Saving Mr Banks

Are you going to see the movie "Saving Mr Banks"?

British actress Emma Thompson calls for boycotting Israel's Habima theater. The least we can do is return the favor and boycott her recent movie 'Saving Mr. Banks' and any other movie she stars in.

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned actress Emma Thompson and three dozen other British actors, for seeking the boycotting of Israel’s celebrated Habima Theater troupe, which is to perform later this year in a six-week theatrical festival taking place at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. Thompson and her colleagues cite spurious human rights concerns but hypocritically fail to call for a boycott of the National Theater of China, which is participating in the same festival. The ZOA has condemned Thompson and urged people to boycott her recently-released movie, Saving Mr. Banks.

In a letter to the British Guardian newspaper, Thompson and her colleagues accused Habima of having “a shameful record of involvement with illegal Israeli settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territory [sic] ... By inviting Habima, Shakespeare’s Globe is undermining the conscientious Israeli actors and playwrights who have refused to break international law ... by inviting Habima, the Globe is associating itself with policies of exclusion practiced by the Israeli state and endorsed by its national theatre company ... We ask the Globe to withdraw the invitation so that the festival is not complicit with human rights violations and the illegal colonization of occupied land” (Nathan Burstein, ‘Oscar winner Emma Thompson calls for Israeli theater’s ban,’ Times of Israel, April 1, 2014).

ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said, “We condemn Emma Thompson and her colleagues for their advocacy of boycotting Israel’s famed Habima Theater. Their call is in no way justified, or in any way less serious or worthy of condemnation, because Habima has refused to boycott a cultural center that opened in Ariel.

“Jews have a perfect right in law and morality to live and build homes and communities in Judea and Samaria, part of the territory earmarked for Jewish settlement at the 1920 San Remo Conference. Contrary to Thompson’s ignorant/malicious claim of illegality, the right of Jews to live and settle in these territories has never been extinguished by any subsequent, legally binding international agreement. Moreover, under the Oslo II agreement, it was specifically stated in Chapter 3, Article 17 that the Jewish communities of Judea, Samaria and Gaza would remain under Israeli jurisdiction, pending a final peace agreement. In other words, the PA itself has signed a legally binding agreement that explicitly accepts the existence of Jewish communities under Israeli control.

“Jewish growth in Judea and Samaria and eastern Jerusalem has a fundamental legitimacy and poses no obstacle to a true peace if Palestinians are ready for one, so the repeated, periodic international calls for a Jewish construction freeze, or the removal of Jewish communities, or the boycott and ostracism of anyone who fails to oppose their existence, would remain inappropriate even if the prospect of genuine peace negotiations with a truly peaceful Palestinian partner were possible.

“Why may not 300,000 Jews live among 2 million Arabs in Judea and Samaria while 1.2 million Arabs live among 6 million Jews in Israel? Emma Thompson and her colleagues are displaying ignorance and prejudice in working towards a world in which Jews are banned from and expelled from their religious, historical and legal homeland.

“These people claim to be concerned about justice and peace. But one never hears them criticize the Palestinian rejection of Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, or their rejection of the 2000 Clinton peace plan, or their resort to a wave of terror. They never issue statements demanding that the PA end terror and incitement to hatred and murder against Israel – the demonization of Jews does not disturb these haters of the Jewish state and expose their own vicious bias, dressed up as concern for human rights.

“We also note the rank hypocrisy of Thompson and her ilk condemning Habima and seeking its boycott –– but having no problem with the National Theater of China participating in the same festival, even though China’s observance of human rights is, to put it mildly, abysmal.

“Emma Thompson and these other actors are clearly people who, because they are celebrities, enjoy unmerited influence and ability to publicize their political views. This places an even greater responsibility on them to think carefully before speaking on political matters, which they have clearly failed. They deserve to be condemned and shunned by the Jewish, pro-Israeli community and all other people of goodwill. We urge everyone to boycott Emma Thompson’s current movie, Saving Mr. Banks.”

Note: This was sent to me in an e-mail. I posted it here for the world to see.

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Why is Kerry pushing Israel?

