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Shalom Pollack, a veteran Israeli tour guide, served in the Israeli Navy and lectures on the Mideast.
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What I would like to understand is why Western Jews who made Israel their home, will vote for the post Jewish camp.
There was a time when the humiliation of an Israeli soldier was not something that would dare enter the mind of our enemies.
A small group, they don't have national aspirations and are happy to serve the country they happen to live in. In Israel they serve with distinction in the Israeli army
Restraint is urged on “all sides.” Imagine an outside body calling for “restraint on all sides” after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
As Rav Kahane always said, "the Arabs understand him and he them, but both don't understand the Leftist.
There is a growing problem in Israel and especially in Jerusalem lately: Arabs are increasing a spiral of attacks on people identified as religious Jews.
Is the truth about the enemies amongst us so unpleasant and unwelcome that we rather continue the charade than face it honestly?
Instead of persecuting these idealistic youth, Israel should give them medals.
In Israel Arab MKs have determined the path of the Jewish state at some of its most vital junctures like Oslo and the expulsions of Gush Katif and Shomron. Arab votes decided.
I began to list the unimaginable ,breakthrough gifts Trump gave Israel despite all the push back to him.
David was NOT PC. He was not as sensitive or sophisticated as some of our "progressive" teachers today. If King David lived in our generation with those same outmoded ideas, he would be shunned and mocked by "sophisticated" Jews.
So do I shed a tear when my enemy falls? No, I read the Psalms with joy that praise God for just that.
Remember the recent passionate demonstrations of remorse and solidarity by Blacks in the wake of anti-Semitic Black murders of Jews a few months ago? No? Neither do I.
In my opinion, the only occupied lands in the land of Israel are those in which Arabs live.
I once knew a very great rabbi, a warrior for his people who had just the right formula. His name was Rabbi Meir Kahane, and his solution was a win-win one for the Jewish nation.
The Arabs are openly courted by the Left today which leverages their power many times. Can this alliance actually result in a government;one in which the anti Israel Arabs call the shots either from within or by simply supporting a minority government from with out? It is clearly counter initiative and indeed suicidal to allow the future of the Jewish state to be decided by Arabs.
Every country has its problems. The US does and so does Israel. The question is, which problems do you feel you should try to solve?
Here we go again. Missiles are raining down upon millions of Jews from Gaza, and half of Israel's population must take pains not to stray too far from the nearest bomb shelter. Earlier this week, Israel eliminated the head of Islamic Jihad in a precision strike in Gaza and another one of their leaders in […]
So here I was guiding Germans and working for Arabs--Interesting position to be in for a nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn.
But even if there is an unacceptably low police presence in the Arab sector: Is that a reason for people to kill each other? I rarely see police in my own neighborhood. We don't kill each other. In my brother's charedi neighborhood, one never sees a cop. Zero homicides.
Well. well, well; then it's decided. All peace-loving people in Israel simply must vote the current government out and replace it with one that Ms. Omar will be much happier with. She did not say exactly which party she does embrace and endorse.
It took an American president to stiffen the backbone of Israel's leader.
How is a proud Jew and Israeli more than OK with her son choosing to forfeit it all for a foreign land and life?
The Left's over half-century monopoly of power is almost entirely gone. This is a transition of truly historic dimensions.
Zachary's parents brought him to Israel from the comfort and security of the United States, desiring a life of greater meaning. Zachary was happy and flourished in the Jewish homeland – and then ultimately gave his life for it.
Gantz said, "I prefer to endanger my troops rather than the lives of enemy civilians. That is the moral choice" This insanity must change and I believe it will. The days of the Gantz' and the very non-Jewish thinking elites are numbered.
Bring back the brave, productive Jewish residents to Gaza and encourage others to join them in making this part of our land great again - and forever Israel.
