JN-1056

Jerusalem News (18 May, 2014, 18 Iyar, 5774)

Contents:
1. Does the IDF really want the Haredi Orthodox in its ranks?
by David Ramati
2. REPORT: TURKEY CONSIDERED NAVAL INVASION OF ISRAELI WATERS
by Ege Berk Korkut
3. Was Ariel Sharon technically Non-Jewish?
4. A Typical Day-to-Day Happening in Israel. Firebombs on Bat Mitzva Girls' Bus, Only Arutz Sheva Reports It 
by Gil Ronen  
5. Follow the Money:
Ford Foundation and New Israel Fund Seek to Destroy Israel! Bankroll Renegade Anti-Religious Israeli Politicians 

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1. Does the IDF really want the Haredi Orthodox in its ranks?
by David Ramati
http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=7275&q=1

Extracts:

As far as the army is concerned, the issue of drafting the ultra-Orthodox into the IDF cuts both ways.

The 'blessing'? Well, faced with the deterioration of the situation on Israel's borders, opening a large until now untapped portion of the population would provide manpower that will in the near future be desperately needed to keep watch on the borders of Israel.

The 'curse'? To do so would be to change the entire framework of the Israeli Armed forces. Any hope of gender equality would be undermined. Ultra-Orthodox soldiers would have to receive special treatment, including strictly kosher food, daily Torah lessons and an environment free of women.

Jerusalem-The influx of thousands and thousands of ultra- orthodox draftees would in effect force the IDF to create two separate armies. One, a secular army based on strict equality between men and woman, religious and non-religious, Jew and non-Jew, and another, exclusively according to Jewish law.

A draft law has been passed in Israel's Knesset that would require the Ultra-Orthodox Haredim to serve in the Israel Defence Forces, which has caused a lot of uproar in Haredi society.

The Haredim feel that their studying Torah is a contribution to Judaism that is equal to-if not greater than-serving in the Israeli army. They see compulsory military service as a form of religious persecution, denying them the right to practice their religion and pulling them toward a more secular lifestyle. To the outsider, who has not lived in Israel, nor served in the IDF, this clash seems incomprehensible. However, in a more simplistic form, it is quite understandable.

Although you may not hear about this, the fact of the matter is that there are many in the IDF who privately say they do not want the Haredi Orthodox in their ranks, and I will begin to outline why.

I served as a combat officer in the IDF and wore the 'knitted kippa' of the religious Zionist parties. During this military service, I did many things that to a 'more orthodox' Jew would be consider abhorrent and forbidden.

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed who is the head of the Yeshiva Har Bracha states, 'The Haredi community should join the struggle for the sanctity of the IDF camp, so it will suit the absorption of Haradi soldiers.'

In this statement he infers, perhaps without realizing it, that Haredi soldiers should join the army so that it will change the religious atmosphere resulting in the army becoming more Orthodox. And he goes on to qualify, 'However, when there is no necessity to recruit all young men, then it is the duty of the Jewish nation to exempt students who are worthy of developing into Torah scholars for the sake of Clal Yisrael, so they can grow and become rabbis and educators - provided they do so with respect and amity towards the soldiers protecting our nation and country.'

There were many complaints of the Haredi soldiers already serving in the IDF that have caused great trepidation among the orthodox community waiting to see the results of the new law drafting up to 80% of their sons: Haredi soldiers alleged that:

* Members of the Nachal Haredi brigade (reminder - the IDF's largest combat unit made up of Orthodox Jewish men) were forced to be present at a baptism. Jews are forbidden from attending Christian religious ceremonies, which are considered idol worship under Jewish law.

* Haredi soldiers in another unit were forced to attend an all-day educational seminar in a church. Jews are forbidden from entering churches (some hold only churches that are in active use) because they are considered a place of idol worship under Jewish law.

* Haredi IDF soldiers being held in the brig at Prison 4 were forced to carry out work that violated the Sabbath in the absence of any operational need.

