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Israel: Rabbis in Jerusalem against snowmen

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If only someone could un-write the various bibles. I suppose the only redeeming feature is that they only want to stop practicing Jews from having any fun and presumably leaving the rational people alone. However its probably a safe bet that if they had enough political power they would enforce the prohibition on anything they think god wants on everyone like most religious fanatics. Makes one wonder. If god was so powerful, why he doesn’t do this stuff himself.

Meanwhile, back in the holy land…

ANSAMED:

Human shapes a form of idolatry

02 March, 13:39

Snow in the Old City of Jerusalem Snow in the Old City of Jerusalem

(ANSAmed) – JERUSALEM – Today’s abundant snowfall in Jerusalem and many high altitude areas of the West Bank and Galilee has – for the first time in years – forced rabbis to go back to studying the prohibitions required by the case, to help practicing Jews avoid involuntarily breaking the rules of Orthodoxy. Above all else, these rabbis have reminded the population, on the basis of the teachings of the medieval philosopher Maimonides, that Jews are prohibited from making snowmen as they are not allowed to create anything in the likeness of man in order to avoid slipping into idolatry. A difficulty has arisen today in that the snowfall has occurred on a Friday, therefore shortly before the Jewish day of rest in which Jews are prohibited from any activity other than prayer.

Starting at sundown and for the entire day of Saturday, practicing Jews will therefore not be allowed to make snowballs.

Whether throwing snowballs tomorrow made today is permitted is the object of discussion among rabbis, who hold different approaches to the matter. Tomorrow, in observance of the sabbatical day of rest, Orthodox Jews will have to abstain from shaking off their coats on which snow has accumulated. The instructions given are to let it melt by itself. As concerns the removal of snow piled up in front of houses, Orthodox rabbis have shown themselves to be more open, since – they say – it would be unreasonable to oblige people to stay out of their homes until the mantle of snow melts.(ANSAmed).

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Harvard’s shameful and biased “one state” conference joins the call to destroy Israel

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The Commentator:

Feb 29, 2012

In the intellectuals’ war against Israel, there is no truth in labelling. To paraphrase Orwell, War is Peace, Ignorance is Enrichment, and Genocide is Liberal Democracy

Palestinian and Israeli cultures are, at present, fundamentally irreconcilable

Palestinian and Israeli cultures are, at present, fundamentally irreconcilable
Henry Kopel

By Henry Kopel

on 28 February 2012 at 10am

The campaign among western intellectuals to delegitimize Israel’s existence scored a major symbolic victory this month, with the announcement that Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government will host on March 3-4, a conference advocating a “One State Solution” for Israel and the Palestinians.

“One State Solution” is the latest fashion among Israel’s enemies. If implemented, Israel would be merged into a single country with the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and both Jews and Palestinians living elsewhere would have a “right of return.”

Conveniently unmentioned in the Harvard conference brochure is that an influx of millions of Palestinians would create a majority vote for dismantling Israel and replacing it with a Palestinian-Arab state.

Palestinians may call this “One State,” but for Israeli Jews, the more accurate caption for this “solution” would seem to be “Final.”

That Harvard’s conferees have no intention of presenting a fair and honest debate on the implications of “One State” is made clear by the speakers list, which consists mostly of militant Palestinian advocates, plus a few left-wing Jewish extremists who question the validity of Israel’s existence. Such as:

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ISRAEL: OFF DUTY SOLDIERS NEARLY LYNCHED BY ARABS IN HAIFA…….

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It could have ended up like this

These are the ‘fifth column’ Arabs that Israelis have to worry about all of the time. Look at the head of the soldier in the picture, you can clearly see that something was carved into his skull.

‘I felt they wanted to murder me’

Two off-duty IDF soldiers will likely never forget the trauma they endured early Saturday, when an Arab gang nearly lynched them in a vicious, unprovoked mob attack.

“At certain moments I felt my end was nearing,” one soldier told Yedioth Ahronoth, as shocking new details of the Haifa assault emerged Sunday.

Meanwhile, police arrested two additional suspects in connection to the assault. It is suspected at least six assailants currently in custody attacked the soldiers on the assumption they had hurled stones at their house earlier. Officers are currently of the opinion this was a case of mistaken identity.

“This is a very serious incident and we will hold a comprehensive investigation but it should be noted that this appears to be a case of pure hooliganism,” a Haifa police official said. The suspects will face a remand hearing at the Haifa Magistrate’s Court later on Sunday.

The two 19-year-old soldiers, who were back home for the weekend, decided to go out Friday night. During the outing, one of them felt intense pain in his arm and the two headed to Haifa’s Rambam hospital.

“After we parked the car, another vehicle approaching quickly stopped next to us,” one victim said. “They asked us whether we’re Jewish, and then started yelling ‘Jews, Jews.’ We ran in different directions but they chased us.”

“They caught up with me and started to beat me up with clubs all over my body. I felt they wanted to murder me,” he said. “I saw about 15 or 20 people and felt I was finished.”

Arabic words engraved on head
According to the second victim, the assailants came out of three vehicles equipped with clubs and metal rods.

