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Wednesday 5 March 2014
Sunday 3 November 2013
Shalom Akiva Hamilton 3/11/13
From: g87
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2013 2:45 PM
Subject: TO KIVA H - personal...Further to my article re BDS AND
LYNCH ET AL
Shalom Akiva
Hamilton,
Regret that I have not had the time to
write you properly: but the below / earlier sent items should keep you
busy.
It was deemed by myself that I had to
put a stop to the ‘silly talk’ by our ‘troika’ of
troglodytes.
I think they will be careful in future –
and maybe you can expect co – operation from them – if you were so inclined to
request it.
The damage will be entirely rescinded
only by your incipient success!
I do not think you could go past Tzvi
Fleischer – he is a highly intelligent, good man. A straight shooter. He may be
useful – even if his boss AIJAC HEAD Mark Leibler I KNOW to be ‘troika’ –
oriented.
If you care to phone me in the next few
days note that I work from home and am available if you want to speak to
me.
In the interim I proffer this advice:
know who are your real friends and be aware of others’ childish, petty
jealousies. To listen to them yesterday in Mizrachi Shul was pathetic: I
remonstrated with them all: and even though my emails to you, to the editor of
AJN – and the likely article in the AJN are not known by them – MY POSITION IS
KNOWN TO THEM ALL.
Note links as below to my
person.
I am also known to Shurat Ha Din – do a
google search of ‘Geoff Seidner Shurat Ha Din’ to find my blog
refs.
Shalom
Geoff Seidner
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EMAIL: g87@optusnet.com.au
Alternative email: geoffseidner@gmail.com
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From: g87
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2013 12:21 PM
Subject: THIS IS THE DOC...cut and paste herewith!!Further to my
article re BDS AND LYNCH ET AL
See below...
gs
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From:
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2013 12:15 PM
To: lammd ; zfa@zfa.com.au
Subject: AKIVA HAMILTON AND SHURAT RE BDS
Att Danny Lamm, Phillip Chester, Ron
Tatarka and whoever else has messed up!
CC to Tzvi
Fleischer
Esteemed
Gentlemen,
I advise that your
troika has messed up!
I of course refer your mealy –
mouthed pathetic vitiation of the action that Akiva Hamilton
and Shurat Hadin have done – which any or all of you could have done.
and Shurat Hadin have done – which any or all of you could have done.
But did not.
Instead you have publically
criticised / vitiated Hamilton’s action. Certainly giving oxygen to
our enemies! Can I put a few more !!!!!! ?
our enemies! Can I put a few more !!!!!! ?
The ABC have already taken it
up!
Note that I have found the relevant link that seems to indicate
that Hamilton does not need any
help from any of you: BUT HE DOES NOT NEED THE PATHETIC SITUATION THAT WILL POSSIBLY
help from any of you: BUT HE DOES NOT NEED THE PATHETIC SITUATION THAT WILL POSSIBLY
ENSURE THAT THE JUDGE ADJUDICATING ******* WILL
INEVITABLY SEE THE ENTIRE
JEWISH / ZIONIST BUREAUCRACY WORKING AGAINST HAMILTON! TO OUR MUTUAL DISADVANTA!GE!!
JEWISH / ZIONIST BUREAUCRACY WORKING AGAINST HAMILTON! TO OUR MUTUAL DISADVANTA!GE!!
Exactly whose side are you guys on –
or is it do that not think things through!?
I told you this *******
yesterday
on Shabbat – in essentially those words. You are
arguably acting inexcusably: I got the impression
that you resent Hamilton’s action because it makers you ‘’look like country bumpkins’’
ACTUALLY your inaction and poorly – judged post facto action above makes you look WORSE!!
Much worse.
that you resent Hamilton’s action because it makers you ‘’look like country bumpkins’’
ACTUALLY your inaction and poorly – judged post facto action above makes you look WORSE!!
Much worse.
Phillip Chester and Danny Lamm
reluctantly agreed ******with me! As indeed it is not
arguable!
Now you should apologize to Hamilton
and somehow undo the damage / credibly to your reputations
– of course you will not – you cannot – you will find / seek no ways of doing so.
– of course you will not – you cannot – you will find / seek no ways of doing so.