This is the third "round" or is it the fourth? One loses track. What is certain is that Hamas has won each round. If a terror organization survives a confrontation - it is a victory. For a country - especially one as powerful as Israel to agree to a tie is a huge defeat and a bigger shame.
What is the solution? Extreme vetting? Refund demands? A PR campaign explaining how Birthright is non-partisan? Extreme surveillance of the group? Or something else....
The brains and resources of the vaunted IDF are working night and day to create a defense against this latest innovative threat: Kites and Balloons
So now this "Palestinian" teen is a hero and an example for millions like her who view the Youtube clip and will now dare if they did hesitate before.
It is no coincidence that the same people who pounced on Hotovely in the latest political tempest do not generally share her values as a fierce patriot and a woman of Jewish faith with traditional Jewish values.
Israelis are not stupid. I believe that the Left, in any disguise it chooses, will never govern in this land again--The question is, will the "Right" govern as the "Right" is expected to by its voters?
Something happened on the way to the expansion and redesigning of Yad Vashem over a decade ago: the powerful and yet simple juxtaposition of the roles the Arabs and Jews played in the war vanished.
The soldier who finished off the snake in Hevron has more Jewish morality in his little trigger finger than all the IDF manuals based on anything but Jewish morality and law combined
The Arabs are not the main problem. It is the Jew bashing Jews. It is the Jews who coddle and encourage those who would kill us.
The world is witness and beneficiary to the fact a handful of Jews have fulfilled the Biblical promise that the Jews will indeed be a blessing for the world.
Some of Israel's most renowned authors and artists have made the pilgrimage to pay homage to Mr Barghouti and have lavished praise on him as the Nelson Mandela of the "Palestinian " people.
Trump has launched a cultural revolution in the US by pulling the PC cork from the bottle and long pent up frustration is now being triumphantly released by the masses of "deplorables."
By teaching facts and not being PC, I might pay a price. It wouldn't be the first time--it wasn't. The company was not enamored of me for tearing off the blinders from their students eyes and I was fired
Jewish forces (not Turkish or British), wiping from the face of the earth a vibrant God fearing community in Eretz Yisroel and sending Jews into an unknown future, was heart rending for normal Jews
Israelis are drifting wider apart on where the moral boundaries on when soldiers are to "fire" are to be drawn. This debate is rapidly escalating where it has long been pushed under the carpet.
Thousands of police are now under going intense training for the imminent forced expulsion of 50 Jewish families from Amona, formerly an unwanted rocky hilltop now a miracle of green and life
Do not even think of saying a critical word about Peres for the foreseeable future. Israel's democracy and freedom of expression goes only so far...
Which is worse: A Jewish cop beating a Jewish teen for moving his lips in prayer on the Temple Mount, or an Arab cop doing the same?
What made Germany open the gates to hell, sacrificing its nation to a horde?
Isn't it actually rather poetic how Europe, that has done so much to hurt Jews and it's only tiny, embattled country, is reeling from the same terror that they abetted.
There can not be a sharper dichotomy between two societies living side by side: We build, they destroy; We nourish, they poison; We pray for peace, they pray for destruction.
Tel Aviv mayor, Ron Huldai, blamed Israel's occupation of the 'Palestinian territories' for an attack on a Tel Aviv cafe that left four Israelis dead. Who's side is he on?
A great man once said that, a "dumb, illiterate Arab is far less dangerous to Israel than a smart educated one - especially the ones that WE educate."
Rather than risk the "peace" with our "peace partners," Mofaz, then chief of staff, observed as the soldier bled to death-and did nothing!
A vile comparison from the mouth of the man who led the expulsion of Jews from their homes.
Today, the Israeli government, in its weakness, is colluding with and appeasing our enemies to make a Jewish visit to the Temple Mount nearly impossible.
Polls show 2/3 of Israeli support sergeant Elor Azaria; interestingly enough, another poll showed 2/3 of Jews do not eat chametz on Pesach. Coincidence?