* Haredi soldiers at the Sde Dov base (near Tel Aviv!) were forced to subsist on bread and chocolate for two weeks after the base did not provide Kosher supervision for their food.

The question, however, is whether the IDF really needs all those tens of thousands of rabbinical college students who have declared the study of the Torah to be their full-time occupation? And supposing the IDF needs any of them, how many of them does the army actually need? How would the mass recruitment of the ultra-Orthodox affect the nature of the army?

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2. REPORT: TURKEY CONSIDERED NAVAL INVASION OF ISRAELI WATERS
by Ege Berk Korkut
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/180360#.U3hLQ5u_kdU
Extracts:

A Turkish newspaper has released details of a high-level meeting of the country's military leaders, in which the Turkish government had considered sending warships into Israel as a military escort for the Mavi Marmara flotilla - and the possibility of triggering a war with the Jewish state as a result.

On May 31 2010, nine Turkish Islamists were killed on the flotilla after violently attacking IDF soldiers, during an attempt to break Israel's naval blockade on the terrorist group Hamas-enclave Gaza. The incident worsened a growing diplomatic crisis between Turkey and Israel, who had once been close allies.
Statements to the Turkish press made by Retired Admiral of the Turkish Fleet, Nusret Guner, show how far the Erdogan government was prepared to go in supporting anti-Israel groups. The Islamist organization behind the flotilla - the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) has since been raided over ties to Al Qaeda, and is suspected of sending weapons to Al Qaeda-linked groups in Syria.

Hours before the Mavi Marmara flotilla raid, on May 30 2010, the Turkish Navy Base in Iskenderun was attacked by Kurdish militants using rocket launchers. Six Turkish soldiers were killed and seven were wounded.

Prime Minister Erdogan, Chief of Staff Ilker Basbug and Turkish Navy"s Commander Ugur Yigit were all abroad for official visits.

According to Turkish paper Haberturk, at 7.30 a.m. an emergency meeting was held with the participation of Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc, Interior Minister Besir Atalay, several army generals and navy chief Admiral Nusret Guner.
"State of conflict with Israel was imminent"
At the meeting, the idea of sending warships to escort the Mavi Marmara had come into question.

The government asked the Navy if they were ready to do this. Admiral Guner confirmed that it was ready to send warships to escort the anti-Israel flotilla, but stated that this would likely trigger a hot war with Israel and added that "In that case, (since a) state of conflict with Israel is imminent, the Navy should have the authorization to enforce rules of engagement."

But after mulling the possibility of an armed conflict with Israel, the government abandoned the idea of escorting the Mavi Marmara with warships.

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3. Was Ariel Sharon technically Non-Jewish?

Goy Sharon Killed Twice by Roi Tov
http://www.roitov.com/articles/sharon.htm
Extracts:

The State of Israel uses the Law of Return in order to define Jews. It adopted a unsatisfactory definition* compared to the one used by Ultra-Orthodox Jews. The latter recognize as Jew only someone born to a Jewish mother or that converted according to the Halakha, the Jewish religious law.

Ariel Sharon's parents were Shmuel Scheinerman (1896-1956) of Brest-Litovsk and Vera Scheinerman (1900 -1988) from Mogilev, both locations are nowadays in Belarus; yet, they met in Georgia after they fled WWI.

His father was Jewish. One of the reasons for the maiden surname of his mother not being in the public domain is that she was not Jewish, she was a Subbotnik. Most followers of this Russian Christian sect practice circumcision, do not recognize the New Testament, and observe Sabbath on Saturday. Their name is derived from the Russian name for Saturday.

After the war, they arrived at Israel through the Third Aliyah movement and settled in socialist Kfar Malal. Vera Scheinerman became Dvora Sharon, and in 1928, Ariel was born. Born to a non-Jew, he is a non-Jew.

What happened afterwards is the stuff legends are made of. Dvora Sharon decided to convert according to the Halakha. She accomplished that. Yet, Sharon was old enough to be asked questions by the Ultra-Orthodox rabbis that converted his mother.

