David Cameron is No Friend of The Truth

True friends don't pander to mendacious lies against their friends

By Noam A. Rotem

Last week, in what became a widely discussed incident here in Israel, British Prime Minister David Cameron, in a discussion at the British Parliament, called Israeli construction in East Jerusalem “genuinely shocking”,  while insisting at the same time, that he is a “great friend of Israel”. What's genuinely shocking, is David Cameron's historical ignorance, hypocrisy and utter lack of moral clarity.

From the Islamic theocracies of Iran and Saudi Arabia, through the Sunni-Shia blood baths in Iraq and Syria, to all the offshoots of the Islamic State, Al-Qaeda and Muslim brotherhood across the entire length of North Africa, the Islamic Mideast is producing some of the most horrifying levels of rampant murderous violence and persecutions the world has seen in the 21st century.

In the 20th century, the Arab and Islamic mideast, was ethnically cleansed of its Jewish population, that lived across many parts of the region for more than 2,000 years. Now in the 21st century, religious persecution of the remaining ancient Christian communities, along with other ancient minorities, are being brutally persecuted and ethnically cleansed, across many parts of the Islamic Mideast and Africa.

Israel is the only western liberal democratic country in the entire mideast, where minorities of all faiths, including Arab Muslims, enjoy democratic freedoms, unprecedented and unheard of anywhere in the entire region, and where Christians in particular are prospering and growing.

Under the Muslim Ottoman occupation, Jerusalem descended into a backwater forsaken city of little interest to the Arab and Muslim world. And under the Jordanian occupation of east Jerusalem in 1948, the Jewish Quarter in the Old City was destroyed, and its residents expelled.  Over 50 synagogues, some of them hundreds of years old, were destroyed and looted. Jewish religious sites were desecrated and turned into animal stalls. The Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives, where Jews had been burying their dead for over 2500 years, was ransacked, and thousands of tombstones were smashed and used as building material.

Contrarily, since 1967, when Jerusalem was liberated by Israel from Arab Muslim rule, there's been full freedom of religious practice for all faiths, and the holy sites of all religions are treated with utmost sanctity. Moreover, under Israeli rule, many holy sites in Jerusalem of all religions have been restored, and renewed.

By pandering to the question of the British Muslim MP, David Cameron, unwittingly or not, has aligned himself, with those perpetrating a systematic campaign of mendacious lies designed to undermine the Jewish State and rob it, of its more than 3,000 year old history to the land of Israel. Ever since King David made Jerusalem the capital of Israel more than 3,000 years ago, the city has played a central role in Jewish culture, religion and existence. In all of history, Jerusalem was never the capital of any Arab country.

In this unprincipled stance, David Cameron is leading Great Britain down the slippery slope of depraved multicultural political correctness, to a place where historical facts no longer matter, and where moral clarity is a pejorative.

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This article was also published on the Op-Ed page of Arutz Sheva:
Op-Ed: David Cameron is no friend of the truth

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Paris, France, Pays The Terrible Price of Europe's Inability To Recognize The Real Enemy: Radical Islamism

By Noam A. Rotem 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his statement on the Paris attacks tonight said:

On behalf of the people and Government of Israel, I extend our deepest sympathies to the people of France and to the families of those who were brutally murdered in Paris last night. We also extend our wishes for a speedy recovery to the wounded.

It would be nice if France and the EU, could show the same solidarity with Israel, when innocent Israeli civilians are massacred by Palestinian terrorists, who share the same barbaric and murderous Jihadist ideology, with those of the Islamic State, al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the other related and affiliated, radical Islamic terrorist groups around the world. Sadly though, France and the EU instead of recognizing the real enemy and threat to western democracy, have been spending their time, singling out Israel, and labeling Jewish produce, made by Jews, in their ancestral homeland.

