FROM HIALEAH TO THE WORLD...SHABBAT SHALOM Y VIVA ISRAEL

OUR ONE AND ONLY KOTEL

Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me shall be for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwelleth in Mount Zion.                                            ISAIAH (8:18)

After foretelling of the upcoming Assyrian invasion, the prophet Isaiah takes steps to ensure that there will always remain a firm group of believers in God's salvation. He goes so far as to name his children with names of hope and promise, as signs that the redemption will come.  Isaiah points out that God's Divine Presence will eternally reside on Mount Zion.  God will never abandon His land or His people, He remains with His Children, even while in exile, and guarantees that He will redeem them at the right time. Help us continue to spread the message of God's eternal presence in the Holy Jerusalem.

THANK YOU G-D FOR THE I.D.F.

THIS LAND IS OUR LAND AND NOBODY'S ELSE

KACH AND KAHANE FOREVER!!!

The war is not on drugs or terrorism; the war is on American society as we know it.

Hippie Politics, ‘Coexist’ and Blah, Blah, Blah  The war is not on drugs or terrorism; the war is on American society as we know it.

By: Rachel Molschky

Hippie politics are destroying the nation. The growing phenomenon of legalizing pot seems to have led to our government smoking that leafy plant which has the well-known effect of no ambition. Make love, not war; just chill, man. And coexist.

Those coexist bumper stickers are so sweet, but there is one problem: Islam is not about coexisting. ISIS is tearing through Iraq and Syria, conquering cities our troops had fought for, died for, leaving their widows to wonder if it was all in vain. Obama insisted on getting us out of there, yet at the same time, he's continued drone attacks on terrorists as well as airstrikes, two things Muslim terrorists really don't appreciate. So we are the enemy, whether we left Iraq or not, or whether Obama declares that the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam or holds annual Iftar dinners. And we are a target- a vulnerable target, thanks to those inexplicable politics.

But being a target is a fight we cannot win because counter-terrorism is racist. That's right. Racist. Mosque surveillance which helped to thwart various terror plots and put some of these terrorists behind bars has been discontinued because it's invasive and unfair to those peace-loving Muslims who preach our demise in mosques on our soil. And it's no exaggeration- one study found that only 3.5 percent of American mosques preach some peaceful form of Islam. The rest either preach violence or have available to their mosque attendees some violent or terror-supporting material. That's in America, where Muslims are supposedly well-assimilated compared to Muslims in Europe or Australia. Comforting news.

Everything is racist now. After the Obama Administration went after those "racist" counter-terrorism authorities who have to work in overdrive now in order to watch so many of the hundreds of thousands of Muslim immigrants Obama has brought over, especially since he eased restrictions on our security and what constitutes a "real" terrorist (allowing "not-so-bad" terrorists to enter our country), the next step to weaken authority was the police. You see, a part of this peace, love and happiness dream is appeasement, which has extended past the screaming Muslims rioting in the streets with signs about beheading those who insult the prophet, heil Hitler, death to Israel, and death to America, and the Muslim groups like CAIR which have been linked to terror groups, and onto the screaming rioters and looters who burn down drugstores and attack police.

Now that the police can no longer do their jobs, the murder and attempted murder rates are increasing at an alarming speed. The criminals want anarchy, and our government wants to appease them, attacking the police instead. They're trying to pet the dog, only that dog is rabid at the moment and knows no reason.

Appease the Muslim terrorists, who hate us, are killing Jews and Christians in not only the Middle East but also the West and want to destroy us and our civilization; and appease the criminals who want free rein to commit their violence. The excuse that it's all a civil rights movement is preposterous. Everyone in America who was born here is blessed with that wonderful thing that people around the world are desperate to get- American citizenship. Freedom, like the freedom to go to a public school and get an education. Sure, that school may not be as good as one where the people pay super high taxes in order to receive a higher quality education, but it is an American public school nonetheless, affording all Americans with many opportunities and opening doors which will never open to many who have not been able to get to the US either legally or illegally.

Any immigrant who truly is a decent immigrant, wanting a better life, is laughing at the stupidity of those crying Americans who scream about not having any opportunity. People risk their lives to get into the United States, and some of them lose their lives in the process. They are desperate to be American, while some who were born and raised here would rather take for granted everything that they have and victimize themselves instead.

It's about the choices we make in life. If you've made your bed, then be prepared to lie in it. It's not the government's responsibility to clean up the messes of our personal lives. If a woman has eight kids with eight different fathers, these were the choices she made. Why should the government take care of those children? How is it the fault of the police or the country? And why on earth is everyone so proud of how hard she works at being a single mother? If she had been married and had that big family when her husband took off or even died, then pity is in order. But to whine and complain about entitlement for the poor choices she made in life is a reflection of our society today and its backward system of "values."