Thus, according to the law, he was asked by the rabbis if he wanted to be a Jew. "No!" young Sharon said...

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Brit-Am Comment:
The above article was written by someone who describes himself as a Jewish convert to Christianity.
[Paradoxically that could explain his disparaging attitude to non-Jews.]
The article may be not reliable in all its details.
It is however based mostly on other sources that may be correct.
If correct it would explain many anomalies.
It should be noted that Sharon was a great man and had an enormous amount of valuable acheivements to his credit.

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4. A Typical Day-to-Day Happening in Israel. Firebombs on Bat Mitzva Girls' Bus, Only Arutz Sheva Reports It
by Gil Ronen 
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/180688#.U3hVCpu_kdU
Extracts:

A well-planned firebomb attack on a bus full of Jewish schoolgirls Tuesday could easily have ended in tragedy, but no news source even reported that it took place, except for the one you are currently reading - Arutz Sheva.

The girls were sixth-graders from a religious school in central Israel. They were on a bat mitzva tour of the Cave of Machpela in Hevron, a site recognized by the government as an official  heritage site, when four terrorists ambushed it with firebombs.

The mother of one of the girls, who was accompanying the trip, told Arutz Sheva that the ambush had been well planned. She described moments of horror when the firebombs exploded, one after the other, on the bus's windows, east of the Halhoul bridge, as the bus made its way back from Hevron.

"This was a bat mitzva trip that had been approved by the Ministry of Education, which included a visit to Rachel's Tomb. The buses were bulletproofed and had an armed guard," she said.

Chananel, the woman's son, whose sister had been on the bus, wrote on Facebook on Tuesday:  "Three firebombs exploded on the bus. It was a direct hit. The bus was engulfed in flames and the girls and the mothers in the bus screamed, cried, leaned down toward the floor. There was a smell of burnt plastic.

"This time, it ended without injury. The driver stepped on the gas and the bus was fortified. The traumatic effects are not known at this point... I don't even want to write how it could have ended."

No Israeli or foreign news source is known to have reported the incident. However, incidents involving graffiti by Jewish youths have been receiving front page coverage and government ministers have called for their classification as terror acts. Apparently influenced by Israeli media and politicians, the United States has also equated the Jewish nationalistic vandalism with terror.

Arutz Sheva was founded in 1988, after Rabbanit Shulamit Melamed experienced an attack on a bus she was in, and was shocked to hear the radio report about the event, which made it sound as if the Jews on the bus had been the attackers and not the victims. She turned to her husband, Beit El co-founder Rabbi Zalman Melamed, who established Arutz Sheva together with Beit El co-founder Yaakov "Ketzaleh" Katz.

The incident Tuesday in Hevron proves, sadly, that more than 25 years down the line, the problem that made Arutz Sheva necesary has only gotten worse.

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5. Follow the Money:
Ford Foundation and New Israel Fund Seek to Destroy Israel! Bankroll Renegade Anti-Religious Israeli Politicians 

The New Israel Fund receives large portions of its budget from the Ford Foundation which is notoriously prejudiced agaisnt Israel. Henry Ford himself was a notorious anti-Semitic and a funder of anti-Jewish publications. Henry Ford held basically right-wing views. His successors and the foundation they created is more liberal and left-wing. Both however were anti-Jewish.  Henry Ford may have done some good things and so may the Ford Foundation.  They also were guilty of much evil. They, like ALL OF US, shall be judeged for both.
The present Israeli Minister for Education, Shai Piron, openly admits to having received very large sums of money from The New Israel Fund. So have other segments of his Political Party, Yesh Atid, which is headed by Yair Lapid. In fact funding from the New Israel Fund laid the foundations for political activity that enabled the party to be established.
The amounts involved are not paltry but rather in the hundreds of millions of dollar range and perhaps beyond.

