Israel Now| 19 |
| December |
| 2011 |
The danger of tirany
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| September |
| 2011 |
Macabi Tel Aviv – Besiktas
Today at 20:00 The israeli soccer team Macabi Tel Aviv will play against the turkish team of besiktas.
As surreal as it may sound, in the midst of Mr. Arduan’s little “war against Israel”, an Israeli team will play against a Turkish team and if all goes well, and the game will run as a football game should it would be a great win both for sports and for freedom.
It doesn’t really matter who wins and who looses, the games shows the Turkish prime minister that no one want’s this situation, we (people throughout the middle east region) are tired of war, threats, tension and fights! The only fight we care to participate in is the one that involves sports and where no one really gets hurt (except for sport injuries 
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I really do hope to see the game today and I hope it will be a great game, Macabi Tel Aviv’s trip to Turkey wen through smoothly except for some opportunistic radicals who demonstrated in front of Macabi’s hotel in Turkey although both teams – players and coaches repeatedly stated that they don’t care about politics and they will not answer any politic-nature questions, those few opportunistic miserable people still tried to create mayhem and maybe get some headlines – gladly – it did not happen.
Have a great game Macabi & besiktas!
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| September |
| 2011 |
10 years for WTC terror attack
After 10 years, countless stories, a number of books and several movies which all focus on the WTC terror attack, the world still mourns the death of innocent Americans by Islamic terrorists.
10 years later, I can still remember exactly where I was and what I was doing at the time. It was as if the world stood still, people stopped in the middle of the road in Israel’s main highway trying to get any piece of information trying to understand if what they just heard on the radio was a hoax or not.
No one really believed that the world trade center is no longer there, no one could even picture the Manhattan skyline without those 2 proud building standing out of the line of sky scrapers.
10 years later we still cant grasp the hatred a person must feel in order to perform such a terrorist act, making so many people miserable, so many wives widows, so many children orphans and so many people afraid to move around in the land of opportunities.
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| September |
| 2011 |
Turkey is in over it’s head
The past couple of weeks have been a stand up comedy show by the Turkish government.
Turkey’s prime minister Arduan was going in public trying to show some muscles, asking Israel to apologize for it’s actions in the ship convoy where 9 terrorists were killed by the IDF trying to invade Israel.
Arduan claims that the convoy was peaceful and that the IDF is acting like a bully in the Mediterranean sea and that the siege on the Gaza strip should stop.
Even though the Palmer report show’s that the siege is legitimate and I am quite sure Turkey would have act the same under the circumstances, Arduan and his Turkish government insist that Israel will be on it’s knees asking for forgiveness.
We’ll mister Arduan, I guess you are not familiar with Israel and you’re own people – enough so here are some question for – maybe you can find some logic and answer – mainly yourself:
- There is no war between Turkey and Israel, why are you trying to cause one?Turkey and Israel were the best allies in the middle east, including economic treaties, military treaties, tourism was flourishing and so were businesses, so why are you trying to start a war?how would Turkey behave if Israel would send ships to Turkish shores, which are suspected to carry weapons for rebels and terrorists inside Turkey?
I am quite sure those ships would get sunk faster then you can say Arduan… - I would really like to know what does Mr. Arduan expect to happen next? Does he really expect Israel to apologize? Does he want war? Does he want to show his people that he has “the power” to command the Israeli prime minister? Think logically – none of Arduan’s demands will happen in real life, the best he can achieve ( maybe that’s what he want) is a burning middle east.
- If aiding the Palestinians is really Arduans goal, why doesn’t he send them supplies through the Israeli authorities who are more then willing to convey those supplies to the Palestinian?
- Talking about other countries is easy, sounding humane when it comes to other people is even easier, what about the Armenian genocide that Turkey was responsible to? Did everybody forget that? Did Arduan forget that?
Any one observing Arduan’s behavior can easily see similarity to a child wanting other children toys and when he wont be able to get them’ he’ll start crying – we hope it wont be too late to back down.
