A new state?

It looks like the United Nations is going to declare a new state. You may ask yourselves "Where?" and you would be right in asking that. They are going to declare a new state on a land that does not belong to them nor has it ever belonged to them. It is like me declaring a room in your house as my home. Did I buy that room? No. But for the United Nations, that does not matter. This state is supposedly called Palestine.

Now what is this invented people? What are the characteristics of the invented people? Do they have their own language? Do they have art? Do they have authors? Do they have culture? Do they have history? Have they ever had a land? Well the answer is simple to all of those questions - a resounding No.

Let us look at the name they have supposedly taken for themselves, Palestine. Forget the fact that there is no P in Arabic so that in their eyes it is Falestine, let us simply look at the name. The word itself derives from the Hebrew word Peleshet, usually translated as Philistia in English. The word referred to the Philistine's invasion of Israel from the sea. The Philistines were not Arabs nor even Semites nor did they speak Arabic. They had no connection, ethnic, linguistic or historical with Arabia or Arabs. They were simply the enemies of the Israelites. When the Romans invaded the area of Judah, which some of you now call, a part of the West Bank, they renamed the area Palaestina as an affront to the Jews living there. The word and name Palestine refers to Israel and it always has. The area of Judea was renamed Palaestina in an attempt to minimize Jewish identification with the land of Israel. Wait a minute, that is exactly what the Arabs, UNESCO and the UN have been trying to do for forty years.

The use of the term "Palestinian" for an Arab ethnic group is a modern political creation which has no basis in fact - and had never had any international or academic credibility before 1967.

The Arab Lie

So where dis the present day invented nation come from? Well according to Hamas, they came from Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria. This is quite accurate as most came during the First World War to better their lives. Many of the homes they live in were taken from Jews after they massacred entire families. The so-called Arab-city of Hebron was not an Arab city until the massacre of 1929.

When the British invaded Israel in 1917 and were given the area to mandate in the San Remo conference, they issued stamps called pictorials. To stop any conflict with the Arab migrants, they wanted to issue stamps depicting items holy to all religions. Of course they battled to find remnants of Arab history apart from the Dome of the Rock and a mosque in Tiberias, but that is not the issue. The issue is that Rachel's Tomb, a tomb that was in Jewish hands for thousands of years, yes thousands, was designated as Jewish. 80 years later, UNESCO designated it as a mosque. How? The continued destruction of Judaism by the UN. The world could not wipe out the Jews in 2000 years of anti-Antisemitism, nor a Holocaust, but they are trying to wipe out Judaism instead.

Will this invented nation be granted its desires? Abba Eban once said, "If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions."

Before I go, have you ever thought why the Kurds do not have a state of their own yet? Are they not far more deserving?

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The poor Gaza citizens

My heart goes out for the poor people of Gaza. By popular vote, they decided to vote in Hamas, a radical Islamic movement of Sunni Muslims. If you are an Arab Christian or a Shiite, your life is in danger, because like the Koranic view of Jews, they consider you descendants of apes and pigs. Such brainwashing. No wonder Hamas has no respect for human life. You are there only to serve as a human shield. Just so you know, because I am Jewish and Israeli, I consider your life before my own. I will not shoot at the terrorist you are shielding simply because I may hit you. What an idiot I am!

Courtesy Michael Savage

In 2005, Israel withdraw every Jew from Gaza to give you the possibility to live the life you claim that you deserve. We expected you to do something good. Make something of yourselves. Grow up. We gave you Israeli land to do so. Not Arab land, Israeli land. So, you decided to vote in Hamas which means "Islamic Resistance Movement". Your choice, not ours. Oh, by the way, resistance against whom? Shiites? Christians? I have no idea who else? Oh sorry, they have sworn to destroy Israel. So what did Israel have to do? Close her border with Hamastan! Is their an open border between Greece and Turkey? Pakistan and India? Of course not. Why should they let people in who swore to kill them.

Apparently President Barack Obama believes that nobody suffers more than the Palestinian people. Mr Obama, first the Palestinians are not a people. They have no basis for that definition. But what about the thousands of Syrians being killed? Zimbabweans? Sudanese? What about Israelis who suffer because the world turned a blind eye?