Then there are the drugs. Drugs dealers and violent gangs. Somehow it's the government's fault for "abandoning" these communities where the "disadvantaged" live, and racism is to blame. It is not, however, the fault of the drug dealers and gang members. They have nothing to do with it.

Our "loving" policies where marijuana is legalized and gay marriage is sweeping across the nation like a wild brushfire in California, are presented as progress but are really anything but. Love and acceptance to all, including Muslim terrorists, misogynists, anti-Semites and Christianophobes; cop killers, drug dealers who are "disadvantaged," rioters, looters and CVS arsonists, who are not "thugs" by the way because that term is racist- but a war on Christianity, free speech, morality, law and order and above all- common sense.

The hippie love apparently does not extend to those who founded the nation, those who came to America to escape religious persecution and have encountered it yet again, after so much "progress." The progress, that is,

• of throwing the Torah and the Christian Bible out the window to legally institutionalize gay marriage;
• the progress of attacking Christians but defending the most violent religion on earth, the religion that almost all the terrorists in the world follow, those people who have sworn us to be their enemy;
• the progress of being proud of people who sleep around and stroking the egos of violent criminals;
• the progress of destroying our bodies with tattoos all over them, tattoos which were once shunned in most workplaces, now a source of pride, displayed with as little clothing as possible in even the most conservative of places (just to ensure that everyone sees those wonderful works of art on lower backs, upper thighs or even breasts);
• the progress of fashion trends calling for the tightest clothing and least amount of clothing possible, eradicating all of the advances made in equality and making women more of the sex objects we've tried so hard not to be;
• and finally, the progress of preaching for no violence in the real world against enemies who really are trying to kill us, yet at the same time, allowing the maximum amount of violence and gore in video games, movies and television shows, normalizing it for our children and their sponge-like minds.

These backward "ideals" are undermining our former strength, lowering our standing in the world and tearing our country apart. But let's keep going. We'll have a new political party called Islamic State, whose popularity will grow faster than we can bring over more terrorist "refugees," (which is pretty quick), the descendants of the people who founded the nation will be kicked out or will become second class citizens, law enforcement will no longer exist because it's unfair and discriminatory towards criminals, the military will be disbanded because fighting the enemy is a terrible thing, and we'll all walk around naked because after all, we practically already are- or we'll be in burqas, a.k.a. black leaf bags- one or the other.

The irony of it all is that the hippies and anarchists are really voting for socialists and greater government control, and the love of freedom is leading to less and less freedom as time goes on. What a bizarre state of affairs. If it's not one extreme, it's the other.

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To read more about our "ideals" as well as what Muslim immigration is doing to the West, please check out our book, Immigrants of Doom.

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De-Islamization is the Only Way to Fight ISIS

De-Islamization is the Only Way to Fight ISIS

FOR THE SAKE OF ZION: IN THE ALMIGHTY G-D OF ISRAEL WE TRUST!!

TEMPLE MOUNT & LAND OF ISRAEL FAITHFUL MOVEMENT
P.O. Box 18325, 8 Aliash Street, Jerusalem, Israel

B'esrat HaShem
With the Help of G-D


A NEWSLETTER TO LOVERS OF ZION IN THE WORLD

MAY 17, 2015, 28 IYAR 5775

END-TIME PROPHECY BECAME A REALITY 
IN MODERN ISRAEL. 
“JERUSALEM DAY” MARCH OF THE FAITHFUL MOVEMENT COMMEMORATING THE GREATEST MOMENT IN HISTORY!

On Sunday, May 17, 2015, 28 Iyar, 5775, the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement, the end-time vessel of G-D for His people Israel, marched from Jaffa Gate of Biblical Jerusalem to the Holy Temple Mount commemorating Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Days War, the greatest moment in the history of modern Israel and the entire world and fulfillment of major end-time prophecies. It was the second stage in the series of end-time events of the State of Israel when the G-D of Israel appeared again before His people Israel. In six days, actually in just three hours, the Almighty G-D of Israel together with His Israeli army, defeated the many Arab forces that came to destroy Israel and remove her from the map of the world. The Holy Temple Mount, the location of the First and Second Temples and soon the Holy Third Temple, was liberated forever along with other holy biblical areas in the Land of Israel. This was the greatest moment in the long history of Israel of more than 4,000 years and even in the history of the entire world. One day soon most of mankind, though their eyes are blinded by materialism, will recognize and understand how outstanding was this moment that opened not only a new age in the history of Israel but also in the history of the entire world. This great moment in the year 1967 opened the door for the fulfillment of the end-time vision and dream of G-D and the people of Israel, not to occur in the far future, but rather in the lifetime of our generation, no doubt the end-time generation:




"And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it. And many people shall go and say, 'Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the G-D of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths; for from Zion shall go forth Torah, and the Word of the LORD from Jerusalem'. And He shall judge among the nations, and shall decide for many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, nor shall they learn war any more...But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken it.” Isaiah 2:2-4, Micah 4:1-4




