closing library for the blind

It is with regret that I have to write because the government cannot find a 5 million shekels annual budget to keep the blind peoples library in Natanya open. This library is the central library for blind people and seems to me to be of extreme importance. I am angry with the powers that be for not looking after this weak sector of our society. For a relatively small amount of money a great deal of help can be given. I am most upset for I feel that this is no less important than for example medicines-it is also a lifeline!!! Ofcourse medicines for those that need them must also be found but this is 5 million shekels in total, of which 3 million they already have and not billions that the health service need. I cannot remember the e-mail address for u to write to but I will find it and add it as I hope u will also write and complain and thus add pressure for this money to be found!!!!!! I don't think I need say more as the need is obvious

dogs

by the time finish work in the restaurant and get home it is between 1-00 and 2-00 am. I own a small dog so I try to get him out for a walk when I get home. Sometimes I just slump in front of the tv and the dog thus looses its walk. Yesterday we went for a longish walk whose duration was nearly an hour. We had another dog join us. I was not overworried as kasrin the town I live in is smallish and dogs tend to be able to navigate their way home from any part of the town. We arrived home the other dog still on tow so I shut the gate and assumed he would wonder of home. He did not and at 4-00 am I thought I heard him outside so I got up-he was there so I let him in. When I went to work I decided to drop him off where I picked him up. I did not take into account that he would not want to travel in my car!!!! As usual I had no time to spare-I could not leave him in my house-so what to do? I left him hoping he would find his way home. I arrived home about 12-30; early for me so I decided to buy some cashew nuts, an odd decision as I have tons of stuff to munch in the house and would you believe it I found the dog there!!!! Yes u guessed he wouldn't get in my car even though he greeted my like a friend. So I left my car in the center and walked home with him.

He is well cared for as u can see in the picture. i phoned my vet before going to work but he did not answer the phone, I feed him morning and evening and now I am going to walk him. A dog of this size needs a lot of exercise not like my little dog!! Picture bellow!!!Will keep u posted. Yes we will walk to where I found him or rather he found us!!!!

spoke to the vet this morning(19-9) and he gave the dog an identity chip and an injection against rabies. even though he had no injections it appears he has an ownerso heres hoping.... Ok I have to get ready for work.....so my dogs (temprarely) will be alone for the next 10 hours or so. They have access to the back garden as I leave the sliding door open for them.

political and social Israel: fire on rosh hashanna-jewish new year

political and social Israel: fire on rosh hashanna-jewish new year golan

fire on rosh hashanna-jewish new year

Well we were getting organised to celebrate the jewish new year when we smelt smoke.. at first we thought someone was doing a barbque but then it became obvious that the smell was of burning grass and trees came from the valley...many of the people had gone away to family to celebrate the holiday and must have been quite shocked to see the the burnt ground around their houses. By chance on while on my way home I saw the town mayor arriving home , after the fire had been put out and looked visably shaken . The day before new year I drove to Rosh Pinna. To get there on has to cross the Jorden river. The bridges were built for tanks during the 6 day war to drive onto the golan over the river Jorden. About a year and a half ago the roadworks started in order to build one bridge as opposed to two oneway bridges (see picture below) that I had known ever since arriving in the goan 21 years ago!!

This meant one of the bridges was closed and traffic lights were put in place on the second bridge. Anyway I arived to find the new bridge was complete and thus the only traffic light on the Golan no longer exists!!!!!!

I wanted to add a picture of the bridge with the traffic lights ... but anyway here are two older pictures of the bridge.....in a previous generations!!! The fallen bridge I remeber well!!! I will photo and post a picture of the new bridge-meanwile does anyone have a picture of the traffic ligt they will allow me to download here?

not my problem

When my son misbehaves at school should the school attempt to help him acknowledging him as a disruption and a part of Israeli society or should the school simply pass him on to another school. Sheetrit seems to see the problem of the Nazi boys as lets get rid of them. He wishes to extradite them.
I am not so sure. Infact the opposite , if in a Jewish country as Jews we are in serious trouble if we simply throw them out. How to deal with them. First they must be severely punished in a way that any other neonazi will see and realise what is happening. Next we must check our own society. The mother of one of the boys, Eli the Nazi" Boanitov claims her son had done no wrong and was a victim of persecution of Russian immigrants. Not a reason but worthy of checking and amending, even more we must check how we are treating Ethiopian Jews, and other minorities including Arabs. We are so self righteous but is their behaviour not a super highly exaggerated extreme of what people and government do every day.
Yes I was shocked when the story first broke a month ago. I have had time to digest since they had been arrested my feelings and opinions. Now the names have been made public (it has been a closed case up to now) one feels that the politicians all have to say too much in public-that should have been said before we knew who they were. Now is the time for real solutions, we must stengthen our society against racism etc.

