorism, nor as an oil supplier or trade partner."
Röpcke termed Iran's missile launches into Syria as a
"message of terror. Because they carry the meter-long inscriptions 'Death
to Israel and 'Death to the USA' - and that is deadly serious for the mullahs.
Iran's rockets were fired against those who stand in the way of the corrupt
regime in Tehran," Röpcke wrote. "Against
those who do not want to stand inactively by when Iran's leader again and again
propagates the 'extermination' of Israel." Bild has a daily circulation of
1,580,977.
Iran's
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on 1 Oct. 2018 that it launched six
missiles at paramilitary groups located close to the Euphrates River in Syria.
Iran's clerical regime claims the missile attack was in response to a terrorist
attack on a military parade in the Iranian city of Ahvaz last month. Bild's commentary
is believed to be first instance in the best-selling paper of a call for the
complete end of business deals with the Islamic Republic of Iran. (Arutz-7)
Most of UNRWA Foreign Staff Members Leave Gaza For Safety Reasons: Citing safety reasons,
the UN Relief and Works Agency withdrew most of its foreign staff from Gaza on
Tues. 2 Oct 2018. (They fled for their own protection into Israel, which proved
them sanctuary. RAC) UNRWA spokesperson
Chris Gunness called on the Hamas-led government in
Gaza to “respond to UNRWA’s repeated demands to provide effective protection to
its employees and facilities. The lack of effective security and safety risks
is impacting vital humanitarian services to more than 1.3 million refugees in
Gaza,” he said. UNRWA withdrew staff members following “a series of worrying
security incidents, including death threats, affecting its personnel.” Gunness added that a number of UNRWA workers had been
“harassed and prevented from carrying out their duties” by people angered by
the organization’s cost-cutting measures due to its financial crisis. Hamas has
reportedly done nothing to prevent the violence against the UNRWA personnel. (J.Post)
96-year-old Jewish American wins Nobel Prize in Physics: Arthur Ashkin, who retired after 40 years from Bell Labs in New Jersey
in 1992. However, he remains active in his home laboratory, and at 96 is the
oldest ever Nobel laureate. He started his work on manipulation of
micro-particles with laser light in the late 1960s which resulted in the
invention of optical tweezers in 1986. Optical tweezers can grab particles,
atoms, viruses and other living cells with their laser beam fingers and have
resulted in the invention of advanced precision instruments used in corrective
eye surgery and in industry. Ashkin won one half of
the $1 million prize, with Gerard Mourou of France
and Donna Strickland of Canada sharing the other half for together developing a
method to generate ultra-short optical pulses, which also is used in corrective
eye surgery. (Arutz-7) Source: Vision for Israel
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Egypt
Court Sentences 17 to Death for Attacking Christians:
An Egyptian military court on Thur. 11 Oct. 2018 sentenced 17 Islamic terrorists
to death for involvement in deadly attacks on Christians, a rights lawyer said.
The court in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria also issued life sentences to
19 defendants and sentenced another nine to 15 years in prison on
terror-related charges, lawyer Khaled el-Masry said.
Another defendant received a 10-year term. Military prosecutors had accused the
defendants of belonging to the ISIS group and plotting attacks against
Christian churches and security forces, el-Masry
said. (Fox) Source:
President Trump Promises to "Get
Tough" on Israel
Jerusalem
Connection, PO Box 20295
Washington, DC 20041 info@tjci.org
The Times of Israel staff said: US
President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met at the United
Nations General Assembly on September 26, 2018, at UN Headquarters. US
President Donald Trump has said he is willing to “be tough” on Israel in peace
negotiations, mirroring the administration’s combative stance toward the
Palestinian Authority, according to an Israeli report on October 2.
Such a move would mark a significant shift
in the US approach to peace talks so far, which has seen a number of
concessions to Israel and punitive measures against Ramallah (capital of the
P.A.), stoking Palestinian anger and a boycott of efforts to jump start peace
talks.
According to a Channel 10 news report,
which cited four Western diplomats with knowledge of the matter, Trump told
French President Emmanuel Macron, during a recent meeting, that he was prepared
to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept the administration’s
long-gestating peace initiative, once it is unveiled, mirroring pressure
already leveled against the Palestinians.
