ELI...ELI...PADRE SANTO-D-OS NUESTRO

TODAY I LIGHT UP A SMALL CANDLE TO ASK YOU A VERY IMPORTANT FAVOR...NOT FOR ME...BUT FOR EVERY MEMBER OF THE I.D.F. PLEASE, POR FAVOR, GUARD THEM FROM HARM, THEY ARE PROTECTING THE PEOPLE WHOM YOU CHOSE AS YOURS, THEY ARE SAFEGUARDING THE LAND YOU GAVE US...AND THEY ARE ALSO TAKING THE TORAH YOU GAVE US TO BATTLE...ONE MORE TIME...MAY THE SHOFARS OF JOSHUA SOUND AGAIN...MAY THE STONE OF DAVID'S SLING HIT HARD... G-D OF MOISES, ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOBO...OF DAVID AND SALOMON...WATCH OVER YOUR CHILDREN WHO ARE ABOUT TO GO INTO HARM'S WAY AND BRING THEM SAFE AND VICTORIOUS TO THE ARMS OF THEIR FAMILIES. WE WANT PEACE AND LOVE WHILE OUR ENEMIES WANT WAR AND HATE...LET US PRAY THEN, A PRAYER FROM THE DEEPEST OF OUR HEARTS...AMEN

THE MORAL OF THE STORY

The elements that make one society superior to another are to be found in its culture, its arts and its sciences, in its religious inspirations, its engineering feats, its medical research, its poems and songs, its roots to the past and its vision to the future. A morally superior society protects these things by protecting them against invaders and enemies. Charity begins at home. So does morality. A society that is too moral to protect itself is immoral because it is incapable of protecting the sources of its morality. A moral society does not put its people in harm's way rather than protect them. If it does so, in the name of some warped sense of ethics toward the enemy, it is not a moral society. It is an immoral society. Moral societies make it possible for their people to be moral by taking on the burden of protecting them. A society that abandons this burden and demands that its people be moral by accepting suffering, whether it comes from crime or terrorism, is a society that gives its people a choice between becoming monsters or martyrs. This is not the behavior of a moral society, but a self-destructive society that glories in the empty martyrdom of the moral high ground. A government that will not protect the people and will not let the people protect themselves is not moral, it is destructive. It demands that the people embrace martyrdom in the name of a self-nullifying set of ethics that will ultimately result in the martyrdom of their extinction or their transformation into monsters who are forced to reject all human norms in order to survive. A moral society does not embrace martyrdom for any purpose other than the perpetuation of itself. The traditional Jewish martyr who died for the sanctification of the Name of G-d was choosing physical death for the perpetuation of a religious idea that was also a national identity. He was choosing a form of death that would keep his religious and national identity alive, over a living death that would enable him personally to live, while wiping out his people. The new Jewish martyr dies for an irreligious humanistic martyrdom. He perishes to prove the moral high ground of his people. It is a martyrdom with no point and no future. It echoes Gandhi's call that the Jews voluntarily go to the gas chambers without resisting in order to make an ethical point. Perhaps if Tel Aviv is nuked and the flames of a new Holocaust rise into the sky, the world will finally realize that Israelis did their best to be nice to their enemies. And if not, there are always millions more to be offered up on the universalist pyre to the man-made god of our own morality. Having created our own faith in our own moral superiority, we must be willing to die and kill each other in its name. These are not sacrifices of peace. They are the martyrdom of a moral superiority that can only be proven through victimization and our own mass murder. They are a perverse deviation from both our religion as Jews and from Zionism as a political movement. For Israel and the Jewish people to survive, this masochistic creed has to die. Instead of sacrificing our children to Tikkun Olam, universalist ethics and a conviction in our own moral superiority, let us sacrifice these things on the altar so that our children may live. Let us pile them up on the altars of our hearts and burn them up. Let us take the ideas and the books, and most of all, the false sense of superiority that we are better because of our martyrdom, and watch them go up in smoke. Only when these things perish, will we be able to be Jews or Zionists. As long as they live within us, what we believe and what we worship is the Stockholm Syndrome that says we must allow ourselves to be abused and killed to prove to ourselves that we are good people and thereby disprove the results of that abuse on our psyche. The more we are abused, the more certain we become that we deserve it and the more we welcome that abuse, to disprove that we deserve it. It is a vicious cycle in which we allow ourselves to be murdered to disprove that we deserve to be killed, in which we hate ourselves to prove that we do not deserve to be hated. Instead of proving our morality through our self-hatred, let us prove it by instead protecting our worth. Our enemies are willing to die because they have nothing to offer but murder. It is natural for them to choose death because they are worthless in every sense of the word. Let us choose life. This twisted attitude is not unique to Israel and Jews. It has engulfed the entire West. Against the Islamic cult of death, we have constructed our own cult of death. The dysfunctional relationship is that of the abuser to the abused. They know that they are morally superior because they kill us. We know that we are morally superior because we accept their abuse and allow ourselves to be killed. If we do not learn to take pride in our civilizations, if we do not learn to love our accomplishments, then we will die. If we continue to eat away at ourselves, to act as if our moral and ethics are inferior to those of our enemies, then they will destroy us and then destroy themselves and the darkness will fall. Let us choose life, light and love. Let us learn to love ourselves and hate our enemies, not out of some reflex or petty jingoism, but because we have come to value what they seek to take from us. Let us drive out the self-hatred. Let us take apart our own cult of death and replace it with a religion of life. Only when we destroy our own cult of death, will be able to defeat the cult of death of our enemies. "I have yet before you life and death, the blessing and the curse," G-d tells Israel. "Therefore choose life that you may live, you and your children." If we do not choose life, then we cannot live. Daniel Greenfield is a New York City based writer and blogger and a Shillman Journalism Fellow of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. You can read his articles in http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/

