Brit-Am Regular Updates and Outposts on Contemporary Issues
Update from the Holy Land.
A BRIT-AM HEBREW AWARENESS PROJECT.
9 May 2023; 18 Iyar, 5783.
Contents:
1. Ted Cruz Trying to Torpedo Yael Lempert's Nomination to Jordan, Demands Extradition of Sbarro Terrorist Tamimi.
2. Top Terrorists Eliminated. Israel Launches Operation "Shield and Arrow" Against Islamic Jihad in Gaza.
3. Song Sung at British Coronation.
Zadok the Priest.
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1. Ted Cruz Trying to Torpedo Yael Lempert's Nomination to Jordan, Demands Extradition of Sbarro Terrorist Tamimi
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/middle-east/jordan/ted-cruz-trying-to-torpedo-yael-lemperts-nomination-demands-extradition-of-sbarro-terrorist-tamimi/2023/05/05/
By
David Israel
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14 Iyyar 5783 - May 5, 2023
Extracts:
Yael Lempert, the Obama Administration's official who struck the 10-year, $38 billion military aid package with the Netanyahu government in late 2016, is now the Biden administration's nominee for US Ambassador to Jordan, and on Thursday she faced the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) questioned the nominee about Jordan's continued refusal to extradite to the US the female terrorist Ahlam Tamimi, who was convicted of assisting the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing in Jerusalem, in 2001, which caused 145 casualties, including 15 fatalities, half of them children.
Ahlam Tamimi and Al-Masri, the human bomb whose head was blown off when he detonated the explosives-filled guitar case on his back, came by taxi and bus via the Kalandia Crossing. Tamimi carried the guitar case for him through the crossing as part of the deception. When they reached Sha'ar Schechem, they walked together to the entrance to the Sbarro restaurant, where, by her own account, she instructed him on what to and then fled.
She was sentenced by an Israeli military tribunal to 16 terms life imprisonment but was released in 2011 as part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange.
Just weeks after her release she began to appear regularly in Jordanian media. She began presenting her own weekly TV show.... produced and shown worldwide weekly from Jordan by Hamas for nearly five years, starting February 2012. Just to be clear, nothing appears in any Jordanian media that is not approved by the Royal Hashemite Court.
The Sbarro attack dead included 13 Israelis, two Americans: Malki Roth and Shoshana Judith Greenbaum, and one Brazilian, all of them civilians. There were also 130 injured, including Chana Nachenberg, who remains hospitalized in a permanent vegetative state.
There still is a $5 million reward for Tamimi's capture, so if you're athletic and can drive fast cars across international borders, by all means, go for it. The US administration isn't going to.
Or, as Lempert put it in Diplomatese, first stressing what 'a difficult and frustrating issue this has been for the Congress, for those of us in the executive branch, but most of all for the families of the American citizen victims of Ahlam Tamimi's horrific crimes - Malki Roth and Shoshana Judith Greenbaum.
'If confirmed, I will do everything in my power to ensure that Ahlam Tamimi faces justice in the United States for horrific crimes,' she promised.
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2. Top Terrorists Eliminated - Israel Launches Operation 'Shield and Arrow' Against Islamic Jihad in Gaza
By
Jewish Press News Desk
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18 Iyyar 5783 - May 9, 2023
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/idf/israel-launches-operation-shield-and-arrow-against-gaza/2023/05/09/
Extracts:
Early Tuesday morning (Lag B'Omer) between 2 AM - 2:30 AM, the IDF launched Operation Shield and Arrow ('Magen v'Chetz') against the leadership of the Islamic Jihad terror organization in Gaza and their infrastructure.
The IDF successfully eliminated three top commanders of Islamic Jihad in Gaza via targeted airstrikes, including those responsible for the rocket attacks from Gaza and terror attacks in Judea and Samaria.
So far, Israel has confirmed around three of their intended senior terrorist targets have been eliminated. In Gaza, they are reporting 12 terrorists killed. The plan to launch the operation was made by the government after the recent rocket barrage from Gaza, and the timing was designed to catch the enemy off-guard.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir praised Prime Minister Netanyahu for taking the initiative in Gaza, calling it a 'good start' and saying it was about time for a policy change in Gaza.
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3. Song Sung at British Coronation.
Zadok the Priest
Anthem by George Frideric Handel written by George Frideric Handel for the crowning of King George II in 1727.
Kings 1:38 and 1:39 reads: So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet went down and had Solomon ride on King David's mule and brought him to Gihon. There Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tent and anointed Solomon.
Then they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, 'Long live King Solomon!'
Zadok the priest
And Nathan the prophet
Anointed Solomon king
And all the people rejoiced, rejoiced, rejoiced
And all the people rejoiced, rejoiced, rejoiced
Rejoiced, rejoiced, rejoiced
And all the people rejoiced, rejoiced,
Rejoiced and said:
God save the king
Long live the king
God save the king
May the king live forever
Amen, amen, alleluia, alleluia, amen, amen
Amen, amen, alleluia, amen
God save the king
Long live the king
May the king live forever
Amen, amen, alleluia, alleluia, amen
May the king live
May the king live
Forever, forever, forever
Amen, amen, alleluia, alleluia, amen, amen
Alleluia, alleluia, amen, amen, amen
Amen, amen, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, amen
God save the king
God save the king
Long live the king
May the king live
May the king live
Forever, forever, forever
Amen, amen, alleluia, alleluia, amen, amen, amen,
Amen, amen, amen, alleluia, amen
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia,
Amen, alleluia!
When is Zadok the Priest sung?
https://www.classical-music.com/features/articles/handels-zadok-the-priest-lyrics/
Since it was first used at the coronation of King George II, 'Zadok the Priest' has been sung at the coronation of every British monarch. It is always sung at the same moment during the ceremony: just before the anointing of the new monarch.
As such, 'Zadok the Priest' has come to be recognised as something of a British patriotic anthem.