Yehuda Lave, Spiritual Advisor and Counselor | | | | Yehuda Lave is an author, journalist, psychologist, rabbi, spiritual teacher and coach, with degrees in business, psychology and Jewish Law. He works with people from all walks of life and helps them in their search for greater happiness, meaning, business advice on saving money, and spiritual engagement | | Query Calm People Would you like to become an expert on how to be calm in all sorts of challenging situations? Do not just rely on your own ingenuity. Keep asking people who appear to be calm, "Would you mind if I ask you how you are able to be so calm?" Most people will happily share their thoughts on the subject with you. Love Yehuda Lave | | War Crime!: Placing a Note in the Western Wall by Alan M. Dershowitz
May 14, 2019 at 5:00 am https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14223/western-wall-note Share427 -
I urge all visitors to join me in a conspiracy to violate the UN Security Council Resolution...Obama, himself, engineered the Resolution. He pushed it through the Security Council despite some reservations by other members, including Egypt, which believed that the Resolution itself could become a barrier to a negotiated two-state solution. After all, if Israel's control over Judaism's holiest site is deemed illegal, then Israel would have to negotiate its legality with the Palestinians. -
These Jewish areas were illegally occupied by Jordan between 1948 and 1967 and lawfully recaptured by Israel in a defensive war, started by Jordan when it fired mortars at civilian targets inside pre-1967 Israel.... Yet there were no United Nations Resolutions, campus protests or other organized shows of opposition by the international community. Only after Israel liberated these historically Jewish areas, did the world, and Obama, decide -- in violation of international law -- that they were illegally occupied. -
Declaring the Western Wall to be illegally occupied territory is akin to declaring the Vatican, Mecca or other religious, holy sites to be occupied by those who pray at them. The Western Wall is lawfully part of the nation state of the Jewish people. It will remain so as long as Israel exists. If there is to be any hope of peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the world must recognize that historic, moral and legal reality. Pictured: Notes placed by visitors in the cracks of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images) Last week, in Israel, I committed a flagrant violation of international law. This "war crime" consisted of placing a note asking for "peace, salaam, shalom" in the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site. The reason the note requesting peace constituted "a flagrant violation of international law" and a "war crime" is that the United Nations Security Council, in a Resolution adopted in December 2016, declared that all areas captured by Israel during the 1967 War are illegally occupied territories. That includes the Western Wall, the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem and the access roads on Mount Scopus to the Hebrew University and Hadassah Hospital. Former US President Barack Obama demanded that his permanent representative to the United Nations not veto this one-sided, wrong-headed, ahistorical, bigoted, and anti-peace Resolution. Obama changed American policy by allowing such a resolution to be enacted by the Security Council as revenge on Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who, quite correctly, opposed the very bad deal Obama made with Iran enabling it to develop nuclear weapons. Although Obama himself had once stood in front of the Western Wall and placed a note in it, he now apparently regards Judaism's holiest place as territory illegally occupied by Israel. He is dead wrong, but that does not change the Security Council Resolution. So now I, and doubtless many others, have not only willfully and deliberately committed a violation of international law, we are also guilty of a war crime, because building or using civilian structures on illegally occupied territory is a war crime; and Israel built, and I used, the promenade in front of the Western Wall after Israel recaptured it during a defensive war. Let me be clear: I intend to commit this crime during every visit to Israel. Call it an act of civil disobedience, or call it an act which simply recognizes the absurdity and illegality of the Security Council Resolution, despite its passage and lack of veto by the United States, which abstained. The United States abstention was designed to give the Obama administration political cover at home. It could claim that it did not vote for the Resolution. But it did much more than vote for the Resolution. Obama, himself, engineered the Resolution. He pushed it through the Security Council despite some reservations by other members, including Egypt, which believed that the Resolution itself could become a barrier to a negotiated two-state solution. After all, if Israel's control over Judaism's holiest site is deemed illegal, then Israel would have to negotiate its legality with the Palestinians. This would give the Palestinians an incomparable bargaining chip. As a former Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority once rhetorically asked me, "How much would Israel be willing to give up to get back its most important religious shrine?" Israel will never accept the Security Council Resolution. Nor should any decent person. I certainly do not, and will continue to violate it during every visit to Israel, by putting notes in the