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Israel Survival Updates — 10 February 2011 — Joseph’s Tomb Reopens — Israel Is On Her Own — Drill Baby Drill.

By: Kenny Solomon (Diary)  |  February 10th, 2011 at 08:33 AM  | 

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Good morning and a special ‘howdy ho’ to all at CPAC.

Three Cabinet Ministers Visit Refurbished Joseph’s Tomb.

After having been destroyed by Palestinian Authority vandals, the newly refurbished Joseph’s Tomb structure was dedicated last night in the presence of three Cabinet ministers.

Joseph’s Tomb – once in a field outside Shechem (Nablus), and now surrounded by new, already slum-like homes in the expanding city – became an official Israeli Holy Site under the auspices of the government shortly after its liberation during the 1967 Six Day War. Its status changed, however, in 2001, after the Oslo Accords granted the Palestinian Authority control of the city of Shechem. This did not include Joseph’s Tomb, but the PA created “facts on the ground” by conquering the site. During the battle, wounded IDF soldier Madhat Yusuf was allowed to bleed to death; the Israeli commanders preferred to believe the PA promises that he would be rescued, rather than send in IDF forces directly.

Israel has retained official control over the site, in accordance with the Oslo Accords, though it has been able to exercise it only in coordination with the PA. Visitors to the holy site dwindled over the years; Jews visited only either clandestinely or four times a year in army-organized midnight visits.

Peace lovers full of hope and change.

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White House Fudges On Whether It Would Save Israel.

White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs would not pledge to guarantee Israel’s security if its existence is in danger, in a Wednesday press briefing. In reference to recent Middle East turmoil, he was asked: “If Israel is threatened by any of these new governments or Hamas and Hizbullah, if its existence is in danger, would the US come to its assistance?

Gibbs answered: “Regardless of the situation facing any government in the region, our friendship, our partnership and our alliance with Israel is unchanged.”

The man was asked a direct question that had a yes or no answer.

He answered ‘present’.

Israel is on her own.

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Nation-wide drill simulates terrorism, public disturbances.

The Israel Police has launched a nation-wide security drill simulating terrorist attacks and large-scale public disturbances. The exercise is aimed at testing ground units’ first responses to various emergency incidents, police said.

Police are drilling their responses in unpopulated areas to prevent disruption to the public, though heavy police traffic and sirens will be apparent in some areas, police added. On Wednesday, outgoing Police Insp.-Gen. David  Cohen said his forces were ready for “any possible scenario in the country” during a tour of the Ashdod police station.

Does ‘any possible scenario in the country’ include a simultaneous attack from all sides by peace lovers and complete abandonment by The US Government ?

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Kenny Solomon
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  • YnotNOW

    So why would PA terrorists vandalize it?
    Though I admit no surprise to their attempts to control and keep jews out…

    • E Pluribus Unum

      Abraham and Ishmael were the fathers the Muslims lay claim to, as far as I know. Isaac’s line, which includes Joseph, are what they call “them”, in an “us” vs “them” scenario.

      So they would actually gleefully avail themselves of the opportunity to descrate Joseph’s tomb.

      I do not speak authoritatively on this, as the fundamentals of official Islam are not something I’ve studied extensively, nor do I intend to. But the above is how I understand it.

      • lscoolidge

        Yes, Joseph is technically one of the Holy Men to the Muslims – the Koran talks about Joseph and his trip to Egypt, and his brothers and his father coming afterwards.

        But, E Pluribus Unum is also correct in that the modern Muslim thought patterns have become so viterolic that they would desicrate any Holy Site that is not Muslim related. I haven’t spoken to an Imam or anything, just an ardent Muslim shopkeeper, and he’s so amazingly bigotted against Israel and the US it’s disgusting. He said – and I nearly quote – that Isreal was a Cancer and that it was the sole problem in the entire Middle East! His basic argument was that before Israel existed, the Middle East was paradise on Earth, and after Isreal ceases to exist, it will again be paradise on earth. His words and thoughts – not mine.