John Kerry is once again here to try and push Israel into signing away part of her territory. We have to wonder why he is doing this. Why does he keep coming back to Israel? Why does he keep putting pressure on Israel?

What will a  peace agreement with another Arab entity bring Israel? Let us try and understand for ourselves, assuming we are allowed to think!

Will it bring security? We know it will not. We have seen evidence of that in Egypt and Jordan. We have to keep protecting ourselves. Can the Americans protect Israel? Hello...Anyone hear of Obama? The Americans failed in Afghanistan, Iraq and other places. They turned their backs on their allies and are actively arming terrorists and terrorist states. They now believe that the only terrorist entity is Al-Qaeda, so how can anyone believe them. Not even the Saudis believe the Americans anymore. Israel also has had bad experiences from the US-trained terrorist forces in the so-called West Bank.

Will it bring peace? We know it will not. Once again, look at Egypt and Jordan and I will throw in Mauritania as well. But look at the people some consider Palestinians, although they are not. A treaty was signed with them in 1994. Have they stood by that agreement, IN ANYTHING? In addition who are we negotiating with? Mahmoud Abbas? His mandate run out in 2009. He has no mandate to sign a deal and any deal he signs will not include Gaza as Hamas does not want him there. That is why he keeps running to the Arab League, maybe they will help him. On the other hand, they are so divided that one wonders if anyone can trust them with a deal. At the moment, Abbas is simply a dictator. Incidentally Abbas wrote his doctorate denying the Holocaust. Under the laws of many European countries he should be prosecuted. So...

Does any part belong to the Arabs? Not at all! Not under any format of international law! The land that people call the West Bank or the pre-1967 borders are not borders at all. They are ceasefire lines and not international borders. They were occupied lands until 1967 when they were returned to Israel, the real Palestinians. It is not only the 1920 San Remo conference that defined this and was later ratified, it has always been Jewish. Are any of the towns that the Arabs reside in actually Arab? Even Bethlehem is a Hebrew name. 

In the eyes of the Arabs pushing Israel to an agreement is only the first step. Remember the original agreement was called Gaza-Jericho first? First did not only mean the first city in the West Bank! 

So, Kerry is pushing Israel and not the Palestinians. Why? He failed in Syria, although he is great Syria supporter. He failed in Iran. He did not fail in Libya, that is a total Obama and Clinton fiasco. But there are so many hotspots all over the world, including the Kurdish nation who are entitled to a homeland. Why is he not pushing the so-called Arab entity that is today known as the Palestinians, a totally invented nation? Why Israel? 

Simply because he can. Israel is the last country in the world who is a true ally of the United States and the only country that can be pushed. What is Kerry doing? If you do not do what I tell you, you will be isolated and we will not stand by you! Is that a friend?

I ask you all to think, if Israel signs a treaty, will you still feel safe?

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Obama's 2013 fiascoes or were they successes? Part 1 - Obamacare

Obama has not had an easy ride. It is not easy to take an 8 trillion dollar deficit and double it. It is not easy to make promises to your own countrymen and foreign countries and not stand by them and then try and put the blame on others. Is Obama a total failure as many American's believe today or is it something far more sinister? Remember that somehow, although totally inconceivable, Obama was voted in for a second term in office, making America the first Idiocrasy. We will discuss 2013 in a few blogs.

Obama tried to push in his Affordable Care Act, the so-called Obamacare policy which was supposed to provide affordable health insurance for everyone. No more a question of the haves and the have-nots. Yet it doesn’t do much for the vast majority of Americans. According to people in the know, existing federal laws already cover the poor, the elderly, and the roughly 60% of Americans who get their insurance through their employers. Obamacare will not help them much and probably make them worse off.

But one of the major problems that face Obamacare is that Obama himself misled, I will not say lied, to the very Americans who voted him in. Despite the fact that they already knew he was not a man of his word. Barack Obama promised that all Americans would be able to keep their health care plans after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. This promised managed to diminish the anger of many opponents, but it turned out not to be true. The jury is still out on that, maybe it will be attended to.

