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During this first month of the New Year 2009, we have seen some stunning developments that, considered together, should leave absolutely no doubt about the rising radical Islamic threat on our doorsteps in America.

I have been warning Americans since 2002 about this threat, and that the threat is not just confined to terrorism.  This is not a "war on terror." Terror is a tactic, one of many in the arsenal of radical Islamists.

I have been declaring, to anyone who would listen, that Islamists are well on their way to subverting and transforming Europe, and they are riding that wave here to America.

I have told my personal story, of how Islamists, step by step, took over my country of Lebanon.  How they used our freedoms and commitment to tolerance and multiculturalism against us to further their ultimate ends.  And how they are using the same strategies and tactics against us in the West.

In just the past three weeks we have seen:
• A violent Islamic protest in Britain, where an angry mob shouting "Allahu Akbar" chased ­ yes, chased ­ dozens of British policemen for blocks.  You must see this video to believe it!  (Please be warned ­ there is offensive language and profanity).  Click here < http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97hyDRjdXCE> to see this shocking video.
• Pro-Hamas, anti-Israel Muslims conducting demonstrations here in America, shouting praises to Hitler for what he did to the Jews, yelling "go back to the ovens," and at times physically attacking counter-protestors.
• The Amsterdam Court of Appeals ordering the prosecution of Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders because he has made statements deemed "insulting" and harmful to "the religious esteem" of Muslims.
• Austrian parliamentarian Susanne Winter convicted of "incitement,"
because of public statements she has made, including the claim that the prophet Mohammed was a pedophile.
• Muslim protest marches in Italy that ended with the protestors, in an obvious act of intimidation, conducting mass prayer vigils directly in front of Catholic places of worship.
• The release of an official U.S. government report < http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/01/23/top_stories/doc49781a64e0d2b38198
4861.txt> stating that Hezbollah is forming terrorist cells here in the U.S. that could become operational.
• The UN continuing to move ahead with the "Durban II" conference and its document that is little more than an anti-Israel rant that calls for suppressing public "defamation" of religion ­ notably Islam.  This has run parallel to an effort by the Organization of the Islamic Conference to get the UN Human Rights Commission to pass a resolution condemning public "defamation" of Islam.

My friends, the handwriting is clearly on the wall.  Radical Islam is on the march, and it is growing stronger and bolder with every passing day.

What elected official in Europe or the UK will now have the courage to speak out against this threat?  Certainly the actions against parliamentarians Wilders and Winter will ultimately have a chilling effect on American elected officials as well.

How many more "no-go zones," Muslim enclaves where non-Muslims and even police officers fear to go, will appear in Europe?   We’re already seeing such enclaves develop here in America right now.  There’s a reason why Dearborn, Michigan, is frequently referred to as "Dearbornistan."

What will happen in America when 50,000 ranting, chanting Islamist demonstrators attempt to aggressively back down and chase police officers trying to maintain order?   Will the police use the force necessary?  If
they do, we can expect howls from groups like CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations).  How will government officials respond?

And if the police back down and run, as they recently did in Britain, what message is being sent to radical Islamists?

With the recent announcements by the Obama administration regarding ending the use of certain coercive interrogation practices, will this administration have the courage and use the tools necessary to protect us
from Hezbollah, Hamas and al Qaeda terrorist cells in our midst?

It is becoming crystal clear that 2009 is going to be a critical year in our effort to roll back the rising tide of Islamofascism.  Over the next several weeks we will be announcing various projects and programs designed so that we can more aggressively and effectively go on the offense against this threat.

I am asking you to pay close attention to these announcements when they occur and to participate in every way you can.  We must all come together and ACT! this year, before the worldwide momentum building behind radical Islam becomes too powerful to stop.

Always devoted,

Brigitte Gabriel

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Dear Friends,

1) Below please find Caroline Glick’s latest article, excellent as usual.

2) In addition, we call upon all to watch and enjoy the latest Tuesday night live show by Ari Abramovitz and Jeremy Gimpel, this time about hebron and Peace Now.
http://www.thelandofisrael.com/category/tuesday-night-live/

Gimpel and Abramowitz co-host "Tuesday Night Live in Jerusalem", the first ever Israel based Jewish TV show broadcast to the world. With a gathering of over 500 people in Jerusalem on Tuesday nights, TNL celebrates the wonders of Israel, the beauty of Judaism, and the experience of life in Jerusalem and offers anyone around the globe the opportunity of plugging into the heart and soul of Jerusalem every Tuesday Night.