Instead you may try to lacerate me –
but I would recommend you do not. I doubt that you should
even try to diminish me.
even try to diminish me.
Note that there is NOTHING FOR ANY OF
YOU TO DISCUSS WITH ME ON THE PHONE. You should
try to work out what to do with me as I am not dropping the matter.
try to work out what to do with me as I am not dropping the matter.
Shalom
Geoff Seidner
East St Kilda
http://www.scribd.com/doc/159867894/Shurat-HaDin-s-complaint-about-BDS
Shurat HaDin's complaint about BDS - Scribd
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From:
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2013 1:43
AM
Subject: FW: Israeli organisation sues Sydney
academic over boycott support
And check out
comments on https://newmatilda.com//2013/10/31/israeli-law-centre-sues-outlaw-boycotts
Don’t suggest you join
the comments – they will just out swamp you with their blind bias and
hatred.
From:
Sent: Sunday, 3 November 2013 1:26 AM
To: 'g87@optus.net'
Subject: Israeli organisation sues Sydney academic over boycott support
Sent: Sunday, 3 November 2013 1:26 AM
To: 'g87@optus.net'
Subject: Israeli organisation sues Sydney academic over boycott support
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From: g87
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2013 12:07 PM
Subject: Further to my article re BDS AND LYNCH ET
AL
Dear Zeddy
CC to Akiva Hamilton
I send you link to the brilliant legal BDS Doc I found on the Web.
AND THE BELOW IN CONFIDENCE: I
DO NOT WANT TO LACERATE THE TROIKA –ON YOUR PAGES:
IF YOU RUN MY ARTICLE YOU CANNOT ADD TO THE PUBLIC WAR BY MENTIONING THE BELOW!!
IF YOU RUN MY ARTICLE YOU CANNOT ADD TO THE PUBLIC WAR BY MENTIONING THE BELOW!!
REGARDS
Geoff Seidner
Akiva,
Strength to your arm!!
Are you now in Australia?
Shalom
Shalom
Geoff Seidner
From: g87
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 12:19 PM
Cc: Shimon Cowen
Subject: My article re BDS AND LYNCH ET AL
Dear Zeddy
See article below.
Note that in the next few hours I will have posted links to
The Australian re their wonderful articles over the last 2 days.
Please note links here that provides a wide – ranging range
of references.
Note
that Rabbi Shimon Cowen has been sent this CC. He may wish to make whatever
comments he likes.
IT
REMAINS CONFIDENTIAL – sent to no one else ... please publish
as it is fully justified and major news.
Regards
Geoff Seidner
East St Kilda
LINKS FROM MY ‘COGNATE’ BLOG MAINLY:
- JWIRE ARTICLE: BDS Litigation “inappropriate” says...
- BDS Litigation “inappropriate” says ECAJ - J-Wire
- hhhh...antisemitism... but easily populist
- gggg... To The OZ: Courage, Vice Chancellor Spenc...
- actual doc...SIR ZELMAN COWEN UNIVERSITIES FUND
- ffffff.../this-is-it-sir-zelman-cowen.html
- dddd...Requiem for responsible behavior!
- bbbbbbb..http://socialistdystopia.blogspot.com.au/...
- aaaa....Sydney University peace centre rebuffs Isr...
- geoff seidner sir zelman cowen
- geoff seidner lynch refuse to sign on anti semitis...
- vip how-evil-greens-academics-bds-valley.html
- google... geoff seidner lynch refuse to sign on a...
- OLDER LINKS RE BDS google....geoff seidner don't c...
GOOD ON YOU, SHURAT HA DIN!!
I am saddened that the esteemed ECAJ has not
appreciated that their attempts to vitiate the incipient legal action by Shuarat
Hadin the Israeli Law Centre against the determined ‘boycotteers’ are
dreadfully ill advised.
It perhaps says something about our way of
[not] doing things that not only do Australians fail to act against acts of
defacto illegality against Israel, but manage to criticise those that
have the gumption and do take action that is strictly speaking our
domain.
It is my
understanding that holding ‘them’ to account is best achieved by threats and
manifestation of action through the courts: there has to be an understanding who
one is doing business with.
Well - may the Executive Director Peter Wertheim ‘’believe that the most appropriate and
effective way....through public discourse’’
Where is the evidence that anything anyone has said in
civilized discourse has had any effect?