ONE GOD, ONE NATION, ONE PEOPLE and ONE TORAH

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's Statement: “The State of Israel is in the middle of a campaign to bring back quiet and security for our citizens. We won’t tolerate rocket fire on our cities and towns. So I have ordered a dramatic widening of the IDF operation against the Hamas terrorists and against the terrorists of all other terror groups in the Gaza Strip.” The escalation was ordered “only after all attempts to bring back quiet went unanswered, and Hamas chose escalation. We do not go joyfully to battle, but the security of our citizens and our children comes first. We will do everything it takes so that the quiet that existed here in recent years will continue.” Yesterday, the Israel Defense Forces launched Operation Protective Edge in Gaza. This operation is an effort to stop the recent escalation in Hamas terrorism and missile fire. Since the beginning of the year, over 450 rockets have been fired from Gaza into Israel. Yesterday alone, 80 rockets were fired into Israel. Once again, the residents of southern cities such as Sderot, Ashkelon, Ashdod and Be'er Sheva have returned to the bomb shelters. Today, a missile fired at Tel Aviv was stopped by Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system. Israel has blamed Hamas for the brutal murder of three students kidnapped on their way home from school. In the coming days, many will criticize Israel's actions while glossing over the necessity for them. As we pray for the safety of the Israel Defense Forces and innocent civilians on both sides of this conflict, we must not be silent. We must know our facts and speak out in Israel's defense. Israel must not be condemned for doing what any responsible government would do to protect its citizens from terror. We must not permit Israeli defense to be equated with Hamas aggression. The IDF has commenced Operation Protective Edge in Gaza against Hamas, in order to stop the terror Israel’s citizens face on a daily basis Gaza terrorists have fired more than 450 rockets at Israel since the beginning of the year. The attacks have sent thousands running into bomb shelters and threaten 3.5 million Israeli lives. Since Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, terrorists from the strip have fired more than 8,000 rockets into Israel.

HERE WE GO AGAIN...ONE MORE TIME

The IDF started Operation Protective Edge to eradicate terrorist targets and reduce rocket fire on southern Israeli communities. Already in the first hours of the operation, 50 terrorist targets were hit, including the homes of four senior level Hamas terrorists who were involved in firing rockets.The Israeli security establishment made clear that Hamas is responsible for all rocket fire on Israel and that their operatives will be held accountable. “The IDF is prepared to defend the residents of the State of Israel and to continue to work with strong determination to eradicate terrorist networks that harm Israeli citizens,” the IDF Spokespersons Unit stated in response. Since January of this year, Gaza terrorists have fired more than 450 rockets towards Israeli citizens in communities across southern Israel according to the IDF spokesperson. Over 200 of those rockets have been fired from Gaza since June 12, the day on which three Israeli teens were abducted and murdered by Hamas terrorists. The IDF is determined to bring quiet to Israel and especially to families in the south with Operation Protective Edge. Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon told media on Tuesday, “We intend to make sure there will be total silence – zero rocket fire – aimed at Israel when we are done this time. “The situation on the ground has proved that Hamas does not want a truce.” IAF fighter pilots have flown sorties throughout the day, carrying out targeted air strikes aimed at eliminating selected Hamas military leaders and terrorists who operate rocket and missile launchers. The Israeli Air Force has struck multiple terror targets in the Gaza Strip early Tuesday morning since the IDF announced the launching of Operation Protective Edge (“Tzuk Eitan” in Hebrew). The IDF spokesperson stated the early hours of Tuesday morning that “the IDF has commenced Operation Protective Edge in Gaza against Hamas in order to stop the terror that Israel’s citizens face on a daily basis and to restore quiet to Israel’s border.” Ya’alon said he told mayors in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area to “take into account there will be possible fire on their cities.” The Home Front Command search and rescue unit is preparing for deployment in the Tel Aviv area, officials said. In addition to Tel Aviv, officials in Rishon Lezion have also opened the public bomb shelters, and have warned residents to stay away from the beaches. During the last mini-war, Gaza terrorists fired Iranian produced Fajr-5 and M75 missiles at Tel Aviv, Rishon Lezion and the Jerusalem area. The IDF struck more than 100 targets throughout Gaza on Tuesday as part of its mission in Operation Protective Edge. At least 15 Palestinian Authority Arabs were killed in the attacks, including several terrorists. Also among the casualties were at least two children and 25 wounded in an incident that indeed was what an Arab terrorist would call a ‘celebration of death’ rather than life. The terrorists have made a point of using their civilians as human shields, and those who live in Gaza have for the most part been willing volunteers in the effort. Seven people – including the two children – were killed in a house in Khan Yunis belonging to the Kawara family. The head of household is a key member of Hamas and Israeli air force pilots at first fired a small mortar at the roof to warn residents they were planning to attack, and tell them to flee before a second, full-force attack ensued. The casualties occurred during the second attack — when occupants instead gathered as human shields on the roof itself, hoping their presence would deter Israeli fighter pilots. The IDF is preparing for a “long and forceful” operation, with a call up of some 40,000 reservists authorized by the Cabinet on Tuesday. Overnight Monday, the IDF struck at least 50 targets, including four houses used as command bases by Hamas terrorist officials.