3) On February 10th, twenty days from now, there will be elections in Israel. From speaking to people, we find out that because of the (justified) worries by all of us about the Gaza war, many people did not follow the developments of what happened in the national camp. There is some confusion as to what parties exist; who is in what party and what the parties really represent.

Below, before Caroline Glick’s article, are details about two meetings in English that we suggest you come to, where you will find answers to the questions on the upcoming crucial elections.

With Love for Israel,

Ruth Matar - Nadia Matar - Anita Finkelstein
Women in Green
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A - THIS COMING THURSDAY, JANUARY 22nd, in EFRAT, at 8:00pm

We are happy to announce that "Ketzaleh", the head of the Ichud Leumi Knesset list, the Executive Director of Beit El Yeshiva Center Institutions and Arutz-Sheva/Israel National News, will be coming to Efrat and will speak in ENGLISH and in HEBREW in order to explain why it is critical to vote for the Ichud Leumi in the upcoming elections

"Ketzaleh", as a member of Sayeret Shaked, served under OC Southern Command General Arik Sharon in the successful campaign to wipe out the Palestinian Arab terrorist infrastructure dominant in Gaza in the early 70’s.

The outbreak of the Yom Kippur War in 1973 found "Ketzaleh" second in command of "Koach Patzi", code name for a 12 man elite commando squad from the Shaked Commando unit comprising only officers. During the ensuing battles, Katzele took a direct hit in his left hip by an RPG missile that left him near death. While lying on the desert sand seriously wounded, he made a personal oath to G-d, that should he survive, he would devote his life to settlement and education.

He founded the Gush Emunim movement and today there are more than half a million Jews living over the former "Green Line" - 250,000 in East Jerusalem, and 275,000 in Judea and Samaria. In 1978, he founded the city of Beit-El and the Beit-El Yeshiva Center, an educational center comprising a myriad of institutions with over 1,200 students. In 1987, "Ketzaleh" bought an ocean going vessel upon which to set up a national educational radio station, Arutz Sheva and in 2002, "Ketzaleh" founded the weekly Israeli newspaper, B’Sheva, Israel’s fourth largest circulation newspaper and the leading newspaper for the national religious and haredi public.

In 1990-92, "Ketzaleh" served as deputy to then Minister of Housing & Construction Arik Sharon, and actively participated in the absorption of the mass influx of Russian olim. He was directly responsible for the construction of upwards of 35,000 housing units in East Jerusalem, Yesha and the Golan. The appointment of "Ketzaleh" to party leader led to the nullification of all the smaller nationalist parties which were planning to run on separate lists. They have all united behind "Ketzaleh" in one unified Knesset list, the ICHUD LEUMI, (National Union) because "Ketzaleh" is a legendary figure among the national-religious public,

The English meeting will take place on Thursday, January 22nd at 8:00 PM in EFRAT -GUSH ETZION in the Mishkan Tzipora Shul in the Zayit followed by a Hebrew meeting at 9:30in the same place.
(next to the Orot Etzion Girls school)

For details: Alan Simanowitz 054-6769802 or Dov Kass 050-8711334

B- TUESDAY, JANUARY 27th, ARIEH ELDAD IN MITZPE NEVO (MAALEH ADUMIM
As it says in their flyer:

The National Camp has united to fight for our homeland

Moledet
Hatikva
Tekuma
Eretz Yisrael Shelanu

The only list in this election dedicated to fight for our right to the Land of Israel

Come hear Member of Knesset Professor Arieh Eldad (In English)
Discuss the upcoming elections and Israel’s future

Date: Tuesday, January 27th  Time 8:00 PM
At: Beit Knesset Pnei Shmuel, Mitzpe Nevo (down shul)
In the downstairs Social Hall

Need more info-contact:
Barbara Ginsberg - 052-894-4614
Chaim Ginsberg - 052-465-5823

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On Sunday, Israelis were witness to a cavalcade of European leaders marching to Jerusalem to have their pictures taken with outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi came to Jerusalem from Sharm e-Sheikh, where they had their pictures taken with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. In both cities, they expressed their support for Israel’s decision to stop fighting the Iranian-armed, financed and trained Hamas terror regime in Gaza.