I was allotted 1 1/2 hours of the law school's 10 day program to present the "Jewish nationalist side"
The soldier who finished-off the snake last week, has more Jewish morality in his little trigger finger than all the IDF manuals based on anything but Jewish morality, tradition and law.
I knew I was witnessing an historic moment. Many praised it as the best of Zionism. I knew it wasn't
Find a common enemy that CAN be defeated, sufficiently different from most Israelis: Hill-top Youth
Once any Jew could walk anywhere in the land and feel awe from our Arab neighbors. Today, no longer.
How disgusting it is that certain politicians and media mavens malign our brother, Yehonatan Pollard
Europe is doomed. They drank the Kool Aid-They're not last on the crocodile's menu; They're first
On Har HaBayit, Arabs play, have picnics, humiliate us and call for our death while our police watch
Two Arabs paid their fare and then made Alon "pay the price of peace" (Shimon Peres), killing Alon.
When my cousin Rabbi Kupinsky was beheaded by Arabs this year in Har Nof his killers were celebrated
Rivlin has visited Arab victims of Israeli attacks, declaring that "his people are terrorists"
"If you can't negotiate with your enemy, why negotiate at all?" Great sound bite. The press loved it
In 1948 Druze were the bottom of Arab society; By working with Israel, today they're envied by Arabs
Ramadan is SUPPOSEDLY a month of introspection & repentance; yet attacks on "Infidels" skyrocket
If IDF troops couldn't quash an Arab riot, a Druze manned jeep often was enough to disperse rioters
Not used to being challenged, the Left's "culture monopoly" howled; Their role is to dictate "taste"
In the near future, Jews remaining in the US not yet totally assimilated will begin to feel ISOLATED
If some Israeli cops got a Jewish education & learned to love Jews, Israel would be a better place
Who dreamed of Jews hiding behind concrete in our renewed beloved land? Is this the best we can do?
Regavim is an NGO whose mandate is to preserve the land of Israel for the State & the Jewish people
An old Arab man yelled at me "You're stupid!" I returned the compliment; He had murder in his eyes.
The media, academia and entertainment joined to unseat their nemesis, in a "just not Bibi" campaign
I joined the large crowd but this time it was more personal; my cousin Aryeh was one of the victims.
Bottom line; Israel lost this round too:Jews are more restricted, humiliated and the Arabs empowered
We risk our lives to help those who do what they can to kill to our people .
The media dumped on the "Lehava" people as extremist - racist and should mind their own business.
Manya was befriended by many who would later comprise this first leaders of the newly born Jewish state.
I was warned not to pray or make any trouble.
Honestly, it would be hard to choose the one area that could win the title “the most dramatic site” in Eretz Yisrael. However, one strong candidate has to be Gush Etzion.
We are all well familiar with the dramatic last stand of the Jewish rebels on Masada against the Roman Legions after the destruction of the Second Bais HaMikdash. But according to Josephus Flavious (Yosef ben Matityahu) a very similar drama took place on another isolated mountain in the very north of the country.
I finally returned to Yericho, Jericho after ten years. The last time I was there, guiding tourists, was just before the Oslo War broke out in October 2000.
Always seeking to increase our knowledge of Israel's tourist sites, from time to time, us tour guides take refresher tours.
On the twenty-fifth day of the month of Kislev, over twenty-one hundred years ago, the Temple in Jerusalem was rededicated after it was wrenched from the hands of the defiling Greeks. Thus ended a war no one planned or even dreamed could happen.
One of the off the beaten track areas in Eretz Yisrael that I enjoy taking adventurous visitors to are the southern Hevron Hills. As we drive south from Yerushalayim, passing through the very cradle of Jewish history, with its rolling green hills along the Patriarchs and Matriarchs path or the “Road of Heroism" as it is some times called, we resist the magnetic pull to stop at Gush Etzion or Hevron and continue south, fully cognizant that more Jews walked on this path than on any other road in history.