HIJOS de UNOS e HIJOS de OTROS

1) Eyal Yifrah, Gil-Ad Shaer and Naftali Fraenkel were teenagers. They were abducted and brutally murdered by Palestinian terrorists from Hamas, a partner in the Palestinian Authority’s unity government, and a terrorist organization dedicated to the annihilation of Israel and the Jewish people. The teens’ abduction and murder was supported by Palestinian society as a whole. While Israelis were united as never before in worry and prayer for the missing boys, Palestinian society was united in its expressed delight at the abduction and murder of the boys. 2) The investigation into the murder of teen Muhammad Abu Khedeir is progressing: following the arrests of six Jews with suspicion of murdering the teen, Channel 2 News now reports that one of the arrestees is now cooperating with investigators. The suspect confessed and implicated five of his friends. The investigation also revealed that this was not a well disciplined and ordered group, but rather an initiative of a few young extremists who knew each other beforehand. Police suspects that the six, who belong to a right wing group, committed the murder as an act of revenge for the kidnapping and killing of the three Israeli teens. According to the partial information that can now be published, a few of which are minors, who live in the areas of Beit Shemesh, Adam settlement and Jerusalem. PA President Mahmoud Abbas says Abu Khdeir was the victim of Jewish extremists incensed at the discovery last week of the remains of Gil-Ad Shaer, 16, Eyal Yifrah, 19, and Naftali Fraenkel, 16, all of whom were buried Tuesday. 3) The murder of 19-year-old Shelly Dadon of Afula has been solved, the Shin Bet said on Sunday, nearly a month after it arrested the man it said carried out the grisly murder. According to the Shin Bet, on June 16 it arrested Hassin Yussef Hasin Halifa, a taxi driver from Ibillin in the Galilee, on suspicion of carrying out the murder on the night of May 1. Though Halifa was arrested weeks ago, news of his arrest and confession were only publicized Sunday, after the Israeli media began covering the arrest of a group of Jews for allegedly murdering a Palestinian teen in a nationalistic crime last week. President Shimon Peres called Thursday for an end to incitement and respect for the rule of law: “I call upon every citizen, all citizens, with a serious request,” Peres told reporters. “Now is a time for two things: To respect the law and to avoid incitement. We weren’t born to hate, we weren’t born to speak in a hateful language. A few days ago we all behaved as one with dignity, even during our sorrow but together we called for restraint, we called for investigation, we were careful with our words. “It’s time to stop incitement, it’s time to be respectful and to respect the law. It’s in our hands. People who are engaged in incitement are not always aware where it can lead, to more sorrow, to more dangers. It’s time for all of us to show restraint, to show understanding and let us as human beings, all of us, be true to our morality, to our hope to live together in peace,” Peres said. And referring to the cousin of Muhammad Abu Khedeir…if you are an American citizen and go overseas, you should not get involved in riots and then when the police stomps on you…go crawling to the US Consulate in Jerusalem (actually it is the US Embassy which should be there) and cry wolf. When you go overseas, you should behave accordingly…

JUST ANOTHER MONDAY...

More than 30 rockets were fired towards communities in southern Israel by Gaza militants in the span of 30 minutes on Monday evening . Code Red sirens blared across the south, in towns and cities including Ashkelon, Kiryat Malachi, Ashdod, Netivot, and Beersheba. Iron dome shot down a number of rockets during the barrage. Rocket sirens sounded in Jerusalem, Mevasseret, Gush Etzion, Ashdod, Rechovot, Be’er Sheva, Ashkelon, Har Hebron as Gazan terrorists launched a barrage of 30 long-range missiles at Israel. One Israeli sustained a shrapnel wound from a rocket that exploded north of Ashdod, Monday night. Rocket fire came as fast as every five minutes over the past two hours. Home Front Command has ordered all residents within 40 kilometers to stay within 15 seconds of bomb shelters. No day camps on Tuesday and public shelters are ordered open in Be’er Sheva, Ashkelon, Ashdod and all cities within the 40 kilometer zone. Over 70 rockets have been launched at Israel, since noon today. Hamas warned today that they would hit Judea and Samaria. Up to 1,500 reserve soldiers will be ordered to report to the Sderot region. According to the Times of Israel, most of the soldiers will be from the Home Front Command and those trained to operate the Iron Dome anti-missile batteries, but the IDF Spokesman’s Office could not confirm that to TheJewishPress.com. At the same time, military officials stressed that Israel would prefer that Hamas decide on its own to rein in the rocket launchers, but they quickly added that Israel has the ability and the will to put an end to the rockets if need be. The move comes on the heels of the largest rocket barrage out of Gaza since 2012. After celebrating the abduction of Eyal Yifrah, Gil-Ad Sha’ar and Naftali Fraenkel on June 12 by handing out candies and flashing a three-finger victory sign, Hamas responded to the unprecedented manhunt for the boys with renewed rocket fire at Israeli civilians. 7/7/2014 A typical afternoon in the south of ISRAEL: 7:44 PM Shaar HaNegev 6:53 PM Eshkol 6:30 PM Shaar Hanegev. Open area. 6:05 PM Nachal Oz 5:55 PM Eshkol 5:37 PM Ein HaShlosha x4. No injuries. 5:33 PM Eshkol 4:21 PM Eshkol 4:20 PM Eshkol 4:16 PM Eshkol 4:11 PM Kissufim 4:08 PM Eshkol 3:39 PM Eshkol Chicken coop hit. Damage. No human injuries and all chickens were killed. 3:26 PM Shaar Hanegev x 2 3:21 PM Sdot Negev, Shaar Negev 2:51 PM Shaar Hanegev 2:40 PM Shaar Negev More than 30 rockets pounded southern Israeli communities on Monday, with one Grad rocket reaching as far as Beersheba. The Eshkol and Sha'ar Hanegev areas were heavily hit by rocket fire on Thursday morning and afternoon. The Security Cabinet met on Monday to discuss possible responses to the continued projectile fire from Gaza which has seen some 150 rockets hit Israel's southern communities in recent weeks. Preparing for an escalation: after 12 days of continues fire at Southern communities, the Cabinet decided tonight (Monday) to intensify the operations in the Gaza Strip – at this point mostly air operations – and if that will not bring calm, the option of a ground invasion is being considered too. Close to 20:00 a barrage of 30 rockets was fired at communities in the West Negev area. At this time no injuries were reported. False alarm sirens were sounded in the Jerusalem area in the center of Israel area. Iron Dome intercepted three rockets in the area of Netivot and Ofakim.

Heavy rocket barrages slammed into southern Israel on Monday evening, triggering air raid sirens across wide areas, including the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council, Sderot, Rehovot and Beit Shemesh. Seven long-range Palestinians rockets were intercepted over Ashdod, and five over Netivot. Some 30 rockets were fired from Gaza in the Monday night barrage. A total of 80 rockets slammed into southern Israel throughout the day and evening. The attacks came shortly after a senior military source said the IDF is taking “significant steps” to prepare itself for a stepped up campaign of attacks against Hamas in Gaza. He spoke as Palestinian projectile fire from the Strip continued unabated.