Au contraire – the University of Sydney have a Sturt Rees
who is against signing the London Declaration against anti semitism! Wertheim’s
waffle in his public pronouncement
seeking justification for his BDS stance in nation states
signing the document is strained. Aah – they the source of the infamous Sydney
Peace Prize.... with infamous list of anti – Israel winners.
And the Vice Chancellor has plainly never had any intention
of doing anything about Rees or the chief boycoteer Lynch. He, Professor of the
Peace and Conflict Studies Centre at University of Sydney. I did not realize
that their much – parodied department was still extant.
Furthermore the idea to take viable legal action against those
who would bedevil Israel is necessary.
So the ECAJ merely wants to continue asking them nicely
to cease and desist?
Surely legal action compares favourably with ECAJ fatuous attempts at ‘’exposure... its
deceptive and sometimes racist rhetoric, methods...’’
Where has it got you,
Peter W? In my opinion there are two irrefutable ideas in this realm: only
declaration of war or threat of legal action has ever been heeded by those who
care not for civil discourse.
Who is your hero – Churchill or
Chamberlain? The analogy is appropriate. And if you want examples of viable real
– world action via the courts compared with
waffled, plaintive
bleating – tell me where have you seen examples of success with
‘’through public discourse.’’ ?
Look at Rees’ comment about the London anti semitism
document : ‘’childish, thoughtless but
easily populist.’’
How misguided is the modus vivendi that ‘’....but we are opposed to litigation if it is pursued merely as a
political tactic.”
Excuse me? This is ethereal
nonsense to invert reality by criticising via the ‘political’
moniker.
Pray explain to readers
exactly what you say here: exactly how would you describe your post: political,
non? Do you resile from making political
statements in
favour of protecting
Israel against the BDS? Exactly what do you do during the day?
I suggest you get real as they
say in the non – classicist world.
But now we come to the ultimate:
Start Rees and Lynch have tried the astonishing and got away with it to date:
they effectively refused access to the
Sir Zelman Cowen Scholarship to
a Jew who was plainly helping the Palestinians!
And of course Sir Zelman Cowen
was the highly respected Jewish Governor – General!
The Scholarship was / is
being run by a Jewess Sue Freedman-Levy who has obviously not spoken up about
this.
Could
someone help me understand how the Peace and Conflated studies Centre through
Lynch has the authority to control the Sir Zelman Cowen
Scholarship?
I
do not want to call this chutzpah – because this minimizes it
somehow.
If
only for this I wish Shurat Hadin well.
And
Maybe someone at the ECAJ will admit that theirs was not a good
idea!
Geoff
Seidner
13
Alston Grove East St Kilda 3183
03
9525 9299
03
9 525 9290
On 15/5
Professor S Rees of Sydney University thought the signing
by more than 40 Parliamentarians of The London Declaration against anti semitism
was ‘’childish, thoughtless but easily
populist.’’
Throughout it all we have the Vice Chancellor Spence seemingly
vitiating the boycott – yet allowing it to be promoted at his
University!
The
Executive Council of Australian Jewry has issued a statement detailing their
reasons as to why they are not aligned with Israeli Human Rights group Shurat
HaDin’s move to litigate against a NSW professor who advocates BDS against
Israeli academics.
In a prepared
statement, executive director of The Executive Council of Australian Jewry,
Peter Wertheim states: “The campaign to boycott academic and other contacts with
Israel is repugnant to all who sincerely seek a just and lasting resolution of
the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians,” said Peter Wertheim, the
Executive Director of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ). “The
path to a just peace is through mutual engagement, not vilification. Contacts
between Israeli and Palestinian academics should be encouraged and facilitated
by their Australian and other colleagues, not
stigmatised.”
The ECAJ has
long been a vocal critic of the anti-Israel boycott campaign. “The boycott
campaign is a calculated attempt to demonise, isolate and ultimately dismantle
Israel through the distortion of international law and human rights. The
hate-filled protests outside Max Brenner chocolate shops and the ill-considered
scheme of Marrickville Council to boycott Israeli products at a cost of millions
of dollars to its rate-payers, which was subsequently abandoned, have rightly
been condemned and derided by most Australians. All major parties including the
Greens, except for a handful of their MP’s, disavow the anti-Israel boycott
campaign” Wertheim said.
