US State Dept. Lurking at The Muqata

One of the nice features of the "site meter" at the bottom of this blog is the ability to see where our viewers hail from on planet Earth. While I don't generate as much traffic as fellow bloggers The G-dolHador, Dovbear, OrthoMom and Joe Settler, someone at the US State Department has started regularly viewing this blog.

I'm not a big fan of the US State Department policy, which forces its opinions and policies on the US Executive and defines Foreign Policy in a way not consistent with the US Legislature. Its pro-Arabist stance can be seen in policies ranging from refusal to allow the Executive branch to implement Legislature approved policy of moving the US embassy to Jerusalem, or even writing the country "Israel" next to the word "Jerusalem" on the Birth Certificate of Foreign Born Americans, who were born in Jerusalem. They were born on planet Jerusalem -- with no country, because of US State Department policy. The US Congress overwhelmingly supports Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, yet the State Department has its own agenda.

I don't blame the current and previous Secretaries of State - for the most part, I believe that Rice and Powell were truly revolted by having to deal with the Palestinian Terrorist Organizations, Palestinian Authority, and their henchman. They probably revile in the handshakes of Muhamad Dahlan, the current "PA Minister of the Interior", who masterminded the RPG attack on the Gush Katif school bus, in which 2 people were killed, and the Cohen children lost their legs.

However, for the US State Dept. to bend over backwards to protect the PA is abhorrent. Just 2 weeks ago, an America family from Israel, who's children were murdered by PA terrorists, won a court order freezing all PA assets in the United States. However, you can be sure the US State Dept. will ensure they never collect a dime.

Just yesterday Palestinian mobs thronged into Gush Katif, and in a orgy of jihad induced anti-semitism, they burned each and every synagogue. Arutz Sheva reported as follows:

During the midnight hours, mobs began swarming onto several formerly-Jewish areas even before the last Israeli soldiers had left. This, despite the fact that PA officials had said they would attempt to prevent entry of Arabs to the newly-abandoned areas, and declare them "closed military zones."

They mobs poured into N'vei Dekalim, Morag, Kfar Darom and Netzarim, setting out for the synagogues and trying to burn them down. The buildings are mainly concrete and therefore did not catch fire, but black smoke continues to darken the skies above the former Jewish towns. The IDF had hung orange signs on the 21 synagogues in Gush Katif, declaring them a "holy place."

The United States, which takes credit for disseminating the concepts of freedom of religion and respect for religious sites, condemned Israel for its decision not to destroy Jewish places of worship in Gaza.

"The decision places the Palestinian Authority in a no-win situation," said a State Department spokesman.

What exactly is the no-win situation? While the United States is based upon the pillars of religious freedom, why does the State Dept. believe that Palestinians do not need to be held to the same moral standard? In fact, even if the Palestinians were burning churches, the State Dept. would probably have raised the same comment.

US State Department policy is an embarrassment to morality, the Constitution, and American Democracy.

The US State Department blog lurkers are free to comment; unlike the Palestinians they pander to, I won't delete their comments or threaten their freedom of religion, free speech, or their pursuit of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Night of the Burning Shuls - Take 2.

Nazis Burning Synagogue in Memel on Kristallnacht -- 1938


Palestinians Burning Synagogue in Netzarim -- Sept 11, 2005

The Sharon family, in its haste to make Gaza Judenrein for PM Arik's visit to the UN this week, decided to only partially listen to what all religious Jews have been saying. They demanded that Israel not destroy the shuls. They also demanded that Israel find a third party to secure the shuls so that the Palestinian animals wouldn't do what they are doing this evening. But Sharon doesn't care - he wanted to leave Gaza as quickly as possible; shuls destroyed or not, its not his problem (nor does he honestly care).

Please note - just prior to leaving, the IDF affixed clearly marked signs to each shul in Arabic and English, so that there would be no confusion that these were holy places.



As the Palestinian vermin burn the shuls, I'm still content that we did not destroy the shuls ourselves. For when Jews destroy shuls, it only lowers the bar for future (G-d forbid) anti-religious acts on behalf of the Sharon family. This isn't the first time the Palestinians have rabidly destroyed Jewish buildings. In fact, Arabs have a rich history over the past 100 years of anti-Semitic fervor rivaled only by the Nazi's themselves. A few good examples are the horrible pogroms in Eretz Yisrael in 1929 and 1936. The destruction of the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem from 1948 to 1967, and the use of Jewish tombstones from the Har HaZeitim cemetery to pave roads. Just a few years ago, in Shechem, the Palestinians rampaged against the yeshiva at Kever Yosef, the tomb of Joseph, burning it to the ground, and turning it into a garbage dump. Yet, there are so many deluded souls that think we have a future of peace with these animals.

