Jerusalem News.
10 September 2024, 7 Elul 5789.
Contents:
1. Israel Ganz (Settlers Group) at GOP conference: 'Judea and Samaria are the front line of the West'!
2. Torah Portion for this Week. Re'eh.
3. Which Countries Support Israel Around the World?
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1. Israel Ganz (Settlers Group) at GOP conference: 'Judea and Samaria are the front line of the West'!
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/395916
Israel Ganz, head of the Binyamin Regional Council and chairman of the Yesha Council, was invited to the Republican Party conference in Los Angeles in support of the Jewish people (RJC), and explained that "Judea and Samaria are the front line of the West".
Ganz attended the conference and spoke with senior officials, including those close to Donald Trump, about the need to strengthen Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria.
Ganz said that the ongoing war in Israel has highlighted the fact that "the Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria are the frontline that defends the State of Israel, which is the frontline of all Western countries, including the United States."
He added, "Whoever imposes sanctions against the communities in Judea and Samaria or tries to establish a Palestinian state in this area, is actually fighting against the State of Israel and causing the extreme Islamic terrorism to be at his doorstep in Paris, London, New York and Los Angeles before long."
The head of the Binyamin Regional Council also explained to his American counterparts "Iran is directing terrorist military activity not only in southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, but right from the territories of Judea and Samaria, in the vicinity of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv."
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2. Torah Portion for this Week. Re'eh.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/395281
Truth, not feelings, must govern our actions.
Dr. Elliot Resnick
Extract:
In this week's parsha (section), Hashem tells us to put to death anyone who tries convincing us to serve foreign gods, even if that person is 'your brother or your mother or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace' (Devarim -Deuteronomy 13:7). If you think about it, this command is extremely 'harsh,'and yet it' a command nonetheless. For we owe our ultimate obedience and loyalty to G-d, no one else.
This same principle, writes Rav Hirsch, undergirds the prohibitions against cutting ourselves and tearing our hair in response to the death of a loved one (Devarim 14:1). Those in grief sometimes despair and think, 'Life without ________ is meaningless. There's no point in me living anymore.' This attitude, Rav Hirsch argues, is wrong:
"No personality may chain us so closely to it, allow us to be so absorbed into it, that when it departs from us we may throw our own personality after it as having no longer any value, as would be what the permanent sign of a cut of baldness on our body is meant to express." The very same verse, Devarim 14:1 states, ... "You are the children of Hashem, your GOD." Writes Rav Hirsch: "In the very first instance, your nearest relation is your Father in heaven."
Familial bonds are not unimportant. The mesorah is passed down from parents to children, and one of the most important national mitzvos, the korban (sacrifice of) Pesach, is supposed to be eaten in a family setting. The Torah also values the love between a man and his wife. Hashem doesn't want us to be cold automatons. And yet, ultimately, truth, as determined by Hashem, is supposed to govern our actions, not feelings.
Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808-1888), head of the Jewish community in Frankfurt, Germany for over 35 years was a prolific writer whose ideas, passion, and brilliance helped save German Jewry from the onslaught of modernity.
Elliot Resnick, PhD, is the host of "The Elliot Resnick Show" and the editor of an upcoming work on etymological explanations in Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch's commentary on Chumash.
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3. Which Countries Support Israel Around the World?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHFrEl748D4&t=30s
(1) Those who Most Support Israel:
(a) Western:
USA
UK
Austria
Hungary
Croatia
Czechia
Germany
France supportive but less pro-Israel.
(b) Non-Western: (Maverick States).
Guatemala
Paraguay
Panama
(c) Others.
Papua/New Ginea (Religious grounds)
India
(2) Anti-Israel or Highly reserved but Civilized..
Spain
Luxembourg
Ireland
Norway
(3) Border-line.
Chile
Columbia
Bolivia
Turkey (uncertain but now potentially in the (5) Rabid Hatred category.
(4) Moderate Arabs
UAE
Bahrein
Morocco
Sudan
Saudi Arabia
(5) Anti-Israel (Rabid hatred).
Iran
Afghanistan
Syria