Philip's posts with tag: civil-war
And now the Disengagement of Judea and Samaria is on. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) will be abandoning 40 villages, leaving in its place, rent-a-cops. And ten villages won't even get private guards. They are on their own. Don't ask why the residents pay taxes for protection. It's gone. And for this we can thank the Pipes Plan of '05. Why use the army to pull the Jews out of Gaza when all the army has to do is leave? http://israelirevolutionary.blogspot.com/2008/04/insanity-front.html
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/287 - Should the [Israeli] government go ahead with the forcible removal of Jewish residents of Gaza, intra-Israeli violence appears to be a distinct possibility. Which in turn makes me wonder why the Israeli authorities do not take quite a different track and merely stop providing security for them.
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- Faced with the withdrawal of the Israel Defense Forces, Israeli residents of Gaza can make up their own minds about what to do. Presumably, they will peacefully leave their houses. This should be done with much advance notice: "On some date in 2005, the IDF will be withdrawn from Gaza. Make your decisions accordingly."
The author of the ghastly plan is Daniel Pipes, a neo-con member of the Council On Foreign Relations, who got his money and influence not through any talent, he has little enough of that, but because his daddy Richard was head of the CIA's Soviet Office.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125978In the latest in a series of decisions making Jewish life in Judea and Samaria more difficult, the army is leaving 40 towns.
The IDF is transferring the responsibility for protecting 40 Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria (Yesha) to private firms, and withdrawing protection altogether from ten others. The Yesha Council's Security Officer, Shlomo Vaknin, says, "The government is privatizing our security."
Recent decisions affecting the personal and communal safety in Yesha towns include the following: - Cancellation of Mivtzar program, in which a local emergency response team is trained by the army, to be utilized in case of a terrorist infiltration or other such crisis. "Mivtzar was the ideal response to the threat on our towns," Vaknin explains. "The fighters know the area, are well-trained, and their presence here was permanent and binding. The towns near Gaza and in the north want to copy this program - yet here the army is cancelling it..."
- Collection of weapons from the communities. The army explains that weapons had been stolen from residents, and that any trained resident who wishes to obtain a gun can do so.
- Cancellation of subsidies for enforcing private cars' windows from rock attacks.
- Withdrawal of National Service girls from security headquarters in the towns.
- Cancellation of budgeted funding for protecting school buses for special-education and handicapped children against shooting attacks. "We will not be able to open the school year next year if a solution is not found," Vaknin warns.
- Cancellation of budgeted funding for running security vehicles. "Some towns simply cannot use their security vehicles anymore," Vaknin says.
Of the neo-con agenda, Israelis were given a one evening course of their deranged thinking by one John Loftus in '03. Loftus was a member of the board of the Root And Branch Association, I add, my favorite lecturing ground in Jerusalem. And when he was scheduled to speak, chairman Arye Gallin invited me to watch his speech and present Loftus with my books. I did this but I wouldn't sign the books. I used to be a top drawer, getting up to 100 for my speeches. One DVD I sell, The Vatican's New Campaign For Jerusalem, was recorded at Root And Branch. But for Loftus, the crowds were around the block outside the building. Close to 300 were there for him. And did he disappoint! He began well, giving an overview of the oil cabal he described in the book co-written with Mark Aarons, The Secret War Against The Jews. The villains were the likes of J.D. Rockefeller, Prescott Bush, the Dulles brothers, John Foster and Allen, etc. When I asked him why he just didn't say that ALL his secret warriors were initial members of the CFR, he turned flush with anger and said, "Anyone who associates the CFR with the oil cartel is nuts. The President is his own man and takes no advice from his father." And then he added, "The Oslo Accord was good for you and you should not retaliate for attacks against it." Finally, the audience awoke. "Not retaliate?" one asked. "We've suffered 2,000 casualties since Oslo." I add, it's past 10,000 now. "Don't worry," he added. " WE have everything in control. Saddam Hussein snuck out his weapons of mass destruction at night by truck when our satellites couldn't see them, into the Bekaa Valley of Syria. After Iraq, we'll take them from Syria." Stunned crowd! Sitting next to me is Gemma Blech, the photographer of my book Bye Bye Gaza. She observes, "He's giving away the New World Order plan." And then, continued Loftus, "We'll sweep into Iran and polish them off." Loftus returned to America and to his commentator job at Fox-News. Twelve of the audience met at a Kosher Italian restaurant down the street to digest the insanity we had heard. We agreed, this was the Bush, neo-con battle plan. And whatever you may think of the Iraqi resistance, without out it, the Pipes-Loftus-Cheney-Rumsfield et al gang would have had their way with ease. But back in Israel today, the water will be a trickle by late July and the IDF is taking Pipes at his word.
