Tribal Report (8 December, 2019, 10 Kislev 5780)
Contents:
1. Saving the Jews of Denmark in WW2
2. France Makes History, Parliament Votes Anti-Zionism is Modern Anti-Semitism
3. Why does America care about Israel? America is Israel's greatest Ally.
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1. Saving the Jews of Denmark in WW2
Which countries during World War 2, saved the highest percentage of their Jewish citizens?
Don Keebrane, Attorney (2008-present)
https://www.quora.com/Which-countries-during-World-War-2-saved-the-highest-percentage-of-their-Jewish-citizens
Bulgaria didn't deport any Jews with Bulgarian citizenship, but they did deport Jews who were living in the territories they occupied in the Balkans.
Denmark saved most of its Jewish population. The SS General in charge of occupied Denmark was a pragmatic person, and he knew that if the Nazis rounded up and killed Danish Jews, it would destroy what was a good relationship between Denmark and Germany during the war. He didn't care about the Jews, but he did care about avoiding unnecessary problems with the Danish population, so he leaked the information about the day the roundup was scheduled for. The Danish resistance and other regular Danish citizens helped their Jewish citizens escape to neutral Sweden by fishing boats or other small vessels, which accounted for roughly 95% of the total Jewish population. The ones that were caught were sent to Thereisenstadt in Czechoslovakia, a 'beautified' ghetto/camp used to fool the Red Cross into believing that Jews were being treated humanely. The Thereisenstadt Jews were allowed to wear their own clothes and it was made to look like an actual town, even though everything in it was fake. Thousands of Jews died there and for the most part, it was used as a transit camp before Jews were sent to Auschwitz. Some Jewish celebrities or WW1 veterans were sent there, and it was considered a privilege in comparison to Treblinka or Auschwitz, but the Danish Jews were the only ones there who were monitored by their country and allowed to receive life-saving food and medicine parcels. At the end of the war, only a small number of Danish Jews had died in Thereisenstadt, and roughly 99% of all Danish Jews survived.
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2. France Makes History, Parliament Votes Anti-Zionism is Modern Anti-Semitism
By Hana Levi Julian - 6 Kislev 5780 - December 3, 20190
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/global/europe/france/france-makes-history-parliament-votes-anti-zionism-is-modern-anti-semitism/2019/12/03/
Extracts:
The French National Assembly, Oct. 1 2005
The nation of France made history on Tuesday evening, with its government approving a resolution that stated anti-Zionism is a modern form of anti-Semitism.
The vote by the French National Assembly came after a motion to 'endorse the working definition of anti-Semitism used by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance as a useful guidance instrument for education and training in order to support judicial and law enforcement authorities in their efforts to detect and prosecute anti-Semitic attacks more efficiently and effectively,' according to the NGO Monitor watchdog organization.
It followed France's official endorsement of the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) working definition of antisemitism. During the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF) annual dinner this past February (2019), President Emmanuel Macron had already declared that 'anti-Zionism is a modern form of anti-Semitism.'
French Parliamentarian Meyer Habib, a member of the Union of Democrats and Independents, delivered a poignant speech prior to the vote in which he reiterated the visceral connection between the Jewish People and the Land of Israel. He also explained why passage of the resolution was so important, and not just to those who are Jewish.
'French policy in the fight against anti-Semitism is a failure. There are outbreaks of anti-Semitic attacks. Twelve French people have been murdered for being Jews since 2003. Half of France's racist acts have been committed against Jews, even though they account for less than one percent of the population. Faced with this urgent [problem], there have been a lot of speeches, but few acts,' Habib pointed out.
'.... hatred of Israel is the new anti-Semitism. And it's just another version of the hatred of France, the Republic and its values.
'In the eyes of the anti-Zionists, the State of Israel was founded out of 'compensation' after the Holocaust. It is outrageous and false. However, my belief is that if the State of Israel existed then, there would have been no Holocaust. Israel is the only life insurance policy of the Jewish people.
'Anti-Zionism has never been about criticizing Israeli policy. It is an obsessive demonization, the misuse of anti-racist and anti-colonial rhetoric for the purpose of depriving Jews of any national identity.
cf. 127 Israeli, Jewish Academics Want France to Kill 'Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitism' Resolution
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/global/europe/france/127-israeli-jewish-academics-want-france-to-kill-anti-zionism-is-anti-semitism-resolution/2019/12/04/
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3. Why does America care about Israel? America is Israel's greatest Ally.
https://www.quora.com/Why-does-America-care-about-Israel
by Avinoam Ben Dor,
Extracts:
First and foremost friendship:
Proverbs 18:24 says:
'A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.'