“I’ve given a lot to Netanyahu. I moved the
embassy to Jerusalem… We give Israel $5 billion a year. I can be tough with
Netanyahu on the on the peace plan, just like I’ve been tough on the
Palestinians,” Trump reportedly told Macron on the sidelines of the UN General
Assembly in September. It’s unclear where the $5 billion number comes from. The
United States currently gives Israel $3.8 billion annually in defense aid as
part of a memorandum of understanding.
When Macron told the US leader that he was
under the impression that Netanyahu preferred the status quo over making
progress on a peace deal, Trump allegedly replied: “You know, Emmanuel, I’m
very close to reaching that same conclusion.”… Trump also reportedly told
Macron he had taken tough measures against the Palestinian Authority in recent
months — cutting hundreds of millions.”…
The Trump administration has said in the
past that neither Israelis nor Palestinians would be “fully pleased” with its
long-awaited Middle East peace plan, whose contents are one of the most guarded
secrets in Washington.
The Jerusalem Connection says:
Up to now President Trump’s support of Israel has been exemplary. If he now
changes and calls for his “Peace Plan” to give to the Palestinians what Yahweh
has eternally decreed belongs to Israel, then the President can expect a marked
diminishing of Evangelical and Christian Zionist support.
Thousands
of Acres Destroyed in Six Months of Gaza Arson Balloons:
More than 3,000 acres of forest in the Northern and Western Negev desert have
been damaged by terrorist arson attacks from Gaza. Marking six months since
Gazan Arabs began sending incendiary balloons and kites over the border toward
southern Israel, Keren Kayemeth L’Yisrael-Jewish
National Fund reported on 10 Oct 2018 that some 3,279 acres, a total of 12,270
dunams, of forests have been damaged by fires caused by the attacks. Another
4,000 acres of farmland also have been destroyed by the fires.
Keren Kayemeth
firefighting teams have been on call 24/7, in order to quickly detect and respond
to the ongoing fires. KKL-JNF’s Board of Directors last week allocated 100
million shekels, or about $27.5 million, for special projects to help the Gaza
border area communities. Meanwhile, copycats in Judea & Samaria have begun
to send arson balloons toward Jerusalem and central Israel. An incendiary
balloon was discovered on 10 Oct 2018 in Jerusalem’s German Colony
neighborhood. This comes on the heels of a similar arson balloon discovered in
the courtyard of a home in the town of Givat Ze’ev, located
just north of Jerusalem. In October, an incendiary balloon landed on a highway
near the Modiin industrial zone in central Israel.
(INN)
PA
Angered Over Sale of Property to Jews: The
Palestinian Authority (PA) cabinet, headed by Rami Hamdallah,
on 10 Oct 2018 condemned what it called "the settlers' takeover of a
historic property in the area of the Al-Aqsa Mosque under the protection of
Israeli military officials." The announcement refers to the sale of an old
home in "Aqaba Darwish" in the Old City of Jerusalem to Jews. The PA
called on international organizations, particularly UNESCO, to intervene to
"prevent the occupation from taking over the original Arab cultural
heritage in [so-called] occupied Arab Jerusalem."
Under PA law, selling of land to Jews is
illegal and punishable by death. However, such sentences must be approved by
the PA chairman, and current chairman Mahmoud Abbas has preferred to authorize
life sentences for such offenses, possibly due to fear of an international
backlash. In 2014, Abbas toughened the PA law against selling property to
Israeli Jews, so that any Palestinian Arabs involved in renting, selling or
facilitating real estate transactions with citizens of "hostile
countries" in any way would receive life imprisonment with hard-labor.
(Arutz-7)
Editor's
Note:
Imagine the rage of the world if Israel had a
law that would impose life imprisonment with hard labor on anyone selling land
to an Arab. However, Palestinians impose racist laws, and nobody complains. RAC
Holocaust
Survivor Cheated Death At Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre By 4 Minutes
Oct
28, 2018 Josh Nathan-Kazis
Judah
Samet was four minutes late to synagogue. Services at
Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh start at 9:45 A.M. Samet,
who is 80 years old, pulled into a handicapped spot in front of the building on
the morning of Oct 27 at 9:49.
“Somebody knocked on my window,” Samet said the next day. “There was this guy. Very calm and
respectful. [He] told me, you better back up, there is an active shooting going
on in your synagogue.” (Eleven Jewish worshippers were murdered. Six others
were injured, including four policemen who bravely stopped the killer.)