Olmert Declares War On Israel [01.13.2008] Desperate politicians often take outlandish actions in attempts to save their political skins. Today, Israel's Prime Minister used the weekly cabinet meeting to call Israel's actions a "disgrace." As far we can tell Olmert did not condemn Abbas for failing to end Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israel (a rockets continue to fall on Israel.) No, Olmert limited his criticism to his government for not ejecting Jews from their homes. Using the terminology of Israel's enemies Olmert declared war on hundreds of thousands of Israelis including 180,000 Jews who live in Jerusalem. This is another move by Olmert to try and deflect attention away from his personal legal problems and the fallout from the release of a report (from the Winograd Commission)on his government's failings during the mismanaged military engagements in Lebanon. Everyone expects Olmert to come in for severe criticism when the report is issued -- in the very near future.
Tell Olmert to stop jeopardizing Israel's security by supporting the Bush-Rice ill-conceived peace initiative. Israel needs a government that stands up for Israel.
Zionsake Comment posted at OneJerusalem PM Olmert is a complete hipocrite. According to a report in Frontpage News, he is the one who is delaying the evacuation:
Defense officials: Olmert is delaying outpost plan
‘We’ve presented plan to dismantle illegal West Bank outposts 3 times’
http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx Why? Is it because he wants to wage a civil war on Jews Amona style. And then he calls it a disgrace that the outposts are still there!!
| Stand at Attention in Memory of the Murderer: By Moshe Feiglin | | This week will be the [6th in 2001] anniversary of Yitzchak Rabin's death. Traditionally, this week has become a Right-bashing free-for-all in which the Left blames the Right for murdering Rabin and a long list of other complaints. | | | | The following article was translated from Moshe Feiglin's book, "The War of Dreams." 24 Adar 5761 March 19, 2001 One of the "undeniable proofs" that Margalit Har Shefi knew about Yigal Amir's plan to assassinate the Prime Minister was the fact that she refused to stand at attention during the siren in Rabin's memory. If Netanyahu had been assassinated by a Leftist, everybody would be shocked, but the very foundations of the earth would not have quaked as they did when Rabin was assassinated. Why not? Because Netanyahu is not a member of Israel's "Blue Blood" Society. Rabin's murder was much more than an ordinary murder and much more than a blow to democracy. It was the rabble's rude invasion into the kingdom of the elite. Now Margalit Har Shefi is imprisoned. She is one of the rabble, a friend of the murderer, and she is not willing to stand at attention! Heaven help us! The rabble is an insidious threat! But we will show them who is boss. Margalit's fate was sealed. The more that she appealed, the less were her chances of acquittal. The higher the court, the bluer the blood. I had the honor of being pursued for the same "crime" by the same blue-bloods. I was charged with sedition because I led illegal massive protests against Oslo. But the charge sheet included an accusation that didn't seem relevant to the other charges against me. The State prosecution took the trouble to write that the defendant called the Prime Minister a "murderer." Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon were called "murderer" day and night. A number of the leftist protesters who used that term went on to become ministers and Knesset members. I, however, did not call Yitzchak Rabin a murderer. The prosecution simply wanted to entangle me in a saga of denial and apology. I represented myself at the trial. When it was my turn to address the allegation in the charge sheet, I turned to the three judges and said: "I never called Yitzchak Rabin a murderer. But since the prosecution insists on accusing me of doing so, I hereby announce that Yitzchak Rabin was a murderer. If the State prosecution opposes this statement, I intend to bring witnesses to prove my allegation." Yes, I certainly do have chilling proof that Yitzchak Rabin was a murderer. When Rabin was Israel's ambassador in Washington, the embassy held an Israel Independence Day celebration. Each of the guests was asked to recall a memorable event that he had experienced. Of all his experiences, Yitzchak Rabin chose the story of how he had personally shot the Jews -- some of them Holocaust refugees -- who had jumped overboard the burning Altalena. "We shot them on the ship and we shot them while they swam in the water," Rabin bragged to the embarrassed guests. | | | | (In the photo: The Altalena burns off the shore
of Tel Aviv, 1948.) | | I wanted to bring some of those guests to testify in court, but it was unnecessary. The three judges simultaneously looked at the representative of the State to see how he would deal with the challenge with which I had confronted him. Will the official representative of the State of Israel accept the statement that Yitzchak Rabin was indeed a murderer? And if he does not accept it, what will we do? After all, we cannot prevent this impertinent defendant from bringing witnesses to the court and his trial will turn into Rabin's trial! The prosecutor kept his eyes on the floor. He did not take issue with the statement that Rabin was a murderer. That was the smart thing for him to do. | | | And you, Margalit, must be proud that you did not join the brainless rabble that stood at attention in memory of that murderer. |
October 16, '07 IDF Commander Issues Adminisrative Orders Against Jews ( IsraelNN.com) IDF Central Commander has issued administrative orders against a number of Jewish residents of Samaria. The orders, three months in length, prevents the Jews from being in the region of their residence. The reason given for the orders is that the Jews must be distanced for the duration of the olive harvest. Neriah Ofan Among Those Who Received Restraining Orders ( IsraelNN.com) One of the Jewish residents of Samaria to be barred from returning to his home by IDF administrative order is Neriah Ofan. Ofan was victim to a similar order in 2006, along with 19 others. Prior to the 2005 Disengagement, Ofan was jailed without trial via administrative detention order due to fears by the government that his logistical skills in organizing the monthly encirclement of the Temple Mount were being used to organize opposition to the expulsion. MK Ariel: Administrative Orders Scandalous (IsraelNN.com) MK Uri Ariel (National Union) responded angrily to reports that the IDF has issued administrative orders distancing several Samaria Jews from their homes.