Olmert greeted the Europeans leaders as great friends of Israel and claimed that their presence demonstrated that Israel’s operation against Hamas enjoyed massive international support. Unfortunately, Olmert’s statements were wrong on both counts. The leaders who came to Jerusalem are not friends of Israel and their presence in our capital did not demonstrate that Operation Cast Lead enjoyed international backing.

While sufficing with paying the most minimal lip service to Israel’s inherent right to defend itself, the leaders who came to Jerusalem have been outspoken in their criticism of Israel’s actual efforts to defend its citizens from Hamas aggression. None have publicly recognized that Israel has a duty to its citizens to defeat Hamas. To the contrary, all have claimed that there "is no military solution" to Israel’s military conflict with Hamas.

And while these leaders have repeated vacuous bromides about the "tragedy of both sides," their voters have been much less circumspect in telling the Jews what think of us. Over the past three weeks, all of their countries, and indeed, all the countries in Western Europe have hosted large-scale, violent, anti-Semitic demonstrations and riots. And rather than condemn the anti-Jewish violence and incitement at these events, the Europeans leaders who came to Jerusalem have either sought to appease the anti-Semites or ignore them. German authorities for instance permitted Hamas supporters to wave Hamas flags at their hateful "peace demonstrations" while barring Israel supporters from holding Israeli flags or even displaying them in their windows.

In France, Sarkozy has equated his victimized Jewish community with the French Muslims who have been attacking them by claiming that his government "will not tolerate international tensions mutating into intercommunity violence." Given their refusal to support Israel in its fight against Hamas and their publics’ growing hatred of Israel and the Jews, what made these Europeans leaders come to Jerusalem? As Gordon Brown and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner made clear in their remarks in Jerusalem, they came here to advance a hostile agenda. They want Israel to acquiesce to Hamas’s demand to open its borders with Gaza and to support the opening of Egypt’s border crossing with Gaza. They also intend to start giving Hamas hundreds of millions of dollars in "humanitarian aid" to rebuild Gaza.

If Europe gets its way, any gains that Israel made in Operation Cast Lead will quickly be erased. So the question then arises, why did Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Ehud Barak agree to have them come to Jerusalem? The short answer to this question is that Olmert, Livni and Barak view the European leaders as stage props. As they explained repeatedly since the outset of Operation Cast Lead, Israel’s leaders sought to end the campaign with a "picture of victory." A group photo with Olmert, Sarkozy, Brown, Merkel, Zapatero and Berlusconi was the picture that they felt they needed. The fact that the picture came with demands that Israel cannot agree to without squandering its hard-earned gains in Gaza, is beside the point.

WHICH BRINGS us to the main point. What the parade of hostile foreigners in Jerusalem demonstrated clearly is that while the campaign in Gaza was touted by our leaders as a way to "change the security reality in the South," for our leaders, its most important goal was to change the electoral reality ahead of the February 10 general elections. Indeed, for them, the operation would have more appropriately been named "Operation Cast Ballots." Olmert, Livni and Barak claimed that by signing a memorandum of understanding with outgoing US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and due to Egyptian good will, Israel succeeded in building an international framework to prevent Hamas from rearming. But the MOU sets out no mechanism whatsoever for interdicting weapons shipments to Gaza on the high seas. And Egypt for its part has refused to agree to take any concerted action to prevent the weapons shipments from docking in its ports and transiting its territory en route to Gaza.

The other operational goal that Livni, Olmert and Barak set for the campaign was to restore Israel’s deterrence and so convince Hamas to stop firing its missiles on southern Israel. But, as Hamas’s continued firing of missiles at southern Israel after Olmert declared the cease-fire on Saturday night showed, Israel failed to deter Hamas.

But while they failed to accomplish either of Operation Cast Lead’s operational goals, they did accomplish - at least for now - their main strategic goal. They succeeded in not losing.

By waging Operation Cast Lead, Olmert, Livni and Barak hoped to turn the absence of military defeat into the building blocks of political triumph. The operation was supposed to secure their political futures in three ways. First, it was supposed to change the subject of the electoral campaign.