“The ECAJ
believes that the most appropriate and effective way to combat
the boycott campaign is to expose its deceptive and sometimes racist rhetoric,
methods and aims public scrutiny. In our view, attempts to suppress the
campaign through litigation are inappropriate and likely to be
counter-productive. It is for this reason that the ECAJ has had no
involvement in the action brought by Shurat HaDin and will continue to
fight the boycott campaign through public discourse. If any
individuals believe they have been adversely affected by racially discriminatory
policies and practices of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies they are
entitled to have their day in court, but we are opposed to litigation if
it is pursued merely as a political
tactic.”
Asked whether he
believes that all criticisms of Israel are antisemitic, Wertheim answered “No.
Israel is a vibrant pluralist democracy and its citizens – Jews, Bedouin, Druze
and other Israeli Arabs – are often its most incisive critics. But it is also
false to suggest that no criticisms of Israel are antisemitic. There is clearly
an overlap, as has been acknowledged by the European Agency for Fundamental
Rights, the United Kingdom All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism,
the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the members of
parliament from many countries, including Australia, who have signed the
London Declaration on Combating Antisemitism and the Ottawa Protocol on
Combating
Antisemitism.”
Tuesday 16 July 2013
Anne's blog 15/7 - Tisha B'Av
Tisha Be’Av 5773 – 2013
The fast of Tisha Be’Av, the 9th day of the month of Av, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar, has begun this evening. As I wrote in aprevious Tisha Be’Av post:
The fast commemorates the destruction of both the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem as well as a whole slew of tragic events that befell the Jewish people on that day:
These include the capture of Bethar, which marked the final defeat of Bar Kokhba‘s rebellion against the Romans, and the razing of Jerusalem by the Romans. The edict of King Edward I compelling the Jews of England to leave the country was signed on the ninth of Av in 1290, the Jews were expelled from Spain on that day in 1492, and World War I broke out in 1914. The sadness and mourning that Jews feel on this day are reflected in the various practices of Tisha B’Av, including abstaining from joyous activities like study of Torah, from eating and drinking, from sexual activity, and from wearing leather.
Here is a chronology of the major events leading up to the Churban (the destruction of the Temples and Jerusalem).
Tisha B’Av is also the anniversary of the traumatic “Hitnatkut”, or “Disengagement” from Gush Katif in Gaza, when 25 Jewish towns were destroyed and 10,000 Jewish residents of Gaza (aka “eevil Jewish settlers”) were expelled from their homes, many of them remaining homeless and jobless to this day, 6 years later, despite having been well-educated and productive members of society beforehand. We feel the results of this criminally misguided move until today, with Hamas now ruling the once beautiful and productive territory, threatening Israel with its rockets and terrorism.
It is traditionally held that Jerusalem was destroyed because of Sinat Hinam – baseless hatred. Sadly there is no shortage of examples even today. In a shocking statement, a senior Shas Rabbi stated that the National Religious Jews - those Jews who wear knitted kipot, the ones who both serve in the IDF and study in yeshiva and also study secular subjects and work in the outside world – are like Amalek, the evil nation whom G-d commanded us to destroy.
This vile statement, amongst others uttered by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the leader of Shas, and other Rabbis, comes against the background of the Israeli government’s attempts to draft yeshiva boys into the IDF and assist in their integration into modern Israeli society.
In a video posted Sunday morning (Hebrew) on the Haredi website Kikar Hashabbat, Rabbi Shalom Cohen, a member of Shas’s Council of Torah Sages and the head of the influential Porat Yosef Yeshiva, is seen calling national religious Israelis “Amalek” and suggesting that they aren’t Jews.Amalek was a Biblical tribe that attacked the Israelites from behind while they wandered in the desert. In the Biblical narrative, its members were designated a special evil deserving of extermination.Referring to the national religious Israelis by the colloquial Hebrew term for “knit kipa” — the preferred headgear for such Jews — Cohen declared in a sermon delivered Saturday night that “as long as there are knit kippot, the [divine] throne is not whole. That’s Amalek. When will the throne be whole? When there is no knit kipa.”
