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Showing posts with label Middle East - Israel -. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Middle East - Israel -. Show all posts

Thursday, July 14, 2016

A SOLDIER'S GIFT - An amazing true story of how selfless giving comes back in mysterious ways

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A story of gifts and lives intersecting, that science could not possibly explain.  It will bring tears to your eyes. 
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Thursday, September 17, 2015

ARAB ROCK THROWERS MURDER ANOTHER JEW IN ISRAEL - Government promises to get tough - Then police arrests Jews for peaceful protest against terror and for quietly praying at Temple Mount - In the meantime Arab gangs run rampant throwing rocks and firebombs with impunity - Israeli authorities are ENABLING THE ARAB TAKEOVER OF JERUSALEM by violence and by illegal construction, in order to facilitate its eventual partition

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Arab rock throwing terrorists (file)
The timidity with which police deal - or fail to deal - with Muslim terror in Europe exists also in Israel, in a much larger proportion.  
 
Murderous attacks on Jews occur not just daily but many times during the day, brazenly and in public areas, while police do nothing. 
 
Sometimes police are present but they have explicit orders not to make arrests or  shoot at those who try to murder police or civilians.  
 
Jewish motorist Alexander Levlovitz (64) lost control of his car after Arab terrorists hurled a rock into it, and died in the ensuing crash during the Jewish New Year which ended on Tuesday night.  

Just days after this murder, another Jerusalem Jew was wounded in a terror attack when  Arabs threw a rock at his car, causing heavy damage to the windshield

Photo: Jerusalem Fire and Rescue Services
Alexander Levlovitz' car
after his murder
The driver was lightly wounded and suffered from shock, but fortunately he did not lose control of the vehicle and thereby avoided possibly life-threatening injury.


Many other Jews have been seriously injured or killed as a result of rock throwing attacks.  
 
These activities are nothing less than attempted murder, and yet they are IGNORED or dealt with lightly by authorities because of fear of provoking more Arab violence, or because of secret sympathy with the Arabs.  The left is powerful in Israel. 

Treason has always existed in that country.

Toddler Adele Biton
severely brain injured by
rock throwers. She later died.
Politicians often make strong statements against Arab terror, but they do nothing.  After the latest murder of a Jewish motorist, Israeli PM Netanyahu promised to get tough.   So after many YEARS of daily rock attacks and terror that have victimized thousands of Jews,  the PM now promises to get tough.
 
Despite promises by government, Israelis continue to be on their own when it comes to rampant Arab terror.
 
To test the sincerity of the PM declaration,  Jerusalem councilman Aryeh King made a tour of the most threatening spots for Jews in the city and there was NOT A SINGLE POLICEMAN IN SIGHT.  Aryeh King reported on Facebook:
 
Jerusalem Councilman
Aryeh King
"It seems that Netanyahu is continuing to wave slogans and make declarations, while in practice he's disengaging from eastern Jerusalem (Biblical Jerusalem) as he has done for the last five years."
 
King has long warned that Netanyahu and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat's policies of allowing rampant illegal Arab construction, expanding Arab neighborhoods, neglecting law enforcement and freezing Jewish construction in eastern Jerusalem are leading to a de facto division of the capital.
 
An ongoing government policy of appeasing and even empowering Arabs allows them to legally and illegally expand construction and assert Palestinian Authority control over key areas of Jerusalem. 
 
A year ago Aryeh King denounced how Netanyahu forbade Jews from entering eight Jerusalem neighborhoods, and allowed Palestinian Authority (PA) construction in the city, thus expanding its area of control.  

Willful blindness
 
At the same time PM Netanyahu has been instituting a Jewish building freeze and forbidding police from escorting Jerusalem building inspectors in eastern Jerusalem, revealed King, allowing local Arab residents to turn it into the "wild west" in terms of rampant building abuses.
 
"Netanyahu is doing what Arik Sharon did in Gush Katif," said King, recalling how Sharon destroyed Jewish communities in Gaza and expelled its residents - thus unleashing years of  Gazan terror against Israelis.  Aryeh elaborated that Netanyahu is doing as Sharon, who "didn't talk or negotiate - he just abandoned the land."
 
Jerusalem mayor gives the OK for a new Arab neighborhood in Jerusalem, raises permits by 50% in two years - while Jewish construction remains frozen.  Arab majority by 2030. 
 

Binyamin Netanyahu, Nir Barkat
PM Netanyahu and Jerusalem Mayor Barkat
Partners in the empowering of Arabs
 and the Arabization of Jerusalem
aimed at the future partition of the city.
Included in the roughly 10,000 housing units in the plan, are 2,800 illegal Arab housing units already on the ground that are legalized.
 
King remarked that in 2014 Barkat destroyed only around 20 illegal Arab out of a total of roughly 40,000 illegal housing units.