The 'Jerusalem Day' march of the Temple Mount Faithful Movement was not just to commemorate this major moment in history but even more than this. In a time when, once again, Arab and Islamic states are surrounding the State of Israel with hatred and hoping to destroy the people of G-D and to remove Israel from the map of the world, G-D continues to fulfill his end-time peaceful plans with Israel and the entire world. The message of G-D to these evil powers is very clear: 'I continue to build my peaceful and moral kingdom together with my people Israel'. In this kingdom which will soon become a reality, there will be no place for evil, ungodly, inhumane and cruel powers like these and no place for all of those who are giving support and backing to these evil powers. It is also a clear message and warning to the European Union, the United Nations and the president of the United States who are planning to sign an unreasonable and dangerous agreement with Iran who prepares nuclear weapons in order to remove Israel from the map of the world. This is also a warning of G-D to all of the ungodly human powers in the world today that they should be aware of the day of G-D's end-time judgment upon those who put pressure on Israel to divide the Land of Israel. They want to establish a foreign so-called “Palestinian” state of terror that never existed and never will exist in the Land of the G-D and people of Israel or in any other place in the world. Their evil plans are to destroy Israel and to disperse again the people of G-D all over the world. This is the call and the warning of G-D 'today' through His prophet Joel to all of those who never even recognized Jerusalem as the eternal capital of the G-D and people of Israel: 




“For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshafat, and will enter into judgment with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and have divided up my land....The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining. And the LORD roars out of Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shake: but the LORD will be a shelter for his people, and a stronghold for the children of Israel. So shall you know that I am the LORD your G-D dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and no strangers shall pass through her any more....But Judah shall remain for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.” Joel 4:1,2,15-17,20 (verses from The Jerusalem Bible)




These were the messages that the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement carried throughout her Jerusalem Day march through Jaffa Gate and the historical streets of Biblical Jerusalem. This was also the call of G-D to the nations that the Faithful Movement carried with her on this historical march to the Holy Temple Mount. The Movement also carried the testimony of G-D to His people Israel encouraging her and saying to Israel, 'Don't fear because your Almighty G-D is with you, my people Israel, and no human power can stop Me from fulfilling My vision to complete the rebuilding of my end-time kingdom in Jerusalem and to dwell in the midst of my people Israel and the entire world' : 




“For the sake of Zion I will not hold my peace, and for the sake of Jerusalem, I will not be still, until her righteousness goes forth like radiance, and her salvation like a burning torch. And the nations shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall express. Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy G-D. Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hefzibah (My Delight is in Her), and thy land Beulah (Espoused) for the LORD delights in thee, and thy land shall be espoused. For as a young man takes to himself a virgin, so shall thy sons take thee to themselves, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall thy G-D rejoice over thee. I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, who shall never hold their peace day or night: you that make mention of the LORD, take no rest, and give him no rest till he establishes, and till he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth. The LORD has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be food for thy enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine for which thou hast laboured: but they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my temple. Go through, go through the gates; prepare the way of the people; bank up, build up the highway; clear the stones; lift up a standard for the people. Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the end of the world, Say to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his wages before him. And they shall call them, the holy people, the redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Derusha (Sought out), a city not forsaken....And they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell there, they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever. Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them, which I will give them; and I will multiply them, and will set my temple in the midst of them for evermore. And my tabernacle shall be with them: and I will be their G-D, and they shall be my people. Then the nations shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my temple shall be in the midst of them for evermore.” Isaiah 62:1-12, Ezekiel 37:25-28




In front of G-D's Holy Hill and before the marchers of the Temple Mount Faithful Movement ascended the Holy Temple Mount, Gershon Salomon, chairman of the Temple Mount Faithful Movement, spoke to his people Israel and called them to trust only the G-D of Israel and not to fear any one of the evil enemies and their friends all over the world. He called his people to give attention and to trust only the promises of the G-D of Israel to His people Israel during these major days of redemption. He shared with his people Israel a call of G-D not to wait any longer and to immediately build the Holy Third Temple which will be a huge tower of light that will dispel the darkness that more and more covers the sky of the entire world. With his words, Gershon also deeply thanked the Lovers of Zion and Israel who reside all over the world during this special time. The G-D and people of Israel will never forget what they did for the people of G-D in a very special godly time in history unlike any other time. The blessings of the G-D of Israel will follow them and the end-time plans of G-D have become a part of them and these will soon be fulfilled exactly as G-D promised through His prophet Isaiah: 




“Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples. The LORD G-D who gathers the outcasts of Israel says, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those of him that are already gathered.” Isaiah 56:7,8




IN THE ALMIGHTY G-D OF ISRAEL WE TRUST!!