MK Ariel said the renewal of the use of administrative orders for such purposes violates a Knesset decision condemning such use by the security establishment of the administrative orders in the past.
“The actions are even more sever in light of the fact that no such steps were taken against the Arabs and left-wing activists who uprooted 6,000 Jewish-owned vines near Nerya two months ago.” MK Ariel: Administrative Orders Scandalous ( IsraelNN.com) MK Uri Ariel (National Union) responded angrily to reports that the IDF has issued administrative orders distancing several Samaria Jews from their homes. MK Ariel said the renewal of the use of administrative orders for such purposes violates a Knesset decision condemning such use by the security establishment of the administrative orders in the past. “The actions are even more sever in light of the fact that no such steps were taken against the Arabs and left-wing activists who uprooted 6,000 Jewish-owned vines near Nerya two months ago.”
| Women in Combat Units and Inverted Values: By Moshe Feiglin | |  A committee established by Head of IDF Personnel Major General Elazar Stern, decided this week (as expected) to include women soldiers in all military combat units and under all circumstances. This is not surprising. When women were first included in combat units a number of years ago, Moshe Feiglin wrote to the heads of the Religious Zionist hesder yeshivas and stated that if they do not establish an ultimatum against introducing women into combat units, they would also not direct their students to refuse orders to expel their fellow Jews that came a few years later. And that is exactly what happened. Those religious soldiers who received authorization from their rabbis to serve in combat with women soldiers eventually also received directives from the same rabbis to expel their brothers from their homes. Just as the expulsion from Gush Katif became a value in and of itself -- detached from any reason, so the inclusion of women in combat units has also become a value detached from any military or security benefit. The following article, from Moshe Feiglin's book, "The War of Dreams," was written in 2001, when the issue of women in combat units first arose. Women in Combat Units and Inverted Values: By Moshe Feiglin 24 Av, 5761
August 13, 2001 Between a slaughter in a pizza shop and a massacre in a coffee shop, between shootings on the roads of Yesha, shootings in Jerusalem and rockets on the settlements of Gush Katif, the State of Israel has been occupied in the last few weeks with the question of women's service in combat units. A stranger would not understand. Don't the Israelis have enough troubles? Why are they bringing another trouble on themselves? But in truth, it is all the same trouble. It is all the same disease. The State of Israel has entered a sort of values vertigo. The heavens are the earth, the earth is the heavens, good is evil and evil is good. The most obvious expression of this vertigo was Rabin's handshake with Arafat on the White House lawn. That handshake seated all the Israelis on the defendant's bench in the International Crimes Court at The Hague. It implied Israel's recognition of the legitimacy of the struggle of the Palestinian Liberation Organization -- the organization that strives to liberate "Palestine" from the yoke of the Jewish occupation. In other words, that handshake created the Palestinian nation, recognized the fact that it has a homeland in the Land of Israel, that this homeland is occupied by the Zionist colonialist conquerors and that the terrorists are really freedom fighters -- necessarily making the Israelis war criminals. The criminals who perpetrated Oslo rode upon the vehicle of post-modern/feminist philosophy. To understand this on a deeper level, we have to understand the forces at work here. On the most basic level, what is happening in Israel is a war between life and death. Good, morality and life -- are one. Evil and death also embrace each other. "Behold, I have set before you today life and goodness, and death and evil."