SI VIS PACEM, PARA BELLUM /// Platón, Vegetius

Lines of tanks, armored personnel carriers and jeeps are moving along roads that were carefully paved smooth earlier this year. Thousands of IDF soldiers already toting their gear are ready, seated in trucks and APCS, patiently waiting for orders that will decide their actions. But for now, they’re still in waiting mode. The orders haven’t yet been issued – they’re only getting into position – everyone’s just moving south to the border with Gaza. Disc jockeys and talk show hosts on Army Radio have that manic quality in their voices as they strain with extra effort to be especially funny in routines that have a sharper edge than usual. The music is jumpier, punchier. No information that could let you know what’s really going on. Standard procedure for the State of Israel in high-tension security mode. It would be smart for Gaza terrorists to rethink their actions, if they’re thinking clearly at all. Now is a good time to consider their families, if they ever consider anyone. The requisite warning to Hamas went out. They know the steps to the dance. No fools they, the entire leadership of that terrorist organization went underground at least 48 hours ago. No bellicose statements issued from Ismail Haniyeh since the beginning of the week. He’s hiding from Israeli fighter pilots and air strikes, content to let Gaza families pay the price for his belligerence when Israel is forced to bomb rocket launchers buried up against their homes. In that way, he’s not much different from Hezbollah terrorist chief Hassan Nasrallah, who has been in hiding for years, since the 2006 Second Lebanon War, for similar reasons. But the rocket fire continues, and it will soon have to be silenced one way or the other. The price for leaving it is getting too high. Tens of thousands of Israeli civilians cannot sleep at night, cannot function by day. Too many children are growing up damaged. It’s approaching the time to put the matter to rest. IT IS UP TO THE PALESTINIANS...IF THEY WANT PEACE...LET THERE BE PEACE IT IS UP TO THE PALESTINIANS...IF THEY WANT WAR...LET THERE BE WAR BUT REMEMBER...WAR IS BAD FOR EVERYBODY BUT ALSO REMEMBER THAT PEACE IS GOOD FOR EVERYBODY...SO IT IS UP TO YOU SI VIS PACEM...PARA BELLUM

LET THEIR PEOPLE GO...300 MILES DUE WEST OF ISRAEL

A Palestinian Authority polling institute survey of Arabs living in Judea, Samaria, Gaza and eastern Jerusalem indicate that most want to leave the Land of Israel and emigrate to other countries, according to a Ynet report. 68% of the Arabs surveys are concerned for their economic well-being. 70% of the Arabs surveyed would emigrate to the West if they could. LET THEIR PEOPLE GO…AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED THEY COULD GO 300 MILES DUE WEST…AND LEAVE US ALONE.....LOL

SIN MISERICORDIA

LOS ASESINOS DE ESTOS TRES JOVENCITOS ESTAN SIENDO BUSCADOS POR TODO ISRAEL...CUANDO LOS ENCUENTREN LOS VAN A TRATAR SIN MISERICORDIA...DEBERIAN DE NO ENTREGARSE...PARA QUE CUANDO LOS SOLDADOS DE ISRAEL LOS ENCUENTREN LOS PUEDAN EJECUTAR SUMARIAMENTE. SI LOS ENCUENTRAN, LOS LLEVAN A JUICIO Y DESPUES TODA LA PRENSA EXTRANJERA SE METERA EN EL ASUNTO Y SE VOLVERA UN LIO...LOS METERAN EN LA CARCEL Y ALLI ESTARAN BIEN CUIDADOS Y ALIMENTADOS...QUE INJUSTICIA...Y LOS TRES JOVENES QUE??? NUNCA VIVIRAN PARA DISFRUTAR DE SUS VIDAS, CON SU FAMILIAS, SUS ESTUDIOS, SUS AMORIOS...SUS MATRIMONIOS Y EL PLACER DE VER NACER SUS HIJOS...SE DEBERIA DE INSTITUIR LA PENA DE MUERTE PARA ESTE TIPO DE CRIMEN Y DESPUES DE UN JUICIO...SIMPLEMENTE LLEVARLOS AL CADALSO Y YA. LO QUE ME PREOCUPA ES QUE ESTE HORRENDO ACTO PUEDA OCURRIR DE NUEVO Y QUE EN VENGANZA SE HAGA LO MISMO EN CONTRA DE CUALQUIER JOVENCITO PALESTINO Y SE EMPEZARIA UNA LARGA Y NUNCA TERMINABLE CADENA DE ODIO...SI ES QUE YA NO EXISTE...PERO POR EL MOMENTO, DESDE LO MAS PROFUNDO DE NUESTROS CORAZONES Y MENTE SOLO PEDIMOS...VENGANZA!!!

FAREWELL EYAL, GIL-AD AND NAFTALI

Tens of thousands of Israelis, including haredi men in long coats and side curls, Sephardic women in tight jeans and low-cut tops, and, of course, thousands and thousands of national-religious representing the entire swath of the religious Zionist spectrum braved searing afternoon heat Tuesday to give one final honour to three boys – and their families – who unified a fractured nation. In many ways, the funeral procession of Eyal Yifrah, Gil-Ad Sha’ar and Naftali Fraenkel had a different feel to other mass funerals following terror attacks. Of course, the event bore terrible resemblance to other mass funerals following horrific terror attacks. As at funerals of the Fogel family, Koby Mandell, and countless more victims of Oslo, today’s procession was marked by teenage boys crying openly on each-other’s shoulders, middle aged men and women staring blankly at the crowd, trying in vain to understand the justice and the Divine logic behind the tragedy, and teenage girls sitting on rocks and dirt paths, quietly sobbing into prayer and Psalm books. But a closer look revealed another, unusual side to the burial of three children murdered in cold blood. In addition to the natural human instinct to offer comfort to the grieving families, mourners seemed moved by another, deeper feeling. As much as a tribute to the victims, the gathering seemed to be a desperate grasp to hold on to the last three weeks – a period of fear and uncertainty, and of hope, all of which eventually exploded into the biggest show of national unity since the abduction and murder of Nachshon Wachsman in similar circumstances in 1994. As Israelis of all political and ethnic stripes mourned the boys’ murder, there is a reluctance to bid farewell to Iris Yifrah, Rachael Fraenkel and Bat-Galim Sha’ar, the devastated mothers who both drew strength from the support they received from Am Yisrael and returned it to the nation tenfold. To paraphrase Prime Minister Netanyahu said, the past three weeks were a lesson – for Israel and the world – in prayer, in belief, in national unity, in humanity. Today’s gathering, then, was in many ways a desperate attempt to down one last gulp from the cup of unity and faith that defined the past 19 days. As happened at memorial services around the country when word of the murders made the rounds last night, groups of teens hugged, linked arms and soothed their pain with the songs that have defined the entire ordeal – songs about God’s power and goodness, prayerful songs asking God to redeem captives, and especially the line from the Passover Haggada – “The promise made to our forefathers holds true also for us: For more than once they have risen against us to try to destroy us… But the Holy One, Blessed be He, saves us from their hands.”

