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Rav Shalom Arush: Ma Shehaya, Haya!

Ma shehaya, haya, ha'ikar lehatchil mehatchala...

Abba techadesh oti legamray, tadlik li et haneshama!

Whatever was, was, the important thing is to start anew.

Father, renew me completely, ignite my soul!

If you haven't seen Rav Shalom Arush smile, you don't know what a smile is. Here he is, singing his famous theme song, Ma shehaya, haya!

Italian Tenor Andrea Bocelli: Israel Left a Very Powerful Impression on Me

Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, the best-selling classical musician of all time, said, writing in the Daily Mail on Sunday, that of all the stops in a long career of world tours, Israel was one of his favorites, .

“Places in the world I have especially enjoyed include Israel, which left a very powerful impression on me,” he wrote in the Mail ahead of the release this week of his latest album, “Love In Portofino.”

Last year, he also confessed his love of Israel to the UK Telegraph. “A country that has really resonated with me and I was really impressed with was Israel. I found that the whole country had a very special atmosphere. I was there to perform but it was one of the few places that I’ve visited over the years that I had some free time to explore, and I was hugely impressed by all the religious history there,” he said at the time.

Bocelli visited Israel in 2011 performing at Masada in collaboration with members of the Rishon Lezion Symphonic Orchestra and the opera choir. Prior to that he visited the Jewish state in 2008 as part of a celebration for President Shimon Peres’s birthday.

Bocelli write in the Daily Mail that touring takes up lots of his time. “Unfortunately, when I’m performing, the schedule usually takes me from the hotel to the concert hall and then to the airport. If I made more time when I’m abroad, it would mean spending less time at home with my family. And my family is the most important thing to me,” he said.

“My favorite concert is the one I do every year in the Teatro del Silenzio (Theatre of Silence), an open-air amphitheater situated in Lajatico, my home town. The theater hosts a concert by me once every July and lies silent the rest of the year. I perform here with special guests and it’s a wonderful occasion. Come to Tuscany for its beauty, but come next year and enjoy my music too,” he enthused.

Bocelli, who was born with glaucoma and lost his sight at the age of 12, has won fans across the globe and has sold over 80 million albums worldwide.

Temple Mount Reopened to Jews and Arab Soccer Game Halted (+ Video)

Police confiscate a soccer ball, after Arab children ignore the order to stop playing soccer on the Temple Mount. After the Temple Mount was closed to Jews for almost a week, the Israeli police permitted Jewish access to the holy site on Sunday. The police closed the site after a group of Jews had the audacity to pray ‘Shema Yisrael’ out loud and then pulled out an Israeli flag. Dozens of Jews went up to the Temple Mount on Sunday. In what is an unusual response, after the Jewish visitors complained to the police about the Arabs playing soccer on the Temple Mount, which is both illegal and disrespectful, the police actually confiscated the ball, and stopped the game. At best, the Arabs simply ignore the police, and at worst, the the police simply let the soccer games continue unabated, despite the court order forbidding this disrespect on the Judaism’s holiest site.



Read more at: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/temple-mount-reopened-to-jews-and-arab-soccer-game-halted-video/2013/10/21/

Qatar refuses to show Israeli flag at swimming championships

Israeli swimmer Amit Ivri won the silver in the Swimming World Cup being held in Doha today.

But unlike with her competitors, the graphic that shows the flags of the countries of the swimmers for Ivri was blank:

A glitch, perhaps?

Not quite. Fellow Israeli swimmer Gal Nevo's flag was also blanked out in the computer graphic:

It is unclear who is responsible for the graphics. Israeli MK Yoel Razvozov said he will file a complaint with the Olympic Committee and the head of FINA, the International Swimming Federation.

(h/t Avi  Mayer)


UPDATE: Commenter Bob Knot found the video of the men's 100m medley final, and Gal Nevo's flag is visible in that broadcast at least:

He also found another YouTube member who says that on the broadcast he was watching, they didn't even bother to show the contests that had Israelis in them.