"Between the years 2012-2014 there is a rise of 50% in building permits for Arabs in the east of the city," notes King. "And that's opposed to the continued freeze on Jews that Netanyahu and Barkat are leading in Jerusalem."




Arabs routinely gather an arsenal of rocks to attack Jewish worshipers at Temple Mount -  a daily occurrence. 
Israeli police arrests Jews for praying at their most sacred site (where the Jewish Temple used to be before it was razed by the Romans).  
Both Jewish prayer and the very presence of Jews offends and enrages Arabs. 
As per Israeli government policy of appeasement, police allows Arabs to harass, insult, and assault Jews with impunity.

For government to get tough means police harassing, intimidating and arresting peaceful Jews  

Police arrest victim of terror for peacefully protesting against terror, while stone-throwing gangs run rampant all over the city.

Residents of Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood protest at the traffic circle at the entrance Tzur Baher, where Alexander Levlovitz was murdered by Arab terrorists.
Peaceful Jews,
easy and frequent targets for police
A 61-year-old man from Jerusalem, a victim of previous Arab terror,  was arrested on charges that he was one of the organizers of an illegal, but non-violent, anti-terrorism rally held in response to ongoing Arab attacks.

Six protesters were arrested from dozens who participated in the protest that began after the funeral for Alexander Levlovitz, who was murdered on Rosh Hashana eve by Arab terrorists who stoned his car.


That is not all.  A Yeshiva student was arrested FOR blasting a Jewish prayer on a loudspeaker as a response to Arabs throwing rocks. 

A Beit Orot yeshiva [Torah academy] student was arrested in Jerusalem on Tuesday night, after its students retaliated against a steady stream of Arab attacks by blasting the "Shema Yisrael" prayer over a loudspeaker.  Reason:  it might agitate Arabs.

Border Police arrest Jews for non-violent protest
Dozens of Arab rioters set off fireworks and threw rocks at Border Police near the yeshiva. After half an hour of clashes, students retaliated by blasting the prayer in a non-violent response. 

Shockingly, instead of Border Police arresting the rioters, they broke into the school, and threatened to arrest students for "agitating Arabs." 

The student who was arrested, a discharged soldier who until recently was a commander in a combat unit, was detained for noting to the officers that they had no legal grounds to ban the song.

In addition, police officers attacked a student who documented the arrest.

Continue reading, including many links to references on the subject of treason, the Israeli left's grip on the country, and much more.

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

COOL MUSICIANS FROM 5,000 YEARS AGO IN ISRAEL - Image of Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll in Early Bronze Age may be the oldest depiction of the music scene

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Music scene from 5,000-year-old seal found in northern Israel.
Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll
Music scene from 5,000-year-old seal found in northern Israel. -  Photo Credit: IAA
 
 
Woodstock was not so original, according to Israeli archaeologists.  The most ancient music scene known in the research of Israel appears on a rare 5,000 year old cylinder seal impression from the Early Bronze Age, according to Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) archaeologists Dr. Yitzchak Paz, Dr. Ianir Milevski and Nimrod Getzov. 

They will present their new findings in a symposium entitled “Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll” on behalf of IAA and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The impression, which was found in the 1970s at the Bet Ha-Emek antiquities site during an archaeological survey conducted in the Western Galilee by Dr. Rafi Frankel, was made using a cylinder seal rolled along the surface of the clay before it was fired, forming a series of repeating designs. 

The scene depicted on the seal impression includes three female figures, two standing and one sitting. The seated figure is playing an instrument that appears to be a lyre – a musical instrument known from the ancient world.

The researchers said:
It seems that the rare seal impression, which appeared on a fragment of a large storage vessel (pithos), sheds light on the symbolic-ritualistic world of the Early Bronze Age inhabitants in Israel. The importance of the scene lies in the possible symbolic context, it being part of a complex ritual known in Mesopotamia as the ‘sacred marriage’. In this ceremony a symbolic union took place between the king and a goddess (actually represented by a priestess).  
The ceremony included several rites: music and dancing, a banquet, a meeting between the king and the goddess and an act of sexual congress between them. Recently, Professor Pierre de Miroschedji of the CNRS suggested that many of the seal impressions from the Early Bronze Age portray the sacred marriage rite.
The seal impression presented reflects the musical part connected to this ceremony. 

“This is the first time it is definitely possible to identify a figure playing an instrument on a seal impression from the third millennium BCE,” the researchers added.” This is when most of the ‘cultic’ impressions from Israel depict dancing figures or the feasting scene in which the female and male figures are shown facing each other, in the rite just before their sexual encounter.”

About the Author: Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu is a graduate in journalism and economics from The George Washington University. He has worked as a cub reporter in rural Virginia and as senior copy editor for major Canadian metropolitan dailies. Tzvi wrote for Arutz Sheva for several years before joining the Jewish Press.
 
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