Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Monday, June 26, 2017
Myth: Israel Is the Largest Beneficiary of US Military Aid
Myth: Israel Is the Largest Beneficiary of US Military Aid
US-Israel 'Austere Challenge' Exercise, IDF Blog, Flickr
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 410, February 10, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Many American detractors of Israel begin by citing that Israel receives the lion’s share of US military aid. The very suggestion conjures the demon of an all-powerful Israel lobby that has turned the US Congress into its pawn. But these figures, while reflecting official direct US military aid, are almost meaningless in comparison to the real costs and benefits of US military aid – above all, American boots on the ground. In reality, Israel receives only a small fraction of American military aid, and most of that was spent in the US to the benefit of the American economy.
Countless articles discrediting Israel (as well as many other better-intentioned articles) ask how it is that a country as small as Israel receives the bulk of US military aid. Israel receives 55%, or $US3.1 billion per year, followed by Egypt, which receives 23%. This largesse comes at the expense, so it is claimed, of other equal or more important allies, such as Germany, Japan, and South Korea. The complaint conjures the specter of an all-powerful Israel lobby that has turned the US Congress into its pawn.
The response to the charge is simple: Israel is not even a major beneficiary of American military aid. The numerical figure reflects official direct US military aid, but is almost meaningless compared to the real costs and benefits of US military aid – which include, above all, American boots on the ground in the host states.
There are 150,500 American troops stationed in seventy countries around the globe. This costs the American taxpayer an annual $US85-100 billion, according to David Vine, a professor at American University and author of a book on the subject. In other words, 800-1,000 American soldiers stationed abroad represent US$565-665 million of aid to the country in which they are located...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
A History of the Palestinian People: From Ancient Times to the Modern Era. Paperback – June 12, 2017
WHAT'S THE SECRET BEHIND THE AMAZON BESTSELLER ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE PALESTINIANS?
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Whats-the-secret-behind-the-Amazon-bestseller-about-the-history-of-the-Palestinians-497483
in amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/History-Palestinian-People-Ancient-Modern/dp/154683124X/
- sorry, article is deleted from amazons page. obviously somebody was pissed off.
“The joke’s run its course,” Voll told Israel Today after Amazon yanked the book only two days after it was published. A copy of the letter from Amazon sent to us by Voll states the reason for removing the book: “We found that your book(s) are resulting in a disappointing customer experience.”
That might be because the book contains 131 blank pages.
in FB
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Ausgewählt und ausgeschlossen - Jude Hass in Europa, BILD zeigt die Doku, die ARTE nicht zeigen will
http://www.jpost.com/BDS-THREAT/German-paper-screens-nixed-film-on-antisemitism-for-24-hours-only-496709
The film, on antisemitism in Europe commissioned and then nixed by German-Franco TV outlet ARTE, "Chosen and Excluded – Jew Hatred in Europe," is streamed throughout the day on 13.06.2017 on the official website of BILD
The film, on antisemitism in Europe commissioned and then nixed by German-Franco TV outlet ARTE, "Chosen and Excluded – Jew Hatred in Europe," is streamed throughout the day on 13.06.2017 on the official website of BILD
http://www.bild.de/politik/inland/bild/zeigt-die-doku-die-arte-nicht-zeigen-will-52155394.bild.html
for awhile its on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fzoE12Bg7o
checked on 07 jul. 2017 seen this:
for awhile its on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fzoE12Bg7o
checked on 07 jul. 2017 seen this:
August Babel said that "anti-Semitism is socialism of fools." In 2018 anti-Semitism is anti-racism of fools, the anti-imperialism of fools, the anti-colonialism of fools. (Susan Stein -Forward 12.07/18)
Friday, June 2, 2017
10 y of TALLINN NEW SYNAGOGUE
Tallinn rabbi & rebbetzin Shmuel and Hana Kot
http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
ALLAH TURNED THEM INTO APES AND PIGS
"Allah
expelled them from the human level and took them one notch down. First, he made
them into apes, apes, apes. And people who sinned even more - he turned them
into pigs. Get it? First, he turned them into apes, which are the closest to
people... People? Can I call them people? Actually, I can. I'll tell you why
later. Apes, especially chimpanzees, are the closest to people. Even with apes,
there are all kinds. Chimpanzees...Then came the pigs. It seems that when (the
Jews) were transformed into pigs, it was on account of something more severe
that came later. They violated an even more severe sanctity. It happened to
people who were upset about the punishment of transformation into apes. You
don't like becoming apes?! We'll turn you into pigs!"