But Israel has a heart and what does she do? She gives the Gaza people free water, electricity, food and medical supplies! Is it really free? No, I pay for it. I pay over 35% income tax and anything I want to purchase I pay a further 17% and then I have to pay a medical tax of 4.9% meaning that before I do anything I have already lost nearly 60% of my salary so that I can give you the freedom to buy rockets to kill me. I am an idiot, I agree. While you are firing missiles at me, I am providing you with electricity, food and medical supplies which I am paying for? Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. Maybe I should switch off the electricity to Gaza? I send my food to you and I can barely afford basic food myself.

But what do you do? You cry to the world that you are suffering, that there is a blockade. Forget the fact that you have a border with Egypt, but every time that is opened, you destroy it. Forget the fact that your leaders in Iran try to arm you with new weapons, even by the sea. But you continue to complain. So misguided intellectually challenged people send invasion flotillas to you, to bring so-called humanitarian aid. What aid do you need? I wish I had malls like you have. I wish had my own home. I cannot afford one because I give my salary to you.

Who is threatening whom?

Golda Meir once said "What bothers me most is not that Arabs kill our children, but that they force us to kill theirs." Why is the world always silent when Jews are being attacked? Oh yeah, I forgot. Hypocrisy! Who said the Holocaust could not happen again!

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Operation Pillar of Defense

So Israel launched an operation called "Pillar of Defense" and the world is against us, once again! Is that surprising? Not if you are Jewish and definitely not if you are Israeli.

Let us look for a moment at some facts. Israel pulled out of the Gaza Strip in 2005. There is not a single Israeli in Gaza. This was called the Disengagement. Forget for a moment that the Gaza Strip was always a part of Israel and when Egypt invaded Israel in 1948, they occupied Gaza. The 1949 ceasefire agreement set up a demarcation line which was agreed by all that it was not the international border. It was controlled by Egypt as occupied land. Of course, occupied Israeli land, under international law! Forget that Israel, for the sake of peace, decided to give that area to the Arabs that call themselves "Palestinians", to create a state. The first thing that the new state did, was to elect a radical Islamic government to govern the area. That was the first incident of the Arab Spring which has now invaded Tunisia, Libya, Algeria and Egypt. The new sheriff in town is an off-shoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.

So what does the Hamas government do? They attack Israel. Why? Because they can! They rain thousands of missiles on Israeli homes.

Their own lack of caring of human life is well-documented, even by their own imams. Every time they send a missile into Israeli territory, they make use of human shields. Simply a question of a difference in the value of human life. An Israeli soldier endangers himself because he is first and foremost human. Can the same be said for Hamas so-called soldiers? Where are the Human Rights organizations? OK, they will get involved against Israel because they are taken in by the excellent Arab propaganda machine. They simply do not have the brains to think for themselves.

The Arab propaganda machine works very well and often, so-called deaths are staged. Mohammed al-Durra from the year 2000 is a typical example. On the right you can see a typical example of how even the BBC joins in with the Arab propaganda machine. As Goebbels once said, "if you tell a lie often enough, people will believe it is the truth." That is what is happening.

Operation Pillar of Defense 

Let us look at the current operation. During 2012, almost a thousand missiles were launched at the Israeli south, terrorizing the innocent people who tried to go about their daily life. Did Israel react? What happened when a single Syrian mortar was shot at Turkey? The Turkish air-force immediately attacked! Hypocritical? Were they condemned? No! Why? If you have a brain, you already know.

Israel turned round and said "enough is enough, it is time to hit back" and so Israel hit back. But what happens when you fight back against the neighborhood bully (which can be Hamas, Hizbollah, Muslim Brotherhood etc)? They start accusing you of attacking them. So all of a sudden, Israel is accused of being the agressor. Come on, people must have more brains than that. Well, judging by some of what I read on Facebook, people do not have the brains to see what is going on. Propaganda is a great thing, isn't it? I wonder who is the Minister of Propaganda for the Arabs. Israel should employ him or her whatever the cost.

What would you do?

As Golda Meir once said, "Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us." I hope that I will live to see that stage.

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Operation cornflakes

This story is not about Arab propaganda but it is a nice story which you will enjoy. It is not about an invented nation that did not exist before 1967.

During wartime, there is often an attempt to demoralize the civilian population so that they can put pressure on the government to back-off. This is often the case with a war of attrition. Recently we saw that years of demoralization paid off and Gilad Shalit was returned to us, but at a very heavy price.