Stories and tales about israeli injustice are heard from Arduan’s mouth everyday now, and it seems that he doesn’t have a lot to say since Israeli prime minister Mr. Binyamin Netanyahu is completely ignoring him and his demands (quite rightfully) it makes Arduan seem like the boy who screams to mommy….
Perhaps, If Arduan was such a peace loving person, perhaps he should have not allowed those ships to go out on the convoy which was bound to end as it did, perhaps he should have tried diplomacy back then – before he sent those ships to create the provocation that they did.
Israel never refused humanitarian support or aid to anyone, on the contrary, it was the first to send aid to any catastrophy on the planet – Including the last earthquake in Turkey which left so many dead and many more with no roof over their heads – The rescue and recovery crews were composed mainly out of Israeli people and requirement.
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| May |
| 2011 |
The fog of war is in the horizon
While the rest of the world is celebrating Bin Laden’s death thinking it will mark a turning point in the war on terror, in Jerusalem, thousands of Muslims are praying for his soul in the Al-Aqtza mosque.
As Recent events show in the middle east Arab leaders cannot keep a stable leadership nor can they control their citizens.
With these two facts in mind, how can anyone even begin to imagine, Israel accepting the 67 borders in the UN decision 242 from 1948(!) ?
63 years have passed since the jewish state was founded and the borders were set, in those 63 years, The Palestinians NEVER accepted the UN decision nor do they accept it now, Abu-Mazen still says the Palestinians will never recognize the Israeli state (which is part of the 242 decision) and that Israel will be Palestine again one day.
Only an Idiot would think voting for such a decision in the UN will provide nothing else then an all out WAR between Israel and whom ever will choose to intervene in the conflict should the voting decide on a Palestinian state in the 1967 borders.
Israel will NEVER allow such a decision to take place in the field, there is too much that has happened since we wanted to live in peace in 1947 and right now, millions of Israelis will be at risk should the border pass in the 1967 layout.
One should really come here and see how close the 1967 border line passes from Israeli cities and due to recent events in the southern part of Israel where missiles and rockets are lunched every day on Israeli cities, Israel will NOT allow that to happen in: Tel Aviv, Netanya, Hadera, Haifa, Jerusalem, Ramat Gan etc…
Sadly, the feeling in Israel is a pre-war feeling, erevyone is ready, and although no defcon has been declared, we, the Israeli citizens know better, we can smell the fog of war coming towards the region.
This is not just another article about who is better then whom, what is happening now in Syria, Lybia, Egypt etc…may be dwarfed by the upcoming war in which the blood spilled will be on the hands of those who vote “yes” for a Palestinian state.
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| April |
| 2011 |
Games theory
I think the IHH has been reading to much science fiction lately.
As I read on the news now, they are planning on sending more “aid ships” to Israeli waters in hopes that maybe if they show they are determined, Israel will allow them to go through without a security check and without verifying there are no weapons aboard those ships.
It’s kind of amusing, if the IHH claims the ships carry humanitarian aid supplies, why don’t they allow the Israeli government check those ships and then deliver the goods to Gaza? If those ships do not carry missiles and rockets, why do those aboard those ships fight to defend the ships with their lives?
There are many whys in these so called “aid cruises” but the bottom line is, Israel will never allow a vessel to approach it’s shores, especially the Gaza strip shores, unchecked.
Think what would you do? If you knew you enemies are delivering weapons to hurt your civilians, women, children, elderly – missiles make no discrimination.
Israel has no choice but to stop those ships and check for weapons in any mean necessary, even at the cost of lives, otherwise’ the outcome will be loss of lives among Israeli children.
I am quite sure that the next ship which will approach the Israeli shores will stop, and if it wont, it will be boarded, and if that doesn’t succeed, I am quite sure the IDF also has a plan of sinking those ships – anything but let missiles and rockets reach the Gaza strip.