All other beneficiaries of New Israel Fund largesse seem to have an openly anti-Israel agenda.
cf.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The New Israel Fund (NIF) is a U.S.-based non-profit organization established in 1979, and describes its objective as social justice and equality for all Israelis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Israel_Fund

NIF describes itself as "the leading organization committed to democratic change within Israel".[6] Its stated objective is "to actualize the vision of Israel's Founders, that of a Jewish and democratic state that, in the words of the Declaration of Independence, 'ensures complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex.'"[1] ....
In addition, Daniel Sokatch, CEO, says that in line with their "core values of democracy and equality, we support two states for two peoples and we oppose the occupation and the settlement enterprise."[8] In June 2012, NIF marched with a "progressive cluster" in the New York Celebrate Israel parade; the cluster included Ameinu, Americans for Peace Now, BeTselem USA, Partners for Progressive Israel, and Rabbis for Human Rights-North America.[9]

Ford Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Foundation#Controversy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The foundation's partnership with the New Israel Fund, which began in 2003, was frequently criticised regarding its choice of mostly liberal grantees and causes. This criticism came to light after the 2001 Durban Conference, where some nongovernmental organizations funded by the foundation backed resolutions equating Israeli policies as apartheid, and later, against those groups which support the delegitimization of Israel. In response, the foundation adopted stricter criteria for funding.[30]

Henry Ford
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Dearborn Independent and anti-Semitism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford#The_Dearborn_Independent_and_anti-Semitism
 
Extracts:

In the early 1920s, Ford sponsored a weekly newspaper that published strongly anti-Semitic views. ...

In 1918, Ford's closest aide and private secretary, Ernest G. Liebold, purchased an obscure weekly newspaper for Ford, The Dearborn Independent. The Independent ran for eight years, from 1920 until 1927, with Liebold as editor. Every Ford franchise nation-wide had to carry the paper and distribute it to its customers.

The newspaper published The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which was discredited by The Times of London as a forgery during the Independent's publishing run. ...

In Germany, Ford's anti-Semitic articles from The Dearborn Independent were issued in four volumes, cumulatively titled The International Jew, the World's Foremost Problem published by Theodor Fritsch, founder of several anti-Semitic parties and a member of the Reichstag. In a letter written in 1924, Heinrich Himmler described Ford as "one of our most valuable, important, and witty fighters."[59] Ford is the only American mentioned in Mein Kampf.[60][61] Adolf Hitler wrote, "only a single great man, Ford, [who], to [the Jews'] fury, still maintains full independence...[from] the controlling masters of the producers in a nation of one hundred and twenty millions." ....

On February 1, 1924, Ford received Kurt Ludecke, a representative of Hitler, at home. Ludecke was introduced to Ford by Siegfried Wagner (son of the composer Richard Wagner) and his wife Winifred, both Nazi sympathizers and anti-Semites. Ludecke asked Ford for a contribution to the Nazi cause, but was apparently refused.[64]

.... A libel lawsuit was brought by San Francisco lawyer and Jewish farm cooperative organizer Aaron Sapiro in response to the anti-Semitic remarks, and led Ford to close the Independent in December 1927. News reports at the time quoted him as saying he was shocked by the content and unaware of its nature.

.... A boycott against Ford products by Jews and liberal Christians also had an impact, and Ford shut down the paper in 1927, recanting his views in a public letter to Sigmund Livingston, ADL.[70]

... According to Pool and Pool (1978),[72] Ford's retraction and apology (which were written by others) were not even truly signed by him (rather, his signature was forged by Harry Bennett), and Ford never privately recanted his anti-Semitic views, stating in 1940, "I hope to republish The International Jew again some time."

Testifying at Nuremberg, convicted Hitler Youth leader Baldur von Schirach who, in his role as military governor of Vienna deported 65,000 Jews to camps in Poland, stated,

The decisive anti-Semitic book I was reading and the book that influenced my comrades was ... that book by Henry Ford, "The International Jew." I read it and became anti-Semitic. The book made a great influence on myself and my friends because we saw in Henry Ford the representative of success and also the representative of a progressive social policy.[74][75]