40 years on

no doubt one of the most famous pictures in Israeli history. You can see the mortals next to the immortals. The 6 day war was said to be one of Israel's finest moments. I have read that long term we gained nothing from this war but ironically from the yom kippur war we did gain long term...... I am not convinced....for starters the Israeli economy boomed after that war and people walked with their heads in the air. Israel was put on the world map as a nation of winners and winners in style.

http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/

Here these haradim live in Israel-see previous article!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Traditional Jews Are Not ZionistsAlthough there are those who refuse to accept the teachings of our Rabbis and will continue to support the Zionist state, there are also many who are totally unaware of the history of Zionism and its contradiction to the beliefs of Torah-True Jews.
Words of the Rabbis Opposing Zionism - Today's Quote
Lubavitcher Rebbe, Grand Rabbi Sholem Dov Ber Schneersohn ZT"L
Lubavitcher Rebbe, Grand Rabbi Sholem Dov Ber Schneersohn ZT"L
"Regarding your question about the Zionists, allow me to respond briefly. Those who assist the Zionists will pay at the Day of Judgment, because they are causing the masses to sin. Therefore, whoever is on the side of G-d and his Torah shall not join with evildoers and not become attached to them. On the contrary, they should oppose them as much as possible."
Your friend in truth, Shalom Dov Ber from LubavitchHe also said:"The Zionists were more clever than the others, since they exchanged nationalism for the Torah and commandments, as Mandelstam wrote publicly, that a Jew doesn't have to be someone who keeps the commandments , but rather is a Zionist, even if he does not wear phylacteries and does not keep the Sabbath...."

just a minute

just a minute was a BBC programme but it seems apropriate that from time to time I should take a minute to think abot life within Israel.
My brother sent me a news item asking how Israel is coping with the haradim. When the law was passed exempting them from army service they were very few in numbers. Today according to the artical they represent 10% of potential enlisting jews. As their birthrate is 4 times the average birthrate........The article also touches on the economic fact that few work in this community and that they are a social and economic burden to our society.
The complexity of Israeli society once again raises its head. I would even go as far as to say that the average Israeli jew understands this group of people less than than he does the druse or muslim way of life.
Here in the golan it is hard to put this statistic into reality. The religious population is high and also highly motivated. He believes as Israel as a special land that we have to work to keep and improve. Within this schedule he finds time for his religious commitments. Most of the religious people I know in this are believe in live and let live.
The first measurement of a person for me is how he conducts himself within society. If he wants to help his fellow man if his outlook is positive what difference does it make to me what his religion, nationality or colour are. I have perhaps ran away from the original problem because it is not clear to me how one should react to this population.
It is ironic but one of the the social problems is the same as kibbutzim once (and still to a lesser extent) had. They cover for and hide the less desirables among themselves. Thus for example it is very difficult for a woman to come out in the open and say her husband is beating her.
I do not know how I am supposed to react to this society within a society who appear to take and not give but I will make specific an earlier generalisation. I do not understand how they think, their way of life or anything about them. In this case do I have a right to decide their fate........?