Dear Friends, Brothers and Sisters, Lovers of Zion and Israel,




I am calling you today at this very critical time to continue and stand with Israel and the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement. More than any time in the past we need your help and support. Time is very short and I know and I feel in all my bones that very soon G-D is going to complete the redemption of Israel and the entire world. In the lifetime of our generation, we shall be witnesses of the building of the eternal Holy Third Temple. We should expect to see major godly days. We should act intensively to bring them to pass in our lifetime and to be a part of this great time exactly as G-D is expecting us to be. Soon G-D is going to dwell in His Holy House on Mount Moriah in the midst of Jerusalem, Israel and all the world. Complete redemption is soon to come. However, before this, we are going to face both now and also in the future not simple days. The Faithful Movement prepares herself and acts even more intensively to work together with G-D to bring to pass this major vision in our lifetime with no delay. G-D is expecting from all of us not to be passive and to act and to work together with Him to bring it to pass in the lifetime of our generation. Everyone of the friends of the Faithful Movement are called to continue their standing, help and support of the Faithful Movement that they do with such faithful devotion. We could not even imagine that our holy and important work could be done without their help especially now when this critical time calls us toward more intensive activities and achievements. The Lovers of Zion and Israel are called to join with all of our other wonderful friends and supporters, who have long stood with the members of the Faithful Movement to stand, encourage, help and support the Faithful Movement, the end-time vessel of G-D for Israel and the entire world. Immeasurable thanks, appreciation and blessings are sent to all of you from all of us in Jerusalem. May the G-D of Israel continue to richly bless you and all the Lovers of Zion exactly as He promised in His Holy Word: 




“Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test with that, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open for you the windows of heaven, and pour out for you blessing immeasurable” Malachi 3:10.
Donations can be made by personal check or 'Bank' money orders (not Post Office money orders) made payable to: Temple Mount Faithful Movement and sent to the following address:
The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement
P.O. Box 18325, 8 Aliash Street, Jerusalem 91182, Israel

FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS IN JERUSALEM

IDF Formulates Evacuation Plan for Gaza Belt Residents...AGAIN!!!

IDF Formulates Evacuation Plan for Gaza Belt Residents

By Raphael Poch May 28, 2015 , 10:49 am

“He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, ‘My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.’ For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day.” (Psalm 91:1-5)

image: http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/bomb-shelter-prayer-rocket-fire-.jpg

Israelis sit and pray together inside a street shelter, in anticipation of the Code Red siren alerting of incoming rockets, in the Southern Israeli town of Nitzan, on the fourth day of Operation Protective Edge, July 11, 2014. As Code Red Sirens are sounded on and off throughout the southern cities, most people either stay at home, near a shelter, or leave for the North. (Photo: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

In the event of another conflict with Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the National Emergency Authority (NEA) and the local authorities in the South are planning to evacuate all residents within a seven kilometer radius of the strip. 

The intended plan is supposed to protect citizens, give them a more liveable environment for the duration of the conflict, and allow the defense establishment to properly deal with the situation at hand without having to worry about interfering in the day-to-day lives of the citizens. 

The plan, code-named “Safe Distance”, is being formulated just ten months after the end of Operation Protective Edge. The program will see entire communities located within seven kilometers of Gaza being evacuated to pre-determined locations. Families will be notified in advance of who will be hosting them and to where they will be re-located. 

The distribution of elements of this information, including maps, is already underway. If a future conflict ensues, the IDF will determine when to give the order to leave. Buses will be provided for the evacuees.  After giving the order, the army will be responsible for the actual evacuations and for protecting the communities that will be relocated. The army will be charged with prevention of looting in the communities, as well as the real-time reporting to property owners of any damages incurred by rocket fire or otherwise. 

Local community councils will select officers, or “watchmen”, to stay behind and safeguard the area. The local authority will also be responsible for the safety of any families who refuse to leave. 

According to the plan, the role of the NEA will be to coordinate between the IDF, the local councils, and the individuals, and shorten the waiting and response time within the lines of communication. Local emergency response teams will also be integrated into the system. 

The plan was announced days before rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Hamas has claimed that the rocket fire was the result of a conflict between rogue terrorist factions. 

In response to the rocket fire, the Israeli Air Force struck four terror targets in the southern Gaza Strip early Wednesday morning. The last time rockets were fired into Israel was April 23, as Israel celebrated its Independence Day.

Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/41515/idf-evacuation-plan-for-gaza-belt/#Rk7zuGSCE7y2gxaF.99

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MY TWO-CENTS WORTH.-
THIS ARTICLE READS..."In the event of another conflict with Gaza"  WELL, IN MY HUMBLE OPINION THAT IS WISHFUL THINKING...THERE WILL BE MANY CONFLICTS WITH GAZA SIMPLY BECAUSE THE MERE EXISTENCE OF GAZA IS A CONSTANT THREAT TO THE EXISTANCE OF THE JEWISH STATE OF ISRAEL...

