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Israelis Lose Faith In International Guarantees
By Evelyn Gordon
JINSA Fellow
In an interview with The Jerusalem Post last month, Czech Ambassador to Israel Tomas Pojar was asked to comment on recent remarks by Israel's then-foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, who compared European countries' oft-proclaimed commitment to Israel's security to their commitments to Czechoslovakia in the 1930s. Pojar replied, correctly, that the parallel isn't exact; there are many differences between Israel's situation today and Czechoslovakia's in 1938.
Nevertheless, Pojar warned, there is one important similarity: "There are parallels about how much guarantees you can get from outside, and how much you should rely on them."
Judging by the results of a new poll conducted by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs in late November, it seems the Israeli public has internalized this warning. When asked how the country could best ensure its security, 61 percent of Jewish Israelis (and 52 percent of all Israelis) said that defensible borders were preferable to a peace treaty - i.e., a document enshrining commitments by another country or countries. Just 26 percent preferred a peace treaty. This constitutes a noticeable shift from 2005, when only 49 percent preferred defensible borders.
Moreover, they don't believe the world's preferred formula for an Israeli-Palestinian deal - the 1967 lines with "minor adjustments" - provides such borders: Fully 72 percent said Israel should not agree to such a deal, even if Palestinians agreed to declare an end to the conflict in exchange, and 73 percent opposed ceding the Jordan Valley in particular. That's a logical corollary of the fact that they don't believe the risks of doing so could be mitigated by stationing international forces there, as various peace plans have proposed: Only 16 percent said Israel could trust international forces to ensure its security; 78 percent said security had to remain in the hands of the Israel Defense Forces. READ MORE
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Morsi in 2010: No to Negotiations with "the Descendants of Apes and Pigs"; Boycott US Products
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In a 2010 television interview that resurfaced last week, Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi attacked Israel and Jews in shockingly derogatory and racist language, and denied Israel's right to exist.
"The Zionists have no right to the land of Palestine," Morsi says in the video provided by MEMRI. "There is no place for them on the land of Palestine. What they took before 1947-8 constitutes plunder, and what they are doing now is a continuation of this plundering."
He further refused to recognize the legitimacy of pre-1967 Israel, saying that all of the land "belongs to the Palestinians, not to the Zionists."
Using the standard term "Zionists" as code for "Jews," he also referred to Jews as "bloodsuckers" and quoted the Koranic reference to Jews as sons of "apes and pigs."
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Senior IDF officer: 3rd intifada has begun
Ezion sector commander makes grim prediction about Palestinian unrest in West Bank; says IDF prepared to battle terror
Itamar Fleishman
The defense establishment has been careful not to overstate the significance of the recent - growing - wave of unrest sweeping the West Bank, but according to IDF Ezion Sector Commander Colonel Yaniv Alaluf, the third intifada has already begun.

Tamoun rioters (Archives: Reuters)
Speaking to troops and reservists assigned to the sector, Alaluf qualified his daunting prediction, saying that "We may not be facing thousands of demonstrators storming border fences with AK-47s, but that doesn't diminish the seriousness of the situation."
Ynet learned Sunday that Alaluf, one of the GOC Central Command's top-ranking officers, spoke following a training session held in the area, as part of the IDF's efforts to deal with the increasing tensions in the West Bank following Operation Pillar of Defense and the PA's status upgrade by the UN. READ MORE |
Islamist Group Tries to Kill Use of "Islamist"
IPT News January 4, 2013
http://www.investigativeproject.org/3871/islamist-group-tries-to-kill-use-of-islamist
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After doing everything it can to ensconce a new word, "Islamophobia," into conversational English, the nation's most visible Islamist group is trying to stop use of a well-established word: Islamist.
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) national spokesman Ibrahim Hooper released a column urging journalists to "Drop the term 'Islamist.'"