Complexity of Israel

Police officer tries to stop illegal Wakf Temple Mount digging
A Druze police officer lay down in a trench that was being dug illegally by the Wakf on the Temple Mount in an attempt to stop the digging today. His Jewish chief came over and told him to 'calm down.' I wish I were making this up. I'm not.
Gideon Charlap, a top Jerusalem architect and Temple Mount expert, told Arutz-7 what he saw when he visited the Temple Mount on Tuesday: "The Arabs there are digging a deep north-to-south trench, up to a meter [1.1 yards] deep. It is being dug in the area that served during Holy Temple times as the Ezrat Nashim [the area known as the Women's Courtyard, though it was not reserved only for women -ed.]. The trench passes through three east-to-west walls, according to my calculations - walls that probably served as separations for the Temple's offices and the like. This means that the destruction is tremendous...""At one point during the digging," Charlap continued, "a policeman - apparently a Druze - tried to stop the work from going on, and actually entered the cabin of the tractor. A struggle ensued, and when the Arabs finally pushed him out, he actually stood in the trench and physically blocked the rest of the work!"Charlap said that at that point, the chief officer of the Temple Mount police station, Shai Alali, arrived on the scene. "But instead of stopping the lawbreakers," Charlap related with incredulity, "he tried to 'calm down' the policeman!"Charlap said he was unable to see how the story developed from there, "because our allotted time was over." Jews are permitted onto the site - Judaism's most sacred anywhere in the world - only four or fewer hours a day.Police Chief Shai Alali was unavailable for comment. Police spokesmen say they will look into the assault and illegal digging.The digging is taking place just east of the Dome of the Rock.Our dhimmi government has turned our police force into a bunch of dhimmis. To see video of a similar trench, go here.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:42 PM

I have posted this to show people how complicated Israeli society is. I am not making a political statement but a social one. Try explainig the arabs that vote Likud (I have a friend who proudly shows everyone his party membership card) or even Shas. Israel is a very complicated piece of knitting and those who see it as jews vs arabs simply do not understand

where I work-havat bakfar (farmin the village)

some of the dishes I make. The restaurant is on mushav ramot,20 minutes drive from my home in qasrin. If u like good food it is worth coming to. The stakes are aged as they should be and we do not compromise on the quality of meat we buy. I have no doubt our stakes are amongst the best in the country. if u like your meat this is the place to come. We are not kosher and thus we are opened on Saturday's

Jews of lebanon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vslChFGonQ please view video and see site http://thejewsoflebanon.org/me/?page_id=123 it is about the sad plight of the Lebanese Jews. I so wish I could do something to help them!!

This was their pride and joy if u go to the site u will see how their synagogue looks 45 years on!! Help their cmmunity live on at least visit this site

How world politics work to make money

Aug 30, 2007 8:42 Updated Aug 30, 2007 8:42 Defense official: SyriaBy JPOST.COM STAFF

Russia cause of tensions between Israel and
Russia was partly responsible for the heightened tension between Israel and Syria at the beginning of the summer, head of the Diplomatic-Security Bureau at the Defense Ministry, Gen. Amos Gilad (ret.) said on Thursday.

During an interview with Army Radio, the former general noted that recent messages sent by Israel to Moscow have caused the Russians to cease their activity, thus easing the tensions in the region.

"At a certain time, the Russians caused the Syrians to believe that Israel was preparing for war," Gilad said. "I think that they have stopped this. Syria is not planning on attacking Israel, and Israel is definitely not planning on attacking Syria."
According to a report published in the Israeli daily, Ma'ariv, diplomatic and security officials in the Kremlin purposely mislead the Syrians in order to further maximize their profits from the sale of military equipment.
Russia is currently one of the main suppliers of military equipment to Syria.




The above articleshows how politics and money Interests can start wars. As u know I live in the Golan heights. Throughout the summer the army has been on full alert here following the news that the Syrian army had amassed its troups there towards the end of june. In fairness to priminister Almert he has said throughout this period that neither Syria or israel want war and there would not be a war. However the Israeli public did not believe these words and even dates for the start of war were circulated.
Assad I think has learned from Israels last war and knows he needs more missiles if he wants to go to war with Israel. I am not of the opinion that Assad wants war (others in power in Syria I must check before saying anything about them). Assad I think probably wants peace but his problem is how. For years our boarder with Syria has been our quitest boarder and despite never having been at peace it is known that Syria honours its agreements.

understanding what makes people say........

Help me understand

Yosef made the comments in his weekly sermon on Saturday night. "Is it a wonder that soldiers who don't observe the Torah, don't pray every day and don't put on tefilin every day are killed in war? It is no wonder


Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is the founder of the religious party Shas. His influence in Israel is immense both for religious and less well educated superstitious people. The Shas party members even go to the rabbi to ask him how to vote on important issues.


It is not surprising that people were outraged by his comments so much so that I will not even quote condemnations from the whose who of Israeli politics.