Friday, January 13, 2017
Did Stalin condone the holocaust? How warped Soviet values may have prevented him stopping Nazi death camps
By Michael Burleigh for the Daily Mail 20 May 2010
When a platoon of conquering German SS soldiers entered a remote village in Russia in 1941, their leader, Alois Knäbel, was told by an informer that the local cobbler was Jewish.Knäbel had the man, his wife and three-year-old daughter brought to him and set the adults to work scrubbing his quarters. When they had finished, he led them outside and, while holding the child’s hand, he shot them dead.The toddler started screaming, and Knäbel picked her up, stroked her hair and muttered soothing words to her. Then, as he cradled her to his chest with one hand, he used the other to shoot her in the neck.His fellow SS troopers were most impressed.‘Look how finely Knäbel did that,’ said one admiringly, ‘how he first calmed down the child and then killed her.’ more... and in
Axis History Forum
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Thursday, December 8, 2016
Bob Dylan’s forgotten pro-Israel song, revisited
younger
than that now,” Bob Dylan sang in 1964’s “My Back Pages.”
Reverse-aging or no, the legendary Jewish folk singer turns 75 on Tuesday.
While Dylan’s Jewishness has been examined and reexamined over the years, relatively little attention has been paid to his 1983 song “Neighborhood Bully” — a rare declaration of full-throated Israel support by a mainstream American rocker.The lyrics (posted in full here) equate Israel with an “exiled man,” who is unjustly labeled a bully for fending off constant attacks by his neighbors.
Dylan released the song on his second studio album, “Infidels,” in the wake of his brief born-again Christian phase during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Some of the lyrics sound like they could have been taken from speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who often portrays Israel as besieged.
Well, the neighborhood bully, he’s just one man
His enemies say he’s on their land
They got him outnumbered about a million to one
He got no place to escape to, no place to run
He’s the neighborhood bully
Reverse-aging or no, the legendary Jewish folk singer turns 75 on Tuesday.
While Dylan’s Jewishness has been examined and reexamined over the years, relatively little attention has been paid to his 1983 song “Neighborhood Bully” — a rare declaration of full-throated Israel support by a mainstream American rocker.The lyrics (posted in full here) equate Israel with an “exiled man,” who is unjustly labeled a bully for fending off constant attacks by his neighbors.
Dylan released the song on his second studio album, “Infidels,” in the wake of his brief born-again Christian phase during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Some of the lyrics sound like they could have been taken from speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who often portrays Israel as besieged.
Well, the neighborhood bully, he’s just one man
His enemies say he’s on their land
They got him outnumbered about a million to one
He got no place to escape to, no place to run
He’s the neighborhood bully
Others are reminiscent of the 2015 campaign ads
for religious Zionist political party Yisrael Beytenu, in which Education
Minister Naftali Bennett urges Israelis to “stop apologizing.”
Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad
The bombs were meant for him. He was supposed to feel bad
He’s the neighborhood bully
Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad
The bombs were meant for him. He was supposed to feel bad
He’s the neighborhood bully
“Neighborhood Bully” came after Israel’s controversial
1982 Lebanon War, at a time when even Israelis were questioning their
government.
Born Robert Allen Zimmerman and raised Jewish in Wisconsin, Dylan has maintained Israel ties throughout his life. He visited the country several times in the late 1960s and 1970s and even took steps toward joining a kibbutz. He played three shows in Israel in 1987, 1993 and 2011. The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement pressed him to cancel his most recent performance — to no avail.
Even more recently, Israelis can thank Dylan for the 2014 Rolling Stones concert in Tel Aviv, the band’s first visit to the country. According to Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, Dylan gave them the idea.