As Olmert looks ahead to retirement, and as Livni and Barak vie with Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu to replace him, all three politicians wanted the elections to be about something other than their failures to defeat Hizbullah, their failure to defend the South from Hamas’s growing arsenal, and their failure to contend with Iran’s nuclear weapons program. This goal was accomplished by Operation Cast Lead, Their second goal - and perhaps Olmert’s primary objective - was to erase the public’s memory of Israel’s strategic failure in the Second Lebanon War. This goal was partially achieved. The IDF performed with greater competence in Gaza than in Lebanon. And Israel achieved its aim of not being defeated in Gaza. As a result, the nation feels much more confident about the IDF’s ability to defend the country.

THE MAIN difference between how Operation Cast Lead has ended and how the Second Lebanon War ended has little to do with how the IDF performed. The most important difference is Israel has not agreed to have an international force stationed in Gaza as it accepted (and in Livni’s case, championed) the deployment of UNIFIL forced in South Lebanon. Since Hizbullah has used UNIFIL as a screen behind which it has rearmed and reasserted its military control over South Lebanon, the absence of such a force in Gaza is a net gain for Israel.

But again, if Israel permits Europe and the UN to flood Gaza with aid money - which will all go directly to Hamas - it will be enabling a new mechanism to be formed that will shield Hamas from the IDF and enable it to rebuild its arsenals and strengthen its control over Gaza.

This prospect is made all the more dangerous by the fact that Israel ended the campaign without taking control over the Gaza-Egypt border. By leaving the border zone under Hamas control, Israel left the path clear for Iran to resupply Hizbullah’s armed forces with missiles and rockets. As Shin Bet Director Yuval Diskin explained on Sunday, under the present circumstances, Hamas can be expected to rebuild its arsenals in as little as three months.

THE THIRD political aim that Olmert, Livni and Barak sought to achieve in waging Operation Cast Lead was to convince the Israeli public that their worldview is correct. That worldview asserts that the world is divided between the extremist Islamic fundamentalists and the moderates. They claim that the latter group includes Arab dictatorships like Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and democracies like Turkey, the EU, and Israel. The Kadima-Labor worldview also asserts that by surrendering territory to the Arabs, Israel will receive international legitimacy for any acts of self-defense it is forced to take in the event it is attacked from the territories it vacated.

Although the local media, with their sycophantic celebration of Mubarak and support for Israeli withdrawals have supported this view, it is far from clear that the public has been convinced of its wisdom. Between Turkey’s open support for Hamas and vilification of Israel, Egypt’s abject refusal to take any concrete action to end weapons smuggling to Gaza, and Fatah’s fecklessness and hostility, Israelis have been given ample proof this month that the moderate camp is a fiction.

Moreover, the massive anti-Semitic riots in Europe and the US, and last week’s anti-Israeli UN Security Council Resolution 1860 which the US refused to veto have made quite clear that Israel’s withdrawals have brought it no sympathy whatsoever from the "moderate" camp.

Just as the goal of not losing did not bring Israel victory over Hamas, so too, Livni, Olmert and Barak’s bid to use the operation to increase their political cache does not seem to have succeeded. Opinion polls taken in the aftermath of Olmert’s announcement of the cease-fire on Saturday night showed that Likud has maintained, and even expanded, its lead against Kadima and Labor.

IN SPITE of its obvious limitations, Israelis can be pleased with the results of Operation Cast Lead on two counts. Although Hamas was not defeated, remains in full control of Gaza and has the ability to rebuild its forces, it was harmed. The IDF’s operation did knock out its central installations, reduce its capacity to fight and killed some of its key leaders.

The second reason that Israelis can be pleased with the outcome is that it could have been much worse. The fact of the matter is that Operation Cast Lead was the most successful operation that Kadima and Labor are capable of leading.

With their capitulationist world view, they cannot bring Israel victory over our enemies. The most they can deliver is an absence of defeat. And so long as Israel doesn’t allow Europe and the UN to begin transferring hundreds of millions of dollars to Hamas, we will remain undefeated by Hamas.

Looking ahead to the challenges Israel’s next government will face, Operation Cast Lead gave Israel between three to six months of security in the south before Hamas will be able to renew its missile offensive. It is during that time that the next government will need to contend with Israel’s two greatest challenges - preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, and preventing the new Obama administration from undermining Israel’s strategic position by selling out Israel’s security to buy "pictures of victory" of its own with Iran and Syria.

www.CarolineGlick.com


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Dear Friends,

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Dear Friends,

1) Please join us on a WOMEN IN GREEN SOLIDARITY-CHIZUK trip  to our brothers and sisters, expelled from Gush Katif and now living in Nitzan, next week, MONDAY, JANUARY, 12,2009.