However what I wish to understand is why he made these comments. The leader of the Shas party Eli Yishai defended him saying that the rabbi quoted from Gemara (biblical interpretations from the bible by famous rabbis of the past) he goes on to say "When a soldier is killed the rabbi sheds tears, he cries, he gathers everyone together and says "let us pray." Every one of us is commanded and obligated to pray and observe the Torah and commandments for the sake of the IDF soldiers. When a soldier is wounded we view this as the fault of all the people of Israel who need to repent,"


I try to understand what motivation would make him issue such a statement. I assume that he is intelligent enough to understand the reprocutions of what he said. Why should he wish to hurt thousands of families (all those close to those who died in the war) and the sensitivity of the vast majority of Israelis. To be honest I cannot find a good answer. I hope someone can help me understand by adding a comment. Thanks

Israeli Soldier Killed to Save Schoolchildren Learned Love of Jewish People at Lycee Sha’alvim in Ukraine
October 30, 1998 - Sgt. Alexei Nikov, who was killed when his Israeli army jeep thwarted a terrorist attack against a busload of 40 Israeli schoolchildren, learned his love of Judaism and commitment to the Jewish People and Israel at the Orthodox Union’s Joseph K. Miller Torah Center in his hometown of Kharkov, in the Ukraine.
The 19-year-old immigrated to Israel two years ago after graduating from the Lycee Sha’alvim, a yeshiva in Kharkov which is a joint project of the Orthodox Union’s Joseph K. Miller Torah Center and Yeshivat Sha’alvim.
Though his parents are Jewish, Alexei had no knowledge of his Jewish roots or heritage before entering the Lycee. His commitment to Israel, and his decision to make aliyah, were a direct result of the education he received at the Lycee.
The Orthodox Union joins the world in mourning the tragic loss of this courageous soldier who willingly sacrificed his young life to preserve the future of the Jewish people he so loved.

What can u say about this guy-did he also die because........Sorry I didn't intend to do this it is so obvious that what he said is rubbish!!!

The wonderful golan

i want to show you where I live. So far u have seen a bit of me through the articles that I have decided to publish. Now I wish to show u where I live. I like the desert a lot but for me the Golan is the most special part of Israel. First of all let me show u where the Golan is!!!!!

Ok now that we have that sorted out...............................The signpost really exists. The Golan heights became part of Israel when in 1967 the Arab armies felt they had a chance of pushing the Jews (Israeli) in the sea. Within 6 days of war Israel in the north took Syrian territories , an area called the Golan heights. The usual term used is occupied territory. Were the Jews expected to give it back after having taken it defending their right to live in smaller Israel? One minister recommended doing so although not in the Golan. His name was Allon. He lived on a kibbutz on the sea of galalli only a few miles from the Golan.

On 26 July he [Yigal Allon, then Deputy Prime Minister of Israel] submitted to the cabinet a plan that was to bear his name [The Allon Plan]. It called for incorporating in Israel the following areas: a strip of land ten to fifteen kilometers wide along the Jordan River; most of the Judean desert along the Dead Sea; and a substantial area around Greater Jerusalem, including the Latrum salient. Designed to include as few Arabs as possible in the area claimed for Israel, the plan envisaged building permanent settlements and army bases in these areas. Finally, it called for opening negotiations with local leaders on turning the remaining parts of the West Bank into an autonomous region that would be economically linked to Israel. The cabinet discussed Allon's plan but neither adopted nor rejected it."

The Golan heights were not part of the plan but I believe that the above plan would lead to the same happening in the north. However it was not to be and the Golan heights were developed by Israel

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In 2005 the Golan Heights had a population of approximately 38900, including approximately 19300 Druze, 16500 Jews, and 2100 Muslims. The most interesting population are the Druze population. 10% have Israeli citizenship The other 90% have Syrian Citizenship. Since 2005 Israel and Syria have an agreement allowing druse to export their apples to Syria. Syria also offers those with Syrian citizenship free university education. they have a standard of living vastly surpassing that of their counterparts on the Syrian side of the border, which causes them to fear a return to Syria, though most of them identify themselves as Syrian. Ties to Syria are on the wane, and many have come to appreciate aspects of Israel's liberal democratic society, although few risk saying it publicly for fear of Syrian retribution. As I have mentioned previously on this blog I have Druse friends and am welcome in there houses. I know many of them have family in Syria have studied in Syria yet have come back to live in Israel. One of those men is my dentist whose practace is in Qasrin (where I live) a nearly totally jewish settlement.