Naftali Bennet, head of the Bayit Yehudi party, home of the National Religious Israelis, was suitably outraged.
“Shame on you,” he wrote on Facebook within an hour of the video’s publication.“For those who don’t know, Amalek is an expression referring to someone who must be wiped off the face of the earth. No less. At this very moment, thousands of knit-kipa wearers are standing guard from the Syrian border to the Egyptian, from brigade commanders down to the lowliest soldiers, and are spitting blood to defend even the honorable rabbi,” he wrote.Bennett added: “In these very days, memorial services are being held for my comrades-in-arms who sacrificed their lives in the [2006] Second Lebanon War, some of them secular and others wearers of knit kippot. Some of them fell in ways that earned them medals for valor. The rabbi is calling them, too, Amalek, for God’s sake.”Bennett bemoaned the fact that Cohen’s words were delivered as he stood next to a seated Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Shas’s spiritual leader, who is viewed by many Sephardi Israelis as the most influential living rabbi.Bennett has sought in recent weeks to soften what many ultra-Orthodox leaders see as a hardline tone from the current government, which has pursued higher Haredi participation in military and national service and in the workforce. Part of that effort was apparent in his Sunday message as well.“These days, the Jewish Home [party] is working tirelessly and successfully to lessen the damage to the world of Torah [from government bills forcing Haredi men to work and enlist in the military],” Bennett wrote. “But the Jewish Home, too, is Amalek.”
We Jews have always been our own worst enemies. Unfortunately, we do not lack any enemies on the outside either. Here is a series of incidents as reported by Arutz Sheva in recent days:
Muslim worshippers desecrated the Cave of Machpela in Hevron, the traditional burial site of the 3 Forefathers and 4 Foremothers, and one of Judaism’s holiest shrines:
The Cave (known as Me’arat Hamakhpela in Hebrew) is usually split between Jewish and Muslim worshippers, but this past Friday it was open exclusively to Muslim worshippers in honour of Ramadan.But when the Jewish section of the site was reopened, worshippers were horrified to find widespread desecration. Two mezuzot - cases containing Jewish holy scriptures affixed to the doorpost – had been torn off and stolen, and a third was damaged. Muslim worshippers had also thrown mud and garbage around the site, and uprooted parts of the garden outside.Noam Arnon, a spokesperson for Hevron’s Jewish community, called upon the government to take such acts of desecration “at least as seriously as the burning of carpets in a mosque” – a reference to the string of condemnations and promises of a crackdown by authorities against acts of vandalism on mosques by suspected Jewish extremists.“After a ‘Price Tag’ attack everyone rushes to condemn – the government, Members of Knesset, even the Chief Rabbis – and the police promise to do ‘everything in their power’ to catch those responsible. The people of Hevron are waiting to see if they will react in the same way to this act of desecration.”Arnon added that such acts were commonplace, particularly during Muslim holidays.
It is a disgrace that this incident has not received wider coverage in the Israeli media. It may sound minor, but it is no less an outrage than any of the “price tag” attacks that are so trumpeted in the media.
A terrorist involved in a massacre of Jews in Hevron is being appointed to manage the Muslim side of the Cave of Machpela:
Taysir Abu Sneina, a terrorist who was involved in the murder of six Jews in Hevron on May 2, 1980, is the man whom the Palestinian Authority has appointed to manage the Muslim side of the Cave of Machpela (known in English as the Cave of the Patriarchs).The Hatzala Yosh organization reported Sunday that Abu Sneina participated in the terror attack on the building known as Beit Hadassah, on May 2, 1980, in which six students from the Nir Yeshiva in Kiryat Arba were murdered.The students were making their way home by foot from the Cave of Machpela, after the Sabbath Eve prayers, when Arabs who had been hiding inside neighbouring houses ambushed them and opened fire.Besides the dead, 16 others were wounded in the attack.Abu Sneina makes no attempt to hide his terrorist past, and actually seems quite proud of it. His Facebook page proclaims that he is “one of the heroes of the operation at Dabuya,” as the area of Beit Hadassah is known in Arabic. The cover photo of his profile is of the terror squad that carried out the attack, with Abu Sneina’s face circled.MK Yariv Levin (Likud) called Monday on the government to suspend the arrangements it has agreed upon with the PA regarding the Cave of Machpela until the appointment of Taysir Abu Snena is cancelled.[...]David Wilder, a spokeman for Hevron’s Jewish community, told Arutz Sheva that the appointment “exposes the true face of the Waqf (the Islamic authority which administers Muslim holy sites in Israel)”:“Appointing a convicted murderer of six young men and putting him in charge of a holy site in the very place where he committed his crime says a lot about the Waqf - who they are, what they are, and what their tendencies are.He also expressed his concerns for the safety of Jewish worshippers at the site, and called for Israel to relieve the Waqf of its responsibilities in light of such a decision:“I think this is very dangerous. This murderer is is today responsibler for a site frequented by 800,000 Jewish visitors each year. How can the Israeli security services cooperate with the Waqf at all after this? Any control the Waqf has over the Cave, or indeed any other place, should be taken from them by Israeli government.”