        Anyway, hope this helps. I do read the Koran – there are some good parts to it, but there are also some very, very, very bad parts – and it’s these parts that have been hyped by the Muslim fundimentalists. Believe it or not, the Koran actually tells the Muslims to treat all people equal – all people, be they Muslim or not – and it threatens hellish punishment to all people who would treat any ‘infadel’ unfairly or differently than a fellow Muslim.

        However, and these are part of the bad parts – it also tells Muslims that they must kill all the infidels – and Mohammed spent several chapters making the argument (you can tell when you get into a portion of the Koran written by Mohammed rather than a portion dictated to him by the Angel Gabrial I believe) that the worst of all infidels are the Jews and Christians. At least that’s what my translation says – I don’t read Arabic, so I have to rely on a translation. It’s an older translation – from about 1900 or so and it doesn’t have any of the ‘educational’ add-ons that most Korans published today have.

  • http://minorcan-maven.blogspot.com/ minorcanmaven
    • http://westforwestwing2012.com heartlander

      So much sh*t hits the fan so fast in these crazy times that it’s impossible for any one of us to keep up with it all. That’s why I appreciate people like Kenny, who cull through lots and lots of news on a topic such as Israel — and give us a reader-friendly digest of important developments.

      One of the things that has always made me proudest of my country is the fact that this has been the safest, most prosperous place for Jews to live since the reign of Kings David and Solomon. Chaim Potok, in his book “Wanderings: A History of the Jews,” tells the anecdote of a conversation with his uncle or grandfather, I don’t remember which. A youtful and idealistic Chaim was criticizing something about America — I don’t recall what — and his uncle (or grandfather) said, any Jew who’s not happy with America has never lived in Europe.

      It outrages me that our “special relationship” with Israel — when we have been Israel’s greatest friend for so long — is being trashed by the Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, Fr. Pfleger acolytes in the White House. Shame on all those Jew-haters!

      If you have 9 minutes, here is one of the most inspiring defenses of Israel you could ask for from an American politician:
      http://westforwestwing2012.com/2011/01/07/allen-west-lights-the-way-at-the-americans-against-hate-conference/

      • http://www.redstate.com/etcartman Kenny Solomon

        My friend Joyce Kaufman does a radio show here in South Flori-duh.

        She gave a speech at a rally in ’09 where another friend (Wayne of Channel One Images) did the video production.

        Click it: Joyce Kaufman: The 7 Reasons to Support Israel.

  • izoneguy

    Thanks for the change Obama.

    Ahmadinejad: US, Israel will soon exit Middle East

    http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j4nERLgb7ILzV-di10ZB5i5GewYg?docId=CNG.680158c3fc877f3521627185c89de338.1f1

    In his fiery style, Ahmadinejad, showed his messianic beliefs on Friday, saying the world was witnessing a revolution managed by Imam Mehdi, the 12 Shiite imam who disappeared as a five-year-old in the 10th century and who Shiites believe would return on the judgement day.

    “The final move has begun. We are in the middle of a world revolution managed by this dear (12th Imam). A great awakening is unfolding. One can witness the hand of Imam in managing it,” said Ahmadinejad, wearing his trademark jacket.

    Ahmadinejad, who has often denied the Holocaust, said the United States is an “accomplice to the oppression of the Zionist regime.”

    “If you want people to trust you, first of all do not interfere in affairs of the region, including in Tunisia and Egypt. Let them be by themselves,” he said.
    “Come and take away the Zionist regime which is the source of all crimes… take it away and liberate the region. Free the region and give it to the people and take this regime, which is the child of Satan (the United States), out.”

    Crowds of Iranians chanted pro-Egypt and anti-US slogans as they participated in the regime-organised anniversary celebrations — a yearly rallying point for the Islamic regime.

    • Spiral

      If Ahmadinejad thinks that the “revolution” or “coup” is such great news for his Islamic dictatorship, why did his government try so hard to prevent the news from reaching the Iranian people?

      They jammed the broadcasts of the events in Egypt from BBC and elsewhere. Maybe it is that the Islamic dictatorship is worried that more “Green Revolution’ ideas might seep into the brains of the Iranian people if exposed to this news.

      Too bad. No media blackout is large enough to prevent the news of a people power revolution in Egypt from reaching the Iranians.

      Hope you have your bags packed Ahmadinejad!!!