What happened in Paris on the horrifying night of Friday November 13 2015, is Europe's chickens coming home to roost. For decades Europe turned a blind eye to virulent humans rights violations of despot radical Islamic regimes across the mideast. Within Europe, and across western intelligentsia, a politically correct ideology took hold. Backed by an omnipotent politically correct mainstream media-- violent, misogynist, antisemitic, and anti-democratic rhetoric and behavior, by radical muslims at home and abroad was either given a free pass, or got little to no media coverage, while Israel was singled out for biased, hypocritical and immoral condemnation. And thus by ignoring, what is the real threat to western civilization and democracy, Leonardo Da Vinci's immortal words turned into a devastating reality: "he who does not punish evil, commands it to be done".

France, Europe, and the West will be making yet another terrible miscalculation, in the aftermath of this horrendous attack, if they interpret these attacks, as only emanating from the Islamic State. The issue is much broader than that, and is a clash of civilizations (as the term was coined by Prof. Samuel Huntington), between democratic modernism and theocratic medieval barbarism. The west needs to recognize and acknowledge the enemy, namely radical Islamism. Sadly this is not a fringe movement, as PC ideologues would like to believe, and enjoys widespread and popular support.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ended his statement tonight with the following poignant words:

Terrorism is the deliberate and systematic targeting of civilians. It can never be justified. Terrorism must always be condemned. It must always be fought. Innocent people in Paris, like those in London, Madrid, Mumbai, Buenos Aires and Jerusalem, are the victims of militant Islamic terrorism, not its cause. As I've said for many years, militant Islamic terrorism attacks our societies because it wants to destroy our civilization and our values.

I call on the entire civilized world to unite to defeat the plague of worldwide terrorism. An attack on any one of us should be seen as an attack on all of us. All terrorism must be condemned and fought equally with unwavering determination. It's only with this moral clarity that the forces of civilization will defeat the savagery of terrorism.

Photo from World Jewish Congress FB page: Israelis gathers in solidarity with France, in front of Tel Aviv city hall which is lit up in the Tricolors of the French flag. 

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Article was also published on the Op-Ed page of Arutz Sheva:
Op-Ed: Paris pays the price of Europe's inability to recognize the real enemy

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Frontpage Mag: Palestine is Terroristine

This is what it has always meant. It stands for the murder of Jews. That is its only real objective and goal. 

Palestinian Authority Celebrated UN Bid w/Murder of Rabbi in Front of his Children | Frontpage Mag

By Daniel Greenfield

After Abbas disavowed negotiations with Israel and the Oslo Accords at the UN, after the UN flew the flag of Terroristine over New York, the killers of the Palestinian Authority celebrated the only way they knew how. By murdering more Jews.

Read full article at Frontpage Mag

Also from Frontpage Mag: Time To Deport The PLO From Israel

The Utter Hypocrisy About The Boycott Against Israel

Short intro and commentary to Yair Lapid's article by Noam A. Rotem
Yair Lapid did a great job of putting the Israeli Palestinian conflict into its correct proportions, and no less importantly, its correct moral proportions where he writes:

12,000 Palestinians have lost their lives in this conflict. A large proportion of those were terrorists, suicide bombers, terror tunnel diggers from various global jihadist organizations...  in 67 years less innocent Palestinians were killed than in one week (!) in Syria. In fact, in that same period around 12 million people were killed in the Arab world. A simple calculation shows that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict caused 0.01% of the numbers killed in conflicts in the Islamic world.

He poignantly ends the article with:

Hamas has no intention of creating a Palestinian democracy but a dark theocracy in which homosexuals are hanged from telephone poles, women aren’t allowed to leave their homes and Christians and Jews are murdered for being Christians and Jews. Are those values acceptable to the Reykjavik City Council? If not then that’s strange, because they voted in favor of them. 

My only small criticism, would be that missing from the article, is a little more info about the violent Jihadist and virulent anti-Semitic indoctrination that Palestinians are subjected to massively and systematically, not just by Hamas, but also by the Palestinian Authority. Their intention, is the liquidation of the Jewish State, and in the case of Hamas, also includes a call to obliterate Israel and murder of all its Jews.