(Deuteronomy 30:15) There is good and there is evil -- and not as the pagan post-modernism would have us believe. There is life and there is death. Life is created by separation of the sexes, and not as feminism would have us believe. Life is created by separation. The cell divides, differentiates and develops. The primordial default is death and confusion. In the beginning, there was chaos and disorder and darkness on the face of the abyss. Then the Creator of life began to make separations: between light and darkness, between the sea and the dry land, between animals and humans, between men and women and between the nations of the world and the Jewish People. Life is not static. In order to preserve life, we must always invest energy in making separations. Every mother knows that the natural condition of the house is "a mess" and how much energy must be invested on a constant basis to preserve the separation that transforms the mess into a living and functioning household. Death pulls us inexorably toward its depths. Materials that are not separated will mix together. If we want to keep them alive, we must invest energy to separate them. Chaos and disorder, the blurring of distinctions, the pagan enticement to give in to the whirlpool that draws the world down to its death -- are all forces that the Nation of Israel must face. These forces of death always wrap themselves in an enlightened and preening cloak. They present themselves as the pure beauty of life. They speak in the name of order and civilization. But in truth, they serve chaos and disorder, darkness and death. "Why did you insist on ruling that two men constitute a family?" Chief Justice Barak was asked. "If the homosexual partner is eligible for compensation, you could have awarded it to him on a regular contractual basis. Why mix laws of matrimony into the ruling?" In typical dictatorial fashion, Chief Justice Barak felt no need to explain. It is unlikely that he himself understands the forces that motivate him. But in essence, he uses all the dictatorial tools that he has created in order to foster confusion. Confusion of values, confusion of sexual identity, confusion of the family unit, confusion of our national identity, confusion of our territorial borders, confusion of separation and return to chaos, disorder and death. What motivated the woman soldier who wanted to be a combat pilot to appeal to the Supreme Court? Was it a rare outburst of love for her homeland? Was it eternal Zionism? Or was it the desire to express herself as a man -- the best that feminist confusion has to offer? It was clear from the very start that the Supreme Court would cooperate with her in full. Its ruling broke down the very last separation of the sexes that still existed in the IDF. It makes no difference that women soldiers in combat units critically reduce the operational abilities of the unit -- a fact that has been proven in other armies that have already reneged on the preposterous idea. Trash the IDF, crush the State -- the main thing is that we achieve our goal. We will take advantage of the young women's desire to contribute to the State and channel it for our purposes. We will take advantage of the most respected Israeli value, the security ethos -- the basic survival instinct that remains the last justification for the existence of the nation of Holocaust remnants -- and use it to drag this confused and tormented nation down into the whirlpool of chaos, disorder and death. And where do the rabbis come in? "Did I do the right thing?" the brave woman soldier, Chani Abramov asked the Chief Rabbi who came to visit her in the hospital. Did the institutional rabbi think that she was asking his medical opinion? Deep down, she felt the pain of falsehood that added to the pain of her shattered face. The Rabbi mumbled a few word of encouragement and left. Did he understand the issue? The Ultra-Orthodox rabbis have no problem. Their forecasts were precise and they can rub their hands in affected sorrow as they wait for Zionism to self-destruct. In the end, though, all the Jews get thrown into the pits of death together. And where are the Zionist rabbis, heads of the hesder yeshivas and the NRP? How can they accept this situation? They are in Zionist captivity. Their self-imposed dependence on Zionism does not allow them to understand the destructive process that is taking place here. Their arguments against the service of women in combat units are truly humiliating. The Leftist broadcasters have a field day with every stuttering rabbi who explains his opposition to women serving in combat units because it makes it too difficult for the male soldiers to concentrate on their mission. "Aha!" the broadcasters rejoice. "What kind of thoughts do you have in your heads? This is solid proof that when you separate between the sexes, it creates even more severe problems. Separation is death. Chaos and confusion are life. If it is difficult for you, dear rabbis, to face women in combat units and to continue to abide by Jewish law -- no problem. We will create religious reservations for you. Don't worry, we'll work it all out." Manhigut Yehudit Weekly Update Tishrei 8, 5768 (Sept. 20, 2007) Issue: 6801 |
Tuesday, August 28, 2007 by Staff Writer  Israel Today At least 50 percent of young Israeli army officers today are conservative religious Jews, according to a report in Israel's Ma'ariv daily newspaper. Religious, thought not not necessarily Orthodox, Jews are a minority in Israel, but because of their strong Zionist upbringing are “becoming the backbone of the [Israel Defense Forces],” the newspaper noted.
Religious soldiers have long been praised within Israel as the most dedicated and courageous combatants in the army.
However, there is also a growing fear that the Bible-based beliefs of such soldiers regarding Israel's right to the land could result in mutiny if the secular government orders a mass evacuation of Jews from Judea and Samaria as part of a peace deal with the Palestinians. Earlier this month, a group of religious soldiers refused to participate in the removal of Jewish settlers from Jewish owned property in the Judean town of Hebron.
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