Jerusalem News (21 August, 2014, 25 Av, 5774)
Contents:
1. Brilliant letter - telling it as it is
2. Speech of a Former Sudanese Slave in Defence of Israel
3. Cabinet approves call-up of 10,000 IDF reservists
4. The Case for an Independent Kurdistan
5. Know the Truth: Appeal
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1. Brilliant letter - telling it as it is
forwarded by Alex Zephyr
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 08:32:04 +0300
British Foreign Secretary, William Hague, warned Israel that if it
sent troops into Gaza to confront Hamas, it risked losing the sympathy
of the international community.
A Jewish woman in Britain, Mindy Wiesenberger, sent the following
letter to Mr. Hague, in response. The letter has been published in
many newspapers, including the Times of Israel.
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Dear Mr. Hague
You have stated that if Israel tries to defend its population through
a ground offensive in Gaza 'it risks losing the sympathy of the
international community.'
Let me tell you something about the sympathy of the international
community Mr. Hague.
My father was liberated from Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945,
having lost his entire family but gaining the sympathy of the
international community at the time.
After 6 million Jews had been annihilated at the hands of the Nazi
regime, the international community had plenty of sympathy for the
Jewish people. There is always plenty of sympathy for victims.
Israel doesn't need the sympathy of the international community. What
it needs is to defend its citizens.
When as a tiny country it gained its independence in 1948 it had to
absorb 800,000 Jews who were thrown out of Arab lands in the Middle
East, and it did so without fuss and with dignity giving them shelter
and a place of security in which their children could grow up to
become productive citizens. When Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria
tried to destroy Israel in 1948 and again in 1967 they took in
hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs, but did they give them
dignity or shelter? No, they left them to rot in refugee camps in
order to maintain a symbol of grievance against Israel and use them as
a political tool against the Jewish state.
What has arisen in those camps is a complicated situation, but it is
what has led to Gaza today.
So don't lecture Israel on international sympathy Mr. Hague. Not when
Israel has just sent in 120 trucks loaded with food into Gaza to feed
the Palestinian people there, because their own leadership is more
interested in using its population as human shields, launching rockets
against Israel from within major civilian centers.
Don't lecture Israel on international sympathy Mr. Hague. Not when
Israel targets, with as much military precision as it can, only
terrorists and their bases, trying its utmost to prevent civilian
casualties.
Don't lecture Israel on international sympathy Mr. Hague. Not when the
Palestinian media deliberately uses images of victims of the Syrian
civil war and presents them as casualties in Gaza to gain
international sympathy.
Go read your history books Mr. Hague, go see that since the beginning
of the twentieth century all the Arabs wanted to do was destroy
Israel.
Go look at the country of Israel now since the Jews have established a
state there.
Go read what advances in science, medicine, biotechnology, agriculture
and high tech Israel has developed, and dedicated that knowledge to
making the world a better place for humanity. Can you
imagine any other country that after 60 years of continuously being
under attack could have achieved so much.
So Mr. Hague don't lecture Israel on international sympathy. Israel
will do whatever it takes to defend itself from outright attack on its
citizens, whether it be from Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran or any other
country or terrorist group that attacks it.
And if it loses the sympathy of the international community so be it.
We don't need the international community's sympathy. We don't need
another 6 million victims.
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2. Speech of a Former Sudanese Slave in Defence of Israel
forwarded by Alex Zephyr
A REMARKABLE SPEECH. I HOPE IT WILL GO AROUND THE WORLD.
These are the words of Simon Deng, once a Sudanese slave, addressing the Durban Conference in NY.
Extracts:
'I want to thank the organizers of this conference, The Perils of Global Intolerance. It is a great honour for me and it is a privilege really to be among today's distinguished speakers.
I came here as a friend of the State of Israel and the Jewish people. I came to protest this Durban conference, which is based on a set of lies. It is organized by nations who are themselves guilty of the worst kind of oppression.
It will not help the victims of racism. It will only isolate and target the Jewish state. It is a tool of the enemies of Israel.
The UN has itself become a tool against Israel. For over 50 years, 82 percent of the UN General Assembly emergency meetings have been about condemning one state - Israel. Hitler couldn't have been made happier!
The Durban Conference is an outrage. All decent people will know that.
But friends, I come here today with a radical idea. I come to tell you that there are peoples who suffer from the UN's anti-Israelism even more than the Israelis. I belong to one of those people.
Please hear me out.
By exaggerating Palestinian suffering, and by blaming the Jews for it, the UN has muffled the cries of those who suffer on a far larger scale.
For over fifty years the indigenous black population of Sudan -- Christians and Muslims alike --- have been the victims of the brutal, racist Arab Muslim regimes in Khartoum.
In South Sudan , my homeland, about 4 million innocent men, women and children were slaughtered from 1955 to 2005. Seven million were ethnically cleansed and they became the largest refugee group since World War II.