Also worth pointing out, the heinous persecutions, and human rights violations across the rest of the Arab Muslim world. From rampant suicide bombings of civilians, mass rape and enslavement of women in the Islamic State, persecutions of Christians and other minorities, corporal punishment and execution of LGBTs, as well as gender apartheid in Saudi Arabia, and the wide spread practice of FGM in Egypt, is but a partial list of countries with terrible human rights, yet aren't being boycotted by Reykjavik, Iceland or the EU.

One last thought, given this, how can Lapid seriously be against the Likud and Netanyahu on this matter, who are saying very similar things. Moreover, how can he seriously be for the so called two state solution, given the above, and given the Palestinian's relentless hate preaching and delegitimizing of Jews and Israel.

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The Hypocrisy of Boycott

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By Yair Lapid 

Originally appeared in Fréttabladid (Iceland) on September 18, 2015 and as a Post on Yair Lapid's Facebook Page

As you know by now, the Reykjavik City Council decided this week to boycott products from Israel. All products. From all of Israel.

I have a few questions:

Does the boycott include products made by Israel’s Arab minority which is 20% of the population? Does the boycott include the 14 Arab Israeli parliamentarians who sit beside me in Israel’s parliament?

Does the boycott include Israeli factories which employ tens of thousands of Palestinians for whom this is the only opportunity to provide for their children?
Does the boycott include Israeli hospitals at which tens of thousands of Palestinians are treated every year?

Does the boycott include produce made by the 71% of Israeli’s who, according to the latest survey, support a two state solution and the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel?

Wait, don’t go yet, I’ve got a few more:

Among the products being boycotted is Copaxone, for MS sufferers, included?
Does the boycott include “Tulip” wine which is made by people with special needs and those who suffer from autism?

And what about the books of Israeli Nobel Prize Laureate in literature, Shai Agnon?
Does the boycott include Microsoft Office, cellphone cameras, Google – all of which contain elements invented or produced in Israel?

If the answer to all these questions is “yes” then I’ll move aside and wish you all an enjoyable life until the sadly unavoidable heart attack (sorry but pacemakers are also an Israeli invention). The other option is that someone at Reykjavik City Council didn’t think the issue through.

If they had then why stop at Israel? One of the best kept secrets about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that it is one of the smallest conflicts in the Middle East. In fact, there is no correlation between its actual size and the media coverage it receives.

Since the end of Israel’s War of Independence, 67 years ago, around 12,000 Palestinians have lost their lives in this conflict. A large proportion of those were terrorists, suicide bombers, terror tunnel diggers from various global jihadist organizations.

With that we can’t ignore the fact that in those years there were a few thousand innocents who lost their lives. I believe that’s terrible. It keeps me awake at night, like most Israelis. With that the simple fact is – and it’s easy to check – that in 67 years less innocent Palestinians were killed than in one week (!) in Syria. In fact, in that same period around 12 million people were killed in the Arab world. A simple calculation shows that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict caused 0.01% of the numbers killed in conflicts in the Islamic world.

An interesting question then is what is the position of Reykjavik City Council about the Islamic world? Do they boycott it also? All of it?

But of course this isn’t a discussion about statistics, it is about morals. Israel is a vibrant democracy fighting for its existence in tough circumstances. Our major sin, in the eyes of the world and the Reykjavik City Council, is that we are winning that war.

Yes, in this conflict more Palestinians are killed than Israelis. Why? Because we have a better army and we have the Iron Dome system which protects our cities from rockets. If our military lays down its weapons and we disarm Iron Dome, we’d be murdered within 24 hours.

So Israel will continue to defend itself, and will continue doing all it can to avoid civilian casualties.

At the same time, we will continue to search for the path to peace with the Palestinians. Twice, in the year 2000 and in the year 2008, Israel offered them over 90% of the land so they could build a state for themselves. Both times they refused.

The boycott industry is not new. It is a vast industry of media and public relations organized by Islamist groups funded by Qatar and Iran. Their purpose is not the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel but a Palestinian state on the ashes of Israel.

They know that message won’t be acceptable to liberal Europe. So they decided – as has been exposed time and again – to sell the naïve Europeans humanitarian values of freedom and solidarity which they don’t believe for even one second.