Bentzi Marcus and Dovid Dachs - 'Yedid Nefesh'

Matisyahu Jerusalem Spinner Acoustic Festival of Light 201

THE FORK

ELDER OF ZIYON: Jordanian band defies BDSers, tours Israel

From the Times of Oman:

This week, a Jordanian band went on a tour that included the Golan Heights, Nazareth, Haifa, Ramallah, Bethlehem and Jerusalem. But the popular music group which is rated as one of the top five in the region faced a concerted social media and online attack as having participated in a politically unacceptable act.

The attack focused on the fact that the band members received visas from the Israeli embassy in Amman. They are accused of normalising with the Israelis. Entry into Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, Nazareth or Haifa is not possible without a visa.

The permits issues by the Palestinian Authority in coordination with and after the approval of the Israelis are valid only in West Bank cities like Bethlehem and Ramallah.

The band, Autostrad, identifies itself as "an Ammani world, reggae, funk band from Jordan". Fronted by lead singer Yazan Alrousan, Autostrad was formed in 2007 with guitarist Hamza Arnaout, keyboardist Wisam Qatawneh, bassist Avo Demerjian, saxophonist Bashar Abdelghani and drummer Burhan Ali.

The online and social media campaign was launched by a number of young Jordanians and Palestinians, including some who are citizens of Israel.

In an article published on a number of progressive sites, the writer says the band is welcome to Palestine only after it is liberated. A hashtag with "come after it is liberated" also went viral as attacks against the music group mushroomed.

Autostrad members reject the accusation of normalisation and insist that they are visiting their country upon invitation from credible Palestinian organisations and will sing to Palestinians and Syrians living under Israeli rule.

It's not like Autostrad loves Israel. Quite the contrary:

Arnaout was quoted on a website that getting a visa was the only option available.

"We are Jordanians and Palestinians and this is the only way we have to enter our homeland Palestine and no one can stop us from doing our work."

But this is a big loss for the "Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel" which defined this trip as breaking their rules for normalization.

Even the author of the piece, Daoud Kuttab, criticized PACBI:

After 65 years of Nakbeh and 46 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and Golan Heights, having a group of unelected individuals decide who is a patriot and who is a traitor does not serve the overall cause.

Ray Hanania made a similar point in Saudi Gazette, slamming the haters:

The extremists, who are a minority faction in our Arab community, step in and bully the mainstream Arabs into silence. Arabs are afraid to stand up to the extremists who often direct their hate and anger against Arabs even more than they do against Israel. So the mainstream Arabs remain silent. It’s better to not say anything, the moderates mistakenly conclude, than to stand up to the fanatics.

Hundreds gather at Shlomo Carlebach's Tzion today in Jerusalem on his 19th Yahrzeit, Carlebach died on October 21, 1994 on a plane on the way to Canada

Carlebach is considered by many to be the foremost Jewish religious songwriter of the 20th century. In a career that spanned 40 years, he composed thousands of melodies and recorded more than 25 albums that continue to have widespread popularity and appeal. His influence also continues to this day in "Carlebach minyanim" and Jewish religious gatherings in many cities and remote pristine areas around the globe.

ISRAELYCOOL: Irish Journalist Wears Kippah For A Day In Malmo, Sweden

With antisemitic hate crimes on the rise in Sweden, Patrick Reilly, an Irish journalist living in Malmo, decided to wear a kippah (skullcap) for a day.

Antisemitic hilarity ensued.

An Irish journalist living in Malmo, Patrick Reilly, decided to wear a kippah for the day and see what he experienced.

First he was being stared at, giggled at and finally called “f*cking Jew”. Feeling afraid, different and unwelcome he explained that he was relieved to take the kippah off and return to the social privilege of being a non-Jew.

“When I told [rabbi] Goldberg I intended to wear a kippah for a day he was initially concerned.”

The rabbi warned him, ”Don’t do anything you wouldn’t ordinarily do. Be careful as at times it can be unpleasant.”

