Israel Thrives: Love of the Land Links

Friday, January 17, 2014

Love of the Land Links

Michael L.

Yosef and Melody live in Hebron and Yosef edits and owns an on-line journal entitled Love of the Land.

Yosef and Melody are what some in the west refer to, with contempt, as "settlers."

Like many other Jewish people they have been trying to build a life for themselves on traditionally Jewish land and find themselves doing so under exceedingly hostile conditions.

I have been in regular email contact with Yosef and have decided to make his ongoing list of articles a part of Israel Thrives.

So, with no further ado.

Love of the Land Links!

Dealing with a society that praises itself for turning its children into human bombs

Can Israel afford to exist in twilight

Latest Palestinian plans show the "great" confidence in the efficacy of Kerry’s strateg

Fantasy, Illusion and Kerry’s Potemkin Village

When the messages heard in the Palestinian Arab villages go unreported in the wider world

Keep it coming, Yosef.

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JayinPhiladelphiaJanuary 18, 2014 at 10:02 AM
I came across that blog long ago, yet keep forgetting about it for some reason. I need to read it more. Thanks for the reminder, Mike. I'm bookmarking it on my laptop and my phone.
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JayinPhiladelphiaJanuary 18, 2014 at 10:17 AM
LOVE that photo, btw. Such incredibly beautiful architecture, and as it just so happens I am currently typing this comment from (the highly-recommended-by-me for beer, but not so much for food) Cedar Point Bar & Kitchen in Fishtown, Philadelphia, which is situated at just such a triangular intersection, with a strikingly similar classic Philadelphia rowhouse dominating the view directly out the window right next to me...

Though I won't be able to see Hebron, I can't wait to see such similar ancient Jewish neighborhoods, particularly in Jerusalem, when my daughter and I take our first (and hopefully far from last!) trip to Israel, in 20-something months...
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oldschooltwentysixJanuary 18, 2014 at 11:55 AM
FWIW

None of the links work for me, but send me to gmail.
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Barack Obama on the so-called "Arab Spring" (May 19, 2011):

"There are times in the course of history when the actions of ordinary citizens spark movements for change because they speak to a longing for freedom that has been building up for years. In America, think of the defiance of those patriots in Boston who refused to pay taxes to a King, or the dignity of Rosa Parks as she sat courageously in her seat."

The "Arab Spring" was the brutal rise of political Islam in the Middle East and this is what Obama compares the Civil Rights Movement to?

How's that for a kick in the head to Martin Luther King, Jr.?

The Fundamental Argument:

The progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, creates and supports venues that demonize and defame the Jewish state, thereby also creating hatred toward the Jewish people.

Such venues include political journals, such as, but not limited to, Daily Kos, the Huffington Post, and the UK Guardian, numerous universities throughout the United States and Europe, various NGOs with an anti-Israel agenda, and the entire progressive-left movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) the Jewish people of the state of Israel.

These venues and organizations do not generally criticize Israel, but dehumanize that country.

For this reason, among others, the progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, undermines the well-being and safety of Jews around the world, sometimes resulting in violence toward us.

Therefore, as a matter of common sense and basic human decency, Jews should leave the progressive movement and the Democratic Party as we seek to build alternative political structures that are not home to toxic anti-Semitic anti-Zionists, who would see us robbed of self-determination and self-defense.

What You Can't Discuss:

This is a partial list of taboo topics within progressive-left venues around the Arab-Israel conflict. You cannot discuss this material because it undermines the "Palestinian narrative" of perpetual victimhood. This narrative is a club used by the Arab and Muslim enemies of Israel, along with their western progressive allies, to delegitimize that country in preparation for its eventual dissolution.

1) The centuries of Jewish dhimmitude under the boot of Islamic imperialism.

2) The recent construction of Palestinian identity, its connection to Soviet Cold War politics, and how this is an Arab people with a Roman name that refers to Greeks.

3) Arab and Palestinian Koranically-based racism as the fundamental source of the conflict.

4) The ways in which contemporary progressive anti-Zionism serves as a cloak for gross anti-Semitism.

5) The Palestinian theft and appropriation of Jewish history.

6) "Pallywood."

7) The historical connections between the Nazis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Palestinian national movement.

8) The perpetual refusal of the Palestinian-Arabs to accept a state for themselves in peace next to the Jewish one.

9) The progressive portrayal of terrorists as those fighting a righteous war of "resistance."

10) The Arab-Palestinian indoctrination of children with Jew hatred.

11) Human rights violations against women, children, and Gay people in the Muslim Middle East.

12) The fact that violent Jihadis call themselves "Jihadis" and claim to love death above life.

This is only a partial list, so please let us know the many more that we are missing.

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Friday, January 17, 2014

Love of the Land Links

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