Hamas has no intention of creating a Palestinian democracy but a dark theocracy in which homosexuals are hanged from telephone poles, women aren’t allowed to leave their homes and Christians and Jews are murdered for being Christians and Jews. Are those values acceptable to the Reykjavik City Council? If not then that’s strange, because they voted in favor of them.

Palestinians Rejoicing the Violent Murder of Thousands of Innocent Civilians on 9-11

A reminder of which side of humanity the Palestinians are on

By Noam A. Rotem (a repost from last year)

They're with those who rejoice the violent murder of thousands of innocent civilians, their national heroes are suicide bombers (they glorify and name city squares after them), and they celebrate when members of their people (Arab, Muslims) conduct indiscriminate, cold blooded, murderous attacks on free western democratic societies.

From The Palestinian Hamas Covenant

Islam Will Obliterate Israel
In The Name Of The Most Merciful Allah “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it”.

Article Seven:
“The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.

Encouraging Martyrdom
Article Eight:
Allah is its target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran its constitution: Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes.

And if you think radical Jihadist hatred stops with Hamas, you need to be spending time at Palestinian Media Watch, like this section on Demonization of Jews/Israelis where most all of the hateful material is from the so called "moderate" Palestinian Authority. These are the people ill-informed liberals in the west want to give a state to -- violent, Anti-Semitic, corrupt, undemocratic, supporters of theocratic, fascist radical Islam. 

The Root Cause, Triggering the Wave of Refugees into Europe, is Conspicuously Missing from Mainstream Media Reports

By Noam A. Rotem

What is glaringly missing from many reports by the mainstream media on this topic, is that there is no mention, of the key root causes and culprits, triggering this historic migration. Namely, the disintegration of 20th century fabricated Arab nationalism, and the vortex of violent, anti-democratic, often barbaric and fascist, radical Islam, swirling across swaths of the middle east, and projecting far beyond -- from the far-east, through central Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas.

Take this CBS News report for example:
The story behind the images that shocked Europe.

Screen-capture from CBS News. See article link.

From the title one would expect it to also weigh-in on the barbaric Arab Syrian regime, Islamic State, the bloody and explosive hatred between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq, fundamental Islam in Afghanistan, and lawless Arab gangs in Libya, as causes for this unprecedented migration. But no, stating the painful and naked truth of reality would just be politically incorrect.

Another thing that till now, has not gotten enough focus in western broadcast media, but is generating quite a bit of discussion on social media, is the question as to why the nearby rich Arab gulf states aren't taking in any of their brethren refugees. To be fair, this debate is being held in some online news-outlets like this article from the "Daily Beast": The Middle East Needs To Take Care Of Its Own Refugees, and has even made in into some online mainstream publications, like this article from "The Washington Post": The Arab world’s wealthiest nations are doing next to nothing for Syria’s refugees.

Having said that, neither article, weighed-in on the role that Radical Islam is playing, in creating these waves of refugees.

Mainstream media, plays a powerful role in shaping public opinion. For decades now, it has been narrating news according to a left leaning politically correct ideology. The media's focus on the tragic image of the 3 year old Syrian boy who washed ashore, is deliberate, and intended to create pressure on western European governments to open the floodgates. The media largely omitted offering any alternative destinations, like the much closer wealthy gulf states, as PC European politics has a long standing policy,  in favor of large scale immigration from the mideast and North Africa. Similarly their omission of what is causing the plight of these refugees is intentional.

For the past 4 years, children have been killed and murdered on a daily basis in Syria and Iraq, yet their photos are not regular headlines in mainstream media news, as that would undermine their political correct ideology, that desperately promotes the notion, that radical Islam, is only a fringe phenomenon.

Pope Francis Decries the 'Genocide' of Middle East Christians

Finally, the Pope weighs in on the terrible persecution of Christians in the mideast. 