I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for the Israeli government to take control if they can’t even exert control in the middle of Jerusalem, at Judaism’s holiest site on the Temple Mount where today, Muslim extremists forced a group of Jewish worshippers off the Mount:
Hundreds of Jews came to the Temple Mount Monday in honor of Tisha B’Av, the anniversary of the destruction of the two Jewish Temples by the Babylonian and Roman empires respectively.But their visit was cut short as Muslim worshippers physically blocked them and appeared to be preparing a riot.Michael Fua, of the Jewish Leadership faction of the Israeli Likud Party, was at the Mount.“Today, on the eve of Tisha B’Av, the Israel Police failed do discharge its duties again,” Fua accused. “Hundreds of Jews who came to the Mount from all parts of the Land of Israel, were kept waiting for a long time at the entrance to the Mount, at the only gate where Jews are allowed to pass, while hundreds of Muslims entered from the other gates without any check or delay.“As the third group that the police allowed inside entered the Mount, many Muslims began to gather and shout. As usual, instead of preventing the rioters from ascending to the Mount and grouping together, the police quickly informed the Jewish pilgrims that it will not allow them to carry out a full tour of the Mount, and quickly made them leave through the nearest gate.”Fua, who videotaped the event, explained: “The video shows Dr. Yoel Elitzur and some of the ascenders, faced by the Muslim mob that is familiar to us from the previous days. It s amazing to see how the Israel Police plays into the hands of the Muslim rioters, and actually encourages them to threaten and run amok.“This scenario is one that is known in advance and it is time that the police change their behavior, so that the scenario may change, too.”
Watch the video at the link.
Yisrael Medad at My Right Word has extensive coverage and several videos of this Muslim anti-Jewish attack and of previous similar attacks. He also explains the background to this extreme anti-Jewish incitement:
The head of the Islamic movement in the Palestinian territories, Sheikh Raed Salah, that there is very serious evidence confirming that crazy hysterical attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque may increase after the end of the holy month of Ramadan.He said, “Therefore, we say Wake O Muslims and Arabs, the maximum risk increases him as he seeks the help of all of you even win him from Israeli occupation.”…Said Sheikh Raed Salah, “It has become clear to us that Israel occupation groups stormed the Al Aqsa Mosque, that Israel intelligence is pushing them to do these raids, of course, and the goal is clear: that Israel’s intelligence paid them to commit these raids until cumulative results, after a series of covet incursions will impose a division of the Al-Aqsa Mosque to achieve their coveted black dream which will not be achieved, God willing, which is building the structure of a mythical place on the Al-Aqsa Mosque.”
You can practically see the drool dripping from his mouth as he spouts this manic words. Read the post and watch the videos if you want to be suitably depressed in “honour” of Tisha Be’Av.