“The idea was to go about my normal day and also visit places which a potential tourist may go to, albeit with one major difference – the kippah clipped to the back of my head. My intention was not to take the biggest risk possible by venturing into a suburb like Kroksbäck where a Gambian national was recently assaulted along with his young son and nearly thrown off a bridge in a racially motivated crime. Besides, Kroksbäck along with say Rosengård are not exactly tourist hotspots.

“Well, it didn’t take long before I got the feeling that I was on display as I walked towards Möllevången. Möllan, as it is referred to by locals, is the bohemian quarter of Malmö with a bustling fruit and veg market manned largely by immigrants by day and pubs serving cheap beer by night. I’ve walked down this street countless times in my normal garb, without causing as much as a backwards glance. Now, it was as if I had two heads judging by the number of stares arrowed in my direction. As I passed a well-known bar I spotted some lunchtime coffee drinkers looking open mouthed in my direction. Navigating the fruit and vegetable stalls it was obvious that I was being stared at by shoppers and stall workers. When it came time to make a purchase something strange happened. The stall worker started to giggle and beckoned his boss to come over and witness this transaction. Both were friendly to the point where it was almost too much. Stares I’d expected but good-natured laughter I certainly hadn’t. This was strange.”

Reilly had asked a friend to shadow him in the event that anything got “ugly.”

“Whilst in Möllan,” he explained, “we went to one of the local coffee shops sandwiched between the falafel and ethnic food stores.”

As the two waited for their drinks, Reilly and his friend were “spotted by two men in the corner of the small coffee shop. I could feel their eyes burning into the back of my borrowed shiny white kippah… On several occasions people stopped and looked back at me with a mixture of disbelief and menace. Another woman promptly broke into a fit of giggles like it was the funniest thing she had seen in ages.”

“After a while ,” Reilly explained, “I began to forget I was wearing the kippah until a burly man walked aggressively in my direction and mouthed ‘f*cking Jew’ to his friend. It was a reminder that making your Jewish identity in Malmö obvious carries its own risk. Frankly, it was a relief to take it off.”

Read the entire thing.

None of this is surprising, given Malmo’s history of antisemitism and the mayor’s attitude towards it.

Meanwhile, there’s this comment at the bottom of the article.

Malmö has also mary shaw – October 18th, 2013 at 5:15 pm
This is horrible! I’m sorry that this is happening. I am a Muslim woman and I know how this feels. I was treated much more harshly by the State of Israel though. Trying to go to Jerusalem from Amman I was detained for 8 hours and searched down to my underwear by the Israelis. I am an American as well. What should be learned from this is that we need to confront bigotry in all its forms all over the world.

I think this is almost as instructive as the article itself.

ISRAEL MATZAV: Who makes sacrifices for peace?

ISRAEL MATZAV: Family of Arab honored for saving Jews rejects prize

The family of Mohamed Helmy, an Egyptian doctor who was honored posthumously by Yad VaShem recently for saving Jews during the Holocaust, has turned down the prize, saying that Israel is the one country by which Helmy did not want to be honored. 

The Egyptian doctor Mohamed Helmy was honored posthumously last month by Israel's Holocaust memorial for hiding Jews in Berlin during the Nazis' genocide, but a family member tracked down by The Associated Press this week in Cairo said her relatives wouldn't accept the award, one of Israel's most prestigious.

"If any other country offered to honor Helmy, we would have been happy with it," Mervat Hassan, the wife of Helmy's great-nephew, told The Associated Press during an interview at her home in Cairo this week.

Mohamed Helmy was an Egyptian doctor who lived in Berlin and hid several Jews during the Holocaust. Last month, he was honored by Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial as "Righteous Among the Nations" -- the highest honor given to a non-Jew for risking great personal dangers to rescue Jews from the Nazis' gas chambers.

...

Hassan said the family wasn't interested in the award from Israel because relations between Egypt and Israel remain hostile, despite a peace treaty signed more than three decades ago. But, she cautioned, "I respect Judaism as a religion and I respect Jews. Islam recognizes Judaism as a heavenly religion."