As we told you in a previous email, not only were the Gush Katif residents expelled from their homes and thrown into cardboard houses in Nitzan and other "expellee camps", but now that the Gaza war has reached their areas, the only "protection" they have received are large sewage pipes in which they are supposed to hide when the ‘Red Alert" is sounded.

Women in Green will go down to Nitzan to spend the morning with our dear friends Rachel and Moshe Saperstein. We will help our other friends financially by buying presents in the Orange gallery and by shopping in the few shops in Nitzan (the pizza place, supermarket, etc.)

We will drive down there with a car convoy. People who need transportation, please register by Friday by calling us (numbers below) and we will order transportation.

We will leave the Inbal hotel in Jerusalem at 9:00 am and Tsomet Gush Etzion at 9:30am.

Join us!!

With Love for Israel,

Nadia Matar 050-5500834 - Anita Finkelstein 050-5777254
Women in Green
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2) The following interview with Caroline glick is a MUST READ. Pass it on to all friends and relatives.

A Mideast Glick Check   [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
Monday, January 05, 2009
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODJiZTBlNGQ5YzMwOTZlMjFkNjViZDMxNmRiZjFmMjQ =

Caroline Glick is no stranger to the Corner crowd. She’s senior contributing editor of the Jerusalem Post and the senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy. She’s also author of Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad.

I asked Caroline a few questions this morning about the current Mideast violence. Here’s the conversation.

Q: What exactly started this latest flare-up?

A: The fighting in Gaza today started about three weeks ago when Hamas
renewed its rocket, mortar, and missile assault against Israel. Last June,
Israel foolishly agreed to a six-month ceasefire with Hamas. Hamas used the
time to have Iran double the size of its missile arsenal and double the
range of its missiles, and to build up its Iranian-trained, armed, and
financed Hezbollah-style army of 20,000 men. Hamas called its renewed
offensive "Operation Oil Stain." On December 17, Hamas attacked Israel with
more than 80 missiles, rockets and mortars.

It took Israel ten days to finally respond to Hamas’s assault, which for the
first time put Israeli major cities like Ashdod, Yavne, Beersheva, and
Gedera under assault.

What is interesting about this latest round of fighting is that the world
paid little attention to what was going on when it was only Hamas attacking
Israel. People only started paying attention when Israel’s government said
enough is enough and started defending its territory and citizens.

Q: Is the media here in the U.S. or internationally remotely fair?

A: When the media are only interested in what is going on when Israel
defends itself, the answer is no, they aren’t fair. They don’t pay any
attention when hundreds of thousands of Israelis are relegated to bomb
shelters for weeks and months on end. They don’t care that Israeli children
can’t go to school or day care because Hamas is targeting schools and
day-care centers. They only cover the story when Israel finally decides to
put an end to this crazy situation where our children are growing up
underground. And this is appalling.

From CNN’s coverage of events here, for instance, you could easily come away
from the news thinking that Israel is attacking Gaza for no reason. The
European media, and much of the U.S. media dismiss the significance of Hamas’s
missile, rocket, and mortar campaign against Israel by noting that these
projectiles are relatively primitive and have no guidance systems. But this
misses and indeed distorts the entire point. Hamas doesn’t need advanced
weapons. Its goal is not to attack specific military targets. Its goal is to
attack Israeli society as a whole and terrorize our citizens. That’s what
makes it such an outlaw.

In fact, this random bombing of civilian targets is the very definition of
war crimes. Due to their random nature, every projectile launched against
Israel by Hamas is a separate war crime. And that’s the real story. But
again, outside of publications like National Review and the like, the
Western media have ignored this basic truth and worse, they have turned the
criminal nature of Hamas’s campaign into a justification for it.

Q: What does the fighting mean for the future of Hamas-led Gaza?

A: There are four possible outcomes for Israel’s current campaign -  two
would be positive and two would be negative. The best outcome would be for
Israel to overthrow Hamas’s regime and destroy its capacity to wage war
against Israel or threaten Israel in any significant way. To achieve this
goal, Israel would have to reassert control over Gaza. Since the Israeli
government has already stated that Israel will not reassert control over
Gaza, and since reasserting control would be extremely embarrassing for the
current leadership, which led Israel out of Gaza with promises of peace
three and a half years ago, it is fairly clear that this outcome will not be
forthcoming.

