Jerusalem News(8 April 2016, 29 Adar-B, 5776)
Contents:
1."96 years of Arab-on-Jew terror and lessons still not learned," by Arnold Roth
2. Is the "Democrat" Electorate a Danger to Israel?
Reaction of Bernie Sanders to corrections of Gaza error the real story by Dr. Aaron Lerner
3. Ted Cruz's Father: America Was Founded on the Torah by Abra Forman
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1."96 years of Arab-on-Jew terror and lessons still not learned," by Arnold Roth
http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.co.il/
Extracts:
Much of the hostile commentary ripping into Israel in its conflict with the Arabs comes from people with an exceedingly thin grasp of history. This is a problem for those of us open to dialogue because an incredible proportion of the haters of Israel are often as dumb as a boot about how we got to where we are today.
Moshe Arens, a veteran of Israel's political scene now in his nineties who was raised in the United States, has an essay in yesterday's Haaretz under the title "The Changing Face of Palestinian Terror". Reflecting on his decades of exceptionally-well-informed, insider experience (minister of defence in three governments, a term as foreign minister, a professor of aeronautics, and Israel's ambassador to Washington in the eighties), he refers back to how things were in the very early days:
From the attack by Arab mobs wielding hatchets and knives on the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem in 1920 to recent attempts by Arab youngsters to knife individual Jews, we have witnessed 96 years of terror acts waged by Palestinian Arabs against the Jewish presence in the Land of Israel.
The riots of 1920 were followed a year later by attacks on Jews in Jaffa, and culminated in the attacks by Arab mobs on Jews in Jerusalem, Hebron and Safed in 1929. The reaction by British police forces was inadequate, and the Jewish community was as yet not organized to deal with these outbursts of violence. They caused considerable loss of life, but did not succeed in halting the Zionist enterprise.
The major Arab effort to reverse the course of events in the Land of Israel was the Arab revolt of 1936-39, in which gangs of armed Arabs attacked Jewish and British targets. It was suppressed by the use of drastic measures taken by the British forces. Thousands of Arabs were killed, and over 100 were hanged.
The Jewish community was consumed by a debate on how to respond to this wave of violence. The official line taken by the Jewish Agency and its military wing, the Haganah, was to practice restraint and not retaliate in kind, despite the loss of life.
The contrary line was taken by the Revisionist Movement's armed wing, the Irgun Tzvai Leumi (led by David Raziel), which believed that Arab terror against Jews should be answered by terror attacks against Arabs. Actually, members of the Haganah participated in the Special Night Squads led by Orde Wingate, which practiced collective punishment against Arab villages. The Arab Revolt was suppressed but, nevertheless, succeeded in bringing about a change in British policy in Palestine. This resulted in the White Paper of May 1939, limiting Jewish immigration to Palestine and preventing the escape of many Jews from Europe to Palestine.
It's worth observing that all the Arab-on-Jew terror he mentions up to this point happened when the sum total of "illegal", "occupied" "settlements" was precisely zero. That specious rationalization for Jihad - which is certainly what the Arab viciousness was about - came much later,
Prof, Arens continues:
Since the establishment of the State of Israel, we have seen 'spectacular' acts of Palestinian terror, like the hijacking of commercial aircraft and the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games in 1972. Measures taken by the Israeli security services have been effective in preventing additional acts. The first intifada lasted for over three years. A large number of Palestinians in Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip participated in demonstrations, strikes and rock-throwing at passing vehicles. It was a situation I inherited when I took over the Defense Ministry from Yitzhak Rabin in 1990. A concentrated effort by the Israel Defense Forces and the security services, targeting those throwing rocks at cars, brought the intifada to an end within a year. During the second intifada, which spanned the years 2000-2005, suicide bombers were the terrorists' weapon of choice. Over 1,000 Israelis lost their lives, leading to the entry of IDF troops into West Bank cities during Operation Defensive Shield in 2002... ["The Changing Face of Palestinian Terror", Haaretz, Moshe Arens, April 4, 2016]
The 1929 Arab massacre of Jews in Hebron, a community whose Jewish population had been living there for centuries, is mostly forgotten and often ignored. Sixty-nine Jews including 46 yeshiva students and teachers were murdered in a single day of Arab rioting and savagery, August 24, 1929 right under the noses of the British mandate police. Dozens more were seriously injured and maimed; Jewish homes were pillaged; numerous synagogues were ransacked and destroyed.