By Noam A. Rotem

AFP reports from Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia), that Pope Francis, this past Thursday, called for an end to the "genocide" of Christians taking place in the Middle East and beyond. Quote:

"Today we are dismayed to see how in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world many of our brothers and sisters are persecuted, tortured and killed for their faith in Jesus," he said in Bolivia, part of a three-nation tour to his native South America. 

"In this third world war, waged piecemeal, which we are now experiencing, a form of genocide is taking place, and it must end."

Sadly what appears to be missing from his statement is a clear accusation of the perpetrator, namely, fundamental Arab Islamism, which is the ruling doctrine across vast areas of the Arab mideast, and despite its brutal, violent, genocidal, bigoted, anti-Semitic and misogynistic nature, enjoys widespread support across many parts of the Arab and Islamic world.

Photo by Raffaele Esposito

(Used here according to its Creative Commons licensing)

Please share if you agree, thanks in advanced, kindly, Noam Rotem

פסיקה: הרש"פ נושאת באחריות לשורת פיגועים בישראל -- חדשות טובות שיכול לשרת גם את קמפיין הבחירות‎

כששמעתי את החדשות הטובות ב-23 לפברואר, שחבר מושבעים בניו יורק קבע כי הרשות הפלסטינית ואש"ף נושאים באחריות לשורת פיגועים שהייתה בישראל לפני יותר מעשור --  כתבתי למחרת את המכתב הבא לאיילת שקד:

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איילת שקד,​
שלום רב,​ לילה טוב!
חדשות מעולות! שגם יכול לשמש חומר מעולה לקמפיין:

NY court: PLO, PA to blame for terror attacks a decade ago 

In landmark verdict, American victims awarded $218.5 million in damages; Palestinian leadership held accountable for six attacks

פסיקה: הרש"פ נושאת באחריות לשורת פיגועים בישראל 

חבר מושבעים בניו יורק קבע כי הרשות הפלסטינית ואש"ף נושאים באחריות לשורת פיגועים שהייתה בישראל לפני יותר מעשור. 

בעשור הזה התקשורת, השמאל ,ושמאל-מרכז הציגו מצג שווא, סילפו את המציאות, ובשטיפת גלי האתר, והמוח, מכרו הונאה (שהם עצמם האמינו בה) -- שאש״ף והרשות הפלסטינית הם ״פרטנרים לֹשלום״, במקום לתת לאמת להישמע, והיא שאש״ף והרשות הפלסטינית הם זורעי שנאה אנטישמית, מחוללי טרור ורצח, מבית-סיפרו של האיסלאם הרדיקלי, הפאשיסטי וברברי.

תודה מראש לתשומת לב, בכבוד רב, נעם רותם, תל אביב-יפו

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איילת שקד, השתמשה בפיסקה הנ״ל מתוך האימייל ששלחתי לה, בפוסט שלה בפייסבוק:

https://www.facebook.com/ayelet.benshaul.shaked/posts/725967127521716

מהארכיון: איך עונים למדיה המערבית -- ייעוץ בהסברה ישראלית מאת נעם רותם

את האימייל הבא כתבתי לחברת הכנסת איילת שקד בתחילת מבצע צוק איתן, לאחר שראיתי דובר ישראלי מתראיין ל-BBC. הצעתי איך אפשר לענות לשאלת ״כמות ההרוגים בצד הפלסטיני״, תוך העברת מספר מסרים נוקבים כנגד החמאס, והשלטון הפלסטיני בעזה.

איילת שקד, לקחה את האימייל שלי, ופרסמה אותו בדף הפייסבוק שלה ב-13 ליולי 2014. ברצוני לציין , שאת המסרים הללו, הצעתי, עוד לפני שההסברה הישראלית התחילה ממש להתגבש, בנושא העברת המסר החשוב והקריטי - על איך החמאס עושה שימוש ציני וזדוני באזרחיה כמגינים אנושיים, וחמור מכך, ככלי ניגוח ציני ונוראי, במלחמת ההסברה והתודעה כנגד מדינת ישראל.

    https://www.facebook.com/ayelet.benshaul.shaked/posts/602896819828748

להלן האימייל המקורי:

שלום רב, אמש שודר מראיין בריטי ששאל איזשהו דובר ישראלי בנושא כמות ההרוגים הפלסטיני. התשובה הייתה בסדר אך לא מספיק נוקבת ורציתי באנגלית לנדב חומר על איך אפשר לענות לשאלה כזאת.