The UN is concerned about the so-called Palestinian refugees. They dedicated a separate agency for them, and they are treated with a special privilege.
Meanwhile, my people, ethnically cleansed, murdered and enslaved, are relatively ignored. The UN refuses to tell the world the truth about the real causes of Sudan 's conflicts. Who knows really what is happening in Darfur? It is not a "tribal conflict."
It is a conflict rooted in Arab colonialism well known in north Africa. In Darfur, a region in the Western Sudan , everybody is Muslim. Everybody is Muslim because the Arabs invaded the North of Africa and converted the indigenous people to Islam. In the eyes of the Islamists in Khartoum, the Darfuris are not Muslim enough. And the Darfuris do not want to be Arabized.
They love their own African languages and dress and customs. The Arab response is genocide! But nobody at the UN tells the truth about Darfur.
In the Nuba Mountains, another region of Sudan, genocide is taking place as I speak. The Islamist regime in Khartoum is targeting the black Africans - Muslims and Christians. Nobody at the UN has told the truth about the Nuba Mountains ....
Do you hear the UN condemn Arab racism against blacks?
What you find on the pages of the New York Times, or in the record of the UN condemnations is 'Israeli crimes' and Palestinian suffering.
My people have been driven off the front pages because of the exaggerations about Palestinian suffering.
What Israel does is portrayed as a Western sin. But the truth is that the real sin happens when the West abandons us: the victims of Arab/Islamic apartheid.
Chattel slavery was practiced for centuries in Sudan. It was revived as a tool of war in the early 90s.
Khartoum declared jihad against my people and this legitimized taking slaves as war booty.
Arab militias were sent to destroy Southern villages and were encouraged to take African women and children as slaves.
We believe that up to 200,000 were kidnapped, brought to the North and sold into slavery.
I am a living proof of this crime against humanity!
I don't like talking about my experience as a slave, but I do it because it is important for the world to know that slavery exists even today.
I was only nine years old when an Arab neighbour named Abdullahi tricked me into following him to a boat. The boat wound up in Northern Sudan where he gave me as a gift to his family. For three and a half years I was their slave going through something that no child should ever go through: brutal beatings and humiliations; working around the clock; sleeping on the ground with animals; eating the family's left-overs.
The United Nations knew about the enslavement of South Sudanese by the Arabs. Their own staff reported it. It took UNICEF, Â under pressure from thhe Jewish-led American Anti-Slavery Group -- sixteen years, to acknowledge what was happening. I want to publicly thank my friend Dr. Charles Jacobs for leading the anti-slavery fight.
But the Sudanese government and the Arab League pressured UNICEF, and UNICEF backtracked, and started to criticize those who worked to liberate Sudanese slaves. In 1998, Dr. Gaspar Biro, the courageous UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Sudan who reported on slavery, resigned in protest of the UN's actions.
My friends, today, tens of thousands of black South Sudanese still serve their masters in the North and the UN is silent about that. It would offend the OIC and the Arab League.
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3. Cabinet approves call-up of 10,000 IDF reservists
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4561660,00.html
Extracts:
Netanyahu hails IDF, Shin Bet for killings of three top Hamas commanders in overnight strikes.
Moran Azulay, Yoav Zitun
Latest Update: 08.21.14, 16:33 / Israel News
Israel approved the call-up of 10,000 IDF reservists on Thursday, two days after the collapse of negotiations that had seemed likely to pave the way to an agreement to end more than a month of fighting with Hamas in Gaza.Â
The decision was reached during a conference call between members of the Cabinet.
The IDF called up 86,000 reservist soldiers in the first weeks of Operation Protective Edge, which began in early July. Many were sent home, however, after it appeared that an agreement to end the fighting was in reach.
Both Israel and Hamas appear to be ratcheting up the belligerence, in rhetoric and in action, since the talks collapsed on Tuesday after Hamas breached an ongoing ceasefire by firing rockets at southern Israel. Israel retaliated with an attack on a Gaza home believed to be the location of Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif. His fate remains unclear, while his wife and children were killed in the attack.
Hamas says that Deif, one of Israel's most-wanted terrorists, had not been hurt in the attack, while an Israeli intelligence official reportedly told Fox News on Wednesday that he had indeed been killed in the strike.Â
Overnight Wednesday, the IAF struck a house in Gaza, killing three senior Hamas commanders, including two who had been directly involved in the abduction of IDF Corporal Gilad Shalit in 2006.
Hamas's military wing confirmed Thursday that Israel had killed its Rafah Division commander Raed al-Attar, Southern Division commander Mohammed Abu Shmallah and Rafah Division senior commander Mohammed Barhoum in an overnight strike.
Meanwhile, Hamas and other Palestinian factions have resumed almost continuous rocket fire on southern Israel, repeatedly targeting border communities and population centers, sending Israelis once again scrambling for bomb shelters after days of relative calm.