“Seven or eight people grabbed hold of me, beat me up and kicked me all over my body,” he said. “They also tried to hit my head with a club, but I protected myself with my arms. That’s why my arms were pulverized. They hit also my head and pelvis with a rock.”

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Egyptian Official: War with Israel, US in Three Months

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Israel National News:

MEMRI: Egyptian presidential candidate declared that Egyptian Army will engage in armed warfare against Israel, US, EU within three months.

By Rachel Hirshfeld

First Publish: 2/21/2012, 4:52 PM

MemriTV
MemriTV
Israel news photo: MemriTV.org

Egyptian Presidential Candidate Tawfiq Okasha declared last week that the Egyptian Army will engage in armed warfare against Israel, the United States and the European Union within three months.

The declaration, made in a segment translated into English by The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) on February 9, Okasha slso said that “like the Nazis, the Jews aim to rule and own the world.”

“Hitler’s principle was that the best race must become master of the world… Hitler established German Nazism to rule and own the world. On the other hand, we find that this is precisely the same philosophy as that of the Israelites and the Jews who say: we are the Semitic people, we are the best in the world, and we must rule and own the world, because the Semites are the kings of the earth and all that is upon it,” he said.

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Obama sends top security aide to Israel as tension builds over nuclear Iran

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Telegraph:

A senior US security official arrived in Israel on Saturday as international tension over Iran’s nuclear development reached an all-time high.

Tom Donilon Obama sends top security aide to Israel as tension builds over nuclear Iran

Tom Donilon, the US president’s top security aide, arrived in Tel Aviv for three days of meetings with Israeli defence and security chiefs Photo: GETTY

By Phoebe Greenwood in Tel Aviv

1:56PM GMT 18 Feb 2012 

Tom Donilon, the US president’s top security aide, arrived in Tel Aviv on Saturday morning for three days of meetings with Israeli defence and security chiefs.

While Washington claims the visit is simply the latest in a series of “regular, high level consultations between the United States and Israel”, it came just days after coordinated attacks launched against Israeli embassies across the world provoked outrage in Jerusalem, which claims with certainly that Iran is responsible.

Israel’s option of launching a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities was expected to be the urgent topic of discussion during Mr Donilon’s visit.

Hours before he arrived Iran’s navy claimed its warships entered the Mediterranean to show its ‘might’ to regional countries.

In recent weeks, Israeli government officials have remained resolutely tight-lipped on their position on the Iranian threat but a string of high-ranking US officials have expressed the belief that Israel is preparing to act, with or without American support.

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British Muslim Zionist pulls no punches

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Canadian Jewish News:

Myron Love, Prairies Correspondent, Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Kasim Hafeez [Myron Love photo]

WINNIPEG — Kasim Hafeez has seen the truth and, in an address to a largely Jewish audience at the Asper Jewish Community Campus on Feb. 6, he pulled no punches.

Wahhabism, the Saudi Arabian version of Islam, is little different than Nazism, Hafeez said.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas should be facing war crimes charges at the International Criminal Court at The Hague, he said.

Anti-Zionism is code for antisemitism, he said.

The Islamic concern for Jerusalem is purely political, he said. Until the creation of Israel, Jerusalem was unimportant to most Muslims.

And often, he noted, those who claim to be pro-Palestinian are just anti-Israel.

Hafeez, 29, a British-born Muslim of Pakistani origin, knows of what he speaks.

Until just a few years ago, he was part of that Jew-hating Muslim world. He was even ready to go to Pakistan to train as a terrorist.

His worldview began to change after stumbling across a copy of Alan Dershowitz’s book, A Case for Israel. “I figured it was just Zionist propaganda,” he said of the book. “I thought I would read it and be able to refute it all.”

Instead, Hafeez found that Dershowitz’s arguments challenged all of the myths about Israel and the Jews that he grew up with. And, he said, he couldn’t find any Muslim sources who could refute Dershowitz’s points.

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Two Jews Nearly Lynched in Jerusalem

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Israel National News:

Two Jews are recovering from a near lynch attempt, after Arabs threw rocks at their car as they were driving in Jerusalem.
By Elad Benari

First Publish: 2/17/2012, 12:02 AM

 

Rock throwing by PA Arabs

Rock throwing by PA Arabs
Israel news photo: Flash 90

Two civilian employees of the Defense Ministry are recovering from a near lynch attempt on Monday.

The two were traveling to Mount Scopus in Jerusalem when they accidentally made a wrong turn and ended up stuck in a traffic jam between two Arab cars. A crowd of Arab youths then showed up and began throwing rocks at them.

At one point the rock throwers, some of whom were students from a nearby school, approached the vehicle and slammed a large stone into the windshield. The rock struck the driver, Yehuda Attias, in the head. Attias, who was all bloody, hit the gas and the two Israelis then fled toward a nearby hotel. They called security and rescue forces and were taken to the hospital. Attias was since hospitalized several times because of the severe head injuries.

Eliezer Hakshur, Attias’ brother-in-law, told Arutz Sheva that it was a miracle that Attias survived the lynching attempt.

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