It was added to the latest Associated Press Stylebook - the guide for spelling, punctuation and other rules - that is used by journalists at the smallest community papers and the largest television networks, Hooper wrote. AP defines Islamists as "Those who view the Quran as a political model encompass a wide range of Muslims, from mainstream politicians to militants known as jihadi."
Journalists should ignore that, Hooper argued, because it is used in a negative way, and used by "Islam-bashers" who really hate the faith of Islam but want to cover their tracks. "Yet they fail to explain how a practicing Muslim can be active in the political arena without attracting the label 'Islamist.'"
Plenty of practicing Muslims work bravely in opposition to Islamist ideology. Britain's Quilliam Foundation was started by Muslims who walked away from radical Islamist thought and now counter the arguments Islamists offer.
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JANUARY 7, 2013 2:00 PM
Former senator Chuck Hagel in Iraq. Photo: Joint Combat Camera Center Iraq.
President Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense risks increasing the likelihood that Iran will develop nuclear weapons. It poses that risk because Hagel is well known for his opposition both to sanctions against Iran and to employing the military option if necessary.
These views are inconsistent with the very different views expressed by President Obama. The President has emphasized on numerous occasions that he will never allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons and will use military force if necessary to prevent that "game changer."
The nomination of Hagel thus sends a mixed message to the mullahs in Tehran, who will likely interpret it as a change from a red light to a yellow or green one when it comes to their desire to develop nuclear weapons. Sending a mixed message at this point can increase the chances that Iran will miscalculate and act in a foolheartedly manner thus requiring the actual use of the military option-an eventuality that nobody wants.
The goal of America's policy toward Iran has always been to frighten the mullahs into believing President Obama's threat to use military force if sanctions fail. "I don't bluff", President Obama has famously and publicly stated. It is imperative that the Iranian leadership believe this. If they do, they may well decide that the sanctions they are currently undergoing are too painful to endure, if the end result is that they will never be permitted to develop nuclear weapons. If they don't believe President Obama's threat, then the sanctions alone will not dissuade them from pursuing their nuclear goal. The nomination of Senator Hagel will strengthen the hand of those within the Iranian leadership who think that President Obama is bluffing.
It is also important that the Israeli leadership believes that President Obama really has Israel's back when it comes to preventing Iran from endangering the Jewish state by obtaining nuclear weapons. Any loss of trust with this regard may result in an Israeli decision to take unilateral military action to protect its citizens against nuclear attacks.
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JANUARY 7, 2013 4:34 PM
Chuck Hagel in Kuwait.
In an interview with The Algemeiner, former Mayor of New York, Ed Koch, a lifelong Democrat who supported President Obama's recent re-election, expressed disappointment with the President's decision to nominate former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense.
"Frankly, I thought that there would come a time when he would renege on what he conveyed on his support of Israel," said Koch, adding, "it comes a little earlier than I thought it would."
"It's very disappointing, I believe he will ultimately regret it," Koch said, "and it undoubtedly will reduce support for him in the Jewish community, but I don't think he (the President) worries about that now that the election is over."
The former mayor who is beloved among many in New York's Jewish community, said that he believes the appointment will embolden Islamists and will be damaging to the U.S.-Israel relationship.
"It's not good," he said, "but fortunately, Congress, overwhelmingly both Democratic and Republican supports the Jewish state, so I'm sure they will defend it against the defense department when it ruptures the current good relationship which exists."
"I'm sure that the Arabs are drinking orange juice and toasting Hagel's good health," Koch said.