THE WORLD MISSION OF ISRAEL

The tragic end to the kidnapping of Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-Ad Shaer and Eyal Yifrah has elicited a number of responses from the government. An intensive military operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip is being considered along with a continued crackdown in areas in the West Bank where Hamas is known to operate or receive funds. This would send a clear message to Hamas that no differentiation will be made among its various activities, whether they are political or “military.” Rather, the terrorist organization as a whole must be held responsible for any act of violence carried out by a person or group that identifies with Hamas’s goals, clearly stated in its charter. It hardly matters that the two Hamas terrorists Amer Abu Aysha and Marwan Kawasme, who went missing hours before the June 12 kidnapping, murdered the three boys without a specific order from the organization’s leadership. They carried out their ugly act with the full knowledge that what they did reflects Hamas’s spirit. Implementing the death penalty against terrorists convicted of murder is another option being weighed. Not necessarily a deterrent, instituting a death penalty for terrorist murderers would be a moral statement. The State of Israel would be upholding an ethical principle: Anyone who commits murder and justifies it in the name of religion – in this case a violent and reactionary form of political Islam that is responsible for most of the suffering in the region – deserves to be obliterated. Regardless of the steps Israel takes in response to the kidnapping, however, it is yet another reminder that swathes of Palestinian society continue to be irreconcilably committed to Israel’s destruction and are willing to condone the most despicable acts of violence, even if by doing they doom to oblivion any chances for national self-determination. From its inception, the Palestinian national movement has chosen time and again violence over compromise, a strategy that has consistently failed and brought ruin upon Palestinians. It began with the 1929 Hebron massacre, which left 67 Jews dead, including a dozen women and three children under the age of five. It continued with a series of riots launched by Palestinians between 1936 and 1939 that resulted in the deaths of several hundred Jews. Ultimately, however, the Palestinians suffered from the results of their own actions. The aggressive response of British Mandatory forces resulted in the death, wounding, imprisonment or exile of more than 10 percent of male Palestinians aged 20 to 60. While the Palestinians emerged from the riots severely weakened, pre-state Zionist militias such as the Hagana received crucial support from the British Mandate. This set the stage for the next Palestinian debacle: the rejection of the 1947 UN Partition Plan and the misguided decision to launch a military offensive against the fledgling Jewish state. The result was aptly called the “Nakba,” or disaster, by the Palestinians and it was entirely their own doing because they chose violence over compromise. Palestinian political choices after the Six Day War resulted in additional defeats. Yasser Arafat’s return to terrorism after the breakdown of the 2000 Camp David talks yielded similarly disastrous results. So did Palestinians’ decision in the 2006 Palestinian Authority legislative election to vote Hamas into power. Dozens of suicide bombings and shootings, thousands of Kassam rockets have yielded no benefits for Palestinians. Meanwhile, the Jewish state has continued to flourish and grow and develop in leaps and bounds. It has produced amazing people such as Naftali, Gil-Ad, Eyal and their families and it will produce many more. While Palestinians focus their energies on destruction and victimization, Israel has became one of the most innovative economies in the world, producing technologies in every field from medicine and computers to agriculture. There is nothing we can do to stop the Palestinians from choosing, time and again, violence over compromise, destruction over construction, and we should not deceive ourselves that we can. Remember the words by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose: “One individual may die for an idea; but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. That is how the wheel of evolution moves on and the ideas and dreams of one generation are bequeathed to the next’” All we can do is mourn the terrible loss of Naftali, Gil- Ad and Eyal, and continue with the amazing project of Zionism. This is our revenge and our way of honoring the memory of the three boys. This is our mission. ZIONISM FOREVER!!!

AM ISRAEL CHAI - QUE VIVA ISRAEL, SU PUEBLO Y SU TORAH

Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Shaar and Naftali Frenkel will be buried side by side in the Modiin Cemetery today, Tuesday, in a joint funeral. At the moment the schedule is as follows: Eyal Yifrah’s funeral will begin at 2:30 PM, in the Beit Knesset Neria shul in Elad,. The burial will be at 5:30 PM in the Modi’in cemetery. Gil-ad Shaar’s funeral will begin at 3:00 PM, in the Talmon shul, and they will leave to the cemetery at 4:30 PM. Naftali Frenkel’s funeral will begin at 3:00 PM in Nof Ayalon, and the burial will be at the same time, in Modiin, at 5:30 PM. The bodies of the kidnapped boys were found yesterday. They were kidnapped on June 12 by terrorists from Hebron, and murdered soon after. Gone-but-not-forgotten! They died just because they were Jews, the same reason why we have been killed thru the ages…Romans, Inquisition, Pogroms, Nazism and now Zionism. It does not matter if they use arrows, spears, swords, rifles, pistols or Zyklon-B…it is all the same. This is the call for all of us to make Aliyah to Israel. Let’s us take the lands of the Palestinians and kick them out…let them go about 300 miles due WEST. Let’s raze Gaza, their homes in the West Bank, let’s raze the Temple Mount and the Al-Aksa Mosque and build the Third Holy Temple…we want and need revenge…and we want it now….AM ISRAEL CHAI! Let the memory of Eyal Yifrach, Naftali Frenkel and Gilad Sha’ar not fade. Let their blood not have flowed in vain. May their memories be for a blessing and may G-d avenge their blood. May the soldiers of the IDF and the agents of the Shin Bet find success in the next phase of Operation Brother’s Keeper as they continue their hunt for the murders of our boys.

