Another Story of God´s Grace

Three weeks ago, a group of religious Jews came from Bnei Brak to the non-religious kibbutz, Sufa—near the border with Gaza—to harvest wheat for Pesach (Passover). They harvest the wheat every summer when the sun beats down on the fields, thoroughly drying the wheat. The wheat is then stored until the winter when they start the production and baking of matzos.

 

Aharon Samet, owner of the “Samet” factory producing “tzitzis” (fringes), is the Badatz [a religious food-supervision company] community supervisor for the wheat harvest. On a radio program today (July 30th) with Rabbi Moshe Ben Lulu, Samet told the story of a great miracle which occurred for the people of Israel thanks to this year’s wheat harvest.

 

“This year we are getting ready for the Shemitta agricultural sabbatical year, so this summer we harvested wheat grain for two years. We searched the whole country, looking for wheat which was sown late in the season and needed rain which, specifically, fell late. At Kibbutz Sufa, right next to the Gaza border, we found an entire field sown in mid-January, which was considered very unusual, and we found there 2000 acres [sic] of green wheat which was just right for us,“ said Samet.

 

“We harvested the wheat,” said Samet, “and we ran into military police, as well as undercover and regular police, who came to check out who we were.” The Gaza air campaign was already underway, and Samet and his colleagues saw the smoke clouds over Gaza, and heard the sirens while they were busy harvesting and transferring the wheat to trucks and moving them towards the cleaning plant near Masmiya for cleaning the wheat, fumigating and tithing it.

 

Two days later, 13 terrorists from Gaza came out from a tunnel which opened into those fields near Sufa. The terrorists had been planning a big attack, and had been counting on hiding among Sufa’s giant wheat field–which the matzah makers had just chopped down. The terrorists couldn’t understand how their camouflage had disappeared.

 

The empty field enabled military observers to spot and identify the terrorists, and open fire on them. Many Jewish lives were thus saved by the grace of Heaven.

 

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Yes, this is just a story about a ‘coincidence’. But then, Jews know that the word, ‘coincidence’ is just another way of saying, ‘the hand of G-d’.

 

Happy is the nation that recognizes the G-d of Israel.

Obama and the Palestinian Lie

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Obama and The Palestinian Lie

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By David Rubin

8/10/2014, 12:15 AM

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It's quite rare to hear a comment about Israel from US President Barack Obama that I can actually agree with, but that comment was certainly made in yesterday's interview published in the New York Times.
Obama's First Comment:
“It is amazing to see what Israel has become over the last several decades. To have scratched out of rock this incredibly vibrant, incredibly successful, wealthy and powerful country is a testament to the ingenuity, energy and vision of the Jewish people."
--- I agree wholeheartedly. The problem is that his remark was but a flowery prelude to a series of comments, given in response to a question, about pressuring  Israel on the immoral and suicidal (for Israel) "land-for-peace formula".
Obama's Next Comment:
"If he (Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu) doesn’t feel some internal pressure, then it’s hard to see him making some very difficult compromises, such as taking on the settler movement."
--- Ah, yes, we all know about that problematic settler movement, those pesky troublemakers who have the "chutzpah" to insist on their right to live in Israel's historic biblical heartland, and who are always accused of stealing so-called Palestinian land from the Palestinian Arab country that never existed.
Finally, the Obama we have come to expect - pontificating about the rights of the Palestinians:
"You have to recognize that they have legitimate claims, and this is their land and neighborhood as well.”
--- Let's work backwards on this one:
Is this their neighborhood, as well? If we understand neighborhood to mean the Middle East as a whole, then it's true that the individuals who now call themselves "Palestinians" do, in fact, live in this neighborhood.
However - Is this their land and do they have legitimate claims to it? Absolutely not. Most of them came to the Land of Israel in the early part of the 20th century from other parts of the Middle East. They came looking for work in a growing economy that was being created solely by the enterprising, energetic Jewish people that Obama referred to, some of whom had been living here for generations, and many others who had returned, to their formerly sovereign nation in the Land of Israel, soon to be reestablished as an independent nation in 1948.
No, Mr. Obama, while it's true that this land had been renamed "Palestina" by the Roman conquerers, who drove most of the Jews from their sovereign country 2,000 years ago, it was never again a sovereign country for any of the subsequent conquering colonists, nor for anyone, until the Jews finally returned to reestablish Israel.
As my Jerusalem-born father-in-law often reminds me, it is only the Jews of the Land of Israel who even used the term "Palestinians" to describe themselves. Yes, my father-in-law was considered to be a Palestinian Jew before 1948, but the Arabs living in what was then known to the world as Palestine never accepted the moniker "Palestinian Arab", insisting that they were not Palestinians, but were instead an integral part of "the Arab nation". The term "Palestinians" only reached its current usage about twenty years later when the Arabs realized that they needed to create an "underdog" in order to win the propaganda war against Israel, so they invented this new Palestinian people to refer only to Arabs, and usually to Arab Muslims. To further enhance the lie, and to increase their growing international political power, the Arabs nations and their fellow Jew-haters at the United Nations redefined the term to include all of the descendents of these neo-Palestinians, regardless of country of residence.
From there, the rest is history, but the claims of "legitimate rights" for a people that never existed historically, to a state that never existed historically, are absolutely and historically absurd.
Needless to say, the New York Times didn't inform President Obama of those uncomfortable historical facts.

