Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Speech at Holocaust Remembrance Day
Yesterday morning, I visited an old-age home for Holocaust survivors. There, I met Idit Yapo, an amazing woman of 104, clear and lucid. Idit fled Germany shortly after Hitler gained power, in 1934.
I met 89-year-old Esther Nadiv, one of Mengele’s twins. She was reading a book, Golda Meir’s biography, and she told me, with a glint in her eye, she said: “I am so proud, so very proud to be a part of the State of Israel which is in constant development.”
I met Hanoch Mandelbaum, an 89-year-old survivor of Bergen-Belsen. Shortly after he came to Israel, as a young carpenter, he helped construct the desk upon which Ben Gurion signed the Declaration of Independence. That is MiSho’a liTkuma – from holocaust to resurrection.
And I met Elisheva Lehman, an 88 year-old Holocaust survivor from Holland, who was a music teacher.
I asked Elisheva if she would play something for us and she did. She enthusiastically played “Am Yisrael Chai” and we all sung together. It was quite...
The Euro Crises is strengthening the partys on the left.
The eurocrisis has breathed new life into the far left, not just in France but all over Europe. French Presidential candidate François Hollande has announced that that he will rcognize a Palestinian state within the West Bank’s 1967 borders. Mélenchon has even declared thst East Jerusalem should be the Palestinian capital.
Next Sunday, the first ballot of the French presidential elections will be held. The two candidates with the most votes will run against one another in the second and final round on May 6. The big surprise of the French electoral campaign so far has been the rising support for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of the far-left Left Front. Mélenchon will not be able to make it to the second round, but the party, which he established in 2009 after leaving the center-left Socialist Party (PS), is expected to do very well in the parliamentary elections next June.
Mélenchon could become the kingmaker, deciding which of...
Israel’s army sacrificed IDF officer on the altar of PR
People of conscience, particularly commanders looking after the true spirit of the IDF, have a duty to protest Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner’s dismissal and to point out the senior command’s ethical lapse.
“You shouldn’t join the chorus of rabbis and politicians who are trying to make Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner’s case into one that divides the religious and the secular, and the left from the right,” B. begged me. B.’s views are well considered and highly regarded. From his point of view, the media lynching of Eisner, after a recording surfaced on the Internet of a confrontation in which the officer hit a Danish activist in the face, has engendered precisely the opposite reaction – a natural sense of empathy with Eisner that cuts across various communities.
- “Many people felt uneasy when the usual suspects who would automatically...
In a democracy, power rests with the people and not the Courts.
By T. Belman.Canada had a similar debate when it was ugrading its Bill of Rights and Repatriating its constitution from Britain. (Til them we were a colony of Britain and only Britain could amend our constitution) In any event, it was intended to diminish Parliamentry supremacy by allowing the Supreme Court to rule legislation or parts thereof in conflict with provisions of the Bill of Rights. All provinces had to be in agreement with giving this power to the Courts. There was much opposition to hamstringing parliament so a compromise was worked out, namely, that a province could maintain its law, notwithstanding that it was over-ruled by the Court. This was called the “notwithstanding law”. The debate in Canada had to do with whether the Courts or Parliament should be the ones to decide on whether the legislation or the Bill of Rights takes precident.
A similar debate is taking place in Israel. Neeman’s proposed law is an attempt to return some power to the...
If only they fought Islamisation rather than Islamaphobia.
By Jerry Gordon, The Iconoclast
Read this latest on the activities of Jewish Dhimmis engaged in fruitless dialogue with Muslim leaders in the Americas under sponsorship of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU) under the leadership of Rabbi Marc Schneier, Vice President of the American section of the World Jewish Congress and hip hop fashion mogul Richard Simmons.
Note in particular a sold out presentation at the Manhattan JCC in March , a gathering of Western Hemisphere rabbis and imams from the Muslim Brotherhood front, the Islamic Society of North America , a private meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres.
Note that the Manhattan JCC event “Combating Islamophobia” was moderated by none other than Chelsea Clinton who has taken on the role of espousing outreach to Muslims that both her parents, former President Bill Clinton and Madame Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have aggressively pursued both independently and from within the Obama...
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