Jerusalem News (10 June, 2015, 23 Sivan, 5775)
Contents:
1. Arnold Roth: 08-Jun-15: The banality of defending our lives from the terrorists
2. Two Lists of countries by military expenditures
3. Study: Germans skeptical on Israel, but Israelis view Germany favorably
4. 'The Anti-Germans' - The Pro-Israel German Left by Dr. Simon Erlanger.
5. Mark Williams: ISIS to be Defeated by Messiah Ben Joseph by 2016
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1. Arnold Roth: 08-Jun-15: The banality of defending our lives from the terrorists
This Ongoing War: A Blog
http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.co.il/2015/06/08-jun-15-banality-of-defending-our.html
Posted: 08 Jun 2015 10:01 PM PDT
This is a note about the unappreciated challenges of making your home in a small country, one that's roughly the size of Hawaii.
Unlike Hawaii, Israel is surrounded not by the blue Pacific Ocean but by entrenched, armed-to-the-teeth, religious fanatics: Hamas and PIJ in the south; Hezbollah in the north; the highly mobile and phenomenally aggressive ISIS just beyond the river that is our eastern border, and talking about rolling westwards.
Very few people outside the circle of Israelis and friends of Israel really care to know
1.      how small this little country of ours is
2.      how astronomically well-armed the fanatics of Hamas and Hezbollah are, especially with rockets
3.      how difficult it can be to conduct ordinary life while tuning in to hourly news bulletins and to incoming-missiles sirens.
No sane person wants to obsess over life-threatening dangers. So most of us find ways to deal with the tensions. It's easier, in some ways, when everyone around you is in the same pot with you.
With that in mind, here's the full text of a news report that went up on the Ynet site a few minutes after 8 this evening (Monday):
An Iron Dome missile battery was deployed near the southern city of Be'er Sheva Monday as a precaution after three recent rocket attacks by ISIS supporters in Gaza.
That's the whole piece. The most worrying thing? That news of the overnight placement of millions of dollars worth of advanced anti-missile technology, along with the soldiers who man it 24/7, on the outskirts of Israel's seventh largest city gets one-line, at most.
Very few news outlets beyond this country's borders will even note it.
And in Europe, North America, Australia, and those other places where anti-terrorism security at airports, train-stations and parliaments has become a sink-hole for untold millions of whatever currency, they mostly don't even realize that we are all in this together.
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2. Two Lists of countries by military expenditures
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures
(a) List by the International Institute for Strategic Studies
World Military Balance 2015 (for 2014)[1]
1
United States 581.03.3
2
China 129.41.2
3
Saudi Arabia 80.810.7
4
Russia 70.03.7
5
United Kingdom 61.82.1
6
France 53.11.8
7
Japan 47.71.0
8
India 45.22.2
9
Germany 43.91.1
10
South Korea 34.42.4
11
Brazil 31.91.3
12
Italy 24.31.1
13
Israel 23.27.6
14
Australia 22.51.5
15
Iraq 18.98.5
(b) List by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
2015 Fact Sheet (for 2014)[2]
RankCountrySpending ($ Bn.)% of GDP
World total 1,776.02.3
1 United States 610.03.5
2 China[a] 216.02.1
3 Russia[a] 84.54.5
4 Saudi Arabia[b] 80.810.4
5 France 62.32.2
6 United Kingdom 60.52.2
7 India 50.02.4
8 Germany[a] 46.51.2
9 Japan 45.81.0
10 South Korea 36.72.6
11 Brazil 31.71.4
12 Italy 30.91.5
13 Australia2 5.41.8
14
United Arab Emirates[a] 22.85.1
15
Turkey
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3. Study: Germans skeptical on Israel, but Israelis view Germany favorably
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4619288,00.html
Extracts:
35% of Germans equate Israeli policies toward Palestinians with Nazi policies toward Jews, but majority in both countries believe Germany still has special responsibility toward Israel.
Associated Press
Published: 01.26.15, 11:46 / Israel News
BERLIN -- Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, some 58 percent of Germans say the past should be consigned to history, while three-quarters of Israelis reject the idea of putting the past behind them.
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Some 48 percent of Germans also say their opinion of today's Israel is poor and the Germans' view of the Israeli government is even worse, with 62 percent expressing a negative opinion.
Israelis have a much better view of today's Germany, with 68 percent saying they have a positive image of the country, while only 24 percent have a poor opinion.
Some 35 percent of Germans equate Israeli policies toward the Palestinians with Nazi policies toward the Jews, an increase from 30 percent in 2007, when the foundation conducted a similar study.
