International
International
The Green Mountain
My childhood was spent in
the small village of Givat Shmuel, a colony of religious and
non-religious Jews, surrounded by citrus groves and caressed by gentle
breezes. Today, the attractive local council building dominates the
mountain, and the citrus groves have been replaced by apartment
buildings bordered by parks and a profusion of trees, which serve as a
reminder that nature once reigned here.
Feb 8, 2012 - 6:00:56 AM
International
Uplifted Spirits Mixed with Shock at Eitam (Israel)
The land at the top of the hill is rocky, on the slopes there are
plots that are easier to cultivate, filled with earth brought by the
rains. The almond trees are almost ready to blossom, water in the cracks
in the rocks glistens in the sunlight that greeted the land's owners
returning to their heritage.
Feb 6, 2012 - 8:35:03 PM
R.P. BenDedek
Prisoners for Love
It is a story rooted in Ancient and Modern Chinese Culture. It is a
story of an impossible love. It is a story I have heard so many times
before, of families who refuse to allow their children to love whom they
will. It is a story about how in the 21st century, Chinese children
must still obey their parents and marry the one of whom the parents
approve.
Feb 5, 2012 - 1:54:47 AM
International
The World Business and Development Awards
The World Business and
Development Awards today launched a call for nominations for successful
business initiatives that are in line with the Rio+20 UN Conference on
Sustainable Development. All organisations, regardless of size or
location, engaged in innovative business models that are delivering both
commercial success and helping improve social, economic and
environmental conditions are eligible to apply online by 25th March 2012
Feb 3, 2012 - 3:34:04 PM
International
The Shamrak Report
On January 9th, at an event marking the 47th anniversary of the
founding of Fatah, Mohammed Hussein, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem,
vehemently called for the killing of Jews. He declared, "The hour of
judgment will not come until you fight the Jews... The Jews will hide
behind the stone and behind the tree. The stone and the tree will cry,
'Oh Muslim, Oh Servant of God, this is a Jew behind me, come and kill
him.'"
Feb 1, 2012 - 2:57:21 AM
International
Sheva Brachot in Netzer
This past Friday it was freezing, the wind was strong and
especially cold, but nothing would succeed in stopping the festivities of
the sheva brachot for the newlyweds, uniting the Katsover and
Messika families.
Jan 31, 2012 - 12:17:56 AM
International
The Shamrak Report
Several days after a hack attack by Saudi and other Arab hackers
against the web sites of El Al and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, Israel's
hacker group, "IDF-Team", struck back against web sites of large banks
in the United Arab Emirates and in Gaza. The same group hit the sites of
the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, and Tadawul, the Saudi stock
exchange site. The group threatened to take down even more sites in Arab
countries, as the cyber war between Israel and its Arab enemies heated
up. "We will decide on our next actions based on the actions of the
terrorists, who seek to interfere with normal life in Israel."
Jan 29, 2012 - 12:10:43 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Don't Ask About EET Schools in China
So, to all you foreigners who have read anything I have written about EET, please be advised that I have no interest in hearing your tears unless you are prepared to provide me with your 'bona fides', and I have no interest in wasting time writing personally for you what I have already made publicly available.
Jan 25, 2012 - 3:15:28 AM
R.P. BenDedek
'China', and Western Ignorance.
I don't know where I wrote it, but the fact is, that during these
cold winter days, there is no sun, just clouds. The night sky however is
perfectly clear but that doesn't help heat the hot water. Point being:
Like everyone else I have to boil up pots of water in the morning or
evening so that I can have a wash.
Jan 22, 2012 - 4:37:12 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Photo of the Week: The Triomphe of True Love
Jan 22, 2012 - 12:02:52 AM
International
The Shamrak Report
A Hamas official slammed Jordan's King Abdullah and said his fate
will be similar to that of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Mustafa Sawaf, editor-in-chief of the Gaza-based, Hamas-affiliated paper
Felesteen, criticized the King for his support of the renewed talks
between Israeli and Palestinian Authority officials.
Jan 20, 2012 - 1:00:30 AM
International
Israel Media Criticism Prize
Every year, Israel's Media Watch gives out the "Media Criticism
Prize". The public is invited to go to their website and vote for one of
their candidates. This year one of the candidates for the prize is Rabbanit Shulamit Melamed, head of Arutz 7.
Jan 18, 2012 - 12:13:12 AM
International
The Shamrak Report
When asked
whether it is a requirement for the government in Egypt to recognise
Israel, Bayoumi responded by saying: "This is not an option, whatever
the circumstances, we do not recognise Israel at all..." "The
Brotherhood respects international conventions, but we will take legal
action against the peace treaty with the Zionist entity."
Jan 15, 2012 - 12:12:15 AM
R.P. BenDedek
CBA's CEO Ian Narev's Asian Dream
How will the Asian community view a bank which operates using minimal
and/or outsourced staff, whose only incentives are related to how much
the bank can charge the customer, and whose operational procedures tie
them up in the law of unintended consequences, but without the power, authority or incentive
to correct the flaws of the laws?