Sad...So sad...That these messianic religious fanatical leftists put their entire belief in the good will of such a bloodthirsty gang of butchers.

What does the US State Department have to say about this? More on that later...

The Etrog - Ariel Sharon

Prior to the Disengagement, the most protected political person from the scales of justice was Ariel Sharon. The Israeli media refused to criticze him, investigate his corruption, for fear of preventing the Disengagment, and the expulsion of Jews from Gaza and the Northern Shomron. The media even gave him a new name -- The Etrog. The same way an Etrog is lovingly protected before and during sukkot, so was Ariel Sharon protected and lovingly admired by the Media (and all justice).

Here's a wonderful example from today's Jerusalem Post (hat-tip to Robert from Beer Sheva)

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1126232461144

"In 2003, the Israeli Justice Ministry sent an official request to Austria asking for assistance. The request was rejected by an Austrian court for not detailing the bribery suspicions but only Sharon's alleged campaign finance violations, which do not constitute a crime in Austria. According to Austrian Justice Ministry Spokesman Christoph Pochinger, Israel astonishingly never made a second more-detailed request."

"Ashtonishingly"...only for naive Austrians perhaps...

The Sword Upon our Neck

In the final hours before the Israeli Government decides the fate of the shuls and yeshivot (Sunday Morning), I'm masochistically reminded of the gemara in Shabbat that discusses the melacha of "סותר על מנת לבנות" -- that you are only guilty of the primary melacha of destroying on shabbat, if the reason behind the destruction is rebuilding. Since the total destruction of the shuls in Gush Katif by the Israeli government is not for the intent of rebuilding, but rather for total that of destruction, eradication and decimation -- they could blow up the shuls on shabbat without being guilty of this melacha.

Picture of Shul in Neve Dekalim after all residents expelled 3 weeks ago.



Picture of Shul in Neve Dekalim this week.



I pray that Israel doesn't destroy the shuls in Gush Katif. After all, even when the Greeks and Romans were charging into Jerusalem, the JEWS didn't destroy the Batei HaMikdash. We didn't say, "better us than them". Yet there are so many confused Jews who don't understand this simple message. I guess 2000 years of Galut is enough to mess up any nation, and infuse many foreign ideals into their way of thinking.

Sharon and Shaul - The Tragic Kings

כד וַיֹּאמֶר שָׁאוּל אֶל-שְׁמוּאֵל חָטָאתִי, כִּי-עָבַרְתִּי אֶת-פִּי-יְהוָה וְאֶת-דְּבָרֶיךָ: כִּי יָרֵאתִי אֶת-הָעָם, וָאֶשְׁמַע בְּקוֹלָם.

כה וְעַתָּה, שָׂא נָא אֶת-חַטָּאתִי; וְשׁוּב עִמִּי, וְאֶשְׁתַּחֲוֶה לַיהוָה.

כו וַיֹּאמֶר שְׁמוּאֵל אֶל-שָׁאוּל, לֹא אָשׁוּב עִמָּךְ: כִּי מָאַסְתָּה, אֶת-דְּבַר יְהוָה, וַיִּמְאָסְךָ יְהוָה, מִהְיוֹת מֶלֶךְ עַל-יִשְׂרָאֵל.

כז וַיִּסֹּב שְׁמוּאֵל, לָלֶכֶת; וַיַּחֲזֵק בִּכְנַף-מְעִילוֹ, וַיִּקָּרַע.

כח וַיֹּאמֶר אֵלָיו, שְׁמוּאֵל, קָרַע יְהוָה אֶת-מַמְלְכוּת יִשְׂרָאֵל מֵעָלֶיךָ, הַיּוֹם; וּנְתָנָהּ, לְרֵעֲךָ הַטּוֹב מִמֶּךָּ.

כט וְגַם נֵצַח יִשְׂרָאֵל, לֹא יְשַׁקֵּר וְלֹא יִנָּחֵם: כִּי לֹא אָדָם הוּא, לְהִנָּחֵם.

ל וַיֹּאמֶר חָטָאתִי--עַתָּה כַּבְּדֵנִי נָא נֶגֶד זִקְנֵי-עַמִּי, וְנֶגֶד יִשְׂרָאֵל; וְשׁוּב עִמִּי, וְהִשְׁתַּחֲוֵיתִי לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ.

לא וַיָּשָׁב שְׁמוּאֵל, אַחֲרֵי שָׁאוּל; וַיִּשְׁתַּחוּ שָׁאוּל, לַיהוָה.

