Sunday Apr 05, 2009
Posted by Yisrael Medad
Following remarks of a Yesha resident in New York, recorded by Philip Weiss, a renewed attempt to attack the tax-exempt status of charitable funds contributed to worthy projects, that is, Jewish projects, beyond the Green Line began. Americans for Peace Now supplied material to David Ignatius, who published an op-ed in the Washington Post.
Following that, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee announced it was filing a complaint with the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service requesting they investigate tax-exempt groups raising money for Yesha communities, suggesting that groups were using the income "in direct violation of their addressed purpose."
Tuesday Mar 03, 2009
Posted by Yisrael Medad
According to The Jerusalem Post, Army Radio is reporting that:
...the new construction and housing minister will receive plans for significantly enlarging West Bank settlements... According to the plans... some 73,000 housing units will be built, including 19,000 apartments in Jewish settlements on the Palestinian side of the security barrier... More than 3,000 of the new housing units are expected to be built in the disputed E1 region, between Jerusalem and Ma'aleh Adumim."
Now that, in my humble opinion, is doubtful.
Not that some people (okay, like myself) don't think this is possible and doable.
But 19,000 units across the Green Line, in Yesha [Hebrew acronym for Judea, Samaria and Gaza]?
Monday Mar 02, 2009
Posted by Yisrael Medad
The Green Line. That virtual definition between Jewish nationalism and Zionist messianism, between rational political behavior and extremist social disharmony, between good and bad.
Well, that's not really true but a four decades-old campaign has placed upon your eyes, my readers, green-tinted glasses and you believe, perhaps, that there are two realities, one of Israel in its post-1949/pre-1967 boundaries (never internationally recognized you'll recall) and another of Yesha, the Hebrew acronym for Judea, Samaria and, yes, Gaza.
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Green-Lined
Yisrael Medad resides in Shiloh and has been in Israel since 1970. Currently in charge of Information Resources at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center, he was Director of Israel's Media Watch and a parliamentary aide to Members of Knesset. He lectures on Zionist history and serves as a spokesperson for the Jewish communites in Judea and and Samaria to the foreign media and diplomatic corps.
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YMedad: Shahab, thanks for your theological input. Nevertheless, I would suggest to you that only under Jewish administration and sovereignty can all three religions be best served. When under Crusader rule and under various Muslim rules, the Jews, Muslims and Christians ALL suffered. Under Israelis rule since 1967, all have benefited, well, almost. The Jews still don't permit themselves their rights on the Temple Mount. As for two states, there are two already: Jordan and Israel in the area of the Palestine Mandate. Who needs a third state in the area?
Michael Beverford: I beg to differ...
God made and keeps his word to the nation and people of Israel.
In both the torah and the christian bible, we see fortold of everything that has, is, and will happen to the nation and people of Israel. the restoration of this nation in may of 1948 is a fullfilment of this truth.
God has not taken his eye off of either. The claims of any other nation on this land are mute...God has the final word in everything. He will show His protection on this nation and His people as written by the prophet Ezekiel.
Shahab Mohd Altaf INDIA: GOD's Promise to Moses fulfilled in his Time itself.The Bible revived the story of the Promised Land and the UN created Israel in 1948.The Jews have a historical and religious link to the Holy Land but, after they rebelled against GOD and His messengers, they were punished by GOD and the other faithful Christians and Muslims were given possession of the Land.Today all the three faiths, Judaism, Christianity and Islam have rights over the Holy Land.The Two-States solution is the only way out.Abraham is the Father of all the three peoples.Peace is intangible but Holiness is by association.
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