"I believe it will encourage the Iranian program. I believe it will encourage the jihadists. They will say 'ah, we are winning the battle. America is beginning to desert Israel,'" he added. READ MORE
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| THE LATEST | | CIA Nominee Brennan Dismisses Radical Islam, Calls J'lem Al-Quds, Whitewashes Hizballah | | January 8, 2013 | The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed concern at and opposition to the nomination by President Barack Obama of John O. Brennan to head the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The ZOA has pointed out that John Brennan, who is currently President Obama's chief security adviser for counter-terrorism, has been a leading figure in the failure of the Obama Administration to name the enemy - radical Islam - waging war on the U.S.; has called Jerusalem by its Arabic name, Al-Quds, has whitewashed the Lebanese terrorist group, Hizballah; and been implicated in serious intelligence failures: | | More | | | | ZOA believes Senator Kerry is a problematic choice for Secretary of State. Kerry Said Syria's Assad Could 'Change' for the Better, Supports Israel Giving up Golan Heights & Eastern J'lem | | January 4, 2013 | The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed to further troubling positions adopted by Senator John Kerry (D-MA), President Barack Obama's nominee to replace Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State. According to a leaked diplomatic cable reproduced in the British Guardian newspaper, during a February 2010 visit to Middle East, Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, went to Qatar and told Qatari Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani and the Emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa, that he believes Syrian president Bashar al-Assad "wants change ... Senator Kerry said he had wanted a U.S. Ambassador in Syria a year ago, but agreed that the naming of an Ambassador [since then] is a positive development." | | More | | |
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JANUARY 7, 2013 2:21 PM
Chuck Hagel. Photo: Wikipedia
Debate over Chuck Hagel's history with Israel and the Jewish community has hit a fever pitch as anticipation mounts that U.S. President Barack Obama will nominate him for the position of Secretary of Defense. The Algemeiner has written extensively about Hagel's controversial record on Israel, Iran and a whole slew of issues relating to the Middle East.
The opposition is promising to be strong. Morton Klein, President of the Zionist Organization of America, said the organization is already taking action."We're on the Hill speaking to every senator or staffer that we can, to urge them to vote against Hagel as a man who is bad for America, bad for fighting terrorism, bad for stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons, bad for good relations with Israel-that's what we're telling every member of the Senate."
He added that he's spoken to many politicians on both sides of the aisle and is getting the sense that Hagel is no shoe-in. "Prominent Democrats have already expressed a deep concern about it. They haven't said it publicly, but they're thinking about saying it publicly."
Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation league was less emphatic in his opposition, releasing this statement:
"Senator Hagel would not have been my first choice, but I respect the President's prerogative. I trust that the confirmation process will provide an opportunity for Senator Hagel to address concerns about his positions, which seem so out of sync with President Obama's clear commitment on issues like Iran sanctions, isolating Hamas and Hezbollah and the president's strong support for a deepening of U.S. Israel strategic cooperation. I particularly hope Senator Hagel will clarify and explain his comments about the "Jewish Lobby" that were hurtful to many in the Jewish Community."
There has even been criticism from some unexpected corners. On Sunday Robert Reich, an economist who has served in the Ford, Carter and Clinton administrations, said during an appearance on ABC's "This Week" that he didn't understand Obama's decision.
Many prominent Jewish Democrats including Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Carl Levin (D-Mich.), have suggested they would support Hagel while Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has expressed reservations. Others outright opposed to Hagel include Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), the senior Democrat on the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee; and former Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.). READ MORE
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Brennan and Hagel - Bolstering or Weakening US National Security?
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger - Israel Hayom, January 8th, 2013
The US Senate vote on the nomination of John Brennan and Chuck Hagel to the positions of CIA Director and Defense Secretary, respectively, will shape US power projection and posture of deterrence, global sanity, war on Islamic terrorism and the US determination to avert the wrath of a nuclear Iran.
John Brennan presented his position on Iran in the July, 2008 issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: "A critical step toward improved US-Iranian relations would be for US officials to cease public Iran-bashing, a tactic that may have served short-term domestic political interests, but that has heretofore been wholly counterproductive to U.S. strategic interests."
John Brennan believed that Iran halted its nuclear-weapons program in 2003, as reported by the 2007 U.S. National Intelligence Estimate report. He criticized President Bush for refusing to ease the pressure on Iran. Brennan opined that "preventing Iran from making a nuclear weapon could only be achieved through persuasion."