Quote by Isobel Phillips

¨What on earth makes you think Hamas wants peace? They want the elimination of Israel and the extermination of Jews - peace doesn't come into it.¨

Israel Should Learn the Lesson of Hiroshima to End the Gaza Wars

On August 6 1945, an American aircraft, the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
President Harry S. Truman had made the decision that there was no other way to end the 4-year-old war with Japan without incurring hundreds of thousands of American casualties.
The Japanese did not immediately surrender, so a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki three days later. The Japanese capitulated, and surrendered unconditionally.
Former Shin Bet director Avi Dichter says that Israel should learn a lesson from those events of 69 years ago.
Of course, he is not suggesting that Israel follow the American actions exactly, but, as The Times of Israel reports, Dichter wrote on his Facebook page:

“Today, 69 years ago exactly, the American leadership understood that there is no other way to end the bloody war against Japan, but with one action: dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. No, there was no phone call made in advance to the residents of the city warning them about the imminent catastrophe.
“Hamas is not the Japanese army and Israel is not the United States. Nevertheless, we should learn something from the process that the United States and Japan went through during that war… Hamas in the Gaza Strip is dragging its residents to the same depths the Japanese government dragged millions of its citizens.
“Unlike the United States, which fought far away from home, the IDF is fighting Hamas and Jihad terrorism in Gaza, as the fighting can be seen outside the windows of Nahal Oz and Nirim. Our soldiers are fighting for our home as members of their family watch the battle. There is no war as just as our war with Hamas in Gaza these days.
“The ceasefire must yield, aside for quiet, a demilitarization of Gaza from weapons, as was agreed upon by Palestinians in a peace agreement signed in Washington and Cairo.”

Dichter says that anyone expecting Hamas to agree to any form of demilitarization is “delusional.” The only option is for the international community to enforce the process itself.

He continues, “Egypt is the currently the country which has the most effective leverage on Hamas in Gaza, it has a key role in promoting Israeli demands to dismantle the terror infrastructure in Gaza.”
The former head of the Shin Bet adds that all negotiations over the Palestinians’ fate must be conducted with the Palestinian Authority, and that Israel must prepare to provide evidence of Hamas activity within civilian areas.
He concludes, “This cancerous Hamas growth must be taken out, whether by an Egyptian political surgeon or by an Israeli military analyst.”

Hiroshima 1945 – Not Gaza 2014

The issue is not whether Israel actually HAS any nuclear capability, so Dichter’s comments must be viewed metaphorically.
Hamas is at least as fanatical — and at times as suicidal — as was Japan. Rational discourse is not an option. Israel has tried, and failed. As of this writing, some four hours after Hamas broke the last 72-hour truce, Israel’s military response has been limited.
Unquestionably, the majority of Israeli opinion is that there is no long term solution, other than the full demilitarization of Gaza — and the West Bank, for that matter. Events continue to unfold, but Israel is not controlling them.
Perhaps what is unthinkable today may become the only option tomorrow…

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Dutch Pro-ISIS Rally Features 'Death to the Jews' Chants

First known major public display of support for 'Islamic State' group features anti-Semitic chants; two arrested for hate speech.