I wish to post some pictures of the Golan heights

For now enjoy the Golan soon I will also talk about the capital of the Golan qasrin.

The world is full of suprises!!!!!

August 4, 2007Funny but its not a joke, this Israeli propaganda is circulating in South-America for few days, an article appeared on South-American newspapers claims that Che Guevara’s mother (Celia la Serna) is a Russia-Jew immigrated to Argentina.
Before her death in 1965 she told her son (Guevara) that she her brother (Samuel) lives in Israel and his son called Ariel serves in the Israeli Army.
The propaganda continues, the article claims also that Che Guevara visited Israel secretly with a false passport and met his "cousin" and took some religious lessons.
Although historians and Guevara’s biographers denied the story saying that Guevara’s mother immigrated from Spain.
You can read this story in Spanish:
- El Che Guevara, primo de Ariel Sharon?
- DESCARTAN PARENTESCO ENTRE CHE GUEVARA Y SHARON

Ok I don't know if this story is true or not......but it is a hell of a good story. I found it also in hebrew in a dependable newspaper called Maariv. hard to believe but ...........

why should they wait

I read that by the time the war started that there were only 29,000 Jews in Germany. The first group to be killed were the handicapped. Jews though were considered as the enemy. German Jews had mostly emigrated under the pressure of Hitlers government so the Jewish problem only became real again as Germany invaded other countries. I had often wondered why the camps were not in Germany and I guess that is the reason. It is said that the poles were the most antisemitic race. Thinking I wonder how much of this hate was due to the Nazi party and there need for a solution in Poland.
As we all know not all the Jews were found by the Nazi party because there were none Jews people who were willing to risk their life for the Jews. Anne Frank being a famous example of a Jewess who live most of the war in hiding. Towards the end of the war she was captured and sent to a camp where she was killed.
professor Weiss an Israeli politician behind the project to to stop poverty among the Jewish war survivors, the people who initially worked the land and made Israel a reality yesterday said that if Anna Frank was alive she would not be entitled to the special pension of just over a thousand shekels a month ($200) as she was not in a camp or ghetto. While this is not true, and he knows it is not true it is a very striking point.

Sudanese refugees in Israel

these Sudanese women live in Israel. There are 500 here as legal Immigrants. However an estimated 1160 and another 1,500 Egyptians have arrived here over the desert boarder with Egypt.....a large are without boarder fences. It appears that Israel intends to send the Illegal immigrants back to Egypt. I am sad for them.I understand that they want to live here rather than Egypt but i think Israel has little choice

gaza in darkness

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DD449494-A7A9-4C76-B2BE-BEFEE8032DA3.htm

Defence bloody mindedness or fear?

This is a view from manara-within Israel but it is similar to the view from Syria and Lebanon. I live in the Golan and today at work-a restaurant people were talking about the possibility of war. Syrian president Assad is weak as a leader and it appears that the general of the army: a war monger, is calling the shots. Iran is the power behind the general's movements and Assad, it appears cannot stop him. I am convinced that Israel does not want war. I want people to enjoy my gourmet food which they will not do if there is a war.I also want places like this to be enjoyed for their beauty and not for there strategic positions.