The Palestinians are committing a double war crime. They are shooting lethal rockets targeting innocent civilian populations, from within their own civilian population, and using them as human shields. They use civilian homes, schools, hospitals and mosques, for hiding and launching these rockets. Israel goes out of its way to warn civilians residing in houses of terrorist leaders, that the house is about to be hit, providing them time to save their lives, all this in order to minimize civilian casualties. On the other hand Hamas is on record for encouraging their own civilians, women and children to remain in those homes and/or congregate around them, deliberately and cynically using them as human shields.

המראיין הבריטי התעקש -- לא ענית לי על השאלה כמה פלסטינים הרגתם.

The Hamas is directly responsible for the killing of its own people by using them as human shields. The question of how many Palestinians deaths therefore needs to be pointed directly to them, as they're completely responsible for those deaths. If they would not be shooting rockets at innocent civilians from within their own civilian populations, *no one* there would be getting killed right now. The Palestinians were given billions of dollars, that they could have used to build a prosperous and civil society. Instead, Hamas spent that money in turning Gaza into a terrorist state, publicly committed, to the destruction of the state of Israel.

אפשר לסיים עם הנ״ל, ואפשר לשקול במצבים מסויימים להשתמש גם במשפט הבא, כחלק מהדה לגטימאציה שיש לשעשות לפלסטינים, כחלק מהתקפת הנגד, לדה לגטימאציה שהם עושים לנו:

Last but not least, the Palestinian civilian population voted in Hamas, in democratic elections, demonstrating their support for Hamas' radical doctrine. This is the same population, who cheered 9-11 and handed out candies on the streets that day, and on other days of major suicide bombings in Israel. They are indoctrinated with hatred towards Israel and the west and thus bear responsibility for the actions of this terrorist regime they elected, and the predicament this regime brought upon them.

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 אני כותב ודובר אנגלית רהוטה, ממשפחה אמריקאית. תואר שני בשיווק, תואר ראשון במדעי המחשב, עובד בתור מנהל מוצר ושיווק בהייטק. חי ונושם חדשות ומדיה מזה +30 שנים, עם חשיפה למקורות פרשנות שבמשך שנים צונזרו ע״י המדיה הישראלית דוגמת Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard ועוד רבים.

אשמח אם תפנו אותי למישהו/י בצד שלכם שאפשר יהיה לפתוח ערוץ, להעביר חומרים, לתת אינפוט ולשוחח. ללא ספק השתפרנו בהסברה (וגם ראיתי היום את הראיון המעולה של מתאם הפעולות בשטחים אלוף יואב פולי מרדכי באלג'זירה!). בהחלט אפשר להשתפר עוד בערוצים הדוברי אנגלית. במיוחד בנושא הדה לגטימציה שצריך לעשות לפלסטינים והעולם הערבי, שעומדים בהפך הגמור, לכל ערכי העולם הנאור, ובתחום הזה אנחנו לא עושים מספיק.

בנושא הפלסטינים, השמאל עדיין משווק את מחמוד עבאס כפרטנר, למרות שהוא מהלל וממן טרוריסטים, מגבה את מנוע ההסתה האנטישמי כנגד המדינה היהודית, מנהל גזל היסטורי של הקשר בין עם ישראל לארץ ישראל, ופועל בכל ערוץ בינלאומי נגד מדינת ישראל כולל ה-BDS, זה מסר שצריך לשלוף, ולירות בצרור, בכל פעם שהשמאל מנסה למכור אותו בתור מתון. גם למֵימרָה האווילי של השמאל ״ששלום עושים עם אויבים״ יש לי תשובה.