“No matter how we reform health care,” Obama said in 2009, “we will keep this promise: if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period.” But experts are explaining that in order to keep up with costs, insurance companies are going to cut down on their own pool of doctors. Do you want to wait and see?

How much is Obamacare going to cost the United States? Does it really matter? When you are almost 20 trillion dollars in debt, does another trillion or so matter?

Obamacare website

It turns out that the Obamacare website cost half a billion dollars, 500 million dollars. Do you have any idea how much money that it? In my lifetime, I will never see anything close to that kind of money. I would have happily done it myself for 5 million dollars. Some sites even claim that the cost has already breached the one billion mark.

Now the sinister part of all this is that building the website was given to a Canada based firm, CGI. I have no problems with Canada, but isn't America the high-tech capital? Or is it Israel? Where is Canada on the list? Any Canadian high-tech companies stand out? Strange. Why send it to a Canadian company? If Obama wants, as he often stated, to create jobs for Americans, shouldn't he have awarded the task to an American firm?

 It turns out that a lady named Toni Townes-Whitley is senior vice president at CGI Federal, the Canadian company. Toni Townes-Whitley was Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate and both are members of the Association of Black Princeton Alumni. According to one website, the Department of Health and Human Services reviewed only CGI’s bid for the Obamacare account even though four companies submitted bids. It further turns out, that Toni Townes-Whitley was a campaign donor. Conflict of interest? No! This is Obama's Care.

Is there something more sinister here? Obama inherited a Super-Power, the last one and turned it into a Super-Mouse. Was this intentional?

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Who is a Palestinian?

Who is a Palestinian?

That is a good question, isn't it? Can we not also ask, who was born in Palestine?

Some people say that Arabs are "native Palestinians", while Jews are "invaders" and "settlers". But I read the biographies of Israeli and Palestinian political leaders, and I am confused. Who of Israeli or Palestinian leaders were born in Palestine?

ISRAELI LEADERS

• BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, Born 21 October 1949 in Tel Aviv. 
• EHUD BARAK, Born 12 February 1942 in Mishmar HaSharon, British Mandate of Palestine
• ARIEL SHARON, Born 26 February 1928 in Kfar Malal, British Mandate of Palestine 
• EHUD OLMERT, Born 30 September 1945 in Binyamina-Giv'at Ada , British Mandate of Palestine.
• ITZHAK RABIN, Born 1 March 1922 in Jerusalem , British Mandate of Palestine. 
• ITZHAK NAVON, Israeli President, born 9 April 1921 in Jerusalem , British Mandate of Palestine.
• EZER WEIZMAN, Israeli President, born 15 June 1924 in Tel Aviv, British Mandate of Palestine.

ARAB LEADERS (so called Palestinian leaders)  

• YASSER ARAFAT, Born 24 August 1929 in Cairo , Egypt
• SAEB ERAKAT, Born April 28, 1955, in Jordan . He has Jordanian citizenship.
• FAISAL ABDEL QADER AL-HUSSEINI, Born in 1948 in Bagdad , Iraq.
• SARI NUSSEIBEH, Born in 1949 in Damascus , Syria.
• MAHMOUD AL-ZAHAR, Born in 1945, in Cairo , Egypt.

So, Israeli leaders, born in Palestine , are “settlers or invaders” while Palestinian Arab leaders were born in Egypt , Syria , Iraq , Tunisia are “native Palestinians”?

The Arab Lie

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.


Let me leave you with this: The current United States president, Barack Obama, is outwardly antagonist towards Israel and openly considers Israel a thorn in his side. If Israel is not around to protect you, will you still feel safe?


Thank you Moshe for sending this to me.

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North Korea threatens the United States

North Korea has basically declared war on the United States. North Korea has nuclear warheads and missile capability. Is this a real threat? What is the real reason behind this? If North Korea were to send missiles to the United States it would not do as much damage as if a single American missile were to land in North Korea. So why is this happening?

The truth of the matter is that if the United States was not considered a weak and ineffectual nation, brought to its knees from within by its own president, no one would dare to mess with it. I am sure that in the face of this threat the new Defense Minister will cut military spending. Maybe he should cut all defense mechanisms? Like the Patriot missile?

