tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34049292024-03-08T12:20:57.546-08:00The Truth about IsraelI was born in Brooklyn (like everybody), but I served in the Israeli army; my first reserve duty was the Six-Day War. My father was a Palestinian--born in Poland, emigrated to Palestine when he was three years old, in 1920. I inherited a deep love of Israel from him. I hate the stream of lies I read and hear daily about Israel. I love Israel's people--all of them.
<i>[Contact me: joel dot orr at gmail dot com]</i>Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04663812221862691121noreply@blogger.comBlogger632125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404929.post-1110057291845083222005-03-05T13:14:00.000-08:002005-03-05T13:14:51.846-08:00Moving for nowI’ve decided to focus my efforts on supporting Americans and Israelis: Strength and Honor – so that is where my blogging input is being directed. Come visit!Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04663812221862691121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404929.post-1107459949830481702005-02-03T11:45:00.000-08:002006-03-10T13:14:31.173-08:00Oslo Redux: Another "historic opportunity" we should miss.By Naomi RagenCaught in a bind of misconception and delusion, the government of Israel signed agreements that resulted in the death of a thousand civilians, and injuries to thousands more.In the beginning, when the bombings first started, we were told that we would proceed anyway, and not let the terrorists acts interrupt this "historic opportunity" for peace. Again and again, we were told ArafatJoelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04663812221862691121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404929.post-1106805681017165052005-01-26T22:01:00.000-08:002005-01-26T22:09:25.376-08:00Remembering the Wannsee Conference and the Liberation of Auschwitz <!--StartFragment -->This article is posted by participants of the January 27, 2005, BlogBurst (see list at end of article), to remember the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, sixty years ago, on January 27, 1945.
On January 20th, we marked the anniversary of the 1942 Wannsee Conference. In the course of that Conference, the Nazi hierarchy formalized the plan to annihilate the Jewish Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04663812221862691121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404929.post-1106196481999164732005-01-19T20:48:00.000-08:002005-01-19T20:48:02.000-08:00Mitchell Bard: Myth & Fact #164MYTH #164“Israel must help Mahmoud Abbas improve his standing among Palestinians to facilitate the peace process.”<?color><?param 8080,0000,0000><?bigger>FACT<?/bigger><?/color>The death of <?color><?param 0000,0000,eeee>Yasser Arafat<?/color>, who remained unwilling to make peace with <?color><?param 0000,0000,eeee>Israel<?/color> until the end of his life, has stimulated hope that aJoelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04663812221862691121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404929.post-1104380247429546362004-12-29T20:17:00.000-08:002004-12-29T20:17:27.430-08:00Naomi Ragen: The Last Ten Minutes of My LifeIf you would like to know what life is like in Israel today, read this powerful and brief account.Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04663812221862691121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404929.post-1103482515927818232004-12-19T10:55:00.000-08:002004-12-19T10:55:15.926-08:00Plaut in IsraelInsider: 20 Unfashionable FactsThis is a nice summary. Even the comments from a detractor and the responses from supporters are enlightening. Thanks, Professor Plaut.Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04663812221862691121noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404929.post-1103214558130910222004-12-16T08:29:00.000-08:002004-12-16T08:29:18.130-08:00Prof. Paul Eidelberg via Women in Green: "The Poodles Among Us"In his 2002 foreword to Raphael Patai’s 1973 classic, The Arab Mind, Norvelle B. de Atkine writes: “This book … forms the basis of my cultural instruction, complemented by my own experiences of some 25 years living in, studying or teaching about the Middle East.”De Atkine notes that “officers returning from the Arab world describe the cultural barriers they encounter Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04663812221862691121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404929.post-1103080489150019862004-12-14T19:14:00.000-08:002004-12-14T19:14:49.150-08:00A terror victim speaksPlease go to this site and read the full text of this speech given recently by Arnold Roth, the father of 15-year-old Sbarro victim Malki Roth. This man's articulate love, compassion, and good sense are, I am proud to say, thoroughly representative of the very best in Judaism.Dear reader, if you have bought into the "moral equivalence" lie (Israel = "Palestine") of the media, please see if you Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04663812221862691121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404929.post-1103073710039634912004-12-14T17:21:00.000-08:002004-12-14T17:21:50.040-08:00Honig