“He was coming off stage and said, ‘We’re going to Tel Aviv,’” Wood told Israel’s Channel 2 at the time. “He had a big smile on his face and said he loved it there.”
Born Robert Allen Zimmerman and raised Jewish in Wisconsin, Dylan has maintained Israel ties throughout his life. He visited the country several times in the late 1960s and 1970s and even took steps toward joining a kibbutz. He played three shows in Israel in 1987, 1993 and 2011. The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement pressed him to cancel his most recent performance — to no avail.
Even more recently, Israelis can thank Dylan for the 2014 Rolling Stones concert in Tel Aviv, the band’s first visit to the country. According to Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, Dylan gave them the idea.
“He was coming off stage and said, ‘We’re going to Tel Aviv,’” Wood told Israel’s Channel 2 at the time. “He had a big smile on his face and said he loved it there.”
Saturday, December 3, 2016
T.E. Lawrence wanted to see Jewish colonies – 'bright spots in a desert' – in the Holy Land
The British officer Lawrence--a pan-Arabist nationalist and a Zionist--played a key role in the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire army in the Middle East war theater. Lawrence wrote in 1909 about the then Ottomann-controlled Palestine: “The sooner the Jews farm it the better: their colonies are bright spots in a desert.”
In a rarely noted 1920 article titled “The Changing East,” Lawrence wrote of the Jewish biblical connection to Israel. For Lawrence, “the Jewish experiment” to create a homeland was “a conscious effort, on the part of the least European people in Europe, to make head against the drift of the ages, and return once more to the Orient from which they came.”
T.E. Lawrence, the British
military officer whose famous liaison role in the Middle East in the First
World War earned him the nickname "Lawrence of Arabia," was one of
the early Gentile visionaries to realize the importance the newly reborn Nation
of Israel had to play in the region.
On November 28, 1918, a year after the Balfour Declaration, Lawrence wrote to the British newspaper "The Jewish Guardian," cited in Martin Gilbert's "Churchill and the Jews," that “Speaking entirely as a non-Jew, I look on the Jews as the natural importers of Western leaven so necessary for countries of the Near East.”Lawrence, who despite being born out of wedlock, had parents who were devout Christians – members of the St. Aldate’s Church, which preached an evangelical type of Christianity. He studied the Holy Land in Sunday school, starting him out on the path to a long love for the Middle East and its history - and later, helping determine its future.
An expert on Crusader castles already in university, Lawrence took his knowledge to the Middle East, working in archeology and a map surveying, learning the local languages and customs in the years just prior to the Great War breaking out.
Returning to in the region during the war, Lawrence made well-known his desire for the Arab population to gain independence, but he also made clear that Zionist dreams were meant to flourish as well.
"His relationship to the Zionist movement was a very positive one, in spite of the fact that he was strongly pro-Arab and he has been mistakenly represented as anti-Zionist," wrote Zionist leader and Israel's first president, Chaim Weizmann, in his autobiography "Trial and Error."
Lawrence had interpreted a meeting between Weizmann and Prince Faisal, where Weizmann told the Arab emir that a future Jewish state would not encroach on the "ownership rights of Arab peasantry.”
Gilbert, Winston Churchill's biographer, wrote that Lawrence's presence at the Cairo Conference in 1921, which would decide on the future of the Middle East was of "inestimable benefit to [British Colonial Secretary Winston] Churchill in his desire to help establish a Jewish National Home in Palestine."
But the real desire to see the Jewish People succeed may have gone back to his days of learning the about the Kingdom of Israel in Sunday school.
"It is a conscious effort, on the part of the least European people in Europe, to make head against the drift of the ages, and return once more to the Orient from which they came," Lawrence wrote in a 1920 article called "The Great East."
“The colonists will take back with them to the land which they occupied for some centuries before the Christian era samples of all the knowledge and technique of Europe."
But the Jewish Nation would not just be returning home, they would be returning the Holy Land – a wasteland for almost 2,000 years – to its glory days.
"Palestine was a decent country then, and could so easily be made so again," he wrote in a letter during his early years in the region, cited in "The Letters of T.E. Lawrence," edited by David Garnett
"The sooner the Jews farm it all the better: Their colonies are bright spots in a desert.”
