DESTRUCTION AND REDEMPTION
July 28, 2009 by yipbop · Leave a Comment
This coming Thursday marks the anniversary of the destruction of the two Jewish temples that stood in the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Coincidentally, both of these temples were destroyed on the same date of the Jewish calendar, the 9th of Av. Orthodox Jewry throughout the world will mark this solemn day with a 25-hour fasting and will traditionally pray in Israel at the so-called Western Wall, or Wailing Wall, the last remaining structure of the Second Temple which was built by Herod the Great in 26 A.D.
Why am I mentioning this particular event in the Jewish calendar? Well, just a reminder to all of you that the Temples served as God’s ‘footstool’ portraying His presence on earth and their destruction had a profound impact on the Jewish people. Subsequently, the Jews endured 2,000 years of pogroms, inquisitions, deportations culminating in the Holocaust. Against all odds, in 1948, came the birth of the Jewish state. However, in just its embryonic state, Israel had to defend itself against a succession of wars perpetrated by Arab countries bent on Israel’s destruction. Miraculously, Israel won every war, and in 1967 as a result of the Six Day War, Israel gained all of Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, Sinai, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank (historically known as Judea and Samaria). However, once again, there is an ominous threat hovering over the Jews, this time voiced by the Iranian President Ahmadinejad who wishes to erase Israel from the map. This malevolent threat, however, seems to go on deaf ears by the world community. Rather than focusing on eliminating this peril swiftly, the world’s debate appears to focus ad nauseam on when this travesty of a nation such as Iran is supposed to have nuclear weaponry – is it in six months, one year, two years, five, … who cares? The point is that in the meantime, the wicked wheels keep turning and the clock is ticking very fast.
The Iranian dictator’s canards differ from those of Hitler’s only in terms of the label: Ahmadinejad calls Jews “Zionists” instead of “Juden.” His intentions, similarly to those of the bogus Palestinians, are racist rather than territorial and promoted by the religious belief that eradicating Israel from the world map would hasten the coming of their 12th Imam. And in the face of such an ugly menace against Israel, the theater of the absurd was well represented when the U.N. and Columbia University invited this fanatic dictator to deliver hateful diatribes. But what would you expect when radical Muslims who are vehemently anti-Israel are invading the continent? Europe is becoming Eurabia and the U.S.’s President Barack Hussein Obama is vehemently apologizing and schmoozing with the Arab world? Just remember or read history – during the Holocaust, when millions of Jews were sent to the ovens, not one nation in the world stood for them, and today it appears that once again no one is siding with Israel or Jews in general. Rather, the world leaders are negotiating with unreliable dictators and pressuring Israel to divide itself into two halves to accommodate the birth of a phony Palestinian Islamic entity whose covenant of annihilating Israel has never been changed. In fact what the U.S., U.N., E.U., and the world leaders in general are demanding from Israel are nothing short of suicidal, yet once again, no one seems to care.
The destruction of the first and second temples in Jerusalem were attributed by the sages to sinat chinam (baseless hatred) among Jews, a spiritual tragedy which caused the retreat of the Divine Presence and the subsequent 2,000-year exile, inquisitions, Crusades, pogroms and holocaust. The birth of the State of Israel has been recognized as nothing short of a redemptive beginning coupled with the ingathering of the exiles and the future reconstruction of the Third Temple as predicted by the Prophets over three thousand years ago. The only string missing is that Jews must return to God’s covenant and remember who they are so that peace can finally prevail throughout the world with “the wolf and lamb grazing together…” as prophesied by Isaiah 65:25.
PARTITION IS A NO, NO
May 26, 2009 by yipbop · Leave a Comment
We have all heard from reliable sources and historical facts that Israel is not bound to give up any land, especially to terrorist entities whose covenant is to destroy Jewish existence in the Middle East. But we have a problem; the non-Arab people inhabiting the Western world are so afraid to lose or to have their oil interrupted on account of Israel’s existence, in addition to having their lives disrupted by acts of terrorism, that Israel’s survival is the least of their worries. The major problem facing the Free world is either ignorance, sublime optimism that nothing will ever happen to them, stupidity, or all of the above.
Those in the world who are well acquainted with Jewish and Israel’s history are cognizant of the fact that a sovereign country called Palestine never existed prior to 1948 or even 1967. In fact, Security Council 242 never promised to the so-called “Palestinians” that they will ever have a country called Palestine. During the war of Independence in 1948 where the Jewish people in their newborn state had to defend themselves from annihilation, the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and Gaza fell illegally under the control of Egypt and Jordan who exercised unauthorized and cruel control over these territories. What is most eye-opening is the fact that in 1922, Great Britain of their own volition, split the 78% of the land which was entitled to the Jewish people, and gave it on a silver platter to King Abdullah, himself not a Palestinian. In 1947, a second partition to give land to the Arabs was enacted by the new United Nations. What transpired is that the Arabs did not accept dividing the land with the Jews. In 1967, against all odds, miraculously, Israel won a defensive war against several Arab armies which gave Israel control of all the land illegally taken by Jordan and Egypt, including Jerusalem and the Golan Heights from Syria.