Jan 13, 2012 - 8:30:07 AM
International
Jews out!
At 2:30 in the middle of the night, with 0 degrees celcius
outside, some 20 children were dragged away from their beds together with
their parents and were told: "Jews-OUT!" Immediately thereafter the
tractors ran over and destroyed their homes.
Jan 13, 2012 - 8:15:14 AM
R.P. BenDedek
A Trip to Jiaxing in Zhejiang Province China: Murphy's Law
I once had someone write me to say that there was no such thing as
Murphy's Law but that my personal 'negativity', my belief - if you will,
was drawing all the negative energy of the universe into my life and
thus I was creating all my own bad luck. Wow! Who knew I could have such
power!
Jan 8, 2012 - 12:20:33 AM
International
A Mid-East Guide for the Perplexed
In the pursuit of peace, alliances and interests, western
policy-makers tend to sacrifice perplexing Mid-East realities on the
altar of oversimplification and wishful-thinking. However, their
attempts to implement unsubstantiated policies tend to inflame rather
than extinguish regional fires.
Jan 8, 2012 - 12:10:20 AM
International
Tu Be'Shvat in Netzer
"Rabbi Yochanan said: Why is Israel compared to an olive tree? To tell
you that just as an olive tree only releases its oil by pressing, so too
Israel only returns to the proper path by way of suffering and
persecution." (Tractate Menachot 53) And it further says in the Midrash:
"Israel is called a leafy olive tree since it creates light for all."
(Shmot Rabba 36)
Jan 8, 2012 - 12:07:20 AM
International
The Unholy Alliance of Islamic Narco-Terrorism
These regimes aim to undermine the US homeland
security, to injure the US morale, morality and social fabric, to
instill fear and erode the confidence of Americans in the capabilities
of their own government, and to bankroll expanding global terrorist
operations.
Jan 7, 2012 - 12:10:19 AM
International
The Shamrak Report
When the United Nations celebrated its 50th anniversary, UNESCO
refused to mention the Shoah - the Holocaust - in its World War II
resolution, intentionally ignoring Israel 's request to include a
reference to the destruction of European Jewry. Since then, the UN's
cultural body has passed from ignoring the Jewish requests to an
obsessive promotion of Hitlerism in the Arab world. The latest number of
Zayzafuna, the Palestinian Authority magazine for children, included an
essay submitted by a teenage girl in which Adolf Hitler is presented as
a positive figure to be admired because he killed Jews in order to
benefit the world. Since August 2011, the magazine is financed by UNESCO
and the MDG Achievement Fund, another UN foundation funded by the
Spanish government. Under the Cloud of Iranian Threat
Jan 7, 2012 - 12:07:15 AM
International
Ezra Nawi in Netzer?
In the meantime, the savior of the Arabs arrived, the radical left
activist Ezra Nawi, who is concerned for the "unfortunate" Arabs who are
stealing state lands in the southern Hebron hills, and now, so
we learned, also in Gush Etzion. Clearly the Arabs have contacts. This
time they alerted Ezra Nawi; the last time it was the United Nations.
Obviously, the Arab effort to steal Jewish lands on the hills of Judea
and Samaria is well organized and amply funded, by local and
international elements.
Jan 5, 2012 - 6:22:35 AM
International
A free hand against Jews
Arab Knesset members who collaborate with the enemy and pass on secret
and sensitive information to the enemy walk freely and even get a salary
from the State.
Jan 1, 2012 - 12:13:39 AM
International
The Shamrak Report
Holland is reviewing its policy of funding the UNRWA agency for Arab
"refugees," which treats them differently from other refugees. Foreign
Minister Uri Rosenthal said the government will "thoroughly review" its
annual contribution of approximately $30 million
Jan 1, 2012 - 12:05:23 AM
International
The Shamrak Report
"I think that we've had an invented Palestinian people who are in
fact Arabs, and who were historically part of the Arab community. And
they had a chance to go many places, and for a variety of political
reasons we have sustained this war against Israel now since the 1940s
and it's tragic," he said.
Dec 31, 2011 - 1:30:54 AM
International
Judah the Maccabee at West Point Military Academy
Pressuring the Jewish State to withdraw from the mountain ridges of Judea and Samaria defies the American story. Either you are with George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and other defenders of liberty, or you provide - inadvertently - a tailwind to the forces of tyranny.
Dec 23, 2011 - 6:30:25 AM
International
Would the Maccabees be proud?
Tuesday night, as we lit the first candle, I stared at the light and considered what the Maccabees had achieved with one pressing question on my mind: how would they view us? Would the Maccabees, who sacrificed everything for the sake of preserving the Jewish way of life, be proud to see what the Jewish people and the modern State of Israel have become?