On November 28, 1918, a year after the Balfour Declaration, Lawrence wrote to the British newspaper "The Jewish Guardian," cited in Martin Gilbert's "Churchill and the Jews," that “Speaking entirely as a non-Jew, I look on the Jews as the natural importers of Western leaven so necessary for countries of the Near East.”Lawrence, who despite being born out of wedlock, had parents who were devout Christians – members of the St. Aldate’s Church, which preached an evangelical type of Christianity. He studied the Holy Land in Sunday school, starting him out on the path to a long love for the Middle East and its history - and later, helping determine its future.
An expert on Crusader castles already in university, Lawrence took his knowledge to the Middle East, working in archeology and a map surveying, learning the local languages and customs in the years just prior to the Great War breaking out.
Returning to in the region during the war, Lawrence made well-known his desire for the Arab population to gain independence, but he also made clear that Zionist dreams were meant to flourish as well.
"His relationship to the Zionist movement was a very positive one, in spite of the fact that he was strongly pro-Arab and he has been mistakenly represented as anti-Zionist," wrote Zionist leader and Israel's first president, Chaim Weizmann, in his autobiography "Trial and Error."
Lawrence had interpreted a meeting between Weizmann and Prince Faisal, where Weizmann told the Arab emir that a future Jewish state would not encroach on the "ownership rights of Arab peasantry.”
Gilbert, Winston Churchill's biographer, wrote that Lawrence's presence at the Cairo Conference in 1921, which would decide on the future of the Middle East was of "inestimable benefit to [British Colonial Secretary Winston] Churchill in his desire to help establish a Jewish National Home in Palestine."
But the real desire to see the Jewish People succeed may have gone back to his days of learning the about the Kingdom of Israel in Sunday school.
"It is a conscious effort, on the part of the least European people in Europe, to make head against the drift of the ages, and return once more to the Orient from which they came," Lawrence wrote in a 1920 article called "The Great East."
“The colonists will take back with them to the land which they occupied for some centuries before the Christian era samples of all the knowledge and technique of Europe."
But the Jewish Nation would not just be returning home, they would be returning the Holy Land – a wasteland for almost 2,000 years – to its glory days.
"Palestine was a decent country then, and could so easily be made so again," he wrote in a letter during his early years in the region, cited in "The Letters of T.E. Lawrence," edited by David Garnett
"The sooner the Jews farm it all the better: Their colonies are bright spots in a desert.”
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Wednesday, November 23, 2016
What American Jewry can learn from Emperor Franz Joseph
Michael Freund
is a correspondent and syndicated columnist for The Jerusalem Post
For decades, Jews had put their faith in the institution of the emperor to protect them from the popular hatred.This week marks the centennial of the passing of a towering figure, a man still hailed as one of the great emancipators in modern European Jewish history: Emperor Franz Joseph of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. And while his policies were characterized by remarkable benevolence toward the Jews, the Habsburg sovereign’s reign and its aftermath also serve as a cautionary tale for Diaspora Jewry, especially our brethren in America.Taking the throne in December 1848, Franz Joseph was in power for nearly 68 years, making him one of the longest-ruling monarchs in Europe’s history. Almost from the start, he implemented bold changes that had a transformative effect on the Jews of his realm, adopting a constitution in March 1849 which stated that “civic and political rights” were “not dependent on religion.” Three years later, Franz Joseph granted Viennese Jewry the right to form an official and organized community, which grew steadily when imperial restrictions on freedom of movement were later lifted.Dozens of synagogues were built throughout Vienna, and heartfelt Hebrew prayers were written in Franz Joseph’s honor.On January 12, 1860, the emperor issued an edict which permitted Jews to own land and engage in any profession they chose, and by 1867, he had lifted all remaining curbs on full Jewish participation in public life.The subsequent decades came to be known as the “Golden Age” of Viennese Jewry, when Jews went on to scale the heights of literature, art and culture, making an indelible imprint on Austria and Europe as a whole.They produced men such as Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, and Gustav Mahler, the famed composer.In his masterful 696 page tome, The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph, historian Robert S. Wistrich notes that the result was the creation of a secular Jewish intelligentsia which “changed the face of Vienna and, indeed, of the modern world. They helped transform a