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freeisrael: What an Israeli Checkpoint is Like

Mon, 28 May 2012 08:15:16 +0300

freeisrael:

What an Israeli Checkpoint is Like

Old City of Jerusalem.

Mon, 28 May 2012 07:58:57 +0300

Old City of Jerusalem.

Jerusalem by TC4711 on Flickr.

Mon, 28 May 2012 03:54:01 +0300

Jerusalem by TC4711 on Flickr.

Israel’s Foreign Minister Moseh Sharett (R) seated with...

Sun, 27 May 2012 19:50:05 +0300

Israel’s Foreign Minister Moseh Sharett (R) seated with members provisional govt, Golda Meir Israel while Israel Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion reads Proclamation of Nationhood. Jerusalem, Israel May 1948.

Apartheid facts

Sun, 27 May 2012 15:55:02 +0300

According to a report by Habitat International Coalition, in Lebanon, the almost 400,000 Palestinian ‘refugees’ are;

Denied the right to become Lebanese citizens.
Banned from 70 occupations, including jobs in medicine, law and business enterprises.
Prohibited from owning, inheriting, and purchasing property.
Not allowed to receive or have severely limited access to public services, such as social security, subsidized health care, and public education.
Are forced to live in “squalid conditions” with overcrowding, poverty, and unemployment.
Prohibited from bring building supplies into refugee camps, and, in some camps, supplies such as nails and wooden planks are confiscated.
Subject to state violence: Lebanese troops fought alleged extremists in the Nahr El-Bared Palestinian ‘refugee’ camp for three months in 2007, leaving 50 civilians dead and 33,000 homeless. In 2010, the government began building a security barrier to encircle a nearby ‘refugee’ camp, Baddawi.

Understanding UN Bias Against Israel.

Sun, 27 May 2012 11:54:56 +0300

Understanding UN Bias Against Israel.

Jerusalem by AdlerGuido on Flickr.

Sun, 27 May 2012 07:59:04 +0300

Jerusalem by AdlerGuido on Flickr.

yisroel: Haifa, Israel.

Sun, 27 May 2012 04:07:20 +0300

yisroel:

Haifa, Israel.

Sandbagging in Tel Aviv. June 1948.

Sun, 27 May 2012 03:57:12 +0300

Sandbagging in Tel Aviv. June 1948.

Background of the 2010 flotilla

Sat, 26 May 2012 19:58:38 +0300

Israel offered to have the ships dock in Ashdod port and to transfer the aid to Gaza. This offer was made again and again. Five boats complied and were safely led to shore. The sixth boat refused.

The sixth boat – the Turkish Mavi Marmara – is the boat where the violence took place.#Armed with knives and metal bars, those on board the Marmara carried out pre-planned violence. A mob of extremists attacked each Israeli soldier. They threw one soldier off the top deck of the ship.

The Turkish boat was sent to provoke – it was funded and organized by a Turkish Islamist organization, the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), that has links to fundamentalist jihadi groups.

Israel transfers about 15,000 tons of supplies and humanitarian aid every week to the people of Gaza.

Israel said it will deliver any humanitarian aid that was in the boats to Gaza along with its own daily delivery of aid.

Israel left Gaza in hopes of peace in 2005 and, in return, received more than 8,000 rockets and terrorist attacks. Israel has sought peace and compromise with its neighbors for all of its 64 years, and it will continue to do so.

Hamas is responsible for the suffering of both Palestinians and Israelis. Their racist charter calls for Islamic domination; their stance is unchanged, and they repress any Palestinians that try and counter their regime.

Tzfat by EJoffe on Flickr.

Sat, 26 May 2012 15:51:00 +0300

Tzfat by EJoffe on Flickr.

Gaza facts

Sat, 26 May 2012 11:49:48 +0300

According to the International Middle East Media Center, Hamas has committed systematic attacks of media workers with brutal force; intolerance for dialogue and press freedom. Hamas shut down dozens of media organizations, banned the distribution of some newspapers, and prosecuted journalists.

Kotel - Jerusalem by AdlerGuido on Flickr.

Sat, 26 May 2012 07:49:02 +0300

Kotel - Jerusalem by AdlerGuido on Flickr.

Gaza facts

Sat, 26 May 2012 03:55:00 +0300

According to the UN, the standard of living in Gaza and the West Bank ranked higher than all South Asian and Arab counties, and even outpaced Brazil, Russia, India, and China.

"Shavuot; finally a holiday for us!"

Sat, 26 May 2012 01:47:25 +0300

“Shavuot; finally a holiday for us!”

- Insomniacs. (via jacobslinger)

The Israel Defense Forces Turns 64 On May 26, 1948, the Israeli...

Fri, 25 May 2012 21:13:41 +0300

The Israel Defense Forces Turns 64

On May 26, 1948, the Israeli government — then less than two weeks old — enacted an “Ordinance establishing a Defence Army of the State of Israel.” Signed by then-Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, the ordinance said that the Israel Defense Forces would be comprised of “land forces, a navy and an air force.”

The decision was officially put into effect on May 31, 1948. This date is the official founding date of the IDF and is celebrated each year. After the IDF was established, the underground organizations that operated during the British Mandate — the Palmach, Irgun and Lehi — were disbanded and merged into the IDF.

The first IDF chief of staff was Lt. Gen. Yaakov Dori. Since 1948, there have been a total of 20 IDF chiefs of staff. Today, the position is held by Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz.

All IDF soldiers must hold themselves to the standards inscribed in the IDF Code of Conduct, or as it’s called in Hebrew, Ruach Tzahal, The Spirit of the IDF. The tiny pamphlet is kept in every soldier’s pocket at all times.

During basic training, all IDF soldiers read and discuss the Spirit of the IDF with their commanders. It is customary for a framed copy of the Spirit of the IDF to be hung in every IDF office as a constant reminder of the IDF’s values and guidelines.

64 years after its establishment in 1948, the Israel Defense Forces remains ready to defend the country against all threats to the safety of its citizens.

IDF

Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.

Fri, 25 May 2012 20:01:18 +0300

Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.

Photo by Joshua Werdiger.

Fri, 25 May 2012 17:25:00 +0300

Photo by Joshua Werdiger.

More anti-semitic incidents in Hungary A couple of weeks ago...

Fri, 25 May 2012 17:06:55 +0300

More anti-semitic incidents in Hungary

A couple of weeks ago I passed along two stories about anti-semitism in Hungary. Commenter Stanley Ukridge, who writes from a Budapest IP address, confirmed the first story but said the second one was untrue.

He just sent me news of two more recent anti-semitic incidents.

In one, a statue of Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg was desecrated by someone placing pigs feet around the neck:

In the second, anti-semitic graffiti was scrawled on a statue commemorating the shooting of Jews into the Danube by the Arrow Cross militiamen towards the end of World War II (hundreds of Jews were lined up at the river’s edge, told to take off their shoes, and shot so they fell into the river and were swept away.)

The graffiti here says “This is not your country, filthy Jews.”

This one has an arrow pointing to the Danube and says “You will be shot there.”

(There is another famous sculpture commemorating the massacre on the banks of the Danube.)

EofZ

Explaining Shavuos Explaining Shavuoscute kid.. LifeinIsrael

Fri, 25 May 2012 16:51:15 +0300

Explaining Shavuos

Explaining Shavuos

cute kid..

LifeinIsrael