Khaled Diab
Almost four hundred years before the creation of Israel, Cyprus was on the cards as a Jewish colony and safe haven for Europe's persecuted Jewish minority.
I found this little nugget while brushing up on my history in preparation for my trip to Israel and Palestine.
The idea was the brainchild of the colourful Jewish financier and statesman Joseph Nasi (1524-1579), one of the 16th century's top movers and shakers. Born as a 'New Christian' or Conversos in Portugal half a century after the start of the Inquisition in neighbouring Spain, he was a 'secret Jew' or Marrano. As the Portuguese Inquisition kicked off in earnest around 1536, he fled that and moved north to the Habsburg Netherlands and settled in Antwerp, where he was very successful and much respected, until the Spanish Inquisition caught up with him there, whereupon he moved to France and Venice.
But, like many Jews of the time, he settled in the far more tolerant Ottoman Empire and became one of the Sultan's most influential advisers. He also openly professed his faith for the first time in his life. What I find interesting about his life story is how different Jewish attitudes to Arabs and Muslims were back then – and vice versa.
Nasi is best remembered for starting the first resettlement programme of European Jews to Palestine, when the Ottoman sultan appointed him Lord of Tiberias (in Galilee) and allowed him to set up a small colony there of a few hundred Jewish families.
But Tiberias was actually a consolation prize offered by Sultan Selim II, who was not too keen on Nasi's Cypriot designs. At the time, the majority of Jews saw Palestine as a pilgrimage destination, at the very most, and believed they would only 'return' there with the coming of the Messiah. For uninformed Christians and Muslims, Jews do not believe the 'anointed one' has arrived yet.
But what if the Sultan had reacted favourably to Nasi's plan. How different would subsequent history have been and how different would today's geo-political landscape be? How long would the colony have lasted? How would the native population have reacted? Would there have been a local 'intifada' against the colonists? Well, as it so happens, when his negotiations with the local Jewish community were uncovered, the non-native Jewish population of Famagusta was expelled in 1569 - native Jews were allowed to remain.
Would Cyprus have attracted Jewish immigration? I suppose 'Next year in Nicosia' would not have quite the same ring to it in Jewish ears as 'Next year in Jerusalem'. But there had been a large Jewish community there since Greek times and Jews were facing persecution in many parts of Europe, so these may have been major selling points for the colony. Would there have been a long and bitter conflict, like the one currently plaguing Israel-Palestine and, if so, how would it have been resolved? Would Cyprus have joined the EU as an island divided along a different Green Line? Would the subsequent colonisation of Palestine have taken place?
The original Zionist?
Binyamin Ze'ev – better known as 'Theodor' – Herzl is widely regarded as the father of Zionism. But given his various attempts at establishing Jewish colonies, does Nasi deserve the title of the first 'Zionist'? Both men were motivated by the persecution of their people: the Inquisition for Nasi and the pogroms in eastern Europe for Herzl, as well as the infamous Dreyfus Affair in France.
"We Jews are even now constantly shifting from place to place, a strong current actually carrying us westward over the sea to the United States, where our presence is also not desired. And where will our presence be desired, so long as we are a homeless nation?" he wrote in Der Judenstaat, the first book on Zionism.
However, Nasi had just about managed to keep one step ahead of being personally persecuted himself and seemed to be driven mostly by the pragmatic need to protect his people and give them somewhere where they could practice their faith in peace. He also set about avenging his near persecution and that of his people by stirring up trouble against the intolerant Spanish, such as encouraging he Calvinists in the Netherlands to revolt against Spain and promising the Ottoman support, as well as
On the other hand, Herzl was a comfortable member of the European intelligentsia – German-speaking Jews of his time were well integrated and more often than not part of the affluent middle and upper classes. Of course, he revealed a certain amount of pragmatism in that he was ready to form his Jewish state away from Palestine: the Jewish State is conceived as a peculiarly modern structure on unspecified territory," he wrote in Der Judenstaat.
But it was Palestine which he yearned for, in a secular manifestation of the Promised Land: "Palestine is our ever-memorable historic home. The very name of Palestine would attract our people with a force of marvelous potency," he extolled. In addition, his ideas were effused with the 19th century brand of cultural chauvinism, racism, imperialism and disregard for the will of the local population. "We should there [in Palestine] form a portion of a rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilisation as opposed to barbarism," he said in the same book.
Although the only Arab character in a novel he wrote was grateful for the then fictional Jewish colonisation of Palestine, Herzl's memoirs reveal a darker intention for the local population of whatever piece of land would become the Jewish state: "Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment… Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly," he wrote in his diary in 1895. Of course, this kind of cavalier attitude towards the will of the native population was fairly common in pre-20th century colonialism (including the Arab and Muslim variety). But it find its most perfect implementation in the near wholesale erasure of the native population of many parts of the Americas.

We are living with the consequences of Herzl's unrestrained drive to build a Jewish nation at any cost and the tragic near-extermination of European Jewry in the first half of the 20th century.


The above was written by an Egypian journalist by the name of khalid Diab an Egyptian journalist who was in Israel. It is very interesting as a piece of historical journalism. However the question I ask is not why the jews (my nation) are here but how do we deal with the problems that exist now. I would not expect the americans to leave their country because of what happened to the Indians or black people. We must adapt from the presnt situation and do what is best for all.