ANNEX JUDEA AND SAMARIA...ANNEX GAZA...EVICT THE ARABS AND POPULATE THESE AREAS WITH THE JEWISH IMMIGRANTS WHO ARE COMING AND WITH FAITHFUL CHRISTIAN WHO CONSIDER ISRAEL THEIR HOME...

THE WORLD SURELY WILL ATTACK US...SO WHAT, THEY ARE ATTACKING US NOW!!!  BUT LET US SOLVE THE SITUATION ONCE AND FOR ALL...

ALSO RAZE THE DOME OF THE ROCK AND THE AL-AKSA MOSQUE...AND LET US RECT THE THIRD TEMPLE IN ALL ITS GLORY...OUR L-RD DESERVES IT...

KACH AND JABOTINSKI FOREVER!!!!!

Filling the Vacuum in Syria

Islamic State, Al-Nusra Front, and Hezbollah

by Yaakov Lappin May 28, 2015 at 5:00 am

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5834/syria-vacuum-islamists

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  The idea that, because Sunni and Shi'ite elements are locked in battle with one another today, they will not pose a threat to international security tomorrow, is little more than wishful thinking.
• The increased Iranian-Hezbollah presence needs to be closely watched.
• A policy of turning a blind eye to the Iran-led axis, including Syria's Assad regime, appears to be doing more harm than good.

As the regime of Bashar Assad continues steadily to lose ground in Syria; and as Assad's allies, Iran and Hezbollah, deploy in growing numbers to Syrian battlegrounds to try to stop the Assad regime's collapse, the future of this war-torn, chaotic land looks set to be dominated by radical Sunni and Shi'ite forces.

HEZBOLLAH FIGHTERS

The presence of fundamentalist Shi'ite and Sunni forces fighting a sectarian-religious war to the death is a sign of things to come for the region: when states break down, militant entities enter to seize control. The idea that, because Sunni and Shi'ite elements are locked in battle with one another today, they will not pose a threat to international security tomorrow, is little more than wishful thinking.

The increased presence of the radicals in Syria will have a direct impact on international security, even though the West seems more fixated on looking only at threats posed by the Islamic State (ISIS), and disregards the possibly greater threat posed by the Iranian-led axis. It is Iran that is at the center of the same axis, so prominent in entangling Syria.

The threat from ISIS in Syria and Iraq to the West is obvious: Its successful campaigns and expanding transnational territory is set to become an enormous base of jihadist international terrorist activity, a launching pad for overseas attacks, and the basis for a propaganda recruitment campaign.  It has already become a magnet for European Muslim volunteers. Their return to their homes as battle-hardened jihadists poses a clear danger to those states' national security.

Yet the threat from the Iranian-led axis, highly active in Syria, is more severe. With Iran, a threshold nuclear regional power, as its sponsor, this axis plans to subvert and topple stable Sunni governments in the Middle East and attack Israel. Iran's axis also has its sights set on eventually sabotaging the international order, to promote Iran's "Islamic revolution." This is the axis upon which the Assad regime has become utterly dependent for its continued survival.

Today, the radical, caliphate-seeking Sunni organization, ISIS, controls half of Syria, while hardline Lebanese Shi'ite Hezbollah units can be found everywhere in Syria, together with their sponsors, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) personnel, fighting together with the Assad regime's beleaguered and worn-out military forces.

The increased Iranian-Hezbollah presence needs to be closely watched. According to international media reports, an IRGC-Hezbollah convoy in southern Syria, made up of senior operatives involved in the setting up of a base designed to launch attacks on the Golan Heights, was struck and destroyed by Israel earlier this year. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan too has reason to be concerned.

Syria has become a region into which weapons, some highly advanced, flow in ever greater numbers, allowing Hezbollah to acquire guided missiles, and allowing ISIS and the Al-Nusra Front to add to their growing stockpile of weaponry.

Other rebel organizations, some sponsored by Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Qatar, are also wielding influence in Syria. These groups represent an effort by Sunni states to exert their own influence there.

Despite all the efforts to support it, the Assad regime suffered another recent setback when ISIS seized the ancient city Palmyra in recent days, making an ISIS advance on Damascus more feasible. To the west, near the Lebanese border, Al-Qaeda's branch in Syria, the Al-Nursa Front, also made gains. It threatened to enter Lebanon, prompting Hezbollah to launch a counter-offensive to take back those areas.

These developments provide a blueprint for the future of Syria: A permanently divided territory, where conquests and counter-offensives continue to rage, and the scene of an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe, producing waves of millions of refugees that could destabilize Syria's neighbors. Syria is set to remain a land controlled by warring sectarian factions, some of whom plan to spread their destructive influence far beyond Syria.