The next best outcome would be something analogous to the end of the 1991
Gulf War. Although the U.S. left Saddam Hussein in power after that war, it
asserted control over the no-fly zones and set up a clear sanctions regime
that by and large prevented Iraq from rearming and apparently prevented Iraq
from reconstituting its weapons of mass destruction programs.

Here too, chances that this outcome will prevail are not great because the
Israeli government has already stated that it is unwilling to reassert
control over Gaza’s border with Egypt which is where most of Hamas’s weapons
are imported from.

The third possible outcome, which is already not a good one, would be for
Israel to end its current campaign and just walk away with Hamas still in
charge. In due course, Hamas would reconstitute its military forces and
missile arsenals and reinstate its campaign against Israel. The positive
aspect of such a future is simply that, subject to domestic political
constraints, Israel would be able to go in and bomb Hamas anytime it felt
that threatened. Israel would be under no international obligation to avoid
defending itself, beyond the regular anti-Israel pressure.

The fourth, and worst possible outcome is that Israel reaches some sort of
internationally sponsored ceasefire agreement whereby foreign powers the EU,
the U.S., Egypt, Turkey, or whomever agree to form some sort of
international monitoring mechanism to oversee Gaza’s borders with Israel and
Egypt. The reason this would be the worst outcome is that Israel’s
experience with such forces in Lebanon and in Gaza itself has been wholly
negative. These international forces will never fight Israel’s battles for
it. Instead they inevitably shield terrorists from Israeli attack while
ignoring the terrorists’ moves to rearm, reassert political control over
their populations and reinstate their assaults against Israel. Moreover,
because these international forces fear the terrorists they shield, they
tend to side with them against Israel and blame Israel for any violence that
takes place.

Unfortunately, this is the outcome that the Israeli government is now
pushing for in its diplomatic contacts relating to the war in Gaza.

Q: A lot of critics say that Israel is just going too far in its attacks.
What do you make of the charge?

A: The interesting aspect of this claim is what it tells us about the
success of anti-Israel propaganda. For instance, Richard Falk, the Jewish
anti-Semite who the U.N.’s Human Rights Council appointed to act as its
rapporteur against Israel began accusing Israel of committing war crimes
against the Palestinians in Gaza the moment Israel began its campaign.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch systematically fabricate
international "law" backed by "eyewitness" reports from Hamas supporters in
order to accuse Israel of breaking it every single time it takes any steps
to defend itself, no matter how restrained.

Israel has done nothing in its campaign against Hamas that could be
considered going "too far." It has done nothing in its campaign that could
be considered "disproportionate." It has targeted military targets and
terror operatives.

The fact of the matter is that Israel is held to standards that are
discriminatory while its enemy - an illegal, openly genocidal terrorist
organization - is defended and shielded from attack by the media, by
self-proclaimed human-rights activists and by hostile foreign leaders like
British Foreign Minister David Miliband and Turkish Prime Minister Recip
Erdogan. Luckily, with some one million Israelis now under assault, Israel
has decided that we just aren’t going to pay attention to their obscene
attacks on our right to self-defense this time around.

Q: Would you caution Israel at all?

A: Absolutely. I think it would be a grave error for the government to agree
to any sort of international monitoring mechanism of Hamas. If the
government doesn’t want to see this war through to a complete rout of Hamas,
and doesn’t want to retake Gaza’s border with Egypt, then it would be best
for us to just weaken the group as much as possible while we have troops on
the ground and then walk away to fight another day. We cannot trust the
kindness of foreigners to do for us what we will not do for ourselves.

Q: What does the future hold for the Palestinians in Gaza?

A: Their future right now doesn’t look too attractive. These are people who
overwhelmingly supported Hamas in the 2006 elections. They supported Hamas
when it expelled Fatah from Gaza in 2007. And they supported Hamas when it
began shelling Israel’s main port city Ashdod and big cities like Beersheva
with missiles. By throwing their lot in with a genocidal terrorist group,
Gazans, and indeed Palestinians as a whole, have made clear that they prefer
the ravages of war to the blessings of peace. Until they change their minds,
it is hard to see how they can expect to prosper morally, politically or
economically.

Q: What does the fight in Gaza tell us about the prospects for the
Israeli-Palestinian peace process?