ONCE UPON A TIME...THERE WERE THREE BEAUTIFUL ANGELS

The number 18, "Chai”, has taken on new meaning for all of us. This number, which always represents "life," now brings us a feeling of sadness. It reminds us of the 18 days from the kidnapping of Naftali, Eyal, and Gil-Ad until the discovery of their bodies. It reminds us of the 18 days during which we prayed and hoped, only to be let down in the worst of ways. The pain is horrific, the sadness is deep, and the tragedy can lead us to despair. However, as we grieve as a nation with the families, and mourn as individuals, I believe that these 18 days reinforce the eternal strength of our nation and remind us that "Am Yisrael Chai" – we are alive and well. I view these last 18 days as a gust of wind. The air is always there but it takes a gust of wind to remind us that air surrounds us at all times. The unity, love and caring among Jews is always there. These last 18 days simply reminded us of this phenomenon. And that is why these 18 days continue the theme of "Chai." The three boys, our three boys, are no longer alive but Am Yisrael, the Jewish people, is alive and well. We have a unity of purpose and destiny which exists at all times – during the good as well as the bad. We may have our disagreements. We certainly have our share of difficulties with one another. However, despite all this, we share a common denominator which cannot be broken by any of our enemies. We will mourn together while soldiers from diverse backgrounds will continue to search for the murderers, punish our enemies, and defend us together. We will return to work together and we will strive to make the country a better place together. We will rejoice in each other's happy occasions together and continue to celebrate our successes and lick the wounds of our failures together, and, yes – we will continue debating and arguing – together. Naftali, Eyal, and Gil-Ad are no longer with us physically. But we, as a nation, are alive and well – physically and spiritually – with unity and love for one another. The "wind" of the last 18 days reminded us of this reality but it is always there and always will be there. Dov Lipman’s words are echoed around the world by Jews, as well as Christians, as well as people who love life…L’chaim!!! Chief Rabbi David Lau said that the entire Jewish people across the globe were shocked by “the despicable murders.” “The boys who were murdered are a sanctification of G-d’s name,” said Lau, who has cut short a visit to US Jewish communities because of the murders. “They were murdered simply because they were Jews, and join the chain of martyrs and pure ones of our people who have been murdered throughout the painful history of the Jewish people.” Deputy Minister for Religious Services Eli Ben-Dahan said he closely felt the pain of the three bereaved families and said he was certain the prayers that were since the boys were abducted were not in vain. "I have no doubt that the prayers helped the Jewish people which has united around the families in the last few weeks," said Ben-Dahan. He also called on the cabinet to punish the families of the the suspected murderers as well as Hamas "so that this phenomenon does not recur," and to impose Israeli sovereignty over the Gush Etzion settlement block. "Firstly, the families of the murderers must be sent into exile abroad, their houses must be destroyed and rebuilding them must be prevented. Additionally we must take advantage of this moment and impose sovereignty over the broader Gush Etzion region."

ONCE UPON A TIME...THERE WERE THREE ANGELS...

The bodies of the three Israeli teenagers who were kidnapped over two weeks ago were found by security forces in a field northwest of Hebron on Monday afternoon. The discovery came after the Shin Bet focused its efforts in the area over the past two days during searches for the three abducted Israeli teens, who were abducted from a hitchhiking point in Gush Etzion. Their names are: Gil-Ad Shaer (16), Naftali Fraenkel (16) and Eyal Yifrah (19). The Shin Bet instructed search forces to focus on the town of Halhul, north of Hebron, near where the bodies were found on Monday. The bodies were found buries in an open area, three kilometers from Halhul. The searches that led to the discovery of the bodies were led by the Kfir Infantry Brigade, the elite Maglan unit, and civilian volunteers. The Shin Bet is continuing intelligence efforts to track down the two Hamas kidnappers, Marwan Kawasme and Amar Abu Aysha, as well as all those involved in the kidnapping. In a somber statement released by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu following the discovery of the bodies of Naftali Fraenkel, Eyal Yifrah and Gil-Ad Shaer, he says that "our hearts bleed, the entire nation cries" with the families of the deceased. "They were kidnapped and murdered in cold blood by animals," he says. "Hamas is responsible and Hamas will pay." Economy Minister Naftali Bennett: "Child murderers cannot be forgiven. This is a time for actions, not words." The comments amplified earlier remarks from President Shimon Peres, who said Israel would pursue the killers. "The entire nation is bowing its head with unbearable sorrow this evening," Peres said. "Over the past 18 days the nation prayed as one that the fate of our wonderful teenagers would be that they are found alive and well. Now that the bitter news has come, the entire Israeli nation mourns the premature death of our finest youth … Alongside deep sorrow, we will remain resolute to punish the atrocious terrorists. Our war on terrorism will only intensify and will not waver so that this murderous terrorism won't dare to rear its head." My deepest condolences to their families…my heart cries in sorrow for these three angels…my heart cries in pain for their families…but also my heart cries in RAGE for this abominable crime. Their only sin is having being born Jews…well…I am a Jew…and proud of it…and revenge is our demand…it will not bring these kids back…but we must hit Hamas hard…LEX TALIONIS… Gil-ad’s parents attended meeting with representatives from the ministry of defense in Tel Aviv and in 6pm they received a phone call, that asked them to return home, as fast as possible. The parents arrived together with the five sister of Gil-ad to their home and they received the news from the IDF officers waiting for them there. Upon hearing the news, the Elad settlement in which Yifrah family lives, that lost Eyal, dozens of people came to the family’s home, read the bible, and prayed for their souls. The family received the news that their son won’t return when they were at home. In Nof Ayalon, the residence of Naftali Frankel, the locals knew the chances were low, but they did not lose hope, until today when hope was gone. The prayer tent that was used to pray for their safe return, was used tonight to pray for the souls of the three boys. The parents were at home when they received the news. In the last hours the locals gather, some read the bible, and many stand in the street with tears next to the family’s home. Talmon settlement spokesperson, Ravid Sharon, said: “It is impossible to say, that even when we prayed, we did not know that it is a possibility, during this time, it is impossible to convey condolences. The feeling is that the pain is everyone’s and goes beyond family and the settlement, we know the pain is strong, but the nation’s support helps us. Even when we pray, we know that nothing is guaranteed, we try to gather strength and hope.”