On August 6, 2009, John Brennan presented his worldview on countering-terrorism in a speech on "A New Approach to Safeguarding Americans" at the Center for Strategic and International Studies: "The President does not describe this [war on Islamic terrorism] as a 'war on terrorism.' That is because'terrorism' is but a tactic.... The President does not describe this as a 'global war....' It plays into the misleading and dangerous notion that the U.S. is somehow in conflict with the rest of the world.... Nor does President Obama see this challenge as a fight against 'Jihadists.' Describing terrorists in this way-using a legitimate term, "Jihad," meaning to purify oneself or to wage a holy struggle for a moral goal-risks giving these murderers the religious legitimacy they desperately seek...."
Brennan's ideological ambiguity/confusion towards Islamic terrorism - and his misrepresentation of Jihad and ignoring the dominance of hate education in the Muslim Middle East - could be transformed into operational ambiguity/confusion in the battle against Islamic terrorism.
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Israel's jihad is mine
JANUARY 10, 2013, 1:35 PM

Dr Qanta Ahmed is Associate Professor of Medicine at the State University of New York (Stony Brook) . Dr. Ahmed is also a non-fiction author. Her first book, 'In the Land of Invisible Women' (Sourcebooks 2008), details her experience of living and working in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and has been published internationally in 13 countries including in translation, and is now in its 11th edition. Since 2009, she has been a regular contributor to the Huffington Post where she blogs about political and religious issues pertaining to Islam, the Middle East and terrorism. [Less]
As Israel considers building a new fence to contain the Syrian conflict to the north, which fences can keep out Hamas's even more lethal ideologies? While Gaza and the Muslim Arab world continue to claim victory in the recent Israel-Hamas conflict, for the sane observers among us, there is only ever defeat - the defeat of morality in the desecration of a great religion. While most Muslims laud Hamas and scorn Israel, for me, an observing Muslim, Israel's war against Hamas remains my struggle - my jihad.
Israel's eight-day operation "Pillar of Defense" sought to dismantle the Hamas apparatus from within Gaza. The predictably seamless alignment of the Muslim world against Israel was even more breathtaking than usual in the face of Syria's 22 months of systematic genocide, one which has consistently failed to trigger unanimous Muslim protest. What does this say about us as Muslims?
We are hypocrites.
While Muslims define Israel as the enemy, we ignore Assad, and diabolically laud Hamas. Hamas is never sated - each year it devours ever more Palestinians, regardless of age or gender. If Israelis lose fewer citizens than the Palestinians in these conflicts it is for the same reason Israel exchanges more prisoners for each captive soldier: quite simply Israel values human life more than does Hamas, which relishesground operations taking place among densely populate civilian areas.
Explaining this to Muslims in the Twitterverse, I get sharply reminded that Hamas does not have the "luxury of launch sites" that Israel enjoys. Have we lost our minds, Muslims? How can we speak of 'launch sites' as 'luxuries' while disregarding the culling taking place in Syria? Perhaps we have not lost our minds, but we have most certainly lost our religion. READ MORE
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Great vid, so interesting and it is nice to see a Muslim tell the truth and defend the Jews right to live in Israel.
My Gd bless this Muslim man and help him spread the truth.
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Hate Crime Stats Deflate 'Islamophobia' Myth
by David J. Rusin National Review Online January 11, 2013
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A detailed analysis of FBI statistics covering ten full calendar years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks reveals that, on a per capita basis, American Muslims, contrary to spin, have been subjected to hate crimes less often than other prominent minorities. From 2002 to 2011, Muslims are estimated to have suffered hate crimes at a frequency of 6.0 incidents per 100,000 per year - 10 percent lower than blacks (6.7), 48 percent lower than homosexuals and bisexuals (11.5), and 59 percent lower than Jews (14.8). Americans should keep these numbers in mind whenever Islamists attempt to silence critics by invoking Muslim victimhood.