Who really threatens the United States today? North Korea or their own president?

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We con the world

The Arab propaganda machine is expert at conning the world, making you believe what they have to tell you. Of course I understand it is because you are too scared to stand up to them but the lives that are lost because of your apathy and lack of understanding are too much for me as a Jew to behold. The Nazis tried to wipe us out, now the Arabs are trying to do the same. First they tried militarily to destroy us and remove us from our homes and land for over 4000 years and now they are trying to change our history and have even stolen our name. Palestinian was a name given to Jews by the Romans, 500 years before there was an Arab!

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The USA is weak

I was watching a satire called Latma the other day and it was thought provoking.

Obama and two advisors were sitting around a table discussing a possible trip to the Middle East. It turns out that Israel is the only country in the Middle East that Obama will be safe, the only country where his life will not be under threat. However Obama said that the whole reason for a trip to the Middle East is to get closer to the Arab states and thereby screw the Jews. So why go to Israel? His advisors said, "To screw the Jews!" It is sad how true that is.

Obama placed a Secretary of State, Kerry, who is totally unrespected for being weak so much that the Russian Foreign Minister even refused his calls. Of course he would, if the bear roars, the mouse hides. So Kerry decided to arm Syria's opposition forces. Is he stupid? Did that tactic work in Afghanistan? No! But in the Middle East, you have to know who you are dealing with. Here Kerry is arming people who will not thank you in the end, but turn on it. Ever heard of Benghazi? If the USA is so appalled at the tens of thousands murdered by Assad and the over one million refugees, then why not attack militarily? Simple! Syria is backed by the new world powers who simply laugh at the USA today.

Obama placed John Brennan as head of the CIA, a person who is reputed to have converted to Islam while working as a station chief in Saudi Arabia in the 1990s. This is of course his own personal choice but remember that Islam is not the religion of Peace that it claims it is and that the vast majority of terrorism is Islamic. be taht as it may, Brennan refers to Israel as Palestine. Technically he is correct. The area of Judea was called Palestine by the Romans to offend the Jews, 600 years before there was the first Muslim and 600 years before any Arab set foot in Israel. But this was not Brennan's intention. He referred to Jerusalem as Al-Quds! Since when is Jerusalem, the Jewish capital for over 3000 years called Al-Quds?

Obama placed a Secretary of defense who received money from Hamas and refused to deny it. He claims that Iran is a peace loving nation while Israel is not. Hagel once said that the Israel Arab conflict needs to be solved so that the Middle East would be safer. He is reputed to have written: "It is this conflict, practically alone, that prompts the rise of terrorists, weakens friendly governments, and makes it impossible for the United States to win Arabs and Muslims over to the good cause.” So Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Jordan are all because of the Israel-Arab conflict? What is so strange is that with a belligerent Iran and North Korea, the US votes someone who does not have the accreditation to be the Secretary of Defense in this day and age and both Democrats and Republicans in the Senate voted him in. This showed once again how weak America is. Is this Obama's true purpose? To weaken the USA? Is he so sinister?

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The only country that Obama constantly berates is Israel, the USA's only true ally through thick and thin. When Erdogan claimed that Zionism is a crime against humanity, what does Obama do? Does he come to Israel's aid? No, he sends a weak and ineffectual Secretary of State to express dismay. Well, I express dismay as well. What does Obama want to do? He wants to come to Israel and ask Israel to try and bridge ties with Turkey. Say what? Turkey sent an invasion flotilla to Israel against International law and calls Zionism a crime against humanity and Obama wants Israel to mend ties? Is he that ignorant? I guess he is.

As I write these words, I am worried about the world today. What is going to happen? Europe has already been overrun with Islam. Is the USA next? Is Obama going to change the currency to "In Allah we trust"? In a recent interview, Oliver North, a decorated military veteran claimed: “If Israel ceased to exist tomorrow there would be still a jihad, and the administration’s convinced that if they can somehow get this so-called peace process back underway, we’ll be safer for it. I beg to differ.” Is Obama so stupid or is this all just part of a sinister plan?

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