BRING BACK OUR BOYS

Eyal Yifrah, Gil-Ad Shayer and Naftali Frenkel are three Israeli youths that were abducted by Islamic members of the Hamas Terrorist Organization. The Talmud says we should not pay over-sized ransoms so as not to encourage people to kidnap Jews. Even for those who reject the binding nature of halacha, at the very least the Talmud would seem to have posited solid advice for communal administration in the face of a rash of abductions. Only four days after the kidnapping of Eyal Yifrah, Gil-Ad Shayer and Naftali Frenkel, a Palestinian Authority television station broadcast an video produced by the Abu Mazen’s Fatah movement promising Israelis “Death is near.” According to Palestinian Media Watch, the official Fatah Facebook posted the video, which promotes violence and destruction in the name of Allah, on June 16. The song calls on Palestinian youth to “smash the fortress of the hopeless” and “shout: ‘Allah is Greater’” and states that “the remains of our bodies and our blood are a song of rage.” Elite soldiers in the IDF unit Yahalom (‘Diamond’ in Hebrew) uncovered hidden weapons during their search for three kidnapped teenagers. Eleven days have passed since Hamas terrorists kidnapped three Israeli teenagers in Judea and Samaria. Since then, the IDF has conducted an extensive operation to find the abducted teens and weaken Hamas’ terrorist infrastructure. The search has led soldiers into buildings and underground tunnels where they have discovered massive caches of illegal weapons. Many of these forces are members of the elite IDF unit Yahalom, a name that means ‘diamond’ in Hebrew. Throughout the year, they train to locate smuggling tunnels, defuse bombs and use live ammunition to fight underground. During widespread searches, the forces have found tunnels connected to Palestinian households through washing machines and warehouses. The tunnels and other hiding places contain everything from grenades to improvised explosive devices and substances used to make bombs. In my opinion, all these buildings where the illegal weapons and explosives are found, must be razed to the ground and their inhabitants arrested for their cooperation as accessories before and after the fact. And also, Israel must institute the death penalty for when people are convicted for these types of crimes.

R.I.P. Baruch Mizrahi and Peace to his family

Ziad Awad was re-arrested on suspicion that he murdered Baruch Mizrahi on Passover eve. Ziad Awad was one of the 1027 terrorists released in exchange for Hamas releasing Gilad Shalit. Once released, Awad’s friends and neighbors celebrated his return with a hero’s welcome. It should be clear that his terror supporting friends and neighbors are just as guilty as he is. This Hamas terrorist, convicted but released by the Government of Israel in the infamous Gilad Shalit Transaction in 2011, has been arrested for the killing of Police Chief Superintendent Baruch Mizrahi. In the final minutes before the onset of Passover, an Israeli family from Modi’in, traveling on Highway 35 by car to a family seder in the Jewish community of Kiryat Arba came under fire near the Arab village of Idhna. The driver, a man in his forties and a police officer was shot to death. His pregnant wife was struck by bullets as well and evacuated to Jerusalem’s Shaarei Zedek Medical Center in critical condition. One of their children sitting in the back seat was also hit by bullets. Ziad Awad and his son Izz Eddin Hassan Ziad Awad were arrested on May 7 by the Israel Police’s elite counter-terrorism unit in collaboration with the Shin Bet security service for the April 14 shooting of the 47-year-old father of five. The senior Awad is accused of carrying out the shooting, while his son allegedly assisted him in planning the shooting and coordinating the escape. “Like father…like son.” This is clear proof that once released/paroled, they will continue acting the same way than before. This is also clear proof to the world, that once in jailed…these animals should never be released. Or better yet, Israel must institute the death penalty and proceed in the same manner that took Eichmann to the gallows. The awful confluence of Israel’s latest hostage “situation” and the arrest of Ziad Awad should bring a painful reality into clear focus: Israel will not survive in the long-run without the mettle to stand up to life in the Middle East, and without the backbone to stand up to pressure exerted by devastated family members and to foreign governments or even the United Nations. And so, the question remains for Israel: Which Zionist principle is stronger? The commitment to maintaining a Jewish Democratic Country in the Land of Israel, or your fanatic commitment to resist all allusions to traditional Judaism. Remember the fateful words of Date-Leumi and Jabotinsky: “The Jewish People in the Promised Land with the TORAH.” Nothing else matters…the people, the land and the TORAH as a lighthouse of wisdom and our way of life. “Israel will not allow any terrorist group to trample on its citizens. Israelis are acting in self-defense.” “The idea of releasing terrorists has come to an end.”

BRING OUR BOYS BACK!!!

BRING OUR BOYS BACK NOW ... OR YOU WILL FORCE US TO BECOME ANIMALS LIKE YOU AND START KIDNAPPING YOUR CHILDREN...

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH IN ISRAEL MOTHERS AND FATHERS PRAY FOR THE SAFE RETURN OF THEIR CHILDREN IN SYRIA MOTHERS AND FATHERS MOURN THEIR DEAD CHILDREN IN NIGERIA MOTHER AND FATHERS PRAY AND HOPE FOR THE LIBERATION OF THEIR DAUGHTERS IN IRAQ MOTHERS AND FATHERS PRAY FOR THEIR DEAD CHILDREN IN AFGHANISTAN MOTHERS AND FATHERS PRAY FOR THEIR DEAD CHILDREN I CAN NOT IMAGINE WHAT IT IS LIKE TO LOSE MY CHILDREN...LOST MY WIFE IN 2006 AND STILL HURTS AS IT WERE YESTERDAY. ONLY OUR L-RD IN ITS INFINITE WISDOM CAN GIVE US SOLACE IN A MOMENT LIKE THAT... SO MY LORD...BRING THESE NIGERIAN GIRLS HOME, BRING OUR THREE YESHIVA STUDENTS HOME, STOP THE WAR IN IRAK, AFGHANISTAN AND OTHER PLACES...LET US FOLLOW YOUR COMMAND WHEN YOU TOLD US IN OUR TORAH...LOVE ONE ANOTHER...LEARN TO LIVE IN PEACE WITH ONE ANOTHER...BARUK HASHEM