"Helmy was not picking a certain nationality, race or religion to help. He treated patients regardless of who they were," she said. 

Dressed in a veil, the 66-year-old woman from an upscale neighborhood of Cairo was pleased to talk about her husband's great-uncle. She and her husband, who did not want to give his name to the AP, say they visited Helmy regularly in Germany.

But this next paragraph is rich....

Helmy was born in 1901 in Khartoum, in what was then Egypt and is now Sudan, to an Egyptian father and a German mother. He came to Berlin in 1922 to study medicine and worked as a urologist until 1938, when Germany banned him from the public health system because he was not considered Aryan, said Martina Voigt, the German historian, who conducted research on Helmy.

The Arabs loved the Nazis, but at the end of the day, the Nazis had no use for the Arabs. 

ELDER OF ZIYON: Old, rich Saudis "temporarily marry" young Syrian girls in Jordan

An Israeli TV reporter got into the Za'atari Syrian refugee camp in Jordan and discovered that older Saudi men are taking advantage of girls as young as ten years old and their families.



The video shows a female "marriage broker" extolling the beauty of her virgin girls - the men only want virgins, and they want them young.

According to Palestine Press Agency's reporting of the story, for as little as $3000 the Saudis are "marrying" young girls, having their twisted ideas of "fun," and then divorcing the girls.

A 70 year old Saudi man married a 13 year old girl for a week. A ten year old girl complained on camera about marrying a 60 year old Saudi who beat her during their short "marriage."

The Za'atari camp has around 120,000residents, making it the fourth largest city in Jordan. Roughlyhalf the residents are children.

The UNHCR head of the camp readily admits that the camp is filled with organized crime.

UN Watch Briefing Latest from the United Nations: Saudi Human Rights Record Praised in UN Review

PR GONE WRONG? At today's UN review of Saudi Arabia's human rights record, the fundamentalist Wahabi regime deliberately sent women to testify — but with their faces hidden. To share on Facebook, click here.

GENEVA, Oct. 21 - As the UN Human Rights Council scrutinized Saudi Arabia's domestic rights record this morning, a minority of democracies such as Canada, UK, and the Czech Republic raised concerns, while the vast majority of countries lined up to defend and praise one of the world's most repressive theocratic regimes.

TODAY'S UNHRC PRAISE FOR SAUDI ARABIA'S HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD Turkey: "We commend Saudi Arabia for the significant rise of women in civil service” Tunisia: "We commend Saudi Arabia for efforts to adapt its laws with international human rights conventions…" Palestine: "We take notice of Saudi Arabia's efforts to protect and promote human rights..." Somalia: "Saudi Arabia maintains a high priority for protection and promotion of human rights…" Pakistan: Commended "laudable steps taken by Saudi Arabia to promote and protect the rights of children and women..." Nicaragua: "We note Saudi Arabia's progress in rights of the child, trafficking of persons, and legislative change for women's rights..." Mauritania, VP of the UNHRC (and a country that practices slavery): "We commend Saudi Arabia for always seeking to strengthen human rights…We commend Saudi Arabia in terms of the progress on guaranteeing fundamental rights and freedoms, socioeconomic progress, participation of women at all levels and participation in society. We hope to see greater prosperity and progress for Saudi Arabia." Maldives: "We commend Saudi Arabia's improvement on the situation of women." Libya: "Saudi Arabia continues to strengthen human rights and promote them and this deserves our appreciation..." Egypt: "We commend Saudi Arabia's progress to protect and promote human rights, and welcome work done to strengthen role of women..." France: "We commend Saudi Arabia with its progress in the role of women in society..." Denmark: "We commend #SaudiArabia's progress in the promotion of rights for women in recent years…" Cuba: "We commend Saudi Arabia for the implementation of recommendations made in the first cycle. Many areas of positive results: education, health..." China: "We appreciate efforts made to protect the rights of children and to have dialogues of religious tolerance..." Cambodia: "We take note of progress in human employment, education, and social security..." Afghanistan: "We commend Saudia Arabia as they continue to enhance the protection and promotion of human rights..." Vietnam: "Commend Saudi Arabia's efforts in combating human trafficking and discrimination; these are encouraging..." Venezuela: "Enrollment in primary education has reached 96.6%. We congratulate Saudi Arabia..."