city which had not been in the forefront of European intellectual or artistic activity (except in music) into an experimental laboratory for the creative triumphs and traumas of the modern world.”In 1869, Franz Joseph paid a visit to Jerusalem, and went out of his way to meet with local Jews and their leaders. A well-known story relates that during his stay, he saw that the large and imposing Tiferet Israel Synagogue stood without a roof. When he asked his interlocutors why that was the case, Rabbi Nisan Bak, a student of Hassidic master Rabbi Israel of Rizhin, who was overseeing the project, wryly replied, “Your majesty, the synagogue has doffed its hat to you.” Franz Joseph knew a good fundraising plea when he heard one, so he graciously replied, “How much will it cost me to have the synagogue replace its hat?” before donating the funds needed to complete the structure.It is no wonder that many Jews in the empire referred to him affectionately by the Yiddish name “Ephraim Yossele.”On a number of occasions, Franz Joseph denounced antisemitism, which was widespread in Austria. In 1882, the emperor told the ministers in his cabinet that “I will tolerate no Jew-baiting in my empire.”Synagogues are said to have held annual services on his birthday, and one legend even claimed that Elijah the Prophet had blessed him to have a long life.But with all that freedom at their fingertips, many Austrian Jews could not resist the pull of assimilation and intermarriage. The writer Stefan Zweig, a fierce critic of Theodor Herzl, typified this sentiment when he wrote, “Why should we go to Palestine? Our language is German, not Hebrew, and beautiful Austria is our homeland. Are we not well off under the good emperor Franz Joseph?” Indeed, the Jews were well off, but as history has repeatedly shown, Jewish existence in the Diaspora is fragile and ephemeral.And so, when the emperor left this world on November 21, 1916, Austrian Jewry found itself at a crossroads.For decades, Jews had put their faith in the institution of the emperor to protect them from the popular hatred that enveloped them on a societal level. They had become, or so they thought, part and parcel of Austria.They had every reason to believe that they had become so thoroughly ingrained in every strata of Austrian life that no ill could possibly befall them.And yet, barely two decades later, Austria’s thriving Jewish presence would prove to be little more than a castle built on sand, one that would tragically topple once the winds of hatred shifted violently in the Jews’ direction.Many of Austria’s Jews idealized the Diaspora, holding it up as the model for Jewish progress and survival, confident that discrimination was largely a thing of the past.Like many American Jews today, they believed that they had entered a new phase in Jewish history, one where Jews could at last find long-term peace and prosperity while living at the mercy of others.And like Jews in the US, they made enormous social, political and economic progress, but at the price of religious and spiritual retreat.Of course, it would be rash and perhaps even reckless to take the analogy any further. But on the 100th anniversary of the death of Emperor Franz Joseph, and as Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, it is nonetheless worth remembering that however strong and powerful American Jewry might be, Jewish life in the Diaspora has always been precarious. And it is never permanent.
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Sunday, September 25, 2016
Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Former British MP George Galloway: Zionism Is the Other Side of the Coin of Antisemitism;
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/5554.htm
Saturday, April 9, 2016
Jewish pirates of the Caribbean
...THE MOST famous of the Caribbean’s Jewish pirates, or privateers, was Moses Cohen Henriques. His name is of Portuguese origin. Like many of his contemporary buccaneers, Henriques’s life is shrouded in mystery. Together with Dutch folk hero Admiral Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Henriques captured a Spanish treasure fleet off Cuba’s Bay of Matanzas in 1628. The booty of gold and silver bullion amounted to a staggering 11,509,524 guilders, worth around US$1 billion in today’s currency. It was the Dutch West Indies Company’s greatest heist in the Caribbean.Another notable – if poorly documented – Jewish pirate was Yaakov Koriel, who commanded three pirate ships in the Caribbean. Upon repenting, he retired to Safed where he studied mysticism under the famous kabbalist Rabbi Isaac Luria (known as the holy Ari). Koriel is buried near the Ari’s grave in the Upper Galilee town’s Old Cemetery. Similarly a pirate named David Abrabanel, evidently from the same family as the famous Spanish rabbinic dynasty (which included Don Isaac Abrabanel who fled Spain in 1492 after unsuccessfully trying to bribe Ferdinand and Isabella to rescind their catastrophic expulsion decree), joined British privateers after his family was butchered off the South American coast. He used the nom de guerre “Captain Davis” and commanded his own pirate vessel named Jerusalem.