Demoralization is not a new phenomenon and during the Second World War, both the Allies and the Axis powers used tactics to try and demoralize civilians. One operation created by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the U.S. espionage agency during World War II that later became the CIA, was known as “Operation Cornflakes”. At this time, General "Wild Bill" Donovan was the head of the OSS.

What was Operation Cornflakes? 

One of the stamps issued by the Germans was the Hitler Head series of 1941 - 1944. The standard 6pf and 12pf Hitler Head stamps were forged and instead of the regular Hitler head, these showed a grinning skull or "Death Head" and the 12pf was inscribed with "Futsches Reich" meaning "Ruined Empire" instead of “Deutches Reich”. The stamps were printed at various times in both Rome and Bern, on different paper, with different perforations anywhere from 11 up to 13. 

The OSS needed to learn all about the German mail system. Prisoners of War (POWs) who had been postal workers were interrogated about everything from postal cancellation markings to the ways mail bags were supposed to be packed and sealed. Spies and sympathizers gathered samples of stamps, postal cancellations, mail sacks, and envelopes. Addresses were pulled from German telephone directories. Letters were written filled with anti-Nazi propaganda to as many citizens as possible using the 12pf parody stamp and the correct postal markings. Mail bags were replicated and every other detail of the postal system. Most of the fake mail bore return addresses for legitimate businesses. 

The question now was how to add these letters to the German mail system. After much thought, they felt that the best way was to bomb mail trains. After the fighter-bombers stopped the train with their bombing and strafing fire, they would drop the false mailbags into the wreckage. The Germans would find the bags and presume that they came from the damaged train. 

Why was it called Operation Cornflakes?

In Germany, mail was delivered at breakfast time, so the Allies felt that if German citizens would receive the propaganda at breakfast time by the mailman, they would feel that the "German Empire" was breaking up. 

On February 5, 1945, a German train made its way to the city of Linz. The train’s cargo held mail bound for several northern Austrian towns. Suddenly, Allied planes swooped in, dropping bombs and derailing it. Eight mail bags hit the ground around the train with a thud. Inside each bag were 800 propaganda letters, all addressed to homes and businesses along the train’s route and appropriately stamped. When the train was discovered, German postal workers recovered the bags and delivered the letters without being any wiser about their contents or origins. The Operation had begun. 

Over the course of the operation, 20 loads of fake mail were dropped for a total of 320 mailbags and more than 96,000 pieces of propaganda mail. No one knows how successful the operation was but at least it gave us something to enjoy.

Note: A Hebrew version will appear in a philatelic journal next month.

Sources:

1. Poison Cornflakes for Breakfast
2. Daily Mail

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Olympic racism

The Olympic Games opened with the usual British pompousness, but that is the way of the Olympics so in this case we cannot blame the Brits. We can blame the Brits for the BBC. The BBC decided that Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel. Interesting! Jerusalem has been the capital of Israel for over 3000 years, longer than there was a London! By that token, longer than most other capitals today.

The Jewish people have been in Israel longer than most nations have been around including England itself. On the BBC website, they listed every other nation as having a capital, but not Israel. That was changed to “Seat of government”. The BBC’s mandate is to provide impartial public service broadcasting. When have the British government ever stuck to its mandate. In 1920 they were given the mandate for the so-called area known as Palestine with the aim of returning the land back to its rightful owners, the Jews. Instead, they cut off 2/3 and gave it to the Arabs to create Arab Palestine. They decided to name Arab Palestine as Transjordan, against the ruling of the League of Nations. But that is England. Like intellectually challenged people such as Emma Thompson, they think they rock.

40 years ago, 11 Israeli Olympians were killed at the hands of Arab terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics. This was simply because they were Israeli. In 2012, all people wanted, was a minute of silence in remembrance of this heinous affront to the spirit of the Olympic Games.

Was the request granted? No! Why? Forget for a moment that the so-called moderate Arab leader known as Mahmoud Abbas was one of the financiers of the Black September operation. I will not refer to that incident despite the well known fact that Abbas is a Holocaust denier.