Out of the 102 countries taking the floor today, over 80 of them praised Saudi Arabia.

It was another meeting of what has sadly turned into a mutual praise society, with anti-democratic regimes like Communist China heaping praise on fundamentalist Saudi Arabia, in the knowledge that tomorrow morning, when China gets reviewed, the Saudis will return the favor.

Despite widespread recognition of Saudi Arabia's abysmal record on the rights of women, religious freedom, and political liberties, the country is poised to win a seat on the Human Rights Council inelections to be held on November 12th by the UN General Assembly.

UN Watch and a coalition of human rights groups are urging U.S. ambassador Samantha Power and EU foreign minister Catherine Ashton to take the lead in opposing the Saudi bid for a UNHRC seat, the height of hypocrisy. Over the coming weeks, UN Watch will be bringing famous dissidents inside the UN to mobilize opposition to the Saudi and other absurd candidacies.

After Saudi Arabia presented the HRC with a 30-page report its human rights record, the council today held a three-hour "interactive dialogue," with over 100 states making statements and Saudi delegates nominally responding. The exercise is known as the “universal periodic review” (UPR), which examines every UN member state once every four years. Tomorrow is China's turn.

Saudi Arabia is a country whose legal system routinely lashes women rape victims rather than punish the perpetrators; it should not have been praised effusively by members of the UN's top human rights body.

Instead, the world should have used the opportunity to address the Saudi regime's cruel, inhuman and degrading punishments, such as flogging, amputations and eye-gouging. These and other abuses were amply documented in written submissions to the UN by Amnesty International and other NGOs.

No one challenged the Saudi regime on the 53 Christians who were arrested this year by religious police for the crime of praying in a private home, nor did anyone ask the Saudis why homosexuality is a crime punishable by public beheadings.

Saudi Arabian delegates to UN: "We have ratified five human rights instruments and are considering more, due to our commitment to human rights..."

UN Watch commends the small minority of countries who posed some kind of challenge to the Saudis.

Canada slammed Saudi Arabia's violations on child marriage, religious freedom, criminal justice, corporal punishment and the rights of women, calling for an end to the prohibition on women driving.

Ireland called for abolishing the male guardianship system. Germany spoke against child marriages. Britaincriticized Saudi criminal law. The Czech Republic spoke for the freedoms of speech, expression, and association. 

(Riyadh stunned the world on Friday by announcing it would reject the UN Security Council seat it just won -- the first time this has ever happened in history. Experts agreed this was a high-level Saudi rebuke to the Obama Administration over its perceived preference for Geneva talks instead of meaningfully confronting Syria and the nuclear program of its Shiite patron Iran. But with Secretary John Kerry's Paris meeting today with the Saudi foreign minister, the Sunni kingdom may yet change its mind. UN Watch will analyze this bizarre episode in our next briefing.)

Obama's Iranian Red Line

Obama has repeatedly threatened Iran over its developing nuclear weapons. Ahmadinejad doesn't care. His red line is a dotted line.

Aryeh Kunstler rocks the Great Synagogue 2013

ISRAELYCOOL: Google Search: Jews Should…

In the hours BC (before coffee), that is, while I’m bleary-eyed and imbibing my two allotted cups of the day, it is my wont to go through a minimum of 12 hours’ worth of my Facebook newsfeed, posting and commenting on items that catch my interest. This morning, a screenshot of a Google search, shared by Elad Nehorai over at PopChassid caught my eye.

(photo credit: Varda Epstein)

As you can see, the words, “Jews should,” were entered into the Google search box and Google obligingly attempted to fill in the rest of the search parameters according to the most popular searches starting with the words, “Jews should.”

We get:

jews should be wiped out

jews should leave Israel

And the ever popular:

jews should get over the holocaust

I’m the skeptical type, so before I went ahead and shared this item, I checked it out on my own. I opened a new tab in my browser, went to Google and repeated Elad’s search.