Western Wall, eating kosher falafel in the Jewish Quarter and driving on the access road to Hebrew University, and if I need to, Hadassah Hospital. I urge all visitors to join me in a conspiracy to violate the Security Council Resolution. These Jewish areas were illegally occupied by Jordan between 1948 and 1967 and lawfully recaptured by Israel in a defensive war, started by Jordan when it fired mortars at civilian targets inside pre-1967 Israel. During the Jordanian occupation, King Hussein engaged in war crimes by ordering the destruction of ancient synagogues, burial places and other historical sites and by "ethnically cleansing" this historically Jewish area of all Jews. Yet there were no United Nations Resolutions, campus protests or other organized shows of opposition by the international community. Only after Israel liberated these historically Jewish areas, did the world, and Obama, decide -- in violation of international law -- that they were illegally occupied. Declaring the Western Wall to be illegally occupied territory is akin to declaring the Vatican, Mecca or other religious, holy sites to be occupied by those who pray at them. The Western Wall is lawfully part of the nation state of the Jewish people. It will remain so as long as Israel exists. If there is to be any hope of peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the world must recognize that historic, moral and legal reality. Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School and author of The Case Against the Democrats Impeaching Trump, Skyhorse Publishing, 2018. He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Gatestone Institute. | | Israel To Close Temple Mount For Jews On Jerusalem Day For First Time In 30 Years For the first time in three decades, Israeli authorities are expected to bar Jews from entering the Temple Mount on Jerusalem Day, which marks Israel's capture of East Jerusalem in the Six-Day War.
This year, Jerusalem Day will coincide with the final days of Ramadan, and due to suspected tensions for this reason, the site will be closed. Activists are vowing to fight against this decision.
Full Story (Israel News - Haaretz.com) | | Hospital Quotes A hospital is no place to be sick. Samuel Goldwyn movie mogul A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. Groucho Marx comedian I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago. Richard Simmons exersise guru Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it. Erma Bombeck author Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet. Quentin Blake cartoonist I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself. Amy Winehouse Singer-songwriter | | Israel businessman sues Kuwait Airways for 'discrimination' An Israeli businessman has sued Kuwait Airways over the airline's "anti-Semitic discrimination policy."
The Israel Broadcasting Authority yesterday reported that a Frankfurt-based Israeli businessman, identified as Shmuel M., had booked a ticket on a Kuwait Airways flight from Munich to Sri Lanka in November, but was banned from boarding after he had inquired about the availability of Kosher food aboard. The Gulf state's national airline had asked whether he was holding an Israeli passport. After confirming that he did, the company informed him that he was unable to travel and that he would need to speak to the airline's lawyers for further information.
The lawsuit was filed by Israel's The Lawfare Project, which advocates against anti-Semitism.
The complainant's German lawyer, Nathan Gelbart, said that there should be "no discrimination against Jews on German soil." "As long as we [Germany] permit an airline to advertise flights for everyone except Israelis, it is a stain on the moral fabric of our country," Gelbart added.
Kuwait Airways is yet to comment on the Israeli allegations.
In recent months, the Kuwaiti carrier agreed to pay compensation to an Israeli citizen after she had refused to cancel her flight ticket, which was leaving from the British capital of London. In 2017, the company banned an Israeli student to board a flight that was leaving from the German city of Frankfurt for Thailand. [MEMO] | | Vile comments should have no place in Congress By Victor Sharpe May 15, 2019
House Republican Conference Chair, Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), knows well the warnings of history especially when she points out that; "History teaches us that anti-Semitism begins with words and becomes something far worse."
Hateful anti-Jewish tropes frequently drop from the lips of Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich). It is like corrosive acid laced with foul calumny.
This hate ridden and sometimes hijab shrouded woman made the obscene statement that, "the Holocaust gives her "a calming feeling" in part because her "ancestors the Palestinians" helped create "a safe haven for Jews." Nothing could be further from the truth.
The Arabs living in the British Mandated and non-state geographical territory known as Palestine did not provide any support for Jews either before, during or after the Holocaust. In fact, Arabs rarely gave "a safe haven for Jews" but instead routinely massacred ancient Jewish communities living in Gaza and throughout the country.
In 1929, Arabs committed an appalling massacre of Jews living in Hebron, one of the four holy Jewish cities, the others being Tiberias, Safed and the jewel in the crown, Jerusalem. So horrific was the scene of the hacked to death Jewish men, women and children in Hebron that hardened British soldiers serving in the Mandate were driven to tears.