Jacques Rogge, the current President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), personally rejected calls for the minute of silence. "We feel that the Opening Ceremony is an atmosphere that is not fit to remember such a tragic incident," he said. Yet in the Winter Olympics in Vancouver 2010 a moment of silence was held for Nodar Kumaritashvili, a Georgian luge slider who died after crashing during a training run and hitting a metal pole. Double standards? Of course, but why?

Mr. Rogge is a known supporter of an invented nation that has become known as the Palestinians. Forget that this nation has no basis to be called a nation and was only invented in the late sixties; forget that the Kurdish nation is a true nation with a true right in every way but no one cares about them. Hey, the Turks massacre them and the Iraqis did, but who cares. They are not Arabs. Mr. Rogge is a supporter of the Arabs so much so that was also spotted wearing a Palestinian scarf. It is possible that with the way Islam works, his life may have been threatened or maybe he just is not intelligent enough to understand the fallacy.

Member of this fake nation, which is trying to be recognized as a country, on the land of a different country, first took part in the 1996 Olympic Games where there was a Spanish IOC president. I tend to forgive the Spaniards for not understanding. Their country was invaded by Arabs many times over and they no longer know what they are doing. Jibril Rajoub, President of the Palestinian Olympic Committee appealed to Mr Rogge not to comply with the request, “Sports are meant for peace, not for racism". Say what? THE most racist area today has the gall to say that? Talk about Chutzpah.

The Arab delegation, which until late 1960s considered themselves as a part of southern Syria are often invited to sporting events in Muslim countries such as in football and swimming. Israel will never be able to enjoy sporting events in the Middle East with such racism around.


Today, England, like most of Europe and the United States, is ruled by the Muslims. This is a very serious situation which may mean that soon one of the European countries will have a Muslim leader who will try and install Sharia law. The invasion of Europe failed 1000 years ago, today it is succeeding. In the United States, there is a Muslim president. I do not understand how such a great nation such as the USA managed to vote Obama in.


Wake up people. What is happening to Israel can happen to you.

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Oh, Jerusalem

I will start off with a joke I received:

The United Nations Secretary General is sitting in his office together with his deputy. He has what he thinks is a brilliant idea and shares it immediately.
“I’ve got it!” the Secretary General begins. “In the interest of global peace and harmony, the world’s soccer players should come together and form one United Nations global team.”
“Great idea, sir,” says the Deputy. “But who shall we play against?”
“Why, Israel, of course.”

Cute, don’t you think? You laughed, didn't you! But is that not reality? We have Iran on the brink of nuclear capability meaning that the entire world is in danger. If you are sitting in your home in London, you are in danger from whichever despot is in charge of the Iranian arsenal. We have Syria who massacres her own subjects on a daily basis. We have Turkey which constantly attacks the Kurds and is still occupying a part of Cyprus, against true International law. We have the Egyptians who are rampant and just waiting to drag their ex-president through the streets. We have a despot in Zimbabwe and many other hotspots all over the world.

But what interests the UN? Whether another building is built by Israel in its ancestral home! The biggest threat to world peace is Israel! Or as the French Ambassador to London once said “That shitty little country.”
Would things be better if the Americans did not have such a incompetent leader? Not really. Would America side beside Israel as the Russians and the Chinese side beside both Iran and Syria? Of course not, American has never sided with Israel in any conflict. On the contrary, they were always the ones reigning Israel in.

Jerusalem is the eternal Jewish capital and has been so for over 3000 years. That is three millennia. Can you believe it? On the other hand there are people who are making claim to Jerusalem as their eternal capital where in their case, eternal is 4 decades, meaning 40 years. Their own claim to this holy city is that their prophet is reputed to have ascended to the heavens from Jerusalem on a mythical creature known as the Buraq. Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Koran at all. So, this is mythology. By the same token, my great grandfather was reputed to walk in the streets of London. So get out of London as that belongs to my ancestors.

Recently Israel celebrated Jerusalem day when the city was reunited. Remember that the city was not in Jewish hands for 19 years in a period of 3000 years. Somehow the Arab nations are trying to destroy Jewish history. Of course they are aided by UNESCO and the UN. The Arabs decided that Jerusalem or Quds as they call it is an Arab city or the center of Arab culture. Since when was Jerusalem an Arab city? In which century? It was actually never an Arab city. There were always Jews in the city. Center of Arab culture? Are people stupid enough to believe this? Well yes, ask the people who call to boycott Israel.