A: It tells us that such a process is both irrelevant and
counter-productive. It is irrelevant because even in the event that there is
a faction in Palestinian society that is willing to make peace with Israel,
that faction will never bring about a broader rapprochement or even remain
in power for long. What Hamas’s current war against Israel, its alliance
with Iran and its popularity in Palestinian society tell us is that as a
society, the Palestinians are not interested in peaceful coexistence with
Israel regardless of what Israel’s borders are. They prefer to remain at war
with Israel and to be led by terrorists. So even if the current Fatah
leadership is really ready to finally lay down its arms, prosecute
terrorists and reconcile to Israel, it cannot lead Palestinian society or
the larger Arab world to the same conclusion.

Gaza also shows us that pushing a peace process is counter-productive. In
the context of such a process, Israel is expected to hand over land to
Fatah. In the history of Israeli land giveaways to Fatah since 1994, there
has never been a case where these transfers led to a moderation of
Palestinian behavior or feelings towards Israel. To the contrary, such
Israeli moves have only radicalized Palestinian society that has come to see
every Israeli concession as proof that Israel is collapsing.

Three and a half years ago, Israel gave its greatest concession to date when
it removed all its military personnel and forcibly expelled ten thousand of
its citizens from their homes and farms in Gaza and transferred the area to
Fatah. Rather than moderate the Palestinians, this massive Israeli
concession was seen as proof that Israel would soon disappear. Convinced
that Israel’s destruction was at hand, the Palestinians elected Hamas the
group most identified with the cause of Israel’s destruction to lead them.

So even though Israel may make concessions to people who claim to be
"moderate," the fact is those concessions only strengthen "extremists" and
so weaken Israel while strengthening jihadist groups dedicated to its
destruction. Obviously, this is not something that engenders peace and
stability. Rather, such "peace processes" engender only war and instability.

Q: What should the U.S. response to the fighting be?

A: Just as the U.S. supports all its allies from Pakistan to India to
Britain to the Philippines in their fights against terrorist groups, so the
U.S. should be supporting Israel without qualification in its fight against
its terrorist foes. And indeed, just as the U.S. tells its allies not to go
wobbly in their fights against terrorists, so the U.S. should be encouraging
Israel to stay firm and not try to cut a deal with its terrorist foes.

Q: Any advice to Obama?

A: The thing that concerns me about President-elect Obama’s views of Israel
and the Middle East is that they are heavily influenced by his advisers,
many of whom are Clinton-administration veterans. And these advisers -
people like Richard Haass, Aaron Miller, Dan Kurtzer, and Martin Indyk, to
name just a few - have built their careers championing the failed and
dangerous peace process.

If Obama fails to recognize the folly of these advisers and replace them
with men and women who use reality as their guide for policymaking, not only
will he strengthen terrorist enemies of the U.S. like Hamas and Iran, he
will weaken and endanger U.S. allies like Israel. So my advice to the
incoming president would be to dump his Middle East team and replace it with
advisers who have a clue.

To paraphrase someone you might have heard of once or twice, I’d rather have
U.S. policy on the Middle East determined by the first 100 names in the
Boston phone book than by this team whose policies have brought about the
death of thousands in their pursuit of a fantasy of peace.

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Dear Friends,
 
A few upcoming activities and announcements on the postponement of Nadia’s trial, a film on "Qassams", a rally for Jonathan Pollard at the Kotel on Tuesday and how to help Tsafrir Ronen’s family.
 
May Hashem protect our soldiers who entered Gaza and our brothers in the South.
 
Women in Green
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1) Update on the trial against Nadia Matar
 
The trial against Nadia Matar, accused of "insulting a public official" because of her letter to Yonatan Bassi, was postponed due to the fact that the prosecutor has been called for reserve duty. Nadia’s attorney, Yoram Sheftel pointed out the irony of the situation by saying;
 
"Let it be written in the protocol that Attorney Padan has been called up for the reserves as a direct result of the fact that his place of work, the Supreme Court, described the expulsion from Gush Katif, against which my client was protesting and for which she now stands trial, as something positive that will improve the security situation of Israel when today we know that it is that expulsion that brought upon us katyushas in Beersheva, Asdod and Yavne. That is why Attorney Padan has been called up for reserves and my client is sitting on the bench of the accused. Obviously I agree, we must postpone the trial."
 
The trial has been postponed to Thursday February 19, 2009.
 