The reason for those cruises is quite known. The Egyptian border is getting tighter, and watched closely by both the Israeli and Egyptian sides so the missiles and rockets cannot come from there, so the other option is to send a ship with hidden weapons disguised as a “Humanitarian Aid ship” – we all know the world loves an underdog – and the Palestinians win either way.
If the ship gets boarded the passengers will then go around the world telling everyone “how brutal and aggressive the IDF is”, if they won’t get boarded (which I doubt) they can deliver missiles to the Hamas and Islamic Jihad – it’s a win win situation for the Palestinians, Hopefully, the world will be smarter this time, and ask some questions such as:
Why won’t the ships allow the IDF to check for weapons on board if they only carry humanitarian aid?
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| April |
| 2011 |
With great power…
The israeli Foreign minister Avigdor Liberman claims that a cease fire with theHamas Terrorist organization is a mistake, the cease fire will allow Hamas to re-equip itself with weapons and missiles and get stronger until the next attack.
“What would you do?”:
The question Mr. liberman is posing is quite a difficult one. If one wants peace, one needs to cease fire, but if the other side’s interests are different and they will get more weapons until the next attack – it is a bad idea to stop the fighting.
Unfortunately, experience shows us that whenever Israel stopped the fire, the other side, be it Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hizbollah or whatever terrorist organization we were fighting, instead of striving for peace, they took advantage of the cease fire to buy more weapons and plan the next attack on Israeli civilians.
It is however somewhat frustrating, I am sure that there are Palestinians who really do want the fighting to stop, and really do want peace, but Israel as a country which had it’s share of lies being told and the acting of it’s enemies as if “all they want is peace”, cannot afford to loosen the grip – especially not when the Hamas is now on it’s knees and the IDF is in control, the Israel missile defense system “Iron Dome” made Hamas and Islamic Jihad’s attempts to kill Israeli civilians futile, the missile blow up in the air long before they reach the ground, and those who fired those missiles are often caught or shot dead.
To remember a movie quote from spiderman “…With great power comes great responsibility…” the quote is right but the question – what counts as power?
A high tech defense system shooting down the rockets and missiles? Or those who fire those rockets upon civilians?
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| April |
| 2011 |
Iron Dome – tipping the balance
After years of launching rockets towards the southern part of Israel, the scales are now tipping towards the Israeli side.
The Iron Dome defense system is now operational for a week, although partially and not covering the whole southern area, but the rockets which used to scare hundreds of thousands of Israeli civilians are now decreasing in threat as the Iron dome defense system deploys more and more.
Iron Dome in Action:
Over the weekend more then 100 rockets were fired by the Palestinians on Israeli women and children in the aim to kill the innocent, thanks to the Israeli Iron dome system all but 6 were shot down and did not cause loss of lives.
The question remains, if now, Israel can defend itself against the threat of Palestinians missiles, does that deny the Israeli right to try and stop those missiles the way it did before? Will “cast Iron 2” be condemned by the international community when it happens?
My answer, sadly, is yes, the world will condemn Israel for any attack it will make in the Palestinian territories, because the world still reacts to blood, and when no blood will be shown on the Israel side thanks to technology, the international community will react better to the wounded Palestinian shown on TV then to a decade of missile lunches and hundreds of Israeli wounded by those missiles.
Men is a simple creature and as many others in nature we react impulsively and respond better to what we see, in most cases, disregarding prior events.
The Massacre in Itamar where Palestinians murdered a whole family, mother, father and 4 children, the lynch in the Israel soldiers where Palestinians tore Israeli soldiers body parts with their hands, the suicide bombers which got on buses and blew hundreds of civilians with no discrimination.
The world will forget all that upon the first image of a bloody Palestinian which will be shown on the screen.
The press is also blood-happy, lets face it, blood=ratings, ratings=more money, so to simplify it:
blood=more money
This is also the reason the the Israeli-Palestinan conflict will never end, too many powerful people will loose if it does, so those people or organizations or whatever – keep the fire burning.