The federal government defines a hate crime as a "criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, ethnic origin, or sexual orientation." Though statutes mandating harsher punishments for hatred-inspired acts raise the specter of thought crimes, emphasize group identity over the individual, and seemingly favor certain victims over others, the FBI's tracking of such deeds shines important light on the state of the nation. Annual reports assembled from local law enforcement data are accessible on the website of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program. Especially useful is Table 1 of each compilation, which summarizes the number of incidents, offenses, victims, and known offenders for hate crimes committed against members of different groups.
No class of hate crimes has seen more fluctuation than anti-Muslim ones. The norm was a few dozen incidents per year in the late 1990s, but the number jumped from 28 in 2000 to 481 in 2001, a spike attributed to post-9/11 backlash. However, it dropped to 155 in 2002 and held remarkably steady through 2006, before falling again to 115 in 2007, 105 in 2008, and 107 in 2009.
Anti-Muslim incidents rose to 160 in 2010, an increase that Islamists and their mouthpieces eagerly blamed on rampant "Islamophobia," particularly opposition to a proposed giant mosque near Ground Zero. Based on freshly released FBI data, there was little change in 2011, with 157 incidents, 175 offenses, 185 victims, and 138 known offenders. Mark Potok of the reliably leftist Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which puts foes of radical Islam in the same category as Klansmen and neo-Nazis, has declared that "hate crimes against perceived Muslims ... remained at relatively high levels" as a result of "Islam-bashing propaganda," anti-Shari'a legislation, and ongoing resistance to new mosques, relaying that "several were attacked by apparent Islamophobes." Note the key word: "several" in a country with at least 2,106 mosques, a few million Muslims, and 300 million-plus non-Muslims. READ MORE
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Joe Lieberman's Legacy: The Battle Against Hezbollah
Benjamin Weinthal 2nd January 2013 - New York Daily News
To the very end of his distinguished career as the four-term Senator from Connecticut, Joseph Lieberman has remained true to his credentials as a leader in the fight against terrorism.
Only days before he delivered his farewell address on the Senate floor in December, Lieberman pushed the White House to take greater action against the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, and pressure the European Union to do the same.
In a resolution that garnered support from over 50 of his Senate colleagues, Lieberman urged President Obama to provide the European Union with more information about Hezbollah's terrorist activities, in hopes of persuading Brussels to designate the group as a terrorist organization.
While Hezbollah may seem a faraway threat to most New Yorkers, Rep. Brian Higgins (D-N.Y.) recently co-sponsored a bill to combat Iran in the Western Hemisphere. Speaking in Congress in September, Higgins said, "We also learned that Hezbollah has an active presence in four cities in Canada and 15 cities in the United States."
"This is of particular concern to Western New York," Higgins added, because "one of the communities in which Hezbollah has a presence is Toronto, which is 90 miles north of Buffalo."
Higgins' bill would compel the State Department to produce an assessment threat study on Hezbollah's presence throughout the Western Hemisphere. President Obama signed the Higgins sponsored- bill into law in December.
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, joined Higgins in his efforts to crackdown on Hezbollah's global terrorism. On New Year's Eve, she urged the UN in Congress to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization because "the Europeans could deprive Hezbollah of access to millions of dollars in European banks and other financial institutions, while making an enormous contribution to regional stability, saving hundreds of lives that will otherwise be Hezbollah's future victims."
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Harold Vinegar at oil shale conference
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With the Delek/Noble Tamara Platform starting production of natural gas in 2013 this should boost the IEI/Genie pilot test and the future of oil shale development in the Shefla Basin. The combination is a geo-resource political game changer for Israel and the world energy markets. It marks the beginning of Israel's Energy independence and entry into the world fossil fuel market place.
Israel Capable of Producing 250 Billion Barrels of Oil
"Our company has mapped over 250 billion barrels of recoverable oil in Israel," says Dr. Harold Vinegar of Israel Energy Initiative Ltd.
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By Ben Bresky
First Publish: 3/20/2012, 4:46 AM
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Dr. Harold Vinegar of Israel Energy Initiative Ltd. in Jerusalem is optimistic about Israel's potential in the oil industry. He spoke to Israel National Radio's Goldstein on Gelt show with Douglas Goldstein about energy independence and the "black gold" that is underfoot.