To conclude this rather depressing post I bring you the poetic and profound words of Aharan Pulver in Arutz Sheva, who describes the utter heights of of Jewish national ecstasy at liberating the Kotel and the Temple Mount in 1967, and then the plummet down into the forlorn situation in which we find ourselves today, as described above. In “Squandering Grace” Pulver writes:
Pop began with a whisper, using all his oratorical skills, knowing that soon he would pounce upon his listeners like they were prey, spearing their hearts with a voice like thunder and words like fire. I was transfixed by his words and hypnotized by the silken blue and white flag on the right of theBimah waving gently in the hot summer breeze pushing through the windows. Fulfilling its intended design, the flag wrapped me like a Tallit within its folds.That hot summer day was made all the more intense by the emotions evoked. Decorum was forgotten as ties were unknotted, jackets removed, and sleeves rolled up. The women peeking through the lattice work separation feverishly fanned themselves with kerchiefs and cheap oriental paper fans. My father’s voice moved from plaintive to defiant within a brief minute.Our most holy site freed!Freed by Jewish heroes of unimaginable courage – inspired, crowned with victory.Freed! For the all too numerous rivers of blood. For the endless insults suffered and for the countless tears shed. For the pennies they threw at us to see if we would bend down to pick them up, and for picking them up and throwing them back. For surviving.Freed! For continuing to praise His Name. For millennia of prayer and learning, for untold charity and good deeds. For keeping faith, for the unbroken chain.Freed! For the defiance and the bravery and the sacrifice.Freed! For those who came before us and for those to come after. For all the generations, now freed!Our Rabbi opened the Holy Ark. Everyone stood as one leaning forward as if grasping for the fringes of the unfolding miracle itself. We stood in an intoxicating spiral of time – at one with our paratroopers, pilots, soldiers and sailors, so many of whom gave their lives to do His will, to crown our People with the ultimate victory. Our martyrs and heroic fallen from time immemorial stood among us in the heat of that Bronx shtiebel. I knew it, We all knew it.But what we did not know was that very day we squandered grace!The same day we stood in awe in our shtiebel in the Bronx, the same day a sea of Jewish pilgrims flooded Yerushalayim to feel the beat of our now freed heart, the same day Jews around the world gathered in their synagogues and homes to pray for the fallen and give thanks, that same Shabbat, June 17, 1967, then Defense minister Moshe Dayan entered the Al-Aksa Mosque “to talk”.In an act that defines stupidity, Israel’s then Minister of Defense sat down on the prayer carpet with leaders of the “Supreme Muslim Council” (theWaqf) of what had been Hashemite (Jordanian) occupied Yerushalayim. Dayan had already ordered our flag removed from the Temple Mount on the very afternoon of the Old City’s liberation.For Dayan, the Holy of Holies was in the fields of Nahalal, Degania and Beit Alpha. Before the shloshim for the fallen he handed our astounded enemies the very victory they had understood to now be lost to them forever. Administrative control over the Temple Mount was to be the sole responsibility of the Waqf! Decades of further humiliation were insured.On that very day, we squandered grace!And so it is to this day. Jews are humiliated daily, followed by officials of the Hashemite Wakf who judge their every step and the very movement of their lips and by the Israel Police who are apparently ordered to by our government to enforce draconian measures deemed “necessary to maintain public order”.Fact: Jews are not permitted to pray, in any manner or form, even in a murmur.Fact: Jews are not permitted to carry prayer books or any books of a religious nature.Fact: Jews are not permitted to bow or prostrate themselves.Fact: Jews are not permitted access throughout the dayFact: Jews are not permitted to study text.Fact: Jews are not permitted to linger.Jews are not even permitted to use toilet facilities controlled by the MuslimWakf. For those who dare to exercise their civil and religious rights as guaranteed by the Israel Supreme Court and the K’nesset and murmur a prayer their lot is verbal abuse, physical violence, detention, arrest!In Hevron, in the Cave of the Machpela, at the graves of our forefathers and mothers, we were relegated for centuries to the humiliation of non-access, the physical proximity of Jews limited to a very real seventh step of a staircase leading to a side entrance.[...]As we are duty bound to safeguard the civil and religious rights of minorities we are no less obligated to insure our own civil and religious rights. As we are duty bound to acknowledge the courage and sacrifice of those who fell for our freedom and national liberation we are no less obligated to confront past mistakes and make them right in order to truly honor their sacrifice and memory!And we are duty bound never again to squander grace.
May this Tisha Be’Av be the last one that we ever need to fast. May the next 9th of Av be a day of rejoicing and celebration with the coming of the Mashiach and rebuilding of the Temple. Amen.
כל המתאבל על ירושלים זוכה ורואה בשמחתה
Those who mourn Jerusalem will merit to see her in her joy
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