It took Samet
sixty seconds to process what the man was saying. Samet
was born in Hungary. He turned eight years old at the Bergen-Belsen concentration
camp in Germany. He spent five and a half years in an orphanage in Israel. He
has been a member of Tree of Life Congregation for 55 years.
“My God, my story doesn’t end,” he said. Samet turned. Standing three feet away from him, on the
other side of the car, was a police officer with a pistol drawn. “He was popping
his head out from behind a wall and shooting.”
Samet looked to
see who the police officer was shooting, and saw a man aiming an automatic
weapon in his direction. “He was shooting towards the cop, who was about 4 feet
away from me,” Samet said. He saw the men exchange
fire. “I saw smoking coming out of his muzzle,” Samet
said. “I was in the line of fire.”
Samet tried to
back his car out of the parking lot, but other cars were trying to do the same
thing. The attacker wasn’t aiming at him. “None of the bullets hit me or hit my
car,” Samet said. “The policeman could kill him.”
Samet knew
virtually everyone who the attacker, Robert Bowers, murdered that day. Samet was a leading figure at Tree of Life; had been the
designated Torah chanter for four decades, and had led morning services for
years. Joyce Feinberg was shot dead on Saturday morning. “She was a real lady,”
Samet said. “She completely dedicated her life to the
synagogue since her husband died.”
Samet was
friendly with Sylvan and Bernice Simon, the 86 and 84 year old who were murdered
together in the synagogue sanctuary. Samet and Sylvan
Simon would talk about their time as paratroopers, Samet
in the Israeli army and Sylvan in the U.S. army.
Irving Younger, 69, usually stood by the
door of the sanctuary, Samet said, and greeted people
as they arrived. Younger was among the dead.
Cecil Rosenthal, 59, who was
developmentally disabled. “Everybody loved him,” Samet
said. He and his brother, David, were both murdered.
Samet said that
Rose Mallinger, in her 90’s, would attend the service
each week with her daughter. “They sit behind me,” Samet
said.
More than anything on Sunday, Samet seemed to be going back in his mind to the 1940s,
when the Nazis tortured and murdered his family. His father died of typhoid
after the war.
“My mother was the interpreter,” he said.
“She spoke fluent German. She saved hundreds of Jews.” He credits his mother
for his survival in World War II. She was a smart woman who talked back to
German soldiers.
The Nazis put Samet’s
family on a train to Auschwitz, but Slovakian partisans blew up the railroad
line. The Samets ended up in a large lumberyard owned
by a man with a large swastika tattooed on his chest, which he would show the
family. “My mother taught us never listen what they have to say,” Samet said.[1] “Look at their hands.
Because words cannot kill you.”
On Sunday afternoon, Samet
was preparing to travel to a local church to tell the story of his family’s experience
in the Holocaust. He said he would likely say something about what he had been
through the day before.
https://forward.com/news/national
Editor's
Note: The killer used an AR-15 rifle. The
"AR" means "Assault Rifle." For those who seek to kill a
maximum number of people, the weapon of choice is usually an assault rifle. I
believe in common-sense gun control. I respect the 2nd amendment. Guns should not
be outlawed. However, assault rifles are not designed for civilian use; they
are military weapons.
The answer to gun violence is not more
guns. It was suggested that synagogues, churches, and schools should all have
armed guards. I don't want to turn these places into armed fortresses just so
others can own assault rifles. RAC
President Washington
Confronts Anti-Semitism in 1790
George
Washington, in his 1790 letter to the Touro Synagogue in
Newport, Rhode Island, told Jews they would be safe in the new nation.
“The government of the United States
. . . gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance,”
he wrote. “May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue
to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants — while every one
shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to
make him afraid.”
Danon
on UNESCO Resolutions: ‘Further Evidence For Why We Withdrew From UNESCO’:
Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon slammed the
resolutions passed on 10 Oct 2018 by members of UNESCO’s Executive Board,
according to which the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron and Rachel’s Tomb in
Bethlehem are deemed "an integral part of the Occupied Palestinian
territory." The resolutions also condemned Israel for building the
security fence, carrying out excavations in eastern Jerusalem, and for
"other measures aimed at altering the character, status and demographic
composition of the [so-called] Occupied Palestinian territory."