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By Ari Soffer

First Publish: 8/6/2014, 10:25 AM

Video has emerged showing a chilling rally in Holland, during which dozens of young Muslims flew the black flag of the "Islamic State" group (formerly ISIS) and chanted "Death to the Jews!" in Arabic (maut al Yahud!)
The demonstration appears to be the same incident following which two Arab men were arrested on July 31, on suspicion of "inciting violence against people of a specific belief or race".
Astonishingly, Arabic-speaking police who monitored the event (but did nothing to intervene) initially reported that "the slogans overheard by this officer were not considered as crossing boundaries. Hence no arrest was made."

The rally took place in Holland and appears to be the first such open mass display of support in western Europe for ISIS - which rebranded itself as "the Islamic State" or "Caliphate" following massive territorial conquests in Iraq.
One Dutch MP asked why a pro-ISIS rally was allowed to held in the first place.
"What are these kids doing there in the first place? ISIS is pure barbarism, it is bloodthirsty," Labor MP Ahmed Marcouch asked in an interview with The Daily Beast, noting that ISIS was a danger to the Muslim community as well. "We can’t allow them to win our children away from us."
Anti-Semitism in Europe has risen dramatically in recent weeks, primarily fueled by Muslim extremists who have used Israel's military operation in Gaza as a springboard for unprecedented incitement and violence.
Yesterday, Italian authorities announced the deportation of a Moroccan-born imam who called to "kill the Jews" at an inflammatory sermon in an Italian mosque.
France, Germany, Spain, Belgium and the UK are just some of the other European countries where high-profile anti-Semitic attacks have occurred at the hands of ostensibly "pro-Palestinian" supporters, drawing condemnation from the UN Secretary General.
In eastern Europe, some far-right groups such as Hungary's Jobbik party (which itself has flirted with Islamist groups as part of a "common front" against Israel) have themselves sought to use pro-Gaza sentiment to stoke anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic hatred.

Mastermind Behind Kidnapping of Three Israeli Teens Arrested

Hussam al-Kawasmeh arrested in Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat; 'no doubt' Hamas leadership aware of kidnapping.

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By Ari Soffer

First Publish: 8/5/2014, 9:25 PM / Last Update: 8/5/2014, 11:48 PM

Murdered (L to R): Eyal Yifrah, Gilad Sha'ar, Naftali Frenkel

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Israeli security forces have arrested the leader of the Hamas terror cell which kidnapped and murdered Israeli teenagers Naftali Frenkel, Eyal Yifrah and Gilad Sha'ar.
Hussam Kawasmeh, a resident of Hevron, was arrested in the Arab neighborhood of Shuafat in Jerusalem in a joint operation involving IDF forces and the Shabak (Israel Security Agency), and has admitted under interrogation to having orchestrated the kidnapping and said he received funding from Hamas officials in Gaza. It is not clear precisely when he was detained, but news of the arrest was only released for publication on Tuesday evening.
Kawasmeh was caught in an apartment in Shuafat; he had reportedly shaven his beard off and obtained a forged passport in an attempt to flee the country to Jordan, according to security sources,
He is a close relative of Marwan Kawasmeh (30) who, along with Amar Abu-Eisha (32), is believed to have physically abducted the three teens, murdering them shortly afterwards. Both men are well-known Hamas operatives in the Hevron region, who have both spent time in Israeli prisons.
Marwan is the brother of Abdullah al-Kawasmeh, the former leader of the Hevron branch of Hamas's "military wing", the Ezzadine al-Qassam Brigades. Abdullah was killed in a shootout with elite Israeli counterterrorism police in 2003, who were hunting him for his involvement in several deadly terrorist attacks.
They are still on the run, but an extensive manhunt is still underway and security services say they are "confident" the pair will be caught soon. Their houses were demolished by the army soon after the bodies of the abducted teens were found.
Hussam, however, is believed to have masterminded the kidnapping.