Bingo. Got exactly the same thing.

So I shared Elad’s screenshot with a comment stating that I had repeated the search with the same results. But a funny thing happened at that point. My friends started sharing their own screenshots and they were not homogeneous.

L. commented, for instance, “Mine said “Jews shouldn’t eat gebrokts” but my Google is Chabad. What can I say,” while M wrote, “Well this is what I got. Jews for J… , Jew’s Harp, Jews in Hollywood and my personal favorite – Jews in Space.”

The various responses got me thinking. It’s not a new idea that Google tailors searches to its users, Google explains it this way:

By personalizing your results based on your search history, we hope to deliver you the most useful, relevant content for your search. Search history personalization is just one of the ways that we show you more personalized search results.

So keeping this in mind, it makes logical sense that when L searches, “Jews should,” she gets something about not eating gebrokts because L is into Chassidus and her Google history would reflect that interest, while M gets funny stuff because his hobby is creating Jewish political cartoons and he appreciates quality comedy.

Then I remembered something. Just before the High Holidays, I talked to my manager atKars4Kids, Robert Moskovits, and he gave me a short lesson in using Google to take the pulse of our nonprofit organization. He gave me a search term and we each did the same search. We got different results.

Then Robert showed me how to use the Google Chrome browser to make a search unadulterated by my personal preferences by using Google’s incognito mode. Once I adjusted for region, we both got the same results using the same search parameters. I thought this was a super cool geek thing to know and I stored it away in my mind for future reference.

Google says this about the incognito browsing mode:

For times when you want to browse in stealth mode, Google Chrome offers the incognito browsing mode. Here’s how the incognito mode works:

• Webpages that you open and files downloaded while you are incognito aren’t recorded in your browsing and download histories.
• All new cookies are deleted after you close all incognito windows that you’ve opened.
• Changes made to your Google Chrome bookmarks and general settings while in incognito mode are always saved.

I decided to open a Chrome incognito window and repeat the “jews should” search there, hoping for a definitive answer as to the most likely worldwide searches starting with these two words. I got this:

jews should go back to poland

jews should all die

jews should be perfected

jews should be denied everything as a nation but granted everything as individuals

jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife

jews should get over the holocaust

jews should be wiped out

jews should leave france

jews should leave Israel

It was incredibly painful to read these results, especially since I realized that these results are representative of world feeling against the Jews as opposed to Google just spitting out what it thinks I want to see. Just to make sure, I asked RealJStreets here at Israellycool to repeat my search using the incognito browsing mode. RealJ opened an incognito session and got an exact duplicate of my results, after adjusting for regional settings.

So there you have it in a nutshell, folks. This is the truth of what the world thinks about the Jews and about Israel: We don’t deserve our own state; we should go back to Eastern Europe and die. We should have offered our necks up to the Nazi butchers. We should stop b****ing about the Holocaust; we should be annihilated; we should leave Israel Judenfrei; and get out of France.

Oh, and that bit about being perfected? We should convert to Christianity because let’s face it, as Jews, we’re fatally flawed.

Moshe Feiglin: The Riddle

R' Shlomo Carlebach ztz'l - Shachris in Leningrad

From the author: "Thanks to Mr. Stuart Wax who organized Reb Shlomo's trip to Russia, we have many hours of high-quality video footage from this tour. If you would like to be part of sponsoring a documentary based on this journey, email us at info@carlebachlegacy.com"

In Leningrad, on this Thursday morning of Sept. 21, 1989, Shlomo arranged for people to be called up to the Torah. People came up with their Russian names, and on the spot, Shlomo would suggest a Jewish name. For some, this was the first time in their lives that they ever heard a Torah reading, and tears rolled down from their eyes. Joel Segal, a San Francisco attorney who joined the tour, exclaimed: “It was amazing… I've never seen such joy and enthusiasm in my entire life.