In biblical terms, Israel has been and is the homeland of the Jewish people for thousands of years. Jewish kings reigned in this land, including Saul, David and Solomon among many others, and two Jewish temples stood before they were destroyed, surprisingly exactly on the same date by the Babylonians and then the Romans. Because the Jewish people rebelled against God, they were exiled to Babylon and then to the four corners of the world until the miraculous birth of the State of Israel some two thousand years later.
This simplified history of the Jewish people’s unequivocal roots to the Land of Israel, the political maneuvers by Great Britain and the hostility of the Arab world that ensued, should remind everyone that Israel has the right and even more so than any other country in the world to hold on to the entire land of Israel and secure it against intruders calling themselves Palestinians. Israel is microscopic in size and any partition with those whose aim is to destroy the Jewish state would render it with indefensible borders. The Arabs have been blessed with 22 Arab countries and they can make room for a 23rd country in their midst if they so wished. They could also make room for the so-called Arab refugees who are perpetually in U.N.-sponsored camps such as UNRWA. But this is unlikely, because the conflict is not about land, but about a violent and implacable ideology. Until the Western world acknowledges and assimilates this concept, peace will never exist in this part of the world.
IDIOT LEADERS IN THE MAKING
May 25, 2009 by yipbop · Leave a Comment
You all know that Barak Hussein Obama in collusion with Hillary Clinton and the State Department is demanding that Israel withdraw to the pre-1967 borders, and freeze natural construction of the settlements in Judea and Samaria, meaning that women in these areas are forbidden to have children or get married! This disturbing and bizarre demand entails not only withdrawing from strategic land that protects all borders in Israel, but also the Golan Heights, the holy city of Jerusalem, and the most sacrosanct of all sites in Judaism, the Temple Mount. All of these give away, in exchange for some kind of fictitious peace with the Arab world, just a flimsy piece of paper, so that Israel can disappear at the whim of surrounding terrorists in the not too distant future.
Talking about “occupied” territories, it seems to me that indeed the entire world is occupied. Why use Israel as the sacrificial lamb to placate terrorists and the Arab world? Let’s take as an example, the land of the United States of America. Bibi Netanyahu in his recent visit to the President of the U.S. should have said, in a most diplomatic way, without mincing any words, to stop interfering in Israel’s domestic affairs since Israel could also request the U.S. to disengage from parts of California as a goodwill gesture to Mexico. In fact, it is well known that there is a very large movement composed of Mexican Americans and native Mexicans who desperately seek the return of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Nevada and parts of Colorado, and possibly other U.S. states to Mexican control either through the return of these territories to the Mexican government or the creation of a new Mexican country called Aztlan (nationalmecha.org, aztlan.net, mexica-movement.org and stolencontinent.org).
Besides the mantra of occupied territories, President Obama should instead focus his attention to the fact that the King of Saudi Arabia, to whom Obama recently bowed, is the largest financial supporter of terrorist organizations such as Al Qaida and the Taliban who are religiously obsessed and bent on controlling the Western world. This well known obsession is substantiated by the fact that Saudi Arabia is handing out a fortune to build thousands of mosques throughout the U.S. and Europe, mosques that preach hate and Jihad against the Free world. This Jihadist threat is slowly but steadily evolving throughout the U.S. and Europe and should be arrested before it is too late.
It is a sad circumstance that Saudi Arabia holds so much political and financial power in the U.S. It is no wonder that Obama preaches support for the Saudi plan to dismember Israel to indefensible borders. Money buys anything including pacts with the devil. And this is what is transpiring in the political corridors of the U.S. and Europe. Unless the minds leading the Free world realize that what they are facing is a murderous ideology that is using terrorism and demographics to subjugate and ultimately destroy the Western world, they are doomed to destruction along with the metamorphosis from freedom to Sharia laws.
The threats facing the world are too grave to ignore in comparison to the obsessive and strenuous efforts of Europe and U.S. to demand that Israel stop building extra bathrooms or bedrooms in the settlements. These leaders who are acting very stupidly should instead direct their efforts to stop Iran from becoming nuclear and the Islamization of the Western world so that the next generations will not inherit a doomed and medieval world.