יש מלא חומר נהדר מהמוכן, של בריג׳יט גבריאל, פאט קונדל, ג׳ון בולטון, MEMRI, PMW, ועוד רבים שפשוט צריך לסכם, לשנן, להטמיע, ולהשתמש גם בהסברת פנים וגם חוץ. צירפתי חלק למטה.

 בתודה מראש לתושמת לב,

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Noam A. Rotem
Sr. Product Manager, Project Manager & Marketing Manager 

If you're on the side of democracy and freedom then you're on the side of Israel

Which side are you on? 

This video from the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, does a nice job in juxtaposing the moral divide and difference between Israel and the vast majority of surrounding undemocratic, despot and oppressive regimes. Most of those, including the Palestinian Authority, are bent on undermining the Jewish state by means of delegitimizing, via rabid libels, blatant lies, falsifications of historical facts, and through indoctrination of hate.

In an age where moral equivalence between free, liberal, democratic Israel, and despot, fascist theocracies, is the daily dosage on mainstream TV, universities campuses across the west and the world, this video serves a nice, albeit small, antidote to the war of lies, disinformation,  and delegitimization, being waged on the Jewish state of Israel.

By Noam A. Rotem 



Which side are you on?

The side of open debate   -- or --   the side that represses free speech
The side which is a democracy   -- or --   the side that executes political opponents
The side that take pride in its diverse society   -- or --   the side which persecutes gays and minorities
The side that strives for gender equality   -- or --   the side which oppresses women and condones honor killings
The side that protects its young people   -- or --   the side which uses its children as human shields
The side that builds shelters for civilians   -- or --   the side which constructs bunkers for terrorists
The side that goes out of its way to harm innocent people   -- or --   the side which deliberately targets innocent civilians.
The side that invests in education   -- or --   the side that uses its money to fund terrorism
The side that sanctifies life   -- or --   the side which worships death 

I know which side I'm on, and its not the one of a repressive terrorist organization. I'm for Freedom, I'm for democracy, I'm for Israel.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: In Response to the Barbaric Terrorist Attacks in Paris this Past Week by Radical Islamists

In and interview with Megyn Kelly from Fox News, the internationally distinguished  women's rights and free speech activist, Ayaan Hirsi Ali: explained that violent attacks like the one in Paris stem from a political ideology that is embedded in Islam. "All that violence you can no longer divorce from the religion of Islam," she said.

Ali told Megyn Kelly that "we are facing a war on the core values of western civilization," and that the only way to fight it is by talking about it - "the pen is far more powerful than all their guns" she said. "We are fighting an asymmetric war where we fight with military means and counter-terrorism means, but we are not fighting back with ideas”.

To hear the full interview click below:
http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/01/08/ayaan-hirsi-ali-we-are-fighting-asymmetric-war-radical-islam

Palestinians rejoicing the violent death of thousands of innocent civilians on 9-11

A reminder of which side of humanity the Palestinians are on. 

They're with those who rejoice the violent death of thousands of innocent civilians, their official heroes are suicide bombers, and they celebrate when members of their own tribe conduct indiscriminate, cold blooded, murderous attacks on free western democratic societies.

Radical Muslims Cynically and Sinisterly Abuse Democratic Tenets of Free Speech

Radical Muslims play with words and, cynically and sinisterly abuse democratic tenets of free speech in order to spread their intolerant hatred and undermine western civilization

Persecution of Christians in Gaza

Israel Channel 2 reports on the persecution of Christian Arabs in Gaza: http://www.mako.co.il/news-channel2/Friday-Newscast/Article-d9e226ca42b7621004.htm
Accounts of churches being torched, Christians being denied their freedom of expression and religion, physical and even lethal use of aggression against the Christian community in Gaza.