The so-called Palestinians are new comers to the area and as Hamas recently said, they are migrants. That is nothing new to anyone who is allowed and able to think. These Arabs often thought of this area as part of Syria, southern Syria. Why do the Arabs want another country? Don’t they have enough? In essence, yes. But I asked a Slovak once. why Czechoslovakia broke up and he said, “so that we can have two votes in the European Union!” That is why the Arabs are pressuring to create a new state, so that they can have an extra vote at the UN. On the other hand, the Slovaks have their own identity which is not like the "Palestinians" who have no identity or culture, unless you consider terrorism as a culture. When the Arab nations get an extra vote in the United Nations, they can decide whatever they want to be international law. Sharia law will be international law! Women will not be allowed to drive, because that will be against international law.

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Boycott Israel

For as long as I can remember, there have been calls to boycott Israel. Of course these calls for boycotting Israel are simply a continuation of the Nazi boycott on Jewish business which started as far back as April 1933. The Nazi propaganda machine was continued with great success by the Arabs, so much so that even actors such as Emma Thompson have decided to boycott Habima. It is beyond logic why they would boycott Habima yet allow a "Palestinian" group to perform. There are many other dubious nations that were due to perform in London. What is also strange is that an Israeli company was boycotted in which they were going to show the "Merchant of Venice" in which the main character, Shylock, was outcast for being a Jew. Of course anti-Antisemitism is rampant in British literature through the ages.

Hot on the heels of the Nazi boycott of Jewish goods in 1933 was a boycott by the Arab Executive Committee in Syria. Coincidence? In 1945, the Arab League was created and very soon declared a formal boycott "Jewish products and manufactured goods shall be considered undesirable to the Arab countries." The Arab boycott on Israel was adopted after the 1948 war.  The Central Boycott Office was headquartered in Damascus.

The boycott called for boycotting:

• Products and services that originate in Israel 
• Businesses in non-Arab countries that do business with Israel 
• Businesses shipped or flew to Israeli ports

Branches were setup in many Arab countries such as the beautiful Abu Dhabi where it received government status.

In 1977 the United States Congress passed a law that then-President Jimmy Carter signed, and according to which fines would be levied on American companies which cooperate with the boycott. One of the few good things that Carter did.

The boycott made strange claims such as a boycott against Coca Cola which had refused to do business in Israel. In 1961 in Cairo involving a civil servant who come into possession of a Coca-Cola bottle manufactured in Ethiopia and mistook the Amharic lettering on its label for Hebrew. He publicly accused Coca-Cola of doing business with Israel. Or the Egyptian Muslim cleric that called on the Muslim and Arab world to boycott Starbucks because he claimed that the female character depicted in the company’s logo is actually Queen Esther, the heroine in the story of Purim.

But through all this I really do not understand why they do not boycott Israeli technology such as cellphones, internet messaging and even their computers. Not to mention the many life saving procedures that Israel has given the world.

Do not mistake a boycott of Israel as a result of any conflict with the Arabs. This is of course an Arab-inflicted conflict. The boycott is simply anti-Semitism. I am all for boycotts, but do it properly. Stop using mobile phones. Emma, what has any Arab nation given the world?

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Arab refugees

Today is the eve of Israel’s Independence Day. The eve of this joyous day is a day of mourning to remember all of our fallen that lost their lives in the fight to remain a state despite constant and continuing threats from our neighbors, including those with peace treaties with us. Even today, Jordan’s King Abdullah keeps  belligerency alive when talking to the press and threatening Israel, probably to appease his constituents. And the longest treaty, with Egypt, at risk, because the weak American president allowed the Muslim Brotherhood to take control over Egypt and now American tax-payer’s money is actively supporting the puppet government there, despite a veto by the Senate, against American law.

The declaration of Israeli statehood on the 14th May 1948, was considered a catastrophe by the Arabs, albeit only decades later when it became fashionable to do so. It was not the first time that there was complete Jewish sovereignty in Israel. It was Jewish for thousands of years, long before the first Arab ever set foot here and long before Arab massacres of the Jews living here began. Every town that the Arabs proclaim as their own has a Jewish name.

The Arabs already had their state; Transjordan was established for Arab Palestine and was even known as the Arab Government of the East. As King Hussein of Jordan said in 1981, “Jordan is Palestine and Palestine is Jordan.”