Events in Syria have shown that the notion that air power can somehow stop ISIS's advance is a fantasy. More importantly, they have also illustrated that Washington's policy of cooperation with Iran in a possible "grand bargain" to stabilize the region, while failing to take a firmer stance against the civilian-slaughtering Assad regime, is equally fruitless.

A policy of turning a blind eye to the Iran-led axis, including Syria's Assad regime, appears to be doing more harm than good.

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GO FOR IT...MK SHAKED...GO FOR IT!!!

The Dangerous Ms. Shaked

By: Moshe Pitchon Published: May 27th, 2015 

Latest update: May 26th, 2015

                                                           Ayelet Shaked

“Who cares if she’s beautiful? Ayelet Shaked is dangerous,” was the title of a May 14, 2015 article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, “The Daily Beast,” headlined another one as “The Scariest Politician in Israel.” “Foreign Policy magazine trying to be more subtle titled its article “Ayelet Shaked makes Benjamin Netanyahu look like a liberal. And now she’s the justice minister.”

In fact the 39 years old, in what the New York Times has called “the most contentious appointment in a much-criticized new government,” commented in an interview that “…the biggest shock of public life was the volume of the hatred,” she encountered.

Mrs. Shaked, who was elected to the Knesset in 2013, earned her reputation, as a “diligent and ambitious politician, who has strongly criticized the existing laws and legal establishment.”  Once a member of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud party, she changed affiliations because she felt that “every leader takes the Likud to the left.”

 “Wanting to belong to a party “to the right of Netanyahu, one that is based on the Bible and Jewish values, “ she helped in 2012, to plot Naftali Bennett’s coup to turn the old National-Religious Party into “the Jewish Home.”

 Recognized as the party polemicist she argues that democracy is a “form of government rather than a central component of the state.” She opposes decisions she considers not to be determined by the people but by the members of the judiciary.  “Those opposed to this blurring of powers,” she says, “and I am of course included, are being defined as ‘the sons of darkness,’ while those who support depriving the right of the public to make decisions through their Knesset representatives are called ‘sons of light.'”

In her commitment “to strengthen the Jewish identity” of Israel, “to have a democratic, Jewish, strong state,” she comes to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government with a large agenda:

• Curtailing the power of the Supreme Court,
• Giving politicians more sway over judicial appointments
• Ousting Eritrean and Sudanese asylum-seekers.
• Reestablishment of a department in charge of Jewish identity in the schools.
• Push a “nationality bill” that would enshrine Israel as a legally Jewish state.
• Limiting the foreign funding of advocacy groups
• Annexation of some of the disputed West Bank lands.

Moshe Negbi, the legal analyst at Israel Radio explained the challenges Mrs. Shaked faces: “Many people think, and Ayelet Shaked also in good faith thinks, that because she was chosen by the majority, the courts need to obey her.” “What she doesn’t understand is that democracy also fights against the tyranny of the majority, which is only possible with a judicial system and an attorney general which are independent.”

In fact Mrs. Shaked position regarding the Supreme Court, for instance, are not new: Professor Daniel Friedman, who attended Harvard Law School and was Israel’s justice minister from 2007 to 2009, shared many of Mrs. Shaked’s views regarding the justice system, yet the judicial selection process hasn’t changed much. Besides, professor Friedman had the support of the prime minister something Mrs. Shaked probably doesn’t have.

Mrs. Shaked who never thought she would be appointed Justice Minister, got the part of a desperate last-minute deal that saved Mr. Netanyahu from not meeting the deadline to form his new government.

According to Mazal Mualem, the former senior political correspondent for the Maariv and Haaretz newspapers, “Netanyahu never imagined being forced to hand Shaked the Justice Ministry.” In fact Mrs. Mualem says that Ayelet Shaked’s appointment is so hard for Netanyahu that he could not hide his disdain, completely ignoring her after the swearing ceremony not even deigning to shake her hand, all in front of the cameras.

 In an article headlined “There is very little Shaked can do in the Justice Ministry,” Nahum Barnea- voted one of the most influential journalists in Israel- points out that Mrs. Shaked needs the support of Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon who in his agreement to form part of the Prime Minister’s coalition, has a veto right. Then she will have to discuss her proposals with the attorney general, who expressed his reservations in the past over three bills she favored; and finally, she will have to make sure that she has a majority in the Knesset. In a 61-member coalition, says Mrs. Barnea, “that’s not an easy task.”

No new judges to the Supreme Court will be selected until 2017. “Even if Shaked survives in the Justice Ministry until then, she will have to get a majority to support her candidate,” says Mr. Barnea.  The Prime Minister and Supreme Court president have more power in selecting the attorney general than the Justice Minister.  In view of the fact that her ideas and their implementation have as much chances as the opposing views and activism, why is Ayelet Shaked considered so “dangerous,” after all?