ישראל היום מדווח על שנאת ישראל במצרים

http://www.israelhayom.co.il/site/newsletter_opinion.php?a=2700

יעקב אחימאיר:בביקור במצרים:

הוזמנתי לשם כדי להיפגש עם עיתונאים מצרים ואחרים, יוזמה שנועדה לסדוק את הקרח - סליחה, את האיבה והשנאה המקיפות את צוות השגרירות. לא, אינני מוכן להמיר את הביטוי "שנאה" במונח מרוכך לתיאור היחס המצרי לשגרירות ולישראל! אם אעשה כך, אחטא לאמת...כן, גם עיתונאי שאמור לדעת, להבין, מתקשה לתפוס את עומק השנאה הסובבת את ישראל במצרים. את המציאות הזאת אין לטייח. יום־יום "חוטפות" ישראל ושגרירותה בקהיר "מטחים" מצד אמצעי התקשורת... ערה נוספת נאמרה לי: גם אם ישראל תיסוג לגבולות 67', יחסה של מצרים לא ישתנההמצריים...ואפילו במאוחר, הציגה הליגה נגד השמצה, הארגון היהודי־אמריקני החשוב, דו"ח חמור על עוצמת האנטישמיות באמצעי התקשורת.הדו"ח נשלח למובארק כדי למחות על האדישות שבה מצרים הרשמית מתייחסת לתופעה הנפוצה.

From Baghdad—frightening reports of gay pogroms, where homosexual men are targeted, tortured, slayed

New York Magazine, brings the chilling details in this exposé, which hasn't made any of the mainstream evening news reports, nor are there any signs that there will ever be some equivalent Goldstone report for these prevalent atrocities

http://nymag.com/news/features/59695/

Netanyahu delivers a poignant, dignified, stirring, "keep it real", no holds barred, speech at the UN

Netanyahu delivers a poignant, dignified, stirring, "keep it real", no holds barred, speech stating the simple yet obvious multifaceted historical connection of Jews to the land of Israel. That the real danger in the world is a cold blooded, barbaric fundamen...tal Islamic creed of terror that undermines all basic and decent human rights achieved in the past 400 years and yet this threat is met with misappropriated and hypocritical agendas by the UN, mainstream media and the World at large

60 Minutes Report on Torture In Iran

While the world gathered to ostracize Israel on false and warped claims in Durban II -- here’s just one example of hundreds of millions of real cases of true evil and abhorrent human rights violations that are overlooked regularly and daily by the mainstream media

Ahmad Batebi tells CNN's Anderson Cooper, in his 1st U.S. television interview how he was tortured for 9 years in an Iranian prison and how he managed to escape.

Watch CBS Videos Online

Hamas takes pride in using women and children as human shields in fighting Israel

From Palestinian Media Watch:

A Hamas representative in the PA legislative council, takes pride in the fact that women and children are used as human shield in fighting Israel. He describes it as part of the "Death Industry" at which they excel, and explains that the Palestinians "desire death" the same way Israelis "desire life".

The following is the full text:

For the Palestinian people death became an industry, at which women excel and so do all people on this land: the elderly excel, the Jihad fighters excel, and the children excel. Accordingly [Palestinians] created a human shield of women, children, the elderly and the Jihad fighters againset the Zionist bombing machine, as they were saying to the Zionist enemy: We desire death as you desire Life.

Tel Aviv Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Gay Pride Parade

Tel Aviv adorned it’s main boulevards this past week with rainbow colored flags as revelers of all persuasions streamed along the main route of the city’s 10th annual gay pride parade that converged at Gordon Beach, one of the city’s central beach fronts, for a free outdoor concert. As usual for this annual parade, gays and lesbians weren’t the only ones out celebrating. Tel Avivans of all ages and statuses were out embracing the event, the community, and the festivities. All of which made for a colorful love fest of freedom of expression in a city that enjoys celebrating its unbridled spirit, diversity and a good beach party.

It should be duly noted that in stark contrast, homosexuality is a crime under the Palestinian Authority, where Gay’s are persecuted and sent to jail. Similarly in Egypt gay men can be sentenced anywhere from 3 and up to 25 years for homosexuality. And in general, the status of gays and lesbians in the Arab and Muslim world is for the most part a dire one.

Some photos I snapped at the event:

Click on any photo for a larger view. The entire album can be viewed here

Some more photos from other people can be found on Flickr by clicking here and here -- don't miss the Israeli soldier girl with a rainbow flag in her shirt pocket