      • izoneguy

        Tunisians fleeing unrest arrive in droves in Italy

        http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110211/ap_on_re_eu/eu_italy_tunisia_migrants

        Hundreds of Tunisians arrived by the boatload Friday on a tiny Sicilian island, fleeing chaos in their homeland and prompting Italy to demand that the EU take stronger action to prevent an uncontrolled wave of migrants from North Africa.

        On Friday afternoon alone four boats crowded with a total of some 300 Tunisians reached Lampedusa, an island that is closer to northern Africa than it is to the Italian mainland. Earlier in the day, the U.N. refugee agency said some 1,600 Tunisians had landed in Italy since Jan. 16, with half of them coming in the last few days.

        Italian Coast Guard boats, which spotted them approaching shore, escorted to the boats to the island. Coast Guard video showed hundreds of Tunisians, predominantly young men, crowded on the decks of motorized fishing boats.
        Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said he feared Tunisian terrorists were among those who escaped Tunisian prisons and fled during a month of nationwide anti-government protests that forced dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to flee on Jan. 14.

        “There is the risk of a real and true humanitarian emergency,” Maroni said Friday, adding he has asked the European Union to raise the issue since it is affecting Europe’s internal security.

        Hmmmmm, you don’t say??
        Like I said in many other postings – Europe, it was nice knowing ya….

        • Spiral

          I understand that, in public, Ahmadinejad expresses confidence that “Islam will prevail.”

          But if the events in Egypt demonstrate that Ahmadinejad’s views are in the ascendancy, why not let the Iranian people see?

          Perhaps the truth is that Ahmadinejad is delusional on what the events in Egypt portend just as Ahmadinejad is delusional on most matters.

          Maybe Ahmadinejad’s dictatorship isn’t as solid as he is pretending.

          • izoneguy

            Mubarak slammed U.S. in phone call with Israeli MK before resignation

            http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/mubarak-slammed-u-s-in-phone-call-with-israeli-mk-before-resignation-1.342831

            Hosni Mubarak had harsh words for the United States and what he described as its misguided quest for democracy in the Middle East in a telephone call with an Israeli lawmaker a day before he quit as Egypt’s president.

            The legislator, former cabinet minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, said on TV Friday that he came away from the 20-minute conversation on Thursday with the feeling the 82-year-old leader realized “it was the end of the Mubarak era”.

            “He had very tough things to say about the United States,” said Ben-Eliezer, a member of the Labor Party who has held talks with Mubarak on numerous occasions while serving in various Israeli coalition governments.

            “He gave me a lesson in democracy and said: ‘We see the democracy the United States spearheaded in Iran and with Hamas, in Gaza, and that’s the fate of the Middle East,’” Ben-Eliezer said.

            “‘They may be talking about democracy but they don’t know what they’re talking about and the result will be extremism and radical Islam,’” he quoted Mubarak as saying.

          • Spiral

            You have representative government first taking hold in North America in 1776. Then in Western Europe. Then in the Southern Europe. Then in the Far East, Central America and South America. Then, with the collapse of the Berlin Wall, Eastern Europe boots out dictatorship and adopts representative government.

            The Arab world would remain a club of dictatorships, however. This would be named “the Arab exception.”

            But it is starting to look like the Arab world might be finally, finally, joining the rest of the world in the movement towards representative government.

            First Tunisia. Then Egypt. Let’s hope Iran is next.

          • izoneguy

            Then Ahmadinejad would have no problem with killing his own people.
            Ahmadinejad is jockeying to be the dictator over a greater Middle East.
            He has much more power & influence now than Obama does.
            Tunisia & Egypt may have had the appearence of a move towards democracy but I don’t think that will be the end result.

            http://www.neontommy.com/news/2011/01/caroline-glick-clueless-washington

            For, what, exactly, is the ‘democracy’ that the Egyptian people wish….and is it really the same thing we Americans mean by ‘democracy’?

            1. 84 percent of Egyptians favor the death penalty for people who leave the Muslim religion.

            2. When asked which side they would take in a struggle between “groups who want to modernize the country [and] Islamic fundamentalists,” 59 percent of Egyptians picked the fundamentalists, while 27 percent picked the modernizers.