As a good friend of mine and fellow writer, Robert Vincent, wrote: "What else can be expected from a people who still today hand out candy after innocent Jewish civilians are murdered in cold blood as a matter of course and in a deliberate and coordinated policy?"
"There is no justification for the twisted and disgusting comments made by Rashida Tlaib just days after the annual Day of Holocaust Remembrance," House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) stated. "More than six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust; there is nothing 'calming' about that fact.
"Unfortunately, this is far from the first display of heinous anti-Semitic comments coming from Democrat House members this year, and it's clear this is now the norm for their caucus," Scalise charged.
He said it was "long past time" for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA.) to "take swift action and make it clear that these vile comments have no place in Congress."
This is not the first time that Tlaib has faced fire from her GOP colleagues. She has faced criticism in the past for other comments she made, including saying "we're going to impeach the mother f – er," in reference to President Trump on her first day as a member of Congress in January. Republicans were outraged by those comments, calling her use of profanity "disgusting."
Tragically, House Speaker Pelosi will not be moved, but seems fated to preside over an increasingly soft Islamic jihad infiltration of American politics and society. Tragically, also, she is part of the increasingly loony Left so-called progressives (read regressives) who have effectively hijacked the Democrat Party by allowing ingrates, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and the apparatchiks of the so-called Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR), to spew both anti-Israel propaganda while working to increase the penetration of hostile Islamic Sharia law in America.
Facts not Myths:
From past experience we know that the uninformed often accept such falsehoods as those coming from Tlaib and Omar without question. This is what Liz Chaney warns against. To counter Arab and Muslim falsehoods here are facts not myths. Jerold Auerbach, wrote this in the Algemeiner newspaper:
"Palestine" emerged as an abbreviation of "Syria-Palestina, imposed by Roman Emperor Hadrian during his 2nd century AD campaign to obliterate the Jewish millennial connection to their Biblical homeland. Modern conceptions of Palestine did not appear until the 19th century. The more recent term "Palestine" dates from the League of Nations Mandate (1923) which granted Britain a Mandate and temporary governing power over the land, including Trans-Jordan; territory previously controlled for 400 years by the defeated Ottoman Empire."
The Rev. Alexander Keith, wrote that the Jews are, "a people without their ancestral country while their own land is a country without its people." Several years later Lord Ashley Cooper described the ancestral Jewish homeland as, "a country without a nation needing a nation without a country." He was referring to the Jewish people.
The Mandate recognized, "the overwhelming historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine." During the early years of the British Mandate, Arabs in Palestine still had little awareness of a distinctive national identity. Testifying before the Peel Commission in 1937, Syrian leader Auni Bey Abdul-Nadi asserted: "There is no such country as Palestine. ...'Palestine' is alien to us. It is the Jewish Zionists who introduced it."
Even Columbia history professor, Rashid Khalidi, (friend of Barack Hussein Obama) would admit that before World War I Palestine did not exist in Arab consciousness.
All people living in Mandatory Palestine called themselves Palestinians and, unlike the Arabs, Jewish Palestinians were engaged in restoring the neglected homeland by draining the malarial infested swamps and making the deserts bloom again. In doing so, they served as a magnet for hundreds of thousands of itinerant Arabs from stagnant Middle Eastern countries to illegally flood into British Mandated Palestine in search of work and a better life. These are today's Arabs who now call themselves Palestinians. Their propaganda claiming thousands of years of ownership of the land is one of the biggest scams in history.
Shortly before the birth of the State of Israel, Arab historian Philip Hitti conceded: "There is no such thing as Palestine in history."
It is interesting to point out that at-least one-quarter of the Arab settlements in the Land of Israel have ancient Biblical Jewish names. Among them: Bethlehem (Beit Lechem), Hebron (Hevron), Beitin (Beit El), Jenin (Ein Ganim), Silwan (Shiloach), Nablus (Shechem), Tequa (Tekoa) and many, many more.
But such facts are, however, an inconvenient truth, easily dismissed by an inveterate liar and bigot as is Rashida Tlaib.
Victor Sharpe is a prolific freelance writer and author of several books including the four volume work titled, Politicide.
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