The rioters and murderers were incited to violence by rumors that Jews were planning to seize control of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. (Sound familiar?) That was more than eighty years ago but progress on the Arab side is demonstrably slow in coming. Old patterns of malevolence and racist hatred are not easily shifted.
Absorbing the experiences collected by Israel's Jews for 96 years so far, Prof. Arens observes that there are significant differences between the terror attacks we are seeing today against the Jewish presence in Israel and those that went before:
The present wave of Palestinian terror differs from all the others. Terror acts are being committed by individuals or pairs, using knives, guns or ramming pedestrians in the street. It makes for one-on-one encounters where the victim, civilian or soldier, Â if he is alert and, better yet, armed, can frequently stop the threat. Seemingly on the wane at the moment, the terror wave has only harmed the Palestinian cause, Â as was the case with both intifadas... [Arens]
He goes on to address some of the ethical issues that arise when terror is brought into the car parks and supermarkets of a busy, thriving society. These are of course not simple - at least not for our side. For the side with the knives and the axes and the weaponized children, they could hardly be simpler. Driven by a spectrum of passions, respect for ethical principles is certainly not one of them.
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2. Is the "Democrat" Electorate a Danger to Israel?
Reaction of Bernie Sanders to corrections of Gaza error the real story Dr. Aaron Lerner 7 April 2016
 www.imra.org.il
Extracts:
When Donald Trump screwed up on the abortion issue he rushed to correct himself before the next hourly news broadcast.
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Why didn't Bernie Sanders correct himself on his claim that 10,000 innocent Palestinians were killed by Israel in Gaza when his error was brought to his attention repeatedly?
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That's the big question.
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Because it tells us that Bernie Sanders and his advisors believe that they have more to gain in the upcoming primaries by NOT issuing a correction than by correcting himself.
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And that's huge news.
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It tells us something about his assessment of the attitudes of the Democratic Party voters in the states where primaries have yet to be held.
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If Bernie Sander is correct then what does this mean about the Democratic
Party?   What does this mean for Israel?
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Again:Â we aren't talking about primaries being held in some fringe party.
This is the Democratic Party.
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3. Ted Cruz's Father: America Was Founded on the Torah
By Abra Forman April 7, 2016 , 9:30 am
http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/65152/ted-cruzs-father-america-was-founded-on-the-torah-biblical-zionism/#WepmzTJTy19RMjFS.97
Extracts:
'I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse; therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed. Deuteronomy 30:19 (The Israel Bible)
The foundation of America and the constitution was the Hebrew Bible, or Torah, declared the father of GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz in a speech given earlier in the year. Based on its religious values, America must  'stand unconditionally with Israel,' he said firmly.
Pastor Rafael Cruz, who is an Evangelical Christian preacher, made the remarks to the pro-Israel Christian group Proclaiming Justice to the Nations (PJTN). In a video released by PJTN two weeks ago, Cruz is shown saying that America must stand with Israel because it represents the country's roots.
'The foundation of America, the foundation of the constitution, was the Torah,' he said to loud applause. 'The Torah is embedded within the constitution. That was the inspiration for the framers.'
Cruz said that the idea of America's constitutional republic came straight from the word of God, in the Book of Exodus.
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. And let them judge the people at all seasons; and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge themselves; so shall they make it easier for thee and bear the burden with thee. Exodus 18:21-22
'Many of the freedoms that we have today were enjoyed in that early Jewish state after Abraham came to the promised land,' he explained. 'And God gave him a promise.
'As a matter of fact do you realize that Israel is the only country on the face of the earth that has a titled deed from God Almighty?'
He mentioned that Israel's 'deed' had originally been much bigger, stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates, as a counter to anti-Zionist arguments that the Jewish claim to Israel is illegitimate. 'Don't tell me that Israel does not have a right to the land. God himself gave Israel the title deed for the land,' he asserted.
Christians would not have the Bible without Israel, he pointed out, and all must realize that 'we are one in Him, that both Christians and Jews worship the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.'