 Zehava Galon the head of the left wing Meretz party described Mrs. Shaked in a Facebook post as an “intelligent and hard-working politician with nationalist anti-democratic views.” Others that oppose her have equally described her as “strategic and focused and grounded in what she believes.”  Maybe that’s where her “danger” inheres. Mrs. Shaked belongs to a new crop of dedicated and believing politicians that are positioning themselves to change the political guard in Israel.

Democracy is served when all ideas compete with each other, producing unintended consensus. Unanimity of ideas seldom serves a society well.

Mrs. Shaked is dangerous only for those for whom respecting opposing ideas is not part of their understanding of what democracy entitles.

About the Author: Moshe Pitchon is a Jewish thinker living in Florida. His weekly contemporary TaNaKh commentaries appear in Spanish, French and Portuguese

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Ayelet Shaked: A True Jewish Minister of Justice

By: Prof. Livia Bitton-Jackson

Published: May 26th, 2015

                                                            Ayelet Shaked

Ayelet Shaked, member of the HaBayit HaYehudi (The Jewish Home) Party, has been appointed Justice Minister by Prime Minister Netanyahu. She is a former Knesset member, where her reputation is stellar despite just being there for two years.

Why? During her Knesset membership, Ms. Shaked pushed for passage of an amendment that would limit the – in her words – “leftist” High Court of Justice’s power, while supporting the “Jewish State Law,” deemed controversial by the very same “leftists.” The Jewish State Law would legalize Israel’s status as a Jewish state! She also supported another controversial measure: a ban on public transportation during Shabbat. On the other hand, she played a key role in passing a law ending military service exemptions for haredim. “The Left does not like her because too often she speaks her mind and tells the truth. To the Left, this is a flaw,” says Jack Engelhard, a prominent writer.

Who is Ayelet Shaked, this devoted Jew and Zionist? The 39-year-old brunette beauty (she was named the best-looking female in the Knesset) is a mother of two young children and the wife of a fighter pilot. Judging by her politics and spiritual inclination, you would think she is part of a Modern Orthodox community. However, Ayelet Ben Shaul Shaked grew up in a totally secular home in north Tel Aviv, the daughter of a politically left-wing Ashkenazi mother and a Likud-voting Iraqi father. She has said that she’s been right-wing ever since she was a child. Her politics became firmly formulated during her military service, when she made friends with many religious nationalists.

She’s seen as a poster child for The Jewish Home’s efforts to reach beyond its Orthodox base. She has also been helpful in the settler movement’s effort to overcome stereotypes of settlers and their supporters as being “religious, gun-toting fanatics.”

At Tel Aviv University she obtained a BSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and began her career in the Tel Aviv hi-tech industry, working as a software engineer at Texas Instruments and later moving on to become manager of its marketing department.

During her army service, Ayelet Ben Shaul served as an instructor in the Israel Defense Forces’ elite Golani Brigade. (By the way, in 2012, she was included in the Globes list of the 50 most influential women.)

Then, wife, mother, military-instructor, computer-engineer Ayelet Shaked entered politics. What party appealed to the highly intelligent secular young woman? The Jewish Home, what else?  The Jewish Home’s fierce right-wing Zionism combined with passionate Judaism drew her to it.

After working as Netanyahu’s office director for two years, Ayelet Shaked ran for the Knesset with The Jewish Home, with stunning results.

And now she is Israel’s new Minister of Justice. I pray that the G-d of Israel protect her from the numerous death-threats issued against her by her and by Israel’s enemies.

Who May Ascend to the Temple Mount...here is the answer

                 

This 10-minute video of the ascent to the Temple Mount of Rabbi Yehudah Glick and 50 Jewish pilgrims on the eve of Shavuot 2014 might help answer this question from a different perspective than that of the politicians, the police, the Palestinians, the Jordanians, or even the Israeli court system. I wonder if God might have answered the question, “Who may ascend?” through His intervention in the life of Rabbi Yehudah Glick. 

Jerusalem Inspiration

In today's verse, the Holy Ark is brought from the City of David to the holiest place on Earth, the Holy of Holies in the Holy Temple.  While the entire Temple Mount is endowed with a high level of holiness, the highest level is found in the Holy of Holies, the innermost room of Temple.  The only person ever allowed to enter is the High Priest, and even then only on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year, as part of the special order of the day.  The Ark of the Covenant is placed there upon the “Foundation Stone,” which is, according to the Sages of the Talmud, where the world's creation began.  It is the same location where Abraham was willing to sacrifice Isaac (Genesis 22), and the holy site where one day the Holy Temple will again stand. Want to learn more about Jerusalem and the Holy Temple that stood there? Now, exclusively through 'Root Source', Yehuda Glick, Temple Mount activist and miraculous survivor of an assassination attempt, is conducting three lectures covering the Biblical sources for the building of the Temple and an in depth discussion of the Temple vessels.