Any person who can think for himself knows that, if the so-called Palestinians wanted a state, they could have had one years ago, in addition to Jordan. As an example, if you are without a job for a long time, you will take any job offered, despite that it is less than what you expect. To this day, I am still baffled by the misguided individuals who insist on boycotting Israel and Israeli goods. You should be boycotting Arab innovations and goods. Wait a moment are there any?

According to the Arab narrative, during the War of Independence, Israel expelled Arabs from their homes and they now want them back. The refugees' “right of return” has been at the top of the agenda of every generation of so-called "peace talks". Their story began as early as 1947. Whether the Arabs were expelled as their current propaganda claims, or whether they left of their own accord, based on the urging of Arab leaders who expected a swift victory, is not at issue here. What matters is that the United Nations endorsed a carefully prescribed right, but only for “Palestinian refugees”. Between 1947 and 1949 hundreds of thousands of Arabs, (reliable estimates range from 500,000 to 750,000), left Israel and poured into neighboring Arab countries. No one cares much about the much larger number of Jews expelled from Muslim lands as a result of the war. They are of course Jews. The world is blinded by the excellent Arab propaganda machine and oil.

The number of refugees was bloated by Arab propaganda to a million. The Arabs were put into makeshift camps and were not welcomed by their cousins. The Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte, visited the camps and saw men, women and children living in tents. They were poor, hungry and living on handouts which were often not forthcoming. No country seemed to want them.

The newly-created government of Israel extended citizenship to those who had remained. On December 11, 1948, the United Nations convened. Resolution 194 was passed, declaring that "refugees wishing to return to their homes and live in peace with their neighbours should be allow to do so at the earliest practical date, and compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return." The decision was rejected by Arab states because it did not mention an unconditional right of return. It did not say that Muslim countries would need to compensate expelled Jews. On the other hand, if you massacre a family and take their home, is it still yours? The Arabs in Israel did this very well, but then again, so did the Nazis in Europe.

The United Nations General Assembly convened on 8 December 1949 and announced Resolution 302, which established the UNRWA organization, dealing exclusively with Palestinian Arab refugees. To this day, it remains the only agency dedicated to helping the refugees from a specific region or conflict. It is not a part of the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, which is dedicated to aiding all the millions of other refugees in the world.

UNRWA began operating in 1950, and its mandate was to provide relief, education, health-care, social services and emergency aid to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Under the operational definition of UNRWA, Palestinian refugees are people whose normal place of residence was Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948, who lost their homes and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict. But uniquely, the descendants of the original Palestinian refugees were also eligible for registration.
UNRWA-managed refugee camps were established in Arab countries such as Jordan, Syria and Lebanon and in Jordanian occupied Judea, mainly near Hebron and Jenin, and in the Egyptian-occupied Gaza strip. Why were these refugees not rehabilitated into their own society, even after over six decades? Why do they still need the UN? It cannot be emergency aid after six decades? Is there some other reason to keep these Arabs in camps where they are indoctrinated in hatred? Could this money not be spent by making the world a better place?

World Refugee Year was officially launched on 28 June 1959. Although UNRWA was not a part of the UNHCR, many Arab states decided to adopt this as part of their propaganda. It was used on the stamps of several Arab countries, starting from 1960. Often, they added the wording, "UNRWA for Palestine Refugees".

The definition of a Palestinian refugee, according to the United Nations, included all descendants of the original refugees, most of them now dead. Descendants? Today about 5 million Palestinians are defined as refugees and eligible for UNRWA services. Some can only claim one grandparent who may have lived a couple of years in Palestine. Unless this problem is resolved, one day there may be a knock at my door and someone will say, "this used to belong to my great-great-great grandfather. Please leave!" But did it really ever belong to him? If you buy something that is stolen, is it really yours? By the same token, I will knock on the door of a nice house in Berlin and say, “this used to belong to my great-great-great grandfather. Please leave!”

Wake up everyone! Stop the Arab whitewash of history.

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Using the Media

Today Israelis commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, a one day memorial day for six million Jews who were brutally massacred at the hands of the Nazis and the Europeans who willingly let them after millennia of anti-Semitism. 

