By Ted Belman

I just read “Sitting on Top of the World” because the jacket cover which follows made it sound interesting. Most of the holocaust memoirs that I have read focussed on Jews in eastern Europe. This one was different in that it dealt with a Jewish boy who was quite young when deported from Germany in 1940.   This was one year before the “final solution” commenced.  As a result it paints a picture of Germany in the thirties which I found very interesting especially the growth of the Nazi Party leading to its victory in 1933.

The latter half of the book deals with the the placement and ultimate adoption of the boy, Kurt Wagner. As such we get an introduction to the work of the social workers in the forties who were responsible for placing so many children. It also describers the process of Kurt’s integration  into the loving arms of his new parents. It was a joy to read, the last half, anyways.
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By Michael Ordman

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By By Uzi Baruch, Tova Dvorin, INN

Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) sharply criticized Israeli government policy on Saturday, insisting that it is responsible for the current salvo of rocket fire from Gaza.

“The policy of all governments since Hamas took power in Gaza is the wrong policy,” Katz began. “The security system has also become too conservative, and [neither] has come and taken revolutionary steps [to combat Hamas].”

“This has been driving the political leadership over the years, this is what has been driving state policy over the years, and this government is not doing what it needs to,” he added.

Katz called to break all of Israel’s humanitarian aid to Gaza, including the electricity and water it supplies.
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By Lee Kaplan, INN

Analysis: With the Arab street at boiling point in Israel and the Palestinian territories, Gaza’s Hamas rulers want concrete achievements to dispel the image of a failing organization, but are walking a delicate balancing act with the ongoing rocket fire.

BY RON BEN-YISHAI, YNET

As things stand, the situation now in Israel is as follows: The drizzle of rocket fire continues on the western part of the Negev, following difficulties in the ceasefire negotiations with Hamas, which are being conducted via Egyptians mediators assisted by Jordan and Turkey.

Hamas has presented a series of demands to Israel, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority, the main ones being what Hamas refers to as the “lifting the siege” on Gaza, and a commitment from Israel to end target killings in the Strip.

By lifting the blockade, Hamas is trying to get Israel and Egypt to allow the entry of goods into Gaza, as well as open the Rafah crossing to let people from the Strip enter Egypt.
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Bennett: ‘Calm will be met with calm’ strategy harms Israeli deterrence
‘Our statement needs to be clear: Zero rockets on Israeli cities, zero patience to terrorism, zero patience to PA’s incitement ,’

Attila Somfalvi, YNET

Economy Minister Naftali Bennett on Saturday echoed Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s criticism of Israel’s policy of restraint.

“The south’s residents are not second class citizens, and we need to respond to rocket fire on Beersheba the same way we would’ve responded to rocket fire on Tel Aviv, rather than just wait for rockets on Tel Aviv,” Bennett said.

Bennett’s criticism came as the situation on the Gaza border continued to deteriorate. Gaza terrorists continued firing rockets at the Israeli south all day Saturday, and the Israel Air Force waited until evening time to strike back. A rocket was fired at Beersheba for the first time, and intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system.
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A few days ago I travelled to Tel Aviv to hear Ari talk about the truth. As interesting as it was, what was more interesting was what he had to say about the disfunctional Israeli system; the Knesset members are ignorant, the Justice Department protects the arabs and persecutes the Jews, the Courts protect the Muslims and make it ver difficult to stoop the activities of the Beduoin or to tear down illegally built homes unless their are Jewish homes.  It is a scandal. He says his organization, Regavim, believes it is a systemic problem so it is trying to change the system.  Ted Belman

By Ari Briggs, TOI

One could argue that if the conflict with the Palestinians was miraculously solved, the next conflict simmering under the surface would be the fate of the Bedouins in the Negev.

For decades, NGOs have educated the world with a shocking narrative of an indigenous population under threat of extinction. We are told that the Bedouin citizens of Israel live in a mere 45 historical villages and are forced to build illegally because their communities are not recognized by the state. That they can’t provide for their families because the government doesn’t allocate adequate funding to their communities. Above all else, apparently all they are asking for is 5% of the Negev. Read more…

By Caroline Glick, JPOST

Shavit’s book gives the American Jewish community the ability to feel comfortable refusing to be inconvenienced for Israel.