They were submitted by Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon,
Morocco, Oman, Qatar and Sudan, and were approved several minutes after the
beginning of a meeting held by the PX Commission, which includes all members of
UNESCO’s Executive Board. “This is further evidence, for anyone who did not
understand why the United States and Israel withdrew from UNESCO, that again
proves that UNESCO is a body based on lies and biases, and is deliberately
acting against us,” Danon said of the resolutions.
“The State of Israel will not be a member of an organization that is trying to
rewrite history and willing to be manipulated by our enemies.” Israel announced
in December 2017 that it intended to withdraw from UNESCO, the UN's educational
organization, after the USA made a similar announcement. The withdrawals are to
take effect in 2019. (Arutz-7)
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Claiming Israel is ‘Isolated’ Just Got a Whole
Lot Harder: The claim by Palestinian nationalists
and their sympathizers that Israel is globally ostracized for failing to as of
yet facilitate the establishment of a Palestinian state is easily debunked. As
it so happens, Israel isn't even all that isolated within the Arab world. For
decades, the rest of the Middle East did indeed boycott the Jewish state. But
that has been changing, and a couple of examples just this past week indicated
a rapid acceleration of the normalization process. Israelis were surprised over
the weekend to wake up to newspaper headlines informing us that PM Benjamin
Netanyahu had just returned from an official state visit to Oman. Netanyahu was
personally invited to the Omani capital of Muscat by the country's leader,
Sultan Sayyid Qaboos bin Said Al Said, to discuss regional issues.
A day later, Omani Foreign Minister Yousuf
bin Alawi addressed a security summit in Bahrain, where he urged the rest of
the Arab Middle East to likewise embrace the Jewish state. "Israel is a
state present in the region, and we all understand this. The world is also
aware of this and maybe it is time for Israel to be treated the same as other
states and to also bear the same obligations," bin Alawi told the IISS Manama
Dialogue conference.
Also over the weekend, the United Arab Emirates
hosted its annual Abu Dhabi Judo Grand Slam, and, for the first time ever,
Israeli judokas were permitted to compete under their national flag. Competing
Israelis won three bronze medals, and one gold medal. The Israeli flag was on
display as they were awarded by the Arab hosts. More than that, Israel Culture
and Sport Minister Miri Regev was invited to attend the competition in her
official capacity. Photos of Regev with UAE President Mohamed Bin Tha'loob Al Derai quickly made
waves across the region. These more recent encounters happened amid a general
warming of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia. While Jerusalem still has
no official relations with any of these Arab countries, their willingness to
publicly embrace the Jewish state and its leaders represents a serious change
since 1 Sept.1967, when these same countries joined the rest of the Arab world
in signing the Khartoum Resolution outlawing any and all ties with Israel. (Israel
Today)
Israeli Minister to Promote Rail Line From
Israel to Gulf States in Oman:
In a sign of continued warming ties with the Arab world, Transportation and
Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz will head to Oman to push for a regional
rail line that will link Haifa with Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States.
“The initiative called 'Tracks for Regional Peace' is aimed at connecting the
Mediterranean Sea and the Arabian Gulf (the Persian Gulf) by rail via Israel as
a land bridge and Jordan as a regional transportation hub,” Katz’s office said.
Katz is expected to present the plan when he addresses a regional transportation
conference, called the IRU World Congress, which will take place in Muscat, 6-8
Nov. 2018. According to his office, “This is the first time an Israeli Minister
has been formally invited to participate in an international conference in
Oman. The invitation reflects the strengthening ties between the two
countries.”
Katz’s visit follows a surprise trip PM
Benjamin made on Friday 26 Oct. 2018. Netanyahu spoke of the visit at the start
of the weekly cabinet meeting. “On Friday, my wife and I returned from a
historic diplomatic visit to Oman. I met with the leader of Oman; Sultan Qaboos
bin Said, a very experienced and impressive man. This is Israel's first
official visit to Oman in 22 years. In our long meeting we discussed in detail
the challenges facing the Middle East. These were important talks - both for
the State of Israel and very important talks for Israel's security. There will
be more,” he said. (J.Post)
[1]
Curiously, some of those who rescued Jews during the Holocaust were
anti-Semites. They might have disliked Jews, but were appalled at Nazi brutality.