It was Goebbels who said “If you tell a lie often enough, people will believe it is the truth.” You even begin to believe it yourself and become quite convinced that what you are saying is the truth. The world has become convinced that there is a need for a two-state solution for two peoples. Cool. The Jews and whom? 

This week Israel was once again invaded by peace activists from the International Solidarity Movement. Instead of these people showing solidarity with Israel as the underdog in the international arena, they elect to support the Arabs probably because they have bought into the way the Arabs have managed to use Goebbels’ legacy and because they want to go with the herd and Jew hatred has always been the thing to do. But these misguided people call themselves peace activists, yet that is exactly the opposite of what they were doing. If they were peace activists, they would be siding with Israel against the belligerent Arabs. 

Everyone saw the video of the Israeli Lt. Colonel Eisner who “brutally attacked a Danish peace activist with his M16” and in another place “Israeli soldiers brutally attack Palestinians with M-16 rifle”. Multiple soldiers were using a single rifle? The use of the word brutally here, is also incorrect for anyone who saw the movie. It also conjures up images that he took his rifle and started shooting, where he actually used his rifle as a stick. Anyone who saw other pictures of the incident, also saw these so-called peace activists carrying knives and attacking the soldiers, Mavi Marmara anyone? Eisner had had his finger broken in a previous altercation with these activists. Referring back to the incident with the Danish activist, in many countries in the world, there is personal space and when someone invades it, harmful intent can be assumed. Friends of mine living in Sweden, told me this: “In Scandinavia people keep a distance of at least 1.5 meters between each other. It’s extremely rude to cross this invisible line and hostile intent can be suspected.” The misguided activist provoked the defensive response. 

This was media frenzy. There was an ambulance on hand, knowing that there would be violence and of course the press who take any chance to fabricate news; and of course my stupid government. Why do I call my government stupid? Because they constantly fall into this trap. Instead of calling in the Danish ambassador to ask what this activist was doing on Israel soil, they condemned the defensive action of the officer and the Danish embassy required an explanation for the attack and not the other way round. I wonder what would happen if I would go to Denmark and incite there and call for violence or break any law there or even protest outside a mosque for human rights or even the rise of anti-Semitic acts in Denmark? This trap of initial self-blame is reminiscent of the Mohammed el-Durra affair. This still comes back to bite us. 

On September 30, 2000, in the early days of the Intifada Al Aqsa, Muhammad Jamal al Durrah and his father Jamal were caught in crossfire during a clash between the IDF and “Palestinian” Security Forces in the Netzarim junction in the Gaza Strip. A “Palestinian” cameraman filming for the French television France 2 reported that Muhammed was killed by gunfire from the Israel Defense Forces. A few days later, the Israeli army chief of operations issued an apology and expressed sorrow at the incident. He also accused the “Palestinians” of the use of children in the conflict. 

The boy quickly became a martyr in the Arab world and a symbol of “Palestinian” grievances against Israel. Of course in 2002, an investigative report by the ARD German television said there was a "high probability" that the Israelis did not do it. Some people believe that the entire incident was staged by the “Palestinians”. As a matter of interest there are many who believe that Mohammed did not die in the attack and no body has surfaced. 

There is also the case where the father, Jamal claimed that he was injured during the attack, but an Israeli officer check his records and found that he treated Jamal in 1994 for wounds inflicted probably from being beaten by Hamas. The Israeli doctor was sued for saying this but the French court acquitted him in 2012. Does it really matter now? The damage to Israel was already done. 

The result of this incident was that most of the Arab nations, including those at peace with Israel, issued stamps depicting the incident and using the image from the French camera-man; once again, a second in a two hour incident. Here are some of the stamps issued. 

 It is my own belief that Nabil Shaath an Arab negotiator for a new Arab nation and an ardent philatelist, had his hand in convincing Arab nations to issue this omnibus set. As humans, we all need to stand together in the face of the dangerous violent world that Islam is preparing for us. In their view, it is the “My way or the high way” situation. Unfortunately more and more pseudo-intellectuals are buying into the Arab fairy tales.

Often on Holocaust Memorial Day, we Jews stand up and say "Never Again", yet with Ahmadinejad denying the Holocaust and threatening Israel and the entire world and the UN with its own racist agenda's and a very weak and ineffectual American president, is it really never again? Wake up people! If you want to support the underdog, you are supporting the wrong side.

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