Still at large: Marwan Kawasmeh (L) and Amar Abu-Eisha Israel Security Agency

A fourth suspect, Hussam Dufash, was arrested in Hevron a month ago.
According to Walla! news, Hussam Kawasmeh's brother was among more than 1,000 terrorists freed in the "Shalit Deal", and was subsequently deported to Gaza. Palestinian sources told the outlet that there was "no doubt" that Hamas's leadership - both in Gaza and abroad - were aware in advance of the order to carry out the kidnapping.
Hamas terrorists released in the Shalit deal currently operate under the control of two key figures: former Hamas "interior minister" Fathi Hamad in Gaza, and Salah Al-Arouri, a senior Hamas official based in Turkey. Israeli intelligence services had previously linked Al-Arouri to the kidnap-murder, and his house was demolished by the IDF during Operation Brother's Keeper.
Together, Hamad and Al-Arouri have reportedly coordinated dozens of terrorist attacks in Judea and Samaria.
After going missing on June 12, Eyal Yifrah, 19, and 16-year-old classmates Gilad Sha'ar and Naftali Frenkel, were declared kidnapped the next day.
Suspicion immediately fell on Hamas after intelligence pointed towards the involvement of Kawasmeh and Abu-Eisha, whose names were publicized two weeks later.
An 18-day search for the three teenagers ensued, accompanied by a crackdown on Hamas in Judea and Samaria, but the search ended in tragedy after their bodies were found in field close to the Arab village of Halhul near Hevron. They were buried side-by-side in the city of Modi'in.
The three boys are believed to have been murdered very shortly after being kidnapped; one source close to the murder investigation said a recording of a call made by one of the boys as he was being kidnaps provides crucial evidence that the murder had been pre-planned from the very start.
The source claimed the kidnappers used a silenced weapon, indicating their attempt to actually use the gun, and dressed up as religious Jews to lure the victims into their car.

Iron Dome Operator: God Moved Missile We Couldn't Hit

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Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system has been wildly successful during the current Gaza war, but on occasion it can and does miss incoming terrorist rockets.
One would think that the 10 percent or so of Hamas rockets predicted by Iron Dome’s radars to hit populated areas that are not intercepted would still cause significant Israeli casualties. But somehow, they don’t.
An earlier, unconfirmed report floating around the Internet had a Gaza resident attributing the lack of Hamas accuracy to Israel’s God moving the rockets off-course to protect His people.
“We do aim [our rockets], but their God changes their path in mid-air,” a Hamas commander was said to have told someone who wondered why Gaza-based militants can’t seem to hit their targets.
Whether or not that report is accurate, an Iron Dome operator whose battery failed three times to down an incoming missile headed toward Tel Aviv last week said the overall assessment is.
In remarks relayed to an Israeli news site (Hebrew), the Iron Dome battery commander recalled:
"A missile was fired from Gaza. Iron Dome precisely calculated [its trajectory]. We know where these missiles are going to land down to a radius of 200 meters. This particular missile was going to hit either the Azrieli Towers, the Kirya (Israel’s equivalent of the Pentagon) or [a central Tel Aviv railway station]. Hundreds could have died.
"We fired the first [interceptor]. It missed. Second [interceptor]. It missed. This is very rare. I was in shock. At this point we had just four seconds until the missile lands. We had already notified emergency services to converge on the target location and had warned of a mass-casualty incident.
"Suddenly, Iron Dome (which calculates wind speeds, among other things) shows a major wind coming from the east, a strong wind that…sends the missile into the sea. We were all stunned. I stood up and shouted, ‘There is a God!’
“I witnessed this miracle with my own eyes. It was not told or reported to me. I saw the hand of God send that missile into the sea.”

Also last week, Col. Ofer Winter, commander of the Givati Infantry Brigade, described a mysterious fog that favorably covered he and his troops as they advanced on an enemy position in morning light, after their nighttime raid was postponed.
Col. Winter labeled the covering as “clouds of glory.”
Earlier in the Gaza war, Col. Winter sparked heated national debate when he encouraged his troops to lead the charge against an enemy that “curses, defames and abuses the God of Israel.” Col. Winter concluded his letter by praying that the “Lord your God go with you, to fight for you against your enemies and to save you.”

¨He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the just both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord.¨" Proverbs 17:15