Henriques, Koriel and Abrabanel spoke Ladino, and knew the sting of the anti-Semitic slur marrano, meaning pig. The most infamous American Jewish freebooter spoke French, and knew the insult of maudit juif (damned Jew).
A US national park in Louisiana proudly bears the name of Jean Lafitte of New Orleans. According to the aforementioned author Edward Kritzler, the kosher swashbuckler was the inspiration for Johnny Depp in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.According to retired political science professor Edward Bernard Glick (“Lafitte’s Jewish origins,” The Jerusalem Post, July 14, 2006) “[Lafitte] was a Sephardi Jew, as was his first wife, who was born in the Danish Virgin Islands. In his prime, Lafitte ran not just one pirate sloop but a whole fleet of them simultaneously. He even bought a blacksmith shop in New Orleans, which he used as a front for fencing pirate loot. And he was one of the few buccaneers who didn’t die in battle, in prison or on the gallows.”...
http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Jewish-pirates-of-the-Caribbean-447397
& wiki
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Israelis in germany, how many
complaint with the Press
Council in late 2014 against SZ because of the article.
Schmitz’s claim that
tens of thousands of Israelis sought refuge in Germany
contradicted by Germany
reported a total of
11,655 Israelis living in Germany
citizens lived in the Federal Republic
.
Saturday, January 16, 2016
Rainer Höss, the grandson of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss, is active in Holocaust education
Grandson of infamous Nazi spends lifetime making amends for namesake's atrocities
Rainer Höss, the grandson of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss, is active in Holocaust education and preaches tolerance.
THE HÖSS family (from left to right) Ingebrigitt; Klaus; Rudolf’s wife Hedwig, holding Annegret; Rudolf Hoess, Hans- Rudolf (Rainer’s father); and Heidetraut.
http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/The-sins-of-the-grandfather-437607
Rainer Höss, the grandson of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss, is active in Holocaust education and preaches tolerance.
Rainer Höss
THE HÖSS family (from left to right) Ingebrigitt; Klaus; Rudolf’s wife Hedwig, holding Annegret; Rudolf Hoess, Hans- Rudolf (Rainer’s father); and Heidetraut.
http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/The-sins-of-the-grandfather-437607
Thursday, December 24, 2015
IDF Christian recruits on rise as soldiers gather for Christmas party
Father Naddaf of Nazareth gathers with soldiers to celebrate ahead of the holiday.
Father Gabriel Naddaf of Nazareth recently gathered some of these Israeli Christian soldiers for a Christmas party at an IDF base in northern Israel, delivering treats and thanking them for their service to Israel. Father Gabriel Naddaf of Nazareth recently gathered some of these Israeli Christian soldiers for a Christmas party at an IDF base in northern Israel, delivering treats and thanking them for their service to Israel. Naddaf's Israeli Christians Recruitment Forum, with support from the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, seeks to increase the number of Christian Arabs enlisting in the IDF.According to figures provided by the IFCJ, the number of Christians drafted into the IDF has steadily increased from just 40 in 2012 to more than 100 in 2014 and in March of 2015 alone, 102 Christian Arabs were inducted into the army, through the Israeli Christians Recruitment Forum. “I believe Israel's Christian community should integrate more into mainstream Israeli society,” Naddaf recently said. “Why do the Druse serve? Why do the Beduin serve? But not the Christians? It's because they're scared. This has to change. It's time to say in a loud and clear voice: Enough," he added. At a recent Jerusalem ceremony, Naddaf, who prefers to call Arab Christians Israeli Christians, thanked “Christian donors around the world” for supporting him through IFCJ. IFCJ's founder and president, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, told Naddaf at the ceremony: “You're at the forefront of a just cause. Trust, equality and mutual assistance between citizens is crucial for the continued existence of a just and strong Israeli society.”IFCJ estimates that there are an estimated 165,000 Arab Christians in Israel.