Israel may not have many friends in the world, but our friendship with America makes up in quality what we lack in quantity.
America is Israel's greatest Ally.
America and Israel stand for human dignity, human rights, justice, religious freedom and independence.
"The United States abrogated the dangerous Iran Deal, ended all aid to the terror-funding PA, left the anti-Israel UN Human Rights Council, stopped funding the anti-Israel UNRWA, recognized Israel's sovereignty over the strategically vital Golan Heights, and recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and relocated the U.S. Embassy, which until only recently had bipartisan support."
Let us start with a dollar bill:
If you look closely, you will notice the arrangement of the 13 stars in the right-hand circle there you will see that they are arranged as a Star of David. This was ordered by George Washington who, when he asked Hayim Solomon, a wealthy Philadelphia Jew, what he would like as a personal reward for his services to the Continental Army, Solomon said he wanted nothing for himself but that he would like something for his people. The Star of David was the result. Few people know that it was Solomon who saved the Army through his financial contributions but died a pauper.
.... Before we go into the obvious reasons by the US supports Israel, let us not forget the contribution of Jewish scientists to the victory of America in WWII
There is a broad bipartisan consensus among policymakers that Israel has advanced U.S. interest in the Middle East and beyond.
Israel has successfully prevented victories by radical nationalist movements in Lebanon and Jordan, as well as in Palestine.
Israel has kept Syria, for many years an ally of the Soviet Union, in check.
Israel's air force is predominant throughout the region.
Israel's frequent wars have provided battlefield testing for American arms, often against Soviet weapons.
It has served as a conduit for U.S. arms to regimes and movements too unpopular in the United States for openly granting direct military assistance, such as apartheid South Africa, the Islamic Republic in Iran, the military junta in Guatemala, and the Nicaraguan Contras. Israeli military advisers have assisted the Contras, the Salvadoran junta, and foreign occupation forces in Namibia and Western Sahara.
Israel's intelligence service has assisted the U.S. in intelligence gathering and covert operations.
Israel has missiles capable of reaching as far as the former Soviet Union, it possesses a nuclear arsenal of hundreds of weapons, and it has cooperated with the U.S. military-industrial complex with research and development for new jet fighters and anti-missile defense systems.
The Christian Right, with tens of millions of followers and a major base of support for the Republican Party, has thrown its immense media and political clout in support for Israeli leaders. Based in part on a messianic theology that sees the ingathering of Jews to the Holy Land as a precursor for the second coming ..., the battle between Israelis and Palestinians is, in their eyes, simply a continuation of the battle between the Israelites and the Philistines, with God in the role of a cosmic real estate agent who has deemed that the land belongs to Israel alone, secular notions regarding international law and the right of self-determination notwithstanding.
Israel operates in close cooperation with its bigger sister in the US. The military aid the US gives to Israel ensures this cooperation, and every conflict in the Middle East contributes more to the profits of US arms giants (such as Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon) than to the Israeli arms companies.
However, the new agreement posits that by 2024, 100% of such purchases must be from US manufacturers. The effect of providing this aid and mandating that it be spent in the US is actually a job creator in America....
Looking at the situation from a neutral position, the aid package has two specific results. It allows Israel to maintain its position of being the strongest military force in the Middle East with the most sophisticated weaponry, while creating a significant amount of business volume for America's arms suppliers.
Trump has moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem; recognized the Golan Heights as sovereign Jewish land; threw the Jew-hating Israelophobic terrorist PLO out of their Washington offices; ended all aid to the anti-Israel Palestinian Authority, UN Human Rights Council and UNRWA; stopped promoting a dangerous, terrorist Palestinian state; appointed strong supporters of Israel like U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Ambassador David Friedman, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, National Security Chief John Bolton and Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt.
Trump has also repeatedly condemned anti-Semitism, white supremacists, the KKK and neo-Nazis. He visited the Pittsburgh synagogue where the anti-Semitic massacre took place and invited to the White House the Chabad rabbi whose synagogue endured an attack. And he proudly talks about his Orthodox Jewish daughter and grandchildren.
Twice, Trump was the grand marshal of the NYC Israel Day Parade.
President Trump is the opposite of an anti-Semite. He loves Jewish people and the Jewish state. He has been the greatest president for the Jewish state of Israel ever.