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LET THE FREEMAN CENTER TAKE OVER THE ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTRY
War Crimes Charges Grow, Jerusalem Silent
by Bernard J. Shapiro
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
February 27, 2009

FOR THE SAKE OF ISRAEL WE MUST DRAFT THE FREEMAN CENTER TO HANDLE PUBLIC RELATION FOR THE JEWISH STATE. THE FOREIGN MINISTRY HAS CAUSED GREAT DAMAGE TO THE GOOD NAME OF ISRAEL. I WOULD AGREE TO LET THE OFFICE WORKERS THERE CONTINUE TO TAKE CARE OF VISAS AND TOURISM (LIVNI LOVED TO SHOW ISRAEL, NOT AS LAND OF THE BIBLE, BUT AS SEXY BIKINI CLAD ISRAELI GIRLS).

THE FREEMAN CENTER CAN DO THE FOLLOWING:

1. Put up a vigorous Zionist defense of Israel at one tenth of one percent (0.01) the cost of the entire Israeli Foreign Ministry.

2. And they can do it with NO guilt feelings

3. They can do this with NO apologies to the World, USA, EU, Arabs, Muslims, UN for breathing the oxygen of Planet Earth. And, of course, being the only indigenous people living in its natural HOME, With the deed signed by the Almighty as a perpetual trust.

4. How do I know the Freeman Center can do all of above??? It is simple, we have been doing it since 1992. The RECORD is there. Go to www.freeman.org and see over 70,000 pages of the best news and commentary on Israel in THE MACCABEAN ONLINE www.freeman.org/online.htm

During this same period, the Israel Foreign Ministry devoted all of its resources to:

a. Promoting the "tooth fairy" of Peace with Barbarians who want to destroy us.

b. Undermining organization like the Freeman Center and myself personally who defended Israel's undiminished right to self-defense, security and survival in the dangerous world we find ourselves.

c. Helping to tie the hands of the IDF and endangering the lives of our most precious commodity (our sons and daughters) to save the lives of Arabs, who wish us dead. They have accepted and defended the concept of restraint (havlagah) or "purity of arms." There is nothing pure or sacred about sacrificing Jewish blood on the ALTER of Left-wing pseudo-morality. Our enemies worship death -so help them achieve it. We believe in life - so let us save our own.

Please see articles below

Still a frustrated Zionist, after all these years---
Who still loves Israel and prays to HaShem that REALITY begin to be a guiding principle of Israeli policy.

Bernard
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NOTES TO BIBI AFTER HIS FIRST ELECTION - STILL IMPORTANT
by BERNARD J. SHAPIRO
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
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An Editorial from THE MACCABEAN June 1997
A CALL TO ACTION
We Must Return To Zionism
By Bernard J. Shapiro

In 1897 in Basle, Switzerland, Theodore Herzl founded the World Zionist Organization. There were great accomplishments in the last 100 years. Much has happened to the Jewish people who found themselves on a roller coaster with many traumatic ups and downs. The Holocaust was the lowest point and the establishment of Israel was a high point. There was the great victory of 1967 and the trauma of 1973. Zionism flourished, Israel prospered, Judea, Samaria and Gaza were settled. The Ethiopian return to Zion brought tears to our eyes with pride. The great Russian migration to Israel literally changed the country for ever.

And then a cataclysmic and horrific event took place. A small clique of charlatans, with anti-Zionist delusions, took over the Israeli government in 1992. They deceived the Israeli voters by placing ("Mr. Security") Yitzhak Rabin at the head of their ticket. They promised security and then proceeded to dismantle the Jewish State. 100 years of Zionism are being undone in a few years. The new Likud government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not seem to have the political will to undo the damage of Oslo.

In the past few years, it seems that the main effort of Israeli governments was the creation of a Palestinian state. The word peace was perverted and distorted, coming to mean surrender and appeasement.