            3. just 32 percent believe in civilian control of the military.

            4. 54 percent, support making segregation of men and women in the workplace the law throughout Egypt.

            5. When asked whether suicide bombing can ever be justified, 54 percent said yes

            6. Eighty-two percent supported stoning for those who commit adultery.

            7. 82 percent of Egyptians hold an unfavorable view of the United States. That’s higher than in Pakistan, higher than in Jordan, higher than 18 other nations Pew surveyed.

            8. Hamas receives relatively positive ratings in Jordan (56% favorable) and Egypt (52%).

            9. favorable view of Hezbollah, [in] Egypt (43%)
            Mixed Views of Hamas and Hezbollah in Largely Muslim Nations – Pew Research Center

            10. Eighty two percent of Egyptians support executing adulterers by stoning, 77% support whipping and cutting the hands off thieves. 84% support executing any Muslim who changes his religion.

            …the U.S. has failed to identify strategic interests in Egypt? and questions what the next move will be if the Muslim Brotherhood becomes “the power behind the throne of the next regime.”

          • Spiral

            It is as Winston Churchill said of Democracy. It is the worst form of government, except for the alternatives.

            The world is changing. Dictators are being taken down one by one.

            Also, you make it sound like Ahmadinejad has the option of killing anyone who opposes his plans.

            Up to a point this is true. This as the number of his opponents increases and the number of people willing to carry out his orders dwindles, he won’t be as effective in clamping down as before.

            This is what happened to Mubarak. Once many in the military said, “We will not fire on the people,” Mubarak was toast.

            A dictator is toast once his “enforcers” are no longer willing to carry out the dictator’s orders.

          • izoneguy

            The problem with Iran is that the ?enforcers? are willing to carry out the dictator?s orders.

            Go back and look at that list. I don’t see how the Egyptians views on many matters jibe with democracy. I think the liberal media is in hyper-spin mode.
            Just like they were when the Shah of Iran was disposed.

            I truly hope that the Arab world embraces democracy. The US has to be ready if they don’t.

          • Read Chesterton

            The world is changing. Dictators are being taken down one by one.

            … and being replaced with… other dictators.

          • Spiral

            The history of the last 70 years has been the gradual replacement of dictatorships with democracies in Southern Europe (Spain, Portugal, Greece), East Asia (South Korea, The Philippines, Taiwan), Central and South America and Easten Europe.

            Both Left-Wing Socialist and Right-Wing Authoritarian dictatorships have been replaced by democracies during these past 70 years.

          • Spiral

            It has been happening. Perhaps these dictatoships have been replaced by democracies so slowly that many have not noticed. But it is something that we should be knowledgable of.

  • bk

    The man was asked a direct question that had a yes or no answer.

    He answered ?present?.

    That’s pretty much the pattern for almost anything Obama has to make tough decisions on.

    And it comes as no surprise to those who looked at what little background he had coming in: spending other people’s money (i.e. “community organizer”), being in the right place at the right time (to get into positions of power), and then once in politics in IL voting “present” on anything controversial.

  • tamib

    If you can, would you comment on or confirm a report International Business Times and a few Arab news sites are running that Israel has closed her embassy in Egypt and evacuated its employees over safety concerns. TheBlaze.com is also reporting the story via Iran’s Press TV.

    http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/111752/20110212/israel-embassy-cairo-close-mubarak-egypt.htm

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/israel-shuts-cairo-embassy-diplomats-flee/

  • http://www.redstate.com/etcartman Kenny Solomon

    Hi Tamib.

    The Israeli Embassy to Egypt (in Cairo) was closed on 30 January.

    The embassy was supposed to reopen today – I don’t think it did – can’t get confirmation though and sent a mail off to a contact to find out.

    I’d not posted about it, because I honestly thought it was known from day one. Ambassador Levanon and his staff that stayed were working from his home.

    • http://www.redstate.com/etcartman Kenny Solomon

      ;)

  • tamib

    Thanks Kenny,

    There has been such little coverage on the closing I wanted to make sure before bringing it up. None of the MSM is touching it yet it seems to be an important part of the Egypt story.