In a televised press conference Wednesday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the IDF would keep fighting in Gaza until calm had been restored to the rocket-battered south. He declined to comment directly on Deif's death, but said that every Hamas leader was a legitimate target, and that none were immune.
On Thursday, he paid tribute to the "exceptional" work of the Shin Bet security service and the IDF for the killing of the three Hamas men.
The prime minister also expressed his own and the country's gratitude for the work carried by the security forces in fighting terrorism.
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4. The Case for an Independent Kurdistan
http://unitycoalitionforisrael.org/uci_2014/?p=10533
Extracts:
The state of Iraq as we once knew it is in shambles. ISIS continues to occupy vast swaths of Iraq, sectarian conflicts are on the rise, and the Maliki government cowers in Baghdad while the barbarians batter the gates. In response, the U.S. has sent a few hundred military advisors in an attempt to bolster the Iraqi military's morale, so far with little success. Elsewhere in the region, Israel and the Palestinians are in the midst of another conflict, Syria is still in a bloody civil war (with ISIS involved), and the Iranian nuclear talks have been extended with no real promise of a deal in the works. Simply put, the Middle East as a whole is extremely volatile.
That is, except for Kurdistan.
The Kurds of northern Iraq are sitting pretty. They have not only successfully defended themselves from the ISIS threat, but they have taken control of the key city of Kirkuk, as well as some crucial oil fields. According to Antonio Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Kurdistan has taken in over 220,000 refugees fleeing Syria, and over two million others fleeing ISIS. In addition, what is left of the small Chaldean Christian minority of Iraq has been given protection by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Recently, the Kurds even helped some monks expelled from Iraq by ISIS.
Ironically enough, it appears Kurdistan, which is technically not sovereign, is perhaps the most stable state in their neighborhood, apart from Israel, of course. Just as importantly, they are a regional leader and symbol of democracy and human rights in this volatile region.
If there ever was a time for the U.S. to recognize an officially independent Kurdistan, it is now.
... Kurdistan has become a de facto independent state and has, for all intents and purposes, already separated itself from Iraq. Apart from the efforts made by the KRG and the Peshmerga (the Kurdish military) in response to the ISIS threat, the members of the Kurdish delegation to the Iraqi parliament have long been at odds with their Iraqi counterparts, as they are unwilling to subordinate their legitimate concerns to the desires of the corrupt Iraqi government. Even if ISIS was successfully suppressed, it is highly unlikely that the Kurds would retreat from Kirkuk and resume their role as an autonomous region of Iraq, nor should they be expected to.
The West, in particular, is missing out on establishing a major strategic ally in the Middle East by not exploring the idea of a fully independent Kurdistan.
First and foremost, Kurdistan is a remarkably stable example of democracy in a region fraught with conflict.
Second, the KRG supported the U.S. during the Iraqi invasion and has prevented any American deaths on Kurdish soil ever since. In fact, they, and the Kurdish population, are consistently pro-U.S.
 Third, economically speaking, the Kurds have extensive oil reserves and are eager to explore foreign investment in several markets.
Fourth, in contrast to the rest of the Middle East, Â barring Israel, Â the Kurds put a special emphasis on encouraging women to participate in the political sphere. In fact, women actively serve side by side with their male counterparts in the Peshmerga, engaging in the same rigorous training as their male counterparts.
Fifth, strategically speaking, Kurdistan lies in a crucial area between Iraq, Iran, and Turkey. A bastion of stability in this area of the world would undoubtedly prove useful to the West, and the world as a whole, in regard to international relations and future diplomatic efforts.
Sixth, Kurdish independence has already been recognized by their regional neighbors, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Lastly, it should be noted that the Kurds have proven they are ready for independence. The KRG has acted as a more than responsible leader in an area on the brink of total chaos. They have gained the respect of their peers and have defended not only their own people, but also those of different races, nationalities, and religions.
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5. Know the Truth: Appeal
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Amos 3:
1 Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:
2 You only have I known
  of all the families of the earth;
therefore I will punish you
  for all your iniquities.
3 Do two walk together
  unless they have made an appointment?
4 Does a lion roar in the forest,
  when it has no prey?
Does a young lion cry out from its den,
  if it has caught nothing?
5 Does a bird fall into a snare on the earth,
  when there is no trap for it?
Does a snare spring up from the ground,
  when it has taken nothing?
6 Is a trumpet blown in a city,
  and the people are not afraid?
Does disaster befall a city,
  unless the Lord has done it?
7 Surely the Lord God does nothing,
  without revealing his secret
  to his servants the prophets.
8 The lion has roared;
  who will not fear?
The Lord God has spoken;
  who can but prophesy?
Belonging to the Tribes of Israel entails obligations.
It also Involves Rights
God wants you to know who you are!
The Rest of the World is Your Envious Enemy!
We are approaching a time of ultimate confrontation.
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What side will be chosen for you?
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