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2) This Sunday, January 4th, join thousands of people worldwide in watching QASSAM, the powerful movie about people in Sderot, and share in their experiences over the past 8 years!
 
Click here to see the trailer for Qassam: http://wejew.com/media/3290/The_Qassam_Movie_Long_Trailer/
 
The world today is mostly focused on criticizing Israel for it’s attack on the terrorist forces in Gaza. Instead of criticizing Israel, the world should be asking what took Israel so long to respond to the 8 years of rocket attacks on its civilian population! Now is the time for us to show as much support and understanding for Israel as possible.
 
Your virtual movie ticket helps support organizations that support the people of Israel…and in particular the residents of the Southern communities most affected by rocket barrages.
 
Order your virtual movie ticket today: http://israelwecare.weebly.com
 
After ordering you will receive directions via email on accessing and viewing the movie that will be available for viewing on Sunday, January 4th from 7AM EST - 12PM PST.
 
Invite others to participate and help lift the spirits of those in their time of need.
 
Current Sponsors: Council of Young Israel Rabbis in Israel , Sderot Media Center , Sderot Hesder Yeshiva , Standing Together, 12Tribe Films Foundation, SASS Video Productions , Jewish Internet Defense Force and WeJew
 
To have your organization added as a sponsoring organization contact avi at 12tribefilms dot org.
 
Order your virtual movie ticket today: http://israelwecare.weebly.com
 
Sincerely,
 
Avi Abelow
Founder and CEO
12Tribe Films foundation
 
12Tribe Films Foundation is a "For Impact" not-for-profit organization (awaiting 501c3 status) dedicated to promoting creative projects about the Jewish people and the land of Israel that connect, entertain, and inspire.
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3) Prayer Rally for Pollard at the Kotel, Tuesday, January 6, 2008, 3 PM
 Hebrew date: 10th of Tevet (Fast of Asarah B’Tevet)
 
Justice4JPnews - January 1, 2009
 
The public is urged to attend a prayer rally to save the life of Jonathan Pollard. At the same time we will also pray for the speedy return of all of our captives and MIAs and for the safety of our soldiers now on active duty defending the Land. Acting at the urging of such illustrious rabbis as HaRav Mordechai Eliyahu, HaRav Ovadia Yosef, the Chief Rabbis Amar and Metzger and others, the Committee to Bring Jonathan Pollard Home is organizing a prayer rally at the Kotel during the fast of Asarah B’Tevet. Rabbi Asher Mivtzari is coordinating efforts on behalf of the Committee. He can be contacted at freepollard@gmail.com
 
Nissan GanOr, chairman of the Committee states that this is a time of grace in the United States. As President Bush winds down his term in office, this is traditionally a time for the President to extend clemency to prisoners. GanOr urges everyone come to the rally and storm the gates of Heaven, to bring the blessing down to earth and open the prison gates for Jonathan in time to save his life and bring him home to Israel.
 
Your voice in prayer is desperately needed. Please be there! Here are the details again. Hebrew flyer can be accessed below.
 
EVENT: Prayer Rally for Pollard
PLACE: The Kotel (the Western Wall)
DATE: 6 January 2009 /  10 Tevet 5769
TIME: 3 PM       
CONVENOR: The Committee to Bring Jonathan Pollard Home
 
Click here for printable Hebrew Flyer: http://www.freepollard.net/media/atzeret-10tevet.pdf
 
Please recirculate this message widely!
 
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4) Helping Tsafrir Ronen’s family
 
This email was forwarded to us by Ted Belman:
 
Tsafrir Ronen Z’L is gone but his work and dependents remain. He devoted his life to Klal Yisroel and Eretz Yisroel so much so that he neglected to earn a proper living.
 
His friends have decided to raise $50,000 to help his wife Judy and three daughters.
 
$20,000 has already been raised. All tax deductible.
 
Please stand up and be counted. All contributions will be welcomed. Show your appreciation.
 
Please make your check out to Central Fund of Israel -
 
Mail to:
Central Fund of Israel
c/o Marcus Brothers Textiles
980 6th Avenue
New York, NY 10018
 
Tax ID number: 13-2992985 -
 
Telephone: (212)519-0207
 
At the bottom of the check write Eretz Yisrael HaShleima.
 
Please send a cover note to Arthur Marcus and say please forward as per instructions from Mike Wise.
 
It is a big mitzvah and the least we can do for Tsafrir.

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