As the women’s section in the upstairs balcony was crowded, Shlomo asked for the women to come downstairs and sit behind a makeshift mechitza of chairs. Thus you can see the women here at the end of this video coming to kiss the Torah.

At the concert in Leningrad, Reb Shlomo asked the crowd, whom do you think is on this stage? It is not only the band you see here, but all our ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He exhorted his listeners to go out and proudly say hello to everyone on the street. Let all know that we are Jewish. On Motzei Shabbat, September 23, 1989, Shlomo and the band organized an after-midnight Selichot program at the Leningrad Railroad Station.

SHAPIRO BROTHERS (ACHEINU) SING AT WEDDING

Abraham's Farewell to Ishmael, George Segal, 1987

ISRAEL MATZAV: Is this the ultimate lie?

At a 'cultural event' in London, we see what may be the ultimate lie perpetrated by Muslims: They're now claiming to be victims of the Nazis. 

There can be no ambiguity in what the artist is claiming here: Jews, gays, and ... Muslims (dressed in concentration camp outfits) were equal victims of the Nazi holocaust. The myth of Muslim victimhood and 'Islamaphobia' is one that is now constantly pushed not just by the Muslim Brotherhood, but even more so by their useful idiot leftist allies, like the 'guerilla artist' here. To cast Muslims as equal victims when they were actually among the most enthusiastic participants in the Nazi persecution of Jews takes the myth of Muslim victimhood to a whole new level; and  as with most Muslim propaganda it is a perfect inversion of reality.

Hitler was actually inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood's antisemitism and the Palestinian leader Haj Amin al Husseini was a key ally of Hitler who helped set up Hitler's Muslim SS division, who were active in murdering Jews in Eastern Europe.  Hitler promised al Husseini that he would be allowed to carry out the murder of every Jew in Palestine once the Nazis advanced there, and al Husseini had drawn up detailed plans of the execution programme. And, of course, Arab countries such as Iraq were formally allies of Nazi Germany.

Anyway, just to makes sure that nobody can be in any doubt where the 'guerilla artist' Ego Leonard's true sympathies lie he was also exhibiting a print showing that the Arabs - with the ubiquitous large key - have been the true owners of the land of Palestine 'since the time of Jesus' (a good quality image of this print can be seen on the artist's websitehere).

Much more about the real relationship between Muslims and Nazis here(including video) and here. 

ISRAEL MATZAV: Double standards

''All You Got'' by 8th Day - Official Music Video

ALL YOU GOT

after 125 years
you go up to heaven, you climb all those stairs
they won't ask you were you wise like solomon
they won't ask you were you strong like samson
oh no....

they'll ask just one question and you'll give just one answer
it's the end of the game and only one thing matters, they'll say
did you give it all you got

cuz in this life you only have what you got
so give it give it give it all you got
in this world we only have, we only have what we got
so give it give it give it all you got

if you say it's easy i'll say its not you gotta give it a.y.g.
if you say its not for you, i'll say its your lot you gotta give it a.y.g.
if you say you're tired i'll say tick tock you gotta give it a.y.g.
and you could put my album on the shelf to rot, just give it a.y.g.

after working so hard and wiping those tears
you look in the mirror you face all your fears
don't be a fool trying to be wise like solomon
only the weak try to be strong like samson
oh no...

i did what i said i got no one to blame
only one thing matters at the end of the game
they'll say... did you give it all you got..

chorus

no need to put my album on the shelf to rot, just give it all you got

JOSHUA BELL, HIS STRADIVARIUS, AND THE HOLOCAUST!

הכינור שחזר

VERY disturbing pictures of Palestinian life under Israeli 'Occupation'

Why Israel Opposes International Forces in the Jordan Valley

Israel's national ethos is one of self-reliance. International peacekeepers have been proven unreliable in the Middle East in every instance. The Israeli army has been deployed along the steep slopes of the Jordan Valley since 1967, allowing it to thwart terrorist infiltration and deter potential attacks. This critical zone cannot be turned over to international forces with an abysmal track record in Gaza, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt. Israel must defend itself by itself