The big differences are that Sharon has said time and time again that he doesn't need to apologize to anyone, nor does he see the error of his ways, nor does he acknowledge that his kingship is not כוחי ועוצם ידי עשה לי את החיל הזה

Sharon and his family will forever be remembered by Jewish History for the מעשה חורבן they wrought upon Israel.

For the Utter and Complete Destruction of all Jewish Life in Gush Katif:

לא נשכח ולא נסלח -- ואין יום כיפור מכפר

Destroying the Gaza Synagogues: Deconstructing Zionism.

While the world worries about the US Katrina Calamity, far away from the limelight, a heated battle is going on in Israel concerning the destruction of the 22 shuls and yeshivot that remain in the Gaza strip. The government's intention was to blow them up and leave 154 public buildings standing for the use of the Palestinians. Yet, for the meantime, the Israeli Supreme Court is annoying the hell out of Sharon's plan. After multiple petitions to the Court from different Rabbis, the court has issued an injunction preventing the government and IDF from destroying the shuls.

The court has requested from the government to examine the possibility of the buildings being guarded by the PA, or by a third party. The government asked the PA, who flatly turned down the offer, saying they could not guarantee the safety of the buildings, and were worried that PA ransacking of the shuls would give Israel the excuse to destroy mosques in Israel.

The big questions are as follows:

Why is the Israeli government so concerned about the fate of these shuls? Does anyone honestly believe that this government is so worried about the fate of the physical structure of these buildings?

Are they worried it will look bad for these shuls to be destroyed by their peace partners?

Even more interesting is the fury of the Left at the very notion of keeping these shuls standing.

They say that rightwing, messianic rabbis want to show the world (at the expense of the shuls) the evil of the Palestinians.

The answer is very simple, yet no one wants to come out and write it. (so here it is).

The Israeli Government and the Left want every shred of evidence of Jewish life removed from Gaza to prevent anyone from imagining that a return to Gaza will be possible. They want every last bastion of religion that could possibly connect Judaism to Eretz Yisrael to be removed.

Kill the Dream of Return.

This is the real reason they are terrified of leaving the shuls behind. Even if they were boarded up, and guarded 24x7, the government does not want anything to remain.

Before I forget, the British have a WWI cemetary in Gaza which even has Jewish British soldiers buried there. Its gaurded, yet not destroyed. Maybe it is possible to leave shuls and cemetaries in Gaza? Of course its possible, but Israel wants all Jews out, alive or dead, including the shuls.





Yet, the day will come, when we will return and rebuild. Maybe not me, but my children, or their children will rebuild the Jewish communities of Gaza.

Hashavat Aveida - LOST IN NEVE DEKALIM.

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE TO ALL LISTS -- LOST IN NEVE DEKALIM!!!

Suitcase in which were 2 pair of Tefillin "Rashi" and 2 pair of Tefillin "Rabeinu Tam".

Each set of Tefillin was in a separate small black (or navy) velvet bag, and all were in one larger bag, one side of which was material, the other clear plastic, with a long carrying strap.

The name appearing on the Tefillin bag was (in hebrew letters): שמואל יצחק אלבוקרק

In addition, there was a U.S. passport and airline ticket for: Shmuel Y. Albukerk.

Anyone knowing or hearing of said bag or contents please contact: 050-632-4428, and may Hashem reward your efforts.

Tizku L'Mitzvot

Urgent Last Call to help Rescue Gush Katif Greenhouses

This coming Wednesday (Sept 7.) is the last day Gush Katif will be open for any civilian volunteers to help dissassemble the remaining Jewish owned greenhouses in what remains of Gush Katif. If you are able-bodied to do physical labor (in the sun) and help with this tremendous mitzva, please call (in Israel) 02-652-2582 or Ditza at 052-521-9389.

The importance of this task is two-fold:

1. Help rescue the parnasa/welfare/economic livelihood of Gush Katif farmers. The amounts of financial compensation from the Israel government is not nearly enough for most farmers to restart their lives. Helping take apart (and reconstruct in Israel) these greenhouses, and shipping the remaining produce will be a huge financial boost for these farmers.

2. Anything leftover will be given to the Palestinians. The same evil Palestinian terrorists who proved to the world that "crime pays", do not deserve anything leftover from the Gush Katif expulsion, let alone greenhouses and produce of the Jews they tried so hard to murder.

Tizku L'Mitzvot!

Gush Katif - Destroyed.

Math Lesson for Israeli schoolchildren: If it took the Sharon Family 1 week to expell 8000 Jews from Gaza, and one day for the US to evacuate 1,000,000 civilians from New Orleans, then how long will it take the USA & the Sharon Family combined to totally evacuate the entire State of Israel?