DEAR MR PRESIDENT HUSSEIN OBAMA...MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!!!

Yes, Mr. President, this is the look of DEMOCRACY

By: Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar / Published: May 27th, 2015

In an unusual and disturbing departure from the normal and accepted relationship between states, president Barack Obama has criticized the composition of the new Israeli government. He declared that it disturbs him that many ministers of the government object to the idea of establishing a Palestinian state in the heart of Israel.

We would expect the leader of the Democratic Party in the United States to honor the democratic results of democratic elections in the only democratic state in the Middle East. Somebody should explain to the President that the Israeli voter has granted a majority to the Rightist camp as a result of clear-headed judgment and in light of several failed attempts to begin implementing the idea of dividing the land.

The Israeli voter has seen the results of the delusions of the New Middle East where the present president and his predecessors in the White House have tried to lead him. The Israeli voter has seen the death and the terror that the Oslo Accords and the withdrawal from Gaza have brought upon him. The Israeli voter has seen how much blood, literally, the vision of the Left has cost and especially – the Israeli voter has chosen to recover his national pride and return to his culture, to the cradle of the Jewish nation, and to the living connection between himself and his land.

That is why the Israeli voter has chosen to place in leadership, people who present a different vision – the vision of the application of Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria. 

At least twelve ministers of the new government oppose the creation of a Palestinian state in Israel’s Heartland and advocate in favor of Israeli Sovereignty: Ministers Yisrael Katz, Naftali Bennett, Uri Ariel, Zeev Elkin, Yariv Levin, Danny Danon, Miri Regev, Tzipy Hotovely, Ofir Akunis, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, Deputy ministers Ayoub Kara and Rabbi Eliyahu ben Dahan all are quoted in interviews in the Sovereignty Journal published by Women in Green in its campaign for the application of Israeli Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria.

The vision of the application of Israeli Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria is first and foremost a national one, by the people of Israel who understand that this is our land and the inheritance of our forefathers. This foundational principle precedes all of the other explanations and justifications and is the bedrock upon which they are based, as Uri Elitsur, obm, former head of the Prime minister’s Office, wrote: “Judea and Samaria are the backbone of the Land of Israel, the very heart of the Jewish People’s Land throughout the generations and we are obliged to make every effort to realize the ownership of the Jewish People and its sovereignty over its land”. (One State and not Bi-national, Uri Elitsur, Makor Rishon June 6, 2013).

Minister of communications Ofir Akunis agrees and is quoted in the 5th issue of Sovereignty (March 2015): “My objection to a Palestinian state stems primarily from the fact that our right to the land is eternal and irrevocable. The Land of Israel is the property of the Jewish People and there is no people in the world that would surrender its motherland. “

The application of Israeli sovereignty over the Land of Israel is consistent with international law. In 1921, at the Conference of San Remo, the League of Nations recognized the rights of the Jewish People to its land. With this act, the nations turned the Balfour Declaration and the vision of establishing a national home for the Jewish People in the Land of Israel into a principle of international law that is accepted by all the nations. And this recognition was further reinforced with the establishment of the United Nations (clause no. 80 of the UN Charter).

Israeli sovereignty over all of its land is also clearly necessary for security reasons. There is no knowledgeable person in Israel that would like to see the coastal lowland and heavily populated residential centers of Israeli in Gush Dan or Ben Gurion Airport within range of Arab Palestinian gunfire, which would paralyze Israel’s gate of entry and chase away investors, leading to economic collapse and placing a heavy burden on Israel’s defensive capability. As minister Naftali Bennett said in Sovereignty Journal issue nr 5 of March 2015: “A Palestinian state would cause the Israeli economy to collapse. Ben Gurion airport would be paralyzed, there would be no tourism, no commerce, we would return to the economic collapse of the second intifada and people would flee. The subject of annexation in Judea and Samaria is not a distant vision, but something concrete that is possible to achieve”.

In a controlled and gradual process, after declaring loyalty to the state, the Arabs of Judea and Samaria would be granted the opportunity to serve a request for citizenship. Thus, the principle of democracy will be preserved. A stable, consistent and secure government of Israel would enable these Arabs to enjoy the advanced state of medicine, infrastructure, technology, employment, education and stable economy that exist in the State of Israel – which is more than any Arab state can offer.

The opinions stated above are representative of the position of many members of the government of Israel, and the People of Israel has elected them because they had the inner strength to say these things confidently and proudly. Yes Mr President; the two-state solution is, finally, dead. Now the people of Israel want to promote the application of Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria. As a democrat, we expect the president of the United States to honor this and to accept it, even if the results of the elections in Israel do not suit his personal positions.

About the Author: Updates on the continuation of the campaign for the application of sovereignty, and especially on the channels in which each of us can be a partner in this undertaking, will appear on the Women in Green website, in mailings to the e-mail list, and on Facebook. Please enter the site and register: