Jerusalem News (19 November, 2014, 26 Cheshvan, 5775)
Contents:
1. Five Murdered in Attack on Jerusalem Synagogue Worshipers
2. The Suicidal Swedes and the Recognition of "Palestine" by David Rubin
3. Druze Israeli Policeman Who Killed Terrorist Dies of His Wounds, Leaves Behind 7-Month-Old Daughter
4. BBC News Host Demands Israeli Minister Hide Photo of Worshiper Slain in Terror Massacre
5. The World without the Benign Power of the United States of America
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1. Five Murdered in Attack on Jerusalem Synagogue Worshipers
Two Arab terrorists killed four worshippers at a synagogue in the Haredi neighborhood of Har Nof in Jerusalem Tuesday morning.
Police officers shot and killed the murderers on the steps of the Kehilat Bnei Torah yeshiva-synagogue complex.
One of the policemen has died from wounds in the shoot-out with the terrorists. The other is wounded. The quick response of the police, especially the two of who were traffic officers who happened to be in the area, is credited with having prevented a worse massacre.
Several people are being treated for injuries.
The terrorists were cousins and from the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, next to the predominantly Jewish area of Armon HaNatziv in Talpiot.
One of the terrorists was armed with a gun and the other with an axe and butcher knife, which was the size of that used in a slaughterhouse.
"Two terrorists entered the synagogue and slaughtered worshippers wrapped in prayer shawls and tefillin".Â
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2. The Suicidal Swedes and the Recognition of "Palestine" by David Rubin
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Message.aspx/6475#.VGtK6Ztd4dU
11/17/2014, 9:11 PM
Extracts:
Many Israelis were angered and disturbed by Sweden's recent perplexing, yet bold move, declaring its recognition of a State of Palestine that never existed, doesn't exist, and doesn't deserve to exist. Why would Sweden choose to be the first country to go on record as politically supporting what would undeniably become another Islamic terrorist state? Why would a country known for its liberated women, choose to become the first European country to encourage the rise of what would certainly be another repressive Islamic country with laws allowing men to beat their wives, to have multiple wives, and to rape underage girls?
Israel will survive this political travesty, but Sweden is in trouble. After a recent speaking tour in the formerly 'blond' country, I am more convinced than ever that something must be done quickly, if Sweden, a country whose indigenous population has almost stopped having children, is to prevent being overrun by its rapidly growing Muslim population. The situation is no better in many other countries in Western Europe, where 20-25% Muslim populations are becoming more common in many cities, where street crime is rampant, and where police don't dare to tread. The impending Islamic takeover of nuclear Europe does not bode well for the cause of freedom in the rest of the world either, not for women, not for men and children, nor for anyone who believes in freedom and tolerance.
So how is this connected to the Swedish recognition of Israel? The decision to recognize 'Palestine' was no doubt influenced by the sharp increase in the amount of Muslim voters in that Scandinavian nation and the leftist Social Democrats' perceived need to pander to that population.
However, the problem is much deeper and is clearly evident throughout Europe and the United States, in fact throughout all of Western civilization. There is a strange sort of unofficial collusion between secular leftists and Islamic ideologues. This seemingly inexplicable partnership can be seen in the universities, in the media, in politics, and on the streets. The Left wants a modified secular communism/socialism or a free-wheeling hedonism in which anything goes and truth is in the eye of the beholder. Islam, on the other hand, wants only to change Western civilization into an Islamic civilization.
And that is the key binding element. Both the secular Left and the Islamic ideologues want to bring down Judeo-Christian civilization in the short term. They will worry about their sharp differences later on. Israel, being the cradle of Western civilization with its proud and growing Jewish identity and its manifest prophecy in action, is perceived as an obstacle in the way of the goal of those two extreme self-destructive forces that are rising in the West.
The problem for the near-sighted secular leftists in Sweden and elsewhere is that once the sons of Ishmael have attained power, they will rape, slaughter, and behead their non-Muslim countrymen and women, just as they have done in the Middle East to the Jews and to anyone else who gets in their way. Sadly, the Jewish value of mercy is unheard of in the religion of 'Jihad'.
A Europe that wants to survive the Islamic demographic nightmare that awaits it, needs a more sensible strategy than pathetically pandering for votes on the road to national suicide. Sweden and the rest of Western civilization would be very wise to reconnect with the biblical roots of Western Civilization, The best way to do that is by firmly bonding with the biblical nation - with Israel and the Jewish people - standing with us as we confront our enemies, and showing respect for Israel's heritage.
The road to Western survival runs through Israel.
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3. Druze Israeli Policeman Who Killed Terrorist Dies of His Wounds, Leaves Behind 7-Month-Old Daughter
November 18, 2014 3:48 pm 18 comments
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/11/18/druze-israeli-policeman-who-killed-terrorist-dies-of-his-wounds/
by Dave Bender
Extracts:
Druze Israeli Police officer Zidan Sayif, 27, died of his wounds late Tuesday, hours after a terror attack at a Jerusalem synagogue.
Family and friends at his bedside said they were proud he was the first on the scene to end the terrorist slaughter, Israel's NRG News reported earlier in the day.
Two Palestinian terrorists entered the Kehilat Bnei Torah synagogue on Shimon Agassi St. in the city's religious Har Nof neighborhood at about 07:00 a.m., opened fire with a weapon and struck worshipers with a meat cleaver and knives.
Zidan and another police officer were able to shoot and kill the assailants shortly after the attack on the religious complex, located at the western edge of the capital.
His family, Â a clan from the western Galilee village of Yanuh-Jatt said they are filled with pride for their heroic relative who helped stop the carnage which killed four rabbis, and wounded eight other worshipers.
Sheikh Muafik Tarif, the spiritual leader of the Druze community, spoke with Zidan's family. 'The Druze all pray for peace and we pray for recovery of all the injured, and send strength to their families,' Tarif said.
Many members of the Druze community serve in the security forces, including the police, IDF, and Shin Bet, Â Israel Security Agency, and are engaged in defense and counter-terrorism daily, Tarif noted.
'We are proud of our sons who act fearlessly in the face of terrorist attacks,' Tarif said. 'This is a black day for Israeli society and the State of Israel, when its citizens are murdered just for being Jewish.
'The Druze community condemns with revulsion the act of terrorism in which a Palestinian terrorist massacred and slaughtered innocent civilians. Such a situation, in which the country's citizens are murdered on a daily basis, cannot continue,' Tarif said, and praised Israel's security forces.
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4. BBC News Host Demands Israeli Minister Hide Photo of Worshiper Slain in Terror Massacre
November 18, 2014 9:28 am 18 comments
by Dave Bender
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/11/18/bbc-news-host-demands-israeli-minister-hide-photo-of-worshiper-slain-in-terror-massacre-video/
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A BBC News presenter censored Israeli Economy Minister, Naftali Bennett, during a live interview on Tuesday when he held up a photo of a victim of Tuesday's mass terror attack at a Jerusalem synagogue.
Indicting the Palestinian Authority (PA) for ongoing incitement leading up to the attack, Bennett charged that PA President Mahmoud Abbas, - himself, incites, tells the the Arabs, 'take arms, fight the Jews', Â and then held up a photo of a victim, laying dead on the floor of the synagogue, still wrapped in his prayer shawl and leather straps of his phylacteries.
The presenter immediately broke in, however saying, "sorry, we don't want to actually see that picture, please take that down."
Bennett continued holding up the photo, saying, "this individual came this morning to pray, just like many Muslims, many Jews, came to pray this morning.
"The Muslims came home safe, but four Jews will never come home again," Bennett asserted, over the protestations of the host.
On Facebook, Jonathan Sacerdoti of the UK's Campaign Against Antisemitism slammed the BBC for its double standard on Israel. " BBC, which was happy to show dead kids in Gaza all summer, declares 'we don't want to actually see that picture' Take that down' as Israeli minister shows them butchered Jewish worshiper killed this morning," Sacerdoti wrote.