Dr. Vinegar was the chief scientist of Royal Dutch Shell until his retirement in 2008. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and recently made aliyah. Now, he is the chief scientist of Israel Energy Initiative Ltd. in Jerusalem, which is developing Israel's unconventional oil reserves.
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Dore Gold | | European settlements and double standards
Anyone flipping through cable television channels with his or her remote control has undoubtedly come across programs about British and other retirees from Northern Europe seeking to escape the harsh climate where they live by venturing to one of the well-known vacation spots along the Mediterranean coast. The difficult problem that these buyers face is the soaring prices of properties over the last decade in places like Marbella, Spain, the French Riviera, or Italy's Amalfi Coast, which leads many to look for more economical alternatives. As a result, many European buyers after 2002 have been flocking to Northern Cyprus, where a villa with a swimming pool can be bought at discount prices.
The main legal question that is not addressed with this new European property boom is the legal status of the area where these new homes are being built. It should be recalled that in 1974 the Turkish army invaded Cyprus, which had been an independent state since 1960 and took over 37 percent of the island. Tens of thousands of Greek Cypriots were expelled in this period in what they viewed was a deliberate policy of ethnic cleansing by the Turkish army. In the aftermath of the invasion, the U.N. Security Council adopted Resolution 353 which demanded "an immediate end to foreign military intervention" and called for "the withdrawal without delay from the Republic of Cyprus of foreign military personnel."
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Setting things straight
01/03/2013 11:58 By ALAN BAKER
'The UN upgrade resolution has neither created a Palestinian state nor granted any kind of statehood to the Palestinians.'
Photo by: Mohamad Torokman / Reuters
Now that the dust has settled on the Palestinian UN upgrade bid; now that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has received his applause and kudos from the UN Plenary, from the Europeans and from many Israelis as the hero and savior of the Palestinian people; now that the UN General Assembly has returned to its regular and wasteful agenda of repetitive, pointless and inane resolutions; now that some Israeli legal and non-legal commentators are already forecasting that Israeli leaders, officials, officers and settlers are about to be put on trial before the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity; now that Palestinian lawyers are busy preparing their criminal charges against Israel - now it is perhaps the time to place things in their correct proportion and to face the legal and political truths, without misleading exaggeration, imaginative embellishment, wishful thinking and false predictions.
THE UN upgrade resolution has neither created a Palestinian state nor granted any kind of statehood to the Palestinians. The UN does not have the legal and political power to establish states. It merely upgraded the observer status of the PLO's UN representation to that of a non-member observer state for internal purposes within the UN and its constituent organs and agencies. READ MORE |
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February 20th at 7:30 at The Holocaust Memorial Center ZOA-MI presents
"It Is No Dream: The Life of Theodor Herzl"
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About this Film
It Is No Dream examines the life and times of Theodor Herzl, the journalist and playwright who was responsible for creating the political movement that led in 1948 to the creation of the Jewish state, Israel. It is the latest feature of Moriah Films, the two time Academy Award winning documentary film division of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an international human rights organization and NGO with over 400,000 member families.
Narrated by Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley and starring Academy Award Winner Christoph Waltz as the voice of Theodor Herzl, It Is No Dream examines how Theodor Herzl, an assimilated Jew, born into a traditional but mostly non-religious family in Budapest in 1860, was changed by the trial of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in Paris, which he covered as a journalist in 1895. Previously, he had advocated the mass conversion of Jews to Christianity as a solution to the growing anti-Semitism of Europe. However, after witnessing the court proceedings where Dreyfus was falsely convicted of treason and the anti-Jewish demonstrations of the French public, Herzl became convinced that the only answer to the anti-Semitism that was spreading across Europe was the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, the Biblical homeland of the Jewish people. He wrote a political treatise entitled "Der Judenstaat" or "The Jewish State" that became an international bestseller, laying out his ideas for creating a new Jewish state.
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