In historic first, Israel to award academic prizes to 40 IDF Christian veterans
Monday, December 21, 2015
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Study shows Arab caregivers lead in compassion, humanity
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Study-shows-Arab-caregivers-lead-in-compassion-humanity-436741
The difference is so significant, the researchers said, that it would be worthwhile for the Arab caregivers to train others to make their own care more humane.
Arab caregivers treat elderly people with dementia in the most humane and compassionate way – more than native Israelis and Russian- born Jewish immigrants, according to a study by researchers at Bar-Ilan University’s Galilee Medical Faculty and Poriya Hospital near Tiberias.The difference is so significant, the researchers said, that it would be worthwhile for the Arab caregivers to train others to make their own care more humane.Poriya’s Dr. Amitai Oberman and Bar-Ilan’s Dr. Miri Bentwich and Dr. Naomi Dickman, interviewed 20 caregivers with the three different backgrounds and analyzed questionnaires on autonomy of patients and human dignity that were answered by 200 people who give care to those with dementia in geriatric institutions belonging to each sector.All of them live and work in the Galilee.The difference is so significant, the researchers said, that it would be worthwhile for the Arab caregivers to train others to make their own care more humane.Poriya’s Dr. Amitai Oberman and Bar-Ilan’s Dr. Miri Bentwich and Dr. Naomi Dickman, interviewed 20 caregivers with the three different backgrounds and analyzed questionnaires on autonomy of patients and human dignity that were answered by 200 people who give care to those with dementia in geriatric institutions belonging to each sector.All of them live and work in the Galilee.The caregivers from the groups were presented with theoretical cases much like those they encounter at their workplaces. They were asked how they would react in routine situations. The Arab caregivers – whether female or male – were found to give better treatment to those who have Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia than the other group. This is apparently due to different cultural concepts, including respect for the elderly. This was followed by questionnaires about honoring privacy, religious beliefs and ceremonies and giving explanations, encouraging independence of patients, consideration for families, effective communication and giving time to the individual.Treatment by Arabs was most humane, followed quite closely by native Israelis and, far behind, by Russian immigrants.
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Yad Vashem honors American GI who told Nazis 'We are all Jews'
Captured by the Germans during the battle of the bulge, Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds instructed all of the soldiers in the camp to show up alongside their Jewish comrades.
http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Yad-Vashem-honors-American-GI-who-told-Nazis-We-are-all-Jews-436103
An American non-commissioned officer who defied the Nazis
while in captivity by refusing to identify Jewish POWs was posthumously honored
with the title of Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem on Wednesday. (02.nov.2015)
The title, granted after extensive research and corroboration, is intended to honor those who risked their own lives to rescue Jews during the Holocaust.
Captured by the Germans during theBattle of the
Bulge, Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds of the US 422nd Infantry Regiment was the
senior officer in the American section of the Stalag IXA prisoner of war camp.
When Nazi guards demanded all Jewish prisoners report the following morning, in a move reminiscent of the movie Spartacus,Edmonds instructed all soldier inmates in the
camp to show up alongside their Jewish comrades.
When camp commandant Major Siegmann saw the entire American contingent standing and identifying as Jews he exclaimed, “they cannot all be Jews,” andEdmonds replied, “we are
all Jews.”
Siegmann then drew his pistol onEdmonds ,
who coolly responded that “according to the Geneva Convention, we only have to
give our name, rank and serial number. If you shoot me, you will have to shoot
all of us, and after the war you will be tried for war crimes.”
Outfaced byEdmonds ,
the commandant turned and walked away.
The title, granted after extensive research and corroboration, is intended to honor those who risked their own lives to rescue Jews during the Holocaust.
Captured by the Germans during the
When Nazi guards demanded all Jewish prisoners report the following morning, in a move reminiscent of the movie Spartacus,
When camp commandant Major Siegmann saw the entire American contingent standing and identifying as Jews he exclaimed, “they cannot all be Jews,” and
Siegmann then drew his pistol on
Outfaced by
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