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5. The World without the Benign Power of the United States of America
http://unitycoalitionforisrael.org/uci_2014/?p=12806
November 18, 2014 - 12:00 am
Author(s):Â Address by Dr. Daniel Pipes, Commentary by Jerome S. Kaufman
Source: Israel Commentary.    Article date: November 12th, 2014
Extracts:
We were fortunate to have Dr. Daniel Pipes political analyst, writer, founder and editor of the Middle East Forum address our synagogue Wednesday evening. He spoke on world-wide events.
Dr. Pipe's concern was based upon the genuine strength of Turkey - its size, population, Â apx. 75 million, relatively advanced culture, education, military capability, vital geographical location and most important, its leader, Recep Erdogan, a dedicated enemy of the West. Not unlike Vladimir Putin, who is obviously working toward the reformation of the USSR, Erdogan is equally ambitious in his recidivism dedicated to the return of a Grand Caliphate over the Middle East and much of Europe.
Pipes then spoke of Iraq and Syria, almost in the past tense, as completely failed states whose flimsy fabric, artificially created after WWI, was easily destroyed by the initial thrust of the very successful Sunni Moslem extremist group, ISIS/ISIL, now attracting dissident Muslims of all stripes and nuance.
Dr. Pipes was dismissive of ISIS, what with their crude beheadings, their return to the ugliest aspects of sharia law and, in the process, creating enemies of the major Arab powers: Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Yemen and Iran, when their own destructive ambitions do not conflict.
Dr. Pipes then addressed the Israeli/Arab conflict. There was no equivocation in his remarks. The 'Peace Process' is a complete failure, Â no matter how many trips back and forth made by John Kerry. The process itself is based upon an ancient lie perpetrated by Yasir Arafat signing the Oslo Accords in 1993 wherein the Arabs were to accept the existence of Israel as a separate Jewish State.
Pipes recommends Israel finally disregard the useless, fictitious Oslo Accords, defeat its sworn relentless enemy and not stop until complete victory with abject surrender is achieved. Nothing else has worked for 50 years and nothing else will.
Pipes then briefly discussed the Egyptian nation and declared it also a failed state. Egypt has long been in desperate straits. Once considered the bread basket of the Middle East as a result of the agricultural munificence of the Nile River, it is now unable to feed its own gargantuan, ever growing population. There is no promise in sight except as an insatiable welfare state totally dependent upon the kind support of its Arab neighbors and Israel.
Finally, Dr. Pipes got to current American Foreign Policy. He considered it an unmitigated disaster.
He left the Czechs and Poles hanging by stopping the development of sophisticated United Nations air defense systems on their territory to ward off the Russians who quickly have taken full advantage of this destructive action. He has allowed Russia to grab huge swaths of territory under false pretenses in Georgia and now Ukraine. As a result the Baltic States and Poland live in understandable dread and have no faith in the US defending them. Nor does anyone else.
Obama has also alienated our long time Arab allies: Saudi Arabic, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and seems to have a personal vendetta against Israel. And, is now, obsequiously attempting to placate Iran, not unlike the way we have placated North Korea with disastrous consequences.
Obama continued to destroy us by deliberately killing our space program leaving us completely dependent upon the Russians, of all people, for our existence in space. In addition, he has drastically cut the size of our army and recently stopped the building of new submarines badly needed against Russian and Chinese incursions into the farthest reaches of the South China Sea and vital American interests in the Pacific.
And, that is just the tip of the iceberg of the list.
He described Obama as basically a Left winger who indeed resented the power and grandeur and strength of the US and, like his father and mother, considers the US an exploiting colonial power taking advantage of the 'poor folks' of the world.
Pipes went on excusing Obama's behavior as that of a confused man. In his heart of hearts Obama despises this country but, at the same time, he knows he has the role of the President of the US and is supposed to defend us and leave an exemplary legacy. Dr. Pipes explained Obama by saying it seems he assumes the role of colonial destroyer of the US on Mon and Wed but assumes the supposed usual defender of the US role on Tuesday and Thursday.