Dec 23, 2011 - 6:23:31 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Chanukah 2011
Sometimes coinciding with Christmas, Chanukah (Hanukkah) in 2011
starts on December 20th and will continue for 8 days
until December 28.
Dec 21, 2011 - 12:02:57 AM
International
The Shamrak Report
Rape is the hate crime. It is used by Islamists as a weapon of choice world-wide. It is time to wake up and face reality - they hate Christian even more than Jews, and stop blaming Jews for everything!
Dec 16, 2011 - 3:22:37 AM
International
Who are the Palestinians?
Most Palestinian Arabs are descendants of the 1845-1947 Muslim migrants from the Sudan, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, as well as from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, Morocco, Bosnia, the Caucasus, Turkmenistan, Kurdistan, India, Afghanistan and Balochistan.
Dec 16, 2011 - 3:12:54 AM
International
The Shamrak Report
Egypt after voting 79% of the time against the United States, still
receives $2,000,000,000 annually in US Foreign Aid. Jordan votes 71%
against the United States and receives $192,814,000 annually in US
Foreign Aid. Pakistan votes 75% against the United States receives
$6,721,000,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.
Dec 7, 2011 - 3:23:59 AM
International
South Carolina Rep Alan Clemmons visits Netzer in Israel
South Carolina Representative Alan Clemmons visited Netzer this past
Friday, December 2nd, 2011, between Elazar and Alon Shvut. Women in
Green leaders gave Rep. Clemmons and his group a tour, explaining about
the daily struggle to safeguard state lands from Arab encroachment.
Dec 7, 2011 - 3:20:03 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Open Letter to CEO Commonwealth Bank Australia
I guess in the final analysis, it doesn't matter whether your staff are
idiots, malicious, incompetent, outsourced or untrustworthy. The only
important thing is 'How big will your bonus be this year?'
Dec 4, 2011 - 12:25:57 AM
International
The Shamrak Report
One million Hindus were forcefully converted to Islam and over three
million innocent Hindu refugees escaped, in fear for their lives, to
India during the war, when Bangladesh gained independence from Pakistan.
None of the 'heart-bleeding' human right activists have been demanding
their return, and return of their children and grandchildren, to
Bangladesh! So-called Palestinian refugees were not innocent
bystanders. They left land allocated by the League of Nation for
Eretz-Israel, following the orders of their leaders, to facilitate swift
genocide of Jews, by advancing "victorious" Arab armies!
Dec 4, 2011 - 12:13:35 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Photo of the Day: Stupid Foreigners
Nov 30, 2011 - 12:02:50 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Lay Down and Die for PC Glory
To destroy a culture in the name of ideology is insane but to replace
a culture that has flourished for centuries or millennia for the sake
of a social experiment is just plain sick. If we do not put a stop
to the cancer eating through society in the name of 'humanity', the day
won't be far off when we discover that there is nothing 'humane' about
ideological power, and nothing 'human' about those who wield it.
Nov 25, 2011 - 12:25:10 AM
International
The Shamrak Report
"No regime can
survive by killing or jailing. No one can build a future over the
blood of the oppressed." - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
signaling that he is fed up with Assad's response
to the uprising - Doesn't Turkey still kill and jail Kurds, while
occupying their land? Turkey has not come clean and 'forbids' other
countries to even acknowledge the genocide of up to 1.5 million
Armenians by Ottoman Turks and Kurds between 1915 and 1923.
Nov 25, 2011 - 12:17:55 AM
International
A Rainy confrontation in Netzer
To the soldiers, the activists explained that on this piece of land
there had already been a conflict months ago and the Civil
Administration clearly stated then that these are State Lands and thus,
the Arabs have no right to approach that area. And indeed, the soldiers
did what they were supposed to and took out the Arabs from that plot of
land.
Nov 23, 2011 - 3:15:29 AM
International
Pollard's plight
"The evidence shows that the government engaged in serious misconduct
that went unchecked by an ineffective defense counsel, Richard Hibey,
and that these constitutional violations severely prejudiced Mr.Pollard
and resulted in his life sentence," Leighton wrote. "He was deprived of
effective assistance of counsel as a result of his counsel's failure to
deal competently with unproven, highly damaging eleventh hour factual
assertions made by the government in a supplemental declaration of
secretary of defense Caspar Weinberger submitted the day before
sentencing."
Nov 20, 2011 - 2:50:20 AM
International
Women in Green Protest UN Presence in Netzer
We wish to protest in the strongest terms that the UN observers have been intervening in matters outside of the UN mandate. The UN personnel reached the plot that according to the Israeli Civil Administration is definitely state land.
A UN car with UN observers and Arabs was spotted at the field where
Arabs had, two days earlier, uprooted Jewish trees and attacked three
Jews.
Nov 18, 2011 - 12:17:33 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Chinese Students Ask: 'How can I write a Good Speech?'
So next time you sit down to write a speech, remember, 'How you put it together' is equally important as the topic and the message that you wish to speak.
Nov 18, 2011 - 12:15:31 AM
|