in JPost: Lost Chicken-Senseby Sarah HonigAmong the junk mail that clogs my postbox daily, I found a Gush Shalom leaflet calling on me to fulfill my "national duty and the duty of every peace-loving person" to help remove all settlements. How do I pitch in? By boycotting anything that's settlement-made. To facilitate my task, I was supplied with a list of brands to be shunned. In case of unmarked agricultural produce,Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04663812221862691121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404929.post-1102892595534122782004-12-12T15:03:00.000-08:002004-12-12T15:03:15.533-08:00Amazing letter from Pollard to chief IDF rabbiTo: Brigadier General Rabbi Israel Weiss, Chief Rabbi of the IDFFrom: Jonathan Pollard, 09185-016; FCI Butner, Butner NC, USADear Rabbi Weiss,As you know, our tradition teaches that a Jew does not sin unless he is afflicted by temporary insanity, a "ruach shtut". How else are we to understand why a G-d -fearing Jew like yourself, the Chief Rabbi of the IDF, would declare his support for orders toJoelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04663812221862691121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404929.post-1102264394317967302004-12-05T08:33:00.000-08:002004-12-05T08:33:14.316-08:00Remember: WE are the good guys!In Column One: Leaving the Hall of Mirrors, Jerusalem Post columnist Carolyn Glick writes one of her most insightful and level-headed analyses ever. Thanks, Carolyn! (and thanks, Naomi, for pointing this out.)You have to register with Jpost to read it, but it’s free.Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04663812221862691121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404929.post-1102006067308158942004-12-02T08:47:00.000-08:002004-12-02T08:47:47.306-08:00Amir Taheri in Jerusalem Post: What if it's not Israel they loathe?This article makes the point that Muslims don't care about Palestinians as "brother Muslims"; they're just another excuse for hating the US and the West in general. The arguments are clearly made and supported--and widely ignored by the press and politicians.Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04663812221862691121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404929.post-1101454622780385752004-11-25T23:37:00.000-08:002004-11-25T23:37:02.780-08:00israelinsider: Culture: Rafael "Raful" Eitan drowns in MediterraneanThis article, while far from the depth of eulogy the man deserves, really says it all.
Farewell, Raful. The memory of your life will continue to serve as an example.Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04663812221862691121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404929.post-1098057349393660822004-10-17T16:46:00.000-07:002004-10-17T16:55:49.393-07:00Different Worlds, Different ValuesRemarks of Brigitte Gabriel to be delivered at the Duke University Counter-Terrorism Speak-out
October 14, 2004
(via Naomi Ragen)
I'm proud and honored to stand here today as a Lebanese speaking for Israel--the only democracy in the Middle East. As someone who was raised in an Arabic country I want to give you a glimpse into the heart of the Arabic world.
I was raised in Lebanon, where I was Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04663812221862691121noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404929.post-1096563554035404422004-09-30T09:57:00.000-07:002004-09-30T10:01:22.390-07:00MYTH #153: “Israel was responsible for the 1973 war.”FACT On October 6, 1973 — Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar — Egypt and Syria opened a coordinated surprise attack against Israel. The equivalent of the total forces of NATO in Europe were mobilized on Israel's borders (Chaim Herzog, The Arab-Israeli Wars, NY: Random House, 1984, p. 230.).1 On the Golan Heights, approximately 180 Israeli tanks faced an onslaught of 1,400 Syrian Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04663812221862691121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404929.post-1095279925521172732004-09-15T13:20:00.000-07:002004-09-15T13:25:25.520-07:00MYTH #152: “The Jews have no claim to the land they call Israel.”FACT: A common misperception is that all the Jews were forced into the Diaspora by the Romans after the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the year 70 C.E. and then, 1,800 years later, suddenly returned to Palestine demanding their country back.
In reality, the Jewish people have maintained ties to their historic homeland for more than 3,700 years.
The Jewish people base their Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04663812221862691121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404929.post-1094941862227501732004-09-11T15:28:00.000-07:002004-09-11T15:31:02.226-07:00Ali Sina: Eradicate IslamIn this amazing blog piece, former Muslim Ali Sina argues for the adandonment of Islam by its followers; that it is an illogical occult cult that cannot be fixed. I'm with him.
Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04663812221862691121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404929.post-1094525696457632602004-09-06T19:51:00.000-07:002004-09-06T19:54:56.456-07:00Naomi Ragen: Who is the Enemy?I have not been able to recover from the terrorist attack in Beslan. Terrorism is not the enemy. Terrorism is a tactic of the enemy. Who, then, is the enemy that fights all those who identify with the civilized world -- the world in which children and their mothers are cherished and protected, even in war? The world in which school buildings, and ambulances, and hospitals, and holy places are Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04663812221862691121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404929.post-1094222128964361012004-09-03T07:33:00.000-07:002004-09-03T07:35:28.963-07:00John Loftus on the origins of Al QaedaThis is a "must read"; long, but eye-opening.
John Loftus Speech Yom Ha Shoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day2004 Jewish Community News, August 2004
It always seems a little strange to have an Irish-Catholic talking about Yom Ha Shoah. I had an unusual education in the Holocaust. When I was working for the Attorney General, I was assigned to do the classified research about the Holocaust, so I Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04663812221862691121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404929.post-1092608281979549152004-08-15T15:16:00.000-07:002004-08-15T15:18:01.980-07:00An Arab Living in IsraelCirculated by Naomi Ragen
I am A Lucky Arab
by Anonymous
I am a lucky Arab. My grandfather, Mohammed, travelled on foot from his home in Iraq in the early part of the last century looking for work.
Jews had come to British-controlled Palestine in the thousands, joining the Jews that had always been here, buying up land from absentee Turkish Muslim owners, and they needed many workers to help Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04663812221862691121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404929.post-1088982884693035992004-07-04T16:13:00.000-07:002004-07-04T16:14:59.663-07:00Stay Quiet and You'll be OK
By Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com | June 23, 2004
Here's a new slogan for the zeitgeist: stay quiet and you'll be OK. This was the message, according to the tapes released last week, that Muhammad Atta gave to the passengers on the ill-fated airplane that he and his fellow terrorists had commandeered.
Stay quiet and you'll be OK. Don't mention that a Saudi imam who spoke at the opening Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04663812221862691121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404929.post-1088808215506484232004-07-02T15:41:00.000-07:002004-07-02T15:43:35.506-07:00Liat Ben David mourns Naomi Shemer (from the Jewish Agency site)Last night, when I heard that Naomi Shemer had died, I felt as if music itself had died. What hasn't she given us? Her songs are the melodies of everything we know and hold dear:
The joy of our childhood songs - "We went on a hike/ and found an anemone/ on the grass-filled hill/ in the west", a childhood filled with simple, naive symbols: "The mail has arrived today/ in a red car/ and it broughtJoelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04663812221862691121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404929.post-1086279362719418132004-06-03T09:14:00.000-07:002004-06-03T09:16:02.720-07:00Ahmed Shuqeiry invented "Palestine"Ruth Matar, Women in Green, writes:
The following was sent to me by Gilbert Simons from his as yet unpublished book on this subject.
"How did this artificial Arab country of Palestine come into being? Ahmed Shuqairy, a lawyer, created it out of thin air, at the bequest of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. From his pen came the Palestine National Covenant, a historical revisionist document Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04663812221862691121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404929.post-1085984146662777462004-05-30T23:12:00.000-07:002004-05-30T23:15:46.663-07:00This is the Enemyhttp://www.israelnationalnews.com/print.php3?what=article&id=3732.
by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz May 30, 2004
[WARNING: The following contains graphic descriptions of violence.]
Nick Berg, an American from Philadelphia, was kidnapped and tortuously beheaded by Arabs in Iraq sometime in May. The murderers filmed the deed and proudly displayed the victim's severed head.
After killing six Israeli Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04663812221862691121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404929.post-1085724587358477802004-05-27T23:07:00.000-07:002004-05-27T23:09:47.356-07:00THE BIG LIE WHICH PLANTED THE SEEDS OF GLOBAL JIHADLETTER FROM RUTH MATAR (WOMEN IN GREEN) JERUSALEM
Dear Friends,
This is probably the most important letter that I have ever written to you. I implore you to forward this letter or a letter in your own words, accompanied by the original PALESTINIAN NATIONAL CHARTER OF 1964, to President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, your Senators and Congressmen, your Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04663812221862691121noreply@blogger.com0