"In Germany the persecution of Jews is viewed as a dark chapter in German history, but not as an essential part of its identity; quite the opposite, Germans would prefer it as an anomaly," the authors of the study wrote in an analysis of their findings
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 4. 'The Anti-Germans' - The Pro-Israel German Left
Dr. Simon Erlanger, June 30, 2009 -
 http://jcpa.org/article/the-anti-germans-the-pro-israel-german-left/#sthash.26syDfjg.dpuf
[forwarded by Mark Williams]
Extract:
... Both Anti-Germans and Anti-Nationals held Germany's early acceptance of Croatian independence responsible for the eruption of the Balkan wars. They alleged that Germany continued the Balkan policies of the Third Reich through its pro-Croatian and anti-Serbian policies. The Anti-Nationals went further, holding the regime of Slobodan Milosevic responsible for mayhem in the Balkans and expressing their opposition to all nationalisms, a position vehemently opposed by the Anti-Germans. The latter saw in the Kosovo crisis the return of the constellation of the Second World War. The author and journalist Jorgen Elsaesser, a prominent proponent of the Anti-German Movement, even claimed that Germany was fighting against the victims of the Second World War: Yugoslavia and Israel were both created after the war by victims of the Germans. It was for this reason that the Anti-Germans felt the need to support them at any cost. Although the Anti-Nationals and the Anti-Germans parted company at this juncture, the basis for their strong support of Israel had been laid. -
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5. Mark Williams: ISIS to be Defeated by Messiah Ben Joseph by 2016
 Shalom Yair
I don't know if you're aware of this at all, but it's a quite
extraordinary claim put forward by A guy called Rabbi Maytityahu Glazerson that, according to Torah codes, the Messiah Ben Joseph
himself will destroy ISIS by 2016.
You can view the video here (you'll probably have better luck with his
accent than I did :( )
http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/42382/new-bible-codes-point-to-the-destruction-of-isis-by-2016-jewish-world/
If this is the case, and he really has found what he says he's found,
then the question that begs to be asked is...
So who is the Moschiah Ben Joseph guy anyway?
The candidates:
1: Benyamin Netanyahu/The State of Israel.
2: Barack Obama/The United States of America
3: An as yet unknown Kurdish leader/The Kurds
4: David Cameron/The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland on it's own
5: David Cameron/Heading a combined UK and EU/Commonwealth Force
6: Someone no expects (Cardinals Ximénez, Biggles and Fang,
perhaps)/Some country or organisation that most people would expect to
be the last people to declare war on ISIS (FIFA, perhaps. They need the
distraction)
Of the six my money is on the Kurdish guy. Netanyahu won't get Israel
involved in an Arab on Arab conflict, Obama is risk averse to
an extreme degree and Cameron's government is too parsimonious to fund
the kind of effort that would be needed. Even if the rest of the EU or
Commonwealth backed him up financially.
I think of the six entities the Kurds are the only ones who are
realistically going to be directly affected by ISIS for the next six
months. ISIS might talk big about making it to the Israeli border, but
talk is cheap and the Southern Command of the FSA is much better
trained and equipped than it used to be; so I doubt they'll pose a
direct threat to Israel any time soon (or at all, if this revelation is
true). Obama refuses to allow American spotters and SpecOps on the
ground in either Iraq or Syria and, although we do have both working in
Iraq, the UK doesn't have any presence in Syria (that you know of).
Plus our military is undergoing the death of a thousand cuts and is in
no condition to take on even a modest sized army thousands of miles
from home. Of the rest of the EU and Commonwealth who, other than
France, even has the power projection capabilities?
Of course, there's always King Abdullah 2 of Jordan. He hates ISIS.
But does the Jordanian military have the will or the capability to take
the beast on in its lair? More importantly, can he rely absolutely on
it given ISIS well known penchant for planting sleeper cells in
territory it doesn't control (yet).
Anyway, thought I'd share that with you. Let me know what you think in
a forthcoming JN.
Cheers and toda raba
Mark
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Brit-Am Comment:
Decades ago I read some of the early books of Rabbi Maytityahu Glazerson.
They were very good. I sometimes regret not having read all his early work and perhaps may eventually get around to doing so.
He has some valuable insights and quoted sources concerning the Hebrew language.
In recent years he seems to have concentrated on Biblical Codes.
I myself attach importance to these Codes but I think Rabbi Glazerson should perhaps have continued where he left off.
Anyway, we shall live (God willing) and see.