Fri, Jun 20, 2014 22 Sivan, 5774 No Holds Barred: Obama fiddles while the world burns By SHMULEY BOTEACH///06/16/2014 23:54 Under President Barack Obama the world’s becoming unstuck. Iraq is being overrun by Islamist terrorists and the United States is now evacuating its Baghdad embassy. The Arab Spring has led to either civil war and mass slaughter, like in Syria, or new Arab dictators, as in Egypt. Libya is degenerating into a den of terrorists, who have already murdered the American ambassador. Russian President Vladimir Putin is sending tanks into Ukraine and the thuggish strongman bestrides the world like a colossus, unchecked by American will. These facts are undeniable. The only question is whether President Obama is responsible. Obama’s argument, as laid out in his 2014 West Point commencement speech, is that his first rule of foreign policy is “don’t do anything stupid.” Military action should be reserved only for the most extreme circumstances. Americans are war-weary after Iraq and Afghanistan. Our president believes in a minimalist approach. This argument, however, is shallow. Yes, Americans are weary of entering foreign conflicts. The president is correct that we don’t want our boys dying to fight on behalf of Iraqi cowards who shed their uniforms at the first sound of gunfire. But even less do we want another 9/11 attack, and by allowing Iraq and Syria to degenerate into Afghanistan we are all but guaranteeing another hit on the United States. A lawless world cannot possibly keep America safe. I have contempt for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of Iraq. Increasingly autocratic, he is even more guilty of gross ingratitude. Rather than show America any kind of thanks for all that we sacrificed to give his nation its freedom, he treats America with disdain. Who wants to help a man who is becoming a despot, hates democratic Israel and reaches out to America only when he fears being strung up by jihadists? But this isn’t about Maliki, rather it’s about America. If Iraq goes under, the ensuing chaos will directly impact the security of the United States. An evacuation of Baghdad would be much worse than the shame of Saigon because at least the North Vietnamese communists did not deploy a global army of terrorists who fly planes into buildings. Al-Qaida does. I visited West Point last night with my family for their summer concert series. It was the 239th birthday of the Army and the West Point Band put on a stirring and patriotic performance. President Obama had spoken at the cadets’ commencement just two weeks earlier. Ask yourself: How did these cadets feel when President Obama got up at their graduation and told them there is increasingly no substantive role for them to play in the world? Here were young warriors, trained to fight and protect the United States, being told that the use of force has little to no application. No wonder there was such tepid applause. These bright young men and women must have been wondering why, in that case, they hadn’t instead just landed jobs in State Department. No one wants to see American troops die in foreign wars. Of course our soldiers should never be sent needlessly into harm’s way. But the threat of American force must always be present, even if it’s not deployed. People must fear the United States. What President Obama is doing by not doing, and by giving so many unnecessary speeches defending his belief in doing nothing, is removing the deterrent of a credible threat. The world believes that the United States under President Obama has no stomach for a fight. And we’re watching the effects all around us. The inmates are running the asylum. The world is slowly becoming unglued. The Islamic world especially is in a deteriorating spiral that’s positively tragic to watch. Turkey, once a proud democracy, now boasts a prime minister whose own political aides violently attack peaceful protestors. My God, Recep Tayyip Erdogan doesn’t even shy from harassing and shoving CNN reporters while they are live on the air. He no longer even shows a pretense of desiring freedom. When I was in Istanbul I was amazed to experience firsthand how YouTube is permanently blocked; Twitter was restored just two days before I arrived. These Turks were once a free people. How are they allowing this? Syria is a giant killing zone with President Obama’s red line against the use of chemical weapons being repeatedly violated without consequence. Iran sports the second most brutal and vile government on the earth, after North Korea, and thinks nothing of stoning women, hanging gays from cranes and assassinating peaceful protestors in cold blood. Worse, it funds the bloodiest terrorists around the world. But that does not stop our president from negotiating with them and allowing them to get within a few months of attaining nuclear weapons. Egypt is back to presidents who win elections with 95 percent of the vote. Nigeria’s Boko Haram is the filthiest terror group in the entire world, murdering children in large numbers and bragging about selling young girls into sexual slavery. And who most pays the biggest price for this lawlessness? Why Israel, of course, with three teenagers now kidnapped, apparently by Hamas, an organization that the United States officially labels as terrorists but whose joint government with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas we now recognize. Through all this Barack Obama drifts along, meditating on his mantra of “let’s do nothing stupid.” But I have long believed that the true sins we are guilty of in life are not the sins of commission, the mistakes we make, but rather the sins of omission, the good things we fail to do. Sometimes the dumbest thing is to fail to act because of the fear of doing dumb things. Obama is fiddling while the world is burning. Israel is already smoldering and it won’t be long before America, too, feels the heat. The author is founder of This World: The Values Network, the foremost organization influencing politics, media and the culture with Jewish values. He has just published Kosher Lust: Love is Not the Answer. Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.

LEX TALIONIS

Last Thursday, three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped as they were returning home from their Jewish seminary: Naftali Frankel (16), Gilad Shaar (16), and Eyal Yifrach (19). The Israeli government believes that these boys are being held by the terrorist group, Hamas. Their whereabouts and their well-being are currently unknown. We believe strongly in the importance of action. We also believe deeply in the power of prayer. Now is a time for Israeli action to recover these three students. And now is the time for us to pray and ask our G-d to help them return safe and sound to their parents. In the immortal words of Golda Meir…it is just as bad for Palestinian children to die, as it is for Israeli children. A father and mother grieve and cry the same whether Palestinian of Jewish. Having said that…G-d help the IDF in the search…and if the Palestinian do not like IDF’methods…well, they can move 400 miles WEST…or let us go back to harsher methods and kidnap 300 of their children and hold them and their fate will be the exact same fate as our three boys...LEX TALIONIS!!!