THE VATICAN AND ISRAEL
Diplomatic Relations, Recognition & Reparations
By Bernard J. Shapiro
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
May 1992

As most Jews are preparing to celebrate Israel's 44th year of independence, the Vatican is embroiled in a weighty discussion of whether to recognize the Jewish State. Most of us who have followed this issue over many years placed most of the blame for lack of relations on the Vatican's fear of offending the Arabs who have substantial Christian minorities in their countries.

During Israel's early years, the official Vatican excuse for not establishing relations was Israel's refusal to internationalize Jerusalem. That was a part of the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan the was rejected by the Arab states. The Jordanians who controlled the Christian Holy Places in Jerusalem during that time period also rejected internationalization. In modern times, the Vatican has recognized the impossibility of turning the clock back on Jerusalem, and now insists on a resolution of the Palestinian conflict before establishing relations.

Dr. Michael Kaniel, writing in the Jerusalem Post (April 25, 1992), analyzes the religious origins of the Vatican's anti-Israel policies. He shows how the real reason the Vatican has withheld formal recognition is because the Jewish State represents a vexing contradiction to Catholic theology. When Theodor Herzl met with Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Merry del Val to request support of the Zionist movement on January 22, 1904, the cardinal said: "as long as the Jews deny the divinity of Christ...how can we agree to their regaining possession of the Holy Land?...They should first have to accept conversion." Three days later Pope Pius X told Herzl: "the Jews have not recognized our Lord; therefore we can not recognize the Jewish people."

MORE ACCURACY AND DEPTH NEEDED
by David Basch
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
February 8, 2009

"Were England, France, and the U.S. racist in their
policy of having relocated 12 million ethnic Germans
to Germany after World War II ?"

Charles Levinson's article (Wall Street Journal 2.6.09) reporting
on developments in Israeli elections concerning the candidacy of
Avigdor Lieberman could use more accuracy and depth.

Unlike Levninson's report that Lieberman's views are like the views of
the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, they are different in important respects.
Lieberman would redraw Israel's boundaries to exclude Arab-Israeli
populations and, in land trades, would expel Jews from the territories
the way it was done in Gaza. But this would only create Jewish
refugees and enable the Arab enemy to transform Israel's eastern
territories into Gaza platforms for rocketing Israel's nearby cities.
Lieberman's is hardly a right wing program, any more than are the
programs of Kadima and Labor, which parties would likewise surrender
Israel to the Arab enemy with only variations in detail.

On the other hand, Rabbi Kahane recognized early the since proven
implacable nature of the Arab enemy and advocated their relocation
while retaining the strategic Jewish territories that Lieberman and the
leftist parties would surrender. Rabbi Kahane's approach would
strengthen Israel for survival in the long run while Lieberman's
bombastic program, damaging to Israel's interest, does not grapple
with the Arab threat and would leave Israel worse off.

HASBARA AND REALITY
by Bernard J. Shapiro
Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston)
June 1993

THE JERUSALEM POST reported last month on plans at the Israeli Foreign Ministry to abolish its "hasbara" or information efforts. It reported, "The decision to abolish hasbara is in keeping with Foreign Minister Shimon Peres' view that 'if you have good policy, you do not need hasbara. And if you have bad policy, hasbara will not help.'" Those of us who have been in the trenches, fighting Arab propaganda for years, were stunned by this policy change. Most of all, we were stunned by this apparently incorrect perception of reality.

The propaganda battlefield, from which the Foreign Ministry seems eager to withdraw, is a surreal Kafkaesque landscape filled with the evil utterances of that unholy alliance of Arabs and anti-Semites. Their propaganda targets the Jewish community in America as well as Israel for a one simple reason: Anything that weakens the Jewish community and reduces their status in America ultimately limits the ability of Jews to aid Israel politically and financially. George Orwell would be quite at home with the "newspeak" of the "politically correct" bigots. Language, history, and religion become a twisted mass of bizarre concepts such as Zionism = racism.