BY MARTIN SHERMAN, JPOST

By adhering to a policy of avoiding confrontations which Israel can win, the government risks leading it into one in which it might lose. It is time for a bold new offensive – before we are overtaken by events.

Militants (Islamists) outline chilling five-year plan for global domination as they declare formation of caliphate

Hassan Shaalan, YNET

A night of violent clashes in the Triangle area overnight Friday reached a peak when protestors in Qalansawe burned tires, attacked Jewish civilians who were trapped in the area with their vehicles and set one vehicle on fire. Following the incidents, security forces closed Route 5614 toward Qalansawe to traffic in both directions.

The clashes erupted when masked protestors who were standing on the road began asking passing drivers whether they were Jewish or Arab. Two Jewish drivers who answered in Hebrew were forced out of their vehicles and attacked by the protestors. The two drivers sustained light injuries.

One driver was able to get back into his car and fled the scene while the other driver fled the scene on foot, leaving behind his vehicle, which was set on fire and burned completely. Local police confirmed that the driver filed a complaint with the police for assault and the torching of his car.

Elder of Zion

July 4, 2014 22:01

Members of the Jewish Defence League were attacked by Palestinian protestors outside the Palestine House in Toronto.

MICHAEL COREN interviews Meir Weinstein, the head of the JDL in Toronto on the violence.

See the VIDEO of the interview which includes videos of the violence.

The police did nothing to protect the victims and did not arrest the perpetrators. But they did arrest on Jewish demonstrator because he wouldn’t move his motorcycle.

Police policy seems to be to arrest the weaker peaceful protestors rather than the criminals who turn to violence.

By Raymand Ibrahim

A recent Gulf News report sheds some light on how and why the United States helped bring the Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamist allies to power, followed by all the subsequent chaos and atrocities in the Mideast region.

Large portions of the report follow with my commentary interspersed for added context:

Dubai: For the past decade, two successive US administrations have maintained close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria and Libya, to name just the most prominent cases.

The Obama administration conducted an assessment of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2010 and 2011, beginning even before the events known as the “Arab Spring” erupted in Tunisia and in Egypt. The President personally issued Presidential Study Directive 11 (PSD-11) in 2010, ordering an assessment of the Muslim Brotherhood and other “political Islamist” movements, including the ruling AKP in Turkey, ultimately concluding that the United States should shift from its longstanding policy of supporting “stability” in the Middle East and North Africa (that is, support for “stable regimes” even if they were authoritarian), to a policy of backing “moderate” Islamic political movements (emphasis in bold added throughout).

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By David Ha’Ivri, Washington Post

Three weeks ago, Palestinian terrorists kidnapped three teenage Israeli boys from a bus stop near their school in Gush Etzion, a settlement just outside Jerusalem in the southern West Bank, as they were heading home. The Jewish nation held its collective breath for their safe return, but after intensive searching by its armed forces —which rounded up hundreds of Hamas affiliates for questioning, some of them terrorists who had been released from prison in recent rounds of U.S.-moderated talks with the PLO— the teens’ bodies were found, partially buried, in a field not far from where they were abducted. This satanic act was horrifying enough as a Jew, as a settler, as a father. What made it worse was the knowledge that, in certain Palestinian circles, the kidnapping was celebrated by people waving three fingers in the air and handing out candies.
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Greetings!

We the people of the United States of America are facing some of the most difficult days ahead in the history of this nation and possibly the darkest since the Civil War.  As we unite to celebrate our independence, I am including an article about the Judeo-Christian heritage that influenced our Biblical legacy and our responsibility to uphold that birthright that you can share with family and friends.

America and Jewish Values 

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Foreign Minister slams lack of deterrence during Sderot visit, calls for systematic operation against Hamas with US involvement.

By Orly Harari, Tova Dvorin, INN